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Lin Xuan pondered for a while, and said: "Use a larger piece of paper and divide it into several sections. In addition to some decrees of the court, you can also record some cases tried by the government. But these are for the common people to see. , it’s best not to stick to words, the simpler the better.”

He even had a headache watching the ancient ones, let alone those ordinary people.

Xu Jingzong said hesitantly: "Is there something wrong with this?"

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Lin Xuan asked.

Is there something I haven't considered?

Xu Jingzong said: "The newspaper is run by the imperial court. If the words are simple, I am afraid it will be regarded as a famous scholar..."

Although Xu Jingzong didn't go on, Lin Xuan already understood what he meant.

It is nothing more than simple words, which will be ridiculed by the great scholars of the family.

"It's okay, these things are not for them to read, you can publish some articles by great scholars on it." Lin Xuan said.

Xu Jingzong nodded. Anyway, Li Shimin asked him to come over and ask Lin Xuan how to get the newspaper. Since Lin Xuan said so, he should just do it.

Lin Xuan said: "In addition to these, you can also collect some recent major events. Isn't it the imperial examination tomorrow? After the imperial examination is over, I will specially select some children from poor families who passed the exam. Publish the touching stories of their hard work."

"Yes, I understand!" Xu Jingzong said.

He is a genius, it is no secret that Li Shimin suppressed the family, of course he knows.

Publishing the struggle history of children from poor families is nothing more than encouraging the people to let their children study.

Although he would definitely be hated by the aristocratic family, as long as he can get Li Shimin's attention, those things are not important at all.

Lin Xuan nodded, with a teachable expression, and asked, "Do you know what is the most important thing in a newspaper?"

Xu Jingzong was taken aback, and said: "It should be the content, right? As long as the content is attractive, people will naturally be willing to buy and watch it."

Lin Xuan shook his head and said, "The newspaper has so much content, how do others know whether it is attractive or not? So, you need to write an attractive headline, so that people will want to know the whole story when they hear the headline."

Xu Jingzong's eyes lit up, and he said with admiration: "Listening to what Lord Hou said, I'm already somewhat sure of making a good newspaper."

"Just understand. Remember to add punctuation marks to the contents of the newspaper. If you don't understand anything in the future, you can ask me again." Lin Xuan said.

Xu Jingzong smiled and said: "Thank you, Lord Hou, I will definitely come to ask for advice more after I'm here, don't be bored, Lord Hou!"

Lin Xuan picked up the teacup and said with a smile, "No problem!"

Xu Jingzong understood, got up and said: "Master Hou, I won't bother you, I will take my leave first!"

"I'll give it to Mr. Xu!" Lin Xuan said with a smile.

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The next day is the day of the national unified scientific examination.

Li Shimin announced his rest and brought a group of ministers to the examination room in Chang'an County.

The examination room of the Chang'an County Government Office was remodeled from a house next to the County Government Office, and there was an inn opposite.

The inn had already been booked, and Li Shimin led his ministers to look at the examination room on the second floor.

In front of the examination room, there was a crowd of people. In addition to the candidates for the examination, there were also parents sending them to the examination. The entire street was crowded.

Many wealthy families came in carriages, making it even more chaotic.

Seeing such confusion, Li Shimin frowned.

Seeing Li Shimin's unhappy expression, Dou Lukuan hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, it's because I didn't think carefully, which caused the confusion. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "It's okay, there will inevitably be things that you can't consider in the first scientific examination. In the future scientific examinations, the entire street will be under martial law, and no one except examinees will be allowed to enter."

The imperial examinations before the Tang Dynasty were not taken seriously.

This was the first time I saw this kind of scene, and Li Shimin didn't mean to blame it.

"Yes!" Dou Lukuan breathed a sigh of relief seeing that Li Shimin did not blame him.

"Your Majesty, there are so many people participating in scientific research in Chang'an County alone. The whole world is innumerable. In the future, there will be no one available in the Tang Dynasty!" Cheng Yaojin laughed.

Li Shimin shook his head and said, "Chang'an is the capital of the country, so there are so many candidates. There are not so many people in other places."

As the capital of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an had better conditions for the people than other places, which is why there are so many scholars.

And don't look at so many people coming to take the scientific examination, but most of them can only be counted as literate.

Most of them just heard that they could be an official if they passed the exam, so they just came and tried.

It is impossible for them to make any good articles.

Regarding these, Li Shimin has the same heart as Ming Jing.

But right now it's just the county exam, presumably those who pass the exam will work harder.

By the time of the test, a group of usable talents will definitely emerge.

Fang Xuanling nodded, and agreed: "Your Majesty said that in places like the northern border gates, there are not many literate people, let alone the imperial examination."

As the prime minister, Fang Xuanling is much clearer about these situations than others.

Li Shimin smiled and said: "Mr. Fang is right, but I believe that in another ten years, the number of scholars in the world will increase greatly."

His self-confidence stems from movable type printing, but he doesn't mean to say it now.

"Today is the county examination in Chang'an County. All candidates who take the examination must line up and search the venue, and no one else is allowed to approach!" the yamen servant guarding the entrance of the examination room shouted.

Candidates at the entrance of the examination room hurriedly bid farewell to their families and formed a queue.

"The ten people in front go in!" the yamen servant said loudly.

The ten days in front of the line followed the yamen servant and walked in.

The yamen servant led them into the courtyard and shouted, "Take off your clothes!"

"what!"

"Isn't this humiliating!"

"That's right, we are all scholars, how can we allow you to be so humiliated!"

Hearing the words of the yamen servants, some candidates were angry and angry, some looked away, and had various expressions.

The yamen servant smiled disdainfully, and said coldly: "Those who are not willing will be regarded as giving up participating in the scientific examination!"

"It humiliates people like this, so it's worth not participating!" A man in his 30s said with a straight face, then turned and left.

After the man left, three others followed suit.

The yamen servant looked at the remaining six people and said: "Since you are staying, take off your clothes quickly, there are many people behind, don't waste time!"

"How did you get out?"

"That's right, isn't it a scientific test? What about the others?"

Seeing the four people coming out so quickly, the people queuing at the door couldn't help but ask.

The first man who came out said angrily: "It's a shame to us to be undressed even after the body search. It doesn't matter if you don't take part in the imperial examination!"

"Yes, it's too humiliating."

The other three people agreed one after another.

"Why, you still have to take off your clothes?"

"Yeah, no wonder they don't want to, soldiers can be killed and can't be humiliated."

"It's too much bullying, so I won't participate either."

For a while, the crowd in line chatted a lot.

"Your Majesty, this is really inappropriate." Wei Zheng couldn't help but said after seeing this scene.

He knew that he had to take off his clothes during the body search, so he objected.

But Li Shimin insisted that he had no choice but to see that so many people couldn't accept it, so he objected again.

Li Shimin said: "Lin Xuan, you proposed this, please explain to him."

"Yes!" Lin Xuan cupped his hands and said, "Zheng Guogong, this is to prevent cheating. If someone writes in the clothes and does not take off the clothes, how will you know?"

Wei Zheng said: "What you said is indeed possible, but this move is too humiliating to the candidates. Many people can't accept it. What if we lose talents because of this?"

(End of this chapter)