Outside the noon gate, Yang Cong and more than 300 tributes waited quietly in a neat line, today is the day of the palace test list, and all the tributes present have an expectant expression.

However, this palace trial list is not the same as the township test list, because the palace test is the yellow list, which is the so-called gold list, and before the list is released, the emperor will recruit all the tributes into the Taihe Palace, announce the ranking on the spot, and give the top three rewards, and then the yellow list will be posted.

At this time, more than 300 tributes were waiting for the emperor's summons.

The tributes waited for about a quarter of an hour, and the summons came from the palace.

"Chuan Yiwei Kegong Shi Audience."

"Chuan Yiwei Kegong Shi Audience."

......。

Immediately afterwards, the official of the Ministry of Rites who was responsible for leading the team led all the tributes to line up in two long columns, slowly walked into the palace from the left and right gates, crossed the Jinshui Bridge, and came to the square in front of the Taihe Palace.

At this time, thousands of courtiers had already stood neatly on both sides of the square, as if they had been called to watch the ceremony, while all the tributes kept two formations all the way, along both sides of the royal road, slowly walking towards the Taihe Palace.

The imperial road in the middle can not be walked up casually, because this is the emperor's exclusive passage, generally only in the early dynasty when the minister can step up, kneel in the middle of the royal road, report to the emperor about national affairs, other times to step on the fear of not dying will have to peel off the skin.

However, there are special cases, such as the top three in each imperial examination can walk on the royal road, accept the celebration of civil and military officials, and the tributes don't know who is the top three at this time, naturally no one dares to go to the royal road, they just follow behind the officials of the Ministry of Rites, slowly walk into the Taihe Palace, line up in line, pay homage to Jiajing, and then stand in the hall with their hands down and wait.

Soon, the three ceremonial officials came to the front of the tribute scholars with a huge scroll, and after the three of them opened the scroll together, the ceremonial officer in the middle read aloud: "Jiajing 14th year Yiwei Kedian first place in the first class test, Yang Cong!" ”

Yang Cong almost jumped up without excitement when he heard this voice, although he imagined that he might win the top prize, but at this moment he was still excited.

This champion is the best among the readers, only one is produced in three years, and there are only dozens of them in the nearly 300-year history of the Ming Dynasty.

He only felt that his blood was boiling, and he couldn't hear the name of the ceremonial official behind him, if it wasn't for this Taihe Palace, if it wasn't for Jiajing sitting on it, he probably couldn't help but dance with his hands.

The ceremonial officer didn't know how long he had been reading, and finally took the yellow list together with the other two ceremonial officials, and retreated, and then another ceremonial official stepped forward with a few scrolls, and then respectfully unfolded one, and read aloud: "Yang Cong, Han Yinglong, Sun Sheng stepped forward to listen to the reward." ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he hurriedly stepped out of the queue and lay on the red carpet in the hall, and Xinke Bangyan and Tanhua also walked out quickly and knelt beside him.

Immediately afterwards, the ceremonial official read aloud: "Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict says, Yang Cong, the champion of the new department, is talented and talented, and he is specially appointed Yang Cong Hanlin Academy to repair, and gives the capital a Yongfang mansion in Dashi, and admires this." ”

This!

The first half of this holy decree is quite normal, generally the new champion will be given a revision from the Hanlin Academy of the sixth grade, but the second half is not normal, the emperor gives the new champion something to reward something, but at most it is a little silk or something on the line, this time, Jiajing actually gave him a mansion directly!

Yang Cong thanked him, and after receiving the holy decree, he was still confused, this reward is too exaggerated, right?

However, he didn't have time to vent at this point, because there was something to come.

Immediately after this official letter, he had to change into court clothes and take the big red flower to parade on the street.

Yang Cong swam in a daze for a day, and did not return to Lufu until the sun set.

This is not the end, the Lu Mansion has already put on the lights at this time, and has set up a banquet, just waiting for him to come back and celebrate.

As soon as he came back, he was hugged by everyone on the wine table, and he was directly poured into a fog.

Fortunately, he didn't have to go to the morning pilgrimage the next day, otherwise, he would have to be late.

This champion parade is generally three days, until the third day after eating the Qionglin banquet is over, followed by a visit to the head of the court, and learn the rules and regulations of the officials.

After this set of studies, Yang Cong, Han Yinglong, and Sun Sheng, the top three, were considered official court officials, while Hu Zongxian, Wang Xuan, and more than 300 other Jinshi had to take the examinations organized by the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials to determine the final assigned official positions.

After the end of this exam, all the new Jinshi will have a month or so of vacation, after all, everyone has been reading poetry and books for more than ten years, and has gone through so many tests, they must be physically and mentally exhausted, and they finally passed the Jinshi, they must go home to report the good news or have a good celebration, this month is to give them a relaxing celebration, but also to the Ministry of Rites and officials to review the test papers, determine the official position.

After this set of processes is completed, the entire imperial examination process is over for Yang Cong, but it is not over for Hu Zongxian and Wang Xuan, because they have no official positions, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, after the imperial examination is over, only the champion, Bangyan and Tanhua will be directly awarded to the Hanlin Academy from the sixth grade and the Hanlin Academy from the seventh grade, while the other Jinshi have to wait for the officials to send officials.

At this time, the new science and technology jinshi will generally go to pull the relationship, because only when the relationship is pulled and the backer is found can he get a good official position, otherwise, even if he is good in the last exam, he will not necessarily have a good position, and there are even many people who have to wait for a few months or even years before they will have an official position.

There's no way, there are even too many Jinshi waiting to be officials these days, if you don't have a backer, then you have to wait.

And the best backer at this time is the examiner, according to the convention, this year's candidates can respect the examiner as the teacher, as long as you go to visit, and people do not refuse, then the name of the teacher and student is considered to be solid.

The chief examiner of this session of the examination is Xia Yan, and it is rumored that he will soon succeed Zhang Xuan as the first assistant of the cabinet, and he can be said to be the hardest backer in the court.

However, Yang Cong did not run to visit this big celebrity, not only did he not go, but even specially warned Hu Zongxian and Wang Xuan not to go.

Just kidding, Xia Yan, a short-lived ghost, worships him as a teacher, isn't that looking for death!

Yang Cong didn't have time to think about apprenticeship at this time, because his marriage with Lu Ling'er hadn't been done yet, and he was a high school champion at this time, so he could naturally start handling this marriage.

However, his marriage has not yet been opened, and immediately after, another good news came, Yu Dayou lived up to expectations, and he was the champion of high school martial arts!

This time, the whole government and the opposition are in a sensation, and the civil and military champions of the new department are all from Quanzhou Mansion, what kind of feng shui treasure is this Quanzhou Mansion?

In fact, Yang Cong High School Chinese Champion and Yu Dayou High School Wu Champion have nothing to do with Quanzhou Mansion, because these are all congratulatory gifts from Jiajing.

This Yu Dayou is also Li's nephew and son-in-law, and this Yu Dayou is also really capable, so why not send one more congratulatory gift.

Jiajing is so capricious!