Humane Yongchang

Chapter 396
"Clang clang clang..."

Three clear rhythm bells, in the warm breeze of early summer, spread throughout the huge Jixia Academy.

Twenty royal guards with top helmets and tuxedos stood up, in groups of four, carrying five iron ropes to seal the box, seal it with flame paint, and a large iron box with the seal of the King of Han on the seal, and entered the five major schools of the Academy. Branch.

"Open the box and take the roll!"

The guards of the royal court sang energetically, like a folk song, in the five academies in turn.

One after another, the royal guards with helmets and armor walked out of the classrooms and lined up in front of the five large iron boxes.

"There are 34 test papers in Lieutenant Class A, please count them."

"There are 35 test papers in Lieutenant Class B, count them."

"The exam papers for the school class are here..."

A Wang Ting guard invigilator of a martial arts school-level class retrieved the test papers, returned to his schoolhouse, and looked at the arrogant figures below in black military uniforms and sat upright, and said solemnly: "Emphasis again. Check out the rules of the exam room!"

"The ranks of you are all higher than those of the next. If you see you in the army, you should greet them, but this is Jixia Academy, you are students, and the next is the invigilator of the king's invigilator, so there is no There are military ranks, only invigilators and candidates!"

"That's why everyone must abide by the discipline of the examination room. If there is any fraudulent behavior, don't blame me for not talking about the righteousness of brothers and the love of the robe!"

"Finally, I would like to remind you that your Majesty is currently in the Academy. Later, during the examination process, Your Majesty will also patrol around. If you cheat and ask Your Majesty to catch it, you should know the consequences better than the next one!"

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, distribute the test papers!"

A famous school official who was sitting under the class heard the words, his back straightened immediately, and his scattered eyes were fixed on the desk in front of him.

……

Chen Sheng picked up a brush, dipped a little soy sauce, and spread it evenly on the chicken wings. Finally, he raised his eyes and looked at Li Si, who was constantly wiping sweat, and said with a slight smile, "Mr. Li, are you hot?"

Li Si's face froze slightly, and he hurriedly said: "Back to the king, the old minister is not hot, not hot."

"Hahaha, don't be nervous."

Chen Sheng laughed and shoved the baked chicken wings into his hands: "I just had nothing to do, and suddenly I remembered that I hadn't caught the teaching job of Jixia Academy for a long time, so I came here for a walk, there is nothing else. mean."

Li Si responded with a forced smile while wiping his sweat: "The minister is not nervous, not nervous."

not nervous?
How can it be!

As wise and talented as Chen Sheng, he can be said to be full of hearts and minds. How could he act aimlessly?
Are you still free?Who has nothing to do?How busy Chen Sheng is every day, can Li Si have no idea?
This matter is small, it is Chen Sheng who wants to test the true talents of the students of Jixia Academy.

In a big way, it was Chen Sheng who was turning the corner and warned him not to use the convenience of being the dean of the Faculty of Letters to form a party for personal gain!
When he thought of Chen Sheng's silent and secret gathering of a group of officials of the royal court to draw up the exam papers for the Jixia Academy, he, the Zuo chancellor who was in charge of the affairs of the royal court and concurrently the dean of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Jixia Academy, had It was not until this morning that Wang Ting's guards arrived at the weighing mansion and informed him that he would accompany Wang to Jixia Academy to invigilate the examination. Li Si felt his scalp tingling!
Those officials in the royal court who drafted the exam papers, I'm afraid they are still confined somewhere in the palace?

Li Si took a bite of the chicken wings that Chen Sheng handed him, but only felt that the taste was like chewing wax, and could not taste the saltiness at all. He couldn't help but sighed in his heart: "Unfathomable, unfathomable..."

The time he spent with Chen Sheng was not short.

In his eyes, Chen Sheng is not the kind of stubborn king who loves power and position, does everything by himself, and can't tolerate any disobedience from his subjects.

Except for a few national policies related to Wang Ting's foundation, most of the time Chen Sheng listened to the advice of his ministers, and rarely interfered in the specific affairs of the yamen.

Chen Sheng is also not the kind of cruel king who is moody and murderous, always makes his subjects fear him and fear him, and is full of the feeling of accompanying the king like a tiger.

Even Chen Sheng can be regarded as a benevolent, kind and merciful ruler who can tolerate mistakes from his ministers.

But when Li Si and Chen Sheng got along, the feeling of walking on thin ice in his heart never disappeared.

Because he couldn't grasp Chen Sheng's thoughts, he didn't know what Chen Sheng was thinking, and he didn't know what Chen Sheng was going to do next.

Although he was a courtier, he said on the surface that he was "unpredictable".

But in private, who is not racking their brains to figure out what the king has in mind?
Don't think about it?Aren't you afraid of hitting your head on the south wall?
Li Si didn't think much about it.

How can I not figure it out!

In a sense, a king who can't figure it out is more awe-inspiring to his subjects than those stubborn and murderous kings!
Li Si made up his mind secretly, and made a performance in a few days, resigning as the dean of the Jixia Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Well, it has to be played again in a few days.

mention now?
Isn't that hitting Chen Sheng in the face?
……

Seeing Li Si trembling and wiping away sweat.

Chen Sheng knew that the heat was enough, and if he hammered it further, this old guy was afraid that he would have a myocardial infarction...

In fact, he still trusts Li Si more.

Not trusting Li Si's character.

Rather, he believed that with Li Si's wisdom, he would not be stupid enough to commit self-destruction such as forming a party for selfishness.

But Li Si didn't have this idea. Those officials who were born in the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and who had some aristocratic family elements, had this idea...

According to the report of Qianjilou, during this year's festival, others are not in the center of the royal court, and the Li Clan's land is full of traffic and crowds!

Chen Sheng picked up a roasted chicken leg and took a shallow bite. The heat was just right, the outside was coke and the inside was tender: "How far has the construction of Jinling New Capital progressed?"

Hearing this, Li Si breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied, "Your Majesty, the foundation of the inner city has been rammed, and the construction of the city wall has begun. It is expected that the inner city wall will be completed by the beginning of August!"

Chen Sheng gave a soft "um" and asked again, "Are there any difficulties in human and material resources?"

Li Si replied: "Last year, there were nearly [-] young men who were reformed through labor by the big families in Xu and Yang. There is no shortage of manpower for the time being. Except for the supply of food and grain, the rest of the material resources can be dispatched."

After pondering for a moment, Chen Sheng nodded and said, "Try to ensure their living needs, including making reasonable arrangements for the length of work, since it is subject to reform through labor, then people cannot die in labor until the period of reform is over. If they should be sent back to their place of origin, they should be sent back to their place of origin. Governments at all levels must also start the reception of these prisoners. The mistakes they made in the past have already been forgiven by labor. After returning to their hometown, they can no longer be regarded as prisoners of labor reform. , those who should distribute land should distribute land, and those who should distribute houses should distribute houses!”

"Of course, for those who do not repent, their sentences should be extended if they should be extended, and those who commit crimes after being sent back to their country of origin will be dealt with severely!"

Speaking of this, he paused and said in a serious tone: "In short, one principle is that we cannot force the power that could have been gathered on our opposite side, killing the bandits will kill people, and retribution will also kill people, it costs all The vitality of my big man!"

Li Si pondered while listening, and finally sighed and said, "Your Majesty Kuanren, the blessing of the world!"

Chen Sheng smiled, got up and said, "Let's go, everyone is here, I have to go to the exam room..."

Li Si got up quickly, bowed and made a "please" gesture: "Please go ahead, Your Majesty."

Chen Shengfu walked out of the pavilion and asked with a light smile, "By the way, does your Li family have any good recipe for nourishing yin and nourishing yang?"

Li Si looked at Chen Sheng's back in confusion, and said cautiously, "Why did you say this, Your Majesty?"

Chen Sheng said "Oh": "It's nothing, I just heard that the concierge of Li Gong's house has two concubines with the honor of the [-]-year-old, and it is old and strong. I think there may be something in your family that nourishes yin and nourishes yang. A good recipe, I want to ask for it and give it to my father to try."

Li Si was stunned for a while, the sweat that had just dried up on the old face just now came out again with a "swoosh", and said incoherently: "Your Majesty, this old minister, no... This minister is guilty, please punish your Majesty!"

"Hey!"

Chen Sheng turned sideways with a smile, patted his shoulder lightly and said, "This is a happy event, what's the point?"

Li Si was sweating like rain on his forehead, and even his vest was wet with cold sweat in an instant: "The minister is not strict with his subordinates, and he is guilty of failing to investigate. Please, the king, punish him!"

"A crime of neglect?"

Chen Sheng nodded slightly, and said lightly: "Since you said yes, then yes, it's okay to commit crimes or something, you can change it yourself, there is a saying that 'the great family has beggars, and the tree has dead branches. ', It's normal to occasionally have people who go on the wrong foot... You think so?"

Li Si nodded as if pounding garlic: "The king's teachings, the ministers will keep them in mind..."

The two chatted, and surrounded by a group of royal guards, they walked into the Academy of Arts in tandem.

In the distance, Chen Sheng saw a young man wearing a black Confucian robe, sleeping with his head in the shade of a big tree.

Chen Sheng saw the man, walked over curiously, bowed and patted the man lightly: "Brother, wake up."

The young man opened his sleepy eyes and glanced at Chen Sheng. He woke up from a drowsiness. He quickly turned over, squeezed his palms and bowed to the end: "Student Chen Ping, meet the king, long live my king, long live!"

'The last name is Chen... Chen Ping? '

Chen Sheng raised his eyebrows in surprise, looked up and down the young man in front of him, and asked uncertainly, "Chen County?"

The young man surreptitiously glanced at Chen Sheng from the corner of his eye, and replied cautiously, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the student is not from Chen County, but from Chen Liuyang's martial artist."

Chen Sheng smiled.

What is a surprise?

That's called a surprise!
Chen Liu was one of the first two counties that Chen Sheng captured besides Chen County. Can he still not know if Chen Liu has a county seat called Yangwu?
Yangwu County, if he remembered correctly, should be a county seat under the jurisdiction of Sizhou Henan County. It borders Chenliu, but it does not communicate with each other.

Just because of this background and this ingenuity, this Chen Ping must be the top strategist of the early Han Dynasty in another time and space, Chen Ping, who did not run away!
It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!

Chen Sheng was inexplicably pleasantly surprised, but his face was not leaking. He just smiled warmly and said, "Why are you here, are you late for the exam?"

Chen Ping bowed his head, not daring to answer.

Seeing this, Li Si scolded in a low voice, "Your Majesty asks you a question, just answer it truthfully!"

Chen Ping had no choice but to bite the bullet and reply, "Your Highness Qi, the students had unbearable abdominal pain during the exam, so they had no choice but to hand in the papers and go out to the toilet."

"Ha ha……"

Chen Sheng smiled lightly.

Unbearable abdominal pain?

You didn't look like a Splatoon just when you were snoring!
He asked gently, "Which class are you from?"

When Chen Ping heard it, he didn't know that Chen Sheng had seen through his little trick. He secretly glanced at Chen Sheng's face again. Seeing that his face was genial and could not see any annoyance, he replied in a low voice: "King Hui, the student is the first grade of the county governor. class's."

Chen Sheng shook his head and said softly, "Go, take his test paper and I'll take a look!"

"only!"

A royal guard took the order, and hurried to the county government class with a knife.

Chen Sheng then stretched out his hand to help Chen Ping up, and said softly, "Don't be nervous, I don't eat people."

Chen Ping could only smirk with a stiff face.

Genius may be proud.

But that also scores people!

In the face of Chen Sheng, who was only on the Double Tenth this year, but whose achievements have already caught up with Zhou Wu Zhongping, the most powerful prince in Kyushu, which genius dared to set himself up in front of him?
Chen Sheng ordered Wang Ting's bodyguards to fetch the chairs and sat down outside the teaching building of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

After a while, Wang Ting's bodyguard who went to get Chen Ping's test paper came back and presented Chen Ping's test paper with both hands to Chen Sheng.

Chen Sheng took Chen Ping's test paper and slowly reviewed it.

In this big exam, Chen Sheng indeed summoned some officials of the royal court to draw up the exam papers of the five major colleges.

But most of the exam questions were actually written by him.

In particular, the examination papers of the two academies of military science and liberal arts, Chen Sheng basically did not fake the hands of others.

Of course, no matter whether it is military or political affairs, there is no one who is more proficient than him in Hanting.

And unlike the imperial examinations in another time and space, only one subject is tested at a time.

Chen Shengchu's test paper is also a scoring system, with dozens of questions at a time, and all of them are open-ended test questions with a variety of practical questions. The test is based on the practical application of what these students have learned.

Soon, Chen Sheng browsed Chen Ping's test papers and found that the person's answers to the practical questions were quite satisfactory and not very good.

But the answers to some general strategy questions really amazed him!
For example, one of the topics is how to deal with the Taiping Road offensive!
Chen Ping's answer to the broken question is: "Cut off its foundation, divide it and transform it".

It expounds in detail how to replace the Taiping Road slogan "The sky is dead, the yellow sky stands; the death of the king is over, the world will be prosperous", and then from the internal power of Taiping Road Start in chaos, and win over the commander and senior generals of Taiping Road, so as to achieve the goal of defeating the enemy without fighting!

This answer coincides with Chen Sheng's strategic direction in dealing with Taiping Road!

After reading Chen Ping's test paper, Chen Sheng calmly passed the test paper to Li Si: "Mr. Li, take a look too!"

Chen Ping secretly glanced at Chen Sheng nervously, and felt a lot of regret for what he had done today!

(End of this chapter)