"Your Majesty, in this year's imperial examination, many officials have been dismissed because of this. Li Cun, the head of the Military Machine Pavilion, was arrested for accepting bribes and has now been handed over to Dali Temple. Wang Fu said.

Yin Tingchang said: "This Li Cun is also a person who came out of Dali Temple, knows the law and violates the law, and the crime is added to the first degree." Why did this man lose himself when he was too big? ”

"Fortunately, this year's imperial examination is quite smooth, and it is really valuable that Li Zhangzhi and Ding Zhangzhi can stick to their hearts, invigilate the examination with integrity, and not be in the same stream as Li Cun and others."

"Well said, you must reward it." Yin Tingchang asked the prince beside Wang Yan: "Huai'er, I asked you to go to the fourth banquet of the imperial examination this year, what do you know?" ”

Yin Huai replied: "Father, the sons and daughters feel that it is indeed a good scene to meet friends in the banquet and celebrate the prosperity of the country together. It's just that...... Everyone thinks I'm the crown prince, as if they can't let go......"

"Hahahaha! yes, yes, yes. By the way, Huai'er, your eldest brother and third brother are leaving this palace and building their own palace, so you can help more. ”

"Erchen understands."

What is the "Four Banquets of the Imperial Examination"? That refers to Luming, Qionglin, Yingyang, and Huiwu.

The imperial examination is an examination system for the selection of officials in the feudal society of the Central Plains mainland, which began in the fourth year of the great cause of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and has been followed until the present day of the Dou State. In order to attract the world's corporal to pass the imperial examination and embark on a career to serve the ruler, the ancient imperial examination system also organized scholars who successfully passed the imperial examination to participate in a grand celebration banquet hosted by the official and the imperial court to show grace, which is the famous imperial examination four banquets in ancient times in the Central Plains mainland.

Since the imperial examination system has been divided into two subjects, the civil and military disciplines, so the four banquets are the Luming banquet and the Qionglin banquet are the liberal arts banquet, and the Yingyang banquet and the Huiwu banquet are the martial arts banquet.

First of all, Yo You Lu Ming, the deer Ming banquet of the apple of the wild, the "Lu Ming Banquet" is a banquet for the new imperial examination after the township examination. It started in the Tang Dynasty and was used in the Ming and Qing dynasties, because the poem of "Deer Song" in the "Book of Songs" should be sung at the banquet: "Youyou Luming"...... And the name "Deer Ming Banquet" has the meaning of congratulations. This banquet is set up on the second day of the township test list, the banquet is presided over by local officials, and the people invited to the banquet are not only the new imperial examinations, but also the internal and external curtain officials (examination room staff) and so on. According to the "New Tang Dynasty Book Election Chronicle": "Every year in the middle of winter, the state, county, museum, and supervisor of its completion send it to the province...... Try, the chief official to the township drinking ceremony, will be subordinate to the bureaucracy, set up the guest host, Chen Yandou, prepare the orchestra, the livestock with a little prison, the song "Deer Song" of the poem, because of the elder and the elder and the younger. “

Han Yu also wrote in "Sending Yang Shaoyin Preface" that "Yang Jun is the first crown, held in his hometown, and the song and deer come with a song." “

Why is the imperial examination banquet called "Lu Ming"? It turns out that the deer and Lu are homophonic, and the ancients often used the deer to symbolize the meaning of "Lu", thinking that with "Lu" they could be promoted to become wealthy. However, the ancients were more subtle and did not want to talk about promotion and wealth, because this was far from the Confucianism of self-cultivation and family governance, so they took the poetic name of "Luming".

The "Qionglin Banquet" is a banquet held for the new science and technology scholars after the palace examination. It began in the Song Dynasty. Song Taizu stipulated that after the palace examination, the emperor announced the ranking of Dengke Jinshi and gave a banquet to celebrate. Since the banquets were held in the famous Qionglin Garden, the "Qionglin Garden" was a royal garden located in the west of Bianjing (now Kaifeng) in the Song Dynasty. Before the second year of Song Hui Zongzheng and (1112), the new and first Jinshi were invited to a banquet in Qionglin Garden, so the banquet was called "Qionglin Banquet". "Song Shi Le Zhi IV" also contains: "In the second year of Zhenghe, the tribute scholars were happy with Biyong, and they still used Yale to stop the Qionglin Garden banquet. Therefore, two years after Zhenghe, it was renamed "Wenxi Banquet". Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, also known as "Enrong Banquet". Although the names are different, the content of the ceremony remains roughly the same, and it can still be collectively referred to as the "Qionglin Banquet". It is reported that Liao also set up a banquet to entertain the new science and technology scholars, and the location was in the inner orchard or the Ministry of Rites, but it also followed the Song people and called it the "Qionglin Banquet".

Wen Tianxiang, the champion of the Song Dynasty, once had a poem "Imperial Gift Qionglin Banquet Gonghe Poem" to describe the grand occasion of the Qionglin banquet: "Feng Zhao newly bounced into the crown, and came back to Xuan Majesty to look at the sky." The clouds are covered with five-color rune flags, revealing thousands of officials and miscellaneous rings. Yan Xi happened to be on the Cow Girl's Day, and Luan Zhangguang reflected the wall. Dedicated poems to Chen Ya's foolish ministers, and saw the song weather. “

"Eagle Banquet" is a banquet set up after the trial release of the Wuke Township. Qing system, after the Wuxiang trial list, the examiner and the martial artist in the examination should participate in the banquet to celebrate, and the banquet is called the "Eagle Yang Banquet". Qing Wu Rongguang's "My Learning Record Tribute" contains: "Wuxiang test announced the wing day, Yan (banquet) supervised the chief examination of the deacons and the martial arts in Shuntian Mansion, said Eagle Yang Yan (banquet), Yi and Lu Mingyan (banquet) with the same. “

The so-called "Eagle Yang" is the meaning of the mighty eagle's flying, which is taken from the "Book of Songs" "Wei Shi Shangfu, Shi Wei Yingyang (to the effect of praising the prestige of the Taigong Hope like the eagle's flying)". Yingyang is not only an encouragement to the new science and martial arts people, but also the self-praise of the examiners.

The "Martial Arts Banquet" is a banquet held after the trial release of the martial arts examination hall. In ancient imperial examinations, since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, after the trial list of the Wuke Palace, a banquet was held in the military department for the new Jinshi of Wuke to celebrate, and the name was "Huiwu Banquet". This is also recorded in Wu Rongguang's "Wuxue Lu Gongju" of the Qing Dynasty: "After the Wudian trial of the "Tongli" Wudian, Yan (banquet) has something to do with all the officials and all the jinshi in the military department, and it is said that Wu Yan (banquet) will be held. Qing Liang Zhangju's "Wandering Cong Talks about Wusheng Wuju" is also cloudy: "The text is called the Luming Banquet, and the martial arts is called the Eagle Yang Banquet, which everyone knows; Wen Jinshi called the Grace Banquet, and Wu Jinshi called the Wu Banquet, but few people knew it. “

The Wuke Palace Test is different from the Wuke Township Test, so the scale of the Wuke Banquet is much more magnificent than the Eagle Yang Banquet, the pomp is huge, the heroes gather, and the grand occasion is unprecedented.

In the feudal era, students not only regarded this kind of banquet as a special honor, but more importantly, as a sign of academic status and tenure. Although the banquet attendees were a small number of people, they were extremely attractive to most scholars, and they all regarded it as one of the four joyful events in life and pursued it vigorously.

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Liu Jinlong and Yu Mengxi also watched the news of the capital all the time.

Zhang Zhanying said: "Yin Ji was named King Xuan, and Yin Yuan was named King Xi. The crown prince entered the palace as an assistant to help His Majesty deal with some affairs of the court. We people seem to have disappeared, and we can't hear our names in the court, and now we can't even hear them in the rivers and lakes. ”

"Actually, there are many people who want to assassinate me." Liu Jinlong said: "Fortunately, this Fenghong is the territory of Zhao's master. ”

"But in this way, Yu County's order is also powerful enough, and the number one master in the world will give him a master, can he not be powerful?"

"Now that the situation in the capital is changing, the curse on me and Mengxi has not been solved, it is not a good time to return to the capital, I still need to wait to respond to all changes."