Chapter 31 Sanjia is out of the oven

The finals is to answer questions, and the one who can grab and answer the most is naturally the final champion. At this moment, the five talented men had been given to sit down by the emperor, lined up and sat upright on the small brocade stool in front of the judges, holding a sign in their hands, which was for them to raise and signal to answer.

The judges sitting opposite them are undoubtedly much higher than them. Not to mention the emperor sitting high in the brocade chair, even the judges on both sides sat on the high-headed armchair, which looked much taller than them.

In this way, the newly formed happy mood was suppressed again. Looking at the bigwigs in front of him, he could still maintain psychological calmness. His legs did not play drums in front of the brocade stool. Except for the white tiger hall that had been calmed down, there was only Liang Ziyu. Even Yun Xiaomeng's face was very nervous.

"The test questions are only applied once. Several great talents, please pay attention to hear them clearly." The presiding officer spoke and adjusted their hearts. Su Yong couldn't help laughing secretly. This host is also a freak who dares to show off in front of His Majesty.

The host went to the judge's table and kowtowed to His Majesty the emperor. He took a brocade on the table and gently unfolded and shouted, "This first question was given by the emperor. The title is: 'I often don't drink and get drunk'. May I ask why? And we need to make a couplet on this topic.

After listening to the host's words, His Majesty also smiled and looked at the ministers on both sides and said slowly, "When they finish answering, all Aiqing can also express their opinions. In addition, I will give you such a question in the finals. The rest of the questions will be decided by the Qing family. You can say all the difficult problems you know. The more difficult it is, the better.

Several judges answered, but they cried secretly in their hearts. This poetry competition is naturally a major event that Yanlong must go down in history. If his topic is shallow, I'm afraid that instead of being immortal, it will be laughed at. After all, these judges did not expect the finals to be like this, and some people are unprepared and always think that all the topics are prepared.

Who would have expected that the emperor not only had to assess the talents, but also test them by the way.

We are the judges. A few people couldn't help shouting in their hearts that we came on vacation on business, not to do our homework. But who dares to protest?

The sign of Baihutang was raised, and the host waited for him to stand up and raised the horn in front of him.

"I often didn't drink and got drunk. This is because watching flowers can get drunk, looking at the moon can get drunk, and see the beauty..." Bai Hutang said this in three sentences. He said this inadiantly. He quietly looked ahead and found that everyone did not stop drinking, and then he was relieved: "Well, it can also be drunk. As for the next couplet, the common people are 'not to read.'"

I'm often drunk without drinking, and I don't read. The pair was quite neat, but it meant the couplet, but it made the emperor frown.

The minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies on the side was cautious. When he saw that the limelight was not right, he quickly stood up and shouted, "Nonsense, you have to be reasonable and don't read. How can there be such a reason?"

Liu Guanyu and the two vice presidents are both masters of literature, and they are also a little dissatisfied with this crazy scholar's sentence, and they can't help nodding.

Su Yong sat upright and naturally saw the scenes on both sides. This white tiger hall was very popular with him, and his prospective wife had beaten him so much that he almost broke down. Naturally, he had to help.

What's more, what Bai Hutang said is not unreasonable. For example, some of the poor people in the world have never touched a book all their lives, and they have never recognized a single big character, but don't they understand anything?

At this moment, he saw that Bai Hutang had been stunned by the Shang Shu and did not dare to say another word, so he stood up with a smile to help him defend himself: "In Su's opinion, Bai Caizi's words also makes sense. Just now, he said that watching flowers can be drunk, appreciating the moon can be drunk, and looking at the beauty can be drunk. So if it is extended, it can also be said that understanding the world is understandable. For all the people, even if they don't study, there are many people who are familiar with the truth. Reading is just a means to understand knowledge and reason, but it is not necessarily necessary to read more, you must understand the truth.

This was suddenly a little reluctant to hear. However, when everyone analyzed it carefully, they felt that it made sense. Thinking that I don't know how many treacherous ministers and rebellious sons in history are full of poetry and books, even if everyone has the intention to refute, they don't have the courage.

And the emperor immediately thought of the headache Yun Taishi and couldn't help nodding.

Liu Guanyu stood up and said, "Lord Su is right. Reading is only one of the ways to gain knowledge of reason, but it is difficult to understand the book and etiquette. The understanding of reason is still much worse, so what Lord Shang Shu said is also a responsibility, and it is not wrong."

The Minister of Ceremonies naturally attaches great importance to knowledge and etiquette, which is understandable. Su Yong nodded and saluted Mo Yan with a smile. Mo Yan also replied with a smile. As for whether he had a grudge, it was unknown.

But Su Yong's move undoubtedly tied the white tiger hall, the head of the four talents, firmly to his own hands.

Bai Hutang bowed to the emperor and Su Yong. Finally, he hugged Lord Mo to show his understanding and sat down.

"The answer of Bai Hutang passed." His Majesty nodded and glanced at the judges: "It's up to you to solve the question."

As soon as Su Yong saw that the other people were still meditating, he stood up and smiled and said, "I'll have one first, or the right one. I'll hear it clearly." Boys and girls are all scholars and endless.' Let's start to answer."

As soon as the voice fell, two low voices came from the side at the same time. It was not the woman in purple and who else would come. The emperor laughed and stroking his beard, which showed that he was very appreciative of his jokes. After all, Baihutang was just suppressed by Mo Yan's official prestige, and the mood of the talented people in the field was depressed.

Yun Xiaomeng was stunned. Just as he was about to raise the card, the mangosteen branch, which had already known this way, had been raised first.

"First love, passionate love, homosexuality, love is hard to give up." Mangosteen shook her head and shook her head, and the result was naturally exchanged for two other whispers.

Everyone laughed. Su Yong looked at the emperor's face and said with a smile, "Why don't you please give me a banner?"

The emperor was stunned and blurted out, "Well, 'I have no love'?"

Everyone laughed again, and even the emperor couldn't help laughing.

With the supplement of the emperor's banner, the question of mangosteen also passed smoothly. At this moment, Shanzhuzhi also stood up like Bai Hutang, bowed deeply to the emperor, and also bowed to Su Yong. Naturally, he understood that General Su came up with such a topic to take care of them.

At this time, Liu Guanyu stood up and bowed to the emperor, "I have been to Guangdong and Fujian, and I was very impressed by a rural door couplet. Even now, I don't quite understand the meaning. At this moment, I also want to take it out and see if there is a talent who can answer it."

Even the champion can't understand it? The emperor couldn't help but be very interested and nodded.

Liu Guanyu murmured and said loudly, "This couplet is like this. The upper couplet is 'two, two, three, three, four, four, five', the lower couplet is 'six, seven, seven, eight, nine', and the banner is 'two, four, seven, three', and it's really difficult to understand."

As soon as the talents saw that the two of the four talents had stood out, they quickly started to think about it.

However, this couplet is really incredible. Not to mention that these talents have fallen into deep thinking, even the people in the jury have frowned. It's all numbers, not multiples. What does it mean?

Su Yong accidentally looked up and found that Liang Ziyu, who came from Dazhou City in southern Guangdong, showed a hesitant look on his face. He couldn't help encouraging him and said, "At present, everyone doesn't know the answer. If Liang Caizi has some kind of guess, you might as well say it out. Please refer to it."

Liang Ziyu arched his hand to him gratefully and stood up and said, "In our south, there are many farmers and our life is relatively poor. Many people in the countryside don't know much, but only know a little about arithmetic. Therefore, Liang thought that this door couplet had no specific meaning, but because the owner didn't recognize the words too deep, he wrote a few simple numbers and acted as the door couplet.

Liang Ziyu comes from Southern Guangdong. Naturally, he has a better understanding of the local situation. It makes sense for everyone to hear him say so, and they can't help nodding.

At this time, Su Yong seemed to have some understanding and couldn't help asking, "Do you often have dwarf Japanese people coming by boat to disturb the coastal area over there?"

Liang Ziyu was stunned, with a trace of resentment in his eyes. He arched his hand and said, "Exactly, the dwarf Japanese will come every three or five months, burning, killing and plundering, and doing all kinds of evil. Although there are civil corps and officers and soldiers to defend together, they can't be prevented.

Su Yong nodded and turned to Liu Zhuangyuan and said, "Is the village that Lord Liu went to at that time not far from the coast?"

Liu Guanyu nodded and said, "General Su is right. That place is called Leizhou, and the coastline is extremely long."

Su Yong pondered for a moment, and suddenly sighed and was speechless for a long time.

This sigh was sad, and everyone was stunned. They were also a little infected by him and forgot to ask for a moment.

After a while, Liu Guanyu arched his hand and said, "What did General Su think of?"

Su Yong took a long breath, squinted at the ant-like onlookers downstairs outside the building, and sighed, "This couplet is about the master's experience."

He walked to the edge of the fence of the small building and blew the wind, which made the depression in his heart dissipate a little. Then he said in a low voice: "The upper couplet 'two, two, three, three, four, four, five' missing a word 'one', that is, 'lack of clothes', and the lower couplet 'six six, seven, seven, eight, nine', the lack of 'ten', that is, 'less food', which means 'lack of clothes'. Eat less."

"As for that banner," Su Yong sighed, "'two four, seven, three' is probably the meaning of 'dead wife'." I can't help sighing.

War has always been bitter for the people. If the southeast area is uncertain, this kind of man-made disaster will continue.

Everyone suddenly realized after hearing this, but they were generally not in the mood to say anything to him, and they were all silent.

As a Yanlong soldier, I see that there is still a disaster of war at the border gate. How can I enjoy the prosperity of poetry and lyrics in Kyoto? Su Yong couldn't help but feel deeply self-reproach. He went to the judge's table and bowed deeply to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for not continuing this poetry competition. The subordinate is a general. Please send me to the southeast to suppress the bandits and eliminate the Japanese."

The emperor was silent for a long time and waved to the old eunuch: "The decree is that the six provinces in the southeast will be exempted from tax for three years."

"Thank you, Emperor." The ministers hurriedly stood up with Su Yong and bowed.

The emperor looked at Su Yong, the scars on his face that had gradually faded, and a few strands of blood in his eyes, and nodded for a long time: "General Su, thank you for your hard work."

Su Yong held his fist and said, "Thank you for your kindness. It's just that this poetry competition is not over yet... Weichen has no intention to stay any longer.

The emperor looked around at the people, looked at the officials and judges, looked at the scholars, and everyone hurriedly lowered their heads. He suddenly burst into laughter.

A sudden burst of laughter, the emperor shouted, "The poetry competition is over. In this assessment, literary talent is second. What is rare is the hearts of the people."

The emperor's voice was unprecedentedly loud. His eyes swept over Baihutang and Liang Ziyu and others: "The third place is juxtahe by the two talents in the south of the Yangtze River. The two talents are elegant and unruly. Although they are a little arrogant, they are not only scholars, and they are also crazy and chivalrous."

Then he looked at Yun Xiaomeng, Ma Huateng and others again: "As for the second place," the emperor's eyes finally fell on Liang Ziyu: "It was obtained by Liang Ziyu. The reason is very simple. He understands the people, is upright and pragmatic. When he just talked about the harm of Japanese pirates, he involuntarily shows his desire to pay attention to people's livelihood and beg for life for the people, which can be described as a model of officials; "

"As for the top of the top three," looking at the emperor looking at Ma Huateng and Yun Xiaomeng, Su Yong couldn't help but be shocked. These two people can be said to have no performance. Does the emperor want to give them a high hat to wear? The judges were also puzzled.

"It's General Su." The emperor suddenly turned his head and tone at the same time and fell on him.

Me? But I'm a judge. Su Yong couldn't laugh or cry. Didn't the emperor brush me?

The emperor's voice became serious: "General Su is wise and brave, loyal to the country, worried about the people, and even more Yanlong gets rid of Yanmeng's strong enemies. At this moment, he takes the initiative to ask him to clean up the Japanese pirates, which is full of blood. The pillar of this country is the blessing of the dragon. Who else can be the head of these top three besides him?

There were cheers outside the building, and the people and soldiers were very excited. They all knelt down and shouted long live the wise. The emperor's words really expressed everyone's heart. This literary and martial arts competition was originally caused by him. What did he win a special honor in it? Isn't this what everyone expects?

However, at this time, Su Yong was not very excited, because after he heard the earth-shaking cheers, he suddenly felt that the responsibility was extremely heavy on his shoulders. However, at this time, the emperor suddenly asked him in a low voice, "General Su, how long are you going to clean up the Japanese pirates?"

He couldn't help but be stunned: Shit, this old guy, he was ready to call me to go early in the morning. This...isn't this me?