The first rebel of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 587 What happened to frame you?
Li Shimin looked at the paper in front of him and felt that his eyes were dim.

There are at least two hundred copies of this pile of papers.Anyone who saw it would be flustered.

Standing in front of him are people from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials.

This time the imperial examination was coordinated by the two departments.

They looked at Li Shimin, who was in a daze.

It was already afternoon at this time, and if I didn't review the papers, I was afraid that it would be too late to release the results tomorrow.

Hou Junji first asked: "Your Majesty, what's the matter with you? If you don't start reviewing the papers now, I'm afraid you won't be able to release the list tomorrow!"

Li Shimin said: "There are so many papers, which is much more than usual. In previous years, there were dozens of papers at most, but this year it has become about two hundred. Did you deliberately release the water? Or is it that the quality of the candidates this year is relatively high? ?”

As soon as he said this, everyone below was shocked.

The servant of the official department at the bottom said quickly:

"Your Majesty. These papers were cross-reviewed by nearly a hundred officials at the same time. It was selected from [-] papers! The quality of these papers is so high that it is difficult to choose. The minister's spirit is to Datang selects talents. Do not let a person with lofty ideals lose this opportunity. Therefore, put them all together and let His Majesty review them!"

There are two meanings to this statement. First, there are more candidates today. Second, the quality of these people's papers is extremely high.

There is nothing wrong with these words, Li Shimin keeps saying that he wants to select talents, but now there are so many talents for him to select, but he talks too much! ?
Li Shimin could only sigh and said, "Okay, let me take a look first!"

So, he took a quick look at it.

After reading a copy, I felt surprised and couldn't stop.

At this moment, Fang Xuanling said, "Why don't you ask the ministers to review together?"

Hou Junji immediately said: "I don't think it's necessary, let His Majesty go through it once, it's so fast! The more you read, the more you will influence Your Majesty's thinking."

When Li Shimin heard the conversation between the two, he became alert. If it was before, he might have agreed directly, but not now!
They cannot be involved.

He looked at Hou Junji again, nodded and said, "Yes, that's right, let me go through it once, and tonight I must choose someone who satisfies me!"

Then he looked straight up.

Ignoring Fang Xuanling, Fang Xuanling didn't say anything anymore, just curious, Li Shimin is like this sometimes, and he didn't care about anything.

Li Shimin looked at it, but when he saw the second volume, the expression on his face became more surprised, and he kept saying, "It's really a good article, it's a good article!"

There were some elements of doubt in the past, but now they have disappeared.Because it's so good!It was like letting him open the door to a new world.

In fact, two hundred or so articles are not too many. An article can be at most 2000 words, or four 10,000+ words, and you can’t read it all in one night?
Now people can read a hundred words in one night, a mere 40 characters, will they be endless?
That would be so sorry.

These are added because someone screened them out, and he only needs to go through them again.

Li Shimin's literary attainments are also very strong, and he has read them all once, and he has remembered his views!

He also divided the papers he had read into three, six, and nine grades.

The best ones are placed in front of him, the relatively poor ones are placed on the left and right, and the ones he thinks are the worst are thrown away.

When everyone looked at those papers, it wasn't that they were bad, but the ones above were even better!

This continued until the second half of the night.He stretched himself.

sighed and said:

"Finally, the review is over! Come on, how many papers are there in total?"

At this time, an eunuch stepped forward and counted the papers together.After the final calculation, they hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, these papers total 105!"

105 copies!Why this number? !
When his words came out, Li Shimin was shocked, and Hou Junji was even more shocked.

The expressions of the two were wonderful.

How is this possible, how could Li Yin know this?How could he know what the number was?
Does he count?
This is impossible.

But the fact is like this.

It was Li Shimin who tried it himself.

105 copies, very clear.

Seeing them like this, the eunuch asked them to count them again.

Finally reconfirmed: "It is 105 copies!"

Fang Xuanling and the others wondered.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter? Are 105 papers too many or too few?"

He was very ignorant.In fact, Li Shimin was suspicious of him, and he was at a loss!
Li Shimin ignored him, so he rummaged around, and based on his memory, he picked out two more papers and put them on the stool.

Tell the eunuch.

"When the list is released tomorrow, there will be 107 Jinshi candidates! There must be no mistakes!"

His behavior is puzzling.Why?Does the number 107 have a magical meaning?or why?
Of all the people present, probably only Hou Junji knew what the relationship between 107 and 105 was.Even if there is only one difference, the result is different!
Fang Xuanling didn't quite understand Li Shimin's approach.

"Your Majesty, why is this? Those papers are obviously not good, why did you pick out two papers and put them in it? Isn't this bad?"

Li Shimin waved his hand and said: "There is no one else, I just think these two people are the ones who can be made. So I want to give them a chance, so I put them together! That's it!"

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Hou Junji.

Hou Junji understood immediately.

"Yes, Your Majesty is wise!"

Then he murmured: "Li Yin, tomorrow you will know that it will be miserable, and I will definitely let you take out the distribution rights of Zhenguan News. It will prevent you from controlling public opinion."

As for Li Shimin, of course he wants to obtain the right to distribute newspapers.

Today is different from the past. When newspapers were being printed, Li Yin mastered printing and paper manufacturing.

Now, is this printing technique a secret? Even if the imperial court takes over, it can be printed out, and he can even seal up Li Yin's printing factory.

In this world, I am afraid that there is nothing that Li Shimin cannot do. For his own benefit, he can do anything.

Finally, Li Shimin said: "Okay, after tomorrow, let those 107 people come to the Daming Palace, and I will give them canonization, so that they can work hard for my Great Tang!"

"Yes! That minister is waiting to leave!"

Everyone retreated.

In this way, until the next morning.

Zhenguan Daily and Huangbang were issued simultaneously, and at this time, Hou Junji took a large number of troops to Shengtang Group to ban the newspaper.

Such a line, mighty and mighty, is very eye-catching.

At this time, Cheng Yaojin and others also received the news that Hou Junji was heading towards the group, and he was so frightened that he went straight out the door.

Next, I'm afraid something big is going to happen.

When Hou Junji arrived, he happened to bump into Kong Yingda heading towards the group.

"Hou Junji, who is this?"

he asks.

(End of this chapter)