The next day, the examiner will appoint you.

The Son of Heaven agreed to Wang Xijue's request and added two more examiners to the same examiner, so the examiner of the fourteenth year of Wanli has reached the highest number in the history of the Ming Dynasty since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, with a total of nineteen people.

The days of Lin Yanchao's locking up the courtyard below are also over.

On the same day, the Ministry of Rites banquet will invite the examiner and the same examiner.

All the officials also went to the tribute court to attend the banquet.

At the banquet, the chief examiner Wang Xijue sat in the middle seat, the supervisor Shen Li sat on the left seat, and the deputy chief examiner Lin Yanchao sat on the right seat.

The waiter of the Ministry of Rites sat down with the examiner.

In charge, the supervising Taoist chief is also seated, and as for the subordinates, they don't even have a seat, so they all sit on the side.

This big feast in front of the curtain was, according to the previous rules, very grand.

The inner curtain officials and the outer curtain officials gathered together.

But there is a gap inside and outside, and everyone is also tacitly agreed not to speak, even if the other party is your same year, fellow villagers, and friends are in such a public eye, it is not easy to speak.

After the banquet, all the inner curtain officials got up, and the outer curtain officials also got up collectively to send the inner curtain officials to the public court.

At this time, the inner curtain doors were locked.

Isolate the internal and external traffic, the curtain officer guards the door, and the inner curtain official and the outer curtain official are not allowed to come and go.

The same examiner met the examiner in Jukui Hall, and the examiner made two answers, and the two examiners answered.

The two examiners and the nineteen examiners below them instructed the rules.

Lin Yanchao took a step back behind Wang Xijue.

Wang Xijue first finished the rules of the examination and said: "All the first, second, and third will be the first day, and after the meal is finished, Bachelor Lin will personally supervise the locking of the doors of each room, and the craftsmen and markers are not allowed to go out of the house. Did you write it down? ”

All the officials said together: "Write it down." ”

Wang Xijue said again: "From the date of reading the volume, unless the cabinet department is exempted, it will be in court every three days." If you want to send papers for advice, when you see the examiner, you only need to wear a shirt and avoid wearing an official robe to avoid entrainment of papers. Did you write it down? ”

All the examiners said in unison: "Write it down." ”

Wang Xijue explained a few more sentences, in which the warning and reprimand were obviously intended to prevent favoritism with the examiner.

Wang Xijue made everyone nervous in their hearts, and then let Lin Yanchao come forward.

Lin Yanchao said: "The following official will focus on the rules of Hengwen. You all know that writing is easy, but it is difficult to balance it. Composition is like governing things, and Hengwen is like knowing people, and this change is endless. ”

"The first scripture topic, five points of Hengwen, one rational interest, two temperaments, three words, four demeanors ......"

Wang Xijue and Lin Yanchao have a division of labor, and the chief examiner generally supervises the discipline of the inner curtain, and finally takes the rank of the middle tribute.

Lin Yanchao focused on the rules of Hengwen, which is where his power lies.

Lin Yanchao remembered that Zhu Geng once took the main examination in history, and agreed with the examiners that the questions should be 'three paragraphs flat', and if the format was not right, no matter how good the arts and sciences were, they would not be given a high rank.

But in the end, when the list was unveiled, Zhu Geng's first place paper violated this rule. Then when I asked the examiners, Zhu Geng picked up the paper and looked surprised, patted his head and said, I also think it is strange, obviously I set the rules, why did I take this paper? This matter is probably the will of heaven in the dark.

For such a stinky and shameless act, the examiners and candidates can only send you Zhu Geng's word 'hehe'.

However, the rules of Hengwen that Lin Yanchao said are also the ones that have been tested in the township for a hundred years, and they have always been observed in the field, which is no different from the past.

Speaking of this, Lin Yanchao finally got to the point: "The third session of this examination is reduced from five to three, and three questions are not required to be full, and two questions are selected. ”

Speaking of this, the nineteen fellow examiners all showed surprise, and Lin Sanyuan really wanted to change the rules of the third question.

You should know that the original rules for the third question were five questions, each of which should be at least 300 words.

Now Lin Yanchao has reduced the number of questions from five to three, and answers at least two questions, which seems to be less than one question, but the number of words in each question has increased to one thousand.

And many candidates answer the question of strategy, that is, to catch the blind, not to mention at least a 1,000-word essay on strategy, which is the difficulty of the palace examination.

Lin Yanchao made a move to change the rules of the third game this time, and it seems that he really wants to promote his forestry and practical learning to the world's readers.

The officials did not object to this, and I don't know when a saying was secretly circulated in the officialdom, I would rather offend the gentleman than offend Lin Sanyuan.

Lin Yanchao thought that there would be opposition from the housing officials in this matter, and they were all ready to scare people, but after looking around, everyone didn't speak, which was a little unexpected for him.

I think it's Lin Xue, which is becoming more and more popular among officials.

Lin Yanchao continued: "Each room should be carefully balanced, as for the number of recommended papers in each room, the main volume is twenty, the preparation volume is ten, and the two volumes must be handed in at least twenty volumes within two days after the third scene, and the remaining three days must be paid in full, and if it expires, it will be investigated...... If there is an obvious mistake and you don't see it, the official will also be held responsible. ”

After the explanation, the examiners of each room dispersed.

And Wang Xijue and Lin Yanchao also returned to their respective examiners' rooms.

The examiner's room is two rooms, the inside is to sit and rest, and the outside is to mark the papers.

The test supply center invited two people to serve Lin Yanchao.

Lin Yanchao was busy all day, and he was also tired, so he fell asleep after applying hot soup to his noodles.

On the second day, the chief examiner and the examiners gathered again in Jukui Hall to discuss the first exam questions.

There are a lot of questions, three questions and four book questions are to be tested together, four questions and five scripture questions, here are twenty questions.

This made Lin Yanchao a little tired, but the exam had not yet started, and it was already such a headache to just discuss the exam questions.

The reason why it is tiring to discuss for a long time is that there is no result in the discussion in each room.

You must know that there are also open and secret battles among the examiners, Lin Yanchao is the chief examiner, and which candidate is selected is his protégé, so it doesn't matter.

But the house officials are different, everyone hopes that there will be a few more jinshi in their room.

According to the past practice, Hanlin is more advantageous.

From the year of Jiajing, each subject will be tested and will be taken by Hanlin. The reason why this is the case is that Hanlin has a large number of rooms, and when it comes to the quality of the article, Hanlin is the one who says. In addition, the principal and deputy examiners are also from the beginning of the word forest, and they will also help their juniors to speak, so it has become a practice in the long run.

This rule was only tried in the previous section, because Huiyuan Li Tingji was actually the first volume of Su Junfang, who was the Ministry of Industry at the time.

Coincidentally, Su Jun and Li Tingji are fellow villagers, and it normally seems that others think that the two are connected, but after Li Tingji won the match, no one had any objections.

Because when filling in the list, among the seventeen same examiners, sixteen of the same examiners, including Su Jun, agreed that Li Tingji could be a huiyuan.

In the end, Li Tingji's Huiyuan is recognized and deserved.

If it weren't for the palace test, Shen Shixing gave Zhu Guozuo favoritism, Li Tingji would have been Li Sanyuan.