Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 800

The participating teams are organized into squares based on the academies, including the Imperial College, the Duke's Family School, the Wencang Academy, the Yunqi Academy, the Zhongxia Academy, the Chunshan Academy, the Beiming Academy, etc., plus a square of individual candidates, which is a team composed of people who have no academy background.

The leaders of each square had drawn lots yesterday. For example, the leader of Yunqi Academy was Cen Yuan, and the order of the draws was: weightlifting, archery, carbine, and horseback archery.

So Yunqi Academy was the first to test weightlifting...all this information was published in the newspapers.

After reading the newspaper, Emperor Mingde took Eunuch Qi to the horse and gun field of the Gongyuan martial arts field.

He originally wanted to go to the weightlifting arena, but he heard from Lord Jiang from the Ministry of Rites that the weightlifting arena was overcrowded.

Emperor Mingde couldn't help but ask, "Have all the tickets for your Ministry of Rites and Ministry of Revenue been sold out?"

When talking about this, Lord Jiang smiled deeply, "It's sold out! It's sold out! It was sold out yesterday. The East Feather Guards also caught a group of scalpers who were reselling the tickets. It is said that the ticket price has been raised to 20 taels per ticket."

Emperor Mingde smiled and said, "I see that your Ministry of Rites and Ministry of Revenue are doing well. I wish we could hold a military examination every year."

Lord Jiang from the Ministry of Rites smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed. "Your Majesty is joking. I, your servants, also hope that the court will recruit more talents."

Seeing that the emperor wanted to go to the weightlifting arena, he suggested, "Your Majesty, you should go to the horse and spear arena. There are fewer people there, which is good for your health." He then added, "The first event in the Imperial College is the horse and spear."

The Imperial College was the highest official institution of learning in the imperial court, and logically should have been the place that produced the most talents.

But after Emperor Mingde came to power, the Imperial College was controlled and infiltrated by the Empress Dowager's people, which deeply affected the talent education in the northern wing.

So he simply liberalized education and encouraged aristocratic family schools and private institutions to flourish.

When Chunshan Academy was first opened, the formalities were blocked by an official and Emperor Mingde simply beheaded the official as a warning to the public.

After that, no one dared to tamper with education. As long as the school that met the school standards submitted an application, it would be handled specially.

After several years, the effect was particularly evident in this period. The Imperial College was in decline in all aspects, and not even one of the candidates in the civil service examination made it into the top ten.

The Imperial College was obviously anxious about this martial arts examination.

Emperor Mingde didn't want to visit the Imperial College at all, he only wanted to visit the Yunqi Academy.

Thinking about that scene, Shi Yunqi must have been watching the game in the stands. Wherever Shi Yunqi was, there would be storms; of course, wherever Shi Yunqi was, there would be Shi Anxia. Where these two siblings were, how could their mother not be there?

Oh, I thought too much! Emperor Mingde didn't show any emotion on his face, but he replied anxiously, "Okay."

Then they headed towards the rifle range.

Of course, wherever he went, people knelt down in boredom, and the chants of "Long live the emperor" sounded extremely stiff in their ears.

Emperor Mingde waved his hand and sat down.

With the passionate speech by Mr. Wu, a doctor in the Ministry of War, the military examination horse and gun competition officially kicked off.

There were some people sitting in the horse-shooting field, but not too many. They must be the relatives and friends of the students of the Imperial College, teachers, etc.... As expected, there were not many people.

On the other side, in the weightlifting arena, Lord Meng, the Vice Minister of War, was preparing to give a speech, but the arena was too noisy and he couldn't do it at all.

People are shouting "When the clouds rise, when the clouds rise" one after another. This is clearly a martial arts examination. What does shouting "When the clouds rise" mean?

Shi Yunqi himself was sitting in the stands, stroking his forehead, covering his face, and almost shrinking into his shell, but he was unable to weaken the cheers of "Shi Yunqi" in the slightest.

Lord Meng pressed his hands down several times to silence the crowd, but to no avail. Finally, he could no longer endure it and roared, "Shi Yunqi, why don't you get up and take care of it!"