The Hanlin Academy and the Guozijian were jointly responsible for transcribing the papers, but unlike the township examination and the guild examination, when the final ranking was decided, the examination papers of the Gongshi himself would be brought and submitted to the emperor for final approval after the cabinet ministers made a preliminary decision. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There will be ten test judges, each person has a table, each test paper is read by ten people in turn, and then make marks on the test paper, with the mark of the circle as the best, the triangle symbol as the second, the square symbol again, if it is crossed, it means that this article is not good, an article is crossed more than two, then this person must be a three-class jinshi, the cross-cut symbol is within two, most of them are second-class jinshi, as for the difference between a first and a second class, it depends on whose article draws more circles.

But there is a subtlety in this, that is, the first person to judge the article often affects the subsequent graders, and the first grader to make a judgment is very important.

And the first examiner of this palace examination is Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet.

The second examiner is the Cabinet Minister and the Secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Wen Tiren.

Among the 350 articles, the 10 articles with the largest circle were submitted to the emperor, and the emperor will hand-pick the champions, Bangyan and Tanhua of the first class among these ten articles, and at the same time hand-pick the first place in the second class, and as for the rest of the rankings, most of them are decided by the cabinet.

When the emperor appointed the first and second first-class places, the test papers of the Gongshi himself had been found out and submitted to the emperor, if the handwriting was too poor, or there were ink marks on the test papers, it would definitely be affected.

The most important thing is not here, but the first assistant of the cabinet on behalf of all the examiners, to evaluate the quality of the article, and the emperor on the basis of reading the article, carefully listen to the evaluation of the first assistant of the cabinet, so as to make a final decision.

It can be seen from this that the role of the first assistant of the cabinet in the palace examination is huge, especially the first assistant of the cabinet, who is deeply trusted by the emperor, can almost decide the first and second places in the palace examination.

Under such circumstances, if the cabinet chief assistant is fair, then the final ranking of the palace examination is relatively fair, and if there is crooked thinking, it is difficult to say.

The marking of the case file is carried out at the official office of the Ministry of Rites.

On April 22, all the marking officers arrived at the official office of the Ministry of Rites.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites had already made preparations, and Wen Tiren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was waiting in advance.

In the lobby of the official office, ten tables have been prepared, which are numbered, and the marking officer can sit down with the number.

"My lord, can you start grading?"

The palace examination papers are mainly based on Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, and each test paper, after all the marking officers circle the reading, will return to Zhou Yanru, if there is any objection to the evaluation of the marking officer, he will exchange opinions with a certain marking officer at the end.

After the marking is over, Zhou Yanru will also be anxious about many marking officers to exchange opinions on the test papers, especially on the top ten test papers, and after synthesizing these opinions, Zhou Yanru will report directly to the emperor.

Wen Tiren, who is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also has a certain amount of power, and when Zhou Yanru reported to the emperor, he was also present, and he would add some views after Zhou Yanru finished speaking.

Seeing that all the marking officers had arrived, Wen Tiren spoke to Zhou Yanru.

"Let's start, three hundred and fifty test papers, three hundred and fifty articles, it still takes a certain amount of time to mark the papers, I hope you will do your best to select the best articles."

Three days to read the papers, a total of 350 articles, each grader has to read it again, make an evaluation, but also leave half a day to discuss, and finally concentrate opinions, an average of more than 100 articles a day, the time is still very tight, but really speaking, the most pressure is the first and second graders, these two people are the first assistant of the cabinet, one is the cabinet minister of the imperial examination, the Ministry of Rites, once the two make a decision, mark on the article, the rest of the graders will be easy to evaluate, Many examiners know that Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, is the champion of the Huiyuan and the palace examination during the Wanli period, and his knowledge is very high.

At the beginning of the marking, the officials of the Ministry of Rites put the first batch of fifty test papers on the desk of Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Zhou Yanru made a mark on the first test paper, and the official of the Ministry of Rites, who had been waiting next to him, immediately handed the test paper to Wen Tiren, the second marking officer.

The speed of marking at the beginning is slower, because the marking officer also needs to have a standard, this standard The emperor once had an order, and all the marking officers are clear, but the real standard still comes from the articles of the tribute, and a standard needs to be clearly established through these articles.

This criterion requires the graders themselves to make their own judgments.

In less than an hour, all the markers began to look down at the essay and make marks on the test papers.

Until noon, Zhou Yanru had finished reading all the fifty test papers of the first batch, which was already very fast.

There is only a quarter of an hour to eat at noon, and meals are provided by the Ministry of Rites.

"Lord Wen, I read a lot of articles, mostly discussions, very few really put forward suggestions, the emperor is thirsty for talent, thinking that he can pass this palace examination and gain insight, if such an article appears, you and I should pay more attention."

"What my lord said is that Xia Guan has also read a lot of articles, and the writing is still good, but there are too few practical suggestions, which is no wonder that many tributes, after all, they have not entered the court as officials, they are mainly reading, and they suddenly encounter these problems, and it is difficult to put forward good opinions in a short period of time."

"What Lord Wen said is that you and I use this as punctuation, if there is an article that is proposed, it can be used as a superior article, and no matter what the suggestion is, at least it understands the emperor's painstaking efforts."

"The lower official understands, and he must follow the teachings of the adults."

"Lord Wen, don't say that, you and I are officials in the same dynasty, and we are both doing things in the cabinet and serving the emperor, so we should find talents in this palace examination."

After dinner, the afternoon marking began.

The daily marking needs to continue until the end of the day, and it will be extended under special circumstances, and all the test papers must be judged within two and a half days, and there is half a day to discuss and agree on opinions.

Therefore, Zhou Yanru, as the first marking officer, must have a good grasp of the progress, the first day of marking is a little slower, but at least need to complete more than 130 test papers, the second day to complete more than 150 test papers, the third day half a day, to complete the remaining 70 or so test papers.

Until the end of the day, Zhou Yanru raised his head and made a mark on the white paper next to him, he had reviewed one hundred and thirty-seven articles, all of them had made judgments, and the task of the first day had been completed.

Of course, it will take about half an hour for all the examiners to review the test papers.

Zhou Yanru stood up and began to walk around the lobby, moving his muscles and bones, starting from the hour to the hour, except for the two quarters of an hour when he ate in the middle, the rest of the time was to sit at the desk and read articles, which was indeed very hard.

The emperor's requirements and Zhou Yanru's requirements according to the situation of marking the file have been integrated into the minds of every marking officer, and everyone has read the file according to such requirements.

What made Zhou Yanru slightly dissatisfied in his heart was Wen Tiren's evaluation of many articles.

Zhou Yanru's articles in circles, Wen Tiren did not draw circles very much, many of them were triangular symbols, but how to evaluate the article, this is the power of the marking officer.

It is impossible for Zhou Yanru to be completely fair, he has always remembered Chen Yutai in his heart.

The style of Chen Yutai's article, he is very clear, but also familiar, when he saw a certain test paper, he concluded that it was Chen Yutai's article, and did not hesitate to draw a circle on the test paper, and after this test paper was sent back, except for Wen Tiren who drew a triangle symbol on it, the rest are all circles, such an article is very good, and there is a great guarantee to enter the first class, of course, whether it can become the first place in the first class, it is not possible.

Zhou Yanru has firmly remembered this article, and he also knows how to say this article.

In addition, there is an article that left a deep impression on Zhou Yanru, this article directly put forward suggestions from the two aspects of employment and taxation, which is a very rare article that directly makes suggestions, this article Zhou Yanru read it twice, and after thinking about it carefully, he drew a circle on it, and what Zhou Yanru didn't expect was that Wen Tiren actually drew a circle on this article.

Of course, Zhou Yanru couldn't have imagined that after Wen Tiren saw this article, he quickly concluded that this article should be written by Wu Fanhui, who would try Huiyuan, he was extremely surprised, he couldn't imagine that the sixteen-year-old Wu Fanhui could actually put forward a suggestion directly, which is very valuable.

Zhou Yanru is very old and spicy, before he read the papers, he was still a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and he had read a lot of articles on the people's college examination, the township examination and the general examination, and he had an understanding of everyone's literary style.

At noon on April 24, all the marking matters were completed.

Ten papers have been selected.

Zhou Yanru convened many markers and began to discuss the ten test papers in detail, among which the two articles that Zhou Yanru cared about the most were all in it.

The discussion ended in a matter of moments, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites quickly found out the ten test papers and checked them one by one.

At this moment, except for Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, who knew which of the ten test papers were the articles of the Gongshi who participated in the palace examination, the rest of the people did not know.

Within three moments, Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren appeared in the Qianqing Palace.

The emperor is waiting for the exam papers.

Ten test papers, the emperor was able to read them within an hour, plus the evaluations of Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, the first place in the first and second grades came out.

Next, Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren had to rush to the Ministry of Rites to determine the list of the second and third grades with many marking officials, and the Ministry of Rites at night also had to produce the imperial list.