Chapter 450 - 426: The Newly Appointed Scholar, The Marriage Is Set
April 23rd, clear dawn.
Capital City, within the Imperial City.
Amidst successive waves of ceremonial music, the official bearing the golden list arrived at the imperial pathway to recite the imperial edict.
"By the mandate of Heaven, the Emperor decrees... In the Thirty-Fifth Year of Chengping, the imperial examination is concluded... First Class awarded the title of Imperial Scholar, Second Class granted the origins of an Imperial Scholar, Third Class bestowed with the same origin as an Imperial Scholar..."
From in front of the palace hall down to the steps, the palace guards sang in unison, spreading the announcement beyond the Fengtian Gate.
Lin Zhan stood among the scholars, listening to the successive recitations.
Half a month ago, the results of the metropolitan exam were announced, and he was ranked twenty-eighth. Three days ago, he and other scholars took the palace examination in the Taiji Palace, and today was the day when the golden list of the palace examination would be revealed.
There was no surprise that the First Class did not contain Lin Zhan’s name, nor was he disappointed; he was well aware of his standing.
His rank of twenty-eight in the metropolitan exams should not differ much in the palace examination.
This ranking was somewhat awkward; if he could move up a few places, he would be of the Second Class origins as an Imperial Scholar; if he fell a few places, he would bear the Third Class bestowed origin.
Naturally, Lin Zhan hoped to be in the Second Class, but it wasn’t up to him; it all depended on the final outcome.