In normal times, most courtiers felt that Gu Dingchen was a weakling in officialdom and a bastard who didn't know what he was doing all day long.
But everyone has ignored that Gu Dingchen was the first minister in the Jiajing Dynasty to write a Qing Ci for the emperor!
While everyone was still in shock and confusion, they heard Gu Dingchen continue to play: "According to my research, all the young people who have passed the examination have been successful in the previous dynasties. From the Jiajing Dynasty to the present, only Qin Dewei is the only one.
As for the young people under the age of 20 who were admitted, only Li Dongyang of Tianshun Dynasty was 18 years old, Yang Tinghe of Chenghua Dynasty was 19 years old, Dong Qi of Hongzhi Dynasty was 19 years old, and Fei Hong of Chenghua Dynasty was 20 years old.
Afterwards, in the Zhengde Dynasty, there were no more young people who passed the imperial examination. It was only in our Jiajing Dynasty that Qin Dewei was admitted to the first list at the age of seventeen. He was even younger than his predecessors. It was a grand event for our emperor's imperial examination!"
After hearing this all this time, if everyone still doesn’t understand what Gu Dingchen means, then all these years in court will have been in vain!
But at this moment, everyone can only say shit in their hearts! You, Gu Dingchen, have such a clear mind when riding a horse!
Emperor Jiajing, who was sitting on the throne, was indeed very interested and asked: "Among the Jinshi who passed the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty, Qin Dewei is the youngest in the current imperial examination?"
Gu Dingchen immediately responded: "Qin Dewei is indeed the youngest. Although he was born at the end of Zhengde, he was able to remember things since the Jiajing Dynasty. He became a child prodigy in the ninth year of Jiajing. He was admitted to the Meng School and passed the imperial exams all in the Jiajing Dynasty!"
The day before yesterday, I heard from the palace that Qin Dewei had written a 10,000-word long novel in one day, which was a miracle in the imperial examination, which had never happened before!"
The rest of the ministers in the palace were shown off by Gu Shangshu, and their inner thoughts have escalated to "f*ck!"
Finally, Gu Dingchen shouted: "Your Majesty, with the qualifications of a great sage, occupies the position of king and teacher, and brings prosperity to the world. When the country is prosperous, he has the cultivation of deep benevolence and generosity, like the sweet rain that transforms and nurtures all things, so that talents can flourish!"
Your Majesty has been in the imperial court for fourteen years, and I finally see such a Jiajing man entering the court, and I dare to congratulate the world as a hero!"
Uncultured eunuch: Your Majesty is so virtuous!
Educated Minister: See Gu Shangshu for a speech.
By this time, the rest of the people in the hall were already paralyzed. You, Gu Dingchen, seemed to regard Qin Dewei as a living auspicious sign, which is shameless!
Everyone knows that the emperor who is superstitious about alchemy likes auspiciousness very much. Those who are over 100 years old are also said to be auspicious, but no one thought that a seventeen-year-old boy can also be auspicious.
Thinking about it, if Qin Dewei entered officialdom at his age, he would be the first official to truly grow up in the Jiajing Dynasty.
Even if there were young people in their twenties who were admitted to Jinshi at the same time, they were only enlightened in remembering things during the Zhengde period, and were not as pure as Qin Dewei.
Emperor Jiajing, who had always been serious about his words, suddenly chuckled a few times at this time.
What else can the other ministers do? They can only curse in their hearts, shout "Long Live the Mountain", and dance to congratulate him.
Auspicious things come true. The main business today is to let the emperor read the three test papers to determine the ranking of the imperial examination.
Normally, the emperor would read three test papers and grade one, two or three at random, and occasionally change one of them.
The second emperor read the three test papers, dug out the blank names, and graded the first, second, and third places by looking at the names.
After reading the three test papers, the literary emperor asked to take all the preparation papers over and read them over.
Emperor Jiajing was the third type. After he looked through the three test papers on the Imperial Examination Board, he said, "Take all the papers and read them again!"
Originally, the ministers thought that Emperor Jiajing would say, "Take a 10,000-word test paper and read it." However, they did not expect that Emperor Jiajing actually wanted to read ten copies of the test paper.
They didn't know that they had witnessed history. From this palace examination, it became the first time for the emperor to read ten copies of the examination papers.
When ten copies of the test papers were delivered from Wenyuan Pavilion to the imperial court, Emperor Jiajing didn't care about anything else and directly picked up the thickest test paper and looked through it.
This can explain that Emperor Jiajing clearly wanted to see the 10,000-word test paper, but he said to bring all the preparation papers!
Zhang Fujing, the first assistant, suddenly broke out in cold sweat on his back. This is called accompanying a king like a tiger!
He was just glad now that he didn't listen to Huo Tao's nonsense and pushed Qin Dewei's test paper to the bottom of the top three.
If Your Majesty doesn't see the "Jiajing Man" test paper among the ten papers, I'm afraid the consequences will be disastrous.
To be honest, this 10,000-word policy article made Emperor Jiajing a little bit overwhelmed and proposed too many things.
In addition to thoroughly analyzing the shortcomings and advantages of the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties, and bitterly criticizing the ministers for not being able to share the emperor's worries, he also put forward countless opinions on "how to govern".
What about liberating idle clans, what about a whip law, what about encouraging industry and mining, what about opening up maritime trade, what about developing firearms, reforming the military system, economic warfare, and inexplicable introduction of species to enrich real estate, and exchanges with Spain to count weapons.
For my use and so on.
There are bits and pieces, some seem to be true, some are extremely childish, some are whimsical, and some are very reasonable.
I don’t know how a seventeen-year-old boy can think of so many things. The mixed knowledge he has learned is simply shocking.
Although the imperial examination policy requires being direct and pragmatic, it is really rare for it to be so pragmatic.
I don't know how long it took, Emperor Jiajing took up his ink pen and wrote "First, A, First Place", "First, A, Second Place", "First, A, Third Place" on three test papers.
In this way, the Sandingjia test paper was handed over to the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and the paper reader returned to Wenyuan Pavilion, opened all the other test papers, and filled in the names on the yellow list according to their rankings.
Only Sandingjia's test paper is still sealed. It will not be opened in front of the emperor until tomorrow before the Chuanlu Ceremony, and the yellow list will be filled in on the spot.
There are many legends about it. It is said that at this stage, after opening the Sandingjia test paper, the emperor felt that the name of the number one scholar was not good, so he temporarily changed it to the number one number one.
On the same day that the ministers were in various intrigues to determine the final ranking, all the 325 candidates who took part in the palace examination went to the Imperial College.
The purpose was to receive the official Dahongpao to wear tomorrow. On the whole, everyone was relatively relaxed and full of joy.
Anyway, the palace examination will not eliminate people. Tomorrow will truly be considered as passing the examination, and then you can start your official career.
After ten years of hard study, no one asked me. Once I became famous, I became a farmer in the morning, and in the evening I ascended to the emperor's hall. I was named on the gold medal list of the four great joys in life, which is tomorrow!
There are also some people who are more pursuing, and they may still be a little worried, not knowing whether they can get what they want and get the ideal ranking.
Qin Dewei was inconspicuous in the general examination, but in the palace examination he was the star. He was the only person in history who wrote ten thousand words about himself until he collapsed.
If he hadn't been lying down all day yesterday and recovered quickly at a young age, Qin Dewei might not have had the energy to come to the Imperial Academy to take charge of the Dahongpao today.
Many people came to Qin Dewei to ask questions, but Qin Dewei just dealt with them casually.
Chen Feng couldn't help but ask: "You have made such a big splash, what is your ranking?"
Qin Dewei said soberly: "It's impossible to have a three-class armor. That's the exclusive domain of the big guys. I'm probably in the top ten of the second-class armor."