Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 769 The Imperial Examination Begins

Chu Xi went home in less than an hour, and Chu Suiliang was relieved when he saw that his son had returned home without the slightest scar. Probably on the next day, Chu Suiliang did not disappoint Li You, and went directly to the university. At the court meeting, he submitted a form to resign from his position as Minister of the Ministry of officials.

Li Zhi was not ambiguous, and he agreed directly, and then discussed the candidate for the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Li You directly nominated Shangguanyi.

Everyone should know who Shangguanyi is. He is Shangguan Waner's grandfather. This person is not bad. What's more, he didn't get involved with Changsun Wuji or Wu Meiniang.

Li You met this Shangguanyi once, and because he was also Li Zhi's person, the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials was directly given to him this time.

Changsun Wuji was unprepared at all. He never expected that Chu Suiliang would suddenly resign as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, let alone that Li Zhi easily agreed, and Li You directly mentioned a name.

So this time a series of things happened, Changsun Wuji could only watch from the sidelines, unable to stop it at all, and in this way, Shangguanyi became the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Then Li Zhi announced the addition of Enke again, and also announced the reform of the imperial examination, the name system, and the imperial examination. All of these are in the process of reform. Imperial hope.

Many poor students have always been in pain, why... Datang's imperial examination is really too cheap for those noble children, as long as they can vote for a satisfactory pass, they can directly pass the exam.

As long as you buy a poem, you can easily win the exam. Students from poor families have poor background. Investment banking papers need power, and making poems requires background. These two things are exactly what poor students are most unable to do, so poor students have always been suppressed .

Now that the imperial examinations in Datang have been reformed, many poor students in Datang have seen hope.

Datang Jiangyin County

A scholar wearing patches was running on the muddy road, regardless of the muddy water. After a while, the scholar came to a simple broken hut. This broken hut had a fenced yard, and there were some chickens and ducks in the yard.

The scholar opened the fence gate, but when he saw the clean yard, he didn't enter the yard immediately because there was a lot of mud on the scholar's feet. The scholar stood in front of the gate and shouted to the fence gate: "Brother, brother!"

After shouting three times in a row, another scholar walked out from the hut. This scholar was quite old and had already grown a beard around his mouth.

"Ah, Brother Lian, come in and get warm...!" The older scholar hurriedly let the scholar who called him into the room.

But the scholar named Liandi shook his head, and then shouted with a joyful expression: "Brother, I'm here to tell you some good news. Your Majesty has decreed that Enke will start in January next year!"

"Really?" The older scholar was pleasantly surprised, but after the surprise, the scholar sighed again: "Brother Lian, I won't go to Enke this time, you can go with other people, anyway, I It's useless to go."

This elderly scholar has passed the exam no less than three times, each time he puts his heart into writing, and his essays can also be ranked among the top three scholars of the same period. He was dismissed three times directly.

To be honest, he was a little tired. Looking at the empty house because of his own study, he didn't want to bother, so at this time he looked at the young scholar in front of him and asked the young scholar to go to Enke, but he didn't want to went.

The family just found him a job as an accountant. He thought that he should be an accountant honestly. He has been studying for so many years, and he originally wanted to serve the country, but unfortunately the country does not need him. , It's fine twice, but after three times, not ordinary people can accept such a thing.

So the scholar was already cold-hearted.

"Brother, don't give up. Let me tell you, Enke this time is different from Enke before." Brother Lian's scholar smiled.

It's just that the older scholar sighed slightly: "What's the difference? It's not a vanity fair for the noble children. Needless to say, brother Lian, I really don't want to go."

"Brother!" Seeing his disheartened brother, Brother Lian Scholar quickly explained: "Just now the county has posted a notice that this Enke will be presided over by His Majesty the Emperor himself.

It is no longer possible to invest in bank papers, because when all the examiners are marking the papers, all the papers are vague.! "

"What? The name of the paper is vague?" The older scholar was surprised.

"Yes.!" Brother Lian said happily: "As long as the papers are named, no one's recommendation will be of any use. You have to rely on your own knowledge to attract the favor of the examiners.

Not only that, but His Majesty will personally take the imperial examination. During the imperial examination, he will select the number one scholar, the second place, and the best candidate. In this way, we will all be disciples of the Son of Heaven! "

"Students of the Son of Heaven.!" The older scholar's eyes were already full of tears: "Brother Lian, we poor families really have hope this time, okay. I'll go this time too, that, I'll go now raise money."

As he said that, the older scholar became excited, thinking about raising money.

This ancient scientific examination, to be honest, is very expensive. For a student from a poor family, from the scholar to the provincial examination, the general examination to the palace examination, all the way through the examination, the food, clothing, carriage and accommodation on the way are even more expensive. It is not a small expense, and many scholars from poor families have to sell their properties or borrow money to pay for it. There are often examinees who give up the exam due to the shortage of money, which shows that it costs a lot.

In addition, the Tang Dynasty also liked to hold banquets. This banquet was a show of going to Pingkang, where the singing girls gathered in Chang'an.

Therefore, when going to Beijing to rush for the exam, the most lacking thing is money. However, when the older scholar said that he wanted to raise money to go to Chang'an to rush for the exam, the younger brother scholar hurriedly said: "Brother, Enke doesn't need to raise money this time, because King Qi is responsible for all the board and lodging costs on the way, not only that, but in order to reassure all the poor students, all the students who go to Beijing to rush for the exam will also have ten guan allowances for each student.

More importantly, we don't need to go to Chang'an on foot anymore. As long as we go to the county to register now, we can wait after registering. After a few days, there will be a team of horse-drawn carriages to pick us up into Chang'an, and there will also be tigers. Wei escorted us, King Qi said, so that some students can sit back and relax to take the scientific examination. "

"Long live Your Majesty, thousand years for King Qi!" As soon as he finished speaking, the elderly scholar fell to his knees on the ground, tears streaming down his face.

(End of this chapter)