Chapter 61 Entering the Palace and Traveling to Pan
The next day.
Wei Chen and the others rushed to Tixue Dao Yamen early in the morning, and the other fifty-two new students also arrived.
Under the leadership of Wei Chen, a group of scholars paid homage to Hai Xianggan. From now on, Hai Xianggan will be regarded as the disciple of these fifty people.
In the Zhou Dynasty, teachers were divided into two types.
One type is a teacher who teaches students knowledge, which is called a professional teacher; the other type is an official who takes charge of the imperial examination, which is called a seat teacher.
Depending on the number of scientific examinations, the examiners can be divided into college examiners, rural examiners, and conference examiners.
When it comes to the higher-level palace examinations, there is no such thing as a master, because all Jinshi are appointed by the emperor, which is the so-called emperor's disciples.
The status of a master is inferior to that of a master. This is a common trend among scholars nowadays.
After all, most of the industry masters are scholars and scholars, while the masters are all imperial officials who came from Jinshi. They are closely related to the future career of the scholars and are obviously more worthy of admiration.
Of course, this is only in general terms. When it comes to the individual scholar, it still depends on the scholar's own inner weighing.
For example, Wei Chen, although he also respects the master Walrus Gan, he is closer to Shi Kai, Lin Yan, Zhuang Jun and others who get along with him day and night.
After the apprenticeship, Walrus Gan, as an academic administrator, naturally had to give some admonitions and encouragement. After that, in front of the prefectural and county academic advisors, students were assigned to the school according to their place of origin.
According to the rules, each of the prefectural and county schools selects five students. Whether they are the first in the prefectural school or the county school, they can be directly guaranteed as junior students, and the rest will be promoted.
Students with the highest scores in the college examination can be selected first and decide whether to go to a prefecture school or a county school.
Becoming a Linsheng, in addition to the privileges of ordinary students such as being exempted from service and food, and not being punished, there are many benefits.
First of all, the government will give you six dou of rice per month. From then on, you can study with peace of mind and no longer worry about food.
Secondly, local students can also vouch for candidates during the boy examination (a collective term for the county examination, government examination, and college examination) and earn extra money.
Wei Mingzhao earned the dozen acres of paddy fields that Wei Chen's family used to earn in this way.
In addition to these two benefits, Linsheng can also choose to be a tribute prisoner and become a tribute prisoner, while Zengsheng and lower-level appendages do not enjoy this kind of treatment.
For example, Lin Yan, Wei Chen's classics teacher, was a junior student at Jiangning Prefecture School, and was later selected to serve as a tribute to the Imperial College. After passing the examination at the end of his term, he was directly sent to the county school as a professor and became a member of the academic officials.
After Walrus Gan finished explaining the difference between growth and growth, a clerk immediately presented the writing and asked the students to fill in their personal confessions (personally written resumes).
Wei Chen was the head of the college examination, so naturally he was the first to step forward to make the selection. He couldn't help but smile when he saw this. Looking at this posture, it looked very much like his previous college entrance examination application.
Wei Chen took the pen from the clerk and without hesitation filled out the form and submitted it to the Fu School, occupying the only place for junior students in Jiangning Fu School this time.
Prefectural schools are naturally better than county schools.
The county school's teaching edict is only to promote people, while the government school's teaching edict is to promote people. This is a gap visible to the naked eye.
Besides, with Shen Du, a cheap senior brother, Wei Chen can feel much more at ease in the school.
Mr. Lu from the Fu School looked at the personal confession handed in by Wei Chen and nodded with satisfaction. He then issued a seal on the personal confession, which was deemed to have approved Wei Chen's admission.
After Wei Chen, Wang Yaochen, Weng Dingfan, Tang Henian, and Sheng Changbai came forward one after another, and they all also chose to study in the government school. However, Wei Chen's quota for Lin students had been taken up, so they could only fill in for additional students.
However, the four of them are from well-off families, and they don’t care about Lin Sheng’s little money and food.
As for only Lin students can participate in the tribute selection?
The four of them all have high self-esteem, and they are thinking that in the provincial examination three years later, they will be just a tribute supervisor. How can they enjoy the honor of being elected in a dignified manner?
What's more, after winning the imperial examination, it is still possible to be elected to the Imperial Academy, and it will not be too late to make a choice when the time comes.
After the top five, the rest of the students also made their own choices one after another.
Although Tao Dazhi was only tenth, he was lucky enough. The people in front of him either entered the government school or were not from Jiangning County, so Tao Dazhi was able to enter Jiangning County School and become a junior student.
As for Chen Jun, he fell to 32nd in the college examination this time, only in the middle, which was much worse than his ranking in the government examination. He could only enter Youyang County to study as a student.
After everyone has decided their respective destinations, written personal confessions, and been sealed by the edict, they can be officially called students in terms of paperwork.
The students left each other and put on blue round-neck sweatshirts and square scarves.
Wearing this 襕shirt means that you have achieved fame. Although it is the lowest degree of fame, you can still be an official without worshiping one.
The neatly dressed students returned to the lobby, and Walrus Gan personally put on flower branches cut from colorful silk and performed the ceremony of hairpins for them.
With the bright flower branches on his hair, Wei Chen couldn't help but have some bad taste in his heart, thinking that if he laughed, he would really be "trembling with flowers".
After the hairpin ceremony, all sentient beings came out of Tixue Road Yamen and walked to Fuxue Academy.
This is "Hairpin Flower Kua Street".
Along the way, the government officials sounded gongs to clear the way. Wei Chen, who was the head of the case, walked in front, and the others followed in order.
Both sides of the road were crowded with people watching the excitement, all wanting to admire the new talents and pointing at them along the way.
Arriving in front of the Fuxue Palace, the yamen servants did not dare to sound the gong anymore. Walrus shouted loudly: "The new students have arrived and opened their households!"
After saying that, the three red doors in front of the academy, covered with yellow copper nails, were opened one by one from the outside to the inside by the teacher of praise.
Wei Chen looked from a distance and saw that behind the triple gate was the Panqiao Panshui. After the Panshui, there were more than a dozen steps leading to the magnificent Dacheng Hall.
In the Dacheng Hall, the sage is worshiped as the main worshiper, accompanied by four companions and twelve sages.
"Invite new students to join Pan!"
Hearing this sentence, all the students could not help but breathe quickly.
Entering the palace and visiting Pan.
This is a scholar’s lifelong dream!
At this moment, the students raised their folded hands, bowed their heads and walked forward, passing through the Lingxing Gate and the Halberd Gate, and moved forward along the central axis of the academy.
After crossing the Jimen Gate, the small half-moon-shaped blue pool in front of you is Panchi.
Only those with meritorious status can pass the Pan Bridge on Panchi, otherwise they can only go around it.
As the members walked across the Pan Bridge and outside the Dacheng Hall, the salute official shouted: "A great salute!"
The students stood up after the great ceremony, then performed the ritual of purifying their hands. After entering the palace to pay homage, they retreated to Minglun Hall in the east of the palace. At this point, they were considered complete.
All the members took off their restraints, with relaxed smiles on their faces. They bowed to each other and talked and laughed happily.
Jiangning Mansion is a strong imperial examination house. According to the usual practice, among the more than fifty students in front of you, there must be a few Jinshi. These are all connections in the future, and everyone will naturally get to know each other.
When everyone gathers together, they first greet each other to show their respect for elders and younger ones, and then they interact with each other as equals.
Wei Chen can't help but suffer a bit at this time. After all, he is still under twelve years old and is a well-deserved younger brother.
Of course, this is because everyone present is a student. It would be different if it were a Tong Sheng who did not have any fame. Even if the other person was old enough to be Wei Chen's grandfather, Wei Chen could easily call him "little friend."