Kou Ji said with regret: "It's true that the officials are so stubborn. What they are doing should be revealed so that the students participating in the scientific examination can be familiar with it."
Li Di stood up with a loud sound and stared at Kou Ji with a look that said, "Believe it or not, I'll beat you to death."
He shouted angrily: "Isn't it a good thing that the test questions are not leaked? From what you say, I wish the test questions were leaked?"
When Kou Ji saw that Li Di was angry, he stood up quickly and apologized: "I just said it casually, Li Shangshu does not need to be angry."
Xue Tian smoothed things over and said, "If you have something to say, sit down and say it slowly. Don't get angry. Don't get angry..."
Li Di glared at Kou Ji and snorted, sat down and said angrily: "You are getting more and more unruly."
Kou Ji then sat down, smiled dryly, and said: "Li Shangshu must have learned the content of the test questions from the officials. Does Li Shangshu think it makes any difference whether the test questions are leaked or not?"
After being reminded by Kou Ji, Li Di remembered those test questions again and said angrily: "You kid is too crazy. How can a court talent appraisal ceremony be a joke? How many people can answer those test questions you asked?
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Kou Ji spread his hands and said with a smile: "I am following your instructions, Li Shangshu. The questions are all related to the court and knowledge. If they cannot answer the questions, it only means that they are not knowledgeable enough."
Li Di gritted his teeth and said: "What if I can't answer the question correctly? Are you saying that I don't know enough?"
Kou Ji shook his head decisively, "Li Shangshu's profound knowledge is beyond the reach of young men. There are not many people in the world who can compare with Li Shangshu."
Li Di laughed angrily at Kou Ji's words. He asked with a smile on his face but an unusually cold voice: "Then tell me, who is better in knowledge between me and your grandfather?"
Kou Ji was stunned and laughed softly: "Each one has his or her own merits..."
Li Di asked again, "The Yellow River burst its banks, and I and your grandfather fell into the water together. Who did you save first?"
The expression on Kou Ji's face was a little stiff.
If Kou Zhun asked him this question, he would definitely answer without hesitation: I would definitely throw two stones at Li Di first, so that his cry for help would not disturb me from saving my grandfather.
But this question was asked by Li Di, and it was a bit difficult for Kou Ji to answer it.
If you say save Li Di, Li Di will definitely say that he doesn't observe filial piety and is hypocritical.
If you say rescue Kou, Li Di will definitely miss him and maybe even give him some shoes in the future.
Li Di stared at Kou Ji and smiled coldly: "You can't answer, can you?"
Kou Ji smiled awkwardly.
Li Di slapped the table and said angrily: "You can't answer this kind of question yourself. Why did you ask the students in the test question: If the official family and their father fell into the river together, who would they save first?"
Kou Ji smiled dryly and said: "Since ancient times, it has been difficult to have both loyalty and filial piety. When those students enter officialdom, they will inevitably have to face the problem of choosing between loyalty and filial piety. I just asked them this question to test them in advance."
Li Di snorted coldly: "Your original intention is good, but is there an answer to this kind of question? Who is the right person to save? If you save the official family, you will lose your filial piety; if you save your father, you will lose your loyalty.
Tell me, what is the answer to this question?"
Kou Ji pondered for a moment, and did not directly answer Li Di's question, but asked: "Does Li Shangshu know the story of Zhao Bao abandoning his mother?"
"Zhao Bao abandoned his mother?"
Hearing these four words, Li Di's expression changed. He stared at Kou Jida and said, "Zhao Bao was the prefect of Liaoxi during the Eastern Han Dynasty. During his tenure in western Liaoning, he encountered an invasion by the Xianbei people, who captured his wife, children, and mother.
Ask him to surrender.
Zhao Bao, out of loyalty and righteousness, led his army to attack and defeated the Xianbei people.
But his wife, children and husband were killed by the Xianbei people because of this..."
At this point, Li Di could no longer speak.
Because he already knew the answer to Kou Ji's question and guessed Kou Ji's intention in asking this question.
Kou Ji took over Li Di's words and said: "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty thought of his loyalty and bravery, so he sent envoys to express condolences to his mother and made him Marquis of Marquis. Zhao Bao buried his mother, and after his wife and children, he vomited blood and died."
Li Di had a gloomy face and remained silent.
Xue Tian said with emotion: "The title asked by Mr. Kou was a bit absurd when I first heard it. Only after you taste it carefully can you understand the profound meaning contained in it."
Xue Tian cupped his hands and said to Kou Ji: "I admire you..."
Kou Ji waved his hand and said: "Don't dare, don't dare, it's just a job."
Li Di snorted coldly and glared at Kou Ji.
He was about to ask other questions, but he saw the government officials who were guarding outside the lobby entered the lobby and reported: "Master, you two are on duty, it's already the fourth watch, it's time to go to Gongyuan."
Li Di asked with a straight face: "Is everything in Gongyuan ready?"
Xue Tian cupped his hands and said: "Each exam hall has been cleaned, candles and other items have been distributed, a supply of water and food have been prepared. The guards outside the Gongyuan have also been properly arranged."
Li Di nodded, stood up slowly, straightened his clothes, and said in a deep voice: "Go to Gongyuan..."
Kou Ji and Xue Tian followed Li Di out of Kaifeng Mansion and walked towards Gongyuan.
On the way, Xue Tian seemed to have something to ask Kou Ji, but because Li Di was serious the whole time and didn't say a word, it was hard for him to speak.
The three of them arrived at Gongyuan under the protection of the government officials.
The gate of Gongyuan was already crowded with students who came to take the scientific examination.
In addition, there were also soldiers guarding the Gongyuan, as well as a number of government officials who were inspecting the entourage.
Li Di and the others walked up the steps of Gongyuan.
Li Di checked the time, and when it was up, he announced "open the door".
After the Gongyuan was opened, Li Di, Xue Tian, and Kou Ji each sent one person in to inspect the Gongyuan and confirm that there was nothing unusual about the Gongyuan.
The three of them entered the gate of Gongyuan.
The government officials who checked the entrapment also entered the Gongyuan.
There are tribute temple, drum hall, trumpet hall and back hall in the tribute courtyard.
Li Di went first, entered the tribute temple, and laid out tributes to the Confucian sages.
Kou Ji and Xue Tian stayed in the drum hall and accompanied the government officials to check the entrainment.
After Li Di laid out the tributes according to the time, he sent someone to the drum hall to deliver the message.
Immediately, Xue Tian gave the order to beat the drums and send the students into the tribute courtyard.
The students lined up in two lines, carrying food boxes and book boxes on their backs, and entered the Drum Hall of the Gongyuan.
Because the imperial examination was held for three consecutive days, and it was also a lock-down system.
Therefore, students’ exams are almost always closed exams.
You cannot enter or leave during this period.
The food, water, etc. prepared in the Gongyuan do not taste very good, so students will bring their own food.
In addition, the Gongyuan will also provide pens and inks for students to use, but the quality is not very good and often cannot be used for three days, so students have to bring their own pens, inks and inkstones.
As for the paper, it will be distributed uniformly by the Gongyuan, so no special preparation is required.
After the students entered the Drum Hall, the government officials began to look through their book boxes, food boxes, and search their bodies.
Kou Ji does not need to do these things, he only needs to watch them with Xue Tian.
After Kou Ji's observation, he found that the government officials had a strange attitude when looking through the students' things.
They were very tolerant towards some students and let them pass after a cursory glance. However, they were very harsh towards some students. Not only did they break open the cooking cakes they had prepared for inspection, they also asked them to take off their coats and conducted strict interrogations.
Kou Ji only thought for a moment and understood why these government officials had different attitudes towards the students.
It's nothing more than preferential treatment for receiving money and harsh treatment for not confiscating the money.
Kou Ji did not see those scenes in movies and TV shows where money is stuffed on the spot.
Under the supervision of a superior, in front of other officials, can you still collect black money?
It's just fooling the human brain into thinking it's a pig brain.
Those students who paid bribes must have found a way and sent the money to the government officials before the exams started in Qiuwei.
So there will be no scene of giving money on the spot.
Kou Ji went up and reprimanded the government officials, and their attitude became much better.
Seeing that some students were shivering from the cold after taking off their coats, Kou Ji had several braziers lit in the drum hall.
After some inspection, it was found that more than a dozen students had brought cheat sheets with them.
Xue Tian expelled them from the Gongyuan on the spot and registered their names and place of origin. They would never be able to participate in the imperial examination again in their lives.
Of course.
The person who brought the cheat sheet had absolutely no idea that there were more than a dozen students.
Although there are enough ways for students to cheat, in Kou Ji's eyes there is nothing to hide.
Kou Ji discovered more than thirty students who had brought cheat sheets with them.
It's just that some students did it covertly, and some students stuffed their money with them, so they were able to get through.
Kou Ji didn't make things difficult for them either.
Don't let their future be ruined just because they make one mistake.
And Kou Ji has absolute confidence in the test questions he gave.
He expected that the cheat sheets brought by the students would not be used at all.
As for the dozen or so students who were found out, they were simply hopelessly stupid, and Kou Ji didn't bother to deal with them.
If someone can easily dig out a cheat sheet, how can that not be stupid?
There are also people who let go before the inspecting government officials could get in front of them, and no one could protect them.
When Kou Ji and Xue Tian led the inspected students to get their number plates and prepare to go to the tribute temple to worship, there was a student who came late.
"Wait a moment...wait a moment..."
This student is in his thirties, has a three-part beard, and is slightly thin.
After he broke into the drum hall, everyone's eyes were fixed on him.
Some students actually bowed and saluted when they saw him.
This surprised Kou Ji.
It seems that this student has a great status in the minds of other students.
When Xue Tian saw this person, he sighed, "What are you doing here at the Qiuwei examination room?"
The student bowed and said, "Of course it's to take the exam."
Xue Tian sighed: "No matter how many times you take the test, you will never pass. And if you passed the Qiuwei science test in the early years, there is no need to take the Qiuwei test again."
The student said neither humble nor arrogantly: "I want to start over from scratch, and I believe that today's official family is different from that of the late emperor."
Kou Ji's eyes lingered between the student and Xue Tian, and he asked, "Do you know each other?"
Xue Tian glanced at the student and said with a wry smile: "Who in the world doesn't know him!"
Kou Ji nodded thoughtfully, and based on the conversation between the two, Kou Ji roughly guessed the identity of this person.
Kou Ji stared at the student, looked it over, and said with a smile: "Liu Sanbian?!"
Liu Yong bowed to Kou Ji and said, "The student has been renamed Liu Yong. Kou Shilang can just call the student Liu Yong."
(I would like to popularize Liu Yong’s life to avoid misunderstanding. Liu Yong was not born at this time. Liu Yong, formerly known as Liu Sanbian, was born in about 984 AD. He participated in the imperial examination in the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu and was rejected by Zhao Heng.
In the eighth year of Zhongxiangfu and the second year of Tianxi, he participated in the imperial examination twice more and failed successively. Now it is Liu Yong's fourth time to participate in the imperial examination.)
Kou Ji stared at Liu Yong and said with a smile: "Why did you change your name? Isn't it good that Liu changed his name three times?"
Liu Yong looked a little embarrassed when he heard this.
Kou Ji's words touched his sore spot.
He doesn't want to change his name either.
He also wanted to be a Jinshi under the name of Liu Sanbian, and then become famous together with his brother Liu Sanfu.
But ever since Zhao Heng gave him the comment of being a "civilian", Liu Sanbian's name became notorious.
As long as the imperial court opened a subject to recruit scholars, the examiner would definitely give up if he encountered the words "Liu Sanbian".
No matter how good his article is, it's useless.
After failing the imperial examination three times in a row, he was already a little disheartened.
The reason why I changed my name this time was to send a signal to the court.
He told the court that he had a chance to change his ways and hoped that the court would give him a chance.
When Kou Ji saw Liu Yong's answer, he asked again: "You seem to have a great reputation in Fengyue Field?"
Liu Yong raised his head slightly haughtily.
At this point, he has absolute confidence.
In the Fengyue Field of Bianjing City, he was ranked second, and no one could be ranked first.
Even though those princes and grandsons had great power behind them, they could not overshadow his popularity in the romantic field.
Kou Ji saw that Liu Yong was a little arrogant, so he smiled calmly and said: "I hate scholars who are named Fengyue."
The look on Liu Yong's face was a little stiff.
Kou Ji added: "Not long ago, I ordered a group of students to be arrested, including some who were acting wantonly in Fengyue Field."
Liu Yong's face turned dark instantly.
Kou Ji continued: "I don't like those sad poems either. I always feel that they are of no use to the country."
Liu Yong's face turned darker.
He felt that his trip was in vain.
The name was also changed in vain.
With the late Emperor's comments in front of him, and the deputy examiner's words showing disapproval, he was definitely going to fail again.
He wanted to curse, and he wanted to compose a song on the spot, scolding Kou Ji for being so naked.
No matter what the consequences are, scold them first and then talk about it.
Anyway, this was not the first time he had done this. After the late emperor deposed him, out of grief and anger, he sang "Crane Soaring to the Sky·On the Golden List", complaining that the late emperor did not recognize talents.
What about Kou Ji?
Can he be more powerful than the late emperor?
He even dared to complain to the late emperor, so why didn't he dare to complain to Kou Ji?
Kou Ji seemed to see what Liu Yong was thinking, and he said with a half-smile: "I advise you, it's better not to speak. If you are composing a song "Crane Soaring to the Sky·On the Golden List", then you Liu Yong
Even if the name is changed, it will be in vain."
Liu Yong was stunned when he heard Kou Ji's words.
He felt that what Kou Ji said was reasonable, but he couldn't swallow the bad breath in his heart.
To scold or not to scold?
It made him hesitate a little.
If you scold him, your career will be gone.
If you don't scold, you won't feel happy.
Liu Yong thought for a moment and suddenly realized something was wrong.
Kou Ji obviously didn't want to marry him, and his official career was gone.
So what else needs to be taken into consideration?