The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 217 Chuanlu Interception ([-])

The first procedure after candidates hand in the paper is to paste their names.That is to use a piece of paper to cover up the candidate's name, place of origin and other personal information, the purpose is to prevent the people behind the procedure from knowing whose test paper it is.

Then the test paper will be handed over to the scribe to transcribe, so that the examiner who marks the test paper will not know whose handwriting is on the test paper.The purpose is to prevent the examiner from knowing whose papers are based on this information when marking the papers, which will affect the fairness of scoring.

Therefore, when the examiner marks the paper, what he sees is not the original test paper that the candidate answered in the examination room.After the papers were graded and the rankings were ranked, the original test paper was opened and compared with the transcribed test paper.At this time, the examiner knew who the paper was.

It was already midnight when the test papers had been transcribed, but because the results of the test papers would be reported to the emperor tomorrow, the examiners had to mark the papers overnight.

Marking is divided into two levels, the first level is six examiners to conduct preliminary reading, divided into first, second and third grades.Then submit to the final examiner.

The final examiner is composed of a university scholar and a minister of the Ministry of War, a total of six people.These six people are all the top figures of the Dade Dynasty, not only high and powerful, but also knowledgeable.Among them, Prince Zhongshun, Li Yuan, Minister of the Ministry of War, Ji Mingluan, a bachelor, and Liu Changfeng, the admiral of the Nine Schools, are all among the six people.

The answers to silent writing questions and strategy questions are fixed.As long as you have answered all the content, the rest is about sentence reading, writing standards, typos, etc.These indicators are relatively clear, so it is easy to judge.

The key issue lies in the last topic.

Most of the test papers and topic answers are quite satisfactory.The arguments are basically no more than the currently known answers.Some even didn't answer all the main points.

After all, this is a martial arts candidate, and they have never experienced the specific practices of the imperial court. It is understandable that topics with strong practicality, such as chieftain rebellion, cannot reach a certain level of discussion.

These well-informed examiners did not expect any outstanding answers.Therefore, the marking process is a bit dull, and some people even feel a little drowsy.

All of a sudden, the examiners were startled by a shout, and all of them cheered up.

"High theory, incisive!"

It turned out that it was Liu Changfeng, the admiral of the Nine Gates, who shouted.

Liu Changfeng is the emperor's confidant. Some time ago, he was praised by the emperor for handling the transportation and carriage errands.In the past few days, the envoys of the vassal state came to visit the bus carriage and praised it greatly. When they saw the emperor today, they were full of praise.

So Liu Changfeng was very proud.It makes others a little jealous.

However, Liu Changfeng had the lowest level of cultivation among the people present in terms of essays, so what he said, others did not take it seriously.

Seeing that there was no one to respond, Liu Changfeng was not in a hurry, walked up to Scholar Ji, and handed a paper to Ji Mingluan.

"Master Ji, take a look at this, I guarantee it is a brilliant idea that you have never seen before."

Ji Mingluan was embarrassed to refute his face, so he took the paper and read it.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but be surprised.

The highlight is the last topic.

The previous answers are all quite satisfactory, and the arguments are all those practices that have existed before and now.As a high-ranking bachelor, he is no stranger to these things.

The most striking thing is the exposition of the last two paragraphs.In these two paragraphs, two new measures are proposed.

One is to relocate the chieftains out of the local area and resettle them in places far away from their origins.

The second is to liberate the original people of chieftains from the original personal dependence relationship through the construction of cities and the development of production.

These two points of view, previously unheard of, are indeed eye-catching.In particular, the measures for urban construction and economic development in Article [-] made Ji Mingluan even more excited.I even faintly felt that this line of thinking seemed familiar in my heart.

Although I have never seen it before, but I have this feeling.

"It's really good, it's really outstanding, come on, everyone, take a look too."

Liu Changfeng said yes, others can ignore it, but Ji Mingluan said yes, no one can ignore it.

In the case that all the test papers are relatively mediocre, what Ji Mingluan can appreciate is likely to be somewhat outstanding.

So the few remaining people began to pass it on to watch, and they all applauded.Among them, Li Yuan, Minister of the Ministry of War, was the most excited.

"It is said that martial arts candidates are ignorant. In my opinion, this argument can be changed now. These two items alone are much better than those scholars moaning about nothing."

The martial arts examination was presided over by the Ministry of War. Because the candidates' cultural skills were not as good as those of the Wenju candidates, they were always looked down upon by the Wenju.

With this test paper today, Li Yuan felt quite elated.

Everyone is walking on the court, so naturally they are all knowledgeable.Although I feel a little funny about Li Yuan's attitude, I still quite agree with the views in this paper.

This test paper, of course, belonged to Jia Min, and the number was No. 36.

"I think there should be no problem with No. 36 being ranked in the top ten."

Seeing what Li Yuan said, everyone naturally had no objection.It's just because they don't have the right to make the final ranking. If they have the right to rank this test paper first, there is no objection.

Compared with this test paper, the level of other test papers can be said to be quite inferior.What's more, the levels are basically similar, only the No. 36 test paper stands out from the crowd.

"I bet this man must have been in business, and he's a very business man."

When Wu Shangshu said this, Ji Mingluan suddenly became enlightened.

No wonder there is always a sense of familiarity, it turned out to be Huaiyuan's paper.This is not surprising.

Others can come up with ideas like building cities and developing the economy.However, if it is combined with reforming the land and returning local residents, and put forward specific development measures, it is not something that ordinary people can propose.

One look at this measure, you know it is an insider.Except for Jia Min and Jia Huaiyuan, no one could propose such a measure.

After reading all the papers, the papers will be graded.It is divided into three levels, and the top ten are the first level.The next level is also ten.The rest is level three.

The specific ranking starts from the next level.That is to say, starting from No. 11, the ranking is carried out until the final one hundred and seventh place.

These are all ranked by the marking ministers.

For the top ten, they have no right to make specific rankings.This is to be re-reviewed and ranked by the emperor himself.

After all the grading and rankings were done, the sky was already bright, and it was almost time for Chen Shizheng.

At this time, you can open the blurred name to see the specific name of the person.

People are most concerned about, of course, paper No. 36.

The first one opened the paper, and Ji Mingluan was overjoyed.However, others were a little stunned.

It turned out to be Jia Min, the Jia Min from the Rongguo Mansion, the Jia Min who humiliated the governing mansion Ma Shangde in the arena!

Except for Ji Mingluan, everyone else was at a loss.

Put this Jia Min in the top ten, I don't know what the outside world will think?More importantly, what would the emperor think?
However, the matter has come to this point, and it is impossible to change it now.The name has already been made public, and if it is changed again, it will inevitably lead to suspicion.

Of course, if you want to shirk responsibility, there are still reasons.

This is a vague name, and we don't know whose paper this paper belongs to?It is completely written in text.

Although this is indeed true, who knows what the emperor thinks?

The fact that Jia Min humiliated Ma Shangde in the arena is well known to everyone, so the emperor still doesn't know?Would the emperor like such words that are detrimental to dignity?

After sealing up the test papers, I went to the Wuying Hall to meet the emperor.The morning court has just ended, and the emperor is waiting for them there.

To their surprise, after the emperor read the top ten papers, there was nothing unusual about them.Regarding Jia Min's test paper, he didn't offer any opinion except that he took a longer time to read it than others.

"All Aiqings have worked hard, let me take another look, Ji Aiqing stays, and the rest leave."

Everyone saluted and retreated, leaving Emperor Yuanheng and Ji Mingluan in the room.

"Ji Aiqing, what do you think of Jia Min?"

The emperor directly mentioned Jia Min, which surprised Ji Mingluan.

"I don't know which aspect the Holy One is referring to?"

"In all respects."

all aspects?This is not easy to say.

However, since the Holy Majesty asked, it is hard to say, but I have to say it.Just tell the truth, so as not to hide the discomfort.Besides, if you tell a lie, it will be even worse if the Holy Majesty finds out about it in the future.

"Forgive me for speaking bluntly, I know this Jia Min quite well. It turns out that I sold my house to him. It's just that after I left last time, I basically had no contact with him. After I came back this time, I had nothing to do with him. He met again."

So Ji Mingluan told about his impression of Jia Min, and there were many compliments in it.

The emperor should have known about Jia Min's talent in business because he had handled the bus and carriage business.The talent of poetry should also be known, so he didn't mention it.Instead, he focused on the Hanyu Pinyin.

In his opinion, the matter of putting forward the Chinese pinyin now can add more points to Jia Min than Jia Min's opinion on reforming the native land and returning to the stream.

"I heard that the Chinese pinyin can be read in one year for three years, but is it true?"

When the emperor asked this question, Ji Mingluan almost broke out in a cold sweat, and said in his heart that he was lucky.

Fortunately, I said it myself. It turns out that the emperor knew about it a long time ago.If I don't say anything, I'll just make a fuss outside, what will the emperor think?
The matter of writing history has always been a major national event, related to orthodoxy and enlightenment, and any emperor regards it as a top priority.

How could the emperor not pay attention to such an epoch-making event as Hanyu Pinyin, which is enough to leave a name in history?
Not only will you pay attention, but you may even want to participate in it yourself.

If the emperor participates in it, it will naturally have a huge boost to the promotion of Chinese Pinyin.But I originally hoped to rely on this to become famous in history. If you participated in it, wouldn't all my aura be snatched away by you?
Those historians will flatter you at that time, why don't you take all the credit for it?
Your majesty, you are not kind.You have everything, why are you still fighting for this glory with me?

Forget it, who told you to be the emperor, you are cruel!

(End of this chapter)