The first rays of sunlight in the early morning poured into the world through the sky, and fell into the main hall through the gossip window of the Chengen Hall of the West Garden, sprinkling a mysterious halo of gossip patterns, and two people stood in the middle of the two poles of the gossip pattern, one wearing a dragon robe, and the other wearing a gray and white gossip robe.

"What is the explanation of this dream?" An inquiry came from inside the main hall.

After listening to Emperor Jiajing's inquiry, Tao Zhongwen, who was wearing a gray and white gossip robe, bowed to Emperor Jiajing, then closed his eyes, stretched out his right hand from the robe, and bent his five fingers to calculate.

"One counts the bumps, the second counts, the three earthquakes, the four Xun counts, the five send the middle palace and the six dry is, and the seven to the eight Gen and the nine leave the door"

Tao Zhongwen was calculating while whispering.

After about two minutes, Tao Zhongwen suddenly opened his eyes, with a happy face, he made a big gift to Emperor Jiajing, and happily reported the good news to Emperor Jiajing: "Minister, congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty." ”

Jiajing's nervous mood disappeared when he heard this, stretched the muscles on his face, and then asked: "Where does the joy come from?" ”

"Xunzhongying, Kanzhong is full, this auspicious and eternal image." Tao Zhongwen stroked his white beard against the sun, and the sunlight hit him, making his divine stick aura rise several notches at once.

Jiajing was overjoyed when he heard this.

"It's just, why did Emperor Taizu Gao and his old man stand on the bank of a river full of green duckweed and look at me, without saying a word, and finally pointed to his feet and turned into a flying immortal and left?" After Emperor Jiajing was overjoyed, he asked Tao Zhongwen with some doubts.

"This is a family affair for His Majesty, and the minister is an outsider. It is inconvenient to put the beak. ”

Tao Zhongwen looked at Emperor Jiajing and shook his head slightly, with a divine expression on his face that I already knew but couldn't say.

This is a family affair for His Majesty!

If Zhu Ping'an was at the scene, he would definitely despise Tao Zhongwen's behavior. I've taken off my pants, so you're going to tell me this?! This old god stick is too good at refusing, Emperor Jiajing hallucinated after taking drugs, and the ghost only knows what it means, this old god stick is too amazing. This is a family affair for His Majesty! Your ancestors appeared in your dreams and communicated with you, this is your majesty's family matter, and it is difficult for a clean official to decide the family affairs. Not to mention your imperial family, I know all about it, but it's inconvenient for me to say.

Emperor Jiajing's angle of thinking about the problem is obviously not comparable to ordinary people.

Jiajing listened to Tao Zhongwen's words. Nodding his head and thinking for a moment, what Tao Zhongwen said was very reasonable, this was Emperor Taizu Gao's old man who gave him a dream. Naturally, his old man would not give him a dream for no reason. It must be related to our old Zhu family's Jiangshan Sheji, which is not so much a state affair as a family affair.

How can the words of our ancestors to their children be conveyed through the mouths of others? Well, what Tao Zhongwen said makes sense.

When Emperor Jiajing inquired about his dream of Tao Zhongwen, Yan Song and other eight Jiajing-appointed ministers were in full swing in the Zhilu of the cabinet outside the Yangde Gate of Xiyuan.

Yan Song is the first assistant of the cabinet and the first minister to read the papers in this palace examination; Except for Yan Song. The other seven people are also famous ministers of this dynasty, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites Zuo Shilang, the University Scholar of the Hanlin Academy, the Inspectorate Zuodu Yushi, the Dali Temple, and the Guanglu Temple. The remaining one is a member of the cabinet.

Three days after the palace examination, the list will be released, and there will be less than two days left for them to mark the papers. The palace examination does not brush people, but to determine the ranking, this is also a lot of work, especially the way the eight ministers of the palace examination read the papers determines that their speed is not much faster.

The hall examination is different from the township examination, Yan Song and their eight ministers sit on a large table, and they need to review each palace examination paper in turn, simply put, the first person will review the examination paper after reading it, and then pass it to the second person, so that it will not be completed until the eighth reading minister. Each minister who reads the paper has to score the test paper, and the palace test paper is divided into five grades, according to the convention, the five symbols of "○", "△", "\", "1", and "×" represent the five grades, "○" is the first class is the best, "△" is the second, and "×" is the lowest grade. Everyone has to mark the test paper with this notation.

At the end, the more "○" on the test paper, the better the test paper is, and the other symbols are also counted, and the final ranking is compared. According to the usual practice, if you want to get the first and second grades, you must have at least seven "○s", and if the test paper scores less than seven "○s", then you will basically have no chance with the first and second grades, not to mention what the top list looks for.

The 11th~400th place palace test paper can decide the ranking independently, this emperor will not care, the emperor wants to manage and has no energy.

The main task of Yan Song's eight ministers who read the papers was to select the ten best test papers with the most "○" on the test papers and present them to Emperor Jiajing, who would select the champions, top eyes, and tanhua from these ten test papers.

Yan Song is very responsible, and every sealed test paper comes to him, and he does his best to review it impartially! Except for only two papers! No, all the test papers are reviewed by Yan Song with dedication and impartiality.

Yan Song gave marks completely based on the quality of the test papers, he could figure out the meaning of Jiajing, and he could see the quality of the test papers.

Fonts, current affairs and policy theories, etc. are all reference factors, but as long as the test paper improves the shortcomings of Emperor Jiajing, the highest can only get a "△"!

Yan Song leads by example, and the other seven ministers who are marking papers are naturally doing their best, they are all masters of this way, and they are naturally not a problem to review the test papers, and they are all dedicated to impartiality.

However, there are only two marking ministers for the two-point test paper, with the exception!

One is that the test paper contains "the love of the husband and the government is the most important thing for the country." Respect the monarch's power, choose officials, teach officials, supervise officials, and reward and punish the public".

The other is that the test paper contains "the world is for the public, the holy monarch is unified, the upper is the mandate of heaven, and the lower body is the people's feelings"

Yan Song gave the highest score of "○" to all of these two test papers, and five of the other seven ministers who scored the papers also gave the highest score of "○".

But there are two exceptions, one is the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and the other is the cabinet group assistant. The two of them gave the first test paper "△", but the second test paper gave the highest score of "○".

In the first test paper, Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites said, "The husband governs the love of the upper and lower levels, and the country is also important." Respect the monarch's power, choose officials, teach officials, supervise officials, and reward and punish the public", I immediately didn't want to give a "△". After the review of the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, when he passed it to the cabinet group assistant for review, he gently pressed his hand twice with his hand without a trace, and then the cabinet group assistant nodded clearly, and also gave a "△".

This passage in the first test paper, Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites remembers it too clearly, and it is impossible to remember it wrongly, this sentence is written by the first person sitting on the east side of the palace test!

Turnip greens have their own love, the palace test marking allows reasonable error, but the score difference can not be too big, what is the reasonable error, that is, the eight scoring ministers to the same test paper to the score span shall not exceed three grades, that is to say, someone gives the first class, some people give the second class, and you give the fourth or fifth class, so it is unreasonable. Even if you have your own preferences, you can choose vegetables, but you can't eat meat, the difference is too obvious. The difference is too big, but it is to be held accountable, and the responsibility is very heavy!

The Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites and the Cabinet Qunfu scored two people very scheming, others give the first class, and we give the two to the second class, which is also normal, I just don't like it very much, what's wrong with the second class, this is a reasonable error.

In this way, it contains "the love of the husband and the ruler, and the importance of the country." Respect for the monarch's power, choose officials, teach officials, supervise officials, and reward and punish the public", only got six "○".

In addition, the test paper with the words "the world is for the public, the holy monarch is unified, the mandate of heaven is inherited, and the people are in the lower body" got a full eight "○".

Only the top ten will be sent to Emperor Jiajing to compete for the top prize in this Enke, while the rest will have no chance.

The first test paper got six "○" and two "△", less than seven "○", then basically it is not with the first and second grades, and it is much worse than the top ten in this palace exam. There are several of them who got 8 "○" in this hall test, let alone 7 "○".

Therefore, this test paper is not a chance to get the imperial reading of Emperor Jiajing! Don't even think about it! Don't even dream about it!

The Zuo waiter of the Ministry of Rites looked at the scoring symbol on this test paper and showed a satisfied smile. (To be continued.) )

PS: It's 2016, I wish you all good luck and good luck in 2016.