At the end of the government exam, the papers reached more than 1,000 copies, Ma Maocai, the prefect of Yan'an Prefecture, just didn't eat, drink or sleep, and it was impossible to finish reading all the papers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The test papers on the ground are not completely eliminated, according to the old rules, if there is a test paper at the head of the county test, it will be selected, followed by the second essay and the third policy essay are very well written, if the four questions are completed, you can also pass.

Candidates who answer all the nine questions correctly will also be found out separately, as long as the articles in the last two are barely passable, they can also be admitted and pass the government examination.

However, several years have passed, and there has not been a situation where the head of the county examination has not passed the first poster examination.

Essays and policy two articles, need to be carefully considered, that is, you need to read carefully one by one, scrutinize the points inside, first to see if it meets the requirements, and then to compare, from which to select a good article, nearly a thousand articles, about 100 will be selected, the second and third each have about 50 articles, and finally determined by the prefect, in fact, this hundred articles, is basically written by the candidates who can be admitted and pass the government examination.

The main ones who completed this preliminary grading were the teachings of the government schools and the teachings of the county schools drawn from various prefectures and counties.

Of course, the prefect will first clarify the requirements for grading, that is, make clear requirements on how to identify the merits of the article, and if the prefect's point of view appears in the article, it must be selected.

Ten days later, the list will be published, and the time is still very tight.

From June 8 to the 13th, a total of six days is the time for many teachings to be marked, from the 14th to the 16th, a total of three days, which is the time for the prefect to read the papers, and the 17th is the time for the prefect to determine the candidates who have passed the prefect examination and to write the list book.

At the beginning of the marking, Ma Mao put down other things and paid attention to all the test papers from the beginning.

Ma Maocai has an idea in his heart, he has been the prefect of Yan'an Mansion for more than three years, and he has always been very unhappy, the prefect of the south of the country has a very nourishing life, and there is a lot of filial piety below, compared with his colleagues in the south, he is ashamed to see people, there is no way, the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Yan'an Mansion are too poor.

What was even more annoying was that the successive famines, as well as the peasant riots, made him exhausted, and he wished to leave this place earlier, even if it was to some Qingshui Yamen in the capital, his life would be much more comfortable.

At the end of February, the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate inspected the Beijing officials, and the result was that more than 100 Beijing officials were unqualified, in fact, more than 40 were demoted to a higher level and transferred to local posts, more than 30 were killed by the elderly and in poor health, nearly 20 people who were idle and did not do anything and just took advantage of the money were dismissed, and there were also 8 officials who were investigated and punished for embezzlement, and they were directly dismissed from their posts and thrown into prison.

The inspection of the Beijing officials shocked the local officials, and what they thought of was not that there were a large number of vacancies in the Beijing officials, but whether the imperial court would conduct a large-scale investigation of the local officials in the future, and also deal with them in the same way.

After the emperor ascended the throne, he made great efforts, not only to completely exterminate Wei Zhongxian and his comrades, but also to investigate officials on a large scale in the imperial court, trying to change the previous situation of the sloppy imperial court.

These measures have not been entirely a surprise to local officials.

Ma Maocai was very frustrated, he had been in Yan'an for more than three years, without any political achievements, and even local stability was difficult to maintain, so he was forced to write a letter to the imperial court, describing in detail the situation of the famine in various parts of Yan'an Prefecture, and imploring the imperial court to relieve the people in Yan'an Prefecture, implying that he shirked the responsibility for the peasant rebellion in Yan'an Prefecture.

In fact, over the years, local officials have not done much, during the Apocalypse, the political situation changed, Wei Zhongxian was ambitious, and did everything possible to suppress disobedient officials, and most of the officials were attached, and there were many officials who were not afraid, and Wei Zhongxian was against him, after the emperor ascended the throne, he completely exterminated Wei Zhongxian, but the influence of Wei Zhongxian's remaining party still existed, until the ministers in the court risked their lives to go to the top, saying that Wei Zhongxian's remaining party was even more troubled, and the emperor made up his mind to completely exterminate Wei Zhongxian's remaining party.

All this changed too quickly, Wei Zhongxian's remnants of the party were wiped out, and the Donglin party members who were originally suppressed by Wei Zhongxian seemed to have begun to gain ambition, and many of them were reinstated, but the situation was not particularly obvious, the cabinet ministers were adjusted like a marquee, and the local officials were at a loss, not knowing which cabinet minister to attach to, or which official with real power in the court.

Officialdom has always been one and the same, and if you have nothing to do with it, you don't want to get a good position.

Ma Maocai also believes that such a situation is unlikely to change, the cabinet will one day stabilize, and local officials still need to have connections before they can be promoted or noticed.

However, the situation is still unstable, and it is not clear in what direction the government will develop.

At this time, Ma Maocai needs to show his ability, that is, to write more good notes to the imperial court.

What kind of attitude should the imperial court take in exterminating the peasant rebel army, Ma Mao could completely combine the actual situation of Yan'an Mansion and put forward a proposal that conformed to the emperor's wishes, and he did so to kill two birds with one stone, which could not only weaken the problem of his own ineffective government by revealing novel views, but also attract the attention of the emperor and the imperial court.

Of course, Ma Maocai agrees with the view that appeasement is the main thing, supplemented by extermination.

This is in line with his interests, the peasant rebels in various parts of Yan'an Mansion are because the common people have suffered from famine and can no longer live, the purpose of their rebellion is to have food to eat, so as not to starve to death, and the imperial court should start from the perspective of benevolence and adopt the strategy of appeasement to stabilize the people, once the people are stabilized, the peasant rebel army will naturally lose the foundation for maintenance.

This kind of thing is not something that Yan'an Mansion can do well, but Ma Mao, the governor of Yan'an Prefecture, is willing to take responsibility, and he also writes to the imperial court, makes suggestions, and gives convincing reasons.

Ma Mao did this, so that the emperor and the cabinet could see his loyalty, at least he could keep his position, and he would not be sent to the Sixth Department in Nanjing.

As for being an official in the capital, don't think about it at the moment, first stabilize the moment.

The first question explains the importance of benevolence, and the latter question continues to demonstrate the effect that benevolence can produce, as long as the candidates pay attention to the actual situation faced by Yan'an Prefecture, they can discuss it, even if they can't hold the theme, it doesn't matter much.

However, Ma Maocai did not have much confidence, he even felt that no one who participated in the provincial examination could think of this aspect, and they were not roundworms in his stomach.

Ma Maocai hoped that such articles would appear, and if there were more than ten candidates with such opinions, he would be able to publicize them with great fanfare, and even send these articles to the capital to show the merits of Yan'an Prefecture's education.

Under the influence of such ambivalence, Ma Mao couldn't wait to read the article directly.

In the past three consecutive days, Ma Maocai himself has read more than 100 articles, but none of them involve this matter, which makes him extremely disappointed, including the examination papers that the teachings have read, which are close to half, and there are no articles in this regard.

It was at this time that Ma Mao suddenly thought of Wu Fanhui, and with his intuition, he thought that Wu Fanhui would write such an article, the head of the Mizhi County Trial, and the article written during the county test, he had read it several times, and the article was also combined with the actual situation of Mizhi County, and put forward suggestions.

However, Ma Maocai's heart is still full of frustration, and the exam questions he has worked on have not yet been able to understand the true meaning of the candidates, indicating that these candidates are really just reading, and they don't care about anything, but Ma Maocai didn't think about it, and when he took the exam, it was impossible to think of these matters.

Seeing Wu Fanhui's article, it was the morning of the fourth day, or a teacher found two of the articles, the entry point completely met the requirements of the prefect, from the font above, the two articles came from the hand of a candidate, the article combined with the views in the "Analysis of the Four Books", put forward the view of treating the peasant rebellion with a gentle heart.

The priest immediately presented the two articles to the prefect.

Ma Mao immediately judged from the font that these two articles were the articles of Wu Fanhui, the head of the Mizhi County trial case.

He kept the two articles with himself, which meant that they were selected.

Until the end of the reading of the teachings, no similar articles appeared.

Ma Mao let out a long sigh, his hope was not reached, just relying on these two articles, it could not explain anything, and his carefully designed exam questions did not get the understanding of the candidates in the end.

In the next three days, Ma Mao did not read the papers carefully, and basically based on the articles determined by many teachings, but Wu Fanhui's two articles, he read them three times, although there were not many specific suggestions in them, but the idea of the article was completely in line with his original intention, that is, at this time, Ma Mao had a special opinion on this Wu Fanhui, and he faintly felt that the future of this young man must not be simple.

The matter of determining the ranking of the government examination, many teachings also participated in the discussion, and Ma Mao put on a very democratic attitude, which flattered many teachings, in the past, they were not qualified to participate in such important discussions, at most, the prefect occasionally asked.

The opinions of many of the teachings are relatively unified, so the list and ranking of the candidates who have passed the prefectural examination have also been determined in a very short period of time, and by the end of 17 June, everything was basically determined, which has never happened before.