"It's strange," a female official read the name column twice after reading it, and after confirming that it was written by Zhang Zhaohua, she exclaimed strangely: "Yongcheng Zhang's scroll shouldn't be at this level!"

This sentence was very agreed with by other female histories, and they all said: "It seems to be a tiger's head, looking at the topic, but it is also profound, and it also points to the center, why when writing, there is a feeling of swaying from side to side?

This scroll was passed around in the hands of seven or eight female historians, and even alarmed the palace grandmother of the main hall to come and see. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Gong Zheng Mama took this volume and read it, and said: "If this volume is not written by Yongcheng Zhang, how many do you think you can judge?"

The other female histories thought for a while and said: "In terms of papers alone, I can also judge a middle and upper class, just because I have read Zhang's papers before, and the writing is quintessential, and the results given by us are all circles, and there are occasional sharps, and it is also because the writing of the test papers is not neat, in terms of literature and science, I can't find a trace of fault." But this one doesn't seem to be at all like Zhang's level, and I don't know how to judge. ”

At this time, the grading is not to use scores to represent grades, but to use symbols. There are five grades, which are "circle tips and straight forks", similar to the five-level scoring method of later generations, which is the origin of the idiom "remarkable". Of course, each grader has different preferences, and it is normal for different evaluations to appear, but the difference should not be too big, because the difference will be 'each prejudice, and there will be disadvantages of going up and down', so when the examiners mark the same paper, there will be a phenomenon of 'the circle does not see the point, the tip does not see the straight'.

But this set of rules does not apply to the inner court, after all, it is not a real imperial examination. Therefore, when the female officials were scoring, they did not see the circle like the outer court, but a paper often had circles and triangles, and some drew bars and forks, and when reviewing the test papers of the show girls, seven or eight female histories often argued about it, but the only paper that made all female officials draw circles without controversy was Zhang Zhaohua's paper, which shows how far Zhang Zhaohua's submission has become.

Mama Gong Zheng nodded, and asked the female officials to put this one down and judge the other test papers first. She took this paper herself and sat in the main hall to look at it.

Mama Gongzheng's vision is naturally different from ordinary people, not only because she is the oldest and has served in the palace for the longest time, but because she has read the history of the palace, especially in terms of art, which is recognized as the first in the palace. The emperor naturally knew her ability, so he once took an eight-strand essay written by her to circulate it to the new branch jinshi of the outer court, and when he knew that this was an article made by a female historian, no one in the outer court dared to speak out.

She has read countless Cheng Wen Fan Wen over the years, all of which are art articles of Xinke Jinshi, and she has her own set of methods in terms of evaluation. After reading Zhang Zhaohua's article once, she knew that it was not a tiger, but an unfinished business. It's not that the level has decreased, but that the idea at the beginning is different, and this candidate has forced himself to change his mind.

"It's kind of interesting. Mama Gong Zheng said in her heart.

She thought for a moment, drew a point on the scroll, walked to the side hall and sat down, and said, "Turn the table." ”

After the marker has reviewed the papers assigned to him, he will review the papers that have been scored by other markers, and let each test paper be reviewed in turn on the desks of all markers, which is called "turning the table".

With an order, all the female officials sat down at the round table, and after taking the first paper she had reviewed from Mama Gong Zheng's hand, the female historian thought about it and pointed out Zhang Zhaohua's paper.

The opinion of the first reader is very important, that is, Mama Gongzheng thinks that this volume is second-class, and the other female histories comprehensively consider Zhang Zhaohua's previous situation, only one of them hit the bar, and the others are hovering between the point and the point - overall, Zhang Zhaohua's volume still won the middle.

Even if he is qualified, among the sixty show girls who can make arts, Zhang Zhaohua has already obtained further qualifications.

I don't know how much time has passed, and finally a female historian whispered: "Good article, good article-" She stood up and recommended the article in her hand to Mama Gongzheng, and the other female historians couldn't help but stop to read it together, and read it twice, all of them nodded again and again.

I saw that the system of this article is simple, the tone is harmonious, the tone is round, every detail is just right, and the idea is broad, and the argument is broken with the mean of the four books, after seeing this, the female officials called up Zhang Zhaohua's volume to see, because Zhang Zhaohua also broke the problem with the mean, only these two volumes used the things in the four books, and the other show girls' volumes were only broken from the female commandments and women's training.

After the comparison between the two, the female officials felt sorry for it again, obviously Zhang Zhaohua had a better level, but I don't know what's going on, the level is a big difference, so now the volume in their hands is standing out from the crowd, after all the female officials circulated it, they carefully checked the words and sentences, and after the rhyme and foot rhyme were smooth, they all thought that this was the first without exception. Besides, this handwriting is upright and beautiful, and it is also the best among all the show girls, but with this, it is impossible not to give her a circle.

Look at the name again, sure enough, it is the daughter of Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, Ma, everyone knows in their hearts that this should be a woman who wants to enter the East Palace without accident, and the future is limitless.

After that, a few more were judged to be well-written, and the next day the scores were announced, and a total of 17 were taken. In other words, in this parade, only these seventeen successfully passed the test, including five daughters of commanding envoys, eleven daughters of civil officials, and only one Zhang Zhaohua, who was born as a civilian woman.

Of course, this is the assessment of their literate show girls, and there are illiterate show girls, their assessment is to write big characters and endorsements, and they are memorizing "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text", which has successfully passed twenty-eight, all of which have good qualifications and can be cultivated slowly. The sum of these two batches of successful selections is only forty-five, and these forty-five people enter the next round of review, and it is said that the other one hundred and thirty are very sure of their identities, and they will all be filled into the court as palace maids.

Zhang Zhaohua sighed in his heart when he saw his ranking, ranking thirteenth among the seventeen people.

Then one day, Mama Gongzheng sent someone to call her over, and Ma went with her.

Ma Shi was called in first, and Mama Gong Zheng asked her with a pleasant face why she thought of the idea of the submission from the sentence "the benevolent love everything" to the mean.

"The benevolent are all loved" is the topic of this big test, the latter sentence is "from the relatives and sparse, from the inside and outside, all to their love", the other show girls are the rules and regulations to write the love of relatives, parents, and aunts in the four books of women, because this sentence is originally about the relatives of a family, the so-called "near is a brother, far is a clan." It's the same source."

Ma said: "What is not biased is in the middle, and what is not easy is the way." The middle is the right way in the world, and the mediocre is the theorem of the world. The principle of the teacher is that etiquette is cultivation, mediocrity is the method, and benevolence is the goal. If we can uphold the principle of moderation and love others impartially, or love others as ourselves and others, then isn't that benevolence?

These words are reasonable, and Mama Gongzheng nodded again and again. However, the same question was asked to Zhang Zhaohua, but Zhang Zhaohua was silent.

"Zhang," Mama Gong Zheng waited for a while and asked, "Why don't you answer?"

Zhang Zhaohua looked at his scroll and had a lot of thoughts in his heart.

"Since ancient times, the rule of emperors and the way of sages have been nothing more than one. The middle one is the one that should be regarded as the standard for all generations in the world. Therefore, the saint insists on quietness, makes his name pretentious, and makes things self-determined. Mama Gong Zheng read the question she wrote, and said: "The first sentence of your opening chapter, there is nothing better than this, even Ma's, but it is just a statement of the meaning of moderation and benevolence." In that case, why is it that the more you write later, the more you write, the more restrained it becomes, and there are even many places where you can see that it is not what you are saying in your heart at all-you are writing against your heart, is it?"

Zhang Zhaohua raised his head, surprised.