The next day, there was a crowd of people in front of the school, and many people gathered in groups, waiting with great interest for the list to be posted.

Although Li Hongyu didn't go to see the list, Li Hongyi, Yang Renxiao, Wang Kuiju and others were all together, and they all wanted to know whether their names were on the list at the first time, and everyone wanted to show their fame.

If there is an exception, it is Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin can be said to be the most desireless and needless for fame among all the candidates, so she chose to accompany Zhao Deyi, who came from Jiangkou County, to the temple outside the city to burn incense and worship the Buddha.

Zhao Deyi came to Xiangyang City two days ago, as a father, he was naturally worried about Zhao Xin who was away from home, so he took a time to come over to visit.

Zhao Deyi was very pleased that Zhao Xin won the second place in the main field of the college examination, you must know that the Zhao family has never produced a talent, and Zhao Xin can make up for the regret of the Zhao family this time.

However, thinking that Zhao Xin is daughter Zhao Deyi felt quite lost in his heart, which meant that Zhao Xin would never inherit the family business like a man.

In fact, what surprised Li Hongyu the most was Li Hongyu, he found that he had really mistaken this somewhat introverted and wooden teenager before, and it was really unexpected that he could always press Zhao Xin steadily.

"It's out!" In front of the school, with a shout in the crowd, the people who were chatting and laughing there cheered one after another, and rushed to the notice wall like a tide.

The priest of the palace room led the two wardens to post the list on the notice wall and walked away quickly, and people immediately crowded to the front of the list, nervously checking the results.

"First place, Li Hongyu of Jiangkou County, second place, Zhao Xin of Jiangkou County, third place, Yang Renxiao of Xiangyang County!" Soon, the person in front read aloud the top three on the list.

"The head of the Li case actually won the little three yuan!" Immediately, an exclamation rang out from the crowd, both envious and jealous at the same time.

"Congratulations young master, ranked fifth." Not long after, a subordinate of the Li family squeezed over from the crowd and congratulated Li Hongyi with a smile.

"What about Wang Kuiju?" Li Hongyi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, threw a piece of broken silver to the person who reported the news, and asked quietly.

"Back to the young master, he is ranked sixth." Hearing this, the subordinate replied with a smile, Li Hongyu overwhelmed Wang Kuiju in this college test, after all, there is not much difference in their strength, and it is difficult to achieve an overwhelming advantage, so it is normal for the ranking to change.

"Let's go, I've got some wine for today." Li Hongyi laughed and said loudly to the people around him, after taking so many exams, he finally won Wang Kuiju once.

"Yi Shao, in the afternoon, Master Ti Xueguan wants to summon you new students, so let's save this wine for after the scientific examination." A candidate reminded with a smile when he heard this.

"Okay, then let's get drunk again when the scientific examination is over." Li Hongyi bowed slightly when he heard this, and agreed with a smile.

Although he has won the fame of Xiucai, he still has two important things to do, one is to meet the student officer in the afternoon to go through the procedures for awarding Xiucai, and the other is to prepare for tomorrow's scientific examination in order to obtain the qualification to participate in the township examination.

In addition to Li Hongyu, Zhao Xin and Yang Renxiao, who are in the top three of the college examination list, the top 30 candidates who have passed the college examination and re-examination must participate in the scientific examination and compete with the previous students for the opportunity to go to Wuchang City.

For the vast majority of students, scientific examinations are very important in their lives, which means that they can obtain a higher status of "lifting people", and lifting people can be officials.

In order to select outstanding students, the results of the scientific examination will be divided into third-class, first-class, second-class and third-class top 20 in large provinces, and top 10 in small and medium-sized provinces to take the township examination.

Huguang is a large province of the Ming Dynasty, so the top 20 third-class can obtain this qualification.

In fact, in addition to scientific examinations, there are also "records" and "records" for students, tribute students and supervisors.

The so-called admission refers to those who have not obtained the qualification to participate in the township examination in the third class of the scientific examination, those who have not participated in the scientific examination for some reason, and the inmates, shadow students, official students, and tribute students who do not participate in the scientific examination because their names are not listed in the local school palace, and they must be admitted by the academic and political examination in July of the year of the township examination before they can be sent to the examination.

Those who have not been qualified to take the township examination and those who have not taken the entrance examination can take the examination again, and those who are admitted will also be allowed to take the township examination.

It is worth mentioning that some personnel can directly obtain the qualification to participate in the township examination without going through scientific examinations, records of subjects, and records of relics.

For example:

Students who are recommended by the current student officer and approved by the student officer can directly submit them to the examination;

Gongsheng and inmates who are in the Guozi Prison will be directly sent to the examination by the supervisor;

The brothers, younger brothers, sons, and nephews of the official who are studying with the official are allowed to apply for reference;

The brothers, younger brothers, sons, and nephews of the school officials, state and county officials, and the tribute students and prison students who are studying with the officials in office shall be applied for and sent for reference by the local official seal.

The so-called official usually refers to the top leaders of the local yamen, such as the political envoy, the prefect, the prefect and the prefect.

Although there are some special cases that can be qualified to participate in the township examination, the scientific examination and the recording of subjects and relics are the mainstream, and the rest of the ways have many restrictions, which are not possible for ordinary people.

With the posting of the list, the drummers who had already prepared in front of the Fuxue Gate immediately went to the Li Mansion with a bang, ready to report the good news to Li Hongyu.

When the drummers arrived at the Li Mansion, the Yang family had already prepared a reward to reward the drummers one by one.

Compared with the excited Yang, Li Hongyu seemed calmer, just the head of the court examination, and his goal was Jinshi, so it was too early to celebrate.

According to the tradition, the hospital examination case is mainly under the guidance of the drummer to wear red and hang colors, riding a horse to parade the street, Li Hongyu could not refuse, so he had to put on a big red flower and get on a high-headed horse, with the drummer walking around the main road of Xiangyang City, attracting many people along the way.

Li Hongyu greeted the lively people on both sides of the street from time to time, with a faint smile on his face, looking a little elegant.

"The first case is on the street, go and see it." When Zhao Xin and Zhao Deyi returned to the city, they happened to meet a team parading the streets, and the people ran to see the excitement.

Because pedestrians and vehicles along the way had to avoid the queue on the street, Zhao Deyi asked the carriage to pull over and stood next to the carriage with Zhao Xin to wait, wanting to see who had won the case.

"Dad, it must be the third son of the Li family who won the first exam." Since the two of them had just entered the city, they didn't know the results of the list, but Zhao Xin glanced at the street parade team coming from afar, and smiled confidently at Zhao Deyi.

"Why are you so sure?" Zhao Deyi couldn't help but smile slightly when he heard this, and asked.

"Dad, among the candidates who participated in the college examination this time, no one can be stronger than the child and Li Sangongzi at the same time, since the team has begun to parade the streets, it means that the head of the case is not a child, then it must be Li Sangongzi." Zhao Xin smiled and replied confidently.

"Daddy wants to see if you're right." Zhao Deyi also laughed.

If Li Hongyu really took the first place in the Intermediate Court Examination, then this is Xiao Sanyuan, he also took the meritorious examination when he was young, but unfortunately he repeatedly failed in the Academy Examination, so he naturally knows that Xiao Sanyuan is not easy.

"Dad, look, it's really Li Sangongzi." In the conversation and laughter between the two, the procession of parade streets came slowly, and Zhao Xin stood on tiptoe and saw the person on horseback wearing red and hanging colors, and said to Zhao Deyi excitedly.

"This kid really has some skills." Although he had been mentally prepared, Zhao Deyi still felt a little surprised, according to the current situation, Li Hongyu is very likely to be a lifter in the township examination.

Li Hongyu was condescending and saw Zhao Xin and Zhao Deyi in the crowd, so he smiled and greeted the two, Zhao Xin also waved his hand, with a happy smile on his face, as if he was even happier than she was admitted to the case.

Zhao Deyi noticed the bright smile on Zhao Xin's face, first stunned slightly, and then frowned.

Although he knew that Zhao Xin and Li Hongyu were just friends, Zhao Xin was a girl after all, and Li Hongyu, who was naïve and talented, seemed to be very popular with women.

What particularly worried Zhao Deyi was that because of sympathy for Li Hongyu, who was bullied, Zhao Xin had already developed a sense of love for Li Hongyu, which made Zhao Xin accompany Li Hongyu to prison regardless of the danger, which is a bad sign.

If Li Renhai is still alive, then Zhao Deyi naturally wants to see the intimate relationship between Zhao Xin and Li Hongyu, but since he has decided to regret his marriage for Zhao Xin's happiness in the future, if Zhao Xin gets too close to Li Hongyu, it will be contrary to his original intention.

Zhao Deyi never imagined that he would be sent to Hukou County by his family, let alone that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin would become friends, and everything was developing in the direction he didn't want to see.

In fact, if Li Hongyu can be promoted in the examination, Zhao Deyi will not mind marrying Zhao Xin to Li Hongyu, but he really has no face to do this, after coming to Jiangkou County last year, he has not pointed out his identity to the Zhao family, and if Li Hongyu moves out of the marriage contract with Li Renhai in the examination, he will undoubtedly be ridiculed by people.

On the one hand, his own face, on the other hand, Zhao Xin's lifelong event, Zhao Deyi is really not good at making a choice, if you want to blame him, he is to blame for the difference in his thoughts back then, so that now it is difficult to ride a tiger, and the farther Li Hongyu goes in the imperial examination, the more he suffers.

In the afternoon, Li Hongyu and other students in the new examination went to Fuxue to meet Yan Yan, which can be regarded as "thanking the teacher", and there is a friendship between teachers and students between the candidates and the main exam.

According to the regulations, each new student admitted to the college examination must fill in a personal statement, such as age, place of origin, three generations of resumes, and indicate the figure, complexion, beard, etc., which will be reviewed by the instructors of each department and stamped with the seal and sent to the student officer for filing.

Yan Yan summoned Li Hongyu and his party in the lobby of the Fuxue, during which he performed a hairpin ceremony, that is, Yan Yan gave each new student a red flower tied with paper and rewarded money, but after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, no rewards were given, only red flowers, which means that the new students officially won the fame of Xiucai.

After the hairpin ceremony, Yan Yan will assign these new students to study in the government school and the county school, and those who stay in the county are called county students, and those who are pulled into the government school are called government students.

According to the process, after receiving the list of new students sent by the promotion officer, the provinces, prefectures and counties will notify the new students to gather in the lobby of the official office on a certain day, set up a banquet hairpin, and be led by the officials of each prefecture, state and county to visit Confucius in the Temple of Literature, and to meet the scholars in the Minglun Hall of the School Palace, and officially enroll.

The top ten in the college examination will naturally stay in Xiangyang Mansion School, which means that if Li Hongyu can't pass the examination, he will have to stay in Xiangyang City for the next three years, and if he leaves without reason, he will be punished lightly and severely punished, and his reputation will be removed.

It is worth mentioning that there is a semicircular pool in the school palace of the government, state and county schools, which is called Pan Shui, so it is also called the Pan Palace of the government, state and county schools, and the admission is called "entering the pan".

Because of the Book of Songs? Lu Song? Pan Shui" has the verse "Le Si Pan Shui, Thin Picking Its Qin", so it is also called "picking celery" for admission.

After being awarded the fame of Xiucai by Yan Yan, Li Hongyu and others can wear blue shirts, which is a unique costume for students, and people without merit are not allowed to wear blue shirts even if they are rich, otherwise they will exceed the system and will be punished by the government.

As a result, the blue shirt became a status symbol.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, students will be exempted from taxes and other privileges, and they can see the official without kneeling during the court trial, and if they want to torture the students, they must report to the school official to remove their fame, and have a certain social status, which is why Zhao wants Li Hongyu to take the meritorious service, and it is also the source of the frenzy of scholars.

In the evening, Yan Yan set up a banquet to entertain Li Hongyu and other new students, and exhorted them during the banquet, because there was a scientific examination the next day, so everyone did not drink much, so as not to delay tomorrow's exam.

Li Hongyu, Zhao Xin and Yang Renxiao don't have to go through this again, because they are the top three in the hospital examination, they can directly participate in the township examination held in Wuchang Mansion in August.

It is also a little ridiculous to say that although Li Hongyu's two uncles are noble students in Xiangyang County, they will also participate in tomorrow's scientific examination, and they will compete with Li Hongyu in the examination room of the township examination.

Although Zhao Wenhan and Zhao Wenting have already taken the township examination six or seven times, because Huguang has only 85 places to raise people every year, and there are two or three thousand students who have passed the scientific examination to participate in the township examination, it is not easy to break through from it.

Zhao Guangfeng is very optimistic about Li Hongyu and has very high expectations for Li Hongyu, the Zhao family has not been raised for decades, and he is really ashamed of the reputation of the scholarly family, so he pinned his hopes on Li Hongyu.

How can it be said that Li Hongyu is also Zhao Guangfeng's own grandson, and he was raised by the Zhao family, so if he is promoted, it will be equivalent to the Zhao family's promotion.

"Young master, I heard that the Inspector entered the city at dusk, and instead of staying in the mansion, he stayed in an inn." After the dinner, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin returned to the Li Mansion with a smile, and Rou'er, who was waiting in the living room in the front yard, hurriedly greeted him and said quietly.

"Why did the patrol suddenly come to Xiangyang, not in Yunyang?" Zhao Xin couldn't help but show a look of surprise when she heard this, she had recently heard about the arrival of the inspector in Yunyang, and she didn't expect to appear in Xiangyang City all of a sudden.

"Maybe something's wrong." Li Hongyu shook his head, a subtle smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, he naturally knew why he came to inspect the imperial history, it seemed that Niu Feng's good days were over.