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Chapter 392: The new champion of science, avenges the Murong family in court

The main gate of the Forbidden City is located in the southern section of the central axis of Yanjing City. It is called Zi due to the north and Wu to the south, so it is called the "Wumen". Its east, west, and north sides are connected by city platforms and surround a square square. It is like being surrounded by three mountains, with five protruding peaks, and it is extremely majestic.

On the front of the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, the three door openings are extremely tall. The middle one is eleven feet high, which is breathtaking. This is the special door for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to enter and exit the forbidden palace. Anyone who breaks in without permission will die!

But there are two exceptions. One is that the queen can enter the palace here during her wedding. The other one is Sandingjia, who is the number one, second and third overall scorer in the palace examination. He can walk out of this door once while parading around the capital. This is also a moment of supreme glory for scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

Today, among the hundreds of new Jinshi scholars wearing Jinshi robes, three lucky ones will leave the imperial palace, enjoy the highest honor in a scholar's life, honor their ancestors, and leave their names in history.

Xu Xin stood in the center of the team, wearing a black gauze Jinshi scarf, a dark blue wide-sleeved robe with green edges, a green leather belt with black horns around his waist, and holding a locust wood wat board, no different.

He didn't whisper to each other like the people around him, he just watched his nose and his heart in silence, and his heart was as calm as water.

The moment that a scholar dreams of is just like this for him. He has been an emperor before. What kind of big scene has he not seen before? This is so exciting?

He just got up this morning from the concubine Shu, who the emperor thought about day and night. Is he proud?

At this time, another bell rang from the city gate tower, and a eunuch shouted in a male duck's voice: "The auspicious time has come, and all the officials will lead their tributes to see you!"

All the officials and new scholars outside the Forbidden City were silent at this moment. Normally, the civil and military officials entering the palace would enter through the left door, and the nobles and ministers would enter through the right door. The left and right doors would not be opened.

But now that the emperor is holding a grand ceremony in the Jinluan Hall, all the dignitaries enter through the Liangye Gate instead. After passing through the deep doorway, they keep walking forward. After passing through the Fengtian Gate, they see a white jade railing and a dragon-carved pillar. It is an extremely spacious square that can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

At the end of the square is a splendid palace with golden walls that rises eleven feet high and is located on a three-story white marble platform. This is the most magnificent building in the Forbidden City, the Fengtian Palace. Its length to width ratio is just right. It is nine to five, which represents the dignity of nine and five.

All the designs of Fengtian Palace have only one purpose, which is to maximize the supreme imperial power. The effect was achieved, and all the new scholars who saw it for the first time burst into tears and fell to the ground.

Even the officials who were no longer meeting for the first time were all excited, and their loyalty and patriotism arose spontaneously... Except for Xu Xin, he also spent dozens of dollars on tickets in his first life, so he came in and walked around, and also Had a bowl of noodles there which was quite expensive and tasteless.

In addition, he has lived to be a hundred years old in several lifetimes. He just committed a treasonous act of deceiving the emperor last night. He has no fear of the imperial power. Is he loyal to the emperor? He was only loyal to the Xu family, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who was himself.

In front of the Fengtian Hall, there are many golden-armored guards holding various weapons that are more symbolic than practical, such as golden melons, treasure dings, flags and flags. Under the eaves, there is also a palace band equipped with a full set of musical instruments such as Huang Zhong Da Lu. It's called Lu Bu Fajiao.

The music sounded, and Wan An, the cabinet scholar, came out.

"All Gongsheng students, listen to the announcement."

"The emperor's grace is great, he opens the subjects to recruit scholars, and he promotes talents for the country, and there is no need to ask about his origins. Today, the imperial examination in Dingwei, the 23rd year of Chenghua, is over. Your Majesty will test the world's tributes and award the first-class Jinshi and the third place. The background of the second-class Jinshi... is as follows..."

"First place in the first class of the imperial examination...Wang Shouren!"

The Han generals on both sides shouted like a relay: "First place in the First Class, Gongsheng Wang Shouren comes to see you..."

For a time, the entire Fengtian Hall echoed the same sentence. “Master Zhuangyuan, please follow me into the palace to thank you!”

Xu Xin followed the officials who guided him into the Golden Palace. In the music as light as a gossamer, he followed the ups and downs of the ceremonial officer's singing, and was led to stand where the sixth-rank officials of Zuoban were.

The Jinluan Hall is known as the largest in the world, but the layout inside is quite simple. There are a total of seventy-two large red pillars. The six surrounding the emperor's throne are pasted with gold. There is a giant dragon on each pillar, guarding the golden pillars. The emperor's throne on the pedestal.

The emperor sitting high on the dragon throne seemed somewhat majestic under the support of this magnificent palace. Xu Xin looked up, accidentally met the emperor's eyes, and found that Emperor Chenghua was looking at him with a smile, just like the curious expression he had when he saw the giant panda when he was a child.

Xu Xinxin felt a chill in his heart, and the guilt he felt for sleeping with Concubine Shu last night suddenly disappeared. He was even thinking about going to the Forbidden City again tonight. He heard that the biological mother of the Thirteenth Prince, Concubine Li, had an affair with a certain person. The concubines named Shao are all very beautiful...

After the long roll-call process, the Sandingjia changes their clothes, and then comes the "Royal Street Kuaishou" out of the Meridian Gate, that is, the No. 1, No. 2, and the No. 3 flower ride around the capital on horseback.

Xu Xin was already in the side hall, and the palace maids personally changed into the dark blue Jinshi robe with wide sleeves, the round-collar court dress of Chiluo Qingyuan, and the leather belt around his waist was replaced by a plain silver belt, and he hung a medicinal jade pendant. Even the black gauze hat on his head also has a big red flower on the left and right hairpins... He doesn't look like the number one scholar, but more like the groom.

The attire of the groom's official is exactly the same as that of the No. 1 scholar. Compared with the groom's official who can be chosen by everyone, the number one scholar only came out in three years of the Ming Dynasty, which is too rare.

"Wang Zhuangyuan, please come forward and let me take a good look!"

Xu Xin put on the Zhuangyuanlang's clothes and entered the palace again, but heard the emperor actively calling him. He stepped forward to the imperial steps and looked up at Emperor Chenghua.

Although we had just met him a few days ago, Emperor Chenghua today was obviously more energetic and more majestic.

"Wang Shouren, I have heard of you for a long time. You are the prince's attendant. The youngest number one scholar in the history of the Ming Dynasty, your father Wang Hua, was also selected as the number one scholar by me in this Jinluan Hall six years ago. Both father and son are number one. , it can be said that it is unique throughout the ages..."

The emperor boasted to Xu Xin for a while, as if he really thought highly of this new champion, but it would be nice to just listen to such nice words. However, Xu Xin's success in ranking first was due to the factors he mentioned, in addition to his excellent writing.

"The new champion, do you have anything you want to say to me?"

After the emperor finished speaking his words of encouragement, he casually said a concluding sentence in a formulaic manner.

Normally, in this situation, it would be just fine for the new top scholar to thank him, but Xu Xin... really spoke, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was a big event that shook the Jinluan Palace.

He mentioned that his new concubine, Jiang Yufeng, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family from the south of the Yangtze River, and the two young ladies of the Murong family whose houses had been confiscated, both belonged to the sect of the Nanhai Shenni. He said that the second young lady of the Murong family assassinated the thirteenth prince. There is injustice in everything...

The new No. 1 scholar avenged the Murong family, causing an earthquake in the Jinluan Palace.

(End of this chapter)