Chapter 172 171 Good news

"Open the seal."

Emperor Jiajing said this, which also showed that he did not seem to have any objection to the rankings arranged by the readers.

However, since ancient times, the imperial power has been supreme. It is not certain whether the ranking will be adjusted after the seal is opened.

The emperor had to consider many factors when opening a subject to obtain a scholar.

Today is March 17th, and tomorrow is March 18th. The grand ceremony will be held, so today we need to fill in the yellow list and use the seal, and complete all the procedures that need to be completed.

As the seal was opened, the name of the first scroll was revealed, along with the big ribbons.

Then the second name also came out, it was Tao Dalin, and then the third name Chen Xi

It wasn't until the eighth question paper was opened that Yuan Jinda's name appeared in front of everyone.

Although Yan Song was dissatisfied with Jin Da, he did not dare to severely suppress Jin Da's ranking. He could only push it down appropriately.

According to normal circumstances, Emperor Jiajing had no idea of ​​adjusting the ranking before, so Jinda, as Huiyuan, would be ranked fifth in the second class, and would miss the top three in the first class.

Then he continued to open the seal at the back, and the four names Bao Chengyin, Liu Xingsu, Chai Xiang, and Wei Guangde appeared in front of everyone.

The same is true of the rules of the examination room. Even Yan Song would find it difficult to deliberately suppress the rankings of some people, and naturally it would be difficult to improve the rankings of some people.

No matter how dissatisfied Jinda and Yan Song are, they can't overpower him in the top three.

Wei Guangde, no matter how hard he pushed, he couldn't be promoted to the second place. Everything is in order.

There is only one way to break the rules, and one person can do it, and that is the Emperor.

Yan Song played a clever trick in this time's entrance exam, placing Jinda at the bottom and moving Wei Guangde to the top four of the top three. Although this also raised Wei Guangde's ranking by more than a hundred places, it still didn't count.

Bad rules.

Next, we will see the attitude of Emperor Jiajing, which will be very important for Yan Song's attitude towards Wei Guangde in the future.

Emperor Jiajing looked at the twelve question papers on the table, and without wasting any time, he directly wrote his comments on the first and second question papers with the ink pen on the table in advance. This was also Emperor Jiajing's habit.

Write down your own opinions to show that you have read the question paper.

However, after writing two question papers, Emperor Jiajing did not write comments on the third question paper of Chen Xi. Instead, he picked up the eighth question paper and placed it in the third position.

As a minister who had followed Emperor Jiajing for many years, I naturally understood what he meant. Huang Jin, the eunuch who was accompanying him, immediately stepped forward and moved the other papers back. Yan Song, the first assistant, only narrowed his eyes slightly and then resumed his duties.

It's normal.

Emperor Jiajing finished the work in one go, wrote his own comments on Jinda's question paper, and then put down his ink pen.

At this moment, the top three in the Jinke Imperial Examination are confirmed.

The number one scholar has all the major ribbons, the number two is Tao Dalin, and the number one scholar is Jin Da.

Emperor Jiajing looked at the papers at the back again. The emperor had the final say on the palace examination rankings, but the rankings represented by the questions on the paper reflected the will of the civil servants.

Emperor Jiajing finally picked up the last paper, flipped through it seemingly casually, and said: "It's quite satisfactory."

Pretty average?

What does this mean?

Although Emperor Jiajing spoke in a very soft voice, the silence in the hall could be heard, so naturally the eunuchs and fourteen record readers serving him could hear clearly.

Then I saw that Emperor Jiajing stuffed the question scroll in his hand to the fourth position and ranked behind Jinda.

The adjustment of this ranking is a bit big. It is tuned directly from the three Jiajia to the second, or the second one.

Including Yan Song, all the readers could not help but open their eyes and glanced at the question volume on the royal case. No one said one more, but their eyes floated to the side of Yan Song.

At this time, almost all readers were guessing, perhaps the emperor Jiajing had given Yan Song before, so it would be like this.

After all, Xu Jie also chose Yan Song's method at that time, and handed Wei Guangde's paper alone to let them see and judge the level.

Although Wei Guangde's scores are generally highly scored, after all, the trial ranking will be dragged down, and you can only stay in the top three.

And the tributes who can kill the temple test, in fact, no one is a rookie weak chicken. It is very level. The real level of the Wei Guangde Poll is really not outstanding among these 300 people.

Very objective.

Among the readers, only Wu Peng and Lei Li's forehead were a little sweaty, but who is this strange?

After reading the scroll, they found the ten superior, the two middle and upper and the two of them. At that time, they thought it was the relationship between Yan Gelao.

The performance of Emperor Jiajing was in Yan Song's view.

Emperor Jiajing now takes more and more Xiandan every day. That thing is definitely not a good thing.

In Yan Song's view, Emperor Jiajing did not feel like, so he began to prepare for Chu Jun.

For Wei Guangde, he knows a lot.

The hereditary army family was born, and then the imperial examination was out of place.

The last time the Nanjing pirates were destroyed by them. It is said that the child also killed a pirate in person, and had courage and conspiracy.

At this moment, Yan Song had thought about how to arrange Wei Guangde later. With his level, it is estimated that the trial will not be brilliant. It is still difficult to enter the Hanlin Academy.

Although Yan Song's father and son can say that he has the right to speak in the six parts, but this place in Hanlin Academy has always been a clear base camp. His influence on this yamen is really not great.

Yan Song is considering how to arrange Wei Guangde. Other reading officials are also considering what attitude to treat this little guy who looks quite holy family.

In fact, in the heart of Emperor Jiajing, what I thought was just a compensation for Wei Guangde.

In November, the reward of the September of September was settled, and it was sent to Nanjing.

Because Wei Guangde did not have a military job, he was not included in the reward list. The war -level merit of the beheading pirates under his name was transferred to his cousin Wu Dong.

However, from the perspective of Emperor Jiajing, he had to reward and had to be punished. Since Wei Guangde couldn't get the merits, he would give him a compensation in the imperial examinations.

Maybe there are other ideas, who knows!

He had a chance to give him a tribute before, but he did not expect that his name was already in the roster he reported. Then he could only give him a better ranking, which was worthy of his loyalty.

"You can set it."

After the Emperor Jiajing looked at the test score of his own temple, he nodded slightly with satisfaction, and then said.

After giving instructions to the ministers, Emperor Jiajing said to Huang Jin: "Ask Shangbao Supervisor and the imperial office to cooperate. Once the imperial list is filled out, it will be sealed with a seal immediately. Don't delay tomorrow's ceremony."

"Yes, I will talk to them when I go down."

Huang Jin immediately bowed and replied, "Huang Jin is now the Chief of Ceremonies, the Eunuch, and the Admiral of Dongchang. Naturally, Supervisor Shangbao is within his immediate scope, but he is more concerned with matters in the palace. As for Dongchang,

He left it to Chen Hongzai to take charge.

At this time, the fourteen examiners also saluted Emperor Jiajing, then left the room with the twelve examination papers, and went to the next room to start sorting out the results of the imperial examination and filling in the results.

At this time, in Jiujiang Fucheng, the commander of the Jiujiang Guards made everything go as usual at the Si Yamen.

Years ago, the Nanjing Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Governor's Office came and handed out rewards for the suppression of Japanese pirates. At that time, the whole army was very happy. The reward was really unexpected.

Most of the first-level guardsmen have not yet been promoted. Naturally, no one thinks they can be promoted. And even if they are promoted, where can they be promoted? Transfer to the Beijing Camp?

In this day and age, military attachés still think it's better to stay in the local area. When you go to the capital, you have to nod and bend all the time. It's really not a good place to go.

Because of their great contribution this time, although they were not given any official or noble rewards as rewards, they were all promoted to a casual rank. The commander of Jiujiang Guards and his fellow commanders were even given a bullfight uniform, while the other generals were

Obtained a Kirin suit.

Among those who were promoted, Wu Zhankui was the only one who was promoted to Commander and Tongzhi, and Wei Mengcong was promoted from the position of fifth-rank guard and governor to the post of thousands of households in the rear army, and his rank was raised one level to the fifth rank.

Wei Wencai, a member of the Hundred Households of the Right Army's Thousand Households Division, was also given a Kirin suit as a special reward because of his meritorious service in the battle.

There are also some silver rewards, but not much. At this time, although the gold and silver in circulation among the people has increased due to maritime trade, there is still tension in the court, so the silver rewards given by military attachés are more than fifty taels and less.

It's only twenty taels.

The small reward of silver is really not cared about by these soldiers now, which means that the officers and soldiers below are happy. They are all a bunch of guys who have never seen money. The military attachés are more concerned about getting the reward.

The gifts of the Ming Dynasty were still quite rare for foreign generals.

There were many types of gifts in the Ming Dynasty, especially Emperor Jiajing, who liked to give Taoist things to people the most. However, there were mainly four kinds of gifts in official terms: python suit, flying fish suit, bullfight suit and unicorn suit.

Python clothing was the highest-level clothing in the Ming Dynasty. It was the most noble clothing after the dragon robe worn by the emperor. It was a clothing for the Ming Dynasty's internal envoys, eunuchs, prime ministers, and other ministers who received special rewards.

"History of the Ming Dynasty·Yu Fu Zhi" records: "Given a python, it is not easy for a first-level civil and military official to obtain it."

Being given a python robe is considered a great honor. Adding a python robe means being a person of high rank, wealth and honor.

The second Feiyu suit generally requires officials of the second rank or above to have a chance to obtain it. Jin Yiwei is actually not worthy of wearing Feiyu suit. Most of the school captains wear blue cotton armor. Only military attachés with a thousand households or above can be awarded Feiyu suit.

The bullfighting uniform is the third-class uniform after the flying fish uniform, and is generally awarded to officials of third rank or above.

The last Qilin uniform was originally the official uniform of dukes, marquises, consorts, and earls in the Ming Dynasty. However, because Qilin is a famous beast of benevolence and righteousness in ancient legends, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty also used the Qilin suit as a gift, and rewarded the four,

A minister of the fifth rank.

It is worth mentioning that most of the royal guards and bodyguards who accompanied the emperor were also given unicorn uniforms.

In addition to the python robes in the python clothes, the four kinds of dynasties in the Ming Dynasty were more difficult to identify. They could only look at the animals' heads and tails to distinguish. This may also be the source of the statement of Jin Yiwei wearing a flying fish clothing.

However, the festive atmosphere continued until the year, and it had faded after the Spring Festival.

At noon, under the acceleration of sails and paddle pages in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it quickly leaned on Jiujiang Wharf, and the lantern at the bow is known. This is an official ship that belongs to the water horses.
To be continued...