Han Shishilang was squeezed in, he was growing his body, but he was still underage, and he was still the number one student of these military academies in general.

When he was a child, he was an orphan, grew up in the frontier, and saw too many small battles, and later only Yu Zizai, who was born in a military academy, taught him a little something.

He still remembers the battle at Fort Qianniu.

Before that, he had never seen someone like Yu Zizi, who gave him the feeling that he had seen a lot of the world, knew a lot of knowledge, and could trust and rely on him very much.

In fact, after coming to the military academy, Han Shishilang gradually understood.

Yu Zizi was not very special, he just used some of the military skills and Tatar knowledge he had learned in the academy.

But at that time he didn't know anything, like ...... It's like a little boy who adores his father, and when he grows up and sees his father covered in scars, he understands,

That guy wasn't a super warrior.

No one is.

However, this is never meant to be taken lightly.

On the contrary, he still misses Yu Zizi, the man who was exhausted in the end and had to die with the enemy.

If he hadn't died in Thousand Cow Castle,

That's good.

Ma Rong in front of the crowd was high-spirited, he was very good at talking,

He described the battlefield as full of arrows and screams, just like that day;

He described the battlefield as full of horses and corpses, just like that day......

He, like Yu Zizi, was talking about the fighting habits of the Tatars......

At the end of the lecture, Ma Rong asked people to ask questions.

And he saw a man who was not yet very old, younger than him,

"General Ma, the student wants to ask a question."

"Okay, you say."

Ma Rong thought that no matter what questions he had about the battlefield, he should be confident in answering them.

But Han Shishilang didn't ask.

"General Ma, what the students want to ask is, we won the war, but what does victory mean for those who have died in battle?"

This question made the You Zuo who was standing on it a little shocked, isn't this a troublemaker?

Fortunately, Ma Rong's eyes are quick, "Father-in-law You!" ”

There were so many people that he could only shake his head slightly, "I'll answer this question." ”

Then he turned around, "Excuse me, little brother, your surname?" ”

"The surname is Han, and the name is Twelve Lang."

"Very special name."

"My stepfather gave it to me."

Ma Rong took advantage of these two sentences to think about this question very seriously, "Everyone, in order to answer this question well, I want to tell a person's story. He was the oldest soldier in our army. ”

"His name, Chen Jiu, forty-six years old, originally the Ming cavalry four guards, none of the guards were willing to ask him, but he is a meritorious person, and the only requirement is to join. I couldn't help it, and then I went under my hands. I asked him, why do you still want to be a soldier at such an age, if you die in battle, what should you do with your mother and children? He said, "I don't have an old mother or children, and I just eat by the mouth." ”

"This time in the attack on the Tatars, he ...... When he died, before he died, he told the people around him that he regretted not joining the army earlier. At the time of the pension, we learned that Chen Jiu originally had a pair of sons, but died under the iron hooves of the Tatars. ”

Ma Rong looked at Han Shishilang and said, "I don't know how to answer your question, because the dead can't speak, and they didn't tell me what the victory of the living means to them. But perhaps, the fact that we can live well is the meaning of their death. Ming people guard the Ming land, that's all, no need for a reason. ”

It's quiet here,

But Han Shijilang's heart was very noisy.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that in fact, Yu Zizi's death was exchanged for his life.

But the thought made him uncomfortable,

He didn't want to use Yu Zizi's life as the price of his good life.

It's raining again in Kyokshi in September,

The three craftsmen who came to engrave the names of the soldiers who died on the soldier tablet in the academy hid in the eaves of the corridor with tools, and Han Shishilang was reading in the corridor pavilion, and after he saw it, he came over and asked these craftsmen:

"Can you teach me this lettering skill?"

The craftsmen saw that he was wearing a military academy student uniform, and they didn't dare to slack off, but they could only politely refuse, "Little boy, this is a slight trick for the little ones, and it's not that they can't learn, but it's useless to learn." ”

"Useful. In the future, I will carve it for myself. ”

Later, a gentleman from the military academy passed by and saw Han Shishilang lying there with a group of craftsmen, and wanted to go over and say something, but he stopped halfway through, and he couldn't practice martial arts on a rainy day, and the requirements for reading in the military academy, Han Shishilang was always the first class every time, forget it.

……

……

The weather is getting cooler until October.

Bingyinke's imperial examination officially began.

For many years, for the first time, the imperial court conducted the imperial examination in the autumn, and many people were really not used to it.

The question of this subject was drawn up and selected by the emperor himself.

The meaning is to say: I only have the rule of ancient and modern emperors, and there are many ends, and it seems that there are only Tao and Law. The saint of the emperor is none other than Yao Shun, and the saint of the king is none other than Yu Tang Wenwu. The prosperity of governance, if the eternal world sees the traces of the law and contains the scriptures, what can the end of the governance not be ancient?

And the lord of the Central Plains, such as the strength of the Qin and Han dynasties, the prosperity of the Sui and Tang dynasties, has not been seen for hundreds of years in later generations, is there a way, there is a law that has not been obeyed? And although the Song Dynasty is weak, it is extremely difficult to reach the income, and it is the way of the Ming Dynasty.

Since I practiced Zuo, I have been working hard all night and night, trying to light the martyrs, but the effect of governance has not been reached to the extreme, and the children of all beings will accumulate and learn, and they will have a fixed opinion. It is straightforward and correct, and does not use vague words and practical use. I will take it.

Zhang Xuan had already answered all the previous questions, but when he looked at the final question, he fell into deep thought.

He has taken the exam a few times, and he has already appreciated the earth-shattering and peerless talent of talented people in the world, no matter what kind of topic it is, someone must be able to write a very beautiful eight-strand article.

But he couldn't.

However, it is said that this time Jiake was instructed by the Son of Heaven.

From Hongzhi to Zhengde, the style of the emperor has been very different.

Today, not only the novel method continues, but also the intervention in the government is far more than the previous king, all the big and small things in the court, if there is no nod today, no one can do it blindly, if there is a nod today, no one can not do it!

Including the imperial examination.

Therefore, the most important topic of the policy is the emperor's intention.

Looking at the topic itself, what the emperor asked was, since ancient times, Yao Shun and Yu Tang have been able to achieve great governance by these holy monarchs, why can't later generations do it, is there something missing? Qin Hanqiang, Sui and Tangsheng, even the Song Dynasty is far ahead, is the Ming Dynasty missing something?

It's nothing on weekdays, but in the context of the context, the meaning is obvious, what the emperor wants to ask is is there any other way to rule the world?

Thinking of this, Zhang Xuan probably knows how to write.

All the way to the imperial examination, a lot of hardships, every time he survives, it is the same as boiling his life, he doesn't want to stay up anymore, no matter what fortunate ministers and unfortunate ministers, getting the emperor's appreciation is the most important.

After a brief draft, he began to put pen to paper:

The minister is right: The minister heard that the rule of the emperor has the general body of the world, and it has the great use of governing the world......

In October, the busiest thing for the imperial court was this examination, and the busiest thing for the ministers of the court was to read the papers for the exams from all over the country.

The emperor will not read every paper, but he will balance the examiners, there are more traditional Lin Shangshu, there are also more flexible Gu Shilang, and there are Xie Ge Lao who is on both sides and thin mud,

At least not in the same style.

And the emperor himself had another big thing.

Fifty people who dwell in the palace cannot be allowed to live in them forever.

It must be decided, because the big wedding cannot be postponed any longer.

It was at this time that the letter came to the Yongshou Palace,

"Your Majesty, I'm happy!"