After Qin Shubao finished talking about Xu Shiji, Wen Dayou and Li Tianyi were surprised, but Shan Xiongxin seemed a little sullen.

Su You thought that he was not usually a stuffy gourd, so he asked curiously, "Xiongxin, how did you do in the exam?" ”

Shan Xiongxin shook his head, and replied angrily, "Today's subject is okay, and there should be no problem in entering the next round, but the problem is that I heard that the day after tomorrow is the art of war, and I am afraid that I will have to return with a feather at that time." ”

"Isn't it just a test of mounted archery and weapons? How do you still take the Art of War test? Su You was even more puzzled, he was still a little concerned about martial arts a few days ago, but he hadn't heard about the art of war.

Shan Xiongxin continued to shake his head, and Wen Dayou explained, "This art of war is a temporary addition, and it is said to be an additional subject. ”

Li Tianyi smiled bitterly, and said with some indignation, "Who knows what this examiner thinks, add a step shooting today, and a military art tomorrow I heard that many people have a whisper about this, and they all suspect that there is a problem in this." ”

"Questions? What Tianyi wants to say is that this exam is unfair? Su You nodded, it was obviously unusual to temporarily add subjects before the exam, but I don't know if they have passed Yang Guang's nod, but I don't know what kind of trick is hidden in it.

"Sir, you should know about the martial arts exam scores, right?" Li Tianyi asked Su You undeniably.

Su You nodded, he was still a little embarrassed by the unfair treatment of Li Tianyi and others, and said earnestly, "In order to take care of the children of the family, the imperial court specially set up two lists, A and B, the children of officials above the fifth grade are on the first list, and the folk martial artists are on the second list, which is indeed a bit unfair, but this is also a historical problem. ”

The Jiupin Zhongzheng System is a system of electing officials formulated by Emperor Cao Pi of Wei Wen under the Jianyi of Shangshu Ling Chen Qun, and its criteria are three: family background, morality and talent, which are divided into nine grades; The first grade is a saint, because no one in the world dares to call himself the first grade, so the second grade is the highest grade, and the third grade and below are the lower grades.

The martial arts examination is divided into A and B lists, which are obviously born out of the nine-product Zhongzheng system, which can be described as a change of soup but not a change of medicine.

In the first list of martial arts, the children of officials above the fifth rank participate in the examination, even if they are at the bottom of the list, they are higher than the first grade of the second list, but this is already the emperor's grace; Before that, the people who practiced martial arts wanted to serve the imperial court; Only when the imperial court used troops abroad did not make military achievements.

Now that Yang Guang has created martial arts, although all kinds of rules are unfavorable to people other than the children of five-grade officials, if you really want to find faults, it is beyond your strength.

After all, Su You had seen unemployed champions in Taibai Building before, and as for the unemployed Xiucai who is still unemployed, it is not nothing.

Su You was about to point out that Li Tianyi "didn't know what to do", but he heard Wen Da say for a while, "There is a loophole in this, the children of officials above the fifth grade only have a total of forty places, but there are many people who are eager to do it, so they find a way to sign up for the B list; Because the regulations make it clear that the first list only allows the children of officials above the fifth grade to sign up, but it does not say that their children cannot apply for the second list, and as a result, hundreds of officials' children came to sign up for the second list, and there were only 60 places in total, 40 on the first list and 20 on the second list."

Li Tianyi couldn't help nodding, and finally concluded, "In this way, I estimate that there will not be many places that can be allocated to us." ”

After listening to Wen Dayou's words, Su You learned the source of Li Tianyi's complaints, so he asked expressionlessly, "Who is today's examiner?" ”

"I heard that it was Duan Wenzhen, the secretary of the Ministry of War, but it was a few members of the Ministry of War who were in charge of the specific examination. By the way, Wang Shichong, the head of the guard who followed Mr. in Yangzhou that day, was also one of them" Wen Dayou didn't know Duan Wenzhen, so he could only use a guessing tone for Duan Wenzhen, but when it came to Wang Shichong, he couldn't help but get excited.

"When did Wang Shichong come back? What's wrong? He turned his face and didn't recognize people, didn't he give you face? Speaking of Wang Shichong, Su You still felt a little guilty about him.

Wang Shichong followed Su You in Yangzhou for more than a year, but Su You had a congenital prejudice against him, so he did not lead him as a confidant, but let him do the same work as a chengguan in Yangzhou, the purpose was to corrupt his character and make the people of Yangzhou hate him with the same enemy.

Wang Shichong is really a person who does great things, but he accepts Su You's orders with patience, and he also completes them meticulously; As for whether he has any resentment towards Su You in his heart, that is also a matter of course.

In any case, Wang Shichong has now returned to the Eastern Capital, which probably also has the credit of Yang Ying.

But Wang Shichong actually became an examiner of martial arts, which gave Su You another signal,—— Yang Guang is going to reuse his rhythm?

Wen Dayou obviously didn't have a good impression of Wang Shichong, a half-breed, and immediately shook his head and said, "Wang Shichong has nothing to say to me, but he treats the children of the family very leniently, but he treats ordinary martial artists very harshly. Today's test of riding and archery is like this, but what about the weapon test tomorrow? Anyway, there is no standard for whether the weapon is good or not, and how many points should be is not a matter of a few of them? So I'm very disappointed with the results of this exam. ”

Among the four people present who took the martial arts exam, Wen Dayou's results were on par with Qin Shubao's, and he began to worry about the results of the exam, and the rest of them were in a depressed mood.

After listening to their analysis, Su You fell into silence again, but he didn't understand in his heart, "This Wang Shichong's courage is fat enough, who instructed him to do this favoritism and fraud with no conscience?" ”

"Yawn"

As if feeling that someone was talking about himself, Wang Shichong sneezed inexplicably, and he was at the side door of Yuwen Mansion at this time, waiting for Yuwenshu's reception.

Yuwenshu's mansion is a huge mansion covering an area of more than 50 acres, which is full of all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, and has hundreds of pavilions and pavilions; In the huge mansion, there are only four fathers and sons of Yuwenshu's family and countless concubines, and there are nearly 100 wives and concubines of Yuwenshu alone.

Yuwenshu has the merit of supporting, and he is good at welcoming Yang Guang, so he is deeply favored. After Yang Su's death, he seemed to have the potential to replace Yang Su, and there was an endless stream of officials visiting him every day; Of course, the sons of the self-contained families do not necessarily visit the humble Yuwenshu openly, but those unscrupulous speculators often flock to it.

The officials who visited Yuwenshu knew that he had two major hobbies, one was money, as early as the Kaihuang period, he had a huge family fortune, and there were countless gold and jewelry in the secret collection; The second is that it is easy to recognize fakes, it is rumored that he has 3,000 fakes, all of whom are strong in martial arts, but this point makes the first emperor Yang Jian a little jealous, Yang Guang has nothing to do with this, so Yuwenshu's interest in receiving fakes is much higher than before.

Before Wang Shichong was sent to Yangzhou to be the leader of Su You's guards, he had some dealings with Yuwenshu's second son, Yuwenzhihe, if it weren't for the accident with Yu Wenhua and his father and son, Wang Shichong would have completely thrown himself into Yuwen's family.

However, the smuggling of contraband by Yu Wenhua and his father and son was finally regarded as a blessing and misfortune, and the final result was that Yu Wenshu made another miraculous feat in the campaign to conquer Tuyuhun, and Yu Wenhua's official position was restored again.

Wang Shichong came back from Yangzhou this time, and he could be regarded as recognizing the shape clearly, knowing that a clear stream like Su You was difficult to climb, so he had to retreat and lean towards Yuwenshu again, and after Yuwenshu knew that he was the examiner of this martial arts, he accepted him by pushing the boat; If it weren't for the fact that Yuwenshu didn't dare to accept the court officials as a fake, he would already be Yuwenshu's great protector at this time.

Wang Shichong poured into Yuwen to say that he used each other and wolves to commit treachery, and he was afraid that Su You's credit was also included.

Wang Shichong followed Yuwenshu's subordinates to the door of the latter's outer study, and after obtaining permission, he walked in cautiously; He first saluted Yuwenshu meticulously, and then started to report straight to the point:

"Today, I took the bow horse test, a total of nearly 400 candidates, and according to the preliminary statistics, there are 214 people who scored more than eight points in the exam."

Yu Wenshu was not interested in this, he yawned, waved his hand and said, "How did the more than forty people I recommended do in the exam?" ”

"The people recommended by the general, naturally, all of them can be shortlisted for the second round, they are all above eight points, and even fifteen people have a perfect score." Wang Shichong calmly replied in a tone that could only be understood and could not be expressed, as if everything he had done was insignificant.

Yu Wenshu nodded, Wang Shichong was doing things, he could still rest assured.

There are unspoken rules in officialdom, and if he accepts bribes from others, he naturally has the responsibility to ensure that these people can get good results in the exam, otherwise how dare others believe him in the future? How embarrassed is he to greet people in the future?

"Tomorrow's weapon test is the key, and you'd better let these people of mine be the main exam, and ensure that they pass this round, so that I will be benevolent and righteous."

"The general can rest assured that his subordinates will ensure that the task will be completed." Wang Shichong swore that after saying this, he said with some concern, "The last time the general mentioned the addition of a subject of the art of war, in Duan Wenzhen, it was a moth, he meant that the first list was tested in the art of war, and the second list was canceled, and it is said that he had written his thoughts into a fold and handed it to His Majesty." ”

Yu Wenshu nodded, wrenched his face and said, "Duan Wenzhen is worried that someone will leak the test questions and affect fairness, and I will fight with His Majesty when I go back." You don't have to worry about this, just do your job well, there are only twenty places in the second list, you have to get at least half of them for me. ”

The two of them spoke strictly, seriously, and thoughtfully, and those who didn't know thought that they were working hard for the country and sharing worries for His Majesty; In fact, it is unscrupulous for the sake of money, and when the two get together, it can be regarded as a nest of snakes and rats.

Wang Shichong listened to Yu Wenshu's instructions, but he didn't know how to answer for a while, more than half of the forty places on the A list have been determined, and half of the places on the B list will be taken, and Wang Shichong is as bold as a tiger, and he doesn't dare to cheat so blatantly.

Yuwenshu is so desperate to win the list, is it a bit too big? Isn't he afraid of getting an egg because of this?