At the gate of the tall and talented city of the Imperial Palace in the capital, Liu Jin stood with many scholars, waiting to enter the palace to participate in the palace examination.

Although Liu Jin also entered the palace once, but that time he was only brought in by Zhu Houzhao, and his identity was just a grass citizen, but now it is different.

He is a scholar today, and he came to the palace to participate in the palace examination, no matter whether the palace examination is good or not, according to the past practice, Liu Jin can be regarded as buying the bureaucratic class of the Ming Dynasty.

If you do well in the palace examination and can get the top few places, the next step is to enter the Hanlin Academy, and the Hanlin Academy can rise to the top after a few years, and it is no surprise that you can basically reach the level of the six departments and nine qing.

Of course, if the middle of the exam is not too good and you can't enter the Hanlin Academy, then you can also serve in the six ministries, a proper Beijing official, and become an official like the director of a certain ministry, generally speaking, it is also a promising place, of course, if you don't enter the Hanlin, the future promotion space will be limited, and non-Hanlin can't enter the cabinet, which is basically an unwritten rule.

If you don't do well in the exam, and you get into the bottom of the second or third ranks, then you don't have to worry, at least you can have the opportunity to become an expatriate and be a local official.

Although the starting point is relatively low at the beginning, he may be a petty official of the eighth or ninth grade, but he is generally promoted quickly, and he can be promoted to be a county magistrate or something after a few years of work, and the county magistrate can be promoted quickly after a few more years.

In general, as long as you can pass the entrance examination and participate in the temple examination to become a protégé of the Son of Heaven, you will have a bright future, especially those who rely on the first and second grades.

First of all, I went to the Hanlin Academy to stay for two or three years, dozens or hundreds of people worked together to repair books, compile books, etc., or go to the East Palace Zhan Shifu orthography, school characters or something, are some clear positions, once there is a vacancy, it can be immediately vacant, the kind that is promoted super fast, many people can be promoted to the position of six squires and Shangshu in just ten years.

The imperial examination once every three years, from the entire Ming Dynasty admitted to the Jinshi is more than 100, naturally all of them are very precious, and they are all promising, and the famous Wenchen in the history of the Ming Dynasty are also selected from this imperial examination.

So at this time, the fellow scholars around Liu Jin were all high-spirited, with a spring breeze on their faces, and they slowly walked from a scholar to today, and everyone has suffered countless hardships for this.

Now I have finally come to the bitter end, and I have successfully realized the carp leaping over the dragon gate, and realized the highest ideal of a scholar.

"Father, did you see that?"

Tang Yin was wearing a brand-new scholar's uniform, looking at the group of ministers in front of him who were constantly walking inside, and couldn't help but ask his deceased father in his heart.

Tang Yin's family background is not good, his father runs a tavern, and the family is considered a failure, so his father has had very high requirements for him since he was a child, hoping that he can pass the imperial examination to shine on the lintel.

Tang Yin's family was actually very brilliant, his ancestor was Tang Hui, the former Lianglingjiang general, Tang Hui's grandson Tang Yao was the Taishou of Jinchang, and then Tang Yao's son Tang Bao was named the Duke of Jinchang for his merits.

Later, Tang Bao's grandson Tang Jian followed Tang Taizong to raise troops and was named the Duke of Ju Guo, one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, which shows that their Tang family was once a cow, and there were people who were named the Duke of the Kingdom, and they were extremely prominent.

However, by the time of the Song Dynasty, the Tang family did not go abroad for many cattle, but only petty officials such as imperial history and military frames, and they were also the home of eunuchs.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, the Tang family was completely decayed, and there were no more capable people, and no one was an official or a general.

Because of this, his father was very strict with Tang Yin, who was a famous prodigy since he was a child, and he learned everything very quickly.

A few years ago, Tang Yin's father, mother, original partner and son left one after another, which hit Tang Yin hard, so he also hoped that the imperial examination could revitalize his family.

Now he has finally been admitted to the Jinshi as he wished, realizing his father's high hopes for him.

"Finally got in~"

Similar to Tang Yin, the young Wang Shouren classmate was also full of emotion at this time, his father was the champion, he can be said to be born extraordinary, his mother was pregnant with him for 14 months before he was born, her mother dreamed of the god Yifeiyu before giving birth to him, preaching in the clouds, holding a child, and falling from the sky, so Wang Shouren was called Wang Yun at the beginning.

To put it simply, he was born in a cow fork, and when he was born, he was born like a saint.

He is indeed young and promising, he began to study private school at the age of twelve, and at the age of fifteen, he repeatedly wrote to the emperor to offer advice to quell the peasant uprising, and at the age of fifteen, he dared to travel in the Ming Dynasty, and even dared to go outside the Saiwai.

At the age of eighteen, he began to learn to find things, and he was talking about the bamboo for seven days and seven nights, and he had already passed the examination at a young age.

However, at the level of the examination, he failed repeatedly, and when he failed the first examination, Li Dongyang said that he 'failed this time, and he will definitely win the top prize in the next imperial examination'.

But the next time he took the exam, he still didn't succeed, and suddenly the whole person felt a lot of pressure, his father was the champion, and he was said to be the champion by a big guy like Li Dongyang, but he didn't pass the exam twice, so that he was laughed at.

Now, he is just twenty-eight years old this year, and he took the examination for the third time, and finally succeeded in the examination, and the whole person is also relieved, so that he will not be laughed at anymore, the words of this tiger father and dog son are very harsh.

It can be said that everyone present is similar to Tang Yin and Wang Shouren, and everyone looks at the courtiers who entered the palace in front of them, and they all feel a lot.

Well, of course, this has to be done without Liu Jinlai.

Liu Jin has a golden finger, and he has not felt the difficulty of the imperial examination in this era, and he does not know what this identity means now, he is feeling that the ancient strict system is too inhumane at this moment.

He had been waiting here for more than an hour, standing here, neither walking around at will, nor talking to each other, or even standing up straight, to look like one.

In short, there are a lot of rules, and for him, a person from the next generation, there are too many constraints and constraints, and he always feels very tired.

"Alas, do you want to deliberately fail the test, if you go to the morning court every day in the future, if you stand on the morning court, you will definitely collapse."

Thinking of the early dynasty, Liu Jin was even more worried, getting up in the middle of the night every day, waiting here, the morning dynasty was standing for an hour or two, thinking about it, I felt that this was not something that people did.

Finally, when Liu Jin's legs were numb, it was time for them, the new scholars, to enter the palace to participate in the palace examination.

The place of the palace test is arranged in the Taihedian Square in front of the Jinluan Palace, at this time the square is full of bigwigs of the dynasty, and on the dragon steps, Emperor Hongzhi is also sitting on his dragon chair with a big grin.

After a prosperous ceremony, it was finally time for the exam, and the palace exam was made by the emperor himself, of course, sometimes the emperor was lazy and would send a heavy minister to do it for him.

Emperor Hongzhi is a diligent emperor, and he attaches great importance to this kind of triennial Luncai ceremony, so it is naturally impossible to be lazy.

Emperor Hongzhi's gaze swept over Liu Jin and the others, and soon locked on Liu Jin, who was sitting in the front row, and immediately couldn't help but smile.

"What's the best question?"

Emperor Hongzhi thought about it in his mind, the palace exam is the emperor's question, and the emperor's main exam, so everyone is called the protégé of the Son of Heaven, but the emperor's questions are generally related to current affairs and politics, and it is rare to produce the content of the Four Books and Five Classics, after all, the emperor needs talents who can govern the country and the country, not nerds who can only read dead books.

"There is~"

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi thought of something, picked up a pen and wrote a few words on the paper.

Why An'an Southwest~

This is the topic of the imperial examination this time, and it is also combined with the current current affairs and politics, there is a Ming Dynasty, the southwest has been unstable, and the Tusi in the southwest often rebels, and sometimes even makes a very serious disturbance.

Now that the border troubles in the north have been temporarily rested because of the appearance of cement, Emperor Hongzhi is left with the matter of Tusi in the southwest.

Recently, there was another bad news from Guizhou, the female Tusi Miru rebelled again because of a conflict with her husband, and the Guizhou side was not at peace, which made Emperor Hongzhi a headache.

The mountain roads in the Yunnan-Guizhou region are steep, which is not suitable for large armies to fight at all, even if the imperial court has a million male soldiers to the Yunnan-Guizhou region, it is in vain, and there is no way to take these toasts who are hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, and the lofty mountains and mountains.

The emperors of all dynasties have a lot of headaches about the affairs in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, and they have never been able to come up with a good solution.

Now Emperor Hongzhi is also taking this matter to test Liu Jin, a new science and technology scholar, to see what high opinions they can have, of course, the main thing is to see what good methods Liu Jin, a high-ranking child, can have in this regard.

"Why Annan?"

Soon, everyone saw the title of Emperor Hongzhi.

The ministers in the court suddenly thought about it one by one, the emperor obviously did not come up with the question indiscriminately, the emperor was worried about the affairs of the southwest, and they were naturally worried about the ministers, eating the king's fortune and being loyal to the king.

As for Tang Bohu, Lun Wenxu, Liu Long, and Feng Xi, they frowned one by one, and began to carefully figure out Emperor Hongzhi's intention to ask this question, and then thought about how to answer it.

This kind of exam question must be very difficult for those nerds who die reading, and if you can't read dead books, you still have to apply what you have learned after all.

"Why Annan?"

Liu Jin looked at this exam question, thought about it carefully, picked up the pen and began to write, and the beginning was the four big characters of 'changing the land and returning to the stream'.