After the pre-trial list was announced, because of the appearance of Xiao Mo's name, it caused a wave in the Zhuangyuan Building. [Full text reading]

Xiao Mo's reputation in the literary world is now skyrocketing, but he is extremely low-key, although there are countless people who admire his name, but few people have seen his real person.

Although this is only because Xiao Mo is introverted by nature, does not like to be ostentatious, and is not deliberate, I have to say that this low-key not only did not reduce Xiao Mo's fame and prestige, but made the people in the world more curious and respectful of Xiao Mo. Because of this low-key, young and steady comments, there are countless ones.

After all, Xiao Mo is young and is already a big man in the literary world, but he can still maintain a low-key style and be unashamed, which not everyone can do.

As a result, after the Confucian students in the champion building saw Xiao Mo, who could be described as their idol, suddenly appeared beside them, they forgot the pride of being on the list and the frustration of falling off the list, and they rushed towards Xiao Mo, excited inexplicably.

So, in the next day, Xiao Mo spent the next day constantly dealing with many Confucian students in the champion building.

Since his identity was revealed in the Champion Building that day, Xiao Mo had quietly left that night and went to live in the place that the secret camp had arranged for him before.

But Xiao Huan and Fan Guan still lived in the Zhuangyuan Building, waiting for a possible visit from Emperor Chu Ling.

However, another ten days have passed, and Emperor Chu Ling still hasn't seen him so far, Xiao Mo is already sure that there will be some changes in the war in the north, so that even Emperor Chu Ling, who has always disliked government affairs, easily dare not leave.

However, the distance between the northern states and the capital is far away, and the imperial court seems to be deliberately sealing the news, Xiao Mo is anxious, although he has inquired in many ways, he still can't get the slightest news, faintly, and there is always a little uneasy in his heart.

"With the ability of the Eight Sage Kings, no matter what, the battle won't be too weak, right?"

Xiao Mo comforted himself silently like this.

Ten days later, in the early morning, the sky dawned, and as Xiao Mo kept guessing about the changes in the war in the north, the real palace test was finally about to begin.

In the early morning, when it was still dark, Xiao Mo met Xiao Huan and Fan Guan, and the three of them came to the Nanhua Gate in the south of the palace, where there were already nearly 100 candidates who had passed the preliminary examination waiting excitedly. Mobile phone to read the novel access.1бkxs.

After holding the certificate and passing the review of the surrounding Imperial Forest Army, the three of them stood at the edge of the crowd, waiting for the start of the palace examination while silently looking at the Chu Imperial Palace in front of them.

Because of the identity that has been exposed in the Champion Building before, many people already know Xiao Mo's appearance, with the appearance of Xiao Mo, there was a slight commotion among the waiting candidates, but first, it is forbidden to make noise outside the palace, and secondly, the palace exam is coming, these candidates did not rush to Xiao Mo like ten days ago.

Xiao Mo breathed a sigh of relief, but also looked at the Chu Palace in front of him, although it was still outside the palace, but there were still red walls and yellow tiles, painted buildings and carved beams, and it was brilliant. The inner nave is staggered, spectacular and majestic. In the morning and evening, it is like a fairyland on earth.

According to Xiao Mo's knowledge, the Chu Imperial Palace can be roughly divided into sub-parts, the south is the work area, that is, the outer court, which is the place where the emperor and ministers manage their daily affairs and the upper dynasty discusses military affairs; The north is the living area, that is, the inner court, which is the residence of the emperor and his concubines on weekdays.

All its buildings are arranged on the central axis, symmetrical and orderly from east to west.

In the outer court, it is divided into four halls: Xuanzheng Palace, Taihe Palace, Wenhua Palace, and Wuying Palace, supplemented by some small halls. And the palace test was held, but it was in the largest Xuanzheng Palace, with thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, and nine gates of the palace. Don't see the emperor's palace, and know the son of heaven. Xiao Mo looked at the majesty and magnificence of the Chu Imperial Palace, and couldn't help but whisper the poems of the Tang Dynasty Luo Bin Wang Concubine, but for some reason, when he thought of the war in the north, he faintly sighed in his heart. The Imperial Palace of Emperor Li Lazy Han Valley, the Hou Dianfu of Longshan Mountain. Five Wei even shadow spring star, eight water flow transverse axis. Qin Sai is one hundred and two, and the Han family leaves the palace thirty-six. Guidian is embedded with Cen on the jade building, and the pepper room is slender and even the golden house. Three Jiumo Belvedere is limited, and thousands of households and thousands of doors are open. The compound road obliquely leads to the view of the dove, and the intersection points directly to the Phoenix Terrace. At this moment, I heard someone behind me whispering the poems behind, and his voice was elegant and beautiful.

Xiao Mo, Xiao Huan, and Fan Guan turned their heads to look, but saw that Zhang Yansheng had come behind the three of them at some point, and was looking at Xiao Mo with a smile at the moment.

Xiao Mo couldn't help but smile when he saw Zhang Yansheng's appearance.

saw Zhang Yansheng arch his hand again: "Congratulations to Zirou for winning the first place in this preliminary examination." Xiao Mo shook his head and smiled, and said: "Zijia Mo wants to be too humble, isn't Zijia the same as the first place in this preliminary test?" "It turned out that in the preliminary examination before this palace examination, Xiao Mo and Zhang Yansheng's answers were indistinguishable, and finally after asking Emperor Chu Ling, Emperor Chu Ling actually let the two of them be listed on the same list, but it was also an unprecedented miracle.

Zhang Yansheng also lost his smile, and was just about to say something, but Xiao Mo's heart moved, and he pulled Zhang Yansheng's arm and said, "Zijia, take a step to speak." After nodding his head and signaling to Xiao Huan and Fan Guan, Xiao Mo pulled Zhang Yansheng aside, and saw that Xiao Mo was so close to Zhang Yansheng, but all the candidates who were waiting on the field were all paying attention.

But Xiao Mo didn't care, he just walked towards Zhang Yansheng and asked in a low voice: "Zijia, let me ask you something, what is the war in the north now?" Hearing Xiao Mo's inquiry, the originally calm look on Zhang Yansheng's face changed suddenly, and after a moment of continuous change, he let out a long sigh, and finally showed a faint look of worry on his face. Zirou, I only tell you about this matter, you don't want to spread it. After seeing Xiao Mo nodding, Zhang Yansheng sighed and said, "No one thought of it. The army of our Chu Dynasty has been defeated in three battles with those barbarians, 30,000 cavalry troops have been wiped out, and 200,000 infantry vehicles have also suffered heavy losses. But in order not to make people panic, there is no rumor.

Now His Majesty is mobilizing troops from Nanzhou, Taiping, Hejian and other states to fly to support the troops around the border city. It had already set off three days earlier. Hearing Zhang Yansheng's words, Xiao Mo's face also changed, and he hurriedly said: "Is the Great Wall Heavenly Danger still in our hands?" Zhang Yansheng nodded and said: "General Zuo Han Tan defended the back of the stream, and the Eight Sages took over the army in danger, and according to the danger of the Great Wall, he finally held the offensive of those barbarians, and did not let those grassland barbarians invade the land of my Great Chu, but the 200,000 army suffered heavy casualties, and the situation was not very good." Xiao Mo nodded silently, although the situation at the moment is not good, it is much better than the worst situation he imagined Xiao Mo was just about to ask something more, a stone Hong Donkey Temple official Zhen suddenly appeared in the Nanhua Gate, and after looking around at the crowd, he raised his voice and said: "Listen to the candidates, Yu holds the certificate, line up in turn, and enter the palace with the official." Xiao Mo and Zhang Yansheng glanced at each other, nodded silently, and stepped into the line lined up by the lifters.

There were more than 100 people who passed the initial palace test, divided into two columns, Xiao Mo and Zhang Yansheng were all standing at the forefront, and they entered the Chu Imperial Palace with this Hongqi Temple official.

The palace was magnificent, and the eyes of the Imperial Forest Army were blazing all around, staring closely at the candidates, but Xiao Mo and Zhang Yansheng never had a chance to speak again, and they didn't even have a chance to play a heavy role in the same environment.

About a tea time later, a group of candidates came to the Xuanzheng Palace, lined up under the platform in front of the hall and waited quietly, silently watching the courtiers line up to enter the hall in turn.

It didn't take long for the previous official of Hongdonkey Temple to appear again, first took a heavy look at Xiao Mo and Zhang Yansheng at the front of the team, and then gave a pack of palace cakes to all the candidates in turn, the palace test lasted for a day, the sunrise began and the sunset ended, and these palace cakes took the food eaten by the candidates during the palace examination.

Then, after the official explained to the excited and nervous students the matters that need to be paid attention to after entering the palace, he took the candidates to enter the Xuanzheng Hall in a procession, where the hundreds of officials of cultural relics have been waiting quietly on both sides for a long time, and among the hundred officials, there are more than 100 square low cases placed in turn.

With the appearance of a group of candidates, all the officials turned their heads and looked at Xiao Mo curiously, after all, Xiao Mo's reputation is too great, throughout the ages, no one has ever participated in the imperial examination as a person in the literary world, after all, there has never been a person in the literary world who is as young as Xiao Mo. Everyone knows that if Su Mo hadn't rejected Emperor Chu Ling's "Hongru recommendation" last year, he would now be ranked among them at the age of less than nineteen.

As for Zhang Yansheng, because of the relationship between Prime Minister Zhang Qian, he has long been familiar with the ministers, and after seeing Zhang Yansheng, there are even many ministers who nodded with a smile.

And Xiao Mo didn't care about the eyes of the ministers, after standing on the low case on the banner of the Xuanzheng Palace, he calmly looked at the core of the Chu Dynasty and walked all the way, although the Chu Palace was luxurious and prestigious, but it also had to use this Xuanzheng Palace as a mum, and the eaves were used to play intensive chess, and the indoor and outdoor beams were decorated with the most noble Hexi seed paintings. The upper part of the window is embedded with a puffy lattice pattern, the lower part is embossed with a cloud dragon pattern, and the gilded copper leaf of the dragon pattern is installed at the baton, and the gold bricks in the hall are paved, which is more majestic and luxurious.

In front of Xiao Mo, it is the throne of nine dragons with gold lacquer, which is the position where the emperors of the Chu Dynasty sit, and the two sides of the throne are arranged with six giant pillars with the pattern of gold cloud dragon, and the gold leaf rice is pasted with two colors of frozen light, so that the pattern is prominent and distinct. On the front side of the throne, there are four pairs of furnishings such as treasure elephants, use ends, cranes and incense pavilions, which show the royal majesty.

Although he had already seen the Forbidden City in the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, Xiao Mo still couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the Xuanzheng Hall with hundreds of eyes at this moment, but in terms of luxury, the Chu Palace was even better than the Forbidden City in its heyday.

After looking at the Xuanzheng Hall and noticing the gaze of the cultural relics Baiping, Qing Du turned his head to look at the officials on both sides of the column. Because Xiao Mo was the first in the preliminary examination, the position he stood was extremely Xinjing in the Xuanzheng Palace, and the two rows of officials standing on Xiao Mo's left and right were obviously first-class Dazhen in the court, with a total of more than ten people.

In the Chu Dynasty, most of the first-rank officials were only vain, and only the prime minister Zhang Qian and the privy envoy Wang Han held great power and controlled the government.

And on the left side of Xiao Mo, the elegant old man standing at the rightmost end of that row of officials is not Zhang Er, who has been with Xiao Mo for a long time?

On the other side, Xiao Huan and Fan Guan were behind Xiao Mo, and Wei Hua, who was intimidated by the Xuanzheng Palace, looked down at his feet since he entered the Xuanzheng Palace, and did not dare to turn his head at all, and he didn't notice Zhang Qian, who was standing not far in front of them.

Just when Xiao Mo was looking for Wang Han, the privy envoy with the same name as Zhang Qian, suddenly an orchestral silk bamboo sound sounded, and with the shout of "ascending to the palace", an old man wearing a nine-dragon robe, supported by Shi and a group of eunuchs, slowly walked to the nine-dragon golden lacquer throne and sat down.

And who is this old man, except for Tian Da, who has been with Xiao Mo and others for many days?

The so-called people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, and Emperor Chu Ling was a kind old man next door when he visited Weifu privately, but at this time, he was wearing a yellow robe, wearing a crown, and countless supporters before and after, but he finally showed the majesty of the emperor.