Two days later, before the morning sun rose and there was only some whitening in the sky, Lin Nuo and the others, under the leadership of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, once again came to the huge and majestic and magnificent Forbidden City.

When he came to the Forbidden City for the first time, Lin Nuo didn't carefully look at the surrounding environment of the Forbidden City because he was thinking about the palace test, but this time, he was in a very relaxed mood, and his eyes were condensed on the crimson palace walls and golden glazed tiles.

After a while, his brow couldn't help but furrow slightly.

The crimson Gong Qiang was smeared with a large amount of cinnabar.

Cinnabar was widely used in ancient times, and because of its dark red and festive color, it was rumored to have the effect of warding off evil spirits, so it was often used by the powerful to make coatings for house construction.

Today's Forbidden City was built by Zhu Di after moving the capital to Beijing, and a large amount of cinnabar was used as paint on the palace walls and floor tiles.

You must know that cinnabar contains a lot of mercury, and the Forbidden City in front of you, in Lin Nuo's opinion, is a large chronic gas chamber, and staying in this palace for many years will cause chronic heavy metal poisoning.

Most of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not live long, and their bodies were often sick, in addition to some deaths from the conspiracy of civil officials and others, in Lin Nuo's view, it was also related to chronic heavy metal poisoning caused by long-term waiting in the Forbidden City.

"No wonder most of the Qing Dynasty emperors in later generations worked in the Old Summer Palace, and rarely lived in the Forbidden City, it turns out that there is a reason for this!"

Lin Nuo secretly wondered in his heart, Emperor Zhengde after Hongzhi, despite the opposition of his ministers, forcibly moved out of the Forbidden City, and established a leopard house outside the city to live, in addition to not wanting to see those boring civil officials all day long, it is estimated that there is still a reason why he is not feeling well in the Forbidden City, right?

Passing through the palace avenue paved with white marble, Lin Nuo and the other four hundred new science and technology scholars came to the Jinluan Hall again with excitement.

At this time, on both sides of the hall, there were already standing royal ministers and civil and military officials in red court uniforms, and today was a festive day, even if the officials who usually didn't like each other, they were nodding and smiling at each other to maintain the harmony on the surface.

At this time, Lin Nuo, like other new science and technology scholars, wore a black gauze jinshi scarf, wore a blue-edged dark blue wide-sleeved robe, a cyan leather belt decorated with black horns at the waist, and held a locust wood wat board, he stood in the crowd, and did not talk to other people, but constantly urged Jiuyang's internal force, so that the internal force traveled to all parts of the body, and dispersed the smell of cinnabar around him.

Lin Nuo doesn't care too much about how many places he can rank, as long as he has a Jinshi fame, of course, if he can enter the top three of the first class, it will naturally be better.

"Ladies and gentlemen, listen to the announcement. ”

At this time, Li Dongyang, the first assistant with white hair, came to the front of a group of new scholars, unfolded a beautiful yellow book, and then began to read: "Fengtian carries the emperor, Zhao said...... At the end of the 15th year of Hongzhi, His Majesty planned to test the world's tribute scholars, and gave the first class jinshi and the third place, the second class jinshi was born one hundred and ten, and the third class was born with two hundred and eighty-nine jinshi. ”

Reading this, Li Dongyang's voice paused slightly, and after taking a deep breath, he continued to read: "First place, Kang Hai!"

"Second place in the first class, Xu Wei!"

"Third place in the first class, Lin Nuo!"

The top three were selected, and immediately several officials from the Ministry of Rites stepped forward, cautiously walked up to Lin Nuo and the others, and led them towards the Jinluan Palace.

In the Jinluan Palace, Emperor Hongzhi was already sitting on the dragon chair, looking at Lin Nuo and the three of them with a smile, especially Lin Nuo, who was looked at by him a few more times, as if he was admiring the beautiful jade of the good field.

Immediately afterwards, the 110 jinshi of the second class were also led into the Jinluan Hall by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and then a group of Jinshi were solemnly thanked to Emperor Hongzhi in accordance with the etiquette that the officials of the Ministry of Rites had already taught.

As for the top three Tongjinshi, they are not qualified to enter the Jinluan Palace, they only need to kneel outside the hall to thank the emperor.

After a salute, in the sound of music, the emperor encouraged a few words of new science and technology, and then returned to the palace under the service of the eunuchs and palace ladies.

With the emperor leaving, the Ministry of Rites brought out the gold list, which will be hung outside the noon gate for three days, and then the entire capital can go to see the list.

"The top three will go to the side hall to change their clothes, and they will be 'praising officials in the royal street' later!" After the emperor left, the rest of the things were naturally presided over by Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and others, and one of the scholars walked up to Lin Nuo and the three of them, and said with a smile.

Lin Nuo nodded, he knew that for readers, the next plot would be the most beautiful day of their lives.

The spring breeze is proud, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day!

However, for Lin Nuo, this is not a very good experience, originally after changing the jinshi uniform and changing into a round-necked official uniform, Lin Nuo felt quite satisfied, but when the palace maid put a black gauze hat with a big red flower on each side on his head, he was a little unhappy.

"I'm a new science and technology officer, and I'm not a groom official, so I don't need to arrange flowers on my head, right?"

"Tanhualang said with a smile, today is a big day, it is much more important than being a groom, you can't make us embarrassed!" In the side hall, a young eunuch looked full of flattery, for fear that Lin Nuo would not be satisfied and mess up this event.

Lin Nuo was helpless, so he let the palace maids bring the black gauze hat to him, and then left the side hall.

When he walked out of the side hall, it happened that the champion Lang Kang Hai also walked out with flowers on his head, and the other party looked like he was thirty years old, and after seeing Lin Nuo's dress, he couldn't help but smile at him, as if he thought Lin Nuo's dress was quite funny.

"Haha, don't laugh at our eldest brother, you must know that this flower arrangement hat, the other Jinshi are very envious!" Xu Wei also walked out at this time, and greeted Lin Nuo and the others with joy on his face.

Now the three of them have changed into court clothes, not to mention, if there are no flowers on their heads, they really have the appearance of high-ranking officials in the court, especially the champion Lang Kanghai, with good facial features, thick eyebrows and square face, and a standard face of an official.

Lin Nuo speculated in his heart that Hongzhi chose this person as the champion, I'm afraid it has nothing to do with the other party's appearance, right?

The next thing is the royal street boasting official.

After Lin Nuo and the three of them changed their clothes, the three scholars personally sent them to the outside of the noon gate, where the secretary of the Ministry of Rites had been waiting for a long time, leading the top three and swaggering out to the main gate of Chengtianmen.

Behind the three of them, a group of jinshi followed on the official road on the left, the imperial road in the center, only the emperor and the top three in the palace test could walk, and the others were not qualified to walk.

Of course, even if it is a top three jinshi, he can only go once in this life, and if there is no accident in the future, there will basically be no chance again.