readx;?readx; Chapter 372 Let Uncle Bing touch it

At about the first day of March, the lights were lit up in the large and small guild halls and apartments in Beijing, and the family servants got up one after another to light a fire and boil water, and prepare food and clothing for their father-in-law. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info After a while, the lifters who took today's exams also got up one after another, and their own little servants served to dress and wash. It's just that the most weight-lifting gentlemen on weekdays, one by one, look solemn as if they are going to the execution ground.

After grooming and dressing, the little servants will serve the severed head meal...... Oh no, it's the champion rice, please eat it and go on the road.

This meal can be exquisite, and every item in it can be bargained. I saw that the little guy first brought a plate of steamed carp to the table, and said with a smile: "The fish jumps over the dragon gate!" ”

Served a plate of roast chicken again, and said happily: "The champion and the first!" ”

There is also a plate of braised pig's trotters, far-fetched: "The name of the wild goose pagoda." ”

Then a plate of fried lettuce was served, and he said obediently: "Qingyun is straight up!" ”

The little guy brought another pot of Wang Ba soup, put it on the table, and as expected, said: "The master is the leader...... Fortunately, I didn't say that the master is a big king."

Four dishes and one soup, there are meat and vegetarian, good luck, but also the shortcomings of the staple food, I saw that the little guy served a plate of hair cakes, a plate of Shu millet noodles and wotou, meaning 'high school', 'head name'.

This is the practice meal set up by the money shopkeeper of 'Daheyuan' for his own Shaodong, and the general example is more or less these things. Of course, the rich are more generous, but they are nothing more than more plates and bowls, more precious materials, and more elaborate names, but they can't escape these 'high school tops'.

There are also poor scholars, who can't afford to buy soft-shelled turtle river carp, so they have to use the 'Qingyun above' and 'high school top name' to get ahead, if you really don't feel like it's fun, you can also gnaw a big radish with a lot of water, and shout 'good color head' while gnawing! …… Radish is also called cabbage.

But the scholars have just woken up, and they are more nervous, and naturally most of them have lost their appetite, and they can't eat any delicacies from the mountains and seas.

Of course, there are also those who are not nervous and have a good appetite, and most of these people are ready to go off the court...... They may have already bought the exam questions, asked someone to answer and write them down, and prepared to bring them into the venue; or buy through the joints, leave special marks on the paper, and have their own examiners to pick them up; There are even more lazy people, who don't want to suffer the three-day sin, so they directly find a substitute to enter on their behalf. Anyway, they don't have to rack their brains to get it, so naturally there is nothing to be nervous about.

There are a few more special, before they entered the examination room, they were already the 'protégés of the Son of Heaven' personally recognized by His Majesty. Almost everyone, including themselves, believed that the exam was nothing more than a passing ...... Could it be that His Royal Highness the King of Longwei County, who is known for his filial piety, will lose the face of his father?

Fang Zhongshu is one of the 'protégés of the Son of Heaven', in the entire Shanbei Guild Hall, only he and the red-faced Tu Gongchun have nothing to do, talking and laughing. Although Tu Gongchun is not a 'protégé of the Son of Heaven', he is open-minded by nature, has no heart and lungs, and never knows what nervousness is.

After eating the 'champion banquet' specially presented by the villagers, a group of lifters walked to the tribute courtyard together, and met Shang Dezhong and Fang Zhongshu on the way.

At this time, the sky was just dark, the country was heavily guarded outside the prison, and the Imperial Forest Army set up three lines of defense, only allowing the scholars who had a certificate of provenance, and the rest of the cadres were all turned away, and they were not allowed to cross the thunder pool for half a step.

The scholars took the baskets, food boxes, bedding and the like in the hands of their subordinates, and lined up through the gate, like a group of refugees fleeing the famine.

After the first line of defense, even if the lifters entered the Guozijian, it would take a lot of time to enter the Gongyuan outside the hundred zhang.

When they reached the second line of defense, the soldiers stayed together, and the overseers called one by one. Once his name is called, he can come out of the line and stand in front of the overseer to be watched.

It's not that the supervisor has a bad taste, but in order to prevent someone from taking the test, you need to have the same real appearance as the description and portrait on the list in the supervisor's hand, so that you can enter the second level.

But it's not that there are no loopholes to exploit, if you buy a few supervisors in advance, you can refer to the deer as a horse and reverse black and white.

But this year, Emperor Zhaowu was ruthless, a quarter of an hour before the candidates entered the venue, a team of imperial forest officers came to this checkpoint with a holy decree, replacing the supervisors arranged by Yan Yanwu in advance.

At this time, the door is closed, it is difficult to fly, no matter how powerful you are outside, you are just a powerless candidate here. What's more, what power can someone fail to do on behalf of others? I really want to be muddy, I can't retreat, so I am like an ant in a hot pot, and I can't wait to find a crack in the ground to drill.

After a while, after about forty or fifty moves, I listened to the roll-call document: "Zhou Jichun ...... Qianyang Mansion" After calling for a long time, no one made a sound, and the document sang on both sides, seeing that there was still no response, so he said to Qiu Badao, the superintendent on the side: "This is absent." Qiu Ba nodded, and the clerk was about to tick off the name of Zhou Jichun, but he heard someone say timidly: "...... here."

Qiu Ba was annoyed when he heard this: "You are farting!" "Scared that 'Zhou Jichun' trembling, standing there with his neck bent and not daring to turn back, he didn't know how many times he went in and out of the examination room, but he had never encountered today's barbaric scene.

"Come here!" The supervisor scolded sharply: "Is it possible that Lao Tzu wants to carry you over?" ”

The 'Zhou Jichun' came over slowly, but he still cowered and lowered his head, refusing to raise his head.

Although the overseer was Qiu Ba, he was an officer, who knew a few big characters, glanced at the roster, and read: "Zhou Jichun, eighteen years old, slender physique, between seven or eight, with a white face and no beard, a cinnabar mole on his left eyebrow, and a bolted horse stake in his right ear. Listening to him read, the sweat on his face was heavier, and his body involuntarily straightened, and even secretly stood on tiptoe.

After reading it, he sneered and said, "You are always straight, and it is less than six feet long." ”

Juzi trembled, and was about to fall, but was twisted by two wolf-like royal guards, and pulled his head high, revealing a black, wrinkled, bearded old face, not to mention eighteen, just say that twenty-eight is also flattering him. Although he had a pockmarked face, none of his ears were red, and his ears were clean and slippery, and he probably did not bear any resemblance to the person described in the document except for his gender.

The eight overseers swallowed and spat, and scolded with a smile: "Your proprietor is too inappropriate, so I might as well find someone who is white and clean to impersonate me......" The soldiers on the side also laughed, and the soldiers were very happy to be able to practice these soldiers, who let them keep their eyes above the top and their toes high all day long.

That 'Zhou Jichun' suddenly lost all his thoughts, this is the fifth time he has participated in the Spring Festival and the third time he has taken the exam. Since he understood that the so-called talent ceremony was just a fig leaf for the wealthy to carve up the high positions of the imperial court, he gave up the idea of the imperial examination and devoted himself to the substitute examination...... The first time, because he was not famous, he only got one hundred taels, but because of the successive battles, this time it has risen to five hundred taels, which is enough for him to buy a few acres of good land and live comfortably for the rest of his life.

Who would have thought that this time he missed, the good dream became a mirror, not to mention, his little life could not be saved, and it was possible to cause disasters to his wife and children, thinking of this, the impostor couldn't help but feel sad from it, and opened his mouth and cried.

But he was viciously slapped by the soldiers on the side and said: "What are you crying about? Suddenly, his cry was toned, and it sounded terrible.

After this Li Daitao stiff person was discovered, most of the fakes were simply silent when their names were called, and some were lucky, but they were found out one by one, kneeling on the side of the road and letting others watch.

Naturally, there are also portals with superb means, and the one who is found to take the test is quite similar to the deity, and then bribe the painter to draw the portrait on the document between the two, and you can also fool the pass, and the means that are not at the time can be investigated. It's just that there were too few scholars at that time, and even fewer were qualified for the spring festival. This is a special case, and it is not a scourge.

Until more than 1,600 people were called, and most of them had entered, there were still sixty or seventy people standing in the line.

With a wave of his hand, a group of soldiers surrounded these people, only to hear the overseer say sharply: "Why shouldn't you?" ”

These people panicked for a while, and then shouted spiritually: "I can't agree if I don't read the name below." ”

The overseer sneered and said, "Bring me your identity papers." ”

"I've lost it, and I want to ask the adults to accommodate me." The man said helplessly.

"And how did you get in?" The Overseer is not a fool either, and asked in a rough voice.

"That's how the students were put in." The man spread his hands with a nonchalant expression. In fact, he had already panicked in his heart, but he was unwilling to be caught and do some trapped beast fights.

The overseer ordered a search of his body, but no identification was found. How did this rough officer know that these guys had already eaten the fatal certificate in their stomachs during the roll call. If they make up their minds to die and refuse to admit it, someone will inevitably rescue them, and if it leaks out, even if the court does not kill them, those big families who are defeated by this matter will not let them go.

The supervisor was quite helpless, so he had to order someone to temporarily detain him and the candidates who had already been investigated and punished, and wait for the Ming Sheng to make plans.

And the candidates who passed the two levels encountered a more stringent body search at the gate of the Gongyuan.

According to the regulations, candidates are not allowed to bring in a piece of paper except for a pen and inkstone. Emperor Zhaowu also sent a team of Imperial Guards to replace the inspector who inspected here.

The Qiu Ba overseer ordered the candidates to untie their clothes, hold a pen and inkstone in their left hand, and hold their clothes and socks in their right hand, and stand in line in the corridor, waiting for the roll call, and go forward in turn to be checked, and each candidate was searched by two search soldiers, from head to toe, carefully searched. At this time, the spring cold is precipitous, and the candidates are frozen from the waist down, and they hardly know where their body hair and skin are.

This kind of rude to the point of barbaric body search, so there is still a bit of courtesy for scholars? The clear treatment of prisoners is nothing more than this, which naturally causes great dissatisfaction among the candidates. But at this time, it was not early, and it was not far from the start of the exam, so the scholars had to swallow their anger, temporarily treating their bodies as wood and letting them ravage, but they hated the tricky and mean Fifth Highness in their hearts and gritted their teeth.

To say that Qin Lei is really wronged, since he entered the examination room yesterday, he has been confined to the Tribute Courtyard, and he has no ability to influence what happened outside the door, but he has carried the black pot for Emperor Zhaowu.

The sergeants also found out more than 100 candidates with entrainment, most of whom directly hid the test questions in the bedding, in the soles of their shoes, and between their belts...... It is the first time for these search and inspection troops to do this kind of work, and it is inevitable that there will be a lot of omissions, and naturally they cannot force it.

After a morning of hard work, the remaining 1,500 people finally stood in the tribute courtyard, and also saw the hateful Fifth Highness and the deputy examiner. If this were not an unusual time, the scholars would have asked the examiners aloud: 'Why do you insult Sven so that you don't treat people as human beings?' ’

Qin Lei already knew about the outside world, and he had also asked the same confused Lu Yanwu, where did he not know the intentions of Emperor Zhaowu, so he was naturally annoyed and hateful in his heart, and gritted his teeth and scolded secretly: "I only had the kindness to let me open a mountain and establish a faction, but I still couldn't get rid of using me like a fool." He was not annoyed that Emperor Zhaowu was serious about discipline, but he was resentful of hiding himself to death, which was unacceptable to him.

But things have already happened, and he can only find a workaround, and first pass the current level.

After the scholars stood in front of them, Qin Lei glanced at everyone expressionlessly, and only after a while did he say coldly: "Today's inspection is unprecedented, you must feel insulting." ”

The scholars didn't expect him to be so honest, and no one dared to nod for a while, they all looked at him stupidly, and listened to him continue: "But have you ever thought about it, why is the court so bothered? Guarding against cheating like a thief? ”

There was a gentleman who didn't know what to do, and said, 'Isn't it a show of majesty?' But most people were still aroused by Qin Lei's curiosity, and they asked in a whisper, "Why?" ”

Qin Lei said solemnly: "The so-called 'Jinshi' is the most knowledgeable, the most virtuous, and the best group of people in my Great Qin, and they deserve the admiration and respect of the world, but now, do you admire and respect the former Jinshi?" ”

Although the scholars didn't dare to shake their heads, they agreed with the prince's statement in their hearts, who didn't know what it was? I'm afraid that many of them have not even read all the Four Books and the Five Classics.

Seeing the disdain on the faces of the scholars, Qin Lei couldn't help but smile slightly: "Not only you, but even ordinary people are disdainful. As he spoke, he glanced at the scholars and said earnestly, "What is such an evil consequence?" The officials had no prestige, or even inferior to the local gentry, and when there was a lawsuit, the first thing the common people thought of was to go to the squire, not to their parents. ”

The scholars all knew about these things, but they never thought that it was the fault of the imperial examination, so they only heard Qin Lei say with a serious face: "The people only respect the Jinshi who rely on their true talents and real learning, and only bless such parents and officials, do you have any objections?" ”

The lifters shook their heads one after another, and said, "The prince is right. ”

Qin Lei hit the railway while it was hot: "You have also seen this problem, so many people go to the palace to petition, hoping to get a fair and just Spring Festival, and now is the time for the court to fulfill its promise!" Everything we do today is to let people with real talent and learning be on the high school list, so that opportunists can be exposed! ”

After he said this, the scholars finally calmed down, and said in their hearts: "The so-called troubled times use heavy canons, and the Tao is chaotic and then cured, and it seems that overcorrection is inevitable." After Qin Lei's clever words, the resentment of the scholars miraculously disappeared, and they turned to understand and even appreciate the iron-masked king.

This is the gap between politicians and students.

When the bell rang and the time to enter was up, Qin Lei took out the gentlest smile and arched his hand: "Good luck to everyone." The scholars hurriedly bowed and returned the salute, and each entered the house.