The Red Mansions

Chapter 140 Each guess, the county test is over

that night.

Due to Guanhaiwei's tenacious resistance, the pirates retreated after leaving behind dozens of corpses.

After the war ended, Jia Yun made a special trip late at night. After careful inspection, she found that the dead were all real Japanese and there were no signs of pirates.

"If you want to be a pirate, you don't dare to do something you are not sure about." Jia Yun thought to herself.

The imperial court has always paid more attention to the rebellion of pirates and sneak attacks by Japanese pirates, but it does not take the invasion of Japanese pirates seriously. After all, the imperial court's attention is now focused on the north.

Therefore, if the pirates were not 100% sure that they would be able to break into Cixi, they probably wouldn't make any more moves.

Of course, if there is another move next time, it will probably be a thunderbolt, and it is guaranteed to be safe.

On February [-], the county examination was held as scheduled.

The entire county was heavily guarded, and Jia Yun was afraid of accidents. Even the yamen servants and servants patrolled the streets with bows and crossbows on their backs. As long as anyone had wrong intentions, they would shoot and kill them with random arrows.

In this era, no one talks about human rights.

As long as it jumps out at this critical moment, whether it is a pirate or not, it will be dealt with as a pirate.

The people from the inspection department are still on duty at the main roads outside the city. In order to prevent the dispersion of manpower, their control area has been reduced by more than half today, and they are only guarding around the county seat.

Jia Yun went to the examination room before dawn, and countless children lined up to enter with their test baskets.

Dianshi Hou Zhongping led people to search the examinee's body, and Jia Yun sent two personal guards to watch over him to prevent him from being careless.

To say that Hou Zhongping can become a classic historian, needless to say his professional ability, he has a pair of tricks.

Not long after the beginning, he caught several students who were copying them into the scene one after another, which immediately frightened many children.

Around the entire examination room, there was no sound, and it was quiet. In this environment, people even held their breath.

Behind the main entrance of the examination room, there is a large courtyard where all candidates gather after entering.

After all the personnel arrived in the compound, Jia Yun and other examiners and invigilators came to the front and stood there.

As the first instructor, Qiu Nong, the county school teacher, stepped forward to salute Jia Yun, and then stood behind him.

Then, the guards gathered together and saluted Jia Yun together, then retreated to the side to monitor.

Jia Yun looked at the children in the compound. The youngest were only eleven or twelve years old, and the older ones were almost sixty years old. It can be seen that fame is really a fascinating thing.

Fame symbolizes social status, wealth, and power!

Like these people last year, I was both excited and nervous to enter the examination room to take the county examination.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, a year later, I will be someone else's teacher, and I will be the main exam for the first county children's examination.

Just as Jia Yun was sighing in his heart, hundreds of children below all looked at him eagerly, with fiery and respectful eyes.

Jia Yun's ability to dominate a party at such a young age has to be admired. Many children are thinking that they will do the same in the future.

Most of these people are older than Jia Yun, and they will still call him teacher after seeing him.

Before the children had finished dreaming, Jia Yun turned around and went to the three halls to the north.

There is an aisle in the middle of the hall. Jia Yun sits in the west room and faces east to roll call.

Candidates whose names have been called go into the lobby of the middle hall to pick up the test papers, and sing a certain line of life insurance loudly.

After confirming that it is correct, the examinee can take the test paper, enter the seat and wait for the answer paper.

If the babysitter has doubts about the candidate, the candidate will be immediately detained by the guards on standby.

Candidates are seated according to the seat number on the roll, and the government officials patrol the venue with sign lights, and the examination questions are posted on the board for tour display.

After the exam officially started, Jia Yun had nothing to do for the time being.

There were drinks and drinks served in the lobby, and the guards brought some drinks and dishes to Jia Yun's table for him to enjoy.

Jia Yun raised her glass to signal Qiu Nong, the invigilator, who shook his head, expressing that he would not drink today.

Jia Yun didn't force it, if both the examiner and the invigilator were too drunk, it would be a joke.

After drinking a glass of wine, Jia Yun thought to herself: "I hope today will be smooth, don't let anything happen!"

It's nothing if something happens in the examination room, at most it's someone cheating, but if the pirates and Japanese pirates outside are not idle, even Jia Yun can't get out.

Jia Yun's wish came true, and in the next few days, Cixi was calm inside and outside.

From time to time, news of Japanese pirates' attacks came from other places, but the Japanese pirates in Cixi disappeared without a trace.

Whether there are four or five county examinations is up to the county magistrate, and Jia Yun decided to only take four examinations in Cixi this year.

In fact, the fourth and fifth rounds were held on the same day, examining poems, scriptures, and prose.

The instructors of the Custom School Department are not allowed to mark the papers to prevent cheating.

Each session is limited to handing in papers on the same day, and candles will not be given.

Candidates finish the papers and open the dragon gates in batches, which is called "discharging".

After the final exam, candidates will be taken from the first exam, all of them will be unsealed, and the case will be issued with their names, which is called "long case".

Those who take the No. 1 list are called "county case leaders". There is no major accident, and there is no need to go all the way to the college entrance examination.

This was the case when Jia Yun was the top case in the county examination.

As long as he is the head of the case, he will automatically get the title of scholar according to the usual practice.

You don't have to take the government and college exams to get the title of scholar like other candidates.

Those who get the top ten in the examination are "the top ten in the county", which is an honor. When they go to the prefectural examination, they need to mention the hall number.

After the students finished their exams, Jia Yun really got busy.

There are hundreds of papers in each exam, and it is up to him to decide who to admit and who not to admit.

Of course, the admitted papers should not be too nonsensical. If the written sentences do not make sense, and the invigilator rechecks the exam papers, it is easy to find problems.

Obviously, there is no one in Cixi who can make Jia Yun give him so much face, and randomly admits, so he has to carefully review every test paper.

While Jia Yun was still grading papers, Xia Baichuan was already waiting anxiously in the station outside the city.

He and Liu Yong'an stood outside the city, looking at Cixi County from a distance, feeling a little crazy.

"I may be the most useless county magistrate ever!" Xia Baichuan let out a long breath and said depressedly.

Liu Yong'an has been losing his composure these days. There has been no news from the people in Jinling, so he dare not take the next step.

"If he was a little careless, we would have gone straight into the city on the [-]th day." Liu Yongan said with a gloomy face, "I'm not afraid of his high martial arts skills. There are hundreds of candidates here. I'm not afraid that he won't vote. It's a pity. This is a great opportunity!"

Xia Baichuan gritted his teeth, and said coldly: "Then put the sneak attack on the day when the county test releases the rankings!"

Liu Yongan was taken aback when he heard the words, and then agreed: "That's right, on the day the rankings are released, most of the candidates will go to see the rankings. Let's take the opportunity to attack Cixi. Even if we can't kill Jia Yun, killing a group of candidates will still make him lose his position!"

Xia Baichuan glanced back at him, and said solemnly: "Even if you kill everyone, you have to kill Jia Yun, otherwise I won't be able to stay in Cixi!"

Liu Yongan knew about Xia Baichuan's situation, he was dragged down by himself this time, so after thinking about it, he nodded and agreed.

After all, Xia Baichuan is from the Xia family in Jiangxi. Although he is a collateral descendant, in the face of Juren, it goes without saying that he will have a bright future in the future.

If Liu Yongan didn't care about it and only cared about himself, then there was a high possibility that he would hate the Xia family.

For the Xia family, cutting off the future of a collateral child is not a big deal, but if they don't get the corresponding benefits after paying, it's not so easy to pass.

Time passed slowly, and it was February 25 in a blink of an eye.

After three or four days, Jia Yun finally finished reviewing the test papers and listed the corresponding rankings.

For him, his first county examination job was basically over.

However, there is still no news about the sneak attack of the pirates that was originally guessed. This not only did not make him feel relieved, but was a little worried.

Both the pirates and Japanese pirates held their breaths, either they really didn't intend to attack Cixi anymore, or they were holding back to make big things happen!
If it's the former, that's fine.

If it is the latter, if Bao Buqi and the others make a move, it will be the largest pirate attack on the ground in Zhejiang in recent years.

"The sins I made, I have to swallow with tears." Jia Yun handed over the candidates' rankings to the clerk and copied them on the list, but she was thinking about the pirates.

After thinking for a while, he thought to himself: "Last year, although I got a lot of benefits by cutting down a lot of pirates and saving a group of high officials, I also got into a big trouble."

The main feature of pirates is that there are many people, and killing a few will not help at all, unless a large number of troops are dispatched to encircle and suppress them on a large scale, the future troubles can be eliminated forever.

But for Jia Yun now, he is not qualified to mobilize so many troops.

What's more, the guards in other cities dare not even leave the city, which means that they have lost their blood for a long time. After entering the battlefield, it is still unknown whether they can defeat the pirates!

"The last time Master Wen said to find a way to let me expand the patrol camp, there is no news, and I don't know how far he has gone!" Jia Yun thought to himself.

However, if you want to truly have the right to expand the patrol camp, you still need to win a battle.

But things have come back to the original point. Once the pirates and Japanese pirates attack Cixi, they will probably swarm up. It is impossible to be attacked by a small group of enemies.

Because the pirates know that there are fewer people, they can't take advantage of Jia Yun.

Therefore, the most urgent task is for Jia Yun to lead the patrol battalion to survive this war.

"They should gather more than 1000 people, or even thousands of people to storm Cixi, so that they can be sure of victory." Jia Yun guessed.

The last time the real Japanese attack of hundreds of people in Guanhaiwei did not take advantage of it, I guess the pirates would not be so stupid, they were still stubborn, and only sent a few hundred people to attack Cixi.

The reason why the pirates have not moved these days is that the most likely reason is that they are still mobilizing manpower.

After a while, the scribe came to report and said that the list had been copied.

Jia Yun, Qiu Nong and the others stepped forward to check carefully and they were all relieved.

Jia Yun laughed and said, "I've been in this examination room for nearly ten days, and I'm almost moldy!"

"The county lord is tired. After tomorrow's announcement, the officials will invite the county lord to go to Gaosheng Building for a drink!" Qiu Nong smiled.

"Release the list?" Jia Yun pondered, and suddenly asked: "Qiu Jiaoyu, do you think it is possible for Japanese pirates to attack Cixi on the day we release the list?"

Qiu Nong was startled, his brows furrowed instantly, after thinking for a moment, he said:

"Not to mention, if I were a Japanese pirate, I would sneak up on Cixi on the day when the results were released. Because there are many candidates, the government would be restrained and worried..."

(End of this chapter)