Mochizuki Tower is now a famous building in the capital, it has always been a place where dignitaries and dignitaries first entered, ordinary people don't dare to enter at all, the consumption inside is too expensive, casually dozens or hundreds of taels of silver are normal, as for the private room upstairs, it is not known to outsiders.

The reason why Mochizuki Tower has such a status today is due to Liu Jin's earth-shattering remarks on the Mochizuki Tower the year before last.

The owner of the Moon Tower in the back is also constantly seizing the opportunity to operate, keeping up with the development of the times, using reinforced concrete, all kinds of glass products to redecorate, after the opening of the sea ban, it is specially made out of the seafood building, always leading the Beijing restaurant industry.

Now it is the triennial ceremony of the imperial court, and the Moon Tower will naturally not miss such a good opportunity, and there are all kinds of poetry meetings held on the Moon Tower almost every day.

At this time, on the top of the highest fifth floor of Mingyue Tower, a group of talented people sat in the north and south, obviously fighting with each other.

Sitting in the south, Tang Yin, a talented man from Zhili, Feng Xi, a talented man from Zhejiang, Lin Tingyu, a talented man from Fujian, Luo Qinzhong, a talented man from Jiangxi, and Lun Wenxu, a genius from Guangdong, were headed by a few people, and there were more than 20 talented people from the south around him.

Sitting in the north are led by Liu Long, a talented man from Shanxi, Sun Xu, a famous man from Hejian, and Yang Tingyi, a talented man from Sichuan, and there are also more than a dozen talented people from the northern provinces.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty has a special place, that is, it is divided into two lists, north and south, each of which is examined separately, and finally the palace examination is taken together to select champions, role models, and flowers.

Speaking of which, I have to say that the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was divided into north and south, and when Zhu Yuanzhang was the emperor, the imperial examination was held again, and from the first place to the fifty-first place were all occupied by talented people from the south, which caused extreme dissatisfaction among the northern scholars at that time.

And it happened that Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin, who were presiding over the imperial examination at that time, were all officials from the southern region, so the scholars in the north made a fuss, bluntly saying that the imperial examination was unfair and favored the southerners.

Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang, he is not a person who likes to study the causes of problems, he is a person who likes to directly solve problems, so he chose to cut off the head of the examiner to calm the anger of the northern scholars, and at the same time personally ordered dozens of northern scholars.

However, it is an indisputable fact that the northern scholars could not take the southern scholars' exams, because after the Tang Dynasty and until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the northern regions were ruled by foreign races for a long time.

In the imperial examination of the Hongwu Dynasty, almost every time the northern scholars were completely blown up by the southern scholars, this will definitely be harmful to the entire imperial court, because once the southern scholars monopolize the imperial examination, there will definitely be a situation in which the southerners monopolize the court situation in the future.

In fact, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the southern scholars led by the Donglin Party did basically monopolize the situation and completely control this huge empire.

In order to prevent such a phenomenon, of course, it is also to reflect Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang's concern for the northern region, so there is a north-south list, and the southern scholars and the northern scholars take separate examinations, each admits a certain number of jinshi, and then takes the palace examination together, so that a balance can be formed and the heart of the northern shilin can be stabilized.

This is the origin of the North-South list.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, the scholars in the south looked down on the scholars in the north, at least in the imperial examination, and the scholars in the north did not pass the scholars in the south.

Although the scholars in the north know that they may indeed be inferior in strength, they have never been convinced, and naturally every time they take the imperial examination, they naturally have to get together and compete with each other.

At this time, the same is true on the Moon Tower, the two sides sit in the north and south, and ask and answer each other's questions, so that they have a good competition.

Liu Long, Sun Xu, Yang Tingyi and others looked at each other and sighed slightly, although they had contacted the talents of the northern provinces as much as possible, but compared with these talents in the south, everyone suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

This southern genius is really not covered, especially this Xie Yuan Tang Yin of Nanzhili, who is talented, whether it is poetry and songs, or calligraphy, pen and ink, etc., all of them are refined, and everyone can't hold their heads up if they are pressed by one person.

"It's a pity that Liu Jin from Beizhili didn't invite him, if he was there, it would be much easier for us, after all, we are the children of a master."

Sun Xu smiled and sighed and said, Liu Jin's great name and these northern scholars have naturally been thunderous for a long time, Xie Yuan, the son of a master and the son of the Northern Zhili last year, is talented and full of economy, I believe that if he is there, it should be no problem to deal with the arrogant Tang Yin in front of him.

"Liu Jin, I also sent him an invitation, but he has never been interested in this kind of poetry meeting, and he is busy with affairs, so he didn't come."

Liu Long is the leader of the northern scholars this time, and took the lead in organizing this competition with the southern scholars.

"It's a pity, Liu Jin from your Beizhili didn't come, even if he defeats you today, it won't be a success."

Tang Yin is very good-looking, has a good skin, and is just thirty years old at this time, and he can be regarded as a young talent.

Hearing Liu Long and Sun Xu mention Liu Jin, the great talent of Beizhili, they immediately said arrogantly.

"Tang Yin, the outcome is not known yet, you are too confident, right?"

When Liu Long heard this, he was immediately slightly angry, the other party's tone was simply to treat the northern scholars as nothing, and he didn't look at it at all, even if he was alone against everyone, even Liu Jin, who didn't come, even had to be counted, what Liu Jin didn't come, and he didn't feel that it was not satisfactory enough to win.

This arrogant attitude, if everyone is a martial arts examiner, it is estimated that they will be able to hammer him to death.

"I'm still confident that I'll win you."

Tang Yin said lightly, very confident.

His arrogance also made these southern scholars around him a little unbearable, no matter what, everyone is also at the same time, maybe they will all be officials in the same dynasty in the future, even if they are really talented and more powerful than others, this mouth still has to save enough face.

This Tang Yin is different, crazy, crazy boundless, of course, he does have this capital, really poetry and songs, calligraphy, pen and ink, etc., as long as it is something that literati like to play, he is a cow, and the name of Jiangnan genius is really not blown out.

But this arrogant and arrogant attitude is really unpleasant.

"I seem to be late~"

At this moment, a voice came in from outside, and everyone hurriedly looked over, only to see a handsome and extraordinary young man walking in with a smile on his face.

"Liu Jin~"

As soon as Liu Long, Sun Xu and other northern scholars saw it, someone immediately shouted out, obviously there were many people who knew Liu Jin.

"Liu Jin has seen all of you brothers in Xia Yongping Mansion."

Liu Jin smiled, hugged his hands and greeted everyone.

"I've seen Brother Liu~"

Seeing that the person who came was Liu Jin, the rumored son of a master, Xie Yuan, who was in Beizhili last year, seems to be only twenty years old now, very young.

Everyone couldn't help but look at Liu Jin carefully, and suddenly they couldn't help but nod silently in their hearts, at least in terms of appearance, Liu Jin is even better than Tang Yinlai, after all, he is ten years younger.

"Brother Liu, let me introduce you."

Liu Long was very familiar with each other, and he pulled Liu Jin and began to introduce Liu Jin to the scholars present one by one.

"This is Brother Sun Xu of the river~"

"This is Brother Yang Tingyi Yang from Sichuan~"

"This is Tang Yin and Tang Brother of Suzhou Mansion in Nanzhili~"

"This is Brother Lunwen Xulun from Guangdong~"

"This is Brother Feng Xifeng from Zhejiang~"

“…….”

"Good guy, it's all cattle, just one Wang Shouren is missing~"

After listening to Liu Long's introduction, Liu Jin couldn't help but exclaim, these talents present are really bullish characters.

Cantonese Lun Wenxu will not say, he is the champion of this exam, and finally the official to Zhan Shifu right Chunfang right Yude, Zhan Shifu is the place where the emperor chooses a successor to the prince, Lun Wenxu also died early, died at the age of 47, otherwise the future will definitely have a bright future, and a six-book book or something like it will definitely not be able to run.

Zhejiang's Fengxi took the second place in the first class this time, that is, the only one in the list, and finally the official to the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, because he stood on the wrong team during the 'Great Etiquette', and was assigned to Zhenhaiwei, Fujian by Jiajing, otherwise it would be amazing.

Liu Long, a native of Shanxi, took the third exam this time, that is, Tanhua, and he finally became an official and achieved the position of the secretary of the military department.

Sun Xu of Hejian Mansion, who took the fourth exam this time, and finally became an official in the Ministry of Langzhong, and he was also a big man.

Lin Tingyu, who ranked fifth in the exam this time, was the last official to Shangshu, and also added the prince Taibao, there is no doubt that he is another big man.

Luo Qinzhong, who took the sixth place in the exam, died too early, died at fifty-four, and when he died, he was the official to the left deputy capital of the Inspectorate, and Lun Wenxu, if he lived a few more years, maybe he would be at the level of Shangshu.

As for Yang Tingyi, he is a bull Yang Ting and his younger brother, he took the seventh place in the exam this time, and finally became an official and also went to the position of the left squire of the Ministry of War, there is no doubt that he is another big man.

Even Tang Yin and Tang Bohu, who was the worst in this exam, were demoted to a minor official because of the problem case in history, he finally became a famous painter, and in later generations, his reputation was louder than anyone present.

"Cattle people, all cattle people, I have seen them all at one time, and I am missing Wang Shouren."

Listening to Liu Long's introductions one by one, Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh, the imperial examination in the twelfth year of Hongzhi was really a lot of cattle, and all of them were amazing.