Chapter 119: The Top Ten Competitors Make Insidious Moves Frequently
Xie Xin returned to live in Zhuangzi, and Gongsun Du followed him. Wang Zifu and Sima Fang, after some consideration, decided to stay in Li Mansion.
Li Yong also knew that there was a battle in Zhuangzi some time ago, but the people inside Zhuangzi were not injured at all, but the assassins had disappeared without a trace.
Fire may burn the body, and water may clean the blood stains, but the pungent smell of blood still vaguely remains even after being washed by water. The next day, the guards inside Zhuangzi could smell it when they woke up.
Since no one in Zhuangzi was injured, the source of the bloody smell can only be those assassins.
Li Yong may not have an accurate figure for how many assassins it takes to still vaguely retain the smell of blood after cleaning. But he can imagine that if there are not more than a hundred assassins, there will be no such amount of bloodshed.
More than a hundred assassins could be wiped out without alerting anyone. With such combat power in the army, he would definitely be a God of War powerhouse unparalleled in the world.
However, such fighting power could be found in a scholar who was once so weak. Even Li Yong found it incredible.
After that incident, Li Yong now understands.
Regardless of whether the murderer was Xie Xin or there was someone else behind him, there was no need to consider his safety anyway. So even if he went back to live, there was nothing to stop him.
In the next two days of competition, Xie Xin became the absolute main force of the team. No matter which two of the ten events, he won with absolute strength.
In the end, their team was successfully promoted and became one of the top ten teams.
And the character Xie Xin also began to attract the attention of the entire Han Dynasty.
Regardless of whether a talent with such both civil and military skills and powerful strength can hold a high position, but he is definitely an invincible being when he is used to lead troops in war.
Therefore, after the competition on the third day, Xie Xin had already received more than thirty invitations from military bosses, inviting him to a banquet.
In the invitation, the tone was gentle and friendly, but every word showed a strong sense of goodwill and wooing.
In this regard, Xie Xin could only send out students, one after another, politely rejecting the other party's good intentions, and stated that his ambition was to be the dean of an academy, not to become an official.
After receiving this news, many people breathed a sigh of relief, because there was no such monster standing in front of them, and their career would not be too difficult; while those who devoted themselves to serving the country couldn't help but sigh that such a talent did not exist.
The method is used by the country.
Only Emperor Ling didn't show any expression at first, neither soliciting nor secretly expressing dissatisfaction. It was as if Xie Xin was an official when he was an official, and he didn't care what he did if he wasn't an official.
No matter what, a storm of solicitation came in a hurry, but it soon subsided.
As for whether there was someone who was resentful because he couldn't recruit someone and sent someone to kill this 'little guy', he didn't know. In fact, even if the other party sent someone, he had nothing to be afraid of.
After the third day of competition, the top ten were successfully born.
Among the four alliances, the leaders of three alliances have successfully advanced. Team Lu Zhi, Team Yuan Shao and Team Dong Zhuo have made many aristocratic families know them with their outstanding level.
After the He Jin team was eliminated, the remaining members of the He Jin Alliance did not have a qualified leader, so the alliance was disbanded and renamed the neutral faction. At the same time, because the number of teams was too small, after three rounds of competition, there were already
All were eliminated.
As a result, among the top ten teams that were born: there were four members of the Lu Zhi Alliance; four members of the Yuan Alliance; and two members of the Eunuch Alliance.
It is these ten teams that make up the top ten lineups.
On the fourth day, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty officially announced that the rules of the competition had been changed.
Just as Li Yong said, it has become almost the same as the competition at the Huaxia Private School.
According to the original rules, the five participating people only need to sign up for projects that they are good at or interested in. But obviously in order to increase the winning rate and protect the members of the alliance, more than fifty people from ten teams will join the competition.
There are a total of ten competitions in civil and military competitions, all of which have been registered.
After Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty finally got the list, he became really angry.
More than fifty people compete at the same time. Although sending more people to watch can ensure the fairness of the competition. But with so many people lined up together, it still looks dizzying.
Moreover, in those poetry competitions, it takes a lot of time to decide the top three for each person's poem; let alone music, each person can write a piece of music before dawn the next day.
So the rules were temporarily changed, and each person could only register for three competition events.
At the same time, the number of participants in each competition is limited to ten. If the number of participants exceeds the designated number of registrations, preliminaries must be held again until the top ten are born.
As for those who lose, it is equivalent to wasting a chance to win the competition.
Well, he is the boss of Dahan, and he organizes the competition. If he wants to change the rules, there are really not many people within Dahan who dare to say no.
So, after some further consideration, each team's entry list was once again submitted to Emperor Ling.
Sure enough, even though he had set the rules, there were still many more people signing up for the three events such as strategy analysis, ring competition and horse riding.
The most ironic thing is that only two people participated in the poetry category, and the third place had to be vacant after the competition. Music was not much better, with only five people participating out of more than fifty people. But at least, it was better than
The situation with poetry is a little better.
It's just that Emperor Ling couldn't continue to change the rules, so he announced the start of the game.
The first thing to start is naturally the registration quota and the preliminaries of the three competitions with extra quota.
For the policy discussion, 23 people signed up; for the ring competition, 27 people signed up; and for horse riding, 34 people signed up.
And the fourth day directly became the day for these people to compete in the preliminaries.
Athletes in other events can take a day off to lay the foundation for the official competition tomorrow.
The preliminaries use the same stage competition as the official competition. Except for the ring competition, the other two items allow the contestants to compete at the same time.
So, someone suffered a tragedy.
For example, Liu Bei of the Lu Zhi team not only signed up for horse riding, but also signed up for policy theory.
Fortunately, the duration of the two competitions was one hour, so he could spend an hour. After completing the horse riding competition as quickly as possible, he rushed to the site of the policy discussion competition without saying a word, and spent another hour to complete the policy discussion competition.
In fact, the most dangerous thing in the game is not lack of time, but...
"Hiss..." During the horse riding competition, a contestant in Yuan's camp, less than a minute into the competition, his horse let out a howl, then turned sideways and fell to the ground.
Not only did this contestant fall to the ground, he also caused the four surrounding contestants to lose the possibility of being in the top three. The referee would not take pity on them when they suddenly fell to the ground.
As the old saying goes, ‘Luck is also part of strength.’ Their bad luck, who can blame them?!
Five minutes into the horse riding competition, when the remaining contestants had made at least the third lap around the competition venue, suddenly the horses of three contestants foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground. Along with this, five more contestants were hit.
turn.
After just two attempts, there were only twenty-one contestants who could continue the competition.
But things still didn't end immediately...
On the fourth lap, a member of the Yuan family rode his horse towards a member of the Lu Zhi Alliance not far away. Not only did he knock him down, but he also tripped a member of the eunuch party next to him.
The next moment, Gongsun Du, a member of the Lu Zhi Alliance, secretly took out a packet of powder from his arms and secretly sprinkled it into the air.
After a while, the horses under the more than ten contestants behind them immediately stopped moving and stopped to eat the small particles on the floor.
"Who the fuck spread the salt?!" An experienced contestant got off his horse, picked up the powder, smelled it, and then drank it again before yelling.
But no matter what, the referee did not call a foul because there is no rule in the game rules that salt cannot be sprinkled.
In fact, this competition was originally intended to select talents for the country.
As talents, it will be difficult for those who are too upright to have an official career. If they are unable to adapt to the situation, their career will not be long.
Therefore, as long as the foul is not obvious, the referee will generally not make a sound.
To be honest, Emperor Ling was actually happy to see the contestants trying their best and making fools of themselves. Compared to those boring songs and dances, this was more enjoyable.
In the end, the whole game came to an end amid various conspiracy trajectories.
The top ten were successfully born, among which there were more than eight from the Lu Zhi Alliance, and the top three were already guaranteed.
With the end of the horse riding competition, strategy discussions and arena competitions were also held one after another.
The title of the policy discussion is "How to Increase the Taxation of the Han Dynasty". It seems that our Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty has only been on the throne for a short time and has little experience in how to lead a family and generate income.
The contestants naturally wrote very hard, but the content did not change much.
It's nothing more than raising taxes and reopening the Silk Road.
However, Huang Shang is not bad. He has indicated that industry and commerce can be appropriately encouraged. For those businessmen who pay a large amount of taxes, their social status can be slightly improved. At the same time, tariffs in various places have been eliminated and replaced with transaction taxes...
I was just waiting for the game's thank you letter, but I had a headache when I heard the eunuch reciting this strategy.
I thought to myself: Isn’t this something I occasionally talk about?
Equestrian competitions are unstable, and policy discussions are equally unstable.
Twenty-two people were writing strategies at the same time, but when five of them came in and took out the Four Treasures of the Study, they discovered that their writing brushes had somehow broken.
After that, six more people found that the handwriting on the paper became lighter and lighter when they handed in the paper, and then disappeared. After checking, it turned out that Mo had been replaced by someone else.
Among the top ten who were finally determined, there were four from the Lu Zhi family, one from the Eunuch family, and the remaining five were from the Yuan family.
Horseback riding and policy making are not easy, and the arena is naturally not much better.
It is a very common method to risk your own injuries but also to defeat the other party.
If you are more cruel, you will suffer a little injury, so that the other party will never be able to use his hands and feet.
The most cruel thing is of course 'manslaughter' in the ring.
In the competition between twenty-seven people, only six people could still stand in the ring in the end. The rest were almost all killed by their opponents.
Among the final top six, there were two from Lu Zhi's family, three from Eunuch's family, and one from Yuan's family.
In today's competition, the saddest one is still our lovely classmate Liu Xuande.
In the first rollover incident, he was also involved, but unlike others, he fell directly on his head and fainted.
When he got up after three hours, he discovered helplessly that not only did he get no results in horse riding, but he also had nothing to do with planning the competition.
"Who am I provoking?" In the lounge, Liu Bei looked up to the sky and screamed.