There was a lot of people around, but it was so quiet that you couldn't hear a few human voices.

Most of them were chanting words, keeping their heads down and looking only at their feet.

Under the iron tower of Kaibao Temple, such a scene is not uncommon. Every festival such as the first day of the first lunar month, the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, and the eighth day of the lunar month, there are several large jungles in Kaifeng Prefecture, which will always be crowded with people, but it is quiet only the sound of chanting.

However, this is not the Buddha's birthday or the first day of the incense.

The Imperial Song Dynasty's talent selection ceremony, which was only won once every three years, finally began today.

Dozens of steps away, the gate of the Tribute Courtyard was open, and the surging flow of people was slowly merging into the Tribute Courtyard.

There were a few reprimands from the guards of the Tribute Courtyard, but it seemed that the flow of people was unusually quiet.

Far away at the intersection at both ends of the front street of Gongyuan, Kaifeng Mansion set up a antler fence. All the people who sent the test were all stopped outside, and those who could enter this street were either tribute students who took the test or officials, and at least they had to have proof of identity to pass.

It's not the first time Huang Sheng has stood outside the court, but it's the first time to be a bystander.

It turned out that I was in the middle of thousands of people, and I didn't feel so quiet at all. At that time, I just cared about recalling the guessing article I had written in advance, and after walking a few steps, I wondered if I would fall off the list again, and when I arrived at the door, I cleaned up my mood and didn't look at the surrounding situation at all.

The thousands of tribute students who take the examination in Beijing for each subject are only a small fraction of the millions of scholars in the world. Standing out from thousands of people and becoming one of the three or four hundred jinshi, the proportion is not as good as the one in a hundred state middle school exams, but this is to compete with the best among the millions of scholars in the world, and the difficulty is naturally another level.

So at that time, Huang Shang's heart was only nervous, and in the crowd, he could only feel his insignificance.

It's not like now, it's already out of the flow of people.

Jumping out of the Three Realms, not in the red dust, this is called detachment.

And self, is detached.

Standing under the archway of Kaibao Temple, Huang Shang watched a scholar in different costumes walk in front of him.

There are young and old. The old ones are gray, and the young ones are only seventeen or eighteen.

Huang Sheng just saw a Gongsheng who was only thirteen or fourteen walking over, I don't know if he was born short and baby-faced, or if he was really only this age. However, unlike the nervousness and caution of his companions around him, the tribute student seemed to be arrogant and high-spirited, probably a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers.

Huang Sheng laughed silently, once upon a time, he was so high-spirited.

At the age of seventeen, he was the first time in the state to be raised, and he was in the top three in high school, and he thought that a list of jinshi was in the bag, and he was at his fingertips, but after more than ten years, he had no harvest.

If it is Kansai, Hedong and other places of the scholars, it is a fluke that the top name in the state can be listed at the end of the list in Beijing, but from the hometown is Fujian Road South Jianzhou, the difficulty of all roads in the world is not as good as Fujian, and the difficulty of Fujian should be as difficult as Nanjian, how many scholars in the countryside after themselves have been admitted to the Jinshi one after another, and their own family can only hate the field again and again, which makes him embarrassed?

It wasn't until he traveled to the brother of Renguan Xiangzhou that he met Han Gang. Huang Shang chose to follow Han Gang's example, first made meritorious contributions to his staff and won the office, and then went to take the exam after having an official body.

With a change of mood, maybe the talents that were originally congested in the heart in the field can be brought into play.

In fact, it can be regarded as a retreat from the difficulties.

However, when Huang Sheng worshiped under Han Gang's door that day, he never thought that he would even be able to skip the Ministry of Rites Examination and the Palace Examination, which he had never had a chance to meet, and directly obtain the qualification of Jinshi.

Huang Shang has been born from the Empress Dowager Qinci Jinshi, and these Gongsheng who are still nervous and silent in front of the Gongyuan in front of him are no longer on the same level.

But Huang Shang's mood was even more tense.

The new jinshi Zhang Bang, Qionglin Yuan gave a banquet, and then it was his turn to go to the palace.

However, if you want to get the opportunity to go to the palace to participate in the imperial examination, you have to go through the assessment of the members of the three pavilions, which is the so-called pavilion examination - this is the biggest difficulty.

Since the founding of the country, the number of scholars who have passed the system has not exceeded 50.

And how many Jinshi are there in this dynasty, 10,000, 20,000, or 30,000? Huang Shang estimates that there has never been a number of people, but it is definitely dozens of times the number of people who have passed the system - this is still including the first few decades of the founding of the country, and the average number of people in the Jinshi department was only ten or twenty passed.

In today's court, there are at least 2,000 people with the title of Jinshi, accounting for the vast majority of court officials, and they are also the main body of local officials at all levels. However, there are only two officials who are still in the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, and the day before yesterday there was just one less and one was demoted.

For what kind of system, so many dozens of people have been able to pass for many years? The main reason is that the cabinet examination has brushed away too many indiscriminate people, which is far more rigorous than the Ministry of Rites exam.

Otherwise, when you get to the front of the palace, a few good words may be able to make the Son of Heaven dizzy, plus most of the important ministers recommended by the above table are also in the palace.

It is conceivable that the questions of the cabinet examination must be difficult and simple. Wouldn't letting too many people pass through the reputation of Chongwen Academy? The members of the secret pavilion of the three halls must be proud of being unpassed, and they are ashamed of letting people pass.

Relying on the Jinshi background that the benefactor got in advance, in case he couldn't even pass the pavilion test, Huang Sheng didn't have the face to go to see Han Gang again.

However, if Huang Sheng didn't have some self-confidence, he wouldn't have come to Kaibao Temple.

Coming here to see the tribute students, it can be said to be emotional, or it can be said to be nostalgic.

Because all this has nothing to do with him anymore.

During this period of time, Huang Shang's study of classics and historical classics and commentaries of the past dynasties was far more serious than in the old days. After more than half a year, my conscious knowledge has deepened again. If you go back to take the Jinshi exam, you may be able to compete for the top ten.

Huang Shang's mouth pursed slightly, as resolute as his eyes.

This rush to take the exam is for success, not for another failure.

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"Yellow Clothes!"

Zhang Tao, who was walking beside him, suddenly shouted.

As soon as the voice came out, he was suppressed, but Zong Ze heard it, looked around, and immediately found the target under the archway of Kaibao Temple.

Zong Ze looked at it twice, and finally recognized the person.

It is indeed Han Gang's famous staff.

"What is he doing here?"

Zhang tamed's tone had irrepressible anger.

Gongsheng, who was about to take the Ministry of Rites exam, was indeed angry when he saw a lucky person who had just mixed up with a Jinshi qualification from the Queen Mother.

Zong Ze was also a little puzzled, Huang Sheng was about to take the subject exam in a blink of an eye, but why did he come to Kaibao Temple today?

"It won't be for incense." Zong Ze didn't know if Lu Dao Huangshang came here to see Gongsheng enter the examination room, but he thought that he would never go to Kaibao Temple to offer incense, "It will be more effective to go to the Ersheng Temple." ”

"Who cares so much about him." Zhang Tao was angry, "Zixia Zilu will bless this kind of fortunate person?" ”

Zong Ze smiled slightly and remained silent on Zhang Tame's attack.

To talk about credit, Huang Shang's performance in assisting Han Gang in Hedong twice is indeed far less dazzling than Han Gang's performance in assisting Wang Shao in Xihe back then

At that time, Han Gang pursued the remnants of the Tibetan army under the two bosses Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu, and independently supported the military and government all the way, not only repelled the western thieves who took the opportunity to attack, but also successively blocked two holy decrees demanding the withdrawal of the army, and calmed the crisis of Hehuang Tuobian's failure.

With that kind of credit, the first emperor did not give Han Gang a Jinshi background, and Huang Shang's credit was only limited to assistance, but he easily got it.

In Shilin, many people are very disgusted by this kind of opportunistic approach.

It's all envy first, then jealousy, and then hatred. It's just like the current Zhang taming.

But to say that it is fortunate to be in, it would be excessive. No matter how you say it, Huang Shang has made meritorious contributions in the frontier, and he is not comparable to the scholars who pointed out the country in the Guozi Prison. And to be able to pull tribute in Nanjian Prefecture, Huang Shang's own level is also enough to be worthy of a Jinshi background, but he lacked some luck in the past, and now God is pretending to return his luck to Han Gang's hand, which is also a reward for Huang Shang's hard work in the past.

Zong Ze and Zhang Tao slowly advanced in the crowd, because they had to search inside and outside the clothes, and the number of Gongsheng was too large, forming a congestion at the gate of the Gongyuan.

For a long time, the two candidates only advanced a dozen steps.

Zhang tamed his face, he had been quiet for a while, and suddenly lowered his voice and burst out again, "He can't pass the etiquette test, and he definitely can't pass the pavilion test!" ”

Zong Ze didn't expect to walk over, and Zhang Tao was still angry.

"Huang Shangge will definitely not be able to pass the trial." Zhang Tao repeated again, "That's much more difficult than the Ministry of Rites test." ”

Of course, the cabinet test is difficult.

Zong Ze also knows very well that even a person like Zhang Tao who thinks very highly of himself, even if he says that he wants to participate in the system, he will only talk about it - he can't find an important minister who can recommend him, and if he can't do it, he can also push it to Zai Fu who has no eyes.

In fact, if you can pass the pavilion test, there may not be one and a half of a group of jinshi, plus luck, maybe there can be one.

The topic of the cabinet examination is very simple, that is, six essays.

However, the scope of the topic is very large, covering the Nine Classics, the Canon, and the True History, as well as the Seven Books of the Wujing, the Chinese and Zhuzi, and in addition to the main text, the Qunjing also takes commentaries, which is far beyond the ceremonial examination.

Among these six questions, three are from the main text and three are from the commentary, and before the candidate expounds the argument, he must first indicate the source of the thesis and must quote the context of the thesis, so that he can be called 'Tong', that is, qualified.

But the title is by no means so simple as the original text in the book, but there is a distinction between light and dark. Directly quoting one or two sentences in the book, or slightly changing one or two words of the sentence as the title, is called a clear number; Reading the sentence of the book upside down, and reading it from beginning to end is a dark number.

This kind of dark number that distorts the original text is specially used to brush up the questions of the candidates. Although according to the regulations, the six questions are light and dark, and the dark number is not more than half, but it will never be less than half, and if you want to pass the cabinet test, you must have at least four 'passes'.

This is much more difficult than the Ministry of Rites exam.

If Huang Sheng can't pass the cabinet exam, he will lose the opportunity to take the imperial exam. And only by participating in the imperial examination can Han Gang, the governor of the government, have the opportunity to interfere with the results.