The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 185

Seeing that the end of February was about to end, as soon as March came, the atmosphere of the test in the capital immediately came out.

There was Zhang Tingyu's "Do Not Eat Mutton Fu" famous in the capital, and the trend of bribery was greatly reduced, and it seemed that no one came to bribe him.

As the president of this year's default examination, Zhang Tingyu has no airs at all, and he doesn't bother to compile any books, fight for fame, or earn money.

In a word, Mr. Zhang is not short of money.

The provincial examination is the same as the provincial examination, with a total of three examinations, but the first examination is the most important, because the time for grading papers is very tight, no matter whether it is the provincial examination or the general examination, the first examination is the most important.

The first test questions were given by Kangxi, and the second and third test questions were given by several chief examiners. The chief examiner for this year's test has not yet been decided, only Zhang Tingyu is one.

It stands to reason that if this person publishes a book or something at this time, he will be able to collect a sum of money in a short time.

It's a pity that Zhang Tingyu doesn't publish a book.

After he wrote that fu, no one dared to come up and offer any bribes. They just waited for Zhang Tingyu to print the book anyway. After reading Mr.'s book, everyone had a bottom line in their hearts. At least there was a "reference book".

Who would have thought that, looking left and right, Zhang Tingyu is the old god, and whoever asks will always say: busy, no time to go out.

To put it bluntly, if you don't come out, I just don't come out, even if you kill me!
In the past years, Kangxi had to look through the books compiled by the chief executives below. Sometimes the chief executives knew something behind their backs, and everyone bought the book as soon as it was published.

This year, everyone was hopeless, and Kangxi was also curious, so before the poor test results came out, he asked: "Zhang Tingyu, others will print a book this year, so it can be used as a gift for the students. You old man, why didn't you?" Do you mean printing a book?"

Now it is too late to print the book.

Zhang Tingyu knew that Kangxi definitely didn't want to pursue this matter, so he said respectfully: "I have a lot of things in my hands, and I don't have time to write a book. Besides, everyone's ability is in their stomachs, so why bother me to give advice? During the examination papers , see the outcome naturally."

This is true.

But the people around him hated Zhang Tingyu to the bone.

As long as you are a high-spirited, high-spirited, high-spirited, you don’t want any money, how will the Hanlin people below live?

You don't show up for any of the examiners, so let's rush out, isn't this a slap in the face?

If when the time comes, all of your questions have nothing to do with other people's books, it will be even more embarrassing.

All of a sudden, the people in the capital who are very promising to be house officials and chief examiners are hesitant.

It's not good to go out, it's not good to go out, it's a dilemma, I scolded Zhang Tingyu bloody in my heart, after all, the brave ones published books to make money, and the timid ones simply waited for Zhang Tingyu to pass the CEO exam this year. .

At this moment, there are still many people waiting to see Zhang Tingyu's jokes. There are many officials who made mistakes during the examination.

If the emperor had any dissatisfaction after the palace examination, he would ask Zhang Tingyu to talk back.

Zhang Tingyu?With the pressure on his forehead, he walked through the south study every day without changing his face, and soon went to the official department to make a name. At any rate, it would not be too shabby to tell Zhang Tingyu's official rank when Jian Fang met the chief examiner.

After all, he is just a Nanshufang walker, and if his official rank is not enough, it is inevitable that someone will see clearly.

The emperor made Zhang Tingyu face, Zhang Tingyu accepted it without any guilt, and had a table with Gu Huaixiu when he came back.

Gu Huaixiu only said: "You are an official position, you have to spit it out when you get it, and it will become a display after the test is over, so you have the nerve to eat it?"

Zhang Tingyu pinched the chopsticks: "Why don't you eat?"

"... eat you to death!"

She picked up chopsticks of meatless ribs for him, and she didn't look guilty at all.

"Speaking of which, I heard that the exam in this subject...does it seem dangerous?"

"What dangerous place is there?"

Zhang Tingyu took a bite of the ribs and frowned, he couldn't bite it...

"Except for Fan Xiu, who always judges people by their nostrils, everyone else is very nice. The elder brother of the fourth sibling, Peng Weixin, also participated in this year's exam. He wanted to give me something a while ago, but I blocked him... The eighth elder brother has been working on the quota of the remaining two chief examiners. At the moment, only I am the chief examiner, and there are two assistants. If the eighth elder brother can get it, wait for the examination papers It’s time to play with me again.”

"He is also stupid, how good is it to win you over?"

Gu Huaixiu smiled, thinking of Zhang Tingyu's "drawing from the bottom" of Zhang Tingyu's trick that turned the Imperial Academy against him, he was still secretly happy.

"He won't win me over. Eighth Master has good eyesight. He can see that I am the Emperor's man, so he dare not win me over."

Zhang Tingyu looked at Li Guangdi all the way, this old fox was Zhang Ying's good colleague in the court back then, and he also supported Zhang Tingyu a lot.Whatever Li Guang said, Zhang Tingyu said whatever he said. Li Guang said that the emperor was unhappy, and Zhang Tingyu would never go to touch the emperor.

Once something happened, he would look at Li Guangdi.

There is a leader in the court who can learn a lot without spending much effort.

Li Guangdi knows how to support the younger generation, his family members can't support them, but it is good to support the sons of old friends.

In the future, I will try to keep my favor, and if I look up and down in the officialdom, I might ask Zhang Tingyu for a favor.

Li Guangdi is open-minded and has a long-term vision.

"The eight masters recruited are all scholars of the current department, but unfortunately those methods are all shady. I, Zhang Tingyu, this time, use ulterior motives."

This time, Zhang Tingyu wanted to be upright, and they were all speechless.

There are few people in the Hanlin Academy who can compete with him in terms of talent and learning. Looking at the civil and military affairs of the whole court, who dares to say that he will definitely surpass him in literary talent?

Not to mention that since ancient times there has been no number one in prose, Zhang Tingyu is still the number one scholar in the dynasty, the number one in Qing calligraphy, and more familiar with Ming history.

He can write ten articles in the time it takes for others to write one article on stereotyped essays.

In other words, people's hard work may not be able to win the first prize. Zhang Tingyu wrote with a pen, and ten champions came out in minutes.

Never on a level...

The eighth master was painstaking and lonely, just wanting to regain the power he lost in the Hanlin Academy last time, but Zhang Tingyu's guillotine was already hanging, and he was just waiting for Yinhu to put his head under the guillotine.

"Do you still remember that I once said that when I stopped halfway into the palace, a jug hit the sedan chair? Come on? I appreciate the person who accidentally dropped the jug..."

Zhang Tingyu has been dealing with the examination for so long, and he knows all the well-known candidates in the capital.

Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win a hundred battles, and the same is true for marking papers.

Gu Huaixiu asked, "What's your name?"

"Lin Zhijun is a poor man...the family is extremely poor, and he is much more pleasing to the eye than that pretentious Fan Xiu."

Zhang Tingyu didn't hide his likes and dislikes at all, but he only said these to Gu Huaixiu.

Usually facing people, he never talked about any candidate.

There are naturally other candidates who are in the limelight, but Zhang Tingyu doesn't pay much attention to those.

Because generally speaking, the top three in the first class are too much in the limelight, and most of the time it is Mu Xiuyu who will be destroyed by the wind in the forest. Every three years among so many people, those who can really have great skills come from the second and third class.What's more, those people really don't interest Zhang Tingyu.

As he spoke, he told Gu Huaishu in detail what he would try.

Gu Huaishu originally knew that there were many tricks in the imperial examination field, but after listening to Zhang Tingyu, he realized that it was so deep and so many.

Zhang Tingyu knew quite a few people in this exam.

One is Fang Bao from Tongcheng, Wang Yi's old friend;
Peng Weixin, Peng's elder brother, is also one;
There is also an old acquaintance Song Luo, the governor of Jiangsu. Wu Shiyu, a Xixi teacher invited by his family, also came to Beijing this year to participate in the test. Although he did not bring a name card to visit Zhang Tingyu, Zhang Tingyu knew that it was Song Luo's person, and Song Luo was Zhang Tingyu. It is hard to say how Zhang Tingyu will deal with Wu Shiyu, an important eyeliner in Jiangnan;

Naturally, Fan Xiu, who desperately wanted to challenge Zhang Tingyu, became famous because of his confrontation with Zhang Tingyu;
In the present examination, there is even a strange person named "Dai Mingshi". Because he has the same name as Qian Mingshi, the No. 42 scholar in [-], he was jokingly called "Er Mingshi".

Qian Mingshi is the family next door to Zhang's mansion. Brother Lang and Fat Brother of his family play very well. Gu Huaishou sees that Fat Brother has thoughts on Miss Lin...

Qian Mingshi is also strange, there is Dai Mingshi in Jinke who has the same name as him, but Nian Gengyao has the same name as Qian Mingshi, and they both sound bright.

Nian Gengyao was a Jinshi for 39 years, the same year as Zhang Tingyu, Qian Mingshi was 42 years old, and Dai Mingshi was 45 years old. As for whether he can become a Jinshi, it is hard to say.

Dai Mingshi is a "crazy man" with a very unrestrained personality, but he is not conceited, but very dissolute.

Talking about Dai Mingshi, Zhang Tingyu only said: "I have read this man's poems, they are truly outstanding. If he is good at stereotypes this year, I will promote him."

Zhang Tingyu, who was smiling, was full of bad water.

Gu Huaishu only felt that his expression was unusual, so he poked him and said, "What's wrong with this person?"

Zhang Tingyu said: "The eighth master doesn't like this kind of disobedience and compliment him the most. I just want to praise him... Now that the crown prince is useless, the eighth master is really at the top of the court, don't you You know, it's starting to be difficult for me to be the president again..."

He was sad, and naturally some people couldn't feel better.

The other princes hadn't had any conflicts with Zhang Tingyu yet. Except for one prince, everyone else was able to handle it perfunctorily. Only Ba Ye's power in the Hanlin Academy had a direct conflict with Zhang Tingyu, so the conflict was not small.

Zhang Tingyu can't be controlled, otherwise he, the emperor's party, will have nothing to do.

The eighth day of March was the day when Jian Fang was the chief examiner. In addition to Zhang Tingyu, Li Luyu, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, and Peng Huiqi, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, were appointed as deputy examiners. There were two Manchu and Han Zhigong candidates, and the examiner ranked among the three talents of "Heaven, Earth and Man". After receiving the emperor's order, he didn't even return home, and immediately entered the Shuntian Gongyuan.

At this moment, the examinees had already entered the venue ahead of time, and when the time came, the first exam questions written by Kangxi himself had already been sent to the Shuntian Gongyuan.

Zhang Tingyu took people out to meet the questions, and then printed the test questions immediately after the curtain was handed over, and distributed them to the candidates when the time came.

The questions of the examination, especially the first one, are basically known to no one except the emperor, and even the chief examiner can only know about it half a day before you.

Therefore, there is basically no possibility of cheating in the test.

Proctoring is hard work, and the examiners drank a cup of tea before entering the examination room.

Li Luyu was very old-fashioned, and would sneer at Zhang Tingyu from time to time, but Peng Huiqi was very good at talking and even complimented Zhang Tingyu.

Peng Huiqi is the minister of the Ministry of Industry and a third-rank official, but he humbly asked Zhang Tingyu about the river and embankment.

Zhang Tingyu knew in his heart that Peng Huiqi was the person Eighth Master managed to get in this time, and Xu Chao, the head of the Hanlin Academy, let him go when he failed in the exam. Naturally, the name of the examiner is not justified. .

Originally, he didn't really want to talk to this person, but he was annoying to ask, Zhang Tingyu simply finished talking.

Seeing that a cup of tea was finally about to bottom out, the three of them left the back hall and headed towards the front hall.

The first test is three days, just the old rules.

In 39, Zhang Tingyu was still sitting here, and he was also one of countless candidates.

Six years later, standing in the examination room, he was already the biggest one in the entire examination room.

Examiner.

Times have changed, and he is finally proud of this time.

It's just that, as I said earlier, invigilation is a hard job, and the three chief examiners sat in the classroom, not allowed to read any books, sitting in a correct and standard posture, motionless, watching the movement in the nearest dormitory.

Zhang Tingyu stayed upright in the examination room for three days. On the second day of the first round, someone had already let go of the card.

Everyone wanted to know who handed in the papers so early. Although he couldn't compare with Zhang Tingyu back then, he was still considered a genius.

In the end, it turned out that it wasn't Fan Xiu who was fighting Zhang Tingyu so much?

This man has bright eyebrows and bright eyes, he can be called a handsome man, and he sneered at Zhang Tingyu when he was about to leave.

The last person to leave was also noticed by Zhang Tingyu.

The one who smashed the jug down and hit Zhang Tingyu's sedan chair?Yes, Lin Zhijun.

Obviously, when he was leaving, Lin Zhijun was not as confident as Fan Xiu, and even felt very guilty after seeing Zhang Tingyu.

After ten years of hard study, the jug hit the examiner's sedan chair. Only then did Lin Zhijun realize who he had offended.

Just after he walked out of the examination room, this poorly dressed Juzi burst into tears in the street.

There were not a few people who cried out of the examination room, but I have never seen anyone who cried as hard as Lin Zhijun.

Everyone was surprised, why did this man cry so sadly?

When asked, Lin Zhijun sighed and said: "But I want to be clear of my heart, who will solve my business? Once I committed crimes against the powerful, I lost my name to Sun Shan... Alas, it's okay not to say."

Lin Zhijun's family was poor, and studying alone almost exhausted his family's wealth. Although many people paid him a lot of money after he passed the provincial examination, how could he have enough to spend when he arrived in the capital?

Now whenever he thought of the appearance of the chief examiner he saw in the examination room, and heard that it was the person in the sedan chair, Lin Zhijun would feel desperate moment after moment.

He didn't even know how he passed the next two exams. When he walked out of the exam room, he saw everyone laughing, but he was frowning.

Fan Xiu walked over and said: "Brother Lin, why is this? You should be happy after just finishing this exam. With Brother Lin's talent, he must be in high school!"

Everyone also laughed.

Fan Xiu was cheerful by nature and dared to scold the chief examiner. It can be said that many people who resented Zhang Tingyu for not publishing a book liked him, and many people liked to surround him.

Shi Yunjin, Lu Baozhong, Jia Guowei and others were the favorites to take the first place in the Bingxu Division Examination. Fan Xiu was not bad at all, so he was very happy at the moment.

How could Lin Zhijun be happy?
He smiled wryly: "I offended the examiner, alas, I don't care if I don't say anything, now I don't have the time to think about other things. Everyone, let Lin go back and have a good sleep..."

Peng Weixin, Peng's elder brother, was standing there, looking at Lin Zhijun with a smile.

He is related to Zhang Tingyu by marriage, and he is not in the five uniforms, so there is no need to avoid suspicion. He will definitely be on the list in this exam, so he is confident.Although Mrs. Peng sent someone to pass on Mrs. Zhang's words before, what's so great about a woman's words?

Peng Weixin didn't take Gu Huaishu seriously at all, and encouraged his younger sister to show more performance in Zhang's house, so that Gu Huaishu wouldn't be overwhelmed.

Peng Weixin was very upset that Peng was crushed to death by Gu Huaixiu in the Zhang Mansion.

Especially after Gu Huaishu asked Peng Bingying to pass on that sentence, Peng Weixin became disgusted with Zhang Tingyu, a lady.

Now others say that Peng Weixin is definitely on the list. Peng Weixin is proud of himself, but he is also very humble on the surface.

Gu Huaishu is at home these days, and eats alone every day. Anyway, Zhang Tingyu will be busy until the exam is over.

After one exam, it was time to start to change names and books. The front was taking the exam, and the latter was already grading papers in the room. Eighteen room officials all went to battle, and Zhang Tingyu just sat in the room and drank tea.

Now the examiners can finally chat for a while.

Li Luyu and Peng Huiqi are not the emperor's party. One of them works for the eighth elder brother, and the other works for the elder brother. Fortunately, the examiner is a neutral emperor's party.

Zhang Tingyu thought about it and said: "The house officials will recommend the papers in a while, and I invite the two palms..."

The [-] house officials who will be reviewed below are all from the Hanlin Academy. In the past, there were also candidates who served as [-] house officials, but now they are not Jinshi not to be house officials. These Juren test papers?
In order to avoid controversy, most of the housing officials were from the Imperial Academy.

Not only Jinshi, but also Hanlin, who dares to discuss a few more words?

Learning is valuable than anything else.

Readers are full of pride.

As Zhang Tingyu said, he was drinking tea when the house officials recommended the test papers after the first test.

The examination papers are graded from the bottom to the top, and the room officials read the papers outside the curtain. If they encounter a beautiful test paper, they will circle the outline and paste a piece of paper to write a comment on it, and then let people go to it. Recommended by the examiner.

The three examiners had to discuss the decision together before they could decide whether or not to admit this person.

Zhang Tingyu had read the works of some people earlier, and now when the recommendation paper comes up, put it on the top one.

——Fan Xiu.

He is the chief examiner, so he should be the first one to read the test paper. After reading the test paper, he glanced at the comments left by the room officer.

The house official who recommended Fan Xiu's answer sheet was surnamed Zhou, and his name was Zhou Han. He was a 21-year-old Jinshi in Kangxi, and he had been a Hanlin for most of his life.

Zhang Tingyu glanced at the man, saw that he was gone, and threw the scroll on the ground.

This is called "rolling down".

The meaning is very simple, Zhang Tingyu feels that this person is not qualified to be selected.

When Peng Huiqi saw it, he narrowed his eyes slightly.

The house official Zhou who recommended the test paper was a member of the Eighth Master, and he managed to get through the key points. He wanted Fan Xiu to come up. In the tricks, Ba Ye's methods can be said to be all-powerful.

But is this the hell?

This Zhang Tingyu was the first to throw away Fan Xiu's answer sheet!
He just glanced at it quickly, and let Fan Xiu "fall off the paper"!
Peng Huiqi didn't dare to reveal anything, but only winked at the person next to him.

Then, Peng Huiqi said: "Master Zhang, you haven't shown us the test paper yet, why did you fail it?"

"Am I the examiner or are you the examiner?"

It is said that there are three main examiners in the examination, but in fact the main examiners have the most right to speak, and the one with the highest rank is the most capable. Zhang Tingyu took a post in the Ministry of Officials, and was specially awarded the second rank by the emperor. Peng Huiqi could only feel aggrieved.

I saw Zhang Tingyu flipping through the recommended answer sheets casually, then throwing away two-thirds of the test papers and throwing them on the ground.

I'm afraid that those candidates who participated in the examination will vomit blood when they see Zhang Tingyu's expression and attitude of casually grading papers?

He only circled and sketched the test paper he liked, and then wrote the chief examiner's comments.

For the dropped papers, someone would naturally pick them up, and then let Zhang Tingyu and others write a comment on the dropped papers.

If Peng Huiqi and Li Luyu have objections to the rejected test papers, they can also speak to Zhang Tingyu.

But for Fan Xiu's answer sheet, Zhang Tingyu only had one word: "Luo."

Just don't give it, what can I do?
Anyway, no one knew whether Zhang Tingyu knew whose test paper it was, and Peng Huiqi didn't dare to say it. If he said it, it would immediately expose Ba Ye's tampering in it.

If Zhang Tingyu doesn't pass the test on Fan Xiu here, he must let the people below work hard.

After writing the comments on the scroll, the people below will tell the scroll to take it back outside the curtain and hand it to the [-]th room official.

This is the test paper of the first exam, that Zhou Han was just frightened for a while, only to feel that Mr. Zhang's eyes were particularly piercing just now, and now he gnawed at the pastry in shock, and saw that the answer paper just recommended was rejected. Bringing back a large pile, Zhou Han casually flipped through it, his heart skipping a beat.

Why did Fan Xiu's picture get lost?
This can't be done. How can he get by when Ba Ye teaches him a lesson?
Fan Xiu is an important chess piece against Zhang Tingyu. If he can be promoted, there will be many people who will oppose Zhang Tingyu in the future.

Zhou Han's heart was ruthless, and he only picked out Fan Xiu's Zhu Juan, and was about to write a rebuttal to Zhang Tingyu's comment, but he read Zhang Tingyu's comment for a long time, and broke out in cold sweat.

It is his responsibility for a room official to recommend papers, but now facing the comments written by the talented examiner, Zhou Han has no idea.

He gritted his teeth and braced himself. His writing style was naturally inferior to that of Zhang Tingyu, but he still had to write in order to complete his errands.

Zhou Han rediscovered the bright spots in Fan Xiu's volume, and then handed it over to others, and re-recommended it to Zhang Tingyu.

Zhang Tingyu had just finished a round of approval, was drinking tea, and suddenly saw this paper being recommended by someone, and squinted his eyes.

He looked at Zhou Han's recommendation letter and immediately laughed.Picking up the brush and brushing, I wrote down, the technique was very skillful, and I threw the scroll on the ground as usual: "Fall back."

Peng Huiqi's eyelids twitched wildly, thinking that Zhang Tingyu must have known about it, so he wiped off his cold sweat.

Li Luyu who was on the side only said that Zhang Tingyu was addicted to the test papers, "Master Zhang, you have lost so many test papers, and there will not be enough people, what should I do?"

Zhang Tingyu was unhurried: "Don't worry, isn't there still more than half of the recommendation papers yet?"

This time, Fan Xiu's paper was returned to Zhou Han again.

Zhou Han's hands were trembling badly, and a room officer next to him came up to look, and he gasped in shock: "The examiner's comments are much more exciting than this article, why can't you think about it, you have to talk to Mr. Zhang What about sedan chair?"

The term "lifting the sedan chair" is also used in the marking field.

The room officials looked at the test paper and thought it was good. If they recommended it to the top, it became a "recommended paper".

If the room officer thinks that the test paper is indeed worth something, and insists on recommending it, he will write a new comment and recommend it, and he will be knocked down again...

Such a test paper has ups and downs, and has been recommended and rejected many times, which is called "lifting the sedan chair".

Where did Zhou Han want to lift the sedan chair with Zhang Tingyu?
His pen hand is shaking now.

To be honest, Fan Xiu's test paper is really good, but under Zhang Tingyu's attack like a knife-edged pen, it is almost worthless!
The examiner's comments are [-] times more exciting than the article itself, and how can people recommend the test paper? !
This Zhang Tingyu, he did it on purpose!
Zhou Han was so angry that he vomited blood. With old tears in his eyes, he shook his hands and pasted a large paper on the test paper that was already full of papers. It was originally just a thin red paper. As thick as a book.He wrote a long recommendation and recommended again.

Zhang Tingyu only said that Zhou Han didn't know what was good and what was wrong, and he carried the sedan chair with him many times, but he still left this scroll for him!

Thinking about it, Zhang Tingyu finally changed his careless expression when he was grading the test paper. He drank a big mouthful of tea before passing the tea cup to others to prevent contamination of the test paper.

Peng Huiqi didn't dare to say anything, even Li Luyu and Zhang Tingyu argued several times, but they all refuted them.

Regardless of whether you are a member of the Great Thousand Years Old or the Eighth Master Party, Zhang Tingyu is not called a human being, no different from an animal.

Picking up the ink pen, this time Zhang Tingyu also sprayed Zhou Han eloquently, and when he finally closed the pen, it was almost overflowing with ink!

He just raised his hand and put the brush into the pen holder, he didn't bother to care if it was still stained with ink, so he pasted a comment on the scroll, rolling it up and down as usual, with one word: "fall!"

Still a "drop"!
The examiners inside the curtain were completely stunned, and the [-] officials outside who were marking the test papers also heard about the "carrying the sedan chair" like a saw, and they all paid close attention to it for a while.

Seeing that someone brought back that unrecognizable red scroll, Qiqi gasped again!
How many years have you not seen such a scene?

Zhou Han is really courageous!
That Fan Xiu sent the scroll to Zhou Han. Zhou Han read the eloquent article refuting him, his clothes soaked in cold sweat in an instant, he didn't catch his breath, holding the batch of words in his hand, he rolled his eyelids, "Gudong "He fell to the ground with a bang, and smashed the tables, chairs and benches!"
"It's not good! Fangguan Zhou fainted!"

(End of this chapter)