Since the palace examination only examines one question, that is, each candidate only has one article, so the speed of marking is much faster than that of the exam, from the moment the palace exam ends, the intense marking work has begun, and then after another day, Xiao Mu's hands got the articles of the last twenty best candidates presented by Zong Dao. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

These twenty excellent articles naturally have their rankings, in fact, these articles that Xiao Mu got were ranked from best to worst according to the evaluation criteria of these examiners in Lai Zongdao - of course, "from good to bad" here is just a relative statement, after all, they can break through from the national imperial examination and become the best twenty, their articles are naturally extremely good, and there is no particularly big gap between them.

Xiao Mu roughly skimmed through these twenty articles - in fact, the main thing is to browse which candidates the authors of these articles correspond to, after all, the content of the articles is a little too obscure for him, and he will definitely not be able to see the reason for it just by browsing it roughly. Then Xiao Mu found that none of the candidates corresponding to these twenty exam papers were familiar to him.

Because Song Yingxing's brothers did not pass the examination and were not qualified to participate in the palace examination, in fact, there are only two names that Xiao Mu is familiar with, one is Shi Kefa, who had many misunderstandings with Hu Yun before, and the other is the last one to hand in the paper during the previous palace examination, so that Xiao Mu can't understand whether he is confident or nervous.

Soon Lin Ye passed through her own "news channel" and got the news that Xiao Mu had obtained the top twenty exam papers, so Xiao Mu just roughly browsed the names of these candidates, and before thinking about other times, Lin Ye had already come, so that Xiao Mu didn't know for a while that he should feel the efficiency of Lin Ye's "news channel", or the difference between the secrecy work of the Ming court and the palace.

"Hurry up and bring me their exam papers." This was the first thing Lin Ye said after meeting Xiao Mu this time - it was obvious that Lin Ye was undoubtedly more interested in such a thing as "Point Champion" than Xiao Mu, and her opinion would indeed have a great influence on Xiao Mu's decision.

For Lin Ye's "legitimate" request, Xiao Mu naturally couldn't disagree, and anyway, with his own writing skills, it was also a great challenge to read these excellent articles thoroughly, and Xiao Mu was also happy to use Lin Ye's power to complete the evaluation of these articles.

Although his own ability is limited, Xiao Mu has an idea that is very clear, that is, the ranking of the top twenty candidates in the end must not be the same as when they were sent, after all, if he doesn't make any adjustments, it will undoubtedly seem that he is a little redundant as an emperor, or he has a little bit of a puppet feeling, after all, the palace test is theoretically presided over by the emperor himself, and he is personally evaluated, if he doesn't do anything, but rulings the final ranking as it is, it is definitely not a good thing, At least not to let his courtiers feel "unpredictable".

Xiao Mu decided that if the rankings of these twenty candidates were relatively normal and he couldn't find anything obvious that needed to be adjusted, he would make some inconsequential adjustments, such as swapping the seventeenth and sixteenth places in the order. All in all, one thing is certain, and that is that even if it is simply for the sake of adjustment, you have to adjust yourself.

Twenty articles naturally took a certain amount of time to read, so after Lin Yi got this stack of articles, he didn't speak again, but read them carefully. Although Xiao Mu can't deeply understand these articles, he still knows very well that the 100 words of the articles in the time and space of the Ming Dynasty may be equivalent to 300 words of the vernacular of modern society in later generations, and if it is compared with those novels on the Internet, it may be equivalent to one or two thousand words.

Xiao Mu knew very well that it would be impossible for Lin Ye to finish reading these twenty articles in a moment and a half, at least for half a day, so this also meant that he would be idle for a long time with nothing to do, after all, those articles were in Lin Ye's hands.

It's just that Xiao Mu's inference made a mistake again, and it didn't take long after Lin Yi took those exam papers in his hand, about a quarter of an hour later, that he found the problem and asked, "Have you changed the order of these first few exam papers?" ”

"Nope." Xiao Mu was stunned by Lin Yi's sudden and inexplicable question, and shook his head again and again and replied, "I just got these exam papers and I didn't have time to take a closer look at you, where do I have time to change their order?" ”

"That's weird." Lin Yi frowned, and confirmed again, "Are you sure that these test papers are now sorted in order from best to worst?" ”

"That's right, that's what Lai Zongdao said when he handed them over to me just now." Xiao Mu replied that Lin Yi could have such a performance, obviously because he found a problem in the exam paper, but Xiao Mu couldn't figure out what the problem was, so he asked, "What is wrong?" ”

"There's a problem with the ranking of this one." Lin Yi pointed out the exam paper where she had found a problem and replied to Xiao Mu.

"Questions? Where is the problem, is it high or low? Xiao Mu asked puzzled.

"Of course it's low." Lin Yi replied without thinking.

"This should be the eleventh paper, right?" Xiao Mu just paid attention to Lin Yi's action of opening this stack of exam papers, remembering that the one she identified was the eleventh, and continued to ask, "That is to say, according to the current order, this person ranks eleventh among all the tributes, except for the three first-class scholars, he is the eighth place in the second-class jinshi, even I can know that this is already a pretty good result, and now you say that his ranking is low, should this person be the champion?" ”

"Originally, it was hard to say whether he could be the champion, but the literary talent of this test paper is at least the same level as the test paper of the champion list, and it must be better than the test papers in front of him, but now it is only ranked eleventh, there must be a problem here!"

However, Xiao Mu still didn't understand too much, and continued to ask, "I remember that it hasn't been long since you came in just now to get these test papers, and I see that you have only doubled through them, how come you even know whether the eleventh place exam paper is excellent or not?" Could it be that in just a moment, you read through all the articles? Or have you already read these papers before today? ”