At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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chapter 1234 one thousand 140 four don't forget how you got here all the way

Cao Zhi was suddenly named on such an occasion, and he was a little flustered.

He wasn't afraid at first, and he was a little disdainful when he saw the nervousness of the other people, but when he really appeared on this occasion, he still couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

Without him, there are too many people.

Not to mention that once he was named by the emperor, he felt that everyone's eyes were on him, giving him a feeling of being watched by everyone. That kind of sight was not like a line of sight, but like a knife.

Taking a deep breath, Cao Zhi forced himself to calm down.

"No... no, Your Majesty, this is the first time I have seen Your Majesty in Fengtian Palace. Your Majesty is mighty, and I am in awe."

Guo Peng nodded.

"When I usually meet you, I don't dress so formally. It's normal if you haven't seen him before."

Then, Guo Peng looked at the other two of Wen Jushi.

"Which of you two is Ma Su?"

Ma Di trembled all over, his breath was stagnant, he almost fell to the ground in fright, he took a step forward while holding on to his uneasiness.

"The subject... the subject is Ma Di."

Guo Peng then looked at this tall, handsome young man.

The legendary man Ma Su who is forever bound together with the three words "Lost Street Pavilion" and cannot be separated.

Stand in front of yourself now.

Of course, Guo Peng would not be surprised. The status of the two parties has long been qualitatively different. There is no such thing as surprise. That would be too funny.

But curiosity is still there.

It is undeniable that Ma Di was indeed extraordinary and talented to win the first official champion status of the first official imperial examination in history under his own design.

"Ma Su, You Chang, I heard that you are the fifth son in your family?"

Ma Di swallowed, nodded, and opened his somewhat dry mouth: "Yes, I am the fifth son in the family."

"Bo Zhong Shu Ji, there is also a little, well, this time, you did so well in the exam and became the number one, better than your brothers, how do you feel?"

Guo Peng looked at Ma Di with a smile.

Even if Ma Di had feelings, he didn't dare to show the slightest bit in front of the emperor, for fear of making the emperor unhappy.

"Chen, it's just a fluke. I don't have much talent."

"A chance to perform well in an exam can be regarded as a fluke. This is three exams in three days in a row. The total score of the three exams is calculated. With a total score of 290 points, you get [-] points. This is a fluke. ? If this is a fluke, how do you let the second place and Tanhua behind you think of you?"

Guo Peng laughed out loud.

So Jiang Wan smiled awkwardly, while Cao Zhi curled his lips in disdain.

"minister……"

Ma Di was taken aback, and didn't know what to say.

"No, Ma Di, you don't seem like a person without guts. When you went to inspect the examination room alone, you saw with your own eyes that you were cooking and eating in the examination room with a small pot. How can a person who has full confidence and self-confidence be so cautious in front of Gu?"

Guo Peng laughed and joked, not letting Ma Su go at all.

Jiang Wan and Cao Zhi looked at Ma Di in surprise.

The guy who cooked and ate in the examination room turned out to be the number one scholar? !

Hey!

The psychological quality is too good, how can you be speechless when you see the emperor?

This is the kind of thing that Ma Di really wants to complain about—who made you, the emperor, so powerful and so frightening?

Who dares to make trouble in front of you?

If you were the invigilator, see if I dare to move!

Ma Su wants to cry but has no tears.

I just want to put on a good show to show my literary talents and calmness, but the emperor sees it in the end. Is there anything more embarrassing than this kind of thing?

There is a high probability that it is gone.

"The minister... the minister is guilty..."

"What's the crime?"

Guo Peng smiled and shook his head: "What you did did not violate any of the exam rules, so the examiner planned to trouble you, but was stopped by Gu, who wanted to see how such a calm and relaxed person could pass the exam. What grades, in the end, I got the first prize in the exam."

Guo Peng walked around Ma Su a few times.

Then he looked at Jiang Wan.

"Jiang Wan, although your ranking is lower than the two of them, but after reading your test paper alone, I feel that your talent is not inferior to the two of them, it's just that the scores are different. You are ranked third. If you don’t bury your talent, you will be in Gu’s eyes too.”

Guo Peng stretched out his hand and patted Jiang Wan's shoulder: "May you be as upright and pure in administration as you write."

Jiang Wan looked up in astonishment, seeing Guo Peng's smile all over his face, he felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Withdrawing his hand, Guo Peng spoke slowly.

"No. [-] Scholar, No. [-], Tanhua, these are nicknames given to the top three by Gu. They were thought of by Gu himself, and have nothing to do with others. The three of you have won these three titles, which can be regarded as eternal glory. This glory will accompany you For the rest of your life, let you leave your name in history.

However, Ma Di, Cao Zhi, Jiang Wan, you must not think that you will definitely be able to leave your name in history now. Whether you can leave your name in history depends on whether you work hard, persist or make mistakes, and win such a title , does not mean glory and wealth, but means heavy responsibility. "

Saying this, Guo Peng went around to the martial arts trio again, looked at them, and patted them on the shoulder one by one.

"Xu Miao, Zhang Xiong, Liu Shan, good, good men, you are not scholars, but with your own hard work and hard work, you are also champions, second place, Tanhua, I have said that Wenju and Wuju have the same status, Wenju There is no difference in the status of a scholar and a martial artist, the difference lies in whether he can contribute to the country in the future."

What an honor it is to be patted on the shoulder by the emperor and call him a good man, the martial arts trio immediately blushed.

Xu Miaolang, the champion of martial arts, said: "I am a villain, who works on the fields. He is illiterate, ignorant, and suffers from hunger. Yangshan Martial Arts Hall reads well, understands principles and gains insight, so I have today, this body has already been dedicated to Your Majesty, but His Majesty has some urges, I am willing to be His Majesty's pawn!"

What he said was quite standard, and he didn't look like a soldier leader in the traditional sense at all.

The trio of Wen Ju looked over with some surprise, as if they had just realized that the winners of the martial arts exam were also able to speak, write and draw.

The senior officials in the palace seemed to have just realized that martial arts is not only about choosing martial arts fighters, but that all the selected ones are all reasonable talents with both civil and military skills.

This song Yangshan Lecture Martial Arts Hall is really not easy.

Guo Peng is very satisfied with such a statement.

Also started in the army, the reason why his life took off was because he participated in the crusade against the Yellow Turban Army. He stood out as a general under Lu Zhi's command, and the positions he held afterwards were all generals.

So he had a special liking for these great guys.

"Okay, remember the hardships you have suffered, don't forget, don't forget how you got here all the way, and you will tell your descendants about this in the future, so that your descendants will also know how you became famous from a peasant family. Those who left history."

Guo Peng laughed and said: "I am very much looking forward to seeing you, and you, making contributions on the battlefield together, invincible. I hope that you can prove to Gu with your practical skills that you are no better than the group of generals who made great contributions to the founding of the country." worse."

"According to the order!"

Xu Miao bowed and saluted.

"According to the order!"

Zhang Xiong and Liu Shan saluted together.

Seeing this scene, Guo Peng felt a little bit of anticipation in his heart. He always felt that these energetic young people could bring him some nice surprises, and they would not disappoint his expectations.

Chapter 1235 One thousand 140 five emperors holding hands

Seeing these six people in person, talking to them, and talking with them at close range, Guo Peng has fulfilled the responsibility of the emperor.

Give them enough face.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Guo Peng waved his hand, Su Yuan led a group of eunuchs, and brought these six people distinctive ceremonial official uniforms.

"This is for you to wear when you ride on the street later. Put it on. Many people will never have such an opportunity in their lifetime. The six of you are the most talented and the luckiest."

What Guo Peng said made the six of them inexplicably excited.

This is a special treatment that only belongs to them, and no one can enjoy it. This is what the emperor said in person.

What could be more touching than this special treatment?

After the six people put on their uniforms, Guo Peng looked at them happily, and the more he looked at them, the more satisfied he was, so he stepped forward and grabbed Ma Su's right hand with his left hand, and Xu Miao's left hand with his right hand.

"Lead you out alone."

Ma Di and Xu Miao didn't react until they were pulled by the emperor. It turned out that they were pulled by the emperor.

How glorious is it for the emperor to hold his hand in public?

Still being held by the emperor himself, this kind of glory can be written on the genealogy and passed down from generation to generation.

The two were dazed and hadn't reacted yet.

But Jiang Wan, Zhang Xiong and Liu Shan were so envious that they had difficulty breathing.

Although Cao Zhi was not so envious, but being able to be held by the emperor under the watchful eyes of so many high-ranking officials in the palace, the satisfaction of vanity was almost to break through the sky!

But now the person in this position is not himself, but Ma Su!That Ma Di whom he has been unconvinced all along!

Cao Zhi was very unhappy, very unhappy.

The other high-ranking officials in the palace felt that they had worked so long and put in so much effort and never been pulled by Guo Peng, and they felt sore and uncomfortable for a while, as if they had swallowed a lemon raw.

Cao Cao is fine. When he was young, he had a lot of physical contact with the young Guo Peng, and once shared a horse with him.

Guo Jia is also fine. When he was young, he slept in the same bed with Guo Peng and had physical contact with him. The relationship is very good.

Cheng Yu had complicated feelings. He remembered that he had been hugged by Guo Peng once, and he was once the only confidant of Guo Peng, but now, he was almost a stranger. He was so uncomfortable that he wanted to cry.

The rest are just sour, that sour.

When Guo Peng personally took Ma Su and Xu Miao's hands out of Fengtian Hall, the big square outside turned into a sea of ​​lemons, and everyone was sour, so sour that it was hard to restrain themselves.

People were extremely surprised to see the two people being held by the emperor and led by the emperor to walk on the royal road, and their hearts were already overwhelmed.

Envy, jealousy and hatred are not enough to describe the inner feelings of the officials outside.

If eyes could kill, Ma Su and Xu Miao would not survive the next second, but if eyes could condense into reality, these two people would never even think about leaving Fengtian Hall.

But the eyes can't do anything, can't condense into substance, and naturally can't stop the emperor who is leading the two people to send them out of the palace himself.

This is really an indelible memory for the rest of my life. I can brag about it in front of my family and friends all my life. After I die, I can engrave it on the tombstone and brag about it to future generations.

I was held by the emperor, or by the founding emperor of the Great Wei Empire, what about you?

Ma Di and Xu Miao just felt that they were already blissfully ecstatic. Walking on the royal road was like walking in the sky, stepping on soft clouds, walking among the clouds, so relaxed and happy.

I'm really happy, I'm really happy, I really hope this will be forever, don't end.

The ocean of envy, jealousy, and hatred, if there are more and more sour, it will not waste our hard work in learning literature and martial arts.

At this moment, in their eyes, the emperor is so amiable, so majestic, so...warm.

It feels as if the emperor who wiped out nearly [-] scholars and their families in one go a few months ago is not the same person as the emperor in front of him.

Really, so warm, there is a feeling of wanting to do my best for the person in front of me.

It's not surprising that Xu Miao has such a feeling. Without this incident, he would still have such an idea. Now that this incident has occurred, it will only make him deepen his dedication to Guo Peng.

For example [Willing to die instead of Guo Peng].

Ma Su thought of a very traditional saying that a scholar should die for his confidant, and he had such a feeling.

He felt that all the fame and praise he got in Jingzhou, and all the happiness brought by the praise he got under the control of the family power, was not as happy as he got today in this short period of less than two sticks of incense. Want more.

So happy, so happy that I almost fainted.

His family is also a big family in Jingzhou, with five brothers in the family, they are quite powerful.

In order to become an official, the whole clan brainstormed and compiled a catchphrase such as "Ma's Wuchang, Baimei is the brightest", which was widely spread in Xiangyang, and soon the reputation of the five brothers of the Ma family was spread.

The Ma family thought that Ma Liang was the best, but this time they did not expect that it was not Ma Liang, but Ma Di who won the crown.