It's just that what ranking should be given to Han Gang?

It's impossible to be a champion!

According to the story, those who have official status are not allowed to be champions.

Zhao Ji glanced sideways at Wang Anshi. On the list of the second year of the Qingli Renwu Branch, where his slaughter was located, Yang Ning, who was ranked fourth at the beginning, was able to be the champion. First, it is because Wang Anshi, who is the first name, has committed the taboo of Renzong; Second, Wang Qi and Han Jiang, who were ranked second and third, both had official bodies at that time. So Yang Ning climbed all the way and occupied the position of the champion.

Leader......

Zhao Ji hesitated for a long time, but shook his head after the most reluctance. Han Gang's lack of poetry, how can Zhao Ji, who has always paid attention to him, not know. If he is seriously promoted to the second and third place, he will inevitably become the target of public criticism. At that time, not only did it lose Zhao Ji's original intention of honoring Han Gang, but Han Gang was subjected to unnecessary attacks and ridicule; More importantly, it will also make the world underestimate the vision of the Son of Heaven to promote people.

In the Jiying Palace, it was as quiet as midnight, no one dared to whisper, and the examiners were patiently waiting for the judgment of the Son of Heaven. After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Ji finally picked up the zhu pen and wrote it on Han Gang's volume. First a horizontal, then a vertical.

Ten.

10th place.

Zhao Ji gave Han Gang this ranking, which would not cause too much jealousy, and it was enough to reflect the importance he attached to Han Gang. The volume, which was originally ranked in the fifth class, has now been mentioned in the second class, presumably Han Gang himself will not gain an inch and feel resentful.

And after the list is released, the files of the twenty people in the first class will be made public to show the fairness of the judgment. With the level of Han Gangjuan, give him a substantial evaluation, put it on the tenth place, and the world has nothing to say, and he definitely deserves it.

But he looked at Ye Tao's article, compared Han Gang's article again, and hesitated again.

One has good text and one good content, but they are all because they are lame, so they are not as good as the eight people in front. However, they are all outstanding in their respective strengths, and the ninth and tenth are definitely deserved. is between the two articles, which is better or worse, and people have to think about it.

After comparing it back and forth, Ye Tao's article is just good text after all, and Han Gang is more to the point. What's more, the choice is a jinshi who can govern the country and the people, and it is not a selection of ministers. At the last moment, Zhao Ji was firm in his thoughts, lifted the Zhu pen, ticked off Ye Tao's nine, and changed it to ten. hooked Han Gang's ten again, and changed it to nine.

After looking at the two papers that had exchanged rankings, Han Gang had no problem, but he was a little indebted to Ye Tao.

Remember him. Zhao Ji thought that he owed Han Gang more in the past.

Bringing Han Gang and Ye Tao up, Zhao Ji didn't have the heart to look at other people's papers. It's already night, and there is a roll call below, so it's not good to delay until the third watch.

There is no need to ask for the opinions of the examiners, and he doesn't feel the need to have people copy it again now, Zhao Ji directly asked Li Shunju to hand the revised list to Wang Anshi below.

The work of naming a person in the first class should be done by the prime minister according to the rules.

The first three are the first class.

Fourth to twentieth place, second class.

The above two classes belong to the first class, which is the Jinshi and the first.

The third class is the second class, and he was born as a jinshi.

As for the fourth and fifth, they are the top three, and they are from the same jinshi.

Wang Anshi took the list, and with a glance, he saw the place that had been modified by Zhu Bi, and his hand trembled involuntarily.

ninth, Han Gang; Tenth, Ye Tao.

Han Gang and Ye Tao, one is his future son-in-law, and the other is his future niece-in-law.

Once this ranking is announced, it will cause an uproar.

For these two people, Wang Anshi asked himself very clearly.

One is that both the military and the government have talents, and they also have their own understanding of the truth of life, but they are not good at writing and have no relationship with poetry; The other is that there are many articles and few quality, and the poetry and articles can be regarded as excellent, but they have not yet learned much about the government and politics.

The advantages are obvious, but the disadvantages are even more obvious, how can the two of them be ranked so high?

Wang Anshi frowned and looked up at Zhao Ji suspiciously.

Zhao Ji knew what Wang Anshi hesitated for, but he didn't care.

Such a modification is nothing. Since it is a palace examination, the highest judge is the Son of Heaven. Not to mention the ninth and tenth, it is the champion and the leader, and it is also Zhao Ji, what he says. He said that whoever is the champion is the champion!

In the last subject, that is, the palace examination of Xining's three years, the champion Ye Zuqia was appointed by Zhao Ji. Ye Zuqia's paper was in the third class in the initial examination and the fifth class in the re-examination, but in front of Zhao Ji, he directly asked Prime Minister Chen Shengzhi to read it out in court, and he was promoted to the champion Lang.

'The ancestors mostly follow the simple government, and His Majesty will reform and make a new one', this sentence written by Ye Zuqia on the paper, in the eyes of the examiner and deputy examiner, is simply disgusting flattery, but Zhao Ji just likes it. The emperor wanted people to know how deep his support for the new law was, so he deliberately promoted Ye Zuqia, who had the most good words.

The Son of Heaven is such a character, Wang Anshi understands very well that Han Gang and Ye Tao were not mentioned in the top three is the result of Zhao Ji's careful consideration.

But he still had to speak, took half a step forward, "Your Majesty is ......"

Zhao Ji raised his hand to stop Wang Anshi's admonition, "Picking talents for the country has nothing to do with other things." I chose it myself, so there is no need to say more! ”

The Son of Heaven refused very simply, which not only made Wang Anshi clearly hear the indisobedient taste, but also reached the ears of everyone who was waiting for Wang Anshi's roll call with bated breath.

What's on the list? Everyone is guessing. I don't know what Lu Dao is for, seeing Wang Anshi hesitantly turning around and turning back from a distance, Han Gang suddenly had some bad premonitions.

Wang Anshi has already started a roll call.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, when it was finally time for the rankings to be announced, Ye Tao was in good spirits. Looking back on my article, it was a brilliant job, and it was difficult to say that it was the champion, but it was not a problem to be in the first class list.

It's just the first champion, and Yu Zhong's name was reported from Wang Anshi's mouth.

Looking at the surprised Yixing Gongsheng, he stepped forward to bow and thank him, Ye Tao comforted himself,

And then there's second and third place. ’

second place, Zhu Fu;

third place, Shao Gang.

Wang Anshi successively read out the names and origins of the two people who became the top eyes, and Ye Tao's eyes had become lost.

But Han Gang was thinking about the difference between the ranking of the top eyes and later generations.

In later generations, the list was the second place, but now the list is the second and third.

I have to say that the second and third places are the list eyes, which is a reasonable statement.

Among the heavenly lists, the champion Lang is the top and the leader. The second or third place below, left and right, is like being located in the position of the two eyes, so it is called the list eye - how can a normal person only have one eye?

In later generations, as the third place Tanhua, at this time it has nothing to do with the ranking. The origin of Tanhualang comes from the Tang Dynasty. After Jinshi High School, at the Qujiang banquet, the youngest of the Jinshi will be ordered to pick flowers in the garden, and after returning, they will be distributed to all Jinshi to plug in, so it is called Tanhua. Theoretically, the champion has the potential to become a tanhualang.

Han Gang is very leisurely, he has enough self-knowledge, even if a paper has Wang Shao's modification, it will not have too high a ranking - Wang Shao has previously said that in the second year of Jiayou's imperial examination, Han Gang's two teachers were ranked low. But Wang Shao himself, when he was a junior in the ranks, his ranking was also not high!

I won't call myself until the back. ’

A name, a name, was pronounced by Wang Anshi. Gongsheng, who was called by name, came up and thanked the emperor.

After reading the names of the three Dingjia. Wang Anshi paused slightly,

Further down, the names that made the Gongsheng sound a little familiar were reported. Basically, most of the Jinshi who can be admitted to the top ten have already spread in the city of Tokyo, and Han Gang has also heard of their names.

The eighth place, Liu Guangyu, a scholar in his thirties and chubby like a businessman, stepped forward to meet the Son of Heaven.

Ninth place, Han Gang.

Han Gang was stunned, is it a duplicate name? But with the origin, there can be no problem.

Stepping forward steadily, amid the hundreds of envious, jealous, and surprised eyes in the hall, Han Gang walked to the center of the main hall.

Zhao Ji looked at this new science and technology scholar who had brought him too many surprises with great satisfaction.

And Ye Tao below, with his unbelievable eyes, was looking at Han Gang bowing in the center of the hall and bowing.

How can a person who can't even do a poem surpass himself?

Until Han Gang returned to the distance, the word Ye Tao was read by Wang Anshi, and Ye Tao himself did not return to normal. It was only when Wang Anshi called him again that he suddenly realized that he walked a few steps and bowed down in the hall.

Coming back from the center of the main hall, Ye Tao's surprise had become very light. It's not just because he is ranked tenth, and Han Gang is ranked ninth. is even more because their two juniors of Wang Anshi are among the top ten at the same time, and they have become the target of public criticism among the scholars in the outside world.

Now Han Gang also understands why Wang Anshi wants to turn back and ask the Son of Heaven because of this ranking problem.

Recalling the two sentences of the Son of Heaven, Han Gang finally knew who had raised him to the ninth place. But he wasn't the slightest bit happy, he didn't need a high ranking, he just wanted a background. Now that he has been mentioned to the ninth place in a daze, there will be more trouble.

That's it!

Han Gang swept the glances cast around him and became calm.

It's not a big deal, it's just gossip, and there's no need to take it to heart. Since the Son of Heaven wants to sell favors, he will accept his favors......

But that's it!

After reporting the ten people in the first class, Wang Anshi handed the list back to Li Shunju. The next second and third class students can't work the prime minister's driver, and Yang Hui, a Hanlin bachelor who was invigilated at the same time, continued to read the following list.

Four hundred and eight jinshi, starting from the unitary time, came out one after another to bow their heads and give thanks, and it dragged on until after the time of the unitary.

By the end of the lengthy roll call ceremony, the new scholars had thanked them and left the court, and the gold list with their names was hung up. Back in the dormitory, Zhao Ji picked up the pen and wrote four words on the plain screen next to the imperial table:

Article Ye Tao.

This article is very well done Jinshi, Zhao Ji intends to remember him. As for Han Gang, there is no need for a screen to remind him, this name has been in the emperor's heart since three years ago.