After the examination questions were announced, the more than 300 tributes who participated in the palace examination began the last imperial examination in their lives, and it was also the most important examination - this examination was personally written by the emperor, invigilated, and determined the ranking, and then they could become veritable protégés of the Son of Heaven after this examination, which alone was already a great honor in their lives. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And in addition, this exam is also the key to determining everyone's final ranking, whether it is the champion of the first class in the examination, the list eye, and the flower, who are given the first rank and the first, or the second in the examination, who is given the birth of the Jinshi, or the third grade, and finally the same Jinshi background, Obviously, every candidate present naturally wants to be one of the three people in the first class, or to put it simply, everyone wants to be the champion, after all, theoretically speaking, each of their articles will be personally reviewed by the emperor, Everyone may impress the emperor with their own articles, and thus be hand-picked as the champion.

Of course, this is also a theoretical possibility, even if the emperor personally presides over the palace examination, in fact, there is no emperor who goes back to personally evaluate all the candidates' test papers, most of the emperors will hand over the work of marking the papers to his ministers, and the ministers will select the top ten or top 20 examination papers that they think are the best, and then send them to the emperor for review, and the emperor will decide their final ranking.

When encountering some irresponsible emperors, it is estimated that they will only look at the best top three exam papers, and then decide to be the champion, the leader, and the flower, and the rest will be handed over to the ministers to do it for them.

Although Xiao Mu will not be so irresponsible, and even wants to read all the test papers of each candidate in person, so as to find the talents he needs most accurately, but for this matter, Xiao Mu is also "more than enough but not enough", after all, he studied economics in college, and with his only middle school Chinese level, there is definitely no way to read the test papers of these outstanding candidates fluently, let alone evaluate the merits of their essays - just like a student at the level of a primary school student to score the high school examination papers.

Although Lin Yi is studying ancient literature, these test papers must be readable, but after all, it is a cookie-cutter eight-strand text, and there is no literary value, and the number of more than 300 copies can already be regarded as an "astronomical number" for Lin Yi, who is currently pregnant, Xiao Mu estimates that after reading all the test papers carefully and giving a reasonable evaluation, Lin Yi's body is estimated to be completely collapsed.

Therefore, although Xiao Mu has the heart to make the country prosperous, he has no power to control the article, so he can only delegate the work of marking the papers to the main and deputy examiners of Lai Zongdao and Yang Jingchen, and finally they will select the best top twenty examination papers and send them to themselves, and with the help of Lin Yi, they will decide the final ranking results, and as for the ranking of the results of the remaining more than 200 candidates, they can only be decided by the examiners of Lai Zongdao.

This is already the only way that Xiao Mu can take, and the number of twenty exam papers decided by him in the end can definitely be regarded as more than the previous emperors, all in all, Xiao Mu undoubtedly attaches great importance to the palace examination, and is also extremely responsible for the final examination results.

Therefore, for the vast majority of candidates present, their examination papers basically have no chance to be seen by the emperor, and naturally there is no chance to impress the emperor, so as to be the champion.

After the palace examination began, the entire Jianji Hall was extremely quiet, and every candidate was nervously thinking or writing his own article, but no one made a sound, let alone looking around. After all, after ten years of hard work, no one wants to be mistaken for cheating because of such a thing, and thus be dismissed from the fame, which is too much to gain and lose, especially when they have all passed the exam, as long as there are no major mistakes, just write a passable article can basically lock the fame of the Jinshi.

Each candidate was quietly and concentrating on writing their essays, so Xiao Mu seemed to have the illusion that there seemed to be only one idler in the entire Jianji Palace.

If it is other lazy and lazy unscrupulous monarchs, it is naturally impossible to be at the scene of the palace examination all the time, and it is estimated that it is already very interesting to show up at the beginning of the exam. But after all, Xiao Mu attaches great importance to maintaining the reputation of Emperor Chongzhen, so he naturally does not allow such a situation to occur, so he decided to stay at the site of the palace examination for a whole day until the palace examination is over before leaving, and let his future "protégés of the Son of Heaven" feel how much importance he attaches to them as an emperor.

But after all, the time of the day is not so easy to pass, after sitting on the dragon chair for more than half an hour, and almost every candidate has been swept through, Xiao Mu finally couldn't sit still, he decided to stand up, go down and walk down - all in all, the current Xiao Mu compares himself to the general character of the invigilator teacher in the modern society of later generations, since he is the invigilator, it is natural to take a walk in the examination room and take a turn. And I have to say that Xiao Mu's analogy is indeed very vivid and appropriate in a sense.

Xiao Mu, who stood up, planned to walk among the candidates to see how they were writing, if any candidate was unwell, he could care about it, find a doctor to treat him, which candidate's position was not well lit, he could also arrange someone to bring him a candle or something, in short, Xiao Mu felt that he needed to show concern for the candidates who took the exam, and at the same time he could find something to do for himself, so that the time of the day passed as soon as possible.

But Xiao Mu didn't find any candidates who were unwell, and he also didn't find any corners where the light was bad and needed candles, after all, it was broad daylight, even in the darkest corner of the hall, its light was still much brighter than candles.

Xiao Mu had to pretend to stand beside some candidates for a while, pretending to browse the articles they wrote, but even so, Xiao Mu didn't dare to stand next to a candidate for too long, firstly, this would make the examinee increase his nervousness in vain, which would not be conducive to his answers. Deliberately rated the test papers of candidates who he had stopped to read as excellent.