I am the empress, you still tell me to run away?

"By the way, Brother Lin, if you transfer the big gifts from the major families to the Ministry of Commerce, won't the major families regard you as an enemy?"

Zhao Yuehan asked what she was worried about.

Lin Xuan shook his head: "It's okay, when disaster relief, bring the names of the major families, and they won't have any complaints."

What's more, this aristocratic family wanted to kill him in the first place, and now the gift is nothing more than a tactic to delay the attack because he is the chief examiner of the scientific examination. After the scientific examination is over, he will prepare to continue to assassinate him.

Therefore, unless Sima Zhao was killed first, such a thing would never end.

Lin Xuan did not say these words, nor did he need to say them.

"Okay, I'll go fish first."

Lin Xuan put the bamboo slips back on the table in the house, returned to the pond under the willow tree, fished out a few big fish under the expectant eyes of the old servants Li Mu and Xiao Luoli, took them to the kitchen, and made a delicious meal of grilled fish , Braised fish in brown sauce, stewed fish head, Zhao Yuehan, old servant Li Mu, Xiao Luoli, Lao Xu and others were all smiling.

In the following time, Zhao Yuehan talked about building a blast furnace to make iron, and some things related to iron farm tools.

There was also mention about the escape plan, but after mentioning a few words, he took his old servant Li Mu and left with a food box containing braised fish.

……

Three days later, the aristocratic family members heard the news that Lin Xuan had donated various gifts to Xiangzhou for disaster relief, and their hearts were complicated.

"This Lin Xuan really knows how to be a man. Donate these big gifts, and don't forget to mention that they are from us."

A person in charge of a certain family said with an embarrassed yet polite smile.

This tea has a bit of bitter taste.

How do you make tea? !

"Lin Xuan should have noticed that after he presides over the scientific examination, he will no longer be the chief examiner. Even if he has many students, it will not help him until he becomes successful."

A person in charge of a certain family made a sharp evaluation.

"Lin Xuan wants to be protected by the imperial court. Even the empress can't protect her, let alone the imperial court?!"

Sima Zhao stood in the side hall and smiled.

Because of the Guozijian's assassination of the family, the Empress ordered two more families to be confiscated, implicating many people.

At this time, even he can only take no action for the time being, and wait until the scientific examination is over.

After all, the students participating in the scientific examination this time are basically disciples from aristocratic families from all over Daqian. If it really disrupts the situation, it is tantamount to making enemies of the aristocratic families in the world, even if it is him, the publicly acknowledged leader.

"Forget it, let you dance for a few more days."

Sima Zhao smiled and said no more.

……

Another five days later, the scientific examination will begin.

The entire scientific examination takes a total of seven days. From entering the test to the end of the test, candidates are not allowed to leave the test room, and they have to stay in a small room with a square of five meters to eat, drink and drink.

This is thanks to the fact that this is the first scientific examination, and there are not many students participating in the Tiandu scientific examination, a total of 831 people.

Otherwise, the workload will not be generally huge.

In the early morning of the same day, Lin Xuan put on the official uniform of the grand sacrificial wine, took a carriage, and arrived at the examination room.

Before time-traveling, he was the invigilator. After time-traveling, he was the one who invigilated others.

The examiner's feeling is not bad.

Chapter 78

The examination room for the scientific examination was newly built by the Ministry of Industry and covers a vast area, which is more than enough to accommodate the 831 candidates.

The other examiners in charge of the invigilation came from various ministries, mainly Lin Xuan.

Those in charge of guarding are all the elite of Beiluo Forbidden Army.

Basically, one person is in charge of one test booth and works in shifts.

Like the examinees, these elite imperial guards were not allowed to leave the examination room until the end of the examination.

The entire examination room is divided into men's room and women's room. In the men's room, there are mainly male soldiers and male examiners. In the women's room, there are mainly female soldiers and female invigilators.

"I've seen adults!"

As soon as Lin Xuan arrived, various invigilators immediately came to salute.

On the field, there was also a red-robed eunuch in charge of supervising the test papers, bowing to Lin Xuan.

The test papers are in the big box next to it. The whole box is tied with yellow cloth and sealed with red wax, so it is very well preserved.

The wax trace is complete.

If there is any incompleteness, it means that these test questions are at risk of being leaked, and an unknown number of people will be killed.

Lin Xuan returned the salute to everyone: "Everyone, don't say anything superfluous, start today, hard work!"

He went to the front, picked up a pen, wrote his name on the yellow cloth of the chief examiner, and stamped it with his seal.

Then he took the gong hammer tied with red flowers from the red-robed eunuch and hit it on the gong.

"Exam!"

Suddenly, a sound of gongs came from here.

"Exam!"

"Exam!"

The sound of the gong was transmitted directly outside the examination room, and 831 candidates began to line up outside the examination room to enter.

First of all, these candidates have to go through a facial feature check.

Each candidate must be consistent with the face book recorded in the handbook of the Shuzuoguan before he can enter the hall.

"Zhang San!"

A certain book assistant shouted.

Immediately a person named Zhang San came forward, the secretary took a look at Zhang San, and began to read from the face book: "Zhang San, with a black face, triangular eyebrows, and a slight beard."

"That's right, let's go in!"

"Thank you sir."

The examinee named Zhang San bowed his hands and entered the examination room.

A group of students from aristocratic families looked at the inspection in front of them, feeling nervous and excited.

In the second audit, all clothes will be taken off for inspection. Men will be inspected by male soldiers in the Forbidden Army, and women will be inspected by female soldiers in the Forbidden Army.

All clothes, hats, shoes, socks are inspected.

Anyone suspected of cheating will be caught immediately.

To be honest, Lin Xuan did not expect that there would be more than 200 girls in this scientific examination, but considering that there are many female officials in the Dagan court, all this is very normal.

After the verification is completed, the candidates are allowed to enter the arena, and enter their respective small shed rooms according to the grades.

In the room are a test table, pen, ink and paper, a wooden bed, a blanket, and a wooden barrel for metabolism.

Here, the red-robed eunuch untied the red ribbon on the box and took out a key: "Master Lin, please verify and seal the examination paper."

Lin Xuan took the key, checked the sealing wax between the boxes, nodded and said, "The sealing wax is correct!"

The red-robed eunuch immediately recorded: "Minister Lin Xuan, the chief examiner, verified that the sealing wax is correct!"

Lin Xuan looked at the other two deputy examiners.

The two went up to check, nodded and said: "The sealing wax is correct!"

The red-robed eunuch immediately recorded it and stamped it with a seal: "Master Lin, you can unlock the seal and distribute the test papers."

Lin Xuan stepped forward, first used the key to unlock the lock on the wooden box, and then drew out his sword and slashed at the sealing wax, and the box was opened.

There were a total of nine boxes containing the test papers, each of which was unlocked and opened by Lin Xuan himself.

The whole process was watched by everyone present, without any room for blinking.

A box represents a test question.

Lin Xuan took out an examination paper from each box, flipped through it himself, and then showed it to the examiners and red-robed eunuchs: "The examination paper is correct!"

The red-robed eunuch immediately recorded one by one: "Minister Lin Xuan, the chief examiner, the examination paper is correct!"

After such a ceremony, Lin Xuan stood aside and let the soldiers of Beiluo Forbidden Army enter the arena, took the test papers, and began to distribute the test papers.

It is worth mentioning that these examination papers are all woodblock printing, and I don't know what kind of talents the Ministry of Industry has produced, who can come up with black technology such as woodblock printing not long after the papermaking technology came out.

According to his original thinking, he thought that these examination papers would be copied one by one by some people.

If this is really the case, there will be at least 900 exam papers for each of the nine subjects, which is a very large project.

Because the test time is seven days and the test subjects cover a wide range, the test papers are distributed together. Candidates can choose what they can answer first to improve their self-confidence.

Of course, if you are confident, you are also allowed to hand in the paper in advance if you finish the answer in advance.

After all, the environment of this examination room is really not that good, especially eating and drinking in a small shed, after about a day or two, you will feel the smell...

Therefore, at the beginning, Lin Xuan, as the chief examiner, would go through the male and female examination rooms again.

However, from the second day to the third day, Lin Xuan basically stopped making rounds.

Even if you are patrolling the field, you will not approach it, just walk in the center of the gravel road.

After returning, Lin Xuan would rinse his mouth with some tea to purify it.

As for meals, every morning and evening, the coachman Lao Xu would bring little Luoli to either steam some corn, steam some sweet potatoes, purple potatoes, or grill some fish.

Of course, they couldn't enter the examination room either.

These meals will be notified by the soldiers of the imperial army, and then the red-robed eunuch who is in charge of the exam will arrange for the little eunuch to bring them in.

There is no way, the corn, sweet potato, purple potato and so on of the chief examiner Le Xianhou Lin Xuan's family taste so good, I don't know how many times better than gruel and rice cakes.

For the sake of Master Lin Xuan, the chief examiner, sharing with everyone, he arranged for the little eunuch who followed him to run errands every time.

This is the privilege that a few people have, and the rest do not.

On the fourth day, two examinees fell ill and fainted, and were rescued by the imperial doctor who had been waiting for a long time.

On the fifth day, a few confident candidates began to hand in the papers, but some candidates couldn't bear it when they saw someone handing in the papers, and went into shock.

This time the imperial doctor was at a loss and alarmed Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan used acupuncture again to pull the student back from the shock.

To be honest, these candidates are all from aristocratic families from all over Daqian, even if they are down-and-out aristocratic families, they are also aristocratic families. How can they have such a low psychological endurance?

On the sixth day, Lin Xuan felt that he was not an examiner, but an imperial doctor who rescued the scene.

Probably because the physical endurance, psychological endurance, and brain consumption of thinking have all reached the limit, and some students fainted and fell ill one after another.

Lin Xuan ran back and forth, saving several students who were almost dying of shock.

Several imperial doctors looked at Lin Xuan like a god.

On the seventh day, start rolling.

All students were required to sort out the test papers in order, and began to collect and seal them in order.

Lin Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.

To tell you the truth, after seven days, the whole examination room was already smelly.

Fortunately, there are only 831 candidates, not thousands, but tens of thousands, otherwise there is no way to stay in this place.

In addition, thanks to the talented officials responsible for the construction of the Ministry of Industry, the interval between each row of wooden sheds is very large, so that the ventilation environment in the examination room is good.

"This……"

After the invigilation was over, Lin Xuan watched the red-robed eunuch seal all the examination papers with wax. Lin Xuan thought he could have a good rest.

Unexpectedly, the red-robed eunuch saluted again: "Master Lin, please go to Wenyuan Pavilion to preside over the examination papers tomorrow."

Wenyuan Pavilion is a building on a small island in a large lake to the west of Tiandu Imperial Palace.

The above has always been used to keep various important files of Dagan, and there are many masters guarding it, but I didn't expect that it would be arranged as a place for reviewing papers.

This is not the key point. The key point is that Lin Xuan will probably live in Wenyuan Pavilion until the examination papers are finished.