In the carriage, Tang Ying said with a smile: "Lord Shen is honest and self-controlled, he is a model for my generation, and he is admired by the good officials, there are some small gifts here, please smile." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

As he spoke, Tang Ying took out a few folded pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to Shen Xi.

Shen Xi took it and took a look, but it was several deeds of sale and land deeds, among which the land deeds were ripe fields around the capital, which had already been cultivated, and they could wait for the annual rent collection when they got it.

As for the deed of sale, it is not an ordinary servant, but a singer and a dancer, and it is specially indicated that it is a Qing man who was bought from the priest of the teaching workshop, and is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and can fight for face for the master.

"Needless to say, the fields." Tang Ying said, "More than 20 acres of land is not much, and it is not much to say less." As for these girls, they are all thirteen or fourteen years old, and the most important thing is to be clean, whether Lord Shen is raised as a foreign house or used as another way, the government and county government will help...... Lord Shen, are you still satisfied? ”

Corruption is everywhere!

Shen Xi thought to himself, this is the basic routine of officialdom, send money first, send a house or a land deed if the money doesn't work, and in the end, it's simply beauty and antiques.

For thousands of years, the pattern has not changed much.

Shen Xi shook his head, pushed the things back, and said, "When I first entered the officialdom, I didn't need these things for the time being, so ...... I can't accept it, I hope you will forgive me. ”

Tang Ying was very experienced at first glance, and he was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's the same if you send it after the matter is completed, if Lord Shen feels troublesome, the lower officials will help arrange and transfer these things to Lord Shen's ancestral hometown......"

Giving gifts here in Shenxi doesn't work, and you send them to Fujian instead, you don't accept them in Shenxi, but your family does the same. Because Fujian is far away from the capital, it takes several months to come and go, and it is too late to stop it, so Tang Ying first took a vaccination at Shen Xi and told Shen Xi that they were going to use this method to force him to comply.

"There is no shortage of these in my hometown."

Shen Xi had a very warm smile on his face, meaning to tell the other party, you can do it yourself, see if I will make concessions on the issue. However, since Tang Ying didn't tear his face with him, he wouldn't speak ill of him, he just needed to show an attitude of "it won't work if you want to get the question from me".

If you don't ask questions and turn your face directly, it is irresponsible to the family members, Tang Ying represents the Shuntian Mansion, and Shen Xi is even if he is a Hanlin official who can face the saint, but he has no real power in his hands, and he can't be compared with the high-ranking officials of the "Bei Jing City, the Party Committee, the Secretary, and the City Mayor" like Shuntian Mansion Yin in later generations.

Tang Ying was not reluctant, and the carriage arrived at the gate of the Gongyuan, and at this time, the internal and external curtain officials had almost arrived.

Shen Xi was thinking about a question, Tang Ying came to greet him without greeting Jin Gui, could it be that Jin Gui had been bought by them?

After Shen Xi got out of the carriage and greeted the internal and external curtain officials, a carriage with the protection of the officers and soldiers of the brigade came from the opposite side, and after the car stopped steadily, Jin Gui and a middle-aged man dressed in the official mansion came down at the same time, from Jin Gui's helpless look, Shen Xi could detect that Jin Gui was also bribed with generous gifts on the road.

"Shen Yude, don't come to harm?" Jin Gui smiled bitterly and saluted.

Shen Xi nodded and saluted, and then entered the Gongyuan Hall with all the inner and outer curtain officials, and when the number of people was counted, the inner curtain officials would enter the towering wall and gloomy environment of the Huijing Hall, and then the courtyard door was locked, and there were only a few miscellaneous servants serving inside, and the printing of the scrolls would also be completed in the courtyard behind the Huijing Hall.

Generally speaking, the questions must be completed on the afternoon of the sixth day of August, and the examination papers must be printed and sent to the examination booth where the candidates are located before the official opening of the examination on the ninth day of the first month.

"Shen Yude is fashionable in the last subject and is a student who should be promoted, and this year is already the main exam, which is really admirable."

When everyone entered the hall and the outside door was locked, the inner curtain officials, who had never greeted Shen Xi before, began to come over to compliment.

Most of these internal curtain officials have collusion with people outside, after all, many of them were elected by Shuntianfu, and they are not qualified to call for the Shuntianfu, so they know each other very well, and they will receive as many coins as Shuntianfu sends, and they will pretend to be ignorant if Shuntianfu wants to bribe the exchange price of Daming treasure banknotes.

Shen Xi didn't need to use his brain to know that the purpose of these people coming to greet him was to inquire about his thoughts on the questions of this township examination, so as to leak the news in advance.

Among the many methods of cheating in the township test, the most effective is to know the exam questions in advance. Among the internal curtain officials, only Shen Xi and Jin Gui have the right to make questions, that is to say, what the topic is, Shen Xi and Jin Gui have the final say, and Shen Xi occupies a dominant position in the matter of the question because of his high official position.

As long as Shen Xi finishes the question, the inner curtain and the examiner who are watching from beginning to end will quietly release the question.

After the curtain official learned, those students who paid less bribes just got the questions, and they needed to find someone to memorize by themselves, and they could copy it during the exam, and those who gave more money got better service, and Shuntianfu would help people to the end, because they had a large number of Confucian resources in their hands, they could easily find someone to do the question, and then hand it over to the "gold master" to memorize and enter the exam.

In this way, even if Shen Xi and Jin Gui are honest and self-controlled, because they are not clear about the situation where there are already questions, just based on the quality of the article, Shen Xi will choose those candidates who cheat.

Shen Xi was complimented and seemed to be very useful, with a kind smile on his face, and only after entertaining did he enter the president's room in the hall with Jin Gui.

Seeing that there was no one left and right, Shen Xi's smile faded, and asked, "Has Jin Zhongyun thought about the direction of the question?" ”

"This ...... It's better to listen to Shen Yude's meaning. Jin Gui said prevaricatingly, knowing that this township test might be boring, then who came up with the final question will be responsible.

You came out with the question, and the final question was leaked, isn't it your responsibility, is it another examiner?

This is also the reason for the fall of Cheng Minzheng at the beginning, the exam questions of "Four Sons' Attainments" were not thought up by Li Dongyang, but Cheng Minzheng had to show off his literary brilliance in the examination questions.

"Two Shangguan, I don't know when the question will come out? Let's try to figure out the questions in advance so that we can have something to do when grading. ”

At this time, they all knew that Shen Xi and Jin Gui were going to come up with the questions, and the officials did not give Shen Xi and Jin Gui any personal space, and gradually gathered in the president's room, waiting for the two examiners to come up with the questions, and then send the questions out through some secret channels.

Jin Gui didn't want to ask the question, and Shen Xi didn't want to be reckless, so it was difficult now.

Neither of the two examiners wanted to be in the limelight with the questions.

Shen Xi thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty advocates the rule of etiquette and music, and in the palace of Jiwei year, he tried to ask the tributes with the rule of etiquette and music. ”

The officials present all nodded, thinking that this big topic was very good, but someone immediately asked: "Lord Shen, this rule of etiquette and music involves a lot, and there are four books and three texts, and four of the five scriptures, and this is only the first one, there are twenty-three exam questions, how to summarize all of them with the rule of etiquette and music?" ”

The township examination is divided into three sessions, the first is the four scriptures and the five scriptures, the second is the edict, judgment, table, and edict, and the third is the current policy.

The township examination seems to be the same emphasis on the three exams, but because there are many candidates and many questions, and the internal curtain officer who marks the paper is included in the two main examiners, there are only nine people in total, and three or four thousand candidates are reviewed, and each of them has nearly 10,000 words of examination papers.

Therefore, Shuntianfu, like the township test of the Thirteen Political Envoys, also conducted the primary election based on the merits of the first three and four books.

As long as the five scriptures and the last two papers are relatively compatible, then you can be admitted as a lifter.

In other words, the focus and difficulty of the examination questions in this township examination mainly depend on the three questions and four books.

Shen Xi said with a smile: "How about this, arrange the four books, "Analects" and "Mencius" each one, "University" and "The Mean" take one of them and proposition, first determine the number of pages, and then determine the number of words. ”

When the curtain officials present heard this, they were all dumbfounded.

Draw lots to get out of the question?

Isn't this year's township test a child's play?

"Lord Shen, you can't laugh, this township trial tribute courtyard is a place for the cultivation of saints, not child's play."

When an old man with white hair next to him heard this, he immediately wanted to reason with Shen Xi, but he was only from a human background, not even a jinshi, but he was promoted to be an inner curtain official because of his reputation, and he didn't realize that he was not qualified to criticize Shen Xi, who was a lecturer in the East Palace and a lecturer in Japan.

Shen Xi said with a smile: "Does Mr. Hu think that ...... "Four Books" is child's play? ”

"This ......"

Shen Xi grasped the language disease very well.

Drawing lots is child's play, but the final question is still found from the four books, the Ming Dynasty exams at all levels, will be tested every year, the four books and five scriptures of the exam questions must be the original sentences in the four books and five classics, so that candidates use this sentence to derive their own eight-strand articles.

But there are only so many sentences in the Four Books and Five Classics, in fact, every sentence is basically used badly.

Although the township test does not prohibit the interception of questions, it is obviously insulting to let the Hanlin official come up with the interception questions, so in this township test, the original sentence is still used to make the questions.

Shen Xi said that this method of drawing lots, operating in secret is a better choice, but now when he talks about it on the surface, it will inevitably provoke criticism.

"Shen Yude, do you want to ...... It's better to discuss it carefully and then come up with a title, so don't rush the time. Jin Gui was a little embarrassed, because Shen Xi said that even the enlightened him couldn't accept this method of asking questions.

Shen Xi smiled and nodded: "Then the questions of the second and third games will be released first, and as for the topics of the first game, they will be put in the back." ”

The second and third exams belong to the type of application essays, and there are not many tricks in the questions, but the questions of the current policy can still distinguish the level of the candidates.

At present, what major events have happened in the DPRK and China, it is necessary for the candidates to discuss it well, and whether the questions are good or not depends on the examiner's ability to control the major events of the DPRK situation.

In this regard, Shen Xi has already considered it to a certain extent.

The biggest problem in the imperial court today comes from the thin heirs of the emperor, but this topic cannot be made, because this is a presumptuous discussion of the government, and the ideas of the ruler should be considered when the question is made, the emperor doesn't want people to casually talk about how many wives and sons I have, and you still let three or four thousand candidates discuss this issue, which sincerely embarrass me.

In addition to the problem of the thin imperial heir, there is also what has happened in the DPRK and China in recent years, in which the recovery of Hami and Tatar prisoners can be discussed, but two examination questions involving military affairs cannot be produced at the same time. In addition, disasters such as the bursting of the Yellow River, the raging plague, the southeast wind disaster and the insect plague cannot be mentioned.

The merits and demerits of the court members cannot be discussed, and the major policies that the emperor has already made a decision cannot be discussed......

In fact, sometimes when I think about it, the scope of the question is actually quite narrow.

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