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Chapter 145 Palace Exam
The first year of Chongzhen.

April twelfth.

The palace examination, which was supposed to be held in March, was delayed until today due to various reasons.

Before dawn, Yang Reform was urged by Wang Chengen to get up, get dressed, and wash up. To be honest, Yang Reform, who was used to going to work at nine o'clock, was very unaccustomed to getting up before dawn.Lazily letting the maids and eunuchs serve, I took this time to stand and squint for a while, discussing the mysteries of life with Queen Zhou Wan'er yesterday, I was really tired.

Wang Chengen looked busy, and hurriedly urged the maids and eunuchs to dress up the emperor quickly, and said: "Congratulations, your majesty, today is your majesty's Enke palace examination, and your majesty will be a teacher. In the future, there will be you The son of heaven is born."

Yang Reform half-closed his eyes and murmured, "Student of the Son of Heaven? Hehe..."

After some washing, a vigorous emperor appeared in everyone's sight again.

In Huangji Hall (formerly called Fengtian Hall, later called Taihe Hall), there have already gathered tributes waiting for the palace examination, as well as the cabinet, ministers and other "examiners".

The continuous sound of orchestral strings and bamboo strings made the atmosphere of the palace examination extraordinarily solemn.

Yang Reform went straight to the side of the dragon chair on the throne, sat down, and the sound of silk and bamboo stopped.The ministers led all the tributes to kneel down and kowtow solemnly, shouting long live and saluting.

Yang Reform picks his ears, what the hell is going on, the sound is so loud that even the tiles on the roof vibrate.Looking at the people below, damn it, there is a large area of ​​darkness, there are probably more than 400 people, this is much more than the usual number of people going to court, no wonder the shouts are so loud.

"Let's get back down." Yang Huaihe finished digging out his ears and flicked the "earwax" on his fingers before making everyone stand up.

A group of adults kowtowed their heads in a serious manner like children playing a game before getting up.

For this imperial examination, Yang Reform placed high expectations, this is the first class of his Jinshi class!Yang Reform also checked the list of these Jinshi for this reason, and found that there are still a group of celebrities, such as Shi Kefa, who came from this batch of Jinshi, and later many senior officials of Nanming came out of this batch of Jinshi.

Here, there are also those scholars I met in the teahouse before. I don't know what expressions they will make when they see him, such as Ye Zigen, Wan Huhou, Xu Yifan and others.Yang Reform quickly scanned the crowd below with his eyes. Some looked deep, some were full of joy, some were timid and wretched, and some looked at him with frightened eyes. After a while, all these people, without exception, lowered their heads again. Yang Reform laughed "hehehe" in his heart for a while, presumably the people who talked about the exam questions with him in the teahouse that day will be very surprised today!
Those scholars who chatted with the "noble man" Yang Reform in the teahouse and guessed the exam questions, because of the different rankings in the exam, the places where they stood were different, and they couldn't see clearly when they stood far away, so they were a little confused. That Mr. Yang!Could it be that Mr. Yang is really related to the emperor, otherwise why are they so similar?But does the emperor have any relatives named Yang?Those who stood close, such as Wan Huhou, had their eyes straightened in shock. They really discussed the topic of the palace examination with the emperor, and the emperor himself said what was the result of the palace examination. With such cheating ah!

The first assistant came out and said: "Qi Your Majesty, the 350 tributes of the Wuchen Branch in the first year of Chongzhen have all arrived. Please give me a policy to ask questions."

"Examination question? Hehe, no need. Today, my policy question is very simple. There are only four words, 'military pay' and 'military equipment'. All tributes will use this question to take the exam. I don't limit the subject matter, the number of words, no limit. The style of writing is limited, candidates, just use it freely." Yang Reform disdained to use the exam questions selected by the ministers, and directly used his own.

Shoufu was very injured and surprised. The emperor did not use the "policy question items" selected by the Imperial Academy and the cabinet, and did not give the exam questions for the yellow case. It seems that he can only follow the emperor and continue the exam. Otherwise, this palace exam, I can't do it anymore.So, he took the ministers and tributes to kowtow to the emperor again, which was regarded as the completion of the etiquette.

Then began to distribute the test papers.The palace examination in the first year of Chongzhen officially began.

Yang Reform was reminded by Wang Chengen that he knew that it was meaningless to stay here, so he only stayed for a while, and then left amidst the "farewell" of the ministers and candidates.Today, it's just a formality. In reality, it will take two days to come, and that's the most important thing about the exam. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, it's the time for grading papers and rankings.

The first year of Chongzhen.

April fourteenth.

In the Wenhua Palace.

All the ministers and the emperor discussed the ranking of the Enke Scholars. This, the Jinshi are known as the disciples of the emperor, and the emperor must personally count the rankings.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, these papers are selected by the ministers and others. Please have a look at them, point out the number one, the second place and the best candidates, and rank them." The first assistant brought up a small stack of papers, about ten envelopes.

Hehe, being the No. [-] Scholar, this thing is interesting. Yang Reform thinks that many traversers from different planes are fighting for this No. [-] Scholar. Now he is sitting on the dragon chair, and being the No. [-] Scholar, this feeling is very good .He took the papers without any hassle, and started to nominate the champion.

Yang Reform flipped through the papers and felt a headache. Yang Reform felt that there was something very similar to these papers, and that was the copybook of "Pang Zhonghua".

These papers are very neatly written, and there are also many "shorthand characters". Yang Reform, who can understand a little bit, thought that his reading level was very high, so he tried to read it. Unexpectedly, these "papers" did not have a single punctuation mark. , Yang Reform read it in one breath, and almost didn't stop breathing.

What's even worse is that these papers are all ambiguous, and the names of the candidates can't be seen. This makes Yang Reform helpless. Unexpectedly, he originally thought that in this imperial examination, the emperor wanted whoever was the number one scholar, that is, to be the number one scholar , But I didn't expect that the ancient imperial examinations were so "advanced" that they were vague names, and the emperor sometimes went wrong.

Yang Reform had no choice but to say: "Why do you paste the names? You can't see anyone's test paper!" Yang Reform wanted to see if this history had changed. For example, the number one scholar was Liu Ruozai. Not surprisingly, it should be in the top ten. Yang Reform wants to know if he has the ability to change history.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, of course, please take a look at it before taking it apart, otherwise, the ministers will be suspected of favoritism." The chief assistant said again, according to the rules, the emperor would usually order the top ten rankings, so The seal of the name can only be removed after the emperor has seen it.

"Well, let's take it apart." And this rule?It turned out that the emperor could choose the number one scholar by himself. Yang Reform had no way of distinguishing the quality of the paper from the quality of the paper, and he had no way of distinguishing whose paper was whose handwriting.Just wait for the paper to be opened, look at the name, and reveal the "truth" of history.

The paper was opened, and the chief assistant said again: "Please read it, Your Majesty."

Yang Reform opened the paper and searched for the name of the person. Sure enough, Liu Ruozai, the number one scholar, was also placed at the top.Yang Reform couldn't help but secretly sighed, his power as a butterfly was actually weaker!The exam questions have been leaked to the examinees, and this history has not changed much. The number one scholar, Liu Ruozai, is still selected as the number one by the ministers.

Yang Reform sighed for a while, and when he felt insignificant about his own strength, he flipped through the other papers and found that there was actually the name of Wan Huhou, which was listed as No.6 in the second class. Reform was surprised for a while. It turned out that I have the power to change history. This Wanhuhou was not in the top ten. I specifically searched for Wanhuhou and their rankings.

"I can trust you dear ministers, so I will follow your dear ministers' orders, and I will not make any changes. These three are the champion, role model and candidate in turn." Yang Reform picked up the papers selected by the ministers and clicked the first prize. This Liu Ruozai's paper is the top scorer, the second one is a role model, and the third one is the top scorer. The rankings of the ministers have not been changed at all, and even the ranking of Wan Huhou has not been changed.

The ministers who were worried that the emperor would randomly "appoint generals" breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the emperor had basically adopted their rankings. Mischievous" is.The ministers felt warm in their hearts, feeling that their hard work in the past few days had not been "in vain" and had won the approval of the emperor.

In fact, Yang Reform was afraid of these "papers" without punctuation marks. , There is no way to arrange a noun by yourself. Instead of arranging one indiscriminately, it is better to use the ministers to arrange it. At least, it will not be worse than the one in history.The most important thing is this Jinshi class. Generally speaking, the quality is not bad. Yang Reform does not intend to perform "surgery".Just use the original ranking.

Yang Reform wasn't worried that Ye Zigen's ranking was too low.People like Ye Zigen got their own "inside story", so they should be prepared, and their grades should be higher than "history".

If those people like Ye Zigen got their own "leaked" test questions and still can't get good grades in the test, then they can only blame themselves for being useless, and they are not good enough, so there is no need for them to "cultivate" these people too much.Yang Reform comforted himself in this way again.It turns out that being an emperor also seems to require skills!
"Your Majesty is wise, may I ask Your Majesty, will Your Majesty also read the remaining papers?" Seeing that the emperor had chosen the champion, the chief assistant asked the emperor if he would like to read other papers. Generally, the emperor does not read these candidates. The papers are generally recommended by the examiners directly, because the emperor is too "lazy" when he comes; secondly, most of the emperors are "ignorant". With the recommendation of the examiners, of course, in terms of form, you still have to tell the emperor.

Having figured it out, Yang Reform waved his hand and said, "I've said it before, I can trust you gentlemen, so let's just rely on your rankings, and I won't look any further."

All the ministers were very happy to be affirmed by the emperor.At the same time, one thing is affirmed, the emperor is "ignorant and incompetent", so it is relatively easy to fool.

(End of this chapter)