Because Mai Fan’s academic performance at Qingsong College was good, his husband made this insurance for him.
After Xue Pan completed all the above, he was admitted to the exam, and his admission list was stored in the county office.
After completing all these procedures, we went directly to the first level of the exam.
The content of the first two exams was actually the simplest for Mai Fan.
Because the first and second sessions only require standard handwriting, familiarity with the article, silent reading of two corresponding articles, and finally completing a proposition poem, which is enough.
By the time the third session started, I was no longer just reciting silently, but also had a bit more of my own understanding in the article.
Classics, poems, scriptures, and erotic essays are all presented together, which really tests the basics of a scholar.
With the intensity of five exams, one per day, Mai Fan could handle it easily.
In his opinion, this is equivalent to not doing anything else for a day, just studying Chinese classical writing and poetry translation.
The number of students in the same examination room as him has been greatly reduced since the third exam.
Because the passing rate of each county examination is actually closely related to the number of local scholars admitted.
Judging from the number of people who passed the county examination, it was almost three to five times the number of people admitted to the scholar examination.
If the passing rate for this year's prefectural examination is 20, then the admission rate for children taking the county examination will be about 60.
Although sixty people may seem like a lot, compared with those who participated in the county examination, they are only a handful.
Mai Fan's previous examination room was still full of small cases next to each other. By the time he got to the third and fourth exams, a lot of seats around him were already vacant.
Mai Fan was quite calm about this level of exam.
If the rote memorization of things is not enough, then all his years of learning will be in vain.
Sure enough, he answered questions very smoothly until the fifth test. In line with the rhythm of answering questions and marking them now, the list of county examinations was announced the next day.
Because the weather has been extremely cold these days, although the family members were nervous, they did not let Mai Fan run to look at the list by himself.
Together with the most useful foreign affairs manager around Xue Jue and Xue Pan's book boy, they took on this task.
They had been squatting at the door of the county government office since early in the morning. When they saw the person presenting the results coming out, they squeezed into the front row as soon as possible.
Probably out of their confidence in their young master, the two of them looked down from the beginning of the list.
Don't tell me, the first place is their young master Xue Pan.
Seeing this result, the two people looked at each other and squeezed out of the crowd without saying a word.
After he was out of the crowd, he drove the carriage and drove towards Xue Mansion.
The two people rushed in through the corner door, and the first thing they did after entering the courtyard was to go straight to the master and young master's yard to announce the good news.
In fact, the Xue family is not as calm as they appear.
Except for Mai Fan who was still doing whatever he was doing in the study, the Xue family's master and his wife, as well as their young lady, gathered in the front hall, saying they wanted to eat some snacks and chat about home affairs, but in fact they all stretched their heads.
Looking outside the yard.
"Master, Master, the young master's results are out!"
"The head of the case! Our young master took the exam of the head of the case!"
The voice was loud, but neither Xue Jue nor the matron blamed the steward.
This is such a good thing that the whole family should know about it!
Xue Jue was so happy that she stood up first and said three good words in a row.
Putting aside other things, as long as a person is successful in the case, there is no way he can fail the second level of the government examination.
As long as this second level is passed, the son of the Xue family will surely get Tong Sheng's title in his hands.
Although this name is not as bright as that of a scholar.
But for a businessman, it is equivalent to stepping into the doorstep of a scholar.
This is the threshold for taking the imperial examination. In some remote areas, only children can be taught.
As for the rest, Xue Jue couldn't care less. His son was only eleven years old this year. Even if he took the exam for three more years, he would always be able to pass the scholar exam. What kind of dignity and manners does a fourteen-year-old scholar need?
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As the master was happy, all the servants in the Xue Mansion were rewarded.
But the bookboy who reported to Mai Fan over there saw a side of his young master that was different from ordinary people.
"Oh, got it!"
When Mai Fan learned that he had been convicted of the crime, he just raised his eyebrows without taking his eyes off the book.
He was very dissatisfied with the behavior of his book boy who still stood in front of him and blocked the light.
"Do you have anything else to do?"
"No, young master, you have been charged! Why aren't you happy?"
Mai Fan was very surprised: "What is my goal in studying?"
"Guangzong Yaozu? Become an official? Make a fortune?"
Mai Fan shook his head: "The wealth of our Xue family is something that an ordinary official cannot earn in his lifetime."
"If my goals were just these, it wouldn't make much sense."
"What I want to do is to fundamentally change the impression of the Xue family among businessmen and scholars."
"I hope that through my efforts, the second and third generations of the Xue family can embark on the path of scholars and be recognized by a truly scholarly family."
"So, if I just achieve the achievements of a child, do you think those people with a profound background will look at me with my background?"
"I must study better, get higher test scores than those from scholarly families, and perform better than them. Only then can I integrate into their group and be looked upon highly by them."
"So, if I am only complacent about this achievement, then my achievements will stop here."
When Mai Fan said this, Xue Jue was rushing to Mai Fan's study with his family.
When he walked to the door, he could clearly hear the conversation between Mai Fan and the book boy.
It was precisely because of this conversation that Xue Jue stopped thinking about celebrating grandly.
I thought that my son's ambition was much stronger than his father, so the Xue family's low-key behavior would be the best support for Xue Pan now.
"Shh..."
Thinking of this, Xue Jue made a shushing gesture to the people behind him, telling the people at home to do what they should do as usual.
Because Mai Fan's five senses are more sensitive than ordinary people's, he already knew that the Xue family members had arrived outside the door.
His words were sincere, but most of them were meant for his family to hear.
People in the Xue family are good at everything. The only bad thing about them is that they like to show off their wealth.
Mai Fan felt that there was no family with real wealth that did not hide wealth in life. This was probably the real reason why people from aristocratic families looked down on merchant families.