After hearing Jiang Hechuan's message, Fang Yun didn't want to go out even more.
"Congratulations Fang Quanjia!"
A Jinshi from the academy shouted loudly, and then thousands of people followed suit and shouted congratulations.
"Congratulations Fang Quanjia!"
The scholars from Jing country who were present were extremely excited. Fang Yun was not only the only student in the human race who achieved an outstanding result in the imperial examination, but also the only one in the human race who became a Jinshi in the same year. No one else could pass the examinations of Tongsheng, Xiucai, Juren and Jinshi consecutively in the same year, and get first place every time.
What's more, Fang Yun brought in the Eight-sided Sword of Saintly Dao, which gave a large number of scholars the opportunity to improve their literary status.
The candidates participating in this joint examination were not in the mood to congratulate Fang Yun. They all stared at the huge light curtain in the sky with wide eyes, carefully looking for their names from top to bottom.
"I passed the imperial examination!" someone suddenly exclaimed excitedly.
"Congratulations, Brother Li..."
"Brother! You have also passed the imperial examination!"
"Well, maybe it's someone with the same name, so just be patient."
"Son, let's go back..."
Only 300 Jinshi were admitted this time, but there were tens of thousands of people taking the exam, and many Juren left in disappointment.
The announcement of the imperial examination results every year is ultimately just a carnival for a few people.
Unlike other imperial examinations, if one fails to pass the Jinshi examination but passes the "Tong Jinshi" examination, he or she can regret taking the examination once, giving up the talent empowerment and Jinshi title for the year, and wait until later to take the joint examination again, but he or she cannot regret it next time.
Those who did not pass the imperial examination were unhappy, those who passed the imperial examination were also unhappy, and those who passed the imperial examination were also unhappy because they did not make it into the top 50.
Because the imperial court has already announced that this year there will be more Jinshi candidates who can participate in the palace examination than in previous years, but there will only be a maximum of fifty people.
Failure to participate in the palace examination means failure to enter the Ocean of Learning. Unless one has made great achievements, or the human race encounters some major event and "recruits talents to the Ocean of Learning", those successful candidates will never be able to enter the Ocean of Learning in their lifetime.
Some Jinshi can obviously break through and become Hanlin. But in order to enter the sea of learning and gain literary mind, they suppress their own literary position. It is not that becoming a Hanlin does not gain literary mind, but it is not as easy as entering the sea of learning and gaining literary mind.
All the scholars who enter the ocean of learning, unless there are unexpected events, can obtain a lower-level literary mind, which is much easier than obtaining a literary mind in a mountain of books.
Therefore, many people with high literary status have literary mind, but it is all ordinary literary mind. It is difficult for them to obtain the ultimate literary mind, let alone the strongest and supreme literary mind.
Most people below the Hanlin level will not experience dangerous fighting. The most dangerous moment is fighting with monsters on the battlefield, while Jinshi often fights in the distance, especially young Jinshi are protected by people with high literary status, so the mortality rate is very low.
It is different when it comes to Hanlin. The Holy Academy basically will not send out forces to protect Hanlin, Grand Secretaries or Great Confucian scholars. They will even arrange these people to do very dangerous things, because in the eyes of the saints, only those who have experienced hardships can grow.
If you cannot grow up amidst numerous hardships, no matter how talented you are or how long you live, you will be of no use to the human race.
Tongsheng, Xiucai or Juren are like flowers living in a greenhouse, Jinshi are walking on the road to the jungle, and scholars with higher literary status live in the jungle where the strong prey on the weak, and they can only grow step by step. Only by slowly becoming stronger can they survive in the jungle of the world.
Because, behind them stood countless human beings.
Especially after the tragic defeat at the Battle of the Two Worlds Mountain, the saints of the human race became more and more strict with the scholars of high literary rank. Everything was judged by military merit, and anyone who wanted to eat for free should get out of the Saint Academy or the power core of each family, and it would be difficult for them to get everything they needed to be promoted to a higher literary rank.
Amidst the laughter and crying, Fang Yun asked the driver to turn the horse around and leave. There was no need for him to show up at this time.
According to the rules, they will first go to the holy temple tomorrow to receive the baptism of talent, and then all the new scholars will go to the court. The Ministry of Personnel will assign the first 50 scholars to the counties they will go to, and they will set off for their respective jurisdictions on the first day of February to take up their new posts.
The Palace Examination is the most important step in the life of every Jinshi. Its importance is even higher than the previous imperial examination, because the achievements in the Palace Examination determine the future achievements.
People like Li Wenying and Zhang Poyue could only be considered first-rate in Jing State before the palace examination and could not be included in the ranks of the first-rate scholars of the Ten States. However, both of them performed brilliantly in the palace examination and were among the first-rate Jinshi of the Ten States. After that, they made steady progress and became famous.
Li Wenying won the top spot by virtue of his strong military, political, educational and military affairs, while Zhang Poyue only cared about military affairs, and was terrible in other aspects. However, relying on his status as a county head, he managed to pacify the monsters in an entire prefecture, and then got the general of the prefecture drunk at a banquet, and then cooperated with the general to wipe out the monsters in half of the state, and even received praise from the semi-saint examiner.
As soon as the carriage turned around, Fang Yun heard the voice of Minister Jiang Hechuan: "I will go to your residence in the evening and take you to participate in this year's Snow Plum Festival."
Fang Yun smiled helplessly.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Hongzhuang asked in the car.
"Lord Wen Xiang will pick me up to go to the Xuemei Literary Meeting in the evening."
"This is a good thing! Every year, the Snow and Plum Literature Contest will be directly linked to the Literature Rankings, allowing the Snow Party and the Plum Party of the Ten Nations to compete and improve the talent of the human race. Although I cannot see the Literature Rankings with my own eyes, I also know that your poem "Farewell to Li Wenying in the Snow" is at the top of the Snow and Plum Literature Rankings."
As soon as Zhao Hongzhuang finished speaking, Fang Yun felt the stars in the Wen Palace tremble slightly, and the poem "Farewell to Li Wenying" officially became the foundation of the country. Any poem that quickly became the foundation of the country would likely go further and spread throughout the world after hundreds of years.
"I'll go check out the list."
Fang Yun stretched out his hand and touched the official seal, then a force entered his eyes, and a green stone tablet appeared in front of him, with traces of time and desolation on it.
The stone tablet is ordinary, without any carvings, except for the two words "Wenbang" displayed in prominent positive text at the top of the tablet.
Below the word "Wenbang", there are four lists, namely List A for Great Confucian Scholars, List B for Grand Secretaries, List C for Hanlin Scholars, and List D, arranged in order from top to bottom.
Each list contains ten poems and essays, for a total of forty poems and essays.
Fang Yun took a closer look and saw a blur in front of him. The A list of Great Confucian Scholars, the B list of Grand Secretaries and the C list of Hanlin Academy were all shrouded in mist and could not be seen clearly. However, four new words appeared after the word "D list".
Xuemei Literary Society.
Only those who are at least Juren can see the Ding list, and they must be Juren from aristocratic family or have passed the imperial examination. All Jinshi can also see the Ding list.
After Fang Yun becomes an official juren in September, he can be included in the literary list, but the literary list must be reported to Jingguo and approved by the Holy Academy. It will take some time before one can view the literary list through the official seal.
When Fang Yun got the qualification, he happened to enter Denglongtai. After he got out of Denglongtai, he was falsely accused and imprisoned. After that, he participated in the imperial examination. Today was the first time he saw the list of literary candidates.
Fang Yun was qualified to be included in the literary list in November, but on the same day when the Juren examination ended on September 4th, as soon as he finished writing his poems and essays, they would automatically be included in the literary list.
On the right side of the Ding list, there is a list of "literary scholars".
The first one is "Fang Yun".
Fang Yun was slightly stunned, but soon felt relieved. (To be continued...)