Li Meiting's behavior just now was a little strange, it was related to the future government test, and Sun Dan didn't dare to be careless.

After a little search of the information in my mind, I realized that the Wang Yuanzheng in Mr. Li's mouth was the editor of the Hanlin Academy of this dynasty.

The Hanlin Yuan is just a five-grade yamen, but it has a special status, it is in charge of the affairs of the edict, the annals, and the Wenhan, the examination system, the detailed documents, the emperor's advisers, and the think tank of the Son of Heaven. Many of the cabinet ministers were born in the Hallym Temple, so although the Hallym Temple was not of high grade, it was a famous and noble place.

A Hanlin Academy editor ran to Jinan, which in itself is unusual.

Sun Dan came to the school children of the Sun family who were ignorant, and he didn't know how shrewd he was, and after a little thought, he found that it was wrong, and he didn't care about being angry with Sun Gui, so he arched his hand and went straight to the door of the room where Li Meiting lived, and knocked on the door: "Mr. Li, the student Sun Dan asks to see you." ”

"It's Sun Dan, come in." Li Meiting hadn't slept yet, and he liked this student, so he let Sun Dan into the house.

After Sun Dan finished saluting and sat down again, Mr. Li asked, "What are you doing with me?" ”

"Mr. Jin was in a bad mood just now, and he was about to take the government test. And Mr. had just come back from Fuxue, and said that Wang Hanlin suddenly came to Jinan. The students are bent on gaining fame and fame, and they can't help but come to consult. Sun Dan replied cautiously.

"What a clever boy, who can draw inferences, and even this can be seen. Not bad, not bad. Mr. Li smiled: "You are one of my favorite students, and you naturally want to know these things, so you can sit down and listen to me tell you one by one." This Wang Yuanzheng is the academic administration of the Shandong Academy of Science and Technology. ”

Sun Dan was a little surprised: "Please also ask Mr., isn't the academic administration of the Shandong Academy Examination specialized?" ”

"The provincial-level academic administration is not permanent, but is assigned by the central government." Mr. Li spoke slowly and said this.

Xuezheng is the abbreviation of the Admiral Xuezheng Officer, who is responsible for the assessment of talents in each province. Although Xiucai is not a big deal, once he wins Xiucai, he is eligible to participate in the township examination. Moreover, the schoolchildren who have obtained the qualification of Xiucai are officially "scholars", and they are exempted from the privilege of being taxed due to servitude without kneeling before seeing officials. As long as he wins Xiucai, even if he squeezes into the backbone of society, he is the ruling class of the Ming Empire.

It is precisely because the identity of Xiucai is so important that in order to prevent fraud, the state does not set up a special academic and political officer, in order to prevent collusion between academic and local forces.

Therefore, during the period of the children's examination, the central government transferred personnel from various ministries of the Hanlin Academy and the Inspectorate to serve in this position for a short time.

The academic officials are generally appointed before the college examination or the big competition, and after the examination is over, they will return to Beijing to pay their lives.

The task of the Examiner for each term is also simple: to admit students and to evaluate former students.

The admission of students is to preside over the college examination, that is, the last of the children's examination in which Sun Dan and they participated, and the academic administration will write the questions and organize people to mark and admit them; The assessment of former students is to let the previous Xiucai take a separate examination to determine whether they can obtain or maintain the qualification of "Di Sheng", and those whose grades are too poor must even be given the punishment of "Tsing Yi" or "Fa She", that is, they are not allowed to wear Xiucai's "shirt" and wear a kind of "blue" sidebar clothes, or they are not allowed to study in the original state, county, or government school and send them to "social studies" to study. You must know that the top few talents in the show are those who have to receive "Dimi" to receive the national salary.

After listening to Mr. Li's explanation of the allusions of the academic officials, Sun Dan had a further understanding of the examination system of the Ming Dynasty. He asked, "Teacher, if the students can successfully pass the government examination this time, they will take the college examination in Jinan in May." It is understandable that Lord Xuezheng came to Shandong from Beijing to arrange examination affairs more than a month in advance, and by the way, he assessed the previous students. ”

"With me here, there should be no problem with a few of you passing the test." Li Meiting said confidently.

The difficulty of the prefectural exam is not much worse than that of the county exam, and the test is the ability of schoolchildren to memorize by rote. Moreover, the question and invigilator are also the prefect of Jinan Prefecture. This person has an old relationship with the Sun family, and the Sun family sends people over to carry out activities during the day, so it should not be difficult for seven or eight of the thirteen children of the Sun family to pass him in this period. The hard part is the hospital exam.

These small actions behind the scenes, Mr. Li is naturally inconvenient to talk to Sun Dan.

As Li Meiting himself said before, the identity of Xiucai is too important, and the country attaches great importance to the college examination. Not only did examiners be dispatched from the central government, but the examination papers were also given a vague name system, and special people were sent to transcribe the examination papers, which can be said to minimize the human factor.

Li Meiting said: "If you don't even have the confidence to try to pass the house, it will be in vain that I have taught you for so long." ”

Sun Dan pursed his lips knowingly, for such a long time, how long, only more than a month, to be honest, he really didn't learn anything from him, but he still said verbally: "Mr. has taught a lesson, and the student is also concerned about it." ”

Li Meiting frowned and said: "Your dim sum can also be understood, don't say it, it's simple." What I'm really worried about is the hospital exam, Wang Yuanzheng came to Jinan ahead of schedule this time, and what he did was a little too much. ”

"What's the matter, what's the matter with the first pass of the hospital exam?" Sun Dan hurriedly pricked up his ears.

"Yes." Mr. Li nodded solemnly and explained that under normal circumstances, there are two rounds of inspection examinations in the three-year term of office of the academic administrator, that is, one round of the annual examination and one round of the scientific examination, but in the actual implementation process, there are also many cases of combined examination or make-up examination, and the specific reasons may come from a variety of reasons, such as war, difficulties in personnel arrangements such as concurrently serving other positions, or difficulties in travel, etc., resulting in the absence of academic administration. Therefore, the exam date is generally not fixed.

"In normal years, the college examination will be scheduled at the end of May. After we finished this exam, we still have two months to prepare for our homework.

As a teacher, he has already found someone to collect the exam questions that Wang Yuan is studying and studying in various places, and is ready to carefully figure it out, and roughly estimate the scope of his entrance questions and personal preferences. In order to do what they like, I will give you a range of answers. It's a pity ......"

"What's the pity?"

Li Meiting said hatefully: "It's a pity that when Ziyuan stayed in Yangzhou for a long time today, he refused to return north." The cabinet's side of the orchestra is piled up, and the Hanlin Academy also has to help deal with official business. Wang Yuanzheng was anxious to complete the entrance examination for admission to the university in Shandong as soon as possible, so he advanced the examination date to April 1, and came to a government examination and a joint examination for the two subjects of the college examination. ”

Sun Dan was stunned, and the examination date for the government examination was March 25. After the exam, it will take five days from marking to issuing the list. After the list was released on the 30th and the number of students participating in the college examination was determined, there was only one day left to take the college test. In other words, students who have been qualified for the college examination have only one day to prepare for the exam.

Sun Dan: "Isn't this a bit ridiculous?" ”

"How not!" Li Meiting slapped the table: "What kind of son of heaven there is, what kind of courtier, it's absurd today, Wang Yuanzheng is also messing around......" probably felt that it was a bit too much to talk about the son of heaven behind his back, and Mr. Li closed his mouth at the right time.

Seeing that Mr. Li was in a bad mood, Sun Dan persuaded: "Sir, the tight examination period for entering the Academy of Sciences is not a good thing for the children of my Sun family. But it's the same for other students in the house, there is no time to prepare for the exam. That is to say, no matter how tight the time is, no matter how tight the time is, you can still be successful, and if you can't get in, no matter how long you prepare for the exam, you will lose your name to Sun Shan. ”

"yes, I didn't figure it out." When Mr. Li thought about it, he immediately became happy: "Although I am also asking people to figure out Wang Yuanzheng's previous exam papers, others may not have this mind. Now, everyone has no time to prepare, to the cheap me. I am familiar with Jinan Mansion, and I also have a relationship with Wang Yuanzheng. Find an opportunity to get to know Wang Yuanzheng nearby and see if you can smell some smell from him. ”

He got up from his chair: "Without further ado, I will immediately write a letter to ask someone to send him back to Zouping overnight and let Sun Yue come to Jinan." ”

The big family is profitable, especially when it comes to big things.

After Mr. Li wrote the letter, a subordinate immediately took the letter and took a boat back to Zouping overnight.

In the evening of the next day, when Sun Dan was basking in the sun in the yard, he heard a woman's scream: "What a Sun Dan, other schoolchildren are reviewing their homework, you are lazy here alone, are you embarrassed?" ”

Sun Dan looked up in surprise, and saw a group of people walking in at the door, led by Sun Yue, followed by Jiang Ruoying, who was making a grimace.

Sun Dan hurriedly asked her why she came here and whether she was seasick.

Jiang Ruoying stuck out her tongue: "How can I be seasick, I'm from Suzhou!" ”

"Hehe, I forgot, you are a woman from the water town in the south of the Yangtze River. Northerners ride horses, and southerners take boats, so naturally they will not get seasick. Seeing the smile on Jiang Ruoying's face, Sun Dan was in a very good mood.

After asking a few more words, Sun Dan knew. It turned out that Li Meiting's urgent letter arrived in Zouping early in the morning.

Hong Fu from the big house in the house discussed it with Mrs. Liu in the second room, and felt that it was a big matter and could not be sloppy, so he immediately asked Sun Yue to pack up and set off. And Jiang Ruoying is a little girl who is not afraid of heaven and earth, so she said that she moved Sun Yue and quietly came to Jinan with him.

The people of the Sun family also feel that this hospital examination is very important, and besides, the Sun family has the habit of going to Jinan for summer vacation every summer. I simply went to Jinan a few months in advance to stay. So, the whole family was preparing to pack up and prepare to move to Jinan.

It is now the seventh day of the first month of March, and there are 23 days left before the government test, and 28 days before the hospital test.

During this period of time, schoolchildren from various provinces in Shandong continued to gather in Jinan, and finally reached 2,000.

For the government exam, Sun Dan didn't worry about it, after all, there was a public relations job of the Sun family, and among the thirteen schoolchildren, seven or eight of them had no problem.

The problem lies in the level of the hospital examination, according to the news that Mr. Li inquired about. In today's Shandong Institute examination, Jinan Prefecture has a total of 10 places for eight talents, and the competition is very fierce. I don't know how many people in the Sun family can win in the end.

Five days later, the wives, young masters, boys, and maids of the Sun family all came to Jinan by boat, with a total of more than 200 people, crowding the huge Tongle Courtyard into a crowd. I thought the Tongle Courtyard was very big, but I thought it was too small.

This is the first time that Sun Dan has seen all kinds of people in the Sun family's house, and he sighed in his heart, this family is really big!

This time, the Sun family came to Jinan for a vacation, and the silver was scattered like flowing water, and more than 1,000 taels were used in a few days. The daily necessities of each room, the consumption of repairing the house, and the maintenance of living facilities are all astronomical sums.

The poor are rich, and if they don't move, they will spend money.

spent so much money for the Sun family to show off this time. Even just for Sun Yue to be able to pass the exam. In fact, the Sun family also believes that only Sun Le can pass this year's college exam. Everyone else came to accompany the exam and warm up.

Even so, being able to go to Jinan for a vacation is also a grand festival for the ladies who live in the boudoir.

Seeing that they only ate and wore clothes, Sun Dan was eye-opening.

It is not an exaggeration to use flowers to brocade and fire to cook oil to describe the Sun family at this moment.