Although Mingshu Castle was a provincial capital similar to Kyoto, it was not directly under the control of the emperor, but was directly under the jurisdiction of the local Shangjiedu envoys, and the military power and political power were also separated.

Qiao Shan, as the lord of Mingzhou City, could not mobilize the local army, and if he wanted to send troops, he had to write an excerpt to apply to his superiors, and only after it was approved could he use the army.

The Jiedu Mansion of Mingzhou City is ten kilometers away from the suburbs of the city, and the troops stationed in the city are also camped around the mansion, and they will generally enter the city every ten days to purchase things in large quantities, and the life is not as convenient as the people of Mingzhou City, and the conditions are much more difficult than the people of Mingzhou City.

Jiang Mengzhen's carriage was stopped in front of the army, and the soldiers in armor pressed their swords against the horses that were stopped: "The military camp is important, idlers are not allowed to enter!" ”

The woman who was driving the car took out a sign from her bosom and showed it to the officers and soldiers who stopped her: "My master wants to see the envoy of Bujiedu, but he has not yet gone to report." ”

She did not give the officers and soldiers silver, but her posture was very high, and she had no desire to please the officers and soldiers. Most of the nobles in the capital have this temper, because they have always been the only ones who have been scolded.

But occasionally there are eyes higher than the top, and I don't know how thick the sky is. The soldier took the sign and said politely: "Wait a minute, I'll go in and report." ”

When she went in, she just walked quickly, and when she came out, she trotted all the way, with a little smile on her face, and held the sign in both hands and gave it to the car woman: "I just treat you slowly, and please don't worry about the small guests, the adults said, please inside!" ”

She gestured, and the sword that had stopped the carriage was collected by the soldiers on either side. From beginning to end, Jiang Mengzhen sat peacefully in the car, and the curtain was never lifted.

When Jiang Mengzhen's carriage slowly drove into the Jiedu Embassy's mansion, Hao Cheng's carriage also arrived at the place where she was going to take the exam.

The imperial examination system of the Jin State has been relatively perfect, and the subjects are clearly divided into economic subjects and jinshi subjects. It is also divided into state examinations, provincial and municipal examinations, and palace examinations.

In fact, Hao Cheng prefers to deviate from the Ming Jing Department of memorization and calculation, because it is easy. However, the original owner chose Chang Ke, she was not very good at changing, thinking that Chang Ke had a broader future and was promoted quickly, she also gritted her teeth and stubbornly went up.

Jiang Mengzhen told Hao Cheng before that as a showman, she is already famous, and she can get a meritorious name after passing the provincial examination. Then he entered the capital and conducted the palace examination. The emperor will choose the top three in the palace examination. The Jin Kingdom Jinshi chose one in a hundred miles, and about 2,000 people from various provinces could be selected to enter Beijing.

The three exams are almost from one year to the end, once every three years, because it involves the selection of talents, the imperial court attaches great importance to it, and if there is a fraudster, the punishment is also extremely severe.

And the environment in her memory about the ancient novel exam was very cruel, the winter was better, and the summer was a small house where she ate, drank, and flies flew everywhere.

Therefore, before the official exam, she still raised her heart, for fear of being assigned to the edge of some thatched house, and when the time came, she would faint until the exam.

As a result, she took a horse-drawn carriage to the examination site, and was presented with several rows of very beautiful houses, which were divided into three floors, each with seven rooms, a bit like the teaching buildings of a modern school. However, the houses were surrounded by a high wall, and she could only observe the general situation of the examination room through the large iron gate that resembled a fence.

But just what she saw in the iron gate was enough to break her previous inherent impression, Hao Cheng's apprehension immediately disappeared without a trace, and he said with a shocked face: "Is this really the place for the exam?" ”

The coachwoman was a little uneasy and said: "I know this Mingzhou City very well, how can I recognize the wrong place." If you don't believe it, look at that door, aren't there all the candidates who enter the venue, you see, the official who inspected is still wearing a cyan official uniform! ”

She has been in this Mingzhou City for so many years, and she can be said to know this place well, and it is impossible for anything to go wrong in this kind of thing! If Hao Cheng was brought to the wrong place, and this spread out, she wouldn't need to live here.

Hao Cheng looked in the direction she pointed, and sure enough, there were a few small doors on the high wall, and the candidates and the documents for the examination lined up to enter the door in turn, and the officials in charge of the inspection put their hands on them, and they were willing to let people in when they felt that there were no foreign objects.

Hao Cheng sighed: "It's just that I thought that the exam environment was hard before, and I was a little surprised to see Mingzhou City like this."

The carriage woman said disapprerovingly: "It's not a big deal, Mingzhou City is just average." When you go to Kyoto in high school, the place where the Kyoto Palace test is called magnificent. ”

Hao Cheng said secretly, the palace test is the Jinluan Palace, and there is no place in the world that can be more generous than the Jinluan Palace.

The coachwoman said, "The door is only the first one, and when there is a stone house inside, it seems to say that the requirements are all stripped naked, and the person will be let in only after making sure that there is nothing mixed with it." The pen and ink are also prepared by the government, and there are also meals prepared here. The first exam is two hours, and the rest and meal time is half an hour. Your master has already paid it for you, although the peace of mind test is. ”

The imperial court provided pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and examination venues, as well as food, which all cost money. Of course, this money cannot be paid by the government.

The wool comes out of the sheep, and how well the candidates are treated, how expensive the money is. The original main state tried in the town, and paid five taels of silver, and he tried to be generous, and he had to pay thirty taels of silver.

There is no need for silver for the temple test, but when you enter the court, you have to take care of the line, except for the local people in Kyoto, it costs money to enter Beijing to take the entrance examination.

If you don't have any money, then you can't take the test. It's not that no one protested, but the government took a tough stance - if you were really talented, you could guarantee high school, and you would definitely be able to borrow money from people! If you don't have money and can't guarantee high school, don't waste your money!

There is a reason why ordinary people can't afford to read, and when they were in the 14th Five-Year Plan, they passed the children's exam and became a showman, but the money was not enough, so they didn't participate in the township exam at all. After waiting for three years, it was to save money for the township test.

just flew into trouble, the money for the placement of parents and scholars was spent, coupled with being abandoned by his lover, his relatives were cold, and all thoughts were discouraged, so the original body would commit suicide at that time.

However, if you pass the township examination, that is, you have a reputation for making a name for yourself, and you are poorer, and you will receive another three years of government money, and the money saved will be enough to support the next year's examination.

Hao Cheng got out of the carriage and took his own paperwork into the team. Sure enough, according to what your carriage woman said, she and the other candidates were led to a stone house, and when the official gave an order, everyone immediately stripped off their clothes and stripped them naked. Clothing is placed outside and inspected by the examiner.

Of course, to avoid the candidate being framed, if something is found in it, the candidate can still continue to take the exam. However, if you are caught cheating on the spot, then whether there is a grievance or not, the candidate will be dealt with.

In the end, there is still a bit of shyness in her previous life, Hao Cheng moved slowly, and when she took off her clothes, she was full of candidates' chests and buttocks. Although they are all scholars, because of their different backgrounds, these people have different skin colors, some are black, white and yellow, and some are fat and some are thin.

Some of the taller women still have very rough hair on their bodies, and they have a tiger's back and a bear's waist. There are also some flat horses, if it weren't for the lack of the Adam's apple, Hao Cheng would almost think that a man had mixed in.

In such an environment, Hao Cheng subconsciously covered his chest a little shyly, and the tall official came over and gently slapped her arm with his hand: "Put your hand down!" ”

In such an environment, it is clear whether a man is a woman or a woman. Hao Cheng thought secretly: No wonder when she and Jiang Mengzhen chatted, when she talked about men disguised as women to take the imperial examination, the other party laughed. The man participated in the scientific examination, and the children's test was fine, but the township test was peeled all of a sudden.

Each batch was inspected quickly, and in a matter of moments, the people in the room picked up their clothes and put them on. Hao Cheng, she only saw a particularly beautiful one in this batch.

The woman had a gorgeous face, white skin and beautiful appearance, and a large chest and a thin waist. Seeing Hao Cheng look over, the other party also returned with a seductive smile, that smile seemed to have a hook, and Hao Cheng unconsciously blushed.

The person in the same examination room as Hao Cheng looked at her and said with some disgust: "Don't pay attention to the male voice of the Fang family, look at her girl and male appearance!" When he laughed, he looked like a fox, which was really shameless. ”

Hao Cheng only remembered at this time that a woman who looked like a woman could only be regarded as a man, and she couldn't agree with the aesthetics of the people on the side, but she didn't say that women are beautiful like this, which shocked the world.

As a result, when I arrived at the examination room, I knew that there was fate, and the beautiful woman was sitting in front of Hao Cheng. She glanced at the other party's paperwork, and the other party's surname was Yu. Looking at the clothes, it should be a rich and noble family, and I don't know if there is any connection with the wealthy merchant Fang family in Mingzhou City.

When the examination room was full, the examiner knocked on the table with a ring ruler to show quietness: "Next, when the exam starts, I will send the questions and paper down, and wait until the sound of the bell rings outside, and then you can answer." ”

The test papers of the provincial examination, the entire Jin Kingdom is uniform, all of them are issued by the Ministry of Rites, except for some standard answers such as arithmetic, and other subjective questions, which are all judged by the local examiner.

The chief examiner of Mingzhou City was also sent by the capital, but the other two examiners were local to Mingzhou City, and their opinions often played a decisive role in the candidates' results.

The exam in the morning was all about basic skills, Hao Cheng took the paper, read the paper according to the habits of his previous life, and read a few questions with large scores, and the ancient poems were all seen in the materials given by Jiang Mengzhen. The arithmetic problems are not the same, but Egami changed the name and number, and changed the soup but not the medicine.

She memorized the information very well, but she was happy to be happy, and she also settled down to answer with peace of mind. Because she was confident, Hao Cheng wrote directly, half of her paper was written, and there was a sudden uproar outside the examination room.

Hao Cheng was still immersed in answering, but the people in the examination room were pushed away, and several officials in green official robes walked in from outside: "Someone reported that the examinee bribed the examiner for personal gain. This exam is extended for a quarter of an hour, and we will strictly investigate it, and those who are innocent will not be slandered, and those who cheat will not be let go! We will definitely give you a clear and fair environment! ”