Chapter 143: The mastery of human feelings is the article
The incident at the Dongshi Street Snack Shop did not cause too many waves in the end.
The relevant yamen of the imperial court and the Ministry of Rites may know about this matter, or they may not know it, or they may know it and pretend not to know. In short, no yamen came to ask about this matter. Shen Yi was not injured, so there was no reason to complain to the Ministry of Rites, nor did he write a complaint. With the motive of "ambition to eat Hulu meat", this matter can only be put on hold for the time being.
As for this matter, whether His Majesty the Emperor, who lives in the deep palace, knows about it, let alone no one knows.
After Shen Yi briefly handled the matters at the snack shop, he told Xu Fu and Ding Man to temporarily close the shop and suspend business for a few days.
Because in the past few days, Shen Yi is going to take the hospital examination and has no free time to deal with the shop matters.
There are only two examinations in Dachen's college examination, which takes two days. The procedure is similar to the county examination and government examination. There is one or two days between the two examinations. The details will depend on the specific notice of the academic administration office.
The only difference from the county examination and the prefectural examination is that students in the same province have different exam times.
For example, Jiangdu, where Shen Yi is located, is under the jurisdiction of Jiankang Prefecture. Because Jiangdu Prefecture is very close to Jiankang, the children's entrance examination in Jiangdu is taken together with the children in Jiankang.
As for those state capitals that are far away from Jiankang, they have to wait until the academic administration has presided over Jiankang's college examinations, and then go to the scene in person to conduct the college examinations locally and test the children from the nearby state capitals.
The content of the college examination is very different from the county examination and the government examination. Because there are only two examinations, the examination content is relatively streamlined. However, it is nothing more than choosing two subjects from the following subjects: scriptures, poetry, Mo Yi, essays, and policy theory. The specific choice of topic depends on the mood of the academic master.
Because there was an exam on the fourth day of March, on the third day of March, Shen Yi packed up some necessary stationery and test baskets for the examination room, found a place to stay near the Jiankang examination room, and went to bed early the next day before dawn I got up and went to the examination room to report.
Because he went to the Xuezheng Yamen to register early, the yamen at the entrance of the examination room confirmed Shen Yi's identity and after a body search, he let Shen Yi in. After many rounds of checks, Shen Yi finally got his examination number.
Tianzi number ten.
The examination number is very critical, because it not only represents the candidate's seat, but also basically becomes the candidate's code name. Whether it is the first admission or subsequent cases, the published list will always contain the examination number instead of Write your real name.
After getting the exam number, Shen Yi started to look for his exam room according to the exam number. After finding his exam room, Shen Yi hung the exam sign at the door of the exam room, and then did not rush to sit down, but started from the exam room. He took out a square cloth from the basket and began to wipe the tables and chairs.
This is the experience Shen Yi summed up from his first two exams.
A place like the examination room is basically only used once a year or even two years. Although the yamen at all levels will send people to clean it before the exam, the people at the yamen gate have their nostrils turned upward. How can they seriously do this kind of cleaning work? , At first, Shen Yi was covered in ashes during the county examination. When he walked out of the examination room, the new clothes on his body were filled with smoke and dust.
Now Mr. Shen can be regarded as a veteran in the examination room, with rich experience.
Because it was March, the sunrise was not early. After Shen Yi finished cleaning the examination room in a hurry, the sky was not completely bright yet, so he was not in a hurry, so he lay down on the table and fell asleep.
When the officer of Xuezheng Yamen beat the gong and handed out the test questions, Shen Yi woke up from his sweet dream and took the exam questions from the officer.
It's an essay.
The title is a sentence from a Confucian sage classic.
How to repay kindness with kindness?
Shen Yi has long been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics. In the past few months, he has been looking through the collection of works. In addition, these famous sentences in the Four Books were taught by the gentlemen when he was at Ganquan Academy. Shen Yi's teacher Qin My husband once gave Shen Yi a similar topic and asked him to write an essay.
With Shen Yi's current knowledge, it was not a difficult problem to write an essay like this. He first wrote it on a draft paper, then after checking for typos and some inappropriate places, he carefully transcribed the revised article onto the examination paper.
Just when Shen Yi was answering the questions carefully, Jiankang Xuezheng Feng Ying and a group of officials from the Xuezheng Yamen began to inspect the examination room. When passing by Shen Yi's examination room, Feng Xuezheng paused and glanced at the examination card on Shen Yi's examination room. , and then walked away with his hands behind his back.
The day passed quickly, and when the first gong sounded in the evening, Shen Yi handed in his papers on time and left the examination room.
What I have to say is that the academic administration yamen in Beijing are very efficient. On the afternoon of the second day after the first round of college examinations, the second exam list was posted at the door of the examination room.
The elimination rate of the college examination is not low, and it is very cruel, because the number of people admitted in the first round of the college examination is twice the number of talents admitted to the current subject.
Some local state capitals may only admit thirty or forty talents in one session. Although the list of talents in places like Jiankang and Jiangdu is larger, there are only one to two hundred places at most.
But the number of people participating in each college examination is more than 3,000.
In other words, in the first round of the academy examination, almost 90% of the children will be eliminated, leaving only 10% to enter the next round of the academy examination, and then half of them will be selected as talents in the next round.
Shen Yi's essay was well written and he passed the first round very smoothly. After waiting for a day near the examination room, the second round of the college examination started.
Since the first round of the college examination is about essays, the second round of the college examination must be about policy essays.
After Shen Yi received rigorous training from several famous teachers, and he spent a lot of time reading policy essays in Liquan Building during this period, he already had great experience in writing policy essays. After getting the questions for the second round of the college examination, Shen Yi just thought about it briefly. After a while, I started to write on the manuscript paper and wrote a decent policy essay in less than an hour.
Because the questions were not difficult, and Zhang Jian had previously told Shen Yi not to worry about the college exam, Shen Yi wrote very quickly. Just after lunch time, he transcribed the policy theory on the exam paper, then opened the exam basket and started cooked rice.
Just as Shen Yi was engrossed in eating in the examination room, a Zhongzheng mellow voice came: "Have you finished writing?"
Shen Yi looked up and saw a middle-aged man wearing a third-grade official uniform standing at the door of his examination room.
The academic officials in the provinces of Dachen and Chen are called "Ti Xue", and most of them are in the fourth rank. Only the academic officials in Gyeonggi and Jiankang are called "Xue Zheng", and they are in the third rank.
At this moment, he was taking the college entrance examination. Naturally, there would be no other third-grade officials who could patrol here. Shen Yi quickly wiped the cake crumbs from the corner of his mouth, stood up from his position, and saluted the middle-aged man in front of him: "The student has seen the great master."
Jiankang Xuezheng Feng Ying, also known as the "Grand Master" in Shen Yi's mouth, nodded slightly, looked at Shen Yi's examination card, and showed a smile to Shen Yi: "I see that your writing is flying, so I think it's time to write a policy. It’s over.”
"The student was lucky enough to have some income, so he wrote faster."
Feng Xuezheng lowered his eyebrows, glanced at a line on Shen Yi's test paper, silently memorized the line in his heart, and then nodded slowly: "It's good for young people to be confident. You can just eat. I have to go elsewhere to inspect the examination room." ."
After that, Feng Xuezheng left with a group of people from the Xuezheng Yamen.
Shen Yi, on the other hand, stood at the door of his examination room, looking at Feng Xuezheng who was gradually walking away, thoughtfully.