If I pass Chapter 3, I will definitely be the top pick!
Xia Zhibai went out by voice.
A middle-aged man carrying a gray cloth package, wearing regular clothes, slightly lean, walked quickly towards Xia Zhibai.
Xia Zhibai stood still.
He could tell who it was. Jie Min was from Dezhou, Shandong Province. The two had similar residences in the scientific research, and they were both from the north, so their relationship was relatively close.
Xia Zhibai nodded and said, "Brother Xie." , We in the north are afraid that the result will be very unsatisfactory.”
“We in the north have been busy with wars in the past few years and have not been able to take time to review books. I have just asked other people, and they all answered unsatisfactoryly.”
“Sigh.”
“In terms of policy questions, after all, I still read too few books and can’t come up with many new viewpoints and insights. I am too mediocre and unremarkable. How can I be among the thousands of people? stand out among the candidates”
"Brother Xia, how did you do in the exam?"
"You are the youngest among our northern candidates. You passed the children's examination, the college examination, and the provincial examination in just two and a half years, and you were also selected by Zhou Enlai. Wang Praise, are you sure you will be among the top two?"
Xie Min looked at Xia Zhibai with burning eyes.
And today, the south is strong and the north is weak, which has forced the northern candidates to unite unprecedentedly. However, they are indeed inferior to others in terms of knowledge, and there is really nothing they can do about it.
Now they have no choice but to pin their hopes on Xia Zhibai, otherwise there are tens of thousands of candidates, but none of them in the north will be ranked among the top two.
It's so embarrassing.
In the future, I am afraid that I will be even more unable to hold my head high when facing southern students, and will be even more belittled and suppressed by southern students.
They were still holding their breath.
Xia Zhibai looked at Jie Min and then at the other people following Jie Min, his eyebrows furrowing inwardly.
The north attaches great importance to this imperial examination.
All the candidates who could participate, whether they were involved in government affairs or not, came to participate in order to have a chance to win. The current emperor was born in Huaixi, and most of the ministers of the auxiliary country were from eastern Zhejiang. The south was very prosperous for a while.
The north is firmly suppressed.
Whether it is official promotion, or the right to speak, influence, finance, etc. are all suppressed by the south, the chief ministers in the north are holding their breath and want to use the imperial examination to turn themselves around.
To prove that the North was by no means as disadvantaged as Southern officials said, and to try to gain more say in the court, this overt and covert struggle has continued since Zhu Yuanzhang announced the reopening of the imperial examination.
The North is so interested.
The chief secretaries in the south also made no less concessions.
After they realized the intentions of the North, they were also secretly making preparations, intending to completely suppress the power struggle of the Northern officials in the court.
The South also came out in full force this time.
Both the north and the south jointly created this prosperous imperial examination period in the 18th year of Hongwu. As many as 20,000 candidates participated in this examination.
If admissions were based on the previous imperial examination, more than 20,000 people would compete for the 120 Jinshi places. The competition was fierce.
Even before the examination began, the South was already building momentum, with all kinds of nursery rhymes coming out, Hua Lianhuang, Huang Lianhua, all students from the South ranked first.
When Xia Zhibai first came to Yingtian Mansion, he saw Jie Min and others having conflicts with the students from the south. However, as the first two exams ended, the students from the north suddenly fell silent.
Students from the south are even more arrogant.
After the first two exams, no one from the north expected that any of them would be able to enter the three-person roster of the first class. They only hoped that there would be more northern candidates in the second class.
But with the end of the Ce Wen exam, the second class, they didn’t even dare to have too many extravagant hopes.
According to the admission situation of the last imperial examination, there were three people in the first class and seventeen people in the second class. It was really difficult to stand out among the 20,000 candidates.
Xia Zhibai chuckled lightly, gave Xie Min a reassuring look, and said lightly: "Brother Xie, don't worry, I have confidence in this imperial examination."
"Since Kaifeng When I came to take the imperial examination, my goal, Xia Zhibai, was very clear. "
"It is to be the top scholar."
"After the three examinations, my goal has not changed. However, I am even more determined that I, Xia Zhibai, will be the top scholar in the imperial examination this time.”
Xia Zhibai's eyes were full of confidence. Jie Min was startled and pinched his ears in surprise, as if wondering if he heard wrongly.
Xia Zhibai said he would be the top pick in high school?
How is this possible?
This is an imperial examination, not a local provincial examination. The number one scholar selected from more than 20,000 people in the north cannot compare with the south. It is already very rare to be able to break out of the encirclement of a group of southern students. .
Number one?
They didn’t even dare to think about it before.
Xia Zhibai’s face was calm.
Of course he knows what he is talking about. His goal is indeed the No. 1 pick, and only the No. 1 pick. Except for the No. 1 pick in high school, he has only a dead end.
Under such circumstances, he was naturally extremely confident that he was the top pick in high school.
Xia Zhibai did not lower his voice.
His bold words also directly fell into the ears of other candidates around him, immediately arousing a burst of ridicule and ridicule.
“Haha.”
“Did this kid fail the exam?”
“You are the top scorer in high school, do you really think this is a local children’s or college exam? So? Easy high school? It would be good to enter the top three.”
"Which one of those who came to take part in the imperial examination is not the best among people? Which one is not the best in the local area?"
"On the nine days of the examination, the entire Yingtian Mansion has always speculated on the candidates for the first class, only Hua Lianhuang and Huang Lianhua , when did you appear?"
"Yes."
"Hua Lun comes from a famous family, Huang Zicheng has been taught by famous teachers since he was a child, and Lian Zining has the same family background. , how can you, a poor northern candidate, compare with you?”
“If your northern provincial exam were to be placed in the south, you wouldn’t be able to rank in the top thirty, so why would you dare to talk nonsense here? ”
"Haha."
There was a burst of laughter from all around.
Xia Zhibai looked calm, looked at the few southern students who made taunts, and just shook his head indifferently.
He was in no mood to argue.
I don’t want to waste any time talking to them.
Seeing Xia Zhibai's silence, Ding Xian and others looked at each other with proud expressions on their faces, thinking that Xia Zhibai was afraid and did not dare to speak out any more wild words.
But how could they let this opportunity pass?
The students from the north have been shrinking very much in the past few days. Now that someone is taking the initiative, how can they not take advantage of the victory and pursue it? A severe humiliation.
Ding Xian coughed lightly and teased: "The north has long been in decline and has been hanging out with the Huru for too long. Counting from the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, few northern students have been ranked first."
"The number of students admitted in previous years is far less than that in the south. How can the three people in the first class be more than you in the north can hope for?"
"You should pray this time. There can be two or three people from the north on the second, third, and third A list this time. Otherwise, it will really become a joke." Sooner or later, becoming a Jinshi will have nothing to do with you northerners."
Hearing Ding Xian's words, Huang Zicheng and others laughed, and Jie Min, Ding Zhifang and other northern students all glared. .
How humiliating.
Xia Zhibai frowned, feeling helpless at the overt and covert struggle between the Northern and Southern Examinations. He raised his head and said slowly: "If you pass the imperial examination, there will really be no candidates from the North..."< br>
"The problem may not be the northern candidates, but the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination system."
"This also means..."
"The imperial examination reform implemented by Emperor Hongwu today has completely failed. ”
(End of this chapter)