Bohol Palace, the place where the palace test has been conducted over the years.

The hall is magnificent and can accommodate thousands of people.

The throne was empty, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sat in front of the long case before the three hundred dwarf cases set up for the Gongshengmen examination in advance, staring at the front of the palace gate, his eyes were shrewd.

The door was wide open, and the three hundred tributes stood left and right, lined up in two neat lines.

After saluting, the eunuchs began to roll call, and the students walked in from outside the hall one after another and sat down in front of the designated case.

The prince glanced at the third young man who entered the door, the young man was elegant and handsome, which was really eye-catching, but there was no strength between his eyebrows, and there was no publicity that a young man should have.

When the prince saw that the young man's eyes seemed to be looking over, he raised his eyes and sat his gaze on others.

Tuesday felt a sharp light in front of him, and raised his head slightly, but there was nothing.

Immediately lowered his head again, this kind of place is not something that can be looked at casually.

On Tuesday, I found my seat and sat down, waiting for the others to come in, and the people of the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites began to take the test questions, and the princess asked them to be sent to the palace early in the morning, and the line was also in front, so positive, just for this moment, to write a splendid chapter on a blank piece of paper, and then write a beautiful future for herself.

The palace examination only needs to write a policy essay, unlike the general examination, which has many questions, so it only takes three hours, and the eunuch will be closed.

After the paper was put away, the prince said some words of encouragement, everyone saluted, and the examination part of the palace examination passed.

Next, the examiner will mark the paper, and the candidate can also go out.

From queuing up to coming out of the Taibao and the Palace, it was more than three hours, and it was already afternoon.

When I arrived at the gate of the palace, the sky was a little cloudy, as if the sun was about to set.

Tuesday and Cheng Tao were the first to converge, Cheng Tao still had the excitement of the exam on his face, and he clutched his stomach and said, "Second brother, I'm so hungry, how did you do in the exam?"

Tuesday: "I'm confident. ”

They study under the princess, and they can't speak official language, if there is, there is, and if there is not, there is nothing.

Cheng Tao pouted and patted Tuesday's shoulder: "When the time comes, I'll have a treat." ”

Nodding on Tuesday and asking him how he did in the exam, Cheng Tao grinned: "I think it's not bad." ”

Later, Bai Ziqi and the others also arrived, and everyone was very satisfied with their performance.

Although the princess of their family did not find someone to buy the exam questions, the preferences of the questioners are clear, and they can guess what questions they will come up with.

It's not good to prepare for the exam like this? That's stupid by nature.

A few people happily went to find their carriage, but no one saw it, and behind them, a pair of resentful eyes were hidden in it, staring at Tuesday.

Xue Shipan felt that he had played well, but after all, he could have been better because he was distracted by the teacher, but he couldn't rewrite it.

The people who saw Lin Xiaojue again suddenly laughed so happily, and the jealous cells in all the limbs swelled.

It must be better than him, right? How can you let an illegitimate child do well in the test? Isn't this God's blindness?

Ignorance of the entanglements that exist between the examinees, whose names are bound to the same pattern, and which the examiners cannot dismantle, and therefore who the examiners are, who can only judge the merits of the essays based on their likes and approvals.

Of course not one person, and it would be too hasty to decide the fate of so many people by one person.

Eight graders, within two days after the palace examination, judged the papers of these tribute students.

Judge the merits with different marks, a total of five kinds, the best is the circle, the volume with the most circles is the best volume, and then in all the volumes, the ten books with the most circles are presented to the emperor, but this year is for the prince to see.

The other cabinets came to the final evaluation of the merits, because the prince could not read so many articles alone.

After reading all the papers, the examiner placed them in the designated position, and after a short time, the eunuch of the Department of Ceremonies brought someone to collect the papers.

When the official saw that the eunuch was a long-distance runner from the cabinet and not from the East Palace, he understood that all the papers would be sent to the cabinet first, and then they might be transferred to the East Palace.

Nor is it a wrong procedure, and no one has objected.

The eunuchs quickly moved the rolls to the cabinet.

In the official room used by the cabinet ministers to transcribe the recital together, one of the five auxiliary ministers squatted in the class room, and one had to avoid suspicion, and only three of them sat down.

The eunuch put down the scroll, and Lord Han saw that the top ten were also there, and said, "Whose idea is this?"

Second assistant Yin Zhengmao said: "Your Highness will come over later." ”

Oh, this makes sense, in the past, when the emperor was in power, he would occasionally come to the cabinet office for business, but only occasionally, which means that he will first look at the opinions of the cabinet, and then make a decision.

Lord Han didn't expect that the crown prince would hand over the qualifications for the review to the cabinet first.

Of course, this is not a bad thing, after all, the more people who have rated it, the fairer it is.

The second assistant has begun to circulate the top ten articles, and since the merits have been evaluated, who doesn't want to see what the top talent is like?

Mr. Han picked the first three he liked and put them on the table, and pointed: "This person's article is bold, the needle is clear and coherent, and the sentence is reasonable. ”

Then in order, the other two are role models and candidates for tanhua.

Both the second assistant and the other assistant saw that it was not Chen Boyan's article.

Although the name is sealed, Lord Chen has specially explained Chen Boyan's handwriting and content, this person has devalued the imperial court system as worthless, and his rhetoric is good, and it is very likely that he is the person of Princess Yong'an.

Jifu shook his head: "It's too sharp, as if he is the only talent in the world, I have seen a lot of such people, where can he be the top talent? ”

After speaking, he threw the scroll directly into the stack of rolls that were selected by the fellow jinshi.

There have always been candidates who are stubborn and self-serving, because the article was originally written very well because of the point of view, but the examiner did not like it, and was directly sentenced to be a fellow jinshi.

But this person's point of view is clearly very in line with the prince's philosophy.

And it's not as conceited as the second assistant said, and the sharp person and the talent of governing the world, Lord Han, can still distinguish clearly.

Lord Han lowered his face and said, "It's not appropriate, it's also among the top ten." ”

Another assistant said: "I also think what the second assistant said is right. ”

According to the rules of the cabinet, either the first assistant takes the idea, and then the minority obeys the majority.

Lord Han knew that these two were helping Chen Boyan get ahead, but he couldn't do anything about them, and his face turned red with anger.

Then there was a terrible silence in the room, and despite the disagreement, there was a quarrel.

The second assistant and the good partner finally picked out the top three candidates who were satisfied and showed them to Lord Han, who glanced at it and nodded, even if he didn't agree, the minority obeyed the majority, he couldn't win.

Seeing that Lord Han had no opinion, the second assistant put the top ten papers on the far right of the case, and the other assistant took all the files of the same Jinshi candidate and put them in the corner of the wall, so that the prince could easily distinguish which ones to read.

This is placed according to the usual method of screening the chapters, there are so many things every day, the prince can't read every book, which needs to be sorted out by the cabinet, the important ones are put on one side, and the unimportant ones are put on the other side.

So there are some issues, if the cabinet does not let the rulers see it, the rulers can't see it.

The results of the palace examination seem to be the turn of the cabinet ministers in the end, which makes Lord Han quite depressed.