These three questions are quite difficult for candidates who have gone through the motions of the examination all day.

In the past, the way they didn't get through the test was to fight against the air. Even if you don't have anything to say, the examiner can't count you either. However, Lin Yanchao has been the main examiner, and candidates are not allowed to write falsely.

Moreover, it is not easy to go from 300 words to no less than 1,000 words in the article.

But these three questions are not difficult for Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong was originally a knowledgeable and knowledgeable person.

At the beginning, when Lin Yanchao used to give lectures in the school, he also lectured on science and psychology. When Lin Yanchao talked about the way of ontological kung fu, he admired Wang Xue very much, and once said that the skill of 'Gewu', Confucianism is all using a mirror to illuminate things, but if the mirror is dim, the illumination is also unknown, and Wang Xue is to 'grind the mirror' and then illuminate things.

Because Lin Yanchao admired Wang Xue, Sun Chengzong later also picked Wang Xue.

Wang Tong, the son of the number text, Wang Yangming evaluated him very objectively, praising his knowledge as 'specific and subtle'.

For Confucianism's most criticized point for Wang Tong, tampering with the scriptures, he also expressed his understanding, and said that it was a good work with more heart.

Extending to this topic, the intention of the imperial court (Lin Yanchao) to come up with this question is to tell readers that there is no need to stick to the rules everywhere for the study of Confucianism, which is both describable and doable.

If someone else comes up with this exam question, it will inevitably cause an uproar among the readers, which is a blatant attempt to dig into the corner of the edifice of science.

But Lin Yanchao made the question as the chief examiner, and the court endorsed it, so the readers ...... Let's be honest.

Sun Chengzong knew that Lin Xue was no longer in a corner of the doctrines, but stood upright on the temple.

Sun Chengzong looked at the figure standing with his hands in the court, he finally did it.

Sun Chengzong settled down, his mood was surging, and he wrote on the paper: "In the name of Confucianism's writings, he secretly uses fictional texts to imitate scriptures, which is the way to take chaos. In the text, the child is clearly based on the scriptures, and the six classics are actually deleted, and the way of the sages is ......"

If Sun Chengzong has a thousand words in his chest, he will pay them one by one.

The sun was rising in front of his examination booth.

The rest of the candidates also clarified their minds and began to answer the questions.

In the examination room, Tao Wangling worked hard to write a book, and immediately after he took the paper, he immediately understood the meaning of the question, he was born in an official eunuch family, and there were countless books in his family.

And Yuan Zongdao was also glad after reading the topic, if it weren't for following Lin Yanchao in recent years and working practical learning from Sun Chengzong, today's policy problem would be hanging.

As for Yuan Keli, after reading the paper, Qingxin couldn't help but think: "Although the Jingyi test is not good, if you don't answer all three questions in such a policy, you will really fail Mr. This cultivation." ”

Thousands of candidates in the Gongyuan put pen to paper, looking focused, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but be relieved to see this scene.

After the third exam, the main test is also over, and the candidates leave the Gongyuan and wait for the news of the release of the list.

As for the papers of the first field of each room, they have almost changed, and now the third field of the questionnaire will be graded as soon as the paper arrives.

After the third batch is completed, the examiners of each room will put the three intentional red rolls together in one place, which is called Wangqi. Then the examiners of each room selected the recommended papers among all the papers and handed them to Lin Yanchao, the deputy chief examiner.

The time for the release of the list is very tight, and Lin Yanchao has set a time limit, so almost all the examiners have not had a moment of free time from the moment they opened their eyes to the time they read the papers.

Each volume is weighed and set as a positive volume, and the rest of the papers that have not been handed in are sifted off. In addition to this, there are also official files.

It is the scrolls of the children of the ministers of the dynasty, and the curtain officials on the outside of these scrolls will mark which minister's son they are. According to the rules, the same examiner should not dismiss these papers, but should hand them over to the chief examiner and deputy examiner for decision.

At that time, Shen Cheng hid Zhang Jingxiu's papers, and the examiner was startled when he saw that there was no Zhang Juzheng's son's papers, and immediately came to Shen Zheng's room to search for the papers, and finally took turns to threaten Shen Cheng when he was taking the exam, and Lu Xilie, the deputy chief examiner of the Criminal Department, took turns threatening Shen Yiyi, but Shen Yi refused to give it.

In the end, Zhang Jingxiu did not win, and Shen was consistently suppressed for eight years.

Of course, in addition to the official papers, the township examination is generally conducted in accordance with the rules of 'going to stay in the same examination, and the superior is in the main examination'.

The middle or not the jinshi is in the same examiner, and the ranking is in the examiner.

And Lin Yanchao, as the deputy chief examiner, not only has to schedule up and down, but also has to screen out some of the recommended papers submitted by each room, which has a lot of power and a lot of workload.

Therefore, the deputy chief examiner of the examination must choose a young person, otherwise it is easy to lose energy.

The following is also the most critical moment of the examination, and the first batch of nineteen fellow examiners from each room to Lin Yanchao are the best recommended papers in the room, and many of them have been awarded the title of 'Jingkui' without authorization.

When the examiners of each room came to the examiner's room, they all lobbied hard, wanting Lin Yanchao to adopt a few more copies of their papers, at most Lin Yanchao could read them in front of them, and then choose them as the main papers on the spot.

However, Lin Yanchao did not read the file in person, but asked them to go back first.

After the examiners went out, they looked at the red scrolls piled up like a hill on Lin Yanchao's desk, and they all doubted that he could read them all in just two or three days?

In other words, Lin Yanchao is as rumored.

This is nearly 600 volumes, if Lin Yanchao can't read the volume, even if he is not responsible for drawing lots and selecting papers, they will not be able to question anything.

In the examiner's room, Lin Yanchao knew the worries of his fellow examiners, and he would not do this matter of drawing lots to select papers, although some people did do so.

This person is Mu Zhang'a, the minister of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, and the mentor of Zeng Guofan, a famous minister of Zhongxing.

In the history of the Qing Dynasty, Mu Zhang'a was good at forming a party and had a very bad reputation.

The reason why Mu Zhang'a formed a party was that he often served as an examiner and repeatedly tried Wen Heng.

When Mu Zhang'a served as the chief examiner, every recommendation paper recommended by the following room officials was taken very seriously.

How to take the law seriously? Mu Zhang'a put the recommendation scroll on the table, and then burned incense and looked into the sky to worship.

Mu Zhang'a often placed two cigarette bottles in his pocket, one amber and one white jade, the style and size are equal, take one roll out, and touch the cigarette bottle into the pocket, touch the amber in the middle, touch the white jade is not in the middle.

When the quota is full, the remaining volumes will be discarded.

This is Mu Zhang'a's metaphysical grading method, after all, you have also bowed very seriously, and people can't say anything about you (the powerful protégés can't afford to provoke), so the candidate's paper can only be in the hands of Mu Zhang'a, and each can only settle the destiny, this Zeng Guofan can later become a famous minister of Zhongxing, and this amber snuff bottle is definitely indispensable.

During this period, other examiners came to visit from time to time and tactfully reminded whether to postpone the release date.

And when Zhao Yongxian sent the recommendation paper to Lin Yanchao's room, he secretly warned him to read the paper with an open heart, not to do things like a scroll, and to have a god in his head.

When he heard this, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but glance at Zhao Yongxian, this seemed to be really the right thing and not the right gentleman's doing.

Lin Yanchao replied, "I already know. Where is the first name of the recommended paper in Examiner Zhao's room? ”

Zhao Yongxian was very confident in recommending the papers, Lin Yanchao asked him to recommend 30 volumes, and he recommended more than 50 volumes.

Zhao Yongxian said: "The articles in this room are extraordinary, but this article is titled 'To be discussed', I think it can not only be crowned by the champion, but also the champion." ”

Lin Yanchao nodded and said: "Then the official will focus on it when the time comes, if Zhao Shuzi has nothing else to do, the official will read the file." ”

Zhao Yongxian saw that Lin Yanchao did not read the file in front of him, and he was a little dissatisfied in his heart and said: "Then the official will leave, and I hope President Lin will remember those words just now." ”

Lin Yanchao remained silent, and now people regard themselves as suspects.

Lin Yanchao picked up Zhao Yongxian and pushed the paper that could be listed as a leader and read it. After reading it, I also appreciated it, this volume is indeed a good volume that can be called a leader, and Zhao Yongxian's vision is good.

In the past, even if you can't get a huikui, it's also proper to be a kui, but now......

Lin Yanchao read through all the candidates' recommendation papers, and waited to read the questions, as he expected, although the questions were all answered with three questions, and the number of words was not less, but the writing was still a little vain, and there was nothing to say.

It's a pity that I have a reason to suppress Zhao Yongxian's recommendation.

So Lin Yanchao wrote the comments with a green pen and stamped them on the volume, and it only took a long time to complete the whole process.

If Zhao Yongxian and the others were present, they would have been surprised at what kind of speed this was when they saw Lin Yanchao finish reading a volume so quickly.

In the face of 600 papers, Lin Yanchao had no pressure at all, and the matter of postponing the list and delaying the release of the list simply did not exist.

But the problem for Lin Yanchao is how to get rid of the suspicion of curly under his eyes.

After two days of hard work, Lin Yanchao has all changed the recommended papers in each room.

Lin Yanchao took out a total of five papers from each room, which were all broken with four words, and Zhang Whale and Lin Yanchao agreed that the three words were consistent, the other two were at the end of the third question, and one was in the bundle of the Jingyi question.

The other twelve volumes all contain only one word, that is, four one-word breakthroughs.

These are all people who don't know the truth, and after hearing the rumors, they write to try their luck and see if they can get by.

These four one-word text joints, when Fang Congzhe sued himself, he had already leaked the rumors.

However, the same examiner who recommended the paper was still not greedy enough, and forcibly recommended the paper, which also meant to try his luck. If it weren't for Fang Congzhe's trouble, I am afraid that this joint file would be twice as many as the one in his own case, and it would definitely be a big fraud case in the future if he was poked out.

These 'question papers' are not all at the level of elementary school students, but they are quite good.

Because the quality of the examiners' recommendations in each room is guaranteed. Even if some papers are 'through the joints', if they are really written nonsense, the examiners will not dare to take them randomly.

After all, this is the highest examination in the imperial examination, and it will be examined.

There are also Lin Yanchao and Wang Xijue behind the examiner, and after the exam, all the papers will be polished by the Gift Department. Therefore, these volumes are both liberal arts and sciences, and even the level can reach the level of taking and not taking.

Lin Yanchao focused on the five volumes agreed by Zhang Whale, one of which was titled 'Confucianism is different, and the saint is reluctant to admonish'.

Lin Yanchao was very happy in his heart, this volume was different from other 'through joint' volumes.

This candidate has real talent and learning, but ......

"You're in luck."

After Lin Yanchao finished speaking, he took out the pen and imitated the transcription's handwriting, and copied it on the paper for a full hour. It was Liu Gongquan who was the transcription student's calligraphy, and Lin Yanchao was not a calligrapher, so it took a lot of effort.

After copying it almost, Lin Yanchao felt that there was, took out the vermilion ink from his sleeve, and dipped it with a pen on the vermilion scroll of this person's 'Confucianism is different, and the sage is reluctant to admonish the Yan of the Ten Commandments'.

Although only this stroke was changed and a vertical was added, for this vertical, Lin Yanchao imitated the transcription's handwriting, practiced for an hour, and finally added eighty percent of the similarity.

Wang Xijue was born in Hanlin and has dealt with Wenmo all his life, if this pen does not have a certain popularity, it is very easy for him to see the clues.

The examination papers are transcribed by Zhu Mo, and there can be no Zhu Mo in the examiner's room, and the examiner can only use green ink in the comments. Therefore, this Zhu Mo was carried by Lin Yanchao after he knew that he was the chief examiner, and he brought it to the Tribute Academy when the appointment was issued, and it finally came in handy today.

After writing this pen, Lin Yanchao sweated like rain, dried the ink, and then he threw the self-revised volume into the recommended paper he selected.

In the end, Lin Yanchao cooperated with the other four 'joint' papers and the other twelve papers, and then walked to the examiner.

Knock.

There was a sound of clothes fluttering in the room, the door opened, Wang Xijue first glanced at the scroll in Lin Yanchao's arms in a swallow suit, and then asked, "Zong Hai, it's so late, is there something to talk about tomorrow?" ”

Lin Yanchao said: "The lower officials have something to do, and they really can't sleep." ”

Wang Xijue said with a sigh: "Why is it so urgent, then okay!" ”

Lin Yanchao entered Wang Xijue's examination room, Wang Xijue personally took the lamp, and then motioned for Lin Yanchao to take a seat and asked, "What is important about Zong Hai?" ”

Lin Yanchao said: "In the reading of the papers, I found that some people wanted to do things. ”

Wang Xijue said: "Scrolls? The stakes are high, are you sure? ”

Lin Yanchao put the sixteen volumes on the table and said to Wang Xijue: "Pavilion Elder, please see, there are four words written in the second question of these sixteen volumes. ”

Wang Xijue read the papers one by one quietly.

There was only the sound of the scroll turning in the study, and under the candlelight, Wang Xijue's face flickered brightly and darkly, and after he turned to the last volume, he said, "Zong Hai, what's going on?" Do you understand? ”

Lin Yanchao was silent for a while and then said: "Xia Guan heard a little wind before, but first, he didn't dare to be sure, and second, he didn't dare to startle the snake. ”

"Now that the evidence is conclusive, the lower officials are sure that the elder of the cabinet will investigate this matter strictly, and the people behind the scenes must be brought to justice."

Wang Xijue's eyebrows trembled, and he was silent for the moment.

Lin Yanchao said: "There are so many doubts, this person must be a means to the sky, and the lower officials think that among the examiners, there must be internal responses." The lower officials thought that they should immediately call the supervisor and ask them to send someone to investigate! ”

Wang Xijue frowned and said: "The stakes are very high, and it may involve a wide range of people, if we do not have real evidence in our hands, it will cause unnecessary speculation among others in vain, and if this matter is leaked, the outsiders will also question it, thinking that someone is manipulating the official weapons of the imperial court, selling the official mantle, and making the matter bigger." ”

Lin Yanchao said: "The elder of the pavilion is really far-sighted, and the subordinate officials are not careful, but if they are not investigated, won't they let the people behind this scene get away with it?" ”

Wang Xijue nodded and said: "Of course, the investigation is to investigate, but it is not a big fanfare, and the open fire is in charge, I will secretly expose this matter to Your Majesty, what about the people behind the scenes?" Is the power still above Zhang Jiangling back then? ”

Lin Yanchao said with a straight face: "What the elder said is extremely true, the lower officials are willing to follow the elder and investigate this matter, no matter who they are, they must be arrested and brought to justice." ”

Wang Xijue nodded and said, "That's right, but the top priority at the moment is to fill in the list and release the list." Zong Hai, fortunately, you can expose this volume, otherwise you and I will have to ruin our reputation this time. ”

"The servant is very happy, which shows that you are a loyal and upright man, worthy of the importance that the Son of Heaven has shown you."

Lin Yanchao was praised by Wang Xijue, and he didn't say at all: "Xiaguan is impartial, there is such a big matter in the field, Xiaguan has not been vigilant before, if it wasn't for the previous editing and reminder, Xiaguan was really almost negligent, and now it's really scary to think about it." ”

Wang Xijue nodded and said, "Are you talking about editing Fang Congzhe?" It turns out that he reminded you, well, this man is very nice. ”

Lin Yanchao said again: "Pavilion Elder, it seems that in these sixteen volumes, there are also many people who have real talents and real learning, and some people may have listened to rumors, so they are lucky. I'll wait to get the papers......"

Wang Xijue said with a straight face: "Zong Hai's words are wrong, and the character of the imperial examination lies in the first place. These candidates do not believe in Confucius and Mencius, but believe in rumors, and they will be officials in the future, how can the imperial court rest assured that they are on the side of the herdsmen. We should take the heart of the sage as our own heart, even if these people's articles are written as straight as Su Han's resurrection, this official will never take such an unscrupulous person as an official! ”

Lin Yanchao's face flushed and said: "The lesson of the elder is that the lower officials will depose these sixteen volumes. ”

Walking out of Wang Xijue's room, Lin Yanchao looked at the moonlight with a slight smile on his face.

The next day, the copies of the main volumes sent by each room were screened out by Lin Yanchao and handed over to Wang Xijue for review.

Wang Xijue and Lin Yanchao discussed in the room for a day, deposed him, and finally ranked him.

Finally, it's the day to fill in the list.

On the day of filling in the list, all the examiners, the same examiners, as well as the proctors and examiners in the outer curtain are invited to the public court.

Outside the hall, sergeants patrolled and were heavily guarded.

All the red scrolls and ink scrolls in the hall were taken, and one by one they were placed in the center of the public hall, spread from beginning to end.

The hall was half-covered with papers, and behind each of these papers was a candidate who was on the gold list.

Dozens of red candles are hung high on the left and right, illuminating the entire Supreme Court.

Wang Xijue, Lin Yanchao, Shen Li and other chief officials went to the hall and congratulated each other with the same examiners. Ten days of boring and boring paper revision days are about to pass, waiting for the release of the list after the day, the candidates will be titled on the gold list, and everyone will have their own protégés, which is a happy event for each other.

In addition to the external curtain officials, the examiners are of course concerned about how many papers can the candidates get in their respective rooms?

And what is the result of the previously rumored matter of the scroll.

The examiners seemed to be chatting casually.

"Who do you think is the leader of the current department?"

"It's hard to say, the Jiangnan literary style is very prosperous, as usual, it's still from the southern volume."

"Let's guess which room will be the examiner!"

The discussion in the court continued, and the hall officials stepped forward to Shen Li, Wang Xijue, and Lin Yanchao and asked, "Dare to ask a few adults, can you dismantle the roll call?" ”

Shen Li nodded and looked at Wang Xijue, and Lin Yanchao asked, "What do the two presidents think?" ”

Lin Yanchao smiled and said that he had no opinion.

And Wang Xijue said solemnly: "Slow down, this official has a few words that don't vomit or be unhappy." ”

The officials who were wearing auspicious clothes and preparing to open the roll call were stunned when they saw this scene, which one is this singing?

But seeing Wang Xijue walking to the front of the paper with his hand in his hand, he said to the officials: "Ladies and gentlemen, before the exam, there were rumors that someone secretly communicated with the joints, left words on the paper, bribed the examiner, and the examiner did the paper......

When Wang Xijue said this, everyone looked at Wang Xijue, Lin Yanchao, didn't he say in his heart, Wang Xijue was going to turn his face with Lin Yanchao on the spot?

Lin Yanchao remained silent, Zhao Yongxian's face sank, Fang Congzhe's expression was embarrassed, and all the officials had their expressions, and some even gloated.

Is this about to happen?

But when he saw Wang Xijue, he said, "...... But after reading the papers of the cabinet, such facts are false, and the examiners are all upheld by the public heart and take the scholars for the imperial court, on the other hand, there are some people who are not right-hearted, and they are lucky to listen to rumors. ”

"Upright people do upright things, the court takes scholars to view people with literature, and to view the heart with literature, for these candidates who have ill intentions, have ghosts, and want to pass through the joints on the paper. After discussing with President Lin, the official was deposed together, even if such a person is talented, he is also a villain, and the court and the cabinet department cannot tolerate him......"

Listening to Wang Xijue's words, the fellow examiners looked at Lin Yanchao, and then at Wang Xijue, and said in their hearts that this reversal was too fast.

Fang Congzhe and Zhao Yongxian's expressions changed, and they looked at Lin Yanchao. But Lin Yanchao sat upright, showing an appreciative look at Wang Xijue's words.

Lin Yanchao not only did not offend Wang Xijue, but was appreciated by him, how did he do it?

All the same examiners have different speculations in their hearts, but those who have had a good show before, and even gloated, look like constipation at this moment.

After that, the roll began to unpack the roll call, and after comparing the numbers of the red roll and the ink roll, the outer curtain officials opened the ink roll and looked at the names on it, and filled in the list one by one.

Of course, at this moment, no one will compare whether the vermilion scroll is completely consistent with the ink scroll.

That's right, after the exam, the ink rolls will be sent to the Ministry of Rites for grinding.

The purpose of this examination paper grinding system was to strictly check whether there were deviant sophistries and heresies in the papers, and if there were serious punishments for the crime of supervising the school officials, those who were deposed of the Chinese style were the people.

It was not until the Qing Dynasty that the Ministry of Rites paid the most attention to examining whether the examination was unlucky, that is, to test whether there were any inconsistencies between Zhu and Mojuan.

The largest Wuwu Kechang case in the Qing Dynasty was found to have been altered in more than 300 places on the ink scroll during the grinding survey of the Ministry of Rites, and it was finally discovered.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Rites did not test the inconsistencies of the Zhu scroll and the ink scroll, because this made Lin Yanchao take advantage of the loophole.