(Recommended reading: Early the next morning, the lifters in the guild halls in various parts of the capital got up early and carefully checked the items in the examination basket.

Since these lifts will be spent in the capital tribute courtyard for the next ten days, eating, drinking, and sleeping in the number room, the items they bring in are very important.

Naturally, the same was true in the Huguang Guild Hall, where the lifters gathered in groups after dinner to talk about the upcoming exam.

Almost half of those who were to take the exam had taken the exam, but unfortunately they failed the exam and had to fight again the following year.

Since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the number of Jinshi admitted to each temple examination in the Ming Dynasty was 350, and the number of people who took the examination was 6 or 7,000, which means that the proportion of Jinshi who took the examination was only about 5 percent.

According to the process, the owner of the Huguang Guild Hall led the businessmen and celebrities of Huguang nationality in the capital to see off the reference lifters, in addition to Li Hongyu, those who lived outside the hall also rushed over.

It is worth mentioning that perhaps to express festivity, or to show off, or to show off, I don't know when the yamen of those guild halls in the capital began to compare the costumes of the lifters.

Therefore, the students in Huguang wore the new blue clothes of the same standard customized for them by the guild, which was a joyful scene.

Of course, for the Huguang Guild Hall and other guild halls in the capital, customizing these clothes is just a small amount of money, which invisibly narrows the relationship with the lifters.

Although the lifters didn't know about Li Hongyu, some businessmen and celebrities from Huguang had already gotten the news, but no one dared to talk about it, so as not to affect everyone's exams.

As a friend of Yayuan and Li Hongyu of Huguang Township Test, Zhao Xin made a morale-boosting mobilization speech on behalf of Li Hongyu, and told everyone that Li Hongyu was temporarily going to the Ministry of Rites to do business, so he couldn't rush over.

For Zhao Xin's words, Huguang's movers were naturally convinced, who would have thought that Li Hongyu would suddenly have an accident?

Speaking of which, this is thanks to Zhang Quan who wanted to hit Li Hongyu by surprise, so he hung up on Li Hongyu yesterday afternoon, which made the spread of the matter very limited, otherwise those Hu Guangju would definitely blow up.

After Zhao Xin finished speaking, the Huguang Juzi who participated in the examination left the hall and rushed to the Daming Jingshi Gongyuan in the southeast of the capital, plus there were more than 300 people accompanying the guild hall, walking on the street in a mighty way, so that the pedestrians along the way dodged to make way for them.

At the front of the queue, a tall hall handyman held a flag with the words "Daming Lake Guangjuzi" in his hand, indicating the identity of the reference juzi.

Because Huguang is one of the five provinces of the southern paper, it has naturally been warmly welcomed by the people along the way, you must know that the talent of the students in the southern volume is the best in the Ming Dynasty, and the people naturally like these talented people.

Soon, the students of Huguang met the students of Zhejiang on the street, and there were also people holding a flag in front of them.

Since there is only one main road leading to the inner city, as time goes by, the streets are soon filled with candidates from the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, and Thirteen Provinces, marching in a procession on the street.

The most excited people on the side of the road were naturally those young girls, gossiping about the handsome and handsome men in the marching procession, and from time to time let out a pleasant laugh like silver bells.

"Look, that Huguang is so handsome."

"Oh my God, he's even prettier than us women."

"You know, she was the Yayuan of Huguang's township test last year."

"I don't know if she's married!"

"Don't be a nymphomaniac, a man like him must have been engaged a long time ago."

……

As soon as Zhao Xin, who was dressed in blue and had a heroic posture, she caused a commotion among the girls on the scene, and successfully attracted everyone's attention with her outstanding appearance.

Zhao Xin felt very helpless about this, she didn't want to be so eye-catching, but her appearance was too outstanding among men, so she naturally attracted people's attention.

"Brother Zhao, I heard that Li Jieyuan was arrested and put in the prison in Daxing County, I don't know if it's true?" Just as the queue was marching in an orderly manner, a man in different costumes chased after him from behind, and asked in a low voice after coming to Zhao Xin's side, with a look of concern on his face.

"Brother Lin, do you all know about this?"

Zhao Xin suddenly frowned slightly when he heard this, and asked the person who caught up with him with a serious expression, it was none other than Lin Liang, the Jingkui of the Shanxi Township Examination, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin entered Beijing from Shanxi to catch the exam together, so there was naturally a friendship between the two sides.

"Pretty much everyone on our side knows about it, and everyone is very surprised by that."

Lin Liang nodded a little helplessly, he didn't know where the news came from, as long as one person knew that it would soon spread in the guild hall.

After all, Li Hongyu is the Xie Yuan of Huguang and not the Xie Yuan of Shanxi, so everyone does not have many scruples when they talk about it, and the news must have spread very quickly.

"Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles."

Zhao Xin couldn't help but smile bitterly, after all, there are juzi living in the inner city in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and there is actually no secret news in the capital that is transmitted very quickly, which makes it very likely that the matter of Li Hongyu being arrested and put in prison has spread all over the provinces except Huguang Juzi.

"Wait for you to stand on the side, we will separate you from the other lifters, I have already discussed with the lifters in Shanxi, and everyone will not talk about this matter."

Seeing that Zhao Xin's expression became serious, Lin Liang said in a low voice, he knew that the most fearful thing for Zhao Xin now was to let Huguang raise the news of Li Hongyu's accident, which was a very big blow to the morale of those students.

The reason why Lin Liang is like this is naturally to get closer to the relationship with Huguang Juzi, and to show favor to Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin and others, anyway, Shanxi Juzi belongs to the northern volume, while Huguang students belong to the southern volume, and the two sides are not rivals in competition.

In addition, Zhao Xin is from Shanxi, so from the perspective of his fellow villagers, it is naturally incumbent on him to help Huguang raise his son, and the two sides will have a good response in the officialdom at that time.

"Thank you, Brother Lin." Zhao Xin immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and hurriedly said to Lin Liang, with the help of those Shanxi Juzi, then Huguang Juzi's people's hearts will not fluctuate because of Li Hongyu's matter.

As long as you enter the Tribute Courtyard, then it will be safe, and if you dare to make a noise in the Tribute Courtyard, it will be regarded as cheating, and the consequences can be very serious.

The southeast of the inner city of the capital, the Daming Jingshi Gongyuan.

Jingshi Gongyuan was established in the thirteenth year of Yongle, with thousands of houses, the layout is similar to the Huguang Gongyuan of Wuchang Mansion, bearing a rectangular structure, it is the largest tribute courtyard in the northern region of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the largest tribute courtyard in the Ming Dynasty is the Jiangnan Tribute Courtyard in Nanjing, which is better than the Jingshi Tribute Courtyard in terms of history and scale.

It is worth mentioning that because the walls and imperial palace of the capital had not yet been completed at the time of the construction of the Gongyuan, the financial and material resources were limited, so in order to cope with the upcoming examination, wooden planks and reed mats were built into examination sheds.

Moreover, the examination shed was surrounded by a wall surrounded by thorns at the beginning, and there were five gates in it, called "Dragon Gate", which means that the carp jumps over the Dragon Gate.

There is a horizontal plaque on the middle three doors, the title on the middle door is "Tiankai Wenyun", the east gate is titled "Ming Jing takes scholars", and the west door is titled "seeking talents for the country".

Of course, after the continuous renovation of the Ming Emperor in later generations, the Beijing Gongyuan has already been built magnificently, and the magnificence has surpassed the Jiangnan Gongyuan, after all, it is the place where the Ming Dynasty held the test, and the Jiangnan Gongyuan has become the place of the township test.

The central axis in the Jingshi Gongyuan has buildings such as Mingyuan Building, Gongtang, Jukui Pavilion and Huijing Hall, and there are rows of neatly arranged number houses on the east and west sides, also called "number shed", there are more than 9,000 rooms.

In addition, watchtowers were built at the four corners of the Gongyuan Temple, which were specially used to overlook the situation in the Gongyuan.

After arriving at the Gongyuan, the people of the two capitals and thirteen provinces gathered together according to their origins, and were led into the Gongyuan by the officials of the Yamen of each province.

After a series of inspection procedures such as body searches, the lifters were able to enter the Gongyuan, where they first drew the seat numbers from a row of boxes with signed numbers, and then were taken by the servants to their respective houses.

Different from Huguang's Gongyuan, after all, this is the Gongyuan of Beijing, so the quality of the house must be much better than that of Huguang Gongyuan, the house is equipped with desks and beds, and there are doors on each house, since the candidates enter the house began to lock, called the "lock courtyard tribute test", eating, drinking, and sleeping must be solved in the house to prevent cheating.

Anyway, the weather in February is still cold in the capital, and there will not be much smell of feces and urine in the dung bucket, and the door will not be opened until the transition every three days, and there will be people to clean up the dung bucket.

Because the door of the house is locked, even if there is a fire, it cannot be opened, so once the Jingshi Gongyuan is on fire, then the consequences will be much worse than the local Gongyuan, at least the students of the local Gongyuan can still run out of the house to escape, and the lifters of the Jingshi Gongyuan can only wait for the unlucky to be burned to death.

Therefore, the incident of the Gongyuan being most afraid of catching fire but catching fire often occurs, so there are many large vats of water in the courtyard for firefighting, but it is a drop in the bucket, which is really a fictitious thing.

There were many incidents of Gongyuan catching fire, the most serious one was the Tianshun seven-year examination, the examination room caught fire on the first night, and more than 90 people were burned.

Emperor Tianshun then gave each of the deceased a coffin, buried in the open space outside the Chaoyang Gate, and set up a monument "the tomb of the world's talents", which was later called the tomb of the people, and the luck was really too bad.

According to the results of the previous consultation with Lin Liang, Huguang's lifters deliberately chose the most marginal position when they waited in line in front of the Gongyuan to enter, and the lifters from Shanxi separated them from the others.

In fact, because there were many soldiers responsible for maintaining order at the scene, the lifters waiting for the entrance rarely spoke, otherwise they would be scolded by the soldiers on patrol, otherwise the scene would be a mess.

For the order of admission of candidates from the two capitals and thirteen provinces, the officials of the provincial Yamen went to draw lots to decide, and the people of the Huguang Yamen were lucky and won the fifth signature, which means that they can be the first to enter the Gongyuan, and they don't have to wait there stupidly.

The doors of the temple were kept open until the evening, waiting for the lone lifters to enter, after all, not every lifter lived in the guild hall, and once the door was closed, only the holy decree could open it.

"I forgot to bring salt, you guys go first." Seeing that it was about to be Huguang's turn to go in, Zhao Xin pretended to look through the examination basket, and then said quietly to Fang Yun and the others on the side.

Although Fang Yun and the others were a little surprised, they did not suspect Zhao Xin, after all, Zhao Xin and Li Hongyu were two alternatives, and they actually had to cook and eat in the number house, so that the taste of the food was really unpalatable if there was no salt, and they would not have thought that she was going to beat the Dengwen drum anyway.

Therefore, Zhao Xin successfully escaped under the gaze of Fang Yun and the others, and left the Tribute Courtyard with a frosty mask.

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