The Summoning of the Troubled Times at the End of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 494 The Second Imperial Examination

490th Second Imperial Examination

After that, Qi State seemed to calm down in an instant, without any military actions.

This all stems from the fact that Jiangling is holding the second autumn imperial examination since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

It is only said that after arriving in Jiangling, Gao Qi also fulfilled his promise and let Cai Yong serve as the Imperial Academy's sacrificial wine.

It has to be said that Cai Yong is indeed a gold-lettered signboard, after Cai Yong served as the Imperial College Jijiu.

This action immediately attracted many talented people from all over the world, and they rushed to Jiangling together. Suddenly, Jiangling became a sensation again, and many talented people came here one after another.

Among them, there are later writers such as Wang Wei and Wen Tingjun who were summoned out of the world.

Some of these writers studied directly in the Imperial College, and some secretly hibernated around Jiangling, preparing to wait until the autumn imperial examinations to learn what they had learned, and then they were appreciated by Gao Qi and entered the Imperial College.

Almost every talented scholar has his own ideas, but their goal is the same, that is to enter the Imperial College, and they all come for the world's great scholar, Cai Yong.

The situation is developing in a favorable direction. At this moment, the generals headed by Li Cunxiao finally understand why Gao Qi tried his best to win Cai Yong to go south.

From this point of view, this is indeed Gao Qi's foresight and foresight, and his vision is very long-term!

However, at this time Li Cunxiao was on his honeymoon, and his relationship with Cai Yan was in the running-in period.

Even Gao Qi never imagined how a person who is the strongest in martial arts can get together with a rare talented woman in the world, and how they can know each other and love each other.

Gao Qi expressed deep doubts about whether the two really have a common topic together.

However, the fact is so, Gao Qi didn't stop anything, it was all going on in an orderly manner according to the happy side of everyone.

After arriving in Jiangling, it was Lu Lingqi who was really sad. Because of Lu Bu's defection on the way, Diaochan's family was devastated!

However, Gao Qi did not embarrass the family of three, and arranged a residence for Diao Chan's family in Jiangling, and did not abuse Lu Bu's family because of his defection.

After all, Gao Qi is well aware of Lu Bu's nature, he is a man who forgets righteousness when he sees profit, and betrays his master.

It is worth mentioning that after returning to Jiangling, Zhao Yun met Wang Zhaojun, the eldest daughter of the wealthy Wang family in Jiangling, and got married.

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Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the hottest summer has passed and early autumn has entered.

In September, it is the season when the branches of willows wither and drop their leaves. In this golden scenery, the second autumn imperial examination of Qi State officially kicked off and was held in Jiangling.

It's just that, compared to the peace of Qi State, the north at this time is full of wars, and the anti-kings of all parties are annexing each other.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang, who was entrenched in the Jianghuai River, signed an armistice treaty with the Qi army, recuperated, and waited for the autumn harvest to officially begin to use troops against the Jiangdong princes.

Its intention is already obvious, it is to eliminate all the anti-kings and unify Jiangdong.

In this imperial examination, the excitement was even higher than that of the first imperial examination. Based on this, Gao Qi deliberately stayed during the imperial examination for safety reasons.

All the garrisons around Jiangling were transferred back, led by Zuo Xiaoqi General Gong Yuan, who was responsible for the security around Jiangling City.

As for the imperial examination venue, Gao Qi also dispatched Dian Wei and Chen Dao to lead the imperial guards stationed outside, responsible for the safety of the candidates.

After all the preparatory work was completed, the imperial examination officially began.

The difference from previous years is that the competition at this time starts with the art of war and strategy. As for literature and majors, there are fixed venues, and candidates go to the exams according to the prescribed venues.

The chief examiner of literature deserves to be Cai Yong. As for the admission of majors, the corresponding majors should be admitted.

Over the past year, Gao Qi has made great efforts to build new schools in the territory and popularize education. Therefore, more and more people study in the territory and master cultural knowledge.

However, the only shortcoming is that movable type printing has not yet been invented, which is the biggest problem.

Although paper has become popular nowadays, the biggest problem is the lack of movable type printing.

After all, no matter how much paper there is, there is no printing technology, and copying various articles, even poems and songs, requires the children of the aristocratic family to complete.

It should be noted that in ancient times, there were almost no people who understood culture, so even if Gao Qi tried his best to set up a school, there was no printing.

It is still empty talk to suppress the family, but it will be the family that masters the inheritance of knowledge, which is almost an endless loop.

However, in this professional admission, one person has gradually entered Gao Qi's eyes, that is, Jin Dajian, a Liangshan literati summoned by Gao Qi.

Jin Dajian was highly accomplished in sculpture. After the imperial examination, Gao Qi personally summoned Jin Dajian to tell Jin Dajian what he had learned about movable type printing in later generations.

Later, he told Jin Dajian about some of his familiar invention techniques, and asked him to try to invent movable type printing.

After all, only when movable type printing is popularized can Gao Qi truly grasp the knowledge and hold it firmly in his hands.

In this way, in terms of popularizing education, Gao Qi can be like a fish in water and realize it according to his own ideas.

Although Gao Qi knows the invention technique of movable type printing, as the saying goes: "There is a specialization in the art industry, you are not a person who eats this bowl of rice, so it is impossible to create it."

Therefore, after Gao Qi informed Jin Dajian of the idea of ​​movable type printing, he gave him full authority to study and try.

"King Qi, Jian can promise you to invent movable type printing, but Jian still has one more request, can he transfer the master scholar Xiao Rang as Caomin's deputy."

"After all, Cao Min was friends with him in the early years. We know the truth and cooperate closely. If the two cooperate, the possibility of developing movable type printing will be higher."

Seeing this, Gao Qi has a good impression of Jin Dajian, how can Gao Qi who has been in a high position for a long time fail to see Jin Dajian's plan.

Jin Dajian is nothing more than wealthy and wants to share a piece of the pie with his friends, so he asks for it.

However, there was no harm in this matter, and Gao Qi readily agreed.

"Jin Dajian, if you lack human, material and financial resources in the process of research, you can come to find Gu at any time, and Gu will do his best to help."

"Caomin thank King Qi for his appreciation, and will definitely do his best!"

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The imperial examinations that lasted for several days gradually came to an end. In the martial arts competition of the imperial examinations, the final martial arts champion was undoubtedly Xue Rengui's son Xue Dingshan, followed by his wife Fan Lihua.

Since Gao Qi stipulated that women can also take the exam before the imperial examination, Fan Lihua also participated with her husband Xue Dingshan.

As for the next Art of War strategy competition, Wei Qing deserved the top spot, after all, Wei Qing has a commander of 101.

Gao Qi originally thought that Pei Xingjian would be next, but when his eyes caught him, Gao Qi felt that happiness came too suddenly.

Because, so many talents have joined the competition.

Below Wei Qing is Yu Yunwen, a general of the Southern Song Dynasty, followed by a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Rengui, the famous Tang Dynasty general who defeated the Japanese and Baekje allied forces in history.

As for Fan Zhongyan, who was born a long time ago, followed by Pei Xingjian.

Gao Qi never expected that so many talents would appear during the imperial examination.

A total of 2200 martial arts students participated in the imperial examination, including 120 horse fighters, 500 infantry fighters, and the rest were archery.

The reason why the proportion of horse battles is so small is actually caused by the favorable location.

After all, there are many hills and mountains, dense tributaries, and complicated water systems in the south. For southern men, basically they will not focus on proficient war horses.

Judging by their stature, almost all of these hundred samurai came from the north, but because it was during the war, the rulers of various places strictly guarded the borders to prevent population loss.

It should be noted that during wartime, population is the most important aid, whether it is conscription or production, population is inseparable.

As for the final elimination, there were only more than 1420 people left. Regarding this, Gao Qi arranged them in the army and distributed them according to their abilities.

In the imperial examination, it is the lower-level officers who really enrich the Qi army. In fact, the importance of the lower-level officers is self-evident!

If it is said that the general is the soul of the army, then the low-level officers are equivalent to the limbs.

Just think about it, wouldn't an army with a sound military system be elite?
Even if there is any problem with the general, but the bottom-level officers are restraining the soldiers and horses of the battalion, the sergeants under his command can still fight the enemy bravely, and the impact of losing the general can be minimized.

After the distribution of the martial arts exams, Gao Qi also focused on the literary exams anxiously.

It has to be said that there are a lot of real talents in the literary examination. For example, Su Shi, Du Fu, Liu Zongyuan and other Tang and Song writers participated this time.

At this moment, even Cai Yong, who is knowledgeable and talented, can't help but feel dizzy, and he doesn't know who to set as the champion of the new subject for a while.

After all, there are too many writers, and everyone's masterpieces can be called peerless masterpieces.

However, as the saying goes: everyone picks up materials with great enthusiasm. After discussing with many well-educated people from the Imperial Academy, Cai Yong made a decision and reported to Gao Qi.

In the end, Gao Qi personally announced the list of No. [-] Scholar and Tanhua, among which Du Fu is the new No. [-] Scholar this year.

The second place in the list is Li Bai, who is outstanding in his literary talents, but the appearance of the list of potential candidates immediately caused a huge wave among the talents.

Because Tanhua turned out to be a woman named Li Qingzhao, who was a poetess in the Southern Song Dynasty.

How could the normally proud talented scholars gather together to express their protest.

Seeing that there are more and more trends in this matter, when Gao Qi heard about it, he suddenly became furious and crushed the memorial in his hand.

"These scholars are deceiving people too much, are they really lawless?"

"Allowing women to participate in the imperial examination is an isolated idea. Women should be equal to men. Why can't they participate?"

"All the talents lost to a woman, why don't you go back and reflect on yourself, how dare you still have the face to make trouble here?"

"Dian Wei listened to the order, and quickly summoned the Imperial Forest Army to surround all the talents. Cun Xiao and Gu went to meet these lawless talents."

At this moment, Gao Qi really couldn't bear it any longer. Indeed, the purpose of Gao Qi's imperial examination was to attract talents.

However, the candidates who passed the essay test either entered the Imperial College to teach, or were assigned to teach and educate people in schools in various counties.

As a teacher, what is the most important thing?
It is not the so-called how much talent and learning, what really matters is the issue of self-cultivation.

It should be noted that if as a teacher, he doesn't even have the minimum morality, how can he teach and educate people, and really won't lead to bad students?

You must know that students who are in their childhood have not yet formed their own xinxing.

It can be said that at this time, they are almost the most vulnerable psychologically, and they are easily affected by external things.

It is conceivable that if there is no teacher with morality to teach and educate people, how much impact will it have on students?

Mr. Kong Lao in the Spring and Autumn Period said: "Don't do to others what you don't want yourself to do to yourself!"

In other words, don't impose your own ideas on others. In Gao Qi's view, don't pass on your bad aspects to the next generation.

Therefore, in the imperial examination, Gao Qi paid the most attention to moral character, followed by talent and learning.

Therefore, today's scholars have united to make trouble, which has made Gao Qi make up his mind.

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Outside the palace, at this moment, about a hundred scholars were gathered in a group to make trouble.

Among them, the scholar who encouraged and took the lead was named Li, and he was ranked fourth in the list of the imperial examination.

It is only one step away from Tanhua, so it is the most resentful among them, and it is completely normal to incite all scholars to make trouble.

However, what none of the scholars expected was that their actions violated Gao Qi's rebellion.

In just a short moment, under the command of Dian Wei, the Imperial Forest Army continuously poured out of the palace.

Afterwards, all the gathered scholars were immediately besieged in the middle, and they stood upright with their guns horizontally, majestic and murderous!
The Imperial Forest Army is the personal guards of the palace, and their job is to protect the safety of the palace, to put it bluntly, they are Gao Qi's personal guards.

The origin of this Imperial Forest Army was actually the white-eared soldiers trained by Chen Dao, and they had repeatedly made military exploits as early as in the previous battles in northern Xinjiang.

Therefore, at this moment, the murderous aura emanating from the soldiers of the Royal Forest Army suddenly made all the soldiers tremble and were at a loss.

As time passed, the scholars surrounded by it couldn't help becoming more and more uneasy.

After a long time, under Li Cunxiao's close guard, Gao Qi slowly walked out of the palace, facing all the scholars, he couldn't help but stand in front of him.

"According to Gu's knowledge, the list of successful candidates has been announced, and the scholars who were not successful should have left one after another, right?"

"I don't know if you are here for something important?"

"Gu is very busy on weekdays. It's okay if you have important things, but if you don't have important things..."

Although Gao Qi didn't say what he said later, his sudden expression shocked all the scholars present.

Seeing Gao Qi's expression, the timid scholar couldn't help swallowing, feeling fear instinctively.

In fact, almost all of these hundreds of scholars were eliminated, but they valued themselves blindly.

Therefore, it led to a wave of resentment, and that's why he was bewitched by the leading scholar surnamed Li and participated in the trouble.

However, with the changes in the current situation, after discovering that Gao Qi's attitude is very tough, they all backed down one after another.

After all, human beings are soft animals, and when they realize that they know they can't do anything, they can't help but shrink back.

Seeing this, one of the scholars slowly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, in fact, we are all very puzzled."

"We were eliminated, and we didn't complain. Our skills were not as good as others, but we couldn't figure out why King Qi allowed a woman to take the imperial examination."

"Furthermore, it has become a Tanhua, and a woman takes office. This is unprecedented, and it has never been heard of since ancient times!"

For a while, following the remarks of this scholar, the rest of the scholars couldn't help but echoed.

Then there was a strong exhortation from the first sentence to the last sentence, which was nothing more than asking Gao Qi to cancel Li Qingzhao's prospecting and choose someone else.

But, is this possible?

Seeing this, Gao Qi was sneering, and couldn't help ridiculing this move!
Indeed, in Gao Qi's view, this is the most naive trick, not as skilled as others, but still refuses to admit it.

Just when Gao Qi was about to reprimand, a woman walked out slowly, begging Gao Qi.

For a moment, Gao Qi couldn't help but become more upright about his character, and his inner determination became more determined.

(End of this chapter)