(Recommended reading: On March 15, the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the front of the Jingshi Gongyuan was crowded, and the black pressure was full of people waiting to check the list, all wondering if they were on the list.

In the noisy noise, the gate of the Gongyuan slowly opened, which made the scene quiet for a moment, and the lifters subconsciously rushed forward, wanting to know the names on the list for the first time.

In the imperial examination system, the examination can be said to be the stepping stone of the palace examination, because the palace examination is only by the emperor to appoint the champion, the list of eyes and the flower, and does not eliminate the reference personnel, so as long as you can pass the examination in the gongshi then it means that you will become a jinshi.

It is worth mentioning that there is also an important examination between the general examination and the temple examination, called the "re-examination".

For those newly promoted tributes, the "re-examination" is the most important examination, because the "re-examination" will divide the new tributes into two classes, A and B, with the number of first-class people accounting for one-fifth and the second class accounting for four-fifths.

After the palace examination, the tributes who were appointed by the emperor as the champion, the list of eyes and the flowers were the first class of the palace test, the first class of the palace test was the second class of the palace test in the "re-examination", and the second class of the tributes was the third class of the palace test.

The reason why the first, second and third grades of the palace examination are important is because it is related to the awarding of official positions in the future, and the champions of the first class, the list of eyes and the tanhua will be awarded the six official positions of the Hanlin Academy, and the Hanlin Academy can be described as the highest hall of the great Ming scholars.

The top 20 Jinshi of the second and third grades were able to participate in the examination of the Shujishi, and the Shujishi was not an official but a title, and was able to enter the Wenyuan Pavilion to serve the emperor, and at the same time accept the teaching of the Hanlin Academy, and after three years of assessment, those with excellent grades were able to enter the Hanlin Academy and officially become the Hanlin Academy, and were awarded the official position of the seventh grade.

The rest of the Jishi will be assigned to important official positions in Kedao and the Six Ministries, and their promotion in the officialdom will be much faster than that of the other Jinshi.

As for the second-class jinshi who failed to be admitted to the Shujishi, they were usually allowed to stay in Beijing to serve in Kedao and the yamen of various ministries, while most of the third-class jinshi had to be sent to local posts.

Therefore, the quality of the "re-examination" results determines the fate of those tributes in the future.

Because the "retest" is no longer divided into the southern volume, the middle volume and the northern volume, which allows the southern volume of the tributes to gradually occupy important positions in the court, so the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party from the south of the Yangtze River have become the two most powerful parties in the Ming Dynasty.

Just as the list of the township test is called "Gui Bang", the list of the test also has an elegant name - the apricot list, because the time of the trial list is in the period when the apricot blossoms are blooming, so it is named after it.

Under the expectant gaze of the lifters, several officials holding the list methodically pasted the list on the notice wall in front of the Gongyuan.

After the officials left, the soldiers who were blocking the order a few meters away immediately rushed over, carefully examining the gangs on the notice wall.

"First place, Li Hongyu, a native of Baihe Town, Jiangkou County, Xiangyang Prefecture, Huguang!"

Soon, someone in the crowd in front of the notice wall read aloud the name and origin of the person who ranked first on the list, it was none other than Li Hongyu, who won the Huiyuan of the examination.

"The second place is also from Baihe Town, Jiangkou County, Xiangyang Prefecture, Huguang." Immediately, another surprised voice rang out, and a man standing in front of the notice wall pointed to "Zhao Xin" next to Li Hongyu's name on the list and shouted, his face full of shock.

With a bang, a sensation broke out at the scene, and people looked at the names of Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, who were at the top of the list, and discussed, never expecting that the same town's lifter would be able to win the first and second places in the examination.

Since the entrance examination is divided into the southern, middle and northern papers, the rankings are also announced in the order of the southern, middle and northern papers, and the admission status is announced in turn, and they are lined up on the notice wall.

The content on the list is customized, with the candidate's name on the top and the candidate's place of origin below, so that even if the name is the same, you will know who is admitted.

Because the examination will elect Huiyuan, according to the principle of taking scholars from the Five Classics, the critic will find out the five classics in the south, middle and north volumes, and then compare the five classics in the three volumes, and then select the leader of the five classics in this examination, and the first place is naturally Huiyuan.

In order to highlight the difference between the Five Classics, the name of the Five Classics will be listed at the top of the list, followed by the admission quota for the southern volume, followed by the admission quota for the middle volume, and finally the admission quota for the northern volume.

It is worth mentioning that the examination questions in the southern, middle and northern papers are the same, and the so-called "split papers" refer to the "separate paper admission", that is, according to the southern, central and northern regions according to the allocated quota, not to test the test papers with different questions.

Since the top five in the examination are the top five leaders in all the examinations, it is very difficult to win one of them, and the competition is extremely fierce.

It is not uncommon for two of the leaders of the Five Classics to appear in the same province, but it has not happened that the two leaders are from the same county.

After all, a county usually has a popular scripture, so the juzi of a county will choose the same Five Classics as their own scriptures to study, which is destined to be the same county will not produce the leader of the Pentateuch.

Like Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, not only in the same county but also in the same town, and won the first and second places, this situation is simply incredible.

Therefore, the fact that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin, who came from the same town, won the first and second positions in the apricot list quickly spread in the capital, which not only made people amazed, but also thought that this matter was incredible.

Naturally, rumors about the fraud of Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin in the market spontaneously arose, if it wasn't for the two of them to prepare in advance, how could they win the top two in the exam?

In fact, when the list came out, Shi Jikai, Han Yi and Wu Liangsi, the three giants who would try, were also taken aback, and the three of them never expected that the first and second places were all from Baihe Town.

However, although they were shocked by this, the three of them decided to publish the list like this after discussion, after all, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin were the top two selected by the critics, and they also read the articles of the two, and they deserved to be in the top two.

As for whether Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin cheated in the exam, whether they knew the exam questions before the exam and then made all the preparations, this is not a question that the three of them have to consider now.

Moreover, Shi Jikai and Han Yi, who made the question, did not think that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin were cheating.

Because the examination papers were only printed on the day of the eighth day of February, when Li Hongyu was in the county jail in Daxing County, and Zhao Xin went to the imperial city to beat the drums and drums for Li Hongyu.

Obviously, it is difficult for Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin to come into contact with the exam questions, and even if they are exposed to the exam questions, they will not have time to prepare for the answers.

In addition, Shi Jikai and Han Yi have been staying in the Gongyuan Academy since they were appointed by Emperor Wanli as the principal and deputy examiners of the undergraduate examination, and it is impossible that they have not leaked the exam questions to the outside world.

Therefore, although there are different opinions in the market about Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin becoming the first and second places in the examination, no one in the capital has asked for a thorough investigation because of this, because Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin have no possibility of cheating at all.

Besides, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin were the first and second in high school, and the Chu Party in the court was the happiest, and Yang Lian, who was the Donglin Party, was also very optimistic about these two rising stars in Huguang, which made the two have a delicate relationship with the Chu Party and the Donglin Party.

What is particularly important is that Shi Jikai and Han Yi, who are in charge of the question, are important figures in the Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party, so should the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party, which are the most powerful in the court, find trouble for the two because of Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin's unexpected high school? Isn't this self-inflicted?

Since the Donglin Party, the Chu Party, and the Zhejiang Party are unwilling to make a fuss about Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin's affairs, then the small parties such as the Qi Party and the Xuan Party in the court will naturally not be bored to touch this mold.

However, when Li Hongyu chose his book "Book of Changes" to answer the first place in the township test and chose the unpopular "Spring and Autumn Period" to win the Xie Yuan in the township test, and Zhao Xin won the Asian Yuan with another unpopular "Book of Rites" in the township test, the capital's doubts about the two decreased, and it was obvious that both of them were quite accomplished in the Five Classics, so it was not surprising that they won the exam.

Especially after Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin's examination papers were announced, the doubts of the outside world immediately disappeared.

The news that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin are at the top of the apricot list makes the Huguang Hall a sea of joy, whether it is the exam-taking person or the miscellaneous people, they are all happy and jubilant, no matter what, this is a breakthrough in the history of the Ming Dynasty examination.

Qin Yue was so happy that she almost cried when she learned the news that Li Hongyu had won Huiyuan, and hurriedly burned incense to worship her ancestors, and sent someone to rush back to Huguang to report the good news to her family, which was a great honor.

The Fuxiang Beiping Semicolon was even crackling with firecrackers to celebrate Zhao Xin's second place in the examination, Zhao Deyi was very excited about this, which meant that the Zhao family was finally going to go out of the Jinshi, and they also sent someone to hurry back to Shanxi to report the good news to Mr. Zhao.

As the two new tributes who attracted the most attention from the outside world, Li Hongyu and Qin Yue seemed quite calm, and the rest of the new tributes did not celebrate or anything, everyone hurried to prepare for the "retest" in the Forbidden City two days later, and the Jianji Hall was renamed Baohe Hall in the second year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty.

On March 17, the newly promoted 345 tributes entered the Forbidden City under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and entered the majestic Jianji Palace, where the 345 chapter table was prepared for the new tributes to sit on the ground and take the exam.

The "re-examination" is different from the general examination, only the four books and five classics are examined, the time is one day, and the eight strands of the four books and the scriptures of the five classics are written, and then submitted to the examiner for review, and the marking period is two days, in order to separate the personnel of the first and second grades, and the results are not announced to the public.

Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin were naturally classified in the first class, which means that even if the two of them fail in the palace examination, they will become the second-class jinshi in the palace examination.

March 20, the palace examination finally arrived under the expectation of the new tributes, the palace examination was also held in the Jianji Palace, it was also limited to one day, only one test was asked, and the early morning entered the Jianji Palace, after the roll call, scattered papers, praise, salutes and other etiquette, and then issued the policy questions.

There is no limit to the length of the text, but there is a certain format and word limit for the writing in the middle of the opening and closing, because the paper of the palace examination is only a vague name and not copied, and it is necessary to review the emperor, so special emphasis is placed on writing, and the answer must be in the right style, that is, the so-called "courtyard body" and "pavilion body", the word should be square, light garden, jet black, and large.

In a sense, sometimes calligraphy is often more important than articles, and a gongshi who can write a beautiful hand obviously makes a good impression on the marker at first sight, and invisibly occupies an advantage.

At dusk, the tributes handed in the papers, and after the steps of the rolls, the palms, and the seals, they were stored, and the next day they were handed over to eight readers to read the papers, each of whom had a table, and the books were circulated in turn, and each volume was marked with five kinds of marks: "○", "△", "\\", "1", and "×".

The time of marking is one day, and the next day from all the examination papers to select the "○" most ten examination papers into the emperor, by the emperor to appoint the champion of the first grade, the list of eyes and the flower, these three people are "Jinshi and the first", commonly known as "three tripod Jia".

If there is no accident and is not adjusted by the emperor, then the "re-examination" first-class tribute becomes the second class of the palace examination, and according to the ranking of the palace examination results, the emperor gave the "Jinshi origin", the first name of the hand.

The "re-examination" second-class tribute became the top three personnel in the palace examination, and was ranked according to the results of the palace examination, and was given the "same jinshi background" by the emperor.

The list of the palace examination is called "A List", also commonly known as the "Gold List", and the fame after the title of the Gold List has also been promoted from "Gongshi" to "Jinshi", and the first-class, second-class and third-class personnel are collectively referred to as "Jinshi", which also means that they have reached the apex of fame in feudal society.

Since Sandingjia can directly enter the Hanlin Academy and become the envy and respect of the scholars, many newly-promoted scholars with outstanding literature and strength are aiming at Sandingjia.

Different from the examination and the "re-examination", it is not that you can win the Sanding Armor if you read the book well, but also rely on political sense and luck, so it is not uncommon for Huiyuan to fall off the list of the Sandings.

Therefore, the palace test Sanding armor cannot be predicted, and who will die can only be revealed in the end.

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