At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Ma Liang was standing in the ranks of the soldiers at this time, looking at his younger brother who was being held by the emperor with envy and yearning, and couldn't help but imagine how great it would be if that person was himself.

It was agreed that Baimei was the best, so why did Ma Su get the first place?

Ma Liang was puzzled and a little jealous.

Ma Di and Xu Miao walked in the clouds for a long time, Guo Peng seemed to take care of their emotions, and slowed down his pace specially for them, walking very slowly, very slowly, very slowly.

As if to want their dreams to continue to prolong.

But no matter how long the night is, there will be dawn, and no matter how long the dream is, there will be an end. Their dream is finally over.

At the gate of the palace, the emperor let go of their hands.

"This honor is earned by you yourself through hard work and hard work. You don't need to thank anyone, you only need to thank the hard-working self. This time you entered here with such honor as students. Next time , you are about to enter here as officials, and I look forward to your persistent efforts and greater glories."

There was a warm and warm smile on the emperor's face, like a great elder who was wholeheartedly thinking about the younger generation.

Ma Di, Xu Miao, and the next four people knelt on the ground to express their infinite loyalty and respect to the emperor.

"The minister obeys the order!"

"Get up, go, get on the horse, enjoy the glory of your hard work, don't forget this feeling for the rest of your life, and then work hard to make a career, and strive to use political and military achievements to reproduce all of this one day in the future .”

Guo Peng bent down to help them up, conveying to them the ardent expectations from the emperor and elders.

The six people were blushing, full of pride and ambition as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. After saluting the emperor again, they walked towards the horses prepared for them.

The horse-leading team composed of the main officials of the central court, Henan Yin, and Luoyang county government will lead them to push today's glory to a new peak.

On Yujie Avenue, Luoyang officials, common people, and scholars who have also achieved the same grades will form a crowd to watch the ceremony, and look at them with envy and hatred——

Look at their incomparable glory and majesty.

The officials led the horses for them, making them aloof, enjoying the admiration and admiration of everyone like the attention of thousands of people, and making those who are envious look at them with eyes that are about to turn red.

What an enjoyment that was.

Forget about the common people and other officials, the key is those same years, those same years!

Their envy, jealousy and hatred are the most enjoyable things, okay?

Just go down to the cloud, and go to the peak again.

Chapter 1236 One thousand 140 six is ​​the ultimate in buying people's hearts, nothing is better than this

The enjoyment on this imperial street is no less than the enjoyment on the Royal Road of the Imperial Palace.

They were so ecstatic, as if their bodies were no longer their own.

Although everyone knows that this is a one-time treatment, only the emperor knows whether it will be given again next time, but it doesn't matter, at least they have already enjoyed it.

Some people can paralyze themselves in various ways, saying that this is not enviable at all, but the fact is that this is very enviable, and the envy is about to go crazy.

Ma Di's brothers, Cao Zhi's friends, Jiang Wan's classmates, and Xu Miao, Zhang Xiong, and Liu Shan's classmates in the lecture hall.

They were almost going crazy with envy.

What this scene brought to them was envy, going crazy, as well as deep loss and regret.

Because it has nothing to do with them for life.

What is left to those candidates who have not yet taken the imperial examination is a deep and endless yearning.

They immediately made up their minds to show their strengths and ambitions in next year's imperial examinations, and then get the top three positions, and become famous in one fell swoop and the world knows!

Must, must get all these, otherwise, it will be a lifetime of regret!

The entire Luoyang City was immersed in a joyful atmosphere, and people cheered and jumped for today's grand event and the soldiers.

There is something more in people's hearts, and certain seeds are being nourished in people's hearts, and will break out of the ground in the near future and grow vigorously.

The ceremony lasted from morning to afternoon.

And this is over, and the other side is the preparation and opening of the [Imperial Examination City] all night tonight.

Emperor Enzhun, in order to celebrate the country's acquisition of talents from all over the world, specially stopped the curfew on this day, so that people can set up night markets and set up stalls to sell goods in the night market. Those who want to go out and join in the fun can also enjoy the rare glory of Luoyang City night view.

For this reason, Guo Peng ordered the opening of the main streets of Luoyang, allowing small merchants and hawkers to set up stalls all night, and allowing the people in Luoyang city to revel all night.

Then, small businesses and hawkers made a lot of money, and consumers got indescribable spiritual enjoyment.

At dinner time, the emperor personally held a banquet in the palace, entertaining [-] soldiers to eat, drink, have fun, and enjoy eating and drinking with public funds for the first time.

After eating and drinking with public funds, let them move freely, go to the night market to have fun or go home to sleep, whatever you want.

The positions of Ma Di and the other three and Xu Miao and the other three are the six positions closest to the emperor.

This is a banquet where only scholars are invited but not court officials, to show the emperor's importance and favor for scholars. This is a special treatment that no official can enjoy. Officials can't enjoy it.

The emperor showed an unprecedented attitude of paying attention to imperial examinations and young people.

After all, the emperor is the final decider of their ranking.

The emperor has the power to announce the change of the ranking at any moment before the announcement, so from a procedural point of view, the emperor is the one who decides whether they can become officials.

And at this time there is no county examination, there are not so many teachers, and the emperor is the only one who decides.

So rounding it up, they can also be regarded as disciples of the emperor.

Isn't it the happiest thing in life to eat and drink with their titular mentor?

Although they were a little cautious in front of the emperor, they didn't dare to eat and drink freely.

But being able to eat with the emperor, feel the grace and kindness of the emperor at close range, and be remembered by the emperor at close range, with simplicity in the emperor's heart, isn't this the supreme enjoyment in life?

Before the banquet was over, Ma Di, Cao Zhi and Jiang Wan had already received gold, silver and jewelry from the emperor, as well as books, antiques, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, etc.

Xu Miao, Zhang Xiong and Liu Shan also received gold, silver and jewelry from the emperor, as well as treasured swords, armors, BMWs, and good bows.

They were overjoyed, holding the things given by the emperor, they were so moved beyond description, they felt that it would be no big deal even if they died at this moment, because their lives had already reached the peak.

Especially the envy and jealousy of those who failed to get the top three who didn't get these rewards——

What a treat.

There is nothing more pleasurable than having something for yourself that no one else has.

"Okay, the sky is over, the night market should have started, I won't keep you alone, go, go and enjoy tonight and this day that belongs to you.

This is your last day as a student and your first day as an official. From tomorrow onwards, I will treat you more severely than ordinary officials! "

It is not a bad thing to make the emperor distinguish between others, it is a great thing.

If you do well and can meet the emperor's expectations, you will be able to get high officials and generous salaries, which is a matter of course.

The six people knelt in front of Guo Peng with blushing faces, expressing that they would die for the emperor. Even Cao Zhi was infected in such an atmosphere, and they shouted together...

So Guo Peng feels that he has done a good job.

There is nothing better than this to buy people's hearts.

Be merry, have fun, have fun.

Then, plunge into my palm, and never try to break free!

The emperor's banquet was over, and the grand ceremony came to an end. The soldiers dispersed one after another, rushing towards the unprecedentedly bustling night market, going to celebrate, enjoy, and indulge.

Tomorrow, they don't have to go to court, they can rest for three days, and on the fourth day they need to go to the official office to report, start their official career, enter the officialdom, and start ups and downs.

This is their joy, their everything.

Guo Peng returned to his dormitory full of exhaustion, lying on the bed to receive Cao Lan's professional massage service.

"No one asked you to stare there all day, and praise this group of warriors to the sky, right? Are you tired of asking for it?"

Guo Peng sighed.

"Of course I have to ask for it myself. I am the emperor and the main promoter. I don't care or care. Who in the world will take the imperial examination seriously? What I want is to quickly enter the world through the imperial examination. In my heart, let everyone in the world know that the best way to prosper is the imperial examination."

"Then you don't have to do that much, do you?"

Cao Lan sighed slightly: "You are not young anymore, you should pay attention to rest."

"It's because I'm not young anymore, so I have to work harder."

Guo Peng said: "The imperial examination is not a huge thing, and it is not unshakable. The current imperial examination is like a seedling that has just broken out of the ground. It needs care and careful care. I need to protect it with all my energy until it grows. until it becomes a colossus."

"Do you need to be so anxious?"

Cao Lan shook her head.

Guo Peng nodded seriously.

"Of course I need it, Alan, I don't know how long I can be emperor, but the imperial examination, which I have dreamed of for decades, is finally done successfully, how can I not arrange the imperial examination as the top priority?

The procuratorial examination has been in operation for three or four hundred years, and it ended suddenly. I replaced it with the imperial examination. Can I not try my best to shout and publicize it, so that everyone knows about our family's imperial examination?The more attention a scholar gets, the more he gets my attention, the more he can attract talents from all over the world.

In this way, at least before I die, the imperial examination can completely replace the imperial examination and become the only talent selection system in the unshakable state. It is irreplaceable and unshakable. Only then can I breathe my last breath with peace of mind. "

Cao Lan felt that her emotions were complicated.

"Peng Lang, you said, you have become the emperor, but you never seem to be happy, and you have to count everything until your deathbed. Is this really okay?"

Chapter 1237 One thousand 140 seven Even so, he will not stop fighting

Is this really good?

According to Guo Peng, the answer to this kind of question is absolute.

So Guo Peng sat up and looked at Cao Lan.

"Because there are many things that only I know, and only I can do, and no one else can do it, so I must do it, Alan, do you understand what I mean? It must be done by me Do it to be successful.”

"I'm a woman. I don't know how to do these things, and I don't know what to do best. I just hope you won't be so tired."

Cao Lan looked at Guo Peng distressedly: "Peng Lang, haven't you noticed? Your temples already have white hair."

Cao Lan reached out to caress Guo Peng's temples.

Guo Peng was taken aback for a moment, then got out of bed, came to the bronze mirror Cao Lan used to dress up, and took a picture of himself.

On the sideburns, you can see white hair.

Cao Lan followed behind Guo Peng, hugging Guo Peng's neck with both hands.

"Don't be so tired anymore, okay? Peng Lang, your body is so strong, and this white hair is all because of your tiredness. You are exhausting yourself, you are fighting with the people of the world, and you are plotting everyone to death. Yes, the calculation will never turn over... This will wear you down!"

Guo Peng was silent for a while in front of the bronze mirror.

Until he heard Cao Lan sobbing softly.

Taking a deep breath, he reached out and grabbed Cao Lan's wrist.

"Alan, I promise you that when I can't hold on, I will abdicate and hand over the throne to Ajin. I won't sit on the throne until I die, but as long as I still have the energy to be an emperor, I will To keep doing it.

I want to take advantage of my energy and support, do everything I can until it can no longer be reversed, then I will abdicate, I will not be the emperor, and I will always be by your side You, stay with your family, okay? "

Cao Lan stopped sobbing, but nodded vigorously, then continued to hug Guo Peng's neck, burying her face deeply in the crook of her arms.

Looking at his self in the mirror, who was not as energetic as before, Guo Peng felt the passage of time and the inevitable destiny of human beings.

time is limited.

There is not much time left for him to change the times.

In the limited time, he has to prepare everything to leave a stable and sustainable development for Guo Jin, so that he can successfully inherit the throne and take power.

Otherwise, he would really die with regret.

We have come here, how can we stand still?

The years have not left their marks on him——

His skin is no longer elastic and shiny, his eyes are no longer sparkling, they are no longer clear, but slightly muddy, and his youthful appearance has gone away from him, leaving him with a gradually A dead body.

He laughed self-deprecatingly.