The Ministry of Rites separated out the Lifan Yuan, the Ministry of Personnel separated out the Organization Department, the Ministry of Household Affairs even separated out the Civil Affairs and the Second Ministry of Finance, which can be said to have shocked the world.

However, for the Gongshi who have just finished the examination, all this is just a cloud.

The examination, which lasted for more than ten days, made everyone in the capital feel wary, fearing that they would disturb these future officials.

According to the report of Sunchon Prefecture Yin: the people in Gyeonggi Province all kept silent and held their breath for fear that the sound of breathing would disturb the tranquility of Wenquxing.

The Zhigong Hall of Shuntian Prefecture is seven rooms wide, with five ridges hanging from the top of the mountain. It has blue brick walls and glazed tiles. It is the most magnificent building in the Gongyuan of Shuntian Prefecture. The three characters "Zhigongtang" on the plaque were written by Zhang Juzheng in the early years of Wanli when he ordered the reconstruction of the Gongyuan.

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After Zhang Juzheng's death, Emperor Wanli liquidated him and almost opened his coffin to kill his body. Most of the effective New Deal implemented by Zhang Juzheng was abolished, but no one has replaced this plaque, which still hangs high today.

At this time, there were rows of red candles in the Zigong Hall, which was as bright as day.

Duan Yizhi, the official of the Imperial Academy, sits in the middle as the chief examiner, and the other supervisors, admonishment officers, transfer officers, record-receiving officers, mid-level officials, transcribers, and readers, as well as the Fang Guan of the 20th Room of the Five Classics and the 82nd

There are a lot of marking officers in the room.

During the Shaowu Dynasty, the old practice of the pavilion elders taking charge of examinations was changed, and the Imperial Academy Ji Jijiu served as the examiner. This was a huge loss for those pavilion elders who wanted to attract more disciples.

Similarly, for the candidates, the sacrificial wine, which is clean and poor, and has almost no power, is really not a big tree to climb.

Duan Yizhi is sixty years old and will soon be serving as an official in two years. Now he is full of energy and is not tired after reading for days and nights.

"Start splitting numbers, doing roll calls, and writing lists."

"yes--"

On the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, since the official list must be stamped with the seal of the Ministry of Rites, the promotion officer and the supervisor led 800 soldiers to escort the official list to the Ministry of Rites. After being stamped, the list was posted on the screen wall in front of the lobby and announced.

Outside the gate of Gongyuan, six thousand candidates and tens of thousands of relatives, friends and servants had been waiting for most of the night before the three main gates slowly opened. At this time, the morning star was still bright, competing with the moon.

Two groups of soldiers came out first and shouted loudly to the crowd to retreat. The crowd moved slightly to both sides, and then they heard the sound of drums and a guard of honor. Several officials on horseback escorted a colorful pavilion tied with yellow silk out of the gate.

The main list was in the Cai Pavilion, and the candidates in the square asked:

"Who is Huiyuan?"

"Can Anhui Zhang Shining win?"

The shouts were overwhelming, and the sound seemed to overturn the promotion officers on horseback. Moreover, the crowd was so crowded that it was impossible to get out.

The promotion officer discussed with the prisoner for a few words, and then shouted condescendingly on horseback to the dense crowd in the square:

"Silence, silence, I will announce to you the names of the top five in this examination in advance——"

The square quickly became quiet, but the breathing of tens of thousands of people was also loud, and it took a long time for the waves to stop.

The roll call goes from fifth to first. Only these five people enjoy such privileges, and the rest can only look at the yellow list.

"Zhang Yongqi from Anqing Prefecture ranked fifth in the annual Guiji Examination..."

"Fourth place, Huzhou Shenquan..."

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Then, after the top five were listed, everyone rushed forward, trying to find their own names.

Feeling happy or sad for a moment is inhumane.

Once you pass the examination, you will definitely be on the gold list.

Next, we just need to take the palace examination to see who can be ranked first.

Even if you are in the top three, you are from a Jinshi background, which is not the same as a Jiansheng or Juren.

A few days later, the palace examination began.

A group of candidates took a carriage and drove to the outside of Daming Gate. They gathered in the lobby of the Ministry of Etiquette with their examination baskets and lined up according to their examination rankings.

A total of three hundred people, led by Xu Wenbin, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, walked through the Qianbu Corridor and the Jinshui White Jade Bridge to the outside of Chengtian Gate.

These guards are from the Guards Department. They are all nearly six feet tall, wearing wind-winged helmets and golden armor. They are tall, majestic and majestic. They are neatly lined up on both sides of Chengtian Gate. They hold their hands on the hilts of their swords and stare at the candidates who pass in front of them.

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This time the inspection is not focused on carrying books, but on whether you are carrying weapons. This is just a precaution. Which candidate would bring a sword into the palace? Isn't this looking for death?

Walk through the bluestone-paved square in front of the palace and stand outside Danbi.

Fourteen reviewers and dozens of deacons headed by Duan Yizhi came in and stood in the palace. According to the ancestral system, the emperor was expected to ascend to the palace to receive the salutes of hundreds of officials and to give advice on the spot.

I saw the emperor sitting on the dragon chair, wearing a golden five-clawed dragon robe and a Yishan crown on his head. He had a majestic appearance and a short beard that was deliberately kept short to show his majesty.

Many candidates immediately lowered their heads at the first glance, feeling filled with emotion.

The candidates bowed five times and kowtowed three times: "Long live my emperor, long live the emperor——"

"Get flat!"

The emperor raised his hand and smiled: "The weather is nice today. I hope everyone will not be restrained and spare no effort in writing for the country."

With that said, the exam officially began.

Officials of Guanglu Temple have already neatly placed 300 examination papers in the main hall. The Huangji Hall is thirty-two feet wide and sixteen feet deep. It is grand and tall, and is more than enough to accommodate nearly four hundred examination papers.

The candidates took their seats in order and began to polish their ink and wait for their papers to be handed out.

The fourteen examiners stayed in the Wenhua Hall last night, and each drafted a topic. The eunuch who was the Supervisor of Ceremonies sent the eunuch to the Qianqing Palace to have the emperor circle a topic with his pen, and then sealed it and returned it to the cabinet, which was in the cabinet lobby.

The chamberlain who was ordered to be a prisoner printed three hundred and forty-eight copies on the spot. The inner and outer doors were isolated when printing the title, and the title was never allowed to be leaked in advance.

"Since the Zhongxing Dynasty, I have been lamenting day and night, thinking about King Wu's taboos, thinking about the loss of my ancestors, and worrying about repeating the same mistakes, which will lead to chaos in the world. I am anxious and have few good strategies. If any of you scholars can help me share my worries,

, please write clearly in the article and don’t stick to the pen and ink——"

A policy theory, a very routine and common policy theory.

To sum up, I finally conquered the world, but like King Wu of Zhou, I couldn't sleep well every day, for fear that future generations would repeat the same mistakes, causing great changes in the world.

If you have any good ideas, please write them down!

All the candidates breathed a sigh of relief.

Who knows, on the other side of the wooden board, there are another list of questions.

Now there is a pond with a square meter of water, and the japonica grows in the center. When the water is one foot out, lead the japonica to the bank, where it should be level with the bank. Ask about the depth of the water, and you will find out how long the japonica is.

There is a pool that is one foot square. There is a young reed growing in the pool. It is one foot above the water. If you lead it to the shore, it will be just flush with the shore. How deep is the water? How long is the reed? (1)

Zhang equals ten feet)

Then comes the third question, which is still a mathematical geometry question:

Now there is a person holding rice out of three passes, taking one out of three outboard passes, one out of five in the middle pass, one out of seven inner passes, and five dou of rice remaining. Question: What is the geometry of the rice I hold?

Someone brought a batch of rice out of three checkpoints. The external customs tax was one-third of the goods, the middle customs tax was one-fifth of the goods, and the internal customs was taxed one-seventh of the goods. In the end, there was still

Five buckets of rice. Question: How much rice did this person bring?

Fourth, there is a country called Japan, which once invaded Korea and became an enemy of the Ming Dynasty. Let’s talk about its land, customs and characters...

At this time, everyone was talking a lot.

The eunuchs on the side said sharply: "Quiet, there are two questions in this imperial examination."

"One is policy analysis, and the other three are additional questions."

"For these three questions, you can choose one of the three, or you can do all of them. You can do it according to your ability!"

At this time, everyone was happy and sad.

There are advantages and disadvantages to adding an additional question.

For those who have extensive knowledge, this question is equivalent to a score question.

But those who were confined to the Four Books and Five Classics, reciting poems and composing poems, all looked sideways.

For them, this is simply too difficult.

Zhu Yixi just looked at them like this, thoughtfully.

When people have no worries about food and clothing, it is time to train their literary skills to serve as officials. It is really despicable to only know about romance and romance every day.

He sat for a while longer, then stood up and left.

Then it was dusk, and whale oil candles made the entire hall brightly lit, and many scholars suddenly realized that it was getting dark soon.

Theoretically speaking, the imperial examination lasts for one day and one night and is not limited to time.

However, the policy discussion can only contain a few hundred words, or at most a thousand words. Three hours of copying and writing is enough.

As for the emperor, he had already gone to the harem and was living happily.

In fact, if he hangs around often, it will affect the performance of the scholars.

In the silence of the spring night in Miyagi City, with the scent of eucalyptus and tea birds, the fourteen readers began to turn around the table to read the papers.

The so-called table transfer means that a test paper is reviewed by the chief reader, stamped with the first to fifth grade marks and the seal of the reader, and then transferred to the next reader for review. A paper must be reviewed by fourteen readers.

Review and stamp the grade mark, and finally make a general review. Those with more fourth and fifth grade marks must be listed in the top three.

Of course, all this must be presented to the emperor for review.
To be continued...