Twin Brocade

Chapter 326 Palace Examination

The women of Cui's family were only thinking about it secretly.

In Luoyang City right now, everyone from traffickers to princes and dignitaries focused their attention on the palace.In the Xuanzheng Palace, a major event that determines the fate of the examinees is going on-the palace examination.

Compared with the general examination, the palace examination has only one policy question, and the questions are much simpler.But being in this place that determines the people's livelihood in the world every day, and the center of power in the world, candidates are more than a hundred times more nervous.

Only the top [-] Jinshi in the general examination are eligible for the palace examination.The bright bricks, the hall with red lacquer and golden pillars, the guards standing at the gate of the hall, and the solemn atmosphere all made these students feel awe and tremble.

On the day before entering the palace, they were gathered in the tribute courtyard, and the etiquette and rules of Jianjia were demonstrated and explained by the ceremonial department member Wailang, and they were asked to practice repeatedly.

When entering the palace through the Duanmen early this morning, a group of students were searched and interrogated again, adding to the tense atmosphere.

Some of them have never experienced the scene, but feel their heart beating like drums and sweating profusely.Sitting behind the answers to the questions, the hand holding the pen was trembling, and I couldn't concentrate on writing.

Emperor Qinglong sat on the dragon chair, condescendingly overlooking the examinees below, and had a panoramic view of their actions.He could understand their nervousness, but these people were useless.

Immediately, he glanced over them and set his sights on the ten students in the first row.They are the top ten in this test, and he has read their articles one by one.

In front of Quan Moxian was a set of the Four Treasures of the Study, a stack of thick rice paper.He sat intently, not humble but not arrogant, as stable as Mount Tai.

This kind of mind made Emperor Qinglong's eyes rest on him for a few more breaths.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the hall was tense to the extreme, and some students even began to tremble uncontrollably.The power of the sky is unpredictable, they don't understand why, and the palace test has not yet started at this time.

Standing in front, Wu Shangshu knew in his heart that the palace examination had already started since they came in, not just answering questions.

After another two breaths, Emperor Qinglong nodded to his confidant eunuch Wu Guangqi.Only then did Wu Guangqi sing with a loud voice: "In the third year of Qinglong's reign, the imperial examination, start answering."

The group of Scholars finally breathed a sigh of relief and settled down to look at the topic in front of them.

But after a while, everyone's expressions became solemn again, and many of them turned into bitter faces.This question is not long, but it is really too difficult!

The most critical sentences are: The officials who live in the house do not move for many years, and the corpse is a vegetarian?Rather lack than abuse?Out of season?

This is a topic drawn up by Emperor Qinglong himself. It means that one person holds the same official position and cannot be promoted for many years. What is the reason?and offers three options.

Three choices are three directions.Obviously, candidates can only choose one direction to answer.This, which direction is the real answer in Emperor Qinglong's heart?

If you choose the wrong one at the beginning, no matter how colorful your writing is, it will be difficult to catch the eyes of the emperor.

Moreover, this topic has the meaning of criticizing current politics and criticizing current affairs, which is quite sharp.Except for Emperor Qinglong himself, no one dared to have the courage to ask this question.

It is also difficult to grasp the proportion of this.

The Jinshi only felt that the sweat they had just withdrawn appeared again at this moment, and they secretly groaned in their hearts.

After reading the title, Quan Moxian took a few breaths of silence, and even closed his eyes and began to meditate.This move made Wu Shangshu look at him several times.

He won the Huiyuan in one fell swoop during the general examination, and he was the tribute yuan in the rural examination. Wu Shangshu was very familiar with him.This question is difficult, and it is good if most of the candidates present can answer it in a satisfactory manner.But for him, Wu Shangshu has certain expectations.

However, on such a solemn occasion, he actually closed his eyes!Where is he here?It would be too big.Wu Shangshu frowned a few times before looking away at other students.

The scale of this palace examination can be regarded as the largest since the founding of Gaomang.

Under normal circumstances, the number of places in the palace examination will not exceed 20 people.When the first emperor selected scholars, it was expanded to fifty.For the emperor, it was enough to conduct the examination among the best in the general examination.

But Emperor Qinglong was different. He was tough and ordered a hundred Jinshi to participate in the palace examination, and no one dared to speak up.

Although this is different from the ancestors' practice, firstly, there is no need to compete with the emperor on this point; secondly, after Emperor Qinglong ascended the throne, there were many vacancies in the official system from top to bottom, and one person often held several positions.Expanding the scale is conducive to supplementing officials.

When talking about the reasons for the shortfall, many officials would feel chills on the back of their necks.In the first year of Qinglong's reign, the blood shed from Caishi's mouth is still fresh in my memory.For three consecutive days, the severed heads piled up on the execution ground.No matter how glorious and powerful you are, at that moment, you tasted the taste of failure with death.

Emperor Qinglong's gaze swept over the candidates in the field one by one like a falcon, and when he saw Quan Moxian with his eyes closed, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.This young man, worthy of his title of Gongyuan Huiyuan, showed a rare calmness of mind.

The palace examination is limited to three hours.

The shadow of the sundial standing outside the Xuanzheng Hall quietly passed by for a moment, and the students in the hall began to write one after another.Time is limited, no matter how difficult it is to choose, you have to choose one to start answering.

This is policy theory rather than poetry and poetry. The three answers will all involve the root of the official system after they are derived.And this is closely related to the candidates present.After today's palace examination, their official career will begin.

We all know that Emperor Qinglong likes practical talents and has the heart to forge ahead.This point is not difficult to figure out.You can know his determination by seeing Emperor Qinglong's small innovations after he ascended the throne.

Therefore, if this policy theory is written conservatively, it will not be brilliant, and it is even less likely to win the emperor's approval.If it is written too radically, it will violate the interests of the existing officials.

Newcomers like them in the officialdom often offended the seniors in the imperial court, and their official career was even more bleak than not being noticed by the emperor.The king of a country has a lot of things to do every day, even if he gets a few words of praise, it doesn't matter, veterans in the officialdom have countless ways to make it impossible for you to appear in front of the emperor again in this life.

This is simply forcing them to make a choice.

The shadow of the sundial moved slowly, and all the Jinshi in the hall had different expressions.

Some were frowning, some scratched their heads, some looked confused, and some looked determined.Some write slowly, taking a long time to write a word, and the pen in the district seems to weigh a thousand catties.On some of the cases, a lot of waste paper was thrown, obviously not satisfied with what I wrote.

They can be regarded as the top [-] scholars in Quangaomang. When they were all immersed in learning, they forgot that this is the Xuanzheng Palace, and they forgot all the tension.

But among them, there was one person who never wrote, and didn't even open his eyes.

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