Han Xiufeng said before that it was unlikely that a fellow villager would come to Beijing to take the exam, but it did not mean that there were no fellow villagers to take the exam.

This is because according to the regulations, the supervisors and tributes of the provinces and even the regular supervisors and tributes who donate can take the examination in their own province or come to Beijing to take the examination.

Shuntianfu is the foot of the Son of Heaven, the first good place, the median of the Shuntian Township test is also more than the provincial township test, on average, one hundred and forty-five students from other provinces can take one, and the Shuntian Township test can be counted as one of the twenty candidates. Although the supervisors and tribute students in other provinces have to be distinguished from the candidates in Zhili, and the median amount is not so much by the Guozi supervision department, but it is easier to raise people in the examination than in this province, so the supervisors and tribute students from some provinces have come to Beijing to take the exam.

It is worth mentioning that the candidates of Shuntian are the same as those of Baoding, Zhengding and other prefectures, and they belong to the Shuntian School of Political Records; In addition, Manchurian candidates can participate in the Great Contest just like the astronomy students of Qin Tianjian, and even scholars who have worked hard in the Revision Records Museum and the National History Museum can take the exam.

It can be said that the Shuntian Township Examination is not only the Township Examination of Shuntianfu, nor is it just the Zhili Township Examination, but the Dabi second only to the Ministry of Rites Examination, and there are more than 8,000 candidates who come to the Dabi!

The tribute courtyard is repaired almost every two or three years, and the silver money required is spent by the household department and the Zhili domain, but these years are not peaceful, the court does not know how much food has been spent on suppressing the thieves and quelling the chaos, and now the foreigners are provoking again, and the nearly 10,000 soldiers under the command of the monk Greenqin have eaten the last meal without the next meal, where does the imperial court get silver to repair the tribute courtyard?

Many of the houses could not be occupied, so they had to build tents and set up table semicolons.

The jokes made because of the lack of money did not stop there, such as the examiners, scribes, and messengers who had no food to eat after entering the tribute court, and they were angry with each other. Another example is that the paper for the exam paper is late, and it is almost too late to start the exam...... made the chief examiner and the two deputy examiners scramble and were anxious.

However, Han Xiufeng didn't know about these things, because on the day of the ninth day of the eighth month, he took nine Heying generals and foreign commissioners to Tianjin again. And I stayed for nearly a month, and I haven't come back until today.

What is he busy in Tianjin, Ji Yunfei doesn't know, he only knows that Nanyuan is a good place to relax, and he came by mule cart early this morning.

Han Xiufeng was not at "home", and Ren Yuer, who had already felt that it was nothing to show up, came forward to receive her.

First asked Yu Tiesuo to find a few seamen to help clean up a yard, and then opened the wine pot with Lian'er, and then asked Yu Tiesuo to invite Rong Lu and Wang Qianli to come over to accompany him.

The arrangement was comprehensive, Ji Yunfei really felt at home, this drink was high again, and he didn't wake up until the sun was about to set.

Lian'er, who was waiting outside, hurriedly went to fetch water to wash his face, and Ren Yu'er heard the news and hurried over to make him tea. Seeing that he was full of poetry after he woke up, how could Ren Yuer miss this opportunity, and actually ran back to bring a stack of articles and a few poems from a few days ago, and asked him, a Hanlin official, to comment.

Ji Yunfei took the article and read it, and couldn't help but smile and asked, "Yu'er, are you testing me or yourself?" ”

Ren Yu'er said with an embarrassed face: "How dare I test you, naturally I will test myself." ”

"Since it's a test for yourself, you should wait for your fourth brother to come back and take a look at the same examiner in Beiyu this time."

"Master Ji, you are not only Master Hanlin, but also a fellow examiner, I just want to know what you think, I want to know if you can get into your eyes."

Ji Yunfei looked at Ren Yu'er's exam paper and sighed: "Sure enough, she is a talented woman, and she really doesn't let her eyebrows go." ”

Ren Yu'er asked excitedly: "Master Ji, is this article okay according to you?" ”

"It's not okay, it's good."

"Don't coax me."

Lian'er knew Ren Yu'er too well, and knew that she wanted to compare with those scholars, so she couldn't help asking: "Master Ji, according to what you say, if my young lady is a man, if she also goes to Dabi, she will definitely be able to lift people?" ”

Thinking of the experience of being a fellow examiner back then, Ji Yunfei put down the article and said meaningfully: "Whether you can be a person or not, the article must be done well, the poem must be written well, the words must be written beautifully, and it depends on luck." ”

Ren Yuer thought to herself that the imperial examination was not just an article, and couldn't help asking: "Luck?" Master Ji, the little girl doesn't quite understand. ”

Ji Yunfei hesitated for a moment, then asked with a smile: "Yu'er, do you know how many students from Beifu are taking the exam this time?" ”

"I know, it seems to be more than eight thousand."

"Then do you know how many room examiners the emperor has selected this time?"

"More than a dozen, right?"

"That's it," Ji Yunfei took a sip of tea and said slowly: "The exam will start on the ninth day of August, three before and after, and after the sixteenth exam, the list will be released in early September." The examination papers of the candidates had to be copied and confused, and there were so many scribes on errand in the Gongyuan that it would take three or four days to transcribe them at the earliest. In other words, more than a dozen room exams have to read more than 8,000 exam papers in just ten days, and more than 80 copies of a room exam have to be read in a day, and they have to be compared. ”

Ren Yu'er really hadn't thought about this before, and subconsciously asked, "Master Ji, are you saying that the examiners won't see them all?" ”

"Although every time the imperial court selects the same examiner, it selects people who are young and strong, strong and capable, but no matter how young and strong they are, no matter how capable they are, they can't see it, not to mention that there are still many candidates who are lazy."

"Really, don't you look?"

"It's not that I don't read it, some room exams are ten lines at a glance, just look at the article is not neat, and then pick a few copies that I have carefully read before, and submit them to the deputy chief examiner for decision. Some of the room exams ...... Some house exams even hand over things such as make-up and make-up points to the family, you say that if you are unlucky, what is the use of doing a good article? ”

"They leave the matter of re-approval and re-examination to their families, are their family members literate?" Ren Yuer couldn't believe it was true.

"The family members who can bring it to the tribute courtyard naturally have to know a few words, in fact, it doesn't matter if they don't know a lot of words. Many candidates will prepare some empty comments such as "lack of police policy" and "not outstanding" in advance when the candidates take the exam, and select some neat and pleasing papers to recommend to the deputy examiner. As for the other papers, they don't look at the content carefully, and directly paste the pre-prepared comments on the test papers. ”

Looking at Ren Yu'er's incredible look, Ji Yunfei smiled bitterly and said, "There is an exam, and a talented candidate fails the list. Unconvinced, he insisted on checking the exam papers. It turned out that the words 'a piece of ham' were pasted on the roll. ”

"A ham, what kind of criticism is this?" Ren Yu'er asked puzzled.

"Do you know, as long as you enter the Tribute Academy, the imperial court will provide the chief examiner, deputy examiner and room examiner with rice and noodles, grain, oil and ham, chicken, duck and fish and other food. The man who did the house examination saw that he had not sent him ham for a long time, so he wrote a note, but his family made a mistake and actually posted the strip asking for ham as a comment on the examination paper of others. ”

"And then?"

The candidate naturally wouldn't agree, and found that the room examiner who scored the papers was still someone he knew, so he took the failed test papers to find the room test theory. The room test admitted that he had made a mistake and apologized. The candidate said that he had worked hard to prepare for three years, and you didn't even look at it and let me fall into Sun Shan, are you embarrassed to be close to me? ”

Ji Yunfei paused, and then said: "That room test first pretended to be pitiful, and then broke the jar. said that if you go to court, you must not bear to be in terms of your friendship with me. And even if it goes to court, it is impossible to make up the list after it has been released. If he said that he wanted to pay compensation, he couldn't afford it, he was a poor man, his family was surrounded by walls, and there was only one mule in the stable, and you could take it away if you really wanted to. ”

"And in the end?"

"The candidate had no choice but to take the mule away."

Ren Yu'er was stunned, because all this was completely beyond her imagination.

Ji Yunfei thought she didn't believe it, thought about it and said: "As for the papers that were recommended to the deputy chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner to the examiner's case, due to the rush of marking time and the large number of test papers, the chief examiner and the two deputy chief examiners will not read all of them carefully.

One of the deputy examiners I know only reads poems and doesn't read articles, one is that he likes to write poems, and thinks that as long as the poems are good, the articles will naturally not be bad. Second, the poem is only a few lines, and reading the poem is easier than reading the papers; I also know a chief examiner who is too old and not energetic to read the papers, so he simply puts the papers in a circle, puts the snuffbox in the middle, and then turns the snuffbox, and the head of the snuffbox is facing whichever paper, the candidate can take it. ”

"This is a big competition for the country, and it's too child's play for them to do this!" Ren Yu'er asked with a smile.

"Child's play aside, I just want you to understand that sometimes luck really matters." Ji Yunfei let out a long sigh and picked up the teacup again.

Ren Yu'er didn't know what to say, and Fugui, who had always been running to Nanyuan during this time, came again, and as soon as he entered the door, he stepped forward to give Jiyun a flying salute.

"My brother is not polite, and besides, he is not an outsider."

"Master Ji, you are indeed not an outsider, but you are not an ordinary person either."

"I'm not an ordinary person, so who am I?" Ji Yunfei couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"You are Lord Hanlin, you are a nobleman! is not only the nobleman of the fourth master, but also my rich nobleman! ”

"Rich man, don't compliment Ji anymore, you are amazing now, the eldest son is in charge of Nanyuan, and the second son is on an errand in the outside office, Ji doesn't dare to accept this big gift."

"Master Ji, I mean it from my heart." Fugui knew very well the relationship between Ji Yunfei and Han Xiufeng, arched his hand again, and then turned back and smiled: "Miss Yu'er, I came here today to take a look at my family's Jilu, and second, to see if the fourth master has returned." ”

"My fourth brother must have been delayed because of something, otherwise he wouldn't have come back until now."

"The fourth master is a hard worker, he has always been busy with this and that all these years, serving the court wholeheartedly, and he has a peaceful birthday in a few days, and he and his wife and children are also less together and more separated." Fugui sighed lightly, thought about it and said: "Others can be promoted and make a fortune without doing anything, but what about the fourth master, he is only Fengchen Yuanqing to this day, it is really better to watch." ”

"Rich man, where did you start with this?" Ji Yunfei asked with a smile.

Fugui has no friendship with Wen Xiang, and he hasn't even dealt with him much, so he really thinks that Wen Xiang can be the minister of military aircraft, but the fourth master who brought Wen Xiang back then was just indignant at Fengchen Yuanqing. Thinking of the unusual relationship between Ji Yunfei and Wen Xiang, he hurriedly said: "Master Ji, don't get me wrong, I mean those corpse vegetarian adults in the court." ”

"Who?" Ji Yunfei asked.

Fugui was asked so much that he could only bite the bullet and say: "Before I came, I heard a news that Bai Zhongtang was promoted again, walked out of the inner dragon gate, and after eating the Luming feast, he received a holy decree to make up for the Wenyuan Pavilion University Scholar and manage the affairs of the military department." ”

The university scholar is not so easy to make up, Ji Yunfei was really taken aback, and muttered: "The university scholar and the minister of military aircraft, the real prime minister!" ”