Just as Liu Rengui was preparing for the memorial, Li Chengqian personally presided over the palace examination in the Jiade Hall. This time, the exam was called for the Chongxian Pavilion to recruit scholars and scholars, but at that time, Li Chengqian also recruited people through the imperial edict issued by the court.

Strictly speaking, this is a system test. The system test is an examination for recruiting special talents by the court. In the early Western Han Dynasty, the emperor often issued edicts for examinations, such as the court recruiting talents who understand arithmetic, recruiting civil servants, etc. Later, such edicts were missing, and anyone recommended them to the court for any talent needed by the court.

Because the relationship between Li Chengqian and Li Shimin is too strong now, the East Palace presided over this exam from beginning to end, and most of the candidates who came to take the exam were candidates from the southeast. Because after the collapse of the Southern Dynasty, which was originally centered on Jinling, some officials came to Chang'an to continue to be officials, most of the literati had fewer opportunities to become officials. In history, the Southeast gentry never rose up in the entire Tang Dynasty.

This time, the Guanzhong gentry refused to cooperate with Li Chengqian, so most of the people in the first exam were scholars from Southeast and Shandong.

Li Chengqian watched hundreds of scholars walk into the Jiade Hall to salute him, and smiled and said, "Flat!"

"Thank you, Prince!"

Li Chengqian looked at these people and asked lightly: "There are many rumors about the Lone King in Chang'an City now, aren't you afraid?

Do you still dare to come to the East Palace to take the exam?”

When the scholars heard this, they were stunned at first. After a while, a scholar bowed and said, "I have heard from the Prince of Crown Prince. Most of me and others have only arrived in Chang'an City this year. Although I often hear rumors and rumors slandering the Prince of Crown Prince, I have seen that the Prince of Crown Prince loves the people as much as my son and is deeply loved by the people.

Confucius said: It is better to those who are good at the villagers like them, and those who are not good at the same time hate them.

His Royal Highness is deeply loved by the people, so he is naturally jealous of the thieves of the remnants of the people. How could my ministers and others understand the truth?”

Li Chengqian nodded with satisfaction when he heard this and said, "It's rare that you all understand the truth. Today's exam is very simple, just a practical strategy of "On the Selection of Officials of the Tang Dynasty". Now I will start writing until noon to hand over the paper."

At noon, all the candidates handed in the papers. Li Chengqian asked Zhu Suiliang, Yan Shigu, Xu Jingzong and Zhang Shiheng to review the papers in the Jiade Hall according to the test papers in the Ming and Qing Hall. He walked out of the Jiade Hall to see how he prepared what he arranged yesterday.

As soon as Li Chengqian walked out of the Jiade Hall, he saw Qiu Shenji, who looked anxious, waiting for him in front of the hall. When he saw him coming out, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is not good!"

Li Chengqian hurriedly stretched out a hand to signal him not to hurry, and asked lightly while walking forward slowly, "What's wrong?"

"Nearly a thousand gentry in front of Chengtian Gate knelt down and begged Your Majesty to depose the prince." Qiu Shenji followed Li Chengqian and said quickly.

The people of the Tang Dynasty would regard the opinions of gentry more seriously than those of ordinary people.

Li Chengqian's face suddenly looked ugly when he heard this. He took a deep breath and slowly vomited it out, and then said angrily: "Go, call everyone to Chongjiao Palace."

After saying that, Li Chengqian walked onto the chariot and asked someone to carry him to the Chongjiao Hall quickly. Along the way, Li Chengqian's face was gloomy and said to himself: Just thinking about lowering the rent, but he forgot that there are still people who are thinking about his position as the prince.

After entering the Chongjiao Sect, Li Chengqian saw thousands of guards from the Eastern Palace, standing in a row in the square in front of the Chongjiao Hall.

Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui both rode on their horses and saw Li Chengqian sitting in a chariot and hurriedly carrying the horse to meet him.

The two sat on the horse and clasped their fists at Li Chengqian and said, "I will meet the prince!"

Li Chengqian raised his hand with a gloomy face and said, "Go to Chongjiao Palace."

The two of them made way and asked Li Chengqian's chariot to go first, and then rode a horse to follow behind. As soon as Li Chengqian's chariot entered the army, the soldiers in the square knelt on one knee, led by Wang Fangyi and said loudly: "See Your Highness the Prince."

The voices of thousands of people were together, and Li Chengqian felt a solemn aura coming towards him. He couldn't help but sit up straight and shouted: "The soldiers are flat!"

"Thank you, Prince!"

Li Chengqian knew that all this was prepared by Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui for the sake of precautions, so he didn't say much. When everyone entered the Chongjiao Hall, Li Chengqian, except for the four people who had read the papers in the Jiade Hall and Pei Xingjian, Xue Dading, Du He and Zhao Jie who were preparing to explode on the Longshouyuan, were all in the Chongjiao Hall.

Li Chengqian walked up to the throne and sat down. Without waiting for everyone to speak, he said domineeringly: "Send some old, weak, women and children to take wooden sticks and beat those bastards to the orphan king out of the imperial city."

Everyone in the hall was excited when they heard this. Only Li Yifu opened his mouth with some concern and wanted to say something, but Li Chengqian raised his hand to stop him.

Li Chengqian looked at Xu Jingzong and said, "The Lord King wants to see, how can the Tai Chi Palace's imperial guards do these old, weak, women and children?"

Everyone nodded thoughtfully when they heard this, and then they understood the benefits of doing so.

"But you can't get the cheaper ones." Li Chengqian said as he looked at Xue Rengui and said, "Find some reliable people, pretend to be a commoner and beat some of the orphan king to death to let them see some blood."

"The last general will take the order!" Xue Rengui hurriedly held his fists and took the order away.

Seeing this, Qiu Shenji went out to make arrangements.

Everyone in the palace knew that Li Chengqian was so angry that he didn't dare to say anything. He thought to himself: It was indeed a person who had something to do with Qin Shihuang.

Li Chengqian watched Xue Rengui and Qiu Shenji go out, and said to Su Dingfang: "Su Qing's family asks all the soldiers outside to go back to the camp to standby."

"I will obey the order at the end." Su Dingfang bowed and accepted the order and left.

Li Chengqian looked at Su Dingfang going out and said to the old ghost: "Go and ask the Dianchang Office to prepare meals. After lunch, the Lone King will leave the palace and go to Longshouyuan..."

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Li Shimin in Liangyi Hall was almost driven crazy.

Yesterday, Li Shimin returned to Liangyi Hall and came up with an idea, and issued an edict to reduce the tenant rent to 45%. This will not cause excessive harm to the interests of the gentry, but also give an explanation to the tenant farmers.

However, the young official standing in front of Liangyi Gate still did not go back to handle official duties after hearing this, and as soon as the edict arrived at the provincial government, Li Anren was detained.

Because Zhang Chengxing, the minister of the subordinate minister, did not agree to refute the edict, Li Anren knelt in front of the Liangyi Hall with the edict, asking Li Shimin to take back Cheng's order.

Of course, the most annoying thing about Li Shimin was the nearly a thousand gentry kneeling in front of Chengtian Gate. These gentry actually asked him to depose the crown prince. Can you just argue about the deposed crown prince?

Li Shimin was irritated and circled around Liangyi Hall. All the eunuchs in the hall knelt on the ground and did not dare to move for a moment.

I don’t know how long I have been away, but Li Shimin seemed to be tired of walking and sat on Luo Zhi’s bed and grabbed a cup of tea and drank it hard. Then he smashed the cup to the ground and shouted at the door: “Why haven’t Fang Xuanling arrived yet?”

An eunuch said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, Duke Liang lives in Jiucheng Palace, 300 miles away from Chang'an..." Before he could finish his words, he was stopped by Li Shimin.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"All are bastards!"

Li Shimin now knows very well that the people in Chang'an City except Li Chengqian are going to overthrow Li Chengqian. For the sake of the stability of the court, he does not believe anyone in any side.

So he had to send someone to invite Fang Xuanling, who was far away in Jiucheng Palace.

...

"Speak to Your Majesty, outside--" Li Daliang, who was wearing armor, knelt on one knee at the door of the hall to report to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin raised his head and looked at the door in a calm tone: "What happened outside?"

"Your Majesty, thousands of elderly, weak, women and children came outside Chengtian Gate, and they held wooden sticks to break up the gentry kneeling outside Chengtian Gate." Li Daliang didn't know that some people started to kill after chasing some gentry out of the imperial city, and had already killed dozens of people.

Li Shimin heard this and said loudly: "Good fight!"

Li Daliang looked up at Li Shimin's face and continued: "But the elderly, weak, women and children also knelt outside Chengtian Gate and asked the court to issue an order to reduce the tenant rent."

"Bastard!" Li Shimin kicked the little bitch in front of him and sat there gasping.

"I will report to Your Majesty, and Changsun Taibao asked for your visit."
Chapter completed!