The eve of the temple exam.

Most of the martial marquis prisoners who had been trained in various parts of the Canglan Kingdom, and even far away in other vassal countries, had returned to the Canglan King City one after another, preparing to participate in the ten-year palace examination of the Canglan Kingdom.

If you can't awaken the heart of martial arts and become a martial king.

Then the Canglan Palace Test that will be held tomorrow will determine the identity and status of these martial prisoners in the Canglan Country in the future. Several times in the Guozi Prison, except for Gu Hanjian, a recently enrolled student of Donglai County, who has a natural martial arts heart and is expected to become a martial king in a few decades, no one else dares to think that he will definitely become a martial king.

The Canglan Palace test has also become a contest for all the prisoners.

In the royal city, the Guozijian, which once seemed quite empty and quiet, suddenly became extremely lively.

The prisoners all looked in high spirits.

In this great change in the palace, less than 10% of the prisoners of the Guozijian were involved in the rebellion, and the losses were very small.

In contrast, about forty percent of the royal family ministers and thirty percent of the feudal ministers were affected, and they were dismissed, demoted, demoted, and sent to the frontier to fill the army. There were a large number of vacancies inside and outside the court, and a large number of new martial princes were urgently needed.

What awaits the current generation of Guozi Prison Prisoners is naturally a great future, and a large number of good official positions are waiting for them to fill the vacancies.

Hou Ling Qingshan, Hao Ziming, the veteran of the second palace examination of Qingshan, and other well-known prisoners in Guozijian held a banquet in Guozijian the night before the palace examination, and invited all the prisoners of Guozijian to gather together. Black しし Pavilion

More than 100 prisoners of Guozijian were invited to this banquet.

At the banquet, all the prisoners sat down on the table.

Ye Fan has already become a hot figure in the royal city because of the palace poison case and the Jinluan Palace's case of forcing the palace to kill the king, and he has been respected and praised by many prisoners.

"Brother Ye, I want to honor you for this first cup. No matter what the result of this palace examination is, whether it is the top ten in the palace examination or the top twenty or thirty in the palace examination, important official positions can be arranged. Thanks to your reminder beforehand, most of us are not on the wrong side. On the day of the monarch's birthday banquet, we are all firmly on the side of the monarch. This is the good result we have today, the day of a great harvest! After the palace examination, we will be colleagues who are officials in the same dynasty. Everyone, let's toast Brother Ye together!"

Hao Ziming raised his glass, his face was full of excitement, and he said to the martial arts supervisors in the hall.

"Yes, most of our sessions are thanks to Brother Ye, we must give Brother Ye a cup!"

"Brother Ye, don't shirk!"

Many prisoners raised their glasses and said excitedly.

Suddenly, a voice sneered: "Hmph, I thought that Yan Xiuzheng, who was the leader of the last palace examination, wrote an essay on "On the Martial Soul of the Water System" in the second round of the palace examination, openly pleasing the monarch, which is enough to become inflammatory.

I didn't expect that we had a Ye Fan this time, and he was even more at the peak. Before the palace test, he had already begun to pat the monarch's sycophants, which made the monarch very happy. It seems that no matter how well we do in this temple examination, he is the first in this palace examination. This kind of person, we are simply ashamed to be in the company of them, ashamed to compete in the same field in the temple examination. ”

Another voice also chimed in: "That's it! The first leader of this palace examination has already been decided, no matter what the score of the first round of the palace examination is, the second round of the palace examination must be Ye Fan's first, what are we fighting for! We just picked up the leftover cold vegetable leftovers from him, and there are still a large number of people to pat his ass! There is really no shame!"

There was a sudden silence in the hall, and many of the prisoners looked at the sarcastic ones.

I saw that in this hall, there was a small group of prisoners who did not have the slightest look of joy, but instead had sneers on their faces, and they were very cold.

Ye Fan looked over and saw the first two people in this small group of prisoners, a handsome young man in white and a young man with a brave face. It was these two people just now, who made mocking remarks.

The handsome young man in white looked at him with great hatred.

"Those two, one is Rui Zifan, the grandson of Rui Shangshu, the former military department. This person is a famous young genius in Canglan Wangcheng, who once won the first place in the four departments in the low-level palace, is proficient in various departments, and is known as the top talent among the young generation of martial arts in Wangcheng. The other is Qin Ning, a clansman of Qin Qing, the former lord of Fengwan County, and a leader among the martial marquis of the country. ”

Ling Qingshan immediately introduced lightly to Ye Fan, who was leading the table next to him.

These two are very famous in Wangcheng and Guozijian.

To be able to win the top of the four series when he was a teenager in Canglan Wangcheng, a place where the country's heroes gathered, was definitely a top genius.

The two of them, plus Ling Qingshan, who was born in the branch of the Canglan royal family. A year ago, the three of them were together to become the three heroes of this year's Guozijian Prison, and they were considered by everyone in Canglan King City to be the outstanding prisoners who were most likely to win the top three in this year's palace examination. Hao Ziming, Bao Hua and others are much inferior to the three heroes of this country.

Of course, since Ye Fan quelled the changes in the palace, his reputation has been on the rise in just over a month, and no one can compare it at all.

The three heroes of the Guozijian have long been overshadowed, not to mention them, even their father and grandfather are useless, and they can't stop Ye Fan's strong rise.

The prediction of the top three in the front hall test is naturally no longer mentioned. No one thinks that Rui Zifan and Qin Ning are still expected to become the top three leaders.

Ye Fan nodded slightly, and immediately understood.

Among the hundreds of prisoners in this country, at least dozens of them are the relatives of those who have been desecrated by the ministers of the imperial court, the ministers of the feudal realm, and the relatives of the royal family.

It's just that this palace change did not implicate all the families, so these prisoners can also participate in the palace examination. Although the king allowed them to participate in the palace examination, it was obvious that he would not give them any good ranking.

How could they be grateful to him, naturally they hated him deeply.

Hao Ziming, the gray-clothed old martial artist, looked at Rui Zifan and the others, and retorted with disdain: "Rui Zifan, I don't like to hear what you say. Do you want to learn from your grandfather Rui Shangshu, chasing the second prince's sycophant to force the palace to rebel in the Jinluan Palace, this is called uprightness, uprightness? ! This sycophant is slapped on a prince who has not ascended the throne, your grandfather's hand is too early! I can't wait for this vision, I can't see who is the future new monarch, or pat the current monarch as well. Serving the monarch is the talent of my subjects such as those of the Canglan Kingdom! Unlike some people, who are willing to be chaotic ministers and thieves. ”

"Brother Hao's words are so wonderful! We still praise the monarch!"

"Rui Shangshu, in order to shoot the future new monarch's ass, he does not hesitate to be a chaotic minister and thief, we can't learn it! ”

The many prisoners present couldn't help laughing, and at least half of them were on Ye Fan's side.

Rui Zifan was ridiculed by Hao Ziming's words, his handsome face turned blue with anger, and his eyes were sharp: "Hao Ziming, don't rely on you to participate in the two palace examinations, just put your old qualifications here, and mess around." My grandpa is my grandpa, I am me!

Tomorrow's temple exam, I want you to see what is the pillar of true talent and learning, and what is a flatterer. In the second round of the palace test, I am ashamed that the king will support you. But in the first round of the civil and military examination of the palace examination, those sycophants are not qualified to support me!"

As soon as these murderous words came out, all the prisoners in the hall suddenly fell silent.

Rui Zifan is qualified to say such cruel words.

In the first round of the civil and military examinations of the palace examination, the questions of all the supervisors were the same, and the questions were made by the top ten old martial marquis of the "Canglan Haoyue List", the most senior and powerful in the Canglan Country. According to the answers, a total score ranking is played. This is the true strength of the prisoners, and even the monarch cannot interfere with this score ranking.

But this ranking doesn't count.

In the second round of the palace examination, the monarch conducted the "King's Question" and interviewed the prisoners. In this link, the monarch is completely decided, thinking that whose level is whose level is high, and adjusting the ranking of everyone.

The inmates who participated in the palace examination will obtain the final ranking of the palace examination according to the results of the second round.

If the results of the first and second rounds were too different, the prisoner would undoubtedly be despised and suspected of currying favor with the king.

Yan Xiuzheng, the leader of the last palace examination, was originally ranked fourth in the first round of the palace examination, but the last article "On the Lethality of Water Martial Soul" in the second round of the palace examination was appreciated by the monarch and promoted to the first place in the palace examination, but was repeatedly ridiculed by the Manchu officials. Ten years have passed since the last temple exam, and it is still being taken out to talk about things.

With Rui Zifan's outstanding talent, he is enough to surpass most of the Wuhou of Guozijian in the first round.

Many of the prisoners who were looking forward to Ye Fan couldn't help but be worried.

Ye Fan has only been in the Guozijian for a year and a half, and in the first round of the palace examination, the results are not very ideal.

But the monarch has long treated Ye Fan differently and favored him, and in the second round of the palace examination, he directly promoted Ye Fan to the top of the palace examination, or the top three, which will undoubtedly make Ye Fan the laughing stock of all the courtiers.

I am afraid that it will make Ye Fan very embarrassed, and the huge prestige accumulated from quelling the palace changes before will also plummet.

"Why, there is nothing to say? It seems that some people just dare not compare with real swords and guns, and can only rely on flattery and rely on the princess and queen to climb up!"

Rui Zifan glanced at the full hall of martial arts prisoners, looked at Ye Fan coldly, and said provocatively.

He had been cultivating in the secret realms of other vassal states for the past few years, and it wasn't until he returned to Canglan King City half a month ago that he knew about this earth-shattering change.

His grandfather Rui Liangzhi participated in the case of the second prince's palace mutiny, was arrested and imprisoned, and was sent to the border of Canglan to fill the army.

The once extremely prominent Rui family has become a reservoir dog in Wangcheng, and no one wants to get close. If it weren't for the deep foundation of the Rui family, and there was still him, the martial marquis, in the family to support the situation, I was afraid that it would collapse.

And Ye Fan, one of the most critical figures in the entire palace mutiny, was the leader of the entire situation, setting up a Hongmen banquet for the birthday of the monarch, and luring the second prince and the ministers of the military department, Rui Liangzhi, Fengwan County Lord and other ministers, to lead the snake out of the hole and wipe it out.

He naturally hated Ye Fan very much.

But the Rui family has lost ground in the royal city, and he can't help Ye Fan, who has risen strongly, so he can only rely on the first round of the palace test to humiliate Ye Fan to vent the anger in his heart.

Many of the prisoners in Guozi Prison who had lost power because of their involvement in the palace mutiny surrounded him and Qin Ning, and they were very resentful of Ye Fan.

A cold glint flashed in Ye Fan's eyes, and he didn't get angry, but said lightly: "Don't talk too much, Gongzi Rui, as if you are already the first in the first round of the palace exam." If you can't get the first place in the first round of the civil and military exam, what will happen to you?!"