Two days in advance, Wang Yuan entered the Tribute Courtyard.

After all the examiners arrived, the gate of the Gongyuan was locked, and no one was allowed to enter or leave at will.

Although Wang Yuan was appointed as the chief examiner, he was only responsible for internal curtain affairs, that is, the questioning, marking, judging and so on.

There is also a promotion officer, who is served by an official of the Shuntian Prefecture, who is in charge of affairs outside the curtain. Mainly responsible for the preliminary preparation, the later finishing work, etc., this examination is organized by the promotion officer.

There is also a supervisor and a temporary officer, who is served by the superintendent of the imperial history, and takes care of internal and external affairs, including: sending and receiving test papers, copying, body searching, invigilation, food supply, etc.

If someone cheats in the examination room, or changes the answer sheet halfway - Wang Yuan is not responsible for this kind of fraud, it is the responsibility of the supervisor!

What are Wang Yuan's responsibilities?

Leaking questions, missing questions, different contents of the Zhu paper and ink paper, and the examiner has illegal operations...... In these cases, Wang Yuan will be held accountable.

"Master Wang, I'm going to lock the door." Zhang Shilong said.

Wang Yuan hugged his fists and said: "There is labor!" ”

Before, it was locked the gate of the Tribute Temple, but now it is the door of the inner curtain. The examiner and his fellow examiners were all locked in the courtyard, and they were not allowed to interact with anyone except the invigilators who came to deliver meals every day.

After Zhang Shilong finished speaking, he withdrew, took out the key and locked the courtyard door.

Didn't you say before that Li Liang, the secretary of Guanglu Temple, married his daughter to Liu Jian's grandson, and then divorced after Liu Jian lost power? The person who exposed the impeachment was Zhang Shilong!

Zhang Shilong is not Yang Tinghe's person, nor is he the emperor's person, he is just a conscientious imperial historian who was secretly used by Yang Tinghe. Historically, judging by his words and deeds in his life, he was purely the kind of cadre who couldn't rub sand in his eyes, and offended the nobles, fortunate ministers, eunuchs, and Yang Dang, and finally died of illness while supervising the construction of water conservancy in Shaanxi.

Zhu Houzhao bypassed the Metropolitan Procuratorate this time and asked Yang Yiqing to recommend the prison officer, and Yang Yiqing recommended Zhang Shilong.

After Wang Yuan locked the door of the courtyard, he immediately went back to discuss the questions with the examiners.

In addition to Wu Yipeng, the deputy chief examiner, there are also twelve fellow examiners. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that only four examiners were selected for the township examination, but with the increasing number of candidates, it had increased to more than ten by the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

The sources of these same examiners are complex, including the governors and counties of the prefectures and counties of Shuntianfu, as well as the professors and teachings of schools in various places.

Wang Yuan went back to the room and sat down, and said with a smile: "Everyone, if you have any suggestions, please speak freely." ”

"It's all up to Master Wang." The examiners said in unison.

One of the powers and responsibilities of the examiner is to ask questions, and officials with normal brains will not come to steal the limelight from the examiner.

Wang Yuan asked Wu Yipeng again: "What about Master Wu?" ”

Wu Yipeng is very embarrassed at the moment, two years ago Wang Yuan took the exam, he was still one of the same examiners, and now he has become Wang Yuan's deputy. Wu Yipeng squeezed out a smile and said, "Why should Bachelor Wang be humble, you should come up with the test questions." ”

Wang Yuan was too lazy to bother with his brains, and said directly: "Four books and five classics, please come up with a big question and a small question." Leaving aside the question of who to choose in the end, I'll decide before the exam! I only have one rule, no one is allowed to drink before the list. If anyone drinks and is caught by me, they will be disqualified from the same examiner immediately! ”

Everyone was stunned, and then they were solemn, and they collectively stood up and clenched their fists: "Never drink!" ”

It is normal for the township examination examiners to feast and drink, after all, they have to be locked up in the tribute courtyard for half a month. Not to mention leaving the Tribute Academy, you are not even allowed to go to other people's examination rooms, you can only stay in your own examination room to correct the test papers, and the only pastime is to go to the courtyard to relax.

If you don't drink and eat, how do you pass the time?

As a result, the atmosphere is getting worse and worse, drinking every day for fun, and even the exam questions are improvised, and the correction of the test papers is also half drunk and half awake.

In the evening of the same day, the examiners had their first dinner, and all of them could only replace wine with tea.

After the banquet dispersed, some people were full of resentment, thinking that Wang Yuan was pretentious; There are also people who admire it and think that Wang Yuan is responsible.

In any case, no one dared to drink, and there was no condition to drink alcohol.

Because Wang Yuan directly handed a note to Zhang Shilong, asking him to provide food, not to bring a drop of wine in.

"Drinking and making mistakes, this is a good law!" Zhang Shilong had a bad impression of Wang Yuan, a fortunate minister, but after getting the note, he immediately improved. He even decided that after the township examination was completed, he would immediately go to the imperial court and suggest that the supply of alcohol should be cancelled in the township examination across the country.

Zhang Shilong's father drank to death, and he drank so much that his family was in the middle of the road, and he was embarrassed to the point of selling his ancestral house to survive. He was forced to drop out of school in Guozijian and go home to take care of his mother and younger siblings, delayed for several years in between, all because of his father's alcoholism!

Wang Yuan forbade the examiner to drink, and immediately made the inspector of the imperial history feel good.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and the candidates for the township examination had gathered outside the Gongyuan in the dark, and Wang Yuan convened the examiners to decide the content of the exam.

"Please bring your exam questions!" Wang Yuan said.

The examiners stepped forward one after another and handed their exam questions to Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan took a quick look, drew circles with a brush, and selected excerpts to copy on another piece of paper, and at the same time he himself came up with a question: Gewu Zhizhi!

If you don't carry private goods, what kind of examiner will you be?

Wang Yuan took out the content of the final exam questions and said with a smile: "Gentlemen, look at it." ”

All the examiners gathered around and admired one after another, and they were like a cloud.

Wang Yuan's set of exam questions includes all the current question types, which are divided into: single sentence questions, one section question, several section questions, whole chapter questions, even chapter questions, fan questions, truncated questions, truncated questions, truncated upper and lower questions, truncated questions, upper and lower deviation questions, and dry and embarrassing questions.

Presumably, the candidates' expressions will be very wonderful when they see the questions.

Wang Yuan took out the wax printing machine again, quickly engraved the questions, and then asked the examiners to help print them. Thousands of test papers, dozens of engravings have to be engraved, but fortunately, the content is not very much, otherwise Wang Yuan will be carved crazy.

Those state and county magistrates and priests praised the wax printing machine, and thought it was too convenient.

In the township test in other places, the questions are often written on the question board, and the invigilator walks around the audience with the board, and waits for all the candidates to copy it down.

Some candidates are short-sighted, and it is very troublesome to copy questions in the middle of the night.

On the fifth watch, thousands of candidates had already entered the venue, and after nailing their oilcloths, they couldn't wait for the questions, and they actually made a fuss in the examination room.

"Don't make noise!"

Zhang Shilong personally took the sergeant and drank in the examination room.

It wasn't until the light of day that the invigilator took the test questions and distributed them one by one along the examination booth, saying while handing out the questions: "Don't touch the ink with your hands, beware of dirty answer sheets!" ”

Wang Xi was very familiar with this thing, so he took out the water directly from the pot and pasted the wax print test questions on a corner of the exam table. Although the ink has been improved, it will inevitably stick to your hands, so it is best not to touch it all the time.

Quickly skimming through the test questions and seeing "Knowing Things", Wang Xi almost laughed out loud on the spot.

Although it was not announced who the chief examiner was, the conflict between the court and the court was so serious, and the news that Wang Yuan was the chief examiner had already spread.

It just so happened that Wang Xi was a member of the Physics Society, and he spent some time in Gewutang every day. This guy is from Henan, but he borrowed Shuntian to study for the exam, and he had already worshipped Wang Yuan as a teacher last fall.

Wang Xi didn't care about anything else, and first wrote articles on "Gewu Zhizhi", most of the content came from Zhu Xi, and a small part was Wang Yuan's theory.

Until the evening, Wang Xi only had one question left, and he couldn't answer it by scratching his ears and cheeks.

In other words, more than ninety percent of the thousands of candidates today are at a loss for this question.

This is a more terrifying and embarrassing question than the interception question, and the content of the question is just one word: mantis.

Mantis, i.e. larvae of beetles.

It was getting dark, and all living beings sat down, dumbfounded at the question, and didn't know where to start writing.

Who am I?

Where am I?

What am I going to do?