Chapter 260: Yes! Love!
While eating, Cui Xiuye's face showed "something is on my mind".

People are curious by nature, especially since Cui Xiuye ​​believed that these Silla people were "plotting something bad."

Once Su Dingfang's bad taste came out, he naturally didn't want to explain any more. It was fun to keep people in suspense, and he kept keeping people in suspense.

After finally waiting for Su Dingfang to finish his meal, Cui Xiuye ​​immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks.

Although the meal was delicious, I was worried and the food tasted tasted like wax.

"Mr. Cui, have you finished eating?" Su Dingfang glanced at the untouched food in front of Cui Xiuye, "But the food is not to your liking?"

"I was thinking about the Silla people surrounding me outside, so I had no appetite to eat." Cui Xiuye ​​did not hide anything and spoke his mind directly.

Su Dingfang was happy to hear Cui Xiuye's words.

"I understand. You will feel uncomfortable if you don't get to the bottom of the matter." Su Dingfang joked with a smile.

Theoretically, Cui Xiuye ​​was the Sheren of the Crown Prince, but in reality, like him, he was an official from the same faction as Li Xiang.

So it’s not excessive to make some harmless jokes.

"Su Changshi still understands me." Cui Xiuye ​​sighed.

"In that case, let's go out and take a look together." Su Dingfang stood up and said.

Cui Xiuye ​​stood up and followed, full of curiosity.

The two of them followed the path all the way to the door.

From a distance, we could see a long line forming in front of the military camp gate.

"What is this?" Cui Xiuye ​​was a little surprised. Are the people of Silla so well-mannered?

"Hahahaha... This is the rule of our army. If anyone rushes to loot, they will be beheaded!" Su Dingfang said in a light tone.

"No wonder it's like this." Cui Xiuye ​​nodded.

Soon, the fireman came over carrying a bucket on a shoulder pole.

The crowd cheered at the sight of the barrels.

The firemen walked to the door, the camp gate opened, and the Silla people also came over.

"Come on, come on, line up and don't rush." ​​The fireman shouted, then picked up the ladle, scooped up a ladle of leftovers, and waved to the first person.

The person whose name was called immediately stepped forward, bowed and nodded to the fireman, then held up a large bowl with both hands and handed it forward.

The fireman didn't say anything and poured the food in the ladle into the bowl.

"General! Thank you, General!" The Silla man hurriedly expressed his gratitude.

"Next one." The fireman spoke with a Shandong accent. He tapped the rice spoon on the bowl of the next Silla man twice and shook the spoon: "Okay, next one...Okay!"

The Silla people who got the leftovers naturally expressed their most sincere gratitude to the Tang army. Some even knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times in the direction of Chang'an.

It wasn't rehearsed at all, and you could see that the emotion came completely from the heart.

"This..." Cui Xiuye ​​pointed at the group of Silla people in astonishment and asked, "Su Changshi, is this the reason why those Silla people surrounded the military camp?"

"Of course." Su Dingfang said with a smile: "Your Highness is kind enough to let us give the leftover food to the surrounding Silla people. This way, we can not only deal with the leftover food, but also win the hearts of the Silla people and make them more grateful to the Tang Dynasty."

As if to echo Su Dingfang's words, the Silla people shouted: "The kindness of the Tang Dynasty..."

"Yes! Love!" Everyone raised their arms and shouted.

Soon, the leftovers picked up by the firemen were distributed.

There was no one who didn't get any, everyone got some.

Although the taste of the leftovers was average, it was a rare delicacy for the people of Silla who had been struggling to make ends meet all year round.

It’s full of oil, protein, and various nutrients, and most importantly, it’s all meat…

Even the leftover bones can be taken back to feed livestock.

After feeding the livestock, the Tang army would buy them back at a high price.

The people of Silla felt that they could never repay the kindness they received in this lifetime.

"In fact, it wasn't like this at the beginning." Su Dingfang said with a smile, "In the beginning, the army was worried about the leftover food, so they just threw it away. When the Silla people picked it up, they took it home as if it were a treasure. Later, when His Highness saw it during a patrol, he told me and Zhengze that if the Silla people wanted the leftovers, we could give them all the food after the firemen had cleaned it up. It's not healthy to always dig for food in the garbage dump."

"Your Highness is truly kind-hearted..." Cui Xiuye ​​exclaimed sincerely.

"Who said it wasn't?" Su Dingfang also said with emotion: "Your Highness treats them as human beings..."

This is not to say that Li Xiang is committing any unnecessary internationalism. There was no nationalism in those days. Li Xiang did this to show his gratitude to Silla.

If one day Silla really suffers from the same disease as in history, then whatever the Silla people pick up in the ravine will have nothing to do with the little elephant.

"It's not just here. Similar things happened in several other military camps." Su Dingfang said again: "Liu Zhengze once told me that there were even smart Silla people who contracted the leftovers from several military camps and sold them to their own people."

"How...can it be like this?" Cui Xiuye ​​was really shocked.

"Just think about it, the leftover vegetable scraps in the army are rich in oil and water. They buy them, add some wild vegetables or something, and then sell them to their own people. It is said that they can make a lot of money." Su Dingfang said with a smile.

"I have really broadened my horizons..." Cui Xiuye ​​said with emotion, "My father has repeatedly taught me that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Now I know the value of traveling thousands of miles!"

Liu Zhengze is Liu Rengui, and Zhengze is his courtesy name.

There is an interesting fact. Liu Rengui was actually a relative of the Han royal family. He was born in the Liu family of Weishi and was a descendant of Liu Kai, King Xiao of Hejian and the son of Emperor Zhang of Han.

Liu Kai's descendants lived in Lecheng for generations. When his tenth-generation grandson Liu Tong came to power, they moved to Weishi, and thus were known as the Weishi Liu family, one of the "Seven Established Houses" of the Liu family.

Liu Tong served as General Jianwu and Prefect of Nanyang in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and was granted the title of Marquis of Lecheng. Liu Tong's fifth-generation grandson was Liu Rengui.

However, what Cui Xiuye ​​did not expect was that while he was staying in Su Dingfang's army, a major event that would turn the world upside down was brewing in Silla.

It was already April 14th when Cui Xiuye ​​arrived at the Andong Protectorate.

According to the schedule, the joint examination should be held in Chang'an tomorrow.

Since other subjects were cancelled, the content of the imperial examination consisted of only one item, namely five articles on current affairs, three articles on classics, and two articles on basic mathematics.

Math isn't difficult, it's just some simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

The Ministry of Rites was responsible for all the questions, so Li Xiang didn't care too much about it.

After the Ministry of Rites completed the draft, it was sent to Li Shimin for review. Li Xiang took a look at it from the side and felt that the basic mathematics was a bit too basic.

However, considering the math level of today's candidates, the basics are just the basics...

At present, the arithmetic level of the Tang Dynasty was not bad, but the newly reformed Jinshi examination was more comprehensive after all, so the difficulty level had to be adjusted appropriately.

Li Xiang has not been idle these past two days. The craftsmen have finally made the instrument he has been dreaming of. Although Li Xiang is not very good at playing this instrument, after playing it twice, he thinks it should have the same flavor.

So he asked Fu Bao to find a few strong eunuchs from the palace to carry the musical instrument into the Wude Hall with great effort.

Fubao is very important now. As the eunuch attending the Crown Prince, his future status will be the same as Wang De's current status in the palace.

In fact, there was a Zhang Ananda before Wang De, but this person passed away two days ago, so Wang De took over.

After careful consideration, Li Xiang decided to put the musical instrument in Pei Xueqing's bedroom.

"Hey, what is this?" Pei Xueqing asked curiously after seeing the extra musical instruments in the room after returning from Daji Hall.

"This, this is a piano." Li Xiang replied with a smile.

"Piano?" Pei Xueqing walked forward, stretched out her delicate hands to touch the piano, and smiled: "My brother always makes fun of me. This is obviously made of wood, how can it be called a piano?"

Li Xiang thought, "It can't be called Xylophone, right? That's not a good pun."

"This thing...there's nothing wrong with calling it a piano." Li Xiang thought it was just a name, so what does it matter what you call it?

In fact, the word "piano" is translated as "piano", which also has a certain historical origin.

After the Opium War, some foreign businessmen saw the market potential of my country and exported a large number of pianos to my country, claiming that they were made of "steel", so Chinese people began to habitually call them "pianos".

"Hmm..." Pei Xueqing smoothed her skirt and sat in front of the piano, looking up at Li Xiang: "Then how should this piano be played?"

"I don't know either," Li Xiang spread his hands, indicating that he didn't understand it either. "I just know what these keys represent, but if you ask me to play, I can only play randomly."

Pei Xueqing covered her mouth and smiled, picked up the music score beside her, and frowned slightly.

"What is this?" she asked, pointing at the music sheet.

"Staff music." Li Xiang explained, and then moved forward and pressed against Pei Xueqing's back: "Come, let your husband explain it to you..."

Although he didn't know how to play it, he still had a basic understanding of the principles.

Pei Xueqing was well versed in music, and he understood Li Xiang's explanation very well.

Soon, she began to understand the principles of the piano.

Sitting in front of the piano, Pei Xueqing tapped for a while to test the sound, and then played the etude prepared by Li Xiang with a little awkwardness.

The melody gradually changes from unfamiliar to smooth.

"What a genius." Li Xiang praised sincerely: "My husband has really found a treasure."

As he spoke, he stretched out his arms to wrap around Pei Xueqing's slender waist and rubbed her pretty face against hers.

"Xiang'er, thank you for your gift." Pei Xueqing tilted her head and gave Li Xiang a light kiss on the face.

The two of them hugged each other like this, and suddenly a strange idea popped into Li Xiang's mind.

Well, long black hair, long legs, likes to play the piano...

That’s right, Dong Ma Xiao San!

As there was to be an imperial examination the next day, Li Xiang went to bed early.

After all, Jingzhao Prefecture was his place, and this imperial examination also fell under his jurisdiction.

He actually didn't have to go, but this was the first time he had seen an ancient examination hall since he traveled through time, so he had to go and take a look.

The security check entering the examination hall was the responsibility of Li Xiang’s Jingzhao Prefecture.

In this area, Li Xiang said that he was professional and no one dared to claim that they were the best.

The various cheating methods that have evolved in later generations are endless and cannot be compared with the current era when examinations have only been around for a few years.

There are three examinations in total, which are held over three days, with two days of rest between each examination.

The first test is on the meaning of scriptures, which is the subject most prone to cheating.

The exam is scheduled to start at si hour and last until you hour.

Considering the large number of candidates taking the exam, the entrance time is set at 11:00 a.m.

Li Xiang asked people to stand at the entrance of the examination room and began to search the candidates one by one.

Not only do they have to search the clothes and pants, they even have to untie the loincloth to check the color before they can move on to the next topic.

In addition to these, the tiara should also be taken off and the hair should be spread out to see if there is any note hidden inside.

If Li Xiang didn't think there was no progress these days, he would have asked the security personnel to search the local areas of the candidates.

The candidates were being tossed around like fish on a chopping board and were already feeling extremely ashamed and angry. Some of them had bad tempers and were about to lose their temper when they saw the security personnel carrying out a candidate.

"Report! There are words on the candidate's loincloth!" the security officer reported.

This time, the examiner Xiao Yu was accompanying him during the security check.

With Lao Deng's stubborn and stubborn character, who can bribe him?

He really couldn't tolerate any sand in his eyes. When he heard that there were words on someone's loincloth, Xiao Yu immediately walked forward and took a closer look.

"Great!" Xiao Yu snorted, and looked down at the candidate's name and hometown: "Come here! Fork this person out! And record it in the file. Qian Yun, the candidate from Hehuai Road, is not allowed to take any exams in this life!"

Upon hearing the verdict, Qian Yun collapsed into a heap.

Just as he was about to beg for mercy, several burly men stuffed something into his mouth and dragged him out like a dead dog.

With such a precedent, everyone subconsciously sucked their little...that thing.

Oh my god, is it so strict?

Immediately, several candidates moved back stealthily, trying to play yo-yo.

Xiao Yu didn't care about those candidates who wanted to leave on their own initiative.

The cheating was detected during the entrance and examination. Those who did not intend to enter the examination were not considered cheating, so he did not bother to care.

What's more, God is merciful and a prodigal son who returns is worth more than gold. Xiao Yu didn't want to be too ruthless and kill the person with one blow.

The candidates who had originally wanted to get angry because the search was too intrusive on their privacy no longer felt there was anything to be angry about after seeing how the situation was handled.

Secretly, they were even thanking the court for its "overly harsh" inspection methods.

Nonsense, if I let this group of cheaters in, and if they are ranked higher than me, I will be pushed out of the list. Who will cry then?
The imperial court is also doing this for our own good... This thought arose in the minds of all the examinees.

(I went to Deer Park with a friend this morning, so the update is late. There will be another chapter later.)
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