The more Zhu Yanxi saw that Wei Zhongxian didn't seem to be interested in Wei Bao's poems, the more he wanted to praise Wei Bao's poems.

Zhou Rupan, Ding Shaoshi and other officials also saw it, and they also praised Wei Bao's poem.

Wei Bao is very modest, he bowed his hand again and again, he didn't dare to speak, the adults fell in love with Yunyun by mistake, and he looked like a humble and handsome little guy with a respectful and outstanding temperament.

Although Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji, Feng Quan and others also think that Wei Bao's poem is very good, but looking at Wei Zhongxian's uncertain face, I don't know if the factory is agreeable? Still not to your liking? I don't dare to express my position casually.

These high-ranking officials of the eunuch party did not dare to express their position, and the other officials of the eunuch party did not dare to take action for the time being.

However, the non-Donglin students were not too affected by the reaction of the officials, and while silently discussing the reaction of the high-ranking officials in the officialdom, they quietly discussed the poem that Wei Bao had just written.

The opinion of most people is that this poem is the best of the poems!

As Wei Zhongxian hesitated, more and more neutral officials also felt that it seemed unfair not to affirm such a good poem.

Xiong Wencan, the director of the Ministry of Rites, is not only the chief examiner of Wei Bao's examination of Xiucai, but also the chief examiner of Wei Bao's examination in southern Liaoning.

Although he has a slight tendency to eunuchs, he mainly belongs to the neutral faction, which can be seen from his original history, when he was able to survive the Wei Zhongxian period in peace, and when Chongzhen came to power, he could only rise.

Xiong Wencan was also nervous about Wei Bao at the beginning, although he was not as nervous as Wu Sanfu, but Xiong Wencan can also be regarded as an insider, and he knew how Wei Bao got that person.

In this examination, Xiong Wencan is not qualified to be an examiner, but he is an official of the Ministry of Rites. Or did your studies improve by leaps and bounds during this time?

At this time, seeing Wei Bao make such a good poem, he was naturally happy for Wei Bao, how to say, he and Wei Bao are teachers and students, and couldn't help but praise in a whisper: "This poem is really good!" Who has written history for 10,000 years, and wants to be a marquis 3,000 miles away. The momentum is extraordinary, and the artistic conception is majestic! ”

Many neutral officials of the Ministry of Rites at the same table and at the table next to them, as well as neutral officials of the Ministry of Officials, heard that Xiong Wencan, who had always been honest and calm and rarely spoke in public, praised this poem, and they all nodded and praised it.

The loudest praise is two officials of the Ministry of Officials, one is Chen Qiyu, the director of the Ministry of Officials, Chen Qiyu is a native of Baodezhou. In the forty-fourth year of Wanli (1616), Jinshi. He was appointed as the magistrate of Luoyang County. In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), he was promoted to the rank of Like. Now he is the head of the ministry.

One is Sun Chuanting of the Ministry of Officials, Sun Chuanting is a talent, there are many strategies, Wanli forty-seven years (1619) in the Jinshi, the first grant of Yongcheng County. In the early years of the Apocalypse, he entered Beijing and served as the chief of the official department, and then was promoted to Jixun Langzhong.

Both of them belong to the neutral faction officials, and they are neither inclined to the Donglin Party nor the Eunuch Party, and Sun Chuanting has a lot of hatred for the Eunuch Party!

It is a person who is jealous and hateful, upright, and loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Bao was already very familiar with Xiong Wencan, but Wei Bao didn't recognize Sun Chuanting and Chen Qiyu, Wei Bao faintly heard others call them by their names, and after knowing who the two of them were, he was secretly surprised.

Chen Qiyu and Sun Chuanting were both important figures in the later period of the Chongzhen Dynasty, one became the equivalent of the army boss, and the other became the equivalent of the war zone boss, both of them are great figures.

And Sun Chuanting is an epic hero-like figure, and he has always been respected by Wei Bao.

Wei Bao took a deep look at Sun Chuanting and Chen Qiyu, although they are still unknown at this stage and in the middle and lower echelons of officialdom, but he is a reborn giant, and he knows that these people will be top bosses in the future.

These people all came to praise themselves and make Wei Bao's heart feel happy.

Wei Bao couldn't help but bow his hand to these officials who praised him to show his gratitude.

The officials saw that although Wei Bao was very young, he knew how to be polite, and the most surprising thing was that at such a young age, he was full of aura, neither humble nor arrogant, and he had a posture that could be on a big scene.

You must know that the people present are all jinshi, and most of them are forty miles away, but most of them look either trembling and have never seen the world, or they are confused, unable to enter the state, and don't know what they are doing.

It is rare to have a few people who are as calm as Wei Bao.

With the direct statements of officials such as Chen Qiyu and Sun Chuanting, more and more neutral officials openly praised Wei Bao's poetry.

After all, for them, appreciating Wei Bao's poems should not offend either the eunuch party officials or the Donglin party officials, and they can rest assured to comment.

Among the officials present, one is counted as one, ninety percent of them are all Jinshi backgrounds, and they are all people who are full of wealth, under considerable evaluation, Li Hongzhang's poem is definitely not inferior to the poems of several other people, and even a lot stronger.

President Wei struggled to find the fairness of fate in modern times, and in ancient times, he did not look for it, but fate always remained fair to him.

Zhu Yanxi saw that Wei Zhongxian never expressed his stance on Wei Bao's poems, nor did he force them, so he smiled and said to Gu Bingqian: "Since Wei Bao's poems in the second place in the second class have also come out, let everyone vote for these four poems, right?" ”

Gu Bingqian glanced at Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian nodded slightly to Gu Bingqian, indicating that it was okay.

Gu Bingqian then said: "Then vote!" Write your favorite name on the receipt, don't let the people next to you see what is written, everyone writes one, and you can't abstain! ”

Everyone said yes.

Everyone, including Wei Bao, couldn't understand what Wei Zhongxian meant by never commenting on Wei Bao's poems?

Everyone has this question.

Wei Bao couldn't understand whether Wei Zhongxian deliberately didn't want people to know about his relationship with him, or was he afraid that he would share Wu Kongjia's ticket and leave?

Wei Bao thinks that the main thing may be the latter.

And everyone thinks that Wei Zhongxian doesn't want to see Wei Bao, obviously although Wei Bao is a scholar in the north, he is biased towards Liaoxi and has nothing to do with the eunuchs.

In this way, everyone in the eunuch party has a bottom in their hearts, and they all know who to vote for.

Invoicing, voting, the process was very fast, and it was completed in less than a stick of incense in total.

Obviously, the Ming Dynasty is really familiar with the kung fu of voting.

"Let's sing the ticket!" Gu Bingqian said: "Divided into 8 groups, every group of three people, there can't be a single error." A few heads of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials, and a few more Jinshi will do this. ”

Several directors of the Ministry of Rites and Officials immediately stood up and said yes.

The votes began immediately, and the votes of Hua Qifang, Weng Hongye, Wu Kongjia and Wei Bao were very average at first, and Wu Kongjia was slightly ahead.

When Hua Qifang and Weng Hongye both had more than 20 votes, Wu Kongjia had already reached more than 30 votes, and Wei Bao was also almost 30 votes.

The officials of the Donglin Party were a little nervous, after all, it was a matter of face, and it was the eunuch party who wanted to squeeze out one of the top three places.

The eunuch party is fine, because the eunuch party's team is relatively loose, and they are all brought together because of the relationship of interests, and the newly appointed jinshi are all newcomers to the officialdom, no matter how much they are valued, it is unlikely that there will be much improvement in two or three years.

Therefore, who comes up and who goes down, they generally don't pay much attention.

Before voting just now, Gu Bingqian had already conveyed a clear signal to the eunuchs, signaling everyone to vote for Wu Kongjia.

The centrists are more relaxed, they really vote mainly on the quality of the poems, they want to say a little leaning, a little inclined to the Donglin party, very few neutrals will vote for the eunuch members, in the case of Wu Kongjia is a member of the eunuch party, the neutrals generally will not vote for him.

Originally, according to Wei Zhongxian's plan, even if Hua Qifang, Weng Hongye and Wu Kongjia voted, Wu Kongjia still had a certain advantage.

Wei Zhongxian felt that the people of the Wei family would definitely vote for Wu Kongjia, the number of Wei and Donglin Party was about the same, even if most of the neutral officials would vote for Hua Qifang and Weng Hongye, there were still many students, even if the students were the most students in the Donglin department, but there were also many students in the Wei department, and the neutral faction among the students was not like officials, it was impossible to vote for Hua Qifang and Weng Hongye, and some of the votes would definitely be transferred to Wu Kongjia's head, so calculated, Wu Kongjia's chances of winning were at least sixty percent, which was quite certain.

But now that Wei Bao has been added, everything is full of variables.

The process of counting votes was very fast, and after a while, more than half of the votes were counted.

The vote is recorded on a wooden board, recorded with a brush, drawn correctly, and a stroke is drawn when a vote comes out.

Hua Qifang 44 votes, Weng Hongye 39 votes, Wu Kongjia 56 votes, Wei Bao 66 votes.

Wei Bao is ahead!

Everyone looked at Wei Bao in disbelief, and many neutral students were very happy, as if Wei Bao was leading as they were leading.

Similarly, neutralist officials think the same way.

There are about 100 Centrist students and about 60 Centrist officials.

Of course, not all neutral officials and students voted for Wei Bao, and many voted for Hua Qifang and Weng Hongye, who were students of the Donglin Party.

On the one hand, there are many neutral officials and students who are inclined to the Donglin Party, and on the other hand, they are afraid that there will be too many votes, so they will divide the votes for the Donglin Party, so that Wu Kongjia won.

But when more than half of the votes were cast, it was difficult for the two Donglin students to win, and the suspense seemed to focus on Wu Kongjia and Wei Bao, who would win.

"Nine thousand years old, Wei Bao's article is really good." Gu Bingqian saw that Wei Zhongxian was a little unhappy, and couldn't help but whisper.

Wei Zhongxian didn't talk.

Gu Bingqian said this, which means that it is not that the people of the Wei family are not strong, but that Wei Bao's poems are good, and no matter how you say it, it seems that it is a certainty that the Donglin department will give up a place.

Although Wei Zhongxian has the same relationship as the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiaotie, and has the supreme right to speak in the court, he still needs to go through such a process.

If you don't follow today's process, unless the emperor personally changes the position in the palace examination, the ranking will hardly change.

Moreover, even if the emperor personally changes his ranking in the palace examination, the ministers have the right to question it, especially these Donglin Party ministers, who are not afraid of the emperor at all, they usually make noise and shout about nothing, and when they encounter a little thing, they are even more needle-to-wheat and do not show weakness.

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian made this show today, which is to let someone in the Wei family enter the top three of the first class, and it becomes justified!

Saved a lot of noise during the temple test tomorrow.

Soon, all the votes were counted.

Wu Kongjia's face was like ashes.

Hua Qifang 92 votes, Weng Hongye 85 votes, Wu Kongjia 116 votes, Wei Bao 158 votes.

Webel is almost overwhelming!

led Wu Kongjia by more than 40 votes!

There is no controversy at all.

The officials and students of the Donglin Party were not very sad, because Hua Qifang and Weng Hongye lost their competitiveness early, and it was clear that Wei Bao and Wu Kongjia had one person to go up, and they naturally hoped that Wei Bao was a person who was not clear about his position.

From the current point of view, almost everyone thinks that Wei Bao belongs to the centrists, does not belong to the Eunuch Party, and does not belong to the Donglin Party, because Wei Bao's teacher is Sun Chengzong, which is something that many people know, and they have been talking about Wei Bao during the voting process just now.

Wei Bao is a disciple of Sun Chengzong, Wei Bao is a big businessman in western Liaoning, Wei Bao helped Liaodong and Liaoxi to fight against Jiannu, and achieved a great victory, these Wei Bao's deeds have been popularized among officials and students.

It can be said that everyone present now is the most familiar with Wei Bao, except for Wei Zhongxian and several cabinet ministers, who are familiar with Wei Bao.

Wu Sanfu looked ecstatic, staring at Wei Bao's side face.

Wei Bao always sat upright, looking unsurprised and calm, as if he was voting or something, and it had nothing to do with him.

In fact, Wei Bao's heart is also very excited.

After all, not to mention entering the top level of this kind of national candidates in the previous life, even entering this province, no, no, this province is a joke, even entering this city, no, no, this city is a joke, even entering this school, no, no, this school is also a joke, even entering this class, no, no, no!

Wei Bao was embarrassed to recall.

However, none of this is important, it doesn't affect him at all to enter the top level of this kind of national candidates, and he can easily beat a few Jinshi who are full of wealth and talented in poetry and books, hahaha.

The audience was quiet, everything was done by Wei Zhongxian, so naturally he had to wait for Gonggong Wei to make a conclusion.

Wei Zhongxian didn't wait at all this time, and when he finished singing the last vote, he had already stood up and said to Wei Bao with a smile: "It seems that your poetry and articles are excellent, and you are fully qualified to enter the top three of the first class!" ”

Wei Zhongxian does not call Wei Bao, giving people the feeling that he and Wei Bao have met for the first time.

Wei Bao hurriedly bowed down and replied: "I don't dare to be it, I have lost the love of the adults, and I have lost the help of the seniors, I dare not call a good word in front of many talents." The poems written by the other seniors are much better than mine! Ten thousand beggars for 9,000 years old. ”

Wei Zhongxian smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Talented, unassuming, it is indeed a rare talent, sit down." ”

"Yes, nine thousand years old." Wei Bao couldn't wait to sit down, he didn't like this kind of moment of showing off in public at all, he knew that while being in the limelight, he didn't know how many people hated him, the more low-key this kind of occasion, the better. I was also afraid that Wei Zhongxian would give him some problems, but fortunately, Wei Zhongxian didn't say anything.

A melody soon ended, and the feast continued.

Wei Zhongxian sat for a while and left.

The food was good and the drinks were good.

But these things, for Wei Zhongxian, who has tasted all the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and the jade dew elixir, are really ordinary, and Wei Zhongxian also doesn't like this kind of public occasion.

If there is a choice, if he can live again, Wei Zhongxian will not cut himself into the palace by himself, he will not gamble, and he will not sell his daughter!

Wei Zhongxian is willing to live the life of an ordinary man, mixing food and clothing in the countryside, happier than anything else, but unfortunately, there is no one in the world who can live again.

Except for the son of Da Ming Wei.

The banquet continued, many officials and students came to toast Wei Bao's wine, just before composing poems and voting, Wei Bao was still like a transparent person, and almost no one asked him to say anything.

Wei Bao's memory is excellent, and he socializes freely with everyone, tries to write down the appearance and names of these people, and his official position, and keeps saying humble words.

It's as if Wei Baobao is going to be the champion.

In fact, in Wei Bao's opinion, after such a twist, will he squeeze out one of the top three in the first class, and it is difficult to say whether he will get the identity of Tanhualang or Bangyan, as for the champion, President Wei will not think about it.

It can be seen from Zhu Yanxi that he did not let Yu Huang come out to participate in the vote, and Yu Huang's champion status was protected by the Donglin Party and would never let it out.

The champion must be Yu Huang's.

As for whether he can ascend to the throne, Wei Bao feels that it is almost impossible, because he is a disciple of Sun Chengzong, and he can't get any cheap in the officialdom, and he has not publicly stated that he worships under Wei Zhongxian, and he will not be regarded as his own person by Wei Zhongxian.

Although there is a post left for Wei Zhongxian, this kind of secret operation and following Wei Zhongxian with a knife and a gun are two different things.

If there is a little possibility, it also depends on the meaning of Father-in-law Wei, and Father-in-law Wei seems to be very unenthusiastic about his ascension, and he left not long after the vote, without even looking at himself.

This made President Wei feel very entangled, and he didn't know if he should go to Wei Zhongxian again tonight to get money?

Wei Bao also felt that if he went to Wei Zhongxian to make money, would Wei Zhongxian feel that he was too good and wanted to enter the top three? Will you even suspect that your ambitions are too big or something, and that you, a newcomer who has just entered the officialdom, are you really in such a hurry? Moreover, even if you get a champion or something, it won't play a decisive role in your future official career, right?

After all, more than ninety percent of the first assistants of the Ming Dynasty are not from the champions, lists, and tanhualangs, right?

The people who socialized with Wei Bao were ordinary officials, and no one from the high-ranking officials came to say anything to Wei Bao.

Because of Wei Bao's neutral identity, whether it is the eunuch party or the Donglin party, they are not very interested in Wei Bao, few neutral ministers are high-ranking officials, and neutral ministers with a certain status are more able to protect themselves, and they don't like to form gangs, just like Sun Chengzong.

So many people don't understand why Sun Chengzong, who is already in a high position as Taifu, why did he take the initiative to ask Ying to go to Liaodong to lead the troops to fight.

This is also where Wei Bao respects Sun Chengzong the most, Sun Chengzong is taking the initiative to ask for help, and he is in a high position, and he has obtained a very high position, and it is by no means a person in a low position who wants to climb up and take risks to get out.

Almost all the students came to contact Wei Bao, whether it was a student of the Donglin Party or a student of the Eunuch Party, they had no prejudice against the students of the neutral faction, besides, these students were still relatively simple before they officially entered the office, and they did not have much concept of political power, but they had a vague concept.

Because, they have not yet become the hardcore of a certain faction.

Unless it's like Wu Kongjia.

When Wu Kongjia was at the end of the banquet, he glared at Wei Bao fiercely, with a look of eagerness to eat Wei Bao and bite Wei Bao to death, although it was just a quick glance, it was keenly captured by President Wei.

Wei Bao is not afraid of Wu Kongjia, you are not Wei Zhongxian, you are not Wei Zhongxian's Five Tigers and Five Biao, and you are not Wei Zhongxian's relatives, but you are just a grandchild, what is there to be aggressive?

"Xiaobao, let's go?" Wu Sanfu didn't come to Wei Bao's side until this time.

Wei Bao snorted, and originally wanted to have a word with a few ministers, but there was no chance, and they all left early.

"I didn't come over to toast you just now, I'm afraid I can't help but say something I shouldn't say." Wu Sanfu smiled slightly.

Wei Bao smiled: "We are closer than brothers, what kind of toast?" Really. ’

"This time is different, how majestic are you today?" Wu Sanfu said with a smile.

Wei Bao probably knew what Wu Sanfu was going to say, so he hurriedly interrupted him, "This is not the place to talk!" Let's talk about it later. ”

Wu Sanfu hummed vigilantly, and walked slowly with Wei Bao and the students to the outside of Shoufu Gu Bingqian's mansion.

At this time, Song Yingxing and Fan were still waiting outside Gu Bingqian's mansion.

Li Chengnei came for a while, had business, and left again.

Knowing that Wei Bao was admitted to Jinshi, Li Chengnei was not very worried, and only wanted to be happy for Wei Bao.

But Song Yingxing and Fan Datou are Wei Bao's subordinates, and they know that President Wei has been admitted to the Jinshi this time, but they are afraid that there will be more things in the future, and the Jinshi will represent that he has officially entered the Ming officialdom.

From the ninth product to the first product, the official of the Ming officialdom, President Wei has the hope of sitting in a circle in the future.

Of course, President Wei's starting point is at least Zhengqipin, because Wei Bao has been appointed by the Ministry of Officials once under the nomination of Sun Chengzong, and President Wei has always had the title of Liaoning South Transit Envoy.

The Liaoning Southern Transit Envoy is an official position subordinate to the Jiliao Governor's Mansion, and under normal circumstances, the Ministry of Officials is only registered, and generally cannot be managed by the Jiliao Governor's Mansion.

Anyway, President Wei has now officially entered the Ming officialdom, and both for Wei Bao himself and for Wei Bao's subordinates, he will face new challenges.

Unprecedented challenges.

"Look, everyone is out." Fan said to Song Yingxing.

Song Yingxing snorted, "The president should be coming out soon, it looks like the banquet is over." ”

"You haven't had this meal for long, have you? I thought it would be midnight. Fan looked up at the moon and starlight that had just come up, and felt that it was still very early.

Song Yingxing sighed silently at the gate of the Shoufu Mansion, secretly thinking about this door, it is estimated that he will not be able to enter this life.