"First place in the exam!"

As soon as the friend's words came out, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone who also lived in the hotel, whether it was the taxi who stayed overnight or the second child in the store, they all came over curiously, wanting to watch the legendary first place in the examination.

"It's worthy of being young and promising, it's admirable to be a high school student at such a young age."

"Wenqu Star descends to earth! Congratulations in advance to Childe's high school champion!"

"Childe's surname is Jiang, and my surname is Jiang, we may have been our own family hundreds of years ago......

"Phew, look at your cowering appearance, you are also worthy of the surname Jiang?"

「……」

At this moment, Jiang Qingyan can be regarded as knowing what it means to be inflammatory, on weekdays, he and his friends are a pair of small transparent, and they are not noticed, and as soon as they are admitted to Huiyuan today, a bunch of people will immediately rush up to curry favor.

Although he knew that the purpose of these people was not pure, he knew that he would not hit the smiling person, so he responded with a smile one by one, and then returned to the room.

In the afternoon of the same day, people from the government came to report the good news, and the people around them were complimented again.

Half a month later, on April 21, the palace examination was held in the imperial city as scheduled, and the 300 people who stood out from the examination entered at dawn, went through the roll call, scattered papers, praised, saluted and other etiquette, and then issued the questions.

The palace examination is only one day, the paper is handed in at dusk, and the official collection and storage of the volume, the palm volume, and the seal is stored by the official, and then the reading officer is divided into 8 people on the day of the marking, each person has a table, and the review is circulated in turn, and the final score is the highest to the emperor.

Su Yan personally checked the papers submitted by the examiner one by one, and finally Zhu approved the first, second, and third places in the first class, and the first place was Jiang Qingyan, a person from Fuzhou Prefecture with the highest evaluation, and awarded the champion; the second is Zhang Shizhen, a person from Ningguofu, who was awarded the list eye; The third is Chen Xiaolong, a person from Anqing Mansion, who was awarded Tanhua.

After the establishment of the top three, the first three people were immediately awarded officials, the champion Jiang Qingyan was awarded the post of revision of the Hanlin Academy, the two people of Bangyan and Tanhua were awarded the editing of the Hanlin Academy, and the second and third grades were assessed again, and the best were selected to enter the Hanlin Academy as the Jishi, and the rest were distributed to the departments as directors or in other places.

After the results of the imperial examination were announced, it immediately caused a commotion in Jiangning City, and this point was not on the table.

After the imperial examination, Su Yan also remembered several officials who were alive at this time, and sent people to recruit them to enter the court as officials, one of them was Yu Chengchan, a famous minister in the early Qing Dynasty, one was Song Yingxing, the author of "Heavenly Creations", and the other was Wang Fuzhi, who was known as one of the three major thinkers in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties together with Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu.

Yu Chenglong participated in the township examination as early as the twelfth year of Chongzhen, and was admitted to a deputy list of tribute students, and it was not unruly to recruit him to become an official in the court, but Su Yan did not grant him a high position as soon as he came up, but sent him to Guizhou to serve as the magistrate of the newly established state and county.

Considering the poverty of his family, Su Yan rewarded him with an additional five hundred taels of silver, and ordered the pedestrian in charge of delivering the decree to pass on the oracle, saying that he hoped that Jackie Chan would serve the country and not shirk.

Song Yingxing and Wang Fuzhi are also meritorious people, and they also have the experience of serving as officials, Su Yan took into account the professionalism of the two, and appointed Song Yingxing as the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, and appointed Wang Fuzhi as the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

At this time, Yu Chengchan was in a poor family, and the whole family had to rely on him to work to make a living, after receiving the imperial court's requisition, listening to the proclamation of the pedestrians and the silver on the tray, Yu Jackie Chan couldn't help but burst into tears, received the decree of gratitude, and accepted the court's conquest.

However, he did not accept the five hundred taels of silver given by the emperor, and he said to the surprised passers-by, "How can you accept your majesty's reward if you have not made an inch of merit or shared your worries for the court?"

These five hundred taels of silver is an astronomical amount for such a poor family, as long as they accept it, so that the poor life can be changed, but Yu Chengchan is unwilling to accept it, he wants to earn it by his own ability.

After the pedestrians left, Yu Chengchan ignored the obstruction of relatives and friends, abandoned his wife and children, and resolutely left his hometown with gratitude to the emperor, and went to Guizhou, which had just completed the reform of the land and returned to the stream, to serve as an official.

When Su Yan learned of Jackie Chan's choice, he was also full of emotion for a while, and somewhat understood the regret of Emperor Kangxi after Jackie Chan's death in history.

Since Yu Jackie Chan chose so

, Su Yan didn't continue to insist.

Song Yingxing and Wang Fuzhi, who were also requisitioned, did not accept the appointment of the imperial court, at this time Song Yingxing was 68 years old, he was already dying of old age, he was very polite to entertain pedestrians, and refused the appointment of the imperial court on the grounds of old age, and the pedestrians saw that he was indeed old, so he did not continue to insist.

Although Wang Fuzhi was only 36 years old and in the prime of life, he still had a bright family in his heart, and he was unwilling to be a "usurper of the dynasty" in his eyes, so he directly refused the appointment of the imperial court and chose to continue to spread his ideas in the countryside as a rural villager.

After Su Yan learned of the response of the two of them, he could only smile bitterly and gave up the idea of recruiting the two, the country is full of talents, and it is not that it will not work without the two of them, they are just the addition of historical figures.

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With the end of the imperial examination, the Xia Emperor *** team, which had been silent for several months, once again showed his fangs to the outside world.

In May of the second year of Wu'an, the imperial court announced a crusade against the small country of Annan on the grounds that the small country of Annan did not respect the country, usurped the emperor, and oppressed the Han people.

The Anbei and Southern Dynasties did not expect that the Xia army would suddenly declare war, and their large army was basically stationed on the border with the Southern Dynasties, and the northern border army was weak, so after the Xia army declared war, it was defeated by the Xia army after only a little resistance.

Subsequently, in just a few days, the Xia army successively captured several northern cities such as Tonghua Mansion and Qiquanzhou, and the troops were directed at Taiyuan Town, an important town in the north of Annan.

The news quickly spread to the capital of Annam, Tokyo, and the king of Annam, Li Weiqi, was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly sent people to invite Zheng Jie, the king of Zheng, the Qing capital of Xijing, to come and discuss countermeasures.

Zheng Ji didn't expect that the Xia army would suddenly start the war, as far as he knew, the Xia army's attention should still be in the north at this time, but even if he couldn't figure it out now, the Xia army had already approached the city of Taiyuan Town, and he had to deal with the enemy in the north first.

Since Ming Xuanzong Ming Dynasty abandoned Annan and recognized the independence of Annan, the Annan people have always regarded the Celestial Empire in the north as the biggest threat, Zheng Ji did not think of negotiating peace with the Xia army, he just wanted to take this opportunity to attack the invading Xia army, to consolidate his prestige in the country.

Therefore, Zheng Jie ordered a nationwide mobilization, and led part of the southern army to the north, sitting in the city of Tokyo and waiting for the national soldiers and horses to assemble.

Naturally, the actions in the north could not be concealed from Nguyen Phuc Binh, the fifth Quang Nam monarch in the history of Vietnam's second Northern and Southern Dynasties, who repeatedly defeated the northern army and captured the state of Babu Chinh in April this year.

After learning the news of the Xia army's southern invasion, Nguyen Phuc was keenly aware that this was a good time to completely pacify the Northern Dynasties and end the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

He didn't think about the truth of the cold lips and teeth, Zheng Ruan has been fighting for many years, the two sides do not tolerate water and fire, it is no longer a relationship that can jointly resist foreign enemies, and Zheng Ji is not in a hurry to go south to negotiate peace, what is he catching up?

Therefore, Nguyen Phuc Bracket once again mobilized the whole country's troops and horses, announced the Northern Expedition when Zheng Jie was trying his best to resist the northern enemy, and led the army to launch a full-front attack on the defense line built by Zheng Jie in Lin'an Province.

Before leaving, Zheng Jie expected that Nguyen Phuc would not let go of this opportunity, and he ordered his son Zheng Zheng to strictly guard against the northern expedition of the Ruan army, which was strictly defended and blocked the fierce attack of the Ruan army.

Although the Ruan army was temporarily blocked in Lin'an Mansion, the current situation of the Li Dynasty was still a little precarious, Zheng Jie, while mobilizing troops and horses from all over the country to prepare to meet the Xia army, Zheng Jie, also ordered Xuanguang to guard the general Shaofu Zongjun Gongwu Gongbi to participate in the battle.

However, Wu Gongbi had already had a heart of disobedience, and he ordered to kill the envoy sent by Tokyo, pretending to be the prince, and pretending to be a dynasty, while proclaiming himself a vassal to the Xia army in Taiyuan Town, expressing his willingness to become a vassal state of the Xia Dynasty.

Li Dingguo did not pay attention to his flattery, he besieged a few days after conquering Taiyuan Town, in order to avoid Wu Gong cutting off his rear, he ordered Shude General Jin Tongwu to lead 5,000 troops to attack Wu Gong, the latter saw that the Xia army did not accept his own softness, still attacked himself, and quickly gathered soldiers and horses to defend the city to resist the attack of the Xia army.

At the same time, Li Dingguo also continued to lead the army south, directly attacking the capital of Annan, but on the way of the Xia army, the people of Annan along the way spontaneously organized to resist the Xia army, and they attacked the Xia army and the Xia army's supply lines by various means, so that Li Dingguo

Headaches.

This is not the influence of nationalism, but the people of Annam are too afraid of the Celestial Empire in the north, and the shadow of the misdeeds of the Ming officials in Annam more than two hundred years ago has not yet dissipated from their hearts, and in order to prevent similar things from happening again, they can only desperately resist the Xia army.

Under the counterattack of the people of Annam, the Xia army that invaded the south was like the American army of the Vietnam War in later generations in history, and was deeply trapped in the vast sea of the people's war.

They dug traps in the dense forest, spread sharpened bamboos all underneath, and once Xia Jun fell, he would be immediately pierced by sharp bamboos through his body.

Fortunately, there is no idea of tunnel warfare in this era, otherwise, Xia Jun will really be driven crazy......

It has only been more than half a month since the declaration of war, and there have been hundreds of reports of civilians attacking the Xia army, which has given Li Dingguo a great headache.

He was not a general who was a murderous and indiscriminate general, and he would not easily order the whole army to slaughter the people of Annam indiscriminately - there was another reason for this, if the soldiers were accustomed to killing indiscriminately, their military discipline would be seriously corrupted.

Moreover, the Xia army was already insufficient, and if more popular uprisings were provoked because of indiscriminate massacres, the southern expedition would definitely fall short, just like during the Ming Xuanzong period, the Ming army had to withdraw from Annam and abandon this place after being mired in the quagmire because of the civil uprising.

After several entanglements, Li Dingguo still decided to follow Bai Wenxuan's suggestion and sent it to Jiangning to report the plight suffered by the Xia army here.