Whether it is the ancient imperial examination or the modern college entrance examination, marking the test papers is manual work.

Absolutely one glance and ten lines!

And excellent rolls will also squeeze the time of ordinary rolls. For example, for a full-score essay, one person cannot make the decision to mark the paper, and it needs to be passed by multiple markers.

Under normal circumstances, the essay you have worked so hard to write will be swept by the teacher in a few seconds.

In ancient times, the imperial examinations were all small compositions, and this phenomenon was even more serious.

Of course, the most tiring thing is the transcriptionist, who needs to transcribe all the test papers.

Coupled with the fact that the transcription and the original are double-checked, these processes are extremely labor-intensive, leaving little time for the graders.

The examiner kept reading the article for many days, and within a day or two, he became dizzy and sentenced the file in a daze. That's why Lin Zexu said: "The decision to abandon is taken between Russia, and the judgment is to rise and sink in a trance." ”

"With the addition of sentence reading symbols, it is indeed much easier than before." Wu Yanzhang said with emotion.

In the eleventh year of Shaoxing, Jin Wushu led the army to invade the south, and Wu Yanzhang's position was to raise the army's money and food.

This important minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, so far he has not received an errand in Daming, and has been thrown to the Hanlin Academy to compile books, and at this moment he was finally ordered to be the official of the imperial examination.

Candidates are required to write commas and periods, which makes it extremely convenient for Wu Yanzhang.

After reading an article, Wu Yanzhang began to give results, and wrote in Zhu Juan: "Based on reason, understanding the pure beauty is enough to break through the doubts and return to the right." This article deserves nine points. Wu Yanzhang. ”

The 100-point system is of course Zhu Ming's order.

It is not only to connect with the mathematics and physics test papers, but also to ensure the importance of non-scripture questions.

After Wang Anshi's reform, the imperial examinations of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties paid more and more attention to the scriptures.

Even if you write your policies and official documents perfectly, as long as you fail to pass the scriptures, you will definitely fall off the list.

Of course, this is not Wang Anshi's pot, because there is also a focus before he changes the law. At that time, it was you who wrote the scriptures and theories all over the place, but as long as the poems were not qualified, they would definitely fall off the list.

Zhu Ming directly implemented a 100-point system, and all test papers had to be scored, and then added up to calculate the total score, so as to prevent mathematics, physics, official documents, and policy theory from being ignored.

At present, the four-day exam content has a total of 400 points, which is 100 points per day.

The 100 points are then broken down to different questions, and a full score is set for each question.

There are also more subdivided things, such as the chicken and rabbit cage question. Regardless of whether you use modern mathematics or traditional arithmetic, you will get full marks for writing a specific calculation process, and half a point for writing only one correct answer.

Even the question of picking locks is like this, you have to write clearly why it is easier to pick locks with long sticks.

In view of the fact that many candidates have not studied physics, the criteria for judging papers are more relaxed, and you can simply write why you answered the questions the way you did.

For example, Li Gongjian, who wrote an experiment with a bowl and a brush, was also able to get full marks for this question.

In addition, papers with too high and too low scores need to be cross-marked, and at least three marking officers must sign them.

For example, A gives a score of 95 on a certain paper, which is too high, and it is necessary to give it to B and C for another score, and finally take the average of the three scores.

After half a month of marking work, dozens of examiners gathered together, and there were invigilators from the inspectorate standing next to them.

"Let's take it off." Xiao Chu ordered.

Juan Guo was also there, mentally exhausted, and he just wanted to sleep now.

The chief examiner is called Dong Xixian, and he is a student who followed Zhu Ming to Guizhou. He picked up the red scroll with only the number and said: "First place, No. 109 in field B, with a total score of 394 points." To the volume! ”

Another invigilator found the corresponding ink roll according to the field number, and after repeated comparison, said: "The ink roll is not damaged." ”

The ink scroll was held up for public display, and several major examiners and invigilators could see it clearly, and officials from further afield could come over to see it if they had any questions.

Xiao Chu said: "Demolish the name! ”

Before the name was completely unraveled, several heads came over.

Dong Xixian announced: "The first place in the Ministry of Rites exam, Li Tong of Nanjian Prefecture!" ”

"Whose disciple is this man?" Juan Guo asked.

"I don't know."

The crowd shook their heads.

Everyone has read the answer sheet for the first place, not only is the Jingyi essay well written, but also mathematics and physics are all standard answers.

Even how to predict disaster years, provide relief through work, and prepare for civil unrest are all well written.

Huang Shang said: "Since he is a scholar of Nanjianzhou, most of them are students of Chen Zhimo (Chen Yuan). ”

"Probably so." Juan Guo said.

They guessed wrong.

Li Tong is only Chen Yuan's nephew, and he is a disciple of Chen Yuan's junior brother Luo Congyan.

Zhu Xi has many teachers, and the most critical one is Li Tong, the first place in this year's Ministry of Rites exam.

When Li Tong was young, he liked to drive drunk, and often got drunk in the middle of the night, and then rode a horse with a sword and galloped for miles. This gentleman has a very impatient personality, as if he has ADHD, and he has become calm after apprenticeship with Luo Congyan.

Moreover, he devoted himself to his studies and never participated in the imperial examination.

When Chen Yuan brought the "Taoist Strategy" back to Fujian, Li Tong copied a copy and began to study on his own, and occasionally went to listen to Chen Yuan's lectures.

He admired Zhu Ming's talent very much, and privately asked someone to get all of Zhu Ming's articles.

This important figure of Cheng Zhu Lixue, although he has never met Zhu Ming, his academic ideas have long been distorted by Zhu Ming.

I can't even help but go out of the mountain imperial examination!

Continue unwrapping.

"Second place in the Ministry of Rites exam, Jizhou Hu Quan!"

When Xiao Chu announced his name, he stroked his beard with a smile on his face, this is his own personal disciple.

The first is from Fujian, and the second is from Jiangxi.

These two provinces really rolled up the imperial examination, but fortunately, the three provinces were divided into one list, and their number of jinshi was strictly limited.

"Third place in the Ministry of Rites test, Chaozhou Wang Dabao!"

Chaozhou belongs to Guangnan Road, and it has not yet been completely recovered, so it is not within the scope of this imperial examination.

Just when everyone was puzzled, Xiao Chu took a closer look and said: "This person is a student of the old Song Dynasty, and it is difficult to return to his hometown because of the division of the faint king, so he sent his home to Kaifeng to take the exam. ”

This year's Kaifeng Jinshi is particularly large, mainly for the convenience of staying in the capital, and the hometown is in the province that has not been recovered.

Wu Yanzhang said: "Originally from Chaozhou, he is surnamed Wang, and he should be the king of Fujian. ”

The King of Min is the warlord Wang Zhenzhi of the late Tang Dynasty who burned Southern Shaolin. A leader of the peasant rebel army who occupied the entire territory of Fujian but did not claim to be the emperor, and selected the meritocrats, lightly dismissed the meager endowments, and obeyed the imperial court.

Although the imperial examination flourished in the Song Dynasty, it had not really spread to the peasants at the bottom.

In the previous Jinshi, one is counted as one, at least he is also the kind of rich man of the Bai family. Or they are temporarily poor, but they belong to the down-and-out gentry, such as Qin Hui.

Only in the Ming Dynasty, when the cost of printing and papermaking became lower, did the real poor peasant family rely on the imperial examination to turn over!

Take a look at the top three in this year's Ministry of Rites exam, and you will know what the Jinshi group is.

……

"Brother Bang Heng, it's time to see the list!" Li Yi stood at the door of the guest room and shouted.

"It's coming, it's coming."

Hu Quan pushed the door and walked out.

The two went downstairs together, met a few scholars at the top of the stairs, and gathered some more on the street, and went towards the streets of Gongyuan.

It was already crowded with people, and there were wealthy businessmen with their families, waiting to play the set of catching their sons-in-law.

Waiting left and right, finally an official messenger came out of the tribute courtyard.

Soon, a list was posted, and the scholars were in an uproar in an instant.

Because the number of jinshi this year is too small, when Song Huizong was the emperor, there were often six or seven hundred jinshi on a list.

In the first imperial examination of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, only 350 Jinshi were taken.

How mean!

Li Yi muttered, "How can there be only three hundred and fifty people?" ”

Hu Quan said: "If you go back a hundred years, the old Song Dynasty only took three or four hundred people. The old dynasty had the trouble of redundant officials, but the Jinshi took more and more, and the new dynasty of the Ming Dynasty learned a lesson. ”

"That makes sense." Li Yi nodded.

"I'm in! I got ......"

In the crowd, there were already people shouting and shouting.

The palace examination has not yet been held, and the current ranking does not count, but it also has some reference value.

Officials or wealthy businessmen with higher horizons will not catch their sons-in-law on the bottom list. But those small and medium-sized merchants are very self-aware, and they specialize in catching low-ranking tributes.

"Has the husband ever been married?"

"The little girl is twenty-eight years old, gentle and virtuous......"

"My family has several shops in Tokyo, and my eldest son has been released as a state cao."

“……”

Min Anguo was overjoyed to stand at the bottom of the list, he was the second place in the final list of the Ministry of Rites exam, and he was also the second Jinshi of the Min family in recent decades.

Uncle Min Zishun has an old relationship with the prince, and now the family is in and out of the scholar, and the Yangzhou Min family will be prosperous!

One by one, the list was posted, and the top list was finally made public.

"The first place in the Ministry of Rites exam, Li Dong of Jianpu County, Nanjian Prefecture!"

The good deeds shouted loudly, and stood on tiptoe to look around: "Where is Li Xianggong?" Where is Lee Sang-ko? ”

Li Tong didn't come to see the list at all, he was studying calculus at the inn, and he knew that he would be successful this time.

Li Yi congratulated him: "Congratulations to Brother Bang Heng." ”

"Rejoice, rejoice." Hu Quan returned the salute.

Of the two of them, Hu Quan is the second and Li Yi is the seventh.

The two brothers, Li Gongmao and Li Gongjian, are all happy to stand under the list at this moment. Li Gongmao ranked fifth, and Li Gongjian ranked 174th.

The Li family, who had been silent for thirty years, is now back!

Due to the special content of the exam, Nanjianzhou was on the list several times this time. In addition to Chen Yuan's nephew Li Tong, there are also Chen Yuan's disciple Deng Qi and others.

There are also many people in Hanzhong and Kaifeng, who have systematically studied mathematics and physics.

Among the top 10, there are three in Fujian, three in Sichuan, two in Jiangxi, one in Gyeonggi, and one in Huainan. (Wang Dabao, a native of Guangdong, was classified as a Kaifeng candidate this time.) ）

Wang Dabao looked up at the list, and he ranked third.

Over there, it's time to repair the ancestral hall!

He did belong to the descendants of the Holy King of Kaimin, but he was a branch that migrated to Chaozhou, and he was also a branch of the branch.

Although the family is very rich in business, he has never been a non-commissioned officer.

This time, I took the Jinshi exam, and when the results of the palace examination came down, I should write a letter home, and there was a good reason to open an ancestral hall alone.

From now on, children and grandchildren will be able to walk in the world with the name of the church he founded.

He has thought of the name of the hall, and it will be called "Liugang Wang"!

This is the same as the founding of the sect, and it is another glory of the ancient scholars, and it is as fulfilling as leaving a name in history.

(End of chapter)