Chapter 168 167 Huiyuan≠Zhuangyuan

Today, Wei Guangde is very satisfied. He has made it to the first rank. When he passes the palace examination, he can proudly tell people that he is a "Two Rank Jinshi".

Not only Wei Guangde, but also the shopkeeper of the Jiujiang Guild Hall and the Jiujiang businessmen who came here to do business in Beijing were also very happy, and finally they did not come and sit here for a long time in vain.

However, there are also many people who are very unhappy.

They were naturally the other twenty or so candidates who were rushing to take the exam.

However, at this time, they could only force a smile.

Well, it's still early. There are only 300 tribute places available, but only about 100 have registered. Maybe I still have it.

While all the candidates were still looking forward to it, Wei Guangde, Zhang Ke and Xia Kefan were already sitting together, discussing how to go to Beijing Gongyuan tomorrow morning to look at the results and see who would be in their same year.

For Gongsheng students from Jiangxi, they are quite familiar. The combination of the three of them is quite interesting. They have participated in three consecutive provincial examinations in the 28th, 31st and 34th years of Jiajing. They are almost on the list this time. They should all have the opportunity to get to know the Gongsheng students from Jiangxi.

Of course, their goal is not only to get to know Gongsheng from their own province, but also to get to know outstanding talents from other provinces. In the future, as the same year, they will have to support and take care of each other in the officialdom, so that they can go further.

The so-called three gangs of heroes are especially true in the officialdom.

We all form small interest groups based on people from the same year and from the same hometown, hoping for better development.

For those in the Jiujiang Guild Hall, the following time was even more painful.

As time passes quietly, everyone knows that their chances of being on the list are disappearing.

The further you advance, the higher your ranking will naturally be. Do you have this level?

Now, except for Lao Kan and Shen Liangdong, everyone has experienced failure in the provincial examination. Naturally, the trace of arrogance generated after passing the provincial examination has long since disappeared, and the seeds of doubt have been planted in their hearts.

At this moment, the seed sprouted.

In fact, for many talented people, this is the so-called "inner demon". If they can't get over it, the imperial examination will be almost over.

Only a very small number of people, maybe by chance, can overcome this most difficult level.

I don’t know how many teams passed by to announce the good news. Counting the time, I am afraid that less than a hundred people have registered.

Disappointment gradually spread in the hearts of all the people.

In the distance, another group of festive music sounded, and then gradually disappeared.

In fact, at this moment, Wei Guangde was a little confused about the situation.

Just like Lao Kan, his talent far exceeds his own, but what is the result?

He was on the top list, but Lao Kan seemed to have failed. Although there is still a chance, Wei Guangde also feels that the chance is slim.

Xia Kefan's talents were not inferior to Lao Kan's, but he could only reach the position of more than 200 people. Could Lao Kan still be able to kill less than 100 people?

There is a high probability of becoming a second-class person.

In the distance, gongs, drums and suonas sounded again, and the sound gradually became louder and louder.

Everyone turned their expectant eyes to the gate, hoping that the team of people bringing the good news could cross the threshold and enter here.

However, when the drum music sounded in everyone's ears and when the newspaper actually entered the Jiujiang Guild Hall, everyone still became excited.

Wei Guangde looked at the candidates whose eyes were like spitting fire, and also guessed who would be on the list this time.

He didn't let them wait for too long, maybe because he saw the eagerness of the candidates, the newspaper quickly opened the good news in his hand, and read loudly with excitement: "Congratulations on the success of the Bingchen Science Competition in the 35th year of Jiajing." Mr. Lao Kanlao of Dehua County, Jiangxi Province ranked 80th on the list, and the Beijing News ranked first in the yellow list. "

Lao Kan is on the list.

Eighty, there is really a chance to get into the top two.

At this moment, the businessmen at the two tables who had already stood up excitedly cheered loudly, and at the same time, their hands and feet rushed towards the Laokana table.

Originally, Wei Guangde was sitting at the same table as Lao Kan and the others, but after learning that Zhang Ke and Xia Kefan were on the list, the three of them sat at a small table next to them and chatted. They thought about the results tomorrow and speculated on the results of this subject. In which province will the flowers fall in the Yuanhui Festival?

Wei Guangde naturally had no say here, Xia Kefan and Zhang Ke were the ones doing the discussion.

Now, Wei Guangde's three tributes are still outside, and Lao Kan's side is already crowded with merchants. At this moment, the officials can only stand outside and keep bowing to Lao Kan inside, shouting loudly: " Congratulations".

Wei Guangde looked at the businessmen on the side, and they complimented Lao Kan with smiles even brighter than before.

Of course, the ranking in the general examination is not as good as the ranking in the palace examination, but the difference between the two will not be too big.

Basically, Lao Kan has been confirmed to be in the second league.

When everyone in the Jiujiang Guild Hall was rejoicing that Lao Kan had made it to the top 100 in the examination, to the north of them, in the inner city of Beijing, in the Yongshou Palace.

"Your Majesty, Wei Guangde is on the examination list, but he is ranked very low."

In the main hall, an old eunuch was respectfully reporting to Emperor Jiajing on the throne in a low voice.

Emperor Jiajing was just lying lazily on a chair at this time, with a bun on his head and a gold hairpin across his head. He was wearing a blue-gray Taoist robe, looking very leisurely.

"Chen Hong, you reported that that boy killed a Japanese pirate on the battlefield?"

Emperor Jiajing waved his sleeves, found a more comfortable position and continued to ask.

"That's what the battle report said. I've checked with someone, and it seems that this is indeed the case."

The old eunuch was Chen Hong, the eunuch who had gone to Nanjing to deliver the imperial edict. After learning that the Japanese pirates had been completely wiped out, he took away all the battle reports and arranged for the Jinyiwei in Jiangxi to conduct a detailed investigation of the people mentioned in the battle reports, so that he could explain clearly when the emperor asked. Emperor Jiajing paid attention to these details.

"What is a scholar doing to learn how to fight in battle?"

Emperor Jiajing said with a playful smile on his face.

"I think that Wei Guangde is a military family after all, and maybe he has this hobby because of what he has heard and seen."

Speaking of this, Chen Hong looked up at the Emperor Jiajing above, without showing any expression, and then continued: "It was reported from Jiujiang before that Wei Guangde and Zhang Hongfu, who advocated the attack on the Japanese pirates this time, often rode out on horseback on weekdays, and their horseback kung fu was pretty good.

On weekdays, Wei Guangde would get up in the morning at home to do a set of boxing, which was a military trick, and so did Zhang Hongfu.

After all, he was going to inherit the position. According to the rules of the Ministry of War, if he wanted to inherit the position of commander, his kung fu couldn't be too bad."

"Who was his room teacher for the imperial examination?"

The Emperor Jiajing just smiled casually when he heard this, but continued to ask.

"It was Kang Siqian, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, who appointed him. I don't know the specific situation. After all, it was the Imperial Examination Hall, and perhaps Commander Lu knew more."

Chen Hong lowered his head and answered.

"Kang Siqian is from Shanxi, right?"

The Emperor Jiajing frowned slightly and asked after a little thought.

"Yes, from Linfen, Shanxi, and the same year as Lord Li Chunfang. He was the one who passed the imperial examination that year."

Every time Chen Hong met Emperor Jiajing, he would try his best to do his homework. He didn't want to give the emperor a confused impression that he didn't know anything.

"You go down and pay more attention to those people."

After a long while, Emperor Jiajing asked him to leave.

After receiving the order, Chen Hong immediately bowed and slowly left the hall.

"Huang Jin, what do you think of this Wei Guangde, a tribute scholar, who can still fight in the battlefield."

After Chen Hong left, Emperor Jiajing suddenly asked the eunuch Huang Jin who was serving beside him.

"I am not from a military household, so I don't know how the military households are passed down. But I heard that generally every family will pass down some skills, so the ability to kill the enemy should be more or less. That bit of courage must be inherited from the older generation. After all, their family is a hereditary hundred households, and they definitely can't get it without some military merit.

But for scholars, more energy should be put on books."

Huang Jin didn't know what the attitude of the master he followed was. He could only pick up what he knew. He couldn't say he was good or bad, and he was ambiguous.

"Hehe."

Jiajing laughed, and it was still impossible to tell what his mood was at the moment.

Huang Jin couldn't guess the Emperor Jiajing's psychology, but after thinking for a moment, he smiled flatteringly and said: "Speaking of which, the guard system set by our ancestors is still pretty good, and there are still some talents in the guard."

"More good-for-nothings."

Emperor Jiajing sneered, and he didn't know who he was thinking of.

Wei Guangde was on the first list, and he was so excited that he didn't sleep well all night. He got up the next day and forced himself to be energetic. He followed Lao Kan, Xia Kefan and others to Beijing Gongyuan to see the list.

The group took Wei Guangde's carriage directly from Chongwenmen to the inner city, and turned right to Gongyuan Street not far away.

Beijing Gongyuan is located in the southeast corner of the inner city, close to the city wall, and the carriage arrived here in a short time.

Although the news of the imperial examination list had been delivered to the candidates on the list after the messenger shuttled back and forth in Beijing yesterday, there were still unwilling candidates who came to look at the apricot yellow list again, trying to find their names, so when they arrived here, Wei Guangde and his friends saw only a crowd of people.

After finally squeezing under the list, Wei Guangde and his friends already knew the ranking, but they still chose to take another look to confirm, although they all knew that the probability of error was very small.

Soon, Wei Guangde saw his name at the 271st position, and it was indeed on the list.

Seeing his name, Wei Guangde's heart was completely settled.

When they came, they had already told the guildmaster that if there was a good news from the Imperial Examination after they left, they should accept it and give a reward.

Wei Guangde, who was now relaxed, simply looked from the back to the front to see who his classmates were. Perhaps there was someone he knew among them.

Soon he noticed the names of several Jiangxi candidates, Zou Shan and Yang Biao, both of whom had passed the exam last year. Wei Guangde naturally knew them.

As he continued to look forward, he went to look for Lao Kan. At this moment, there were only Xia Kefan and Zhang Ke beside him, because everyone ranked behind, but they were on the list anyway.

At this moment, in their hearts, the ranking was really not important. What mattered was to be on the list.

As he looked and moved forward, he would bump into people every two steps. There was nothing he could do about it. There were people crowding under the list, and everyone still didn't look at the road, but looked at the list.

Wei Guangde didn't care about bumping into a few people, and continued to look forward.

"Guangde, you come and see the list too."

While Wei Guangde was looking at the list, he heard someone calling his name.

Wei Guangde retracted his gaze and looked over, and hurriedly bowed and said, "Brother Zeng is also here to see the list."

"Yes, come and see, I feel at ease."

The person who came was Zeng Shengwu, and there were two people beside him.

This was just the meaning behind Zeng Shengwu's words. Wei Guangde was still unsure whether he was on the list or not.

"Brother Zeng is on the list?"

Wei Guangde asked tentatively.

"There are 170 candidates from the three provinces who have taken the Jinke Examination."

Before Zeng Shengwu could speak, someone next to him spoke first.

"Congratulations to Brother Zeng, um, the Beijing News has been listed in Huangjia."

Wei Guangde suddenly remembered the sentence he heard most yesterday, and immediately learned and applied it.

"Same joy, how about Brother Wei Xian?"

Zeng Shengwu asked very implicitly, but the meaning was very clear. He wanted to know whether Wei Guangde was on the list.

"My ranking is one hundred places higher than Brother Zeng's."

Wei Guangde joked that since they were all on the list, there were not so many polite words.

Maybe others would think that Zeng Xingwu was ranked high and should be more respectful, but Wei Guangde knew that Zeng Xingwu didn't care about so many false courtesy.

Hearing Wei Guangde's words, it was obvious that he was also on the yellow list of the examination. Not only Zeng Xingwu, but also the two people behind him were slightly startled, seeing that Wei Guangde's face was too young.

"Brother Wei Xian is seventy?"

Zeng Shengwu obviously looked at it from the front, but he didn't understand what Wei Guangde meant for a while, thinking that Wei Guangde's ranking was a hundred places higher than him, but it seemed that Wei Guangde's name was not seen in front.

"I am number 271."

Wei Guangde said honestly.

"Ah, haha. That's awesome. My dear brother is only seventeen years old. He is the same age as us."

For this group of people, most of them are in their twenties or thirties, and suddenly a teenager jumps in, okay, maybe it's a bit unfamiliar.

Then, Wei Guangde introduced Xia Kefan and Zhang Ke to Zeng Xingwu, and also told Zeng Xingwu's origins. His hometown was Pengze, Jiangxi Province, but his hometown was Huguang Chengtian. Then Zeng Xingwu also introduced his companions.

"Brother Zeng is coming from the front, who is the leader of this test?"

Zhang Ke suddenly asked.

Well, this is also the main purpose of their coming. They want to know where Huiyuan falls. You know, this is the preparation for the number one scholar.

"You should know him, it's Jinda."

Zeng Shengwu answered directly.

"Ah, Kinda."

When Wei Guangde and the other three heard that Jin Da had won the Hui Yuan, they didn't know what to say for a moment.

Of course they knew this person, but they were not familiar with him.

Jinda was the Juren in the 25th year of Jiajing. It is said that his ranking was very high and he was almost expelled from the Yuan Dynasty. However, this person had a bit of a stubborn character.

I know this mainly because at the banquet on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, everyone was very respectful to the Yan family and his son. It was not exactly flattering, but at least they were polite enough.

Wei Guangde naturally wanted to go up and curry favor, but he was worried about the future, so he hesitated and chose to give up.

Even if you want to curry favor, you definitely can't do it in public, let's do it in private.

But this Jin Da didn't look good to the Yan family and his son at all, and I don't know what happened.

Fellow fellow, it’s also about solar terms, so you should give your face as much as you can.

Wei Guangde seemed to have had a premonition that Jinda, the top pick, was about to fly away.