As soon as the ceremony officially began, a kind of tranquility enveloped the entire scene.

That kind of stillness is a kind of stillness that comforts a person's whole body and mind, and it is also an invisible pressure that makes people dare not move a little, and the pressure not only comes from the saints, ministers and heavily armed guards in the palace, but also from every person around him who stands still, but his eyes are shining. At this moment, the concentration and heartfelt joy of everyone on the scene seemed to connect the entire inside and outside of the school palace into an invisible skynet, so that everyone was in it and enjoyed it; There is nowhere to run, and they are reluctant to leave.

I looked around again and found that Pan Ben, Qiu Xu, Jia Yuhang and others who were queuing up behind me also had blank expressions, but their eyes were unusually bright.

This kind of power may be the most original force of Datang since then!

I tightened my grip on the small slip of paper in my right hand to determine the ranking. I got it in line before dawn.

When the faint and intermittent sound of the saint finally stopped, everyone at the scene, including me, involuntarily shouted: "Long live, long live, long live, long live", the sound of the mountain roaring and tsunami instantly ignited everyone's passion, and this voice did not stop for a long time. During this period, many people raised their arms and chanted slogans such as "Long live Datang".

Pan Ben beside him muttered: "The people's morale can be sought, and the people's hearts can be used!" "Afterwards, I learned from Lord Lin that this sentence was also blurted out by many ministers at that time.

When the shouting passed, it was quieter for a while, and there was no sound in the palace, and according to my estimate, it must have been the Holy Lord and the ministers who began to visit the site.

Soon after, the forbidden army in front of the gate began to shout loudly, asking everyone to maintain order, listen to the call of the scene, and enter one by one according to the number in their hands.

At this time, the crowd in the school palace obviously began to relax and became a little noisy.

On that day, I received the rank 76, and just as the number 70 was called in front of the gate, the saint and many ministers left the venue early along the passage of the forbidden army's phalanx. On the high jade chariot, there was only one person in the saint, he did not sit down, and kept waving to the crowd on both sides, and his action once again triggered a tsunami of "long live" shouts.

Looking at the majestic figure standing on the jade chariot, at this moment, my eyes were a little moist, and I completely made up my mind that from now on, my body and mind will completely belong to this country, this hot land, and these people!

"Number 76! Number 76! A voice came.

Qiu Xu, who was beside me, pushed me and urged: "Huanran, why are you stunned, I called you!" ”

It dawned on me, I raised the number in my hand and said loudly, "Here!" The body began to squeeze forward.

An unusually burly janissary checked my number, waved away, and turned to call for the next one.

I walked along the passage of the human wall composed of forbidden soldiers to a nearby porch, where five tables were arranged into a long platform, and several forbidden soldiers sat behind it.

How can it be a forbidden army? I was a little stunned.

The first forbidden soldier in front of me stretched out his hand to me, and I was stunned again, looked up at the people in line in front of me, and immediately came to my senses, and took out the manuscript that I had rolled up in my arms. According to the announcement made three days ago, I have rewritten my article, and the paper is exactly one-sixth the size of a whole blank sheet of paper, with two inches of space on the left side.

The janissary took the manuscript, slammed it on the table, and handed it to the next janitor; The janissary picked up an iron cone-shaped object, quickly drilled four holes in the edge of the left margin and the lettering, and handed it to the next janitor;

What is this for? I watched curiously as the Praetorian soldiers moved.

The janissary quickly threaded a piece of twine into the four holes in turn, bound the manuscript, handed it to me, pointed to the empty space beyond the twine, and said, "Please write down your place of origin and name!" ”

I took the pen on the table, wrote my name and place of origin on the outside of each piece of paper in turn, and handed it to the janissary with both hands.

The forbidden soldier directly transferred the manuscript to the next forbidden soldier, and the other forbidden soldiers picked up one from a thick stack of red paper sleeves that had been cut out, quickly pasted the place outside the twine of the manuscript, and then handed it to the next forbidden soldier.

At this point, I completely understood that this was to seal all the manuscripts that had been handed in, and I also noticed that no one in these forbidden troops looked at me at all, and no one paid attention to what was written on the paper, but just buried their heads in their work seriously.

This is a new and effective way to prevent cheating! I couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, the last forbidden soldier picked up the manuscript that had been pasted, got up and put it in a wooden box, at this time, the wooden box was full, the forbidden soldier picked up the box, and walked towards the back of Zhidaozhai.

Following the command of the forbidden army along the way, I followed the flow of people in front of me and walked forward, just in time to see the forbidden soldier neatly stacking the wooden boxes on top of several boxes, all of which were exactly the same, without any signs on the outside.

I looked inside, and there was also a long line of scholars lining up to submit their manuscripts on the left side of Shidaozhai, and a space was divided on the right side of the study, where several people in crimson official robes were sitting and reading the manuscripts with red sleeves.

These are the chief and deputy examiners who are in charge of our destiny! I immediately became a little nervous, and I quickly counted seven people seated.

I don't know which one is Lord Lin Fenglin? I took a quick look and noticed that there was no handsome young man in it. Just now, because of the obstruction of the forbidden army, I was too far away from the jade chariot, and I didn't see Lord Lin's appearance clearly at all.

"Please go this way!" One of the Praetorian soldiers pointed at me and motioned for me to pick up my pace.

Reluctantly, I quickly glanced through the entire study room, quickened my pace, and kept up with the group that was heading out.

"Please pay attention to the previous announcements of the neighborhoods in ten days!" A forbidden soldier at the entrance of the palace said loudly to us, motioning for us to walk out through the small door on the right side of the palace.

I stared at the scholars who were entering the school in turn on the left, and then looked back at the tense and busy scenes in the school palace, feeling a little lost and worried.

It's just a handover? So easy? I couldn't help but mutter.

Following the flow of people in front, I also came to the third announcement office on the north side of the Xue Palace, which is also the place where I made an appointment with Pan Ben, Qiu Xu, and Jia Yuhang in advance.

I found the content of the announcement of the establishment of the Datang Academy of Sciences and read it carefully. Our group has seriously speculated that if everyone can be shortlisted for the ten recruitment questions, I am afraid that most of them will serve as officials in this academy in the future, and we must study it carefully.

The content of the announcement is very simple, just a brief description of the purpose and significance of the proposed establishment of the Datang Academy of Sciences, and the language is vague and confusing, and it is not clear what this Academy of Sciences is doing.

I was wondering when I was tapped on the shoulder, and when I turned my head, I saw that it was a few companions.

Their expressions were similar to those when I first came out, and they looked very uneasy. It's no wonder that Qiu Xu, one of us, has been staying in Jinling City for more than two years, and the shortest stay is more than a month.

Only Jia Yuhang still looks calm. I understand that he came to apply for seven out of ten questions for recruitment, and he was forced to write a manuscript and hand it in because of a few of us. But to put it in my heart, just his stinky hand, let several of us sigh for him in advance in our hearts. Of course, none of us said it explicitly, but just blindly praised him for his support, so that he made up his mind to turn it in.

"What does this Academy of Sciences mean? Science, is it the study of imperial examinations, or what? Ominous! Pan Ben read the announcement several times, and then said angrily.

"It's just that it's confusing!" Qiu Xu was also a little annoyed.

Only Jia Yuhang touched his chin and said meaningfully: "If you don't say it clearly, I'm afraid it's inconvenient to say, you can't say it!" I have a feeling that this academy is anything but simple! ”

That's right! I suddenly realized, will the Academy of Sciences planned by Master Lin Fenglin be a boring and useless place? There must be a lot of meaning in this! ”

——The above is excerpted from Guo Xinxing's "Records of the Tang Dynasty? Talent Picking Ceremony》