On the ninth day of August, the township examination officially began. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Thousands of candidates in the Gongyuan were working hard to write at the same time, and there were also people outside the examination room, who wanted to find someone to quickly make the four books and literature exam questions they had just gotten, and then try their best to send them into the examination booth to complete the cheating.

Since the imperial examination, it has been accompanied by cheating in the examination room, and in the fourth-level formal examination of the Ming Dynasty, the most difficult to cheat is the palace examination.

It doesn't make much sense to cheat in the temple exam, because if you don't cheat, you're a jinshi, but if you cheat and you're caught, you'll be asked and beheaded.

The difficulty of cheating in the examination is slightly easier than that of the palace test, but it is only relative, in fact, the difficulty of cheating in the examination is still very high, and once the crime is found to be very large, Cheng Minzheng, Tang Bohu and others are a lesson from the past.

In the fourth-level examination, the number of people who cheat in the college examination and the township examination is the most extensive, and the means involved are nothing more than knowing the examination questions in advance, entrainment, marking the test papers, and so on.

Shen Xi is in the inner curtain, even if he has the heart to put an end to fraud in the examination room, he can't do it, the only thing he can do is to evaluate the merits of the essay as fairly and impartially as possible, and be a competent examiner.

But many times, this kind of batch has certain limitations, because ten people will have ten opinions after reading an article, and everyone will have subjective assumptions, and it is almost impossible to intuitively distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of the article.

Who dares to say that the article they have chosen is the best?

Even a great writer, let him write an article casually, it is not necessarily better than an ordinary person who worked hard to write, not to mention that the eight strands of literature in these years are almost all the same tone, citing the same four books and five classics, sometimes the criterion for distinguishing good and bad is to conform to the herd, if everyone thinks it is good, then it is really good, if someone finds out the shortcomings, then it will be fatal, and no matter how good a person's humanities are, he will be sentenced to death.

The results of the township examination are determined by three articles and four essays, which is particularly obvious.

This is also the reason why those who boast of outstanding literary talents, but repeatedly fall behind in the imperial examination field, is not that their articles are not good, but that they do not enter the eyes of the examiner, as long as the examiner thinks you are good, even if you write a bullshit article, you can be admitted in the end.

If the examiner just looks at you with colored eyes, even if you have a lotus tongue, you will end up with a fate.

Shen Xi is in the inner curtain, all he can do on weekdays is to look at writing and writing, and occasionally discuss the content of the exam with Jin Gui and a few inner curtain officials, and the life is quite boring.

Before the end of the 16th Township Test on August 16, Shen Xi had to stay in the inner curtain of the Gongyuan Courtyard, and he didn't know anything about the news outside.

It is rare to have such time, Shen Xi took the opportunity to sort out some of the manuscripts in his heart, which he wanted to write before but didn't have time, or didn't dare to write because of his lack of reputation.

Among them, there are both ancient lost but unearthed in later generations, there are also the works of literati and ink writers after the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, many ancient books were lost, Shen Xi very much hopes that through his own efforts, some manuscripts will be sorted out, edited into a book and passed on from generation to generation, to avoid the catastrophe of the rupture of cultural inheritance in later generations.

When Shen Xi was writing, Jin Gui would always come to his room to read it.

Jin Gui, who tried to see the flowers in the third year of Hongzhi, was surprised by Shen Xi's profound attainments in literature, Shen Xi was writing here, and he picked up the manuscript paper where the ink had not dried to read, and often he didn't read as fast as Shen Xi's writing, because Shen Xi's manuscript had a lot of thought-provoking things that he needed to think about and consider repeatedly.

"Brother Shen, I used to be too blind to anyone, and I didn't expect you to have such academic attainments? Foolish brother is really ashamed of himself! ”

Jin Gui's face was ashamed.

Although Jin Gui is polite to Shen Xi on weekdays, he always has a prejudice, thinking that Shen Xi is just running from time to time, and with someone appreciating it, he will have the status he has today's status at a young age.

But after he saw Shen Xi's article, he knew how talented Shen Xi was.

Shen Xi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's just a summary of the previous manuscripts, Brother Jin has a good reputation." ”

Shen Xi attributed all this to the ancients, in fact, it was not true, he himself could be a university professor in an era of cultural knowledge explosion, and the amount of knowledge stored in his mind was quite terrifying, which also covered a lot of his understanding and summary of the culture of previous dynasties.

Familiar with 300 Tang poems, can't compose poems and chant, in his previous life, Shen Xi was familiar with tens of thousands of books from childhood to adulthood, he is like a large library, after passing through, as he grows older, his mental power becomes more and more vigorous, and many manuscripts in the depths of his memory will always appear inexplicably in the depths of his mind, and what he needs to do is to record these things in words. This has long gone beyond the scope of the inheritor, but can be said to be a creator.

At the beginning, Jin Gui was idle and bored in the Gongyuan, but with the articles written by Shen Xi to read, he felt extremely fulfilled in his heart.

Articles that can't be found elsewhere can be witnessed here in Shen Xi, and looking at the manuscripts written by Shen Xi is like appreciating a huge chapter of Chinese civilization.

So much so that in the back, Jin Gui forgot to sleep and eat, and wherever he went, he always brought some manuscripts with him, and after reading them, he would always talk to himself, and even take a pen and paper to record them for later study.

"Two madmen!"

This is the most intuitive evaluation of Shen Xi and Jin Gui by others.

came to preside over the Shuntianfu Township Examination, and the candidates outside were taking the exam in the examination booth, and these two actually kept writing...... Okay, I know that you two are from Hanlin officials and have high learning, but you don't have to perform in front of us, right? And I'm addicted to acting, and I'm always that attentive look, I don't know if we're annoyed when we see the manuscript now?

Shen Xi and Jin Gui are like no one around, just doing what they like, where do they care how others look at them?

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On August 16, the township examination, which lasted for nine days and seven nights, finally ended, but at this time all the operations were still in the outer curtain, and the inner curtain officer had to read the papers, and it would not start until about 20 days later.

The period from August 16 to August 20 is the time to transcribe the candidates' examination papers, and the Shuncheon Prefecture has mobilized the teachings, instructors, and entrustment personnel of the government and county schools to come and help transcribe the examination papers. There are three or four thousand candidates, each of whom has to write almost 10,000 words, and these transcriptionists work almost day and night, and even then they may not be able to record all the examination papers completely.

In order to prevent errors in the transcription process of the preparation papers, or the cross-cutting between the examination papers and the candidates' test numbers, there will also be a special inspection of the reading officer.

After the transcription of the examination papers is completed, all examination papers will be sealed according to the examination number, and all the transcripts of the examination papers will be sent to the inner curtain for review.

There are a total of nine internal curtain officials, in addition to Shen Xi and Jin Gui, there are four same examiners who are responsible for reviewing the examination papers, as well as one examiner each of the three classics of "Yi", "Poem" and "Book", but it is the four same examiners who really determine whether the candidate will pass the primary selection.

In order to prevent the scene he experienced in the college examination, Shen Xi deliberately brushed down the good papers by the same examiner, he was ready, but whenever the examination papers were brushed down, he would read the four books and texts of these papers, and select the outstanding ones to enter the final reselection.

After statistics, the number of candidates for the Shuntianfu Township Examination in the 14th year of Hongzhi was 3,691, and it was finally determined that the examination papers that passed the primary selection were about 350 to 500, because there was no sub-list of the township examination until Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, and the number of people who were finally admitted was quotas, as for Shuntianfu, it was stipulated that 135 people would be admitted.

The final re-selection is to select the last 135 candidates from the 300 or 400 examination papers in the primary selection, and arrange them in order.

According to the rules, each township examination can have a slight fluctuation up and down on a fixed amount, the upper limit can be 140 people, and the lower limit is 120 people, and in order to avoid suspicion, the chief examiner of each session usually takes as little as possible and does not take more, so as to prevent the examination papers with poor talent from being mixed in, and being held accountable afterwards. The lack of admission can be explained by the fact that the quality of candidates in this township examination is generally poor, and those papers are pulled out to fill the number; There are too many admissions, but it's hard to explain.

Rather less than more, is an unspoken rule of admission to the township examination.

Shen Xi is very aware of the hardships of candidates, so the principle he adheres to is - rather more than less! And he, the examiner, is very responsible, if an exam paper cannot be decided, he will put it aside for the time being, and then compare it carefully when he comes back.

It may be difficult to judge the quality of an article directly, but if there is a comparison, it is easier to judge the quality of the article.

Because the "grinding survey" will not be available until after the Jiajing Dynasty, the final admission decision of Shen Xi and Jin Gui represents the final results of the township examination.

In a word!

Shen Xi and Jin Gui have very great authority in this Shuntianfu Township Examination. One of their decisions can sentence a person's life and death in the imperial examination, many people may be the last to participate in the township examination, this time they do not win, then they are destined to be idle students, relying on teaching to survive the rest of their lives, and forever have no chance with the scholar class, can only pin their hopes on the next generation.

On the afternoon of August 20, the examination papers were finally transcribed and sent to the inner curtain for final review.

The review of the examination papers will be completed as much as possible at the end of August, that is, there will be ten days, together with the final Kaifeng and Zhang Bang, everything will be completed in early September, and the Luming banquet is temporarily scheduled for the eighth day of September.

In other words, Shen Xi had to live in the tribute courtyard for a total of one month and two days.

There don't seem to be many rolls for a single person, but the number added up is extremely amazing, and when they were sent to the inner courtyard, what Shen Xi saw were dozens of large boxes.

Four examiners with the same examiner, one of whom is responsible for the examination papers of more than 900 people, can be busy to death.

The quota given to them by Shen Xi was to each person to select one hundred relatively excellent examination papers from their own examination papers, and the time for the primary selection was set at seven days.

In other words, the final selection will be completed within three days.

The examiner took the papers back, and in the hall, everyone was stacked high in front of them, and the examination papers must be marked during the day, and they had to leave the hall when they got to the lamp, and the hall would be locked and guarded. This is mainly to prevent the candle lighting from causing a fire at night, and all the work done before that is in vain.

On the first day of grading, Shen Xi mainly looked at the papers that were brushed down by the same examiner, and among the hundreds of exam papers, he only made up two or three copies, even the quality of these two or three papers was not very high. This shows that the examiners can still be as discerning as a torch in the cross-marking on the first day, even if one person fails to choose the exam papers, other examiners can also point it out and make up for it, and Shen Xi's last pass seems irrelevant.

But I'm afraid that as time goes by, the same examiner will start to be perfunctory, and at that time, it will be difficult to distinguish between good and bad papers.

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