When she learned of her ranking, Qin Zhanying was stunned.

"Am I just the first?"

The rest were stunned as well.

"Your Highness/Ying Ying is only the third?"

What hellish is the difficulty of this imperial examination? There are so many talents that the examiners are starting to go crazy! Otherwise, how could Qin Zhanying not be the first!

That's Qin Zhanying! He led people to compile Zeguo's literacy textbooks, civil official training textbooks, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and articles, all of which are 90-level super geniuses! Don't look at this person's favorite texts in the vernacular for the common people to see, but his poems and strategies are not weak at all, and the evidence is that a certain article in the textbook that is absolutely qualified to be passed on to future generations was written by him himself!

Qiu Yu suspected several times that this person would become another textbook demon in the future.

Qin Zhanying was puzzled: "Could it be that there are any other talents I missed in this imperial examination?" ”

Qiu Yu: "It's definitely it!" Otherwise, how can anyone overpower you? What level of study can you pass the test? ”

He began to wonder if he didn't work hard when he was studying history and language, and whether there were other gods of learning comparable to Qin Zhanying during the Nanyu period, but it was not right, the other famous gods of learning should have been personally excavated by Ying Ying after he ascended the throne, and when his uncle was in power, the top was Ying Ying herself.

But the results have come out, and they can't be changed, so Qin Zhanying will admit it, in the end, there are always geniuses in this world, and there are countless masters who have gone to the test, as long as they don't fall out of the first rank, in fact, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will recognize it.

He is not narrow-minded enough to tolerate people who are stronger than himself, in a sense, the existence of these people makes him feel novel, and from the perspective of the monarch, he hopes that his future subordinates will be as capable as possible.

A little prince who is still growing his body and has to sleep for five hours a day is really repulsed because his subordinates are incompetent and forced to work overtime......

Soon the annunciation came.

As the first place, Qin Zhanying naturally obtained the qualification to go to the palace examination to accept the emperor's test.

This time, there were a total of ninety-six people who were qualified to go to the palace examination, and one hundred and four people were recorded on the list of Tongjinshi, and Tang Guo ranked first among Tongjinshi.

This is also a drawback of the current imperial examination system, only the first ninety-six people can go to the emperor to accept the palace examination, that is to say, in fact, if the examiner has a heart, he can decide whether the candidate can show his face, which is also the part of the imperial examination that is vague and unclear by the civil officials to take power, Emperor Cheng'an wants to change, but the following is a procrastination, just the noisy ceremony has been noisy for a few years, and careful thinking is a fool to know.

Sun Zizhen never thought that Qin Ying would actually enter the palace exam again, and for a while, the door couldn't wait to come to warn this person, he must not tell him about cheating, otherwise he would also tell Qin Ying about the exam questions he learned from him in advance! Don't think it's better!

After all, if it weren't for his Sun Zizhen to get through the question, how could this untouched person from a humble background get so good in the exam?

It's just that Qin Ying's residence is very mysterious, Sun Zizhen can't find the other party's residence, his uncle has finally been an official for many years, and he smelled something wrong, and immediately stopped the investigation, and did not allow his nephew to investigate Qin Ying again.

"I am afraid that this Qin Ying's background is quite good, and only ...... can avoid the investigation of the civil official □□ in Dajing" Thinking of this, Liu Ruyi's heart was cold, and he immediately rushed out of the study, but saw Chang Wang, the deputy envoy of Luan Yiwei, carrying a long knife and a team of Luan Yiwei, looking at him with a smile.

"Thanks to the blessing of the new master, I can catch a big fish."

Because the envoy of the prince of Zeguo came to Beijing, Emperor Cheng'an also specially asked people to make the palace trial lively, and even asked all the officials of the sixth grade and above in Beijing to come, and asked the queen to invite the wife to enter the palace.

That's a ...... Even Emperor Cheng'an's 40th birthday has never been so grand!

On the day of the palace examination, the students wore light red bachelor's uniforms and entered the Dajing Imperial Palace, which was also the moment when many of them seemed to be closest to a product in their lives.

Nanyu can only wear vermilion official robes if he is a first-class official.

Qin Zhanying can be said to stand out from the crowd when he walks in the crowd, he is already slender, extremely handsome, and has the majesty and elegance that he has cultivated for many years, everyone will be attracted by him at a glance.

When he walked through the Tianyi Square with the ministers, walked into the simple and solemn Qianhe Palace, and entered the Nanyu core of the clan with the rank and above of Beijing officials and the rank of lord in Beijing, he saw Emperor Cheng'an at a glance.

I saw the relief and expectation in the eyes of this already somewhat strange man when he looked at him.

The topic of this palace exam is also very interesting, eight words - it seems to be a friend, but it is actually a brother.

This topic has never appeared in the imperial examination room before, and a group of rookie tributes may have been exposed to practice, but they have never touched the study of international diplomacy, and even the elders behind some wealthy tribute scholars in their families do not know much about it.

Wenchen Group's heart was cold, this is different from the topic that Emperor Cheng'an said yesterday!

But Emperor Cheng'an has put out the topic, everyone will write it, there must be an article to hand it over.

Suddenly, the atmosphere in the hall was a little more sad because the exam questions were too difficult, and the ministers who watched the palace exam were even more ear-to-ear.

The emperor personally came up with the exam questions, and this exam question is naturally the political direction he wants to pay attention to, and the Zeguo mission is also there, thinking of the delicate relationship between the two countries, it is really complicated, this article is not done well, I am afraid that it will provoke the emperor's disgust, so this article is still written steadily, but it is the most important thing.

This is also the mentality of most candidates.

Qin Zhanying sat on the chair, looked up at his emperor uncle, and the other party also happened to look over, the two looked at each other for a while, Qin Zhanying lowered his head and took the pen.

Since the fraud in the imperial examination, this examination has actually been invalidated, so in the palace examination, the only candidate to be tested is actually only one, and that is Qin Zhanying himself.

Emperor Cheng'an is asking himself the future prince, what do you think of the relationship between Yu and Ze.

And Qin Zhanying's answer is only one, and that is unity.

One day, he will rule the world, and this is the answer he has given to the current king as the future king.

Yu and Ze are not two parts of the split, they are one, also derived from the Chinese civilization, but at the node of history, one chose to stick to the battlefield of competing for land power with Northern Meng, and the other opened up the sea in another way

Yang, and even Ze's rise has the support of Emperor Cheng'an, he is not the kind of monarch with superb political skills, but his righteousness and broad-mindedness are rare among emperors.

It just so happens that the Lu family also has great righteousness, and the heads of the Lu family in previous generations have military experience, in a sense, they can understand Emperor Cheng'an, who has been fighting on the front against foreign nations all year round.

In order to protect their own people, they understand this, even if they compromise with the other side and give up their hegemonic rule in order to hold up the future of revival and unity.

Emperor Cheng'an's compromise was to decide to invite Qin Zhanying to be the future master of the country, while the Lü family handed over his only and most qualified descendant to the Qin family and changed his surname to Qin.

In Qin Zhanying's generation, the two countries must be merged into one, and the integration will be completed from legal theory to substance, and even the territory of Beimeng in the north will be fought back.

With this as the core, Qin Zhanying began to write his own strategy, but the time gate was not enough, and there was only so much space that could be written on paper, so he would briefly describe it, and then adjust the rhetoric to be more beautiful, pay attention to the structure of the text, and make a good article.

If Emperor Cheng An wanted to know the specific plan, they could find a study room to talk about it secretly, and the plan always couldn't catch up with the changes, Qin Zhanying felt that his plan would definitely be adjusted many times in the future.

In addition to Qin Zhanying, there is another candidate who does not choose to write in a stable and steady, singing praises of virtue, that is, Zhang Moteng, this kid bluntly said that the Han people must unite, and even unite those people of other races who can get along amiably against the Northern Meng, otherwise it will be too evil for the common people to let the horseshoe trample all over the countryside.

Grandpa Zhang Moteng's generation was originally six brothers and sisters, men and women, and in the end, only his grandfather lived to fifteen and had offspring, so may I ask, what happened to the other five?

Answer: He was oppressed to death by the Northern Meng, and trampled to death by the Tartar nobles with horses.

In fact, this is also the general attitude of the Nanyu hawk officials, especially the group of the Li Fan Yuan, two years earlier, the Northern Meng Emperor was sick once and sent people to the truce, and asked the envoys and the envoys of the Ze faction to go to the capital of Nanyu to discuss trade, and the Nanyu Li Fan Yuan began to envy the officials of Ze State at that time.

Why? People are tough! As long as you dare to make the surname Lu unhappy, people can make none of the ships of Beimeng go to sea, sink one by one, and turn your ship to drill into the sea after sinking, hey, no one can catch it, that is really with strength to all neighboring countries to express "do not mess with Lao Tzu", the result is really no one dares to mess with them.

At that time, the officials of the Li Fan Yuan were very suffocated, because it was impossible for them to be able to slap the table like the female officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ze to slap the table and be weird to the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Northern Meng envoys, and they also made the Northern Meng envoys dare not talk back.

Later, Zeguo began to join forces with Nanyu to engage in Northern Meng, and the Lifan Yuan was tough, and now they also have military strength to support them, and they can speak loudly to Northern Meng.

Zhang Moteng: I hope to work hard and be a tough court, and I am willing to pay my life for the country to become hard.

After reading these two more brilliant ones, Emperor Cheng'an turned a few good ones.

Gu Ge Lao sighed in his heart when he saw that there were no first and second places in the examination picked out by the Wenchen Group in the few articles he picked up, but unexpectedly, someone reminded him stubbornly: "Your Majesty, if you take papers, these are not the best. ”

Some old treacherous and cunning people chuckled in their hearts, it's bad.

This palace test not only has all the Beijing officials of the sixth rank and above, but also the Zeguo mission, such a scene, what the emperor wants to do, the courtiers must not refute him, otherwise the emperor will not admit it, in other words, do they still regard themselves as courtiers?

Isn't this the reason for Emperor Cheng'an to get angry!

"Wencai?" Emperor Cheng'an chuckled, picked up the articles of the two people that the ministers liked and threw them to Zheng Yao, the eunuch of the palm print.

"Yes, these two are your favorite literary talents, come, Zheng Yao, read the articles of the two great talents."

Zheng Yao listened to the order, as a eunuch, his voice was not feminine, but extremely loud, reading everything sounded good, it was the "ancient broadcasting tone" praised by Qiu Yu, and the two stood in my Dayu sky. , a big country in the DPRK, and Ze is still a friendly neighbor and the rhetoric is very gorgeous, and the article is read out by him, which is also very beautiful.

Then Emperor Cheng'an threw Zhang Moteng's article to Zheng Yao.

"Read."

As soon as Zheng Yao thought about it, everyone heard the difference.

Zhang Moteng's writing is not bad, at least in previous years, it was the champion level, and compared with the first two, his articles are very "real", and the first two are too "empty", as if they have opened gorgeous empty talk, and there is nothing in it.

And when Qin Zhanying's article was read out by Zheng Yao, it actually left everyone with only one feeling.

Deafening!

This article has both the feelings of the family and the country and the righteousness, the pattern is extremely high, it can be seen that the writer has a very high perspective and rare foresight, it is rare that the writing and writing structure comprehensively crush the previous individual, but it is catchy, easy to understand, and has the qualification to leave a name in the annals of history!

The representative of the Zeguo mission, the female official Liu Ziyan, stood up and applauded on the spot.

"Good!"

Gu Ge Lao closed his eyes and sighed in his heart, if such a good article is not the first, who is the first.

If you encounter this kind of absolute genius who can't beat the fraud, if you lose, you will lose, no matter how powerful Qin Ying is, she will only occupy a champion position, and their people are stable.

And Qin Zhanqi, Qin Zhanhua, and Qin Zhanzhen, who were also at the scene, began to think about how to win over this young talent.

Is it okay to marry his sister to him?

Is it OK to send jewelry beauties?

Is it okay to support his family?

Emperor Cheng'an said: "I am very relieved to see such a magnificent text, as the only candidate in this imperial examination, the prince, you have won the fourth place in the general examination and the first place in the palace examination alone, and you have grown very well in Ze." ”

Qin Zhanying got up, looked up slightly at the uncle who was on the throne, and replied calmly: "Am I the crown prince?" ”

"To let you enter Beijing is to make you the prince, otherwise who will rule the world?" Emperor Cheng'an smiled.

The tall and thin king got up from the throne, walked down the stairs, and came to Qin Zhanying, raising the child's hand with a proud face.

"This is Qin Zhanying, the noble son of the two countries born to Qin Shu'an, the king of Liang, married to the empress of Zeguo, and my best nephew, in the future, he will be the prince of Daze and Dayu!" ：，，.