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Xu Jingzong read it twice more from beginning to end, carefully considering it word by word, to ensure that every word is fine, and the language is gorgeous and exquisite, but also to express the meaning accurately, to make sure that there are no typos or omissions, and at the same time, there are no taboos.

After a long time, the newly replaced candle burned halfway again, and the drum of the second watch had been beaten outside, Xu Jingzong handed the scroll to the little official waiting in front of him, and said proudly: "My scroll is worth 10,000 gold, if you lose it, or make a mistake, be careful of your head!" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." The little officials came up and carefully put away Xu Jingzong's test papers, and one of them hurriedly sent the papers out. It's just that what Xu Jingzong didn't notice was that the little official turned around and sneered and sneered.

Xu Jingzong walked out of the examination hall, and it was already the middle of the moon. The stars in the sky were obscured by the moonlight, and they were much dimmer.

It may be the last few candidates to hand in the papers, and when Xu Jingzong came out, there was silence around him, and there was no one in sight. Lanterns are hung under the eaves, illuminating the inside and outside of the examination hall. Stepping on the lights on the road, Xu Jingzong slowly walked in the examination hall, he had absolute confidence in his test results, so that the soldiers who had patrolled in front of him turned a blind eye to the surprised gaze they cast. At this time, I fantasized about the honor and fame I had received on the day the exam results were announced. He believes that when the time comes, he will no longer be a staff member of the East Palace, and he will never become a subordinate official of the East Palace, and he will be like Yang Su, and he will become a big man who will try to win over His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Xu Jingzong walked out of the gate of the examination hall step by step, there was a carriage and two guards waiting for him in front of the door, this is the treatment he received after being the top staff of the East Palace, he was quite polite to these two guards on weekdays, and when the other party saluted him, he would smile and nod in return, but at this time, he ignored it with a proud face, and got into the carriage directly.

According to Xu Jingzong's speculation, in order to make the first imperial examination deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the first name is not only not small, but it is very likely that he will be knighted and rewarded with food, so that he will immediately enter the ranks of the top nobles of the Great Sui. As long as he wins the first place, the younger generation may only be able to compare with the Qin Anhou who has made great achievements.

After Xu Jingzong boarded the carriage and left, two figures quietly followed in the darkness, one on the left and one on the right, with the Nighthawk on the left and Shen Guang on the right.

Xu Jingzong will be the most critical part of Wang Junlin's plan, and the two of them will stare at Xu Jingzong in the next few days, and there must be no omissions and mistakes.

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Suddenly, a gong sounded in the examination hall, and the sound of the gong was crisp, as if to wake up the night that hung over Kyoto.

"When the time comes, all candidates will stop writing and hand in the test papers immediately."

With a shout, the subordinate officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial History Observatory began to clear the venue, and rushed the small number of candidates who were still holding on to the brush to the outside of the examination hall. There was a candidate who looked to be in his fifties, his hair had turned gray, but he had not finished his thesis, and he refused to leave his book case crying or alive, and finally he was thrown out by several officials of the Imperial History Tower.

After a long time, everyone seemed to be able to hear the candidate's muttering, ghostly crying ugly voice, echoing inside and outside the examination hall.

Wang Junlin sighed, but there was no sympathy in his heart - everything must have rules, let alone such a major event related to the fortunes of the country as the imperial examination.

He remembered that in the later generations, there was a year in the college entrance examination, there was a candidate because he wore a metal ring, could not pass the inspection instrument, and could not enter the examination room for half a day, but the ring could not be taken off alive or dead, a group of parents and enthusiastic people tried their best around, and the parents even knelt down to the staff responsible for checking the entrance to the examination room, but in the end they still did not let the candidates enter, until the ring was taken off half an hour later, and the candidates were not allowed to enter.

At this time, not to mention that the time is less than half an hour, a toss to the psychological quality of a teenager in his eighteen-year-olds, in this situation, it would be good to be able to play half of the level, some people say that the staff is too stiff and unreasonable, but the people who say these words do not know how many kinds of cheats are found in the college entrance examination every year, including Bluetooth headsets made into earrings and information screens for myopia glasses. If we don't investigate and follow the rules in this way, wouldn't it be unfair to more people? The only fault is that the student wearing the metal ring and his parents were not considerate.

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For Wang Junlin, the students' exams are over, and his own exams are ...... But it's just getting started.

On the night after the exam, the paper had to be sealed immediately, which was Wang Junlin's job, and Gao Ying and Zhou Chengyan were both sitting in the back hall, and they didn't dare to leave, waiting for Wang Junlin to lead people to complete the two procedures of pasting the name and copying, and then they could seal the file and draw it.

The bright candle is bright, and the whole examination hall is a busy scene, outside is dozens of palace attendants and old officials of the Ministry of Rites are dividing the test papers, classifying and sorting, and in another small room, it is Wang Junlin with an official of the Ministry of Rites and a supervisor of the Imperial History Observatory to paste the name.

Wang Junlin didn't dare to slack off, and carefully looked at the names on the papers, corresponding to the names on the four slips of paper, and it didn't take long for him to pick out dozens of papers from them and put them on his right hand unobtrusively.

The two officials on his side lowered their heads and glanced at each other, knowing that the dozens of scrolls had been greeted by various bigwigs or forces from all sides, and they were secretly relieved in their hearts. I thought that no matter how strong this one was, he wouldn't dare to go against everyone after all, he could only go along with everyone else, and he would never dare to avoid vulgarity.

After selecting 200 papers, Wang Junlin ordered the two officials to start to obfuscate their names, and the two officials did not dare to slack off, and quickly began to cover the names of the candidates and the columns on the examination papers with paper. Although it was the first time to take the imperial examination, the two officials had clearly studied carefully and done their homework before making a name for themselves.

Wang Junlin carefully observed for a while, and then realized that the reason why these two had done enough homework in advance was to make a different kind of name for the two hundred papers he had picked out - the note used was slightly shorter than the note that other candidates had pasted their names, and if they didn't consciously observe carefully, they wouldn't have been able to find it at all.

Watching the two officials solemnly and seriously paste short notes on the test papers he picked, Wang Junlin couldn't help laughing in his heart, thinking that if Yang Guang, Yang Yong, Gao Ying, Zhou Chengyan and others knew in the future, these test papers were not all the names of the people arranged after the division of various forces, but more than a dozen of them were the papers of really talented and learned scholars from poor families that Wang Junlin fancied, such as the guy named Fang Qiao-I don't know what they would think.

If you look at the paper with a very small difference in the length of the name, you will definitely not see anything strange if you look at it, but if the official who copied it knows it, you will definitely be able to distinguish it. After Wang Junlin watched Fang Qiao's roll being pasted with short paper, his mood became very good for no reason, he shook his head with a smile, and couldn't help asking: "Even if you pick it out, how do you mark it when you copy it?" ”

The official of the Ministry of Rites beside him didn't expect Wang Junlin to directly make the words clear, smiled a little embarrassedly, and replied in a low voice: "Don't worry, Master Hou, in order not to spoil the things entrusted by the nobles, we have carefully studied it in advance, and as long as we work the size or strokes of certain words when transcribing, the adults of that batch of volumes will naturally understand." ”

Wang Junlin suddenly realized and exclaimed: "In this way, even if they don't know who the Gao Gong and Lord Zhou are who are the ones who are the papers, as long as they know that they are the right people." ”

"Yes, sir." The official of the Ministry of Rites replied very politely, but in his heart, he was in the stomach that this famous poisonous general was a vulgar military general after all.

I didn't know that at this time, Wang Junlin also sighed in his stomach that the first imperial examination, even if it was favoritism, was full of loopholes, and as a result, he easily took advantage of the loopholes and achieved his goal.

Of course, Wang Junlin also understands that the reason why these people relax their vigilance and do things rigorously enough, in addition to not being experienced enough to do this kind of thing for the first time, I am afraid it is because the entire bureaucratic and powerful institutions have already acquiesced in this method of dividing the cake, and in their opinion, even Wang Junlin does not dare to cause more trouble.

After a busy night, the first imperial examination autumn examination, which can decide the lives of more than 3,000 scholars, has finally entered the most critical stage of marking papers, and many officials in charge of the preliminary work rubbed their sleepy eyes. gathered in the main hall and listened to the lecture of Gao Ying, the general person in charge of this autumn test.

After some righteous words, sacred and serious words, and lies taken for the country, Gao Ying waved his hand a little sleepily to let the lower-level officials disperse, and then looked at Wang Junlin kindly and said, "Qin Anhou has also worked hard these days. ”

"Don't dare." Wang Junlin said with a smile: "Gao Gong doesn't dare to say bitterness, let alone the lower officials." ”

Zhou Chengyan smiled at the right time: "Everyone has worked hard. ”

In fact, several high-ranking officials present at this time understood what the inside story of the imperial examination was, and while Gao Ying guaranteed his own family of personnel to high school, he reached various deals with various forces, and took the opportunity to win over many nobles.

And Zhou Chengyan secretly ensured that the personnel of the East Palace Department could go to high school, and at the same time, he reaped a lot of benefits from it, of course, other officials would not lose their own benefits, even Wang Junlin already knew that the day before the entrance examination, someone had already sent his deserved share of silver taels to the Qin'an Marquis Mansion. That amount was actually more than the income of his Wufu Tea Club for half a year, Wang Junlin smiled unceremoniously.

After several days of examinations, the entire examination hall was filled with a smell of yellow and white things, and Wang Junlin stood on the stone steps. Holding his breath, he took one last look at the dark examination hall, thinking that after this thing was done, he would have a good reason to leave Kyoto and return to his own territory in Gaotai City, Yongzhou. At that time, if Yang Jian still didn't let him go, he would have to think of some radical methods.