Yesterday evening, a sparse shower washed the entire Pingjing City from the inside out, this morning the rooster crowed three times, the early sun revealed a touch of white rainbow, indicating that the big day of Pingjing City finally arrived, the road in front of the big red gate of the school was filled with a head of Wu Yang, the golden armor guards on both sides stood majestically with guns, separated the people from half a meter away, and the entrance examination of the school that was postponed for a whole three months finally began, most of the candidates who participated in the examination in previous years were mainly from the Northern Wei Dynasty, followed by the remnants of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Western Chu, and there were also the people of Western Shu who came with the Mu family after entering the house, it can be said that Tiannan Haibei, only the big country on the south side of the Li River is missing, of course, this year finally came to one person, and that one person is worth all that here, which makes people unconvinced.

Also this year is also the first time that the three princes of the Northern Wei Dynasty were all present, Chen Maochuan, King of Qi, Zhu Youcheng, King of Liaodong, Zhao Lan, King of Beiguang, and the latter two kings with different surnames were all old ministers of authority during the reign of the first emperor, and they were more than a layer of the identity of the emperor's relatives, when Chen Maochuan and the granddaughter of Zhu Youcheng, the king of Liaodong, were married to the belly, although the situation was turbulent afterwards, and he went to Cangzhou to take up the domain, but this agreement has not changed, the daughter of Zhao Gang, the king of Beiguang, is the most favored concubine of the emperor, and it is also this Zhao Guifei who accompanied the emperor to the last time, and finally went with the emperor, the woman is sad and singable。

However, when the palace changed, the two princes who held the military power actually chose to stand still, until Li Jucheng took power to convene the righteous son who was far away in the border pass to return to the court, and after the extermination of the giant eunuch En rejoyed, these two princes took the guilt of Jing into Beijing, and finally although the title was kept, the fief was cut clean by Li Jucheng's quick knife, which also caused a commotion at that time, but with the three righteous sons out of Beijing and into Beijing, bringing back more than 200 heads, the two princes were completely relieved to retire in Kyoto。

Behind the three princes stood officials at all levels of the six ministries of the three provinces and the bachelors of the twelve palaces, and in addition to an old man who was in the middle of his life and a young man who was full of business, they were both like monarchs and grandsons, the first emperor was also young and ascended the throne, and he was half a year younger than Chen Maoyu, but the first emperor stood next to the old lady Huai Wenyuan, and Li Jucheng, as the protégé of the old lady, is now regarded as inheriting the mantle, so people often compare the two, if Huai Wenyuan had the same skill as Li Jucheng back then, will there be no political turmoil after that, naturally some people compare the first emperor with today's saintIt's a pity that the world always looks at the results in front of them, but they can't see how the emperor who has reigned for thirty years has made the Northern Wei Dynasty from a small border country strong to the world at this moment, the saint will not make mistakes, because if he makes a mistake, he is no longer a saint, as for whether he will miss the young emperor at this moment, it can only be left to the younger generations to comment.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu was instructed to make a declaration of the opening of the examination, on the whole, it is just to present the glory of the previous years, and the feeling that the talents who are full of fish in the hall today, are some clichés, but they have to be said again every year, although they see the civil and military ministers standing in front of the city, but the people of Pingjing know that these fancy shelves are not interesting, and what they are waiting for is the entrance examination questions of the school every year.

Su Wen followed at the back of the line from a distance, and the young men and women who watched it fought one by one to get to a good position, and couldn't help laughing, "It's not that the closer you get to the big red door, the more chance you have to enter, and the technical work is not to do these boring things." ”

"Well, what this brother said is very true. A light voice came from behind Su Wen, only to see the person with the head of the treasure jade, dressed in the clothes of Deshengju, such a dress, that is, those who lie on the ancestral merit book to eat the old book to eat the old food to the official children who do not know the cost of firewood and rice have to grit their teeth before they are willing to buy, each embroidery on it is specially invited from Xishu embroidery girl, with a long needle hidden edge technique on the piercing for several hours, looking at the waist there is also a finely carved Luzhou warm jade belt, you must know that just carved out the jade pendant the size of a snuffbox hanging on Chen Maochuan's waist, the waste jade consumed is enough to be the size of a fist, not to mention the whole warm jade belt, which is clearly hung with dozens of catties of gold on the body, tremble when you walk!

Although this external magnificence is extremely dazzling, Su Wen still saw the other party's inner at a glance, the meridians are loose, the breath is slow, and there is no qi floating in the dantian, to put it in layman's terms, he is an ordinary person who has no cultivation at all.

"Brother Tai is also here to take the entrance examination for the academy?" Su asked curiously.

The handsome boy who was so luxurious that even Chen Maochuan was ashamed of himself chuckled, and a pure white folding fan in his hand couldn't see a single ink treasure, but it gave Su Wen a dull feeling.

"Why, isn't it?"

Su Wen reciprocated with a smile, and sighed secretly in his heart: "It's good to be rich! At the beginning, Xiao Chuan told me that you must first practice to enter the academy, but now it seems that it is really rich that can make ghosts grind." ”

The boy suddenly said as if he could see through Su Wen's thoughts: "Brother Tai, don't think that the academy is so shallow, even if you have money, you are still unqualified if you are not qualified." ”

"What about you?"

At the moment when Su Wen spoke, the speech of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu was finally coming to an end, but fortunately, there were a few important words, such as he finally talked about the qualifications for the entrance examination of the school, and it happened that Su Wen also wanted to hear it.

"There are two types of entrance examinations, the literary examination and the martial examination, the literary examination must have the Jinshi and the first meritorious name or the Wenyuan Pavilion recommendation document, and the martial arts examination must be the first class and above, and the above two are eligible for the admission examination. ”

Su Wen then understood that the entrance examination of the original school should be before the imperial examination, that is to say, unless the fame obtained before the examination, there is no qualification to participate in the literary examination at all, no wonder Xiao Chuan told him that if he can't practice, then he can't enter the school, and it is not contradictory if you think about it carefully.

"That is to say, you want to take the literary exam, Jinshi and the first or recommend the document?" Su Wen asked jokingly, looking at the other party who was less than two years older than himself at most, such a young Jinshi didn't know how many students who studied hard in the cold window would be embarrassed, as for the recommendation document of Wenyuan Pavilion, unless you are a Wolong in the post and a phoenix in the original, you have to have the amazing talent to learn, obviously the other party is not like the kind of person who has the whole world in his chest.

The boy rolled his eyes, and suddenly changed his words and said, "I take back the previous sentence, although the academy is not snobbish, but those old things in Wenyuan Pavilion are all masters who see money." ”

Su Wen chuckled knowingly, and this time he didn't mutter in his heart, but said it generously, and his words were full of contempt, "Sure enough, there is still money that can make ghosts grind." ”

Seeing the other party's undisguised disdain, the young man was not angry, but sighed and said: "This is all my old man's extra move, I originally thought that I would come to participate in the entrance examination of the school next year, but you said that it is not a coincidence, this year's entrance examination was postponed for three months, hehe, speaking of which, I would like to thank the son of the Heavenly Dao, I was so dangerous to mix up a jinshi and the first fame, but it was heartache that a piece of waste paper asked for 800,000 taels of snowflake silver, and it was really disgusting to take it to the toilet." ”

"Thank him for what he has done, and you should thank me. Su Wen muttered in his heart, although he didn't participate in the imperial examination, he had never heard anyone say that the fame of a jinshi could be mixed, and he didn't need to wait for him to say that the old Confucian next to him with white temples was already staring at each other with a look of hatred like the sea, as if he wanted to skin and cramp.

"I asked in Xia Su, and I dared to ask my brother's name and surname. ”

The man hurriedly folded the fan together, clasped his hands into fists, and acted in a dignified manner, but the next sentence was like deliberately wanting to anger the old Confucian again, and said softly: "Today, Tanhualang, Shen Bancheng." ”

Su Wenben still looked forward to the competition in the school the day before yesterday to make the people of Kyoto remember his name and surname, it can be seen that the other party's calm answer look is obviously unheard of, and I think about it, that day I asked for advice in the name of Cheng Tao and others, and the school naturally will not be shameless and hype, and secretly sigh that he has lost a good opportunity to make a name for himself, but he is not so cheap as to hold the other party's stinky feet, how about Tanhualang, Tan Junzi is still the champion! Brother Shen is such a domineering name, fortunately, fortunately. ”

The two of them are here, and the old Confucian next to him changed his face again and again, not because of the show-off of Tanhualang in the present dynasty, but because the name of Shen Bancheng is too thunderous, Pingjing is known as the giant city of Kyushu, and there is a commercial city in the Northern Wei Dynasty that is second only to Pingjing- Moyang, almost the sum of the previous state with taxes all over the city, there is a merchant surnamed Shen in Moyang City, and his son-in-law is also called Shen Bancheng, the meaning is not difficult to understand, because his family almost bought half of Moyang City.

"Bell. ”

At this moment, a dull bell rang from the school, the majestic and upright big red door suddenly flashed with a strange brilliance, only to hear a long roar suddenly, the Suzaku knocker on the left door a flame soared into the sky, the beast face seemed to be alive and turned into a double-headed wind hovering in the air, followed by a low roar, the Xuanwu beast on the right door stepped into the water and took off, the two divine beasts drove straight to the front of Chen Maoyu's dragon chase, the golden dragon on the car suddenly opened his dragon eyes angrily, his mouth contained gold beads, lifelike holy power, at the same time on the Western Avenue, a white tiger illusion on the tower of Wuding Gate City jumped into the air, Wuding Anbang Lord killed, and the four divine beasts gathered in Pingjing and roared in the sky, turned into four different colors of light rushed into the hundred-year-old red door, click, the door slowly opened, the old man with white hair stood behind the door, the end is the fairy wind bone, only to see its big sleeves wave, the two big red doors suddenly flooded with terrifying ripples, the breath twisted into a mirror, through the strange and weird, the left side is the literary test, the right side is the martial test, the old man's voice is like a bell spread throughout the avenue of the school.

"The exam begins. ”