Thief Emperor

Chapter 491 The Lucky Man of Jiangdong
On the day of the literary gathering.

Because Jinling was not the capital before and the city is not very big now, there is no examination room that can accommodate hundreds of people. Therefore, Li Yun had to temporarily borrow a few large houses in Jinling City, put tables on the open space, and make a temporary examination room.

Anyway, many people did not know in advance that this literary gathering was a serious exam. In addition, the questions Li Yun asked were tricky, so it was not easy to cheat.

However, Li Yun himself still attached great importance to this literary gathering.

The exam is divided into four days, with two subjects tested together every day. On the fourth day, there is a single practical test.

On the first day, all the students registered their names, verified their identities, and entered the "examination room". Li Yun and Du Qian then went in to "supervise the exam".

Li Yun and Du Qian sat together in the examination room until noon, looking through some political documents sent in from outside the examination room.

After looking through it for a while, Li Yun looked at Du Qian and said with a smile, "Brother Shouyi, of the 300 people initially screened, only 171 are still alive."

Du Qian nodded and said, "After the seven subjects were sent out, some people thought we were plotting rebellion and dared not continue the examination."

Li Yun lowered his head and drank a sip of tea, then said with a smile, "There was a man named Yao Zhong who persuaded many scholars to leave the capital. He alone persuaded at least fifty or sixty scholars to leave."

Du Qian was startled at first, then smiled and said, "Didn't the Lord allow them to leave on their own? How come you still remember this person's name?"

"Are you planning to catch this guy and give him a beating?"

Li Yun shook his head and smiled: "I saw him just now when I was outside."

"Who?"

Du Qian was stunned and didn't react.

"Yao Zhong."

Hearing this answer, Du Qian was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head: "This guy coaxed so many students away, and stayed to take the exam himself?"

"Ah."

Li Yun smiled and said, "I paid special attention to him. This guy... signed up for all seven subjects."

Mr. Li sighed, “This year, there are only 17 people who have signed up for all seven subjects.”

This is a "literary gathering" that is destined to go down in history.

At the same time, if Mr. Li is successful in his career in the future, this will also be... the easiest scientific expedition in the next two hundred years.

After all, there were only more than a hundred people left, and Li Yun was short of officials from thirty states. Even if all of them stayed, he could still handle it.

As long as it's not particularly bad and is somewhat presentable, Li Yun will most likely keep it.

In other words, out of the 170 people, Li Yun might keep more than 100 of them. This can be said to be the easiest civil service examination from the first 500 years to the last 500 years.

The candidates who participate in this literary competition will most likely be envied by future generations.

And I am envious to the extreme.

Du Qian listened to Li Yun's words, pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "He is an interesting person. I want to meet him after this literary gathering is over."

"I want to see him, too."

Mr. Li put his hands behind his back and smiled, "He has driven away so many of my students. I wonder if he alone can be used as many as dozens of people."

Du Qian looked at Li Yun and asked, "After the literary examination is over, should we divide them into first, second and third places, or directly assign them to the vacancies?"

Li Yun touched his chin.

This literary gathering was organized too crudely and too hastily, and he really didn't have time to think about this issue.

If we have to rank them one, two, and three, which subject’s results should be the main consideration?

Moreover, if they are separated, what should they be called?

You can't just give them the title of Jiangdong's No. 1 scholar, right?
Li Yun thought for a moment and said, "My idea is to select the first place winner, and the rest will be recruited according to their subjects, regardless of their ranking."

“This is the first one.”

Li Yun touched his chin, thought for a while, and said, "Let's call him the first in the case."

"Those who were admitted through this subject were called Juren."

"A candidate?"

There were also Juren in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but they were not quite the same as the Juren mentioned by Li Yun. At that time, anyone who passed the imperial examinations and was selected by the officials was called a Juren.

As for Li Yun, he now substituted the imperial examination levels of the Ming Dynasty into this.

Du Qian was a little curious: "How can these people be called Juren?"

Li Yun then told him in detail about the levels of the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty, and then explained: "The imperial examinations are divided into three levels: scholar, juren, and jinshi."

"We are now in a remote area of ​​Jiangdong, and cannot be considered a country, so I call those who are selected Juren."

Du Qian frowned and shook his head, saying, "I don't think it's appropriate. These people will serve as officials in the Jiangdong court in the future. Some of them who are talented may become important officials in the future." "If they are Juren, and there are Jinshi in the future, they will be inferior to others."

Du Qian said in a deep voice: "I think that this first subject is not very standardized, so we should not divide it into these three levels."

Li Yun thought about it carefully and agreed with Du Qian's opinion: "Well, then we won't call this subject by a title, the top one..."

"What do you think of being called the leader, Brother Shouyi?"

Du Qian nodded and said, "Then he will be called the leader."

He looked at Li Yun and said, "The construction of Lizheng Academy is almost done. After the exams are over in the next few days, let Mr. Wenyuan come over to help review the papers."

"And Master Fei."

Du Qian looked at Li Yun and said, "Master Fei has been doing nothing during this period. It's time to find him something to do."

Li Yun clapped his hands and smiled, "That's great. We should indeed find something for Lord Fei to do. Brother Shouyi, tell him for me that I will be able to bring his family to Jiangdong soon. Once his family arrives, he will set up the Ministry of Justice in Jiangdong."

"It is temporarily named Jiangdong Censorate."

Fei Xuan was an old official in the Ministry of Justice. He had worked in the Ministry of Justice for more than 20 years in the early years of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Originally, it would not be unusual for him to be the Minister of Justice. At least he should have been the Vice Minister of Justice. However, he was rather upright and offended many people in the capital. Therefore, when the East Road of Jiangnan had fallen into the hands of Li Yun at that time, he was kicked out by the court and appointed as the Surveillance Envoy of Jiangdong.

During his time in Jiangdong, this nominal chief of Jiangdong had no power at all and could only be asked by Li Yun to investigate certain specific matters, such as the Changzhou incident.

It can be said to be quite frustrating.

But to Li Yun now, he is a great treasure.

When the Jiangdong small court was first established, various government offices had to be set up one after another, or at least a prototype had to be formed. It was most appropriate to have an old criminal lawyer in charge of criminal law to form the "Ministry of Justice" of Jiangdong.

As long as Fei Xuan participated in the review of the papers at this literary gathering, it would mean that he had officially joined the gang and boarded Li's pirate ship.

"The Attorney..."

Du Qian looked up at Li Yun, and suddenly he became curious: "The Lord seems to be very familiar with these new names, and seems to really know that these offices exist, but I have never heard of them in books."

"It's really weird."

Li Yun laughed and said, "I've read a storybook before, and it says so."

"Just use it."

"Script?"

Du Qian loved reading the most. He was a little curious and asked, "What kind of storybook is it? I want to read it someday."

Mr. Li coughed awkwardly and said, "I forgot the name too. I'll tell Brother Shouyi in detail when I remember it one day."

Du Qian didn't think much about it and just smiled and nodded.

"it is good."

…………

A few days later, the Jinling Literary Festival came to an end.

However, the specific achievements still need to be slowly divided out by Du Qian, Fei Xuan, Tao Wenyuan and others.

Fortunately, this is not a particularly demanding task, after all, there are only more than a hundred people participating in this literary gathering.

Compared with the imperial examinations in which tens of thousands of candidates participated, it can be said to be quite easy.

At this time, Li Yun was looking through the test papers of seventeen people.

All seven subjects are reported.

Obviously very confident.

Among these seventeen people, the content written by five of them was very mediocre, but they all signed up, probably because they wanted to cast a wide net.

As for the remaining twelve people, they could not be called extremely talented, but each of them answered well, and each of them made some sense, more or less.

In other words, they are all promising talents.

"Zhou Bi."

Li Yun called out, and Zhou Bi at the door immediately responded, "Master."

"Bring these twelve people I have selected to see me one by one in the next few days."

Zhou Bi quickly lowered his head and responded.

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)