After passing the three levels of obfuscation, transcription, and cross-reading, the transcription version of the test paper will be sent to the chief examiner and deputy examiner.

Moreover, in order to prevent the chief examiner and deputy examiner from cheating, these transcribed versions of the test papers are locked in a large room, and the chief examiner and deputy examiner will be searched every day when they enter and exit.

Each test paper first passes through the hands of two markers, and is unanimously approved by the two markers, then the paper is preliminarily qualified.

After all the papers have been reviewed, the final candidate will be decided according to the number of people who have passed the preliminary examination.

Under normal circumstances, there are only eight examiners and deputy examiners who will take the exam, but this time there is one more Li Qiao, that is, nine people.

That is to say, nine graders have to approve 10,000 papers within 10 days, and each grader has to approve 200 or 300 papers a day.

Reading two or three hundred papers a day, and excluding the time for eating, drinking, and sleeping, a paper must be completed in two or three minutes.

But there are so many questions in each paper, what is two or three minutes enough?

It is only enough to browse roughly, as long as there are no mistakes or omissions in the places seen by the examiner's eyes, then it is considered preliminarily qualified.

In this case, the students who can be admitted to the Jinshi are a little lucky.

Li Qiao is a very responsible person, although the work of marking the papers is intensive, he also tries his best to be responsible for every paper in his hands.

If you want to be worthy of these candidates, his eyes, brain, and pen in his hand are all turning fast.

After a morning of high-intensity turning, Li Qiao suspected that he was dazzled, which was normal.

But he is a supernatural.

After a brief moment of doubt, he knew he wasn't dazzled.

If he wasn't dazzled, why did there be three similar volumes?

Is he involved or not?

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the person beside him, he and Feng Li were in a group, and there were thousands of scrolls on the table in front of them, each of which had to pass through the hands of the two of them.

He sat on Feng Li's left, originally he and Feng Li each took a stack of papers to review, but he reviewed them quickly, and after a while, the completed papers in front of him were piled up one foot high.

Seeing this, Feng Li began to review the papers he had reviewed, saying that it would save trouble, because his ability was certified by Sheng Hong, and since the papers passed through his hands first, there was nothing wrong with them.

Feng Li said this in a joking tone, looking like he wanted to be lazy, but if something went wrong with this batch of papers, then he and Feng Li would have to take responsibility.

Since the responsibility is shared, then he didn't say anything.

Besides, Feng Li was not really lazy, and he was very serious when he reviewed it.

Now the scroll in his hand is the third similar volume, and the first two similar volumes have been placed in front of Feng Li, can Feng Li see the similarities?

Probably can, right?

Because the similarity of these three volumes is in one idiom: Feng Yu bullet.

Feng Li's surname is Feng, even if he has ten lines at a glance when he reads the papers, he must be sensitive to Feng characters.

Feng Yu is a personal name, Feng Yu is written in "Warring States Policy", but Feng Yu is written in "Historical Records", "Historical Records" is one of the three histories and three biographies that must be examined, and readers all over the world are written as Feng Yu in accordance with "Historical Records".

The characters are more difficult to write, there are many strokes, and these three similar test papers are all written incorrectly, and the mistakes are still the same.

This......

Either the candidate cheated.

Either the transcriber made a mistake.

Li Qian couldn't make up his mind, so he could only put it aside for the time being and continue to review the remaining papers, but he paid attention to Feng Li beside him and wanted to see Feng Li's reaction.

But Feng Li didn't react.

Feng Li didn't seem to notice the outrageous typo, and directly determined the results according to the results he set for the three test papers:

Pass.

The most important thing is the final exam that takes three days to write.

This year's strategy topic also comes from Sheng Hong's essay.

In December last year, Sheng Hong wrote a small essay because of the successful construction of the Grand Canal, and the content of the small essay was to lament the old problem of not being easy to transport grain.

Sheng Hong opened the Grand Canal to solve the problem of difficulty in bringing grain taxes into Beijing, but even if the canal is repaired, it will not solve this old problem from the root.

Because the Grand Canal does not run through all parts of Dasheng.

Far away from the Grand Canal, you still have to take the land route to send the grain tax to the capital.

It is well known how difficult it is to walk by land.

Therefore, the topic of this session of the examination is to ask the candidates how to solve the old problem of land grain transportation that has not been solved for thousands of years.

This question, if it was before the birth of Li Qiao, the answer may be varied.

But with Li Qiao in front, this year's candidates have learned to look at the root of the problem.

After all, it's not about money.

As long as you have money, are you afraid that you won't be able to build roads?

Not to mention the adobe brick road in Hexi Mansion, it is a blue brick road, and the bluestone slab road can be built.

Therefore, these three typo-like test papers, in the last policy article, all give practical ways to make money.

The typo comes from the second article, which is the same as the poem, from the Four Books and the Five Classics, and does not involve the essay of the Holy Lord.

Therefore, Li Qiao set a preliminary pass for these three volumes according to the last policy article.

After the preliminary qualification, there is the final review, which is very strict, and each test paper has to go through the hands of nine markers.

In terms of the outrageous similarity of these three volumes, it will definitely be seen when it comes to the final review.

But he and Feng Li can use the words "old eyes and faint" to prevaricate.

So, what does he care about such a little?

Anyway, it may be the dereliction of duty of the three princes and the remaining seven deputy examiners - the probability of the transcriptionist making a mistake is almost zero.

If not, then these three papers will definitely not pass the final review level, and will not affect the results of other candidates.

……

Li Qiao quickly had a plan in his heart, he didn't find the outrageous similarity, and continued to review the test papers day and night.

By the evening of the eighth day, all the examination papers had finally been passed, and nearly 2,000 copies had been preliminarily passed.

This ratio is good, Li Qiao is satisfied, as far as he has observed in the past few days, the thinking of this year's juzi is quite divergent, not to mention how much silver can be earned by the methods listed, but it must be able to earn silver.

That's good.

Even if the money is not used to build roads and transport grain, it can be used in other places.

It can be seen that under the persecution of Sheng Hong, under his example of Lian Zhong Liuyuan, all the people in the world took their eyes out of the books and began to study practical problems.

Very good.

Li Qiao is happy to see it.

Next is the final review.

Nine people have reviewed less than 2,000 papers, and some of them have been approved, so the speed will be fast.

However, a scene that surprised Li Qiao appeared:

The final review is even more lax than the first trial.

At the beginning of the marking, the remaining eight markers, including the three princes, were quite patient, and each paper would take at least two minutes to review.

But in the last few days, these people were numb, and the intensity of their work was high, so they just glanced at the previous answers, and then went directly to the final strategy article.

For this situation, Li Qiao can't blame anything, time is pressing, these people are really tired, on the one hand, he feels sorry for the candidates, and on the other hand, he can understand the perfunctory behavior of these people.

But now that it's time for the final review, these people don't even look at the front, don't even glance at it, and go directly to the final article.

As a result, the three identical test papers passed the final review and appeared on the desk where the Jinshi belonged.

Only 100 Jinshi were admitted this year, which was 80 fewer than the previous session where Li Qiao was located, although the candidates in this session were also a little less than the previous session, but if it was calculated according to the admission ratio, it was more cruel this time.

is so cruel, but the cheater squeezed the other candidates down and occupied three seats.

What to do?

To say, or not to say?

At this time, it was already the afternoon of the tenth day, and tonight it was necessary to present the 100 test papers to Sheng Hong, and Sheng Hong would look at them.

The remaining eight people are the chief examiner and deputy examiner, and they are not allowed to leave the Tribute Academy, but he was specially sent by Sheng Hong, and now that all the papers have been reviewed, he can leave the Tribute Academy and return to the palace to return to Sheng Hong.

If it was in the past, Sheng Hong might have taken a closer look at these volumes, but now Sheng Hong pays attention to health preservation, so he will not spend time looking at these volumes.

As Li Qiao thought, after determining the 100 candidates for Jinshi, he first went to find out the original test papers of these 100 people, and then he and a team of forbidden soldiers escorted the 100 test papers back to the palace.

At this time, it was getting late, and hundreds of large candles were burning at the same time, and these candles illuminated the hall as if it were day.

Sheng Hong really just randomly took a few copies from the hundred volumes, and only looked at the last policy article, and didn't give a single glance at the Moyi, the scriptures, the poems, and the strategy in front of him.

"This is not bad, calling for the exchange of specialty snacks between the north and the south, so that the local government can earn some silver taels by relying on the special snacks of other places."

Sheng Hong finished reading the scroll in his hand, and his face couldn't help but show approval.

"Yes, and it's easy to do."

Li Qiao said.

Sheng Hong put the test paper in his hand back into the wooden box with satisfaction, and then looked at Li Qiao who was standing aside, he looked kind: "Li Aiqing, you have worked hard in the past few days, you go back to the house to rest for two days, and when you have rested, tell me in detail what ideas you have thought of this time." ”

"Although I asked Yan'er to do the statistics, but you have a good brain, you look at those answers, even if you don't make sense, you will definitely have different ideas in your head."

"That's the main reason I sent you there."

Isn't Li Aiqing clueless?

Then he asked Li Aiqing to see what the world thinks.

Compared with the world, he still counts on Li Aiqing more.

He said and sighed softly: "Li Aiqing, the old problem of transporting grain, I and my father have had a headache for many years, this time I have to ask the world to ask for a way, you also have to take it to heart, and you have to worry about me." ”

"As the head of the household, you know as well as I know how much silver you have in the treasury, and how much silver Dasheng needs everywhere."

"You should understand my frustration."