Chongwen College holds a small competition every six months and a large competition every year. The small competition was held at the Chongwen Academy, and the large competition was held at the Da'an Palace. Since the big competition is presided over by the emperor himself, all the people will prepare carefully, hoping to stand out in the competition and be recognized by the emperor.

Wei Youqing heard that Li Chengyu wanted to stay and watch Dabi by himself, and his heart moved, because Chongwen Academy has always been controlled by Zhang Shuyuan, Wei Youqing didn't pay too much attention to the matter of Chongwen Academy's Dabi. It's just that this year is different. A new jinshi named Xie Ming from Fujian was taken care of by Shi Wen'er.

Wei Youqing didn't know what this Xie Ming did, but Shi Wen'er personally went to Luoyang Houfu to find Wei Youqing and asked him to help, so that this new jinshi could get the top ten in the big competition.

Wei Youqing specially went to the academy to secretly check this tea solution, but there was nothing special. Wei Youqing guessed that Shi Jia'er was on the way from Fujian to Leizhou to join his family, and met Li Yuehua, the king of Yun, and his family, and the Shi family should have some relatives in Fujian.

Although Wei Youqing knows his life experience, the true identities of Shi Jiaer and Shi Wen'er, as well as various twists and turns, because many people are involved, and the face of the Wei family is also involved, which has always been a taboo for several insiders back then, and even Wei Youqing doesn't know the inside story.

Shi Wen'er's request was nothing, Wei Youqing felt that his father-in-law easily did not ask him to do anything for him, not to mention that this Jinshi performed very well in the tribute examination half a year ago.

Although the emperor personally presided over the competition, according to the usual practice, the title of the competition was drawn up by the school department in front of the competition, and then sealed by the minister himself, and then taken out and distributed to everyone when the competition was due.

Different from the tribute test, Dabi's test paper is to cover the name and circulate it publicly in the court, and after circulation, it is recommended by the ministers, and the ranking is ranked according to the number of recommended people, and it is shown to the emperor, generally only a few test papers are ranked first.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the master of the test paper can pass the emperor's eyes, he can leave the Chongwen Academy in advance and serve in various places.

Covering the name is not a problem for everyone like Shi Wen'er, and the rest is to recommend candidates.

In fact, there are at most three or four recommenders for the first place in the big competition every year, if there are too many people, there is a suspicion of forming a party, so at the moment, Xie Ming only wants to get the top ten, and two people can recommend it. Finding two people to recommend a test paper that is not weak in terms of level is still no problem for Wei Youqing.

Dabi is held in the Wenhua Hall on the outermost part of Da'an Palace. Although it was not too cold on this day, there were small snowflakes floating, and the cold day made people feel sticky and greasy.

However, this did not affect the enthusiasm of the students, and early in the morning, a large group of young or old students, under the leadership of the duty officer, entered solemnly from the west gate of Da'an Palace to welcome this important big competition in their lives.

If you enter the top ten, you can end your study career in Chongwen College ahead of schedule and officially enter the official career. In a sense, this is also a ladder of progress in life.

Wei Youqing was not the chief examiner of the literary examination, at this moment he sat quietly on the side of the main hall of the Wenhua Palace, watching this group of students enter the hall and sit in their own seats.

The Wenhua Hall of Nuoda is silent, only the crisp and pleasant roll call of the officer on duty. They are the 400 Jinshi admitted in the Chongwen Academy examination held half a year ago, and another significance of this big competition is to arrange the seats of these 400 students in front of the emperor, select the top ten, become the protégés of the Son of Heaven, and go directly to various places to become officials.

Zhang Shuyuan sat opposite Wei Youqing, the old Xiangguo, who leaned towards the government and the opposition, had white temples, and a pair of wrinkled eyes were blazing, looking majestically at the candidates who heard the roll call and walked in one after another.

"Tea!" Wei Youqing heard the name of the official on duty, and turned his head to look at the young scholar who walked in.

Xie Ming, from Fujian, was born in a small landlord family in Fujian. The second in the family, three brothers.

This Xie Ming's appearance is not as ordinary as his background, although he is not majestic and dignified, but there is another kind of cold and dusty, which makes people forget the vulgar.

He indifferently walked to his seat and sat down under the guidance of the eunuchs, and his light appearance did not look like he was taking the imperial exam, but it was like going to an inconsequential date.

Wei Youqing looked at Xie Ming, and looked around again, Zhang Shuyuan didn't notice this student from Fujian, his eyes fell on another young student, this person was the nephew of Sun Boning, the head of the household, Sun Wangyong from Jiangnan.

Sun Boning, Wu Xiuneng and Wu Xiucheng are the three brothers of Li Chengyu, second only to Mi Lier and Wei Youqing. Li Chengyu's trust in him is no less than that of Xia Zhengsu, who has always followed him.

Zhang Shuyuan will pay attention to Sun Wangyong, not because he is Sun Boning's nephew, but because he entered Beijing this time and brought his sister Sun Wangyuan, a girl who loves men's clothing, is beautiful and chic, and looks like Shi Jiaer.

Sun Boning has studied with Li Chengyu since he was a child, and he knows the relationship between Li Chengyu and his aunt Shi Jia'er very well. He expected that his niece would definitely be able to win Li Chengyu's favor and let his nephew Sun Wangyong bring his sister when he entered Beijing.

As soon as this girl came to the capital, she was presented to Li Chengyu by Sun Boning through Empress Zhang. Sure enough, as Sun Boning expected, as soon as this woman entered the palace, she won the favor of Li Chengyu.

Zhang Xiaosong let Sun Wangyuan enter the palace, in order to break Concubine Wende's favor, and now as she wishes, the arrival of this woman has taken away most of Concubine Wen's favor, Zhang Xiaosong is happy, Zhang Shuyuan also has plans to include the uncle and nephew of the Sun family into his own party.

Concubine Wen De didn't care, the so-called special pet is nothing more than that, Li Chengyu is not close to women at all, and he only comes to the harem once or twice a month, in order to block the mouths of the ministers. is willing to come to Concubine Wende, but Concubine Wen doesn't like to talk, and Li Chengyu feels that Concubine Wen is quiet here.

Concubine Wen De knew that Li Chengyu's heart was sick, he didn't want to make the two sons in front of him the crown prince at all, he wanted to return to power and Li Chenghe's son King Hong. It's just that now that King Hong is missing, the matter has not been mentioned. In that case, what is there to fight about?

Li Chengyu finally appeared in the Wenhua Palace, and his arrival made this ordinary Wenhua Hall seem to light up suddenly, and all the people suddenly felt an invisible sense of coercion coming, and they all stood up to greet His Majesty the Emperor who was famous and noble.

Li Chengyu accepted the gifts of all the courtiers with a smile, and signaled to Zhang Shuyuan that Dabi could start.

Wei Youqing paid attention to Xie Ming, Zhang Shuyuan paid attention to Sun Wangyong, and Li Chengyu's expression was unpredictable, no one could guess His Majesty the Emperor's thoughts at the moment.