The friends who once went to Beijing to take the exam together were only Wang Yuan and Jin Wei.

Tian Qiu of Sinan Mansion was even more miserable, and returned to Guizhou after the test in another country, and separated from Wang Yuan in Guiyang. I just got sick when I got home, and it was the Lantern Festival when I recovered, so how could I still have time to go to Beijing to take the exam? simply went to Nanjing Guozijian to study.

Guizhou should be examined, and only Wang Yuan is left with a single seedling.

Yunnan is slightly better, in addition to Jin Wei, there is also a person named He Bangxian who is in the middle of the test.

He Bangxian and Jin Wei belong to the same township in Dali, but their families have been poor since childhood, and they studied with their uncle who was in business. His uncle was also only a small businessman, so He Bangxian did not live in Qingyun Street when he was in the township test, and he did not have any communication with Wang Yuan.

But at this moment, they have become acquaintances, and whoever let the Yungui region is left with the three of them.

In less than three watches, three hundred and fifty scholars entered the imperial city from the Chengtian Gate and gathered outside the noon gate. At the same time, there are also hundreds of civil and military officials of the imperial court, and many of them are secretly yawning.

There are a total of five openings at the noon gate, three at the main gate and two at the side gate.

The drum beats three ways, and the civil and military officials enter through two side doors. And the three hundred and fifty scholars, according to the ranking of the examination, went to the left door in odd numbers, and went to the right door in even numbers.

As for the three main gates, only the emperor and empress could walk.

Of course, the champion of the current department, Bangyan and Tanhua, the next time you enter the palace, you can also walk through the main gate once.

After the hundred officials and scholars entered the noon gate, they were all stranded at Jinshui Bridge, and they lined up according to their grades and rankings.

The brocade guards sounded their whips, and everyone crossed the Jinshui Bridge and came to the square in front of the Fengtian Palace.

The members of the cabinet and the bigwigs of the six ministries and six branches continued to move forward to the Dan Majesty, that is, the middle of the Fengtian Hall and the steps in front of the hall. Ordinary officials, together with the scholars, lined up on the steps or in the square.

At about dawn, Emperor Zhengde ascended to the palace, and hundreds of civil and military officials kowtowed, and three hundred and fifty scholars were still standing.

After the ceremony, the civil and military officials entered the Fengtian Palace.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites led the Chinese-style lifters to the place where the bigwigs stood before, and arranged them on the left and right sides of the Dan Majesty according to the ranking of the examination.

The officials of the prelude class of Honglu Temple, holding the test papers that had already been sealed, descended from the left step to the middle of the way, and Wang Yuan and other people in the middle of the test followed the five bows and three knocks.

The civil and military officials retreated from the court, walked among the scholars, and descended to the left and right.

"Chinese-style lifting people in Fu'an County, Jiangxi, Zou Shouyi!"

Zou Shouyi immediately left the queue, received the scroll when he entered the door, and strode into the Fengtian Hall with his head held high.

"Sichuan Xindu County Chinese-style lifting, Yang Shen!"

Yang Shen clasped his fists at the left and right scholars, and after receiving the scroll, he walked into the Fengtian Hall with a smile.

"Guizhou Xuanwei Division Chinese-style lifter, Wang Yuan!"

Wang Yuan also clenched his fists at the scholar next to him and walked to the door to receive the scroll. There are "Han generals" wearing armor here, and the first two walked without squinting, but Wang Yuan walked over, and the "Han generals" couldn't help but look at him a few times.

Obviously, the name of Wang Erlang, the white-clothed flying general, has even heard of the "Han General" who is on duty in the palace.

Wang Yuan walked into the Fengtian Hall and looked curiously, and saw Zhu Houzhao sitting on the golden platform at a glance.

The Fengtian Hall of the Ming Dynasty, after Jiajing was rebuilt, it was called the Huangji Palace, that is, the Taihe Hall of the Qing Dynasty.

However, the area of the Fengtian Hall is much larger than the Huangji Hall and the Taihe Hall, because the area has been reduced after the lightning split fire was rebuilt.

From the entrance of the palace to the emperor's throne, the distance was more than forty meters, and the sky was faintly bright at this time, Wang Yuan couldn't see what Zhu Houzhao looked like at all.

The examination table was arranged by Guanglu Temple, and the candidate's name tag was pasted on the table, and Wang Yuan quickly found his desk.

Wang Yuan was particularly unlucky.

Because the exam table was randomly assigned, and Wang Yuan was arranged in the corner. The temple is strict, the light in the corner is not good, and the words are not clear at the moment, and it is estimated that it will be slightly better after dawn.

The test paper is framed with four layers of white rice paper, which is 15 open, the first six are used to write the candidate's information, and all the papers should be sealed after the paper is submitted, and the last nine are used to write the main text of the test.

Although Wang Yuan couldn't see Zhu Houzhao clearly, Zhu Houzhao kept staring at him with a smile on his face the moment Wang Yuan entered the hall.

Seeing that Wang Yuan was placed in the corner, the other scholars began to write their names and hometowns, but Wang Yuan could only slowly study the ink because the light was too weak, Zhu Houzhao gloated and smiled even more happily.

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and Wang Yuan writes his own information: Wang Yuan, 16 years old, is the chief official of Guizhou Xuanwei Division Guizhu, and the student of Guizhou Xuanwei Division should be Zhengde five years Gengwu Branch Yunguixiang Examination, and should be tested by the six years of Xinwei Branch Examination by the person Ying Zhengde six years. Today, in response to the palace examination, I would like to list the three generations of footsteps in the back, great-grandfather Zhizhong (Weishi), grandfather Yanen (Weishi), father Yanquan (Weishi), generations are farming. ”

When the time was almost up, the content of the test was finally announced.

The content of the question is more than 500 words, and the general meaning is:

"Entrepreneurship is martial, and keeping it is written. But what is the difference between the role of the military and the military? Throughout the pre-Qin and Han, Tang and Song dynasties, the British lords were both civil and military. Although the world is peaceful, forgetting war will be dangerous, what is the difference between the way of governing the army and the way of governing the people? ”

"I am very awesome to Emperor Taizu, and everything is very well formulated, so there are 150 years of stability and prosperity. But now the scholars are unemployed, the people are hungry, and the homeless have become thieves; Now that the taxes are insufficient, the people's strength is exhausted, the military salary is insufficient, the military is insufficient, and the thieves have not been eliminated, is it the civil and military officials who have done something wrong? ”

"How can we avoid Wen Tian and Wu Xi, how can we make the world stable, and how can we ensure the long-term peace and stability of our Ming Dynasty, please talk about it."

After the scholars got the question, they were all a little surprised, the content of today's palace exam is too real, what kind of royal road, etiquette and religion were these nonsense in the past, where would they ask how to govern the army and the people?

But think about it carefully, as early as half a month ago, the anti-thieves hit a hundred miles south of Beijing, and now they are still wandering in Henan and Shandong.

More than 300 Chinese-style lifters, at this moment, collectively caught blind.

Wang Yuan was also scratching his head, this question was too big, and it couldn't be written in a day at all.

Fortunately, after Wang Yuan crossed over, he didn't just read the Four Books and Five Classics. "Thousand Character Essays" and "Little Four Books" have various historical stories, and in Longgang Mountain, Wang Yuan also consulted Wang Yangming about current affairs and ills, and also read a few messy historical miscellaneous books.

Many contents of the "Book of Rites" can also be cited, anyway, when it comes to the military and agricultural affairs of the past dynasties, it can be answered in combination with the middle school history books before the crossing.

Determine the content of your answers, search your intestines and write blindly for a while, the time is almost noon.

The emperor sent someone to reward a pack of palace cakes, and the tea was lunch.

There is tea in the Dan Majesty outside the hall, and the scholars can drink it at any time and go to the toilet at any time. As long as you don't look at other people's papers, don't make loud noises, no one cares what you're doing, you can sleep in the toilet.

Zhu Houzhao relied on his temperament and sat in the Fengtian Temple until noon, then yawned and slipped to the leopard room to play.

Wang Yuan came back from the toilet and found that the emperor on the golden platform was gone. He closed his eyes and lay on the exam table for a while, gathered his thoughts again, and then sat up straight and continued to write nonsense.

In the evening, night fell.

If you don't give candles to the temple, if you have the eye of God, then you can continue in the dark. But this is not a fairy tale, the black light is blind, the candidates hand in the papers one after another, and then leave the palace together.

Jin Wei cried and said to Wang Yuan: "The test questions are too difficult, I'm afraid I can only rank in the third list." ”

"I wrote it blindly, too." Wang Yuan said with a smile.

Nonsense, a scholar who has studied the Four Books and the Five Classics hard, who doesn't write blindly when he encounters this kind of strategy?