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Every township examination, there are two or three thousand talents in Zhending Mansion to participate in the examination, and the Zhending Mansion Gongyuan is also the third largest examination room in the Ming Dynasty.

Le Wen and Zheng Liangcai went to the square outside the Zhending Gongyuan together, the two of them carried books, stationery, test baskets, food, boilers and oilcloths for cooking, Le Wen couldn't help but be stunned by the scene in front of him, there were too many people.

There are so many candidates for the township examination, and then you can bring your relatives to come, and there are at least eight or nine thousand people in the entire square, and it is very congested to watch.

On the way to Zhending Gongyuan, I saw a big fat man like crazy, dressed cleaner than a pig, stepping on a pair of broken shoes, holding the test papers, walking around in the long alley like fire, walking and walking, shaking his head from side to side, dragging his proud article in a strange voice, reading the most proud, slapping his thigh hard, raising his thumb and shouting: "Okay! This is a must-win. ”

The officers and soldiers who maintained order at the gate were also screaming and their voices were almost hoarse, and if it weren't for the fact that the talented men who came to participate in the township examination were all famous, I am afraid that the leather whip in the hands of this officer and soldier would have been drawn long ago.

Lewen looked at the officers and soldiers whose faces were like monkey butts, and he really felt funny.

In order to prevent cheating inside and outside the examination room, two high walls were built on the outside of the Gongyuan of Zhending Prefecture. The large-scale Zhending Gongyuan building complex of the two walls leaves a gap of more than one zhang between the large-scale Zhending Gongyuan buildings, forming a circle of passages around the Gongyuan. The four corners of the wall are built with four watchtowers more than two zhang high, and there is also a circle of open space outside the wall, and the people are strictly forbidden to approach and build, which is the famous "Gongyuan Street".

During the township test, the inside and outside of the walls of the Gongyuan were also covered with officers and soldiers, and they were heavily guarded. Because the top of the two-story wall inside and outside the Gongyuan is covered with thorns, it is also called "Thorn Pond".

However, due to the fact that scientific research is related to official careers, cheating has become a lingering shadow of scientific research.

There are three doors for candidates to enter the examination room, each door must be strictly inspected by the candidates and their clothes, pen and ink, oil lamps, etc., in order to prevent candidates from cheating answers in the food (in order to prevent spoilage, they generally bring cakes or moon cakes and other pastries), when entering the examination room, the guards will use a knife to cut all the pastries into one inch square. The last one is called the Dragon Gate, and if it is finally found to be carrying contraband, the soldiers of the first two gates will be punished.

Candidates who violate the prohibition will be removed from their lifelong fame, that is, they will not be able to be officials again for the rest of their lives, and they will be tied to a wooden pillar in front of the gate of the Gongyuan for two months.

Every candidate present was searched by two searchers, from head to toe, they had to be searched carefully, and those examiners were closely watched, in case there was a fish caught in the net, the two searchers searched very carefully, it was better to say that it was a search than to touch, from the hairline, to the soles of the feet, not a trace of loopholes could not be missed, and it was an insult to the scholars.

When Lewen was searched, don't mention that feeling, it really made him cry and laugh a little, there was a feeling of being insulted, and he deeply realized why he shouted indecent when a beautiful woman was taken advantage of by a salty pig's hand.

Zhending Mansion Gongyuan found the flying pigeon to pass the book, at that time there were candidates at home trained a pigeon, the pigeon flew into the candidate's house at night, the candidate wrote the exam question very small, tied to the pigeon's leg to bring it back, the family invited the answer sheet master, and then let the pigeon into the examination room.

In order to remind the candidates not to copy the omission, the family noted a few small words "there is still on the back" at the bottom of the front, but the old man actually copied it correctly, and was found by the examiner.

The houses are located in the east and west, and are the places where the scholars take the examination and lodging. The brick walls on the left and right walls of the building are one or two feet above the ground, and the upper and lower brick supports are built to place the upper and lower wooden planks on them.

When the scholar entered the examination room, it was crowded in order to enter the examination room first, and some people were once squeezed down from the pool on the right side of the entrance of the examination room and drowned.

The avenue in the middle of the examination room is the backbone, and the number houses on both sides are like ribs, arranged in parallel one by one, each column of number houses is twenty or thirty meters long, divided into dozens of small compartments, without windows and doors, and there are two wooden planks inside.

As soon as he entered the examination shed, Lewen's people were about to faint, each examination tube more than ten zhang long, there were dozens or hundreds of houses, the size of the number room is like the current police shack, but it is much lower, and the tall people have to bow their heads and bend down when they stand inside, this is the "low house" that the elders from the imperial examination at that time were proud of having tasted the taste of "low houses".

The weather in Zhending Mansion this year, to the middle of August is still very hot, everyone hangs up the oilcloth to cover the sun, the door is close to the high wall, the middle can only accommodate a long alley of half people to come and go, there is a line of sky exposed, after everyone hangs the oilcloth, even this line of sky is not exposed, the air is simply impassable, everyone hangs the boiler for cooking rice on the opposite wall, everyone cooks rice, plus the red sun is in the sky, the long alley becomes the alley of fire......

During the daytime exam, the upper wooden board replaces the table, the lower wooden board is used as a stool for candidates to sit and answer questions, and the upper wooden board is taken out at night and merged into the lower layer to be used as a sleeping bed. But because the length of the house is only four feet, people can't even stretch their legs when they sleep. Moreover, there is no door in the dormitory, so candidates need to bring their own tarpaulin as a curtain to prevent weather.

During the nine days and seven nights of the exam, the candidates answered the questions and ate and stayed in the dormitory. At the end of each row of houses there is a dung number, who goes to the toilet can not speak, can only use the sign to represent, the front and back of the sign have words, one side is written "into the quiet", the other side is written "out of Gong", now there are many elderly people to "out of Gong" refers to the toilet, is from the imperial examination.

Due to the very hot weather in Zhending Mansion in autumn, the candidates ate and lived in a small house, so in previous years, there were often candidates who died of heat stroke and food poisoning, and some were bitten to death by poisonous snakes hidden in the eaves of the house.

The big book "word" on the wall of the lintel of each lane is numbered, and the number is determined by the order of the "thousand-character text".

In ancient times, the policy of "no upper cap, no lower guarantee" was implemented for scholars to participate in the examination, and the youngest candidate in the number room was only 12 years old, and the oldest candidate was over 80 years old, no matter what age group could apply for the exam.

However, because of the four books and five classics involved in the examination, there are very few "prodigies" who can pass the pre-examination to enter the township examination of Zhending Gongyuan.

The house fully reflects the fairness of the imperial examination, because candidates can participate in the imperial examination regardless of their high or low, regardless of their family economic status, and the scientific examination is not only an assessment of the results, but also an assessment of the candidate's character. There are some test baskets in front of the candidates, which are brought in by the candidates when they enter the examination room, which contain some dry food and examination utensils such as pens, ink, paper, inkstones, etc., but the dry food brought by the candidates must be cut to prevent the candidates from cheating.

The uneven brick walls inside the low house have never been plastered inside or outside, and the inside is full of cobwebs and dust...... Sit in and take a board and put it in front of you, even if it's a writing desk, you have to sit there and sleep when you get to sleep......