Poor Family Chapter 873

  Chapter 873 Jingzhao solution test

On the eighth day of November, before dawn, there are already crowds of people in front of the Gongyuan Square. The Gongyuan is the first examination room, and there is a sub-examination room which is Fuxue. A total of 30,000 candidates will take this year's Enke Fajie Examination in these two places .

  Shaanxi Road actually has only three test centers. Besides Jingzhao Mansion, there are two test centers in Yan'an Mansion and Hanzhong Mansion. However, Jingzhao's candidates account for 80% of the total candidates, and the remaining two test centers only have two to three thousand people for reference.

There are more than a dozen long queues lined up on the Gongyuan Square. Candidates are entering the examination room after searching and verifying their identities. Hundreds of lanterns are lit in front of the gate to illuminate the inside and outside of the gate like daylight. A dozen invigilators are strictly enforcing the examination According to the rules, it is not allowed to carry any items other than name rolls, and those who are found carrying book slips or those who take the exam are caught will be punished with disqualification or even life-long ban depending on the severity of the circumstances.

On the tall building of the Judgment Court, Li Guangzheng, the chief examiner, stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back and silently watched the team on the square. Li Guangnian was about fifty years old, with a thin body, a long gray beard under his jaw, but his eyes were piercing. He is a descendant of Li Jing, the king of Ruyang in the Tang Dynasty. As a descendant of Li Tang's clan, he has a special feeling for Jingzhao in his heart. At this moment, at his feet should be the old place of Taiji Palace, an inexplicable emotion It made his eyes a little moist.

  At this time, Zhang Ling, the deputy chief examiner, slowly stepped forward, looked at the candidates on the square and said, "I wonder how many of them will pass the provincial examination next year?"

Li Guang quickly hid the emotion in his heart, his eyes returned to normal, he said with a faint smile: "I have read the test papers of the top three scholars in Shaanxi Road over the years, and I feel that they are better than the scholars of Shaoxing Mansion in terms of classics and poetry. There is still a gap, the key is still lagging behind in enlightenment education, and the degree of recognition of reading by the people in the Northwest Third Road is far less than that in the south of the Yangtze River. The number of scholars who participated in the Fajie Examination in the four counties of Shaoxing Prefecture alone reached 30,000, which is almost the same as that in Shaanxi Road gone."

Zhang Ling said with a smile: "Actually, it is also because of the continuous war in the northwest, and the common people always have a kind of precarious anxiety, so they don't pay much attention to reading. On the contrary, the martial arts of the three routes in the northwest are prevailing, and the famous families in the northwest are the Liu family, the Zhong family, the Yao family and the Yang family. They are all families of military generals, not many civil servants."

  Li Guang nodded, "I can understand, so all the champions in the martial arts examinations over the years have come from the Northwest. This means that one side supports the other side."

  At this time, an examiner stepped forward and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, it's time."

  Li Guang turned back to the examiners and said, "The time is up, let's start unpacking the test papers!"

This year's Fajie Examination is still the same as last year's, with three subjects: Confucianism, Policy Theory, and Poem Composition. Close the door of the examination room and unseal the examination papers at the same time.

As the bell rang, the Fajie Examination began. At this time, the sky was not yet completely bright, and candles were lit in every number room. The dozens of alleys were very quiet, only the rustling of writing was heard, and the invigilator He paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, monitoring the actions of the candidates in the cell.

At this time, several examiners approached with lanterns, followed by Li Guang, the chief examiner, and Li Yanqing, the economic envoy. Li Yanqing was here to inspect the imperial examination. For the economic envoy in charge of military affairs, the imperial examination is extremely important As one of the most important government affairs, as the highest government official, it is his duty to inspect the imperial examinations.

The familiar scene in front of him made Li Yanqing feel as if he had returned to the moment when he took the imperial examination many years ago. The person sitting in the number room seemed to be himself in high spirits and full of thoughts, while next door sat a fat man who cheated in the exam, Li Yanqing A smile could not help showing at the corner of his mouth, Fatty Zheng hadn't seen him for almost two years, and I don't know how he is now?

Li Yanqing did not speak, and patrolled around the examination room. Then he and Li Guang came to the judging court. The judging officers came forward to salute one after another. Fujun is the chief examiner, but he can't delay the government affairs because of this, and you two have to work hard."

   "This is what it should be. Mr. Li, go ahead and get busy with government affairs, and just wait until the last day to check it out."

  Li Guang smiled wryly and said to Li Yanqing: "Emissary Jinglue should report to the imperial court that there is really no need for the head of the state government to be the chief examiner. It is actually most appropriate for Xuezheng to be the chief examiner."

It is not Li Yanqing's appointment of Li Guang as the chief examiner, but the latest regulations of the imperial court. The highest government officials of various state governments must serve as the chief examiner of the Fajie Examination to show that the imperial court attaches great importance to this imperial examination. The general dissatisfaction with the general dissatisfaction of the examiners, the examiner must enter the examination papers at the latest five days in advance, isolated from the outside world, and can only come out after the results are announced.

Complaints are nothing but complaints. Chief officials from all over the country dare not go against the will of the imperial court. Shaanxi Road is similar, but Li Yanqing has a flexible technique. Li Guang only serves as the chief examiner in name. It doesn't affect the government affairs. As for whether the imperial court will be dissatisfied, Li Yanqing can't control that much. A word of wartime status can stop the mouths of the guys in the Ministry of Rites.

   Coming out of the Gongyuan, Li Guang sighed and said, "This time, the examinees from Yanqing Mansion should also be moved to Jingzhao Mansion."

   "Mr. Li's words mean something!" Li Yanqing smiled lightly.

   "Actually, Jinglue should also be very clear in his heart. The Yellow River is about to freeze, and the Yellow River will no longer be a natural danger. This time the Song army is forcing Xixia to fight. Does Jinglue think that Jin Bing will be indifferent?"

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said: "The Jin soldiers have captured Hebei and Hedong, and the next attack should be on the Central Plains, Shandong and Shaanxi Road. From a common sense analysis, the Jin soldiers should launch an attack on Shaanxi Road, but according to what I got According to information, Jin Bing did not assemble an army in Taiyuan, but the Daming Mansion has already assembled an army of 100,000. The previous 8,000 Jin Kingdom Han army crossed Henan to invade. Guanzhong launched an attack, but as you said, Suizhou and Yan'an Prefecture may become the targets of Jinbing's attack, and its purpose is to contain us."

   "Will the Economic Strategy send troops to support the Central Plains?"

   "Let's see the situation! If the situation in the Central Plains is critical, sending troops is inevitable."

At this time, if Li Yanqing felt something, he suddenly raised his head and looked up to the sky. Although it was early in the morning, the clouds were already low and white snowflakes were falling from the sky, "Ah! It's snowing." Li Yanqing's eyes There was a flash of surprise.

   "Isn't it normal for it to snow in winter?" Li Guang asked puzzledly. He had been in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, so he really didn't know the climate of Jingzhaofu.

  Li Yanqing shook his head, "Usually the first snow falls in late November, and today is the eighth day, so the first snow has come. I'm afraid the Yellow River will freeze early."

A trace of worry appeared in Li Yanqing's eyes, and he looked up to the sky again, only to see that the snow flakes were getting denser and bigger, and a bunch of snowballs fell like flakes, and the sky became gray. Gradually, the vision in the distance also became blurred, and the wind began to howl, which turned out to be a blizzard.

  The east bank of the Yellow River in Daning, Shizhou, is a typical terrain of the Loess Plateau, with vertical and horizontal gullies and broken ground. A turbid tributary roars towards the Yellow River with a lot of sediment all year round.

This tributary is called Xinshui, and it can only be counted as a small branch among the many tributaries of the Yellow River. However, when a blizzard swept across both banks of the Yellow River, the surroundings became a vast white world, and Xinshui suddenly became gentle, and the flow speed It became extremely slow, throwing a piece of wood down, and after a few hours, it was almost still in place.

More than a dozen Jin soldiers were standing on the bank and using long cables to test the situation below the water surface. When the big tree trunk they threw could not reach the bottom, they finally came to the conclusion that there was a thin layer of floating ice on the surface, but the river water Still flowing, the key is that the lower layer of the river seems to have frozen solid.

The hydrological situation of the Yellow River is more complicated. Often the surface of the river freezes first, but the bottom is still flowing, and the surface is frozen, and the bottom is also frozen, but the middle layer is still flowing slowly. Therefore, to determine how deep the middle layer is, it is The key to detecting the freezing of river water is the key. According to experience, there is no need to detect the Yellow River, as long as the tributaries are detected, the situation of the Yellow River can be judged.

   "Pass me the spear!"

  A Jin soldier shouted that although they were wearing Jin soldiers' hats, they spoke very fluent Chinese. Needless to say, these dozen Jin soldiers were also Han soldiers, soldiers of the Song army who surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin.

When the golden cavalry swept across Hebei and Hedong, a large number of the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty surrendered to the golden soldiers and became golden soldiers. They not only took on the dirty work of surveying, transportation, logistics, etc., but also tried to attack for the golden soldiers. In the end, they could not escape the whole army. Annihilating order.

The leader of the Jinbing took his long spear and slowly went down the river bank. He stood by the river all the time, stretched out his long spear and stabbed at the river surface. He couldn't go on stabbing anymore, and he changed positions several times in a row, all in the same situation.

  Jin Bing shouted excitedly: "The bottom of the river has been frozen solid. Tonight, the entire river surface will be frozen solid."

   Soon, information about the freezing of the Yellow River was sent from various places on the north bank of the Yellow River to Yanshan Prefecture in the form of Eagle Letter.

  (end of this chapter)

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