Li Yan had already been waiting in the study room of a side hall at this time.

"Your Majesty, this is the test paper for all candidates. I have sent it here. As for the review of this provincial examination, if it is as usual..."

Xu Yuan was responsible for the entire provincial examination this time. Although it is over for the candidates, for a behind-the-scenes worker like him, his work has been completed half of it.

According to the past situation, he had to be responsible until the results were released before he could hand over the high school Jinshi to the Ministry of Personnel for selection, and assign official positions suitable for them according to their abilities.

But after Xu Yuan had just said half of the sentence, Li Yan interrupted him.

"No need to look at the past years. In the end, I have to decide who in high school? This time we don't have to worry about it. Just me, you, Zhang Xun, and Liu Yan will decide this matter. Later, the two of them will probably arrive. We will start grading the papers and select the top scorer this year within five days!"

Li Yan was still as simple and direct as ever, which actually left Xu Yuan with a lot of trouble. However, when Xu Yuan thought of Zhang Xun and Liu Yan, and when he thought of the provincial examination questions, he was a little speechless for a moment.

"Okay! Take the test paper! Don't destroy the name you are fooling around. I want to see how good the talents of my Tang Dynasty are!"

Li Neng didn't have much time to think about Xu Yuan's calculations. What he liked was the feeling of controlling other people's future. What is this role now? Isn't it the teacher who judged the paper in his previous life? This feeling is really quite satisfying.

Before Zhang Xun and Liu Yan arrived, Li Qing couldn't wait to open a test paper and read the article on it.

"How did this guy write so obscurely? What I asked him to say is what if he became the prime minister, he would not say anything about it, but the whole article was about the prime minister of the previous dynasty. It seemed that he could pull all the prime ministers of the previous dynasty out of the coffin, and I didn't know what it was!"

After reading one article, Li Qing muttered a few words in his mouth, then threw the test paper aside with his hand.

Xu Yuan had no choice but to pick up what Li Qing had seen, and then he started to look carefully again.

He felt that Li Yi had read an article so quickly, which was really a bit hasty. After all, he had read it for ten years. He was sentenced to death so lightly. Xu Yuanxin said that it was a bit hasty.

However, after reading it, Xu Yuan had to admit that Li Yan's seemingly casual words were indeed correct. The things written by this candidate were completely off topic. Li Yan asked you to talk about yourself, what he said was Guan Zhong and Le Yi, and he was very optimistic. In addition to showing off his literary talent and knowledge, such candidates, apart from memorizing some books of sages, there is really no gap in their hearts.

By the time Zhang Xun and Liu Yan arrived, Li had already sentenced three or four candidates to death.

Although I may be a little tired these days, Zhang Xun and Liu Yan still like to do this. After all, in the future, seeing the Tang talents selected by themselves outstanding in the court, that sense of accomplishment can still make people feel quite happy.

However, after seeing the question, Zhang Xun and Liu Yan looked at each other and saw a little embarrassment on each other's face.

"This question in the provincial examination this year is interesting!"

Liu Yan's emotional intelligence is not as good as Zhang Xun. After seeing it, he involuntarily said this.

"Well... it's really good. After this question is finished, I am quite satisfied. I decided at that time! You two should not have any ideas about this matter. Xu Yuan is also for our Tang Dynasty!"

After Li Yan finished speaking, Xu Yuanxi next to him sighed indescribably, but he didn't say anything.

Zhang Xun knew Li and Xu Yuan. He knew that Xu Yuan could not have asked such a question himself, so this question was mostly given by Li, but he just didn't want to say that he had robbed the position of the examiner. In fact, this is for the sake of Xu Yuan's good. Otherwise, even the most critical test question was not given by Xu Yuan, so wouldn't he really become Li's tool guy?

Zhang Xun did not point it out, but he didn't say anything, but Liu Yan was obviously a little slow in this regard, with a question mark on his head, thinking that Xu Yuan doesn't usually look so high-profile. This thing is really a person who can't behave like a person!

These three people are not the kind of people who like to behave themselves, and they immediately started to carefully mark the papers after they arrived.

However, the marking pattern of this paper is different from what Zhang Xun and Liu Yan imagined.

According to Li Neng, he would first read all the articles and then give a preliminary review opinion. Moreover, the preliminary review opinion is very simple, which is good or bad.

After that, the remaining three people reviewed the articles that Li Lan had initially reviewed. If they had the same opinion as Li Lan, there was no need to speak. If there were different ideas from Li Lan, the four of them would discuss it.

Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan know what kind of people Li Qing wants but not what kind of people, but Liu Yan, who has been with Li Qing for a short time, is not like this.

"Your Majesty, this person's articles are wrong in several places. Why does Your Majesty say that this person's articles are excellent?"

"Well... Liu Xiang, look at it. Although he has a little flaw, the idea in the article is very novel. It is not copied from the works, but it is entirely the thoughts in his heart. It is much better than those who blindly pursue rhyme but don't know the so-called articles. I think that if I can't find at least twenty articles that are stronger than him, he is still worthy of a low-ranking Jinshi. At worst, I can just wait until I become an official and let him read more books!"

Liu Yan has been eloquent since he was a child, but when faced with Li Yan's words, there is nothing to say. The emperor has the final say in selecting talents. After all, you can only provide opinions, and it depends on whether the emperor accepts it. Moreover, Li Yan is not wrong to say this. After all, whether the rhyme of the article is good will not affect the handling of the government affairs in the court.

Although Li Qing reads the article quickly, because he often needs to discuss it with them, the day has passed and one-fifth of the article has not been finished.
Chapter completed!