Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 359 Biography and release of the list (1)

  The rooster hadn't crowed, the dog hadn't barked, and it was pitch black outside the window, with no light at all.

  Zhu Pingan got up and washed up, ate the breakfast served by the little maid with lanterns, and with the help of the little maid, put on the brand-new Jinshi uniform, and then left the Marquis of Linhuai Mansion, heading for the Forbidden City.

  Breakfast is porridge and side dishes served with meat buns.

In other words, the chef of Li Shu's family is also very hard. He has to wake up at least half an hour earlier than himself to make such a table breakfast. I must thank the chef of Li's family face to face. Recently, I have been grateful to the Li family. The chef's food care is very grateful.

  Zhu Ping'an left Linhuaihou's mansion, and headed all the way to the Forbidden City, because the place where he was passed on was the Jinshen Hall in the Forbidden City when the officials of the Ministry of Rites delivered the Jinshi crown uniform yesterday.

  The Forbidden City, this city within a city, is the modern Forbidden City. Of course, the Forbidden City at this time in the Ming Dynasty is still very different from the modern Forbidden City. After all, the modern Forbidden City has been rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty. Unlike the modern Forbidden City, people can go in and play around after paying for a ticket. The Forbidden City at this time in the Ming Dynasty was a forbidden area. It was an imperial palace, and the most noble people in the world lived there.

  Chuanlu refers to the ceremony of announcing the ranking in the palace examination.

  When Zhu Ping'an walked to the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, the east gradually became dimly lit. The sky was white, the flowers were red, and the willows were green. The golden glazed tiles of the Forbidden City spread a golden light, full of luxury and wealth.

The crowd of people outside the Forbidden City was roughly divided into two groups. One group was civil and military officials in court clothes. A new Jinshi crown uniform and a new Jinshi wearing a black gauze hat with hairpin flowers.

Both groups of people were very excited. The civil and military officials were excited because they hadn't seen Emperor Jiajing for a long time. Many of them were not qualified to go to Xiyuan in the last palace examination. How can we not be excited to see the holy face after a long absence; as for the new Jinshi who are ranked behind the civil and military officials, they are excited because today is their day of great joy, and the golden palace is passed on. time.

  Because it was still early and the gates of the Forbidden City had not yet opened, everyone waited and chatted outside, the excitement was beyond words.

  When Zhu Ping'an arrived in the Forbidden City, he joined Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen among the four hundred new Jinshi.

The hottest topic among the new jinshimen is the status of the champion. At this time, not only do they not know the top 20 rankings of the first class, but even so many civil and military officials in front of them, none of them know the top 20 rankings, including Elder Yan Song, Yan Ge, and other eight ministers who read the papers did not know, they only knew the ranking of Jinshi after the 20th.

  At this time, the ranking of the top 20 has been sealed since Emperor Jiajing made the schedule, and it will not be opened until today when it is passed on, and the ranking will be announced.

Of course, even though the exact ranking of the top 20 is unknown, there are still a lot of inside information circulating. Many of these 400 new Jinshi were born in the families of dignitaries, or were related to dignitaries. , the relationship is the relationship, and many new jinshi have inquired about the information of the eight reading ministers when they were reading the papers.

  In addition, yesterday, the news that Emperor Jiajing summoned the top 20 was also spread among the crowd.

   It is because there are some known things sandwiched between the unknowns of the top pick that everyone chats so hotly.

"It stands to reason that the Huiyuan we tried last time has a great chance." A new Jinshi wearing a black gauze hat with hairpin flowers, wearing a Jinshi crown uniform, and holding a locust wood wat board stood in the crowd. Express your opinion.

   As soon as this person's voice fell to the ground, someone laughed and shook their heads.

   "I'm afraid this young brother only knows one thing and doesn't know the other." The man shook his head and said with a smile, with a look of gossip.

   "Oh, I would like to hear more about it." The first new Jinshi asked this person for advice.

"Although I heard it from hearsay, the news is very reliable. My father's friend works in Dali Temple, and his boss, Dali Temple Qing, is one of the ministers who read the paper. He mentioned it to my father yesterday when he was drinking at my house, saying yes After checking the papers, submit the top 20 test papers to the imperial examination papers. When the examination papers were opened, we found that our Zhu Huiyuan only scored seven 'O's in this examination paper, and his ranking was only tenth before submitting the examination papers to the imperial examination papers. One." The person shaking his head and laughing said gossipingly, looking at the astonished expression of the person opposite with satisfaction, he had enough gossip.

   "Eleventh, let alone the top one in this ranking, even the top two is not ahead." The crowd began to discuss.

"This is all taken care of by Yan Shoufu. I heard that after the first pass, this test paper only has six 'O's, which are among the top three. Yan Shoufu cherishes talents and asks the examiner to repeat the test again." After reading it again, there is only one more 'O'." There are new Jinshi who know more inside information, and they supplement the inside information they know.

   It’s amazing, Huiyuan only got seven "Os", and the top two are not in the top! Don't even think about the champion. Everyone's emotions were high for a while, especially those who felt good about themselves, and felt that they had another chance.

  Uh, it’s me. Zhu Pingan listened to everyone's discussion with a calm face, but smiled slightly when everyone looked over sympathetically, showing no signs of frustration.

  In the eyes of everyone, Zhu Ping'an is more sad than heartbroken, extremely sad and joyful, and a strong supporter.

After hearing the news, Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen kept comforting Zhu Pingan, asking Zhu Pingan to relax and not think too much, but the result didn't come out, everything is possible, even though they really felt that it was impossible .

   "Don't worry, I've already achieved what I wanted until today. As for the number one scholar, I'm lucky if I get it; I'm lucky if I lose it."

  Zhu Ping'an smiled calmly and calmly.

"I'm lucky if I get it; I'm lucky if I lose it. Zihou is so open-minded and open-minded, which is admirable." Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen admire Zhu Pingan's optimistic attitude towards life. I am lucky to have this sentence The loss of my life almost made the two of them bow their heads.

   Zhang Siwei and Wang Shizhen see it this way, but it doesn’t mean that everyone sees it this way: pretend, pretend, just keep pretending, and see when you can hit it, and when the result comes out, you will cry.

"Let me see, Brother Ouyang is the number one scholar in Enke this time. I heard that Brother Ouyang won a lot of prizes. The eight ministers who read the papers all gave "O" high marks." Someone in the crowd was very confident. Put forward the conclusion that the number one scholar must belong to Ouyang Zishi.

   This assertion was approved by the majority of people present, almost all the people present, and then the people standing beside Ouyang Zishi began to compliment Ouyang Zishi, as if the number one scholar of Enke had already found his own.

   Under the compliments of everyone, Ouyang Zishi said that he didn’t dare to be worthy, that the grades have not yet come out, and everyone should not joke, but he was full of happiness, proud of the spring breeze, looking forward to brilliance, and looked completely confident.

   "I heard that this time the top 20 face saints are the last one, and the sage asked to choose one for reward. Dare I ask you guys what you chose?" One of the top 20 Jinshi who was summoned by Jiajing asked the crowd.

   Someone responded quickly, saying that it was a golden carp, and several people said it was a golden carp.

   Someone asked Ouyang Zishi, and Ouyang Zishi also replied that it was a goldfish and a carp jumping over the dragon's gate.

   Then someone thought that although Zhu Ping'an was ranked eleventh, he was summoned by the grace of the Holy Spirit after all, so they came to ask Zhu Ping'an what he had chosen.

   "Golden Rooster." Zhu Pingan replied sincerely.

Uh

  Everyone was quiet for a few seconds when they heard the words, and then they started whispering again, many of them couldn't help but chuckled. They didn't expect that Zhu Ping'an would choose the Golden Rooster. Carp Yuelongmen said that he had good grades in the imperial examination. Obviously Carp Yuelongmen was the most suitable for the scientific examination, but he chose the Golden Rooster! The test paper was under Yan Shoufu's unconventional care, and he only got eleventh. Now this golden rooster is selected, hehe, don't even think about being the number one scholar, it is impossible. In their eyes, the number one scholar is probably Ouyang Zishi. Anyway, in their eyes, Zhu Ping'an is impossible.

  When Ouyang Zishi heard this, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, he whispered something, and played the piano indiscriminately. Then, the confidence in his eyes grew even stronger.

  (end of this chapter)