Chapter 287: The Palace Examination
In the second year of Tianbao, on April 13, Chang'an had not completely gotten rid of the rebellion of the king of Changping County, and was overshadowed by the most important and high-profile palace examination in the imperial examination.
The test has just been released, and the rebellion of the king of Changping County has completely exploded on the top layer of Chang'an, but for ordinary people and scholars, in addition to watching the spectacular scene of beheading one hundred and two in one day in the West Market, they don't know anything about what happened, how many high-ranking officials in the court and the central government have dropped their black gauze hats, and how many good people have been filled into the teaching workshop.
For them, the trial release list was beyond everyone's expectations, and Xu Mingyuan, who was not well-known, actually won Huiyuan, beating Wenhua, the head of the four talents in Chang'an. And after someone looked into it, they learned that Xu Mingyuan was from Shuzhou, Jiannan Province.
And I heard the students of Chongzhou say that he is just a poor Taoist priest who came out of a small Taoist temple, and he won the first place in the college examination of Chongzhou Academy, and then he was disqualified as a student for some reason, and he was Xie Yuan, who participated in the township examination and won the first place in the township examination.
This kind of experience is legendary, and it also makes Xu Mingyuan's reputation spread all over Chang'an in the past ten days, and he has become a model for poor scholars in the world.
Everyone is speculating whether he will be able to win the top spot again in the palace exam and win the top prize. If he really sits, it will be three yuan in a row, and he will also be the first in the college exam.
Yongxingfang is next to the imperial city, so Xu Mingyuan didn't get up very early today, changed into a loose robe, and after breakfast, he went out with the coachman with the bamboo box and got into the black carriage.
"Young Master Xu, you must come back with a champion." Xiao Xia exclaimed with a smile.
"Brother Xu, come on." Qi Yueru also said with a smile on the side.
Xu Mingyuan nodded with a smile, got into the carriage, and the black carriage headed towards the west gate.
It has been ten days since the rebellion of the king of Changping County, the two princes lost their titles, and the three members of the court were also implicated in this incident, and they were all demoted and released, but fortunately they saved their lives.
As for those officials who originally belonged to Zhang Liang's subordinates or were implicated in them, there were as many as a dozen, and many official positions were vacated in the DPRK and China at once.
And among them, King Xiang's faction suffered the most losses, if it weren't for the determination of the strong man to break his wrist, he directly cut off the relationship with Zhang Liang and Liu Botao, and was implicated too deeply, I am afraid that he would not even have a chance to get up again.
And the eldest prince and the queen's faction also have a few people implicated, but compared to the Xiangwang faction, this little loss is nothing.
Moreover, after these vacancies, someone naturally needs to fill them, and the officials of the eldest prince and the queen's faction also took advantage of the fact that King Xiang was in a situation where they did not dare to act rashly, and vigorously promoted the officials of their own camp, and they received great benefits in this rebellion.
Originally, King Xiang was dominant, the eldest prince was weak, and the queen was hidden, but it was also because several young officials who were interested in the eldest prince and Princess Yiyuan were promoted to prominent positions because of this incident, and some changes occurred.
Ordinary people don't know the wrestling and fighting at all, let alone know that the ascension of these officials is actually the result of compromise after the struggle between the three factions.
Xu Mingyuan, who single-handedly promoted this matter, naturally knew that the Duke of Fengle County had been cut down to become a county duke, and Yan Hao, the prince of the county, should be thinking about how to adapt to the change of identity, if he didn't want to die, he should not come to provoke him again.
Although they failed to pull Heng Guogong into the water, they were able to make Emperor Yan, who trusted him very much, have a trace of mustard in his heart, which was not in vain for the small actions they made during this time.
However, being able to take charge of the guards with knives in the palace, Emperor Yan's trust in Hengguo Gongwenfu did surprise Xu Mingyuan, although he didn't dare to splash too much dirty water on Hengguo Gong's body, but those evidence that was enough to make a county duke cut off the lord did not make Hengguo Gong lose his position as the commander of the guard with a knife, which Xu Mingyuan and others did not expect.
Originally, Xu Mingyuan still thought that Hengguo Gong had fallen out of favor, so Wenhua should not dare to mention the marriage in that palace, but now he told the hundred officials in disguise that Wenfu's favor was undiminished, and Emperor Yan trusted him extremely much.
With Wenhua's talent, even if you can't get the top three in the palace exam, there is no problem in entering the top ten, and you can still enter the Taiming Palace to listen to the announcement, and you can ask Emperor Yan for marriage.
Xu Mingyuan has no good way to stop this for the time being, if he kills Wenhua, he can indeed solve a lot of problems, but Chang'an, the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is not so simple to kill the son of a prince.
That **** has seen Wang Zhiyuan and Feng Yuanyi's one-quality methods, Wenfu can hold a knife guard, and there is no shortage of masters under him.
However, if Wenhua insisted on asking His Majesty to give him a marriage, and Zeng Lijing did not object, even in the Xuanzheng Palace, he would have to stand up and stir up this matter. Once His Majesty grants a marriage, the room for manoeuvre in this matter will be minimal, or it will become a situation that he does not want to see.
After entering Chang'an, he also saw how deep the water of the family was, although he was no longer the poor little Taoist who had no support, but compared with those behemoths, he was just a little grasshopper who only liked to jump.
The carriage stopped in front of the imperial city, Xu Mingyuan got out of the carriage, carried the bamboo box, looked at Ning Anzhi and Bai Molou and others who were standing outside the imperial city and beckoned to him, and walked over with a smile.
Five hundred scholars entered the imperial city from the Vermilion Bird Gate, and under the guidance of a few small officials, they passed through the imperial city, passed through the Chengtian Gate, and entered the Taiming Palace.
This is Xu Mingyuan's first time entering the imperial city, although he is now considered the number one person in the Yuntai Division, but he doesn't need to run errands to send the chapter to the palace, and it is not his turn to be summoned by His Majesty, so he has never entered the imperial city, let alone Taiming Palace, so he looked around with curiosity along the way.
Chang'an is the first male city in the world, this imperial city is also majestic and majestic, the palace is neat, brilliant and magnificent, can be called the first in the world.
Xu Mingyuan went west to the capital of Tubo, and went north to Beili Shangjing, and the majesty of the imperial city was far inferior to Dawan.
And some scholars who have studied hard for more than ten years, except for coming to Chang'an, have never seen much of the world, at this time they can't suppress their excitement, if they are not worried that they will not speak well, they are already talking with acquaintances at this time.
Compared with Xu Mingyuan and those who have not entered the imperial city, Fang Tingyan and the others seem to be much more leisurely, with Fang Tingyan's family background, they naturally have not entered the palace, and Bai Molou also entered the palace to participate in the banquet last year. And with his temperament, even if it's the first time he comes, most of the time he is still calm.
The place of the palace test was in the Zichen Palace, and the living beings followed the official who walked in front of him to bypass the Taiji Hall and the Liangyi Palace, and stopped outside the Zichen Palace, and the palace test also had the rules of the palace test.
=========It's really hard to write today, I wrote it for a day, grinded out 2,000 words, and there is a chapter in the evening, so I'll be later...... (To be continued.) )