The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 303 A Big Fire

"Your Majesty, we are all ministers. You are our father. When your people see you, they will only be kind, and there will be no fear."

"Besides, we are all law-abiding people. Only those who have ghosts in their hearts will be afraid."

"Okay, your name is Xu Shilian. The crown prince told me about you. Sure enough, only those who have ghosts in their hearts will be afraid of seeing me. You are right."

Zhao Kuangyin praised Xu Shilian without hesitation, and even Zhao Xu beside him thought that this guy was really good at talking.

Not only flattered the emperor, but also made the emperor feel comfortable. This is his skill, you can tell by Zhao Kuangyin's appearance.

More importantly, they also praised themselves at the same time, which is very clever, and Xu Shilian must let him do diplomacy in the future.

"I just want to know why you led so many students to besiege the Gongyuan?" The people below reported the same thing.

Hearing it with his own ears is another matter. Zhao Kuangyin just wanted to hear what these parties had to say.

The three of them looked at it, and it was Xu Shilian who spoke:

"Your Majesty, we don't dare to hide anything. We are all on the gold list, but the three of us are at the bottom. According to our thinking, we won't be so bad. We should be at the top."

"It's not just us, many students think this way. It's not that we are unbalanced, but that many people who haven't studied for a few years are able to go to high school, so we have doubts."

"That's why we organized it spontaneously. We wanted the court to give us a fairer statement. The imperial examination does not allow slander."

In the eyes of scholars, the imperial examination is sacred, and no one is allowed to slander it, and they can even defend it with death.

"You are so confident that you must be among the best. If this is true, it's okay. If it is not true, you have committed the crime of defamation."

The imperial examination can also be regarded as a major event of the court, because it is a major event related to the future of the country.

If what Xu Shilian said is true, many officials will definitely be involved. If it is false, it will be even more serious. You are making trouble for no reason and you will be sentenced to severe punishment.

"Your Majesty, we are more confident about this point. Let's talk about Brother Yang Li. He was known by his neighbors as a child prodigy when he was young. This time he sealed his own way of governing the country in the big test, but he was not listed. end."

"Oh, Yang Li, you offered the way of governing the country. I don't know what you wrote during the big exam, can you tell me?"

Because he knew the topic Zhao Kuangyin asked, it was exactly what he needed most now, if there were such a talent, he would not let it go.

"Your Majesty, what I wrote at the time was how to solve the problem of excessive local power. I think the court should be able to use it now. I didn't expect..."

Yang Li replied respectfully, since he came from the locality, he naturally knew that the locality was controlled by the feudal town.

Therefore, he believes that if the Song Dynasty wants to be strong, it must first solve this problem, and he also wants to gain the appreciation of the court by virtue of this.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be such a result, which made him feel a little uncomfortable. Now that Zhao Kuangyin asked him, he naturally said it out.

"The problem of the feudal town?" Zhao Kuangyin's heart skipped a beat when he heard that. This was the problem he most wanted to solve.

But most officials only know how to serve Da Song, thinking that they just need to do the things at hand well.

Few people thought of making a move. Only a few people like Zhao Pu knew that Yao changed these things.

Zhao Kuangyin was surprised and excited that there are candidates who have such views now, such people must be reused.

"Okay, Yang Li, you said that your policy theory is about local issues, so you can explain your content in detail, and I will listen to it."

While Zhao Kuangyin was talking, he opened Yang Li's test paper. He knew that these people were coming, so he specially adjusted some test papers to see how much ink these people had.

But like Shi Leifei, nothing Yang Li said was the same as what Zhang answered.

Then Zhao Kuangyin asked Song Zhun and Xu Shilian their answer sheets. One of them talked about centralization, and the other talked about the issue of financial power.

Anyway, they are all the things that Zhao Kuangyin wants to solve the most. I don't know if it is a coincidence or something else. The three of them have what Zhao Kuangyin needs most.

Now Zhao Kuangyin understands that someone has really tampered with it, which is already certain.

He just encouraged Yang Li and the three of them a few words, and then someone took them out, but Zhao Xu stayed behind.

"Father, do you see any problems? Are you very unhappy?" Zhao Xu said when he saw the three of them walking out.

"Hey, I'm sure that someone has tampered with it this time. Take a look at what the three of them said about their answers just now. Nothing is the same as what they said."

As Zhao Kuangyin said, he handed the answer sheet in his hand to Zhao Xu. Seeing that he still had doubts, he said simply:
"What do you think I went to the Ministry of Rites to do? I went to review a few test papers. I didn't expect that there would be people who dared to tamper with the imperial examination. I would definitely not let them go."

Zhao Kuangyin felt a sense of being fooled, actually doing these things under his nose.

Just when Zhao Kuangyin was talking to his son here, Zhang Dejun hurried in from outside.

It seemed that something serious must have happened, otherwise he couldn't be so busy, after all, his identity was there.

"What's going on, didn't Zhang Dejun tell me not to disturb me?"

"My majesty, I have something important to report. The place where the Ministry of Rites keeps the examination papers for the imperial examinations has flooded, and all the examination papers of the candidates have been burned."

What?Zhao Kuangyin was also shocked, because walking through water means fire, because the ancients were very awed by fire, and believed that fire was originally caused by supernatural forces, and it was a way of punishing people.

It stands to reason that when there is a fire, it should be shouting to put out the fire, because people are in awe of fire, so they say that the water is out.

It has the meaning of water to overcome fire, which reminds people that they should use water to fight fire at this time. Later, water was used instead of fire.

"You're saying it again, is there water?" Zhao Xu strode up and grabbed his clothes.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rituals is out of order, and all the answers about the candidates are burned." Zhang Dejun repeated.

"Okay, you go down first." Zhao Xu told Zhang Dejun to go down, and then he turned to look at Zhao Kuangyin:
"This is someone who wants to destroy the evidence. This action is fast enough."

There was nothing left in the fire, and Zhao Kuangyin was also thinking about who this person was?
(End of this chapter)