The one-day preliminaries were not even a warm-up for Xie Xin.
Just watching the competition process, the contestants plotting against each other and fighting each other. It can be regarded as a good spice in this ordinary day.
At the end of the preliminaries night, Xie Xin was still called over by Li Yong, who once again emphasized teamwork. In the final analysis, the three days starting from tomorrow will be the key moment to determine the outcome.
As the Lu Zhi Alliance, they must carefully push the Lu Zhi team to the first place. Then, as agreed, they pushed the Huangfu Song team to the second place, while the third place was reserved for Li Bin's team.
Originally, according to the original decision, the third place was given to Cao Cao's team or Zhu Jun's team. However, Zhu Jun was eliminated early, and Li Bin's team suddenly emerged, especially with the help of Xie Xin, and completely defeated all opponents along the way.
If such a strong team cannot obtain a ranking, then the fairness of this competition will also be questioned.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty may not care about these, but there is obviously a shady competition. When the officials selected are in high positions in the future, I am afraid that the uninformed people will rise up against them.
Although the people were the ruled class, if more than half of the people opposed a person, sometimes Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty would have to consider whether to let that person ascend to power.
Of course, the most critical point is the second round of policy discussions, titled "How to Reduce Competition Expenses." Emperor Ling obviously opens such a competition every once in a while to select talents for the country. But if it consumes so much money every time, then even Even the emperor cannot afford such a competition.
The winner in the end was Xie Xin. An economic report and the possibility of business operations not only proved that the competition would not consume much money, but could actually make a lot of money by using the competition.
Because of this strategy, Xie Xin defeated his opponents to advance with an absolute advantage. After hearing this strategy, Emperor Ling probably planned to hold another competition in a few years.
And if the competition held is actually shady, then who else will come to watch it? If no one comes to watch it, then no one will come to sponsor the so-called advertisements, and naturally there will be no profit at all. .
No matter what, what Li Yong has repeatedly emphasized is that Xie Xin should keep a low profile tomorrow, and at the same time, the five team members will protect the Lu Zhi team and the Huangfu Song team while ensuring their own safety.
Naturally, the five people had nothing to say about this, and they all said that there was no problem.
After eating and drinking, Xie Xin also returned to his manor. Then, with Bian Linglong and Wang Rong waiting on him, he changed clothes and took a bath. Then he hugged two life-size dolls and fell asleep comfortably.
Of course, in order to better improve sleep quality, some exercise before bed is inevitable.
It was also the first time for the two girls to exercise with Xie Xin, but under the stimulation of Xie Xin, the two quickly let go of their feelings and exercised together with Xie Xin.
"Five hundred push-ups per minute was successful! Do you want to challenge 600 push-ups per minute?!" Wang Rong asked coquettishly.
"Xinlang... If you want to challenge me, you'd better go to Sister Rong'er..." Bian Linglong gasped.
"Why don't we practice riding horses together? We can't let anything slip during the official competition tomorrow!" Xie Xin said evilly.
"Not bad!" Bian Linglong said with a smile.
"Ah?! Don't ride horses!!" Wang Rong couldn't help but protested loudly.
However, her protest was obviously ineffective. After a while, Xie Xin began to move away and ride the pony.
It's already autumn outside, but now indoors, it feels like spring.
The night passed like this...
"Xinlang, be careful of those guys who are up to no good!" Bian Linglong couldn't help but tell her before leaving.
"No one will know who is guilty at that time..." Xie Xin patted both sides of his abdomen.
"Okay, Xinlang, please be merciful and don't harm anyone too much!" Bian Linglong said helplessly.
"To be honest, if there is no such thing in the game, the game will be less interesting to watch!" Wang Rong expressed his opinion from the sidelines.
"Teacher, it's almost time!" Gongsun Du reminded him directly.
"Two madams, you are going to fight for your husband!" Xie Xin waved his hand and took Gongsun Du directly to the competition site.
"Teacher, what are you using so many talismans in your belt today? To ensure that this competition goes smoothly?!" Gongsun Du couldn't help but ask on the way.
"Yes! You know, women are generally a bit superstitious, especially when it comes to their men." Xie Xin replied with a fake 'wry smile'.
"Women are indeed troublesome creatures..." Gongsun Du couldn't help but sigh.
Don't look at the eroticism of his words, in fact he has already decided to get married. When he returns to Youzhou during the Chinese New Year next year, he will get married to his fiancée.
When the time comes, he will be the first student of his generation to start a family.
After entering the venue, Xie Xin and others naturally took the initiative to come to the gathering place of the Lu Zhi Alliance, looking for familiar people to say hello to each other.
"Huh? Zhang Ming, are your shoes the same pair as yesterday?!" Coming to Zhang Ming's side, Xie Xin asked.
"Yes! I have never changed it!" Zhang Ming answered strangely.
"Checking it, I think it's a little different from yesterday." Xie Xin said calmly.
If it were anyone else, Zhang Ming might be able to laugh it off, but since Xie Xin spoke, he naturally did not dare to neglect it.
After some inspection, I found that there was a small opening in the sole of my shoe, which was filled with a large amount of talcum powder.
Zhang Ming has signed up for a race. If he runs quickly, the trap will open and the talcum powder inside will pour out. At that time, he will inevitably slip to the ground.
"Thank you, teacher!" After discovering the problem with the shoes, Zhang Ming immediately stood up and thanked him.
"You and I are a master and a disciple, so there is no need to be polite! But you should check with your opponent, otherwise it will be terrible if their shoes are tampered with." Xie Xin waved his hand and ordered.
Zhang Ming also sensed the problem and without saying a word, he called his teammates for inspection. It turned out that the other four members of the same team had such holes in their soles, which were also filled with talcum powder.
"Where on earth did you rest last night?!" Xie Xin couldn't help but ask as Zhang Ming checked the shoes he had changed and put them on.
"Last night, several of our team members got together for a little while and then took a hot spring bath together. If the bad guys wanted to take action, they would probably do it while we were in the bath?!" Zhang Ming explained with a frown.
Xie Xin nodded and didn't pay too much attention.
As he walked around among the crowd, he discovered many problems.
For example, among those who participated in the policy theory competition, the ink used by three of them had been replaced by wolframite.
Another example is that a player participating in an arena competition has a lead weight installed on the toe of his shoe. During the competition, all he needs to do is hit his opponent's vital points hard. In this life, the opponent will have no choice but to enter the palace and work in a special profession.
Wasted.
After a simple inspection, Xie Xin saw a variety of hidden tricks. If all of them were successfully used, the only outcome would be that no one would be able to successfully rank in this competition.
What's worse is that because the dirty tricks are so vicious, they can completely destroy a young hero's life after the game.
This means that those who use underhanded tricks will be defeated but not defeated; those who fall for underhanded tricks will completely fail.
As time passed, the auditorium was filled with spectators, and Emperor Han Ling also came to the competition site surrounded by the Yulin army.
Not long after he sat down, a yellow doorman came out and announced loudly: "The finals will be decided within these three days. The first day is mainly about four literary events except policy theory; the second day is about the competition in the ring.
In addition, there are four other martial arts events; on the third day, the remaining two items of the civil and martial arts will be completed."
Since then, the three-day schedule has been officially determined.
The first item is counting. There are exactly ten contestants. Zhang Ming, Sima Fang and Cao Cao are all on the list. The three represent the three teams of Lu Zhi Team, Li Bin Team and Cao Cao Team respectively.
The competition items are similar to the previous ones. They all count part of the tax revenue of Dahan in a certain quarter. This time the competition happens to be the statistics of the tax harvest in the autumn of this year.
These account books have been tallied by relevant departments. Therefore, the referee already knows the correct answer.
An hour later, the game was declared over.
During this period, Zhang Ming was the first to complete the calculation, and then Sima Fang handed in the paper only three seconds ahead of Cao Cao.
After reporting the numbers, Zhang Ming successfully got the first place, Sima Fang got the second place, and Cao Cao had no choice but to get the third place.
Different from previous competitions, this time the top three will be on the podium, and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty will personally award medals to them.
In fact, through this method, Emperor Ling could have close contact with these award-winning scholars so that he could have a good look at their appearance and draw them over in the future.
When the medals were being awarded, in a corner of the venue, several scholars were squatting in the corner and drawing circles.
They may be faster than Zhang Ming and the others, but their writing brushes have been stolen by someone. All the prepared writing brushes are "hairless" at the moment of writing.
A brush without bristles is still called a brush!?
After some panic, Zhang Ming and others successfully handed in the paper, but they could only squat in the corner and draw circles like they are now, and then cursed a few words in their hearts like "the law of heaven is unfair".
In the second poetry competition, as mentioned above, there were only two contestants: one was Cao Cao and the other was Yuan Shao.
The whole game seemed to have a sense of fateful confrontation.
But no matter what, Yuan Shao's talent in poetry is indeed not as good as that of the great poet Cao Cao, so he had no choice but to lose and finish second.
In the third farming competition, there were only five contestants, and Xie Xin was among them.
The title of the competition is: ‘Name a crop that can promote the economy of the Han Dynasty, and state the feasibility of planting this crop.’ No matter how other people answered Xie Xin, the crop he answered was: peanuts.
Originally, he wanted to talk about cotton, but without a special seed remover, it would take a lot of time to remove the seeds. Based on this calculation, the cloth woven can only be purchased by wealthy families.
Peanuts have been introduced to the Central Plains earlier. They are not only a good snack, but most importantly, they can be squeezed for oil.
Most of the oils used by people these days are animal oil or soybean oil. Can we add another oil crop? It will naturally be a good thing to benefit all people.
However, when Xie Xin handed in the test paper, he found that his test paper had been secretly put into his sleeve by Huang Men, who collected the papers, and took out another one to make up the number.
What made him even more angry was that Huang Men came to another eunuch contestant and gave him his answer sheet.
So Xie Xin got angry.
After patting his abdomen and calculating with spells, one of the fire talismans turned into a wisp of flame and ignited the clothes behind Huang Men.
The fire got bigger and bigger, Huang Men rushed around in a hurry, and ended up shaking out a large number of blank papers in his sleeves, as well as the cheating paper.
According to the rules of the game, everyone can make a fortune, but they cannot be discovered.
The Huangmen trembled, and the crook was naturally caught on the spot. After Han Ling Emperor's personal interrogation, Xie Xin still got the first place in the end. And the eunuch who had made a fortune was pulled out to be the leader.
As for the son of the eunuch family, he was also sentenced to be permanently barred from entering the official career.
Such a sentence is indeed a bit inhumane.
But the person who announced the verdict was a feudal monarch, and he also organized this competition. How does he decide, does he need the consent of others!?
Seeing the eunuch scholar constantly begging for mercy, Xie Xin couldn't help but sigh: What an evil feudal society!