Liu Bing, the chief examiner of the examination of various prefectures and counties of the Fujian Political Envoy Division, is a very responsible person.

After the first test of the Tingzhou Prefecture Academy, he found someone to transcribe all the obscure exam papers that night, and began to review the test papers the next day.

Marking the test papers with Liu Bing is not only limited to the teachings, teachings, instructions and celebrities of the Tingzhou Prefecture Local Confucianism Bureau, but also celebrities and Confucians invited from the Jiangjiang region, which is also to ensure that in the two-day marking work, each candidate will have more than two markers to review and write comments.

Liu Bing has been an official in Fujian for three years, and he has reviewed countless examination papers, and he himself has high requirements for the selection of candidates, not only requiring good articles, but also excellent character.

Therefore, he has always held an attitude of ignoring those who ask for gifts, but he will not deliberately make things difficult for anyone, because he knows that the current scholarly atmosphere is not formed overnight, and if he complains about one or two of the candidates who are polluted by the atmosphere, it will be harsh to the candidates.

If the examiner thinks it is good, he will draw a circle on the test paper, and if he thinks it is not good, he will draw a cross. If it is a circle and a fork, a third person will be found to review it, and only the double-circle exam papers will be sent to Liu Bing.

Liu Bing is not responsible for reading all the papers, only after the two markers feel that the article is good, there are two circles on a test paper, and they are promoted, Liu Bing will review the test paper, and choose the person who is relatively good and the arguments and arguments are in line with his mind, and he will be allowed to pass.

Even if the argument is slightly biased, as long as the writing is good, Liu Bing will let it pass as appropriate. After all, this is the first college exam, and the standards are relatively broad, so you have to take enough 100 people.

After the first round of grading, Liu Bing selected about 70 people, and then added 100 people little by little.

For the people who added it, Liu Bing felt that the article was acceptable, and he could be given another chance to retest. But for these people, Liu Bing didn't have much expectations. to learn well. You can see the real chapter in one exam, why do you need to take multiple exams? He would rather draft talents on an exam, so that he can save trouble, but in fact, it is more direct for candidates. But that's how the rules of the court were. Nor can he disobey.

In this way, Liu Bing selected ninety-five candidates as the first to pass, and then he began to choose among those examination papers that were circled and doubled, and only one marker appreciated them, and matched those who were not admitted before. A few people were selected comprehensively, and the last five places were added to complete the last five places.

At this time, Shen Xi was still the loser, because Shen Xi's test paper had already been sentenced to death by two examiners.

By the night of June 22, Liu Bing had already selected all 100 candidates, and he did not deliberately let people open up their names to determine whether there were any cases in which the county head had not passed. For him, since you are the head of the county, it means that you have talent. Then rely on your own real skills to go to school.

As for the practice of sending Xiucai to the head of the county, it is actually to prevent the imbalance of educational resources within a government and ensure that each county has one or two candidates who are talented in each college examination. The head of the government examination case is not eligible for escort, because the escort will form a regional unfairness. This makes Liu Bing, who was born as a scholar, feel unfair, why do some areas with poor teaching quality have to have someone to show talent every year? And those who are really talented and learn will have to endure the misery of failing the list and continue to prepare for the next year's exams?

On the last night, in the main hall of the Confucian Education Department, a group of examiners were opening the original exam questions. In order to check whether the text was transcribed correctly, the edict of the Confucian Department of Confucianism listed all those who passed the first exam on a piece of paper.

Liu Bing didn't look at the test papers of the kind of double-forked candidates, in his opinion. Since it was denied by two markers at the same time, then this exam paper is just like that.

When the proofreading was over, and even the case paper was written, Liu Bingcai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Because the re-examination will only be conducted on June 24, Liu Bing will have a day off on June 23, after all, he will have to invigilate the re-examination. After the re-examination, he will personally review all the government examination papers to determine the list of the last 50 talents.

The case is equivalent to the "long case" in the county examination and the government examination, and the list will be issued based on the candidate's name and hometown, and the first place in the case is the head of the hospital examination, which is a very high honor.

Because the first case of the hospital examination is equivalent to ensuring that the students are supplemented in the annual examination or scientific examination at the beginning of the next year, which can be regarded as a disguised escort.

The next morning, on the day of the release of the list, the Tingzhou Prefecture Counselor compared the seat numbers of the first admission with the names of the candidates in detail, and informed Liu Bing about the failure of the three county leaders. Liu Bing said coldly: "What about the county head? Even if he is the head of the government, if his knowledge stops, the official can also let him not be hit. I heard that in your Tingzhou Mansion, there was a ten-year-old candidate who was appointed to the head of the government in the first year, and he was among the top 30? ”

The edict of the Confucian Education Department was a little surprised, why didn't Liu Bing ask whether he was admitted, but directly asked if he was in the top 30? He didn't know, because Shen Xi's case of winning the mansion last year was very sensational, as a Fujian student, Liu Bing would naturally notice that he read Shen Xi's article at that time, and he was also amazed, in his opinion, Shen Xi, the head of the Tingzhou Mansion case, deserved his name, so that the young man who has talent and learning himself has an unlimited future in the future.

Therefore, he felt that with his selection criteria for scholars, it was impossible for Shen Xi not to even pass the first game.

"Go back to Liu Tixue, this Shen Xi ...... also fell off the list. The edict of the Confucianism Department gave Liu Bing a blow to the head.

Liu Bing was stunned for a moment, after he came to Tingzhou Mansion, he also heard some rumors, saying that Shen Xi had the support of the Chamber of Commerce behind him, saying that he might be involved in bribery, but no one said that he had found someone to take the exam for him in the government examination, and the article on Shen Xi's mansion case was made by himself.

After all, it is difficult for a ten-year-old child not to be eye-catching, who is going to give him a substitute exam is not obviously being caught?

He thought to himself: "Since it's not a substitute exam, is it someone who made a good article for him in advance and cheated for personal gain?" ”

At this time, it was less than half an hour before the first case of the hospital examination, and Liu Bing was muttering in his heart, the exam papers that had been sealed could not be easily retrieved even by him, the chief examiner, but he felt the seriousness of the problem. Because he remembered that when he first came to Tingzhou Mansion to inspect the examination room, Shen Xi did visit him at the official residence with Su Tong and Zheng Qian, and submitted a famous post.

This is the rhythm of asking for gifts, or even favoritism.

Liu Bingxin said: "You have a good way of managing the water in Gaoming City, and you were directly transferred from the prefect of Tingzhou to the governor of Henan, how great is this, you dare to cheat for the candidates in the government examination?" Then I'm not going to join you? ”

"Someone, bring out the volume that was sealed yesterday and find ...... The volume of the first word A shall be submitted to the official for review. ”

Liu Bing was very angry, he couldn't rub sand in his eyes, since he knew that it might involve fraud, he had to be cautious. If Shen Xi's essay in the academy exam is really not good, he can even use his capacity as a student in Fujian to transfer the papers of the Tingzhou Prefecture Exam out, and use the quality of the two test papers as ironclad evidence to attack Gaoming City.

But when the Confucianism Department handed over the transcript of the examination paper of "Jiazi No. 1" to Liu Bing, Liu Bing couldn't help but be surprised that this examination paper was actually empty, and there was no article under the title of "Stopping at Perfection" on this test paper. Liu Bing pointed and said, "What's going on?" ”

The Confucian Department of Confucianism saluted and said, "The lower officials don't know. ”

Liu Bing didn't care too much, if the candidate couldn't answer the question and left the question empty, this kind of thing was commonplace. When he read the other two articles made by Shen Xi, although the articles are not very outstanding, the expositions and quotations, dual formats, and eight-strand lines are all very standard, and no matter how you look at such articles, they can be among the best in the college examination.

"Such a good style, why should there be an empty question?"

Liu Bing was puzzled, if he had suspected Shen Xi of cheating before, he had already dispelled this idea when he saw the examination papers of Shen Xi's Academy and the above two articles. Because of the quality of these two articles, they are basically the same as Shen Xi's articles in the government examination, and even the tone of the argument has a sophistication that does not belong to young people. What's more, he doesn't believe that anyone can cheat in the position of "No. 1" under his nose.

Liu Bing groaned: "Take out his original scroll, and the official will check it carefully." ”

The Confucian Department of Confucianism said: "Liu Tixue, I'm afraid this is not in accordance with the rules." ”

Liu Bing said angrily: "What's not in order, such a good article, I actually deliberately vacated a question, this kind of thing is really the first time I have encountered it." Since his first question is empty, why not just empty it to the end? ”

The edict of the Confucian Education Department was also speechless.

Indeed, since your first question is empty, then why do you still do it for the last two questions, anyway, no matter how good the last two questions are, it must be two forks to brush you down.

The Confucian Department hurriedly took Shen Xi's papers out of the six or seven hundred examination papers.

The Confucian Department of Confucianism got the Shen Xi exam questions, and when he saw the situation above, he said that it was not good, and hurriedly sent the papers over.

Liu Bing saw that there were three articles instead of two, and slapped it on the table: "Okay, you guys, this official comes to the place to get people, but I want to be fair and fair." Yesterday, the official asked you to check it carefully, but you didn't notice such a big mistake or omission? Bring the person who transcribed the scroll, and the official will personally hold him accountable! ”

The Confucian Department of Confucianism invited people in.

The person who transcribed the scroll for Shen Xi was named Gu Shun, an old scholar in his forties, from Ji'an Mansion, Jiangxi, who had been raised in his early years, and had not been an official because he had no money to dredge, but he was quite famous in the local school. This time, Liu Bing did not have many people, so he had to ask the invited grader to help transcribe the papers, but in the end, he changed the papers for review. Divide all the graders into several groups, and after transcribing the papers separately, they will split and batch the papers copied by the other group.

Gu Shun is both a transcriber and a marker, and with Liu Bing's understanding of Gu Shun in the past two days, this person's talent is also good, and his comments on the exam papers are also quite appropriate.

"Mr. Gu, how much of a sin is it that you actually omitted to transcribe one of these three articles?" Although Liu Bing scolded, he was still cautious.

Gu Shun raised his head arrogantly and sneered: "Then look at what kind of article this posterity has done, full of absurd words, Mr. Ben gave him a transcript, and he was afraid of dirty his hands!" ”

Liu Bing was completely angry before, and he didn't have time to read the missing article, but after he read through it, he immediately understood what was going on.

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