After some rough inspection by the soldiers, Xie Shen was finally put into the Tribute Courtyard. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The young man sighed and walked along the bluestone road with the test basket.

Only when you enter the Tribute Courtyard can you experience its shock, and you can see the rows and rows, and the number houses built up by the bluestones are neatly arranged in the Tribute Courtyard.

Although these buildings look a little old under the wind and sun, they can't hide their majestic atmosphere at all.

After entering the Gongyuan, you can no longer stay, and you must immediately go to your own house to prepare for the exam. Therefore, Xie Shen did not stop to wait for Xie and Wang, but walked straight to the inside.

After receiving the number plate from the clerk at the fork, Xie Shen walked quickly across the path to his number house.

Compared with the county test, the government test, and the hospital test, the township test is denser, and the internal space is more narrow.

Xie Shen couldn't help frowning when he came to his house.

If it's just a narrow space, it's just that the roof of this house is still a little leaky, which is a little embarrassing.

It's sunny now, but what if it rains? Wouldn't that be flooding Jinshan Temple?

Alas, in the final analysis, it is because the Gongyuan has been idle for too long.

The Gongyuan has a single function, and it is vacant almost all of the time except for the triennial township examination.

After the township test is completed, the relevant officials will lock the tribute courtyard, and it will be three years before they meet again.

During this period, all kinds of poisonous snakes and hares regarded the Gongyuan as a paradise and enjoyed a comfortable life with great satisfaction.

Coupled with the wind and rain, the stone roof truss is fine, but the wooden roof is about to suffer.

After years of soaking, even the best wood has to rot.

The house where Xie Shen was located was not the worst, but the one to the east of him could directly see half of the sky.

Xie Shen was also helpless in this regard, so he could only pray that it would not rain during the township test.

The township examination is to be tested three times, each of which is a whole day, which not only tests the candidates' talents, but also tests their physical strength!

However, physical strength has always been Xie Shen's weakness, if "the house leak coincides with overnight rain", then it is really necessary to look up to the sky and sigh.

Xie Shen looked around the number one room and found that there were no objects except for a table, a stool, and a night pot.

It's just outrageous.

From the outside, the number houses of the Gongyuan are arranged one after another, which has a great sense of hierarchy. It can be seen from the inside, not only the roof is broken, but the examination environment is even more simple.

That is, these scholars are still talents, if the examination environment is also so simple, Xie Shen suspects that there is really a possibility of a collective boycott.

The cramped environment makes people feel irritable, anyway, there is still a period of time before the start of the exam, Xie Shen simply closed his eyes and began to close his eyes to recuperate.

Self-cultivation, calm and concentrating.

Only when we are calm can we get the best state, write the best articles, and get the best rankings.

To be honest, Xie Shen didn't care too much about the ranking of the township test.

After all, there will be a meeting test after the township examination, and there will be a palace examination after the entrance examination.

To put it mildly, the ranking of the palace test is the most valuable. The rankings of the other exams are all samples.

After all, the final ranking of Jinshi is to look at the palace exam. Needless to say, the champions, top eyes, and tanhua of the first class are the nobles who directly entered the Hanlin Academy. Entering the Hanlin Academy is equivalent to entering the most noble department of the Ming Dynasty and becoming a minister, and its future is limitless. It is more expensive than the Qing Dynasty, and only the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites can be mentioned, but it is not as good as the Hanlin Academy.

As for the top 10 of the second grade, it is also very useful, and it is often possible to become a Shujishi through the pavilion selection and go to the Hanlin Academy for three years of apprenticeship.

Although it is not possible to directly elect officials to be officials, the starting point after three years of disbanding is not much higher than that of those second-class and third-class jinshi on the same list in the same year.

The starting point is high, the future is good, and the future career will be smooth sailing, and it is likely that he will rise to the top in a few years and be trained as a cabinet reserve member.

If you are directly elected as an official, it seems that you have accumulated three years of work experience, but your hard power (ranking) is not as good as others, and when you talk about it, you are a head lower than those Shujishi or Hanlin editors, and you are not confident, so what is the competition for posts?

In other words, the quality of the Jinshi's ranking directly affects the mentality of the newcomers to the officialdom, which is irreversible.

Therefore, the ranking of the township examination is really nothing compared to it, and the higher ranking of the examination means that it will sound better when you go out, and you will have more face at the banquet, and it will not bring any practical benefits to Xie Shen.

Of course, if you get a Xie Yuan, the benefits are still great, at least the eyes of the whole province will fall on Xie Yuan, and it will not be able to occupy the headlines of public opinion until the next annual meeting and the second entrance examination.

With a good reputation, Xie Shen also has some capital that can be deployed, at least when he enters the officialdom in the future, he will not seem to be unaccompanied, isolated.

Of course, Xie Shen also understands that if it is hard power, there is almost no possibility for him to get Xie Yuan.

After all, Zhejiang Province is one of the four strong provinces in the imperial examination, and there are too many strongmen in the examination. In this almost harsh competitive environment, it will take some luck to win the solution to the top.

For example, Xie Shen happened to encounter a familiar topic, and for example, the examiner who marked the paper liked Xie Shen's writing style very much.

There is still a big emotional factor in judging the quality of the article.

If the essay is not good, there is no need to say much, but if the essay made by several candidates is considered a grade, then it will be much more interesting to judge.

Some fellow examiners like the text to be concise and concise.

Some fellow examiners like to write in a bizarre style and with a grand structure.

When you encounter an article about the right taste and recommend it to the Great Grandmaster and Lord Honglu Shaoqing Ji to decide, isn't that luck?

Xie Shen believes in his luck, and people with bad luck will not encounter such a thing as crossing.

But can his luck really be good enough to capture Xie Yuan? Not necessarily......

If you want to get a good score, the exam mentality is the most important. But this is another paradox, because if you are completely relaxed, it means that you are not paying enough attention to the exam, and it is impossible to do well.

Proper pressure is the right way.

One out of a hundred, tsk.

Xie Shenxin said that this proportion of people on the list is simply outrageous, especially for Zhejiang Province, which is a strong province in the imperial examination, it is very unfair, and many people who can be on the list in other provinces can only be named Sun Shan in the township examination in Zhejiang Province.

Therefore, it is not uncommon in Daming to take the cross-provincial examination, but that is gossip, so let's not mention it for the time being.

Xie Shen was already very familiar with the process of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty, so naturally there was nothing to be nervous about.

Taking the exam papers from the officials who handed out the exam papers one by one along the number house, Xie Shen took a deep breath and quickly put himself into the exam state.

The content and process of the township examination are extremely formal, so there will be basically no collective fraud.

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...... (To be continued.) )