His ears do not listen to what is going on outside the window, and he only reads the books of the sages.

In the days that followed, Qin Guan continued to read books, especially the test papers of the champions of the imperial examinations in the past dynasties on his mobile phone, absorbing the essence of them and benefiting a lot.

Twenty days passed.

The night before the palace exam, Qin Zhang called Qin Guan to the study, Qin Guan's father's face was a little heavy, and he asked, "Father, what's wrong." ”

"The presiding officer of the palace examination has been determined, and this palace examination will be presided over by Lu Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, I am afraid it will not be good for you." Qin Zhangdao.

"Lu Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is Zeng Yu's person?" Qin Guan asked curiously.

"Zeng Yu is the prime minister, in charge of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials." Qin Zhangdao.

The Ministry of Rites is the head of the six ministries, and the promotion, appointment and dismissal of officials in charge of the Ministry of Officials is such a big power, no wonder Zeng Yu controls the civil service system.

Qin Guan asked suspiciously, "Shouldn't the main examiner be the emperor?" ”

"The emperor is only the nominal examiner, the emperor will not look at every test paper, under normal circumstances, the presiding examiner determines the top ten, and then presents it to the official family, and the official family finally determines the top ten." Qin Zhangdao.

Qin Guan asked, "Father is saying that he will sentence me to not be in the top ten?" ”

"Quite likely, you might even put your roll directly into the end."

Qin Zhang patted his son's shoulder, sighed, and said with some sadness: "Speaking of which, it was for your father to delay you, otherwise you would have had a chance to enter the Shiji rank." ”

Qin Guan smiled.

"Father, I am your son, I am the Qin family, we are in the same boat through thick and thin, we will go all the way." Qin Guan Dao.

Back in his room, Qin Guan was a little depressed at first, but in the end, his mood relaxed.

In the past, he was still thinking about trying to strive for the top, and he felt a little pressure, but now that he knows that someone will interfere with him, he has no pressure.

Anyway, the system only requires the entrance examination, and the palace examination is only ranked second, and the low ranking is low, so do I still want to be an official here for the rest of my life.

Qin Guan pulled up the quilt and fell asleep.

April 16, the day of the temple examination.

It was still dark outside, so Qin Guan took a car to the palace, this time he didn't need to prepare large bags and small bags, nor did he need to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, as long as people arrived.

The carriage walked to the entrance of the palace, just as the first rays of the sun shone on the earth. In the early morning sun, the golden glazed tile heavy eaves of the palace look particularly brilliant.

At this time, there were already many people standing in front of the palace, and as soon as Qin Guan got off the bus, someone shouted: "Brother Shaoyou, this way." ”

Qin Guan looked for the sound and found that it was an acquaintance he knew, "Brother Xingwen, Brother Lin Yuan, Brother Zhu Peng." Qin Guan stepped forward enthusiastically.

I saw Zhu Peng squeeze out a smile, arched his hand at Qin Guan, and said, "I'll go over there and talk to Brother Zhou Fu", and left as he spoke.

At this time, the surrounding crowd also looked at Qin Guan, many people saw Qin Guan for the first time, and they were very curious about this guy who dared to hang Zeng Xianggong directly.

There are also people who look at Qin Guan with schadenfreude in their eyes, Qin Guan is the first in the exam, and now that he has offended Zeng Xianggong, it will definitely affect the ranking of the palace exam, and others will have the opportunity to strive for better results.

What does the ranking represent, it represents the future career, and the Jinshi and the first will have the opportunity to enter the Hanlin Academy, become a close minister of the Son of Heaven, be promoted quickly, and even become the prime minister. And a fellow jinshi cannot become a prime minister in his life.

Qin Guan was pulled down, which naturally gave them a greater opportunity.

Qin Guan walked in front of Shen Yichen and Lin Yuan, he found that the others had obviously distanced themselves from them, Qin Guan could guess what the reason was, because he had offended Zeng Yu by not going to worship the master, he had obviously been isolated.

Qin Guan smiled at Shen Yichen and Lin Yuan and said, "Aren't the two benevolent brothers afraid that Taijin who walked with me will be hated by some people." ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "My father is not good with Zeng Xiang. ”

Shen Yichen said: "The future is still very long. ”

The four ministers of the imperial court are Prime Minister Zeng Yu, Vice Ministers Shen Zheng, Yan Chi and Yang Wanhe. Zeng Yu is in charge of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials, and has the greatest power. Shen Zheng is in charge of the military department and the household department, and his strength is also very strong. Yan Chi is in charge of the Criminal Department. Yang Wanhe is in charge of the Ministry of Engineering.

And these four can be said to be divided into several camps, Zeng Yu and Yan Chi are good friends, the two are sons and daughters, Shen Zheng and Yang Wanhe can be said to have the same concept and are relatively close. But if you want to say that Yan Chi is attached to Zeng Yu, it's not, it can only be said that they all listen to the emperor.

The hour has come, the palace gate is wide open, and an official of the Ministry of Rites leads seventy-six tribute students into the majestic palace wall after the roll call.

Along the way, there were many guards of the forbidden army, and Qin Guan and the others were first led to a mansion, where everyone had to change their clothes and put on the so-called palace trial clothes.

This outfit is somewhat similar to the official robe, but it is very different, the officials are purple, red and green, but theirs is a white robe, which means that they have not yet received rank, and there is no jade belt, and the hat is just an ordinary bowler, not the kind of official hat with long wings on both sides.

Changing clothes has two functions, the first is that the tribute students are already reserve officials, they can change their clothes, if it goes well today, they may be able to rank them, and then these tribute students can wear this kind of preparatory court clothes to meet them.

The second is that changing clothes can prevent cheating entrainment, it used to be a body search, but now they are all officials, and it is not good to do that kind of insulting thing anymore, so they changed to a change of clothes.

More importantly, it can prevent carrying a sharp blade into the palace, if someone really stabs the emperor with a sharp blade, then the matter is a big deal.

After changing their clothes, they were led by the officials of the Ministry of Rites to the Daqing Palace, which is the main hall of the imperial palace, also known as the Golden Palace, which is the place where the court meeting is usually held, but today it is the examination room for the palace examination.

"Xuanjin Kegongsheng Golden Palace."

The temple proclaimed peace loudly.

Seventy-six candidates were led into the Golden Palace, and the purple-robed and red-robed adults around them were also curiously looking at this year's tribute students. Among them, standing at the head of the officials is Prime Minister Zeng Yu.

Zeng Yu saw Qin Guan, who was standing in the first place in Gongsheng, his eyes narrowed unconsciously, and then disappeared, turning into a relaxed state of half-open and half-closed.

And many adults in the hall are carefully looking at the young man who dared to offend Zeng Yu directly who stood in the first place of the candidates.

The people of Zeng Yu's faction remembered Qin Guan, and as long as they had the opportunity in the future, they would naturally do everything possible to step him down.

The people of Shen Zheng's faction remembered Qin Guan, because this little guy was naturally a person from their side, and he would naturally have to protect him when he saw him in the future.

People who don't belong to any faction also remember Qin Guan, because such a young man is worth remembering.

The candidates saluted, but instead of kneeling, they bent down to salute and greet the emperor of the day.

A majestic baritone sounded in the hall, "Let's all be flat." ”

After Qin Guan straightened up, he looked up curiously, and saw that on the throne of the high platform in the middle, there was a middle-aged man in his forties who was slightly fat, quite handsome, and he was a handsome old man, and at this moment the emperor was also looking at the candidates below.