The entire provincial examination grading work has long been streamlined.
After the examiner took Yuzhu's paper, he immediately registered it and stamped it on the paper.
Every ten test papers are sent in one envelope, which will be forwarded to the Miyuan Office by a dedicated person.
After receiving the paper, the Mi Fengguan immediately took a specially made thick kraft paper that was completely opaque, pasted Yuzhu's name, place of origin, and resumes of three generations of his ancestors and grandchildren, and numbered it.
Next, under the close supervision of the transcription officer, the clerks in the transcription office began to copy Yuzhu's test papers with ink pens.
The copied test paper is called "Zhu Juan". Yuzhu's original test paper is called "ink paper".
In the examination room, the examination officer read the scroll twice completely, word for word, sentence by sentence. After confirming that it was correct, he sealed it with a seal and forwarded it to the room of the same examiner.
According to the rules, after the same examiner recommends the papers, they will be divided into groups of ten. The chief examiner will take the odd-numbered candidates, and the deputy examiner will take the even-numbered candidates.
If Yu Zhuzhong understands the Yuan Dynasty, then Li Guangdi, the examiner of this year's provincial examination, is his legitimate "student".
If Yuzhu won the second place in Yayuan, then the deputy chief examiner, Zuo Fudu Censor Wang Zhishan, would be his teacher.
The deputy examiner, Xierdan, Minister of Rites, was a Manchu minister, so as usual he did not take exams and was only responsible for monitoring the admission status of Han ministers.
A fellow examiner who recommended Yuzhu was Yuzhu's "fangshi".
With the examiner, because each person has a separate room, they are commonly known as room masters.
After the signal cannon sounded, the soldiers shouted in unison: "Open the dragon gate!"
Yuzhu stood up slowly, packed up his things, and followed the flow of people out of the Gongyuan.
At this time, it was completely dark.
Yuzhu didn't look at anyone. He held the examination basket and walked straight ahead.
With Wu Jiang and Wu Sheng's cleverness, they missed him at the same time, so they should be punished.
"Second Master, Second Master, here, here."
Sure enough, Wu Jiang, who was extraordinarily clever, quickly discovered Yuzhu and quickly squeezed to his side.
Without Yuzhu's words, Wu Jiang had already taken the test basket from his hand and said with a smile: "Second Master, I just found out about Wu Beile. But I don't know who Wu Beile is coming to pick up."
I didn’t dare to come over and talk too much.”
Wu Sheng wanted to give himself a slap in the face. He had been planning this for a long time, but Wu Jiang got the better of him.
It’s understandable that the boys couldn’t see the situation clearly.
Yuzhu knew in his heart that given the withdrawn character of fifth elder brother Yinqi, he must have come to pick him up.
Based on Yuzhu's experience, the more disabled a person is, the harder it is for them to make good friends.
However, once you get into your heart, this kind of person can easily become a life-long friendship.
Judging from the appearance of fifth elder brother Yinqi, he is not a well-connected person.
Most people with disfigured faces are extremely withdrawn.
No matter how big-hearted the fifth elder brother Yinqi is, it is impossible for him to make friends as if nothing has happened.
Sure enough, the entourage around fifth elder brother Yinqi quickly found Yuzhu, bowed and beat Qian, and said respectfully: "Second Master Yu, my Lord Beile, have made a special trip to pick you up, Second Master."
Yuzhu followed the entourage to see the fifth elder brother Yinqi.
After meeting, Yuzhu was about to salute when fifth elder brother Yinqi raised his hand to stop him, frowned and said, "In Anda, those who don't pay attention to these false etiquette will be exempted from now on."
Hey, Anda? Doesn’t that mean he regards Yuzhu as a brother?
"Anda is blessed." Yuzhu is not a layman who insists on etiquette. He simply turned his shoulders and gave an arm salute to the fifth elder brother Yinqi.
Fifth elder brother Yinqi immediately smiled, grabbed one of Yuzhu's hands abruptly, and said eagerly: "I'll give you a small gift."
Yuzhu was pulled to his carriage by the fifth elder brother Yinzhi. Where the carriage curtain was raised, under the dim lantern light, there was a hand-carved carp leaping over the dragon gate half a man tall.
Wow, the jade pillars don’t look exquisite, and even have some rough workmanship. I’m so impressed!
"How is it? Is my carving okay?" Fifth elder brother Yinqi asked Yuzhu anxiously.
"The carving is really good, great!" Yuzhu restrained the turbulent waves in his heart and said with cupped hands, "Anda, I won't say thank you."
"That's right. Between Anda and Da, saying thank you is the best way to get along." The fifth elder brother, Yinzhi, showed a childlike smile and proactively suggested, "Shall I help you move to the carriage?" p>
Yuzhu looked at the fifth elder brother Yinqi, who was already in his twenties but as happy as a child, and he couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart.
Who says there is no true friendship in Tianjia?
"Anda, shall we move together?"
How could Yuzhu just watch the fifth elder brother Yinqi carrying gifts?
So, Yuzhu and Yinqi, under the watchful eyes of the servants who had turned into goose-headed geese, worked together to move the wood carving to Yuzhu's car in an extremely clumsy manner.
"Bang bang!" Yinqi patted the dust on his hands and said with satisfaction, "That's it, I should go back."
Yuzhu originally wanted to keep Yinqi to drink together. However, seeing his rare happy face, Yuzhu swallowed back the words that had reached his lips.
"When I finish the exam, why don't we go play in the water together?" Yuzhu was blessed with good luck and good luck, but he actually sent out an extremely ridiculous invitation to play with the water.
"Playing in the water? Haha, to tell you the truth, I often secretly go boating in Kunming Lake to play in the water." The smile lines on Yinqi's face were like pebbles falling into the calm lake surface, and they rippled quickly. p>
Are you all crazy? The servants on the side were all stunned and didn't know what to say.
Yinqi left happily. Yuzhu watched his carriage go away, and then boarded the carriage to return home.
In the next six days, Yuzhu's exams went extremely smoothly, as smoothly as if he were flying down three thousand feet.
Four words can sum it up: With ease!
If you have to sum it up in eight words, let’s add, take a leisurely stroll.
After the nine-day exam, Yuzhu slept in the room all day.
The candidates have all worked hard, and the examiners of the Shuntian Prefecture Township Examination have started marking the papers in full swing.
In this Shuntian Prefecture Provincial Examination, Li Guangdi did not have any special candidates to take care of. He was sitting in the room leisurely, sipping tea and cracking melon seeds.
Since he passed the Jinshi examination and entered the Hanlin Academy, Li Guangdi has been on business trips so many times that he can't even count them.
To be honest, only fifth-rate cheaters would agree on passwords or something like that.
A top cheater like Li Guangdi does not need to conspire with anyone to make the target candidate win the exam or become a tribute.
The cheating method without any risk is actually to make a determination based on the papers recommended by the same examiner and the writing style of the specific articles that have been read before.
When Li Guangdi served as the examiner, he took care of all the special papers that had the ability to be recommended by fellow examiners.
It is no exaggeration to say that Li Guangdi has never failed!
Of course, the income is also extremely generous. Li Guangdi always only accepts cash, not banknotes, and only accepts it if the person he takes care of has passed the exam.
As time went by, Li Guangdi couldn't sit still because he couldn't find any of the papers recommended by the same examiner as Yuzhu's.
Won six yuan in a row? Stop being ridiculous, are you kidding me?
Li Guangdi dared to assert that if he passed the 15-year-old Yuzhu examination today, tomorrow there would be poor scholars who failed, and the streets would be full of stickers. (Author's note: Jietie is also a big-character poster in the Qing Dynasty.)
Regardless of whether it is the provincial examination or the general examination, the more wealthy the children are, the more they will suffer in rankings.
The palace examination is different. The emperor personally determines the rankings, and no one dares to make trouble.
Because presiding over the scientific examination caused an uproar, many examiners lost their heads.
However, if you want to depose Yuzhu, you must first find his papers, right?
The problem now is that among the ten papers placed in front of Li Guangdi, he can't even tell which one belongs to Yu Zhu.
Deputy Examiner Xi Erdan, although he is the Minister of Rites, is a spectator of this provincial examination. He is too lazy to worry about it.
Another deputy examiner, the left deputy capital censor Wang Zhishan, is also looking for Yuzhu's papers.
As a Han minister, he didn't want the fifteen-year-old bannermen to win the election at all. What books would the bannermen read? Barbarians, shouldn't they ride horses and draw bows?
Nowadays, Manchu ministers generally hold real power in the court, and most of them look down on Han ministers.
The Han ministers were not strong enough, so they naturally did not dare to challenge the Manchu ministers.
However, the imperial examination has always been the prerogative of the Han Confucian officials and Jinshi, and Manchu officials have to step aside.
Although the Han Confucian officials dared not express their anger in court, they had the courage to make small moves in secret and deposed Yuzhu, the so-called prodigy under his banner.
Both Li Guangdi and Wang Zhishan have read Yuzhu's college examination, annual examination and scientific examination papers in advance, and have a better understanding of his writing style.
Writing style is something that can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words. It is purely a feeling.
This is just like modern handwriting appraisal. Everyone's writing habits have certain rules to follow.
Under Hildan's supervision, the ten papers unanimously recommended by the examiners all had the same number of circles. They were all circles, without points.
Li Guangdi thought to himself that Yuzhu is just a fifteen-year-old boy, so his writing cannot be too sophisticated.
Wang Zhishan felt that since Yuzhu was a bannerman and came from a wealthy family, there was more or less a hint of arrogance in the article, right?
If it is a good article that is unanimously recognized by the examiners, whether it is Li Guangdi or Wang Zhishan, if he wants to be deposed, he must find a suitable reason.
Otherwise, you will not be able to convince the public!
Li Guangdi scanned the ten papers again from beginning to end, and suddenly his eyes suddenly lit up, hehe, I know it.
Having been an examiner for so many years, I have learned from Li Guangdi that the younger the candidates, the more they like to show off their old-fashioned demeanor, but it is easy for them to reveal their flaws.
Wang Zhishan calmly took the paper that Li Guangdi had read, opened his eyes wide, and examined it carefully.
Finally, Wang Zhishan discovered that the writing style of one of the papers was very similar to the bossy style of his subordinates. Well, this is it.
As a result, Wang Zhishan and Li Guangdi each found reasons and rejected one paper each.
The remaining eight papers, after eliminating the influence of selfish motives, were quickly ranked.
Xierdan waited calmly until Li Guangdi circled the papers for 1,357 and Wang Zhishan marked 2,468. He suddenly picked up the two discarded papers and shouted: "Fault-finding."
What’s the purpose of deliberately being imprisoned?”