Before the fifth watch, Wei Chen and the people of Jingxi Society took a carriage and arrived at the Great Zhou Gongyuan.

People gathered from all over the Great Week, after the three-level children's examination, and then through the annual examination, the scientific examination, the harvest and other preparatory examinations, and then passed the most difficult township examination, today I have the opportunity to see what the door of the examination room looks like.

Of course, because the examination can be repeated, the actual elimination rate of the imperial examination is much lower, but it is definitely not too much to say that one out of ten thousand is selected.

There is a way to achieve success and ten thousand bones are dry, and the same is true of the fight on the scientific field, and the more than 3,000 people standing in front of the gate of the Great Zhou Gongyuan are the leaders who fight out of the encirclement.

If you are promoted in the examination, you will have the opportunity to find an official and a half-job, and you will have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime, but if you really want to jump into the dragon gate and live the life of a master, it is impossible not to take the Jinshi examination.

Therefore, these people, who have already achieved fame, will travel thousands of miles, trek through mountains and rivers, gather in Bianjing, and resolutely launch a new round of impact on the last difficulty of the imperial examination.

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Only then did I see the gate of the Gongyuan from afar, and the few carriages chartered by Jingxi Society couldn't move, and Chang Sui and the scholar helped move the luggage off the carriage, and the road behind it had to rely on Wei Chen and them on foot.

At this time, the sky was faint, but it was still full of dark clouds, which made people feel a little oppressive and breathless.

Of course, what is very depressing is the 3,000 people standing in more than a dozen long queues at the gate of the Gongyuan.

Listening to the dialect of Tiannan and Haibei coming into their ears, everyone in the Jingxi Society who was walking with Wei Chen unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

On the surface, the acceptance rate of the general examination is higher than that of the township examination, and it seems to be easier, but the competitors of the examination have changed from showmanship to lifting.

Since it is a lifter, which one is not, the big waves are sweeping the sand, and I have experienced the previous several exams?

Standing at the gate of the Gongyuan, these more than 3,000 people, in their respective hometowns, are all the leading talents in a certain county and a certain prefecture, how can they not have real talents?

Moreover, most of these 3,000 people did not come to the meeting for the first time.

Wei Chen had long heard Zhuang Jun say that in the life of a lifter, he had to take three or four examinations on average, and it took more than 30 years to be admitted to the Jinshi.

Facing so many competitors who have read poetry and books and have rich experience in exams, not to mention Tao Dazhi and Chen Jun, even Wei Chen felt a lot of pressure.

The people in Jiangnan Province were assigned to one place, and Wei Chen also saw Xu Shizheng and Xiao Chong, old acquaintances from the township test, and everyone hugged their fists slightly, and then stood up without saying much.

Next to the team of Jiangnan Province is the team of Fujian Province, and there are several scholars of Fujian Province who have met with Xu Shizheng at the literary meeting.

Although Xu Shizheng was reluctant to do so, he still lowered his voice and explained: "This is Xie Yuan, who is on the same list as me." ”

When these Fujian scholars heard this, they were all stunned: "It turns out that this is the famous Wei Xingyun!" ”

"Fourteen-year-old Xie Yuan! I don't know how Jiangnan Province is, anyway, we have never heard of Fujian Province. ”

"Gao Hanhai, isn't the song "Oceanwide" engraved on your eucalyptus from Wei Xingyun's hand?"

"I still have a volume of Xingyun Anthology next to my pillow, but unfortunately it's not the latest version, and there are many recent articles that have not been included."

Hearing that the scholars of Fujian Province were full of praise for Wei Chen and admired him very much, Xu Shizheng corrected him in a hurry: "It's not fourteen years old, it's fifteen years old this year." ”

However, to Xu Shizheng's disappointment, those people just smiled at him, and then looked at Wei Chen to themselves, and even excitedly whispered to the acquaintances on the side.

After a while, the team of Fujian Province was slightly commotion, and everyone turned their eyes to Wei Chen, their eyes full of curiosity, trying to connect the young man in front of them with the rumored Wei Xingyun, and occasionally let out a few words of emotion that had admired the name for a long time.

Wei Chen, who heard the movement, raised his head and swept his eyes towards the team in Fujian Province, but saw a few people arching their hands towards him, and smiled kindly.

Wei Chen was slightly stunned, then smiled and generously returned the salute.

Seeing this situation, Xu Shizheng, who was left aside, was quite angry: "I didn't expect this kid to be so famous!" ”

At this time, bang, three cannons rang out from the dragon gate, and people began to enter.

The Jiangnan Xuezheng Walrus Qian, who was sent to the exam this time, was lucky and was the first to enter the venue.

As soon as the gate opened, the people of Jiangnan Province rushed in with the envy of others, carrying the examination box, ready to be searched.

Wei Chen walked to the Dragon Gate of the Tribute Courtyard, looked up, the most noble Tribute Courtyard in the Great Zhou, but saw that the middle of the gate hung with the ink plaque of "Great Zhou Tribute Courtyard", and the east and west were each "Ming Jing Scholars" and "Seeking Talents for the Country" two plaques.

Except that it is a little larger than the one in Jiangnan, the rest are exactly the same in terms of regulations.

Wei Chen followed the flow of people into the Dragon Gate, and waited for a search in the corridor between the Dragon Gate and the Yi Gate.

The search and inspection of the examination is more stringent than that of the township examination, but there are only a few things, Wei Chen has been taking the examination all the way from the county examination, and he has long been familiar with this process, and he does not plan to cheat, as soon as his eyes are closed and opened, he successfully passed.

Of course, there are also those who are ignorant, and they are dragged out on the spot by the search officer, and they are deprived of their qualifications for the examination in order to make an example.

A group of candidates, including Wei Chen, only felt that this kind of person deserved it, and they didn't have any sense of kinship.

In order to prevent acquaintances from colluding and cheating, candidates from the same province were scattered to arrange the number room.

After the people of Jingxi Society passed the search and received the scroll with the order of the number and position, they exchanged wishes and separated.

There are a total of 9,000 houses in the Great Zhou Gongyuan, all of which are brick and tile structures, and they are quite sturdy, which is much stronger than the Jiangnan Gongyuan, at least Wei Chen will not get the kind of "rain number" that leaks wind and rain this time.

Wei Chen found his own number according to the number on the roll, and the first step was to roll up his sleeves and start cleaning.

This tribute hall is open every three years, although it will be cleaned in advance, but even if the outside is bright, it is still covered with cobwebs and dusty inside, and it must be cleaned by the candidates themselves, otherwise they will not be able to stay at all.

Wei Chen entered the dormitory, cleaning and admiring the ink treasures left by the predecessors of the scientific expedition on the wall.

It's probably to write a crooked poem, so-and-so came here for a trip or something, and then inscribed his name, which can be regarded as proving that he didn't come in vain.

Wei Chen swept through it and saw five or six names, most of them unknown, until he saw a name in the corner of the west wall, and he was stunned.

"In the second year of Jiahe, Youyang was prosperous, and three trials were here."

Sheng Huairen?

Isn't that the name of Sheng Hong's father?

Wei Chen was speechless, the nine thousand houses in this tribute courtyard were actually assigned to the place where Sheng Hong's dead ghost father stayed.

What a bad luck!

However, think about it from another angle, although Sheng Huairen is a scumbag short-lived ghost, he is also a Tanhualang in the second year of Jiahe, and his luck in the examination is definitely not bad.

So maybe it's a good sign to be in the same room with him?

Wei Chen could only comfort himself like this......