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Chapter 182 Unexpected Harvest (for Subscription)

Shangguan Yuntun walked up to Zhao Yan, cupped his hands and said, "Brother Yan Zhao, I never expected to see you in Gongyuan. I will definitely not lose to you in this imperial examination."

Zhao Yan smiled slightly, and said back to him: "Then each depends on his ability!"

His words were full of confidence, obviously to put some pressure on Shangguan Yuntun.

"I hope that we can all go to the Daqing Palace and participate in the palace examination hosted by His Majesty!" Shangguan Yuntun had a confident smile on his face, nodded slightly towards Zhao Yan after speaking, and then walked towards his seat.

Zhao Yan, the main examiner of the palace examination, looked at his back and said with a smile: "This guy is a good material for being an official. I hope he can enter the Daqing Palace smoothly. If he sees me, he must have a wonderful expression!"

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On the afternoon of February 28th, with the beating of a long gong, this year's imperial examination basically came to an end, and countless candidates came out of the examination room relieved.

Tonight is destined to be the best day for business in Goulan Washeri in Changdan City, and it is destined to be a sleepless night for countless candidates.

After Zhao Yan finished the policy theory test questions, his arm was sore from writing, so he went back to the palace to rest.

In fact, he also wanted to indulge himself, like these candidates, to spend a night in the Goulan tile, but his status did not allow it.

This is the helplessness of being an emperor. He always has to start the cold sage mode in front of the civil and military people of the Manchu Dynasty and the people.

On March 18th, there will be [-] people who are eligible to participate in the imperial examination. As for who these people are, it will be up to the officials of Jixian Yuan to screen them.

……

Three days later, Jixian Courtyard was busy.

In addition to Shangguan Yuntun and Cai You presiding over the correction of the test papers, another person was added, that is, Liu Chaotong, the dean of Jixian Academy.

Liu Chaotong's task is mainly to select the list of candidates for the palace examination.

Since the current candidates' test papers are all transcribed on the test papers without any names, no one knows where Zhao Yan's test papers are.

Shangguan Buyue and Cai You have already made up their minds. After the test papers are corrected, they will clear Zhao Yan's ranking and the results of each subject, and they can just delete them. This will not affect any progress of the imperial examination. , and also be able to communicate with Zhao Yan.

However, what they never expected was that when Liu Chaotong was looking up the test papers, he saw the poems written by Zhao Yan.

One of them needs to reflect the theme of "folk suffering" and write a poem.

According to Zhao Yan's level, writing poems is not easy, but copying poems is relatively easy.

So, he made up a hodgepodge, two of which were copied from Du Fu's "Songs That Thatched Houses Are Broken by the Autumn Wind" in the Tang Dynasty.

"There are tens of thousands of mansions in Ande, which shelters the poor and the poor in the world, and is as safe as a mountain without being affected by wind and rain!"

When Liu Chaotong saw these three sentences, he was shocked instantly.

"This...isn't this kind of talent just what my Great Zhou urgently needs? Talented and ambitious!" Liu Chaotong murmured, and then began to investigate the following policy theory and Mo Yi.After reading these two items, Liu Chaotong was even more astonished.

"Isn't this... such a way of expression just what His Majesty urgently needs?"

"Hey, why is there no scripture?"

Liu Chaotong looked puzzled, and then took the transcribed file under his arm, and he was going to review it himself.

Such talents must not be left behind among the people by accident.

The greatest skill of the officials of Jixian Academy is to review test papers.

On the sixth day of March, all the test papers have been reviewed, and the next step is to rank the candidates according to the serial number transcribed.

After Liu Chaotong finished reviewing Zhao Yan's test paper, he deliberately wrote down the number before putting it in all the files.

According to the grades he gave this person, even if he missed one subject, it was enough to easily squeeze into the top ten.

There are more than 1 test papers, and the sorting work is also quite time-consuming.

It was not until March NO.12 that the overall ranking was listed.

Shangguan Wuyue and Cai You were sorting out, and found that Yan Zhao's grade was No. 6. He couldn't help being very surprised, and then quickly pulled away the test paper and hid it.

It is already quite astonishing to rank eighth without taking one subject.

Official cheating is the most accurate.

The two easily erased the traces of Zhao Yan's exam, and they believed that they did not leave any evidence.

But when Liu Chaotong read the rankings and the dossiers of the top [-] candidates, he couldn't help frowning.

There was no information about the candidate in it.

Liu Chaotong was a cautious person, he left Jixian Academy without making a fuss, and then quickly came to Wenxiang Mansion.

At night, in Xiao Jingye's study.

"Xiao Xiang, after my investigation, this year's imperial examination is suspected of fraud, and the mastermind behind the scenes is very likely to be the deputy examiner Shangguan Buyue and Cai You."

"what?"

Xiao Jingye couldn't help being shocked.

"Impossible, above the court, the least likely to be greedy are these two people. How did you find out?"

Therefore, Liu Chaotong told Xiao Jingye what he had learned.

"According to the results I wrote for that candidate, it is no problem to be ranked in the top ten, but I can't find the top twenty. This is enough to show that this candidate has been transferred. Those who can do this, except Shangguan is unhappy and Cai You has no one else!"

Xiao Jingye heaved a long sigh and murmured: I didn't expect that both of them could not escape the temptation of money. If His Majesty knew, he would be sad.I think the main messenger of this matter must be Shangguan's displeasure, Cai You doesn't have that much courage, let's go to Shangguan first. "

Immediately, the two old men sat in the carriage and ran towards the home of the Shangguan Mansion.

Half an hour later, the two arrived at the gate of the Shangguan Mansion. The guards around saw that it was the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister who came, and they quickly saluted and reported to the Shangguan's displeasure.

Shangguan Wuyue just came back from Jixian Academy, before his buttocks were hot, the guards came to report, Xiao Jingye and Liu Chaotong came over.

A smug smile appeared on Shangguan's displeased face.

"These two adults must feel that I have been very tired for the imperial examination during this period, so they came to visit me in person!"

Shangguan was displeased and hurriedly adjusted his clothes, and then went out to greet him. As soon as he walked to the courtyard, he saw Xiao Jingye and Liu Chaotong with dark faces.

Seeing Shangguan's displeasure, the two walked straight towards the hall without saying anything.

Shangguan was displeased, a little dazed, and followed immediately.

Immediately, Xiao Jingye and Liu Chaotong sat at the main seats in the living room, their faces gloomy as if the Shangguan was displeased and impeached them again.

As soon as Shangguan was unhappy, he heard a "bang" when he entered the hall.

Liu Chaotong patted the table, and said coldly: "Shangguan is not happy, I really misjudged you, I didn't expect you to do such a mediocre thing?"

Shangguan was displeased for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he hastily explained: "Master Liu, I...your little concubine Zi Yan and I really don't have the relationship you imagined, don't listen to those gossips. people talk nonsense."

what?
Xiao Jingye and Liu Chaotong were both taken aback, they didn't expect to have unexpected gains.

"You... what are you talking about? Are you still having an affair with my concubine?" Liu Chaotong was so angry that he was about to explode.

"Ah? That's not what you asked?" Shangguan was displeased and confused.

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