Bai Shiqian kept smiling lightly, standing beside Gu Qingjue, feeling that the youngest son of the eldest princess was still quite interesting.

"After hearing about the reform of this scientific examination, the students who have fallen behind can also participate in a re-examination, which will be placed three days later."

Bai Shiqian said: "In this way, the palace test has to be postponed, and I don't know if the palace test can be carried out smoothly at the end of April." ”

"Brother Changfeng, don't worry, your grades are very high."

Bai Shiqian looked at the results, he was a little excited, if the result of the palace examination is not much different from this, it is the second grade.

Such an achievement is enough to make the Bai family jump from a businessman to a scholar, which is a leap of class.

Three days later, it is the day of the re-examination of the first student in the provincial examination, and the same as the normal provincial examination, the examination is three days, and the examination is already the sixth day of the fourth month.

This marking is not as long as before, about half a month later, the re-examination is over.

Four students passed.

That is, to be able to participate in the palace examination with the previous batch of students who passed.

The temple test is on the 10th day of the fourth month.

In the Chongzheng Palace, there have long been chamberlains who have placed the positions of the students who have won the ranking in this provincial examination, and the questions of this exam are personally formulated by Zhao Zhen, and even Fan Chongyan, Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu and others who participated in this review do not know the content of the test papers.

In fact, the three of them are the same as the candidates, and they have to answer questions on the spot.

As for the final answer, it is up to His Majesty to explain.

The content of the examination is still the same as the provincial examination, which is composed of strategies, theories, and poems.

Students should write a policy based on the Confucian classics they have mastered and the actual situation of the imperial court, and at the same time emphasize the candidates' ability to express themselves in writing on the eight questions selected from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Book of Rites.

Compared with the provincial examination, the content needs to be more thorough, and it also depends on which student can coincide with His Majesty's views.

The time of the temple examination is also relatively long, from the time of the year to the end of the unitary time.

After the test papers are handed in, they will be immediately sent to the middle left gate on the east side of the Chongzheng Hall, where there is a sealing official to seal the test papers, and then put the test papers into a fixed box and send them to the Funing Hall where the official house is located.

The ministers who participated in the reading of the file were in the Funing Hall and read the file with the officials.

It usually takes a day or two.

This year, the officials asked them to hurry up and mark the papers, because of the innovation of this year's imperial examination, the re-examination was added, which delayed for a long time.

Fan Chongyan and Ouyang Xiu, as the chief examiner and adjutant examiner of the provincial examination, are somewhat familiar with Gu Qingjue's words.

The two wanted to see what the official family's attitude towards this student was.

After some deliberation, put this paper at the end.

Unexpectedly, when the official saw the last one, he was deeply attracted by the content on this test paper, and directly pointed to it as the champion.

When the name was revealed, Gu Qingjue's three words made Zhao Zhen very happy.

This Gu Ziyuan did not disappoint him.

On April 11, the results of the palace examination came out, champion: Gu Qingjue, list eye: Ruan Keming, Tanhua: Xin Zisheng.

Chen Keming is a student of Bailudong Academy, and Xin Zisheng is a student of Yingtian Academy.

In the Renzong Dynasty, it was not just divided into three grades, but the jinshi were divided into six grades, the first class was five, the second class was called the first class, and the sixth class was the fifth class.

Like Gu Qingjue, Ruan Keming and Xin Zisheng, they belong to the first class.

There are two other people in the first class, namely Lu Jiayu from Chongyang Academy, who is the same as Gu Qingjue, and Li Hongyue from Yuelu Academy.

Li Duanyuan is at the end of the fourth class, and Leng Zhongyan and Bai Chengnan are only one place apart, ranking in the middle of the third class.

As for Bai Shiqian, he is in the middle of the second first.

Gu Qingjue gave the champion and the first, the other four people of the first class, gave the jinshi and the first, and the others were all given the jinshi background.

After the rankings were set, the preacher sang and read the names of these jinshi.

Naturally, it starts with the first champion.

The champion, the list of eyes, and the flowers of the temple under the guidance of the praise officer to the bottom of the steps of the Daqing Palace, the position of the champion is slightly higher than the position of the list eye and the position of the flowers, and it is exactly in the center of the temple steps.

Zhao Zhen stood on the steps and looked at Gu Ziyuan, who had been talking about it in Zhao Jin's mouth for many years.

I heard that there is almost a month left, only seventeen years old, but I can see that he is standing there calmly, without the ecstasy after winning the championship, only looking forward with a slight smile, facing the congratulations of others.

Looking at Gu Ziyuan's appearance again, Zhao Zhen couldn't help but joke with Fan Chongyan, who was standing next to him: "Such a character, if it weren't for the fact that the article was really brilliant, he should be made a tanhualang, so as not to disgrace his face." ”

Ouyang Xiu was an old-fashioned person, and he didn't hear Zhao Zhen's teasing, so he said: "Talent is more important than face." Gu Ziyuan's talent will definitely be able to become a capable minister and assist His Majesty. ”

"Well, what Xiu said is very true!"

In order to show his importance to Gu Qingjue and others, he gave them five officials at the moment.

According to the usual practice, the champion is generally awarded an official position from the sixth rank or the seventh rank, but Zhao Zhen directly granted Gu Qingjue the privy inheritance of the sixth grade.

Speaking of the Privy Council, we have to talk about the Privy Council.

The Privy Council of the Northern Song Dynasty originated from the previous dynasty, and at the beginning, it was set up during the Yongtai period of the previous dynasty, and the eunuch trusted by the emperor served as the chief minister, and the name of the chief was the privy envoy.

The main function was to receive letters from ministers and local magistrates and to convey the emperor's orders, and the Privy Council was biased towards the clerical side.

When it came to our dynasty, the Privy Council focused on military management, like the Privy Envoy served by Kong Chong, who was the highest officer of the Privy Council, and the prime minister was equivalent to the Song Dynasty's Yiwen and Wu, and was really high and powerful.

In addition, the Privy Council has a total of 12 different units of authority, called the 12 rooms.

There are also clerks, a total of 38 people, including three deputy directors of each room, five directors, two directors of Shouque, thirteen people of Lingshi, and fifteen people of Shuling Shi.

Gu Qingjue is one of the three deputy ministers of each room.

The Privy Council is in charge of military affairs, military affairs, border preparations, government decrees, cashiers, and stability of the country.

In fact, when the New Deal was reformed last year, some people proposed that the prime minister should concurrently serve as a privy envoy to unify the functions and powers.

But an institution, involving a lot of people, after the prime minister concurrently, many things are not as simple as imagined, and another was before Lu Yijian served as the prime minister, after he stepped down due to physical reasons, the next successor prime minister did not have the courage.

As a privy envoy, Kong Chong could not watch his position be merged like this.

It was a proposal that gave up.

Waiting for the good news official, beating gongs and drums, and sending the news of the champion to Wangjia Village, it is already the second day of June.

Just the day before, Su Yixin and his party finally walked out of the Demon Palace, although Su Yixin is still in the middle of the Yuan Infant Cultivation, but after half a year of experience in the Demon Palace, the cultivation is very solid, just wait for a good opportunity, you can break through again.

Chapter 2 is around eight o'clock in the evening.

(End of chapter)