Zhao Rui looked at the palace examination rankings jointly determined by the preliminary examiner, the re-examiner and the detailed examiner in front of him.

Since the beginning of the True Sect, the Jinshi Cheng Test has been divided into five ranks, that is, the last time, the upper middle time, the middle time, the lower upper class, and the next time.

The first class should be knowledgeable, eloquent, outstanding, and incomparable.

The second-class must be able to learn the general, the arts and sciences are thorough, and they can be regarded as high in the group.

The first class takes three people, and the second class takes a few, all of which are first-class.

In the last palace test, because there were not many people who showed their talents, only eight people were selected for the first class.

Zhao Rui glanced at the number of people in Yijia and found that there were eighteen people this time.

For the country, the more people in the first class, the better the material of this class of scholars, as the son of heaven, he is naturally happy.

After counting the number of people, I looked back at the names and places of origin of the top three.

Seeing the first name, before he could read the article, Zhao Rui nodded with a smile.

This is the case.

But the more he looked down, the more unhappy he became.

After instructing Huang Men to take out all the examination papers of the first class in the papers, and put aside the articles of the champions, Zhao Rui began to roughly count all the answer sheets below the list.

The second place is Fang Jiucheng of Guozijian.

The article is indeed well written and deserves to be ranked in the top spot.

But he didn't like it very much.

He is very flattering, exquisite, and has written thousands of words, but he has not shown any attitude.

Such a person often goes in and out of the Zaizhi Sect, if he is asked to be an example, and then ask him to turn around and bite Fan Yaochen and Yang Kui in the future, he will definitely think about it for a long time, and his teeth are as soft as an eighty-year-old woman, not to mention tearing hard, I am afraid that before the meat touches, his teeth will fall out by themselves.

There are enough people like this around him, and he doesn't need another one.

Let's look at the third place.

Jizhou Yangyi Mansion.

Zhao Rui flipped out Yang Yifu's article, read through it again, turned his head to the yellow gate that was specially transferred to the errand today, and called.

"Zhu Baoshi."

"The minister is here."

Zhu Baoshi, who also promoted the Imperial City Division and subordinated the Investigation Division, immediately took two steps forward and knelt on the ground.

"Recently, the provincial test list was released, what is wrong with the Beijing Division?"

Zhu Baoshi was originally the Son of Heaven's close attendant Huangmen, relying on his kung fu to gradually climb up, and now he is also promoting the Imperial City Division, in fact, he is also acting as the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven, he has followed Zhao Rui for many years, and naturally knows what this Son of Heaven is most worried about now.

When the ranking was sent over, the Son of Heaven was still full of joy and looking forward to it, but after seeing it once, it immediately became cloudy.

Zhu Baoshi is less of a lifeline, but not a brain, and as soon as he thought about it, he soon knew that there was something wrong with the order on the list.

He was standing behind His Majesty, and he had already seen that sort in his eyes, and now he thought about it and woke up.

What does the Son of Heaven want to hear?

As a close attendant of the Son of Heaven, it is natural that the Son of Heaven will say whatever he wants to hear.

"I heard that Fan Dashen just recruited a son-in-law for his daughter."

"Oh?" Zhao Rui became interested, "Which new imperial examiner is being recruited?" ”

In the past, there were those who were dismissed in the palace examination, and there were still a lot of dismissals, often there were three or four hundred people who entered the list of the provincial examination, but those admitted to the palace examination were only one or two hundred, and the admission rate was almost two to one or even lower.

Many scholars went to Beijing to take the exam, but the palace exam was dethroned, and they couldn't accept it for a while, and they were already poor at home, so they couldn't get home, so they simply went to the water and died.

During the Renzong period, a man named Zhang Yuan was repeatedly admitted to the palace examination, but he was repeatedly deposed, and because he failed to join the army, he was not reused by the general, and after returning to his hometown, he was beaten by local officials because of the incident, and he went to vote for Yidi in a fit of anger.

Aside from character and treason, Zhang Yuan himself, he is actually talented, because of his defection, Yidi repeatedly gained the upper hand in the war against the Great Jin, causing great losses to the Great Jin.

On the one hand, Renzong learned that the Han scholars could not bear to die, and on the other hand, because of Zhang Yuan's precedent, he simply set the rules, and since then the scholars who have participated in the palace examination and played the name of the scholars, unless there are words in the line scrolls that violate the name of the first emperor and the temple of the emperor, or there are rhymes, literary and scientific errors, etc., the rest are not degraded.

It is that now, as long as you pass the provincial test, the body of the jinshi will be in hand.

The "arrest of sons-in-law under the list", which is now popular in Beijing, actually refers to the "arrest" of unmarried jinshi under the provincial test yellow list.

Fan Yaochen leans towards the government and the opposition, which new scientist he values, and he doesn't need Huang Bang to catch his son-in-law, as long as he breathes a breath, it is already a matter of being caught.

Zhu Baoshi secretly poked his head out, glanced at Zhao Rui's face, and said: "I fell in love with Jinke Huiyuan, whose name is Gu Yanzhang, I heard that he is from Yanzhou......"

Zhao Rui's complexion suddenly became very ugly.

If the talent he fancied became Fan Yaochen's son-in-law......

He reached out and took the ranking paper that had been placed aside, and with the other he took a pen full of cinnabar paint.

“…… It's just that Nahuiyuan already has a family, so there is no jade in this marriage. ”

Zhao Rui paused, put the cinnabar pen back on the pen holder, and exhaled a mouthful of turbid breath in his chest.

Start a family first, then start a business, this early marriage, get married!

Zhu Baoshi lowered his head, naturally he couldn't see Zhao Rui's expression and movements, and he didn't know how the ranking almost changed this time because of what he just said, he only paused, and continued: "Later, Fan Dashen selected the Jizhou Shizi, named Yang Yifu, and now the family affairs have been decided, I heard that the man's clan also has some confidence, his uncle is in Kyoto Mansion, and now he is helping to walk the six rites. ”

Zhao Rui didn't speak, only pushed Yang Yifu's test paper far aside, and continued to read the rest of the articles.

There is not much problem with this ranking, even if it is Yang Yifu and Fang Jiucheng, who he doesn't like, the questions are also very well written.

And the two people he admired, one ranked very much to his liking, but the other ......

Zhao Rui specially went to Zheng Shixiu's ranking - eighty-seventh, which was already the third class, and there was only one Jinshi background.

And his article ......

Zhao Rui read it carefully.

The writing is excellent, but it is indeed a little excessive, and if you write a little harder, it has already reached the level of directing the country.

The examples given are also a bit illusory.

It's just that the Kuang Wei Tianzi shown in the article, serving the imperial court, Zang Wei and other indomitable intentions, Zhao Rui rummaged through the first twenty volumes, but none of them were found in the rest of the people's questions.

He liked it very much.

This kind of talent will enter the Yushitai in the future!

Zhao Rui picked up the pen and crossed out the "eighty-seven" behind Zheng Shixiu, and changed the suffix to "two", which was directly reversed with Fang Jiucheng.

And the third place ......

At the moment, the third place is Yang Yifu.

Zhao Rui thought about it, although she didn't like it, Fan Yaochen's face still had to be given.