The death of the crown prince Li Hong could not stop the pace of the Tang Dynasty from selecting talents, Gaozong issued a will, in fact, at this time, it was already regarded as the queen of heaven issued a will, Li Xian, the king of Pei, as the crown prince, and held a spring festival seven days later.

After the world moved for the prince Li Hong to grieve, he also began to submit papers to find a backdoor relationship, the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty was not as strict as a few hundred years later, and the lifters of the Jinshi Department were before the imperial examination, in order to improve their popularity, they could first send their own articles and poems to the examiner, if they were favored by the examiner, they might already be regarded as Dengke.

As for the move to find a backdoor and a relationship, they are all waste wood with limited level, but thinking about Dengke, these people are generally children of the family or relatives of the emperor. Therefore, the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty does not reflect the true level of the lifters in a certain way, but these are a minority after all, and most of them are really talented and learned.

There are also self-confident talents, although they can't drink and feast in these days, they can always go to the Qinlou Chu Pavilion to drink some sad wine, and compose sad poems to mourn the death of the prince. Datang's geniuses are very flexible. Although there is no silk bamboo, but after all, it is a beauty in his arms, although he can't laugh out loud, but he can always whisper in the red tent.

Four days later, the prince's coffin was placed in Jingshan Gongling, during which the people went on strike, and Gaozong hurriedly gave food to appease.

Soon Luoyang ushered in the Spring Festival, the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty was not as important as a few hundred years later, the chief examiner was not an important minister in the court, and the paper would not be famous, so the water of the Jinshi and the first person in this is also very large.

On this day, Luoyang's Ministry of Rites and Officials ushered in the most lively time, with a total of about 10,000 people raising their children, reaching the most since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

The chief examiner is Zheng Yi, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, who was once a jinshi during the Zhenguan period, and his qualifications are sufficient. This time, there were nearly 3,000 people in the Ying Jin Shike, and the rest were in the Ying Ming Jingke. Therefore, it is divided into two places, the Jinshi Branch is in the Ministry of Officials, and the Ming Jing Department is in the Ministry of Rites, in fact, this is equivalent to the Tribute Academy of later generations.

Wu Qing is naturally a well-known figure, so when Wu Qing walked into the courtyard of the Ministry of Officials, Zheng Yi also nodded and smiled, the examiner has household officials, because they have to check the registration information one by one, and the Jinwu guards conduct a full range of body searches, and they also make you open your mouth and look at your teeth like inspecting livestock.

There were once arrogant people who couldn't bear this humiliation, so they brushed their sleeves away. Wu Qing is still being examined, and he came this time just to fulfill the wish of the old lady Wu.

Qiu Ju prepared dry food for Wu Qing and put it in the baggage, because it took one day to take the test, so it was a long time, and these were necessary to prepare. Wuqing is in the No. 10 courtyard of the first word (this is apocryphal), and the location is easy to find. When you walk in, you can see that the entire courtyard is divided into countless grids, separated by a walkway about ten steps wide, which is also to prevent plagiarism. Each compartment can only accommodate one person and one case, and the case has been prepared with pen and paper, ink and inkstone.

After all the lifters entered the venue, as soon as the drum sounded, they were informed that the exam had begun, and their own officials sent out the exam questions.

The first is to paste the scriptures, and the scriptures of the Jinshi Branch only stick the great scriptures "The Book of Rites" and "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period".

Wu Qing opened the scroll of paper, and when he looked at it, he frowned, only to see a sentence written at the beginning, "Where the way to govern people, don't be in a hurry to be polite." There is a large empty piece in the middle, and the last sentence is, "Therefore, the virtue of the Ming and Zhou dynasties, and the importance of the country." ”

Wu Qing has an urge to scold, what kind of scripture is this, this is purely torturing people. Although I am prepared in my heart, I still have a headache for pasting the whole piece of scripture, which is the "Twenty-fifth Sacrifice System" in the "Book of Rites".

Wu Qing continued to look at the next question, which was "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period", which had to be pasted with ten articles, and there was no large-scale posting of scriptures, so it was not easy to make mistakes.

In the end, there are three ways of discussing strategies, Wu Qing will not look at it for the time being, and will post the scriptures first.

After reading the content of the post, Wu Qing sorted out his thoughts, these are not difficult for him, plus he has an excellent memory, but nearly 5,000 words are written down with a brush, which is really painful. But even if the egg hurts, he has to write. So he picked up the brush, poured ink into the inkstone, grinded it, smoothed the pen, and wrote the first word on the paper.

Time flies, and Wu Qing uses a regular script, which is close to regular script, but it is the essence of the book. In just three hours, the pasting was completed, looking at the thick stack, Wu Qing stretched his waist, moved his shoulders, shook his sore wrists, and then turned his head with a bang.

"What are you doing?"

Wu Qing looked up and saw that it was an examiner, Wu Qing bowed his hand and said: "The student has seen the adult, the student's hands are sore and the neck hurts, move it, disturb the adult, please forgive the adult?" ”

This was a very polite gesture, so he smiled and said, "Well, yes, what's your name?" ”

"Student Wuqing!" Wu Qing saluted.

The examiner was stunned for a moment, and then instantly looked admiring and said, "It turned out to be Mr., the student is polite!" ”

"Ah, what's going on?" Wu Qing was stunned for a moment, not understanding.

The examiner was a little embarrassed, so he explained: "The student once read Mr.'s "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" and "The Legend of the Gods", which are really masterpieces, and the student likes it very much, and he wants to meet Mr. but has not had the opportunity, and he does not want to see Mr. today. ”

Yes, it turned out to be a fan, Wu Qing was naturally humble, and then encouraged, and then sent away the examiner fan.

At this time, two soldiers escorted a candidate past Wu Qing's eyes, and in the midst of pushing and shouting, Wu Qing realized that the lifter had been caught cheating, and he couldn't help but sigh, how similar this was to cheating in exams in later generations.

After eating the dry food, Wu Qing had to continue to answer, open the exam paper, and look at the arguments, a total of three questions.

The first is "the stone of the mountain, which can be used to attack jade." The second way is that "the big ones are indecent." The third way is to expound the idea of governing the country according to the "Zhou Li".

Although Wu Qing has his own views on the strategy, it must conform to the ideas of this era, and it is a very severe test for him, a person who has a soul more than a thousand years later, and if he is not careful, he will be criticized by the world's scholars and scholars, and will also be belittled by the emperor and hundreds of officials.

For the first question from the "Book of Songs", Wu Qing's understanding is to increase exchanges with the countries of the Western Regions, but at this time, the four towns of Anxi were occupied by Tubo, and the trade between the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty was interrupted from time to time, which was greatly reduced compared with before. Therefore, Wuqing believed that the four towns of Anxi should be recaptured with strong military force and trade routes should be opened. In addition, maritime trade can be strengthened, and a municipal shipping department can be established to manage and collect taxes. In this way, the advanced civilizations of other countries can be absorbed to enhance the strength of the Tang Dynasty.

The second question comes from the "Tao Te Ching", for such a question, Wu Qing discusses the meteorology and mind of a great country, as well as the mind of the emperor, and criticizes Gaozong's narrow-mindedness in disguise.

The third question is more difficult, the idea of governing the country, the "Zhou Li" stipulates the scope of the state, the feudal system, the army system and so on. Wu Qing thought about it for a while and wrote the words "feudalism" on the yellowed bamboo paper.

At this time, Wu Qing didn't notice that several examiners were secretly looking at Wu Qing, including the chief examiner Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi couldn't help but nod and said, "It seems that this year's situation is going to fall on Wu Qing's head." ”

"Not necessarily, then Song Zhiwen, Shen Yan, Liu Xiyi are all talented people." Someone objected.

Zheng Yi just smiled slightly, and did not argue.

I saw Wu Qing write: "At the beginning of heaven and earth, if there are people? I don't know, at the beginning of people, there were expensive and cheap? I don't know. Cover the world of Kyushu, began with Emperor Yu. The feudal system began with the Duke of Zhou"

In short, Wu Qing expounded the danger of feudalism in this treatise, and Wu Qing proposed that the emperor could give the title as an honor to those who had meritorious service, not the actual seal of the food, and the title could not be hereditary, and even if it could be hereditary, it must have merit. There is only one purpose for this, that is, to increase the population of the Tang Dynasty, slow down land annexation, increase the tax revenue of the imperial court, and enhance the strength of the Tang Empire. In the end, we will see that the few are educated, the old are supported, the cultivators have their fields, and the dwellers have their houses, and a prosperous scene will become a real kingdom of the Heavenly Empire.

After the last touch of brilliance was sprinkled on the day and disappeared into the West Mountain, Wu Qing finally finished writing. There is at least three candles left until the end.

Wu Qing recruited the examiner and said that he had finished answering and could hand in the paper. The official wrote his name on the package of Wu Qing's examination paper and sent it to the chief examiner's signing room.

Wu Qing walked out of the courtyard of the Ministry with a tired face, and he smiled when he saw the old lady Wu and others waiting outside with a carriage.

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