Because the emperor was watching over the palace examination, the papers were reviewed very quickly, and even some impatient emperors never left. Basically, the rankings could be roughly determined that night.

And because there were only 200 copies of the papers, the officials copied them very quickly.

More than a dozen examiners composed of cabinet members, ministers of rites, bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, and Hanlin officials also made corrections very quickly.

Before Hai hour that night, the top ten were decided and sent to the emperor's court.

At this point, the number one scholar would basically be chosen from these ten papers, but the emperor also had the right to read other papers.

There were even emperors who read all 200 or 300 papers.

After the emperor finished reading, he thought about it and did not rush to decide on the top three. Instead, he asked people to tear off the name papers on the papers copied by the family members, and then found the original papers of the ten papers.

The emperor looked overjoyed when he saw Shi Zhongkui's name on the top of the paper, which represented the first name.

Since it was chosen by the ministers themselves, it is justified.

After this incident spread to the outside world, it was widely expected.

The reason is very simple. All ministers who don't have any grudges against Shi Zhongkui basically hope to get a six-yuan pass.

And when it comes to the palace examination, whoever the emperor wants to be the top scholar will be the one.

It's useless no matter how much you object.

The top three have been decided, and the rest will wait for tomorrow's passing ceremony, where the first place will be announced on the spot.

After Shi Zhongkui returned home, he immediately ordered the Golden Mouse to visit the small courtyard agreed with Xia Shouzhong.

In the evening, the little mouse came back to report that he saw a little eunuch entering the courtyard and singing a play for half an hour in the study.

And when the little eunuch left, the Golden-haired Rat followed him all the way, watching him enter an ordinary courtyard, but found no one following him, and then ran back.

After listening to the Golden Mouse's narration, Shi Zhongkui frowned and thought for a moment before sighing.

A drama about a concubine being favored and being accused of being arrogant by her family made him immediately understand that the emperor wanted to make Yuanchun his concubine.

Secondly, this must not be what the emperor himself wants.

The third Xia Shouzhong was reminding himself not to get too close to the Jia family.

No, maybe I'm telling myself to persuade the Jia family not to be too active even if they take sides.

Otherwise, it will inevitably end up like the allusion, with the whole family being exiled.

Xia Shouzhong was not worried that he would not understand. He counted the people and relatives around him, including the eldest daughter of the Jia family, who had entered the palace as a female historian many years ago.

Shi Zhongkui just sighed a few times and ignored it.

After all, this is not something that I can intervene and decide, and the solution has been thought of before.

But having never experienced the cruelty of officialdom, he kept things simple.

In the court, there is no talk of father and son in the struggle for power.

Moreover, the emperor needs a six-yuan auspicious sign, and the Supreme Emperor needs it even more.

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The next day, Shi Zhongkui and others gathered again in the square in front of Jinluan Hall.

Since I am the first person to try, of course I stand first in the row on the left.

After the candidate for the No. 1 Scholar is announced, this person will stand in front of the four rows of scholars and kneel in front of the white marble steps to express gratitude.

Then the second place pick and the third overall pick were also eligible to be ranked, and they stood behind the top pick to thank them.

As for others, they can only sigh with envy.

On the contrary, Tanhualang is not necessarily more knowledgeable than the top two rankers.

But compared to the top few in the top two, or even the top dozen, he must be the most handsome.

So in many cases, Tanhua is the most popular.

As for the second place on the list, he is not as high in status as the top pick, not as handsome as the top pick, and not as popular among girls in the boudoir, so he seems to have the least sense of existence.

When Shi Zhongkui thinks of this, it can only be said that he is still very nervous at the moment.

And it would be weird if you weren’t nervous.

As for the scholars standing behind him, all their eyes were on him whenever they could see him.

This is a real chance to win six yuan in a row, the first in history.

In real history, one of the people who passed the Sixth Yuan was Huang Guan during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and he was only 28 years old at the time.

Five years later, he became the right minister of the Ministry of Etiquette, ranking third in rank.

But because of his opposition to Zhu Di, the ending was not very good.

In the end, he threw himself into the river, but Zhu Di still did not let go of his nine tribes.

Otherwise, if he voted for Zhu Di, there would be no problem in joining the cabinet.

That's not right. Although the cabinet system was created by Zhu Di, it was just a secretarial agency at that time.

The second one is Qian Qian with a whip, but this big guy didn't win six yuan in a row.

Not only did he take the children's examination many times, but he also entered the examination room six times and failed six times in the provincial examination.

But these two big bosses, whose fate was directly changed because of the great defeat of the old Zhu family in the Battle of Poyang Lake, did not appear at all in the Zhou Dynasty and the former Chen court.

In other words, once Shi Zhongkui wins the first prize, he will be the only one in this world and the first time to win the sixth prize.

That's why the scholars, officials, eunuchs, and guards present would look at him from time to time.

Even some superstitious eunuchs and guards had the idea of ​​kneeling at his feet and kissing his shoes to imbue themselves with culture.
Chapter completed!