Li Yu actually dared to argue with Jinyiwei, he was also tired, his figure belonged to the kind of scabness, he looked tall and mighty, but he was actually papier-mâché, why was he the opponent of these martial artists?

Waiting for others to be twisted back, Li Yu's servants still wanted to come forward to rescue, and two more people came up behind Yu Niang, and after a few blows from left to right, no one dared to take a step forward.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Su Tong hurriedly pulled Shen Xi to the crowd on Yu Niang's side, he knew that he would be held hostage if he walked slowly.

When he arrived at the staircase, Shen Xi saluted and said: "Jade master, today's Li Gongzi's hospitality is not hindered, so let's turn the war into a jade silk." ”

Li Yu was arrogant just now, and at this time he hurriedly followed Shen Xi's words and said: "That's right, I didn't intend to embarrass Painter Zhao, in fact, it was all a misunderstanding, and now the misunderstanding has been solved, he has never seen my sister, and he will ask for more advice in the future......

Yu Niang frowned slightly, she didn't understand what Li Yu meant by this, in fact, she didn't know why things started, she only knew that Su Tong invited Shen Xi to paint, just now, she was sitting in the tea house opposite, and vaguely heard a quarrel in the wine shop, and then saw the window on the second floor, Shen Xi seemed to want to jump out, so he hurriedly brought someone in to drink.

As for Shen Xi, who obviously came to paint, how he could have a relationship with the sister of the Li family's son, she didn't know, and she didn't want to ask.

As soon as she heard her brother say, "He has never seen my sister", Miss Li Er's face turned red, fortunately, it was night, and the light around the stairs was not good, otherwise she would be almost embarrassed.

Yu Niang made a straight face, a pair of cold eyes swept over the people present, and finally waved her hand, and Jin Yiwei let go of Li Yu.

Su Tong saluted from afar and said goodbye: "A few people, I want to send Zhao Painter back to my house, and I can't accompany him more." Forgive me. ”

Yu Niang personally led someone to escort Shen Xi downstairs, but she didn't care about Su Tong's safety, and waited outside. directly let Shen Xi get into the carriage, her cautious attitude. It's like the police are protecting and transferring important witnesses.

Su Tong saw that he didn't even have a chance to send Shen Xi back, so he could only say goodbye at the door of the wine shop: "Painter Zhao, I will have the opportunity to make amends with you in the future, don't complain about being a brother......

Yu Niang didn't listen to his ramblings, and had already personally rushed to the car to send Shen Xi to the direction of Dongsheng Inn.

When they returned to the inn, the two went up the stairs, and Yu Niang called Yunliu. Helping Shen Xi clean up the room, she also complained a little, and said: "As soon as Shen Gongzi came out of the palace, he almost made a mess of jumping off the building to escape for his life. I think that before the case is closed, please stay in the inn, if the thieves take advantage of it, the slave family will be unable to do anything even if they want to save it. ”

Shen Xi arched his hand and said, "Thank you Yu Niang for taking care of you these days." ”

Yu Niang looked at Shen Xi, shook her head with a complicated expression, and then went out with Yunliu.

Shen Xi originally wanted to ask Yu Niang for a leave of absence, and go back to the small courtyard to see Lin Dai and Zhu Shan. It's been a while, and Xiao Nizi was still angry with him before, and he was worried about it tightly. Especially after the temple exams.

At the moment, if the thief is caught, Yu Niang will definitely not let him go out with confidence, just today with Su Tong to see Li Yu and the others, it will almost make it difficult for Yu Niang, even if Yu Niang is respectful to him as a quasi-jinshi, she will not give him a chance to go out again.

What was originally just residential surveillance has now become a real house arrest.

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March 16 is the day when the examiners of the temple officially begin to read the papers.

This morning. Fourteen officials entered the palace to read the papers, and yesterday the Ministry of Rites had sealed the names of 300 tribute scholars overnight. However, there is no transcription of the palace examination, so all the papers that the examiners want to read are the original papers of the candidates. If you meet someone who is known to the 14 markers, whose handwriting is familiar, and who admires the examinee very much, then the examinee will be lucky enough to get a lap score first.

Theoretically speaking, the 14 markers have to read all 300 examination papers, and if the examiners feel that the article is excellent, they will draw a circle, if they feel that the bullshit is not clear, they will directly draw a cross, if it is not good or bad, then it will not matter anything.

In the end, the quality of the article depends on the number of circles and crosses in the exam paper.

But this is not the case.

All the examination papers must be handed over to the three cabinet scholars, commonly known as the cabinet elders, to be reviewed, so that the cabinet elders can set the tone first.

The opinions of the elders are often the most important, and in this examination of the Ministry of Rites, the three elders are Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, and the opinions of the three of them are basically related to the final ranking of the candidates.

In the end, all the examination papers will be divided into three classes, and the examination papers of the first and second classes will be listed separately, the so-called first class means that there are more circles on the papers, and the second class is less circles, or more forks.

Finally, ten particularly excellent articles were selected from the upper class and submitted to the emperor, and the emperor judged the top seven of the first and second grades, ranking the seats.

In order to highlight the importance of the top ten in the Ministry of Rites, the top ten examination papers of the Ministry of Rites will basically be submitted, which is also an "unspoken rule" in the palace examination.

Finally, when selecting the examination papers, if there is no accident with these ten, there will be * copies selected into the top ten, and even all ten copies are also common, which is also the fundamental reason why Li Dongyang wants to promote Wang Shouren as the top ten after the Ministry of Rites will try to release the list.

Li Dongyang admired Wang Shouren very much, as early as the end of the last Ministry of Rites examination, he felt sorry for the country for not being able to select such an outstanding talent, so this session of the examination, Li Dongyang as the chief examiner, but also shouldered the responsibility of ranking for the Ministry of Rites examination, so Wang Shouren's ranking was slightly raised to the tenth place in the examination.

In this way, it increases the possibility of Wang Shouren winning the top spot.

Of course, these exist as unspoken rules and cannot be announced to the public, Li Dongyang is very familiar with Wang Shouren's words, and after reading Wang Shouren's articles on the palace examination, he is still very satisfied, but even Li Dongyang has to admit that among the 300 examination papers of the palace examination, the answers are appropriate, and there are many good articles with brilliant writing and even statecrafting ideas.

In any case, he still drew a circle on Wang Shouren's scroll seriously.

The marking of the palace examination is basically completed on the first day, and the workload is very huge. A marker has to read 300 examination papers, and a paper is generally more than 2,000 or 3,000 words, and it is really rare to read it from beginning to end. The opinion of the Cabinet Scholars is decisive.

It is also impossible for the Cabinet Scholars to review all the papers carefully, which is why the palace examination will specially select the top 10 papers for submission. After all, the examination is through half a month of marking, from the same examiner in each room, to the chief examiner, after layers of selection, plus the content of the examination is very comprehensive, it is easier to examine the candidate's knowledge and knowledge, than the palace examination is much more formal.

The formulation of such an unspoken rule is actually responsible for the selection of talents by the imperial court. After all, the palace examination only examines policy questions, and the inspection area is relatively narrow, if there are really people who are very average in their own learning and morality, just because they have made a good article in the palace examination, they will be promoted to the champion, which is too unfair to those students.

At the end of the day, the second-class examination papers will be directly filled in the imperial list and included in the top three, and ten examination papers will be selected from the first-class examination papers and presented to the emperor. If you can't be selected, you will also be included in the top two on the royal list.

The emperor will rank the top 10 in specific rankings, from the first champion, Bangyan, Tanhua, to the top seven in the second class. All were ranked by the emperor himself.

As for the rest of the people, when they are listed on the emperor's list, they will only be symbolically ranked, and they will be given the Jinshi origin or the same Jinshi background.

For the palace examination, only candidates who rank seventh or above in the second class can be regarded as an honor.

The policy of this palace examination is relatively very correct.

Because it was a question personally proposed by Emperor Hongzhi, the opening chapter always began with "His Majesty the Emperor", and the articles on the four policy questions were combined into one large article, just like a notebook written to His Majesty. Answer the questions asked by the emperor and express his opinion. This not only requires candidates to be well-educated, but also to form a transition between several small questions. So that the article will not appear dull and stiff because it is an answer.

Among the three cabinet scholars, Liu Jian belongs to the kind of people who are old and dizzy, so he looks a little perfunctory when he looks at the exam papers, after all, his body is clear, let him sit down and stare at the papers all day, he has to be tired and lie down. Therefore, the main work of marking the file is still on Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, and if they find any good papers, they will present them to Liu Jian to see, and if they are not very good or feel that they are not worth recommending, they will directly give them to other marking officers for approval.

The top ten examination papers of the Ministry of Rites will also be the focus of the examination of the examiners, and they must carefully check whether there are any errors, omissions or prohibitions in the text, after all, these ten examination papers are likely to be presented to His Majesty, and even say that if there is nothing wrong with these ten examination papers, they will basically be submitted in full.

Although this time the Ministry of Rites Examination was involved in the question, the top ten selected Ministry of Rites Examination were of a very high level of knowledge and articles, including the great Rulun Wenshu who graduated in Taixue, as well as Sun Xu, Liu Long, and Feng Xi, who had real talents and learning.

Thinking that Zhu Zhishan, Tang Yin, and Xu Jing, who are famous in Jiangnan, will either fall to Sun Shan or rank low in the examination, it is enough to know how high the quality of this examination is.

When it comes to the palace examination, it is the time for the tributes to give full play to their strengths, and everyone expects their articles to enter the eyes of the Son of Heaven, even if they cannot be read by the Son of Heaven, at least let these cabinet scholars and ministers be deeply impressed after reading them, and each of them strives to give full play to their talents and learning.

"This article is really spicy, but I don't know whose article it is?" Xie Qian picked up a volume, looked at it for a long time, and then looked at Li Dongyang next to him, wanting Li Dongyang to give him an answer.

When the Ministry of Rites took the exam, Xie Qian was not the chief examiner, and he had not really seen the talents of the people in this session, while Li Dongyang was one of the main examiners of the Ministry of Rites and had the most right to speak.

The paper Xie Qian said happened to be the handwriting of one of the top ten in the Ministry of Rites, and it was going to be presented to the Son of Heaven as the top ten in the palace examination, he didn't know, so he wanted to ask Li Dongyang if he was familiar with it.

But even if Li Dongyang is the chief examiner of the palace examination, all he has seen is the transcripted papers, and he can't know all the candidates from the font.

Li Dongyang took it and read it, nodded slightly, but immediately shook his head: "The article is good, but the work of the axe and chisel is too obvious." ”

Xie Qian seemed to understand something, and raised his thumb: "Gao Jian." ”

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