Early the next morning, Yang Yuanqing took Danyang Princess Yang Fangxin to Jinyang Palace to meet the young emperor Yang Yu, perhaps because she was with Jiang Peihua, Yang Fangxin's miserable expression on the way to Taiyuan was no longer visible at this time, and she became radiant, and under the influence of Jiang Peihua, her attitude towards Yang Yuanqing was not as cold as before.

Yang Yuanqing rode on horseback and followed beside the carriage, surrounded by hundreds of personal soldiers.

"Your Royal Highness, how about you rest last night?"

Yang Yuanqing asked with a smile beside the carriage, he himself recovered well, and he was with his family, and after only one night, the fatigue of his journey all the way was gone, and he was extremely energetic.

Yang Fangxin didn't say anything, and after a while, she asked in a low voice: "Manager Yang, will you let me live in Jinyang Palace?" ”

Yang Yuanqing felt the uneasiness in her heart, so he asked her with a smile: "Are you willing to live in Jinyang Palace?" I can arrange it if you want. ”

Yang Fangxin refused to say that she wanted to stay in Yang Yuanqing's mansion, she turned a corner and said: "If my sister also lives in Jinyang Palace, then I am willing to move to Jinyang Palace, anyway, I want to be with her." ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled: "I understand!" ”

"Mr. Yang ......"

In the carriage, Yang Fangxin couldn't help but ask: "Bing'er said that you are the most tolerant and benevolent man in the world, do you think you are?" ”

"I'm her father, for her, of course, the most tolerant and benevolent man in the world, don't you also think that your father is the best person in the world?"

"Yes!"

Yang Fangxin in the carriage said in a low voice: "My father is the most loving, tolerant, and kind person in the world, and no one can compare to him." ”

After being silent for a while, Yang Fangxin whispered again: "Manager Yang, thank you!" ”

"Thank me for what?" Yang Yuanqing asked puzzled.

"Thank you for respecting him as Emperor Wu, and for not belittling him with words like Yang, decay, mourning, end, and 纣. I heard that the Tang Dynasty demoted him to Emperor Yang, the head of Yang. I hope you can defeat the Tang Dynasty. ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Your Royal Highness Princess, you have to remember this, the Tang Dynasty is our enemy, not only my Yang Yuanqing's enemy, but also your enemy, the enemy of the Great Sui, even if you are dissatisfied with my Yang Yuanqing, you can't praise the enemy." ”

"I won't, I will never praise an enemy who belittles my father as Emperor Yang."

Jinyang Palace is located outside the North City. Need to get out of the North Side. Yang Yuanqing's team turned to Jinyang Street, which is the main road of the central axis of Taiyuan City, connecting the South City Gate and the North City Gate straight, extending all the way, and finally ending at the main gate of Jinyang Palace. Jinyang Gate.

As soon as they arrived at Jinyang Street, they heard a tsunami-like shout, only to see the black crowd coming from the south to the north, which surprised Yang Yuanqing, he waved his hand to stop the team, and then he saw clearly that most of them were soldiers wearing Confucian robes, not soldiers with armor, which made him breathe a sigh of relief. At first, he thought it was the army that had entered the city.

Yang Yuanqing's brows immediately furrowed, these soldiers were waving banners and waving their arms, it was obvious that they were demonstrating, what happened? He immediately said to one of his own soldiers: "Go and inquire, what's going on?" ”

The soldiers urged the horses to gallop away. Yang Yuanqing ordered his subordinates to speed up and go to Jinyang Palace first.

A small butterfly fanning its wings can cause a storm thousands of miles away, Pei's son Pei Qingsong's inadvertent words leaked the heavenly opportunity, causing this uproar, dozens of Guozi Supervisors launched a march petition of 3,000 Guozi Supervisors after a night of tandem.

They carried huge banners, 'No gates, no fair!' Carrying the statue of Confucius, the mighty parade on Jinyang Street, constantly attracting scholars from all over the country to participate in the imperial examination to join the procession, an hour later, the procession has reached more than 20,000 people, the grand occasion is unprecedented, attracting hundreds of thousands of Taiyuan people to watch the road.

Jingzhao Mansion dispatched hundreds of officials to maintain order, and the Jiumen Army was also ordered to dispatch 5,000 cavalry to patrol the front and rear of the procession, so as not to cause other serious incidents.

"The imperial examination is fair!"

"Don't gate valves!"

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"Meritocracy, against the insider!"

The scholars were so enthusiastic that many of them burst into tears, and they were hoarse, longing for a fair exam and fulfilling their lifelong wish.

The team marched towards the north gate, the north gate has been closed, three thousand crossbowmen stood in five rows, the cold bows and crossbows were aimed at the oncoming soldiers, there were five hundred cavalry on both sides with spears in their hands, murderous, and a few miles through the north gate was Jinyang Palace, the political center of the Northern Sui Dynasty, and the soldiers did not allow them to go out from the north gate.

The team is getting closer and closer, all the soldiers are getting more and more nervous, Ma Shao, the general of the Nine Gates, is standing at the head of the city, holding the knife tightly, his palms are sweating, his lips are stretched into a line, his eyes are staring at the parade that is getting closer and closer, at this moment, the soldiers suddenly shouted outside the north city gate: "General Ma! ”

Ma Shao walked quickly to the other side of the city, leaned over, and saw a cavalryman appear under the city, holding a gold medal in his hand, and shouting: "The chief has an order, open the city gate, don't hurt the soldiers!" ”

Ma Shao put down his heart suddenly, he quickly walked back to the other side, and saw that the procession had already entered a hundred steps, and he immediately ordered in a loud voice: "Withdraw the army, open the city!" ”

The crossbowmen and cavalry withdrew one after another, the north gate slowly opened, and tens of thousands of soldiers passed through the city gate and headed towards the Jinyang Palace.

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Ziwei Pavilion of Jinyang Palace, Yang Yuanqing and the five ministers urgently discussed the huge parade in Taiyuan City, Pei Qingsong was not wrong in what he said in the wine shop, Yang Yuanqing really wanted to use the opportunity of this autumn test to win over the Hebei Shi clan, so as to make political preparations for the Hebei campaign launched next spring, absolute fairness is impossible, it can only be fair within a certain limit.

As early as two months ago, when Wang Xu proposed the imperial examination, the five Xiangguo and Yang Yuanqing of Ziwei Pavilion reached a compromise and allocated the quota for this imperial examination according to the ratio of three, three and four, that is, the Hedong foreign scholars, the Hedong scholars and the fair admission quota.

But the scholars' ** and their demands for fairness made the compromise they reached face new challenges, and the five prime ministers were silent, at this time. Du Ruhui, who had just rushed back last night, sighed and said: "The scholars' feelings of appealing for justice are understandable, after all, this is the first imperial examination of the Northern Sui. In order to build up my reputation, I suggest that you simply let it go completely, promise to be fair, and respond to the demands of the scholars. ”

Pei Ju shook his head, "If it is a prosperous era, the fair imperial examination can be implemented, but now it is not, I have also received the children of the Boling Cui clan and the Fan Yang Lu clan to participate in the imperial examination these days, and the Boling Cui clan sent five people, two concubines and three concubines." The Fan Yang Lu clan sent six people. Three concubines and three concubines, I found that the children they sent were not the best children, such as Cui Hongsheng's three grandsons Qiyuan, Qidong, and Qibai did not come, and the children sent by the Fanyang Lu clan were also not heard of, so it can be seen that the Hebei Shi clan is still more cautious. I can understand their caution, they are also afraid of being picked up by Dou Jiande for being too high-profile, but if it is really according to Du Xiangguo's idea, all exams are fair, what will be the result? I can say that none of the children of the Hebei Shi clan can pass the exam, after all, the Hedong Shi clan is going all out, and the consequences will be very serious, and the Hebei Shi clan will think that we don't give face. So you still have to allocate places, just to see how to allocate them. ”

Although Wang Xu and Pei Ju have always been fighting openly and secretly, he has a similar position to Pei Ju in the matter of the imperial examination, and he has to be a little more extreme, he is resolutely against the imperial examination. He advocated that all the places should be allocated to each county, and the officials of each county would recommend outstanding children, so that Wang Xue's disciples would occupy at least 20% of the quota, and the implementation of the imperial examination would undoubtedly infringe on his interests.

"I support Pei Xiangguo's opinion, this imperial examination is what I suggested, in fact, my initial plan is to implement a compromise imperial examination system, a combination of promotion and examination, each county can elect many people, for example, according to the population of each county, recommend 20 to 50 people, and then in the county to promote the imperial examination, this is actually the method implemented during the Kaihuang period, I think it is easier to be accepted."

"I oppose Wang Xiangguo's plan!"

It was Cui Junsu who spoke, he was born in the Qinghe Cui clan, although the Qinghe Cui clan is also a scholar who resolutely opposes the implementation of the imperial examination, but Cui Junsu has been with Yang Yuanqing for many years, his thinking is more open-minded, and he advocates that the children of the poor should be given a chance, so he is an enlightened faction who vigorously advocates the implementation of the imperial examination.

"I think Du Xiangguo is right, even if it is a fair examination, in fact, it is the advantage of famous families, the Fengzhou imperial examination in the past few years is because there is no famous family to participate, so the children of the poor family are admitted more, but this year's imperial examination is extraordinary, the Hebei famous family in Hedong is basically involved, and the number of places that can be given to the children of the poor family is very small, if according to Pei Xiangguo's plan, most of them are reserved for the children of the famous family, and the rest of the fair examination, then it is even more unfair to the poor scholars, and it is fortunate to be able to take one or two exams, Maybe if you can't even pass the exam, people in the world will doubt the fairness of our imperial examination, so they will simply let it go, and everything will be judged according to real talent and real learning, what do you think? ”

Everyone turned around and looked at Yang Yuanqing, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the window, silently looking into the distance, from here you can clearly see the gate of Jinyang Palace, in front of the gate of Jinyang Palace, tens of thousands of scholars have arrived, they sit quietly on the grass of the gate, keep quiet, and ask for fairness in a silent language.

The huge banner was still erected in the air, and the big words 'No Gate, No Gate, No Fair' were particularly glaring.

200 admission places can be directly admitted, this is a round cake with great temptation, everyone wants to give themselves a little more, but there are only so many pies, some people will increase, some people will decrease, so no matter how it is divided, there will always be people who have opinions.

But no matter how there are opinions, the final plan must be finalized by him Yang Yuanqing.

Yang Yuanqing sighed, he couldn't help but consider the interests of the Hebei Shi clan, or the interests of the Jingzhao Wei clan, the Wuxing Shen clan and other regional wang clans, he had to take into account.

After being silent for a long time, Yang Yuanqing finally made a final conclusion, and he said slowly: "Among the two hundred places, thirty places are left to me to decide, and the remaining one hundred and seventy places are all generated by the examination, and they are hired fairly. ”