In the examination room of the examination, all the candidates are concentrating on answering the papers.

And Wang Hongzhi spread out Tao Wangling's article, and at first glanced at it, and it looked like this at a glance, but after a while, his hands trembled, and he looked at the reader sitting in front of him again.

But seeing that he was calm and balanced, he was not distracted at all by a group of people in front of him, and even his own examiner of the third grade did not attract his attention for a moment.

Wang Hongzhi knows very well that a scholar with such a confident temperament, if he is not familiar with accidents and knows nothing, or he has a very strong background, and he is generally not from a family of eunuchs, or he is from a poor family like Lin Yanchao, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and is an extremely rare outstanding talent.

However, there are too few of the latter, and generally the former is a little more.

Wang Hongzhi remembered the Huiji pottery family, of course, he remembered the imperial examination family from Zhejiang.

Wang Hongzhi re-read Tao Wangling's article, and was more careful at the moment, and the more he read it, the more he felt that this son was terrible.

At that moment, Wang Hongzhi glanced at the young man again, and then handed the article to Xu Guo on the side and gave him a look.

Xu Guo took the scroll and twisted his three-stemmed beard and looked at it for a while, and immediately looked at Wang Hongzhi to the effect of asking, who wrote this article?

Wang Hongzhi pointed at Tao Wangling, Xu Guo pondered, did not say a word at the moment, handed the scroll to the official on the side and said in a low voice: "Make a stamp." ”

The official understood, and immediately took out the stamp and made another secret mark after the volume was stamped.

The two of them immediately moved forward with their hands and continued to inspect the examination room all the way.

After leaving Tao Wangling's examination booth far away, Wang Hongzhi asked, "How is the article of the scholar surnamed Tao just now?" ”

Xu Guodao: "This article reminds me of Tao Nianzhai! ”

Wang Hongzhi said: "I also feel the same way, this person is also the Huiji Tao family, it is not Tao Nianzhai's family and the same family. ”

"But the article is more blue!" Xu Guo groaned.

Wang Hongzhi deeply agreed: "I also feel the same way, I think this person is the handsome man that the elder is looking for!" ”

Xu Guo smiled and nodded, it was also very happy for him to have such a talent worship him, but he said: "Eh, whether it is the Yuan scroll or not, I have to read other things." ”

After saying that, the two left.

However, it was said that after Tao Wangling finished the exam, he was the first person to hand in the papers, which caused the exclamation of the Quartet candidates.

"Who is this man?"

"Tao Zhouwang asked him to hand in the papers?"

"What a famous kid!"

"Sons of famous families?"

"His uncle is Tao Nianzhai, the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing, and his teacher is Mr. Sanyuan Xuegong in the eighth year of Wanli, do you say that he is a famous disciple!"

"Really!"

"It seems that he is stable in this section."

"Not necessarily, others in the previous subject also said that he won the yuan by exploring the bag and taking things, but in the end, he was not named Sun Shan."

"I heard that this person is very powerful in lecturing, but if he is so powerful, what kind of official is he coming to be?"

"Who said that if you are good at lecturing, you can't be an official? Can't people lecture and be officials at the same time? ”

"You're really good, I'll just talk about it casually!"

"Enough, this is the exam room! Don't talk to each other! Otherwise, it will be punished as fraud, and I will be quiet! Quiet! ”

The officials on the patrol did not expect that Tao Wangling's handover alone would cause such a big sensation and cause people to marvel all the way.

Xu Guo and Wang Hongzhi sat in front of the public hall and watched Tao Wangling walk out of the examination room all the way. The two of them couldn't help but say in their hearts, although this article is well written, but it is too quick to submit the paper, and it is too bad to take this test as a thing.

Although they really wanted to see Tao Wangling's paper immediately, they couldn't help it, the rules for the examination were extremely strict.

If it is a county examination, they will summon a candidate to ask a few words, and it is likely to be taken in the classroom.

The sky in the examination room was a little hazy, Tao Wangling stood in front of the dragon gate, watching the wind and clouds in the distance and silently chanted, the teacher has cultivated me for many years and taught us the truth of the Tao in the instrument, if you are not an official, how can you confirm whether what you have learned in your heart is right or not?

In the past, it was the teacher who sheltered me from the wind and rain in the court, supporting a world for my Lin Xue, and in the future, it will be time for me and the child rope to repay the teacher and contribute to Lin Xue.

On the same scene as Tao Wangling, as well as Yuan Keli, Xu Huobo, and Zhang Rulin, they are also burying their heads in the papers for their future, and there are more than 3,000 candidates with them.

After this examination, hundreds of candidates jumped into the dragon gate, and the title of the gold list changed the fate of their lives, and the fate of the same country and tens of millions of people will also change because of these people.

A few days before the trial list, Tao Wangling, Yuan Hongdao, Yuan Keli, Xu Huobo, Zhang Rulin, and five sons traveled to the suburbs together, at this time, the spring was just right, several people climbed the mountain to visit the temple, enjoyed the spring view, looked at the spring water ice skin between the mountains has melted, the distant mountains are washed with residual snow, and the scenery is refreshing and pleasant.

Five people climbed the mountain together, and followed by two or three people carrying the package, when the interest of the game was to give poems and sing, what was said and talked about was the magnificence of the mountains and rivers, and there were also words to appreciate the spring and then put them into the poem bag.

After climbing for a long time, it suddenly started to rain in the mountains.

Fortunately, the people found a temple in the mountains to stay. This is also a stormy day to keep people, after a few people gave money, the monks in the temple did their best to entertain.

The people in the guest room are boiling tea next to them, and the monks in the monk's room are cooking bean rice for them.

The five of them were in the simple guest room of the temple, from the upcoming exam, and then talked about state affairs, personal ambitions, the world and the country.

When the five of them remembered that they would take the exam, they immediately became different, and they thought that they might get the middle school and high school because of this, and they might repeat their studies for three years, but when it came to their ambitions, no one would give in.

At this time, Yuan Keli suddenly proposed that like Lin Yanchao and Ye Xianggao, the five of them made an agreement with each other to see who was one step ahead of the first, the biggest, the first to take the whip, revitalize Shixue together, and do their part for the country's social welfare.

Yuan Keli mentioned that everyone was applauding, and several young people made an appointment with each other, and together in the temple, they became confidants with tea instead of wine, that is, the 'five sons of Lin Xue', who later wrote the famous history.

They stayed in the mountain temple for the night, and the next day it was not yet dawn, but they felt that the rain was knocking on the window, and it turned out to be raining again.

The list was about to be released, and the five decided not to stay, and took the risk of taking advantage of the rain to go down the mountain.

It is also blessed by the gods, the rain stopped for a while, and everyone stopped halfway up the mountain to see the white clouds in the mountains, swallowing between the mountains and forests, this scene made people feel full of pride.

Everyone improvised poems, leaving all worries about the future behind, and giving poems to each other to encourage each other.

Then seeing that the dark clouds were gathering, the five of them hurried down the mountain again, and only when they met the market at the bottom of the mountain did they get out of trouble.

The five people remembered the experience of this day and night in the mountains, and they all felt as if they were in a different world, and when they arrived at the market, they were meeting a wealthy slave in the mansion of Xu Guo and a prince traveling around him.

This son is going to the mountains to enjoy the spring, and the slaves dressed in fresh clothes and angry horses below are shouting in front, and the common people are a little slower to dodge is a whip past, and the stalls they encounter are easily overturned.

The five people were furious, Yuan Keli stepped forward to theorize for the people, and several people also stepped forward to protect each other, but as a result, Yuan Keli, Tao Wangling, and Zhang Rulin were all whipped several times, but fortunately they were not injured.

Several people were furious, and they happened to meet the local officials, who took the five sons to the county government for detention without saying anything.

These five people were locked up in the county government prison, talking about the day before they were still lifting their sons, yesterday they stayed in the mountain temple, but tonight they lived in the county government prison, and the wonderful circumstances of life are nothing more than that, and several people couldn't help laughing.

After being locked up for a day, the next day, when the other party asked, they knew that they were candidates for the exam, and these officials hurriedly apologized. When encountering such a villain who was condescending and respectful, the five of them didn't bother to bother with them, and they hired a car and rushed to the capital division when they thought about the release of the list.

After leaving, Xu Huobo had the intention to write a collection of poems written by the five people in the mountains called "Occasional Gains in the Mountains", which was published intermittently, and spread all over the world with the fame of the five people and their future deeds, and gradually copied by the world's readers, but this is a later story.

At this time, at the public court, several examiners had already agreed on the final ranking.

At the same time, Lin Yanchao has already resigned from Shangshu.

On the second day after the first test, Lin Yanchao, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, went to the top and said that he was sick and returned to his hometown.

The Son of Heaven decreed that it would not be allowed.

The world issued an edict to Lin Yanchao, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, to be the official of the palace examination papers, and Lin Yanchao once again asked for resignation.

The Son of Heaven decreed that he would not allow it, but allowed him to resign from his position as an official of the palace examination papers.

At this time, the list will be released on a trial basis, and Huiyuan will be announced......

Then the palace test, a few more days passed, and on the day of March 17, the roll call was taken in front of the Jinluan Palace.

The Son of Heaven is still exempt from the court, and the three hundred tributes are passed on to the Golden Palace, but the palace is the palace.

Therefore, Zhu Geng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who presided over the overall situation, saw that he was standing in front of His Royal Highness hundreds of civil and military officials, as well as three hundred and fifty famous tribute students, and said aloud: "I have only established the Chen Ji since ancient times, changed customs and customs, and made respect and inferiority equal to each other in the etiquette and law, and then the body is orthodox in the imperial court and the country is educated, so it is peaceful for a long time......

Zhu Genglang read aloud: "Gongshi Jiao Hong is the first place in the first class of the Wanli Jichou Year Palace, and he will be given the first place in the Jinshi and the first!" ”

"Gongshi Tao Wangling is the second place in the first class of the Wanli Jichou Year Palace, and he is given the first and first place!"

"Gongshi Wu Daonan is the third place in the first class of the Wanli Jichou Year Palace, and he is given the Jinshi and the first!"

……

"Gongshi Yuan Keli is the twenty-third place in the second class of the Wanli Jichou Year Palace, and he is born as a Jinshi!"

"Gongshi Huang Hui is the second and twenty-fourth place in the Wanli Jichou Year Palace, and he is given the background of Jinshi!"

"Gongshi Zhou Rutong is the second hundred and twenty-three Jinshi in the third class of the Wanli Jichou Year Palace, and he is given the same Jinshi background!"

Tao Wangling and the new tributes stepped on the jade steps together to climb the top of the Forbidden City step by step.

As a role model, the rest of the same year congratulated him together, the champion Jiao Hong, Tanhua Wu Daonan was already three or four years old, but Tao Wangling was young and in his prime, but seeing him climb the stairs, step by step.

"Lin Butang, congratulations, the teacher is Sanyuan, and the two students are Huiyuan plus the list eye."

"You alone occupy all the scenery in the world."

"This is a famous teacher and a high apprentice, and I can't envy it."

Lin Yanchao looked at Tao Wangling from a distance, and he was overwhelmed with emotion, but in the face of the colleagues who came to congratulate him, he said: "It is the emperor's insight and talent." ”

All colleagues laughed for a while, and said one after another: "Lin Butang is too modest. ”

Lin Yanchao smiled when he heard this, looking at Tao Wangling on the stage very relieved, and at this moment, it was time for him to retire.