When they walked out of Apricot Blossom Tower, it was already late at night. There was basically no one on the streets.
The carriage that came to pick up Da Qian was already waiting at the entrance of Apricot Blossom House.
"Brother Qing, it's getting late, so I won't send you off.”
He Kun cupped his hands as he sent Da Qian onto the carriage.
As he spoke, He Kun secretly heaved a sigh of relief.
To be honest, he was under a lot of pressure when he went out to play with the Emperor. After all, if anything happened to Da Qian while they were out to play, he would not be able to escape.
He Kun knew that with Great Gan's status, there were definitely many people who had entered Apricot Blossom Tower after them.
Perhaps, when they had just stepped into Apricot Blossom Tower, many plainclothes imperial guards with sabers had sneaked in to protect Great Qian in secret.
If anything unexpected happened in Da Qian, what awaited the opponent would be a frenzied attack from the armed guards.
"Brother He, it's getting late. You and Brother Cao should go back. I had a great time today.”
Da Qian smiled as he looked at He Kun and Cao Rui, who were standing under the carriage.
"As long as Brother Qing is having fun."
He Kun nodded.
"Go back and rest early. Remember not to delay the court examinations tomorrow.”
After instructing He Kun, Great Gan got Wu Shu to instruct the coachman to drive the carriage away.
Seeing the carriage go further and further away, He Kun smiled at Cao Rui beside him and said,""Brother Cao, let's go back as well."
He could tell from Cao Rui's words and actions towards the Great Gan that Cao Rui had probably guessed the identity of the Great Gan. However, he would not reveal the identity of the Great Gan to Cao Rui without the consent of the Great Gan.
"Alright."
Cao Rui smiled.
After returning to the inn, they spent the night in silence.
The next morning, the sky was still dark.
The tribute attendants who lived in various places in the Imperial Capital had already woken up early.
After washing up, everyone gathered at the entrance of the Imperial Capital with their test equipment. He Kun and Cao Rui were among them.
After waiting for less than fifteen minutes, a special eunuch came to lead the way and brought them to Baohe Palace.
It had already been arranged into neat rows and rows of court examination tables.
The examinees sat down in order. Looking from afar, the scene was spectacular.
The first ray of light broke through the darkness and descended upon the mortal world. The chief examiner arrived, and after calling out the names and verifying the identities of the candidates present, the court examinations officially began.
Before Phoenix Feather's court examinations officially began, there was still a second round.
The purpose of this second round was to test if there was anyone who looked very similar to the candidates present.
Since it was the second round, the difficulty was not too high, and there would not be any ranking. The tribute scholars present basically passed easily.
After the second round was the court examination.
The court examinations of the two dynasties were not personally supervised by the Emperor as everyone had imagined. It was just that the examination papers of the examinees present were examined and approved by the examiners, and the ten best papers were selected for the Emperor to decide and rank.
After that, He Kun and the others went through the complicated etiquette of scattering the papers, praising, bowing, and so on. After that, the court examinations finally began after the papers were handed out by the examiners.
After the examiners handed out the papers, He Kun quickly looked at the questions.
Unlike the children's examination, the provincial examination, and the general examination, there was no eight-part essay in the court examination that made scholars pale when they talked about it.
The main test of the court examination was on current affairs and strategies. The questions were five to six hundred words long, but this year's court examination was on how to defend against Long Hair in the north.
It was said that last winter, Long Hair crossed the border again and Phoenix Feather suffered heavy losses. A few small cities at the border of Phoenix Feather and Goose Feather were all plundered, leaving no one alive.
Every winter, Long Hair would ride on a tall horse, holding a sharp sword and spear, crossing the Wusuli River and entering Fengyu's border to plunder.
Although the winter had just passed and it was still spring, there was only half a year left before the winter of next year.
Perhaps Da Qian did not want to let Phoenix Feather suffer the humiliation of Long Hair again, so they decided to use this question as a test for this year's court examinations.
On the exam paper, it was written,"My Fengyu territory is vast, but strong enemies are everywhere." There are goose feathers in the north, Kazakstan and Kokhan in the northwest, Annan and Myanmar in the south, and North Korea in the east. Goose feathers are the most abominable. Every winter, they will invade our Fengyu territory and plunder our resources and population…”
After He Kun finished reading the exam questions, he tried to figure out why Da Qian had set this question.
For those ordinary scholars who had completely accepted the teachings of Confucianism, they would definitely adopt a defensive policy. After all, scholars were a group of people who could be bullied or called cowardly. In any case, they would not advocate starting a war with Goose Feather.
The Song Dynasty had the largest literary group in history, accounting for 60% of the world's gross domestic product. However, it was almost destroyed by the North, Jin, and Mongolia. It even caused the entire country's emperor, including all the civil and military officials, to be captured. It created a joke that had never appeared in the thousands of years of history of the Nine Provinces.
He Kun guessed that since the Great Gan was using this strategy, they must be trying to get rid of Long Hair.
He Kun decided to follow this breakthrough to answer the questions.
Of course, he couldn't simply declare war on Goose Feather.
One had to know that a war between two countries would consume the foundation of the country. If they could not win quickly, the entire country would be dragged into a quagmire.
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had conquered Koryo three times and brought down the powerful Great Sui. Now, the Great Qian Dynasty did not even have complete control over the royal court of Phoenix Feather. He definitely did not want to fight with Goose Feather.
However, if he did not want to fight a war and wanted Phoenix Feather to avoid being plundered by Goose Feather every winter, it would be extremely difficult to come up with such a solution.
"Ah, I got it…"
He Kun racked his brains, and after two hours, his eyes suddenly lit up. He had finally come up with a perfect solution.
He made this method into a 2,000-word essay and wrote it directly on the answer sheet.
In the end, He Kun signed his name on the right side of the examination paper. When the sun was about to set, the official who specially collected the examination papers took them away, indicating that the court examinations that had been busy for the whole day had finally ended.
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