Three days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was time for the new branch of Jinshi to pass on the roll call, although for the candidates who participated in the palace examination, a Jinshi foundation has long been a certainty, but it is really at this time that people still have some expectations, and for the ranking of the palace examination, it has become a hot topic in the streets, and it can finally cover up the haze of the front-line defeat for a few points.

This morning, Ma Shiying, Yang Wencong and others entered the imperial city early with the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and according to the custom, the emperor personally presided over the roll call ceremony in front of the Wenhua Hall where the palace examination was held. This solemnity alone is not lost to the Zhengdan court meeting more than two months ago, which is enough to show that the imperial court attaches great importance to the imperial examination and the weight of a Jinshi background, and it is even more rare that the emperor who has been in the palace all the year round 'quiet and can't shoot' is present in person, since the accident in Liaodong, Zhu Yijun has been a lot more diligent.

The left gate of Chang'an on East Chang'an Street gathered a lot of traders and citizens early, the left gate of Chang'an and the right gate of Chang'an next door opposite and called Longmen, Humen, according to the past practice, after the roll call of Honglu Temple Cheng is completed in turn, it will be taken by the officials of the Ministry of Rites out of the left gate of Chang'an, and there is a big list with the ranking of the new Jinshi, and there is a small list that is left in the palace.

Because this list is based on yellow paper, there is a yellow list or a gold list, and the list is also selected to be placed at the left gate of Chang'an. However, compared to the examination, this list is just a formality, and the new scholars have already known their own nouns in front of His Majesty in the Wenhua Palace, and the yellow list that hangs out is just a reflection of the imperial court's attention to giving the people of Kyoto a little tea and dinner by the way.

Although Wang Xingping knew in advance that Li Kezhuo was responsible for the roll call in Honglu Temple, he could not know the ranking of the Jinshi, let alone spend energy inquiring about such things, but he was both a fellow villager and a fellow villager in Guizhou, and he still had to come to Longmen to take a look, after all, there were only two Jinshi in Guizhou in this Spring Festival, Ma Shiying and Yang Wencong, but just counting the test, in fact, only Yang Wencong passed in Guizhou this year.

Just after the hour, a sound of blowing and blowing was heard from the left gate of Chang'an, and the onlookers suddenly became noisy, and Wang Xingping understood that this was the new science and technology scholars who were about to make a collective appearance. However, before the debut, the first thing to do was to put up a yellow list.

Naturally, Shuntianfu came to do such a coolie, and the twenty or so soap subordinates and the old army were busy for a while before they could hang the more than ten meters long list high, and it did not affect Wang Xingping, who was not too far away, to look at the list.

In his opinion, this yellow list is naturally the best from the back to the front, after all, Yang Wencong's ranking at the time of the examination is only outside the top three hundred, and among these jinshi from Guizhou, there has never been a second class, so it really shouldn't be too extravagant. Even if Ma Shiyingdian came back from the test and gave the topic of the strategy to Wang Xingping alone, he still didn't think that the senior brother's ranking could be much higher, and he would probably be in the middle of the second class.

Sure enough, it didn't take much effort for him to see Yang Wencong's name, the 215th place in the top three, which is also the bottom in the top three, but the quota of a fellow jinshi is finally there. Then he began to look for Ma Shiying's name, and after reading the top three and the second class, he also read most of them, but he didn't find them.

Just when he was confused, he heard Xiao Liu next to him shout first, "Young master, isn't the Ma official under the umbrella?" ”

Following the direction of Xiao Liu's fingers, he saw a blue-robed Confucian standing under the cover of the Huangluo umbrella raised by the Duke of Shuntianfu, although his face was not very clear in the shadows, his body shape and demeanor were indeed Ma Shiying's appearance. At this time, he suddenly moved his gaze directly to the list and raised his head, but saw the first few lines of the yellow list, which read: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the system says: On March 15, the forty-seventh year of Wanli, three hundred and forty-five people including Gongshi Ma Shiying and others were tested, and the first class was given to the Jinshi and the first, the second was given to the Jinshi and the third, and the third was given to the same Jinshi, so it is hereby announced." ’

Seeing the ranking behind here, there is naturally no need to look at it anymore, whether it is the Huang Luo umbrella cover of Shuntianfu or the first name and surname on the yellow list, it shows that this senior brother of his own is indeed the champion of high school, and then the champion of the new department will be surrounded by the golden umbrella all the way to the first, which is the honor that the first person in the palace examination should enjoy, but it also avoids the noise of the newspapers.

The Jinshi walked around the streets, and the spring breeze was proud, and they probably didn't have the opportunity to get close to him as a junior brother in the past few days.

According to the usual practice, Ma Shiying and others will go to the Ministry of Rites to attend the Grace Banquet one day, and Zhu Yijun has already set the chairman of the British Gongzhang Weixian. After the feast, everyone will go to Honglu Temple to learn etiquette and prepare for the summons of the Son of Heaven the next day. This kind of complicated etiquette will continue for many days, and the new scholars will have a little time to deal with their own affairs.

Wang Xingping fully understood this, and after watching Ma Shiying's honor guard go away with a smile, he and Xiaoliu went in another direction.

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The controversy about the ranking of the palace examination did not have much turmoil, and Ma Shiying, the top three appointed by the emperor, came from Guizhou, which had never been in vain, which really made the scholars hotly discussed, but with the publication of the submission, the gossip gradually became less, and it became a voice of praise for the education of Guizhou inspectors. Also happy is another friend of Wang Xingping, Chen Zizhuang jumped from the second class of the examination to Tanhua, but Zhuang Jichang, who had been criticized a lot before, was reduced because the word "mash" was mistakenly written as "glue" on the ink roll handed in at the end, etc., but it also made the previous candidates who were dissatisfied with the results of the examination exhale.

The time soon came to March 22, when the champion and the new branch scholar Yang finally had leisure and wanted to celebrate with their junior brother, but found that their junior brother had disappeared for several days.

At nightfall, at the beginning of the lanterns, Wang Xingping sat in Zhang Jiebin's study, and a table of sumptuous wine and food was set on the table.

It's not that he's in a hurry, it's just that things are a little unexpected.

On the day before the palace test was released, the edict of Zhang Heming, the governor of Guizhou, was ordered to be the right attendant of the military department and the governor of the imperial history of the capital of the Imperial Palace, Shaanxi trilateral military affairs and food and salary, and the edict came down, on the surface, it was to make up for the lack of Yang to apply for employment and leave Shaanxi, but in fact, it was the meaning of some overlords who were the bow, and I am afraid that the princes of the axis really wanted Zhang Lao Xianggong to pick up the hot potato of Liaodong, but I don't know if Zhang Heming is willing or not, anyway, Wang Xingping is unwilling.

"Mr. Jing Yue (note: Zhang Jiebin), has you thought about it?" Putting back his thoughts, Wang Xingping asked straightforwardly.

"Well, I promise to go to Guizhou with you."

Wang Xingping thought about it for a while when he heard this, and then said tentatively: "Liaodong is now just employing people, and Mr. has never thought of re-entering the shogunate?" I heard that the court has intended to use Xiong Xianggong to pass through Liaodong, and he is a man who can fight. ”

Zhang Jiebin smiled bitterly and shook his head, "To be honest, I didn't expect Liaodong to be so erosive, but in the past, I didn't know the combat strength of the official army in Koubei for many years, even if Xiong Manzi passed through Liaodong, it was just self-preservation, and if I was not careful, it would inevitably be impossible to make any mistakes, what was the point of such a military feat." ”

Wang Xingping was quite satisfied with Zhang Jiebin's statement, and it happened that he also had to give the other party an explanation, "I have been delayed in Beijing for a long time, and in a few days, when the new army I have trained is a little bit more likely, I will select some elites to return to Guizhou, since Mr. has made up his mind, I will prepare for the next few days." ”

"It's a long way to Guizhou, I don't know how many people Tiancheng will take back?"

"Don't hide it, Mr. Xu Xianggong found me a piece of wasteland outside the mouth of Dagu, and now there are almost 300 people in the newly recruited Yanding, I think that the matter of absorbing the defeated army in Liaodong can be accomplished, and I can also select more than 300 people who dare to fight, and if I rush back to Guizhou before the summer heat, there will be more labor in this year's military camp."

Originally, Gu Ziming planned to let Wang Xingping take the sea ship back from Japan to return to Guangdong and return the same way, but Wang Xingping had already made up his mind, this time he was going to test the ability of these recruits to march, and if they were not strong-willed, they would be eliminated. Even if he takes over the training, he will have more than a month at most, and it is difficult to say what he can practice, so he has to come up with this method. Although the journey from Beizhili to Henan, Huguang and Sichuan back to Guizhou is much shorter than that by sea, the time taken is much longer, and the road is several times more difficult than at sea.

"With so many passengers crossing the border, I'm afraid it's inconvenient to be in places along the way."

Zhang Jiebin said with a hint of concern, although there were also a lot of larger-scale military movements in the Ming Dynasty, but they were all plans at the level of the military department. Wang Xingping is just a few subordinate households, how can a small military attache with such a group of Qiu Ba get the help of the Wenchen of the prefectures and counties along the way?

"It's true that we have to rely on ourselves for supplies along the way, but fortunately, the money has already been settled, and we don't have to worry too much about the supply of grain and grass all the way south."

"It seems that you have already made a bamboo in your chest, then I don't have much to say, let me know half a month before departure, and I should accompany you." After Zhang Jiebin finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something again, "If Tiancheng leaves, what should Brother Li do?" ”

"Li Dianshan?" Wang Xingping looked at the other party and didn't quite understand the meaning.

Zhang Jiebin smiled and said: "If you go, if the autumn water fairy pill is broken, he can't afford to eat it." ”

"That's what it was." Wang Xingping said suddenly, "Although it is difficult to find some of the medicine, a friend in the next place happens to have a cabinet in Tianjin, and I can get some from the south every few months. ”

In fact, Zhang Jiebin was worried about Li Kezhuo's future, obviously because he was too curious, and he was very interested in Wang Xingping's medical Taoism and the source of medicine. He has always advocated the essence of medicine, and he is quite disdainful of the mixed taste of some doctors' plain medicines, and he is also known for his daily medicine with little taste and essence. Therefore, Li Kezhuo said to him that this colchicum elixir was extracted from colchicum alone, which made him feel strange, whether it was nonsense or not, he didn't know, at least pharmacologically speaking, it was secretly in harmony with his own theory, which naturally increased his credibility. He didn't know what kind of clever means Wang Xingping said to Li Kezhuo about the extraction, and it was not that the doctors of the Ming Dynasty could follow it at this time, Li Kezhuo had tried to make himself in private, but it was all in vain, of course, this would not be said to Zhang Jiebin, maybe Zhang Jiebin also had the same mind but would not be an outsider.

On the other hand, Zhang Jiebin is the best at making friends with relatives on weekdays, and his famous secret medicine Zuogui Pill and Yougui Pill are both used to warm and replenish the kidney yin and kidney yang, and he is very famous among the big families in the capital, and he is the founder of the Wen Bu School among the doctors of the world, and he is the most important tonic on weekdays, but Li Kezhuo said that Wang Xingping thinks that the emperor's illness is being too much supplement, and the key is not only that the statement is different from himself, but the treatment can also be immediate, which makes him a little caught off guard.

But he is not a person who is jealous of the virtuous and capable, and he admires Wang Xingping a lot, so he decided to go south to Guizhou with him, maybe he can really have some opportunities to show his ambitions.

The time quickly fell into the night, and the leftover wine on the table was almost cold, and the two of them chatted even more vigorously in Yidao, and Wang Xingping could occasionally send a few words to inspire Zhang Jiebin.

I don't know how long it took, the old servant of the Zhang family suddenly came in and said that there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard.

At this time, it was already late at night, and after the curfew, no one should be able to walk around the city at will, but Zhang Jiebin is a famous doctor in the capital, and emergency affairs in the middle of the night are common, and there is no shortage of wealthy families in Beijing who can ignore the curfew.

After asking the name of the person who came, the old servant hurriedly opened the door.

"It's so late, Mr. Wang, where is this from?" Seeing the visitor, Zhang Jiebin hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Listening to Zhang Jiebin call the visitor, Wang Xingping also had some impressions, this person's name is Wang Wenyan, originally a prison official in She County, Huizhou Prefecture, after committing a crime, he came to Beijing alone to donate a prisoner, he is a new guest who took refuge in Wang An, and he is very useful in the place of Wang Eunuch, and he vaguely met Wang An when he last met him.

That Wang Wenyan was also straightforward, and said: "It's urgent, Mr. doesn't need to say much, hurry up and follow me to Ciqing Palace." ”

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