The palace gate was wide open, and the small yellow gate came out, and the edict ordered all the tributes waiting outside to enter the West Garden. Zhu Ping'an and other tributes lined up under the guidance of Xiaohuangmen, divided into two rows, and they were both excited and nervous, and they didn't dare to breathe.

The West Garden is like a fairyland, except for entering the West Garden, Zhu Ping'an almost thought that he had come to Penglai Wonderland. The first thing I saw was the Jinhai in Xiyuan, this place Zhu Ping'an has been known for a long time in modern times, it includes three parts: the North Sea, the Middle Sea and the South China Sea, yes, the Middle ~ South ~ Sea is the combined name of the Middle Sea and the South China Sea.

At this moment, the blue waves of the golden sea are rippling, the water mist is swirling, the islands in the golden sea and the majestic peaks on the opposite bank are shrouded in the mist, sometimes several cranes are singing, the shore is full of strange flowers and plants, and the palace in the distance looms, at first glance it looks like a fairyland on earth.

Zhu Ping'an and other tributes, under the guidance of Xiaohuangmen, entered the hinterland of Xiyuan through the Jinao Yudong Bridge between Zhonghai and Beihai.

The emperor's army armor is complete to guard the main roads in Xiyuan, according to the armor style, it is roughly divided into Jinwuwei, Yulin Wei, Fujun Wei, and Hubenwei, which are scattered all over Xiyuan to protect the safety of Xiyuan Palace.

After entering the hinterland of Xiyuan, Xiaohuangmen did not take Zhu Ping'an and others directly to the examination room of the palace examination, but brought Zhu Ping'an and others to a slightly low palace, and there was a plaque on the palace, and there were four big characters on the plaque, "Zhenkun Dao Palace".

At first, Zhu Ping'an and the others were still wondering what the little yellow gate was doing when they led everyone here, but soon they understood.

Shower and change clothes!

The hall was low, but large enough, with several separate steaming tubs, covered by curtains, and the students rushed in to bathe and change their clothes.

This bath has two meanings. Bathing and changing clothes to show respect to the emperor, Emperor Jiajing's cultivation of immortals and alchemy pills was at the juncture. can't be bumped into by ordinary people like Zhu Ping'an; In addition, bathing and changing clothes also means that the imperial examination is searched. You enter the bath naked, we will search your clothes and belongings outside, and the contraband should be temporarily left in this Zhenkun Dao Temple, and then returned after your temple is finished.

After bathing and changing clothes, Zhu Ping'an found that the pen and ink inkstone he was carrying was temporarily left in the palace, and as for the ginseng that Li Shu asked the little girl to send because it was not contraband, it belonged to the category of food, so it was retained, and Zhu Ping'an was allowed to take the palace test.

After showering and changing. Xiao Huangmen took Zhu Ping'an and others to the south again, about the place where they approached the south gate of Xiyuan, there was a row of straight houses, and there were more than ten officials standing in official robes in front of the straight houses.

Approximately the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Hongroji Temple.

Xiao Huangmen led Zhu Ping'an and others to these officials of the Ministry of Rites, whispered a word to the officials at the front, and then left with a whisk.

The rest is the matter of the Ministry of Rites, roll call, emphasis on discipline, mobilization. It took about half an hour, and then Zhu Ping'an and the others followed the officials of the Ministry of Rites to the examination room of this palace examination - Taisu Palace.

Taisu Hall is located on the north side of the West Garden, near the North Sea.

By the time Zhu Ping'an and the others arrived at the Taisu Hall with the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple, the rising sun had already risen in the east. The officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple took the tributes to the open space in front of the palace and stood in solemnity to await the holy oracle.

"Xuan Jiajing, Xinhai Enkegongshi, Audience." The sound of proclamation was heard in the palace one after another.

Soon, the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple took Zhu Ping'an and others to enter the Taisu Hall in a neat line with the internal guards of the proclamation.

There are already many officials in the Taisu Palace. Dressed in crimson, cyan, and green official robes, embroidered with birds and animals. With the eyes of the juniors, he examined the four hundred tributes who had been visited.

"Ministers pay homage to the Holy One, long live my emperor. Hooray, hooray"

Zhu Ping'an, along with the officials of the Ministry of Rites, Honglu Temple, and all the tributes, made a big bow to Emperor Jiajing who sat on the dragon chair -- five bows and three kowtows, which was the official ceremony of the palace examination to the emperor of the tribute, simply put, bowed to the hand five times, and then kowtowed to the ground three times.

"Let's be flat." A rather majestic voice came from the main hall.

This is the voice of Emperor Jiajing, after hearing it, many tribute students trembled with excitement, and were pushed a few times before they hurriedly got up and stood in the hall.

Zhu Ping'an took the opportunity to look at Emperor Jiajing when he got up, Emperor Jiajing was sitting on the dragon chair, a little emaciated, but his majestic aura was extremely powerful, wearing a dragon robe, like a real dragon coiled on the dragon chair, which made people dare not look directly.

"It's the year of Enke, Bairui is now Zhaoru and the others are not disappointed!" Emperor Jiajing said a few words of hadith after the tributes were completed, simply put, this time Enke is in accordance with the will of heaven, and you must also obey the heavens and the people, and do not live up to my expectations.

After Emperor Jiajing finished speaking, he nodded to Huang Jin who was arching beside him, and then Huang Jin held an apricot yellow cloth inscription scroll in front of the imperial case in his hands, and walked down the hall to hand it to a middle-aged official, this official is Honglu Siqing, Honglu Siqing received the apricot yellow cloth inscription scroll, and knelt down to Jiajing to salute.

He Honglu Siqing is the title officer of this palace examination.

After he got the test questions and finished saluting, he put the test questions on the east side of the imperial case in front of the cabinet members and others, opened the test questions under the supervision of the cabinet members, and put them on the imperial case.

After that, there was a drum beat and whips.

Zhu Ping'an once again followed everyone in the hall to salute Emperor Jiajing who was sitting on the dragon chair, this time with three bows and nine bows.

After everyone finished saluting, Emperor Jiajing slowly left the Taisu Palace, he still has a furnace of good pills to refine, there is no time to always stare here, the palace test is handed over to the courtiers, otherwise why send so many Yulu to them.

After the emperor left, a group of ministers in the palace also left, Yan Song and more than ten officials stayed, Xu Jie did not stay, and the examiners did not stay this time, probably to avoid suspicion.

After the emperor left, the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple divided Zhu Ping'an and others into two rows to sit on the east and west sides of the Taisu Hall according to the ranking of the examination.

Tables and chairs have long been placed on the east and west sides of the main hall for the examination of the Gongshi Palace, and Zhu Ping'an and Ouyang Zishi are in the first position on the east and west sides, far away.

Zhu Ping'an is very bad, after kneeling and tossing after so many times, Zhu Ping'an, who was already tired and haggard, almost couldn't stand, and his haggard and tired state was even more serious. Ouyang Zishi, who has been silently paying attention to Zhu Ping'an, saw Zhu Ping'an's crumbling figure, and silently hooked the corners of his mouth, what are you fighting with me!

"It's the temple test on the day, serving breakfast one, lunch one, tea two tours, the temple test has its own rules, you wait for your own self, don't live up to the expectations of the saint!"

After all the tributes were seated, the officials of the Ministry of Rites finished their brief lectures and began to distribute the test papers for this palace examination.

After Zhu Ping'an received the test paper, he slightly rubbed his brain that was tired and caused dizziness, and slowly opened the test questions in his hand.

The test paper is snow-white rice paper, the workmanship is extremely fine, with a touch of sandalwood, the font of the test questions is extremely good, and the exam questions slowly appeared in Zhu Ping'an's eyes. (To be continued.) )