This made the people in the hall feel a little relieved, and as more and more test papers were sent in, order was restored.

But as the saying goes, a needle in a bag will reveal its sharpness, some papers, even if the names are not written on them, are enough to astonish the emperor and his ministers in the Huangyi Hall with their extraordinary strengths, and they have to be treated specially.

It really is a ‘strength’!

Zhao Jiu looked at the test paper in his hand that was filled with neat small characters, and felt that the admiration in his heart was as endless as the surging Yellow River... He could clearly count how many horizontal lines and vertical columns there were. This test paper, which was submitted very early, actually had more than 10,000 words!

Using a brush, he wrote more than 10,000 words in such a short period of time, which can be compared with those typists who wrote online novels in later generations!

No, those typists are not worthy of carrying shoes for this person!

He wrote such a long and neatly written policy question with a brush in the palace examination. How could it be compared with those online writers who just sit in front of their computers and type nonsense?

That’s not all.

Emperor Zhao spread out the test paper carefully with awe in his heart, under the awe-inspiring gazes of several generals around him. However, after reading the first sentence of the article, he felt his whole body tremble, and he made up his mind on the spot to make this person the number one scholar!

As the saying goes:

"Tang and Wu rose to prominence by listening to the people, while Jie and Zhou fell by listening to heaven. Your Majesty is now in the midst of war, with chaos outside and strife inside, yet you have proposed five articles to me, falsely claiming that heaven and people are one. How absurd is that?"

This was the first time that Zhao Jiu saw someone clearly state that between the will of heaven and the will of the people, one must take a clear stand and choose the will of the people!

Based on this, even if this person can only write nonsense articles, he deserves to be the top scholar and can become the Chief Censor in the future.

And Zhao Jiu continued reading, and the more he read, the more he liked it… First of all, this person probably didn’t understand specific military issues very well, and his discussion of military defense strategies was only in general terms. But he was very frank at the beginning, believing that the Song Dynasty had a large population and a solid foundation, and as long as they ensured that they would not make peace with the Jin people, victory or defeat would not matter for the time being, and as long as they persisted, the final victory would surely belong to the Song Dynasty.

This is very fitting, and there is also a hint of flattery of government policy.

After reading for half a day and finishing several thousand words, Zhao Jiu turned the page and saw the section on employing people. He was stunned for a moment because the man said again:

"The Prime Minister is roughly the same as Yan Shu and Wang Gui; the Privy Councilor has been in office for a long time, but he does not have the decisiveness of Han Qi; the Deputy Prime Minister is diligent, but he does not have the worry and joy of Fan Zhongyan. Your Majesty wants to use these people to restore the two rivers and restore the country. Unless all the generals have the ability of Han Bai, Wei Huo, is it possible?"

Zhao Jiu was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help but burst into laughter, laughing so hard that tears came out... but he decided to give this guy a lesson and change his place to runner-up.

After all, let's not talk about whether this person should say these big truths. Just talking about how hard the prime ministers work, is it something you, a palace examination hero, can complain about? And how do you know that my generals are not as capable as Han Baiwei and Huo?