Time was already tight enough, yet Emperor Cheng also had a whim to do something. He disliked that one set of questions was too little, so he divided the officials into several groups. Under the circumstances where they were not allowed to reveal the questions, he made a total of three sets of questions. Then he prepared to let his son casually choose one to use. To put it nicely, he strived for fairness and strictness.
The officials silently cursed that he was purely looking for trouble. It was just a county's provincial examination. Even if it was a metropolitan examination, there had never been such a big spectacle. Was there a need to? Moreover, at this juncture, there was really no one who would be interested in this question and take the huge risk to reveal it to the people below.
People who really did this were not daring because of their skills, but purely because there was a hole in their mother's head, an idiot!
Therefore, some people looked at Emperor Cheng's current actions as if they were looking at an idiot, and Emperor Cheng still thought that he was wise.
Because of this special period, it was understandable for Jin Qinwang to play such a trick. But as the monarch of a country, you regarded the originally more important matters as the most important, so important that you neglected other matters and wasted too much manpower and time. The gains simply did not make up for the losses. Many old officials sighed in their hearts.
Emperor Cheng sent the Blackguard Commander to personally bring people to deliver the questions and rush to Chongzhou Prefecture in Jiangnan at the fastest speed. At the same time, he brought back the two gold and silver ingots.
When the Blackguard Commander arrived at Chongzhou Prefecture and delivered the questions to Li Hongyuan, it was only two days before the scheduled examination time, and it was already June.
Li Hongyuan had only met this commander once when he was taking the test, and then he had left him with his direct subordinate, Li Suyan.
Speaking of which, as a Commander, his presence was not as high as that of a Commander. He even had to be respectful to his subordinates, which was enough. Fortunately, this person's mentality was relatively calm. He knew that he was only helping others to occupy a position and would sooner or later roll down. Thus, even if Emperor Cheng did not assign him, the important matters of the Blackguard were basically handed over to Li Suyan and became a hands-off shopkeeper. Li Suyan himself was very clear. He seriously completed the tasks that were given to him and did not overstep the boundaries of seniority.
Then Li Suyan brought him up the peak to see the two gold and silver ingots in front of the teacher's building. He had the same expression as other people who saw that scene for the first time, very unpredictable.
Jingwan also went to take a look at the two ingots. She simply couldn't bear to look at them. If it was anywhere else, the sense of dissonance would not be so strong, but that place was really …
Although she knew that Jin Qinwang had a special reason, Jingwan saw the old teacher shaking his head and sighing.
Jingwan really wanted to tell them that there was a special reason for this. That bastard did it on purpose.
The Blackguard Commander might have cared a lot about those test questions, but Li Hongyuan didn't take them seriously at all. He casually tore open the seal and flipped it open to take a look.
Although Jingwan had never seen the official exam questions, she had seen a lot of excerpts. Thinking about the duration of the exam, she knew that there were definitely a lot of questions.
In the first round, Sutra and Moyi, in Jingwan's opinion, this Sutra was a bit like the fill-in-the-blanks exams in her previous life. The questions were usually excerpts from a sutra and cover up a few words. The examinee had to fill in the missing words. As for Moyi, it was a question and answer about the sutra. The number of questions was so rich that it made Jingwan tremble a bit when she saw it.
In the second round, there was a poem with five characters and eight rhymes, four Sutra poems, and a selection of three books from several important books. There was also an imperial edict, a judgment, a statement, and a warning. These were generally limited by the number of words. The minimum number of words would not be less than two hundred. That was written in Chinese and not in the vernacular. Two to three hundred words, if translated, it might be more than a thousand.
The third round was a policy discussion. Combining the theory of Sutra, one would express their opinions or opinions on the current political affairs of the time. This wasn't like the Palace Examination, where one question could be solved. There were five questions. And in Qi Yuan, the results of the third round were quite important. Of course, as time passed, it had decreased compared to the beginning of the country.
Jingwan also didn't avoid it and looked, "Staying in the exam room for so many days in this kind of weather is really torturous."
"Is Wan Wan being generous again and preparing to use her own money to get them some ice or something?"
Jingwan raised her eyebrows, "That's a good idea. However, perhaps she doesn't need to use her own money. Let the high officials and noble people of Sichuan Zhoufu contribute to support the country in selecting talents. It's only a little ice, isn't it?"
Li Hongyuan chuckled, "In the eyes of some people, Wan Wan is probably the number one black-hearted person. After this trip to Jiang Nan, your reputation is probably even greater than this prince's."
"I'm helping Wangye attract hatred so that you can do things more conveniently. However, my reputation is definitely not as great as yours. No matter how many things I receive, no matter how much those people who give me things curse in their hearts, they will keep quiet on the surface. To the common people, I'm still the 'high and mighty' Jin Wangfei. "
Li Hongyuan nodded with a smile in his eyes. As for the meaning, there's no need to delve into it.
Then Jingwan thought of an important issue. As far as she knew, generally speaking, two days before the exam, the examiners would enter the imperial examination. First, a banquet would be held and all the inner and outer curtains officials would attend. After the banquet, the inner curtains officials would enter the inner curtains of the rear hall. The examiners would close the door and the inner and outer curtains officials would not interact with each other. Other than marking the exam papers, the inner curtains officials couldn't talk about other matters.
However, now, not to mention whether Jin Wangye was the main examiner or not, he was still very far away from the exam site. These questions should have been copied by each examinee, but now there were only three original questions. It should be known that in the whole of Jiang Nan, there were more than twenty thousand examinees every year. On average, there were more than five thousand examinees per fu. With each person having a set of questions, the workload was definitely not small.
Even if they set off now, they would only reach Sichuan Zhoufu tomorrow. Was it certain that the exam questions would be delivered to the examinees the day after tomorrow?
Jingwan raised her doubts, "… Ah Yuan, this time you seem to be very unreliable." She ridiculed.
At this time, the examiners of Sichuan Zhoufu, one by one, were probably like ants on a hot pan, anxiously running around in circles.
Li Hongyuan disagreed and was not the least bit anxious, "Just adjust the order of the exam and it will be over. Just put the first round at the end. How simple."
Jingwan opened her mouth and was speechless. According to what he said, indeed, the content that needed to be copied the most should be put at the end. In the first few days of the exam, there was no need to worry about not being able to produce the exam papers. As for whether it was in accordance with the rules or not? Ah, the Living King of Hell was born to break the rules, or it could be said that the Living King of Hell was not in accordance with the rules.
The Commander of the Blackguard breathed a sigh of relief. The things that were originally packed to become an Emperor had not been sent away yet. Now, they were all given to him. Then, Li Hongyuan and the others flung their sleeves and boarded the ship to leave for Sichuan Zhoufu. When Li Suyan came to say goodbye to this superior, he only knew about it. It could be said that he was dumbfounded. He also did not know the specific time of the exam, otherwise, he probably would not be so relaxed. Now that he knew, his forehead was full of cold sweat. He inwardly blamed himself, did he delay the time?
Leaving Chongzhou Zhoufu this time was not like leaving Kai Ming Fu with "anger". Therefore, the people who should be taken away were all taken away. In the end, the people who stayed in the other courtyard were only missing the two who were strangled to death by Li Hongyuan. The rest were the same as when Jingwan and the others moved in.
The furens whose family property had shrunk by more than half did not have the mood to care about these things. Now, their impression of Jingwan was that, on the surface, she looked gentle and kind, but in reality, she had a Buddha's mouth and a snake's heart. She was ruthless and black-hearted, greedy by nature, a bottomless pit of dissatisfaction. Not only that, she was also jealous and did not allow any other woman to get close to Jin Qinwang. How could such a person marry into the Imperial Family? Sure enough, her disguise was too good and she deceived too many people?!
In addition, the fact that Jin Qinwang was henpecked was very surprising. — — Otherwise, why would he guard such a woman and ignore other beauties. Before Jin Qinwang got married, wasn't he famous for being dissolute and fond of beauties? This kind of change, could it be because he suddenly cultivated his heart and character? It was absolutely impossible. As the saying goes, mountains and rivers are easy to change, but one's nature is hard to change. Therefore, it could only be that Jin Qinwang Fei was too fierce that even Jin Qinwang, who was known as the Living King of Hell, could be "tidied up" by her.
The matter of money could not be discussed, but this aspect could be discussed. Wasn't it completely consistent with some of the rumors in Kai Ming Fu?
Just as they were about to set sail on the canal, someone came to report that there were two young masters and young ladies from the aristocratic Min clan who were out on a visit and were about to return home. They learned that Jin Qinwang was heading to Chuan Zhou Fu and wondered if they could travel together to protect themselves.
Li Hongyuan waved his hand indifferently, which could be considered as agreeing. After all, the Min clan could be considered to have paid a lot of Qi Yuan.
Jingwan saw a flash of ridicule in Li Hongyuan's eyes, "What?"
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