At the hour of Mao, dawn breaks.

The sky was slightly bright, and when the first ray of golden light fell on the Golden Palace, reflecting a brilliant golden light.

Emperor Xiang Yanran's imperial guard finally arrived at the Golden Palace under the escorts of a large group of eunuchs and guards and ascended to the throne.

"The emperor is here!"

Cai and the eunuch shook their screams.

"Long live my emperor!"

The disciples crawled one after another, kowtowed and bowed, and were extremely excited.

For many of them, this may be the only chance to attend the palace examination in this life, to pay homage to the Golden Palace.

From then on, I could only look at the Jinling Imperial City from afar.

There is a warming stove in the hall.

Xiang Yanran took off his big fur, sat down with his arch, looked at the young men and said with a smile: "Flat!"

"Thank you for your kindness!"

The crowd stood up and sat upright on the tusk. The table was covered with bamboo slips with already-named names, and they were ready to pick up their pens.

Chu Tianxiu looked up, picked up the pen, and took a curious look.

Perhaps because he rarely sees it, he has no deep impression of the emperor.

The Emperor of Chu who demoted him to Prince Ping's Mansion as his son-in-law was only in his forties or fifties. He was still a young and middle-aged man with a majestic appearance and a slightly vicissitudes of life.

It has a bit of the legacy of Emperor Taizu Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu.

According to historical records of the Pingwang Mansion, the emperor used the "Huang and Lao Art" to govern without doing anything and rest with the people. Apart from his youth, he did nothing to do.

"I..."

Xiang Yanran said lightly.

The emperor began to speak, every word was made of good words, every word was made of pearls.

The crowd of the hall held their breath and listened carefully, for fear of missing a word.

"Worried...ah!"

The emperor seemed a little melancholy and sighed softly.

In the hall, a brief silence fell into a state of silence.

The disciples listened even more.

The emperor is worried?

OK, good thing!

When the elders come to the palace examination, they just come to share the worries of the emperor.

What are you worried about?

Let's hear it.

We scholars are well-read and knowledgeable, and are all about helping us relieve worries.

Cai and the eunuch were waiting for a while, and when they looked up, the emperor had already picked up a simple memorial on the table to review today's memorials, and had no intention of opening another word.

Cai and the eunuchs understood, the question was finished, and the exam started. I immediately took a few steps forward, lit the incense burner of an incense burner in the hall, and said with a sharp voice:

"On the eighth day of the twelfth month of the year of Yihai, the Laba Palace Examination officially begins!...After a stick of incense, the papers are collected. Please ask everyone to start answering the questions!"

The disciples were holding pens and waiting for the emperor to say they were worried. They were almost confused and looked shocked.

Uh~?

After three words, the test questions were finished?

No, Your Majesty, you have explained one or two things you are worried about! Let’s analyze the specific things!

You don’t say what you are worried about, but you just sighed vaguely. Everyone was confused and it was difficult to guess the emperor’s holy intention.

How can I answer this question?!

The incense has begun to burn.

The disciples were full of doubts, but they couldn't ask.

I can only rack my stomach and try my best to solve the problem.

Of course, the emperor's three-character question is really not a random question.

These three words are from the excerpt of "Mencius: Gaozi II", "Born in distress, die in happiness".

This is a well-argued and eloquent article on governing the country.

It is said that if there are no national ministers who adhere to the laws and wise men who assist the monarch in the country, and if there are no hostile countries and foreign troubles abroad, and the whole country is content with pleasure, then such a country will often perish.

The emperor said that he was worried and very upset, and this question was mostly derived from this sentence.

Let the disciples relieve his worries.

Of course, you can also find the original sentence in "Poetry: Wang Feng: Shuli": "Those who know me say I am worried. Those who don't know me say I have what I want."

It is much less difficult to solve the problem from "Poem"... However, if you deviate from the national politics, you may solve the problem wrong.

...

The Lord's Father Yan looked cold, closed his eyes and opened his eyes.

Just one moment.

The cold light in his eyes was revealed, and he picked up his pen quickly.

"The Great Unification Policy!"

"The king received the order to control the first month to rule the world, and to make all things take it as the beginning, so it is said that it is a great unification."

"The reason why the "Spring and Autumn" is that the six-contract style and the nine states are united."

"If two emperors in the world cannot be governed. If one country has two kings, one country cannot be governed. If one family has two masters, one family cannot be governed."

"Therefore, I think that the master is respectful to the minister, and he is respectful to the superiors and the inferiors, and he will be convinced by others, which will be the most important thing to govern."

"The book has the same name, the car has the same track, the upper and lower levels are unified, and the laws are smooth. This is the most righteous!"

"I am willing to serve my life and unify the laws of the world for Your Majesty to relieve the emperor's worries!"

...

After hearing the question, Chao Fangzheng smiled knowingly.

I thought the palace examination would be difficult.

Unexpectedly, this year's palace examination policy was so simple.

The emperor was worried.

As the saying goes, "internal and external troubles", the emperor's worries are of course internal.

How to solve internal troubles?

The separatist rule of the princes is the first internal worry!

If you kill the princes in the world, you dare not say that the emperor's worries will be eliminated, at least half of them.

"The Strategy for Reducing the Vast"!"

"The princes such as Wu, Chu, Zhao, Jinan, etc., were divided into one side and weakened the major affairs of the court, which caused great disaster!

I am willing to raise troops, destroy the princes, assist the emperor in his career, and share his worries with the emperor."

He picked up his pen and wrote in a scattered manner, and a piece of heroic writing that destroyed the vassal states was born.

...

Dong Xianliang pondered.

The emperor is worried?

I'm really worried.

Look at this world, the Huns in the north often tie the borders every cold winter, and many vassal states are also ready to move and restless.

There were many princes and kings in the country who ruled the counties and states, and they had no courts, and they had a lot of intentions.

In the court, all the ministers and ministers yelled that they each held the study of hundreds of schools, had their own theories, and had their own opinions, and did their own things, so it was difficult for the country's government to be consistent.

Can the emperor not worry?

There are so many worries like a cow, and there are so much troubles everywhere that the emperor cannot tell them one by one.

So I just said, "I am worried...ah!" and I will cover it up in one sentence.

How to solve the situation of the Great Chu Dynasty with internal and external troubles?

It is useless to solve a problem alone.
To be continued...