Loyalty in the Time of Tyranny Chapter 44

On the seventh day of April, the 291 new Jinshi who had passed the imperial examination put on Jinshi Confucian robes and entered the palace again.

On this day, the Purple Palace was filled with civil and military officials. As usual during the morning court session, the civil officials stood on the left and the military officials stood on the right. Of course, it was impossible for all 200 Jinshi candidates to squeeze into the Purple Palace. At 3:30 pm, when the sky was turning pale, the eunuch leader Ji Fu walked out of the Purple Palace and shouted loudly: "In the 27th year of Kaiping, the Jinshi candidates will enter the Purple Palace to meet the emperor!"

As soon as the words fell, the two young eunuchs standing at the first step shouted together: "In the twenty-seventh year of Kaiping, the candidates who passed the imperial examination will enter the Purple Palace to meet the emperor!"

Further down, four more eunuchs shouted in unison.

Finally, he shouted thirty-one times, and the shrill voice was so loud that it echoed throughout the palace.