Many ministers were dissatisfied with the fact that Your Majesty had asked Fu Xiaoguan to take part in the palace examination. This broke the rules!
You said that out of thousands of students, only 300 were selected for the Autumn Examination. This guy eliminated the vast majority. And the rule of the Palace Examination over the years is to select the top three from the top ten. Since this Fu Xiaoguan didn't participate in the Autumn Examination, he was not eligible to participate in the Palace Examination. Otherwise, how could the other students feel at ease?
If those failed students started making trouble, it would be troublesome. Scholars are very powerful with their mouths. Thinking of this, many people looked at Fu Xiaoguan again.
This kid scolded the Minister of Rites so much that he vomited blood and fainted. You can imagine what kind of scene it would be if thousands of students started to make trouble.
Of course, at this moment many officials did not care about His Majesty's ridiculous arrangement.
Yan Beixi, who was standing in the front row, kept his eyes on the nose and his nose on the heart from beginning to end. It was not until Shi Chaoyuan vomited blood and fell to the ground that his brows twitched.
Standing behind him was his son Yan Shidao. He looked at Fu Xiaoguan a few more times because he heard that Dong Shulan liked this boy. He had originally agreed to propose marriage to Dong Shangshu, but Dong Shangshu seemed quite reluctant in the past two days. Now he knew that the intention came from Her Royal Highness the Princess in the palace, so he put the proposal on hold for the time being.
How did this guy know Her Royal Highness the Princess?
Minister Dong Kangping's eyelids have been twitching since Fu Xiaoguan came in. He witnessed the whole process and called this boy rude and reckless in his heart. They were from the Shi family, one of the six major families in the capital!
Shi Chaoyuan is the Minister of Rites and the current head of the Shi family. He has great power and influence. You, Fu Xiaoguan, are just a small landowner by the river, and you don't have any judgment! You seem to have won a game now, but you don't know how much disaster you have sown!
It's like trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm, alas... unless His Majesty protects him. But since His Majesty has asked him to take part in the palace examination, if he can write a good essay, perhaps His Majesty will really protect him.
We need to wait and see what happens between this kid and Shulan.
In short, all the civil and military officials in the court are interested in Fu Xiaoguan, so let's see how his policy proposal turns out.
The ten Jinshi candidates had already reviewed the topic and started writing furiously, but what about Fu Xiaoguan? All the officials were immediately in a bad mood. He was still grinding ink!
I swear to God, Fu Xiaoguan didn’t mean it.
He really has never ground ink!
Chunxiu was the one who did all the work at home. Even when he was writing the couplet on the Wangjiang Tower in Shanglinzhou, he asked the Ninth Princess to do it.
Okay, take your time, this article is not difficult.
The emperor also looked at Fu Xiaoguan. What's wrong with this kid? Can't he write? I should have known not to ask him to go.
Come to think of it, this guy is just a small landlord in Linjiang. It's great for him to write poems and songs, but he probably doesn't know much about fighting.
There are many people who think the same as Your Majesty. These people all know Fu Xiaoguan's background. Although he is in Linjiang, he is famous in the capital and has risen suddenly like a bright star. Naturally, these people will find out some details about Fu Xiaoguan.
It turns out this guy was a scholar, his family was a landlord, he was previously unruly but was awakened by Dong Shulan, who was on a business trip to Linjiang, and he had a brain disease...
It was such a person who appeared in the court at this moment, sitting there and writing a policy paper with ten Jinshi, and it was about war, which really put him in a difficult position.
Fu Xiaoguan finally ground the ink, picked up the brush, dipped it in the ink, thought for a while, and then put pen to paper.
Hey, this kid started writing.
It is definitely not an option to hand in a blank paper. You have to write something. You will definitely not be able to compare with those ten Jinshi, especially these young men from the six major families.
Their families had long and distinguished ancestries, and if they weren't completely privy to the goings-on at the imperial court, they at least had heard about it. These six families already had sons serving in various frontier armies or the imperial guards, some even becoming generals. They were bound to know more about military affairs than the small landowners of Linjiang.
Therefore, Fu Xiaoguan will definitely fail. This is the conclusion reached by everyone, including Your Majesty.
But he was not a Jinshi, so it didn't matter even if his writing was bad, Emperor Yu Yin thought.
Fu Xiaoguan put down his pen and wrote:
To build a country with lasting stability and prosperity does not rely on dreams, it will ultimately resort to blood and iron!
How to achieve the greatest victory with the least blood is what I want to explain in this article.
Over the past thousand years, the situation of war has not changed much. The decision of victory or defeat is still whether there are sufficient supplies and whether the soldiers are willing to fight. The decisive battle on the plains is mainly based on cavalry charges, supplemented by infantry advances.
However, the common people believe that under this form of warfare, countless soldiers will be killed or injured every time a city is captured. This is not advisable and should be changed.
First, the quality of soldiers is more important than their quantity.
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Fu Xiaoguan spoke eloquently, as if he had returned to his past life. He talked about the training of elite soldiers, the selection of weapons and armor, the gathering and transmission of intelligence, raids, beheadings, and so on. And then...
He found that there was no paper.
How to do this?
He raised his hand and said, "Your Majesty, I have no more paper."
The emperor was flipping through a book and was stunned when he heard this. It’s just a policy paper. Two pages are not enough for you to write?
"How many more pages do you need?"
"Well, five pages first."
Are you writing a book? The ministers thought so, and the emperor was also stunned, "Yes!"
Fang Wenxing had already finished writing by this time, but when he heard that Fu Xiaoguan actually wanted to write five more pages...What are you doing?
Eunuch Jia sent over five pieces of paper, took a look at them, and immediately felt unwell.
What kind of word is this!
He turned and walked away, thinking that the paper was wasted.
So, Fu Xiaoguan continued to write with great enthusiasm. After a stick of incense had passed, all ten Jinshi had handed in their papers, but this guy was still writing.
Everyone had no choice but to wait for him, and the old ministers suffered. They had been standing for the whole morning and their backs were sore.
After another stick of incense, Fu Xiaoguan finally finished writing.
He heaved a long sigh, feeling much more satisfied with this article than the disaster relief policy paper. After all, this was his forte, and he could write it freely and smoothly.
He put down his pen and looked around, only to find that he was the last person to hand in his paper. Fortunately, there was no time limit for this palace examination.
Eunuch Jia came down, collected the scroll, and presented it to the emperor.
The emperor then picked up the essays and began to read them one by one. It was not until he saw Fu Xiaoguan's article that he frowned slightly.
Eunuch Jia checked the time and whispered, "Your Majesty, it's noon. It's time for dinner."
Emperor Yu Yin put down the stack of essays in his hand, thought for a moment, and said, "You all may withdraw first. The top three candidates for the palace examination will be posted in Lanting Pavilion tomorrow. Yan Beixi, Yan Shidao, Fei Bang, Dong Kangping, and Ning Fachun, the five of you, please come to the Imperial Study at 3:00 PM to discuss matters."
The ministers took their leave, and as Fu Xiaoguan was about to leave the hall with the others, he heard His Majesty say, "Fu Xiaoguan, please stay."
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