1) The problem of obfuscation.

The name is certain, but after the five classics are decided, all the names are disassembled, and the next thing is the ranking of the top five, of course, the most important thing is the ownership of the first place.

The specific operation of different dynasties and different periods in real history must be different.,Anyway, that's how this article is understood and set.,Interested readers can flip back.,When I wrote the township test before, I also set the name of Jingkui to open the name.。

2) Xu Mu's plot problem.

First of all, we need to clarify a few prerequisites.

First, Xu Mu and Xu Lin are not relatives and friends on the surface, but going forward for five or six generations or seven or eight generations is indeed related.

The second is to do the dry confession.

That is, before the exam, he took the article to meet the examiner privately, which was common in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. From the existence of the imperial examination system to the complete abolition of the imperial examination system, it has never been eradicated.

Third, fraud in the imperial examination has been repeatedly prohibited.

The Tang Dynasty Ministry of Rites Lang Qian Hui Fraud Case, the Northern Song Dynasty Chen Yaozhi and Liu Shidao Fraud Case, the Southern Song Dynasty Qin Hui Fraud, the Ming Dynasty Jiachen Branch Field Case, the Qing Dynasty Shunzhi Ding You Beifu Branch Field Case, Guangxu years, Zhou Shuren's grandfather also bribed the township examination examiner.

Fourth, the cost of being reported and exposed for fraud in the imperial examination is not as great as some readers imagine.

In the aforementioned fraud case of Chen Yaozhi and Liu Shidao in the Northern Song Dynasty, Chen Yaozhi, the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites, was demoted to the deputy envoy of the Shanzhou League Training because he collaborated with Liu Shidao to cheat on behalf of his younger brother, but he was soon reinstated, and even later served as the examiner of the imperial examination again.

Of course, this was only the case in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in the Qing Dynasty, once the imperial examination fraud was caught, it was a killing of the head at every turn, which was another matter.

Fifth, the imperial examination is not fair.

There are many ways for the senior officials of the DPRK and China to exert influence on the results of the imperial examinations, and they will not be characterized as fraud, and various "internal champions", "backdoor champions", and "powerful champions" emerge one after another.

For example, the great poet Wang Weineng won the top prize in the examination, and he took the path of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's sister.

Another example is Tang Ruji, the champion who relied on Yan Song's father and son to pass the examination during the Jiajing period.

Another example is the famous Zhang Juzheng, among his sons, there is a champion, a leader, and a jinshi, and Zhang Juzheng also served as the chief examiner of his second son......

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After clarifying the above points, let's take a look at the examiner Xu Mu in this article.

Xu Mu must be selfish, he hopes that Xu Lin will become a huiyuan, but what he does is not fraud at all, nor is it a bending of the law for personal gain.

First of all, Xu Mu and Xu Lin are Tonglu Xu's and the other is Qingjiang Xu's, and they don't seem to have a direct kinship on the surface, which has been explained in the article.

Secondly, Xu Mu never showed his attitude clearly from beginning to end, and also put on a posture of avoiding suspicion and did not interfere in the discussion with the examiners.

Perhaps after Wang Wenqing pointed out Xu Lin's background, the examiners had already guessed Xu Mu's attitude, but Xu Mu had nothing to do with Xu Lin on the surface, and he never said a good word for Xu Lin from beginning to end.

Even if someone writes a letter of impeachment, but without any basis to impeach a prince Shaobao, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and a scholar of Longtuge, I am afraid that he will have to prepare for his official hat to be unprotected.

Speculation is just speculation, and it does not pose any substantial threat to Xu Mu. However, once this kind of speculation is born, it will make the same examiners throw a mouse.

The same examiners will weigh in their hearts if this speculation is true, how can they stand on the opposite side of Xu Mu, and what will be the consequences?

With this layer of concerns, even if they did not directly oppose Xu Mu, they did not dare to speak casually, and then they became the silent majority.

This is why, in the early stage of discussion with the examiners, only Zhang Maoxiu and Qiu Zhongyi easily dominated the situation in the field.

Suppose that if the young Hanlin hadn't come out to speak up, would the views of Zhang Maoxiu and Qiu Zhongyi, a few people, become "public opinion".

When the time comes, Xu Mu only needs to be like Wang Wenqing who took Wei Chen as Xie Yuan during the township test, half-push and half-act, and act in accordance with the "public opinion", and he can justifiably take Xu Lin as Huiyuan, and no one can find any mistakes.

Compared with Wei Chen's time, Xu Lin may be a little bit of hard power, and Zhang Maoxiu and Qiu Zhongyi are responsible for making up for this link with public opinion.

You must know that before the discussion of the candidates, Xu Lin was already the candidate for the poetry book agreed by the examiners, which means that even if Xu Lin's article is worse than Wei Chen, it is not much worse.

is still the same sentence, there is no first, there is no second, when the level of the article is good to a certain extent, which one is better is just a subjective judgment.

Your Hanlin Academy said that Wei Chen's articles are better, but I, Zhang Maoxiu and Qiu Zhongyi, just like Xu Lin's style of writing, which is also my freedom.

Although it's a bit vexatious, that's what Li'er is.

The two of them are just performing the duties of the same examiner, as the same examiner, recommending their favorite papers, is it wrong?

Absolutely.

In the final analysis, the whole thing is that Xu Mu's status and power are at work.

Even if Xu Mu didn't say a word, others could still feel the invisible pressure brought by this power, and then unconsciously act according to Xu Mu's wishes.

Is this fraud?

Of course not.