"In March, the branches in the south of the Yangtze River are full of flowers, and the breeze is light and the swallows are flying behind the curtains. Visitors have no time to hold candles at night, and the willows are thick and spring is ready to return."

Sitting on the boat and admiring the scenery on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Lin Yuan was inspired to compose a poem.

"Okay, this poem written by Brother Lin Yuan is really good."

"It's worth revealing."

"Lin Yuan is a talented poet, and he deserves to be the most talented person in the south of the Yangtze River."

Lin Yuan smiled and scolded: "Qin Guan, when others say it, I take it as a compliment, but when you say the words "The most talented poet in Jiangnan" from your mouth, I only take it as a sarcasm, so I punish you to write a poem. And it needs to be good.”

Others cheered, "Yes, yes, let Shaoyou sing a song, preferably compose a lyric, and let Miss Beauty sing it for us."

Qin Guan was dissatisfied: "I just said hello, how come I'm mocking you? And today I just want to relax, and I won't do anything as mentally demanding as writing poetry."

No one was willing to let him go. Shen Yichen said, "You see, Miss Beauty is already looking forward to seeing you."

Everyone looked at Qingli sitting beside her, and two rosy clouds flew up from Qingli's face.

She had indeed looked at Qin Guan with burning eyes just now, hoping that Qin Guan could compose a new poem.

This painting boat is the painting boat of Bingqing Pavilion. Zhu Peng spent a lot of money to invite Qingliren, one of the six oirans of Qinhuai, to join in the fun. Qingliren has a slim figure and a beautiful face. She is especially good at poetry and singing, which is unique in Qinhuai.

Nowadays, Qin Guan's poems are famous far and wide, such as "Magpie Bridge Immortal", "When will the bright moon come", "Green apricots are small", "Lights are dim", "People are haggard because of Yi's disappearance", "Asking what love is in the world", even Qin The Qiu Ci written during the Provincial Examination can be regarded as a masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages. Now it is widely circulated. Qin Ci is recited in all brothels and brothels. If you don't know Qin Ci, you will not be able to survive in the geisha community.

Yes, people have already called these Ci poems by Qin Guan "Qin Ci".

Qin Guan's famous name Qingli has long been admired by people, and they heard that Qin Guan was still a lover. Na Lingyi slept with him, and was finally taken into his room. I heard that he is now very happy and happy, and is envied by countless famous prostitutes.

Let’s take a look at Ayaka’er, who was gifted two poems by Qin Guan. She was originally just a little girl, but now her net worth has doubled, and it’s hard to hear a single song in her life. She has become the real leader among flowers this year.

Qin Guan and others were drinking and laughing in Qinhuai, but they did not know that in the Gongyuan, the examiners were nervously engaged in the work of grading the examination papers. It is a mandatory rule to release the results in three days. More than 2,000 examination papers need to be carefully reviewed, and the workload is not small. .

The chief examiner of this examination was Zeng Yu, and the deputy chief examiner was Yan Chang, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. There were eight examiners, all of whom were officials of fifth rank or above.

Zeng Yu stood in the main hall and said to several fellow candidates: "The officials have decided on the number of tribute students to be selected this time, a total of 76 people. You must strictly judge and select the talents that our country can use. Now we will start the preliminary selection." Roll it up."

The eight fellow students all agreed to take the exam.

The rules for judging the Da Zhao National Congress Examination are that the same examiner will conduct the preliminary selection, and the two chief examiners will select the final meritorious students. As for the rankings, they will also be judged by the two chief examiners, and will be divided into the top ten in the first batch and the top ten in the second batch.

In fact, candidates need to pass two levels to pass the exam. The examiner who marks the paper must take a fancy to your paper, and then he will recommend you to the main examiner. The main examiner will do the second round of judging. 76 people will be selected from two thousand.

He was torn apart from many candidates, which shows his cruelty.

Who wants to be the first Huiyuan in the examination, who is not a genius, and the first place in the examination is very important for the palace examination. According to the general rules, those who can be the first in the examination will rarely fall in the palace examination.

Three situations.

Because from the beginning, the emperor has paid great attention to you and made a good impression on you.

The clerk made a pot of tea for Zeng Xianggong and Yan Dashi, and poured it into the cups for them respectfully. Yan Chang picked it up, smelled it, and said to Zeng Yu with a smile: "This shouldn't be Gongyuan tea, right? Gongyuan tea."

I can’t afford the purple bamboo shoot tea.”

Zeng Yu also smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. Yan is also a tea lover. You will know it as soon as you smell it."

Yan Changdao: "The tea sage Lu Yu wrote the "Tea Classic" and said: "In the yangya yinlin, purple comes first, green comes second, bamboo shoots come first, and buds come second." It has been a tribute tea since the Tang Dynasty. Such good tea,

I haven’t had it a few times, and this time I really took advantage of Mr. Zeng.”

With nothing to do, the two chatted about tea.

Not long after, a fellow examiner began to recommend test papers. The two elders put down their teacups and began to review the papers. Until noon, someone suddenly shouted: "The calligraphy is good, the meaning of the classics is well answered, the policy and theory are wonderful, and the poems are exquisite."

.This test paper is expected to win this year’s meeting.”

Other fellow examiners looked over one after another and saw that the fellow examiner who was speaking was very excited, as if he had drunk some magic brew, his face was red and he was breathing rapidly.

At this moment, a soft scolding came from the room next to you: "Don't make any noise when evaluating papers. It's true. If you find a good paper, just submit it. Don't affect others."

The fellow examiner, who was called Zhizhen, quickly stood up and said, "Yes, Academician Yan, I have resigned from the position of Meng Lang."

The test paper was sent to the two examiners. Zeng Yu also became interested and said: "What kind of test paper can make you so excited? Bring it to me and take a look."

The examiner hurriedly presented it to Zeng Yu. Zeng Yu took the test paper and read it for a long time. He felt that the answers in this test paper were quite skillful. There were occasional sharp remarks, but they were not too intense, especially among them.

A policy essay particularly attracted Zeng Yu.

Zeng Yu handed the test paper to Master Yan again. Yan Chang looked at it with brilliance and admired the answer paper very much.

Zeng Yudao: "The classics, meaning, and policy analysis are all excellent. What's rare is that the poetry is also very good. This is the best answer sheet I have seen today."

Yan Chang said: "It's really good. I think this exam paper has the strength to compete for Huiyuan."

Zeng Yu said: "There are so many talents in the world. Let's first decide on the top ten. As for the number one, we will decide on it in the end."

"That's how it should be." Yan Chang said.

After two days in a row, the examination papers were finally judged. A total of 266 examination papers were recommended by the examiners. Basically, the ratio was ten to one, eliminating 90%. The two examiners had to select 76 out of these 266 recommended papers.

Those who win the tribute will be eliminated by 70%.

The test papers for the seventy-six tributes have finally been released, and the last part is ranking, which is also a very important step.

Everything else was fine. According to the given judging scores, the third to 76th place was quickly selected. However, the two examiners could not decide on the first and second place.

If there is a difference in scores, it's okay to say that, but the scores in the two test papers are the same, and both can be ranked first.

So who is second?

Yan Chang said: "I think the writing in this paper is sophisticated and the policy analysis is very insightful. The other paper can be described as strange and changeable as a whole. There are many amazing words in the content, which touched me deeply, but this

This test paper also gave me the feeling that it was done by multiple people. Of course, it may be that the candidate was young, active in mind and smart in mind. I think it was Mr. Zeng who made the final decision."

Yan Chang is a good person, and he can indeed be ranked first in both examination papers. He gave the final right to the examiner.
Chapter completed!