July Flowing Fire. The weather is getting cooler every day.

Su You suddenly remembered Kong Yiji, but Kong Yiji was always standing and drinking, and he felt uncomfortable when he was sitting, there were two trees outside the window, one was the Gongsun Tree, and the other was also the Gongsun Tree.

Su You was distracted, and suddenly watched Qingjing walking back with the abacus on his back, and someone behind him chased and shouted, "Miss Qingjing, can you recite that mantra again?" So she stopped, and spoke to the latter in detail; Su You looked at one of them "tired of learning" and the other "tireless of teaching", and couldn't help but feel relieved, and suddenly remembered Li Tianyi, who pestered Qingjing on the way to Qi County last year.

After Qingjing finished teaching the students, Su You asked her, "Do you remember that Li Tianyi?" Why does it feel like I haven't heard from him for a long time? Didn't he come to the Eastern Capital with the King of Qi? ”

"Li Tianyi? Mr. is talking about the 'father Li Wenji', right? Hey, it's really a dog can't change what he eats. Less than two months after his father, Li Wenjiguan, was reinstated, he changed his temper again, not only molesting a good family, but also taking out a 'hard crossbow' controlled by the imperial court when he was competing with others, and now it seems that he is still waiting for amnesty in Chang'an Prison. Qing Jing said to him, with an expression of "This kid is not a good thing".

Su You nodded, for Li Tianyi, because he couldn't swear, then he could only be speechless now.

The young general in the silver armor in his head was about to be ruined, it seems that the child's calligraphy is still good, do you want to shout "save the child" at the top of his voice? Maybe Li Gang is really too busy, and he can be shot while lying down, but this result is not without cause.

Li Gang has accompanied three princes successively, but each prince has passed by the throne, is this just a matter of luck?

"Hey, haven't you heard, Your Majesty attaches great importance to this imperial examination."

"Oh, how do you say that?"

Su You inspected all over the restaurant, and sometimes said with a smile, "Eating and drinking, you are inside", and at this time, when I heard the two of them talk about the imperial examination, I didn't think so. Three months ago, the imperial court's edict had been issued, and scholars recommended by officials from all over the country poured into the capital again from all directions, which is probably the grand occasion of the past few years.

However, according to past experience, if the people recommended by foreign officials are not attached to a few gate valves in the capital, then the talents they recommend are just to accompany the prince to study, and their recommendation letters are like those useless ballots, just for superficial work.

The children of the high-ranking lords do not need to go through the imperial examination, such as the children of Yang Xuanganyu culture and other court officials, if they want to be officials, they will go directly to become officials. Those who want to participate in the imperial examination are generally inferior gate valves, or poor scholars; But in any case, those who participated in the imperial examination had to be "promoted" by officials before they could participate in the competition, which was not as popular as the civil service examination in later generations.

"You know, now the list of Cao Qigui has come out, and the Duke of Qi and the Duke of Yue are not among them."

"Oh, what does that mean? Hasn't the selection of materials by the imperial court always been caught by the officials? ”

"This shows that the Son of Heaven is determined to refresh the rule of officials, and of course, it also indirectly shows that the corpse of Qizhang is a vegetarian meal."

"Shh......h What are you doing with all those useless things, does it have anything to do with us? ”

"I think this time it should be better than before, and more examiners means more transparency."

"But the topic is still as difficult as ever, the cold family enters the court, the white-clothed prime minister or something is just a myth, you calculate carefully, since the beginning of the department, how many talents have appeared in the past 20 years?"

When Su You heard this, he was disdainful, and originally wanted to remind them to "don't talk about state affairs", but after thinking about it, he gave up. He understood the difficulty of the civil service examination, but he never thought that the people who had won the imperial examination for more than 20 years could even count so few people with both hands, if what they said was the truth, then it could only explain two problems -- one was that there were no talents in the Han family of the Great Sui Dynasty, and the other was that the imperial court was only playing for the world's scholars.

In fact, these two reasons may account for half of each, more talents come from the gate valve, and the gate valve does not need to be examined; Secondly, after all, the selection of materials for the imperial court is also the selection of the seven nobles of the imperial court, and the seven nobles represent the gate valve, so naturally there is no reason to choose outsiders, and it is rare to choose one or two white clothes, which is also to help the emperor make a show. Of course, this imperial examination is still the same as the previous one, the emphasis is on "lifting", each of the 190 counties in the world will elect one person, and there will be no more than a few people, or even one person will not be taken.

Su You was qualified for the exam because of Yang Er's recommendation, and he was originally reluctant to go, but he understood the truth that it was difficult to be warm, and he heard that he was going to take the exam Enke, and he was basically nominated and already on the list, and he didn't even have to fill in the blanks in the scriptures, and he didn't have to do the questions of noun explanation, and his exam only had two basic items: "Qin, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting" and "Policy Theory".

If Yang Er felt that he should have a problem, then naturally there was no problem; If Yang Er felt that he shouldn't be selected, then he would definitely not be able to get out of the line. The most important thing in officialdom is an attitude, as long as the attitude is correct, even if you make a mistake, you are a good comrade, it is the fault of the heart; If you don't have a good attitude, you will also be a bad example if you do your work, and your heart can be punished.

When he heard that Emperor Sui's selection of talents this time was "must be virtuous and functional" and the content of the exam included "piano, chess, calligraphy and painting", Su You was speechless for a while, which made him feel that Yang Guang chose art students!

However, the first investigation of "qin skills" in history is indeed attributed to Yang Guang.

Su You thought at the time, should you invent the guitar? But it obviously takes time to tinker with that thing, and more importantly, it seems that I can play a few colorful songs myself, and it doesn't seem to make much sense to play that thing. It's not that Su You attaches great importance to the outstanding, but he is afraid that he will enter the examination room, and he will not be able to play the piano if he is one out of ten thousand, so will he still be mixed up in Dasui in the future? And if you use a guitar instead of a zither, at most you will be arrogant and unruly.

However, when Su You hesitated whether to invent the guitar, Yang Er came with good news, because it was the first time to join the assessment of "piano skills", this time it can be relaxed to other musical instruments, that is, although the name of this time is "test the qin", it is actually "test the instrument".

When he heard the news, Su You breathed a sigh of relief, playing a flute or something, at least he had practiced. - Although, if it is counted as nine grades, he can only mix up the inferior grades.

In addition, when it comes to Go, Su You naturally doesn't know anything.

However, the scoring of these two examinations is not the kind of average score that removes the highest score and removes the lowest score, but the special examination, which greatly increases the operability of officials and provides a solid basis for them to accept bribes. When Su You heard the news, he couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad, because it wasn't him who should be worried about being whistled black, but other poor people from all directions.

Su You accidentally mixed into the privileged class.

"Sir, there's a guest with the surname who asks to see you." Su You was cruising idly when he saw Feng Lingbo come over and say hello.

When Su You heard her say this, he immediately remembered coming to Yanbei, and then remembered that he hadn't seen her for a long time; The notebook on the wall has not added her handwriting.

Come to the surname, come to the surname, as long as it's not a "letter cut". Thinking of this, Su You quickly walked towards the private room pointed out by Feng Lingbo.

"In Xia Su You, what do the guest officers command?" When Su You walked into the private room, he saw a man in his thirties sitting on the couch with a golden sword, this man was also born strong, and he looked like he practiced martial arts all day; So Su You pretended that he was a drunkard who came here to buy a drunkard, and then gave him a courtesy.

"Mr. Su, please be seated. In the next Hong, please come to Mr., there is really something to discuss. This Laihong didn't get up, he just sat up straight and made a gesture to Su You on the side of the table, Su You was not polite, and the two sat left and right.

"You're welcome, brother, please speak directly if you have something to say." Su You gave up again, he still preferred to get straight to the point.

"Mr. Su, do you remember a woman named Yanbei? It's his second brother. Lai Hong immediately identified himself.

"Well, she came with Princess Yuerong a month ago, and had a small conversation with Zaixia, and left after drinking tea." Su You nodded.

"My father is the general of the right guard, and he has the responsibility of guarding the royal family, so they know each other." There are some things that Lai Hong said that he didn't rely on, but Su You probably knew what he meant, and he didn't have to guess when he said this, he knew that Lai Yanbei was Lai Hu'er's daughter.

Think about it, can the princess still be accompanied by an ordinary child? It's just that he is showing himself what kind of trouble he is going to make?

"There are many brothers in the Han family, but there is only one little sister, our brother naturally takes good care of her, and she has always been cheerful and smiling, but recently she has been ......." Lai Hong said, also frowned, and seemed to have some words that were inconvenient to speak.

Su You kept smiling and gave him a look that please continue, but he was very helpless in his heart, every family has a difficult scripture to read, and the lady of the gate valve naturally has the sorrow of the lady of the gate valve, but this still has nothing to do with him.

"So?" Su You saw that he was speechless for a long time, so he had to ask.

"The little sister of the Han family hasn't been out for a month, and according to her little maid, she once had a tea discussion with her husband."

Su You probably knows what it means, if this thing doesn't want to let him propose, then he must keep himself away from his little sister. Obviously, a poor boy and a high-profile lady, Su You has his own consciousness.

The son and lady of the gate valve are basically the guarantee of political investment, speaking of which Su You has been here for more than two years, how can he not know the door here?

When he heard Yang Er ask about his marriage, Su Ye was not unmoved, and he even appeared in his mind for the first time Yang Panruo and Yang Suyan, which really couldn't blame him, after all, the most outstanding women he had ever seen since he came to the world were the two of them, but the unspoken rules that have been handed down for thousands of years have already made the two classes of people distinct.

For them, Su You didn't dare to think about them; But he is far from the point of starvation, and he has adhered to the principle of preferring shortage to abundance for nearly thirty years. Although he was not in a hurry to marry before, he had a great deal of time for the sake of his son.

But now? What are you holding onto? Are you afraid that you won't be able to give them happiness, or are you not determined to take care of a stranger for the rest of your life?

"Come brother, Su You knows what to do. I hope she's happy. ”

"That's the next goodbye." Lai Hong seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Su You watched him leave, in a hurry, and walked resolutely.