prosperous age

Chapter 144 Chapter 143
Nanchang Gongyuan.

At this time, most of the candidates had already handed in their papers and left the venue, but there were still candlelights lit in the row of examination rooms, which were the scholars who were still lighting up the night battle.

Perhaps they have completed the exams of this subject, are checking, or are still writing hard.

When encountering such an exam, the responsible yamen servant could only curse in his heart to affect his rest, and he did not dare to slack off at all.

According to the rules of the examination room, before the candidates run out of candles, they cannot forcibly close the test papers and drive them away.

The Mingyuan upstairs in the distance is also brightly lit, and many officials in various official uniforms are looking out from upstairs.

The people standing upstairs in Mingyuan are all the invigilators of the Jiangxi Provincial Examination. Most of them are gathered here at this time, looking at the examination room with candlelight in the distance, and walking back and forth downstairs with stacks of test papers in their arms. Run around the Yamen.

The atmosphere upstairs was tense, and everyone watched the inside and outside of the Gongyuan with expressionless faces, and there was no scene where officials gathered together to chat and laugh in the past.

Not long after, there was a sound of "dong dong dong" walking upstairs from the stairs. It was the sound of official boots stepping on the wooden stairs, which broke the peace upstairs at this moment.

Everyone turned around and looked over. The one who went upstairs was a big man in a red unicorn suit with an embroidered spring knife hanging on his waist.

After the big man went upstairs and looked at the crowd, the official headed by Chong just cupped his fists slightly and said, "Master Li, Mr. Sun has already copied the first batch of test papers, and they are still in the Jingshen Hall, and they will be sent to you soon." Hengjiantang let the examiners review.

My lords, I don't know if there are any other orders, or I need to check on the spot. "

"No need, just keep your people watching."

The official named Mr. Li just nodded and answered, then turned around and ignored him.

The big man is the Qianhu of Jinyiwei stationed in Nanchang, and he is one of the outer curtain examiners of this township examination.

Jin Yiwei's participation in the imperial examination was also deliberately joined by the emperor in order to ensure the fairness of the imperial examination, but they would not touch the test papers, but only read them.

As a special secret service agency in the Ming Dynasty, as civil servants, they were naturally disrespectful, and no one wanted to get close to Jin Yiwei.

The people in Jinyiwei naturally knew that they were in the way of these civil servants, and they usually would not join them if they had nothing to do, just like the banquet for the provincial examination examiners a few days ago, and the adult of the thousand households did not attend.

After handing in the paper, Wei Guangde left the examination room, just like the other examinees. He kept his eyes fixed on him, and he didn't even notice that the countless eyes around him were staring at them all the time.

If Wei Guangde had a little more knowledge, or asked Zeng Yuanshu after the exam, maybe he would pat his head and scold those directors, screenwriters and writers of later generations for harming people, those who he always thought were the avant-garde men in Nanchang, wearing blue padded jackets The soldiers were actually the soldiers of Jinyiwei, a well-known secret service agency in the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Guangde was influenced by later generations. In this life, because he has never been in contact with Jinyiwei, he is still completely unfamiliar with this institution. According to the cognition of later generations, he thinks that people in Jinyiwei should wear flying fish suits and carry embroidered spring knives.

Of course, he has no impression of what the Xiuchun knife looks like, but he seems to remember that the knife is not long, it is a kind of waist knife.

In his understanding, those guys in flying fish suits should be hiding in the dark and observing them.

Wei Guangde was born in the Guards, so he naturally has some understanding of the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty. Flying fish uniforms are not something that just anyone can wear.

But these things, his elder brother and the others are not very clear, after all, they have never dealt with Jin Yiwei.

For the officials of this era, they don't look at the clothes but only the badges and seals.

At this time, in the Vigilance Hall, the examiner in charge of this place is walking back and forth in several rooms. The newly received test papers will be checked here for sealing, and then sent to the next room for transcription. There are a lot of test papers here. Scribes drawn from government schools in various prefectures and counties below specialize in copying candidates' papers. Candidates' ink papers cannot be sent directly to fellow examiners.

The transcribed papers do not just go through all the procedures, they have to be sent to the next reading room for checking to ensure that the transcribed papers are exactly the same as the original papers, and even the typos of the candidates must be marked out .

After the program completes this step, it is divided into volumes.

There are six examiners in Jiangxi Township Examination, including one chief examiner and one deputy examiner, and four examiners.

The test papers of all candidates are divided into four parts, which must first be sent to the same examiner for primary selection.

Among them, the papers that are considered to have the strength to make the list are found and put aside by the examiners. These are the "recommended papers", that is, the papers recommended by them, and then the deputy chief examiner will screen them. Only then will the master examiner be called to make the final judgment.

In the end, among these thousands of papers, only 95 papers will be kept as the test papers for the second list, and the examinees who wrote them are the masters of this subject.

As for the sub-list, well, in fact, no one cares about them.

Wei Guangde had a comfortable sleep in the inn. He slept on the plank for many consecutive days, so he didn't get a good sleep at all. Now such days are finally over.

Candidates relaxed after leaving the Tribute Academy. At this time, in the Hengjian Hall of the Tribute Academy, several examiners each had a room to conduct independent examination papers. Papers were constantly thrown on the ground, and sometimes papers were placed on the ground. On the side table.

These are the test papers that are lucky enough to pass the first level.

The examiners only get together when they are eating, but there is nothing to talk about, after all, they have been looking at those test papers all day long.

Fortunately, these are the articles of scholars, and the level of the articles is always much better than those papers reviewed by the academy.

"The exam papers in Jiangxi are indeed much better than the articles I read in Shandong."

While picking up the food in the bowl, an examiner sighed.

"Generally speaking, the scholars in the north are slightly different from those in the south, which is normal."

"You still only read the stereotyped articles in the first episode? Didn't you read the strategy behind?"

"Of course I have to read it. I want to see if the test paper is handed over to me by that guy named Wei. I also want to know what fresh ideas he can come up with this time."

"Well, me too, but what I see now is very plain, nothing, just repeating the same old tune."

"Everyone thought of going together, ha ha"

"The imperial examinations are meant to promote talents for the country. Just like what the examiners said last time, if the essay is good, then that's a good official. If you have a good strategy, that's also a good official. You need them all, don't you think?"

The four were chatting casually with the examiners. The chief examiner and deputy chief examiner of this rural examination in the next room just looked at each other and smiled, then shook their heads lightly.

(End of this chapter)