For three days, all the candidates stayed in the examination room for three days and two nights, until the invigilators collected the answer sheets on the third day, and the candidates could leave.

Many of the candidates looked a lot haggard, but their appearance was quite clean. Everyone knows to have a change of clothes or two, and at the same time water to wash their bodies, so that they can still maintain their maximum demeanor when they leave the exam room.

"There are slightly more people taking the exam this time, so the date of the release of the results will be in a month. Chu Gong is benevolent and righteous, and pays out of his own pocket to provide you with a month's room and board, but if you want to get better treatment, you have to pay for it yourself. Before leaving, Xu Chu appeared in front of everyone again and explained the situation to them.

More than 5,000 people's test papers need to be read, this is definitely a big project, and Li Minghui sent Zhang Mo to invigilate the exam, which also has this consideration. After all, after digitization, as long as he rests for a few hours within forty-eight hours, and for more than forty hours, he is completely energetic.

"The first step is to eliminate all the exam papers that are intended to pass the test in a foolish way!" At the same time, in the marking room of the examination room, martial law has been imposed around here, and whoever enters, excluding the staff, will be severely punished.

For this exam, in addition to the five major examiners, there are more than a hundred assistants. Rao is like this, it takes a day to sort out 15,000 exam papers in three days.

It took another two days to weed out those candidates who did not learn and did not know how to pass the test in a foolish manner, and finally 2,000 of the 5,000 test papers remained. There may be mistakes and omissions in the middle, and I will check again in the future to make sure that everything is safe, but not now.

"Two thousand, our task is still serious." Cai Yong is already in his sixties, and his energy can't keep up, and when he sees these two thousand exam papers, he only feels that his brain hurts.

"It's okay, we have to weed out the guys who are not politically firm!" Zhang Mo said slowly, "What we want to admit in the imperial examination is the talent we need, since the position is not firm, then there is no need to read the test paper!" ”

The other four people also meant the same thing, so it took three days to check the third answer sheet and weed out more than 400 of them who were not politically firm. What makes people speechless is that there are actually seven or eight people from Huiji Academy.

"Hmph, the head of the family spared no room to cultivate them, but after graduation, he didn't stand firmly!" Zhang Mo looked at the seven or eight exam papers, and suddenly felt like he had raised a white-eyed wolf.

"They all come from big local families, and as far as those big families are concerned, they don't always put all their chips on one person. But look at it, these people are all children of side relatives, which shows that they are still very optimistic about Chu Gong. Cai Yong looked at the names of these people, and it was quickly understood.

"Even so, it's still very excessive!" Zhang Mo pursed his lips, if he didn't plan to bet his chips on Li Ming, why would he send his son to study at Huiji Academy? This directly wastes seven or eight student places!

Others are well aware that it is precisely by occupying a few places in the school that they can avoid more poor admissions. At the same time, these people are from Huiji Academy, even if they defect to other forces, one day Li Ming wins the world, it will be much easier for them to change their courts. The family's considerations are often like this, but they lack a lot of courage without hesitation.

In troubled times, you can't even follow others with all your heart, so naturally don't expect to be reused. It is not difficult to understand that the founding fathers of the country are often from small families or small families.

"Alright, we're not done yet, it's been six days!" Cai Yong smiled, and then shouted. Only then did everyone react, and they continued to sift through in depth, and finally determined the 1,500 examination papers with a firm political stance.

There is no shortage of flattering Li Ming, and many words of praise are added to the third volume. This is just a means to get to the top, Zhang Mo and others also expressed their understanding, but those who did not have the slightest real strength after deducting flattery were also eliminated.

"The lord really gave us a problem, how should we sort this thousand five hundred copies?" Zhang Mo looked at the thick pile of things in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.

"So at this time, you have to look at the first exam paper, according to the above answers, divided into five grades: poor, qualified, good, excellent and perfect, so that the difficulty of marking the paper has dropped a lot, you should know the scoring criteria, right?" Cai Yong looked at everyone.

"Understood!" Everyone had already received the scoring criteria in advance, and at the same time, they had memorized it in their chests.

First of all, it is natural that the volume is complete, and those that can be written in full are perfect, and then only eighty, sixty, forty and two percent are written, which are excellent, good, qualified and poor. Of course, in order to write all the scribbles, they were directly eliminated.

The second is to check the answer to the first question, whether the sentence can be broken and explained is not the key, but to see whether the candidate can understand Li Ming's intention. An official who can only fool the people will only make Li Ming 'win the present and lose the future'.

Again, if you look at the numbers, you can't even know the calculation of the basic money and grain expenditure, how can such an official know what the annual expenditure of the county seat he is in charge of is? It is also very easy to let the officials collude with the family and fake account books to enrich their own pockets.

According to this standard, five equal divisions were drawn, and the result was that there were more than 300 copies of the difference, and soon there were small officials who carried out the third elimination, and in the poor batch, the guys who only planned to pass the test were eliminated, and in the end only fifty people remained.

"This part is placed at the bottom of the list, and their talents can only be county officials." Cai Yong put down the last exam paper, and the results and rankings of fifty people had come out.

There are a lot more qualified ones, more than 600 copies, and relatively perfect ones are worse, only five. However, these five copies, both in terms of strategy and overall vision, are very good, and they can be highly recommended.

"Three of them were selected, and this time the champion, Bangyan and Tanhua were decided among these three. The remaining two copies will be put into the second list. Cai Yong is a little reluctant, the talents of the five are all good, at most the concepts and knowledge are slightly different. Giving up any of them is a loss.

"There's one that can be directly removed!" Zhang Mo looked at one of them, "This person's third volume seems to have a firm position, but there are many metaphors, implying that the Duke of Chu and the Duke of Wei should surrender to the imperial court...... The key thing is that this exam paper has no name on it! ”

"It seems that it is a spy sent by the imperial court, so if you count it, Lu Yin is afraid that it is all fake! Well, this exam paper is invalid! Cai Yong nodded, so that as long as one more was abandoned, the psychological burden would be reduced a lot.

In this way, it took more than ten days to sort out the rankings, and Cai Yong, an old bone, rarely read the papers in person except for supervising everyone to read the papers when he worked for 20 days. Most of the marking work was finally handed over to Zhang Mo.

This guy is constantly grading, although there are people next to him to supervise, and it is also three shifts of supervision, but this guy is more than 20 hours at the beginning of the marking, and then he will rest for three hours and continue to read the papers for more than 20 hours, after more than 20 days, other examiners and small officials can't help but secretly exclaim: What a livestock!

A month passed quickly, and the candidates waited anxiously, and the door of the examination room finally opened again!