The first year of Chongzhen.

April 12.

The temple examination, which was supposed to be held in March, was delayed until today due to various reasons.

Before dawn, Yang Reform got up, dressed, washed, and to be honest, Yang Reform, who was used to going to work at nine o'clock, was very unaccustomed to getting up before dawn on this day. Lazy and lazy, I let the palace maids and eunuchs serve, and I took this time to stand for a while, and I was a little tired to discuss the mystery of this life with Queen Zhou Wan'er yesterday.

Wang Chengen looked busy, and hurriedly urged the palace maids and little eunuchs to dress up for the emperor quickly, and said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, today is Your Majesty's Enke Palace Examination, Your Majesty will be a teacher, and after that, there will be your son of heaven's protégé." ”

Yang Gengai half-squinted his eyes and muttered, "The protégé of the Son of Heaven? Hey hey ......"

After some washing, a spirited emperor appeared in everyone's sight again.

In the Huangji Hall (formerly called Fengtian Palace, and later called Taihe Palace), there were already gathered tributes waiting for the palace examination, as well as "examiners" such as the cabinet and various ministries.

The sound of the orchestra and bamboo is continuous, and the atmosphere of this palace test is unusually solemn.

Yang Gai walked straight to the edge of the throne dragon chair and sat down, and the sound of silk and bamboo stopped. The ministers led all the tributes to kneel down and kowtow solemnly, shouting long live the salute.

Yang Gengai plucked out his ears, damn it, how did this happen, the sound was so loud that even the roof tiles vibrate. Looking at the people below, I rely on it, there is a large area of black pressure, I am afraid that there are more than 400 people, this is much more than the usual people in the court, no wonder it is so loud.

"Let's be flat." Yang Gengai plucked out his ears and flicked the "earwax" on his fingers before everyone got up.

A group of adults played games like children, and they kowtowed solemnly to thank them before they got up.

For this palace examination, Yang Reform's expectations are very high, this is the first class of his class! Yang Reform also checked the list of this batch of Jinshi for this reason, and found that there are still a number of celebrities in it, such as Shi Kefa, who is this batch of Jinshi, and many high-ranking officials in Nanming later came out of this issue of Jinshi.

In this, there are also those scholars I met in the teahouse before, I don't know what expressions those will have when they see them, such as Ye Zigen, such as Wanhu Hou, such as Xu Yifan and others. Yang Reform quickly swept the crowd below with his eyes, some made a deep appearance, some were full of joy and overflowing, some were timid and obscene, afraid and excited, and some looked at themselves with frightened eyes, Yang Reform swept it, these people without exception, and put their heads under them, Yang Reform laughed for a while in his heart, presumably the people who talked about the exam questions with him in the teahouse that day will be very surprised today!

Those scholars who chatted with the "noble" Yang Reform in the teahouse and guessed the exam questions, due to the different rankings of the exam, the places where they stood were also different, and they couldn't see clearly when they stood far away, and they were a little puzzled, how could this son of heaven be like that Yang Gongzi! Could it be that Yang Gongzi is really related to the emperor, otherwise how can he be so similar? But does the emperor have any relatives with the surname Yang? People who stood close, such as the Marquis of Wanhu, were already so shocked that their eyes were straight, and they really discussed the topic of this palace test with the emperor, and the emperor also personally said what the palace test was, this ...... It's unbelievable, "cheating" doesn't have such cheating!

Shoufu played in front of him: "Your Majesty, there are 353 Wuchen Kegongshi in the first year of Chongzhen, all of them have arrived, please give your Majesty a question for the test." ”

"Exam questions? Hehe, no need, today, my policy is very simple, just four words, 'military salary' and 'military equipment', all the tributes will use this topic to take the exam, I have no limit to the subject, no limit to the number of words, no limit to the style of writing, all candidates, free to play. "Yang Gengai didn't bother to use the exam questions chosen by any minister, and directly used his own.

Shoufu was very injured and surprised, the emperor did not use the "policy question items" selected by the Hanlin Academy and the cabinet, let alone gave the yellow case test questions, it seems that he can only follow the emperor and continue to take the exam, otherwise, this palace exam will not be able to go on. So, he took the ministers and tributes to kowtow to the emperor, which was considered to have completed the etiquette.

Then it was time for the exam papers to be distributed. The palace test in the first year of Chongzhen officially began.

Yang was reminded by Wang Chengen, knowing that it was not interesting for him to stay here, so he only stayed for a while, and left in the "farewell" of the ministers and candidates. Today, it's just a formality, the real one, and it has to be two days after tomorrow, that's the important thing for the exam, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, it's the time to mark the papers, and the time to arrange the rankings.

The first year of Chongzhen.

April 14.

Mandarin Palace.

The ministers and the emperor discussed the ranking of the Enke Jinshi, and the Jinshi claimed to be the protégé of the Son of Heaven, and they had to ask the emperor to name him personally.

"Your Majesty, these volumes are the best ones selected by the ministers and others, and I also ask Your Majesty to look at them, point out this champion, list the eyes and the flowers, and rank them." Shoufu brought up small stacks of rolls, about a dozen or so.

Hehe, point champion, this thing, to have a meaning, Yang Reform thinks that many plane traversers are fighting for this champion, and now he is sitting on the dragon chair, dotting the champion, this feeling is very good. I took the roll and began to point the champions.

Yang Reform looked through the scrolls, looking at the headache, Yang Reform felt that there was something very similar to these volumes, that is, the "Pang Zhonghua" calligraphy, the words are very beautiful, but when you read it, you can't read a sentence.

These volumes, the handwriting is very neat, and there are a lot of "abbreviated characters", Yang Reform, who can understand some of them, thought that his reading level was very high, and tried to read it, but he didn't expect that this "volume" did not have a punctuation point, this thing, Yang Reform read it in one breath, and almost didn't lose his breath.

What's even more odious is that these papers are all confused, and the names of the candidates can't be seen, which makes Yang Reform helpless, but I didn't expect that I originally thought that in this palace examination, Huang Yanjing wanted to let anyone be the champion, that is, to be the champion, but I didn't expect that this ancient imperial examination was so "advanced" that it was actually a vague name, and the emperor also had no time.

Yang Reform was helpless, so he had to say: "Why are you all pasting up your names?" I can't see who's who's roll! "Yang Reform wants to see if this history has changed, for example, this champion is Liu Ruozai, if nothing else, it should be in the top ten, Yang Reform wants to know whether he has the ability to change history.

"Back to Your Majesty, of course, I ask Your Majesty to take a look at it before opening it, otherwise, the ministers will be suspected of favoritism." Shoufu said again, according to the rules, the emperor will usually point to the top ten rankings, so he can't open the seal of the name until the emperor sees it.

"Well, let's take it apart then." And this rule? It turned out that the emperor could choose the champion by himself, and Yang Reform had no way to distinguish the good from the bad of the article, nor could he tell who was whose volume from the handwriting and handwriting. Just wait for the volume to open, look at the name, and uncover the "truth" of history.

The scroll was opened, and Shoufu said, "Please also ask Your Majesty to take a look." ”

Yang Gengai opened the scroll and looked for the name of the person inside, and sure enough, Liu Ruozai, the champion, was among them, and he was just placed in the first place. Yang Reform couldn't help but sigh secretly, the strength of his butterfly is weaker! The exam questions have been leaked to the candidates, and there is still no major change in this history, and the champion Liu Ruozai is still selected by the ministers in the first place.

Yang Reform sighed with emotion, and when he felt small about his strength, he flipped through several other scrolls and found that there was actually the name of Wanhu Hou, which was listed in the sixth place of the second class, which surprised Yang Reform again, it turned out that he had the power to change history, and this Wanhu Hou was not in the top ten, and he specially searched for Wanhu Hou's ranking.

"I can trust your Aiqing, just follow your Aiqing, I won't make changes, these three are champions, role models and tanhua." Yang Reform picked up the volume selected by the ministers, and ordered the first volume of Liu Ruozai as the champion, the second book is a role model, and the third book is Tanhua, and the ranking of the ministers has not been changed at all, even the ranking of the marquis of Wanhu has not changed.

The ministers, who were originally worried that the emperor would indiscriminately "point generals", were relieved to see that the emperor had basically adopted their rankings, and they all said in their hearts: This emperor is still very good and decentralized, but sometimes he is also very "naughty". The ministers' hearts were warm, and they felt that their hard work in the past few days had not been "in vain" and had been recognized by the emperor.

In fact, Yang Reform is afraid of these "volumes" without punctuation marks, which is simply going to kill him, and there is no way to distinguish who is high and who is low from the content of this volume, who is reasonable, and who is not reasonable, so there is no way to arrange a noun by himself, rather than arranging one indiscriminately, it is better to use the ministers' arrangement, at least, it will not be worse than the historical one. The most important thing is this Jinshi, on the whole, the quality is okay, and Yang Reform does not plan to have "surgery". I used the original ranking.

Yang Reform is not worried that Ye Zigen's ranking is too low. These people have their own "insiders", so they should be prepared, and their grades should be higher than those of "history".

If Ye Zigen and those people get their own "leaked" exam questions and can't get good results, then they can only blame themselves for being useless, people can't do it, and there is no need for them to "cultivate" these people excessively. Yang Gai comforted himself like this. It turns out that being an emperor also seems to require skills!

"Your Majesty, dare to ask Your Majesty, does Your Majesty want to look at the rest of the volumes?" Shoufu saw that the emperor nodded to the champion, and asked the emperor if he wanted to read other papers, and the emperor generally didn't look at the papers of these candidates, and generally directly used the recommendations of the examiners, because the emperor was too "lazy"; Second, most of the emperors "don't learn and don't know", and like Yang Reform, they can't understand the meaning of this, so most of them directly use the examiners' recommendations, of course, in terms of form, you still have to say it to the emperor.

Yang Reform, who had figured it out, waved his hand and said, "I have said, I can trust your Qing family, just according to the ranking of your Qing family, I will not look at it again." ”

The ministers were overjoyed when they received the emperor's affirmation. At the same time, he also affirmed one thing, the emperor "does not learn and has no skills", it is still easier to fool.

(To be continued)