Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 364 Take the case lightly (Part [-])
The high-practice food in the long-eared bamboo basket walked around the county government examination room, and was brought out by him again intact.

It was still early at this time, and his examination paper was taken by the county lord on the spot. As usual, it only takes two or three days at most before the county will release the result. At that time, he can take various documents and certificates from the county to go to Kaifeng mansion for the examination. Try, so Gao Wushi thought about it, and asked the four servants who came with him to discuss it among themselves, and went to Gao Laozhuang alone to announce the good news to Mrs. Zhang. It's not too late to go back.

Eat melons outside the county government... Oh, the onlookers saw that Gao Wushi had handed in the papers so early, and they were all so excited as if they had been picked by the county lord. Playing the drums—this is not yelling, but there are many places that have this habit. For candidates who hand in their papers early and are picked up by the county magistrate on the spot, the county government will sometimes play the drums with musicians to see them off.

However, although Gao Yushi met the above requirements, he did not enjoy this treatment. People in Xinzheng have always regarded the Gao family as the face of Xinzheng for these years, so they asked the county government to send musicians to come out by booing.

Gao Yushi himself is not very interested in these nonsensical things, but there are many people who can't stand it, and some idlers are not afraid of big things when they go to the theater, and they also know that this is a happy event. It is impossible for the young master of the Gao family to blame them. So they stepped forward to stop Gao Yushi's team and asked him to wait, saying that the county government might not be ready, after all, the young master of the Gao family handed in the papers too quickly.

The Gao family is a generation of officials, not a powerful bully. Gao Yushi really didn't dare to say anything to Xinzheng Xiangzi at this time, so he had to stay where he was, feeling a little embarrassed - as if he was asking the county government to pay him back. It's the same as "treatment".

This may also be regarded as "kidnapped by public opinion" to some extent, right?

But fortunately, this embarrassment did not last long. In less than half a stick of incense, the gate of the county government opened, and a group of drummers came out blowing locks and gongs, all beaming.

In front of the drummer team, there was a middle-aged man who looked like a master, holding two notices in his hand, walked quickly to the public list, raised his hands to the audience present, made a square bow, and said loudly: "Everyone! Be quiet! This is the copy of the examination paper that Mr. Gao just copied. Just wait for all the candidates in the county office to release their cards (out of the examination room), and they will announce it on the list! The other copy is just now, and Mr. Gao For the couplet, the county lord confessed that the list can be published in advance, and you can take a look at it!"

All kinds of people who were watching were very satisfied, especially some idlers, they all applauded, and recommended a few people who had read the book to read it out.

The master posted the list, smiled and bowed his hands to congratulate Gao Yushi, Gao Yushi said a few words politely, and Gao Yu beside him also handed out red envelopes with a smile on his face—this is a customary reward, usually not much, and will not be given away. Silver or copper coins are usually treasure notes.But the printing of treasure banknotes has stopped at this time, and there are not many circulating in the market, so the Gao family's red envelopes are really a waste of money, but Gao Yushi is neither a particularly low-key person, nor is he a person who likes to show off, so The reward is usually only two or three coins, just for auspiciousness.

The master didn't really want this little money, but just "to please some joy", took the red envelope and complimented him a few times, then excused himself and went in first on the pretext that the exam was still in the yamen.

Now that the drummer came out, the person Gao Yushi sent home to announce the good news didn't have to go back alone. Anyway, the drummer had to go all the way to Gao Laozhuang to "send the good news", and Gao's family members also went with him.The drummers were in high spirits, because the Gao family was a family of civil servants, and they were always generous with rewards when someone in the family passed the exam. A team of people played hard and sent Gao Yushi away.

Now Gao Wushi doesn't want to go to Uncle Wu's house anymore, so he can only go back to Gao Laozhuang honestly.

When we arrived at Gaolaozhuang, Mrs. Zhang had known the news in advance, and went out to greet the congratulations in person, and asked the servants to give rewards to the drummers. Mrs. Zhang was more pragmatic and generous about this kind of thing. The drummers' faces were full of flowers, and they kept praising Gao Yushi's performance in the examination room just now, and they praised Gao Yushi like a Wenqu star descended to earth. Those who didn't know thought he was a Jinshi.

It was so easy to get rid of the greetings and deliveries, Gao Yushi had the time to tell Mrs. Zhang about the exam situation just now. Mrs. Zhang was also very happy after listening, and said: "Young boy, you have three exams, this is your first exam." It's going well, we'll see if we can get the head of the case."

The so-called case head is the elegant name of No. 1 in the three boys' examinations of the county examination, the government examination and the Taoist examination.

The Gao family has led scholars in Xinzheng for decades, and there are many cases where the Gao family's children have won the first case. Zhang felt that since his son's article was handed in quickly, he was highly praised by the county lord, and even said, "This If Wen is still not worthy of this comment, there is no one in Henan this spring who can be." If this is the case, then the county case leader should be no problem, so there is this saying.

Gao Yushi originally had a habitual thinking about things like exams that "the score is not high, as long as you can pass it", but after listening to Mrs. Zhang, he realized that it should not be a big problem for him to get a county case.Not to mention that my own article itself was written very smoothly, just because he took the county examination this year, he has already made several Confucian children in the county who have a little literary name and hope to get a good score in the reference have retreated. , planning to take the exam again next year, in order to avoid the high pragmatic edge, he felt that the case was none other than me.

After the county examination was over and the government examination was not yet open, Gao Yushi first took a good rest at home for a day, and planned to take some time the next day to go to the Xinzheng Coal Mine to have a look at the proposed excavation site.Who knew that the county government had already announced the list of the county's trial candidates on this day, and even made a copy of all the obtained papers, and published them together on the list to show justice.

Of course, this operation itself is not uncommon. For example, the provincial examinations, general examinations and other talent ceremonies, candidates’ articles and examiners’ comments are all published to the whole country, word for word.However, when it comes to the county examination level, only a very few will announce it. The Xinzheng County Honor probably took into account the name and strength of the Gao family in Xinzheng, and felt that if it was not announced, it might cause doubts from the outside world, so he did this.

With the family background of the Gao family, they naturally arranged for people to "squat" at the gate of the county government. There was no need for Gao Yushi to go to check it out in person. The county government's county examination results list was announced, and within an hour, the news came out. Passed back to Gao Laozhuang.

Here I want to talk about a situation: If it was in the Qing Dynasty, the chief case in the county went to the government examination and the Taoist examination, no matter how good the score was, at least he would definitely get it. It is too ugly, and there is a big factor of mutual protection between officials and officials; but in the Ming Dynasty, it was different. The county case leader could be rejected in the government examination and road examination, so the list of the county examination results in the Ming Dynasty was called the round list.

The so-called round list means that the form of the list is a circle, No.1's desk, the name is written in the center of the circle, and the outside is written in a clockwise direction according to the results. A circle is fifty. If you get more, Then write another circle outside the first circle, not horizontal or vertical.In this way, it means that the selected list is not yet the final result, and it still needs to wait for the government examination and road examination.However, in northern middle counties like Xinzheng, a circle is basically enough.

Sure enough, this year Xinzheng's county tried to select the mid-round list, and the name written in the center of the list was Gao Yushi.

County Chief!
　When I get home, if I don’t directly write the next round of government exams tomorrow, I will resume two changes. If I write directly for the government exams, I will follow the practice of writing stereotypes and only changing one chapter.In addition, I remember that I still owe one update. I will see if I can make it up tomorrow. If I can make it up, I don’t need to say more. Your pardon...

　　
　
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