In addition to the second judgment of the examination, there are also edicts, edicts, and internal departments. Among them, the judgment is from the "Da Ming Law". Candidates must choose one of the edict forms. In the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, candidates had multiple choices.

The third session is a discussion of strategy. The palace examination only examines strategy, and there are no first two sessions. Originally, the strategy was to test the candidate's ability to understand the past and the present, and the candidate was required to read through the history books and the political books of the current dynasty. But with the development, candidates only read the "Literature General Examination" and "Daming Huidian". One ancient and one modern to deal with.

On February 16, all the exams were over, and the candidates were waiting for the release of the results.

In the Ming Dynasty, three examinations were carried out in the township and general examinations, and the content and standards of the examinations were exactly the same. In order to ensure the fairness of evaluation and admission, since the opening of the Hongwu department, as the imperial examination has been formalized, the rulers have continuously improved the knowledge and qualifications of the examiners.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the examiner of the township examination was mainly served by the instructor, and after several repetitions, the Beijing official presided over the township examination and became customized; The examiner of the examination is served by Zhan Hanguan, and after the cabinet system is fully formed, it is served by the deputy auxiliary minister. As the number of scholars increased, so did the number of fellow examiners.

Although the admission method of the Ming Dynasty was stipulated to take into account the three examinations, in the actual evaluation process, due to the influence and constraints of its own laws, there were many examination questions, and the scholars could not take into account, and the subjective and objective factors such as the limited number of examiners, the complex evaluation standards, and the limited evaluation time were intertwined, so that the evaluation method of taking into account the three examinations could not be fully implemented in the actual marking process.

Generally speaking, the results of the first test directly determine the total score in the future.

In order to prevent fraud and reduce errors in the marking process, the preparation before marking and the storage of test papers are extremely strict. Neither the retractor nor the surveillance officer can interfere in the process of receiving, sealing, transcribing, or reading, and there are special officials responsible for this work.

The examination papers are the most rigorous in the examination room, and the examination papers are handed over to the relevant officials after they are called.

After receiving the papers, sealing, transcribing, and cross-reading, the examiners basically review the papers that conform to the format, without the candidate's name and without special markings.

After these basic processes are completed, the test paper can be handed over to the examiner for review.

The basic principle of their marking has always been to eliminate some non-compliant answers in advance to reduce the workload of colleagues.

Papers that are not answered in accordance with the regulations and those that have not been completed at all are excluded.

Generally speaking, in the process of work, the same examiner can make his own decisions, and only in case of special circumstances, when the examiners are not sure to pay attention, will one of the two examiners be alarmed.

When the examiners do this work, they are very fast, and they often only need to see whether the answers to the paper are complete, and whether there are situations in the examination paper that should be avoided and some words are used directly.

When a fellow examiner turned his attention to an answer sheet, he was immediately attracted by the content, the answer sheet was fluent and quite literal, and in his eyes, this paper was fully qualified to hit the first class in this scientific examination.

After reviewing it again and again, and making sure that all the words in the text that were required to be avoided had been properly handled, the fellow examiner couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"This answer sheet is rare to see, and it should be a masterpiece!". This colleague's laughter in disregard of etiquette immediately attracted everyone's onlookers.

The examiners took all the answer sheets in their hands, and before they had time to look at the papers, their faces changed amazingly.

This candidate didn't even make a draft!

The subject requires candidates to have a draft just to prevent cheating, and there are two reasons why candidates do not have a draft, one is that they are busy cheating and have no time to make drafts, and the other is that they do not have this habit.

"In my opinion, this candidate has extremely high quality writing, not like a person who can cheat! We should include his papers, otherwise we will bury talents! ”。 The examiner, who was the first to get the paper, proposed to everyone. He still approves of the content of the volume.

"How can this be done, how can a person's character be judged from the content of the answer sheet, in case his answer sheet is prepared in advance!"

"This person must not be admitted, otherwise the matter will be discovered by the emperor, how can we explain it?".

Other people in the same exam also had different opinions, and everyone argued with each other. It is true that a single test paper answer does not say anything.

There is such a practice of mock exams in any era, and there are so many contents in the Four Books and Five Classics, and this imperial examination has selected a few common poems to do the questions, and it is not surprising that someone has done it before and even memorized one or two questions.

"What to quarrel, what to quarrel! What kind of system, you are all a great Confucian, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, so loud, is this a vegetable market? ”。 When several people were arguing, the chief examiner Li Dongyang came over.

He stopped the argument and took the paper in his hand.

The volume was very well done, and Li Dongyang was attracted by the answer after only a few glances.

The article was well done, but there was no draft in the volume, and he didn't have a chance to look for clues from the draft.

"Forget it, take this scroll down, we would rather let a virtuous man wander for another three years than let a mediocre person get in, otherwise in the future, this matter will be spread out, not only will I lose face, but the court will also suffer huge losses!"

Li Ge Lao made a final decision, and he decided to give up this volume.

This is the end of the primary selection, and everyone gathered together a few papers with great potential, hoping to select the Huiyuan of this scientific examination from several of the test papers.

After Li Ge read a few test papers, he sighed, each test paper only focused on the first one.

At this time, he remembered the boy who did not distinguish the three test papers from each other, and he still let mundane things delay the imperial examination after all.

Ge Lao became bored, and randomly chose a set of yuan.

On February 20, a yellow list was posted at the door of the Gongyuan, and the results of the examination came out.

All the candidates gathered around to watch the results, once they were on the list, they would half-foot into the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, even if they were unlucky during the palace examination, they could also end up with the same Jinshi background.

The candidates crowded each other, and finally someone squeezed in front of the yellow list.

The leader of this realm is Li Ling, and he has become the head of the lift!

A few families are happy and a few are sad, Xu Lai's name is impressively listed, although the ranking is a little low.

Song Xing stood in front of Huang Bang with an indifferent face, so he wouldn't tear his face and squeeze it in.

His answer sheet is smooth and smooth, which is not comparable to ordinary people, and he has a vague premonition that he must be among the top three.

"Ah, Li Jieyuan hit Huiyuan again? It's really tough, it seems that this time the southerners are going to overwhelm the northern lifters again! ”。

"I wonder if Li Xie Yuan will have another three-yuan and first?".

The scholars discussed excitedly.

Song Xing couldn't hold back anymore when he heard the discussion of the lifters, and he couldn't care about maintaining his demeanor.

He pulled out the crowd to Bang Wen with all his might, and Li Ling really hit Huiyuan.

What's even more incredible is that he himself actually fell off the list.

"I'm not convinced, this imperial examination is boring, I don't believe that Li Ling can still win the first place!"

He refused to talk about himself, and deliberately pushed Li Ling out.

A little of the fallen people made a fuss like him, and dozens of people gathered at the gate of the tribute courtyard.

"Your test paper is not drafted, it does not meet the requirements, and you cannot be admitted!". One of the same exams came out to explain, and he also felt sorry for Song Xing, but the rules could not be abolished, and Song wanted to be a Jinshi and could only come back in three years.

"Ahh Song Xing shouted, he forgot about this request.

Li Ling's answer sheet for the first scene was posted, and everyone, including Song Xing, shut up.

Other people's articles are good!

Xu Lai also opened his mouth wide in surprise, although the two copied the same answer sheet, but Li Ling made retouches and looked more perfect.

Li Ling has been repeatedly revised, and the answer sheet looks much taller and more upgrade than the original text! (To be continued.) )