Chapter 147 The ancestors opened their eyes

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 147 The ancestors opened their eyes

"Congratulations. Beizhili Xia Yuan Xia Master High School is ranked first!"

This loud shout made Xia Yuan feel confused and doubt his hearing. Until the little hand he held in his hand kept shaking, Zhao Yuerong jumped up and down and shouted excitedly, his little face turned red, "Husband,

Husband, you are hit, you are hit.”

It seemed that he was brought back to reality, and then Xia Yuan felt dizzy. The first place, Huiyuan, the odds of one to one hundred.

Ten taels of gold, priced at one hundred taels of silver, one hundred taels, ten thousand taels of silver.

Get rich, get rich.

Xia Ru's lips were trembling with excitement, not knowing how to express her emotions.

Oh my god, it’s actually Huiyuan, it’s actually Huiyuan

This is really something that I never dare to dream about. There has only been one case of a person from Northern Zhili becoming a Huiyuan since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Even if it spread to the entire north, there would only be two people.

And his nephew is the third person since the founding of the Ming Dynasty to pass the Huiyuan examination as a northern scholar.

This is Huiyuan. With such status, when the rankings are determined in the palace examination in a few days, not to mention the top three positions such as No. 1, No. 2, and Third Flower, a second-class Jinshi will never be able to escape. A second-class Jinshi, straight into

It is not without hope for Hanlin to become a scholar, or even directly become the number one scholar.

Oh my god, my Xia family is actually going to get the top prize.

The more he thought about it, the more excited Xia Ru became, and in the end he fell to his knees on the ground and began to cry loudly.

"The ancestors open their eyes, the ancestors open their eyes"

Xia Yuan was still a little overwhelmed by this sudden collapse and crying, but he could completely understand it. All the emotions had reached a critical point, and the only way to express them was to cry.

exception.

Not to mention Xia Ru, even he wanted to cry. The odds were one to one hundred, why didn't he bet more money in the first place?

Xia Ru was kneeling on the ground, still crying, "I'm hit, I'm hit! Brother, sister-in-law, if you have spirits in the sky, please open your eyes and take a look. Brother Yuan, he's hit, he's hit."

At this time, many people at the bottom of the list were also crying, "Oh my God, why is it that Jie Yuan from Shuntian Prefecture won the Hui Yuan? How come the top three are all Northern scholars, my money?"

"Xia Jieyuan has now become Xia Huiyuan, which has given us Beizhili a good fortune, and we will inevitably become the number one scholar!"

There were more people shouting excitedly, "Quick, let's beat the gongs and drums, let's go to Xia Huiyuan's house to announce the good news!"

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These days, Gongyuan has been in a state of isolation from the outside world, prohibiting anyone from entering or exiting. It was not until the release of the list today that it finally had contact with the outside world. As the lists were posted one after another, some eunuchs also took the names and rushed to the palace to report.

Report.

Zhu Youtang and other ministers had been waiting in the Nuan Pavilion for a long time. The eunuch who was responsible for getting the list ran all the way into the palace. As soon as he stepped into the Nuan Pavilion, the joy on his face was already pouring out, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations."

Your Majesty, the list for this examination has been released, with 298 people on the list, the imperial court has gained another group of talented people!"

As he spoke, the directory in his hand was respectfully placed on the emperor's imperial desk.

Zhu Youtang picked it up, unwrapped the red silk, and then opened the list to look at it. This list was not as appetizing as the list, and no one dared to appetize the emperor. The rankings were from high to low.

Clearly low.

The first one was the first name in this examination. When that name was revealed, Zhu Youtang's breath suddenly stopped.

The first place is Huiyuan, Xiayuan, Daxing County, North Zhili.

This, this is actually the number one spot?

Emperor Hongzhi really didn't know how to describe his mood at this time. He was surprised, puzzled, unbelievable, and even a little excited that he had never noticed.

People from the north overtook the people from the south and became the first place in this examination. It is not an unheard-of thing since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but it is very rare. To be honest, this is the first time that Zhu Youtang has seen this in all his years.

After all, the south has been a place of culture and culture since ancient times, and the north is really not even close to it.

Looking further down, Zhu Youtang's pupils shrank slightly again. Did the northern scholar dominate the ranking this time?

The top three are actually from the north.

And among the top ten, there are still three.

At this time, the corner of Emperor Hongzhi's eyes glanced at the ministers below. Everyone looked eagerly waiting for his supreme emperor to quickly read the list and tell them the results.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp sound, Zhu Youtang closed the directory in his hand, glanced around at His Highness, and then said with a smile: "You might as well take a guess, who is the first person in the examination in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi?"

"???"

Guess?

Several ministers below looked at each other in confusion, looking at each other at the gray beards on their faces. Speaking of which, the Hongzhi Dynasty had a very distinctive feature, that is, the whole court was full of bad old men.

There are six ministers, three cabinet ministers, the right and left ministers of each ministry, the Imperial Academy's sacrificial wine, the Imperial Envoy of the Imperial Procuratorate, the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, and almost all the officials of the third rank or above in the entire court. None of them is under sixty years old, the oldest.

It's close to ninety.

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Ma Wensheng, and Wang Shu, a group of old men with a combined age of 300 and an average age of over 70, looked at each other.

After a while, Wang Shu, the Tianguan of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the oldest one, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, is this famous Hui Yuan from the north?"

This was the first time that the emperor asked them to guess where Huiyuan was from. If something went wrong, there must be something wrong.

So it's better to guess the opposite.

Seeing that he was guessed at once, Zhu Youtang pondered for a moment and said vaguely: "Wang Qing's family needs to tell us who they are from. North and south are too general."

"The old minister guessed that he was the chief envoy of Shaanxi Province." Wang Shu was from Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province. People always have some preference for their hometown. Of course, he just made a casual guess.

After all, even he, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was only a second-class Jinshi at that time, and only ranked tenth in the examination.

Liu Jian also saw that the head of the Six Ministers was making wild guesses. After all, the old man didn't think anything of it, so he stood up to speak for the people from the Central Plains, "I guess he is the chief envoy of Henan."

Ma Wensheng spoke in a Henan dialect and said, "Old minister, I second my opinion."

Seeing that the other three people all expressed their guesses, and they all guessed towards their hometown, Li Dongyang, who had been silent, felt that it was his turn. However, his place of origin was a bit unusual. His ancestral home was Huguang, but his hometown was

In Beizhili.

After pondering for a while, Li Dongyang spoke slowly: "The Huiyuan candidates for the imperial examinations in the past were mostly from South Zhili, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, etc. However, this place in Huguang also has a prosperous literary style, and it is not impossible for North Zhili to do so. After all, it is

At the feet of the Emperor, it is the place where King Jiu Mu transforms, so it is not uncommon for some talents to emerge."

"Then who does Li Qing guess it is?"

"I guess Beizhili."

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There was silence in the palace for a moment. Emperor Hongzhi picked up the directory, opened it, and said in a faint voice: "Wang Qing's family guessed that he was the chief envoy of Shaanxi, and the third place in this examination was a martial arts person from Shaanxi;

Liu Qing's family and Ma Qing's family guessed that they were the chief envoys of Henan.

The second place in this examination is from Puzhou, Henan; and Li Qing's guess is that he is from Beizhili."

After a pause, Zhu Youtang said: "The first place in this examination is indeed from Beizhili."

At this time, he was a little dumbfounded. He knew that these old men were just making wild guesses. They just reported their hometown without even thinking about it.

But I guessed it right, and in a sense, they all guessed it right, or they were all very close.
Chapter completed!