In an inn in the capital, Wen Yanbo and Han Qi have lived here for most of the year, and Fu Bi has lived in his father-in-law's house, that is, Yan Shu's mansion.

Tomorrow will enter the examination room, and a person's fate will also take a major turn here. At this important moment, although Fu Bi felt sad about his fate, he still cheered up his two good friends.

Originally, the three of them were drinking in the inn, and the three of them threw away the unhappiness in their hearts, and when they were drinking, they found that there were not many drinks and food. So, Han Qi, the youngest, volunteered to buy some appetizers and good wine, and prepared to come back and work for 300 rounds.

"Why is this childish brother so inkblot today, and he hasn't come back after a long time!" In order to enliven the atmosphere, Han Qi also wanted to divert his attention and avoid causing Fu Bi's unhappiness.

Fu Bi didn't understand his friend's hard work, but he had studied hard for more than ten years, but he didn't even have a chance to do a doctor...... Only forced a smile: "Yes! The wine is exhausted and the food is scarce......"

There was a loud bang, and the door opened, which also diverted the attention of Fu Bi and the others, only to see Han Qi panting and standing at the door, looking at the two of them smirking, his hands were empty!

"Childy, where are the drinks and dishes you bought?" Wen Yanbo asked.

"Hahaha......" Han Qi didn't answer, he rushed to Fu Bi and hugged him in ecstasy: "Brother Yanguo, you can also participate in the imperial examination!" ”

"What a stupid thing! Foolish brother, you see you're drunk! It took Fu Bi a lot of effort to get out from under Han Qi's hands.

"Achi-kyu, what's the matter with you? You can't really get drunk, right? Wen Yanbo also looked at Han Qi curiously.

"Calm, calm, all calm! Listen to me! Han Qi soothed his emotions for a moment before he said to the two: "The younger brother went out to buy wine and food just now, and happened to see the notice posted by the saint, which said that from this imperial examination onwards, the system of vague names will be adopted. After all candidates enter the venue and fill in their names, ages and places of origin, they must seal the test papers. After the answer is completed, the Holy Lord will send someone to re-transcribe each person's test paper, so that the person who marks the paper can identify the candidate by handwriting. In this way, the Holy Lord hopes to avoid the subjective assumptions of the examiners and improve the fairness of the imperial examination, so that all those who meet the conditions can participate in the imperial examination without avoiding suspicion. And from the beginning of this imperial examination, appearance is not a problem, and the saint guarantees that he will no longer rely on his face to guess a person's ability, and all tests will be one standard - practical ability! ”

"Really?" Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo asked together.

Han Qi patted his chest and promised, "Really! I don't believe you can go and see it! ”

So, the three of them didn't care about eating and drinking, and rushed to the place where the notice was posted together, but they didn't expect that it was already full of candidates, and the three of them couldn't squeeze in......

The next day, with great yearning and apprehension, all the candidates finally stepped into the gate of the Royal Academy as they wished. After a rigorous inspection, each person wore the uniform clothes prepared by the imperial court, took the admission ticket issued by the imperial court, and walked into their own examination room. They were much luckier than all the previous candidates, sitting in the spacious teacher's room, although each candidate's position was separated by a curtain, which was also much more comfortable than staying in the small dark room of the Gongyuan for three days at a time.

The periphery of the Royal Academy was surrounded by Yang Zhixin and others, and some security guards were patrolling back and forth inside, out of these security measures, there were many brocade guards hidden in all corners, closely monitoring every move of the entire academy, and even the royal guards also sent a lot of people to participate in this big exam.

Not only that, when the candidates entered the venue, Zhao Zhen also lectured more than 4,000 forbidden soldiers on a playground: "All of them!" Attention...... At ease! ”

Looking at the neat movements of the thousands of people below, he nodded with satisfaction, and the officers who followed next to him also breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Zhen shouted loudly to the soldiers below: "You are all my most trusted people, I have a big matter to hand over to you today!" ”

"Please command the emperor! Subordinates will never give up! Led by the officer, thousands of soldiers raised their arms in unison, saluting and shouting loudly.

Zhao Zhen spread his hands evenly: "In order to ensure the fairness of this imperial examination and prevent anyone from cheating, I let each of you be responsible for monitoring a candidate. However, you must not interfere with the candidate's normal answers. Can you do it? ”

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

The soldiers then laid down their arms, led their numbers, and marched in groups toward their respective examination rooms.

Although some candidates objected to this practice of personal surveillance, the examiner said: If you don't like it, you can not take the test!

Don't take the test? Possibly! After so many years of hard work, isn't it just for today! The eldest husband can bend and stretch, and for the glory of the coming day, he will endure it today.

When the exam started, everyone thought that these invigilators were not so annoying. As long as you don't mess around, people sit next to you and count your fingers, and occasionally you can hand over a piece of water or something, and someone will help you bring the food to your hand, this treatment is simply good, except that you can't run around and are about to catch up with the feeling of the son. Think about it again, if you stay alone in such a small space, and stay for three days, it's boring enough to think about it, and now there is someone with you, although you can't speak, but it feels much better! Thinking about it this way, everyone feels that the saint is much more humane today.

Zhao Zhen picked some pleasing questions from the four-point test paper and composed the test paper for this exam. Anyway, the printing tools of the Royal Academy were ready-made, so he personally supervised the craftsmen to print the test papers, sealed them, and sent them directly to the invigilators in each examination room.

As a result, the three-day imperial examination finally opened the prelude to the sound of writing, and Zhao Zhen sat on the top of the hill of the Royal Academy with the four examiners, looking at the many students at the foot of the mountain from a distance......

Three days passed quickly, which was as long as three years for the candidates, but no matter what, everyone survived, returned to their places of residence with disturbed hearts, covered their heads and fell asleep, and when they woke up, they invited friends to get drunk and did not return...... Until the day of the release of the list came.

Although they were relieved, only the person who transcribed the test paper and the person who corrected the paper entered the examination room, and the entire revision and review had to last for nearly half a month.

During this period, Zhao Zhen took Zhang Rou and the ministers of the DPRK and China to the dock on the edge of the capital, in fact, many ministers did not want to come to join in the excitement, but Zhao Zhen personally sent someone to "inform" them.

At this time, the wharf was crowded with onlookers, and there were also candidates who heard the movement and rushed to see the excitement, and it was rare that there was no boat on the wide river. Everyone looked at the emperor and empress and the ministers of the court on the dock with curiosity and puzzlement, and they didn't know who deserved such a big greeting.

It didn't take long for everyone's doubts to be revealed. Two large boats slowly floated down from the upper reaches of the Yellow River and cautiously stopped in the deep water area of the wharf. As soon as the ship came to a stand, groups of soldiers poured out of the cabins, stood neatly on the deck, facing the direction of the emperor, and knelt heavily on the deck, making a deafening sound......

After the nine bows, these soldiers stood up one after another, looking at the emperor and the ministers of the court not far away.

Liang Shi stood up from the crowd, walked to the side of the ship, and shouted loudly with an iron horn: "Ocean expedition, all the officers and soldiers are ready, please instruct the emperor!" ”

"Go early and come back early! Stay safe! I and the people of the whole country are waiting for your triumphant return! Zhao Zhen also took a loudspeaker like him and shouted loudly in the direction of the ship.

"Salute!" With Liang Shi's order, all the soldiers on the two large ships raised their arms and placed them heavily on their temples.

Zhao Zhen also raised his arm unconsciously, trying to suppress the tears in his eyes. Most of the other ministers didn't understand Zhao Zhen's feelings and were indifferent to it, only a few ministers didn't know what the purpose was, and they also followed Zhao Zhen's appearance and performed a nondescript military salute.

"Let's go!" Liang Shi withdrew his military salute and turned to the soldier to give an order.

At the sound of the order, all the soldiers quickly returned to their posts, and two large blue background five-clawed golden dragon flags slowly rose from the two ships.

Anchor tightening, sail hoisting, steering ...... In one go, soon, the two big boats went down the river and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Although the whole process is very short, it has become a hot topic of discussion among the onlookers and candidates, they don't know what this "ocean expedition" is, and they think that the current saint also wants to learn from Qin Shi Huang to find the "elixir", but the saint is still so young, is he too anxious?

Among these onlookers, there was also a guy who was not quite the same as the eldest parent, he did not participate in the discussion, but quickly returned to his "home", and immediately wrote a letter and handed it to a beggar by the door, and after that, the letter finally appeared on the desk of Liao Shengzong after many twists and turns.

Don't think that only Zhao Zhen can send secret agents, Liao Shengzong is not a fool, in order to understand some major events in the Song Dynasty, he will definitely send his own spies. And this event can be attended by both the emperor and the ministers of the Song Kingdom, which definitely belongs to the category of major events.

Liao Shengzong saw that the secret letter mentioned that the Song State had sent two super ships, about thirty zhang long and six zhang wide, with an estimated number of soldiers carrying more than 1,000 soldiers. This greatly stimulated Liao Shengzong's cautious liver, thinking about the few small boats in his Yingkou, he had to urgently order the nearby troops to rush to Yingkou to garrison in case of accidents.

After arranging these, Liao Shengzong put his mind on the ship again, although he didn't know what the little emperor of the Song State was playing the trick of disarmament while building a big ship, what was it for? But there is one thing, that is, the Song State has it, we have to have it, and if the Song State does not have it, we still have to have it.

So, Liao Shengzong was anxious to discuss this matter with his ministers, especially the officials in charge of the construction of the Liao State, seeing the instructions of their own emperor, they could only grab the ground with their heads, saying that they couldn't get such a big thing even if they cut off our heads, so you can do it yourself!

"Rice bucket! A bunch of rice buckets! That little kid in the south of the house is better than you, and you all grew up eating fucking shit......" Liao Shengzong roared frantically at his ministers, if he didn't think that he still needed these guys to help him look at the stall of the Great Liao Kingdom, maybe he would really have clicked them all.

The officials involved in shipbuilding can only kneel on the ground and make promises, and they dare not take a breath of the atmosphere, and although the officials who are watching the excitement next to them are also gloating, they can only secretly have fun, and they have to attract the attention of their bosses, and then it will be too bad to point the finger at themselves.

People were also scolded, anger came out, life had to be lived, life had to go on, and Liao Shengzong had to accept the fact that he couldn't build a big ship. Since it is as follows, then we can only find another way, and we can't build that big, so let's pile up the quantity.

Liao Shengzong pondered again, since it is a shipbuilding, it is inevitable to ask for a lot of wood, this is good to say, there are a lot of good wood from the east side, and let those guys of the Jurchen tribe get more wood when the time comes.

Liao Shengzong is also a decisive master, if he decides to do it, he will never drag his feet, relying on the prestige he has accumulated over the years, although he is now old, no one has come out to disagree, and soon put the shipbuilding plan on the construction schedule.

As a result, under the leadership of Liao Shengzong, the Liao State began a new round of shipbuilding movement.

It's just that the field of Liao Shengzong may be relatively large, which makes the Jurchen people a little depressed, although they don't dare to directly resist the cow, but they also bury a lot of hidden dangers, but they are forced to dare not show their prestige.