prosperous age

Chapter 51
After returning from Pengze County, Wei Guangde started a busy study life.

In order to prepare for the exam, even if Mrs. Sun didn't think much of Wei Guangde, and wanted him to study and gain knowledge, what should be practiced is still to be practiced.

Although Wei Guangde studied the same as those senior candidates who took the exam before, he hadn't come into contact with many things, just like the stereotyped essay he was holding in his hand at the moment.

I don't know what channel he passed, anyway, Wei Guangde knew that it must be not easy. It was the papers made by Tang Yong and Tang Jixian, the respected Tang Yong and Tang Jixian of Pengze County, in the provincial and general examinations.

Tang Yong is from Cantonese, and he is not tall. It can be said that he was dark and thin when he first came, and he really didn't look like a Jinshi.

However, being directly dispatched to the county level below, one can actually know that his palace examination results should not be very good.

After all, those who are before the ranking test will generally stay in Beijing to serve as officials. The top ones will definitely enter the Imperial Academy, and the lower ones will also observe politics in the Six Ministries, and then work in the central ministries and commissions.

Although it is said that being with the king is like being with a tiger, if you stay with the leader, you are more likely to be promoted, right?

So, for these Jinshi, who doesn't want to stay in the capital?
But this Tang Xianzun obviously couldn't do it, and was assigned here in Jiangxi.

But Wei Guangde would not underestimate him, it doesn't matter if he goes to the old and the young, Jiangxi is a good place, it means that he should still have someone in the court, otherwise he would not come here to serve as the county magistrate.

For such an unremarkable and low-ranked Jinshi, it was naturally not easy to find his examination papers.

From this, Wei Guangde has also seen the character of his teacher, Mrs. Sun, who seems to be a master of exam-oriented education. Maybe this is the method he summed up to pass the county exam to the hospital exam.

Collect the examiner's articles, understand his preferences, and adjust his writing style according to his preferences.

Many people may think that the county examination, as the lowest level of the ancient imperial examinations, should not be difficult, and it should be easy to pass. In fact, this understanding is wrong.

Strictly speaking, the county examination is not an imperial examination recognized by the imperial court.

From the perspective of the imperial court, the rural examinations are actually examinations conducted by the abbots sent by the imperial court, and the courtyard examinations and lower examinations are only conducted by local officials, so they don't pay much attention to them.

However, in fact, among the six examinations of the imperial examination, quite a few students passed the county examination, the government examination, and the college examination.

Take the example just now when Master Sun introduced the situation of the county examination in Pengze County to Wei Guangde and other students who took the county examination for the first time. There is no county test in the test year.

And every time Pengze County takes the county exam, nearly a thousand students from the whole county take the exam, among them are not only Yin Yin students like Wei Guangde, but also old candidates with white hair and white hair.

And how many people pass each county test?

fifty.

There are only fifty places for them to pass the county examination.

The subsequent government examinations were similar, with thousands of people competing for dozens of places.

When it came to the college examination, it was even more intense. Although after several rounds of selection, the rest were all children, and the number of students seemed to be small, but the competition for places became more intense.

In the Ming Dynasty, the counties were divided into large counties and small counties based on the county’s fiscal revenue. Counties of different levels could have a variable number of scholars, but basically the number of scholars in large counties was more than that in small counties.

Under the quota limit, the number of scholars in the county determines the number of people who pass the hospital examination.

Well, just talking about Pengze County, according to the number of hospital examinations in the past, there are about ten people each time, the minimum is nine, and there are twelve or three when there are many.

For those who are unsuccessful, even if you are talented and can crush students from other prefectures and counties, sorry, you have no chance to get the title of scholar.

You can only compete for a few places in the county, defeat the local children, and win fame.

This year, according to what Sun Fuzi heard, there are probably more than 800 students taking the exam, less than 900, and [-] places. The pressure is not small, basically exceeding the elimination rate of the rural exam.

For the government test, Wei Guangde hasn't thought about it so much for now, let's talk about passing the test step by step.

In the past few days, the homework assigned by Master Sun has also increased suddenly. There are two stereotyped essays and one scripture essay every day, and there are not many requirements for test post poems and the like.

In fact, Wei Guangde now can make do with a test post poem. After all, he can write stereotyped essays, and many things are similar.

What's more, for the county examination, the eight-legged essay is more important, that is, the four-book essay and the five-class essay, and the others are just passable.

Only when it comes to the township examination and general examination, policy theory will have a little effect, and when it comes to the palace examination, it will be purely compared to policy theory.

However, because the ranking of the general examination has a great influence on the palace examination, it is still very slim to think about relying on the palace examination to come up with an outstanding strategy and enter the first and second.

Wei Guangde has been pondering Tang Xianzun's articles these days, and then tried to modify the writing style of what he wrote before, trying to get closer to Tang Xianzun, hoping to be favored by it.

As for the word, it is too late to hold Buddha's feet temporarily.

Fortunately, Mrs. Sun felt that Wei Guangde's handwriting had improved a lot, enough to meet people, so the probability of being brushed off in the first round was not high.

Five days before the exam, Wei Guangde and his mother went to Pengze County together, and moved directly into the Wu family's house in the county.

The Wei and Wu family brought an old lady along, and the Wu family arranged for two servants to come and serve them.

After all, it was the young lady married by the Wu family. Uncle Wu Zhankui was looking for someone whom the Wei and Wu family knew. Although they were older, they did things more properly and were less likely to make mistakes.

In the past, the maid who served my mother when she was a child was also called, and the maid who was supposed to accompany her when she got married, because my mother was kind and knew that she had a sweetheart in the Wu family, so she stayed, and this time she was sent here Serve Mother Wei.

Adhering to the habit of playing big exams and juggling small exams in the last two days, Wei Guangde put aside his books for the last two days, didn't read those model essays, and didn't do the work of revising his own articles.

God knows what questions Tang Xianzun will ask.

If you are lucky, maybe you can take the exam questions that you are familiar with and write a good article, and that will be cool.

After eating and sleeping every day, Wei Wu was very worried when he saw his son like this at first, but Wei Guangde fooled him, saying that he had already read poetry and books and was full of knowledge, and it was useless to continue reading.

It is more useful to read books at this time. It is more useful to take a shower and change clothes before the exam, and pray to God and Buddha.

Wei Guangde's performance was naturally noticed by his uncle Wu Zhankui and his aunt.

Before the exam, Wu Dong didn't seem to be in the mood to read, but he often ran out of the house to find someone to drink and chat with.

Afterwards, they learned from their son that it was because they were nervous and couldn't read books at all.

Knowing from the eldest brother that Wei Guangde's abnormality may be due to nervousness before the exam, Wei Wu didn't dare to ask Wei Guangde to read the book anymore, and let him make his own decisions, read as much as he wanted, and let him not.

The time quietly arrived on February [-]th, and the first exam of the county examination was about to start.

(End of this chapter)