On March 15th, at the beginning of Mao Shi, the sky was still dark, and the three hundred Xinke Gong students who participated in the palace examination had already lined up outside Donghua Gate to wait.
After waiting for a long time, until a bell rang from the palace, the Xinke Gongsheng students entered through the Zuoye Gate under the guidance of the officials of Honglu Temple and went to Chongzheng Hall.
All the way to the palace, I could only hear the echo of the palace Shao music. The emperor had not yet entered the palace, but a group of examiners had already gathered in front of Lord Dan.
According to convention, officials at the level of bachelor of Longtuge and bachelor of Hanlin Academy must serve as palace examination examiners, and the rest are filled by six ministers, ministers and censors.
Therefore, among the examiners standing in front of Lord Dan at this moment, there are several important cabinet ministers alone. These people stamp their feet and the whole Zhou Dynasty will be shaken.
After the new Gong students entered the hall, all the examiners glanced away. Feeling the majestic gazes of these important ministers, many new Gong students even found it difficult to breathe.
Zhang Jiucheng, as the Huiyuan of Jinke, naturally ranked first among the three hundred tribute students. However, standing in the hall facing the scrutiny of the examiners, this dignified Huiyuan Lang also stood with his head down in trepidation. Occasionally he dared to secretly use his peripheral vision.
Take a few glances.
At this time, the emperor had not yet arrived, and a group of examiners were standing in front of Danbi talking quietly. Zhang Jiuzheng saw his teacher Wei Chen in the crowd at a glance.
Seeing the teacher nodding and smiling at him, Zhang Jiucheng suddenly felt a lightness on his body, and unknowingly, most of the anxiety in his heart had gone away.
At this time, music suddenly burst out from both sides of the hall, and the sound of Huang Zhong and Da Lu resounded endlessly. Everyone stood still with solemn expressions.
After a while, the Emperor Zhao Zongquan of the Great Zhou Dynasty finally made his grand appearance. Everyone in the palace quickly bowed down, shouting "Long Live the Mountain" and knelt three times and kowtowed nine times.
When Zhao Zongquan sat down on the throne, he heard a sharp voice from Lord Dan shouting: "Linxuan makes a plan——"
This is the beginning of this national public security first year palace examination.
Officials of Honglu Temple led the candidates to the two corridors of Chongzheng Hall, seated them at intervals according to their examination rankings, and then began to distribute test questions.
The candidates got the test questions, and after thinking about it for a while, they started writing furiously.
The content of the test question is "The way to fight against external aggression and internal peace", which was written by Zhao Zongquan, the emperor of today.
This is the first palace examination that Zhao Zongquan has presided over since he came to the throne. Zhao Zongquan attaches great importance to this palace examination. Not only does he personally set the questions, but he also has Cheng Yu in charge of the Chongzheng Palace.
Halfway through the palace examination, Zhao Zongquan, accompanied by ministers, stepped down from the throne and personally visited the candidates.
There were three ministers accompanying Zhao Zongquan on his inspection tour, one was Han Zhang, a bachelor of Longtuge, one was Shen Weizhong, a bachelor who had just joined the cabinet, and the last one was Zhan Shi, the young master of Zhan Shifu and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.
Wei Chen.
In today's situation, these three people can be chosen by the emperor to follow them and be ready for the emperor's inquiries at any time, which is enough to show the prosperity of their holy family.
Especially Wei Chen, who had written a letter to plead guilty for the incident before, but the emperor kept his memorial silent and suppressed the matter silently.
Wei Chen was not affected in the slightest, and still served as the examiner for the imperial examination. Now he is even more fortunate to be by the emperor's side and inspect the examination together with him.
This kind of trust and love makes all the high-ranking examiners feel envious.
Among the neat rows of examination tables, Zhao Zongquan led Wei Chen and three others, pacing quietly.
Whenever a candidate gets up to salute, Zhao Zongquan will order someone to stop him. He is here to patrol the exam, not to disturb the candidates.
Zhao Zongquan's eyes passed over each examination paper. As long as something caught his eye, he would stop for a moment.
For example, the young candidate in front of me is not only handsome in appearance, but also outstanding in his writing, which is very suitable for Zhao Zongquan.
Zhao Zongquan immediately turned his head and quietly asked Wei Chen behind him about this candidate.
"Kaifeng, Wang Ang..."
Zhao Zongquan silently recited the candidate's place of origin and name. After writing down the person, he continued to move forward.
After that, he walked past dozens of candidates, but none of them made Zhao Zongquan's eyes shine like Wang Ang.
It wasn't until he walked all the way from the right corridor to the left corridor on the other side that Zhao Zongquan finally stopped.
Zhao Zongquan paused in silence for a while, reading the completed part of the candidate's article from beginning to end, and couldn't help but nod appreciatively.
There was no need for Wei Chen to remind him this time. Zhao Zongquan just looked at where the candidate was sitting and knew his identity clearly.
Then he turned around and said to Wei Chen: "This person must be Zhang Jiuzheng, the Yuan of Jinke Huiyuan. He is indeed extraordinary. Wei Aiqing's selection of scholars can be said to be fair."
"It's just that the words... seem to be yet to be considered." Shen Weizhong has been following Zhao Zongquan. He also read Zhang Jiucheng's article and expressed his views in a low voice.
Han Zhang on the side shook his head and smiled when he heard this: "In my opinion, although this article lacks literary grace, it is already among the best among all living beings, and Huiyuan is well-deserved.
It is said that literature carries the Tao, and literature carries the Tao, just like a chariot carries things. Although a chariot without carrying anything is beautifully decorated, what is the use of it? As for the integration of literature and Tao, and the integration of the two bodies, how difficult is it!" Speaking of this, Han Zhang's eyes moved to Wei Chen and he said with a smile: "How many people like Wei Shaozhan do you think there are in this world?"
Shen Weizhong was slightly startled when he heard this, glanced at Wei Chen next to him, and couldn't help but laugh and said: "That's right, but Shen is a bit too harsh."
At this time, Zhao Zongquan also joked: "Wei Aiqing's writings about China are extremely talented. If Jinke Sandingjia can be as talented as Wei Aiqing, I will be satisfied."
Seeing that all three people's eyes were focused on him, even though Wei Chen was so thick-skinned, he couldn't help but blush a little, and he quickly bowed and humbled himself.
The three monarchs and ministers all found it very interesting to see Wei Chen, who usually showed no expression of joy or anger. If it weren't for their status and the fact that they were in the examination room at this time, the three of them would have burst into laughter.<
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At dusk, the last candidate handed in his papers and left. Zhao Zongquan returned to the back hall to rest. The palace examination had come to an end, and the next step was to mark the papers.
Although the chief examiner of this imperial examination is the Emperor, it is naturally impossible for the Emperor alone to read all the candidates' papers. The specific marking work still needs to be done by Wei Chen and other examiners.
On March 18, ten palace examination examiners selected the top ten candidates after three days of intense marking.
Then the examiners each held a paper and went to the Chongzheng Palace to read the papers for the emperor one by one, asking the emperor to decide the final ranking of the palace examination.
This is also the origin of the name "Record Reader".
After reading the ten examination papers one by one, Zhao Zongquan had already made a final decision in his mind as to which of the students was better or worse.
However, when Zhao Zongquan lifted the ink pen from the imperial case and was about to place it on Zhang Jiucheng's scroll, he suddenly hesitated.
Although Zhao Zongquan admires Zhang Jiuzheng very much and thinks that Zhang Jiuzheng has the talent of the number one scholar, the number one scholar is the face of the imperial court after all, and his appearance must be correct, and Zhao Zongquan must also consider it carefully.
After pondering for a moment, Zhao Zongquan finally sighed softly, ordered someone to fetch Wang Ang's scroll, and with a stroke of his pen, designated Wang Ang as the number one scholar. As for Zhang Jiucheng, he fell into the top two.
In fact, Wei Chen had expected this and had Zhang Jiuzheng mentally prepared in advance.
But after hearing the final result, Wei Chen couldn't help but feel a little sorry for Zhang Jiucheng.
At the same time, Wei Chen couldn't help but secretly rejoice. Fortunately, his parents gave him such a good skin, which saved him a lot of trouble.
In any case, the first year of public security enke that Wei Chen had to worry about is finally over.