However, he still groaned for a long time, satisfying Song Hong's appetite, and then said helplessly: "Our monarchs and ministers have been in power for many years, and it is rare for you to ask for me once, that's it, that's it!" Didn't you say that your son was going to participate in this year's Spring Festival? If he is named on the gold list, I will send the excerpt again, and then double happiness will come, wouldn't it be better? ”

Song Hong naturally knelt down and thanked Long En without mentioning it.

At this moment, when the emperor saw Song Chongjin, in addition to the fact that he was too dazzling black, people couldn't help but look at it twice, he also had a trace of interest in his heart.

Song Chongjin's life experience, the emperor is naturally very clear, even clearer than Song Hong.

When Zhu Haoran was sent to Jing County, Zhu Haoran was a superficial person, but in fact he sent a secret guard to follow.

Song Chongjin is Qi Huan's son, and he is also the last trace of blood left in the Qi family besides her, so it is natural to investigate clearly.

On the day Zhu Haoran returned to Beijing, everything about Song Chongjin's life experience was already on his desk.

Especially after the incident in Jing County, Song Chongjin's news is still coming in one after another.

The young man in front of him, who was seriously answering the question, planned in his heart, the emperor guessed eight or nine points, at least four or five points.

He was amused in his heart, Song Hong, a thousand-year-old fox and a person who has been hunting geese for many years, is afraid that he will be pecked by geese.

Thinking about his plan, the more the emperor looked at Song Chongjin, the more pleasing he became, this young man had a special identity, and was involved in civil and military affairs, and he used it well, so he couldn't say that it would be the sharpest knife in his hand!

Thinking about it like this, the emperor stood behind Song Chongjin for a longer time.

Manager Su watched the emperor stand behind the eldest prince of Wei Guogong for a long time, and he didn't move his nest, those tributes didn't say anything, and the other officials were afraid that they were muttering in their hearts.

I wanted to remind the emperor, but this was a palace test, and he couldn't afford to be presumptuous, so he had to wait anxiously for the emperor to come back to his senses.

It was Song Chongjin, who was calm on his face, but his actual heart was always hanging, especially after the emperor's unwitting and angry eyes turned into liking and pleasing to him.

Song Chongjin only felt that the cold hairs on his back stood up, and he always felt that he was being targeted by a fierce beast.

But soon, the emperor came to his senses, and could not see anything on his face, turned his head, and slowly paced back to the dragon chair.

As soon as the emperor left, several tributes around Song Chongjin only felt a burst of relief, and almost didn't soften on the ground.

One by one, they came back to their senses, they were sweating like pulp, soaked clothes, who could bear the emperor who had been standing near him, although he was not sure whether the emperor had paid attention to him, but everyone was afraid to hang his heart, and the pen in his hand weighed a thousand gold, if it wasn't for the last heart to support, I am afraid that he would have to make a fool of himself in front of the emperor.

At this moment, the emperor is gone, and everyone feels like they have escaped death.

The Emperor has not come down since.

The temple examination begins at dawn and is handed in at sunset.

At sunset, the officials of the Ministry of Rites, who had been watching the hour, announced the submission of the papers.

The tributes left the scrolls on the table and withdrew one after another, and then they were taken out of the palace by the officials of the Ministry of Rites and returned to their respective homes.

As soon as the tributes withdrew, naturally some officials of the Ministry of Rites stepped forward, put away the scrolls, sealed them, and then placed them on a tray and presented them to the emperor by several scholars.

In the palace test of the previous dynasty, it was said that the emperor presided over the personal reading, but in fact, the emperor basically left after ordering a lot, and the reading was also presided over by the minister of reading.

Since the beginning of this dynasty, after taking the throne now, he has personally experienced every palace test, and has never stopped.

Generally speaking, the papers of this palace examination are reviewed by the minister, and the top ten are selected, and the papers of these ten tributes are presented to the emperor.

The emperor will determine the top champions, list eyes, and flower exploration candidates of the first class, and the top seven of the second class.

Although the emperor has more than enough heart but not enough strength, the affairs of the court are complicated, where can he read hundreds of volumes? What's more, early in the morning of the second day, the top ten new science and technology scholars will be summoned to officially announce the ranking of the palace examination in public.

Therefore, these subjects also came according to this old rule, and the scholars waited for the papers to be collected, and then took the papers into the side hall next door to the Baohe Palace.

As soon as the scholar and the scroll entered the side hall, the door was closed, and the three outer layers of the royal guard were guarded, and not even a fly could fly in.

It had just sunset, and the side hall was already brightly lit at the moment, and countless candles with thick arms were lit, only shining in the hall as if it were day.

After a hurried dinner, several university scholars already had a tacit understanding, and each got a part of the test paper and buried himself in the review.

It is a very heavy task to review all the papers early tomorrow morning, pick out the best ten, and present them to His Majesty early tomorrow morning, and several scholars are ready to stay up all night.

This night, not only these university scholars were not idle, but countless people in the entire capital could not sleep, tossing and turning, waiting for tomorrow's results.

Song Chongjin was fine, and when he came back, he had a meal, washed up and fell asleep.

Early in the morning of the second day, Song Chongjin played a set of punches in the courtyard refreshed and sweated.

As soon as I called for water to take a bath and had breakfast, I heard a message from Song Hong's side, someone from the palace, and summoned Song Chongjin to enter the palace to face the saint.

Song Chongjin was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that he had entered the top ten?

You know, in the previous spring, he was ranked fifteenth, but I didn't expect the palace test to play better?

I didn't have time to think about it, so I changed my clothes, and I only had time to throw a sentence to Wang Yongzhu: "Wait for my good news!" So he hurriedly followed the people sent by the palace.

As soon as Song Chongjin walked on the front foot, the people in the back foot were boiling.

Those who can enter the palace today to face the saint are the top ten in the palace examination to be qualified!

Could it be that their eldest son can still make a champion?

The subordinates were full of joy, and the masters had their own hearts, even if they were unwilling in their hearts, they knew that the overall situation had been decided.

From the Gao family, to the second room, to the third room, to the aunts in the family, and other sons and girls, whether sincere or fake, all came to Wang Yongzhu's side to congratulate.

After the ladies congratulated, they didn't leave, and followed Wang Yongzhu to the front main room, waiting for the final news together.

Sure enough, Song Chongjin followed the officials sent by the palace and went directly to the outside of the Baohe Palace.

Outside the hall, there were already people waiting, and they were still acquaintances, it was Gu Zikai and Xie Lang.

Seeing Song Chongjin, both of them smiled, there were a lot of words, but they couldn't make noise in the palace, so they had to bow their heads to each other.

After a short time, the other seven people also arrived one after another, and as soon as they arrived, they were announced into the temple after a while.

On the dragon chair in the hall, the emperor was high, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites announced the names of each person, and they stepped forward one by one to meet the emperor.

The emperor also warmly encouraged these ten new scholars, praising two pillars of the country and saying that they would serve the country in the future.

Each of them asked a sentence or two, and then asked the ten new science and technology scholars to retreat.

Before the emperor's imperial case, the gold list had already been laid, just waiting for the emperor to fill in the ranking order of the top seven of the new champions, lists, tanhua and the top two in the second class.

The emperor personally took the red pen, groaned slightly, and filled it in.

These rankings have been discussed with a few scholars a long time ago, and when I see them today, there are only minor changes.

Before the emperor filled in, he smiled: "It stands to reason that Gu Zikai's talent can be the champion, but Gu Qing is talented, it is better to be a flower explorer, and he will live up to it." ”

As soon as these words came out, several scholars laughed, the unwritten rule of the previous dynasties, Tanhua must be the most handsome person among the new scholars.

Therefore, the emperor named Xie Lang, who was originally the third place, as the champion, and after exploring the flowers, he filled in Gu Zikai's name.

After a little groaning, Song Chongjin's name was also listed.