Shen Shi nodded, in response, but did not say more. Someone else has already arrived, and that in itself is the best answer.

Then he said to Shen Dazhuang next to him: "Just give me the things, you can go back first." ”

This time, Shen Shilai came to participate in the hospital examination meeting and was delayed for two days. Fortunately, the epidemic has largely been brought under control.

"Yes, young master. ”

Shen Dazhuang nodded with the handlebar of the car and immediately responded.

After Shen Shi took the things, he walked into the tribute courtyard with the other scholars.

Before entering the Tribute Academy, there is a special messenger, and the small officials check your floating ticket, which is the so-called examination, which records the candidate's name, birth, place of origin, and appearance, and so on, to ensure that there is no confusion.

Shen Shi's research is specially approved. The Song Dynasty was in the process of raising the social status of the literati. It even allows candidates who miss the exam date and cannot return to their hometown to take the test in another place. For example, lifting people and showing talents to take the exam together, the Song Dynasty also did it.

"Jinhua, Shen Shi?"

The little official looked at Shen Shi: "It says that you are eight feet tall, handsome, and tall, I think it is a bit exaggerated, it is obvious that your appearance and posture are mediocre, and the adult who issued the floating ticket for you looks out of sight." ”

Shen Shi looked at this thin and black little official, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly, and he was mediocre, at first he thought that he was influenced by someone.

However, Shen Shi also ran a public service with the messengers, and knew that Shen Shi wanted to take the imperial examination, so he told Shen Shi the means of sending people.

For example, when judging a case, first kill the mighty stick, so that the prisoner will be honest and answer 1510.

The same goes for examining candidates. The officials didn't really know the answer to their question. They don't even know which adult is the one who is guaranteed on the certificate. After all, this is ancient times, and it is impossible to look it up on the Internet and have everything. So they can only bluff to come.

After all, it is difficult to really determine a person's identity in this research, and all loopholes have been drilled since ancient times, so it has led to impersonations and substitute exams.

Basically, all impostors, bluffed, will be caught. If you can't bluff, you put it in.

"Let me ask you, you are a Jinhua man, why is it that you are protected from Kaifeng to adult?" asked the little official.

"This is because my family moved to Bianjing this year, so I am the one who is guaranteed. Shen Shi didn't mention Zhao Zhen, and he didn't need it. It's just going through the normal formalities.

However, the little official's question obviously caused the nervousness of the candidates, especially the little official's comments on Shen Shi's appearance.

It's mediocre when you look like this, so what about yourself?

You must know that there was no unified examination for the selection of talents during the Han and Wei dynasties, and the system of inspection was implemented, which seemed to emphasize talent and filial piety, but appearance was also quite important. As a result, the bonus points appeared, and it was called "skin separation" - extra points for being handsome, and deducting points for being ugly. It makes sense to think about it, who in the red dust doesn't like beautiful women and handsome guys?

Liu Bang's hero, Chen Ping, was originally a minor official under the king of Wei, because he was handsome and chic, and it was rumored that he had committed adultery with his sister-in-law. But Liu Bang didn't care about these at all, he gave a high score when they met for the first time, and directly worshiped him as a captain, "making a staff member and guarding the army", which made Fan Xu, Zhou Bo and others very envious, jealous and hateful. Pan An, a beautiful man in the Western Jin Dynasty, studied in Taixue in his 20s, and his grades were average. The powerful minister Jia Chong was in charge of the inspection, and he added "skin separation" to him, and in a blink of an eye, he became a senior staff officer.

If that's all it takes, that's it, but the problem is that not only does this appearance have extra points, but there are also many people who have been deducted points for skin appearance in history. Feng Xiao Pang is talented, but he looks stumbling, with thick eyebrows and nose, black face and short hair, and during the interview, he was deducted points by Liu Bei; Zhang Song, a famous man in Western Shu, is a small man, and his appearance is not good, and Cao Cao also gave zero points.

The Song system was inherited from the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang people took the imperial examination. Exam scores are only one of the selection criteria. Among the four criteria of the so-called "body, speech, writing, and judgment", "body" ranks first, and physical appearance is still the first choice for extra points. Candidates with the same written scores, who can embark on the road to nobility, is likely to be related to appearance. Lu Qi, a famous minister in the Tang Dynasty, is often teased because he is not handsome enough. In fact, his origins came from his ancestors, and his father and grandparents were all prime ministers.

Luo Yin, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, read well and wrote a lot, but starting from the thirteenth year of Dazhong (859 AD), he took the Jinshi examination for seven consecutive years, and his name always fell to Sun Shan. Legend has it that the daughter of the prime minister at that time, Zheng Jin, liked Luo Yin's poems and looked forward to seeing them. One day Luo Yin visited, Zheng Jin arranged for his daughter to peep inside the bead curtain, and after Zheng Nu looked at it, she would no longer read Luo Yin's poems for the rest of her life.

These scholars all know that they don't know about their own knowledge of the examination, but it is precisely because they know that they are in an uproar.

That scene can be compared to the college entrance examination in later generations, and suddenly one day, the admissions office said: The regional bonus points have been cancelled. Let's see if they are in an uproar.

Of course, in ancient times, there were far more bonus points for the "college entrance examination" than for the generations, such as good handwriting can be added; the father has made contributions to the imperial court, and the son can also get extra points (such as shadow supplements); a certain scholar has special skills, even if the results of the imperial examination are not enough to be admitted, the emperor will give extra points, and give "the same jinshi background", and so on.

Where does the little official think so much, he is just bluffing. However, now it seems that man, he did not bluff, but was about to provoke the anger of the people. didn't bother to interrogate Shen Shi again, so he nodded and pretended to say, "Go in." ”

After entering the Tribute Courtyard, another messenger stopped Shen Shi and checked his belongings.

This is to prevent cheating. And the messenger saw the good paper brought by Shen Shi, and emphasized that this paper can only be used to make drafts, not to write answers, let alone to turn in answer sheets. If you hand it in, you won't be counted for grades.

This is also to prevent cheating, otherwise there are many places where all kinds of paper can be marked.

After passing this level, there will be a special messenger to bring the examinee door to the examination room.

That's where it really comes in.

Of course, if you want to check these hundreds of children, I am afraid that you will not be able to do it without most of the day's work. This is not counted in the exam time.

Combined with the time of the exam, the days spent in the Gongyuan were actually much longer than expected.

After Shen Shi came to his own examination room, except that the table was still clean. It's not so good elsewhere. In the soil in the corner, weeds grow tenaciously.

But this is also normal, the Gongyuan is the place of the exam. And exams are not taken every year. It's normal that there is no one on weekdays, but it's the way it is now.

Moreover, the civil officials don't even repair the yamen, this is just a place for the future quasi-official examination, how neat and beautiful do you want to be?

Even with some people, I wish to "eat hardships in order to become a master"!

Shen Shi shook his head and took advantage of the time he was waiting to take care of the examination room. Anyway, if you want to stay here for the next two days, it's better to clean up.