After Shen Kang was rumored to be presiding over the examination, Ji Ning did become the target of public criticism for a while.

Shen Kang has a lot of disciples, but now only Ji Ning is still participating in the examination, especially Ji Ning is still Xie Yuan of the Jinling Township Examination, under a series of reputations, Ji Ning's admission probability in this examination has also increased a lot, and others are willing to believe that Shen Kang will admit Ji Ning into the range of three hundred tributes.

In the Dayong Dynasty, winning the tribute will mean that you will be qualified for the palace examination, and the title of Jinshi will not run.

Others are still extremely envious of Ji Ning having such a master, but the problem is that now no one has said that Shen Kang will definitely be able to come out to preside over the examination, and no one can even find out where the source of this news comes from.

It is gradually approaching the ninth day of February when the examination will begin, and the imperial court and the Temple of Literature will announce the examiner, which will basically be in early February.

The examination is different from the local township examination, and the examination process is quite rigorous, and after announcing the chief examiner and the same examiner, the imperial court will send people to escort these people into the well-guarded tribute courtyard. The examiner is still the examiner, but before the examiner, the examiner has also entered the Gongyuan, and all the questions are published a few days before the exam, and they will be printed and become the test papers in the hands of the candidates. 、

It will be completed in a few days in early February, and the time will be very short, so the court will also rush to complete some things.

Candidates will enter the venue on the eighth day of the first month of February, and will not come out of the Gongyuan until the end of the nine-day exam, the examination time is one day longer than the township exam, and the content of the exam has also increased, mainly involving some complex academic theory exams, and the scope of the exam is still around the four books and five classics, which is a subset of the scriptures and history in a large way.

The scope of selection of the examination has been very broad, and there has been news that this year's examination will increase the examination of arithmetic, perhaps because the imperial court lacks talents from the household department, so the imperial court will temporarily increase the subjects, once the candidates who perform well in arithmetic, even if the rest of the subjects do not perform well, they will be admitted, but not as a regular jinshi into the imperial court, but as a "supplementary jinshi" into the imperial court, they are outside the admission range of three hundred jinshi.

Ji Ning didn't want to go off the rails, although he himself was outstanding in arithmetic, he would rather gain benefits in the normal imperial examination and obtain the status of a jinshi.

He himself doesn't really care about the Jinshi of several lists, whether it is Jinshi and the first, or the Jinshi origin, or the Jinshi background, as long as he can get the literary name of the Jinshi, his goal is to stay in the Confucian Temple, so his focus is mainly on academic research, and at the same time the literary atmosphere is displayed, and he does not want to be involved in the intrigue in the court.

The three hundred tributes were selected from more than 10,000 candidates, and the elimination rate was also quite cruel, and Ji Ning was also ready to fight a tough battle.

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Until the beginning of February, Ji Ning stayed in the mansion, and he didn't even go to see Tang Xie and the others, let alone attend any cultural meetings.

Just as Tang Xie and others were worried, after others knew that Shen Kang might become the chief examiner of the examination, what they thought of was not what kind of questions Shen Kang would make, but whether Shen Kang's main examination would be fair and whether some candidates would benefit from it.

As Shen Kang's apprentice, Ji Ning was pulled out, and while the old matter was brought up, he also slandered Ji Ning in his heart, thinking that Ji Ning must have no talent, and he will still be admitted in the end, and he is likely to be admitted as the first Huiyuan in the examination, as if they have persecution paranoia, they began to find a way to prove that Ji Ning's talent and learning are not enough to be admitted to the Jinshi, let alone become a Huiyuan.

Catalyzed by this kind of thinking, many people will send invitations to Ji Ning and ask Ji Ning to attend some literary meetings, but to put it bluntly, they will still embarrassed Ji Ning.

Ji Ning refused to admit that he was the one who wrote the poems after the Beijing Poetry Club, just in case there would be today's situation.

As a result, Gu Yuming stupidly suffered for him, Gu Yuming didn't understand this truth, and as a result, after the literary meetings again and again, Gu Yuming was finally revealed in his true form, or Gu Yuming himself has a certain talent, but he can't stand the hatred of so many people for him, Gu Yuming is invincible with two fists and four hands after all.

After Ji Ning knew that Shen Kang might become the chief examiner of the examination, the choice he made was different from Gu Yuming, he would not go out and be embarrassed, he didn't need to prove anything to others before the examination, as long as he could perform well in the examination, others would keep their mouths shut.

After all, the examination is not an examiner who can decide everything, and there is a palace examination after the examination, which is an examination in which the emperor and Yasheng, who is in charge of the Temple of Literature, inspect the candidates together, and they cannot cheat at all, and the candidate's tone will also be obvious, and there is no room for any water.

On the third day of the second lunar month, Ji Ning was still studying at home, and on this day Han Yu suddenly visited, Ji Ning invited people to the main hall, Han Yu sighed lightly: "Yongning, bring you a message, I don't know if it's good for you!" ”

Ji Ning was curious: "What's the matter?" ”

Although he didn't know what it was, he vaguely guessed that it had something to do with the candidate for the examiner.

He counted the time, and the time when the imperial court and the Temple of Literature announced the candidates for the chief examiner was about these two days.

"The candidates for the chief examiner and the same examiner have been decided, the chief examiner sent by the imperial court is not an official of the Ministry of Rites, but Zhang Yujue, a waiter from the Huangmen of Menxia Province, and the chief examiner sent by the Confucian Temple is Zhu Su Zhongyu, who has just been promoted to a university scholar, and Shen University Scholar is not among the main examiners." Han Yu said, "There is also a list of eighteen room examiners here, all of whom are from the Hanlin Academy and the Temple of Literature, you can take a look at ......."

Ji Ning was relieved to hear that Shen Kang had not become the final examiner.

In fact, he expected that Shen Kang should not come out to preside over the examination, because Shen Kang's qualifications have already been out of the category of the examiner.

Shen Kang is a "Title University Scholar", which is one level higher than the "University Scholar" who generally examines the examiner, although many times in the Dayong Dynasty "Title University Scholar" is not worthy of the name, but Shen Kang's moral integrity and prestige are there, and before Shen Kang retires, there is no need to be busy in the imperial examination field anymore, it is better to give this opportunity to the main examination to those "juniors".

The same examiner in the eighteen rooms, a total of thirty-six, the imperial court and the Temple of Literature in each room sent a same examiner, the examination papers of the north and south candidates, will be reviewed in the upper nine rooms and the lower nine rooms respectively, and finally the north and south candidates each admit one hundred and fifty people as the final tribute, as for the ranking of the final tribute, it is determined by the chief examiner.