The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 299 The Incentives for Execution of the Palace Examination

Ordinary people or Zhao Kuangyin's ministers would never dare to talk to Zhao Kuangyin like this.

Even Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Guangyi didn't dare to talk to him face to face like this, you question the emperor.

Regardless of whether what you said is right or not, if you talk to the emperor like this, you have already violated the authority of the emperor.

There is nothing to say if the crime of disrespect is placed on your head, and it will not work if you are not convinced. This is the law of this era.

What's more important is that the emperor's words are more effective than the ready-made laws. If you want to die, you have to do it obediently.

Before he died, he still had to say thank you to the emperor Long En Haodang, not to mention talking to Zhao Kuangyin like Zhao Xu.

When Zhao Kuangyin heard this, he was so angry that he couldn't do it, let's not say that I am a monarch and you are a subject, you must have some courtesy from the monarch and ministers!
Even if you don't say this, I will always be your father. Ordinary people can't talk to their father like this.

But no matter how angry I am, I can't pull this brat out and behead him, let alone demote him.

"Stinky boy, you talk to your own Lao Tzu like this. If you don't know, you think I'm your sworn enemy?"

Zhao Kuangyin expressed his dissatisfaction with Zhao Xu in another form, and the language was not very harsh.

Zhao Xu doesn't like this at all. You like to get angry and get angry. There is really no one else here except their father and son, so Zhao Xu became even more unscrupulous:

"Father."

Uh, this is called the old man, am I that old?Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but smile even more, but he already has two grandchildren.

According to ordinary people's family, I can be regarded as an old man, and I am slowly getting old before I know it.

Without time to feel this, Zhao Kuangyin said:

"What happened, you kid came to talk to me in a questioning tone, and if you don't know, you think I owe you how much money, hurry up and tell me the truth."

"If you can't tell someone who is Chou Yin, I can't spare you." Zhao Kuangyin said viciously.

How does this look like an emperor, a typical hooligan? However, there is no way for Zhao Kuangyin to meet such a superb son.

"Tch, old man, you think you can beat me with your kung fu, it's not that I look down on you, you can't."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Xu actually raised his index finger and shook it from side to side. A common gesture in later generations is that you can't do it.

Zhao Kuangyin frowned:
"What's the matter, you still want to follow me, I think you are lawless."

"I dare not fight with you, who told you to be my father, but normal sparring is okay, you must know that people who compete in martial arts do not care about their seniority haha."

The father and son are two, one is the emperor and the other is the prince. If outsiders see that the father and son have such virtues, they really don't know what to say.

Fortunately, not even a little eunuch is here, otherwise if it gets out, what kind of trouble will it cause?

"Okay, I'm getting down to business, old man, how about the first imperial examination we conducted this time, are you satisfied?"

Enough of the trouble, it's time to get down to business. This is also Zhao Xu's style, nonsense is nonsense, but we must do business.

"How can you be dissatisfied if you are satisfied? In the first imperial examination in the Song Dynasty, nearly a thousand candidates came to take the exam. It is indeed the prosperous age of our Song Dynasty."

Zhao Kuangyin felt proud when he thought about it. So many people came, didn't it just mean that they recognized Da Song, did it mean that Da Song was orthodox?

"Then what do you think the students think about our announcement?" Zhao Xu asked expressionlessly.

Zhao Kuangyin understood a little when he heard this, and he dared to say that this kid came here for this:
"Well, do you have any ideas? Just tell me if you have any ideas."

Zhao Kuangyin also knew that yesterday Zhao Pu told him that those people suspected that there was something tricky about it.

That is to say, he didn't believe the gold list issued by the imperial court, and thought they should not fail the list. Zhao Kuangyin thought it was because they were looking for trouble for nothing.

"I've also heard that some failed candidates are making trouble, saying that their grades are untrue, and suspecting that the court is falsifying, so I ignore them."

"My Song Dynasty has just been established for less than two years. How can any official dare to do such a thing with such boldness, so I think it is because they are dissatisfied with their own failure, so they deliberately came up with such an idea to make the court accommodate. them."

"I really think so. If everyone is like this, what prestige will I have in the Song Dynasty in the future?"

After listening to Zhao Kuangyin's words, Zhao Xu shook his head helplessly. No matter how wise the emperor is, he would get confused sometimes, and this is what happened to Zhao Kuangyin now.

"Okay, what you said is very correct, but what I want to say is that even if these failed candidates complain, the imperial court cannot arrest them. This will make people in the world think that we are guilty of thieves."

"What, you arrested him?" When Zhao Kuangyin touched the boss, he was also shocked by the news.

"Yes, three leaders were arrested by the officers and soldiers. Don't say you don't know about this. The people below dare to do this without your consent."

"When did the bastards let them do this? They are simply bastards. They don't know how much impact this will have on the court?"

Zhao Kuangyin is not a fool, he knows that the scholar is powerless, but if something really happens, there will be a lot of noise.

Which bastard gave this order, and who made him do this? Let me see if I took his skin off, such an idiot.

"Don't be too busy, I still have something important to tell you. Presumably none of the people below told you about it. Do you know why these students say that the court is unfair?"

Then Zhao Xu told the ins and outs of this matter, and Zhao Kuangyin couldn't believe that the No. 2 in the country's imperial examination was actually at this level.

"Maybe this Shi Leifei did it on purpose, maybe he performed exceptionally well in the examination room, these are not reasons?" Zhao Kuangyin would not believe this.

"If you don't believe it, we can call him over and investigate in person, so there will be nothing wrong."

Since you don't believe Zhao Xu's meaning, then come and investigate in person, so that you can't fake it.

This is the so-called true knowledge comes from practice, and if you examine it in front of you, it will convince you more than anyone else's words.

Zhao Xu didn't know that his proposal this time gave Zhao Kuangyin the idea of ​​personally inspecting these students in the future, that is, the future imperial examination.

This incident also became the reason for the palace examination, which saved Zhao Xu from trying to persuade Zhao Kuangyin to carry out the palace examination.

(End of this chapter)