Jinyi champion

Chapter 276
The eleventh year of Zhengde in Ming Dynasty, the sixth day of February.

This day is an ordinary day for Chinese history, but it was also on this day that Zhu Hao, who was determined to change the times, stepped into the imperial examination room for the first time.

Candidates who waited for admission early in the morning formed a long queue outside the Gong Yuan.

Yuan Rulin and Zhu Hao came together.

It was just dawn, the tribute courtyard was not open, and the candidates had already gathered.

"Except for the temple fair, I haven't seen so many people together. I guess it's even more than the market?" Zhu Hao said in a child's tone after looking around in a relaxed mood.

For Zhu Hao, this was just an experience in his life. He didn't make up his mind to say that he would be the number one scholar in the exam.
Moreover, with his insights and talents, he is equivalent to taking the primary school entrance examination for a postdoctoral fellow. Although there are many factors outside the examination room, in terms of writing essays, he still has an advantage, right?

Yuan Rulin seemed very nervous. It was his first time to participate in the county examination. He had no idea at all. More importantly, his family had high hopes for him. If he failed this time, but Zhu Hao passed...

Then how do you hold your head up and be a man?
"A lot of people."

Yuan Rulin followed with a comment.

Zhu Hao stood on tiptoe to look in front of him, and then looked behind him. The team lined up about two streets, and there were people ranging from twelve or thirteen to thirty or forty years old, and those in their fifties or sixties who hadn't passed the county examination ...not many.

After all, the county test is only a primary test in the children's test. Generally speaking, as long as you can write well, understand the scriptures and principles, and can write stereotyped essays, you can pass.

You can pass the exam several times, but you can pass it once.

But if you go to the college entrance examination, not to mention those in their [-]s and [-]s, people in their [-]s and [-]s will participate, because if you pass the examination, you will become a student and officially enter the ranks of the "gentry". For scholars, that is a lifelong pursuit.

Perhaps because the threshold for taking the county test is low, many people think that they can pass the test, so that there are so many people who take the county test, and their levels are also uneven.

"Guan Guan Jujiu is in the river continent..."

A young man in his twenties in the next line was actually reciting the "Book of Songs" aloud there.

Zhu Hao reminded with a smile: "Brother, why are you memorizing that for the Sishu essay test today? After you finish writing the Sishu essay, you don't have to worry about the follow-up."

The young man glared at Zhu Hao, with a look of disdain on his face: "A naughty boy who dares to take the county test without memorizing all the five classics? It's really absurd... A fair lady and a gentleman..."

Zhu Hao turned his head to the side, unable to bear to look directly.

Isn't this guy a nerd?Or a nympho?Do you really think there is Yan Ruyu in the book?Or did the family promise to marry a beautiful wife and concubines as long as they passed the county examination?
Look what you're reading!

"Boom blah blah..."

There was a knocking of gongs in front, but it was people from the county government who came out to help maintain order, and the Gong Yuan was officially opened, and all candidates entered the hall in turn with the number of the examination room they got when they signed up.

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Yuanmen.

It was originally a place for routine inspections, but because there were so many candidates, no one really went to check them carefully.

But the Yacha thief, when he sees the young sons with nervous expressions and luxurious clothes, he knows that they are afraid of making a fool of themselves in front of others, so they will deliberately make things difficult, because these people usually carry broken money on them, and they can only give it away obediently. Reward money to try to pass the level smoothly.

There are also those who are unwilling to give money, and the yamen will rummage casually, especially the test basket that comes with them, which contains water, straw paper, pen and ink, etc., will be the focus of attention.

The rest of the people will basically not bother.

Yuan Rulin and Zhu Hao were preparing to enter the arena before the examination room of the "Ding" brand. The two yamen took a look at Yuan Rulin and Zhu Hao, who were dressed in fine clothes, with narrow expressions on their faces, but they did not put any embarrassment on them.

"go in!"

Ya Cha's tone was not kind, but he didn't make a move either.

Zhu Hao and Yuan Rulin were about to enter, but they heard the scolding voice of the nerd who recited the "Book of Songs" from the side: "...Try me! Believe it or not, I will beat you?"

Participating in the imperial examination is like coming to fight. Some candidates around shake their heads and some laugh.

Originally there were only two clerks in that line, and when they heard the noise, they immediately rushed over, they worked together to knock the nerd to the ground, and one of them picked him up all over his body.

"Wow...how can this be unreasonable, presumptuous..."

The nerd's neck was pressed to the ground, and he turned his head and couldn't stop screaming.

The people around know that this is called killing chickens to scare monkeys. Pick someone who doesn't know how to behave and punish them. This can not only earn some money, but also warn those who have bad intentions so that they can't enter the examination room to make trouble.

It's none of your business, Yuan Rulin and Zhu Hao have already passed through the access control and searched, so they didn't intend to stay and watch the excitement.

The two entered the examination room in order.

There are rows of examination sheds, one row of [-] test sheds, and two rows directly opposite, a total of sixty, which is called one Jiazi.

That is to say, there are a total of [-] candidates in the T-size test booth.

According to Zhu Hao's estimate, there should be eight or nine hundred candidates entering the venue that day. According to the past experience of the county, about forty candidates are taken at a time, which is almost one out of twenty.

It seems that the probability of being admitted is not high, but many of them are here to make up for the number. Let alone writing articles, it is difficult for him to recite the Four Books. The real ability to compete for the forty places may only be three or four hundred. Calculated twice a year, it will take more than ten years to pass.

Of course, the level of candidates varies from class to class. Whichever class has higher teaching quality, there will be situations where classmates take the same exam. For example, students from a private school accepted by a famous teacher take the county exam together, and they pass the county exam without any problems... But for those For people with a relatively average level, they will face huge challenges.

The advantage of a famous teacher is that in addition to teaching the basic Four Books and Five Classics and classics, he will also teach students how to write orthodox stereotyped essays. Sometimes the essays are good or bad. Candidates educated in the system form a crushing trend.

This is the difference between a professional background and a wild road.

In this case, with the deepening of the imperial examination, the gap will gradually narrow after the government examination and hospital examination, and finally become a competition of talent and learning.

And when it comes to the country test...

Sometimes being tall doesn't help.

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Sitting down, Zhu Hao put the left and right door panels together.

The low wooden board was used as a stool, and the tall wooden board was used as a table. Zhu Hao sat on it and tried it, and it was still solid.

Before the township examination, there is no practice of giving candles. That is to say, the exam ends on the same day, and the papers are automatically collected before nightfall.

If there are many exams, divide them into sessions.

For example, the county exam is divided into two main sessions: the main session and the re-examination. As long as the four-book essay in the main session is passed, the county exam is considered passed, and the follow-up re-examination will only include the five scriptures and policy theory, which is of little significance.

Participating in the county examination in Anlu has a little advantage. This is the examination room for the government examination and college examination in the future.

If you take the county examination in a county under the jurisdiction, such as Jingshan County, Anlu Prefecture, the conditions are much more difficult than here.

Many test sheds are built temporarily, and they leak when it rains, making it difficult to pass the test.

This is why county examinations, government examinations and other examinations are scheduled to be held at the beginning of spring every year. There are fewer rainy days in the beginning of spring, and the cold is a bit cold, but the sudden weather changes will basically not affect the examination.

If it really rains that day, the exam period can be postponed.

The county examiner was originally a local county magistrate or prefectural magistrate, but because Anlu magistrate Kuang Yangming was about to resign, he might want to make some political capital before he left, and because Changshou County magistrate Jing Zhongkuan had just resigned, there was a vacancy for the magistrate. The county exam and the prefectural exam are taken together, so the county's questions are also given by Kuang Zhizhou.

However, Kuang Yangming does not participate in the invigilation. The invigilation will be completed by the local Xuezheng, Jiaoyu, and discipline. Xuezheng is the assistant examiner but the main invigilator. For the evaluation, each person basically selects about [-] examination papers. Generally, one examination paper must have excellent comments from two old Confucian scholars to enter the final competition.

Finally, the chief examiner selects the excellent examination papers to be "shortlisted", and the candidates' names are listed in the long case to determine the admission ranking.

The examination papers are vaguely named, but the papers are not transcribed, that is, the original papers are used for evaluation.

Only when it comes to the hospital examination will the name and transcript be copied. In many cases, even this link is omitted in the hospital examination, and it will be so formal in the township examination.

The system of the imperial court is one thing. The local financial and material resources are limited, and most of them are simple, and no one can find faults.

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Exams are about to begin.

There were many candidates, and the imperial examinations in the middle of the Ming Dynasty were much simpler than later ones. Candidates who joined each other only needed to pass the case and did not need to sing the guarantee.

But before the exam, the Discipline Committee of the Confucian Education Office of the county will go to the exam shed to check the affidavits and mutual affidavits of all the candidates. .

After the inspection here, the paper will be issued immediately.

Changshou County has always been the capital of the state, and the examination papers used... that is, the paper for writing articles, are of excellent quality.

For two four-book essays, two papers are used. When the papers are handed out, one side is glued together. On the edge of the first page, there is a place to write the candidate's name, three generations of resumes, affidavits, and mutual knots.

Except for the position inside the sealing line, only vertical grid lines are drawn on the outside, regardless of fine squares. There are twelve columns in total. The orthodox four scripts are generally between three and four hundred characters, and each column needs to write about thirty crosses. Larger, you don’t have to write petty lowercase letters, slightly larger characters can also be accommodated, but it must be in italics.

For the convenience of marking, an article does not turn pages.

The examination papers are thick, and the paper used for ordinary drawing is basically three layers of rice paper pressed together, while the examination paper used in the county's examination papers is pressed with more than four layers of rice paper, which is to prevent the ink from penetrating the back of the paper when writing the papers.

No draft paper is given, you need to bring your own.

After the papers were sent out, Zhu Hao listed his names and waited for the questions to be released.

The questions will not be printed on the test paper, but will be listed in the test room with test cards, and the test room will be patrolled by wooden signs, and each test room will have a question card.

　I wish the Dragon Boat Festival good health, good luck, and happiness forever!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)