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Chapter 87 Palace Exam
The palace examination is scheduled for March 22. According to the usual practice, it should have been postponed for one month after the final examination.

For one thing, all the students have gone through more than ten days of rigorous examination room experience, even the most physically strong will be "skinned off", not to mention that most of the scholars in the world are weak, and many of them are basically top-heavy after the last test. out of the examination room gate.Therefore, this one month postponement is a chance for all the students to recuperate.

Two, from sealing, opening, grading to ranking, review, ranking, etc., all the processes go through once, and it will take ten days at the fastest.After the list is released, all those on the list will become tributes.

The top [-] candidates will participate in the palace examination in the future and accept His Majesty's examination. For this reason, in the few days left, they must be familiar with court etiquette, learn how to wear robes and boots, and visit and thank you. The chief examiner, deputy chief examiner, etc. in the examination room are very busy.

Even if you don't make it into the top [-], you are not idle.According to the Daliang Law, tributes are already officials, but they have not yet been assigned. However, even if the matter is settled, the person involved needs to run back and forth, asking for what kind of official, which official, and so on.

Ji Qiang didn't give these people a chance to breathe. Once the results of the examination were released, only three days later, the top [-] people on the list would take part in the palace examination.

The members of the Imperial Academy were taken aback. Eight important ministers selected topics overnight, and initially drafted eight propositions to present. There is no news.

Meng Zijin bit the bullet and went to Yangyuan Hall to inquire, but the result was that His Majesty didn't care about any of those propositions, and she had already made up her mind.

Ji Qiang's move was not in violation of the rules for frying pots in the Imperial Academy. After all, both the Shengzu Dynasty and the Taizong Dynasty had personally set the topic, but the scholars at the time knew what the proposition was.

This time it was their turn, but there was no news at all.

When the Imperial Academy was disturbing, Ji Qiang was sitting quietly in the Hall of Yangyuan studying the names of the top [-] candidates in the examination.Among them, Sun Jizong and Tao Guangyi were ranked very low, one fifteen and the other seventeen.

Ji Qiang read their articles and compared them with other students, and thought it was fair for the examiner to give them such a ranking.

Sun Jizong's articles are majestic and majestic, and if they are too grand, they are a bit flashy and illusory.The ancients said that articles are like people, but Sun Jizong was an exception. Ji Qiang recalled the night of Shangyuan, the short scholar with arched shoulders and back, but he didn't see anything that can be called imposing.

Tao Guangyi writes beautiful calligraphy, and every stroke and stroke is so penetrating, it can be seen that he has worked hard on weekdays.His articles are gorgeous in rhetoric, and his insights are occasionally brilliant. Generally speaking, compared with the top three, he is far behind.

However, Ji Qiang does not deny that both of them are people with real talents and practical learning.

There are as many scholars in the world as a cow's hair, but those who are famous are very few.A threshold for raising people has stumped countless outstanding students for thousands of years, not to mention that after winning the exam, they have walked all the way, participated in the general examination and the imperial examination.

Putting down the list, Ji Qiang had vague expectations for the palace examination in a few days.

……

On March 22, Si time, the palace examination began.

The Suzaku gate opened, and the tributes wearing new robes and boots entered the Suzaku gate according to their ranking.

Sun Jizong and Tao Guangyi, who were walking at the end of the line, looked at each other silently, filled with ecstasy.

They did not break their promise to His Majesty, they really came to participate in the imperial examination!

Although their rankings are relatively low, the two agree that rankings are not important compared to reputation.

Between the Zhuque Gate and the Taihe Gate is the magnificent Zhuque Bridge. Before going up the bridge, the servants leading the way will automatically divide into two teams. Spread out from left to right, and follow our family to climb the Zhuque Bridge in sequence."

Everyone hurriedly lined up as required, before the Suzaku Bridge was halfway through, two groups of Habayashi soldiers suddenly came from the opposite side, trotting up the bridge, and the captain at the head waved his arms while shouting at the tribute team, "Back! Everyone back down! You can pass the Zhuque Bridge at will!"

The Gongshi team was immediately startled, you looked at me, I looked at you, and I was a little dumbfounded.

Tao Guangyi tugged at the corner of Sun Jizong's clothes, and said in a low voice, "What's the matter? The route map given in the "Guide to the Palace Examination" clearly marked the Zhuque Bridge, why don't you let it go?"

Sun Jizong was thoughtful, and immediately returned to Tao Guangyi, "Don't panic."

Then he whispered to the front and back: "Everyone, don't act rashly."

"The general doesn't know something..." The head servant stepped forward and explained with a smile, "These are Jinke Gongshi who are going to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to take the palace examination. This road is the shortest road to the Hall of Supreme Harmony. I hope the general Accommodate."

"Accommodating? I said, Eunuch Li, you are also an old man in the palace. They don't know the rules for the first time in the palace, don't you? This Zhuque Bridge is a special road used by civil and military officials. Entering the palace, who doesn't take the side road?"

"Oh, I said General, you don't know what to do, they are already Gongshi..."

"The tribute has not yet been appointed as an official, so Eunuch Li should not embarrass the last general." Captain Yubayashi no longer listened to Eunuch Li's excuses, but at this time, some of the tributes had learned to get off the bridge and chose the side road.

If there is one, then there are two, not long after, half of the 20 people have retreated, and the servants led them to the side road, but the team of Sun Jizong and Tao Guangyi did not move at all.

"Why don't you go down?" Habayashi Weichang pointed at Sun Jizong and the others, his attitude became more and more impatient, and he even began to rudely push the group of people, trying to use the terrain to push them off the Zhuque Bridge.

"General, we followed the route indicated by the "Palace Examination Guide" issued by the imperial court, and we did not go wrong." Sun Jizong took the initiative to stand up and resisted the rude behavior of Captain Habayashi with his thin body, "Furthermore, This Zhuque bridge was built in the first year of the holy ancestor, the holy ancestor once said that this Zhuque bridge was built for scholars all over the world, am I not qualified to walk this Zhuque bridge as a tribute?"

When Habayashi Weichang heard the words, he snorted guiltily, turned around and took Habayashi Wei off the bridge, everyone was dumbfounded, so just ignore it?

It seems that Cai's behavior just now is just a fake tiger's prestige.

Fortunately, they listened to the opinions of Sun Jizong and Tao Guangyi and did not change their course easily.

They are all entering the palace for the first time, and they must follow the route given in advance. What if they change the route indiscriminately, delay the exam, or simply cannot find the Hall of Supreme Harmony?
Seeing the Habayashi army retreating, Sun Jizong said kindly to Eunuch Li: "Please continue to lead the way, Eunuch."

Eunuch Li wiped off his sweat and led ten tributes down the bridge.

……

Ji Qiang, who was standing on the eagle stand, saw all the scene that happened just now, and couldn't help but smile knowingly.

In this imperial examination, she deliberately set up several checkpoints, and will evaluate twenty tribute scholars in terms of courage, emergency response, flexibility, and backbone, in order to select the ones that the court needs at the moment.

Mencius asked again and again, but she didn't reveal a single word. One was afraid of revealing the topic, and the other was that the old men in the Imperial Academy were all old. Tell them the method of assessment, even so, they may not be able to accept it.

And judging from the results just now, she really felt that it was necessary to set up the level of the palace test.

(End of this chapter)