In the first year of Jianning, November 1.

This day is destined to go down in history, although nothing significant happened on this day in history.

However, with the arrival of Liu Hong, China's first imperial examination and the implementation of the conscription system again, this series of events are destined to be unusual today.

In the early morning, a team of 1,000 people composed of the Northern Army, Yulin, and Xiaohuangmen slowly walked out of the palace and walked towards Xiyuan.

Along the way, all the people were isolated by the Northern Army under the command of Zhi Jingo.

A man dressed as a businessman asked suspiciously, "What is this for?" ”

A citizen on the side looked at him with disdain and said, "Are you a Han person?" ”

The merchant said embarrassedly, "Naturally, he is a Han man, but he is in a remote place such as Xiliangna......"

The voice of the speech is getting quieter and quieter.

At that time, Xiliang was a barbarian and an uncivilized barbarian in the eyes of Sili and the people of the Central Plains.

So the businessman has some inferiority.

And the common man did not despise him, but suddenly said, "No wonder, this is our Han's Enke opening exam." Do you see the little yellow door in the line with a brocade box in hand? ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the small yellow door in the team that was supported by everyone.

Naturally, the merchant saw it, so he nodded.

The man continued, "What that little yellow door has in his hand is the exam questions of Enke, and Enke has been taking the exam for three days, and there are one exam questions a day. The examination questions were all written by the emperor, and there were no outsiders in the surrounding ten zhang, and then the emperor personally sealed the examination questions into a brocade box, and handed them to Xiao Huangmen under the witness of the three people of the imperial court, Situ, and Zhongchang. ”

Immediately, Xiao Huangmen rushed to the Xiyuan examination room under the escort of the three armies of the Northern Army, Yulin, and Xiao Huangmen. The small yellow door is not allowed to open in the middle of the way, and the brocade box cannot be opened. And the rest of the escorts can't approach the brocade box, and the offender will be killed. ”

The merchant listened to the man's words, and was stunned for a moment.

Then he said in disbelief, "Is it so strict?" ”

When the man heard this, he said enviously, "What do you know! This time, once Enke is admitted, he can directly become an official master, I heard that once these candidates are favored by the emperor, they will be given the power of the cabinet to walk! ”

Cabinet walking?

With the passage of time, the high position and power of the cabinet has gradually been known to people, when the emperor is inconvenient, the cabinet can directly deal with government affairs, and use the jade seal, of course, through the head of the jade seal Wang Fu nodded.

The two serve as checks and balances.

At this moment, a fast horse suddenly rushed out of the crowd to escort the leader of the brocade box, and when he saw this, he shouted, "Protect the brocade box." ”

With the leader's words, the people of the Northern Army, Yulin, and Xiaohuangmen sent three people one after another to surround Xiaohuangmen, who was holding a brocade box. They didn't have their backs to the little yellow door, they were facing each other.

Liu Hong specially instructed them before they set off that once they encountered problems, they should not care about the attackers, just keep an eye on the brocade box, and the brocade box could not be moved.

Soon, the fast horses were slain, and the horse, who did not know which son's mount, was frightened and rushed to the road.

But at this time, the prince must have been miserable, and the leader recognized that this was a good Dawan horse, but at this time he must kill it, otherwise he would die in a moment.

In today's court, who doesn't know the emperor's importance to Enko?

At this time, adding blockage to the emperor is really an old birthday star eating arsenic - he is impatient.

Along the way, except for this small accident, everyone finally came to Xiyuan without danger.

At this time, Xiyuan was already covered with a huge army of 5,000 people from the Northern Army, Yulin, Period Gate, and Xiaohuangmen.

Not to mention assassins or thieves, it is a rebel army of 10,000 people, and it will take several hours to attack at this moment.

The chief examiner here is Taifu Hu Guang, the deputy examiner Situ Liu Chong, the Zhongchang servant Cao Teng, and the invigilator is composed of Taichang Xu Xun, Guangluxun Yang Ci, Taifu Liu Huan, Zongzheng Liu Xiu, and Shaofu Li Ying.

There are so many three princes and nine secretaries, in order to contain each other.

Liu Hong knew that there would be no cheating in the first imperial examination, because everyone knew nothing about it.

The reason for this is that Liu Hong is to lay the foundation for future scientific expeditions, and it can be said that Liu Hong adopted a step-by-step method to govern the Han Empire, which was about to collapse.

The chief examiner, Taifu Hu Guang, took the brocade box from Xiao Huangmen's hand, carefully inspected it, and then asked the deputy chief examiner and the invigilator to check them one by one.

Then he said, "The brocade box has not been opened, and the little yellow door is hard." ”

The little yellow door wiped the cold sweat on his head and said, "It's nothing, the small task is complete, and I'm going back to the palace to resume my life." ”

"Please."

"Farewell."

Xiao Huangmen saluted slightly, then turned and left, while the thousand-man guards stayed where they were.

Hu Guang turned around and walked towards the examination room in the West Garden, and asked as he walked, "Zu Rong (Situ Liu Pet's character), candidates, have you finished the inspection and waited for the entrance?" ”

Liu Pet smiled and said, "Taifu, rest assured, everything is going well, the candidates all entered the venue, but from the clothes of several candidates, they searched out some cloth scrolls with articles written on them." ”

Hu Guang snorted coldly, "Such people are really bad for reading sage books. ”

Seeing this, Cao Teng interjected and said, "Don't worry, Taifu, these people, according to His Majesty's will, have been expelled from the examination room, and no travel expenses will be issued." ”

Glancing at Cao Teng, although Hu Guang didn't like this person in his heart, he also knew that this person was a minister relied on by the emperor, otherwise he would not have been allowed to enter the cabinet.

How did Hu Guang know that this Cao Teng was just a target for Liu Hong to push out.

As soon as the topic changed, Hu Guang asked, "I don't know how many scholars came this time?" ”

"Taifu, there are a total of 1,863 scholars here."

"Why so few?" Hu Guang asked puzzled.

Liu Pet smiled bitterly and said, "Taifu doesn't know, most of the children of the family are filial piety, so they are not allowed to participate in this Enke, and most of the people who came this time are the children of the poor family, so there will be only these." ”

Hu Guang nodded, that is, understanding.

And Xu Xun behind him was very speechless, originally the strategy they formulated was to let the children of the family exert their power in this Enke and compare them to the people of the poor family. Let the emperor know the important surname of the family.

As a result, Enke did not allow filial piety to participate at all this time, you must know that the people of the family will obtain the name of filial piety for their children when they become adults.

Unexpectedly, filial piety became the biggest obstacle at this time, and the scientific expedition was approaching, and the family had no choice but to give up this opportunity.

Hu Guang didn't know about this, so he only thought that Xu Xun's face was not good because he was a little tired, and he didn't think much about it.

After coming to the examination room, Hu Guang held up the brocade box, and Liu Pet behind him shouted, "Candidates, pay attention, the brocade box has not been opened, and the exam questions have not been leaked." ”

"Candidates pay attention, the brocade box has not been opened, and the exam questions have not been leaked."

After going around the examination room, the time of a stick of incense has passed.

Then Hu Guang opened the brocade box in front of the deputy examiner and the invigilator, and took out the cloth paper of the first exam question in the brocade box.