May twenty-five is the day of the eighteenth year of Hongwu's palace examination.

As soon as the sky was bright, the Chinese-style lifters wore the newly issued blue official robes of the Ministry of Rites, wore black yarns, and stepped on their boots, and lined up outside the palace gate for the first time in their lives.

Although it was the first time to enter the palace, and there were palace exams to participate, their mood was far more relaxed and joyful than when they entered the tribute court.

Because unless there are special circumstances, the temple examination will not be dismissed. In other words, all the lifters present are actually already Jinshi. Although the ranking is also very important, it is enough to go this far.

After a while, the cars of the princes and nobles and the ministers of civil and military affairs also arrived one after another, and they were also lined up outside the palace gate, but today's protagonists are undoubtedly the people who participated in the palace examination, and the princes and ministers are just foils.

As soon as the time came, a solemn bell sounded on the Wufeng Tower, the heavy palace door slowly opened, and the Luan honor guards wearing gold armor came out with various honor guards in their hands, and were divided into several queues.

After the examinees followed behind the civil and military officials, through the deep palace gate, the magnificent square in front of the Fengtian Palace, they suddenly jumped into their eyes.

The men saw that the square was full of soldiers and eunuchs in bright armor, and they lined up neatly and set up a book in front of the palace. There are even four elephants that have only been seen in books, and they are listed around Danqi. The solemn and majestic scene made every newcomer feel extremely shocked and glorious.

They finally have a deep understanding of what it means to be 'the court is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is the Tianzi Hall'. Although none of them were the sons of farmers......

Under the guidance of the officials of Honglu Temple, they crossed the civil and military officials and came to the top of His Majesty, and arranged into two teams according to their examination rankings, with the single name in the east team and the double name in the west team.

And the princes and ministers can only stand around the Dan Majesty if they are the governors and servants, and the rest of the officials can only stand on the Dan Qi below. The importance that the imperial court attaches to these 'protégés of the Son of Heaven' can be seen.

However, in the eyes of civil officials, these juniors who are about to become new science and technology scholars are the result of their more than ten years of hard struggle, and they are the greatest contribution they have made to the survival of the Holy Church.

Zhao Mao, Liu Sanwu, Zhu Shan and others happened to be standing together, looking at the scene in front of them, their eyes were red, and they whispered to each other: "It's really not easy." ”

"It's all come to this, there shouldn't be any variables, right?" Zhu Shan whispered, his pressure is really great these days. Especially after facing the sixth child the day before yesterday, I was even more afraid of retaliation.

"The capital hall has tried, what other variables can there be?" Liu Sanwu was full of confidence, pointed to the front with his chin slightly, and said proudly: "Didn't you see that the sixth child didn't come?" ”

"Hehe, what is he doing here, is he being punished publicly?" Zhao Mao smiled faintly, and the three of them couldn't help but upturn the corners of their mouths.

At this time, a whip exploded in everyone's ears, and everyone couldn't help but bow their heads, and they didn't dare to gasp.

When the eunuch with the whip sounded the whip three times, the drums in the square sounded in unison, the emperor ascended to the throne, and the ministers knelt to greet him.

Then Eunuch Wu dragged a long voice and read out the edict:

"I have unified Huayi since the Yuan Dynasty, the officials follow the ancient system, the law imitates the old chapters, and diligently seeks the ......"

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Eunuch Wu was reading the holy decree full of nonsense over there, but Zhu Yuanzhang on the dragon chair here turned his eyes to the opposite side of the square.

I saw a sea-blue burly figure, walking into the Fengtian Gate with his head held high, striding through the huge square, and walking towards him.

The crown prince, who was standing next to the dragon chair, also saw that figure, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "There is no leap month in a leap year, and it was not easy to go to court last time, and it was still late." ”

"Going to court? It's pretty much the same for smashing the field. Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "It seems that yesterday was not in vain." ”

"......" The prince knew that he couldn't hide anything from his old father, so he hurriedly whispered to the sixth son: "The sixth and his sons have already greeted him in advance." ”

"He told you that he was going to smash the field today?" Zhu Yuanzhang said on his lips, his eyes never left the sixth child.

I saw Zhu Zhen go straight through the court, causing the officials who knelt down to the ground to peek at each other.

"Not really." The prince smiled bitterly, and he could see that the sixth child was holding back the evil fire in his stomach, and he couldn't get over today if he didn't make a fuss.

"Let's make trouble, remember to eat or not......" Zhu Yuanzhang scolded vaguely, and he didn't know if he was scolding the sixth child or anyone.

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After Eunuch Wu finished reading the decree, he didn't hear the ministers respond and accept the decree in unison. He raised his head in astonishment, and saw His Royal Highness the King of Chu standing in the center of His Majesty Dan at some point, and raised his right hand high.

The ministers looked at the posture of the sixth child, and knew that something big was going to happen, and they took a fart order.

Zhao Mao and Liu Sanwu turned white, knowing that this sixth prince was horizontal and hard, but they didn't expect him to be horizontal to this extent, hard to such a degree. I thought he had given up, but I didn't expect it to be holding back his big move.

As for those Chinese-style lifters, with the appearance of the real protagonists, no one cares about them at this time......

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"Sixth, what's the matter with you, can't you wait until after the palace exam?" At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth to ask, and he did not investigate Zhu Zhen's trespass at all.

"Return to my father, because it will be too late after the palace test!" Zhu Zhen raised his voice and said: "Erchen originally planned to beat the drum, but he was afraid that it would be too late, and he felt that it would be faster for him to come in directly to complain." ”

"What's the big deal?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a deep voice.

"Back to my father, my son has preliminarily ascertained that there is extremely serious fraud in this examination!" Zhu Zhen said, turned around and pointed to the four hundred and seventy people who were about to participate in the palace examination, and said word by word:

"Every single one of them is suspicious! You can't take the temple exam until you find out the problem! ”

"Huh?!"

"What?!"

"That's an exaggeration, isn't it?!" The Fengtian Temple Square exploded as soon as it was boarded, and the examiners were struck by lightning, and the Chinese-style lifters were even more frightened and almost fainted.

Those civil officials who must oppose every Saturday naturally resolutely do not believe his 'nonsense', and several speech officials jumped out on the spot and accused Lao Liudao fiercely:

"Your Royal Highness the King of Chu, you have gone too far! There must be a limit to being pampered and proud! It's too lawless to want to stop the country's talent ceremony without evidence! ”

"It's just that you can't eat porridge by yourself, and you can't just smash the pot!"

"I think you're just unwilling and intent on revenge!"

Zhu Zhen looked coldly at those fly-like officials, and said in a deep voice: "Is it just that the family of Guozi University can't eat porridge?" Take a closer look at the admission list for the examination, and there is not even a single northern lift! Didn't the southerners even serve the pot together, right? ”

"Really?" Zhu Yuanzhang really didn't pay attention to this.

"That's right." The crown prince nodded and said softly: "The Chinese-style lifters are indeed from Zhili and the southern provinces. ”

"That's amazing." Zhu Yuanzhang praised with a smile.

(End of chapter)