prosperous age

Chapter 115 115 Waiting

Wei Guangde carefully checked the examination papers. This time, he was actually doing five questions on classics, history, and current affairs policy, which were completely different from Wei Guangde's previous exams. This required him to improvise.

More than half a month ago, Wei Guangde and eleven of his classmates took two boats dispatched by the guard to Nanchang City to participate in this year's rural examination.

The township examination is divided into three sessions. The first session tests the three meanings of the Four Books and the four meanings of the Five Classics, each with more than [-] characters.

The content of the second exam is one "on" and five "judgments": choose one from edict, edict, form, and internal medicine. This is actually to check whether the candidates have the basic conditions to be an official.

The topic of the third exam was changed again, and changed to the five topics of classics, history, and current affairs policy, which can be regarded as the candidates' opinions on Anbang Dingguo.

In order to prevent entrainment and cheating, the atmosphere in the rural examination room is very tense.

Candidates entering the venue at dawn are not allowed to bring anything other than their own pen, ink, inkstone, and [-] scrolls and [-] scrolls.

Some inspectors lead people to search the candidates one by one, from hair, clothes to shoes. If any entrapment is found, they will be expelled from the examination room immediately and their qualifications for the examination will be disqualified.

Another difference from the previous exams is that the three exams of the rural exam are not selected. All candidates who take the rural exam must take the entire exam. If you miss one exam, you will be considered as giving up the exam.

Before coming here, Wei Guangde was still a little worried. After all, he learned a lot of things in this exam in Jiujiang mansion.

But when he met Zeng Yuanshu in Nanchang City and learned the details of the rural examination, he finally let go of his worries.

The examiner of this township examination is the same as the examiner of the previous college examination, and is the examiner of the province's promotion officer.

The chief examiner of the township examination, at this moment, was actually selected by the chief envoy, the inspector, and the inspector censor, instead of Wei Guangde's previous thought that Beijing officials were sent directly from the capital, or even Hanlin to invigilate the examination.

According to Zeng Yuanshu, there seems to be a precedent for sending Beijing officials to various provinces to invigilate the rural examinations in the early years, but they were canceled by the court after only two visits. It is said that it was related to the etiquette disputes of the invigilators.

But no matter who invigilates the exam, Wei Guangde can only pass the exam one by one, and now, the exam he is taking is the third and last exam of the township exam.

At this time, the draft has long been thrown aside by Wei Guangde, and now he concentrates on checking the main paper, that is, the answer sheet. This answer sheet is not ordinary, and it is slightly different from the previous answer sheets.

The volume mainly writes the examinee's name, year, place of origin, names of three generations, and the scriptures. It must also be printed by the Jiangxi Chief Envoy, and the seal will be attached to the seam, and the name of the seal officer will be printed in a long strip Printed at the end of the volume.

This has a lot of marks on the grid test paper Wei Guangde got before, and it also shows that the rural test is not ordinary, far from comparable to the previous tests.

In fact, for Wei Guangde, these are secondary. His main concern is that this exam will be taken together in the whole province. In the past six months, he has heard more than once that the candidates from Nanchang Prefecture and Ji'an Prefecture are very good. .

Yes, although he is still very confident in himself, but at this time, he has to worry that he will fail the candidates in those two places.

Come to think of it, this is also one of the reasons why Zeng Yuanshu wanted to study in Nanchang Mansion.

When he arrived in Nanchang City, Wei Guangde didn't settle down to prepare for the exam, and was handed over to banquets by Mr. Zhu Shilong all day long.

And Zhu Shilong's ostentation is also great, not only the candidates from Jiujiang Prefecture, but also the candidates from each prefecture are counted as one. Whenever they meet, they are called to go to the banquet together. It is very shameless before this provincial examination.

During the banquet, Wei Guangde got in touch with candidates from various prefectures, and through exchanges, he also learned some information about the candidates for the provincial examination.

The passing rate of this provincial examination was not high, and nearly 95 scholars participated, competing for the [-] places.

This is not a big deal, what surprised Wei Guangde the most was that at the banquet, Wei Guangde also heard that many "current heroes" did not come to Nanchang to participate in this provincial examination.

There was a family member named Sun Pu in Fengcheng who did not go back to Jiangxi to take the provincial examination. It is said that because his father was an official in Nanjing, he directly participated in the provincial examination in Yingtianfu. There were 130 admissions.

Well, it was a student from Nanchang Prefecture who said this, and a student from Ji'an Prefecture next to him also immediately said that there are many similar candidates in Ji'an Prefecture.

Wang Ning, a scholar in Anfu County, Ji'an Prefecture, was similar to the one named Sun Pu. He went to Huguang with his father, who was an official, and took part in the provincial examination in Huguang.

Wei Guangde sat on the side and opened his mouth, unable to say anything.

It seems that the fight has started again. Your Nanchang Mansion sees that Yingtian Mansion has a large number of candidates, so you run there to take the local township examination, while the people from Ji’an Mansion take the test in Huguang. The quota in Huguang is the same as that in Jiangxi. And it is also a major province of imperial examinations.

Well, what else could Wei Guangde say, he immediately cupped his hands and said to the two men: "When the two scholars return to Jiangxi, you must introduce them to Guangde."

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Both of them agreed with a haha.

Jiangxi's rural examination is too scary, and all the heroes in their eyes have gone to other provinces to compete for places in the provincial examination, which shows how fierce the competition in Jiangxi's rural examination is.

Rubbing his swollen temples, Wei Guangde finished checking the finished papers, and it was almost time to hand in the papers.

Although there are three consecutive exams in the township exam, the time for the first exam is the tightest, and the next two exams are much better, at least the time is not so tight.

However, Wei Guangde at this moment is still a bit exhausted because of the three consecutive exams. If it weren't for his status as a time traveler, Wei Guangde felt that there was really no need for him to take the exam, and there was really little hope.

So far, Wei Guangde is still full of confidence in his own rural examination this time.

Without him, it was really smooth to pass the exam all the way, and he is worthy of his status as a time traveler.

With the end of the rural examination, Wei Guangde walked out of the gate of Nanchang Gongyuan together with the candidates who left the examination booth one after another. This time the rural examination is considered to be completely over.

At the agreed place outside the Gongyuan, their classmates from the Nanchang Prefecture School gathered together, and then left the Gongyuan to go back to the inn where they stayed.

Although the weather is sweltering, soaking in the hot tub to sweat can relax your tired body and spirit.

In the following days, all the candidates who came to Nanchang City had no intention of going out for sightseeing or visiting friends, and most of them chose to stay quietly in the inn and wait for the results of the rural examination.

From the Ming Dynasty to the present, there has been a mature set of operations in the procedures of the college examination and the township examination, but there has never been a fixed time for the release of the rankings, it is very random, and it depends entirely on the work progress of the examiners in the Gongyuan. arrange.

However, the rural examination is a very important examination after all, and the list of provincial examinations must be submitted to the emperor of the capital for his review. Naturally, extra care was taken, so it took longer to review the papers.

More than ten days passed in a flash, and the time quietly entered September.

(End of this chapter)