The day of the exam has come.

The whole of Chang'an was under martial law.

The city of tens of millions of people is as cold as a dead city - except for the palace district.

I can't count how many forbidden armies there are outside the palace, a few armies or even a few legions, at least tens of thousands of people, these forbidden armies surround the entire palace area where the palace is located.

Tanks blocked every intersection, armored vehicles and trucks lined the roadside of every street, and black-uniformed Praetorian troops lined up at ten-metre intervals. The core area is the First Army of the Forbidden Army, and then the outside is the other armies of the Forbidden Army, and the outermost area is a large number of imperial troops.

Before dawn, the crowd of people who could try it had already begun to come forward.

Forty candidates from the Dongfang family, ten scholars, and thirty martial artists walked directly to the examination room—because we were close.

The rest of the thousands of test takers, a small number of them are children of scholars from various provinces and counties, and most of them are scholars like me, and they all live in the provincial pavilions in various parts of the imperial capital. These people will compete for hundreds of places and become the new blood of the Imperial Officials.

Everyone is searched when they enter the palace area and then go to the examination room.

The examination room is in the Imperial Palace, which is the auxiliary building of the Imperial Palace to be precise.

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The so-called imperial palace is actually a courtyard surrounded by thirteen buildings.

Of course, not just a courtyard surrounded by thirteen buildings is called a palace. You build a circle of walls around thirteen rooms, which of course cannot be called a palace, but only a courtyard.

The peculiarity of the palace is that its walls and buildings are as high as miracles.

Let's talk about the palace wall first.

We often say that "a wall is as deep as the sea", so do you know how high the "wall" is? I calculated the ratio of the palace wall to the soldiers: the palace wall was at least thirty meters. There is also a 20-meter-high barbed wire fence on the wall, and it is estimated that the barbed wire will be at least hundreds of thousands of volts of high-voltage electricity.

Let's talk about the main building. The main building is a supergiant with hundreds of floors and a height of 1,000 meters. Her whole body was covered in silver mirrors, and the exterior of the entire building was flat, with no gaps in sight. Each layer is not distinct, so it is impossible to see how many layers she has. There is also a circular field on the side of the top floor, I don't know what it does.

The main building is surrounded by twelve auxiliary buildings, each of which is similar to the main building of the Oriental Mansion, but larger and taller. Janissaries patrolled the rooftops of each building, and sandbags and machine guns lined up along the edges of the houses.

The main building is the imperial palace and harem.

The auxiliary buildings were the twelve major departments of the imperial court - however, what they were was a secret of the imperial court.

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The red morning sun rose, and the sun only reached the waist of the palace.

The palace was dyed with a reddish-yellow sheen, and the flocks of pigeons flew near the palace, and even the clouds reached only the waist of the palace.

Great Palace!

Great Palace!

Great Palace!

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The gates of the palace walls opened, not in an ordinary way, but slowly cracked, and the gates were embedded in the walls on both sides.

A huge Nine Dragon Wall appeared in front of him.

The Kowloons are different, and the clouds are full of fog.

We spared the Nine Dragons Wall from both sides.

Astound!

Behind the Nine Dragon Wall is actually a big lake!

Wide lake!

The vision is wide and the heart is relaxed.

The main building is on a big island in the middle of the lake!

The twelve surrounding islands are annexes!

They are connected by wide covered bridges, some of which are even the size of several acres of land.

Who would have thought that there would be such a thing in Chang'an City, which does not even have a river!

The Royal Palace will never make you think how miraculous it is!

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The exam room is located in an annex building on one of the islands.

Several trucks carried huge horns and shouted: "Due north, at twelve o'clock, Royal Inspectorate!" Don't stop! Don't look at it! Don't say it! When I went to the Ministry of Supervision, I saw my own examination room! Don't stop! Don't look at it! Don't say it! ”

The loudspeaker shouted these words repeatedly.

People crossed the bridge, crossed the island, walked through the palace, and walked towards the Royal Inspectorate at twelve o'clock.

A large number of forbidden soldiers armed with submachine guns shouted: "Don't stop!" Don't look at it! Don't say it! ”

The Royal Inspectorate arrived.

It is a 20-storey, almost 100-meter-tall building. At the door, there is a long blackboard with the information of candidates from various provinces.

I searched for a long time in the "Central Plains Province" and "Luoyang County" - only to remember, damn, I am now from Xiliang Liangzhou!

Sure enough, in "Xiliang Province" and "Liangzhou County", I finally found my name - "Dongfang Ju, Room 138 on the 19th floor".

After being searched again, I went in.

The first 10 floors of this building are for the martial arts test, and the last 10 floors are for the cultural test.

The martial arts test is a martial arts competition between the warriors, the examiners score, and the final score is high.

The essay test is in a dense single examination room, where each person takes the test for one day, and the examiners score the answer sheets, and the final score is high.

Following the people to climb the building, the more people climbed, the fewer people climbed, climbed the eighteen floors, and finally arrived in room 138 on the 19th floor. Disappointed, it was only a small room of ten square meters - fortunately, it was a single room.

This room seems to have a hygienic problem, and there is no decoration in it, only a small door, a large window, a wooden table, and a bamboo chair.

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At this time, the loudspeakers on each floor of the building began to play loudly at the same time: "All stand and sing the royal song." ”

Everyone stood up and sang the "Song of the Ming Emperor":

"Thousands of miles away

Millennial grace

The Ming Imperial Family

Eternal in the world

Wise and powerful

Billions of people rejoice

God bless my emperor

Longevity without borders"

This is the song of the Ming Emperor, the first song that every Ming person crawls out of the womb and learns, and it is also the first of the "Ming Dynasty Songs".

After singing, the loudspeaker continued to preach:

"His Majesty the Emperor has arrived!"

Arrived? What does it mean? The emperor "drove" to thousands of rooms one by one? Doesn't that tire him out?!

At this point, the scenery outside the window changed.

Originally, the window was facing the Imperial Palace, which stood out like a mirror. At this moment, the bright mirror wall suddenly turned into a transparent glass wall!

The palace has become transparent!

Transparent!

Transparent!

Transparent!

All the secrets have been revealed!

The palace seems to be divided into two parts, the lower dozen floors are each very high, more than a dozen meters high, and the upper floors—I don't know how many hundreds—are several meters high.

Presumably, the people of the palace received an order - "do not go near the walls" - so the whole palace appeared empty - except for the fifth floor.

On the fifth floor, there is a group of people in black suits and a group of people in yellow robes, who form a semicircle around a middle-aged man in a dragon robe.

Fools know that person is the current emperor Zhu Zhaotian!

The Emperor was dressed in a yellow dragon robe and wore a white crown - the "Divine Crown" - the crown was just a white ring, so that the black hair on the top of his head was still exposed—I thought the crown was a big, yellow "crown".

The emperor had a long sword tied around his waist - it must be the world's first artifact, the "Heavenly Sword".

Next to the emperor stood a former imperial eunuch, holding a square item wrapped in red cloth - it must have been the "heirloom jade seal".

I thought to myself, it's good, the legendary "three major artifacts" have appeared.

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The "History of the King James of the Ming Dynasty" describes the three major artifacts as follows:

After the gods created the royal family, they drifted away.

The royal family multiplied, and the concubines were scholars.

The nobles multiplied, and the concubines were untouchables.

The untouchables multiplied, and the concubines were eunuchs.

But the people were not in harmony, and wars broke out.

God returns to earth, opens the apocalypse, and destroys the earth.

After God rebuilt the world, he gave the royal family three major artifacts to ensure the eternal existence of the world, which is: the divine crown, the heavenly sword, and the jade seal.

The divine crown means that the power of the emperor is initial and final. Wear a crown, God bless!

The Heavenly Sword means that the Emperor's power is omniscient and omnipotent. Those who wield the divine sword will destroy the heavens and the earth!

The jade seal of the country means that the law of the emperor is full responsibility and power. Those who hold the jade seal will dominate the world!

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Great!

Great!

Great!

In my head, there is only this word.

Whether it was the Imperial Army of the Forbidden Army on the ground and in the room, or the students in each room, whether it was the ministers and princes, or the attendants and slaves, they all knelt on the ground, their heads and hands on the ground.

In the whole heaven and earth, only one person stands.

In the whole world, there is only one person watching this world.

At this time, a thought suddenly popped into my mind: If the emperor also closes his eyes at this time, will this world be gone? Because no one sees the world anymore. So what's the point of this world?

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live." The voices of countless people mixed and resounded throughout the world.

For a while, even a self-righteous person like me seemed to feel the glory of being a slave from the bottom of his heart, as if I were the Emperor himself.

I know in my heart that this is only through the control of the external environment, through the control of the person, to achieve the control of the human heart.

Even though I understood this, I understood that it was their manipulation of me, and I understood that it would make the kneeling person never turn over, I couldn't help but feel happy and excited.

People are such a strange thing.

Man, just, mortal.

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The test began, and the Janissaries gave each room a large envelope.

When I opened the envelope, there was a test paper, a stack of paper, two pens, and a bottle of ink.

After more than ten years of hard study, I left everything behind for these eight hours.

My life depends only on this paper.

It's like gambling, willing to gamble and lose, lose and win.