The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 373 Matters Before the County Examination
On the sixth day of March in the fourth year of Jinghe, the prefectures and counties of Dachu issued the trial period of the county examination.

The prefect of Los Angeles County, who is in charge of the prefectural examination for students in Kyoto, specially issued another notice.

The notice described the examination procedures, emphasized the rules of the examination room, mentioned the discipline of the examination room, stated the requirements for taking the test, and required candidates to test papers.

During the period, it was repeatedly emphasized that no modern examinations, false registrations, etc. are allowed.

At the same time that notices were posted on the bulletin board outside the county government office, the contents of these two notices were also conveyed to many government schools in Kyoto.

Therefore, students from government schools like Jiujiang Academy don't have to rush to Luo County, but just wait for the notice in front of the notice wall of the academy.

"Sister Yuan, the exam will be on the 23rd of next month. Let's sign up together!" Ouyang Ling and Xia Shuangjun also participated in this county exam. The five children will bond with each other, and when the time comes, you can find a bond with the college and then you can officially sign up.

"Okay!" Sheng Yuan looked at the notice excitedly, and nodded happily.

It's an exam soon!
In the past few months, she has been living a two-point and one-line life in the "academy and mansion" every day, which makes her aggrieved!

Now that freedom is in front of her eyes, she doesn't care about being nervous at all, she just feels that her mood is the same as the sky at this moment, with the sun shining brightly without clouds.

For this county exam, Jiujiang Academy had about a hundred people taking the exam, so the academy specially assigned a teacher who was in charge of the student exam to give these children a class and explain the precautions in detail.

Before this class, Sheng Yuan made serious preparations.

In her previous life, every major exam, the school before the exam would ask the teacher to give lessons to the students and parents, explaining the exam arrangements and precautions in detail.

Therefore, she attaches great importance to this course.

In order to be able to record in detail, she brought all the charcoal pencils used for drafting.

Not only that, but she also specifically told her friends not to speak in class, if someone affected her record, don't blame her little fist for denying people.

Seeing Sheng Yuan being so serious, the mischievous students in the class couldn't help trembling, especially after the master came in, they almost glued their mouths shut.

This time, the teacher who explained the precautions to the Shengyuan class was surnamed Rong. Although he looked a little old, it was said that he was not too old to be confused.

As soon as Master Rong came up, he cut straight to the point, repeated the exam time, and said the registration deadline, and then said with a smile: "Basically all of your class have passed the exam qualifications, and now you can also be called Wentong and Confucian boys."

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered that most of the students in this class have not yet won the championship, so he couldn't help laughing and teasing them: "Of course, you are still young children."

"Young children? Sir, we are not children!" The mischievous one just squeezed his eyes and spoke, when he caught sight of the round figure in the front row out of the corner of his eye, he shuddered and lay down on the table with his mouth covered.

Master Rong is a good-tempered person, and he was not angry when he heard someone answering the question. Instead, he said cheerfully to everyone: "Tongsheng examination is the beginning of a scholar's career, so all candidates for the examination are scholars, collectively called Wentong and Confucianism. , Those who are not crowned are also called young children."

Most people in the class have heard this statement, but listening to it now, it feels very different from before.

"Tongsheng has three exams. The first is the county exam you are preparing for this time, then the government exam, and finally the college exam. These three exams are consecutive exams, which means three promotions. Therefore, the first exam is very important. You can't wait." Slack because of the simplicity of the exam, or the simplicity of the untitled questions."

Master Rong explained the importance of the county examination in detail, and then began to talk about the registration.

"Although all the students in the class are of noble background, the old man still wants to emphasize. The applicants must be clean, apply for the exam from their native place, have no funeral, no gun substitutes, and they must be protected by their parents. Knot."

After Master Rong finished speaking, he said again: "This academy has its own top-notch grannies to guarantee the knots for you. You just need to form a group of five people and sign up together."

"Master, if someone in the family made a mistake, wouldn't he be disqualified from the exam?" a student asked suddenly.

Master Rong looked over and nodded: "The child's birth test is the starting point for you to advance to scholar-bureaucrats. Therefore, the requirements for candidates are moral character and friendship first, and text content is the second. Not only is the candidate himself innocent, but the three generations of the candidate's father and grandparents are also required. No stains, of course, candidates and three generations of fathers and grandparents must not be untouchables or slaves."

"No offense? The requirements are too low!" An Yu felt that as long as no sentence was imposed, there would be no offense. "Is this called morality first?"

Sheng Yuan nodded after hearing the words: "Should be required to be dignified, or at the end of the day, there will be no punishment in the academy!"

Master Rong looked at the three indignant schoolchildren in the front row, and sighed with a chuckle: "The imperial court's requirements are naturally strict, but when you go to the local area to actually register, the only thing that can be used as a measure is no fault, which is relatively fair to the candidates. .”

After he finished speaking, he stopped looking at those three young, innocent and childish faces.

"Master, why do you have to ask for your father's and grandparents' occupations? Although untouchables and slaves don't sound good, they never committed crimes. Why can't their children and grandchildren not take scientific exams?" Not all students like to read extracurricular books, so many people don't know the details. Household registration, "Master, who are the people who can't take the exam!"

Mrs. Rong was very patient. Seeing that there were many students who did not hear anything outside the window, he said a few words: "As for household registration, you can borrow the first volume of "Shihuozhi" in Shuge after class. Talk about household registration. Here, the old man is just talking about it briefly, as long as you understand it roughly.

There are many types of household registration, all of which are determined by service.

Generally speaking, household registration is divided into civilian households, military households, artisan households and kitchen households.Among them, the civilian households who undertake regular corvee service, the military households who undertake military service, and the artisan households who undertake manual labor are the three major households among the common people.

Of course, each of the three major households has subdivisions, and these subdivided household registrations are called small households.These large and small households are all good registrants, and their descendants can refer to them.

As for those who say that they cannot be used as a reference... Those who are from Lehu, Beggar, and Bihu should not be used as a reference; students whose fathers and grandparents are gong players, blowers, hair shavers, pedicure workers, bridesmaids, bearers, etc., should not be used as a reference; Yes, fathers and grandparents who were engaged in low-level labor such as grain delivery and soap fast were also not allowed to take the exam.

The reason why the rules are so strict is mainly due to the fact that court officials can ask for gifts.

Officials of the first rank in Dachu can write to the imperial court for three generations, officials of the second and third ranks can write to the court for two generations, and officials of the fourth to seventh ranks can write to the court to bestow one generation.

If the fathers and ancestors of the officials asking for the gift were untouchables and servitors, they would receive the gift from the imperial court... I am afraid that they will be suspected of tarnishing the name of the department, so the imperial court made this request. "

"Sir, if the adopted son or son-in-law of the above-mentioned untestable family returns to the clan, changes his name and surname, and the clan is innocent, can he be tested?"

(End of this chapter)