As soon as I heard that a young man who was only eighteen years old had mixed in with the new science and technology jinshi, many of the same examiners were surprised at first, and then someone suggested: "I have not looked closely when I waited for the right number, this person is not a young man, but every smart person, most of them are boastful and exposed, bitter and mean, and their hearts are absolutely unreserved, and their people are not bumpy for life, and they will die young, and the lower officials think that they might as well be deposed and let them take the next test, after this incident, there is no great harm to them, and their hearts will be tempered." ”

As soon as this person's voice fell, many people echoed it, Yao Kui jumped out at this time, he saw that the article he admired was written by an eighteen-year-old boy, he was not surprised or happy, but he was a square person, one is one and two is two, and he couldn't bear to see the future of a young jinshi destroyed by the pedantry of some people, so he retorted loudly: "Time, luck, and life, we are not fools and fools who don't know the world, if this young man is dethroned, An knows that he will be able to be admitted next time?" Although this person is young, the articles he writes are quite sophisticated, and he must be a young man with an old character, if he enters the officialdom and sharpens his temper, he will become a great weapon. ”

Another human: "There is no precedent for this matter......

Yao Kui laughed, quite arrogant and arrogant, and only listened to him: "Who said there is no precedent? At the age of 19, he won the tenth place in the top three of Wuchen Kejinshi, and he was awarded the title of Jinshi with his brother Lun and brother-in-law Huang Jinhua, and was awarded the title of Jishi, and he was the secretary of the middle school, and in the same year, he became an official to the bachelor of Hanlin. ”

The man was intimidated by Yao Kui's words, and said, "One is nineteen years old, the other is eighteen, can this be the same?" ”

Cao Nai didn't wait for Yao Kui to refute, and shouted loudly: "Okay, what kind of system is noisy!" ”

After the hall returned to silence, Cao Nai and Zhang Yi glanced at each other, then looked at Hu Hu, and asked softly, "What does Hu Gong think?" ”

When Yao Kui talked about Xie Jin, Hu Hu had already sobered up, he had been an official in the same dynasty as Xie Jin, although he was less in the court because of the visit to Emperor Jianwen's whereabouts, and he did not have a deep relationship with Xie Jin, but he was quite convinced of Xie Jin's literary brilliance, at this time listening to Cao Nai's question, Hu Hu reached out and wiped the eyes in the corners of his eyes, and said indifferently: "It's not a bad thing for young people to be talented." ”

Cao Nai's heart was relieved when he heard this, and he waved his hand at the officials in the hall, and said: "Send a copy of the list to the cabinet, show it to Gao Gong, and release the list tomorrow." ”

On the one hand, he practices diligently every day, and his learning methods are much more organized than today's readers, on the other hand, he has hundreds of years of knowledge and knowledge more than contemporary people, and he dare not say that his thinking is more mature than that of contemporary people, at least it is much stronger than the nerds who don't listen to things outside the window and only read sage books, so on the way to pass the county test township test, Zhao Yan is still a little confident in his heart. It's just that the examination is a national examination of the Ming Dynasty after all, and the readers who participated in the examination can also be called elite in their respective hometowns, so Zhao Yan also suffers from gains and losses in his heart as to whether he can pass the examination.

February 18, the day of the release of the list.

Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan took Li Er Zhang Shun out of the door early in the morning, and when they passed through the Hongsheng Inn, Liu Ji and the four of them were already looking forward to it, and after seeing Zhao Yan and Zhang Wenyuan, they greeted each other, and then went to the Gongyuan together.

During the Qing Dynasty, the court was famous for the Manchu and Han full banquets, so that future generations thought that the ancient emperors were extravagant, and the dungeon was all delicacies from the mountains and seas, but the Ming Dynasty was actually very different from the Qing Dynasty. Although the ancestral home of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is Fengyang, it belongs to the south, but often takes northern food as the staple food, and it is shocking that in the late Ming Dynasty, in order to advocate the style of frugality, steamed buns, cakes, and wild vegetables have become the food on the emperor's table, and it is still the favorite food of Mingshenzong.

As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was an authentic southerner, so the meals of the first few emperors of the Ming Dynasty had a strong southern color, the staple food was mainly rice, and the cooking method paid attention to steaming, light taste, and did not like salty.

This meal record tells the lunch of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, in June of the 17th year of Hongwu: pepper and vinegar shrimp, roast goose, roast sheep's head and feet, goose meat, salty drum mustard lamb tripe plate, garlic and vinegar white blood soup, five-flavor steamed chicken, yuan sauce lamb bones, paste spicy vinegar kidney, steamed fresh fish, five-flavor steamed noodles, mutton crystal horns, silk goose powder soup, three fresh soup, mung bean chess noodles, pepper minced mutton, fragrant rice, garlic cheese, bean soup, tea.

The second meal record records the contents of the imperial meal of Zhu Di in October of the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, including four wines, roast mutton, steamed chicken, pepper vinegar goose, roast pork, pork soup, sesame oil baked cakes, and small steamed buns with sand filling. Compared with his father's 20-course lunch, Zhu Di's meal is much simpler, which is related to his style of advocating frugality.

Up to now, Ming Yingzong Zhu Qi has his father Zhu Zhanji in the town, and he naturally hasn't suffered much since he was a child, and his usual meals are naturally not as frugal as his great-grandfather Zhu Di, with a total of fifteen dishes, including noodles and rice, and the dishes are also meat and vegetarian matching, which is slightly lighter.

Zhu Qizhen swallowed the last mouthful of fragrant rice, and the little eunuch who was waiting next to him handed over the ginseng tea that had been prepared long ago, Zhu Qizhen took a sip, and then waved his hand, the little eunuch bowed and retreated, and someone outside the door said: "Your Majesty, Dongge University scholar Gao Gu asks to see you." ”

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand expressionlessly, and a middle-aged eunuch standing next to him said loudly: "Xuandong Pavilion University Shi Gao Gu." ”

Seeing Gao Gu, Zhu Qizhen finally had a smile on his face, he stopped Gao Gu from saluting, and said in a harmonious voice: "Master Gao doesn't need to be polite, but the spring is over?" ”

Gao Gu word Shiyong, Taizhou Dingxichang, this year is 56 years old, he once on behalf of Cao Nai's knowledge of the scriptures and feasts, presided over the biannual scripture banquet, but also for Zhu Qizhen to lecture on the scriptures, is to show closeness, Zhu Qizhen privately called him Master Gao.

Gao Gu hurriedly said when he heard this: "Exactly, Scholar Cao sent a copy of the list of winners to send it, and the imperial examination is a major event, and the minister does not dare to slack off." ”

As he spoke, Gao Gu handed over the list in his hand, and a little eunuch on the side took it and sent it to Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen opened it and looked at it twice, but did not look at it carefully, and then said: "I know, does Master Gao have other things?" ”

Gao Gu didn't see Wang Zhen after entering the hall, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "The minister has nothing else to do, but I heard an interesting story a few days ago. ”

Although Zhu Qizhen grew up in the deep palace, he has also been an emperor for more than ten years, and his mind is not simple, so he smiled when he heard it: "I want to hear it in detail." ”

Gao Gu adjusted his mood and pretended to be bland and said: "I heard that there is a Langzhong named Wang You in the Ministry of Industry, and I met Wang Zhen, the eunuch of the palace, not long ago. Wang Zhen asked: Why is Lang Zhong unnecessary? Wang You replied: What the old man doesn't have, how dare Er'an have? Wang Zhen laughed, and then Wang You was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Works. ”

This joke is not funny at all, and it looks dry when it is said by Gao Gu, but Zhu Qizhen can't stop laughing when he hears it, and he says in a loud voice: "It's funny, it's funny, I know that Mr. Wang also has such an interesting time." ”

Hearing Zhu Qizhen's words, Gao Gu had no waves on his face, but his heart became heavier and heavier, he didn't wait for Zhu Qizhen to speak again, and asked to retreat: "There are still some affairs in the cabinet that have not been handled, please retire." ”

"Master Gao cares about national affairs, and he also needs to pay attention to his body."

"Your Majesty, the minister retires."

After Gao Gu left, Zhu Qizhen smiled on his face, and asked a little eunuch in the palace: "Xining, you are now studying in the inner study with Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang praises you for your knowledge, what do you think of Master Gao's words?" ”

This little eunuch named Xining is in his twenties this year, he looks thin and small, if he is not familiar with people, he will only think that he is only seventeen or eighteen years old, at this time, listening to Zhu Qizhen's question, it is still Wang Zhen's matter, and the sweat on Xining's head immediately appeared.

"Your Majesty, the slave maid is studying in the inner study with Mr. Wang, and I feel it the most deeply under the influence of my ears and eyes, Mr. Wang is really loyal to Your Majesty, and the world can learn from heaven and earth. The slave and maid are dull, and they don't remember much of the other books after reading them for so long, but the slave and maid also know that the Son of Heaven is the same as the sun and the moon, and the four seasons are in faith, the father and the mother are the earth, and the brothers and sisters are the moons, and they can be called the monarch's father, which is what Mr. Wang teaches every day. ”

After Xining finished speaking, she saw a smile on Zhu Qizhen's face, and couldn't help but feel relieved, and then she was a little complacent, secretly thinking that although she was a Jurchen, she entered the palace when she was a child, and the palace was a nest of right and wrong, if she couldn't speak, she wouldn't know where to be belittled.

The celebrant is the chief yamen of the 24 yamen of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most powerful person in the entire eunuch system, the ceremonial supervisor is not only in charge of the affairs of the eunuchs in the inner court, but also involves the affairs of the foreign court, that is, the so-called "no name of the prime minister, there is the reality of the prime minister, Wang Zhen is the eunuch in charge of the seal, busy with affairs, naturally it is impossible to always serve with Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, but he knows that everything he has comes from Zhu Qizhen's trust, in order to prevent someone from saying bad things about himself in front of Zhu Qizhen and he does not know, Wang Zhen arranged several eyeliners around Zhu Qizhen, and as soon as someone talked about himself in front of Zhu Qizhen, those eyeliners would come to report.

The middle-aged eunuch next to Zhu Qizhen is the leader of many eyeliners arranged by Wang Zhen, his name is Cao Jixiang, because of Wang Zhen's trust, he was arranged to serve as a supervisor in the imperial horse supervisor, today it was his turn to serve Zhu Qizhen, and when he got off duty soon after, he hurried to the celebrant to meet Wang Zhen.

After listening to Cao Jixiang's small report, Wang Zhen just smiled contemptuously and said, "Our family and His Majesty are like father and son, how can we be separated by foreign ministers?" ”