After the candidates finished the exam, they all went to relax and even indulge, Wang Xiang and others began to live a hard life, of course, this is endowed with a sense of mission for many internal curtain officials and fellow examiners, or can bear, after all, in the next half a month, they will decide the future of all candidates, after the candidates of the laurel list celebrate, they need to prepare for the examination to be held in the capital in April of the next year, and the candidates of the sub-list can also celebrate, or choose to go to the country to study, or go home to prepare for another township examination three years later, and the vast majority of candidates, It was gloomy to pack his bags and prepare to leave Xi'an City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Xiang is familiar with this situation, after all, he is also a two-list jinshi, and he has also experienced this scene.

The inner curtain official and the same examiner still will not leave the Tribute Academy, and the marking is also completed in the Tribute Academy, and all the test papers that have been copied have been placed, but the articles of the third policy examination will not be copied until two days later, but it doesn't matter, the key is the article of the first Four Books and Five Classics exam.

The time to review the test papers began day and night, and the working hours determined by Wang Xiang were very harsh, starting to mark the papers every morning, and the time for eating was a quarter of an hour, drinking as little water as possible, so as not to always go to the toilet and delay the time, and the marking continued until the end of the day, if necessary, it was possible to extend the time for marking.

The marking was carried out in the wing room of the Tribute Academy, Wang Xiang occupied a room, the deputy chief examiner occupied a room, and the other four examiners were in a room, and outside the wing room, there were heavily armed sergeants.

The inner curtain officer and the same examiner, the hardest is the examiner.

In order to be able to really select knowledgeable candidates, the examiner must read as many test papers as possible, which not only includes the test papers and articles selected by the same examiner, but also includes the eliminated test papers and articles, so as to prevent the same examiner from being too tired and not seeing some good articles.

Of course, as the chief examiner, it is necessary to put forward the marking standard, which has been discussed between the marking papers, and everyone has unified their opinions, so the speed of marking the papers is still a little fast, and some can be swept aside.

The examiner is able to read a lot of test papers and articles in one day, and the transcriptionist's handwriting is very clear, and the copied articles have no ink stains and look very refreshing, which also allows the person who reads the papers to easily read the entire article.

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Wang Xiang was ready for everything, and he had forgotten all the unhappiness that happened at the banquet.

The sergeants who were transferred to the inner courtyard of the Gongyuan began to send all the copied test papers to the side room and place them in front of the same examiners.

With the examiner, use the bamboo piece on the table to cut the sealing place on the surface of the cylinder, spread out the test paper, and then you can start grading.

Each examiner has a separate table, with a cylinder in front of it that has not yet been torn, and on the left is the selected essay, and the essay that has been basically eliminated is placed, and once the candidate's test paper is placed on the right side of the examiner, there is almost no hope.

Of the more than 2,000 candidates, one hundred and eighteen can be singled out, including 98 on the laurel list and 20 on the deputy list.

As you can imagine, there are very few papers on the left side of the examiner and a large number of papers on the right.

The room is very quiet, there is a bell on the table of each examiner, if the sergeant needs to come in, the examiner will ring the bell, the sergeant will either enter the room to send the sealed test papers, or the selected test papers will be sent to the room of the deputy examiner, of course, the sergeant cannot leave the room, the room of the chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner are all in the room.

When you read the paper with the examiner, you can discuss with each other and evaluate how the article is, but at the beginning of the marking, such a situation will not appear, mainly because it is too late in time, if the four examiners have more time to discuss together, then you can't see how many test papers there are every day.

The exchange of opinions with the examiner is mainly during meals or after the marking of the paper on the same day.

According to the regulations of the imperial court, the same examiner has the right to directly give suggestions to the chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner, and they think that a good article, if it is eliminated, it is possible to ask the reason, but such a situation will hardly occur, because it is the power of the chief examiner to decide whether to admit a certain candidate, and the deputy chief examiner can only be a supervisor and suggestion, not to mention the same examiner.

At the end of the day, Wang Xiang and the deputy examiner both walked out of the room and came to the wing.

On the one hand, the two of them patrolled to see if the same examiner was carefully marking the papers, and at the same time, they could also review the unsealed test papers.

Although the marking has only started for a moment, the test papers have already been placed on the right side of several fellow examiners.

Wang Xiang's main task at the moment is to look at these test papers that have been eliminated.

After reading the four eliminated test papers in succession, Wang Xiang couldn't help but shake his head, these articles are really not good, either they are empty words, or they are all copying the words of the ancients, and they can't see a trace of insight, how can such a patchwork article be selected.

Wang Xiang knows that the exam questions he came up with are a little more difficult, and I am afraid that many candidates will have this kind of article, and it is difficult to come up with any new ideas, but only in this way can real talents be selected.

This is the first day that Wang Xiang entered the Tribute Academy, he thought about it carefully, the exam questions were simple, and the local governors and political envoys were happy, but the emperor was definitely not happy, after all, the admitted test papers and articles had to be sent to the capital, although the emperor could not read them all, but he always had to read a few.

Wang Xiang also knows that in the early stage of grading, that is, within five days, there are not many articles that can be selected, and there is a rule in the township examination in various places, that is, the transcription officer is first to copy the articles in the last examination room, and copy them in this order, often excellent articles come out in the back, which is done in consideration of the actual situation, and Tian Ji horse racing is somewhat similar, you must know that the energy of the inner curtain officer and the same examiner is limited, if the first good article is taken out, so that they have a benchmark, then the later test papers, There is no doubt that you will suffer a loss, and there are not many people who can be looked down upon.

First of all, the standard is lower, even if there are more articles selected, you can also come to review them later, and the standard will be raised at the beginning, and it is very likely that the number of selected articles is not enough.

Three days have passed, and the selected articles, but about a dozen, Wang Xiang has carefully read these articles, and there is nothing particularly satisfying, and it can even be said that he is not satisfied.

However, it is impossible for candidates in Shaanxi to be compared with the south, with the north and Zhili, and even with Shanxi.

Three days passed, and there were only about a dozen articles selected, which also made Wang Xiang a little helpless and anxious, according to this progress, in the later stage of grading, would he be able to pick out enough articles, and when he was resting on the third day, Wang almost wanted to tell many fellow examiners, but he still held back.

From the fourth day onwards, there were more articles selected, and some of them were also okay to Wang Xiang.

In fact, according to Wang Xiang's goal, those so-called articles that can be done are also not good, but he has read too many articles, and it is impossible to set the standard very high among the short people.

By the afternoon of the sixth day, the number of articles on Wang Xianghe's deputy examiner's desk had exceeded 100.

The time for grading with the examiner is ten days, and the excellent articles are selected from all the articles within ten days, which includes the articles of all three exams, under normal circumstances, the first day to the sixth day focuses on the articles of the first exam, and the seventh to tenth days are the articles of the second and third exams, this ratio is obviously unequal, six days to read more than 2,000 articles, and four days to read more than 4,000 articles, it can be seen that the articles of the second and third exams are not taken seriously.

In the remaining five days, the chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner have to determine which candidates can be admitted, the rankings of all candidates in this township examination, who Xie Yuan is, who Yayuan is, including the list of laurels and vice lists, all have to be determined.

On the first day of October, the list of the township test was introduced, and when the time came, it was posted outside the yamen of the political envoy, and it was the season of osmanthus fragrance at the moment, so the list was called the laurel list, of course, this is mainly for the south, and there are not so many osmanthus trees in the north.

Nearly six days, Wang Xiang read I don't know how many articles, he read a little dizzy, this article is the same as reading, if you see a good book, even if you stay up late is comfortable, but if you see an article you don't like, it is difficult to stick to it for a quarter of an hour, but unfortunately the inner curtain officer and the same examiner do not have such power, no matter whether the article is good or bad, they have to read it carefully, even if they feel uncomfortable in their hearts.

The same examiners are all drawn from the Hanlin Academy and the Guozijian, the ability and level are indeed good, the selected articles, are indeed the best, these same examiners will pick out one hundred and fifty articles, and then the inner curtain official in this one hundred and fifty articles, selected one hundred and eighteen, of which the first ninety-eight are basically the people of this township examination, and the remaining twenty are the people of the sub-list.

Wang was still very satisfied with the four fellow examiners, and a few days ago he would look at those eliminated articles, but then he didn't read them at all, and he couldn't pick out any good ones from them.

Seeing that the article on the first exam was basically finished, Wang Xiang was not particularly satisfied, which made him a little anxious, after all, the emperor would definitely read Xie Yuan's article in the township test, if the article was too bad, his face would be gloomy.