Chapter 137 Palace Examination (edited by Lu Lu Zhi and more)

On the tenth day of the fourth month, the final spring exam of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, the palace examination, finally kicked off as scheduled.

At the beginning of the day, the 300 scholars who participated in the palace examination gathered outside the palace gate of the imperial city, waiting for the city gate to open.

In the middle of the hour, the Chunming Gate in the middle of the imperial city slowly opened, and a group of scholars rushed in, entered the imperial city, and went to the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace.

At the end of the day, under the guidance of the palace examiner, hundreds of palace people taught 300 scholars one-on-one the etiquette to pay attention to in the palace.

At the beginning of the hour, the door of the Hanyuan Hall of the Daming Palace rumbled open, and the chief and deputy examiners Li Xiaogong and Qin Yifeng stood on the high steps, with their backs to the Hanyuan Palace, facing the three hundred candidates, and began to lecture with an extremely serious appearance, preaching the regulations of the examination room! On both sides of them and behind the 300 candidates, countless guards of the Imperial Forest Army wearing gold armor and holding spears stood upright, setting off the atmosphere to be extremely sacred and solemn!

In the middle of the hour, after the lecture on the rules of the examination room. Li Xiaogong and Qin Yifeng turned around and led all the candidates and examiners to bow three times and bow to the empty hall first, and then led a group of scholars into the Hanyuan Palace. Three hundred desks have already been arranged in the hall, and the names of the corresponding candidates are placed on each desk. It was carved from a piece of valuable white jade, which made all the scholars sigh: The palace is rich......

At the end of the hour, Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, wore a purple and gold winged crown and a large crown of round embroidered gold. The dragon walked and entered the Hanyuan Palace. The great eunuch Wang De shouted behind the curtain:

"Your Majesty has arrived at ——————"

The three hundred scholars in the hall, as well as Li Xiaogong, Qin Yifeng and other examiners, all put down their affairs. Pushing the gold mountain and pouring the jade pillar to the ground, he knelt on the ground, and shouted long live in his mouth!

Li Shimin seemed quite happy today, and only heard him laugh a few times. Standing in the position of the Ninety-Five, he said with a full sense of anger: "Everyone, hurry up!" ”

After everyone in the palace shouted three times again, and thanked the emperor again, they slowly stood up, bowed their heads, and waited for His Majesty the Emperor to speak.

Sure enough, after everyone stood up, Li Shimin cleared his throat and spoke again:

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Spring Festival is the most important ceremony of our dynasty, and it is only once every three years. Today, those who can stand in this Hanyuan Hall are all Chu Qiao among the heroes from all over the world. I hope you can do your best and perform better than you normally would! Let's go! ”

Li Shimin was originally an eloquent monarch, and he was clean and neat in his work. Therefore, after a little encouragement, the command began. Soon, the big eunuch Wang De led the two little eunuchs, holding a tray in both hands, walked into the hall from the back of the hall, and raised the tray in front of Li Xiaogong with both hands.

Li Xiaogong bowed to the tray first, and then respectfully picked up a square box on the tray. The fire paint on it was uncovered, the lid was removed, and the examination paper for the temple examination was drawn from it. Then together with Qin Yifeng, they were distributed one by one.

The topics of the palace examination were formulated by the emperor himself. The content of the test is also closer to pragmatism, mainly in response to the current disadvantages. Of course, literary talent is also to be tested. However, low-level exam questions such as Meng's questions will never appear in the ultimate examination room such as the palace exam. Therefore, there are only two questions in the palace examination, one is about strategy and the other is about poetry! And the time of the temple examination is ...... Four hours! That's eight hours today.

To us today, an exam that takes eight hours seems a bit scary. However, in the ancient imperial examinations, writing was done with a brush, and the speed was unusually slow. In addition, the imperial examination is related to the fate of the student's life, so these scholars are all extremely cautious. For a problem, you always have to do it once on the scratch paper first, and then check it three times. After confirming that there were no mistakes, I cheered up my spirit, carefully copied it to the official exam paper one by one! Coupled with the time to think, in this way, in eight hours, some scholars may not even be able to finish a question.

But this is a palace exam, is it good that His Majesty the Emperor wants to be present in person to invigilate and mark the papers? His Majesty the Emperor has a lot of opportunities, where can he have more time to spend with a group of scholars? Li Shimin can give four hours, which is already very rare. If, like some emperors of the Song Dynasty in later generations, the palace test is only given for one hour, and it is like child's play, I am afraid that the scholars in the world will collectively hang their necks......

The topic of today's policy is "The mountains are barbaric, and the literary system is unstable?" Martial arts? ”。

Shanfeng was an ethnic minority tribe living in the southwestern border during the Tang Dynasty. In today's Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi. They are said to be ethnic minorities, but they are quite numerous. The total number of the entire mountain tribe is nearly 100,000. Since the tenth year of Zhenguan, under the influence of the remnants of Tuyuhun who were defeated by the Tang army. This tribe is a little ready to move, and often invades the surrounding Tang people. The Tang Dynasty was in a dilemma between war and non-war.

If it is a war, although Datang said that the people are rich, but in the eight and nine years of Zhenguan, the continuous war against Tuyuhun has consumed a lot of Datang's national strength, and it must be recuperated for a few years. Moreover, the mountain clan has a large population and is extremely united, if it is forcibly suppressed by force, unless all this clan is exterminated, there will be a deep blood feud, and I am afraid that it will cause even greater chaos.

If there is no war, the mountain clans will become more and more arrogant. Over the past year or so, the imperial court has appeased him several times, but he didn't expect this mountain clan to become more and more arrogant. didn't take the court in the slightest, and last month, even the officials sent by the court to appease him didn't want to see him again. If it is allowed to develop like this, the impact will become greater and greater, and some places that have just been pacified or pacified may ignite the spark of rebellion against the Tang Dynasty!

Li Shimin and his group of civil and military ministers were hovering between fighting and not fighting, and it was difficult to make up their minds. Just in time for the Spring Palace, Li Shimin took this question as a policy topic when he came up with the question, and asked the 300 scholars in the new department, hoping to see the attitude of the people!

As for poetry, the requirements are also very strict. Li Shimin himself is a sage of martial arts, so the title of his poem is to ask the scholar to express his attitude towards the topic with a seven-word poem and a clear ambition.

After the scholars got the exam papers, they all frowned and pondered: This kind of military event, it is really difficult for them, weak scholars, to express their opinions!

Jiang Zhixuan also frowned and pondered, the difference was that there was a faint hint of excitement and expectation between his eyebrows......

(Well, I did a reader survey and let you express your opinions...... Ask for a ticket...... ）

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