"Li Bai?"

After Yang Shenjin heard this name, he searched hard in his mind, but he couldn't find the slightest information about this person.

"That's right! His name is Li Bai, and he said that he has something important to ask to see you, my lord! The Praetorian guard said cautiously.

Yang Shenjin frowned slightly, and scolded angrily: "This official doesn't know this person, and he doesn't want to see him." As the chief examiner of this imperial examination, how can this official meet with the candidates in the middle of the examination? If the official sees him today, then the other candidates will definitely think that the official is cheating for personal gain! ”

The guards of the forbidden army were scolded angrily, and cold sweat suddenly broke out on their foreheads, and they resignedly said: "The villain understands!" ”

"Humph!"

Yang Shenjin sneered, and was about to send this person away, but saw Li Mao striding over.

"What is it that makes Lord Shoshu of the Ministry of Rites so angry?"

Before Li Mao got closer, he began to laugh.

Outside are all scholars who are about to take the exam, and Li Mao naturally will not make a face, which will affect the performance of the candidates.

"The minister knocks to see Your Majesty, I wish your Majesty long live Long live Long live!"

Yang Shenjin's face was stunned at first, and then he hurriedly tidied up his clothes and bowed three times and nine times.

Only then did the guards of the forbidden army next to him know that the emperor was coming, and they were also ready to salute with him.

Li Mao took a few steps forward, gently supported Yang Shenjin's body that was about to kneel, and said with a smile: "The exam is important, so you don't have to salute anymore." ”

Immediately afterwards, Li Mao turned his head to the surrounding forbidden guards and said, "Don't salute either, otherwise it will affect the exam!" ”

"Obey the order!"

After Yang Shen bowed down to answer, he stood sideways and gave up the main seat.

Li Mao smiled lightly and shook his head, "It's up to you to sit in this position!" I'll take a look at it later, and I'll go back to the palace. ”

Now.

The sun has gradually risen, and the early spring sun is full of warmth on the body.

Looking out from Yang Shenjin's perspective, the candidates were already seated.

"Bring the exam papers!"

With his order, a huge wooden box was carried into the house by four big men.

There were more than twenty people who followed the scroll.

They were all fellow examiners in this imperial examination, and they came from the Sixth Department and the Imperial Historical Observatory respectively.

"Please check the seal with the examiner!"

After Yang Shenjin finished speaking, he walked to the wooden box and carefully checked whether the seal was damaged.

"The examiner Yang Shenjin has completed the inspection, and the seal of the test paper has not been destroyed!"

After Yang Shen finished speaking, he took out a small notebook and wrote down what he had just said with a red brush on it.

After writing it, I handed the notebook to the next examiner.

"After the same examiner Zao Wou-Ki has completed the inspection, there is no damage to the seal of the test paper."

……

A quarter of an hour later, after all the examiners present had checked that everything was correct, the guards of the forbidden army, under the command of Yang Shenjin, opened the large wooden box.

"Please preside over the distribution of test papers in your respective areas of responsibility, if any candidate dares to make noise, cheat, and talk to each other, then they must be expelled from the examination room immediately."

"This official also said ugly things in the front, if in the process of the exam, someone cheats for personal gain, then this official will never be spared, and His Majesty will not be spared."

Yang Shenjin's tone was stern, and his eyes were full of murderous aura.

Presiding over this year's imperial examination is the most important part of his career.

As long as it can be completed without mistakes, in a month or two, he will be able to enter the cabinet.

Therefore, Yang Shenjin never wanted any accidents in this exam.

"Rest assured, nothing will go wrong with us!"

The same examiners have made reassurances.

……

At this moment, Li Bai's face turned green when he heard the reply of the guards of the forbidden army.

"It's so stinky here, who can take the high school jinshi exam here, I, Li Bai, will definitely kowtow to him!"

The guards of the forbidden army sneered: "If you want to take the test, you can take the test, if you don't take the test, get out, don't affect other people's exams." ”

He had just gone to ask the examiner, and he had a gray nose, and he was angry at this time, so naturally he would not have the patience to explain more.

"You ......"

Li Baixin was arrogant, how could he stand such an insult, and immediately wanted to pull out his long sword.

However, when I had just entered the examination room, all the weapons had been taken away.

"What do you want to do?"

When the guards of the forbidden army saw that the person in front of them actually wanted to resist by force, they immediately drew the long knife at their waists.

"What's going on?"

The other forbidden soldiers not far away saw that the robes were all drawing their swords, and they all walked towards this place.

"It stinks!"

"It's disgusting!"

"What the hell is going on?"

As soon as the guards approached the area, they smelled the smell of human excrement.

At this time, Li Mao wandered here.

After seeing a large group of sergeants gathered together, my heart suddenly became nervous.

"Spread it all out of me! The exams are about to begin, what is the structure of your large group of people gathered together? ”

This is the first imperial examination after ascending the throne, and Li Mao will never let any accidents happen in this examination.

Otherwise, after the word spreads, how dare those big families stand up and support him when they see that he can't even organize an exam?

"The villain sees His Majesty!"

Almost all the guards of the forbidden army knew Li Mao.

When they saw the emperor himself coming, they all fell to their knees.

The surrounding scholars had never seen Li Mao, but the people who could come to take the imperial examination were definitely not intellectually disabled.

After hearing the shouts of the guards of the Praetorian Army, they all reacted and knelt down.

"Students, see Your Majesty!"

Li Mao looked at the hundreds of people kneeling in front of him, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Let's all disperse, each of them will return to their seats, the examiner will come over to distribute the test papers soon!" ”

After hearing the emperor's order, the guards of the Praetorian Army returned to their respective posts one after another.

The candidates were taken by Li Mao's prestige, and they also honestly walked into their own house.

Except for Li Bai.

"Your Majesty, the student's exam room is next to the toilet, it really smells, and the student asks for a different exam location."

"Stinky?"

Li Mao asked suspiciously.

The position where he was standing now was still more than twenty meters away from Li Bai, and he couldn't smell the stench coming from the thatched house.

"Your Majesty, it really stinks here! If you don't believe it, come over and smell it. ”

Because he had contact with the emperor before, Li Bai was not as scared as others.

"Bold!"

Tian Ergeng heard that someone dared to ask the emperor to smell the latrine, and immediately stood up.

"It's okay!"

Li Mao waved his hand to stop Tian Ergeng and strode towards Li Bai's location.

It really stinks!

Before he could get closer, the stench on his face made Li Mao stop his figure.

"Does it really stink?" Li Bai pinched his nose and asked.

Li Mao also began to pinch his nose, turned his head to Tian Ergeng behind him and said, "This place is too smelly, how can candidates take the exam with peace of mind?" Go and tell Yang Shenjin and ask him to change the places of all the candidates who are close to the toilet immediately. ”

"Slaves obey!"

Tian Ergeng immediately took small steps to find Yang Shenjin.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

After Li Bai saw that he finally didn't have to endure the stench of the exam, he knelt on the ground sincerely.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Other exams near the latrine cheered.

Li Mao pressed his hands weakly, signaling the people nearby to be quiet, don't make noise to other candidates.

"Everyone be quiet, don't disturb the others."

"I didn't think about it when I assigned you here to take the exam."

"In order to make up for this mistake, I will take care of your food for three days of the exam!"

Like later generations, the imperial examination was also a three-day one.

The first day of the exam was literature.

The questions are almost the same as the Chinese question types of the college entrance examination in later generations.

The first major question is a fill-in-the-blank question, and Li Mao excerpted some of the more well-known passages in the Four Books and Five Classics for candidates to complete.

The second major question is reading comprehension, and Li Mao chose an official document to let the candidates refine the key points.

The third question is more difficult, and it is a big question that opens up the score.

The content of the question is to ask the candidates to choose a king who has fallen into the country, analyze his failures in government, and come up with ways to save them.

"It's too easy, isn't it?"

"It's fun to learn and learn!"

"Reviewing the past and learning the new can be a teacher!"

"Such a simple question, how can the gap be widened, does Your Majesty want to admit all the scholars who took the exam?"

The disciples of the family who dare to come to participate in the imperial examination are naturally not wine bags and rice bags.

Those scholars from poor families also passed the primary selection before they could enter the Guozijian to take the exam, and they are definitely not waste.

The first question didn't stump anyone.

The invigilators heard that some scholars had read out all the answers, and hurriedly shouted, "Silence! Have you forgotten all about exam discipline? Whoever dares to make any more loud noises, this official will immediately let the forbidden army expel him from the examination room! ”

When all the candidates heard that they were going to be expelled from the examination room, they immediately fell silent.

People from families are forced to come by their elders.

If they can't pass the test, it's a lack of ability, and no one can blame them.

But if you are expelled from the examination room, it will be different, it will become a matter of attitude.

When they return to the family, they are expected to have their legs broken.

The poor scholar was born in order to run for a background, and naturally he did not want to be expelled from the examination room.

So the whole examination room fell silent, and no one dared to make a noise anymore.

Seeing this, Li Mao smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, turned around and walked out of the Guozijian.

"The candidates are so obedient, there shouldn't be any accidents in today's exam, right?"

Tian Ergeng hurriedly replied: "There will definitely be no accidents, saying that if you dare to have the slightest disrespect for the exam, the slave will never spare him." ”

Li Mao nodded and smiled: "You are not a eunuch, why do you call yourself a slave?" ”

"Your Majesty, although the slave is not a eunuch, the slave is in the East Factory. Gonggong Wei has been saying that Dongchang is His Majesty's minions, and we are all His Majesty's retainers, so we should call ourselves slaves! ”

Tian Ergeng's tone was very solemn, and he looked like he was expressing his determination.

Li Mao's expression remained unchanged, and he still said with a smile: "Retainer? Your minister is richer than me! I can't even pull out a gold tael or two, but you can easily take it out. ”