The question and answer between Zhao Shuang and Ma Jun, for Hongfu, is eight words - "clouds and mountains are covered in fog, I don't know what to do". Judging from Ma Jun's answering speed, the questions should be more difficult than the other, but the parameters contained in them have gradually become simpler.

Because even Zhao Shuang himself didn't dare to pack the ticket, in the more and more complex calculations, and then use huge or fragmentary parameters, he can not make any mistakes, all of them are answered correctly at one time - he is the party who made the question, if he is careless and makes a mistake of one or two points, how embarrassing is it? Fortunately, Ma Jun's speed of solving the problem or the speed of pulling the abacus is a few beats slower than him Zhao Junqing, plus the writing answer, the little official submits it, this time is enough for Zhao Shuang to take another pen and paper, and use the "Daqin number" and "Daqin algorithm" taught by Hongfu to check it again.

Ma Jun answered six questions before and after, and only one of them had a slight error in calculation - the accuracy rate has reached seventy percent, this is still a casual answer, Zhao Shuang does not give him time to take the test at all. In the end, Zhao Junqing sighed and turned to Hongfu: "It's okay." "That means, I've finished the test, and this person really has real skills, and there should be no cheating in it.

It was Hongfu who nodded, and said, "Junqing can do it himself." "How to treat this Ma Jun, you decide for yourself. Zhao Shuang received the order, and called someone to help Ma Jun out--After such a long time, Ma Deheng's mood was basically stable, and his legs and feet were relatively neat-and then helped him to take a carriage, asked where he lived, and then left Taixue and galloped away.

Ma Jun is still a little confused - is this Shangguan Xiangzhong? Your grades should be good, right? Is this going to send yourself directly to be an official? But as soon as the carriage left the west gate of Luoyang City, the officials who drove it knocked Ma Jun down - "You can return yourself." Don't talk about today's events. ”

By the time Ma Deheng walked back to Shi's Zhuangyuan in a daze, it was already dark - but he felt like a twist in his stomach. Hungry, but has missed the free sunset. Fortunately, Chen Wei was still thinking about him, waiting at the gate, and asked if he would take the arithmetic exam for a whole day? Why did you come back? Stuff a piece of bread with your hand.

Ma Jun was really hungry, so he took it and stuffed it into his mouth. Since the officials had already taken the photos and were not allowed to divulge today's events, he had no choice but to reply vaguely: "I, I'm lost......"

He didn't know. After leaving Taixue, there was such a conversation between Hongfu and Zhao Shuang-

It was Hongsuke who first asked: "If so, is it possible to use it?" ”

Zhao Shuang bowed and said, "What the captain said is true. There are relics in the wild, and we don't know what to do. Although this person is young, he is rare in the world, and he can be of great use. ”

It was Hongsuke who said that this was the case. Why don't you recruit him on the spot? If you can command him to worship under your door, he will study. Isn't it better? Zhao Shuang replied: "For Shuang's main exam, I am afraid that there will be selfishness." "If I say anything to him on the spot, the results of this exam have not yet been officially announced, I am afraid that there will be unreliable gossip, saying that I fell in love with this person first, and then give him a score. Anyway, he is in Luoyang, and he can't run, and it's not too late to recruit after the ranking is determined.

It was Hongsuke who nodded. Saying that you are right, but I am not thinking about it—"What do you want?" ”

In fact, the assignment of officials is mainly the work of the ministry. Only military positions are under the control of the Ministry of War, but after the Ministry of Election has presided over the imperial examination, it naturally has the right and obligation to make recommendations to various departments - whether to accept it depends on the attitude of each department, and whether it is ultimately distributed according to the intentions of both parties is up to the Ministry of Officials.

It was Hongfu who asked, and Zhao Shuang immediately replied: "You can enter the department, and you are the deputy of Shuang." The "deputy" mentioned here refers to the assistant, of course, it does not mean that Ma Jun can ascend to the sky in one step to become the second-in-command of the cashier. Generally, in the imperial examination, except for some special circumstances - for example, the results are really strong against the sky, as a child of a wealthy family and a prominent reputation - you must start from a department official or county official below 400 stones, Zhao Shuang's deputy is an official of 800 stones, Ma Deheng is categorically not qualified.

Zhao Shuang wanted to bring Ma Jun to his side and cultivate him as his heir, but although Hongfu didn't say anything, he didn't think so.

It is Hongsuke who believes that people's scientific talents can be divided into two types: inheritance type and pioneering type. As far as mathematics is concerned, Zhao Shuang seems to be a pioneering talent - although he had not heard of Zhao Shuang's name in his previous life, and did not know that this was the greatest contemporary mathematician who succeeded Zhang Heng and Liu Hui, and also made considerable achievements in astronomy - but Ma Jun does not seem to have any place in the history of mathematics, and can only be regarded as an inherited talent.

Ma Jun studied mathematics, mainly for the service of machinery manufacturing, and in terms of scientific and technological research and development, he was definitely a pioneering master, and even Zhuge Kongming was stunned. Therefore, instead of assigning Ma Deheng to the Ministry of Finance and Accounting, it is better to go to the Ministry of Engineering, which is more professional and can give full play to his strengths.

It's just that after thinking about it carefully, Ma Jun was weak in his year, and he was caught by the bait of his imperial examination, and he entered the eunuch road at a young age, will there be a risk of "pulling out seedlings to help grow"? For Ma Jun's deeds, the history books of later generations are also very brief, only know that he once served as a doctor, and later in order to give things, they are all idle work without clear subordinates, so that they can have a lot of time to engage in scientific and technological research and development that is not a government project.

You have to find a reliable person to lead you in order to make it move towards a brilliant future...... However, although Zhao Shuang is good at arithmetic, he may not be a good teacher......

This matter is not mentioned for the time being, and it is explained that although the exam of arithmetic was completed on the same day, the results of this cannot be promulgated yet, first, you have to wait for the results of several other subjects to come out and release them uniformly, and second, it is not enough for you to be proficient in mathematics, and the results of the first Jingyi exam need to be used as a reference.

In the end, Zhao Shuang still couldn't judge Ma Jun's arithmetic scroll - one was not a perfect score after all, and the other was customary to distinguish grades from top to bottom at that time, but in all walks of life, the top and top would rather be vacant than lightly allowed - but only gave a top middle. When the results of the first Jingyi exam came out, Ma Deheng took a top. The two results are reported to the selection department, and the selection department is then evaluated by the middle and positive evaluation, and the final judgment is: middle and upper.

Imperial examinations. No matter which subject, the middle and lower are the passing line, and the standard is given the identity of Xiucai, and you can be an official, and if you don't meet the standard, you will directly return the ticket. Chen Yun and the others waited for ten days before the news came that all the four gates of Luoyang had posted their posts. Clearly indicate the results of the imperial examination. So everyone called friends and flocked to it, Ma Boyong was small. I squeezed directly through the cracks of the people, and after a while, I heard him cheer excitedly: "I am in it!" I'm in it! ”

He got a passing grade in the Ming Jing test - middle and lower, and he will be successful.

In this imperial examination, there were 2,845 candidates. In the end, only 521 people were selected. It's less than a fifth. Among them, the Ming Jing accounted for the majority, with four hundred and three people, followed by the Ming Law, the third Zhiju, and the fourth Zhibing. The smallest number of winners was the Ming Arithmetic Department, with only eleven people - in fact, Zhao Shuang picked out twelve, but someone was finally brushed off in the selection department because the scriptures were too poor.

Naturally, Ma Jun is also on the list, and he is ranked first - only he is in the upper middle. The remaining ten people are all middle-middle or lower-middle.

This was to be expected, not to mention that the arithmetic scores of those few people were far worse than him. And like Ma Jun, he didn't get any extra points in the authentic evaluation. What can really make the Zhongzheng official look at it, if it is not the child of a local wealthy family, it must be a person who is proficient in the scriptures and righteousness, and the family only wants to take the right path of the scriptures, no one will take the test of the scriptures, as for being proficient in the scriptures...... Then go directly to the Ming Sutra, and you won't bother to think about arithmetic.

He is also well-versed in the scriptures, able to write, and is also the leader in mathematics, astronomy, and mechanics, and there is only one Zhang Heng and Zhang Pingzi in hundreds of years.

It is a pity that Chen Yun's name fell to Sun Shan.

He really couldn't figure it out. Chen Zifu still has a certain degree of confidence in his own knowledge, and he thinks that there are no major mistakes or omissions in this response test-why can't he win? Even if the requirements of the examiner are relatively high, and with the world's big, there are many talents, and there are more people who are stronger than themselves, but why can even Ma Qi get the hit, but he is in front of the battle? How could I be worse than Ma Boyong!

The two fellow villagers, Ma Qi and Ma Jun, both came to comfort Chen Xuan, but they couldn't make Chen Zifu's mood even a little calmer. Ma Boyong was still immersed in the ecstasy that he had been on the list and could be an official from now on, but he was just casually perfunctory, and he didn't really comfort Chen Wei at all. As for Ma Deheng, he must first be able to say a complete sentence before he can talk about the word "comfort......

According to the note on the list, the successful candidate should immediately go to the selection department to check and register his or her identity in order to obtain the status of Xiucai - for three days. After three days, I will go to the ministry and wait for the assignment of work - it is also expected to be three days, of course, you can not go, and return to the countryside with the halo of talent to be powerful. Ma Qi was in a hurry to go to the election department, so he didn't "comfort" Chen Jun a few words, he ran away, and also ripped Ma Jun away by the way. There was only one Chen Zi who was left to lose his soul, his steps staggered, and he walked to the place where he was staying in a daze, and saw that it was the Clan's Zhuangyuan from a distance, and suddenly his heart moved-

Could it be that Zheng County secretly informed that Taiwei is Hongfu, so he deliberately fell to me?!

Although it is said that the three of them were arrested together, and the "first evil" is still Ma Qi, but as far as Ma Qi's virtue is concerned, he will only cry and beg for mercy, and he will definitely not say anything disrespectful in front of Shi Jun. As for Ma Jun, it is automatically ignored...... Only himself, not only in the restaurant to talk about the government, but also in front of Shi Jun, how can he not be jealous of himself? And he is pointing the finger at the policymaker is Kosuke, so once the other party knows about it, how can he spare himself?

Maybe it was the name of the bus scholar who temporarily saved his life, but now that the exam list has been released and he has been defeated, then he will resume his white clothes and be just an ordinary rural scholar who travels to Luoyang. If Hongsuke wants to pinch himself to death, isn't it like pinching a bedbug? He, he, he's not going to send someone to hunt him down or even rob him, is he?!

The more I think about it, the more I feel resentful, the more I think about it, the more panicked I become, the tip of the horn drills deeper and deeper, and finally gritted my teeth and stomped my feet. That's it, that's it, I'd better run for my life!

So he hurriedly returned to his residence, picked up his luggage and fled, and did not dare to take the main road along the way, entering the county seat, only repeatedly detouring and getting lost on the country road, and then detouring and getting lost again, and when he returned to Wugong Mashi Village, he was already haggard like a ghost.

He immediately persuaded the widowed mother, pawned the property, left Ma's Village, and fled to Shuzhong through the Baoxie Valley...... (To be continued......)

PS: Ahhh......h You must know that the author, like Shixun, is not only a liberal arts student, but also a science illiterate...... This chapter has ended Chen Su for the time being, and I haven't thought about whether to let him appear again in the future.