Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 72 The end of the meeting
He ate and slept like this for a whole day, and it was the same on the third day, but this third day was the day when the first exam was handed in.So after Wang Daoqiu finished lunch, he took out all the test papers and scratch paper from his cloth bag and pressed them under the inkstone on the table.

Think about it, if you are woken up while waiting for someone else's paper collection officer to collect papers while you are taking a nap, you will be wronged.So Wang Daoqiu, who didn't want to sleep and was woken up by someone, wrote an extra notice: Take the test paper by yourself, I am taking a nap, please do not disturb.Then he pressed this notice under the inkstone and went to take a nap.

Not long after Wang Daoqiu fell asleep, the invigilator Gao Gong led the two guards and began to collect papers from each of the cells in Wang Daoqiu's row.

When I received Wang Daoqiu's dormitory, I saw that Wang Daoqiu was still sleeping there as usual, but there was a notice on the table that read: "You can take the test paper by yourself. I am taking a nap, please do not disturb." Two guards They all laughed and shook their heads angrily at Wang Daoqiu, a living treasure, while Gao Gong was so angry that his face turned livid.

The two officers saw Wang Daoqiu's notice. Although they were very angry, they were very graceful and did not worry about it. They followed the rules and began to seal Wang Daoqiu's examination papers.And just when the officer was sealing Wang Daoqiu's test papers, Gao Gong picked up the drafts that Wang Daoqiu had typed.

You don't know if you don't look at it, but Gao Gong is dumbfounded.Mudd!How unfair is this thief!Such a smart brain was given to a "pig".

He cursed God for being so blind, but after reading the draft written by Wang Daoqiu, Gao Gong had to admit that Wang Daoqiu, Zhejiang Jieyuan, was indeed not picked up by luck. easy to use.

After Gao Gong and the two guards collected Wang Daoqiu's papers, they gave Wang Daoqiu a few unconvinced looks and left.When Wang Daoqiu woke up, he saw that all the paper on his desk was gone, and he also knew that the collector had come.So he cooked and ate first, and then went to the toilet.

All the test papers for the first session have been collected, and the test papers for the second session will not be distributed until tomorrow morning.So the management in the Gongyuan is not very strict now, as long as you don't do anything extraordinary and make a lot of noise in the Gongyuan.The guards on duty in the examination room will not come to care about you. They will just gather in twos and threes and chat quietly.

Seeing that they could gather together and chat quietly, when Wang Daoqiu passed by "Stinky Hao", he went over to express condolences to the fat man in a low voice: "Brother Jiang, I'm sorry for you."

"Oh, Liangzhen, my brother has suffered such a serious crime. Why am I so miserable! I was assigned a bad number. There are still a second and third game! Oh, I can't survive. Oh!" After hearing Wang Daoqiu talk about his sadness, the fat man hurriedly recounted his sorrow sadly.

Seeing the unlucky look on the fat man's face, Wang Daoqiu tried not to laugh and continued to comfort him: "Okay, Brother Jiang, you are not the unluckiest. Think about the time when we were in the provincial examination in Hangzhou, when we were Those brothers who were assigned to the stinky cell! Oh my god in August! The stinky smell in the hut is so strong, and mosquitoes and flies are flying everywhere! If you were assigned to the stinky cell at that time, your life would be really miserable! That’s what you say, Jiang Brother, compared with the brother who was assigned a bad number during the provincial examination, you are doing pretty well now. After all, February in Beijing is colder than the cold winter in Zhejiang. The weather is cold and irritating. It’s not heavy, and there are no mosquitoes or flies. Are you right?”

"Hey, Liangzhen, it makes sense to think about it. I'm going to be assigned to a bad number in August, so what's the point of taking the test? Just pretend to be faint and let the guards carry him away. Hahahahaha!"

After listening to Wang Daoqiu's explanation, I thought about those unlucky people who were assigned to bad numbers during the August Provincial Examination. Fatty suddenly stopped feeling that he was unlucky and started to gloat about those unlucky people who were assigned to bad numbers during the Provincial Examination. .

Seeing the fat man's smiling face after knowing that there was someone more unlucky than him, Wang Daoqiu sighed: This is indeed human nature!

After solving the problem of the impact of the bad chant on the fat man's mood, Wang Daoqiu brought the topic to the exam. He asked in a low voice: "Brother Jiang, how are you doing here?"

"Hey, don't mention Liangzhen. The questions in this exam are much more difficult than those in our boy's exam and provincial exam! Of the seven questions on the Four Books, Five Classics and Eight Parts, I'm only sure about four. The other three questions can only be regarded as doing my best. , it’s just a blind guess based on destiny. Hey Liangzhen, you said this is a good test question, but why is it so tricky?"

"There is nothing we can do about it. All the eight-part essay questions must be extracted from the Four Books and Five Classics. In the past 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the questions in county examinations, government examinations, hospital examinations, and rural examinations across the country have all been extracted from the Four Books and Five Classics. How many sentences and vocabulary have you excerpted from it? We are now familiar with test questions. Let alone the questions that have been asked all over the country in the past ten years, you can't repeat the questions! Otherwise, the examiner will be impeached. "

"For example, in Huzhou Prefecture, where we are located, if there are questions in the examination that are the same as those in the county and prefecture examinations in our Huzhou Prefecture, then the candidates in our Huzhou Prefecture will make money, and the candidates in other places will know this. Afterwards, will they be willing to make a fuss? Will they sue for fraud in the examination room? So the questions in our examination must at least avoid the questions in the county examination, prefectural examination, hospital examination, township examination and general examination in various places across the country within ten years. . Then it can only get out of the way to avoid getting into lawsuits again?"

Wang Daoqiu explained very clearly the reasons for the tricky questions in the general examination, and the fat man was convinced after hearing this.After all, if he knew that the test questions he was taking for the exam were taken elsewhere, then he wouldn't do it!

So after knowing that the test questions were tricky, and not because he thought they were tricky because of his lack of skills, the fat man was happy again.The difficulty is good, the difficulty is good, everyone thinks it is difficult, and it is difficult to do it, so this fat man has a chance to fish in troubled waters!Thinking of this, the fat man's fat face turned into a chrysanthemum with a smile.

Seeing the fat man's silly look and knowing that he no longer needed his comfort, Wang Daoqiu said goodbye to the fat man and went to solve his "grain reincarnation" problem.When I came to the "bathroom", the environment here was much cleaner than yesterday. It turned out that the three full excrement buckets had all been replaced, and the floor had obviously been washed, which made people feel comfortable. .

Enjoying the fruits of the labor of the servants, Wang Daoqiu took a small step forward, a giant step towards civilization.After quickly solving the problem, he went back to his cabin with a kang and a briquette stove to nest.

The next day, I slept until I woke up naturally, got up to go to the bathroom, and washed up. Just after returning from the "bathroom", the guards on duty formed a team of two and sent twenty new briquettes to each cell, while loudly reminding them to go to the bathroom if anything happened. Hurry and get it done, it will start to curl in half an hour.

If you want to curl your hair, just curl it, it’s not like you haven’t done it before!Ignoring the shouts of the guards, Wang Daoqiu continued to cook his own meal. The world was big and the food was the biggest.

It was around nine o'clock in the morning, and the test papers for the second session of the conference were handed out.The second test of the Ming Dynasty examination was about expressions of judgment, imperial edicts and imperial edicts.To put it bluntly, it is the writing of legal provisions, criminal investigation techniques, and some official documents such as imperial edicts.

Officials of Ming Dynasty are suffering!One person has to do the work of hundreds of officials.For example, in the most basic counties in the Ming Dynasty, all the officials in a county are only the seventh-level magistrate, who is responsible for the county's work; the eighth-level county magistrate, who assists the magistrate in completing county administration, taxation, and archival paperwork; and the eighth-level county magistrate, who cooperates with the magistrate. and the county magistrate, who manages the county's population, household registration, and paperwork; there is also the Congjiupin Dianshi, also known as the county captain, who is responsible for the security, criminal and prison work of the county; and the county lieutenant, who is responsible for arrests, interrogations, and inspections Inspections; as well as the teachings of Zhengbapin and Congbapin, who are responsible for cultural and educational work.

In a county of the Ming Dynasty, there were no more than ten graded formal workers in total. Other government employees, such as scribes, yamen servants, and workmen, etc., were all temporary workers with wages but no official establishment.As for the teachers and bearers, those who use them have to pay for themselves.Anyway, in a county at the grassroots level of Ming Dynasty, if all the people who eat public meals are added together, there are generally only four to fifty people, and at most it will not exceed 50 people.

With just such a small number of people to manage a county, one can imagine the workload.So to be a county magistrate in the Ming Dynasty, you not only have to do administrative work, but you also have to be able to investigate cases, hear cases, collect taxes and prepare financial budgets, and...

Anyway, there are many, many!It is precisely because the Ming Dynasty officials have a heavy workload and have many things to take care of, so they are required to know more.For example, in this case, if you don’t understand the law or the reasoning behind the case, how can you sit in court and try the case?
Therefore, these legal provisions of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the case analysis and reasoning of the case, are one of the compulsory contents of the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Daoqiu had God's help. Those dead "Da Ming Hao", "Xi Daming Law", and the empty questions on legal provisions were all open book exams.As for case reasoning and case analysis?As simple as this 21th century case is now, for the second generation Wang Daoqiu in the [-]st century, it should not be too simple, just like playing a reasoning game at the elementary school level.

It's still the same old rules, go back to the library in the evening and take exams, eat, sleep and use the toilet at other times.

After the second test, the third test followed. The third test was about history and policy theory.It goes without saying what the history test is. Anyone who is not an idiot knows it.

As for the policy theory, policy refers to the solution to the problem, such as what to do with the southern Japanese and the northern captives, and how to manage the Yellow River.To put it bluntly, this kind of exam is to give you a question, and then you answer how to solve this problem.

As for commentary, it is commentary. You give your own opinions on certain people or certain social phenomena.For example, who is smarter, Zhuge Liang or Sima Yi; who is more shameless, a female official or a prostitute.

Anyway, these examination contents can be regarded as examinations of the opinions of stabilizing the country.So what people in later generations always say is that the people selected by the Eight-Guard Scholarship Recruitment are nerds who can't do anything but can only take exams.So let me ask you, if he is the kind of nerd you call who only knows how to read and take exams, how did he pass the exam on strategy?

You must know that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, in the basic county examination, government examination, and college examination, every examination is a knockout. As long as you have a partial subject, no matter how good you are in other aspects, you will be rejected by one vote.It can be said that the eight-part essay selection method has nothing to do with you as long as you have a partial subject and the imperial examination changes your life.

After taking the Provincial Examination and the General Examination, you must be excellent in every aspect, because the elimination rate for these two exams is above 90.00%.

Thinking about all this mess, Wang Daoqiu followed the old doctor's advice and completed the last exam.

(End of this chapter)