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The state of the world under the list was gradually revealed, some scholars beat their chests and cried, but more scholars burst into tears and hid their faces, and some scholars on the list were so excited that they knelt on the ground and cried and screamed, venting their emotions accumulated for many years.

There are two middle-aged gentlemen who have been on the list for many years and lost again, their emotions can't be controlled, they rush up to tear the list, the soldiers below have already prepared, and several soldiers stepped forward to knock them over with a punch and dragged them down directly.

It was relatively quiet under the list in the east, at this time, the two examiners were full of paste on the wooden board, and pasted the fifth list, the first name was still Lane 25, and it was No. 25 84, Taixue Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing only felt that his heart was relieved, his nose was sour, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but moisten, he lowered his head and held his face with his hand.

At this time, Zhou Chun squeezed over, he also saw Li Yanqing's name on the list, and his heart was even more excited, hugged him tightly, and said with a smile: "Let's go out first!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, and the two walked quickly towards the path, when someone suddenly shouted behind them: "Yanqing!" ”

As soon as Li Yanqing turned around, he saw a person hurriedly chasing behind him, wearing a scholar's scarf and a pale cyan Confucian robe, with a handsome appearance, Li Yanqing immediately recognized that it was Zhao Kai, the king of Jia.

"It turned out to be ......"

Without waiting for Li Yanqing to reveal his identity, Zhao Kai preemptively smiled and said: "I am Wang Kai of Kaifeng Mansion!" ”

Li Yanqing immediately came to his senses and hurriedly smiled: "Brother Wang should have also been hit!" ”

Zhao Kai smiled and nodded, "I'm Lane 28, and I also saw the name of the virtuous brother just now." ”

He glanced at Zhou Chun again, "This is ......"

Li Yanqing hurriedly introduced him: "This is my fellow villager Zhou Chun, a scholar of Yuelu who has just passed the provincial exam!" ”

He smiled at Zhou Chun again: "Wang Kai, a native of the capital, a son of an official eunuch." ”

Zhao Kai and Zhou Chun greeted each other, and at this moment, several scholars from Yuelu Academy ran over and pulled Zhou Chun to jump and jump excitedly.

"Let's go! Drink to celebrate. ”

Everyone happily pulled Zhou Chun away, and Zhou Chun hurriedly said to Li Yanqing: "Let's go together!" ”

Zhao Kai hurriedly gave Li Yanqing a look, Li Yanqing understood, and said with a smile: "Go ahead!" I'll treat you to another drink tomorrow. ”

"Then I'll go first."

Everyone surrounded Zhou Chun and ran away quickly, and when they walked away, Li Yanqing hugged his fists and smiled: "Congratulations to Your Highness!" ”

Zhao Kai saw that there was another group of scholars behind him, so he smiled and said: "This is not a place to talk, let's find a place to sit." ”

The two came out of the small street, and the opposite side was really the Great Xiangguo Temple, which is a relatively prosperous commercial center, and close to the Gongyuan, surrounded by dozens of inns of all sizes, the two walked into a very quiet small hotel and sat down, asked for a pot of wine and a few dishes, Zhao Kai was silent for a moment and said: "I usually don't have the opportunity to come out so unrestrained." ”

Li Yanqing understood his voice, "His Royal Highness's participation in the imperial examination was acquiesced by the Son of Heaven?" ”

"It's not as simple as acquiescence, it's my father suggesting that I participate in the imperial examination, what do you think my father thinks?"

"Actually, Your Highness has already guessed the answer, hasn't you?"

"You mean it has something to do with my royal brother?"

"I don't dare to say that, but if His Highness wins the top prize, I'm afraid he will be the most uncomfortable in my heart."

"You're right, he really wanted someone to stop me from passing the imperial examination, but unfortunately he didn't succeed."

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Li Yanqing knew very well who he was talking about, there was no one else except Liang Shicheng, but Liang Shicheng's pressure didn't succeed?

Zhao Kai sneered and said: "I am a pseudonym Wang Kai, and it is a vague name exam, even if Yu Shen wants to pat the East Palace's sycophants, he can't find my test papers, I have long been guarding against him....."

At this time, the bartender brought the wine and food, Zhao Kai was immediately silent, and when the bartender left, he lowered his voice and said, "Do you know Li Yan?" ”

How could Li Yanqing not know that Li Yan killed Yang Jian by himself, and the biggest beneficiary was this Li Yan, who served as the head of the inner palace, and his power in the palace was second only to Liang Shicheng.

"I've heard of this person, the general manager of Ouchi, it seems to be Liang Shicheng's person."

"Humph! Maybe it was! ”

Li Yanqing heard what Zhao Kai said, but he didn't ask eagerly, but poured Zhao Kai a glass of wine.

Zhao Kai is still young after all, only two years older than Li Yanqing, the city is not deep, he has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and he has no intimate friends to spit out his heart, although he has a lot of guard friends, but after all, these people don't understand the palace power struggle, and only Li Yanqing followed him to Suzhou to eradicate Zhu Mian, who was his military advisor, so when he met Li Yanqing when he made the list today, Zhao Kai couldn't help but say the words that he had suppressed for a long time.

"Since Yang Jian's death, his father has not trusted Liang Shicheng very much, although he never mentioned it, but I can feel that my father has decided that Yang Jian was killed by Liang Shicheng, it is for this reason that he has gradually snubbed Liang Shicheng and handed over a lot of power to Li Yan, Li Yan's current situation is that he is powerful and has low qualifications, and he has to bow his head to Liang Shicheng, maybe his father hinted at him something, he is very enthusiastic about me now, I say these words, I don't know if Yanqing can understand?"

Zhao Kai's heart was very confused, and he couldn't say some things clearly, so he could only be vague.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "His Royal Highness means that Li Yan no longer obeys Liang Shicheng, but wants to replace him, since Liang Shicheng burns the prince's incense, then Li Yan may come to burn His Highness's incense, is that what it means?" ”

Zhao Kai nodded, "That's what you mean, what do you think of Li Yan?" ”

Li Yanqing was silent for a moment and said: "I only give His Highness a piece of advice, His Highness can use him, but you must not trust him, otherwise Your Highness will be planted in his hands sooner or later." ”

.........

In the afternoon, five hundred and eighty-six Zhongbang scholars gathered in the Jixian Hall of the Gongyuan Academy, listening to the chief examiner announcing the palace examination, the hall was silent, and an official walked quickly to Yu Shen's side and whispered: "All have arrived!" ”

Yu Shen nodded, and then slowly said to everyone: "First of all, I want to congratulate all the scholars who have passed this year's provincial examination, although there is a palace examination next, but no matter what the results of the palace examination are, you have already obtained the qualification of the same jinshi." ”

Several officials next to him took the lead in applauding, hundreds of scholars applauded together, Yu Shen waved his hand, the hall was quiet again, and he continued: "Although the provincial examination does not announce the rankings, it does not mean that there are no rankings, on the contrary, we have drawn up a ranking table according to your examination papers, but this is not the final ranking, and it will be finely adjusted in combination with your palace examination results, so this ranking table will not be announced for the time being." ”

Speaking of this, Yu Shen paused, he saw that everyone was very calm, so he nodded with satisfaction and continued: "The time of the palace examination is the same every time, I think everyone knows it very well, but I still emphasize that the specific time is that the exam will start at one o'clock in the morning of the day after tomorrow, and the location is in the Daqing Palace, which is the main hall of the palace and the place where major court meetings are held. ”

The hall was unusually silent, everyone pricked up their ears, lest they heard it and missed the palace test, Yu Shen smiled slightly: "You don't have to be nervous, the court has a system, and you won't let everyone miss the palace test, tonight everyone goes back to celebrate with relatives and friends to celebrate the list, remember not to be greedy for a cup, let alone drunk, and then tomorrow just before the hour, everyone still comes to the Gongyuan to concentrate, live in the Gongyuan for a day, the day after tomorrow, in the early morning of the day after tomorrow, everyone goes to the palace to participate in the palace test, remember not to bring anything, I see that many of you have a ring Peiyu, These can't be brought, you have to bathe and change clothes before you can take the exam, under the eyelids of the Son of Heaven, don't have the idea of non-points, anyway, I will emphasize it again tomorrow, remember, tomorrow is just before the time to report to the Gongyuan, what questions do you have? ”

Yu Shen looked at everyone one by one, and when he saw that a scholar in the front row wanted to speak and stopped, he smiled and said, "What do you want to ask?" ”

Shizi bowed down and said: "Student Shangying of Xiangyang County, Jingzhou, may I ask Yu Xiangguo, I don't know what to test in the palace exam?" ”

This is actually the question that all the scholars want to ask, everyone looked at Yu Shen nervously, but Yu Shen shook his head with a smile, "To be honest, I don't know, the palace exam is the Son of Heaven himself, and the exam questions will be announced only when the exam starts, but there is one thing that everyone can rest assured, because the test is only one hour, so it will not be as large as the provincial exam, according to the situation of the previous palace exams, the question should be relatively simple for everyone, the Son of Heaven loves calligraphy, and the best calligraphy will have an advantage, in addition, the top ten Son of Heaven will have an interview in person to determine the top three rankings." ”

After a pause, Yu Shen's eyes fell on Zheng Rongtai in the team, and he said coldly: "I want to advise you again, every time there will be a scholar who is happy and sad, you must not get drunk tonight, you must not go to the Fengyue place to have fun, and you must not be infected with the wind cold, if you lose the opportunity to take the palace examination, you will not be able to make up for it." ”