The prince took out a jade seal from his arms, breathed a sigh of relief, dipped it in ink mud, and then pressed it hard on the lower right side of the yellow silk, leaving the seal mark of the emperor's seal.
At this point, this trial is officially over.
Several imperial soldiers immediately stepped forward to take the imperial list, turned around and left the examination hall, and posted it on the announcement board.
At this time, there was already a sea of people outside the examination hall.
There were people waiting anxiously for the list to be posted, there were vendors walking around with a ladle on their backs, loudly selling steamed buns, and there were also a group of servants guarding the list.
The background of these servants is not small. Basically, the masters in the family are above the fifth grade.
The main reason why they gather here is because most of the daughters of these officials are not yet married, and they want to find a good one.
Normally, these officials can only find ways to find out about the heroes in the capital.
It's okay now, as long as those who are able to make the list, regardless of whether they are good-looking or not, at least they are very good in terms of literary talent.
However, these servants are still smart. When they see a more handsome candidate, they will go up and drag them to a secluded place, then show their master's name, and then brag about how good their lady is. How virtuous and outstanding in appearance.
Of course, even if the candidate is unwilling to have a blind marriage, those servants will show their arrogant nature and take the candidate back forcibly to get married.
Some people also gave this the reputation of "catching a son-in-law under the ranking".
As for the candidates who are unwilling, there is no use afterwards. You went directly to the bridal chamber and slept with the beautiful girl, and you still want to regret it?
My father-in-law will send you to the Yamen with a two-finger note and you will be stripped of your fame!
In short, it is still relatively dangerous to look at the rankings yourself.
Fang Xiaoyue knew this before, not to mention that after the trial, her reputation became far and wide, and someone might be eyeing her, dreaming of sending her to the bridal chamber.
Therefore, on the day the list was released, Fang Xiaoyue was not prepared to look at the list at all. Even Zhang Yuanming, who wanted to look at the list for him, was suppressed by him.
He didn't want Zhang Yuanming to be caught and become someone else's son-in-law.
Although Zhang Yuanming is not a candidate and has no reference, Zhang Yuanming is good-looking and easily attracted by others.
Besides, after the results are released, there will be officials coming to deliver the good news.
He was going to be rewarded anyway, so why waste his leg strength.
However, on the day when the results were released, Zhang Yuan was obviously very irritable and got up early. Fang Xiaoyue, who had originally planned to sleep in comfortably, had to get up and scolded him.
But just when Fang Xiaoyue went back to bed and lay down, and was about to take a nap, she heard a burst of firecrackers in the distance, and a high-pitched sound of good news came: "Congratulations to Mr. Huang, Mr. Huang of xx County, for being named on the gold list, 30th grade in high school. name!"
This moment made Fang Xiaoyue more than half awake.
In the following time, the news of good news sounded one after another, giving Fang Xiaoyue a headache.
If possible, he could not wait to run out and gag the government officials who announced the good news.
Fortunately, after the first few announcements, it became a lot quieter here.
But when he was drifting off to sleep, there was another burst of firecrackers and the sound of good news: "Congratulations to Master Fang Mingruifang of Kuangluo County for being named on the gold medal list and winning the first prize in high school!"
This Hui Yuan is the first place in the Hui Yuan examination, and then there will be the palace examination. Everyone knows that the first place in the palace examination is called the number one scholar.
This time, Fang Xiaoyue couldn't sleep in at all.
Zhang Yuanming pulled Fang Xiaoyue up from the bed with joy.
Fang Xiaoyue also had to go out to accept congratulations from everyone, and at the same time gave red envelopes to the government officials who announced the good news.
At this time, the innkeeper's teeth were about to fall to the ground with laughter.
Huiyuan, who took the exam this time, actually stayed in his own inn. It is conceivable that this can be used as a gimmick for the inn in the future. In the future, a large number of candidates taking the exam will stay in the inn to facilitate their exposure to culture.
From the moment the list was posted, Fang Xiaoyue felt a massive amount of literary energy coming towards her from all directions.
However, after the good news was announced, more and more people learned that Fang Xiaoyue had won the Huiyuan, and the gathering of Wenqi became more intense.
However, everyone congratulated Fang Xiaoyue, and Fang Xiaoyue had to pay for a banquet to entertain those who came to congratulate them.
Fortunately, the innkeeper was sensible and only charged the cost price.
It must be said that this innkeeper was very lucky. Not only did Huiyuan stay in his hotel, but there was also another Juren who won a tribute in the hotel.
In the next few days, those who knew or did not know each other came to congratulate Fang Xiaoyue on winning the prize.
Fang Xiaoyue almost wanted to take the fight-free card.
It's a pity that if he shuts everyone out at this time, it will still have a great impact on his reputation.
People will say that he is proud, looks down on other candidates, etc.
In this way, the reputation will be ruined, and it will be very difficult to enter the officialdom in the future.
Three days later, everyone arrived outside the palace.
This palace examination was held in the Fuxi Palace in the palace.
This negative Xi is the eighth among the nine sons of Longsheng, and he is good at literature by nature.
After waiting for more than an hour, civil servants and eunuchs came out to guide them inside.
Fang Xiaoyue walked first as Huiyuan, and the civil servants and eunuchs who led the way walked beside Fang Xiaoyue, and glanced at Fang Xiaoyue from time to time.
Of course, this is not because Fang Xiaoyue is Huiyuan, but because Fang Xiaoyue's two previous poems are so famous.
Anyone who is interested in poetry will be very interested in the authors of these two poems.
What's more, the poems Fang Xiaoyue wrote in Shannan Province were also spread in the capital.
The civil servant who led the way was a doctor from the Ministry of Rites. He was originally very fond of poetry. Now that he saw the real master, he felt as eager as a fan in the original world seeing his idol.
As for the eunuch, the same is actually true.
He was a young eunuch of the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
The ceremonial supervisors are probably the ones with the highest cultural level among all the major prisons.
Every year, young eunuchs who have just entered the palace are selected into the ceremonial department and receive cultural education in batches.
And poetry is an integral part of it.
In fact, the eunuchs in charge of rites all have a very high level of education.
Many high-ranking eunuchs have no problem taking the test to become a scholar, or even to pass the exam.
Under such circumstances, a Gong student who was an excellent poet would naturally attract their attention.
Of course, even when fans saw the idol, neither the civil servants nor the eunuchs talked to Fang Xiaoyue.
Because this time the Gongsheng students entered the palace to participate in the palace examination hosted by His Majesty the Emperor.
Although no matter how well they do in the palace examination, at best they can get the same Jinshi status.
Those with a Jinshi background can go to local places to serve as Zhengqipin county magistrates.
For most Gong students, this is already a proud and satisfying life.
But this is the highest level of scientific examination, and no one dares to be careless.
Along the way, the Gongsheng students all looked serious on the surface, but in fact, the peripheral vision of their eyes was always scanning the surroundings.
After all, this is their first time entering the palace, and for most Gongsheng, this may be the last time they enter the palace in their lives.
Once they arrived and took office as county magistrates, they basically had no chance to enter the palace for a second time.
After all, starting as a county magistrate takes decades of life. By the time they retire, most people can only become a fourth-grade prefect at best.
It was also impossible for a fourth-grade prefect to enter the palace to meet the emperor.
The Negative Palace is not far from the palace gate and can be reached in more than ten minutes on foot.
At this time, there were a large number of soldiers of the Forbidden Army guarding the outside of the Negative Palace. They were all wearing the finest iron armor and exuding a strong aura.
Fang Xiaoyue glanced over these soldiers, mentally weighing the individual strength gap between them and Zhang Yuanming.
After a little mental calculation, Fang Xiaoyue judged that if Zhang Yuanming was holding a thick-backed sword at this time, it would not be a big problem to fight against three soldiers.
Don't underestimate these warriors who have experienced hundreds of battles. Each of them is an elite who has fought in a sea of blood and a mountain of flesh.
Coupled with the thick iron armor on their bodies and the long swords that were forged hundreds of times, it is not a problem to fight ten of them against ordinary county soldiers.
At this time, in the Futun Palace, a middle-aged man with a slightly sallow complexion wearing a bright yellow dragon robe was leaning slightly on the back of the dragon chair. More than a dozen officials in scarlet official robes stood respectfully on both sides.
"Report to Your Majesty that Gongsheng has arrived outside the palace."
A great eunuch waiting outside the palace gate came in, knelt down and reported to the emperor.
"Xuan!"
The emperor raised his eyes slightly and said in a low voice.
"Your Majesty has ordered Gongsheng to enter the palace!"
Following the eunuch's elongated voice, the Gongsheng students lowered their heads and entered the Negative Palace.
Thirty desks had already been set up in the Futun Palace. Under the leadership of the eunuch, the Gongsheng students took their seats one after another after bowing and kowtowing to His Majesty the Emperor.
There is only one question in the palace examination paper.
On the hidden dangers of the country.
It has to be said that when the Gongsheng students saw this question, they all frowned and cold sweat broke out on their backs.
Although these Gongsheng usually call themselves crazy students, criticize current affairs, and praise themselves as prime ministers, at this time, they all feel faintly afraid.
Fang Xiaoyue looked at this question and found it a little difficult.
The examination patterns of the palace examination and the general examination are completely different.
The imperial examination was conducted by His Majesty the Emperor himself.
To put it bluntly, the question is to examine the level of tributes in national policies.
When it comes to the question in front of me, not to mention Gongshi, even Juren and Scholars can more or less be able to answer it.
For example, there is chaos in officialdom, frequent party disputes in officialdom, discord between civil and military affairs, harsh government and even land annexation, and the eager eyes of the northern grassland countries, etc. can be used as answers to this question.
But the problem is that once you answer a policy like this, it becomes your policy agenda.
To put it bluntly, it is just like the political spectrum of those congressmen in Fang Xiaoyue's original world.
This thing cannot be changed casually.
For example, if you write about the chaos of official administration, then you will definitely have to fight against official administration in the future, sort out the chaotic official administration, and thus become enemies of the evil, corrupt, and bad officials in the world.
If you write about civil and military discord, you must mediate this discord.
When land annexation is written, you have to restrict large landowner groups and so on.
In short, this is equivalent to preparing a group of political opponents for yourself in advance.
Of course, after you become an official, you don't have to follow the policies you wrote, but in that case, you will be criticized for having no character or something, and your reputation among literati will be ruined.
Just like a hundred years ago, a certain pavilion elder was famous for his honesty and integrity. Unfortunately, after the rise of a certain great eunuch, this pavilion elder immediately became a disciple of the great eunuch and became his political ally in the previous dynasty. .
Therefore, he was also despised by civil servants as an eunuch.
After the eunuch was ousted by the new emperor, the elder became a typical scum of civil servants, and was scolded by the world as a castrated dog, thus losing his reputation after his death.
Not even a quarter of an hour after the palace examination started, His Majesty the Emperor, who was sitting on the dragon throne, felt impatient. He got up and drove away, leaving the matter of the palace examination to several deputy examiners.
His Majesty the Emperor is the chief examiner, so the identities of these deputy examiners are also quite terrifying.
Among them were the chief assistant who presided over the major affairs of the previous dynasty and his three associates, as well as the Minister of Rites, the Minister of Personnel and others.
With the departure of His Majesty the Emperor, it became much easier for officials.
After all, when the emperor is here, they cannot relax too much, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the emperor.
Once the emperor left, they could sit there, drink tea, and rest their arms and legs.
As for the Gongsheng below, seeing the emperor gone, they all relaxed a lot.
But even so, many of them were still sitting there restless.
In fact, even Fang Xiaoyue had a headache.
After thinking for a long time, he finally put pen to paper.
However, the policies he wrote were mainly focused on encouraging farmers. At the beginning, he pointed out that the hidden danger of the country was the contradiction between food production and the growing population.
Next, Fang Xiaoyue did not talk about land annexation, but explained the importance of agricultural technology development, and even suggested strengthening the promotion and planting of new varieties of grains.
As for the format of the policy discussion, Fang Xiaoyue did it perfectly, raising questions, then solving them, and finally attributed the prosperity of Daze Country for more than two hundred years to the policy of successive emperors insisting on focusing on agriculture.
Of course, Fang Xiaoyue was not completely sure that his strategy would be favored by His Majesty the Emperor, but with his level 20 level of Si Shuwen, it was not difficult to write this article beautifully.
Although the palace examination was only given half a day in total, it was more than enough for those tributes.
After all, the difficulty for any tribute scholar who has passed the imperial examination is how to determine his own policy direction during the palace examination. As long as he is determined, writing an article is not a problem.
Therefore, even though some tributes were scratching their heads like monkeys, they still wrote quickly after seeing that there was not enough time.
In the end, all the tributes completed their strategies before the end of time.
After the young eunuchs came up to collect the scrolls, the tributes all bowed to the unoccupied dragon chair, then lined up to leave the Fuxi Palace and left the palace along the same route.
The first assistant and others began to look through the collected test papers, picked out the ones they liked and put them aside.
For these officials, the test papers they are optimistic about are undoubtedly those that are the same as or similar to their own policy agenda.
Soon, fifteen test papers were selected.
