On the ninth day of August, the first day of the township test.

Something strange has happened in Jinling City these days.

It was as if all the officials of the ministry had been kidnapped overnight, and they were not at home or in the ya.

The paperwork that needed to be signed by the chief officer had already been thickened, but no one had dealt with it.

Just when everyone thought something was happening, the school bookstore of the Ministry of Rites was copied by Jinyiwei and others.

Just when everyone was panicking, the 800 li from Beijing was urgently delivered to the adjutant of the various ministries and monasteries, saying that the chief officials had been temporarily dispatched, and told them to temporarily take charge of the ministry affairs and not slack off.

What temporary assignment?

Need so many bigwigs to go into battle together?

There are different opinions, and smart people have guessed that it is probably related to this township test.

What do you think, what does the school bookstore do?

Everyone is connected here...... Suddenly it dawned on me that this was an accident in the township test.

But if something happened to the township test, what did it matter to their temple boss in Nanjing?

"I can't figure it out!"

"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it, since the court has already given an arrangement, it means that this matter is not appropriate to say more!"

"That's right, everyone should tell their families to keep their mouths tight when they go home, don't go out and shout!"

……

On the third day of the first nine watches, the door of the thorny stalk was wide open, but it was not that something happened again.

Instead, there was an imperial decree sent from Beijing eight hundred miles in an urgent manner.

After Gu Shouyuan received the holy decree with trepidation, the gate of the Tribute Courtyard was locked again.

The guards who stood on both sides of the column and witnessed the whole process of the opening of the middle gate thought that their eyes were dazzled.

For more than 100 years, the dynasty has never heard of the door opening on the day of the township examination.

Gu Shouyuan and a group of scarlet-robed adults stood in the courtyard where the examiners were resting.

He opened the decree in public and looked at it.

Everyone was curious about what Jingshi meant by it, and they were also nervous in their hearts.

After Gu Shouyuan saw it, he silently handed it to Wang Liangchen.

Wang Liangchen took it and looked at it, and his face was immediately overjoyed.

It turned out that this was the emperor's special decree to Gu Shouyuan.

In the holy decree, he was very dissatisfied with the leak of the township test, and arrested the convicts, servants and their families, and immediately detained them in the prison of the Nanjing Criminal Department.

The chief examiner Gu Shouyuan and the promotion of Wang Liangchen were handled appropriately, and the merits and demerits were offset.

Since the rest of the people have entered the tribute courtyard, they are not allowed to move around at will, and they will be released after the township examination.

The patrol officer who was originally in charge of the Nanzhili Township Test, the commander of Zhenjiangwei, was dismissed from his post and questioned.

Xue Yongzhi served as the patrol officer of the township test.

The transmission of the holy decree has been completed, and a group of Nanjing officials have completely lost their thoughts.

Good guys, that is to say, they can't do anything until the township test is released for more than half a month, they all have to be tied up with Gu Shouyuan and them to eat, drink and Lazar!

It's all called something.

The concubines at home, the good friends outside, the delicious food in the restaurant and the guests who come to give gifts, who will deal with these important tasks?

Gu Shouyuan looked at the group of mourning officers, his face was unmoved, and he walked straight to Wang Liangchen's side and said: "Lord Wang, the township test is about to start, there must be no more mistakes, the honor and disgrace of the two of us are in your hands?" ”

Wang Liangchen is an internal and external promotion official, in charge of all internal and external affairs.

The inner curtain officer is the chief examiner.

Everything outside the exam and outside the exam room was all on Wang Liangchen's shoulders.

Wang Liangchen nodded and said, "Don't worry, there will never be any more problems in this township test!" ”

Gu Shouyuan held Wang Liangchen's hand and nodded solemnly: "Please!" ”

……

On the carriage for the examination, Xie Daozhi said to Xu He, Ouyang Jun, and Gao Guoguang: "The Tianfu Tribute Courtyard is one hundred and sixty zhang wide, and the outside is two walls with thorns, and the gate is hung in the middle of the "Tribute Courtyard" ink plaque, and a square is built on the east and west sides, which are respectively [Ming Jing Scholars] and [Seeking Talents for the Country]. ”

"Outside the gate of the Gongyuan is the east and west gates, the gate is divided into three doors on the left, the middle and the right, after entering the gate is the dragon gate, and the door is lined up with four doors, and the cover takes the meaning of [Yu Shu Pi four gates]!"

"I have been going in for [to the public hall], the words on the plaque are more than three feet big, it is written by the first assistant Qin Yan, and the couplets on both sides are written by Yang Zhide, a scholar of the Yingzong Dynasty."

The number of things is lined up, and two salvos of light are fighting;

The curtain is divided inside and outside, and there is no ventilation at all!

Hearing this, Gao Guoguang, who was in the dark, was still nodding frequently, but the other three all felt that this couplet was really ironic.

Packing up the mood, Xie Liangcai, who had experience in a township test, gave them another lesson: "To the public hall is the place where the officials outside the curtain do things, such as superintendents, promotions, and invigilators. ”

"What if someone comes in or out?" Gao Guoguang said curiously.

Xie Liangcai said with a straight face: "Below the seventh grade, kill on the spot!" ”

Gao Guoguang shut up.

Xie Liangcai continued: "There is a Mingyuan Building between the Dragon Gate and the Zhigong Hall, this building is condescending, inside and outside the whole building, with an unobstructed view, and the supervisors, supervisors, and inspectors should go upstairs to look at it!" ”

"There are corner towers around to blow the horn and beat the drum at night, in order to play the watch, when the horn is blown, someone shouts [there is a grudge to revenge, there is revenge to revenge], it is creepy to hear."

Xu He was puzzled when he heard this: "What does this mean? Let's go to the test, it's not to worship the temple, why are you doing this? ”

Xie Liangcai said hesitantly: "You'll know in a while." ”

At this time, Ouyang Jun asked, "Brother Defu, how is the environment for the exam after we go in?" ”

Speaking of this, Xie Liangcai's face wrinkled.

"The living room, called the number room, the people guard it, it is called the army, and the number is arranged in the dragon gate and the east and west sides of the Mingyuan Building. The outer wall of each number house is eight feet, the number gate is six feet high, three feet wide, a row of rats ranges from hundreds to dozens, each row of houses grows into an alley shape, the alley only allows two people to walk side by side, and there are horn lights and water tanks in the number. ”

"Ah, it's that big? What should I do if I eat at noon? There's no place to burn a fire! Ouyang Jun said with a bitter face.

Xie Liangcai said with a smile: "When writing an article and answering questions, you can put a board on the brick wall and stick it as a table, and there is also a board stuck in the back as a stool, and when you sleep, put down the board in front of it and it becomes a couch. ”

"Everyone, don't ask questions now, it's better to pray and pray, don't be assigned to the innermost part of the alley!"

Ouyang Jun said curiously: "Brother Defu, what's wrong with the innermost?" ”

Xie Liangcai said with a smile: "There is a thatched house in the innermost, and the number close to the thatched house is called the number, this number is not the number of our test, hundreds of people share a thatched house, think about the smell yourself!" ”

Before he finished speaking, Xu He on the side suddenly retched.

Xie Liangcai was surprised: "Liangsheng, your reaction is too big, I'm just talking, it's like you've been!" ”

Xu He retched again when he heard these two words.

Hell, Schedev......