On the second day of the palace examination, the cabinet ministers entered the East Pavilion to read the papers.

Mao in and out, out of the first, stay in the Ministry of Rites.

The evaluation of examination papers implements a four-level system, that is, the pre-reading of the examination officer. The examiner reviews the papers, the ministers prescribe, and the emperor appoints them.

After the pre-reading of the examiner, the candidates who are not standard in answering questions will be eliminated, and if the article is not very well written, the candidates who are generally excluded will be judged as the top three.

The second is the review of the paper readers, who roughly divide the papers into three grades, the first class of more than ten papers, and at the same time call up the top points of the examination to be judged by the elders.

The elder of the cabinet should select three copies of the papers submitted by the examiner as the first class, and then give them to the emperor for approval. Finally, the final result will be decided.

Li Ge Lao withdrew from the marking of the palace examination because of Li Ling's relationship.

Among the cabinets, Liu Ji is the oldest. It was up to him to hand over the assessed test papers to the emperor.

At this time, the ranking has been basically decided, and it is naturally the original manuscripts of the candidates that are sent to the emperor's imperial review.

Liu Ji flipped through it casually, and Li Ling's volume was impressively listed. And this paper was not transferred from the question bank after the fact, but the champion paper that was jointly ruled by several ministers.

The old guy gasped, Li Ling had gone all the way, not only had real learning, but also received the favor of God.

Sanyuan and the first can not only be obtained by relying on talent alone, but also have a great element of luck in it.

If Li Ling made a mistake in answering the sheet, I am afraid that he would have been brushed off in the first round.

Even if his scroll was later brought out and presented to the emperor, I am afraid that he would lose a lot of impressions.

He has also read Li Ling's volume, although the text still seems a little jerky for an old fritter who has been in the officialdom for decades, but the idea is excellent, and the analysis of the current business/politics in the strategy is to the point.

And the suggestions put forward for current affairs are shocking! It's an excellent article in every sense of the word.

The name of the undergraduate champion is well deserved!

Liu Ji immediately had a different kind of thought in his heart. He wanted to recruit Li Ling as his grandson-in-law.

Looking at the modern world, there is no better scholar than Li Ling, and when the time comes, he will definitely be a good official, and even decades later, he can be ranked as the first assistant like himself and become a model for hundreds of officials.

Now that Li Ling has not yet made a career, it is a good opportunity for his own investment.

When Liu Ji sent the scroll over, the emperor had been waiting for a long time.

It was actually not very difficult to review more than 20 volumes, but the emperor seemed to be a little anxious.

He couldn't help but say and grabbed all the rolls handed over by Liu Ji.

It's just that the emperor didn't look at them one by one, but couldn't wait to read the scroll from beginning to end, and then chose one from it.

Liu Ji's heart trembled, he remembered very well that the volume was indeed Li Ling's.

Jane is in the heart of the emperor! Only people like Li Ling, who have dealt with the emperor many times, can be remembered by him.

The emperor took Li Ling's scroll out of it and began to read it carefully. Sometimes he was happy, sometimes he frowned, and for a moment it seemed as if he was thinking about his thoughts.

After reading the sum once, he stopped and began to think about the advantages and disadvantages. Then he began to flip through Li Ling's scrolls.

It was only after a few times that he was relieved and turned his gaze to the other people's volumes.

It seems that Li Ling's position in the emperor's heart is extremely important, and he must be wooed well.

Now Liu Ji is not only thinking about his granddaughter's marriage, he must not be regarded as a junior in the future, otherwise he will suffer a big loss!

The Emperor was obviously not so serious when he looked at the other people's scrolls, he just glanced at them and began to browse the next scroll.

"Let's talk about the opinions of a few of your ministers, which one do you like as the champion of this department?" The Emperor just skimmed through it casually and put the scroll down.

"After our discussion, everyone felt that Li Ling's scroll was novel in concept, analyzed the current situation in place, and had a strong guiding role, and everyone agreed that he should be named the champion!" Liu Ji stepped forward and said.

The elders of the pavilion lit up when they took Li Ling's paper in their hands, although they didn't know that this was Li Ling's test paper at that time, but everyone had the same opinion, and he was the champion of this imperial examination.

"It's not proper, it's inappropriate, the water is overflowing, Li Ling's age is still too young, and he really can't convince the public to be the champion!" The Emperor sighed and tapped his fingers on the table, thinking for a moment.

"Your Majesty, you don't have ambitions to be old, you don't have ambitions to live a hundred years old, and Ganluo was twelve years old in the past." Liu Ji hurriedly suggested to the emperor.

The icing on the cake is better than sending charcoal in the snow, as long as he helps Li Ling this time, he doesn't have to publicize it himself in the future, he will eventually receive the news one day, and he will not be grateful to Dade at that time?

It's just that he is easy to say, but the emperor doesn't think so, he said to Liu Ji directly: "Li Ling should let him have more experience, and don't let him be arrogant, this time the champion will be Kang Hai, although he is a little worse in terms of ideas, the article is not inferior to Li Ling."

"Kang Hai?". Liu Ji smiled bitterly, he was busy for a long time, but he didn't expect the emperor to choose a more moderate one.

Kang Hai's article has also been read, this person advocates stability in everything, and it can even be said that he is a bit pedantic, does the emperor value such a person?

Liu Ji was a little confused, about his granddaughter's marriage, he felt that it was more reliable to recognize the situation first and then make plans.

What especially puzzled him was that the emperor actually ordered Li Ling to be a tanhua, and gave up the list to a southern man.

"How can this be? Don't talk about this list, even the article made by the champion is too far from Li Ling, where will the old faces of several of us be put if this is going to be spread! ”。

"That is, the emperor still needs to experience to cancel a person's champion qualification, is he the elector or the elderly? If it's the latter, don't take the exam at all, and just ask the age! ”。 When the news came back, the elders would inevitably complain, but this really had nothing to do with the overall situation, after all, the emperor had already determined the ranking himself.

Anyway, Li Ling is also a jinshi and the first this time, everyone knows what is going on, and they will just take care of it in the officialdom in the future.

Everything has been decided, and the elders have nothing to say, so they have to follow the usual practice to disassemble the files of the second and third class people and fill in the list.

A ceremony is held before the announcement of the list.

The emperor ascended to the Fengtian Temple and received the three first-class members of the new department.

Roll call, by a minister of the interior to sing a certain Honglu and then sing loudly as before, outside the palace Jinshi heard it, the named person came out of the ranks, and was guided by the Honglu official to the palace to meet the emperor.

After the reading, the deacon will hold the yellow list and go out to the left door of Chang'an Gate to hang it.

From this, the ranking of Jinshi is known all over the world.

After the roll call, the jinshi knew that the champion of the current department was not Li Ling, and someone secretly contacted Kang Hai to try to avenge Zheng Wang!

(To be continued.) )