The west of the Xuanzheng Hall of Danei, between Yanying Gate and Yuehua Gate, has recently been innovating in civil engineering. With the craftsmen working day and night, a new palace was quickly built, which is the new residence of Jiying Hall in the Daming Palace.

The reason why we have to go through a lot of trouble to set up a new museum is a helpless thing. Although the Daming Palace is huge, the closer it is to the center of power, the location and space will naturally be less. On the left and right of Xuanzheng Hall are the Secretariat and Menxia Province. The two provinces are the Censorate and the Temple and other important departments, and the buildings that were already owned were occupied by these Taiwan Provincial Special Departments.

When Jiying Pavilion was first established, it was a kind of close servants and precautions, so it was naturally not convenient to place it in a more abundant space, but it was farther away from it. Moreover, Jiying Pavilion also stores and manages many important card affairs such as book and imperial edicts, and has extremely high requirements for security and confidentiality.

Previously, because there was no fixed office space, Jiying Pavilion had to temporarily lend some of the nearby houses of the Immortal Maid House for office work. Of course, this was not a long-term solution, so the saint decided to divide the introspection of the hall, the Censorate and the Secretariat, to build Jiying Pavilion and Jiying Pavilion.

The saint was so motivated that in order to ensure the construction of the new museum, the ministers even delayed the renovation of some inner courtyard palaces. What was the intention?

This change in the upper power structure, even if it only reveals a sign, will inevitably have a profound impact on the world.

However, as today, just as the sages have just moved from chaos to meditation, the sages have made great achievements in correcting and re-creating the country. Even the prime ministers who were directly affected remained silent about this. Even the other court officials had some of their own opinions, they did not dare to speak loudly.

The court had no objection to this. Seeing that Jiying Pavilion had been completed, many court officials and nobles began to pay attention to the recruitment of Jiying Pavilion students. Anyone can see that if their children were selected for Jiying Pavilion, it would definitely be a great opportunity in their life. So as early as when Jiying Pavilion was still under construction, court officials and nobles began to inquire about the standards and methods of Jiying Pavilion recruitment through various channels.

However, the enrollment matters of Jiying Pavilion were customized by today's saints. Without ministers, the court officials naturally could not find out any accurate details. It was not until the court meeting at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month that the saints finally announced the steps and regulations for Jiying Pavilion's enrollment.

This time, Jiying Pavilion recruits students mainly target the immediate relatives of electors and officials above the third rank and above in Beijing, and there are also restrictions on age, and they must not be over thirty years old.

After all, the main purpose of Li Tong's establishment of Jiying Pavilion and enrolling students is not to teach and educate people, but to select and focus on cultivating some outstanding young people, as a reserve talent pool for important internal and external positions. If it is just for the purpose of preaching and studying, the State Council has its own six studies and four schools, and also the basic and technical studies set up under the jurisdiction of various departments, there is no need to start a new school.

Because the standards set by Jiying Pavilion are higher, the requirements for students are higher. First of all, you must have good fortune and guarantee basic qualities, and then select the best among the best and concentrate on training.

The reason why we have to open a convenient door for the children of third-rank officials is to make Jiying Pavilion more acceptable to the court officials. After all, there are few fools in the officialdom who dare not object and secretly restrain them can also cause a lot of trouble. Even if even a famous figure like Yao Yuanchong has many powerful and treacherous deeds passed down to future generations, it is a whole lot of ghost ideas if it is bad.

In order for Jiying Pavilion to recruit students smoothly and accurately select a group of available talents, Li Tong also personally issued a book preparation and took an additional examination before the imperial examination next year. The name was also very auspicious, called Guoyunmeiqi Science and he personally presided over this examination in Xuanzheng Hall, making these selected disciples more worthy of their reputation.

Shiliu also expressed great enthusiasm for the saints who came to preside over the election ceremony in person. Although the scope of recruitment was relatively strict, in a very short period of time, the election department received thousands of student registration certificates that met the requirements.

After all, the imperial court moved westward and various gifts had already brought the rituals to Chang'an, and now it happened to be the election. There will be imperial examinations and other elections held next year. Almost half of the essence of the entire Tang Dynasty's intellectual class was collected in the capital. It is naturally not surprising that it is of this scale.

With the current saints personally supervised it, the preparation efficiency of this system was also extremely high. Five days later, a preliminary examination was held in the Wangxianmen Nei Selection Academy.

The entire exam is divided into interpretation, question and text. Li Tong personally drafted 30 questions and sent them to the examination room. The content covers all aspects of military and state affairs. Candidates can choose different questions according to their respective strengths, and use five articles as a standard. Of course, if candidates think they are versatile, they can also use all the thirty questions to match them.

Such an examination has far exceeded that of ordinary imperial examinations, and even the erotic scholar examinations are far inferior to those of ordinary imperial examinations.

When the candidates entered the examination school, they were originally excited to be close to the sky, but when they heard that they had to make such a large number of test questions within the specified time, many people were already complaining secretly and no longer had the mood to come up to pay homage to the high pavilion. It is said that the emperor, who is unparalleled, began to focus on thinking about various test questions.

Seeing the examination room divided by screens in the examination room, full of candidates, or writing in a hurry, or frowning and thinking, Li Tong couldn't help but feel a sense of being a tyrant in the examination room.

He originally planned to walk out of the palace and inspect the examination room, trying to show his might, but as soon as he reached the gate of the palace, the soldiers walked towards him. The frequent sound of the collision of armored spears came into the examination room, causing some of the candidates in the front row to have their thoughts to be interrupted, and they looked up nervously.

Seeing this, Li Tong simply sat upright and took the candidates' list to read it carefully, wanting to see if there are any names that make him feel familiar to him and pass the time. After reading this, he was really surprised.

The list of candidates for this exam is extremely long, among which the children of high-ranking officials are recorded in separate records. With the better family background, the reproductive ability will naturally be guaranteed. Nearly 300 children of high-ranking officials alone participated in this election. Whether in the previous dynasty or the present dynasty, almost all high-ranking officials who have children in Beijing and meet the requirements will participate.

The ministers were so enthusiastic that they might not be greedy for a place for Jiyingguan students. They were more of a statement, giving the emperor a face, and saying that they did not object to this, but actively supported it.

Li Tong also knew this. No matter how these high-ranking children performed, the first Jiying Pavilion student must give the old ministers a face. Of course, the guys who have already shown a playboy like Yao Yuanchong's son would not choose. Even if a group of short men were taller, they would have to even out a few places.

However, after looking through it, there were several names on the list that Li Tong had a lot of memory. Although the children of high-ranking officials also had poor education and were incompetent, they had good education levels and many of them could surpass them.

For example, Li Yuanhong, the son of former Prime Minister Li Daoguang, is a typical example of his son's fame and achievements greater than that of me. Before Li Tong returned to power, Li Daoguang was also dismissed from the prime minister because of Li Zhaode's loss of power. This time, the court moved westward and returned to the capital.

Although there is no principled conflict between Li Tong and Li Daoguang, it is not close. Every day, the position of the court should be given priority to the arrangement of his trusted personnel. Li Daoguang's qualifications are there, and he is not easy to pass the idle position, so he simply increases the ranks and honors of the capital.

In history, in addition to the glory of being a minister in the Kaiyuan period, Li Yuanhong also had a highlight moment, that is, the anecdote of the Nanshan Iron Case during the Zhongzong period. Compared with famous prime ministers like Yao Song and other eternal prime ministers, although Li Yuanhong did not achieve such a high achievement and reputation, he was definitely one of the most outstanding officials in Kaiyuan.

Although he was born in the Guanlong clan, Li Yuanhong was able to enforce the law impartially, not to be a powerful person, not to be proud of the dry bones in the tomb and corrupt the ancestors, but could surpass his ancestors and make other achievements, which made Li Tong have a good impression of this young man.

Although the exam is not over yet, Li Tong has already circled the name first and decided that as long as Li Yuanhong's answer sheet reaches the passing line, he will be included in Jiying Pavilion for training.

As for the list of electors, Li Tong saw Pei Yaoqing's name when he saw it. He couldn't help but smile. He walked to the hall and searched in the large examination institute. He found Pei Yaoqing who was writing at his desk in the left area.

Pei Yaoqing is not old, only fifteen or sixteen years old, but he is six feet tall. He sits upright in the examination room and writes with his pen. He looks more dignified than some people older than him. It is not because of his father's Yin. Although his father Pei Shouzhen is the new governor of Huaizhou and is considered to be a third-rank senior official, Pei Yaoqing has achieved fame and fortune a few years ago and is a child prodigy certified by the imperial court's selection ceremony.

Coincidentally, Liu Yan, a famous minister in the middle Tang Dynasty, was also a child prodigy. This made Li Tong wonder if these child prodigy had long understood the materialistic dialectical view of the economic foundation that determines the superstructure, so when they grew up, they could make money more than the other.

Even if there is no Jiying Pavilion recruitment, Pei Yaoqing is also a seed contestant that Li Tong is concerned about. Earlier, he even planned to adopt the mansion and teach himself to practice his own son. However, with the riot in Luoyang, this matter was put on hold, and Pei Yaoqing was almost adult.

In addition to Pei Yaoqing, several prime ministers from the Kaiyuan period who Li Tong had a relatively good memory also appeared in the examination room, such as Yu Wenrong, Han Xiu, Du Xian. Although Kaiyuan is no longer the Kaiyuan in history, when he saw these characters, he was not slapped because of his small wings, but had begun to show his talents, Li Tong was also quite pleased.

The discovery and cultivation of talents is a fundamental event that concerns the country's destiny. Although Li Tong does not have a strong celebrity complex, when the names in historical books appear before his eyes, they will naturally make people have various associations.
Chapter completed!