In the next few days, Yan Nan obediently traveled between Liang Mansion and Deji Hall.

Every time she learns acupuncture, Xiaorou follows in, and He San and his wife are guarding outside the house.

After noon, Doctor Lu left Dejitang and went to Tang Mansion to do acupuncture for General Yu, while she stayed in the house to practice acupuncture with a straw man.

Everything is normal.

On June 15th, the Wuju Provincial Examination will be held, with written tests and field tests for two days. On the third day, there will be a unique science for people with special talents.

Yuan Zheng entered the venue early in the morning with Yu Liu and began his first subject - a written test.

The martial arts in Daliang were different from the previous dynasties, and the style of emphasizing literature also affected the martial arts. Therefore, in addition to cavalry and archery and kung fu, military theoretical literacy is also one of the necessary subjects, aiming to select Confucian generals who value both civil and military affairs.

The examination content mainly consists of the "Seven Books of the Martial Classics" compiled by the Daliang court.

This kind of intention is very good. Unfortunately, most of the people who take the martial arts exam are lower-level martial artists or soldiers who fail to take the imperial examinations, and there are no academys that teaches military theory for people to learn. It depends entirely on the examiners' own abilities, resulting in very few people who can be selected.

Not only should the talents selected from the military election enter the palace to train first, even if they are selected as generals, they still have to be under the jurisdiction of civil officials personally appointed by the officials. The so-called "the military power of the civil system will be controlled by them."

This not only leads to difficulty in making decisions in a timely manner and slow communication of messages, but also leads to a decline in the status of military generals.

Victory is ineffective: if you win, it means that your superiors have good command; if you lose, it means that your general loses on the battlefield.

Over time, there has been no general available, and Daliang has been in peace for three hundred years. If it weren't for the Western Qiang turmoil, the Northern Barbarians invaded and Emperor Yongning, he would have woken up a group of people in the court who were sleeping soundly and dreaming of peace in the Spring and Autumn Period. The martial arts were probably forgotten.

Therefore, this year, the first new martial arts examination was opened to supplement the gap between soldiers and the question was not difficult.

Yuan Zheng has written the last volume, similar to the policy theory in the scientific examination. Let’s take a look at the topic:

"In the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo in Taizong, Taizong ordered 170,000 municipal officials and civilians to prepare for the expedition. In that year, Taiyuan was pacified and the troops were observed in Youzhou, and more than 42,000 horses were obtained from Fen, Jin, Yan and Ji, and the number of horses increased..."

"... Today, hundreds of thousands of soldiers under the armor were killed, only 200,000 horses... I lost my dangerous land many times, and the border was unstable..."

It is a question about the animal power of Daliang. Simply put, it is when Daliang was founded, he went to the western border and fought against Goryeo in the east, occupying all the good horses in the world. Now, hundreds of years have passed, but fewer and fewer war horses have been repeatedly invaded by foreign tribes. Why? How to explain it?

Yuan Zheng was already very worried when he read the questions. Why can't Daliang defeat the Western Qiang or the Northern Barbarians?

Horses are one of the keys.

There are also many war horses in Daliang, but they are scattered. The border lines are long, southwest, southwest, northwest, and northeast, and there are all small chaos, and they are divided and wide. It is rare for soldiers to be under their command to be thin horses.

The Northern Barbarians have standard configurations of one man and three horses. With such a huge gap, it is clear who wins and who loses when encountering grassland guerrilla warfare.

Yuan Zheng thought about what Master Yuan told him, and he had already made a decision when he picked up the pen. The meaning in his heart was like a surging river flowing out of the pen.

When I finished writing, the sun outside the window was already tilted to the west.

Yuan Zheng easily left the examination room and went home to spend the night peacefully with Mrs. Yuan's second wife asking about her well-being, pinching her legs and pounding her back, and serving soup and tea.

On the second day, the art test was divided into four parts: lifting stones, shooting steps, shooting horses, and fighting.

Yan Nan went out the house like usual and entered Deji Hall. He San and his wife were guarding the wing room in the yard as usual, while Yan Nan continued to learn acupuncture in the house.

But her mind flew to the west school grounds of the outer city not far away. She had already prepared dress-ups and other items, and just waited for Doctor Lu to leave, and she also left.

On the school ground, the martial arts ceremony was in full swing.

This is a grand event that has reopened the martial arts ceremony for decades, and the venue is not blocked. In addition to the test personnel, relatives and audiences can also watch, which makes the three layers of the sidelines full of people.

Mrs. Yuan Er brought jade, pearls, green jade and other whole class to the east of the schoolyard, which was specially opened for nobles.

He set up a pergola and placed a rattan chair, then arranged a tea stove and snack plate. He found a Qianli mirror from somewhere, and followed Yuan Zheng on the field, watching his son compete happily and sadly.

The last afternoon was to lift stones and step shooting. The stones were purely judging by weight and arm strength, and it ended soon. Step shooting was also simple, divided into one mile, three mile solid target shooting and flying target shooting.

Each person has three chances, and they get the score according to the target, and finally rank by the score.

The venue is large, and a row of thirty targets are carried out at the same time, and it ends in more than an hour.

There were fifteen people in Manchu, including Yuan Zheng, two famous martial artists from Tang Ershao, as well as Wen Zhun, a new literary master from the Wen family who had recently entered Beijing, a big man named Xiang Kuohai, Gu Yuzhi from Jiangnan, Ma Xian from the northwest, and Hu Zongman from Lingnan, who had entered Beijing from other places.

Mrs. Yuan Er raised her hands with a sore smile. Seeing that Yuan Zheng was full of money, she put down her arm and lie on the rattan chair in one breath to call her, "Hurry, rub it quickly!"

Qingyu hurriedly stepped forward and rubbed her arms.

When the competition was over, Jindou, Cui Shiyi and Yu Liu, who were watching Yuan Zheng’s competition on the other side, walked towards this side.

Yuan Zheng came to the sidelines in sweat. Mrs. Yuan trotted all the way up to meet him, and was so happy that she held his face and rubbed it, "My son is so powerful, he must be the top martial arts champion, so he won't run away!"

Cui Shiyi was also happy: "It must be no problem. I have seen it all, and there is no one who is better than the fourth brother in the audience!"

Yuan Zheng let his wife help him to the bottom of his own awning, and said with a smile: "I'm just trying to save my test now, mom."

Jindou looked at it very seriously and was worried: "There are quite a lot of amazing people this time. The third master Wen and the one named Xiang Kuohai are all the ones who have to make the most of the money in the shortest time."

Yuan Zheng took the veil and cleaned his face, and looked at the field.

Everyone prepares lunch themselves, and most of them rest in the hall prepared by the government.

For example, Yuan Si, Tang Er Shao, and the third master of the Wen family are rich and powerful, and their families have already built a pergola on the sidelines.

The Wen family's pergola happened to be next to the Yuan Mansion. Wen Zhun, the third master of the Wen family, was tall and big, with deep facial features and dark skin. At first glance, he was a person who grew up on a horse's back. He was quite heroic and had a sense of arrogance.

The other person Jindou said was Xiang Kuohai. Yuan Zheng also noticed on the court that this person ranks first in the top spot with a stone, and he was particularly relaxed when he opened his bow, which means that his arm strength was very strong, and he was also good at bending the bow and shooting the archery head, which was fast and stable. However, this person had never heard of it before.

"Eleventh." Yuan Zheng called Cui Shiyi, "Go and inquire about the origin of Xiang Kuohai?"

Cui Shiyi got the order and ran away happily.

The sun was too strong here, and after lunch, Mrs. Yuan Er retreated to the back house to rest. Yuan Zheng and others were guarding the ice basin under the pergola while chatting while waiting for the test.

Cui Shiyi got the letter back, "Master! Guess what origin is the Xiang Kuohai?"

Yuan Zheng raised his eyebrows and waited for him to continue talking.
Chapter completed!