More than 7,000 candidates participated in the scientific examination, which was the largest number of people in the past twenty-five years of the Ming Dynasty.

In previous years, there were no more than three or four thousand people at most, but this year there are so many references for candidates from all walks of life, all because the imperial court said that the current department should recruit a large number of candidates to fill the increasingly vacant vacancies for imperial and local officials.

Scholars in the Ming Dynasty could obtain the title of student member by passing the county examination and have a certain social status.

After passing the government examination and the academy examination, the successful candidate will be a scholar and will initially have a political status. If you do not bow to the official, you will sit with the official.

As long as you pass the provincial examination and become a Juren, you will automatically be qualified to become a court official and wait for appointment as an official by the court as a candidate.

But most of the candidates, even if they can enter the officialdom through various means, can only achieve the position of prefect of one place in their lifetime.

He just became a Beijing official, and at most he was the chief of various ministries and departments.

Most of the candidates who enter the officialdom just move around in the local area. At most, they are lucky enough to get a position as chief envoy and counselor before retiring, or as chief envoy to participate in politics.

Once they pass the imperial examination, participate in the palace examination, and are named on the gold list and the two lists of Jinshi, their political status will be completely different.

The first-class, second-class, and third-class scholars can directly serve as bachelors of the Hanlin Academy. The top two in the second class can become the Golden Palace, the Jade Palace, the second class Jinshi, and the third class Jinshi. They can join the administrative affairs of various ministries.

, or directly appointed by the court to become local officials.

This year, the imperial court has launched a large-scale recruitment and appointment of official vacancies. Everyone is waiting to see how big the gold list will be.

The nine-day examination can be said to be long, but it can also be said to be quick.

In the midst of the autumn rain, Hongwu's twenty-five-year Enke Examination slowly came to an end.

However, Yingtian City became even more lively.

All the shops and restaurants in the city had purchased drinks from various places as early as a month ago in preparation for the thousands of people to drink after the test.

The banks of the Qinhuai River started making new clothes a month ago, and the girls almost sold out all the rouge shops in the city.

Everyone was staring at the money bags, and of course their bodies, of the thousands of people who had worked hard to finish the exam.

This has even given rise to the Juren Loan. Lenders have no worries about whether these Juren can repay their debts. As long as they are on the list, they are Jinshi masters and officials of the imperial court. Naturally, they are not afraid that they will run out of money. Even if they fail,

Which of these successful candidates' families is short of money?

This means that after the annual examination, the catering and entertainment industry in Yingtian City will see a surge in industry output value.

And in the process, after the examination, the candidates went to the city to look for flowers, eat, drink, gamble, get together with friends, and even pay homage to their fellow examiners, chief and deputy examiners.

It can be said that there is a small banquet in three days, and a big banquet in five days. At the banquet, the teachers who are the same year can be said to be full of talking, laughing, singing and dancing.

These banquets for question presentation, curtain presentation, and test paper collection took up the short period of time between the nine-day examination and the results release day. On the other hand, it also resulted in the examiners of the imperial examination having to put the first priority

There are four books and five classics papers in the first three days, and there is no time to pay attention to the test papers of the candidates in the next six days.

The sages can write well in their articles, and they can also write well in some edicts and opinions, as well as policy questions.

Unless they are all the unlucky guy Tang Bohu.

The northeast corner of Jiangning County is a good place.

To the north of the East Garden, there are three of the forty-eight scenes of Jinling, namely "Lai Yanming Hall", "Peach Crossing Linliu" and "Long Bridge Sending Prostitutes".

kindness.

Except for Yanmingtang, which is related to the former residence of Yanmingtang of the Wang Xie family, the other two are related to women.

It is probably for this reason that there are many famous Qinhuai buildings along the river that are rumored to have many famous Qinhuai prostitutes.

What's even more interesting is that across the river are Confucius Temple, Jiangning Fuxue and Gongyuan.

Perhaps, it may be because of the young scholars, all the people are young and energetic.

Lishe Bridge spans between Gongyuan and Dashiba Street.

On the south bank, there are houses and pavilions one after another.

Whenever the city's Chinese lanterns come on, you can see across the river behind the open windows between these carved and painted buildings, a slender prostitute with a charming posture, pinching her fingers and making flowers, with spring in her eyes.

Several people who had just finished the nine-day examination and attended a banquet for their fellow examiners at noon rushed to Qinhuaihe and sat in a private room on the second floor near the river.

In private, three or five people gathered at the same table. Everyone was accompanied by one or two good-looking prostitutes. On one side, there was another prostitute playing the harp and lute.

One of them raised his head and poured the wine glass in the hand of the prostitute next to him into his stomach, then returned half the glass to the prostitute, and finally asked several people of the same age: "What do you think the imperial court will do now?"

How many people are needed to fill in the list?”

Before the results of the general examination are released, the examiners of the general examination need to select qualified and outstanding candidates from all the candidates to fill in the list. Then the results will be released the next day, and then there will be a re-examination a few days later. After the completion of the examination, it will be the palace examination. Normally, you will become the person that everyone in the world aspires to.

Mr. Jinshi.

"Only one out of ten can be regarded as filling the official vacancy in the world as the court said." Someone pulled the head out of the prostitute's bulging chest in his arms, and shouted with a blushing face.

So someone stood up from under the table, between the prostitute's legs, and exclaimed: "That's six to seven hundred Jinshi with two rankings!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and spat.

Under the candlelight, a curved shadow was seen flying in the air.

Juzi, whose face turned red, said gloomily: "In the past few years, the number of candidates for each subject examination was usually three to four thousand, and the imperial court took two to three hundred people. It was about one in ten, and this year it cannot be lower than this number.

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Suddenly, the wine table shook.

After a while, he saw an official crawling out from under the table, fiddling with his robes. His eyes were bloodshot, and he glanced at everyone present, and then said: "Tomorrow is the day when the results will be released. We will know how many people we will take when the results are released at this time. How many people have we taken?"

How many people can be on the list?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As soon as he finished speaking, another petite prostitute, wrapped in a coat and holding her legs between her legs, slowly sat aside.

That person then said to the crowd with ambiguous eyes: "Didn't I tell you that I am sitting here as a teacher today? Today science and education are prosperous. How can we be prosperous? There are only many officials in Jiangnan. We are prosperous."

"At the moment, a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold, so you'd better be happy as soon as possible."

After finishing speaking, regardless of what the contemporaries present thought, he directly pulled the prostitute who had just emerged from under the table, and then pulled another prostitute from the side, and left the Yashe.

The remaining people looked at each other and smiled, then they took the prostitutes and left. No one left after the show, but there were many rooms for overnight stays downstairs in the host's house.

October 13th.

Listing day.

Early in the morning, just before the fourth watch, people began to arrive in front of the Gongyuan, waiting in front of the huge public notice board used to post the gold list.

Not only those who were taking the exam, but also their family members and servants, but also the busy people in the city, the servants of the gentry and powerful families who were planning to release the results and spread the news to arrest their son-in-law.

By the time of the fifth watch, the entire Gongyuan Street was once again crowded with people.

From time to time there would be bursts of exclamations and noisy shouts.

There were people standing outside the crowd and people near the river who were pushed into the river.

The government officials had been waiting here early. They inserted bamboo poles into the river and fished out these bastard things.

But there will always be more people falling into the water.

It was not until Chenshi that officials from the Ministry of Rites, Hanlin Academy, Gongyuan, Yingtianfu, and Yingtian counties came out of Gongyuan.

The officers came to the list wrapped in a roll of thick and long yellow paper.

There were benches and ladders on the base, left and right, and servants were standing up and down.

Several buckets of paste were brushed on the board, and then the guards sent the yellow paper to the far right and glued the edge of the paper to the board from top to bottom.

From right to left, everyone stepped out of the circle little by little, and the whole article was exposed to the sight of onlookers with red ink and red letters.

"Out!"

"The two lists are out!"

As the red characters on the yellow paper were revealed in front of the crowd, the entire Gongyuan Street became noisy.

If it weren't for the government officers blocking the gold list, these people would probably be able to knock down the officers who were still retreating to post the gold list.

"Look! The name is out!"

The person at the front of the crowd pointed to the front of the gold list.

"Zhang Xin!"

"It was Mr. Zhang from Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province who won the first place in the Jinke Examination (formerly the number one scholar in the Jiaxu Section in the 27th year of Hongwu)!"

"Hurry and go to the Zhejiang Taoist Guild Hall to announce the good news and receive a reward!"

Before the officers in the Gongyuan who announced the good news could go out, someone in the crowd pulled away the people around them and rushed to the Zhejiang Taoist Association Hall.

Another person said: "Secondly, who is Mr. Jingqing of Shaanxi Dao (formerly the second in the Jiaxu Branch in the 27th year of Hongwu), who went to the Shaanxi Dao Guild Hall to announce the good news."

Then someone else exclaimed: "The third one is Mr. Dai Deyi from Fenghua, Zhejiang Province (formerly the Jiaxu Branch Visitor in the 27th year of Hongwu), who went to the Zhejiang Daoist Guild Hall to announce the good news."

But in just a moment, someone shouted: "Master Dai is not in the Zhejiang Taoist Hall."

"Where is Mr. Dai?"

"I've been staying in Fuchun Building for the past few days."

"As expected, it's him!"

"Go to Fuchun Tower to announce the good news."
To be continued...