As time passed, Shen Ming's voice became increasingly hoarse, and the expressions of officials from the Left Prime Minister's party became increasingly unsightly.
Fang Yun did not make a single mistake.
Everyone present will be able to answer the questions that follow, but it is difficult to finish them in a short period of time, so even without the answers from the Holy Academy, you can still judge whether they are right or wrong.
When Shen Ming finished reciting the last question, there was silence at the scene.
Ao Huang chuckled and said, "You are a bunch of scumbags. You think that with more than ten people against one, you can beat Fang Yun on a certain question? It's just a foolish dream! Half an hour is enough to answer the question in full armor. What else do you have to say?"
Yu Ba Chi sneered and said, "Thank you, Master Shen, for helping Fang Xusheng become famous and consolidating Fang Quanjia's literary reputation!"
"He is Fang Quanjia. It would be strange if he couldn't do it." Shen Ming said stubbornly.
Shen Ming said this on the surface, but he kept cursing in his heart. If Fang Yun answered a question wrong today, everyone would definitely continue to build momentum, and when the big event happened on March 17th, the effect would be doubled!
Ao Huang looked at Shen Ming with contempt and said, "Master Shen, do you want to compete again? After the competition of asking for the holy words, it's time to compete in poetry."
Shen Ming said: "County Magistrate Fang is the ancestor of poetry, so it doesn't matter if there is no comparison between his poems."
"You're smart! Bah!" Ao Huang spat at Shen Ming.
Everyone was stunned. Ao Huang was too bold. If a human scholar did this during the county examination, he would definitely be punished by the Rites Hall.
Shen Ming dodged hastily, glared at Ao Huang and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Oh, I accidentally sneezed." Ao Huang turned his head and looked at the sky.
Shen Ming said angrily: "Prince Huang, after the county exam, I will definitely report you!"
"Whatever! Fang Yun wants face, but I don't." As he spoke, Ao Huang actually hummed a little tune, wagging his little tail happily.
The officials were troubled. If Fang Yun did such a thing, they had countless ways to damage Fang Yun's reputation, but facing Ao Huang, they were powerless. A true dragon does not need a reputation. Even if they reported him to the Palace of Rites, they could not do anything to him. At most, they would issue a document to reprimand him and leave it alone.
Shen Ming turned his head to look at Fang Yun and said loudly: "County Magistrate Fang, he did such a disrespectful thing because you didn't discipline your subordinates. You are to blame!"
Fang Yun glanced at Shen Ming indifferently and said, "Master Shen seems to have forgotten that I am just a small county magistrate. I can't even use the power of a Duke of Zhenguo. How can I manage a dignified prince? As a county magistrate, you don't know how to communicate with Ao Huang calmly. You yelled and screamed at the slightest insult. You are so uncivilized and have read so much that your books have gone to waste!"
"you… "
Tao Dingnian hurriedly said, "Please calm down, Master Shen. Now is the county exam, and we can talk about other things later."
Shen Ming then shut up in dismay. As a relative of the left prime minister, he was used to being overbearing in Ning'an County. Since Fang Yun came, he wanted to attack Fang Yun by executing Ji Zhibai's plan. If successful, he could take credit. He could take another step forward as a scholar and be awarded a low-level title.
Unfortunately, he failed every time. He even harmed Ji Zhibai once, making Ji Zhibai a laughing stock in the whole country and the whole human race.
Fang Yun stood up and said, "I'll go inspect the examination room."
After saying that, Fang Yun took Ao Huang and several officials from the Academy of Literature away.
Time passed slowly, and at noon, Fang Yun and the officials had a simple lunch and then continued to supervise the exam.
In the morning, most candidates answered questions about sacred words, while in the afternoon they answered questions about poetry and songs.
At first, the academy was calm and peaceful, but from four o'clock in the afternoon, a strong atmosphere of talent began to emerge.
Before the display ended, five streams of talent power appeared, and the fluctuation of each talent was at the county level.
Fang Yun sighed inwardly, Ning'an County is indeed a big county, with five poems passing the county exam in a very ordinary Tongsheng exam. In contrast, in his hometown Ji County, there might not be one poem passing the county exam every two or three years.
When the time came, the bell rang, and a strange force was released from outside the temple, preventing the candidates from answering the questions.
"Wow… "
There were bursts of crying in various places in the examination room. Fang Yun shook his head gently. Many candidates were not even ten years old. It was not easy for them to persevere and finish the exam. It was normal to cry if they felt that they had not answered well at the end.
Tens of thousands of candidates stood up from the examination rooms, appeared from all directions, and rushed to the main entrance.
Most of the candidates who passed the exam looked unhappy, a few had tears on their faces, and only a very few looked calm or even had a smile on their faces.
After the candidates left, the officers began to collect the papers.
After dinner, everyone went to the examination room under the leadership of Fang Yun.
Walking to the door, Fang Yun took a deep breath and pushed it open.
The marking room was very spacious, inlaid with luminous pearls, and had many tables neatly arranged with thick test papers stacked on them.
Smelling the rich aroma of ink, Fang Yun led his people to the statue of Confucius in the marking room. He paused for a moment, then bowed to the statue of Confucius.
"Please give your holy judgment!" Fang Yun said.
"Please accept the Holy Judgement!" All the others followed suit and bowed.
An invisible force passed by, and all the test papers were covered with orange talent of varying heights.
Fang Yun quickly scanned and found that there were five papers with a talent of one foot, and the tallest was one foot and three inches. There were a large number of papers with a talent ranging from five inches to one foot, more than a thousand.
Fang Yun nodded. This is the atmosphere of a big county, which is far beyond what Ji County can compare to.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew up out of nowhere, and a large number of test papers were blown away, only a few test papers remained motionless in the wind.
Soon, there were a total of one thousand test papers left on the desk.
Fang Yun and these examiners will rank the one thousand test papers and admit the top two hundred and thirty candidates.
Select people based on their talents and rank them based on their writings.
These one thousand test papers were determined by the talent in poetry, but the subsequent ranking was determined by the level of the Holy Word.
If a person's poems can be published in the county, but his request for divine advice is of grade D, then he will certainly be ranked outside the top 230 and will have no chance of becoming a Tongsheng.
Since it was his first time as an examiner, Fang Yun was particularly careful, reviewing the papers over and over again, staying up all night.
On the morning of March 16, the county examination results were announced and the whole county was in jubilation.
At night, Fang Yun invited the top 20 students and local scholars to a banquet. Not only did everyone not dare to act rashly, but they were extremely cautious, so the banquet for the students went on safely.
At the banquet, the students asked many questions and Fang Yun answered them one by one.
On the morning of March 17, Fang Yun got up as usual.
However, Ao Huang was very excited and had been nagging Fang Yun since he got up.
Because Fang Yun will give a lecture at the county academy of literature today to guide the scholars in Ning'an County.
Fang Yun washed, ate, and rested after meals as usual.
Just when Fang Yun was about to leave the county government office and head to the county academy of literature, he received an urgent letter from Fang Yingwu.
"Something terrible is happening! All the grain shops in Ning'an County have suddenly raised their prices today, to two and a half times the normal price!"
Fang Yun stood there in a daze. Just yesterday, the price of grain was only 1.7 times the normal price, which was within a very reasonable range. He didn't expect it to suddenly rise so high this morning.
Fang Yun looked towards the direction of the capital.
"I see. You have been preparing for this day for a long time! But I don't believe there won't be any loopholes!"
Fang Yun thought to himself and shouted, "Come here, prepare the car. This county must go to the granary as quickly as possible!" (To be continued...)