[Today's first update, red ticket, collection. 】

Liu Neiquan's yamen is located in the palace, this is because Liu Neiquan is a subordinate institution under the Zhongshu Gate, so naturally it can't be too far away from the political hall. Since he came over a few days ago to hand over the family report, Han Gang has come to Liunequan every day to report, and he is familiar with the way. After checking your identity through the right gate, you will enter Miyagi. In the past, the Wendeok Gate on the front was the Wendeok Hall where the Shuowang Dynasty Meeting was held every month. And the place where Han Gang is going is to the west, which is the political and military center of the Great Song Dynasty - the combined name of Zhongshu Menxia and the Privy Council, also known as the Political Affairs Hall, also happens to be the center.

There is a pavilion in front of the Yamen of Liuneiquan, which is called the Que Pavilion, but this Que is not the palace Que, but the official Que. The pavilion does not let people rest, it is used for Zhang Bang. In the pavilion, there is a circle of water cards hanging side by side, and there are as many as a dozen pieces. It is plastered with a list of officials who have recently registered in Liunequan and have not yet been noted, in order to show justice.

The reason for this kind of self-dismissal is that there are more monks and less porridge in the officialdom today, and there are always three to five hundred idle officials in the three classes of the courtyard in charge of low-grade military ministers, and there are also three to five hundred people under the flow of people who are in charge of the selection of people. There are only more than 10,000 officials in the world, while the total number of civil and military officials exceeds 20,000. A good official always attracts how many idle officials to scramble. How many people have not been able to wait for a good dispatch since they joined the government, and they are even more impatient.

But Han Gang didn't need to wait at all, from Zhang Shouyue and Wang Shao, to Zhao Ji and Wang Anshi, the Son of Heaven. They all did their part for his sending, even if they participated in the election, they just had to go through the motions according to the rules - this is what a small official who received him said yesterday, and said that it was because Liu Lingcheng, who was the chief examiner, was inconvenient to meet before the exam, so he asked him to tell him. However, Han Gang has always been cautious, and he has not relaxed because of a stranger's words, knowing that he is invincible in a hundred battles is his consistent code of conduct. Yesterday, he specially asked a lot of news from Cheng Hao and Zhang Jian, and he also knew the general content of the selection.

Military attachés aside, there are two types of civil service selections. One is to elect people and change officials, from local shogunates to Beijing officials. The other is the examination for new officials to enter the officialdom.

If it is a person who is selected to change an official, there are four cases to be adjudicated as usual. Only those who pass the test can be changed to Beijing officials. This is to test the candidate's ability to handle government affairs. Because after being selected and transferred to a Beijing official, he can serve as a pro-people official such as the magistrate of the county, the general judge, and even the governor of the army and the prefecture. The pro-people officials, who are administrative, civilian, judicial, and even military, are the pillars of state power, and it is necessary to test whether they are competent to perform such a high-stakes job as an acting official.

Relatively speaking, the difficulty of selecting a newcomer to the official is much lower, if he has a background, such as a scholar or a system, there is no selection, and he is directly appointed. Most of the remaining people who need to participate in the selection are shadow officers. Although their official character is not high, they all have one or several high-grade fathers, brothers and relatives behind them, and embarrassment for them is tantamount to being uncomfortable, so the difficulty of the exam is very low.

There was so much news that Han Gang got from Cheng Hao and Zhang Jian, but they didn't mention the specific exam subjects, they just said that he should review according to taking the Ming Jing exam-Han Gang didn't know poetry, and this matter had been seen through by them in the past few days.

In the envious and jealous eyes of the idle officials guarding the gatehouse of Liuneiquan, Han Gang was led into the yamen by a small official. However, he was not led into the main hall, but turned around a few times and came to a side hall.

There were only two civil officials in green robes in the hall. Han Gang guessed that one of them should be Liu Lingcheng who sent a message to him yesterday, and the other person was sitting at the same level as him, it should be an official of the same level, could it be that he was the chief official of Liunequan?

While walking into the hall, Han Gang faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart. He heard Zhang Jian say last night that the Quanxu of the new official selection must be invigilated by a two-system official, that is, a bachelor of Hanlin or a member of the middle school. And the class of the two officials is Sima Guang and Wang Jue, who does not wear a red robe and does not have a goldfish bag around his waist? What's more, why did he come alone, it should be a group of people to take the exam together!

"Liu Lingcheng, Cheng Lingcheng, Qinzhou will be brought by Han Gang, the candidate of Quan." The official reported it and withdrew.

After confirming the identities of the two, Han Gang was even more puzzled. The chief official of Liunequan is the judge of Liunequan, and Zhang Jian also said yesterday that Chen Xiang, the head of the secret pavilion of Liunequan, is a righteous person, so he doesn't need to worry about anything else. But he didn't expect that Chen Xiaoli was not there, but two Lingcheng were waiting for him.

Han Gang stepped forward and saluted, bowed his head and lowered his eyes and took a step back, waiting for the two Liunequan Lingcheng to speak. It's just that the moment he lowered his head, the two Liunequan Lingcheng exchanged a look with each other, and their faces were a little more worried.

"Han Gang?" Lewy's voice was low.

"It's down there!"

"Where?"

"This is Jiaoxi, Mizhou [now Jiaoxian County, Shandong]. Born in Chengji, Qinzhou. ”

The conversation to confirm the identity ended after a few words, and it was just a formality. Putting down the family in his hand, Liu Yi put on a smiling face, "Brother Han has been in Beijing for many days, I'm afraid I can't wait, right?" ”

"Don't dare!"

"Nothing dare! The officials outside scolded every day, but didn't they still have nothing to do? Liu Yiha laughed twice, and for some reason the laughter was a little dry, and said: "Since Brother Han has a special purpose of the Son of Heaven, this selection is just a formality." After all, the imperial court is in order, and those who have no background must take the exam once, and it is not easy for us to disobey it. However, since Brother Han was able to get the recommendation of the three of them, and because he had the blue eyes of Wang Dashen, he also made a special decree from the official family, so it is naturally very good to learn. Quan Xuan can even pass the test in those shade supplements that are not successful, not to mention Brother Han. ”

"Ling Cheng has won the award, Han Gang is ashamed."

"What's the matter, it's Brother Han who is too humble!" Lewihal laughed again.

Han Gang laughed softly a few times with him, but in his opinion, the fog of this election is getting more and more. This Liu Lingcheng is an old oilman in the officialdom, and it is not a simple matter to see through his thoughts. Han Gang looked at Liu Yi and always felt that there was a little bit of worry and distress hidden in his smile, which made Han Gang unable to figure it out. Soon he gave up. Guess what a person thinks, it's better to watch what he does. It is much more accurate to infer purpose and position from actions than to look at words and colors.

"Brother Cheng, what do you say?" Liu Yi finished laughing and asked the people around him.

"Isn't it time to start?"

"Well, it's time to get started!"

According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, the new official interpretation of brown had to go through four examinations, that is, the so-called 'body, speech, and calligraphy' - appearance, speech, calligraphy, and the ability to judge things. At this time, although the four basic principles still need to be discussed, the inspection is not as rigorous as that of the Tang Dynasty.

What I didn't say about my appearance, in the Tang Dynasty, I may still pay attention to good facial features, and I can't look crooked and bad. But at this time, it is no longer the pursuit of looks, but refers to good health and no disabilities. If it is a jinshi, even this one can be vague in the past, blind eyes, and a tumor in the neck, you can be an official.

Not to mention talking and the like, it is completely subjective judgment, and no examiner will use this to jam people's necks now. If you offend people too much and don't mention it, you may be complained.

Calligraphy is the basic condition for being an official, and if you can't write well, what kind of civil official? I changed to become a military attaché. As long as there are no more than three typos on the handwritten family certificate, and the calculation of five questions in Qian Gu is correct for three questions, the book and arithmetic section of the military attache will be considered qualified, and you can become a qualified logistics military attaché. If you can also ride a horse and shoot archery, if the level is not bad, the combination of the two can also be rated as excellent.

Adjudication, on the other hand, refers to the writing of judgments in judging cases, and making reasonable judgments in accordance with the law on the official documents submitted by the prefectures and counties to be judged and questionable, so as to test whether officials can competently handle official affairs, that is, whether they can 'understand things, understand the law, distinguish between right and wrong, and be hidden in disguise'. When I arrived here in the Song Dynasty, I also had to take the test. However, it is not only limited to judging cases, but also writing a poem or trying out the ten ways of ink - these two can be freely chosen.

Liu Yi and Cheng Yu were ordered to add some blockage to Han Gang. Let the official family know how incompetent the Qinzhou cloth clothes that Wang Anshi asked him to raise by special order! How much face did the Son of Heaven lose in front of the ministers?

But both of them understand that not getting along with Han Gang does not mean that they can cheat on their conclusions. For example, Han Gang is a little white face with good facial features and a healthy body, so it cannot be said that he has an ugly appearance, lacks arms and legs, and is not suitable for being an official. is obviously articulate and comparable to Su Zhang, so it cannot be said that he is a disciple of Chang, and he is not a class, although he has no talent, he has Ai Qi. If he has written a good handwriting, it cannot be said that he is illiterate.

This is too easy to debunk, Han Gang's name is all over the world after all, if there is any cheating, Han Gang will sue himself, and the two parties will confront each other, and the unlucky one will only be the one who is fake. But expanding his shortcomings, not mentioning his strengths, and changing the comments and judgments can still make Han Gang suffer, so that he can also show the means of praise and disparagement of Confucian disciples.

It's just that when they first met Han Gang, Liu Yi and Cheng Yu knew that things were not easy to do.

Han Gang has nothing to say about his appearance, no one can find fault with him, he only stands in front of him, and the temperament of a handsome and talented man is fully revealed.

Cheng Yu and Liu Yi asked Han Gang a few more questions, whether it was in the scriptures or in the history books, he was confident one by one, one by one, and answered them in a very orderly manner, talking gently, peacefully, and calmly, without the slightest nervousness, with his own temperament, it was impossible to open his eyes and say that he was vulgar and unliterate.

As for calligraphy, looking at the words on the family shape, you can know that the Tao has been practiced hard, and the iron is drawn with silver hooks, and the upright ones are like carved out. Cheng Yu was thinking about it in his stomach, this Han Gang, isn't he from the Chongwen Academy? The regular script of the three museums is a little too standard.

Such a young man, who has a demeanor in all aspects of speech and demeanor, is not at all like the three-generation peasant family written in the family profile. Liu Yi looked at him and wanted to help his daughter recruit a husband.