June 15, 8th year of Chongzhen.

At the beginning of the day, the summer morning has gradually brightened, and the gate of the Gongyuan in the southeast corner of the imperial city of Chengdu is already crowded, all of which are students who have come to take the exam.

The college examination is the last pass of Xiucai, and it should have been presided over by the provincial school administration in each prefecture.

However, in order to ensure safety in the turmoil in northeastern Sichuan this year, the Xuezheng Yamen gathered all the students from the three prefectures of Baoning, Shunqing, and Kuizhou to Chengdu to take the examination.

Because the quota for Xiucai is allocated to the prefecture and county, the three state capitals have to take separate exams, and Shunqing Mansion is ranked first.

In each prefecture and county, there are generally four or five hundred people taking the examination, but only 50 children can pass the county examination, and the government examination will have to be cut by half.

However, there are only forty-five places for Xiucai in Shunqing Province, and the acceptance rate of Xiucai is only one percent.

When it comes to the township examination, it is even more miserable, there are tens of thousands of talents in a province, and there are four or five thousand people, and the ratio of admission is about 40:1 to 30:1.

Thinking of these in Liu Ximing's heart, he couldn't help but sigh a little, the road to the imperial examination was really a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops.

However, during this period of time, he did not fall behind his knowledge, and in the second half of the month, he and Du Liangji and others closed their doors to review and concentrate on reviewing.

Liu Ximing stood quietly in the crowd with Du Liangji and others waiting, surrounded by the scholars he had helped and known during these days.

He is now more or less half a celebrity, and there are constantly nearby scholars greeting him or bowing his hand, and Liu Ximing has no choice but to respond with a smile one by one.

This attitude must be grasped well, so as not to be said by others to be arrogant or arrogant, and after dealing with it, Liu Ximing himself is a little tired.

Coincidentally, Lu Jiahong and the others were also standing not far away, and when they saw Liu Ximing's gaze sweeping over, this kid immediately put on a vicious expression.

Seeing that Liu Ximing laughed inwardly, he immediately replied with a big roll of his eyes.

I don't know if the lessons learned from the previous times were too profound

At this moment, the gate of the tribute courtyard creaked open, revealing the officials and several officials standing in two rows inside.

The short and thin figure of Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, was sitting in the middle of the courtyard, and with a wave of his hand, a middle-aged man dressed as an official next to him stood up and shouted: "The examination of the Yihai Academy of Sciences in Shunqing Mansion has begun." ”

The process of the hospital examination and the government examination and the county examination is almost the same, but it is much stricter, Liu Ximing followed the crowd to look at the nose and nose and walked into the examination room, and did not dare to do the slightest superfluous action.

Thinking about it carefully, the imperial examination of this Meng Dynasty is still a bit interesting, although Liu Ximing has walked around the officialdom in the city many times, but no one has ever mentioned the exam questions to himself.

The various activities before the exam are more like a group of early admitted scholars conducting interviews, if they are really untalented, they will have to be brushed down.

Liu Ximing's image of the civil officials of the Meng Dynasty finally did not fall to the bottom because of this incident, and it seems that everyone still retains a little bit of the style of the literati.

When all the students entered the examination hall and the gate of the Gongyuan was locked, except for the officials who beat gongs and drums everywhere to submit the test questions, the entire examination room returned to silence again.

Chen Shiqi's title this time was "No Rules", and Liu Ximing matched it with the book the moment he saw it.

"Mencius said: Leaving Lou Zhiming, the skill of losing the son, not by the rules, can not become a ...... member"

Liu Ximing looked at Du Liangji and Xie Wenle, who were sitting in the examination booth opposite him, and saw that there was a relaxed look on their faces, and knew that they should also remember the source.

I didn't waste the space spiritual water I provided.

Liu Ximing muttered in his heart, and wrote down with a pen, "The rules are not followed, but the clarity and ingenuity ......"

This kind of essay was now a breeze for him, and it didn't take long for him to hand in the neatly copied test papers, and walked out of the examination room again ahead of schedule.

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"Shunqing Prefecture Yihai Academy of Sciences Trial List"

Five days later, a shout in front of the gate of the Gongyuan stirred up a thousand waves, and the hundreds of people who gathered at the gate of the Gongyuan and waited for the results all swarmed to the bulletin board as if they had been ignited.

"Good news, good news, the second brother is the first!"

In the tea shop next to the Gongyuan, Li Biao suddenly rushed in, and the screams of surprise suddenly startled everyone in Liujia Village, who was hiding here to drink tea, and the other scholars who were drinking tea and waiting for the results also looked over.

"Can you see clearly?"

Xu Wei grabbed Li Biao with surprise on his face and confirmed again.

Before he could speak, a few people from the crowd immediately ran out and came to the tea shop.

"Good news, congratulations to Liu Ximing for being the first minister, and Du Liangji for being the second ......"

"Hooray", the guards erupted in cheers.

"Hahaha, come on, look at the reward."

With the annunciation of these people, the tea shop immediately fell into a burst of laughter, congratulations and cheers.

Of course, there are a lot of lamentations in it, and no one cares about them.

If there is anyone who is the most indifferent, it must be Liu Ximing.

I have made so many preparations, if I can't even pass the show, wouldn't I be slapped in the face.

"Congratulations to Brother Xian, Brother Hexi Xian, it's not strange for me to be successful, but I didn't expect that your group of people would win seven people, which is really unheard of."

Huang Zongxi made a special trip to accompany Liu Ximing to see the list today, but he didn't expect to encounter such a play, which made him sigh again and again.

Liu Ximing's heart was as happy as eating a popsicle from the ice cream factory, in addition to him, Dou Yuquan, Xu Wei, Du Liangji, Zhao Xiangyang, Xie Wenle, and Chen Yiding were all on the list.

Only Chen Tianhua and Chen Tianyong failed to pass the test because their foundation was not too strong.

This means that there are as many as seven scholars who belong to Liujia Village or are friendly to Liujia Village on the surface, and they can be regarded as a weak political force in Shunqing Mansion.

This is not counting the good reputation he has left behind for helping many Shunqing students in these days, and there must be some like-minded people in it.

Inexplicably, Liu Ximing felt a movement in his heart, as if something had changed in the space again.

But now that there are many people, he can't check carefully, so he has to pull a group of people to find a place to celebrate first.

At night, the group of people from Liujia Village and the students of Shunqing Mansion finished gathering.

Liu Ximing dragged his drunken body back to his room, today's banquet once again verified his title of the god of wine, and more than forty scholars in the pilot test have not been able to drink him.

It's a pity that it's not the Tang Dynasty, otherwise you can copy Li Taibai's poems, and then the poetry fairy and wine fairy will say, isn't it beautiful, Liu Ximing thought with some regret.

At this time, there was finally no one around, Liu Ximing sat on the bed, and his mind sank into the space.

Liu Ximing had directly entered the space square several times in the past, but he didn't expect that something would go wrong today.

At this moment, it was as if he had returned to the situation when he first entered the space, and the entire space was shrouded in a white mist, which looked like a semicircular sphere.

This layer of white mist was extremely condensed, Liu Ximing pushed it and found that he couldn't push it away, so he could only float far away outside the white mist, standing in the air and watching.

What's going on?

Liu Ximing was a little flustered all of a sudden, the space is related to all the deployments behind him, so don't go wrong.

However, he instantly thought of the previous spatial anomalies, and his heart settled down a little, after all, it was not without precedent.

It's just that Liu Ximing muttered in his heart, the first few times he was because he engaged in feudal superstition activities to gather a bunch of beliefs for the space, but today he didn't do anything.

Don't?

Liu Ximing's eyes lit up.

Is it because of the results of today's hospital test?

After carefully thinking about the situation that may cause spatial changes in the past few days, Liu Ximing's heart became more and more open, and he estimated that this should be the reason.

Now that he couldn't do anything, Liu Ximing simply stood outside the white mist, quietly waiting for the space to complete the change.

I don't know how long it took, but the fog that had been solidified began to slowly dissipate.

There was a burst of attraction in the space again, pulling Liu Ximing's spiritual body to the square in front of Emperor Ziwei's palace.

Like last time, as soon as Liu Ximing landed, a rich pale red light immediately drifted out from his body.

However, unlike last time, this time the red light did not fly into the statue of the palace all at once, but kept fluttering in front of Liu Ximing, as if calling him to follow.

Liu Ximing was horrified in his heart, and could only tentatively follow the red light into the palace together.

When he got here, this red light rushed into the statue of the Ziwei Emperor like last time.

Before Liu Ximing could react, the statue first burst into red light, and then a trace of purple qi suddenly shot out from above and shot into Liu Ximing's Heavenly Spirit Cover.