Since Zhao Zhen agreed to Ouyang Xiu's reform of the imperial examination system, the reform must continue, for Zhao Zhen, why not do it anyway?

The imperial examination is for the country, to the small to the people of the Great Song Dynasty to cross the level of hope, to the big said that it is related to the country!

And this year's imperial examination is the most unusual one, and even without anyone else's words, the people in Beijing can feel it themselves.

After the end of the spring festival, someone heard the news: "This year's Taixue style will not be taken." "After the list is released, this news has really come true, and many people feel that this is the court's punishment for not teaching, why don't you write it early?

Do you have to wait until before the exam to say a sentence "too much learning is useless"? Many people have been writing for a few years, or even more than ten years, and they are not sure that they will switch to other languages, so they have to write down some "four dislikes" that seem to be too academic and not too academic.

Needless to say, all of them were crossed out by Ouyang Xiu with a stroke of the pen, and they didn't even have a chance to be looked at by the main examiner, that is to say, no matter how well written the article is, as long as it is too academic, it will not have a chance to pass the review, and it will directly become waste paper.

Now that the spring festival in Beijing has ended, but the students in the city have not dispersed for a long time, the resentment in the hearts of those who have failed is naturally difficult to settle, and many people ask people to find relationships to let the people who are officials in the court at home send words to them, or slander Ouyang Xiu, or exonerate the candidates who are too academic.

But the final takeover is obvious, Zhao Zhen just doesn't let go, all the officials are helpless, the imperial examination has always been the only one person who has the final say, since the beginning of the Zhenzong Dynasty, the official family has firmly held the imperial examination in their own hands.

Zhao Zhen is the trust of Ouyang Xiu, trusting his character, trusting his way of being an official, and also letting hundreds of officials see that he is not suspicious of using people, and participating in Ouyang Xiu's recitals has been piled up in a basket, mostly because there are juniors in the family who are in Taixue or participating in this year's competition.

Taixue is the highest institution of learning in the Great Song Dynasty and is subordinate to Guozijian. The students here are only the children of the eunuchs, and there are no others, but it is embarrassing to say that there are not many Jinshi who have come out of here, and most of them are Yin En's career paths.

There is a Biyong in Taixue, which is a university established in the capital from the beginning of Zhou Tianzi, the Chinese civilization continues to this day, this Biyong has also been handed down, the outside is circular, surrounded by a pool, and there is a temporary bridge outside the front door.

Piyong has been passed down to the point where it is no longer the original place for teaching and educating people, but as a place for respecting Confucianism and performing ceremonies.

"What is the Son of Heaven standing up? Therefore, the rites and music are also moralized. The opener, Bi also, like Bi Yuan, and the law of the sky, on the Yongshui side, like the education of the popular also. ”

Not only in the Guozijian there is Biyong, there is also a Biyong in the Taimiao, both of which are the central buildings of the Taimiao Guozijian, is the school of the Son of Heaven, and the emperor must give a lecture here after ascending the throne.

It can be seen that this Biyong is important and noble, but now, the Biyong of the Great Song Dynasty is full of people, and a young man shouted in front of the statue of Confucius: "Husband, the villain is determined to abolish the cold window of our ten years in a word, blind the king, abolish the Taixue body and not say it early, resulting in the destruction of our ten years of sharpening the sword!" Such a hateful person must face it and expose it quickly! ”

"Liu Jizhai said it well!"

"I'm just a role model!"

"When you go to him, Ouyang Xiu said well!"

The Taixue students at the foot of the stairs echoed loudly, while Taixue's direct speech, academic advice, Xuelu and others smiled, in their opinion, these people had been carried away by the list, and they should be allowed to vent.

The student of Taixue is not from the official eunuch's own family, and he doesn't need to offend these people, even if he responds to Liu Ji's words, these students don't dare to act recklessly when they meet the deputy prime minister of the dynasty, at most they just shout injustice!

As Mr. Taixue, they can be regarded as having done their duty, and told them the news that Taixue was abandoned early, who knew that these newborn calves were not afraid of tigers, and they were willing to stop only when they hit their heads and bleed.

These direct lectures, academic instructions, and learning records put things in their eyes, and naturally did not report to Xuezheng, and the more no one stopped them, the more difficult things became to clean up, Liu Ji took hundreds of unsuccessful candidates to the statue of Confucius and began the road of revenge......

This is really revenge, it is not easy to entangle hundreds of students who have fallen off the list, and it is a loss to Da Song to treat the scholars leniently, otherwise the gate of Taixue will be taken by the Marquis of Yuhou who patrols the city.

Along the way, the team of unsuccessful students has grown stronger and stronger, or they have come to see the excitement, or they are angry and want to ask for an explanation, Liu Ji and other Taixue students do not refuse, and after a simple salute, these people are gathered into the team, and Liu Ji and other "backbones" continue to go to the royal street with their heads held high.

After Ouyang Xiu arranged the matters between the palace test and the Ministry of Rites, he left the imperial city and got into his own carriage outside Tiananmen Square, but the car shop was stopped soon on Dongmen Road, and the carriage stopped in a hurry, and the noise outside made Ouyang Xiu, who was thinking about trivial matters, frown slightly.

But he still maintains the bearing of a gentleman, he is the main examination of this year's imperial examination, and naturally he wants to represent the image of the imperial court, so he lifted the curtain and got out of the car.

As soon as he got out of the car, the housekeeper rushed over: "Master, it was the students who failed to accept the list and came to stop the car, the master still got on the car quickly, there are guards to block it, and when the Marquis Yu comes to patrol the city, none of them can get out!" ”

The housekeeper's words surprised Ouyang Xiu, who was originally indifferent, and then stepped forward, but saw that the students had already pushed and shoved with the guards, these guards were actually the forbidden army of the imperial city, and when the deputy minister of Ouyang Xiu's status came, there would be a forbidden army standing class, the number of people was not large, although there were only a dozen or so people chatting, but it was the glory given by the heavenly family.

These forbidden soldiers are only responsible for Ouyang Xiu's journey from the palace to his home, and he was stopped by the students who fell off the list on the road, and once something happens, he will inevitably be punished, Ouyang Xiu knows the ability of these forbidden troops, and stepped forward to retreat from the forbidden army and said: "Don't do it, wait for you to retreat!" ”

The forbidden army was slightly stunned, let himself retreat at this time, isn't this Ouyang Xianggong still practiced?

But it was in this stunned kung fu that the crowd of unsuccessful students broke through the barrier and rushed towards Ouyang Xiu, at the beginning Liu Ji was still full of excitement, but as the number of people who hit became more and more, and the forbidden army who fell to the ground screamed again and again, his heart became more and more heavy, and even frightened......

At this moment, Ouyang Xiu shouted: "Quickly retreat, there is a forbidden army to fall to your feet!" Quickly retreat ......"

But at this time, the east gate has already changed, the sudden rush of the students destroyed the original formation, and the vendors on both sides were still watching the excitement at first, but now they have been affected, and the stalls where things are placed have long been overturned, and the goods on them are scattered all over the ground.

The people in the back walked forward without knowing the truth, and the people in front began to retreat, and the middle team swelled more and more, and finally evolved into panic......

Liu Ji and the other students who organized this "petition" were already as pale as dirt and trembling all over.