He Zhiyuan's behavior of handing in the paper for the first time not only shocked the candidates who were still answering the questions, but also shocked the receiver. For such an important exam, the candidates were eager to extend the time by another day, but he handed in the paper half a day earlier. The candidates in the adjacent examination hall shook their heads and sighed when they looked at He Zhiyuan's background: "It's okay, I can't make an early paper, so I don't have to suffer here." Then he picked up the pen and went to answer the questionnaire seriously.

After the first exam was handed in, the test papers were gathered by the collectors and sent north along the Yongdao from the number house to an independent courtyard behind the Mingyuan Building, which was the outer curtain part of the marking place. Its core building is the majestic Supreme Court, where the outer curtain officer, who is responsible for the discipline of the examination room, sits here and supervises the preliminary processing of the examination papers.

Under the auspices of the Supervisor, the examination papers were first sent to the collection room on the east side of the public hall, where they were sorted and stacked, the number counted, and the preliminary selection was carried out. However, any damaged and oil-stained test papers will be taken out directly and sent back to the public court, where they will be reviewed by the prison officer and transcribed in a blue pen. The rest of the qualified test papers are sealed with the name of the seal, and then the person is ordered to transfer the seal on the left side of the scale, and the candidate information on the test paper is tightly pasted with thick paper. Before the admission list is announced, no one is allowed to open it privately.

After completion, it is handed over to the largest transcription office, where more than 100 scribes transcribe the candidates' examination papers in red pens, and if there are typos in the candidates' papers, these scribes must copy them and mark them at the top of the page.

After the transcription is completed, it will be handed over to the reading office next door, and the scribe in charge of the reading will check whether the transcribed "Zhu Scroll" is consistent with the "Ink Scroll" written by the examinee, and whether the annotation is correct. After checking that there are no errors, they are sent to the palm scroll next to the public court, and the scribe among them will number the red scroll and the ink scroll uniformly and send it back to the public court.

The supervisor left the ink scroll to seal, and then according to the number of examiners with the inner curtain, the red scroll was divided into corresponding bundles, this township examination is eight with the examiner, then divided into eight bundles, and wrote on it "the first bunch", "the second bunch", until the "eighth bunch", with the seal after the mark, personally sent into the eight inner curtains.

The supervisor came out of the outer curtain door, went straight to the north, and stopped in front of a flying rainbow bridge, the inner curtain on the opposite side had already been notified, and the chief examiner and the inner supervisor came to the other end of the bridge, and the two sides did not go to the bridge, but a team of sergeants sent the test papers over, and let the soldiers on the opposite side pick them up. The two sides exchanged salutes and went back without saying a word.

Of course, this is not because both parties are not polite, but in order to prevent collusion and fraud by examiners who undertake different tasks, it is strictly forbidden to contact each other between the front and back curtains. The back curtain courtyard, which is responsible for marking the papers, is absolutely independent of the entire tribute courtyard, and no one is allowed to enter or leave except for receiving the papers.

The central building of the back curtain courtyard is Hengjian Hall, which is on a central axis with the Zhigong Hall, Mingyuan Building, Gate and Dragon Gate, which is the place where the chief examiner and the same examiner are divided into rooms to read the papers. In addition to marking and admitting, the back curtain also has a very important role, that is, on the day before each exam, the examiner will propose the proposition, and engrave it in the engraving room and printing room, and send it to the outer curtain early the next morning.

When the test papers were sent into the inner curtain, the examiner said to the eight fellow examiners: "Everyone, let's draw lots." Several fellow examiners went forward to draw lots, and when they got a few lots, they took away the bundle of papers.

But you can't take it back to your room, you have to read it in the Jianheng Hall. The chief and deputy examiners sat in the hall, and the eight examiners sat on the left and right. The internal supervisor who is responsible for monitoring the marking of the papers, with a group of supervisors, sits next to the examiners, and monitors the examiners' marking process with wide eyes.

Under the watchful eye of the surveillance officer, the entire Jianheng was quiet. Because these surveillance officers are generally in charge of brocade guards, they keep the examiners staring at them creepy, and they dare not have distracting thoughts. Of course, as long as the examiners do not talk to each other and do not raise their eyebrows, the monitoring officers cannot interfere with the marking of the papers.

The same examiners are all from Jinshi, under the age of forty, in the prime of life, and their eyes are very good. They must carefully punctuate each article and see if it is smooth, and if it stumbles and has no rhyme to read, they will simply put it aside and sentence it to death.

Only papers with smooth writing and no more than three typos are eligible to be seen twice by the same examiner. In this time, the examiner mainly judges the merits of an essay from the four aspects of "reason, law, rhetoric, and qi". "Li" is the mastery of the scriptures and the understanding of Cheng Zhu's commentary. "Fa" is the article structure of the eight-strand text. "Ci" refers to the candidate's ability to organize and express words, and "qi" refers to the ideological concentration of the article.

The measure of these four aspects is "halal and elegant". It means that a good eight-strand essay should use concise, elegant, and smooth language to positively explain the way of Confucius and Mencius and the learning of Cheng Zhu.

According to this criterion, the examiner judges the merits of the candidate's essay, and writes a comment on each paper, stating the reasons for whether to recommend the paper or not, and he is responsible for his own decision.

The same examiners will write down the reasons for recommending the papers that they think are qualified to be high, and hand them over to the scribes at the border, who will transfer to the chief and deputy examiners who will be transferred to the first examiner, and if there is a particularly outstanding one, they will also "highly recommend", that is, highly recommend.

In fact, the trade-offs of the test papers are focused on the two main exams, which means that whether they are admitted or not is decided by the chief and deputy examiners. If the test Zheng recommended by the same examiner is approved by the deputy examiner, then he will write a big word "take" in a black pen on the paper, write the reason for the recommendation, and send it to the examiner.

If the examiner also approves, he will write another word "medium", which is the middle of the match, and the reason for the selection should also be written, so as to relieve the gift department for grinding.

For the examination papers rejected by the deputy examiner, although the examiner has the right to pull it over, it is too embarrassing for the deputy examiner, so the examiner generally will not exercise this power, unless he is particularly common-sense. But an article can be particularly appreciated, and in the eyes of others, it is at least a good level, and it will not be taken without it, so this situation generally does not occur.

As for the papers recommended by the same examiner but not accepted, the chief and deputy examiners also need to add comments to explain the reasons why they were not hired.

The time for marking the papers is during the day, and in the evening, when the two examiners and the internal supervisor will count the papers together, and after confirming that they are correct, they will lock the Jianheng Hall with three locks. The next morning, they came over together, and the three of them came together to unlock the lock and continue to read the papers.

Generally, the marking time is less than 20 days, and most of the time is used for the first grading. Although in the second and third sessions, the same examiner can continue to recommend. However, in the actual process, the examiner only attaches importance to the first game, especially the fourth book in the middle school, and basically ignores the grades of the second and third games. In other words, the first game is selected, and the second or third game only needs to be smooth and reasonable. On the one hand, this is because the time is tight, the task is heavy, and the examiners can't carefully review all of them anyway, so the more objective Bagu essay has become the first choice for grading. On the other hand, it is also because this dynasty attaches the most importance to the Four Books and Five Classics and Cheng Zhu's commentary, and it is reasonable to choose Baguwen as the focus.

After half a month of grading, all the candidates' first papers were finally reviewed, and after the recommendation of the same examiner, the two examiners were selected, and a total of 82 papers were selected. However, the amount of the Shandong Township Examination is eighty-nine, this number is certain, neither more, nor less, if it is changed elsewhere, after experiencing the marking that can torture people to death, the examiners will let go in the end and make up the solution.

But not here! Because the chief examiner this time is Shao Xian, a scholar from Shandong, who is a Jinshi in the eighth year of Chenghua, and the first place in the second class of the palace examination, that is, the fourth place overall. Those who can get this rank are all full of wealth and wealth, and in front of these six-grade and seven-grade examiners, that is the existence of seniors and scholars, and this person is very serious...... In the process of marking the papers, he repeatedly reiterated that the examiners were asked to take each candidate's test papers seriously, and strive to select candidates who have real talent and meet the requirements, so that they can get ahead.

Shao Xian not only urged the examiners to carefully mark the papers, but also strictly checked himself, and made careful and detailed comments on the advantages and disadvantages of each test paper, and refused to let the bad test papers be filled indiscriminately.

In order to ensure that the good test papers were not missed, Shao Xian carefully reviewed each of the papers, and it was not until the day before the list that he found seven good ones from the papers, and there were eighty-nine people.

The rest of the work is to arrange the rankings, because the examiners are all temporarily selected, disbanded after the fact, and there is no subordinate relationship in the establishment, so no one is afraid to admit it, and there are often fierce quarrels and debates because of differences of opinion.

But here but it will not be the case, because Shao Xian knows the pros and cons of all the articles well, and when judging, everyone has no way to argue, and it only took half a day to arrange the admission ranking, which made the internal supervisor on the side breathe a sigh of relief, wiped his sweat and smiled: "I thought it was going to be delayed." ”

Shao Xian smiled, held the scheduled rankings, and said, "Let's go, everyone." Let's go to the court! He stood side by side with the inner supervisor, led all the examiners out of the inner curtain door, crossed the flying rainbow bridge, entered the outer curtain, entered the public court, and worked with the outer curtain officer to dismantle the number and fill in the list.

An hour later, all eighty-nine of them showed their true faces. Looking at the place of origin of the admitted candidates, Shandong Jinyi Wei Qianhu, who served as the supervisor, said to Shao Xian: "There is a saying in Shandong, 'If you get good, look at Qingzhou', it seems that Qingzhou's literary atmosphere has overwhelmed Confucius's hometown Yanzhou. Now I look at the majority of candidates in Qingzhou, Jinan, and Yanzhou, which shows that your admission this time is fair and just. ”

Of the top 10 admissions this time, Qingzhou accounted for three, Jinan accounted for three, and Yanzhou accounted for two. But no one questioned the unfairness, but said, "Convincing." It can be seen that the high level of candidates in these three places is recognized by everyone.

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