Zhao Zhen's temporary topic really taught a lot of people to scratch their scalps, and before coming to the palace test, everyone also made some preparations, and tried their best to inquire about some allusions to the emperor's palace test before.

The palace examination was first established at the time of Li Tangwu's reign, but the formal customization was in the sixth year of Kaibao of the Great Song Dynasty, when Li Fang, a bachelor of Hanlin, served as the chief examiner of the Gongju and presided over the national examination held in the Bianliang Gongyuan in Tokyo. After various examinations, a total of 38 students were admitted. Two of them were deposed when they were called because "the material was the ugliest, and the question was wrong".

Xu Shilian, the first jinshi, beat the drum and accused Li Fang of "choosing with affection" and asked for a palace test in order to seek justice. So the grandfather issued an edict to select one hundred and ninety-five people from the first place and thirty-six people who had already been selected, and the re-examination was conducted in the lecture hall, which was presided over by the grandfather himself, and the result was that one hundred and twenty-seven people were the first, but ten of the original admitted people were unsuccessful.

After the list, there was an uproar in the government and the opposition, and Li Fang was demoted. Since then, the palace examination has become customized, and the Great Song Dynasty has gradually established a three-level scientific examination system of state examination, provincial examination and palace examination.

The palace examination only examines one policy question, and generally selects a paragraph or a sentence in the classic subset that is related to today's reality to write a policy essay, and then uses the article to discuss the superiority.

But today, Zhao Zhen made a temporary decision, not to choose ancient books and ask, but to directly ask everyone to come up with solutions, which made the brainless movers a little panicked.

Moreover, the readers of this era are generally people with low eyes, and it is absolutely no problem to memorize by rote, but once it is connected with reality, it can take the lives of these people who don't know what to do outside the window.

Su Jin slowly sharpened the ink with the pen and pondered carefully in his heart: Zhao Zhen's question today seems to be caused by his own nonsense, but in fact, it should be the long-standing thoughts in his heart.

Fan Zhongyan's new policy was implemented with the support of Zhao Zhen, and the time is next year, the new policy change cannot be a temporary idea, Zhao Zhen should have considered this matter in his mind for a long time, and the reason why such a question appeared in this palace examination may be that Zhao Zhen is collecting the methods of the new policy to see if it can be used when changing in the future.

Thinking of this, Su Jin's eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of an article in the university language, which was before the Qingli New Deal, Fan Zhongyan wrote in front of Zhao Zhen "Answering the Edict Chen Shishi" to talk about the direction and means of future change, which was greatly appreciated by Zhao Zhen, and finally pushed it to the whole Song Dynasty in the form of an edict, and started the vigorous Qingli New Deal.

But Su Jin still didn't dare to write, not that he couldn't remember the full text of the article, but that he suddenly thought of a problem, that is, the time when the article was written; If Fan Zhongyan had already submitted the article "Ten Things in Response to the Edict of Chen", and he would have openly recorded it now, wouldn't it be a big joke.

So Su Jin carefully recalled Fan Zhongyan's resume, wanting to find out whether Fan Zhongyan had submitted evidence for this article; Su Jin knew that Fan Zhongyan had been in the northwest for more than four years since the first year of Baoyuan, and before that, the biggest Beijing official he served was only Tianzhang Pavilion to be systematized, and at other times, he had been released as a county commander and a prefect, but he had never entered the center; He was unlucky because this person was too upright, Lu Yijian was in the sky, but he presented a hundred official pictures to the emperor and impeached Lu Yijian for appointing private individuals; Moreover, this old Fan also talked privately about the emperor's younger brother because Zhao Zhen had no heirs, so Zhao Zhen took the opportunity to get rid of it to the end and directly demoted him to other places as an official.

From the above, it can be concluded that at least before the war in the northwest, Fan Zhongyan was not appreciated by Zhao Zhen, so it was impossible to talk to Fan Zhongyan about the change before that.

After the war in the northwest started, Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi were only now recognized by everyone, and the strategy of sticking to the counterattack proposed by them was regarded as a strategy to fear the enemy at the beginning stage, that is to say, until now, Fan Zhongyan has a lot of status in Zhao Zhen's heart; But with Fan Zhongyan's current level, it is still unlikely that Zhao Zhen personally asked him to write this "Answering the Edict of Chen Shishi" in person, the biggest possibility is that after the end of the Northwest War, when Fan Zhongyan was transferred back to the capital and entered the center, the emperor had the opportunity to have close contact with him, and eighty percent of this article was written at that time.

Although he is only eighty percent sure, Su Jin is a person who loves to gamble, and it is also difficult for Su Jin to ask him to temporarily write an article on current affairs, and he has been in the Great Song Dynasty for more than a year, Rao is as smart as Su Jin, and he has not fully understood the details of this society, not to mention the disadvantages of the Chaogang and has to propose countermeasures.

On the steps, Zhao Zhen talked to Yan Shu and others, while looking condescendingly at the candidates in the audience, after the initial confusion, all the students have begun to write hard, Zhao Zhen nodded slightly, but suddenly he found Su Jin sitting there biting the pen in a daze, and did not start writing from beginning to end, so he asked Yan Shu: "Yan Aiqing, Su Jin, the new branch will not fall a word until now, it seems that this question is stumped for him." ”

Du Yan interjected: "The minister has already said, this Su Jin can only do some superficial work, but in fact, Jin Yu is defeated on the outside, when the Yuan Yuan is ranked, the minister told Yan Sansi, the post is not able to pass the Moyi test, and he also wrote a limerick poem below, the attitude is really bad, and I don't know how he was fooled by the provincial test, if it wasn't for Yan Sansi's efforts to take him as the first, Lu Xiang and I would have fallen into the top three; This is good, now that he is in real shape, it seems that he is about to reveal his true form. ”

Yan Shu frowned and said, "Du Shumi is saying that I, Yan Shu, am the master of the exam, and I am cheating?" ”

Du Yan said: "I didn't say that, Yan Sansi was too careful, but two of the three examiners thought that he should not be in the top three, but Yan Sansi tried his best to recommend it, and it was inevitable that there would be gossip." ”

Yan Shu said angrily: "From beginning to end, all I read are transcribed test papers, and all the names are pasted, the old man can't start even if he wants to cheat, you are spewing blood, the emperor is here, you tell me clearly." ”

Du Yan rolled his eyes and ignored Yan Shu, Yan Shu arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, you want to give the old minister justice, the old minister has always acted impartially, and besides, Su Jin and the old man have no kinship, how could the old man ruin his name for him?" ”

Du Yan snorted and said, "It's okay? It's going to be your niece and son-in-law of Yan Sansi soon, and everyone knows about it, who are you hiding it from? This Su Jin is also, in order to hug the thighs of the three divisions, he is desperate, and even the widow who is a few years older than him has married as a wife, and he is not afraid of the jokes of the world. ”

Yan Shu got up and was about to go crazy when he blew his beard and glared, Zhao Zhen hurriedly stopped the two of them and reprimanded: "In front of the public, as the head of the imperial court, you actually quarrel with two shrews, do you still want to be decent?" ”

Yan Shu glared at Du Yan fiercely, lowered his head and stopped talking, Du Yan was quite proud, but it could be regarded as a bird's breath, it was really not easy to make Yan Shu jump like thunder, this old fox usually looked pampered and not shocked, only by saying something like this can make him angry.

Zhao Zhen pointed at Du Yan and said, "You are still laughing, can you talk nonsense about this kind of thing?" Fortunately, everyone in the court knows Yan Aiqing's character, otherwise wouldn't your remarks really cause a lot of meaningless topics? I can't imagine that you are really nosy, who do people like to marry and what do you do? Besides, Su Jin is the Huiyuan I appointed, I chose one of the anonymous test strips reported by the three of you, and even I didn't know that it was Su Jin over there, but you blamed Yan Aiqing for this matter. ”

Du Yan ate Zhao Zhen's reprimand, and suddenly tilted his head and drooped his neck, and his arrogance was completely gone; Zhao Zhen no longer paid attention to him, turned his head to look at His Royal Highness, and was suddenly pleasantly surprised to find that Su Jin dipped his pen in ink and mixed it thoroughly, and slowly wrote on the white paper, looking quite calm and confident.

Of course, Su Jin is confident, Zhuyu is in front, he is just pursuing the doctrine of taking, as for what kind of consequences this move will bring, will Fan Zhongyan be writing this article in the future, if he is writing, it will become plagiarizing his own article, etc., this confused account Su Jin can't take care of it, and it is like a bug in the game when he crosses over, what is the use of thinking about these now?

Sprinkling two test papers, writing silently while recalling, and adding some temporary ideas by myself, I wrote for nearly half an hour before I completed this strategy.

The end of the palace examination is at noon, and the time from the beginning of the examination to the end of the examination is only a little more than an hour, which increases the difficulty for those who often take a day of planning and examination; After Su Jin finished writing, he signed his name and was the first to hand in the paper without even looking at it, some of the other people looked at Su Jin with envy, and some people thought that Su Jin was in the limelight; Is it good to be the first to turn in the papers? If the writing is not good, it will become a laughing stock, and most people choose to continue to polish and think hard about the words and sentences, and strive for perfection.