I want to be emperor

Chapter 232 Encore
For many scholars who failed the imperial examinations but wanted to become officials, even though the Luo Chu Dynasty was just a newly established new dynasty and its territory was only half of Chu, it was still a serious dynasty no matter what.

It is entirely possible to serve as an official for the Luochu Dynasty.

They just want to be officials, and they don't really care too much about whether it is Zhu Ming's official or Luo Chu's official.

People who care about it will never run over to participate in this Dengji Enke.

Speaking of which, these people have a lot in common with Zhang Zijin and the others. They both failed the imperial examinations for a long time and had ambitions to become officials.

The only difference is that Zhang Zijin was originally a Juren, but he failed in the Jinshi examination.

But these people in front of them are just child students, and they can't even pass the exam as a scholar.

But the essence is still the same.

Similarly, most of the students who participated in Dengji Enke this time had similar situations.

Not to mention, there are quite a lot of such people, and a large number of people have rushed over in the past few days.

After the final summary of the Ministry of Rites and Education of the Great Chu Empire, it was found that there were more than 2000 bachelors who came to participate in the provincial examination.

Among the more than 2000 people, there are probably hundreds of Tongsheng, and the rest are not even Tongsheng.

Of course, not everyone is able to take part in this rural examination, basically they are people who can read and write.

Because when signing up, they need to fill in the information by themselves and write a short self-introduction of about [-] words on the spot.

This has no level of education and can't even fill out the application form, so why sign up for the provincial examination!

On September 27th, the first rural examination started on time. The examination procedure and content were compared with the traditional imperial examination, but the time was greatly shortened.

More than 2000 people participated in the exam, and the scene was still very large. The Patrol Department specially dispatched more than 100 patrol officers to be on duty in the peripheral areas of the scene to maintain law and order.

The maintenance of law and order in the arena is directly in the charge of the soldiers of the Guards Division.

The exam lasted for three consecutive days, and after three days, the candidates left one after another after the exam.

The next thing is for the examiners to conduct overnight marking.

In fact, from the first night onwards, the marking work had already started. In order to mark the papers, the Great Chu Empire recruited many people from various departments to serve as examiners.

Zhang Zijin, the school inspector, also acted as an assistant examiner, leading more than a dozen examiners under him to mark the papers.

The papers were first cross-examined by several examiners under him. Those who agreed unanimously passed directly, and those who always opposed directly failed.

And Zhang Zijin's main job is actually to review some controversial papers.

For example, in a test paper, some examiners think it can be admitted, and some examiners think it can't be admitted, then Zhang Zijin will come here to review, and Zhang Zijin's opinion shall prevail.

In the end, Zhang Zijin collected some of the papers that passed the assessment, and together with the papers selected by the other six assistant examiners, they went through a second round of review. However, this kind of review will not make people lose the ranking, but only decides the ranking.

In fact, the proportion of admissions this time is quite large. More than 2000 people participated in the rural examination, and it is estimated that about 300 people will be admitted.

300 people participated in the general examination, and about 80 to [-] Jinshi were selected from them.

After grading the papers for several days in a row, Zhang Zijin was dazzled, not only dazzled, but also a little nauseated.

Because the quality of this batch of candidates is actually very average, at least in the eyes of Zhang Zijin, the official Ming court judge, among the more than 2000 candidates, only a few dozen can reach the level of students... The rest are unsightly.

In order to reduce the difficulty of the main examination questions in the general examination, the questions are not even intercepted questions, but just a very common question selected from the Analects of Confucius.

On such a common topic, Zhang Zijin could write eight or ten articles with his eyes closed.

But among these examinees, more than half of them failed to solve the questions, but still not many people could answer the questions accurately, they could only write scribbles without knowing what to say.

These people are typically ignorant, because almost every sentence that can be used as a topic in this kind of topic from the Analects has been badly written by predecessors, even if you can’t write it, as long as you study hard and read it Time, more or less can remember some.

However, most of the people couldn't answer it in a daze.

If it hadn't been clearly stated by the superior that at least 300 people had to be recruited this time, Zhang Zijin would have dared to discard all the papers sent to him.

But there is no way, they have to select enough people, otherwise what will happen in a few days.

Ever since, they had no choice but to choose generals from among the short ones, and in the end, anyone who could answer the main examination questions, regardless of whether they were good or bad, was directly admitted.

Just like this, it was still not possible to gather 300 people, only more than 260 people.

The number of 30 was not reached. At this time, the deputy examiner suggested that more than [-] people should be selected from other failed candidates to make up [-].

At this time, Zhang Zijin couldn't bear it anymore...

It’s fine to select a bunch of rubbish. Although the articles are a bit rubbish, they can still answer the questions, even if dozens of them have obvious traces of plagiarism, and some of them are plagiarized in full.

But it was also admitted, how should I put it, this ability to copy also proves his ability, at least he read it, and he has memorized a lot of contemporary essays.

This memory is estimated to be good.

But other people are worse than rubbish, they can't even memorize by rote, so what's the use of such a talent.

Therefore, Zhang Zijin immediately suggested that since there are only so many qualified examination papers, and more than 260 people have been admitted, even if there is a difference of more than 30, there is no need to lower the standard.

Just use the current more than 260 people to make a list, and hold a test based on it.

In the end, I also said that time is tight now. According to the plan, the general examination will be held the day after tomorrow. I can no longer waste time by continuing to select examination papers.

Tonight, they must announce the list of the pilot test, and then prepare for the general test the day after tomorrow.

Zhang Zijin's strong suggestion was finally approved by Song Zhang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and Education as the chief examiner.

Therefore, there were only 260 candidates in the provincial examination this time, which was more than 300 short of the scheduled 30 candidates.

After the list of the pilot test was released, the candidates outside were naturally happy and sad.

The winners were elated, and they were also preparing for the day after tomorrow's examination.

As for the losers, some went back to their hometowns sadly, while some went directly to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to apply for recruitment. Those of them who didn't even have a reputation went directly to be recruited as officials, although they still had to pass the assessment, even if they passed the assessment You can only get the position of the ninth rank or even the subordinate rank.

But anyway, it's a job, right? If nothing else happens, it's still the kind of job.

And there is plenty of room for advancement.

The Great Chu Empire is now in a period of rapid expansion. As long as you have the ability, as long as you dare to do it, it is not a dream to get promoted and get rich.

Even if it is only a rank nine for the time being, it can be promoted quickly.

In the Great Chu Empire, many mid-level and low-level officials, even high-level officials, used to be promoted from ordinary staff.

After all, the Great Chu Empire adopts a unified official system, and there is no distinction between officials and officials, but all the officials in the yamen, the lowest-ranking officers, and patrol officers are all grades from the ninth rank or the regular ninth rank.

Only the non-staff personnel who provide services to the government, such as grooms and cooks, have no rank and are just ordinary employees.

In this case, a staff member from the ninth rank can theoretically be promoted all the way to the minister of counselors.

And considering that the Great Chu Empire is now expanding, there will be more and more official titles, and a large number of officials need to be promoted at all times. Under such circumstances, it will be easier for low-level officials to be promoted.

At this time, even if you have qualifications and are not too stupid, you can survive.

Many discerning people can see these situations, so many failed scholars went to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to apply for officials as soon as they turned around.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs has also made preparations for this in advance. They have long been waiting for this group of failed scholars to apply for official positions, so as to fill the vacancies of low-level positions in various institutions of the Great Chu Empire.

The Great Chu Empire is not only short of mid-level officials of the seventh rank and above, but also of the ninth and eighth rank low-level officials.

A large number of job vacancies are enough to digest all the failed students. Some of them are arranged by the various ministries in Gyeonggi Province, and some are transferred to various prefectures and counties. There are only more than 2000 people in the district, which is not enough.

Not to mention the fate of the failed students, let's say that these passed the provincial examination, the first batch of candidates from the Great Chu Empire, they also participated in the general examination two days later.

This time the examination was hosted by the Ministry of Rites and Education, and other departments also participated. The chief examiner was no longer Song Zhang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and Education, but Guo Quanshu, the Minister of Civil Affairs and Minister of Civil Affairs.

Guo Quanshu was also from a traditional scholar background, and he hadn't been able to get a good reputation before passing him, but he still had basic reading skills.

You can't write a good article, but you can generally see whether an article is good or not.

Even if he can't see it, there are still a lot of officials who are hypocritical and even Jinshi.

The Great Chu Empire recruited and surrendered many hypocritical Juren and Jinshi-born people. Zhang Zijin is just one of them. There are more than 200 people like him, and there are more than 20 Jinshi-born people. .

Some of them were defected, and some were false officials who were dismissed or returned to their hometowns for other reasons.

With these full imperial examination masters sitting in charge, it is easy to preside over an examination whose level is not even comparable to that of ordinary courtyard examinations.

The general examination also lasted for three consecutive days. After three days, 58 people were finally selected as Jinshi, three of whom were first-class, seven were second-class, and the rest were third-class.

The first class was awarded the Jinshi and the title, and was elected to serve in the Imperial Academy, and was awarded the sixth rank.

Erjia was awarded Jinshi, elected to serve in the Imperial Academy, and awarded Cong Liupin.

The top three are awarded the same Jinshi, selected to serve in various ministries, and awarded the seventh rank.

The specific positions need to be arranged later by the Ministry of Civil Affairs according to personal wishes, shortage of manpower in various departments and other issues.

However, what is certain is that these 58 people will be selected to work in various central agencies to fill up the shortage of personnel in the central agencies.

After Dengji Enke was over, the preparations for the Great Chu Empire's cross-river offensive had also been completed, and the cross-river was just waiting for Luo Zhixue's order!
(End of this chapter)