At the end of the hour, Zhang Tie carried Zhang Shun's pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and accompanied Zhang Shun and the three to the gate of the inner city.

This time, I only brought a small amount of food, only some dry food, and a little fruit, which was not as complicated as the township test.

The time taken for the palace examination is very short, compared to the time of the township examination, it is too short, and it only takes one day.

Now there is a considerable shortage of talents in the entire Yan Kingdom, and a few more are a few, so now as soon as the palace examination is over, the identity will be directly arranged.

The palace examination itself is not long, and the content of the test is no longer the knowledge in the books, but the questions made by Xiang Shaolong, the king of Yan Kingdom, the content is varied, but most of them are about the problems of governance, and now Xiang Shaolong is quite eager for talents in governance.

Candidates are not allowed to hand in the papers after they have done it, some officials will collect the papers uniformly, and no one can leave the palace, and they will wait for the results at the gate of the court.

After the test papers are handed in, more than a dozen officials will look through the test papers, and the names of the test papers will be sealed, so as to prevent some people who go through the back door.

These officials will brush down some people who do not meet a certain standard, and those who pass will become Jinshi, but the people will naturally still be promoted.

Then the test papers that are considered to be the top 10 will be handed over to the king, and then the king will personally determine the ranking, select the top three, and then report the ranking of the candidates, as well as the official position.

When Zhang Tie and his entourage came to the inner city gate, it was already full of people, including those who participated in the palace examination, relatives who accompanied them, and people who could not go anywhere to watch the excitement.

At this time, the more than 300 newcomers who participated in the palace examination had almost arrived at the inner city gate, waiting for the inner city gate to open.

Just when the hour was almost over, the inner city gate finally opened, and the city gate slowly opened, and for a while, the whole audience fell silent.

The gate was fully opened, and a man dressed as a eunuch came to the gate with more than a dozen Praetorian Guards.

The eunuch looked around at the people in front of him, and said in a sharp voice: "The king has a finger, all the new people will enter the palace for the palace test, please enter the inner city, and then I will lead the way." ”

After speaking, he stepped aside, waiting for the new lifters to gather in the inner city.

Zhang Tie gave Zhang Shun a thumbs up, handed over the basket, and said, "Go ahead, you are the best." ”

Zhang Shun nodded, and as a result, the small basket, his eyes were level ahead, and he walked towards the inner city with firm steps.

There are three people at the gate of the inner city to stop the people who come to raise people, one person observes the waist card, one person looks through the bag, and one person searches the body of the person who participates in the temple test, so as to prevent carrying dangerous items, and cheating is not important.

During the palace test, there are dozens of pairs of eyes staring all the time, no one can cheat under these dozens of eyes, and they dare not cheat, once the palace test is found to be cheating, it will be convicted of bullying the king, and it will be directly pulled out and beheaded!

The gate of the inner city was slowly closed again, and the lively crowd gradually dispersed, Zhang Tie and a few people came to the street opposite the inner city, found a hotel at random, and waited for Zhang Shun and others to come out.

The inner city gate can not be left at will, today is a special situation, there is a palace test to be conducted, and now the people who participated in the temple test have already entered, staying at the city gate, will only cause trouble.

In the palace, the place where Yan Guo went to the early dynasty, at this time as the examination room for the palace examination, it was full of tables and chairs, and the tables and chairs were very small, just for one person.

Each table and chair is spaced out in a certain proportion, and there are two white sheets of paper on the table, one on white scratch paper and the other on the answer sheet with your name written on it.

Zhang Shun and the others sat down according to the list on the small table, placed the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, polished the ink, and quietly waited for the start of the palace test.

After a while, a dozen eunuchs each carried several canvases and placed them on the main hall, one at intervals so that everyone could see it.

The canvas is nothing else, it is the palace exam question from Xiang Shaolong, the king of Yan Kingdom.

Zhang Shun looked at the content on the canvas, frowned for a while, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and then picked up the pen and began to write on the scratch paper.

At the same time, at the back of the main hall, in the imperial study, Xiang Shaolong, the king of Yan Kingdom, and many ministers of Yan Kingdom were discussing the topic of this time.

A minister with a rickety body and white hair stood up and said to Xiang Shaolong with a stumbling face: "King, is your question too explicit this time, how can you come up with a test question for governing a place!" ”

Seeing this person stand up, Xiang Shaolong also stood up immediately, held the arm of the old minister, and listened to him patiently, and then helped him to sit on the chair.

"Master Li, how many times have you said it, don't get up and talk, just sit down."

The other ministers on the side were silent, this was a dialogue between the king and the ministers, not a place for them to interject.

Seeing that Master Li still remembered to say something, Xiang Shaolong immediately pressed his shoulder and didn't let him stand up, "Lord Li!" The widow knows what you want to say. ”

Xiang Shaolong let out a long sigh, his face was lonely, "I also know that it is a bit reckless to come up with such a question, but now I have to do this, many years of war have made Yan Guo unbearable toss, and you all know what kind of people the governance personnel in many places are." ”

"More than ten days ago, I thought about what happened, I should have heard about it, the city and county orders over there are simply lawless, and they actually looted the people's fat and people's ointment, and if they don't pay it, they will slaughter the village!"

There was a loud bang, but it was Xiang Shaolong who smashed the table on the side with a punch, and the ministers on the side all lowered their heads, not daring to speak, and the old minister also trembled, wanting to say something, and finally sighed.

"If it weren't for the fact that the county order had been slaughtered, the widow would have ordered someone to be executed in a while!"

Xiang Shaolong retreated to his seat step by step, looking lonely, closing his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, he had a determined gaze.

Xiang Shaolong glanced at the group of ministers who lowered their heads, breathed a heavy sigh of relief, and snorted coldly.

"Now it's such a group of people who are managing my land, how can I let go, it used to be a time of war, and now that the war with Zhao has stopped, and it is time to slow down the blood."

The old minister looked at Xiang Shaolong with a worried face and said, "But the king, there is still a South Korea in the east!" ”

Speaking this time, the old minister still didn't stand up and speak again after all, and seemed to be afraid that Xiang Shaolong would sulk.

Hearing what the old minister said, Xiang Shaolong said with disdain: "South Korea? Just a small land, like a fish in the water, when you go ashore, you can only jump dry, why be afraid! ”

"Okay, I've said so much, I think the candidates are almost done, except for Master Li, everyone else went to check the widow 'well', and it seems that there is nothing to do."

Xiang Shaolong accentuated his tone with two words, and it seemed that there was something in his words.

A group of ministers stood up and half-bent over Xiang Shaolong, "Minister, leader:"

After the ministers were out of the imperial study, Xiang Shaolong came to the old minister's side, found a place to sit down at random, and looked bitter.

"Teacher, I should have listened to you in the first place, and the selection of local officials should be taken seriously, but now it can be regarded as self-inflicted."

The old man's name is Li Yunfei, and he is the teacher of the king of Yan Kingdom, and at this time Li Yunfei also sighed: "It's okay, just like you said, it's not too late for everything to come now, it's urgent." ”

Xiang Shaolong, who was on the side, looked at the beam above his head and muttered to himself: "I hope so!" ”

The ministers walked out of the imperial study one by one, all of them were not good-looking, and when they left the imperial study, several ministers looked at one of them, as if they wanted to eat his flesh.

"Lord He, look at the good things your nephew has done, and he actually slaughtered the village, oh my God, was his brain kicked by a donkey? It turned out to be such a stupid thing. ”

Being Zeng as Lord He was also full of helplessness, and shook his hand, "I am also ruthless in this matter, how do I know that my nephew looks like this, and if he does this kind of thing, it is estimated that my official position is not guaranteed now!" ”

A group of ministers were noisy and still complaining about Lord He, but the person who had been silent on the side stepped forward, and the noisy people stopped one after another, as if this person's status was extraordinary.

"Okay, okay, instead of pursuing it here, it's better to hurry up and remind the following, be careful lately, don't be caught, I don't know how it will be when the time comes, let's go, the king is still waiting for the test papers."

"Then follow Lord Xiang's, let's go or not."

The officials walked to the main hall one after another, ready to visit the candidates' test papers, but Master Xiang walked last, glanced at the imperial study, his eyes were a little vicious, and muttered to himself: "Big brother, there are many things that make you worry!" Huh! ”