Today, Wei Guangde is very satisfied. He has made it to the first list. After passing the palace examination, he can proudly tell others that he is a "two-list Jinshi".

Not only Wei Guangde, but also the shopkeeper of Jiujiang Association and Jiujiang businessmen who came here to do business in Beijing were also very happy. Finally, they did not come to sit for half a day in vain.

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

They are naturally more than 20 other candidates who took the exam.

However, at this time, they could only force themselves to smile.

Well, it’s still early now, there are 300 tribute quotas, and only about 100 people are registered now. Maybe I still have...

While all the candidates were still looking forward to it, Wei Guangde, Zhang Ke and Xia Kefan were already sitting together, discussing going to Beijing Gongyuan to see the list together tomorrow morning and see who they were in the same year.

For the Jiangxi tribute students, they are quite familiar with them. The combination of the three of them is very interesting. They cover the 28th year of Jiajing, the 31st year and the 34th year of the provincial examination. Almost all the Jiangxi tribute students who were on the list this time should have the opportunity to get to know each other.

Of course, their goal is not only to know the tribute students in this province, but also to meet the talented and talented people from other provinces. In the future, as they were in the same year, they would also support and take care of each other in the officialdom so that they could go further.

The so-called "one hero has three gangs", which is even more so in the officialdom.

Everyone formed small interest groups in the same year, fellow townsmen and other ways, looking forward to better development.

For those in Jiujiang Guild Hall, the next time is even more painful.

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

The higher you go, the higher your ranking will be. Do you have this level?

Now, except for Lao Kan and Shen Liangdong, they all have experienced the failure of the exam. Naturally, the arrogance that had emerged after the provincial examination was eliminated earlier has long disappeared, and the seeds of doubt have been planted in their hearts.

At this moment, the seed germinated.

In fact, for many talented people, this is the so-called "intellectual demon". If you can't see through this point, the imperial examination will be almost over in the future.

There are only a very small number of them, perhaps from time to time, and by chance, they can overcome this most difficult level.

I don’t know how many teams have passed to report the good news. Calculate the time, I’m afraid that there have been less than 100 people.

The disappointment gradually spread in the hearts of the students.

Along the way, another team of festive music sounded, and then gradually disappeared.

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

For example, Lao Kan, his talent is far superior to his own, but what is the result?

He made it to the first list, but Lao Kan seemed to have failed the exam. Although he still has a chance now, Wei Guangde also felt that the opportunity was slim.

Xia Kefan's talent is not as talented as laborers, but he has only reached more than 200. Can Laborer still reach less than 100?

That is likely to become a second-class existence.

In the distance, there were gongs, drums and suona sounds, and the sound gradually became louder and louder.

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

However, when the drums and music sounded in everyone's ears and when the newspaper really stepped into the Jiujiang Guild Hall, everyone was still excited.

Wei Guangde looked at the pickets with their eyes that were like fire, and was also guessing who would be on the list this time.

They didn't wait too long, perhaps because they saw the eagerness of the students, the newspaper quickly opened the good news in their hands, and read it loudly with excitement: "The best news for the Bingchen Test in the 35th year of Jiajing, congratulations to Mr. Lao Kanlao, Dehua County, Jiangxi Province, for being ranked 80th in the first place, and the Beijing News ranked yellow.

Lao Kan is on the list.

Eighty, there is really a chance to be ranked second.

At this moment, the two merchants who had already stood up excitedly cheered loudly, and at the same time, they rushed towards the table of Laokan.

Originally, Wei Guangde was still at the same table with Lao Kan and others, but after knowing that Zhang Ke and Xia Kefan were on the list, the three of them sat next to a small table chatting, and they were all guessing which province the Huiyuan of this subject would be.

Here, Wei Guangde naturally has no say, and it is all about Xia Kefan and Zhang Ke who are discussing it.

Now, Wei Guangde and the three tributes were still outside, and Lao Kan was already crowded with merchants. The juren could only stand outside and keep bowing to Lao Kan inside, shouting "Congratulations" loudly.

Wei Guangde looked at the merchants while watching them, and they squeezed out a brighter smile on their faces to compliment Lao Kan.

Of course, the ranking of the imperial examination is not as good as the ranking of the palace examination, but the gap between the two will not be too big.

Basically, Lao Kan has been confirmed to be admitted to the second grade.

When everyone in the Jiujiang Guild Hall was excited to enter the top 100 people in the examination, they were in the north of them, in the inner city of Beijing and Yongshou Palace.

"Your Majesty, Wei Guangde is on the exam list, but he ranks very low."

In the hall, an old eunuch was respectfully reporting to Emperor Jiajing on the imperial throne.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing was just lying lazily on the chair, with a Taoist bun on his head, a golden hairpin forked across his face, and a blue-gray Taoist robe, looking very leisurely.

"Chen Hong, do you repay that the kid cut down a Japanese pirate on the battlefield?"

Emperor Jiajing waved his sleeves and found a more comfortable position to continue asking.

"This is what the war report says. I have found someone to check it out, and it seems that this is indeed true."

The old eunuch was Chen Hong, the eunuch who had been sent to Nanjing to preach the order. After knowing that the Japanese pirates were completely wiped out, he took away all the battle reports. At the same time, he arranged for the people mentioned in the battle reports to check the people from the Jinyiwei in Jiangxi in order to make it clear when the emperor asked, and Emperor Jiajing paid great attention to these details.

"A scholar, go and learn how to kill the enemy."

Emperor Jiajing said with a playful smile on his lips.

"I think that Wei Guangde is a military family after all, and maybe he has this preference if he hears and sees it."

Speaking of this, Chen Hong looked up at Emperor Jiajing above, and showed no expression. Then he continued: "Jiujiang had previously reported that Wei Guangde and Zhang Hongfu, who was strongly advocating the Japanese pirates, often rode out horses on weekdays, and his kung fu was pretty good at the moment.

On weekdays, Wei Guangde would get up at home in the morning to fight a boxing trip. It was all the way in the army, and so did Zhang Hongfu.

After all, he wants to assault his post. According to the rules of the Ministry of War, he wants to assault the command position, and his kung fu cannot be too ugly."

"Examination, who is his room teacher?"

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

"It was pointed out by Kang Siqian, editor of the Hanlin Academy. I don't know what the specific situation is. After all, it's the Gongyuan, so maybe Commander Lu is more clear."

Chen Hong lowered his head and replied.

"Kang Siqian is Shanxi, right?"

Emperor Jiajing frowned slightly and asked after thinking for a while.

"Yes, I am from Linfen, Shanxi, and I am the same year as Li Chunfang and Lord Li. He was the priest of 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 and didn't know anything he asked.

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

After a while, Emperor Jiajing spoke up and asked him to go out.

Chen Hong got the order and immediately bowed and slowly retreated from the hall.

Gu Chun

"Huang Jin, what do you think of Wei Guangde and Gongshi, who can still go to the battlefield to kill the enemy?"

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

"Slaves are not from military families, so they don't know what the inheritance of military families is. I heard that every family will have some skills to pass on, so they should know more or less the ability to kill enemies. I think that little courage is inherited by the older generation. After all, their family is a hereditary family, and they will definitely not get it without military merit.

However, for scholars, more energy should be placed on books."

Huang Jin didn't know what the attitude the master he followed had, so he could only pick up his own words, not say he was good, not say he was bad, just be right.

"hehe......"

Jiajing laughed, but he still couldn't tell what he was feeling at this moment.

Huang Jin could not guess Emperor Jiajing's psychology, but after thinking for a moment, he smiled flatteringly: "To be honest, the ward system set by our ancestors is quite good, and there are still some talents in the ward."

“More rice buckets.”

Emperor Jiajing sneered, not knowing who he had thought of.

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

The group took Wei Guangde's carriage and entered the inner city directly from Chongwenmen. Not long after, they turned right and entered Gongyuan Street.

Beijing Gongyuan is located in the southeast corner of the inner city, close to the city wall, and arrives here shortly after a long time of carriage.

Although the news of the test list has been passed on to the hands of the candidates on the list after yesterday's newspaper, there are still unwilling students to come over and look at the apricot yellow list, trying to find their own name. So when we arrived here, Wei Guangde and the others saw a crowd.

After finally reaching the bottom of the list, although Wei Guangde and the others already knew the ranking, they still chose to take a look and confirm, although they all knew that the probability of making a mistake was very small.

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

Seeing the name, Wei Guangde's heart completely calmed down.

When they came, they had already instructed the shopkeeper of the guild. If there was a happy news from the tribute court after they left, they would ask them to accept it and reward the wedding money.

At this moment, Wei Guangde, who was relaxed all over, simply looked forward from the end to see which ones he had in the same year. Perhaps there were people he knew about.

Soon he noticed the names of several Jiangxi candidates, Zou Shan and Yang Biao, who were all Juren who passed the imperial examination last year, and Wei Guangde naturally knew them.

As we continued to look forward and looked for Lao Kan, there were only Xia Kefan and Zhang Ke around him at this moment, because everyone ranked low, but they were on the list no matter what.

In their minds, rankings are really not important, what is important is to be on the list.
To be continued...