Chapter 64: Prelude to the Imperial Examination

The emperor sat there without speaking, and the courtiers only kept kneeling, and their knees were still very uncomfortable after kneeling for a long time, not to mention that most of the ministers were not young.

"Yan Aiqing, Yang Aiqing...... Wait, please! Zhao Zhen saw several old ministers kneeling and crumbling, so he had to let them get up first.

After saying this, Zhao Zhen fell silent again, and the court also showed the most strange state, an emperor looked at a group of courtiers kneeling, neither happy nor sad, one word to describe it is to turn a blind eye!

In the end, Yan Shu couldn't stand it anymore, and most of the courtiers were sweating, so they had to stand up and remind Zhao Zhen: "Your Majesty...... Emperor! ”

"Uh, I was just thinking about things and getting lost, let's all get up!" Zhao Zhen woke up like he had just woken up from a dream.

Seeing that you are supporting me, and I am supporting you to stand up slowly, the little devil in Zhao Zhen's heart was extremely happy, and he cleaned up his sobbing face, and then he continued: "For what you said, I thought about it seriously, the Holy School teaches people how to behave, this is very important, we should respect it......"

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard it, this is the rhythm of the play!

But Zhao Zhen's words changed: "But I think that there are also defects in sacred learning, that is, sacred learning will not teach people to do things, think about it for yourself, you can be ranked above the court, that is the way of doing things that has been accumulated little by little during the period of taking office in various places." You are all capable now, but you think about whether you didn't know anything when you first became an official, you all use the common people to hone your ability bit by bit, and you were recruited back to the court as soon as you know how to do something, and the next official will repeat your path, have you ever thought about how innocent the people are? ”

"Your Majesty, the way of sacred learning, inherited for thousands of years, my dynasty has respected sacred learning since Taizu, this is the foundation of my Great Song Dynasty, you can't slander holy learning!" Yan Shu himself is also a member of the Holy School, and the Holy School has been mythologized by several generations of emperors in the Great Song Dynasty, seeing that Zhao Zhen is using the meaning of the Holy School again, he was in a hurry and hurriedly persuaded him.

"Rest assured, I have absolutely no intention of slandering the Holy Studies, on the contrary, I am also optimistic about the Holy Studies. What I want to tell you is that as a successor of sacred learning, you should always think about how to improve the shortcomings of sacred learning, instead of holding on to the old view. Everything is moving forward in the process of development, and you should also see and feel the remarkable results of the sacred study in teaching the people how to behave, but you should also see its serious shortcomings in teaching people to do things. On the contrary, the new learning that I brought was the opposite, and the new learning only taught people how to do things, and there was very little education about human nature. Therefore, what you should think about should be how to make the two perfectly combined, and how to make the Great Song Dynasty strong. ”

Hearing that Zhao Zhen did not mean to abandon the Holy Learning, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty, the Supervision Yuan received many articles sent to the students today, and the spearhead is directly aimed at the Holy New School, all of them think that the Holy School has the intention of abolishing the Holy School, and there are many angry words between the words, and the ministers are afraid of causing trouble, and I hope that the Holy Lord will open Enke as soon as possible to show the Holy Will!" Lu Zongdao, the president of the Supervision Yuan, appropriately stood up and brought the building crookedly, so that everyone would not continue to be entangled here.

"Aiqing said that students everywhere have this move?" Zhao Zhen seems to feel that something is wrong, this is not the future generation of developed Internet, it stands to reason that he can't afford to make such a big wave!

"Back to the emperor, that's exactly the case, I have submitted documents to all the states of the Eighteen Roads."

"Aiqing will send these articles to the Vertical Arch Hall later, and I will look at them one by one. Since you've all mentioned Kaienko, let's talk about it today! ”

"Obey the order!"

"Look at this time, it's too late for this year's autumn exam, so let's do it, the first imperial examination of the Heavenly Holy Dynasty will be set for next autumn!"

"Commandment!" The ministers bowed down and sang their promises.

"I wonder what the Holy Lord's arrangements are for the candidates for the exam?" Prime Minister Yan Shu asked.

Didn't Fan Aiqing mention that Li Di and Li University were also shocked by this incident? I will recruit Li University Scholar to return to Beijing as the main examination for next year's imperial examination, supplemented by Fan Xiwen, a scholar of Baowen Pavilion. ”

"Thanksgiving!" Fan Zhongyan hurriedly responded.

"I have thought about it for a long time, and in view of the far-reaching impact of this incident, I have decided to make adjustments for next year's imperial examination, and the winners of this year's autumn examination do not need to participate in the spring examination of each state next year, and can directly go to Beijing to participate in the provincial examination and the palace examination. I declare in advance that I will personally write the questions for next year's imperial examination, and the content of sacred studies will be ninety percent, and the first layer will be new learning, and since then, new learning content has been added to scientific examinations at all levels. ”

"The emperor can't ......" As soon as the words fell, someone jumped out to dissuade him.

"That's it!" Zhao Zhen suddenly roared loudly: "Do you still take me, the emperor, in your eyes?" ”

"The emperor is angry, and the ministers are panicking!" Seeing that Zhao Zhen was angry, everyone hurriedly knelt down, thinking that this is not a master to mess with, don't look at the approachable appearance of a day, no matter how you say it, you are also a person who has been on the battlefield, this aura is different.

"This matter is so decided, if you want to have an opinion, I will cancel the imperial examination, you can watch for yourself!" After Zhao Zhen finished speaking, he left without looking back, leaving a group of ministers staring at each other.

The emperor is gone, and this court meeting will not be able to play, so they have to hang their heads and implement it according to Zhao Zhen's requirements. Otherwise, if the students of the world know that because they have lost the imperial examination, they will not be demolished one by one.

"Zhao Zhong"

"Please ask the emperor to command!"

"Immediately arrange for the Secret Disc Division to find out about the delivery of letters by students from all over the country to the Supervision Institute, and the Supervision Institute will bring the letters later, I suspect that there is something wrong with this!"

"The minister understands!"

"I'm going to see who is doing the trick with the master, hum!" After Zhao Zhong left, Zhao Zhen said to himself.

The debate above the court was not so quickly known to outsiders, and at this moment, there were three young students traveling together, and they knew nothing about this matter.

Since there has been no Kaienke in the Holy Heaven today, these three people from Luoyang Taimur Academy, which was later known as "Songyang Academy", Han Qi, Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo, they decided to go out to travel together. They set out from Luoyang, Xijing, and passed through Bianliang, Tokyo, preparing to go to Xianyuan County, the holy land of Confucianism, to see the sages and saints.

"Brother Yanguo, Brother Kuanfu, do you think that something is wrong with us along the way?" Han Qi, who was seventeen years old, said to the other two young people who were not a few years older than him.

"Brother Fool also thinks something is not quite right, but he can't say it, it feels weird......" Fu Bi, the eldest, replied.

After speaking, both of them looked at Wen Yanbo, who was usually the most clever. The three of them are increasing in age, each with a difference of two years, Han Qi is the youngest, with a straight personality, Fu Bi is the largest, with a loyal personality, Wen Yanbo is in the middle, and he is clever and agile.

Seeing the expectant eyes of the two companions, Wen Yanbo thought for a while and said, "According to my observation, it seems that there is an invisible force pushing the scholars of the world to oppose the current saint. Think about it, along the way, is it true that the further east we go, the more frequent the activities of these scholars, especially since we have now entered Jingxi Road, there seem to be local celebrities lecturing in all state capitals and counties, and most of the content of the lectures alludes to the intention of abolishing sacred learning in today's saints? ”

Fu Bi thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but nod and say, "It's true, we've heard a lot of pulpits these days, and it's true!" ”

"What does Brother Kuanfu mean, does it mean that someone is secretly conspiring?" Han Qi interjected.

"It's hard to say, maybe the Holy One really has this intention to be known by the ministers of the DPRK and China, and then it spread, we have been walking outside these days, and all the sources are basically only this Royal Times, it's not easy to judge!" Wen Yanbo pointed to the newspaper in his hand, his brows furrowed.

"Yes, why did we forget, isn't Brother Yanguo the son-in-law of Chenglong, the prime minister of the dynasty, is there any news?" Han Qi said as if he suddenly remembered.

"Brother Childcare is right! Brother Yan Guo, tell us about it? Wen Yanbo also agreed.

Looking at the expectant eyes of the two companions, Fu Bi said slightly apologetically: "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, although we had occasional correspondence with Jiayue when we were in Luoyang, but there were no matters involving the saint, and his old man didn't mention when the saint opened Enke, just let Brother Wei read more books." ”

"Hey, I'm waiting for the self-proclaimed genius, and today I only discovered the wisdom of the saint!" Wen Yanbo couldn't help but sigh.

"Oh, where did you say that?"

"If you look at this light newspaper in our hands, I used to treat it as a simple newspaper, thinking that it was just a release of reading privileges. Now that I think about it, this is not the case, although we couldn't see the Di newspaper before, we could extract information from the mouths of officials from all over the world. However, since the new emperor ascended the throne, not only do we not understand what the Holy Lord is thinking, but it seems that the ministers of the DPRK and China do not understand either, and this Times has almost become our only information channel. If I'm not mistaken, the Holy One is going to make a big move! Wen Yanbo rubbed the newspaper in his hand, and this moment seemed to become very heavy.

"Not really, right? Is it that serious? Han Qi questioned.

"It's really hard to say, we know too little information, why does Brother Kuanfu have this idea?"

"Since the Taizu of our dynasty, I have been advocating to rule the world with scholars, and since then, the status of scholars has skyrocketed, and you and I are also one of them. Over the past few generations, the civil officials of our dynasty have held a lot of power, and if the Holy One wants to make a move, he must first control public opinion, and you can now understand why the Holy One made up this Times! Do you think about it, since the Holy Lord's accession to the throne, there was no such thing as this newspaper to fuel it? ”

"What do you think we should do?"

"Brother Yanguo, the younger brother wants to ask, whose world is this Great Song Dynasty? Who did the army of the Great Song Dynasty listen to? ”

"Needless to say, it must be the saint of today!" Han Qi did not hesitate to answer this question for Fu Bi.

"Then ask again, how old is the saint today? How is the dragon body? ”

"I also know this, haven't the Times written it, the saint is only fifteen years old, and he is younger than us. The younger brother also heard that the saint had been training the field army since he was still the prince, and he had been running thousands of miles to exterminate more than 20,000 people in the party. Although Han Qi is a scholar, he is still quite enthusiastic in his bones, and he is familiar with the content of the war recorded in the Times.

"As far as I know, the Holy Lord founded the Enlightenment School when he was only five years old, recruiting noble ministers and children of the Han family to train the team of the mansion for himself. When he was eight years old, he founded the Royal Academy, which recruited people from all over the world. When he was ten years old, Shengshang proposed to form a new army, creating a field army with long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows to fight against cavalry, and fought a battle that shocked the world. Most of these people trained by the Holy Lord are now serving in the field army, the newly established Royal Academy and the Royal Academy, and they have infiltrated the central and local areas step by step. If you think about it, the saint now has a sharp weapon to dominate public opinion, and there are many children of the poor family waving their flags and shouting, and there are brave and warlike field troops waving like arms. At this time, the new ideas of the saints were endless, and the ministers of the court and the central government were busy. ”

Wen Yanbo paused and said, "I said so, the two brothers should understand how to choose!" ”

When the two heard this, they nodded silently, and each was silent, pondering as they went.

Where is the road......