On the third day after the end of the exam, the results of the essay test were announced.

There are a total of seven people who have passed the Cewen test, that is, a total of seven people who have finally passed the state test.

The eight county examination leaders under the jurisdiction of Beizhou, four unfortunately fell off the list, and the reasons for the failure were very wronged, and the five essays had been written on straw paper, but there was not enough time to copy the test papers, so they fell off the list.

Liu Qingshan and Xue Cheng were written remarkably because they pressed two economic policy questions in current affairs and collected a lot of information in advance.

The two of them are well versed in the truth that greed is not rotten, and like Liu Chenxing, they chose one of the remaining three policy questions to break through, and reached the standard of passing the three policy questions, and they all successfully passed the state examination.

Liu Chenxing naturally has no doubt that he has a place on the list of the essay examination, and three of them are first-class and two are second-class, so he continues to be the top of the list of the essays examination.

At the same time, combined with the list of the first two exams, the final list of this state exam is also out.

Xie Yuan: Liu Chenxing.

Xie Deputy: Cui Yao.

Third place: To Yuenlong.

The trio firmly occupied the top three and remained unchanged.

The fourth place is a local veteran of Qinghe, who has extremely rich experience in the state examination, and this is the fifth time he has participated in the state examination.

The fifth place is one of the top eight county exams.

Sixth place: Liu Qingshan.

Seventh place: Xue Cheng.

Among them, Du Yuenlong is also a native of Qinghe, which is equal to seven people who have passed the state test, and three are from Qinghe.

This is no different from Qinghe's dominance in the state test over the years, but this year, there are four county test leaders who have failed the list, and only one person has passed the old lift, which makes the number of people who have passed the state test less than in previous years, but the number of people selected to be sent to Beijing has indeed been satisfied, and there is the first female solution yuan after the same competition between men and women.

Therefore, the popularity of this state test is not lower than in previous years.

In addition, the imperial examination was originally a single-plank bridge, except for the children of the big family who can pass smoothly for the first reference, it is rare for a poor family to pass at one time like Liu Chenxing, and the vast majority of the children of the poor family have been taking the exam for several years, or even more than ten years to be on the list, and the people are not very depressed, so they will inevitably have a carnival after the exam, and about three or five fellow villagers will take the exam again next year.

In addition to the seven lifters on the list, the happiest person in this state exam is the innkeeper.

Liu Chenxing and his party are three on the list, and Liu Chenxing won Xie Yuan, which is a major selling point of the hotel, as soon as this news spreads, at least the next five or six years will be the first choice for candidates to stay, and the hotel should also increase in price, especially the courtyard where they have lived.

The store is a long-term person, and with a steady stream of business in the future, the gambling money paid to Liu Chenxing is naturally refreshing.

Liu Chenxing bet 20 times, the loss rate is 20 times, and he can get 420 yuan with interest, which is about 70 taels of gold.

The shopkeeper was not stingy, took out a small wooden box, and neatly placed seven gold collars weighing ten taels each to send to Liu Chenxing, of course, it was indispensable to send them to Xue Yuan together.

Compared with the untouchable honor of Xie Yuan, Liu Chenxing still prefers the sense of weight of small gold bars in the palm of his hand, and the so-called iron should be struck while it is hot, or when there is fortune recently, to see if his fur and mountain goods business can be done in the state city.

Liu Chenxing changed into an ordinary gray cloth dress, put the seven small gold bars sent by the store, and carried one or two in his arms with his father and brother, and the grandfather ate the corn porridge with soybean sauce that he boiled himself, and quietly withdrew from the hotel hall where he had a hand to drink and have fun early in the morning, and went to the city of Zhoucheng to stroll.

The state city is a city of luck, and its prosperity is not a problem.

I saw that there were many shops on the city road, the market was prosperous, and the city was big and the goods were several times that of Qingyang County.

There are tens of millions of households in the state city, the number of people is at least ten times as much as the county seat, the city will see the flow of people like weaving, the sound of selling one after another along the way, according to the orchestra tune in the restaurant and wine shop, Jianghuai freight transport here, gold, silver and bronze ware, brocade silk cotton, rice, sugar, medicinal materials, etc., there are everything, even dried seafood, imported products from the Western Regions also have one or two, every shop is like a city, it can be seen that the city of the state city, its goods are complete, and the people's life is rich.

In the past, I often heard the old wives in the village sigh that this was a prosperous era, but it was not until I walked around the city of the state city that I knew what the prosperous era was.

The grandfather walked all the way to see the flowers, looking east and west, looking at where he looked and where he felt strange, and the sighs were even more repeated.

When the old man who sold Hu Biscuits heard this, he laughed and said in the local dialect: "What are we!" Chang'an City, Luoyang City, Yangzhou City, and Yizhou City are much more prosperous than us! ”

Qinghe and Qingyang are adjacent to each other, and the accents of the two places are similar, Liu Chenxing couldn't help but be curious after hearing it: "Ah Weng has been to so many places?" ”

The old man took tongs to turn over the Hu cakes in the stove one by one and continued to bake, the action was very skillful, at first glance, he was an old craftsman who sold Hu cakes, and he could also be distracted to answer Liu Chenxing's words, and said: "I have never been out of Qinghe in my life, but there are a lot of people from other places who come and go to us, as long as you listen to the official saying that this place is not good and remote, it must be the people of the four cities!" ”

At this time, it is already the first day of the fifth lunar month, it is around the Dragon Boat Festival, it is still cool in the morning and evening, but it is already hot when walking outside during the day.

In particular, there was a three-foot-diameter stove in front of the old man, and the hot gas kept coming out, so hot that the old man was sweating, but he was so busy baking Hu Cakes that he didn't bother to wipe it.

It is also a large population in the state city, more business travelers come and go, and people like to eat Hu cakes as a trend, there are really a lot of people who come to buy Hu cakes from the old man, and the old man has been making cakes, and he only buys and sells.

The old man seemed to be very busy at this time, but the old man was shocked by the old man's words.

Among them, the father and son are still the same, the state city is already so prosperous, how can it be remote!?

Liu Chenxing reacted that Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty of the Celestial Empire was a world-class metropolis, and the world was not much different from the Tang Dynasty.

This reminds me of the sixth place in the Brother State Examination, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to fall on his head, so he will not be able to go to Chang'an to take the exam.

However, the day after tomorrow is the township drinking held by the assassin history, which is a banquet for the magistrate to entertain the scholars.

At that time, there will be not only seven of them who have passed the state exam, but also students who have studied in the state school. At the same time, there are many Qinghe families, and the children of their families are not known to be officials in the court, and most of them will have many Qinghe officials invited to attend.

And if you can't get the solution, if you want to go to Chang'an, there are two ways.

First, to obtain a quota for admission to the country, which needs to be recommended by local officials.

Second, he was recommended by high-ranking officials and nobles and directly participated in the provincial examination.

Brother Ah already has the qualifications for these two recommendations, so he must always fight for them, and drinking in the countryside is an excellent opportunity.

Liu Chenxing thought of this, and then said: "The so-called people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, and the day after tomorrow is the village drinking banquet, Brother Yu is also an opportunity, when we go to the market later, we can go to the cloth shop to see a suitable ready-to-wear." ”