At the same time that Song Yingxing and Song Yingsheng brothers hurriedly arrived in Beijing to prepare for the exam, Niu Juming, a native of Baofeng, and Li Xin, a native of Hanoi, who were the same people in the Henan Township Examination in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, had already arrived in Beijing for several days. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Niu Juming's father, Niu Yao, is the Ji Shanguan of the Lu Palace, and the old Niu family "went from the old tribute to the county doctor, and there were several officials in the palace". In his generation, Niu Juming was extremely intelligent at an early age, showing talent in his twenties, and being a man in his early thirties.

Now this day seems to be coming, after the new emperor ascended the throne, he made drastic changes and made new changes, and the world was suddenly new, especially in the process of the new emperor beheading and punishing the eunuchs, he showed his scheming skills, quite an appetite for Niu Juming, such a decisive and eloquent emperor is really worth following and assisting. Don't look at Niu Juming, a man who studied and went to school, but in private he is a person who has great ambitions and wants to leave a name in history.

And Li Xin, who is both civil and military, is the same. At this time, Niu Juming was not Niu Jinxing, the famous prime minister of the Dashun Dynasty in later generations, and Li Xin at this time was naturally not Li Yan, the resourceful general in the Dashun army who later became Li Zicheng.

Li Xin's father, of course, is not the legendary eunuch Li Jingbai in later generations, because Li Jingbai is a native of Nanzhili, and now he has been punished as a eunuch member, and there is no such person as Li Xin among his children.

Now when Emperor Chongzhen was still in later generations, he noticed Li Xin's life experience. This Li Xin is just an ordinary scholar from a wealthy merchant family surnamed Li in Hanoi County, Huaiqing Prefecture, and his father's name is Li Chunmao, whose name is Tingbi, and he is a tribute student. Li Chunmao himself has four sons, the eldest is called Li Lun, the second is called Li Zhong, the third is called Li Jun, and the fourth is Li Xin.

At the same time, this Li Chunmao also has a younger brother, named Li Chunyu, who is in charge of the Li family's grain business in Kaifeng Mansion and other places.

In the thirty-second year of Wanli, that is, in 1604 AD, Li Xin was born in the old house of the Li family in Hanoi, when Li Chunmao, the eldest family of the Li family in Hanoi, had three sons-in-law, but Li Chunmao's younger brother Li Chunyu was over forty years old and had no heirs. So as soon as the two brothers discussed, they passed Li Xin to Li Chunyu as a son-in-law.

However, a few years later, Li Chunyu's concubine gave birth to a son named Li Yun.

In the winter of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Li Xin's biological father Li Chunmao passed away, Li Chunmao's eldest son Li Zhong took power, and the Li family separated. Li Chunyu got the Li family's grain in Kaifeng Mansion and other places, as well as a large amount of land and land in Qi County, and Li Xin, as Li Chunyu's heir, also took his patriarchal brother and actual cousin Li Yu to Qi County to join his uncle and heir Li Chunyu, and lived in Qi County since then.

Coincidentally, this grain merchant Li Chunyu has fine white words. And this is also the origin of the legend that in the last years of Chongzhen, the folk regarded Li Yan as the son of Li Jingbai, the former eunuch party secretary.

Although Li Xin was unusually smart when he was young, he never forgot to read, and was once known as a prodigy, but when he was a little older, he was obsessed with practicing martial arts, and wasted many years. It wasn't until he came to Qixian County and defected to his father Li Chunyu that he suddenly felt that he was under the fence and embarrassed in his father's house, so he immediately studied hard and finally passed the examination in the seventh year of the Apocalypse.

What's even more interesting is that Niu Juming, who was famous for Niu Venus in later generations, was also the person who was lifted in the Henan Township Examination in the seventh year of the Apocalypse. The fate between these two Dashun generals who did not know each other at this time, but later "fell in love and killed each other", seems to have been doomed. Now Niu Jinxing and Li Xin have gone to the capital to participate in the examination, and now Emperor Chongzhen will naturally not let them fall behind like in history. And in the future history, there will naturally be no more Tianyoudian University scholar Niu Jinxing and military division general Li Yan of the Dashun Army.

Of course, at this time, there are naturally talents from all walks of life who gather in Beijing, after all, this year's Enke is really worthy of the name, and it is the first time in 200 years that Daming Kaike has taken so many scholars. However, all the lifters and prisoners who still had hope for the career of the imperial examination came one after another, trying to grasp this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. With the efforts of the cabinet minister Xu Guangqi and the inspectorate Zuodu Yushi Li Biao, the newly built examination shed of the Jingshi Gongyuan was completed as scheduled.

On March 20, the chief examiner, deputy chief examiner, and fellow examiner of the first year of Chongzhen's Enke examination, a total of ten examiners from the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, the Inspectorate and other yamen, all entered the Tribute Academy. On the 21st, the lights were bright at the entrance of the Jingshi Gongyuan, and the candidates who gathered in the Beijing Division got up early, and according to the number tags they received in advance, they lined up one by one with the examination baskets.

Although some of these candidates have been to this place several times, they are still inexplicably nervous when they go to this place. For example, Song Yingxing, although he has been to the Jingshi Gongyuan several times, he still feels a lot of pressure when he looks at the big characters written at the door of the Gongyuan, "Ming Jing takes scholars" and "seeks talents for the country".

However, unlike the previous times, this day in Tongzhou made him feel a lot of emotion, the newly built lecture hall, the busy agricultural courtyard, the factory site in full swing, and the application of new concrete prefabricated parts in the building, etc., all opened his eyes, and he suddenly had great confidence in the knowledge that he had been applying to the world.

From Yin Shi Zheng to Chen Shi Zheng, three hours later, the candidates on the street in front of the Gongyuan, after searching, all entered the park, according to the previous number, under the guidance of the soldiers from Jinyiwei, Dongchang and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, they entered their examination booths in an orderly manner.

One test is three days, and three tests are taken in a row, for a total of nine days. After each test, you can come out to rest, but for three days before the end of each test, candidates must always be in their own examination shed, eating, drinking, and sleeping in it.

Of course, bitterness is a bit bitter, but as the saying goes, if you eat hard, you will become a superior person, and of course the candidates know this truth.

Nine days later, the candidates were as elated as if they had been granted amnesty, and when they left the Gongyuan one by one, they were as elated as if they had left the prison of Fusi in Beizhen.

In the past few days, the Beijing teacher has become a festival for the candidates, and after nine days of torture, the lifters have put everything away, called friends, and gathered to feast and drink.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen also understands this very well, after all, he has had a similar experience in later generations, and he has also indulged in wanton indulgence for a period of time after the college entrance examination, so for the candidates who drank and made trouble caught by the soldiers and horses of the five cities and the imperial historians of the city, they were all admonished and no other punishments were given.

For this reason, nearly 10,000 candidates who came to Beijing to take the examination have a personal experience of the current emperor's sage.

On the afternoon of April 12, at the urging of Emperor Chongzhen, Xu Guangqi and Li Biao, who had been extremely tired during this period and were about to be unable to bear it, finally arrived with the list of new Kegongshi.

In order to retain the talents he wanted, Emperor Chongzhen, who had already planned to admit 500 jinshi, asked Wang Chengen to send an edict to Xu Guangqi and others before the final list was sent, asking them to draw up a list of 600 people, and he personally selected 500 people from them. So after getting the list, Emperor Chongzhen opened it immediately with a little eagerness, wanting to find the name he wanted.

Although Xu Guangqi and Li Biao felt that the emperor was a little too anxious, they also understood that this was a manifestation of the emperor's thirst for talent. After reading the list, the emperor's heart was naturally much more down-to-earth, and all the talents in the late Ming Dynasty who he knew who could come to participate in this examination were already in this list of 600 people. But at the same time, he was also secretly glad that he asked for a list of 600 people in advance, otherwise, Li Xin and Shen Tingyang would be famous again this time.