Zhao Xu sat upright in the Imperial Academy, watching the two people who were taken outside the Imperial Academy and bowed their heads in front of the door.

"The minister of the minister..."

"The Imperial Academy's life is sacrificing its children..."

"I respectfully ask Your Majesty for all blessings!"

Then there is the standard etiquette of worshiping the four faces.

Zhao Xu sat in the imperial hall, facing them across the threshold, and said simply: "Get up and talk!"

The lowest level of a Beijing official, a Tai student, was impossible to enter the imperial hall and sit against Zhao Xu in the feudal and strict orderly and hierarchy of the Song Dynasty.

Because, they are not worthy.

When a minister and a king are opposed to a man, this is called sitting and discussing the Tao.

At least, at least, you must be above the court to be qualified.

Huang Shang and Zong Ze stood up carefully, then bent down, lowered their heads, and stood at the door, not daring to look at the emperor in the imperial throne.

Zhao Xu looked at the two people at the door with great interest.

Huang Shang looks about forty years old. He has a very well-treated beard, and looks quite handsome and indeed has a fairy-like appearance.

It’s no wonder that in the palace examination in the fifth year of Yuanfeng, Zhao Xu’s father liked him very much at first sight and directly promoted him from fifth place to the top scorer in the subject.

However, compared to Huang Shang, the top scholar who is like a sweeping monk in the novel.

What Zhao Xu really cares about is the young man behind Huang Shang.

Zong Ze!

Modern textbooks describe the intersecting characters of the Song Dynasty, which are second only to Yue Fei.

He was rated as a national hero against the Jin general by modern times.

In the history textbook, there are even pictures of Zong Ze lying on the sickbed and shouting.

Cross the river! Cross the river! Cross the river!

What does others feel when they see this picture? Zhao Xu is not clear.

But when he saw the accompanying pictures in the textbook, he burst into tears.

Zong Ze is still just a young scholar today.

But he is strong, tall, and looks a little dark in his skin. This may be the result of his farming with his father and brother.

Zhao Xu let out a breath and calmed down his mind.

"Huang Qing, I heard Huang Kao talk about his beloved ministers." Zhao Xu said slowly: "Huang Kao's words, your articles, moral connotations, and beautiful literary talent, can be chosen in the world."

"Huang Kao also took a few poems from you to me!"

Zhao Xu said, and then recited: "I am ashamed of my strength and still have not yet been fulfilled, and I will give you a comment!"

"You have won the top scorer now and become an official. I wonder if you still have ambitions?"

For Zhao Xu, all the civil and military ministers who entered the officialdom of Xining and Yuanfeng could play the imperial examination card.

There is no way, who told him that he was young and had a hurry to ascend the throne without his own team?

It can only be a fox and a tiger's power, or it can only be a kind loan to carry forward.

And it just so happened that Huang Shang really owed Zhao Xu's father a favor loan that he would probably not be able to pay back in his entire life.

Because Huang Shang ranked fifth in the palace examination that year - the fifth in the examiner's examination.

Then why did Huang Shang become the top scholar?

Because Zhao Xu's father had read his articles and poems, he liked them very much - Shenzong once saw his articles and remembered several sentences.

So when he was singing the title, he saw that he was ranked fifth, so he directly asked for his paper and praised him as the palace, and immediately ordered the top scholar.

This is what happened publicly at the palace examination in the fifth year of Yuanfeng.

Anyone who participated in that year knew it.

Sure enough, Huang Shang burst into tears on the spot and kowtowed and said, "The last emperor is so kind, I will never repay my death!"

For Huang Shang, the late Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, the wise and filial emperor, was definitely the world's number one wise ruler and the most holy lord from ancient times to the present!

Why?

Because he wasted his time in the imperial examination before he was forty.

It can be said that he failed repeatedly after repeated trials!

It started from the time of obtaining the tribute qualification for the first time at the age of 26, until the age of 40, he entered Beijing again for the exam.

He failed again and again.

It was not until the fifth year of Yuanfeng that he finally passed the Ministry of Rites exam and successfully entered the palace exam. Then, he was appointed by the late emperor and promoted him to the top scholar.

He was also the last top scholar to be ordered by the late emperor himself.

For scholars and officials, this is the grace of knowing and the grace of promotion.

If you don’t try your best to repay, then you are not worthy of being a human being!

Now, the new king who is now appointed mentioned this matter when he first summoned him.

What's this?

The high hopes of the two generations of emperors!

This made Huang Shang develop a mentality of "Your Majesty treat me as a national scholar."

Suddenly, an inexplicable force injected into his body.

Huang Shang shed tears and bowed again: "I am willing to die for Your Majesty!"

"Even if you are driving the cattle and horse, you will never complain!"

Zhao Xu listened, nodded slightly, and said, "Good!"

"I wish you will live up to the imperial examination and don't let me down!"

Huang Shang bowed again: "I should die a hundred times to repay the late emperor, your majesty's kindness!"

very good!

Zhao Xu nodded.

This is what I said by my dear, not by me.

So please give me the 996th anniversary of the Imperial Academy!

Be my tool!

Until this moment, Zhao Xu finally moved his attention away from Huang Shang.

Then, his eyes were firmly staring at the young Confucian scholar who lowered his head and looked trembling.

Zong Ze!

The last prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture of the Song Dynasty and the last left-behind Tokyo.

After Jingkang, in the chaos of thousands of horses being silenced, he intercepted a glimmer of hope for the Song Dynasty.

Unfortunately, what I entrust is not human!

Wanyan Gou's cowardice and incompetence completely ruined all his efforts and sacrifices and his sacrifices.

Only in history books, the deafening cry of crossing the river! Crossing the river! Crossing the river!

Wanyan Gou let Zong Ze down and countless soldiers and civilians in Bian Jing and Hebei.

The Han army had to wait another two hundred and thirty-nine years for crossing the Yellow River and expeditioning the Central Plains in the north!

It will take until the thirteenth year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty.

The Pian An regime established by Wanyan Gou was in the 88th year after its demise.

Zhu Yuanzhang sacrificed the heavens in Nanjing and began the northern expedition under the banner of "expelling the barbarians, restoring China, establishing a guide to Chen Ji, and relieving the people". He went all the way and swept the world, and finally allowed the chaotic China to reunite, and the Han emperor once again ruled the world.

"Zongqing..."

"I will not let you feel sad again!" Zhao Xu said in his heart.

So he asked softly: "Where is Zong Ze, a student in the Imperial Academy?"

Zong Ze immediately became excited and bowed his head and bowed: "The Imperial Academy gave up his life, and bowed to His Majesty the Emperor and wished His Majesty a blessing and prosperity."

The Imperial Academy is the highest institution of learning in the Song Dynasty.

It is also a place that carries the political ambitions of the New Party.

If Wang Anshi had imagined that year, when everything was ready and when the Imperial Academy was enough to shoulder its due mission.

Then, the new party must do one thing - to stop the imperial examination!

From then on, all the scholars were selected from the Taixue School and all the three methods of giving up.
To be continued...