In the early morning of the first day after the trial was announced, there was a commotion around Ouyang Xiu's mansion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Ouyang Xiu was dressed neatly and ready to go out.

"Why is it so noisy outside today?" Ouyang Xiu frowned and asked, "Are those scholars making trouble?" ”

"Yes, my lord, this outside is surrounded by scholars. It seems to be very angry, do you want to ...... it?"

Ouyang Xiu snorted coldly, wanting to say something, but saw a lot of folded paper balls thrown outside the wall. He walked in and bent down to pick up one, opened it and took a look, the whole article was four and six, the words were gorgeous, and if you looked closely, it was a sacrificial text, Ouyang Xiu carefully read the whole text, threw it to the ground, and sneered a few times.

"Open the door."

"But ......"

"Open it." Ouyang Xiu said with a cold face, "I'm still afraid that they won't succeed!" ”

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In fact, Gu Yan thought that he should be about ten in the provincial examination, but he didn't expect to become a huiyuan, which can really be regarded as an unexpected joy. Gu Yan of the remaining palace tests is not worried, and the palace tests generally do not fail, unless they are too bad. Even if Gu Yan became a Huiyuan, he didn't expect to be able to connect with the three yuan. Although the name of Lianzhong Sanyuan is quite attractive.

The temple examination began as expected. It took one day, and the titles were "The Civil Supervisor", "Luan Dao Poems" and "The Theory of Heavy Xun Life". The palace test and the provincial test are a little different, the provincial test, especially after the Qingli New Deal, is more interested in the policy theory, so there is: "the policy theory is determined to stay, and then the poem is set to be superior". But the palace test is different, mainly to cater to the emperor's taste, and when it comes to singing praises and patting the emperor's ass, there is no better genre than Fu. Therefore, it has become recognized knowledge that poetry is more important in the palace examination. As for the strategy...... If you want to be an upright minister, you should wait until you have passed the imperial examination.

Gu Yan's poetry and strategy theory are very handy, but he feels that his eyes are on him from time to time, which makes him a little uncomfortable, but he can't look up to find the source of his gaze.

The shadow of the sun moved west, and the day passed like this, and Gu Yan, who had finished the palace examination, felt in a comfortable mood, and at the same time, the palace was reviewing the ranking of the palace examination this time.

The palace test said that it was ranked by the emperor, but it was previously sorted out by the ministers and then handed over to the emperor. With the screening of the provincial examination, the number of people has decreased a lot, and the test questions have decreased a lot, so the time taken to mark the paper this time has naturally decreased a lot.

In the evening, the approximate ranking of this temple examination will also come out. Naturally, the Sanding Armor was not discharged, but the top ten rolls were already neatly stacked, Song Renzong looked at the pile of rolls, and was not in a hurry to turn them over, and asked the interior: "That...... What's it called...... Oh, where is that Gu Yan's scroll? Take it and take a look at it first. ”

The chamberlain rummaged through it a little and handed it over.

Renzong was a little surprised, the order in which the papers were placed in general implied the ranking order that the ministers who read the papers in the palace examination thought that Renzong thought that Gu Yan should be able to rank in the top three, but he didn't expect it to look like he was afraid that he would fall into the second class.

Renzong took a look at Gu Yan's poetry and poetry, although this article and poetry did not look amazing, but for Renzong, he obviously did not pay attention to this, Gu Yan's poetry and poetry this time was more sleek than the provincial test. It's a bit interesting, Renzong thought like this, and couldn't help but show a smile on his face.

The attendants around him have always known how to observe words and feelings, and when he saw that Renzong smiled, he joked: "Your Majesty, it is said that this natural genius of Gu Yu is just like Yan Xianggong back then......"

Renzong smiled, didn't say anything, put the paper in his hand aside, picked up the test paper in the first place, glanced at the name and place of origin, frowned and whispered again, as if he was struggling to recall the name Lin Xi: "Lin Xi Linzizhong?" ”

The chamberlain hurriedly answered: "Your Majesty, this is the Huiyuan who took the provincial examination this time, speaking of which, this Kaifeng Mansion's exam is also the first, and the situation is quite similar to that Gu Yuzhi." ”

"Oh?" Renzong smiled and raised the roll in his hand slightly, "Both of them participated in a separate exam, and they both won the first place, which is quite similar." Even Zhong Sanyuan is only missing this time. ”

"It all depends on His Majesty's arrangement......" The chamberlain complimented, and when he saw that Renzong moved his gaze to the article in his hand, he stopped with interest.

After reading Lin Xi's "Theory of Heavy Xun Life", Renzong couldn't help but nod slightly, this article is indeed well written, compared to Gu Yan's article, it is indeed a winner. When I saw the article "The Fu of the Civil Prison", I couldn't help frowning, and said coldly: "The heavenly prison is not far away, can the people know the will?" ”

Renzong didn't speak, read the whole article with a cold face, threw this volume to the side, and snorted coldly: "It's better to take care of the situation!" ”

The waiter didn't dare to squeak for a while. But he heard Renzong say: "You come and read it to me." ”

The chamberlain read it one by one, and Renzong's expression slowly eased up, and he waited until he heard it, "Lift up the Yuan Sheng, and the heavens will be in Zhaomin." This sentence made me feel a lot more comfortable.

After listening to the whole text, Renzong said lightly: "This one, let's put it aside for a while and continue to read." ”

It seems that this person is going to be lucky, and the waiter can't help but glance at the surname on it again, Fujian Road Zhangheng Zhang Ziping. After reading about fifty or so copies, Renzong waved his hand to stop, took a few more copies at random, looked at them, and put them back in their original places.

Looking at the four or five volumes that were picked out separately next to him, Renzong pondered for a while, and made a rough ranking, leaving only one in his hand, and the waiter looked down to see that it was the volume of Gu Yan that he had picked out at the beginning.

"Lianzhong Sanyuan ......" Renzong showed a smile, but put Gu Yan's test paper in the middle of those copies.