Chapter 372: Let Mr. Bing touch it

At around the 1st of the first day of March, lights were lit in the guild halls and apartments of all sizes in Beijing. The family and servants stood up one after another to make fires and boil water, preparing food and luggage for their husbands. Soon, the examinees who took the exam today also rose up one after another, and their servants served to dress and wash. However, the juren who spoke the most on weekdays were as serious as criminals who were going to the execution ground.

After washing and dressing up, the servants brought the slaughtered rice... Oh no, it was the top scholar's meal, so I invited my husband to have a meal and it was time to go on the road.

There are some specialties in this meal, and each item can be used to get a prize. The servant first brought a plate of steamed carp to the table, smiled and said, "Fish leaping on the dragon gate!"

He served another plate of roast chicken and said happily: "The top scorer is the top scorer!"

There is also a plate of braised pig's trotters, which is far-fetched: "The title of the Yan Pagoda."

He then brought a plate of fried lettuce and said with a good intention: "The sky is upright!"

The servant brought a pot of turtle soup and put it on the table. As expected, "The master is the leader..." Fortunately, he didn't say that the master was a big turtle.

Four dishes and one soup, with meat and vegetables, which are good luck, but they are also short of staple food. The servant brought a plate of hair cake and a plate of millet noodles, which means "high school" and "first name".

This is the practice meal that Qian Zhanggui of "Daheyuan" has prepared for his Shaodong. Generally, these are the ones. Of course, the rich families are more generous, but they are just more plates and bowls, more precious ingredients, and more particular names, but they cannot escape the lottery of "high school top".

There are also those poor scholars who can't afford to buy turtle river carp, so they have to use the "Above the Clouds" and "The Top High School" to settle for it. If you really feel that it's not enough, you can still chew a big watery radish and shout "Good Color Head" while gnawing!... The radish is also called Caitou.

But the scholars just woke up and were even more nervous. Naturally, most of them had a poor appetite. No matter how many delicacies were, they could not eat them. Most of them had to break a piece of "first name" and dip a little "Ao Tou" soup. At most, they could poke a few chopsticks and a few more chopsticks. It was not as refreshing as radish and vegetables. It can be seen that luxury may not be enjoyed everywhere, and poverty can be comfortable.

Of course, there are also people who are not nervous and have a good appetite. Most of these people are ready to prepare off the market... They have already bought the test questions and asked someone to answer them and write them down, and are ready to be brought in; or they have bought the joints and left special marks on the papers, and the examiner won the exam; there are even lazy people who are unwilling to suffer these three days of serious crimes and directly found a substitute to enter the market. Anyway, they can get the exam without racking their brains, so naturally there is nothing to be nervous about.

There are a few more special ones. Before entering the examination room, they were already the "son of the emperor" recognized by His Majesty. Almost everyone, including themselves, believed that this exam was just a formality... Will His Highness, Prince Longwei, who is known for his filial piety, be ashamed of his father?

Fang Zhongshu is one of the "Son of the Emperor". In the entire Shanbei Guild Hall, he was the only one who was ignorant and chatted and laughed. Although Tu Gongchun was not a "Son of the Emperor", he was open-minded by nature and heartless, and never knew what nervousness was.

After eating the "top scholar banquet" specially presented by his fellow villagers, a group of students walked to the Gongyuan together. On the way, they met Shang Dezhong and Fang Zhongshu and his group. Everyone was sharing weal and sad, so they naturally called their friends and became a group of people, and they were all laughing outside the Imperial College.

At this time, the sky was just dawn, and outside the Imperial College was on high alert. The Imperial Guard set up three lines of defense, only the scholars with juren certificates were allowed. The rest of the people were rejected and they were not allowed to cross the line.

The scholars took the baskets, food boxes, bedding, etc. from the servants, and lined up through the gate, like a group of refugees fleeing famine. When the time of the 3:00 am, the gate was immediately closed. Chen Wei personally put a seal on his hand and no one was allowed to enter and exit.

After passing the first line of defense, even if the disciples entered the Imperial College, it would take a lot of time to enter the tribute court a hundred feet away.

When the soldiers arrived at the second line of defense, the soldiers stayed there and the supervisors called each other. Once they were called, they could get out of the team and stand in front of the supervisor and let them watch.

It is not that the supervisor is interested in it, but to prevent someone from taking the exam, the real appearance is the same as the description and portrait in the roster in the supervisor's hand, so that they can enter the second level.

But there is no loophole to take advantage of. If you bribe several supervisors in advance, you can call the deer a horse and turn it over and over again. If you have to say that Feng Jing is a horse, it will naturally be useless to have a portrait.

But this year, Emperor Zhaowu was ruthless. A quarter of an hour before the candidates entered the venue, a team of imperial guards came to this level with imperial edicts and replaced the supervisor arranged by Qu Yanwu in advance. These Qiu Ba people did not recognize each other and only recognized portraits. They stared at the pickets with copper bell-like eyes and looked hard. Even real candidates would be creepy. Those who took the exam were even more shocked and sweated like slurry.

At this time, the door is closed and it is hard to fly. No matter how powerful you are outside, you are just a candidate who is powerless here. What's more, what power can you have when you are a tester? I really want to be confused and cannot retreat. I am like an ant in a hot pan, hoping to find a crack in the ground.

After a while, after 40 or 50 candidates, he heard the chanting clerk say, "Zhou Jichun, Qianyang Prefecture..." After calling for a while, no one made a sound. The chant was singing on both sides. Seeing that there was still no response, he said to the supervisor Qiu Ba, who was on the side: "This is missing." Qiu Ba nodded, and the chant clerk wanted to call Zhou Jichun's name off, but someone said timidly: "Here..."

Qiu Ba said annoyedly, "You are farting!" He scared the 'Zhou Jichun' and shivered, and stood there with his neck shrank and did not dare to speak back. He had not seen many times when he entered and left the examination room, but he had never encountered the barbaric scene today.

"Come here!" The supervisor scolded: "Can you bring you over?"

Then "Zhou Jichun" came over slowly, but he still shrank his head down and refused to look up.

Although the supervisor was Qiu Ba, he was at least some officers. He read a few big words, took a look at the list, and recited: "Zhou Jichun, 18 years old, has a slender figure, and is between seven or eight, has a white face, a cinnabar mole on his left eyebrow, and a horse stud with his right ear." Hearing him recited, the sweat on the face of the raised head was heavier, and his body couldn't help but stretched out, and even secretly tiptoed.

After reading it, he sneered and said, "You have always been straightened, not six feet long."

The son trembled all over and was about to fall, but he was twisted by two wolf-like imperial guards, pulling his head high, revealing a black, wrinkled, and stubborn old face. Not to mention Eighteen, even Twenty-eight also flattered him. Although his face was pockish, none of them was red, and his ears were even clean. Perhaps except for his gender, there was no trace of similarity to the person described in the document.

Supervisor Qiu Ba swallowed his mouth and scolded, "Your proprietor is too unfair. At least you can find a cleaner to impersonate the name..." The soldiers next to him were also laughing. The soldiers were very happy to be able to practice these scholars. Who made them look more arrogant and arrogant all day long?

"Zhou Jichun" was completely disappointed. This was his fifth time participating in the spring exam and his third time taking the exam. Since he realized that the so-called talent ceremony was just a fig leaf for wealthy families to divide the high positions of the imperial court, he lost his mind for the imperial examination and focused on becoming a substitute exam... The first time he had only won one hundred taels because he had no fame, but because of his winning streaks, he had risen to five hundred taels this time, which was enough for him to buy a few hectares of good land and spend his second half of his life comfortably.

Who would have thought that this time, the dream of becoming a mirror and a water moon would not be said to be able to save his life, and it might also cause his wife and children to suffer disaster. Thinking of this, the impersonator couldn't help but feel sad and opened his mouth and cried.

However, he was slapped by the soldiers beside him and said, "What are you sorrowing?" He immediately changed his crying tone, and it sounded extremely miserable.

After this Li Dai Taoshou was found, most of the fakes were simply silent when they were called. Some were lucky, but they were caught one by one and knelt on the side of the road for others to see.

Of course, there are also portals with superb skills. Those who find substitutes are quite similar to those of me. They bribed the painter to paint the portraits in the document between the two, and they could also fool them through the test. It could not be seen through the means at that time. However, there were too few scholars at that time, and even fewer those who were competent for the Spring Examination. In addition to the great fortune of our family, they also had to have excellent luck. Therefore, such a situation is just a special case and cannot be considered a disaster.

Until more than 1,600 people were called, and after most of them went in, there were still sixty or seventy people standing in the team.

Supervisor Qiu Ba waved his hand, and a team of soldiers holding the goose surrounded the people. The supervisor said with a stern voice: "Why don't you?"

These people panicked and shouted smartly: "I can't agree without chanting the name below."

The supervisor sneered: "Give your identity document."

"I'm missing, I want to ask the Lord to be compatible." The rapist said helplessly.

"Then how did you come in?" the supervisor was not a fool, and asked roughly.

"Just put the student in like this." The raised son spread his hands and looked indifferent. In fact, he had already felt so panicked that he was just unwilling to surrender and just fought with some trapped beasts.

The supervisor ordered someone to search his body, but no identity certificate was found. How could this rude officer know that the sing-name test just now, these guys had already eaten the life-threatening certificate. They made up their minds and refused to admit it, and someone would rescue him. If it was leaked, even if the court did not kill them, the big players who failed because of this would not let them go.

The supervisor was quite helpless and had to order someone to temporarily detain him and the candidates who had been investigated and dealt with, and then make plans after reporting to the emperor.

The candidates who passed the two levels encountered a more stringent body search at the gate of the Gongyuan.

According to regulations, except for the permission to carry pens and inkstones, the candidates are not allowed to bring in a piece of paper. Emperor Zhaowu also sent a team of imperial guards to replace the inspectors who were inspecting here.

Supervisor Qiu Ba ordered the candidates to untidy their clothes, hold a pen and inkstone in the left hand and a sock in the right hand, standing in line in the corridor, waiting for the name, and then step forward to undergo inspections one by one. Each candidate was searched by two inspectors, searching carefully from head to toe. At this time, the spring was chilly, and the candidates were frozen from the waist down, and they almost didn't know where their bodies and hair were.

This kind of rude and barbaric body search is a bit polite to the scholars? It is obvious that treating prisoners is just like this, which naturally arouses great dissatisfaction among the candidates. But it was not too early at this time and it was not far from the time for the exam. The scholars had to swallow their anger and temporarily treat their bodies as wood and let them ravage them. However, they gritted their teeth with the tricky and mean fifth prince in their hearts.

Qin Lei is really wronged. Since entering the examination room yesterday, he has been restricted to the tribute school. He has no ability to influence what happened outside the door, but he has taken the blame for Emperor Zhaowu.

The soldiers found more than a hundred entrained candidates, most of whom were directly hiding the test questions in the bedding, the soles of the shoes, and the belts. In fact, there were still many hidden hidden things and not found... These search and prosecutors did this job for the first time, and they were inevitably careless and missed a lot, so naturally they could not force them.

After a hardship for a morning, the remaining 1,500 scholars finally stood in the tribute court and saw the abominable fifth prince and a group of deputy examiners. If it were not unusual at this time, the scholars would have to loudly question the examiners: "Why are you so insulting that you don't treat the juren as a human being?"

Qin Lei had already known what was happening outside and asked Qu Yanwu, who was also confused. He didn't know what Emperor Zhaowu intended. He was naturally annoyed and hated in his heart. He gritted his teeth and cursed: "I just wanted to set up a country and establish a faction, but I still couldn't take advantage of me as a fool." He was not angry that Emperor Zhaowu had seriously examined the rules, but was angrily hiding himself to death. This was unacceptable to him.

But things have happened, so he can only find a solution and pass the moment before talking about it.

After the scholars stood in front of him, Qin Lei glanced at everyone expressionlessly, and then said coldly for a while: "Today's inspection is unprecedented, you must feel that it is insulting."

The scholars did not expect that he was so honest, and no one dared to nod for a moment. They all looked at him foolishly and listened to him continue, "But have you ever thought about why the court has so much trouble? They are guarding against cheating like thieves?"

Some ungrateful scholar thought to himself: 'Are you still showing off your might?' But most people were still curious about Qin Lei and asked in a low voice: "Why?"

Qin Lei said in a stern voice: "The so-called 'Jinshi' is the most knowledgeable, most moral and outstanding group of people in the Qin Dynasty. They deserve the admiration and respect of the world. But now, do you admire and respect the Jinshi in the previous examination?"

Although the scholars did not dare to shake their heads, they agreed with the prince's statement in their hearts. Who doesn't know what that thing is? I'm afraid many of them have never read all the Four Books and Five Classics.

Qin Lei saw the scholars with disdain, and couldn't help but smile and said, "It's not just you, but even ordinary people are disdainful." As he said, he glanced at the scholars and said earnestly: "What is the consequence of this? Officials have no prestige, and they are even worse than local gentry. When there is a lawsuit dispute, the people first think of looking for the gentry, not their parents."

The scholars all knew about these things, but they never thought that it was caused by the imperial examination. Qin Lei said with a serious expression: "The people only respect Jinshi who rely on their true talents and knowledge, and only have good fortune to be like this. Do you have any objections?"

The students shook their heads and said in a silence: "The prince is right."

Qin Lei struck the railway while the hot: "You have also seen this problem, so many people petitioned before the palace, hoping to get a fair and just spring ceremony. Now is the time for the court to fulfill its promises! Everything we do today is to allow those with real talents and knowledge to go to the high school list, and those who take advantage of their mistakes can reveal their true colors!"

After he said this, the scholars finally calmed down and said to himself: "The so-called heavy rules for the troubled times, and the saying goes to chaos and then rule them. It seems that it is inevitable to overcorrect them." After Qin Lei's clever words, the scholars' resentment miraculously disappeared, and they actually understood and even thanked the Iron-faced King.

This is the gap between politicians and students.
Chapter completed!