In the small biography on April 24, although the three of them did not know who the champion was, who the list eye and the tanhua belonged to, but on April 25, the ceremony officially began, in the ceremony, the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple issued specific specifications for the etiquette requirements, and the ranking of the Jinshi could be recognized at a glance from the standing line.

In the fourteenth year of Yongle, April 25, early in the morning, the small full festival, the rain was clear, but the weather was cloudy.

The palace of the central axis of the Forbidden City of Dashun is the Linjing Palace, the Qinzheng Palace, the Renhua Palace, and the Daming Palace from south to north, among which the Linjing Palace is the place where various ceremonies are presided.

More than 100 new science and technology scholars, all dressed in court clothes, the Ministry of Rites stipulated, they rushed out in one day, wearing three branches and nine leaves crown, standing in the order of the column, under the instructions of the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, the first, third, fifth...... All odd-numbered rankings stand on the east side of the end of the Danqi of the Linjing Temple, and all even-numbered ranks stand on the west side of the end of the Danqi of the Linjing Palace.

This method of standing is somewhat similar to the system of arranging the ancestors of the clan according to the left and the right.

Among the more than 100 new science and technology scholars, Jia Cong ranked first on the east side, which made many brown liberators commotion. At the age of thirteen, the first six-yuan winner of this dynasty, the noble family, made many people jealous, the youngest champion in history, Mo Xuanqing, was seventeen years old when he won the champion. And Jia Cong, five years younger than Mo Xuanqing, is destined to shine in the annals of history.

Lined up behind Jia Cong is the third place in the first class, Tanhua and Gong Dingci, Gong Dingci is a protégé of Zhao Beidou and supports Prince Yu, so he does not reject Jia Cong, and arches his hand: "Even if they are Jinshi in the same year, they also belong to Hanlin in the same day, and they are both junior and younger brothers, and they encourage each other together." ”

"Senior Brother Gong, encourage you." Jia Cong returned the salute, he could not offend anyone, of course, it was best, he was not disgusted with Yan Society, Zhao Beidou at least had the demeanor of a scholar, and the people of Yan Society did not use despicable means in the original bookstore business war.

And the first, first, second, and first on the west side, Pi Shixuan, is cold-eyed, and only talks to the Jiangnan people: "At the beginning, Jia Cong relied on the local tyrant and embezzled the land and acres of my family's branch in Wujiang. didn't even get to the top three. ”

Many Jiangnan Jinshi are also secretly hated, from this moment on, Jia Cong's future political enemies seem to have surfaced, and there are humanitarians: "Jia Cong's imperial poem "Renhua Palace's Imperial Title Huangchao Works" has been spread, and his talent is not shallow, and the champion and the first cannot be said to be obtained out of thin air......

Someone else said disdainfully: "Such a champion and the first, in the future, I am afraid that it will be another Zhou Yanru." ”

Zhou Yanru was the champion in the late Ming Dynasty, the first assistant, and the gentlemen and friends were treacherous, they didn't do business, they played infighting very well, and they were called traitors by later generations.

At this time, the inner palace Luan honor guard has been set up in front of the gate of the Linjing Palace, the eaves set up the Honglu Temple, the Zhonghe Shaole of the Jiaofang Division, the Linjing Gate is set up in the Dan Majesty Dale, the Ministry of Rites, the Honglu Temple is respectively in the Linjing Palace, the Dan Majesty is set up in the middle of the Yellow Case, the Dan Majesty is set up under the cloud disk, the noon gate is set up with the Caiting Honor Guard and drum music, the princes and ministers, the civil and military officials are dressed in court clothes, holding the tooth wat in their hands, and they are also standing left and right under the Dan Majesty.

When the ceremony arrived, Xu Youzhen, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, personally went to the Daming Palace in the emperor's bedroom, invited the emperor to take advantage of the public opinion, and introduced the Linjing Hall to ascend to the throne.

Originally, this duty belonged to the official Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, because the Ministry of Rites is now lacking in Shangshu, and Xu Youzhen, the left waiter, belongs to the ministry, and the official is him.

Emperor Yongle took advantage of the public opinion, from the east gate out, lying high in the nine heavens, the Qinzheng Palace is the place where the officials above the fourth grade of Dashun go to the court, but Ling Chengsi has not been to the Qinzheng Palace for four or five years, and the major military affairs are all summoned and dealt with in the Daming Palace, and the cadres are arbitrary.

The emperor drove in person, inside and outside the palace, inside and outside the noon gate, the drums rang out in unison, the sound shook the sky, Niu Jizong, Liu Fang and other Han generals held the cards to open the way, and the princes and ministers headed by the king of Beijing, Shuirong, or the four-clawed python robe, or the unicorn robe, knelt down one after another. The four kings and eight princes at the beginning of the dynasty, only the king of Beijing and the king, Dongping, Nan'an, etc., have no princes, these princes and nobles, belong to the town of the country Niu Qing is the oldest, gray hair.

The civil and military ministers who opposed the princes and nobles, the civil service was headed by the first assistant of the cabinet, Yang Qinghe, the secretary of the ministry, and the Dashun cabinet was mainly the bachelors of the three halls, which were the Renhua Palace, the East Pavilion, and the West Pavilion, and Yang Qinghe entered the Cabinet with the East Pavilion University Scholar. The military position is headed by Yang Kuang, the commander of the Nine Gates, and Qiu Bin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the civil officials embroider birds, and the military attaches embroider beasts.

After the solemn music was announced by the eunuch of the Bell and Drum Division, it was continuous, and the sound shook the world, and more than 100 new science and technology scholars such as Jia Cong knelt on the ground above their heads, only feeling that this kind of music was going to lift off the glazed tiles and crack the gold bricks and jade columns.

Yongle Emperor Ling Chenghe's majestic figure, he watched all this with his own eyes, and saw everyone worship at his feet, and the pleasure of dominating the world was simply incomprehensible.

When the dragon of Emperor Yongle stopped, the deacon eunuch of the celebrant eunuch held a whip, which was made of leather, more than a zhang long, and the eunuch of the celebrant flew up and down with the whip, swirling upward, and the whip sound was crisp and pleasant, resounding in the sky.

The whipping ritual was used by the emperor and his relatives temporarily, and the civil and military ministers had not heard the whip for many years.

After the whip is completed, the Dan Majesty music is changed from the neutralization of Shao music, changed to the Qingping movement, the music is full of singing and dancing to promote peace, the image of national peace and security, according to the etiquette, Zhang Fenyi and other eight ministers who read the scroll came out of the ranks, and gave the emperor three bows and nine bows again. Zhang Fenyi is a native of Jiangxi, but the strange thing is that his name is Fenyi.

At the same time, university scholars Yang Qinghe and Wang Yingyuan stood up, entered the east wing of the Jingdian Palace, took out the yellow list from the yellow case, went out of the Jingmen, and condescendingly awarded the bright yellow silk silk list to Xu Youzhen, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

Xu Youzhen, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, bent down, bowed his head, and then respectfully placed the list on the yellow case in the middle of His Majesty.

Next, the music inside and outside the Linjing Gate and the Noon Gate suddenly rose a lot, and it was piercing, and the ministers who read the papers, the scholars, and the attendants of the Ministry of Rites returned to their positions, and the Imperial History on duty in the Metropolitan Procuratorate inspected the etiquette left and right, and took up the pen to record.

Honglu Temple Qing Du Kang led the new science and technology in front, at this time it was his turn to play, Honglu Temple Qing Du Kang came out, worshiped the emperor, read out the edict: "Yongle 14 April 21, the test of the world's tribute, April 25, a total of 123 people, according to the emperor Shun ancestral system, the first three people, give the Jinshi and the first, the second forty, give the Jinshi origin, the third eighty, give the same Jinshi ......"

"The first champion and the first, Jia Cong of Shuntian Mansion, awarded the Hanlin Academy to revise." Du Kang took a roll call, Jia Cong came out of His Majesty Liedan's face on the left side of the royal road, lifted the brand-new court clothes, and bowed on his knees: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"The first and second place in the list and the first, Suzhou Mansion and Shixuan, awarded the Hanlin Academy for editing."

"The third place in the first class is Tanhua and the first, Gong Dingci of Shuntian Mansion, awarded the Hanlin Academy for editing."

When the singing number reached the second place in the first class, Bi Shixuan came out to greet him, kneeling on the right side of the royal road, the left side of the third place, and so on.

But the second and third grades do not have this blessing, they only sing the trumpet, not out of the ranks, and only sing the top few.