After a fierce debate, when Yang Yong was about to fall asleep, Xu Deyan and others finally presented several pieces of rice paper full of dense names to Yang Yong: "Your Majesty, this is the list of all the new imperial examinations, please take a look at it." ”

Yang Yong's spirits lifted, the drowsiness was dispelled, and the list of scholars was browsed, the number of Ming characters was the smallest, twenty people quickly read it, these people are mainly outstanding in writing, the words are good and bad at a glance, the hired scholars mainly enter the Chongwen Hall and the secretary and supervisor work, Yang Yong just swept through, the Ming Law, Ming History, and the Ming Jing three subjects are much more complicated, and the scholars who come out of these three subjects can basically be sent as officials after studying for a period of time, but compared to the Ming Law, the Ming History two subjects, the competition in the Ming Jing and one subject is too fierce.

Ming law, Ming history two subjects add up to only more than 1,200 people to apply for the examination, the number of admissions is 100 people, one person for every 12 people admitted, this proportion is very high, because many children of the family look down on the Ming law, Ming history two subjects, resulting in the application of most of the children of ordinary people, but let these children from ordinary families pick up a cheap, each main examination and sub-examination is really just, fair, Yang Yong just skimmed over a few, and skipped their answer sheet and the name corresponding to the number, nodded and passed.

When picking up the list of a subject of the Ming Classics, Yang Yong suddenly felt that many of the names above were familiar, including the names of many children of the ministers of the DPRK and China, Yang Yong had a headache, and there were such drawbacks in public grading, even if he repeatedly confessed, the examiner could not help but look at the people to score, but, fortunately, the Mingwu, the content of the two subjects must be mostly objective questions, and the people who read the papers are not wrong to hit the right and wrong, so although the names of the children of the family on this list account for more than sixty percent, there are about thirty percent of the children of the poor family.

In the entire Ming Jing Section, the number of applicants for the examination was close to 10,000, and only 80 people were hired. Needless to say, his talent is enough, plus the two subjects of Ming Law and Ming History are averaged, basically forming a scene where the children of the Han family and the children of the family are equally divided.

Yang Yong originally thought that the number of children admitted to the imperial examination could account for three achievements, but he didn't expect that it would account for almost fifty percent, because this year is the first scientific examination. There are many children of the family who are not prepared and miss the opportunity, and the next scientific examination is the real test.

When it comes to the number of people who apply for the examination, the children of the official eunuchs of the family may be less than one percent. However, compared with the previous time when almost ninety percent of those who relied on recommendation to become officials were children of the family, this is already a huge improvement, and Yang Yong does not expect the imperial examination to be in place in one step. First set the imperial examination as a regular practice, and use ten or even decades or even decades to improve it step by step, this is Yang Yong's goal.

Closing the list, Yang Yong said: "Well, that's it, the list will be announced tomorrow." ”

"The ministers obey." All the examiners breathed a sigh of relief, for this imperial examination, they had not returned home for several months, although they had eaten and drunk well in the palace, but the scientific examination was not completed. No one can be relaxed - drums, in the capital of the various restaurants and inns where scholars live, informed, hearing the news, all the scholars can't wait to gather in the direction of the Gongyuan.

By the time Liu Yuanjin and Zhu Xie arrived, the entire Gongyuan was already crowded with people, and Liu Shiqi lost the exam questions. Suspicious, the relationship with the two is stiff. I wasn't with them at this time.

"Brother Zhu, what should I do?" Seeing so many people. Liu Yuanjin was suddenly a little dumbfounded.

"What are you afraid of, squeeze in." Zhu Xie said unequivocally.

"Good!" Liu Yuanjin replied loudly.

Although both of them have paid for their own learning, but so many people take the exam, after all, the number of people hired is limited, and no one can say that they are sure before they see their names, if they have to wait until everyone else has finished reading, they may not wait until the evening, who has the patience?

The two of them squeezed into it with all their strength, at this time the scholars were still studying abroad, without the weakness of the later generations of scholars, Liu Yuanjin, Zhu Xie squeezed to the ground Shizi did not show weakness, while blocking, while squeezing forward, everyone stepped on their feet, and from time to time there was a sound of sigh being trampled on, fortunately, everyone still cared about Sven, but few people scolded, but it was inevitable to move hands and feet.

I don't know how many kicks they received, Liu Yuanjin and Zhu Xie finally squeezed to the front sweating profusely, the two of them opened their eyes wide, from top to bottom, looking for their names one by one, Zhu Xie suddenly laughed: "Haha, I'm in, I'm in." ”

Liu Yuanjin looked fixedly, only to see that the forty-ninth place on the list above had Zhu Xie's name written, and there was only one person named Wei Bin below, the list stopped abruptly, Liu Yuanjin said hello to Zhu Xie and hurriedly looked up, looking for it, but there was no name of his own, and he couldn't help but feel bitter, and he was disheartened for a while.

Zhu Xie was ecstatic at this time, eager to dance with his hands and feet, and didn't notice his friend's gaffe for a while, he just laughed, and all the scholars who saw his high school next to him were all elated, and some of the scholars who didn't win turned their heads in frustration and left, and some of them cried loudly, but there were few happy people and many disappointed people.

"Quick, get out of the way of the people in front!" It didn't take long to stop, the scholars behind had already screamed, desperately squeezing forward, Zhu Xie and Liu Yuanjin were quickly squeezed aside, at this time Zhu Xie found Liu Yuanjin's depressed face, and couldn't help asking: "Brother Liu, what are you doing here, why don't you go over there to check if there is your name?" ”

"What, wasn't it Ming Jingke just now?" Liu Yuanjin asked in surprise and joy.

"Brother Liu, are you confused, I took the Ming Law Subject, and my name is on it, how can it be the Ming Scripture Subject?"

Liu Yuanjin swelled up with hope in his heart, and squeezed to the other side with the most people, and it took a lot of effort to come to the front of the list, and sure enough, a line of words was marked at the top of the list, and there were eighty scholars hired by the Ming Jing Branch. He held back his excitement, carefully looked for the names one by one, and let the scholars behind him squeeze forward, Liu Yuanjin occupied the position and did not move.

"Liu Yuanjin, sixty-eighth." His eyes were fixed on this line of words, and his heart was ecstatic, and he almost wanted to cry.

"How, how." When Liu Yuanjin came out of the crowd, Zhu Xie hurriedly asked, he didn't squeeze in with Liu Yuanjin.

"Hit, sixty-eighth, Mingjing Branch eighty people." Although Liu Yuanjin repeatedly warned himself in his heart to be calm, just after speaking, he couldn't help but show joy in the end.

Zhu Xie hugged Liu Yuanjin's shoulder hard, not caring for the eyes of the people around him, and laughed: "Haha, Brother Liu, you are really good, I heard that there are 10,000 people who have applied for the Ming Jing Science and Earth Scholars, and your sixty-eight is much stronger than my forty-nine, and I will almost lose the election, go, let's not get drunk." ”

"Let's go, but we're all over the world...... No, go to Changle Building to eat and drink, and don't get drunk and don't return. Liu Yuanjin also became refreshed.

The two of them left happily, not noticing a pair of jealous eyes looking at them behind them.

"Hmph, what's the big deal, isn't it just that I won two places, what is it compared to my Yangzhou Liu family?" Liu Shiqi said fiercely, remembering that the three of them walked all the way, and the two of them used their own food and housing, Liu Shiqi was even more unhappy in his heart, but he forgot that it was completely he who forcibly pulled the two of them with the affection of his fellow countrymen, otherwise the two would have been separated from him a long time ago.

After the list was released, those scholars on the list all happily continued to stay in the capital, waiting for the government's edict to them, while the frustrated scholars just began to go home one after another, and some wealthy scholars simply stayed in the capital, waiting for the big test again three years later.

It's just that the rapid transmission of a piece of news has made those scholars who want to go home stay: this scientific examination has been faked, and the pre-exam questions have been leaked, but Jingzhao Mansion and the Dark Clothes Guard have joined forces to deceive the emperor, and let the emperor decree that the test questions that have been leaked will be used to take the exam, and many of the people on the list have bought the exam questions in advance by spending money.

As early as before the exam, there were many scholars who had come into contact with people who sold exam questions, and everyone was skeptical at the time, but with the announcement of the imperial list, the matter quickly calmed down, and now it has re-circulated, and quickly spread to the ears of various scholars, because this rumor indicates which one on the list of each subject, which scholar spends money to buy the exam questions, has a name and a surname, and many scholars who feel good about themselves are not admitted, and the grievances in the hearts of the scholars are quickly raised.

"Retake the exam! Retake the exam! Retake the exam! "The outside of the Gongyuan was once again surrounded by scholars, this time, they were not going to take the exam, nor were they looking at the list, but they wanted to overturn the results of the previous scientific examination.

The gate of the Gongyuan was closed, and the officials inside were so anxious that they slipped in front of Xu Deyan one by one and asked, "My lord, what should I do, what should I do?" ”

Xu Deyan had a headache, during the Han Dynasty, there were too many students who made trouble because of the unfair handling of the court, and there were only a few hundred people at that time, but they set off the disaster of the party, but now it is nearly 10,000 people, they are instigated, but they are fighting for their own power.

Jingzhao Mansion is also in chaos, and in the eight years since he held the position of Jingzhao Yin, Qu Tugai felt tricky for the first time.

"My lord, if you don't send officials to disperse them, thousands of people will surround the tribute courtyard, how can you do it?" A staff member suggested.

"Nonsense, where do you put the reputation of an adult, do you want to make the reputation of an adult stink for a thousand years?" Another aide retorted loudly.