The sixth day passed by in a blink of an eye, and it was time to enter the examination room. The examination was the next day, but the candidates had to pack their bags in advance and wait outside the Gongyuan for inspection.
Accidents happened frequently during the examination, and some people even passed out outside the examination room because they stood in line for a long time. Fortunately, Zhao Yize was in excellent physical strength, even from sunrise to sunset, he was still full of energy.
After entering the Gongyuan, Zhao Yize followed his number to find the corresponding room. It was four feet deep and three feet wide. There was only a table inside. There was a dark gray quilt on the table, and behind the table was a row of cabinets that could serve as The stool can be used as a bed for sitting and sleeping.
The whole space is extremely narrow, and you need to turn sideways even to get in and out.
Zhao Yize put down the baggage, in his baggage there were only two changes of clothes, the rest was the dry food and water prepared for him by the owner of the house where he was temporarily staying, and some steamed buns he bought himself.
And once the exam starts, no one is allowed to go in and out, and he has to spend the next five days and four nights here with these dry food and water.
Zhao Yize lit a candle, took out dry steamed buns and ate half full of water, then spread out the quilt and closed his clothes to sleep.
This time he didn't sleep well, someone next door snored all night, Zhao Yize's face was a little gloomy.
Someone came in with a gong and knocked it vigorously, Zhao Yize followed the crowd out of the hall, and looked at the person holding the gong.
"Everyone, tidy up, the chief examiner will be here soon." The man carried the gong and walked around the gates of each dormitory, making sure that everyone was up, and then walked out with the gong.
Not long after the man left, he saw three men in official uniforms walking in, two of them were in green official robes, and they held a tall stack of papers in their hands.
As for the person in the center, Zhao Yize narrowed his eyes, he had seen this person before.
"This is the chief examiner this time..." The officials next to him were introducing his identity, Wang Muzhi raised his eyes to look down, and the entire crowd met Zhao Yize's gaze.
Zhao Yize only looked back calmly, Wang Muzhi stared at it for a while, feeling bored.
I thought it would scare him, but it turned out to be this kind of reaction.
"Send the things down." Wang Muzhi tilted his head and ordered, "Hurry up and start, Your Majesty is still waiting for me in the palace."
The two officials should be, then raised their heads and shouted at the candidates: "Candidates please return to their seats, the exam is about to begin."
Zhao Yize returned to the dormitory to sit quietly, and after a while, someone handed out the paper.
"Next, I will announce the test questions." After Wang Muzhi finished speaking, he took out a finger-long sealed bamboo tube from his sleeve, opened the bamboo tube, and took out the rolled-up test questions from inside.
"There are ten questions in this scientific examination, and those who finish answering can leave early."
Following this sentence, the test questions were also released, and many candidates picked up their pens and wrote pen and ink on the white paper.
Wang Muzhi walked back and forth in the examination room, and after walking around a few times, he stopped in front of Zhao Yize's house.
Zhao Yize didn't bother with him, and wrote on his own. He had roughly figured out the identity of this person. He could be trusted by the emperor to grant the emperor's order, and his surname was Wang. In the whole world, there was only the head of the Wang family in the capital.
Today's uncle.
Zhao Yize had heard of this person's elegant reputation when he was in Luoze before, but seeing is not worth seeing once, the so-called Mr. Yujia who is as dignified as Yujia actually has such a bad taste in private.
Zhao Yize put aside the unnecessary distracting thoughts, and brought his attention back to the exam questions, he was so absorbed in writing that he didn't even know when Wang Muzhi left.
On the first day of the exam, the weather was calm, but on the third day, the person next door to Zhao Yize fainted and was carried out of the exam room, and the sound of someone falling to the ground could be heard in the distance from time to time.
The time in the examination room was extremely long, but for Zhao Yize, it was extremely short. When he finished writing the last essay, there were less than a dozen people left in the examination room.
Zhao Yize handed in the test paper, and now he had almost eaten his dry food, so he casually put his clothes in his bag, and walked out of the Gongyuan with the bag.
The sunshine outside was just right, dissipating the coldness and stale air in the Gongyuan.
Outside the tribute courtyard, someone was answering the questions of the candidates.
"Three days after the release of the list, everyone will still live in the original place. When the ranking comes out, the yamen will be able to find someone."
After Zhao Yize listened to the details, he carried his luggage and was about to leave, when suddenly a shadow fell in front of him.
"Master Zhao, my lord is here to invite you."
Zhao Yize raised his head, looked in the direction of the person in front of him, there was a carriage parked not far away, it was very ordinary and nothing special could be seen.
"Who is your adult?" Zhao Yize asked.
"My lord and young master met once in the deserted city." The man replied.
"..." Zhao Yize said helplessly, "Then let's go."
"Please." The man made a gesture, and then walked ahead to lead the way, Zhao Yize stepped up to follow.
When he got closer, Zhao Yize discovered that there was an extremely luxurious carriage behind that ordinary carriage, hidden behind it, nothing leaked out.
Wang Muzhi was standing under the carriage, and seeing Zhao Yize approaching, he waved with a smile, "Brother Zhao, long time no see."
"Lord Wang." Zhao Yize cupped his hands expressionlessly. "I don't know why you came here?"
"I thought that at least I would see a trace of surprise on Brother Zhao's face, but I didn't expect Brother Zhao to be more calm than I imagined."
"After you left, Quzhi County told me a thing or two." Zhao Yize replied flatly, "So, I have guessed a little bit about Mr. Mu's real identity."
"It turned out to be like this." Wang Muzhi clicked his tongue, thinking it's a pity, it turned out that it was Qu Zhixian who pulled his hind legs behind his back, no wonder he didn't scare Zhao Yize.
"Does Master Wang have anything else to do?" Zhao Yize asked, "If there is nothing important, please allow me to leave, so as not to cause trouble."
As the chief examiner, if someone finds out that Wang Muzhi met with Wang Muzhi in private, and if someone falsely accuses Wang Muzhi of giving him a missed question, it will be really unreasonable.
"It's nothing, just catching up with you." Wang Muzhi waved his hand indifferently, "You're too tired after the exam just now, so go back and rest first."
Zhao Yize clasped his hands in salute, and was about to leave when he suddenly noticed a sizing eye on him.
Subconsciously, he turned his head to follow the line of sight, and saw that expensive carriage, the curtains of the windows were shaking slightly, as if being blown by the wind.
There are people in that carriage.
This thought flashed through Zhao Yize's mind, then he looked away, turned and left as if nothing had happened.
Wang Muzhi returned to the carriage, and the white-haired emperor was resting on the carriage with his eyes closed, breathing very weakly.
Every time Wang Muzhi saw it, he felt depressed in his heart, but after finally letting the emperor come out to relax, he naturally couldn't show a sad face.
"Did Your Majesty see clearly just now?"
"I see clearly." Xie Xun opened his eyes, "His senses are very keen, I only took one look, and he discovered me."
"What do you think of this person, Your Majesty?" Wang Muzhi asked again, he took out a roll of papers from his sleeve, if Zhao Yize was still here, he could see how many of them were his answer sheets.
"Here are a few of the more outstanding ones, take a look, Your Majesty?"
Xie Xun took the answer sheets and doubled them several times. After reading them one by one, he took some out and put them aside, and then gave the rest to Wang Muzhi.
"Just them."
In one sentence, the candidates for the palace examination were determined.
Three days later, Zhao Yize stepped into the Golden Luan Hall together with the two candidates, and under the watchful eyes of many ministers, he bent down and knelt down.
"The students kowtow to His Majesty."
"Flat body."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The three of Zhao Yize kowtowed again, and then slowly stood up.
The three of them raised their heads, and the face of the most honored emperor of the Northern Yan Kingdom on the dragon chair came into view, pale but dignified.
Zhao Yize was slightly taken aback, today he really had white hair as rumored.
Xie Xun first asked the other two questions. Seeing that although the two looked a little nervous, they answered the questions fluently, so they couldn't help showing a satisfied look.
"Zhao Yize." Xie Xun set his sights on the child of luck in this world, Zhao Yize came back to his senses, and stepped forward with cupped hands.
"The students are here."
"The title I gave you is Salt Luck."
As soon as the word came out, the whole court was shocked. Not long ago, a lot of corruption was involved in the Jiangnan area because of the salt transportation, which led to the fall of more than a dozen officials.
But now, the emperor took it out as an exam question, and everyone looked at Zhao Yize with sympathy.
If this one is not good, it is very likely that the head will fall.
Zhao Yize calmly cupped his hands and saluted, "Please give me a pen and paper, Your Majesty."
Xie Xun looked sideways at Liu Kang, who beckoned to the eunuch outside the door. After a while, someone brought up a table, and soon the pen, ink, paper and inkstone were arranged one by one.
Zhao Yize stepped forward, picked up a pen and dipped it in ink, then took a deep breath, and wrote the first stroke on the paper.
The hall was extremely quiet, and the incense in the censer was burning slowly. The ministers on both sides were very itchy, and they turned their heads from time to time to take a look. However, the emperor was still sitting above, and it was too obvious that he couldn't do it.
After about two sticks of incense time passed, Zhao Yize put down his pen, Liu Kang got the instruction, and together with another young eunuch, he carefully held up the paper full of handwriting in front of Zhao Yize, and presented it to Xie Xun.
Zhao Yize lowered his hands and waited quietly for a while, only to hear the emperor above speak.
"Well written."
Xie Xun ordered Liu Kang to put away the answer sheet, "Since this is the case, I will leave the reform of the salt administration to you, according to what you said above."
The whole court was in an uproar, and Zhao Yize was also shocked. Although he let go of writing, he also expected that the emperor would see the benefits of this new order, but he never expected that the emperor would directly say that he would handle this matter.
Zhao Yize was confused, and the ministers were even more confused, but——
Everyone looked forward to Wang Muzhi, and the head of the Wang family, who spoke the most, was not in a hurry, so what could they say?
Furthermore, the emperor will not listen to it.
Under the eager eyes of everyone, Wang Muzhi moved, and he took a step forward, "Since this is the case, then your Majesty has already made a decision in his heart?"
Xie Xun nodded, "First and third, champion Zhao Yize, second place Xia Wenhan, Tanhua Xi Yangyun."
As soon as the words fell, the three of His Highness knelt down in unison.
And then nothing happened to Xie Xun, Xie Xun stood up, and Liu Kang knowingly stepped forward to support Xie Xun's arm.
"Retreat."
The eunuch shouted, and all the ministers knelt down together.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty."
After about two breaths, seeing the emperor walking away, everyone got up one after another.
"Congratulations to the number one scholar." Wang Muzhi walked up to Zhao Yize with a smile, and looked at him with extremely kind eyes.
As expected of being an emperor, His Majesty entrusted him with the most difficult tasks as soon as he arrived.
Accidents happened frequently during the examination, and some people even passed out outside the examination room because they stood in line for a long time. Fortunately, Zhao Yize was in excellent physical strength, even from sunrise to sunset, he was still full of energy.
After entering the Gongyuan, Zhao Yize followed his number to find the corresponding room. It was four feet deep and three feet wide. There was only a table inside. There was a dark gray quilt on the table, and behind the table was a row of cabinets that could serve as The stool can be used as a bed for sitting and sleeping.
The whole space is extremely narrow, and you need to turn sideways even to get in and out.
Zhao Yize put down the baggage, in his baggage there were only two changes of clothes, the rest was the dry food and water prepared for him by the owner of the house where he was temporarily staying, and some steamed buns he bought himself.
And once the exam starts, no one is allowed to go in and out, and he has to spend the next five days and four nights here with these dry food and water.
Zhao Yize lit a candle, took out dry steamed buns and ate half full of water, then spread out the quilt and closed his clothes to sleep.
This time he didn't sleep well, someone next door snored all night, Zhao Yize's face was a little gloomy.
Someone came in with a gong and knocked it vigorously, Zhao Yize followed the crowd out of the hall, and looked at the person holding the gong.
"Everyone, tidy up, the chief examiner will be here soon." The man carried the gong and walked around the gates of each dormitory, making sure that everyone was up, and then walked out with the gong.
Not long after the man left, he saw three men in official uniforms walking in, two of them were in green official robes, and they held a tall stack of papers in their hands.
As for the person in the center, Zhao Yize narrowed his eyes, he had seen this person before.
"This is the chief examiner this time..." The officials next to him were introducing his identity, Wang Muzhi raised his eyes to look down, and the entire crowd met Zhao Yize's gaze.
Zhao Yize only looked back calmly, Wang Muzhi stared at it for a while, feeling bored.
I thought it would scare him, but it turned out to be this kind of reaction.
"Send the things down." Wang Muzhi tilted his head and ordered, "Hurry up and start, Your Majesty is still waiting for me in the palace."
The two officials should be, then raised their heads and shouted at the candidates: "Candidates please return to their seats, the exam is about to begin."
Zhao Yize returned to the dormitory to sit quietly, and after a while, someone handed out the paper.
"Next, I will announce the test questions." After Wang Muzhi finished speaking, he took out a finger-long sealed bamboo tube from his sleeve, opened the bamboo tube, and took out the rolled-up test questions from inside.
"There are ten questions in this scientific examination, and those who finish answering can leave early."
Following this sentence, the test questions were also released, and many candidates picked up their pens and wrote pen and ink on the white paper.
Wang Muzhi walked back and forth in the examination room, and after walking around a few times, he stopped in front of Zhao Yize's house.
Zhao Yize didn't bother with him, and wrote on his own. He had roughly figured out the identity of this person. He could be trusted by the emperor to grant the emperor's order, and his surname was Wang. In the whole world, there was only the head of the Wang family in the capital.
Today's uncle.
Zhao Yize had heard of this person's elegant reputation when he was in Luoze before, but seeing is not worth seeing once, the so-called Mr. Yujia who is as dignified as Yujia actually has such a bad taste in private.
Zhao Yize put aside the unnecessary distracting thoughts, and brought his attention back to the exam questions, he was so absorbed in writing that he didn't even know when Wang Muzhi left.
On the first day of the exam, the weather was calm, but on the third day, the person next door to Zhao Yize fainted and was carried out of the exam room, and the sound of someone falling to the ground could be heard in the distance from time to time.
The time in the examination room was extremely long, but for Zhao Yize, it was extremely short. When he finished writing the last essay, there were less than a dozen people left in the examination room.
Zhao Yize handed in the test paper, and now he had almost eaten his dry food, so he casually put his clothes in his bag, and walked out of the Gongyuan with the bag.
The sunshine outside was just right, dissipating the coldness and stale air in the Gongyuan.
Outside the tribute courtyard, someone was answering the questions of the candidates.
"Three days after the release of the list, everyone will still live in the original place. When the ranking comes out, the yamen will be able to find someone."
After Zhao Yize listened to the details, he carried his luggage and was about to leave, when suddenly a shadow fell in front of him.
"Master Zhao, my lord is here to invite you."
Zhao Yize raised his head, looked in the direction of the person in front of him, there was a carriage parked not far away, it was very ordinary and nothing special could be seen.
"Who is your adult?" Zhao Yize asked.
"My lord and young master met once in the deserted city." The man replied.
"..." Zhao Yize said helplessly, "Then let's go."
"Please." The man made a gesture, and then walked ahead to lead the way, Zhao Yize stepped up to follow.
When he got closer, Zhao Yize discovered that there was an extremely luxurious carriage behind that ordinary carriage, hidden behind it, nothing leaked out.
Wang Muzhi was standing under the carriage, and seeing Zhao Yize approaching, he waved with a smile, "Brother Zhao, long time no see."
"Lord Wang." Zhao Yize cupped his hands expressionlessly. "I don't know why you came here?"
"I thought that at least I would see a trace of surprise on Brother Zhao's face, but I didn't expect Brother Zhao to be more calm than I imagined."
"After you left, Quzhi County told me a thing or two." Zhao Yize replied flatly, "So, I have guessed a little bit about Mr. Mu's real identity."
"It turned out to be like this." Wang Muzhi clicked his tongue, thinking it's a pity, it turned out that it was Qu Zhixian who pulled his hind legs behind his back, no wonder he didn't scare Zhao Yize.
"Does Master Wang have anything else to do?" Zhao Yize asked, "If there is nothing important, please allow me to leave, so as not to cause trouble."
As the chief examiner, if someone finds out that Wang Muzhi met with Wang Muzhi in private, and if someone falsely accuses Wang Muzhi of giving him a missed question, it will be really unreasonable.
"It's nothing, just catching up with you." Wang Muzhi waved his hand indifferently, "You're too tired after the exam just now, so go back and rest first."
Zhao Yize clasped his hands in salute, and was about to leave when he suddenly noticed a sizing eye on him.
Subconsciously, he turned his head to follow the line of sight, and saw that expensive carriage, the curtains of the windows were shaking slightly, as if being blown by the wind.
There are people in that carriage.
This thought flashed through Zhao Yize's mind, then he looked away, turned and left as if nothing had happened.
Wang Muzhi returned to the carriage, and the white-haired emperor was resting on the carriage with his eyes closed, breathing very weakly.
Every time Wang Muzhi saw it, he felt depressed in his heart, but after finally letting the emperor come out to relax, he naturally couldn't show a sad face.
"Did Your Majesty see clearly just now?"
"I see clearly." Xie Xun opened his eyes, "His senses are very keen, I only took one look, and he discovered me."
"What do you think of this person, Your Majesty?" Wang Muzhi asked again, he took out a roll of papers from his sleeve, if Zhao Yize was still here, he could see how many of them were his answer sheets.
"Here are a few of the more outstanding ones, take a look, Your Majesty?"
Xie Xun took the answer sheets and doubled them several times. After reading them one by one, he took some out and put them aside, and then gave the rest to Wang Muzhi.
"Just them."
In one sentence, the candidates for the palace examination were determined.
Three days later, Zhao Yize stepped into the Golden Luan Hall together with the two candidates, and under the watchful eyes of many ministers, he bent down and knelt down.
"The students kowtow to His Majesty."
"Flat body."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The three of Zhao Yize kowtowed again, and then slowly stood up.
The three of them raised their heads, and the face of the most honored emperor of the Northern Yan Kingdom on the dragon chair came into view, pale but dignified.
Zhao Yize was slightly taken aback, today he really had white hair as rumored.
Xie Xun first asked the other two questions. Seeing that although the two looked a little nervous, they answered the questions fluently, so they couldn't help showing a satisfied look.
"Zhao Yize." Xie Xun set his sights on the child of luck in this world, Zhao Yize came back to his senses, and stepped forward with cupped hands.
"The students are here."
"The title I gave you is Salt Luck."
As soon as the word came out, the whole court was shocked. Not long ago, a lot of corruption was involved in the Jiangnan area because of the salt transportation, which led to the fall of more than a dozen officials.
But now, the emperor took it out as an exam question, and everyone looked at Zhao Yize with sympathy.
If this one is not good, it is very likely that the head will fall.
Zhao Yize calmly cupped his hands and saluted, "Please give me a pen and paper, Your Majesty."
Xie Xun looked sideways at Liu Kang, who beckoned to the eunuch outside the door. After a while, someone brought up a table, and soon the pen, ink, paper and inkstone were arranged one by one.
Zhao Yize stepped forward, picked up a pen and dipped it in ink, then took a deep breath, and wrote the first stroke on the paper.
The hall was extremely quiet, and the incense in the censer was burning slowly. The ministers on both sides were very itchy, and they turned their heads from time to time to take a look. However, the emperor was still sitting above, and it was too obvious that he couldn't do it.
After about two sticks of incense time passed, Zhao Yize put down his pen, Liu Kang got the instruction, and together with another young eunuch, he carefully held up the paper full of handwriting in front of Zhao Yize, and presented it to Xie Xun.
Zhao Yize lowered his hands and waited quietly for a while, only to hear the emperor above speak.
"Well written."
Xie Xun ordered Liu Kang to put away the answer sheet, "Since this is the case, I will leave the reform of the salt administration to you, according to what you said above."
The whole court was in an uproar, and Zhao Yize was also shocked. Although he let go of writing, he also expected that the emperor would see the benefits of this new order, but he never expected that the emperor would directly say that he would handle this matter.
Zhao Yize was confused, and the ministers were even more confused, but——
Everyone looked forward to Wang Muzhi, and the head of the Wang family, who spoke the most, was not in a hurry, so what could they say?
Furthermore, the emperor will not listen to it.
Under the eager eyes of everyone, Wang Muzhi moved, and he took a step forward, "Since this is the case, then your Majesty has already made a decision in his heart?"
Xie Xun nodded, "First and third, champion Zhao Yize, second place Xia Wenhan, Tanhua Xi Yangyun."
As soon as the words fell, the three of His Highness knelt down in unison.
And then nothing happened to Xie Xun, Xie Xun stood up, and Liu Kang knowingly stepped forward to support Xie Xun's arm.
"Retreat."
The eunuch shouted, and all the ministers knelt down together.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty."
After about two breaths, seeing the emperor walking away, everyone got up one after another.
"Congratulations to the number one scholar." Wang Muzhi walked up to Zhao Yize with a smile, and looked at him with extremely kind eyes.
As expected of being an emperor, His Majesty entrusted him with the most difficult tasks as soon as he arrived.
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