Yangzhou Mansion, Tongzhou Gongyuan.

This is the last day of the civil service examination in Yangzhou Town, it is already dawn, and more than 1,000 candidates will hand in their papers at dawn, and this exam is successfully concluded.

Qu Shiyun slept very early last night, went to bed before the sun set, and now he has already gotten up early.

After he cleaned his hands and face, he took another sip of strong tea and lifted his spirits. For the candidates, the exam will end as soon as it is dawn, but for the examiner, it has just begun, and he and his colleagues will be quarantined in this tribute courtyard for five days, and they can only go home after reading the papers and issuing the lists.

According to the formal imperial examination process, after the candidates submit their papers and leave the field, all the papers must be handed over to the transcription officer as soon as possible, and he and his subordinates will transcribe them in the neat three-hall body first. Then hand it to the sealing officer, and paste the candidate's name with a blank piece of paper.

Then, the papers that have been transcribed and confused are transferred to the room masters, and these examiners mark the papers separately, select the qualified papers from them, and recommend them to Qu Shiyun, which is the so-called recommendation paper

。

Generally speaking, once a candidate's paper is recommended, it is considered to be successful, and the rest is only a matter of ranking. What Qu Shiyun needs to do for the big main exam is to assign rankings to the recommended papers.

This is also very important, and the ranking is directly related to the placement of Chinese candidates.

For example, Yangzhou Town issued an announcement saying that the top three in this civil service examination will be directly appointed as county magistrates after studying.

As for those who are at the bottom of the ranking, they may only be able to be ordinary six-room supervisors, and their status and income naturally cannot be compared with the top three.

"It's finally time for merit to be completed." Qu Shiyun couldn't help but sigh slightly, and said in his heart: "I don't know how well the teacher's side will host the exam, and everything will go smoothly." After this exam, the teacher will inevitably enter the cabinet as a minister, and the old man will also take the position of Ying Tianfu Yin, which can be regarded as a wish. It's just that after this exam, the old man and Sun Taichu have formed a close alliance, and their reputation is naturally not good. I don't know if the gains outweigh the losses, or the losses outweigh the gains? ”

Like him, the examiners of each room and the outer curtain officer also got up early and gathered in the Zhigong Hall, waiting for the moment when the papers were closed.

At this time, suddenly, there was a low noise from the side of the No. B examination booth in the distance: "Some candidates have fainted, and another candidate has fainted." ”

Although the voice was not there, it was unusually clear, especially in this silent dawn examination room. With this shout, there was a commotion all over the examination room at the same time.

Then there was the roaring footsteps of the soldiers, and the shouts of "all be quiet" and "no chaos".

Qu Shiyun was shocked in his heart and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The examiners in the lobby also looked at each other and were confused.

This is the first time Qu Shiyun has been the chief examiner, but as an official from a jinshi, he has never eaten mutton and watched sheep run, and he doesn't know how many imperial examinations he has experienced in his life, so he naturally knows the system of the examination room, and immediately shouted with a blue face: "Go, see which candidates are making trouble, immediately detain them, and remove their fame!" ”

Still no one moved, Qu Shiyun was about to have a seizure, and suddenly remembered that this was just an informal examination, not a formal imperial examination, and he had no power to remove the candidate's reputation

。

I was a little depressed in my heart: the name is not right, and the words are not good!

Even the invigilator Huang You smiled bitterly, and then shook his head helplessly.

After another long time, the examination room finally regained its calm under the pressure of the soldiers. A man who looked like a clerk walked in: "I've seen the chief examiner, I've seen the invigilator." ”

Qu Shiyun first asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The book does the way; "When I went back to the main exam, a student from Tongzhou in the No. 18 examination house of the B-shaped examination shed fainted with hunger, and hit his head directly on the fence, and the whole person pounced. The examinee in the examination room next to him probably knew him, and immediately shouted, asking people to come over to help, so there was a commotion. ”

"I'm fainting from hunger, how is it possible?" Qu Shiyun was dumbfounded for a moment, and then said angrily: "Could it be that this candidate can eat, and he has no plan, he eats all the meals in advance, and he doesn't survive three days?" ”

In the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, candidates had to take three consecutive exams after entering the examination room, and after entering the examination room, the examination house was locked, and they could not go home until the examination was over. Candidates' eating, drinking, and lazar can only be solved in the examination room, which is calculated as three days per session, for a total of nine days. And the examination room is not obliged to provide food for these nine days. In other words, you need to bring enough food and drink for nine days when you enter the exam room.

Therefore, when candidates enter the examination room, they will prepare dry food, mostly pastries and other things. In order to prevent the candidates from being entrained, when entering the venue, these dry foods must be cut into peanuts by the officials with knives.

Bookstore: "If you go back to the main exam, this hungry and fainting candidate didn't bring anything to eat at all, and he carried it in the examination room for three days, and finally couldn't stand it today." ”

"Ahh All the officials in the public hall couldn't help but let out a low voice.

Qu Shiyun looked even more incredulous: "Is this a humble scholar?" ”

Clerk: "Yes, the candidate who fainted from hunger was dressed in tatters, and the layers of his shirt were full of patches. ”

Qu Shiyun sighed: "Pity! ”

I don't know how many stories of this kind of humble scholars have been staged in the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years. He had heard a lot about the golden phoenix flying out of the mountain nest and winning the jinshi, but there were very few who succeeded. It's more of a story that has read a lifetime of books and read all the family backgrounds.

"No, no

！ Huang You next to him was iron-blue: "I Yangzhou Town this civil service examination, Yingchuan Hou attaches great importance to it, all the students who sign up for reference, the local county level and above yamen give ten yuan for the journey, why is there a situation of starvation and fainting scholars?" ”

"That's true...... Don't? Qu Shiyun's face changed, and he was about to speak, but he thought that he was not from Yangzhou Town, and this kind of thing had nothing to do with him, so he closed his mouth.

"Could it be that the magistrate is greedy for the candidate's money?" Huang You's face was even more hideous, and he was murderous: "What a bold man, this is the first time this kind of thing has happened in my Yangzhou Town, and I am really impatient." If you starve to death the candidates, you should be the Marquis of Yingchuan, and there will be no forgiveness for killing! ”

Qu Shiyun nodded: "It should be so, the impact of this matter is really bad, if it is not handled strictly, it will hurt the morale." ”

After speaking, the two stopped discussing and began to be busy with other things.

An official standing at the door waited for a long time, and when he saw that the chief examiner and the invigilator had no follow-up, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Chief examiner, Mr. Huang, what should I do with the scholar who fainted from hunger, is it difficult to succeed?" ”

This official was born in the Ningxiang Army, and he fought with Sun Yuan for almost seven years, because he was old, he was transferred out of the front-line combat unit, and now he is in charge of the security of the examination room.

Because I don't know the rules of the imperial examination, I asked this.

He was also confused in his heart, when he saw Qu Shiyun and Huang You talking about this just now, they were all solemn, and Mr. Huang even said that after the exam, he would go to check the local officials, maybe he would kill someone. But after saying that, everyone wants to be busy with other things as if nothing happened, which is too weird, right?

Regarding this martial artist's words, Qu Shiyun simply didn't bother to answer.

Huang You was his old boss, and he also knew that he didn't understand the system of the imperial court, so he patiently explained: "You don't know, in the imperial examination field, once a candidate enters the examination hall, he can't take a step in the examination room, even if the sky falls." ”

The military attaché: "Why? ”

Huang You: "Because of the fundamental system, if a candidate takes a step out of the examination room, he will not be eligible to be admitted, because you don't know if there is a disadvantage in passing it after he leaves the examination room?" ”

Military Attaché: "Is it possible to watch him starve to death inside?" ”

"That's right, that's it, if we go over to save him, that candidate will enter the examination room for nothing this time, do you want his efforts to be in vain?" Huang You's face was sad, "For a scholar, there is nothing more painful than not being able to perform Chinese style, which is more sad and difficult to accept than death."

。 ”

Military Attaché: "That's not right, that's not right." ”

Qu Shiyun: "Okay, that's it, it's not a big deal, there are a few candidates who die of illness or convulsions in every examination room, and you will get used to it after seeing it." ”

Speaking of this, he said calmly: "Don't say starving a candidate to death, even if a fire starts in the examination room and burns people to death, the exam has to continue." ”

"I got on fire and burned people to death, and I still want to take the test?" The military attache stuttered.

"Yes." Even Huang You nodded.

What Qu Shiyun just said involved an old incident during the Nanjing Township Examination, and during the Tianshun period, the Nanjing Gongyuan did not know whether the candidates accidentally knocked over the candlestick or other reasons, and a fire broke out in the examination room.

However, according to the imperial examination system, as soon as the candidates enter the examination room, they must be locked inside, and they are not allowed to go out until the end of the examination. The fire was a big fire, and the examiner did not dare to organize personnel to fight the fire, otherwise, the results of this exam would be completely invalidated. Because no one knows whether this fire was accidental, or if someone deliberately caused trouble and wanted to cheat while fighting the fire.

So, the examiners could only sit there and wait for the fire to go out. In the end, more than a dozen candidates were burned to death.

Afterwards, the imperial court also expressed understanding to the examiner and did not pursue it. Southeast Shilin is not the slightest dissatisfied: the system is the system, and the system sometimes needs to be maintained with life.

……

Hearing this allusion, the military attache opened his mouth for a long time, and only after a long time did he stomp his foot: "No matter, human life is greater than the sky, there will be a next time if you fail the exam this time, if you die, then there is nothing." Today, even if I fight to punish Hou Ye, I will save this person's life. Big examiner, Mr. Huang, I'm sorry, I can't watch a good person breathe in front of my eyes. ”

After speaking, he ignored Qu Shiyun and Huang You behind him and shouted: "What are you doing, stop, stop!" A gust of wind rushed out.

Huang You and Qu Shiyun saw that he was so impulsive, and at the same time they were shocked, "Confused, go, hurry, stop him!" ”

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