Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 74: Start Scoring

Wang Daoqiu, Fatty, and Zhang Juzheng went to the restaurant to have a delicious meal. During the dinner, Wang Daoqiu felt that the roast duck made by the restaurant was good, and unconsciously thought of the little greedy cat at home.So he packed one for the little girl Sanniang.

After drinking and eating, I came back to sleep, and saw the little girl Sanniang by the well, helping her mother wash the bedding.So Wang Daoqiu went over, picked up the little Sanniang, put the oil paper bag wrapped in the roast duck under Sanniang's little bag, and enticed the little girl with the aroma of the roast duck.When he saw the little girl's little pouch, sucking it up and down, Wang Daoqiu asked with a smile, "Little San Niang, does it smell good?"

"fragrant"

Sanniang was young, although she didn't know what was in the paper bag of Wang Daoqiu oil, but the human's ability to treat food let Sanniang know that the smell is delicious.So the little girl sniffed the smell greedily, her little face bloomed with a smile, and her eyes were full of "want to eat".

Seeing that the little girl was so greedy, Wang Daoqiu teased her again: "Do you want to eat it, then?"

"think"

Sanniang nodded her head, and replied childishly with a gluttonous voice.

"You can eat it if you want, but Sanniang has to wash uncle's quilt the cleanest, cleaner than Uncle Zhang's and Master Jiang's." Wang Daoqiu continued teasing.

"Um"

After hearing the conditions offered by Wang Daoqiu, the mistress still blinked her big watery eyes and nodded her little head vigorously.

Seeing that he successfully deceived the little Sanniang, Wang Daoqiu said with a smirk on his face: "Sanniang said that she would help Uncle Wang and wash the quilt cleaner than Uncle Zhang and Master Jiang. That means Sanniang deliberately didn't wash the quilt. Wash the quilt with Mr. Jiang! No, I have to tell Uncle Zhang and Mr. Jiang about this, and let them spank Sanniang's little ass."

"Hey, no, no! Sanniang will wash the quilts of Uncle Zhang and Master Jiang very clean. Uncle Wang, don't go to Uncle Zhang and Master Jiang to complain to Sanniang, okay?"

"Oh, it turns out that Sanniang washes everyone's quilts equally clean! Then since Sanniang washes everyone's quilts equally clean, why did you give Uncle Wang's roast duck to Sanniang?"

"Ah, ah..."

Being fooled by Wang Daoqiu like this, the little Sanniang didn't have enough brains, she looked confused and didn't know how to answer Wang Daoqiu.

Looking at the little people, cute and domineering, he couldn't bear to play tricks on little Sanniang anymore.So he opened the oiled paper bag, revealing a whole roasted roast duck inside, the greedy little San Niang stared straight at her eyes, and her little mouth kept swallowing, it was so cute.

Seeing that Sanniang was so greedy, Wang Daoqiu put the whole roast duck into Sanniang's arms, and said: "When Uncle Yin and Uncle Yuan come back after dark, Uncle Wang, Uncle Zhang, and Master Jiang, please invite The two of them went to a restaurant for dinner. Sanniang and Niangqin will eat this roast duck tonight, okay?"

"it is good"

Wang Daoqiu said to give her the whole roast duck.Sanniang was happy, her little face smiled innocently.

After listening to Wang Daoqiu's words, Mrs. Qiu, who was washing the quilts, hurriedly asked, "Duke Xie Yuan, are you going out to eat at night?"

"Yes, Sister-in-law Qiu, we went out to eat several nights. You can warm up this duck at night and give it to the children."

"Hey, what are you talking about? In the past nine days, the masters have been away, and I haven't done any work. Now when you come back, you have to eat out again and don't let me work. If you don't work, you still have to take care of the food. How do you say this!"

"Hey, Sister Qiu, how can you say that you haven't done any work? Who heated the hot water and washed the bedding? Come on, Sister Qiu, don't feel embarrassed. This is just a chance to catch up. From tomorrow onwards, everything will be business as usual." "Eh, eh, it's business as usual, it's business as usual."

After talking to Wang Daoqiu, Mrs. Qiu happily started washing the bedding again.Sister-in-law Qiu really likes this job. Not only is the salary high, but the gentlemen here are also very particular. They never beat or scold her, a servant, and they are also kind to her children.To be honest, if possible, Mrs. Qiu really hopes to work here for the rest of her life.

Not talking about Sister Qiu, after Wang Daoqiu finished talking to Sister Qiu, he went back to his room to sleep where he didn't have to curl up into a ball.

After sleeping until sunset, Wang Daoqiu, Zhang Juzheng and Fatty went to the gate of Gongyuan and picked up Yin Zhengmao and Yuan Hongyu. The five of them went to a restaurant together and had a big meal.

And while Wang Daoqiu and the others were eating and drinking in the restaurant, after all the candidates in the tribute courtyard had handed in their test papers, they left the tribute courtyard.The door of the tribute courtyard was locked again from the outside, and then the people in the tribute courtyard began to get busy.

First of all, it was the feudal etiquette. Wu Chengen, the chief examiner of this session, led the deputy examiner and twenty fellow examiners to the inner curtain lobby of the Gongyuan Zhigong Hall under the statue of Kong Laoer.

The two examiners, the chief examiner and the deputy examiner, each lit three sticks of incense and knelt three times and kowtowed nine times to the statue of Kong Lao Er.After the chief and deputy examiners bowed, twenty fellow examiners knelt three times and kowtowed nine times to the statue of Kong Laoer.

After paying homage to Kong Er Er, the chief examiner Wu Chengen brought twenty fellow examiners to face Kong Er Er and began to swear an oath.

I saw Wu Chengen facing Kong Lao'er, with awe-inspiring righteousness, and shouted impassionedly: "We are ordered by the Holy One to select scholars impartially for the country, the country, and the country. We should not show favoritism or accept bribes. If we violate this intention, we will be punished by the gods. .”

After Wu Chengen finished yelling, the [-] fellow examiners followed the rules and immediately went on to face the portrait of Kong Lao Er, loudly yelling the oath that Wu Chengen yelled just now, similar to the oath that our future generations take before taking office.

After going through this set of procedures, all the examiners looked at the statue of Kong Laoer and bowed again and again.After paying homage, the chief examiner Wu Chengen took the lead, followed by the other examiners, and everyone went to the inner curtain to begin the formal journey of marking papers.

When arriving at the inner curtain, the first thing to do is to draw lots. Twenty small pieces of paper with the names of the examiners are written on them. Each of the chief and deputy examiners draws two pieces. In this way, four pieces of paper, that is, four examiners form a room, commonly known as Fang Guan.There are twenty fellow examiners, four in one room, so it is divided into five marking rooms.

After assigning room officials, the chief and deputy examiners began to draw lots to decide which room would read which bundle of test papers.

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty's examinations, when Wang Daoqiu and others submit their papers, their names will be sealed, their names will be concealed, and all personal information will be concealed, and then sent to the sealing office.Then at the Mi Feng Office, the Mi Feng Officer will fold and number the test papers and hand them over to the Transcription Office. In the Transcription Office, all the candidates' papers will be copied over with a red pen by the Transcription Officer. After confirming that they are correct, they will be sent for reading. In the reading center, after the second confirmation that the candidate's original paper and the transcribed paper are correct, the candidate's original paper will be handed over to the office for filing, while the transcribed paper will be sent to the examiner for review.

After these papers enter the review stage, they will first be marked by four co-examiners in one room. After receiving the recommendation of more than half of the co-examiners, the paper will be sent to the deputy examiner for review.Those papers that are not recommended are called "failed papers", which means they failed in the audition.Of course, for the sake of rigorous scientific examination, whether a paper is recommended or rejected, the examiner who evaluates the paper must write down the reasons for recommendation or rejection on the paper, sign his or her name, and bear responsibility for this.

After the recommendation paper is sent to the deputy chief examiner, if the deputy chief examiner thinks the paper is good, he will write the word "take" on the paper.Then it is sent to the examiner for the third round of Pk. If the examiner also passes it, the examiner will write the word "middle" on the paper, which means that a certain move, From now on you will be a Jinshi.

As for the joint examination in the 26th year of Jiajing's reign in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor gave this session a target of [-] Jinshi.So each marking room divided the papers, and each of the five marking rooms received [-] recommended places.This means that out of the nearly [-] exam papers for this session, after the first round of auditions by room officials, there will eventually be [-] papers that will be recommended to the deputy examiner for the second round of PK.After the deputy examiner passes the review, he will eliminate one thousand of the test papers, and finally send [-] test papers to the chief examiner for the third round, and finally select [-] winning test papers.

The first batch of papers that the examiners are now assigning are the first papers that Wang Daoqiu and the others will take.This batch of examination papers had gone through a series of procedures such as transcribing, reading, and collecting them when Wang Daoqiu and the others took the second and third exams. Now they are bundled into a bunch of one hundred copies and placed here waiting to be drawn.

At the beginning of the lottery, the examiner first draws the room number of the paper, and then the deputy examiner draws the number of the paper.Then the two phases are combined, which bundle of transcripts will be reviewed by which grading room, and the result will come out.

At the end of the lottery, the examiner Wu Chengen spoke last as usual. He faced the examiners with a serious expression and said coldly: "Everyone, even if I don't say it, you should know that recruiting scholars for the country is of great importance. I am here. , I hope you can abide by the oath we made in front of the saint just now and uphold the public spirit, otherwise, be careful about your wealth and life. Okay, I have said this, you can do your own thing, and now start recommending books."

After Wu Chengen finished speaking, he waved his hand to signal the examiners to start their work.When the fellow examiners received the order, they immediately went up and hugged the papers drawn in their own rooms.

(End of this chapter)