March 15th Palace Examination Day is a sunny day with a sunny weather.

Early in the morning, before dawn and the cold wind was still bone-broken, the tributes who passed the examination were already arranged neatly in the orchids on the east and west sides of the Huangji Hall. In addition to them, civil and military officials also stood at the court like they were on weekdays. For Wang Fulin, he stepped into the Forbidden City as a tourist, but as a future court official. This fresh experience could not only be enough to get up in the middle of the night to get here, but to be troubled by others. When he saw the umbrella and carriage gradually coming, he thought that the Wanli Emperor's situation in recent years would not be happier than his ministers, so he felt psychologically balanced.

Even the emperor can't do whatever he wants, let alone himself?

After three quiet whips, all the officials kowtowed and bowed first. Yes, they can stand first. It was not until the current affairs test of the palace examination that was passed through complicated procedures and handed over to the final ritual examiners step by step. It was their turn to be kowtow bugs. After five bowed and three bowed, he stood up with the other tributes and sent the Emperor Wanli to leave. Until all the civil and military officials also left one by one, he saw hundreds of military academies starting to place the test tables. If the weather was not good, windy and rainy, the test tables were placed on both sides. Today, they would have to experience the joy of the open-air exam.

Although the emperor was gone and all the civil and military officials were dispersed, before the officials of the Ministry of Rites officially announced the exam questions, there was still a procedure to kneel down and kowtow and kowtow to take the exam questions. Wang Fulin thought that he would not be as many kowtows as he did in this life, but he had to go with the flow. When he finally sat down next to his test table, he saw a large group of military academies starting to distribute early porridge.

Because there are only 300 tribute scholars in total, they are not as mobilized as the provincial examination, and they will become officials in a blink of an eye after the palace examination, so their treatment is naturally incomparable to those big exams in the past. For example, the bowl of hot porridge delivered to Wang Fulin at this moment. Not to mention the quality of the white porcelain bowl, he could even see many of the jinshi who participated in the palace examination crying, as if thanking for the grace. While pondering the previous test questions, he stirred the porridge with a spoon, and had a total of pork, mushrooms, mushrooms, and peppercorns. There was sesame oil floating on it. I tasted it and it was full of pepper.

In general, this is a bowl of pork and mushroom porridge, with pepper and pepper as seasoning, suitable for warming the body. It should be from the Guanglu Temple craftsmanship, so the taste is just not hot enough.

Although he had breakfast or midnight snacks before, Wang Fulin still solved the bowl of porridge in a few seconds, and then began to think about the current policy today. He sprinkled hundreds of words without punctuation. He first talked about the past and the present, talked about the various so-called ways of governing the country in ancient and modern times, and then explained the doubts about the young emperor ascended the throne as he was old and listened diligently, and studied the various arguments about the country. Then he asked the many tribute scholars who took the exam today to compromise on many arguments and elaborated on what they should learn most. What is the first priority for government orders, what is the difference between the situation in ancient and modern times, and what is the difference between entrepreneurship and success.

At first glance, it seemed that the little emperor of Wanli asked the tribute scholar to speak out, but after careful analysis, Wang Fulin did not believe that Zhang Juzheng would let the twelve-year-old emperor give the questions himself. He must have taken charge of the matter from the emperor's standpoint. At this moment, he thought that he would never be out of the third place and the Jinshi this time. Although he was definitely more clear about Zhang Juzheng's various reform measures than Zhang Juzheng himself, he did not intend to be innovative and make a big splash. After he had studied the ink, he began to make drafts casually. Anyway, the so-called current affairs are always cliché, so let's talk about it.

The reading officer of the palace examination had already been decided. Unexpectedly, Zhang Juzheng, Lu Diaoyang, was the head of the two cabinet masters. Among the six ministers, Zhu Heng, the Minister of Works, followed by Zhang Han, the Minister of Personnel, Wang Guoguang, the Minister of War, Tan Lun, and the Minister of Justice. However, the Minister of Rites was absent because Wan Shi, the Minister of Rites, and the Minister of Rites, just took office in December last year, and was recommended by former Minister of Rites, Lu Shusheng. Zhang Juzheng was not very skilled in using it. So, because Wan Shi was a little lacking in qualifications, he excluded people from the reading officers.

In addition, Wang Fulin also heard from Wang Daokun that if Wang Xilie, deputy chief examiner of the examination, Zhang Siwei, bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and even Shen Shixing, who was also a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, were among the candidates for the examination. Xu Guoze had no chance, and he didn't know if he was avoiding the reference of his son-in-law, or if Zhang Juzheng had not yet seen him.

There are a total of more than a dozen paper-reading officials in the palace examination. In two days, they read 300 papers with only one current policy. It seems that the average amount of 20 papers is only over 20 papers. It seems that the burden is not that great. However, in fact, every paper-reading official has to read all 300 papers. The one who looks at it is drawn circles on the papers. In the end, the number of circles is the front and the number of circles is the back. Because the palace examination is not copied, the paper-reading officials can sometimes see the handwriting of relatives and friends, but they cannot resist the number of people. Therefore, if you want to make trouble in the ranking, you have to depend on your personal power.

Even though Wang Fulin knew that the palace examination would never fail, and there was no way to take action later, he had no intention of embarrassing him. Compared with these scholars today, the biggest advantage was that he had broad vision, so the draft of six or seven hundred words was almost done until noon. Of course, his stomach was almost empty. When he looked up, he found that the military academy was carrying buckets and starting to deliver lunch again.

Perhaps considering that the tributes were busy answering the papers and had no time to eat lunch, the things they gave were served to fill their stomachs. Each person had two large white flour steamed buns and a bowl of steaming mutton soup. Although there were only two slices of mutton in each bowl, a large bowl of steamed buns would make their stomachs almost full. At this time, someone would have to get up and leave for convenience. When the military academy came to pack up the miscellaneous items, this was the afternoon answer. Compared to the high-difficulty and large number of questions in the three sessions of the meeting, today we were completely striving for excellence. Everyone kept polishing the draft until the time was limited, and then they started copying.

Wang Fulin completed the test paper about two quarters of an hour before the arrival of sunset. He rubbed his wrists and looked at the front and left and right sides. He found that most of the people had almost finished it, and there were eunuchs and military academy waiting there with lanterns not far away. The palace examination was different from the imperial examination. After the examination, he could also enjoy the dinner party of the Ministry of Rites, which was considered to be a sign of court worshipping the wise and polite people. Therefore, after the Dongjiaomen handed over the paper, someone shouted in front and ordered the tribute scholars to line up and follow the lanterns to lead the palace examination dinner.

Like the seats in the previous exam, each table was lined up, with a total of thirty tables, and the rankings were from high to low according to the exam. When Wang Fulin sat down, he found that there were only whispers that were strongly suppressed around him. However, there were few strong local accents. The reason was very simple. Even if the family was poor, people who wanted to be officials would always practice Mandarin for a while before entering Beijing. Since it was a big pot banquet, before Wang Fulin was familiar with his deskmate, the food was delivered one by one.

First, there were five plates of tea and five plates of fruit, all of which were white porcelain high-foot plates, with limited portions. He politely asked the elderly to eat first, but everyone was reserved, and when it was his turn, there was still most of them. But as soon as he tasted the taste, Wang Fulin thought he understood the reason for everyone to be humble. There was nothing delicious, it was just a good atmosphere and a name for it.

After these, there were only three bottles of wine, followed by two large bowls of soup, which was ham, egg, tofu soup. Pork vermicelli soup, although it was warm rather than hot, was still delicious, and it was quite beneficial for those who were hungry after a day. The four-color meat dishes were a dish of smoked goose, a dish of braised lamb, and a dish of shredded venison fried cucumber, and the shredded venison was completely counted. A dish of white cut meat, and the four-color vegetarian dishes were all seasonal fresh vegetables. Of course, each person had enough rice. As for the last snack, it was a kind pork and cabbage filling steamed bun. Each table was headed by one person.

This meal was not a delicacy, but Wang Fulin was quite satisfied. After all, there was still a long way to go home from the palace, and there was something to fill it up, but it was not bad. Unexpectedly, a young man next to him who looked wealthy and came from a wealthy family whispered: "It turns out that the banquet in the palace is just like this. It's really simpler than the rich people in the folk. It's not easy!"

Wang Fulin was muttering in his heart that the things outside could increase tenfold in a blink of an eye. The emperor's money was taken over and over again. Of course, he couldn't eat good things, but there was a tribute scholar who was improvising poems and burst into tears. Faced with the appearance of sentient beings in the imperial examination, he looked around and soon found Cheng Naixuan sitting at the table at the end. Seeing that his face was depressed, he smiled and threw a wink.

Logically, they went to attend the teacher after the exam. Lu Diaoyang was a man who was not accustomed to the sub-super, so he was determined to flatter the sub-super, and he had no time to connect with each other in the same year. Taking advantage of the dinner at this moment, someone walked around the table to make friends. Wang Fulin saw that Cheng Naixuan's table was empty in a moment, so he quietly came over. As soon as he sat down, Cheng Naixuan complained: "Everyone was sighing that this one was not done well during the exam and did not write it well, as if it was so embarrassing that it was in the last few, which made me not happy for a meal. The three-level ones were three-level ones, and most of the three-level ones were three-level ones!"

"Since you know, why are you angry?" Wang Fulin saw that many people were trying their best to move forward, thinking that his father-in-law Ye Junyao had also experienced this scene, and he couldn't help but smile. He had no intention of going forward to meet the pride of heaven, but he didn't expect that three people would come to them in a moment. He recognized one of them as Huang Yunlong from She County, and hurriedly pulled Cheng Naixuan to get up. When the three of them came forward to introduce themselves, he saw that the three of them were indeed the title of the She County test meeting, and they must have bowed to see each other. After chasing each other, Huang Yunlong looked at the empty tables around and laughed.

"Others are pushing forward, but the two virtuous brothers remain unmoved. However, although this time, we were in Shexian County, and we won five of them in one go, but the rankings are all very low."

Wang Fulin knew that he and Cheng Naixuan were not to mention them. The three in front of him were all in the top 100. Chen and Jiao had more than 150, and the other two were around 200. But there was nothing to worry about. When Wang Daokun and Yin Zhengmao passed the same subject, they were also in the top 3, and Yin Zhengmao's ranking was also the bottom. He smiled freely and shrugged and said, "I don't know how many people can envy you if you can pass the exam. The ranking is unstoppable. After all, there are 300 people in each subject, and there are as many as seventy people who can be in the top 1 and two, and we are all very lucky."

At this moment, Wang Fulin heard a shout from the front: "Brother Sun's family has a lot of knowledge and is now the year of the year. I wonder if he can win the top two yuan, which will also add some joy to this first spring exam in Wanli!"

Regarding this clamor, Chen Yujiao frowned and said, "Isn't this causing trouble for the Sun Mine? I heard that many people outside criticized the Sun family in Yuyao, and they all said everything. Having said that, this time, I won the three hundred tribute scholars, but in the end I came to take the palace exam, two hundred and ninety-nine people said. It is said that Mr. Chen was suddenly mourned by his father and had to wait for the next exam. It is really bad luck."

Seeing that Huang Yunlong and Cheng Youshou were also regretful, Wang Fulin also echoed a few words.

It’s just that someone had to be late for mourning. Whether it was unfortunate or lucky, these people naturally didn’t know about it at the moment.
Chapter completed!