Chapter 208: The annual exam begins
The officials of this year are not as diligent as before, and the examination has not been implemented for many years. However, following the previous superintendent Nan Zhili, the famous Geng Xiang personally went to Huizhou, and now the great master Xie Tingjie has also visited Huizhou for the third time in a short period of time.
As a result, the order of the great grandmaster was strictly implemented, but despite this, Huizhou was mountainous, and although the government urgently sent messengers to the counties and counties to send letters and inform the students to come up to take the annual examination, it would be two days later when more than 1,000 students gathered in the provincial capital. During this period, the requisitioned people to temporarily build an examination shed, called the government and county officials to patrol to maintain order, and temporarily arranged accommodation, not to mention Ye Junyao, even Duan Chaozong, the prefect of Huizhou, was busy with his feet. Fortunately, Xie Tingjie instructed the examination shed not to be roofed, so the workload was much less.
Although it is only more than 1,000 people, no one wants a tragedy like Jiangxi to happen again, which is not only a matter of human life, but also about their own future!
On the day of the exam, it was still beautiful after all, and it was a sunny day in autumn. According to Xie Tingjie's requirements, the students of the six counties were divided into two groups, one group in the Fuxue examination and the other in the Shexian Xuegong examination. All the open space in these two palaces has now risen from the ground, and a bunch of examination sheds have been built, although it is only a simple wooden plank room, but because the interval is much larger than that of the Gongyuan, it can be regarded as barely eliminating the risk of students turning heads and ears. As for the tables and chairs, they are no worse than the simplicity of the Gongyuan, a wooden board on a brick is a table, and a stool is for the candidates to sit on.
At least when Wang Fulin saw the environment, he couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. He is still taking the exam in Shexian School Palace, because Ye Xianzun and Master Feng are all backers, so they arranged a so-called best examination studio, but it is still so simple. He even wondered if his waist would break and his legs would be numb if he sat down one day! However, after receiving so many days of intensive training, he couldn't escape the annual exam this time, so he could only sit down reluctantly.
In the other examination booth opposite him, Cheng Naixuan was also sitting there bored, although he knew that Wang Fulin was behind him, but the opening of this examination booth was facing one direction, and he couldn't see anyone at all, he could only think about the "good" memories of the county test and Wang Fulin next door in his heart.
After Xie Tingjie asked Duan Chaozong and Ye Junyao to discuss the issue of invigilation separately, the reply was that Duan Chaozong personally inspected the Shexian School Palace, while Ye Junyao was the Huizhou Mansion. For such an avoidance arrangement, Xie Tingjie is quite satisfied. After receiving such a letter, he can be called a rumor, after all, he is a transit strong dragon with a total of more than ten people, and there is such a thing, and now he doesn't even know who is reliable and who is not reliable, if the state and county directors are also in cahoots with those local snakes, even if he uses a ruthless move, he may not be able to pass this annual examination safely.
Because there is a whole day of testing today, Xie Tingjie, the great master of the school, did not show up at this time, and it was Duan Chaozong, the prefect of Huizhou, who came to personally issue the exam questions on his behalf. When he sacrificed to the tablet of the ancestors, he personally opened the examination bag with a seal and sealed it tightly, and then took out a piece of paper from it. In a moment, a full four exam questions were spread all over the examination booth through the mouth of Master Feng and the two instructors of the county school.
"A gentleman is sick and unworthy of his name." This is a four-book title.
"If you are big, you will be powerful, and if you are small, you will be ashamed." This is the Pentateuch.
"Righteousness is the object." This is the theory.
"What are the qualities of Wu Qi, Fan Zhongyan, and Wang Anshi?" This is a question.
It can be said that when the exam questions are conveyed, most of the people who are dumbfounded and have a white face account for them. You must know that this is an annual exam, not a township exam. Each township test is three days, a total of three nine days. The amount of questions can be called terrifying, the first scene has three questions and four book questions, and four scripture questions; In the second field, there is a discussion on five articles, and there is also an optional answer question on edicts, tables, and edicts; There are a total of five courses in the third field: scriptures, history, and current affairs. But these 20 questions are the amount of questions in nine days, and now you have to do these four big questions in one day, it's like death! In the midst of his face, Wang Fulin immediately picked up his sleeves and began to write, and he couldn't help but think of Mr. Fang's special training.
You must know that the perverted Mr. Fang directly took the amount of questions in the township test for three days, forcing them to finish it in two days! The first day is the most energetic time, if you can't catch up with most of it on the first day, and catch up with half of it on the second day, it is basically useless to rely on what you write on the third day. Previously, there were only two suspected exam questions, but now there are not only four in total, the amount of questions is terrifying, but the most important questions of the four books and the five classics are also different. However, he deliberately spread those two questions, and told fifty or sixty people to say less, and finally the scope of knowledge will definitely be greater, but as soon as the questions of today's annual exam come out, there are four questions, and it is strange that people are not dumbfounded!
Don't blame him for making this ruthless move, he was also forced!
Ye Junyao was transferred to the Fuxue to patrol the field, and at this moment it was Duan Chaozong who was sitting in the Xue Palace, because there were only more than 300 people, but when he was walking around, he was also calm. When he came to Wang Fulin, he saw Wang Xiaoguan brushing and brushing the dragon and snake, which was not the same as the old cow pulling the broken car. He couldn't help but look at it for a while, and found that it was clear and substantial, and he couldn't help but be quite satisfied. As for Cheng Naixuan, he only stayed for a short while. When he came all the way to Wang Youmin, he saw that this star of hope of the Zhuchuan Wang clan was gloomy at this moment, and only a few lines were written on an answer sheet.
Wang Youmin didn't have the heart to answer the question, he was almost angry. He didn't expect that this was not the previous topic! There is no doubt that the questions given to Wang Fulin are fake, but how can the exam questions that the guy sold to himself for five hundred taels of silver be fake? Although his uncle and grandfather Wang Shangning have now become a leader, there are still some friends in the officialdom, how dare a mere prison student play such a trick, how dare he! Moreover, the whole four questions, especially the first four-book question, are not small, in case he can't finish answering them within this day, even Wang Fulin can't finish answering them, but his hope of becoming famous by relying on this annual exam will be in vain!
The more he thought about it, the more unclear Wang Youmin's thinking became, and the more unclear his thinking became, the slower his subordinates naturally became, and he didn't even notice that Duan Chaozong, the prefect of Huizhou, was in front of him.
And Duan Chaozong looked at the few numbers, just stood for a moment and quietly left. His prefect is different from the previous Huizhou prefect He Dongxu's style, He Dongxu is extremely tough on those big eunuchs, and there is such a big case in office, so let alone entering the famous eunuch temple, Huizhou is a government and six counties, no one has a good impression of it, and even the literati notes often describe his strictness. And he mostly adheres to the four words of inaction, turning a blind eye to everything.
But the previous case of Xia Shui Silk still roasted him on the fire for a time. If it weren't for Wang Daokun's salary draw, he might still be anxious because of the summer tax at this time! Even if it was just because of this matter, Duan Chaozong's bias towards the Wang clan of Songming Mountain and the Wang clan of Zhuchuan naturally had no doubt. He even considered whether he should also learn from He Dongxu, so that those self-confident eunuchs also knew what the authority of the court was!
In the examination room of Huizhou Mansion School, since the exam questions were announced, Xie Tingjie, who deliberately left the two prisoners and his entourage by his side, has been carefully observing everyone's expressions. He keenly noticed that several of them had unnatural expressions. For such a scene, he remembered it in his heart, but he didn't show any clues on his face, but when he left the scene in the afternoon to go to Shexian School Palace, he summoned Shexian Ling Ye Junyao.
"Benxian immediately went to the She County School Palace to inspect, and this side will all be handed over to Ye Zhixian. From these entourages around Benxian, no one is allowed to leave the scene for half a step, so as not to cause fraud and other incidents. The palanquin driver and his entourage who went to Shexian School Palace with Benxian were drawn from the Yamen of the prefecture and county. ”
As soon as he heard that Xie Tingjie actually went to the Shexian School Palace alone, and he didn't bring any of these people, the prisoner Xiong Han and a large number of entourages suddenly changed their faces. And since Ye Junyao listened to Wang Fulin's advice and volunteered to swap places with Duan Chaozong in order to avoid suspicion, of course, he didn't have a word at this time, and he patted his chest and expressed his determination to maintain order here, and sent the great master away with a smile on his face.
As soon as Xie Tingjie left and stood in the new hall of Fuxuezhi, Ye Cannon glanced meaningfully at Xie Tingjie's entourage who had a bad face, and suddenly coughed dryly.
"The great grandmaster's heart of preventing the slightest slight, this county is really admired! In this way, when you patrol the venue next, please follow the county around, so that those candidates can understand the public heart of the Grand Master. ”
Although Xie Tingjie knew at a glance that the two topics listed in the letter sent by He Xinyin, the pretext He Xinyin, did not come out of his own, but this letter solemnly pointed out that these two topics are now circulating everywhere, regardless of whether they are true or false, but many places are talking about the thunder and rain of the great master, and coming to Huizhou in person is just an attitude, but the topics are broad and simple. Thinking that he had indeed only had two questions before, Xie Tingjie stayed up late last night flipping through the book, racking his brains, and today he actually threw out four exam questions that were completely different from the original ones in one go.
He is not afraid of people saying that he is strict, it is better than being told that someone around him missed the question!
Holding back his anger and coming to the Shexian School Palace, Xie Tingjie immediately began to check the examination booth one by one. Brightly, he is looking at the candidates' answers, but secretly, he is looking at people's handwriting, even if he knows that even if the fake letter is planned by one of these students, it may not be his own handwriting, but he can't help but have a little luck. However, he only took a cursory stroll around for a while, and when he passed by an examination booth, he glanced at the young student who was struggling to write, and his eyes immediately froze.
There is really such a bold person!
ps: The topic of comparing the advantages and disadvantages of character is really not made up by me, it is recorded. The number of questions in the annual exam depends on the mood of the great master. Anyway, continue to ask for recommendation votes...... It's ^_^ even better to have a monthly pass