Bai Shiqian kept smiling lightly, standing beside Gu Qingjue, feeling that the eldest princess's youngest son was quite interesting.
"I heard that after the reform of the scientific examination, students who failed can still take part in a re-examination, which will be held three days later."
Bai Shiqian said: "As a result, the palace examination will have to be postponed. I don't know whether the palace examination can be successfully held by the end of April."
"Brother Changfeng, don't worry, your grades are very high."
Bai Shiqian was a little excited when he looked at the results. If the results after the palace examination were not much different from this, he would be in the top two.
Such achievements are enough for the Bai family to transform from merchants to nobles. This is a class leap.
Three days later, it will be the re-examination day for students who failed in this provincial examination. Just like the normal provincial examination, the examination lasted three days and it was already the sixth day of April when the examination was completed.
The marking time this time is not as long as before. The re-examination will end about half a month later.
Four students passed.
That is to say, they can participate in the palace examination together with the previous batch of students who passed.
The palace examination is on the tenth day of April.
In the Chongzheng Hall, a chamberlain had already arranged the positions of the students who had won the provincial examination. Zhao Zhen personally drew up the questions for this examination. Even Fan Chongyan, Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu and others who participated in the review did not know the examination papers. Content.
In fact, the three of them, like the candidates, had to answer questions on the spot.
As for the final answer, it is up to His Majesty to explain.
The main content of the examination is still the same as that of the provincial examination, consisting of strategies, essays, poems and poems.
Students are required to write strategies based on the Confucian classics they have mastered and combined with the actual situation of the court. At the same time, the candidates' written expression ability on eight questions selected from "Spring and Autumn" and "Book of Rites" is emphasized.
Compared with the provincial examination, the content needs to be more thorough, and it also depends on which student can agree with His Majesty's views.
The imperial examination also took a long time, from Si Shi to the end of You Shi.
After the test paper is handed in, it will be immediately sent to the east center left door of Chongzheng Hall, where the official will seal the test paper, put it into a fixed box, and send it to Funing Hall where the official's home is.
The ministers who participated in the grading were in the Funing Hall, grading the papers together with the officials.
It usually takes a day or two.
This year, the officials asked them to hurry up and mark the papers because this year's reform of the imperial examinations added a re-examination, which delayed them for a long time.
Fan Chongyan and Ouyang Xiu, as the examiners and adjutants of the provincial examination, were somewhat familiar with Gu Qingjue's words.
The two wanted to see what the official's attitude was towards this student.
After some discussion, this test paper was placed at the end.
As expected, when the official saw the last one, he was deeply attracted by the content on the test paper and directly selected it as the top candidate.
When the name was revealed, the words Gu Qingjue made Zhao Zhen very happy.
This Gu Ziyuan did not disappoint him.
On April 11th, the results of the palace examination came out. The top pick was Gu Qingjue, the second place was Ruan Keming, and the top pick was Xin Zisheng.
Chen Keming is a student of Bailudong Academy, and Xin Zisheng is a student of Yingtian Academy.
In the Renzong Dynasty, Jinshi were not simply divided into three grades, but were divided into six grades, with five in the first grade, the second grade in the first grade, and the sixth grade in the fifth grade.
Gu Qingjue, Ruan Keming and Xin Zisheng belong to the first class.
There are two other people in the first class, Lu Jiayu from Chongyang Academy like Gu Qingjue, and Li Hongyue from Yuelu Academy.
Li Duanyuan is at the end of the fourth place, and Leng Zhongyan and Bai Chengnan are only one place apart, ranking in the middle of the third place.
As for Bai Shiqian, he is in the middle of the second group.
Gu Qingjue was awarded the title of Number One Scholar, and the remaining four in the first class were awarded the title of Jinshi. The others were all awarded the title of Jinshi.
After the rankings were drawn up, the names of these Jinshi were read out by the officials.
Naturally, we start with the No. 1 pick.
The No. 1 pick, the No. 2 pick, and the No. 3 pick were led by the praise officer to the steps of the Daqing Hall. The No. 1 pick was positioned slightly forward than the No. 2 pick and No. 3 pick, right in the center of the steps.
Zhao Zhen stood on the steps and looked at Gu Ziyuan, who Zhao Jin had talked about for many years.
It was said that he was only seventeen years old in about a month, but he stood there calmly and calmly, without the ecstasy after winning the first prize. He only looked forward with a slight smile, facing the congratulations of others and advancing and retreating in a controlled manner.
Looking at Gu Ziyuan's appearance, Zhao Zhen couldn't help but joke with Fan Chongyan who was standing next to him: "For such a character, if it weren't for his brilliant writing, he should be made a beauty scout, so as not to disgrace his face."
Ouyang Xiu was an old-fashioned person and did not hear Zhao Zhen's teasing look, so he said: "Compared with face, talent is more important. Gu Ziyuan's talent will definitely make him a capable minister to assist His Majesty."
"Well, what Xiu said is true!"
In order to show the importance to Gu Qingjue and others, five of them were immediately given official positions.
According to usual practice, the No. 1 Scholar is usually awarded an official position from the sixth or seventh rank, but Zhao Zhen directly awarded Gu Qingjue the rank of Privy Councilor of the sixth rank.
When it comes to the Privy Council's mission, we have to talk about the Privy Council.
The Privy Council of the Northern Song Dynasty originated from the previous dynasty. It was initially established during the Yongtai period of the previous dynasty. The eunuchs trusted by the emperor served as chiefs, and the chiefs were named Privy Envoys.
The main authority is to accept memorials from ministers and local governments and convey the emperor's orders. At this time, the Privy Council is biased towards the civil service.
When it came to our dynasty, the Privy Council focused on military management. For example, Kong Chong served as the Privy Council envoy, the highest official of the Privy Council. He was equivalent to the prime minister in the civil and military affairs of the Song Dynasty, and he had a truly high and powerful position.
Let's talk about the establishment of the Privy Council. There are a total of twelve different units of authority, called the Twelve Rooms.
There are also office workers, a total of thirty-eight people, including three deputy ministers, five principals, two chief guards, thirteen people who are responsible for the order, and fifteen people who write the order.
Gu Qingjue was one of the three people who served as deputy ministers of Zhufang.
The Privy Council is in charge of military affairs, military affairs, border preparations, military and horse administration orders, cashier secret orders, and ensuring the stability of the country.
In fact, during the New Deal reforms last year, someone proposed that the prime minister should also serve as the privy envoy to unify the powers.
But an organization involves many people. After the prime minister concurrently serves, many things are not as simple as imagined. Another thing was that Lu Yijian was the prime minister before. After he resigned due to physical reasons, the next prime minister did not have the courage. .
As the Privy Councilor, Kong Chong could not just watch his position being merged.
Therefore, this proposal was naturally dropped.
It was already the second day of June when the official announced the news, beating gongs and drums, and delivered the news of winning the first prize to Wangjiacun.
Just the day before, Su Yixin and his party finally walked out of the Demon Palace. Although Su Yixin was still in the middle stage of Nascent Soul, after half a year of training in the Demon Palace, his cultivation was very solid. He was just waiting for a good opportunity. , you can make another breakthrough.
Chapter 2 Around eight o'clock in the evening.
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