The candidates walked into the school grounds one by one according to their respective order numbers, and the soldiers checked them one by one. Compared with the last time, these soldiers borrowed by Cai Yong had studied the assessment requirements stipulated in the law overnight in advance. According to
What they have learned is that if they make any mistakes during the investigation, they will be prosecuted by military law. Under such circumstances, they must go all out.
Various local dialects were noisy outside the school grounds. The Han Dynasty had a vast territory, and many scholars had never left home. They even did not understand elegant language, and communication was very confusing. Looking at this situation, many officials thought to themselves
Therefore, rules must be set for future assessments, and only scholars who understand elegant language are allowed to participate. As the candidates entered one by one, the outside of the school grounds was also strictly blocked.
All the candidates were taken to the backyard, where they rested and waited.
Cai Yong arrived at the school grounds in an ox cart. Soon, soldiers came out to greet him and walked into the grounds. Cai Yong personally inspected the seats and counted the seats, pens, ink, papers, etc. On all the papers,
There is a row of small characters that reads "Given by the former Sikong Wenren". This was the paper originally provided by Wenrenxi for the assessment. After his death, the officials added this sentence to the paper in order to commemorate him.
This time there were still four subjects, the same as before. However, in order to prevent leaks, Cai Yong did not go around looking for people to come up with questions for him. He took his confidants in his house to offer wine, drafted the questions, and made changes on his own. In this way
, there will be no danger of leaking the questions. Cai Yong sat on the main seat, the officials also stood in their respective positions, and the assessment officially began.
The scholars filed out. Their respective serial numbers were already on the documents. They sat in their seats. Officials immediately came to conduct a last inspection. Then they began to announce the topics. The first thing was the scripture topics.
However, this time's scripture questions surprised many people. In the past, they were all about Confucius and Mencius, but this time, they are all about He Zi said...
Many people beat their chests and nodded, oh, they should have thought of it a long time ago. This time the chief officer is the prince. The prince is the one who manages the rams, and he is a disciple of He Zi. Of course, this content is more biased towards He Zi. They
Afterwards, I realized what I was doing and started answering the questions. Many people looked at the small column of words on the paper with confusion. Some didn’t understand what it meant. Could it be a hint for answering the questions?
Cai Yong frowned and stared at them.
Not long after, the soldiers outside the door suddenly started to move around. Many of them were intrigued and turned around to see a young man, walking like a dragon and a tiger, wearing a dragon cloud and a flying fish on his waist.
Surrounded by many soldiers, he walked in. Seeing his slightly bloated figure, everyone knew in their hearts that this must be the prince.
The little fat man walked in cheerfully, ready to welcome everyone. When he turned his head, he saw Cai Yong sitting on the main seat. The little fat man was immediately stunned. Since he was beaten in the palace last time, he has been
He never met Cai Gong again, and he did not dare to rush to Cai's house again. Now that they met, it was really embarrassing. The little fat man cleared his throat, walked up to Cai Yong, and bowed his hands.
"My son-in-law pays homage to my father-in-law..." The little fat man didn't know what to call him.
Cai Yong's face was extremely unkind. He no longer had any love for the fat man who wanted to kidnap his daughter. He nodded indifferently and said nothing. Seeing him like this, the little fat man did not dare to speak again.
He pretended to be pretentious, and sat on one side obediently, looking at the students below. The students were all sighing in their hearts, the prince has the air of his majesty, is so courteous and respectful to the great sages, what a lucky man!
When the time was up, the students handed in their examination papers and bowed to Cai Yong, the crown prince, before turning and leaving.
This assessment will last for seven days. During this period, many places were affected. For example, Xing Ziang, who had just prepared to build a network of important roads in the north that covered the entire north, forced
The stop was, on the one hand, not to affect the traffic at this time, and on the other hand, most of the scholars who were assisting the government at the local level went to Luoyang.
However, Xing Ziang did not think there was anything wrong. In these days, his policies have begun to bear fruit. In some counties not far away, there have been some smooth roads that can allow two carriages to pass side by side. This is very important for people in various places.
The connection between them and the development of the local area are of great significance. Cao Cao also implemented policies similar to Xing Ziang's in the Three Han Dynasties.
He built many arterial roads and recruited refugees from Fuyu and other areas for his own use. The crew members who set out from Yangzhou had not yet felt the Three Hans, so Cao Cao could only temporarily change the policy of governing the Three Hans and make fundamental changes first.
However, he felt that shipping would sooner or later become one of the important economic sources in the Samhan region, so he still did not give up the dock construction project on the coast.
Soon, it will be a cold winter, and winter is not suitable for any construction. Therefore, people all over the world are busy, trying to complete more important things as soon as possible before winter comes.
November, the seventeenth year of Jianning
The assessment has been completed, and the top students in each subject have appeared. Unlike in the past, the emperor did not meet him in person and asked the prince to do it for him. The prince met them one by one cordially in the hall and assigned official positions in full swing.
The assessment was over. There were no mistakes or omissions in this period. There was only one thing that made the prince hesitate.
The top math subject, Xun Yu, is still young. Even if he gets the top math subject, it is not easy to be assigned an official position. The lower one is an official. The prince thought for a long time and kept him by his side. As the prince, this is also
Seeing that he was from the same clan as his master, the emperor praised his approach very much and said with some relief: "My son can recognize people."
This happy and gentle atmosphere lasted until the end of the month.
At the end of the month, snowstorms broke out, and He Xinyou waited for several states. Houses collapsed, hundreds of people froze to death and suffered frostbite, and there were countless livestock. Fortunately, Xing Ziang was in the north. He immediately summoned many governors and started disaster relief at the same time. Jizhou and
The Samhan area was less affected by the disaster and shouldered the relief pressure in other areas. Due to blocked roads, canals and temples, relief efforts could not reach the affected areas in time.
Although the local government made a lot of preparations to withstand the cold winter, the disaster was still severe. The emperor was determined to take action, and after seeing the report, he became silent.
Speechless.
Because most of those who died of frostbite were local officials. These young officials braved the wind and snow to explore the situation and move around. They were the ones who caused the most casualties. Some of them were crushed under the snow, and some were crushed under the snow.
Some were frozen to death, and some fell off the cliff. What else could the emperor ask? Sitting in the palace, would it be useless to insult these officials who died for the country?
The emperor stood in the courtyard, raised his head, and looked at the heavy snow in the sky.
Stretch out your hand and watch the snowflakes gradually disappear between your palms.
Song Dian urged the emperor to return to the main hall.
"Song Dian..."
"nation..."
"You said... can humans stop the power of heaven?"
Song Dian widened his eyes, thought for a moment, and replied: "I don't know, but the country forgives me..."
"My intention is that all things in this world are unstoppable...even if the heavens are arranged..."
The emperor looked up at the sky, and his eyes gradually became cold, just like this cold winter.