Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 91
As the tortoise walked in, the sky gradually brightened at this time, and the magnificent palace displayed its supreme imperial power.Being in it, Wang Daoqiu's innate ambition made him want to become the master of this place.

Suppressing the raging ambitions in his heart, with a serious smile and a poker face, Wang Daoqiu led a group of [-] newcomers to the officialdom to the Jinshen Hall where the Ming Dynasty held the Great Succession Ceremony.

This Jinshen Hall is located on a white marble base more than seven meters high. The white marble base is divided into three layers. Each layer has a circle of carefully carved and fierce-looking dragon heads at the same distance, sticking out. , so densely packed that Wang Daoqiu couldn’t count how many there were.Anyway, regardless of whether other people think these dragon head art, Wang Daoqiu can't appreciate it. He thinks it's a bit disgusting.

Not to mention those dragon heads, Wang Daoqiu is still quite shocked by the stalwart of this Jinsheng Temple. It is a traditional Chinese architectural style, nearly 30 meters high, and magnificent.If you want to say what people feel after watching it, it is "domineering".

Because the main hall is located on a white marble foundation stone more than seven meters high, stone steps are set up from the bottom to lead to the main hall.This stone staircase also has the architectural characteristics of ancient Chinese imperial palaces. There are steps on both sides, and in the middle is a recumbent flying dragon, demonstrating the imperial power.

Of course, on the square of His Royal Highness Jinshen, the road leading to Jinshen Hall, about 20 meters in the front section, is a whole row of large-scale horizontal stone sculptures. Kowloon goes out to sea to play pearls, with teeth and claws. They look fierce and hateful. Come to see it alone at night, timid See you, I guess my feet will shake.

The scientific name of these stone steps leading from the stone foundation at the bottom of the main hall to the main hall platform is "Bi", and the short section of flat land between the stone steps is scientifically called "Qi".Because the "Golden Palace Chuanlu" is being held here today, the stone steps leading up to the Jinshen Palace are now decorated with bright red and festive red ribbons.

All civil and military officials followed the rules and their own ranks, went up the steps, stepped on red silk and stood in their proper place on the "chi".Wang Daoqiu and the other three hundred and one newly promoted Jinshi were lining up and standing in the small square under the steps, looking up at their official seniors.

Because Emperor Jiajing will personally come to preside over this "Jin Palace Biography" later, so now the Jinsheng Palace is not just filled with civil and military officials, which is so monotonous.In the middle of the hall under the eaves, there is a nine-dragon crank yellow umbrella cover dedicated to the emperor.On both sides of the umbrella cover there are whisks, stoves, boxes, pots, plates, bottles, chairs, spoons, etc., showing the pomp and ceremony that an emperor should have.

As for the court musicians and the emperor's personal guards who are very good-looking to set off the atmosphere, they are all holding their own food at this time, or sitting or standing, where they should be.

After all the civil and military officials and [-] newly promoted Jinshi stood up according to the rules, the protagonist, Emperor Jiajing, came to the scene in a large "slider", surrounded by a group of honor guards.

"Crying Whip"

As soon as Emperor Jiajing arrived at the Jinshen Hall, the whole set of ceremonies to welcome the emperor began with three clear thunderbolts from the clear sky, and the heavy whip lashing the ground.

After the whip was whipped, drums and music began to play until Emperor Jiajing sat on the dragon throne. Then the music stopped. The civil and military officials, Wang Daoqiu and other newly promoted scholars, under the command of the eunuch master of ceremonies, knelt three times before Emperor Jiajing. Nine-kowtow ceremony.

After paying respects to Emperor Jiajing, then Honglu Siqing came out and read aloud the summary report of the general examination and palace examination, the official articles that have not changed through the ages, a bunch of nonsense, and no dry goods.

Holding back my nausea, I pretended to be my grandson and listened to the nonsense from the Minister of Honglu Temple.Then Wang Daoqiu saw a young eunuch hand a scroll into the hands of Yan Song, the chief minister of the cabinet.Yan Song took the scroll, raised it high above his head, and knelt down again to Emperor Jiajing, who was sitting on the dragon chair.

After the salute, Yan Song stood up and turned around. At this time, there were two other cabinet bachelors. Without Yan Song's greeting, they went up on their own initiative and helped Yan Song open the scroll.Then Yan Song started to sing loudly.

Of course, given Yan Song's age of nearly seventy, the volume of his breath.Not to mention Wang Daoqiu and the others who are standing about 30 meters away from the steps of the upper hall now. Even those who are ten meters away from Yan Song, in this empty environment, probably can't understand what the old man Yan said. .

So in the era before wheat, people came up with a simple way to transmit sound over long distances, using people to relay sounds.Lao Yansong's anger sank into his Dantian, and with all his strength, he shouted loudly: "In the imperial examination at the end of Ding Dynasty in the 26th year of Jiajing, No. 1 in the first class, Wang Daoqiu, Changxing County, Huzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province."

As soon as Yan Song finished singing the first song, the "big voice" specially selected in advance by the emperor's troops standing beside him began to relay the sound, repeating the song Yan Song had just sung one after another. Repeat it and pass it down.

After several rounds of voice relay, the content of the singing list was understood by the newly promoted scholars at the bottom, including Wang Daoqiu himself.However, after hearing it, Wang Daoqiu still stood there and did not move, because according to the rules, the top three in the Golden Palace, the number one, the second, and the third overall, had to sing three times in a row before it was over.

So Wang Daoqiu patiently listened to the singing list, and only after the third singing list was over, he stepped out from among the Jinshi.An official of Honglu Temple who was nearby at the time saw Wang Daoqiu coming out. He hurriedly followed the ritual procedures and came over to lead Wang Daoqiu to the royal road at the foot of the steps, kneeling down to thank the emperor for his kindness.

Amid the envy, jealousy, and hatred of the three hundred newly promoted scholars behind him, Wang Daoqiu followed the officials of Honglu Temple and walked to the royal road in a very low-key manner.

Royal Road, as soon as you hear the name, you will know that this is the road specially reserved for the emperor in feudal etiquette.Of course, for some special political purposes, the number one, number two, top pick, and newlywed empress after each palace examination can get a chance to follow the imperial path once in their lifetime.

The officials of Honglu Temple led Wang Daoqiu to the near left of the imperial road, pointed to a place with a giant turtle head, and signaled Wang Daoqiu to stand there.Do you dominate?Wang Daoqiu understands this.

So Wang Daoqiu, who received the advice, first bowed his hands and saluted the official of Honglu Temple who brought him here.Then he stood up on top, adjusted his clothes first, and then slowly knelt down to Emperor Jiajing.

"Your Majesty Daoqiu, thank you Lord for your kindness."

After shouting this official official language, Wang Daoqiu kowtowed according to the rules.When the eunuch above, the master of ceremonies, shouted on behalf of Emperor Jiajing: "Wang Qing is flat," Wang Daoqiu stood up and stood there obediently, with his waist bowed and his head bowed.

完成了状元的唱榜，接下来金殿传胪继续。于是接下来的近一个小时里，王道秋就听到了这些声音：一甲No.2李春芳，一甲No.3胡正蒙……二甲No.9张居正，二甲No.11名杨继盛……二甲No.30一名凌云翼……二甲No.80名王世贞……三甲No.40六名袁洪愈……三甲1零六名殷士儋，三甲1零七名汪道昆……三甲197名殷正茂。

Throughout the history of China's imperial examinations, there are two imperial examinations that are recognized as the best.The first one is known as the first list of the millennium imperial examination, the Jinshi list in the second year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty. This year's Jinshi list includes three of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, namely Su Shi, Su Zhe and Zeng Gong.In addition to these three masters, there are also thinkers Er Cheng, Zhang Zai and others on the list of Jinshi this year, as well as the future prime ministers of the Song Dynasty Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, and Zhang Dun. It can be said that the stars are shining.

China's Millennium Science Examination has the two best Jinshi rankings. Apart from the one in the second year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty, the other one is the one in the 26th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty.A total of 70 Jinshi were admitted in this session, and about [-] of them later left their names in history.Among them, ten people later became ministers, three of them joined the cabinet to assist the government, and the great writer Wang Shizhen was included.

Zhang Juzheng, the reformer of Ming Dynasty, the number one minister of power in Ming Dynasty.Wang Shizhen, a writer and historian, has led the literary world for 20 years.Yang Jisheng, the number one tough guy in the Ming Dynasty, was a well-known admonisher.Prime Minister of Taiping Li Chunfang.Anti Japanese hero and dramatist Wang Daokun.Yin Zhengmao, an all-rounder in civil and military affairs, a generation of imperial teachers, Yin Shidan, a violent university scholar, and Ling Yunyi, an expert in water conservancy...

This class of Jinshi in the 26th year of the Ming Dynasty had a huge impact on the politics, economy, and military affairs of the middle and late Ming Dynasty in history. They produced so many great talents that they were recognized as the first in the Ming and Qing imperial examinations.

Of course, as Wang Daoqiu, a man who cheated in history, traveled through time, his personal achievements, and the talents of this year's bull list, were more rationally used.This will allow the powerful people in this year's bull list to have higher achievements.It will directly overthrow the Jinshi in the second year of Song Jiayou, and become the undisputed number one in the imperial examinations in our Chinese history.

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