Li Yanqing suddenly became interested, and said with a smile: "You say, I'll listen to you!" ”

Zheng Rongtai couldn't raise his head in front of Li Yanqing, and it was rare for Li Yanqing to pay attention to his words, he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, and hurriedly said: "But about me, don't scold me anymore!" ”

Li Yanqing knew what he was talking about, so he smiled and said: "I know your affairs in my heart, that actually has nothing to do with you, you are just a ** chess piece." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"How does that sound awkward!"

Zheng Rongtai grinned: "Although this is the case, you don't want to say it so ugly, it's okay, say it nicely, like I have to do it." ”

"Stop talking nonsense and get to the point!"

Zheng Rongtai agreed repeatedly, and he lowered his voice and said: "A total of five hundred and eighty-six people have been admitted this year, and the list has come out, and it will be submitted to the Ministry of Rites this afternoon, and it will be officially announced after the approval of the Son of Heaven, I'm sorry, the foolish brother has been admitted, this time it is the favor of Mrs. Liang, I heard that most of them are southern scholars." ”

"Is my name on the list?"

Zheng Rongtai shook his head, "I really don't know, this is absolutely confidential, but you can go to Taiwei Tong, since the list has been reported to the Ministry of Rites, he can inquire." ”

Li Yanqing just asked casually, he wouldn't go to Tong Guan at this critical moment, anyway, there are still two days, and time will pass in a flash.

"What else is there to say?"

"Also, His Royal Highness King Jia heard that he also participated in the imperial examination."

This news made Li Yanqing stunned, Zhao Kai is the only royal champion in history, is it this imperial examination?

Of course, things are not as legendary as they are said in the wild history, Zhao Ji didn't know in advance that his son was admitted to the top prize, it was Zhao Kai who told him, he knew the truth, he was very happy, but he still transferred his son to the second list.

In fact, this is a bunch of nonsense, the champion is the first place in the palace exam, Zhao Ji took the exam in person, and the top three have to be interviewed, how could he not know that his son won the top prize, that is, Zhao Ji appointed his son as the champion, and pretended to be humble.

This should be Zhao Ji creating a competitor for the prince, using this method to improve Zhao Kai's prestige.

The crown prince is obviously aware of this, so he has done everything possible to expand his power, and even Zheng Rongtai, a brother-in-law who has no learning and no skills, has to be cultivated.

Thinking of this, Li Yanqing asked Zheng Rongtai with a smile again: "Do you still want to take the palace exam?" ”

Zheng Rongtai shook his head, "My father said that I must not go to the palace examination, let me fall ill the day before the palace examination, anyway, the province has tried, and the worst is to give the same Jinshi background, and the relationship between the Ministry of Officials and the Inquisitor's Court has been settled, and I am ready to go to Xiangzhou County to be an official." ”

Li Yanqing's heart was excited, it wouldn't be to go to Tangyin County to be a county lieutenant! This seat has been empty for a year, will it really be tailor-made for you Zheng Fatzi?

Li Yanqing looked at it and felt that there was really such a possibility, the most suitable official position for this fat man was the county lieutenant.

"Good news for you!"

Zheng Rongtai said triumphantly: "My father bought Gaoyang Zhengdian, we can also make wine and sell it, if Baoyanzhai wants to do wine business, I can sell it to your father cheaply." ”

The liquor of the Great Song Dynasty is a monopoly system, and the koji cake for making wine can only be bought by the government, and only a dozen main stores are qualified to make wine, and other restaurants are all from each main store to buy back the wine and then cellar and process, forming their own style of blended liquor, in fact, it is sake.

Since Li Yanqing used distillation to purify perfume, he also had the idea of doing a liquor business, but he gave up the liquor business because he wanted to specialize in rouge at that time.

Of course, there is another important reason, he can't buy a good source of liquor, if Zheng Jiaken sells the sake from Gaoyang Zhengdian to himself, he can let Yang Xin distill liquor and alcohol, this is a big business!

And he knew that the most famous Guilin Sanhua liquor in the Song Dynasty was distilled liquor, but it was far away in a remote place, and the secret recipe was never passed on, but unfortunately Li Yanqing also knew the secret of distilled liquor.

However, this matter cannot be rushed, and it is not too late to think about it after the imperial examination is over.

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The difference between the provincial examination and the release test is that there is a palace examination behind the provincial examination, in a sense, the provincial examination is only the qualification examination of the palace examination, and the candidates do not cross the horse to parade the streets, nor do they rank in the ranking, only the admission list, and the three lists will be officially issued after the palace examination, and then the champion, the list eye, and the flower will be produced.

In the early morning, the Gongyuan Square was already crowded with people, tens of thousands of candidates poured from all directions of the capital, waiting for the admission list to come out, in order to divert the scholars to see the list, the imperial court set up a list outside the north city, but it did not have much effect, most of the candidates still flocked to the Gongyuan.

Li Yanqing made an appointment with Zhou Chun early in the morning to go to the Gongyuan to see the list, Hong Dazhi returned to his hometown on the second day of the imperial examination, he knew that he would definitely lose his name to Sun Shan, and he didn't want to bear the high cost of living in the capital, so he returned to his hometown early, he would return to Beijing a month later, wait for the imperial examination to be completely completed, and serve as a temporary tent in Baoyan Zhai, and at the same time audit in Taixue.

There are by no means a few candidates like Hong Dazhi, many candidates did not complete the examination questions, they knew that the imperial examination was hopeless, and they were shy in their pockets, so they left early.

But even so, there are still more than 60,000 candidates in the entire Bianjing waiting for the moment of the release of the results.

It was already a little late for Li Yanqing and Zhou Chun to arrive at the Gongyuan, which was already densely packed with candidates, gathering in groups and talking in a low voice.

"Yanqing, the list will be released at three o'clock in the morning, at least half an hour, we are a little early."

Li Yanqing pointed to the dense crowd of people in the square and said with a smile: "Don't say half an hour, if we come a quarter of an hour late, can we enter this Gongyuan Square?" After reading the list, it will be at least noon. ”

"Brother Zhou Xian!" In the distance, several people were waving to Zhou Chun.

"It's my classmate from Yuelu Academy, go over and take a look."

Zhou Chun and Li Yanqing walked forward quickly, there were more than a dozen scholars from Yuelu Academy gathered here, most of them were in their twenties, Zhou Chun introduced Li Yanqing to them, and everyone heard that they were too students, so they bowed their hands together.

A scholar said with a smile: "We all took the Enke exam the year before last, and we have experience, here is the first examination room to issue the list, and the west is the second examination room to issue the list, we should try to get closer to the list, and we can't squeeze it later." ”

"Then how are you going to get out later?" Li Yanqing glanced at the growing crowd around him and asked.

"Brother Li Xian, don't worry, how many years has the list been published, and the examiners have experience."

A scholar pointed to the opposite road and said with a smile: "See, that road is very empty, there is no one, there are soldiers guarding that intersection, you can only go out and not enter, after reading the list, we will go out from that side, outside is the Great Xiangguo Temple, and you can also go to the bookstore by the way." ”

Zhou Chunxiao asked, "How did you do in the exam?" You are ranked in the front of every exam in the academy, so you should be able to get on the list! ”

"A college is a college, and the imperial examination is an imperial examination, how can it be so easy to get on the list."

Everyone talked and laughed, the time passed quickly, the time for the release of the list was almost up, more and more scholars came from all directions, the square was no longer able to enter, and a large number of scholars were waiting on the surrounding streets.

At three o'clock in the morning, that is, at half past eight, the gate of the Gongyuan was opened on time, and dozens of examiners came out of the gate with dozens of large paper lists, and tens of thousands of scholars suddenly became excited, and the shouts resounded in the sky, and the scholars behind were desperately crowded inside, and more than a thousand soldiers holding huge shields formed a shield wall, effectively resisting the scholars outside the list.

Since the provincial examination list is not divided into ranks, in order to facilitate the scholars to see the list, more than 30 lists are posted at the east and west ends, the admission list of the first examination room is posted in the east, and the admission list of the second examination room is in the west, and then arranged in the order of the examination number, so that it is very convenient for candidates to find their names.

For example, Li Yanqing's exam number is No. 25-84, so he needs to go to the east to look at the list, and then quickly find Lane 25, so that he doesn't have to look for dozens of lists one by one.

Several officials took a small ladder and began to brush the paste list, the first list was one to three lanes, and some scholars began to exclaim excitedly, several scholars cried with joy, and one person even fainted with excitement.

"I got it!"

Zhou Chun suddenly saw his name on the second list, and shouted excitedly, and another classmate next to him who also passed the exam hugged him tightly.

Li Yanqing didn't pass, Lane 25 should have appeared on the fourth list, at this moment, he was also nervous and pounding, he had planned his life in the past ten days, but he also thought about what to do if he couldn't pass the exam?

The fourth list was pasted, and the last three were all scholars from Lane 25, No. 11, No. 38 and No. 66, and Li Yanqing's mind suddenly 'Boom! With a sound, he suddenly became blank, his mouth was dry, and his heart was about to jump out, but on the surface he still forced himself to calm down and wait for the fifth list to appear.