Chapter 1 Township test unveiling

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Dark clouds rolled in the sky, pressing from the north, and the sky was clear just now, but now it has completely changed its appearance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lightning kept passing across the sky, from far and near, and the thunder was so loud that some children covered their ears and hid behind adults timidly.

The foliage on both sides of the road hunted for the wind, and some of the large trees were almost completely bent down, sweeping everything around them wantonly.

On both sides of the road, the teahouse was actually full of people, and everyone was waiting eagerly, looking at the direction of the Gongyuan in the distance.

At this time, the front of the Sichuan Gongyuan was already full of people from all walks of life, and everyone was anxiously waiting for the news of the list.

In the middle, there were hundreds of officials wearing red robes, but still holding spears to maintain order.

On the right are a procession of horses ready to parade, and the officials leading the horses, all of which are dressed in red and colored.

After each township test list, the front gong and drum opened the way, one official led the horse, the two officials held up signs to serve, and all the new imperial examination people sat on the street to accept the congratulations of the people from all over the world.

After walking through several long streets, I came to the governor's yamen to meet the governor, the governor, and then to the school yamen to meet the examiner.

On the left are some scholars and their families who rushed to take the exam, and the final winners of the three exams in half a month were waiting anxiously one by one, regardless of the past Sven.

The township examination is divided into three examinations, each of which is three days, which is three tragic knockout rounds, and after each examination, the examiner lists half of the unqualified ones, and posts them on the south wall, and those who are listed above are not allowed to participate in the subsequent examinations.

In ancient China, the government paid attention to the openness of government affairs, and there was a wall for posting official documents in front of each big laughing yamen, because it sat north and faced south, and the wall was in the south of the yamen, so it was collectively called the south wall.

These people who were able to take the third exam were already very rare, and after a great wave of sand, from the initial six or seven thousand people were eliminated layer by layer, to the end there were only more than 1,500 people.

But every time the main list is admitted, there are only sixty or seventy people, even if you add the deputy list of people, the year tribute, the election of tribute or something, in three years, there are less than 100 people in the province, and there is really no one in ten.

To say that in the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, the college entrance examination was a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops, and the township examination in the imperial examination era was the real one in a hundred.

No wonder the folk ridicule those poor talents, if you can win the lift, it is the smoke of the ancestral tomb, if you can win the Jinshi, it is the heaven and the stars descend to the earth, how many generations of blessings come from cultivation.

Everything is inferior, only reading is high, the township examination is the entrance examination of the imperial examination, as long as the high school lifts people, they will immediately become the local leader.

After the novel "The History of Confucianism" Fan Jinzhongju, the old man Zhang in the city sent real estate, broke down and came to run, less than a few months, the Fan family had hundreds of acres of fertile land without three meals, and there were maids at home, the old lady wore gold and silver, and the family had no worries about food and clothing.

Even if you don't pass the test, you can come out to be an official, just like Hai Rui in the Ming Dynasty, as a person, first as a teacher, then as a county, and finally the official worships the governor of Nanzhili, seals the territory, and becomes a prince.

If you will take the high school top three jinshi and rank among the top in the palace examination, you will become the hottest person in the country almost overnight, and you only need to experience a few years in the six yamen or local yamen, and you will be able to become a feudal official in the future, or enter the cabinet as a minister, leave a name in history, and glorify your ancestors.

With the idea of carp jumping over the dragon gate, many gray-haired old children traveled thousands of miles to participate in the township examination, the entrance examination of the imperial examination.

The imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was very developed, among which the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination were Xiucai examinations, and only after obtaining the status of Xiucai through the provincial academic examination presided over by the academic administration, could you participate in the formal imperial examination later.

The township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination are the official examinations of the imperial examination, and only those who are promoted in the middle of the examination can come out to be officials.

Therefore, the Gongyuan Township Test is directly related to everyone's worth and future, and everyone is looking forward to it.

Suddenly, there was a burst of gongs and drums in the Gongyuan, everyone knew that the list was released, and the crowd that was still squeaking just now suddenly held their breath, and there was no sound outside the gate.

From a distance, I saw a scholar walking in the front, followed by hundreds of officials, some of them maintained order, everyone held a wooden plaque with the name of the winner, the place of origin, and the ranking of the winner.

The red list slowly unfolded, and everyone held their breath as they listened to the academic officer loudly announce the name of the person who won the promotion.

Just like the beauty pageant in the previous life, the announcement of the red list also started from the lowest-ranked sub-list, and the student said aloud:

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (癸未年), there were 12 people on the deputy list of Sichuan Township Examination, and the twelfth place: Pengzhou Xiucai Yang Xuan and Yang Zixiu won the 20th place in the deputy list.

The scholar's voice was too small, and several officials next to him shouted: "Congratulations to Pengzhou Shizi Yang Xuan Yang Zixiu High School for being ranked twentieth." ”

Shouting this three times in a row has been heard by everyone present.

The shouting was followed by a burst of suona.

Then, a servant held up a long sign that read: Pengzhou Yang Xuan Yang Zixiu High School deputy list of the twentieth place, and then to the surrounding people to the hand, the official asked: "Gentlemen, that is Pengzhou Yang Xuan Yang Zixiu master, congratulations on winning the twelfth place in the deputy list of this department." ”

This sub-list is probably not like the best photogenic award in the previous life beauty pageant, the best acting award, the best popularity award or something, it is just used to adjust the atmosphere, although the sub-list is only a sub-list, except that he can't go to Beijing to participate in the examination like the main list, he has all other rights.

And after hearing the announcement of the school official and seeing the sign of the officer, for a while, the crowd was restless, and everyone worked hard to find it, and many people worked hard to find out who this Yang Xuan was.

As far as everyone could see, there was a scream, and the figure was in a commotion, and everyone looked forward to it, and saw a young scholar slowly falling to the ground from a distance.

In previous years, there were also cases of students getting sick and students going crazy on the spot.

In feudal society, the imperial examination is a carp jumping over the dragon gate, which is directly related to the future of the scholar, but there has never been such a phenomenon as vomiting blood and fainting on the spot.

Everyone panicked, and the roll call work was temporarily terminated, but fortunately, the Gongyuan had already prepared Langzhong, and several officials carried Yang Xuan to the gatehouse of the yamen, and was temporarily taken care of by several Langzhong.

This situation occurred at such an important moment as the unveiling of the list, and some students next to him were quite dissatisfied, and some even scolded, which is really unlucky, today is everyone's happy day, how can you encounter such a thing as fainting?

A few scholars next to the fainted scholar were also caught off guard, some people, Lang Zhong and the official helped this unlucky ghost to the gatehouse to take care of it, while others explained again and again: "Don't be surprised, it was the deputy head of the new branch who vomited blood and fainted just now, Yang Xuan Yang Zixiu of Pengzhou."

Although Brother Zixiu is only in his twenties, he is appreciated by Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, who was not only a scholar four years ago, but also selected as an enlarged student to enter Jinjiang Academy.

In the past few years, Brother Zi has been studying even more hard in our Jinjiang Academy, and everyone thinks that he will inevitably be on the high school list in this township examination.

Who would have thought that Creation would make people, Brother Zi Xiu only won the sub-list, so his heart was so unsmooth, he vomited blood in his mouth, and fainted to the ground. ”

I heard that it was the deputy list who fainted, first the good news official panicked, and generally the good news has a few taels of silver reward, how did you meet such an unlucky ghost this time?

In order to reward money, the official took three steps and made two steps to the porter, and urged Lang Zhong again and again, whether this unlucky ghost could wake up, and whether he could give a reward of silver.

Some of the scholars next to him were quite unconvinced, and sneered at each other: "Although most of your Jinjiang Academy students are rich and broad, everyone eats imperial grain, why is it not as good as us poor people who can't resist the blow, and what kind of deputy list lifter fainted on the spot?"

You need to know that the imperial examination was originally crossed by thousands of troops and horses, how could it be that a cat and a dog were right? ”

The officials may be confused when they see this, why did the author intentionally or unintentionally mention Jinjiang Academy, could it be that there were various academies in ancient China?

In fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, there were Taixue in the imperial court, and there were county schools and county colleges in the local area.

In the Ming Dynasty, the state had a national superintendent, and selected some excellent scholars from all over the country to study, and the number even reached more than 2,000 people, almost the size of the average university student in the nineties.

Just like the state package of room and board for college students in the seventies and eighties, the Guozi supervisors include the students of the school (1 quintal of rice per month) and the zengguang students (8 buckets of rice per month), and the state also provides living subsidies of varying amounts for each person.

In addition to Guozijian, the provinces are to establish academies for the local scholars to study, just like the Yuelu Academy, Bailu Academy, in ancient times, there is Yang Yiyi two (Jiangnan first, Sichuan second) said, during the Northern Song Dynasty, there are four major academies in Chengdu, and the most famous of them is Jinjiang Academy, and its students are mostly excellent students from all over the world.

The surrounding scholars laughed, and a tall scholar in front of him was quite annoyed, glared and asked, "What, not convinced?"

In Xia Qiongzhou Xiucai Liu Daozhen, you may not have heard of it, but this is Brother Zou Jianchen, Brother Zou is the most popular candidate for the Sichuan Township Trial Xie Yuan, do you think that Brother Zou still wants to deceive everyone? ”

When everyone heard this, they shut up one after another, and some were even more envious.

Just like before the college entrance examination in the previous life, students often ranked according to the grades of their classmates, thinking that it might be a prestigious university in high school, and in ancient times, during the imperial examination, Shilin was often ranked like this.

Zou Jianchen and Liu Daozhen of Qiongzhou are the most famous scholars in Jinjiang Academy, and they are the most popular candidates for this township examination.

In particular, although Zou Jianchen, who was a talented musician, failed in the first two sessions, he became even more famous in the past three years, and was respected by Sichuan Shilin.

There is also this Qiongzhou student Liu Daozhen, but he is an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, and many people claim that he can win the Wenju people first, and then go to the martial arts championship.

Now watching these two students talking for that unlucky ghost, everyone is puzzled, why can't they stand the setbacks so much, how can they faint on the spot when they hear that they have won the deputy list?

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