prosperous age

Chapter 96
In the next few days, Wei Guangde and Zeng Yuanshu received the entrance examination certificate together, and they were waiting to enter the Tribute Academy to take the examination.

The weather was sweltering, and their reading time was shifted to evening and early morning, and the rest of the time was either sleeping or eating and drinking.

After the Taolin Club, Zeng Yuanshu established contact with Tongsheng from Jiujiang Prefecture, as well as candidates from other prefectures and counties. When he told the inn where he lived, he found out that there were also many candidates for the college examination there. , but they stayed for a short time, so they didn't encounter it.

The court examination is already the last hurdle of the so-called "Little Sanyuan". As long as you pass it, you will be regarded as entering the scholar-bureaucrat class. The most important thing is that you are considered to be among the scholars in this county, and you don't have to fight for the place in the government school and your classmates and friends.

In fact, for the ancient imperial examinations, the courtyard examination is the most critical and the easiest to miss.

The imperial examination is done step by step, and you have to go up the exam level by level.

The prefectural magistrate is the chief examiner for the county examination. As a magistrate, he naturally has a lot of contact with the local government. It is really easy to obtain the qualification of "children" by some means.

But it is different when it comes to the college examination. The main examiner of the college examination is the provincial nomination officer. The main job is to urge the students to practice ethics and morals such as filial piety, loyalty, etiquette, and shame. As for the students' studies, if the granshan students have been in school for more than six years and do not understand arts and sciences, they will be punished to serve as officials.

The inspectors pretended to be Zengguang students from other places, pretended to be their hometown, and took part in the imperial examination.

There is also the inspection of the instructors of the schools they belong to. The instructors who are excellent in morality and literature must be treated with courtesy, and the instructors who are inexperienced must be warned first. The instructor, Ju Zuo, was arrested and asked.

In fact, this is to empower academic officials to manage official education, from teachers to students.

Of course, in the local military and civilian pros and cons, and officials are greedy and cruel, you can hear the truth, and you can accept the complaints of the military and civilians, but you can't handle it yourself.

It has a little supervisory effect on the local area, but it has no real power.

As a matter of fact, most of the promotion officials are provincial censors. It is conceivable that for such people, if there is fraud in the imperial examination, they will be unlucky, and they have to bear full responsibility. It is completely different from the county test and government test.

Moreover, this place in Jiangxi is famous for producing high-ranking officials. If there is a slight flaw in the hospital examination, they may be criticized by others. Losing an official is a trivial matter, and it is not uncommon to be imprisoned.

Another thing worth mentioning is that before Wei Guangde only took the main exam and did not participate in the re-examination later, it would not work in the hospital exam.

Because of the main examination of the college entrance examination, the number of admissions is two to three times that of the number of students in this subject, but at least twice the number of students must be doubled. During the re-examination, one of the two or one of the three will be selected.

Having reached this point in the exam, Wei Guangde will naturally not back down, just take the exam, why not take the re-examination.

And by this time, Wei Guangde already felt that this college examination should not be difficult for him.

Without him, people who travel through time must be favored by heaven.

Although he felt that his origin was against the law of heaven and it was incomprehensible to be favored, but Wei Guangde felt that he had no chance in the government examination, but he passed smoothly, how else could he explain it.

On this day, Wei Guangde got up lazily, and Wu Dong rushed into the room as soon as the waiter fetched water to wash up.

"Guangde, hurry up, let's go to Nanchang Gongyuan to have a look."

"What are you going to do now? It's not time for the exam, and I don't know when the exam time will be determined."

Wei Guangde muttered while washing.

"Master Ti Xueguan has just hung up the examination card for the college examination. Let's go and see when the students from Jiujiang Mansion will enter."

Wu Dong hurriedly said, "Yuan Shu has already gone downstairs for dinner, so hurry up."

After speaking, Wu Dong stood at the door, waiting for Wei Guangde.

Wei Guangde couldn't do it, so he had to speed up his washing.

In fact, the test cards are all hung up, and I can't run, so I don't need to rush to see them.

After washing up, he tidied up his clothes and then went downstairs with Wu Dong.

For scholars, it is very important to wear it at any time, so as not to be regarded as Meng Lang.

When we were eating, there were already many people sitting in the dining room downstairs, most of them were students who had participated in the college examination.

From time to time, students in twos and threes would go out after breakfast, but they still couldn't avoid saluting to other students who were still eating.

Well, it's not surprising that many people are polite, ancient times seem to be very particular about this.

When Wei Guangde and the others finished their meal hastily and went out, there were only three tables of scholars still eating slowly.

This is a more traditional scholar, Wei Guangde thought in his heart.

In fact, it was quite rude to eat like they wolfed down before.

After leaving the inn, walk across Zhuangyuan Bridge and enter Gongyuan Street.

The last time they came here, they didn't go to the Gongyuan, they just watched from a distance.

This time is of course different. Passing through the wooden archway engraved with the word "Gongyuan", you will arrive at the gate of the Gongyuan within a few steps.

But now after passing the gate, there are already more students on the road, and it is even more crowded at the gate of the Gongyuan.

"Look, tell you to hurry up, you are late."

Wu Dong seemed more anxious than Wei Guangde, and kept talking about Wei Guangde.

"I slept very late last night, so I can get up so early, and I don't know if I will hang the sign today."

Wei Guangde retorted: "It's all hanging out, and I can't run away. It's the same when I wait and see."

"Okay, don't talk about it, Guangde's reading is also hard."

Zeng Yuanshu smoothed things over.

Jiangxi is a large province, with 13 prefectures and 78 counties under its jurisdiction. There are really many candidates who take the college exam every year. After one exam, in fact, it can be done with the capacity of Nanchang Gongyuan. It is said that there is an examination shed in the Gongyuan. tens of thousands.

However, it is obvious that the academic officer-in-waiting does not intend to conduct the formal examination at one time, as there are indeed too many students.

In the re-examination after the main session, it is possible to gather the selected students together for the examination to determine the final number of students.

After Wei Guangde and the others squeezed into the crowd, they soon saw the reference rounds of the counties under the jurisdiction of Jiujiang Prefecture on the test card, and they were about to enter the first round.

"Come back in three days."

Knowing the exam time and session, Wei Guangde heard Zeng Yuanshu say.

"I heard that the hospital examination needs to prepare meals, okay? Can you bring your own food in?"

Squeezing out of the crowd, Wei Guangde began to ask his own questions again.

He also knew the rules of the college examination, but Wei Guangde felt that the food prepared for so many candidates in the examination room might not taste very good.

(End of this chapter)