Bachelor

Chapter 48 The Urgent Examination Period
Li Meiting's behavior just now was a bit weird, it was related to the future government examination, and Sun Dan didn't dare to be careless.

After a little search of the information in my mind, I realized that the Wang Yuanzheng that Mr. Li was talking about was the editor of the Hanlin Academy of this dynasty.

The Imperial Academy is just a five-rank yamen, but it has a special status. It is in charge of edicts, historical records, and literary affairs, discussing the system, detailing the text, and preparing the emperor's advisers.Many cabinet ministers were from the Hanlin Academy. Therefore, although the Hanlin Academy is not of high grade, it is a famous and noble place.

An editor of the Hanlin Academy went to Jinan, which is unusual in itself.

Sun Dambi, one of the ignorant students of the Sun family, didn't know how smart he was. After a little thought, he realized that something was wrong, and he didn't care about getting angry with Sun Gui. He cupped his hands and went straight to the door of the room where Li Meiting lived. , knocked on the door: "Mr. Li, student Sun Dan is asking to see you."

"It's Sun Dan, come in quickly." Li Meiting was still asleep, and because he liked this student, he let Sun Dan into the room.

After Sun Dan finished his salute and sat down again, Mr. Li asked, "What did you come to see me for?"

"Mr. Jin was in a bad mood just now, and he was about to take a government exam soon. And Mr. just came back from the government school, and he said that Wang Hanlin came to Jinan suddenly. The students are so worried about getting fame in the exam that they couldn't help but come here for consultation." Sun Dan answered carefully.

"What a boy with an exquisite heart, he can draw inferences from one instance, and even see this. Not bad, not bad." Mr. Li smiled: "You are one of the students I am optimistic about. Naturally, I will let you know about these things. Just sit down and Listen to me one by one. This Wang Yuanzheng is the Xuezheng of Jinke Shandong Institute Examination."

Sun Dan was a little surprised: "Let me ask you, sir, isn't there a special study and administration for the Shandong Institute Examination?"

"Provincial-level academic administration is not established permanently, but is assigned from the central government." Mr. Li spoke slowly, and said these words.

Xuezheng is the abbreviation of Admiral Xuezheng Officer, who is responsible for the assessment of talents in each province.Although a scholar is nothing special to say, once you are selected as a scholar, you are eligible to participate in the provincial examination.Moreover, schoolchildren who have obtained the qualifications of scholars are considered to have officially become "scholars", and they have the privilege of not kneeling before seeing officials and exempting all corvees and taxes.As long as you are selected as a scholar, you will be squeezed into the middle class of society, which is the ruling class of the Ming Empire.

Just because the status of a scholar is so important, in order to prevent people from cheating, the country does not specially appoint academic officials, in order to prevent collusion between academic officials and local forces.

Therefore, during the period of the boy's examination, the central government dispatched personnel from various ministries of the Imperial Academy and the Inspectorate to take up this post for a short period of time.

Xuezheng officials are generally appointed before the college examination or competition, and after the examination is over, they return to Beijing to pay their orders.

The tasks of the academic officials in each term are also very simple: admitting students and evaluating past students.

The admission of students is to preside over the college examination, which is the last test for children that Sun Dan and the others participated in. Xuezheng will write the questions and organize people to review the papers and admit them; , to determine whether they can obtain or maintain the qualifications of "Yunsheng". For those with poor grades, they may even be punished by "Qingyi" or "Fashe". A kind of clothes with a "green" sidebar, or they are not allowed to study in the original state, county, or prefectural school, but sent to the "social school" to study.You know, the top few among the scholars are the "lin rice" to get the national salary.

After listening to Mr. Li's explanation of the allusion of studying political officials, Sun Dan had a better understanding of the Ming Dynasty's examination system.He asked again: "Teacher, if the students can pass the government examination this time, they will take the college examination in Jinan in May. Mr. Xuezheng Wang came to Shandong from the capital and arranged the examination affairs more than a month in advance. Students, it is also understandable."

"With me here, you guys should have no problem passing the government test." Li Meiting said confidently.

The difficulty of the government test is not much worse than that of the county test, and it tests the students' ability to memorize by rote.Moreover, the prefect of Jinan prefecture was also the one who wrote the questions and proctored the exam.This person is old with the Sun family, and the Sun family usually sends people over for activities during the day, so it should not be difficult for him to pass seven or eight of the thirteen Sun family children in this period.The difficult part is the exam.

It is naturally inconvenient for Mr. Li to talk to Sun Dan about these small actions behind the scenes.

As Li Meiting himself said before, the status of a scholar is too important, and the state attaches great importance to the college examination.Not only were examiners dispatched from the central government, but the examination papers were also anonymously named, and a special person was sent to transcribe the examination papers, which can be said to minimize the human factor.

Li Meiting said: "If you don't even have the confidence to try to pass the house, it will be in vain for me to teach you for so long."

Sun Dan curled his lips in an unknown way. It has been so long, how long, and it has only been more than a month. To be honest, I really haven't learned anything from him, but he still said verbally: "Mr. Yes, students are also concerned about chaos."

Li Meiting frowned and said: "Your dim sum is also understandable, not to mention the government examination, it's simple. What I'm really worried about is the hospital examination. Wang Yuanzheng came to Jinan early this time, and he has done a little too much."

"What's the matter, what happened in the first test?" Sun Dan hurriedly raised his ears.

"En." Mr. Li nodded heavily, and explained that under normal circumstances, academic officials have to conduct two rounds of inspections during their three-year term of office, that is, one round of annual examination and one round of scientific examination, but the actual implementation process is also different. There may be various reasons for concurrent examinations or make-up examinations for juvenile subjects, such as war, concurrent positions, and other personnel arrangements, or travel difficulties, etc., resulting in the absence of education and administration.Therefore, the examination period is generally not fixed.

"In a normal year, the college exam will be arranged at the end of May. After we finish this government exam, we still have two months to prepare for homework.

As a teacher, I have already found someone to collect the exam questions that Wang Yuanzheng gave when he was studying politics in various places, and I am going to think about it carefully, and roughly estimate the scope of the questions he entered and his personal preferences.In order to find what you like, I will give you a range of answers.Unfortunately……"

"What a pity?"

Li Meiting said bitterly: "It's a pity that today Ziyuan stayed in Yangzhou for a long time, and he refused to return to the north. The cabinet's memorials and schedules are piled up like a mountain, and the Imperial Academy also needs to help with official affairs. Wang Yuan is in a hurry to put Shandong into a branch office. The presiding of the college exam will be completed as soon as possible, so the exam period will be advanced to April [-]st, and there will be a government exam, and the college exam will be combined with two subjects."

Sun Dan was stunned, the examination date for the government examination was March 25th.After the exam, it will take five days from marking the papers to publishing the rankings.After the list is released on NO.30, and the number of students who will take the entrance examination is determined, there is only one day left for the entrance examination.In other words, students who have obtained the qualification for the college examination have only one day to prepare for the examination.

Sun Dan: "Isn't this a little ridiculous?"

"Why not!" Li Meiting patted the table and said, "There are all kinds of courtiers as there are emperors. It's absurd today, and Wang Yuanzheng is also messing around..." Probably because he felt that talking about the emperor behind his back was a bit too much, Mr. Li shut his mouth at the right time superior.

Seeing that Mr. Li was in a bad mood, Sun Dan persuaded: "Sir, the exam period for entering the Academy of Sciences is tight, which is certainly not a good thing for the students of my Sun family. But it is the same for other students in the government, and there is no time to prepare for the exam. That is to say, no matter how tight the time is, those who can pass the exam can still pass, and those who can’t, no matter how long the preparation time for the exam, will lose their reputation.”

"Yes, why didn't I think about this truth." Mr. Li immediately became happy when he thought about it: "Although I am also asking people to figure out Wang Yuanzheng's previous exam papers, other people may not have this idea. Now, everyone has no time to prepare. , it’s easy for me. I’m acquainted with Jinan Prefecture, and I’ve also met Wang Yuanzheng once. Find a chance to get to know Wang Yuanzheng nearby, and see if you can smell something from him.”

He stood up from the chair: "It's not too late. I'll write a letter right away to ask someone to send him back to Zouping overnight, so that Sun Yue can come over to Jinan."

The big family is quick to do things, especially when encountering major events.

After Mr. Li finished writing the letter, a servant took the letter and took the boat back to Zouping overnight.

In the evening of the next day, when Sun Dan was basking in the sun in the yard, he heard a scream from a woman: "What a Sun Dan, other schoolchildren are studying their homework, so you are the only one lazing around here, are you sorry? "

Sun Dan looked up in surprise, and saw a group of people walking in at the door, led by Sun Yue, followed by Jiang Ruoying who was making faces.

Sun Dan hurriedly asked her why she came here and if she was seasick.

Jiang Ruoying stuck out her tongue: "How can I get seasick, I'm from Suzhou!"

"Hehe, I forgot, you are a woman from the Jiangnan water town. People from the north ride horses and people from the south ride boats, so naturally they won't get seasick." Seeing the smile on Jiang Ruoying's face, Sun Dan was in a very good mood.

After asking a few more words, Sun Dan found out.It turned out that Li Meiting's urgent letter arrived in Zouping early in the morning.

Mrs. Hong, the first room in the mansion, discussed with Mrs. Liu, the second room, and they felt that it was too important to be sloppy, so they immediately asked Sun Yue to pack up and set off.And Jiang Ruoying is a little girl who is not afraid of anything, she actually persuaded Sun Yue, and quietly came to Jinan with him.

The members of the Sun family also felt that this examination was of great importance, and besides, the Sun family had the habit of going to Jinan for summer vacation every summer.Simply stay in Jinan a few months in advance.So, the whole family is preparing to move to Jinan.

It is now the seventh day of March, and there are still 23 days before the government examination and 28 days before the hospital examination.

During this period of time, schoolchildren from various prefectures in Shandong continued to gather towards Jinan, and finally reached [-].

Sun Dan didn't worry about the government test, after all, with the Sun family's public relations work, out of the thirteen students, seven or eight of them won't have any problem.

The problem lies in the entrance exam, according to Mr. Li's information.In the Jinke Shandong Institute Examination, Jinan Prefecture was allotted a total of ten places for the Eight Scholars, and the competition was fierce.I don't know how many members of the Sun family will win in the end.

Five days later, all the wives, young masters, boys, and maidservants of the Sun family came to Jinan by boat. There were a total of two hundred people, and the huge Tongle Yuan was crowded with people.I thought Tongle Yuan was very big, but this matter felt small.

This is the first time for Sun Dan to see all kinds of people in the inner house of the Sun family, and he sighs in his heart, this family is really big!

This time the Sun family came to Jinan for vacation, and the money was scattered like running water, and more than a thousand taels were spent in a few days.The daily necessities of each house, the consumption of repairing the house, and the maintenance of living facilities are all astronomical sums.

Poor families get rich, if you don’t move, you will spend money.

After spending so much money, it is because the Sun family can produce a scholar this time.Even only for Sun Yue to be a scholar.In fact, the Sun family also believed that only Sun Le could pass the hospital examination this year.Everyone else came to accompany the exam and warm up.

Even so, being able to go to Jinan for vacation is also a grand festival for the female relatives who live deep in the boudoir.

Sun Dan's eyes were wide open to see how much they spent on food and clothing.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the current Sun family with flowers blooming brocade and fire cooking oil.

(End of this chapter)