When the undercurrent of the outside world was surging, Suncheon Gongyuan ushered in the third exam.

It is different from the township exam, even if the first round of the exam is completed and the papers are handed in, the candidates still have to honestly continue to stay in the examination room.

This one is a test of strategy. More than 4,000 students knew in their hearts that the chief examiner this time, Lin Haoran, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was an official who paid attention to practice, and once publicly proposed in "Talking about the Past and the Present" to increase the weight of policy theory in the examination.

It is for this reason that when many candidates learned that Lin Haoran was the chief examiner this time, they fought for several days in a row, frantically making up for their shortcomings in this regard.

When the papers were handed out, although many of them felt fully prepared, they couldn't help but gasp when they saw the test questions.

First, there are similarities and differences between ancient financial management and the final budgets of various countries.

The second way, the Northern Song Dynasty knotted Jin to Tu Yan Zhao, and the Southern Song Dynasty helped Yuan to attack Cai.

Third, Prime Minister Pei Du should recruit talents and staff officers from all over the world, please meet in private.

Fourth, the Zhou and Tang dynasties were heavy on the outside and light on the inside, and the Qin and Wei dynasties were light on the outside and heavy on the inside, each with its own merits.

Fifth, Jia Yi's "five baits and three tables" said, Ban Gu ridiculed it. However, Qin Mu tried to use it to dominate Xirong, and the Bank of China also said that it was not invalid.

Although the candidates were mentally prepared, they couldn't help but feel a pain in their heads when they looked at these five policies involving financial management, diplomacy, innovation, governance, and military affairs.

"What's the budget? What are the final accounts? ”

"Yan Zhao? Yan and Zhao? The Northern Song Dynasty had these two countries? ”

"Cai? Is the exam question misprinted, it should be Cai Lun, right? ”

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Some candidates who are not well prepared are confused and completely ignorant when they see these questions.

However, some candidates were lucky: only three of these five questions need to be answered, and the weighted score has never been too high, maybe this time it will be the same.

"Yan Zhao, Yan Yun Sixteen Prefectures. Cai, Caizhou also! ”

Wang Shiju looked at the topic, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

If it was before, he might have been blinded, but after a trip to Yangzhou and worship under Lin Haoran, he already had his own opinions.

In the examination room, some people are happy and some are worried.

Unlike the children of the poor family, many of the children of the official eunuchs have countless books at home, and they can expand their personal knowledge since they were young, so they seem to have a better bottom in their hearts.

As the test papers were spread out, the candidates of the various houses of the Gongyuan began to write down their opinions one after another, hoping to impress the examiner.

Three days later, the examination was declared over, and the candidates left the Gongyuan one after another.

As soon as the three test papers were handed in, their fate was no longer in their hands, but they were directly handed over to the eight room masters, and even more so to the hands of Lin Haoran, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

Although the examination is over, the marking process continues, and all the examination papers need to be approved after 10 days, and 300 high school candidates will be listed.

After the more than 4,000 test papers in the third field were collected, after a series of anti-cheating processes, these ink papers were turned into vermilion rolls, and then eight bundles of test papers were sent to the inner curtain officer opposite through the trumpet army on the bridge.

Lin Haoran has been under house arrest here, although he is worried about the situation outside, he knows better that the only thing he can do at present is to preside over this review.

Lin Haoran led the examiners to take the test papers from the hands of the trumpet army, and did not greet Zhang Yue, the left deputy capital of the Imperial Court on the opposite side, and turned around and returned to Jukui Hall very tacitly.

Back in Jukui Hall, Lin Haoran distributed the eight test papers to each room, and seriously admonished Zhang Siwei and other eight fellow examiners: "The essence of this examination is an innovation, and its significance is extraordinary. I already have the paper in your hands, and I hope that you will uphold the public heart and treat every test paper fairly and justly. In addition, the test papers recommended by each room should be half of each, and neither favor the children of the official eunuchs, nor favor the children of the poor families! ”

In other words, there have been problems in the current imperial examination, and as more and more children of high-ranking officials are high school jinshi, such as Pan Yunduan, the son of the former deputy capital of the left deputy capital, Yang Yunduan, and Yang Junmin, the son of Yang Bo, the secretary of the military department, etc., the government and the opposition are questioning the cheating of the examination more and more.

It's just that there are so many cheats in this way, like if Lin Haoran helped Yuan Wei's son Yuan Longhuang to cheat, then Xu Jie would definitely take advantage of this to pull him off the horse.

It's just that many unsuccessful scholars don't think so, and they outline all kinds of conspiracy scenes through rich associations, like keyboard warriors in later generations.

As a later generation, Lin Haoran combined with the fact that the children of the poor families in later generations were more and more able to be admitted to institutions of higher learning, and knew that this was the inevitable result of the increasing concentration of educational resources on the children of official eunuchs.

Although it is said that "only by studying hard in the cold window can you gain fame", no matter how talented and diligent a poor scholar wants to gain fame, it is useless if he does not have a qualified master.

This can be seen in the comparison of admission to the HKCEE. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the ratio of the children of the Han family (those who did not enter the official for the three generations of their ancestors) and the generation of the official eunuchs was one to one, but now the proportion of the children of the official eunuchs has risen to two-thirds.

Even if it is Hai Rui, he is actually not a child of a poor family, but also a child of an official eunuch. His grandfather Hai Kuan was the magistrate of Songxi County, Fujian Province after the middle lift, but his father Hai Han was only a talent and died early, which made the Hai family fall into the middle of the road.

It is precisely the educational resources that are moving closer to the children of eunuchs, and the degree to which the children of the poor families have achieved fame is increasing, but many people do not seem to be aware of this problem, and are more willing to simply and rudely point the finger at the examiner's fraud.

After Lin Haoran, as the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites in charge of the imperial examination, realized this problem, he first exposed the fact that the admission rate of the children of the Han family had declined through "Talking about the Past and the Present", which triggered extensive discussions among scholars, and then threw out the reform concept of "official character scroll".

I thought that this reform would be difficult to promote, but I didn't know that it was the high-ranking officials who realized the hardships of Yang Bo, Fan En and other officials, and after a round of court discussions, they successfully passed this set of reform plans.

It is precisely because of this that the "official character scroll" was used in this examination, that is, the children of the official family and the children of the poor family were distinguished.

The implementation of this plan is not complicated, and the township test in the two capitals adopts the model of "dish scroll", and now it is only necessary to apply this model to the "official character scroll".

In fact, this kind of reform is relatively unfavorable to the examiner.

Originally, it was possible to recruit 200 children of eunuchs, but after this reform, it was only possible to collect 150, which was undoubtedly a small loss.

When Lin Haoran first launched this reform plan, he didn't expect that he would be the chief examiner of this year's examination, but he felt like he was shooting himself in the foot.

However, if there is a loss, there will be a gain, and the children of the poor family will respect him more as a teacher, and the relative desire may be lower, but it is not necessarily a bad thing.

After getting rid of these messy ideas, Lin Haoran began to devote himself to the heavy work of marking the test papers.

Eight room teachers were responsible for screening the test papers, and the deputy examiner was in good spirits for the second round of screening, but he knew that his body could not bear it, as long as the test papers were not particularly bad, they would not be easily knocked down.

This is also the scientific nature of setting up the chief and deputy examiners, once one examiner drops the chain, the other examiner has to remedy, so as not to have a big rollover.

While Lin Haoran was reviewing the test papers, he also faintly felt a strong uneasiness in his heart, naturally not because Xu Jie wanted to clean up Yan Shifan, but because he was worried that his cheap father-in-law would fall into Xu Jie's trap.