"Come here! Clean that place for me. I want to mark the papers!" Shen Yuan pointed to the table where several teachers were copying the lists. There was still a half-written list on it.
Shen Yuan's intention is very obvious, that is to overturn all the rankings just determined!
Shen Yuan did not expect such a thing to happen.
Perhaps, because Shen Yuan first took up the post of Yunzhou Confucian Classics, these people might deceive him into not understanding. It may also be due to chance, but no matter what, Shen Yuan will investigate this matter thoroughly.
This examination paper signed by Zhao Cheng, a scholar from Liuxi Village, has no mistakes or omissions from the beginning of the scriptures. The "Osmanthus Poem" in the essay part is even more outstanding. If it were replaced by an ordinary examination paper, it would be excusable. At least it can be used as an excuse to find some mistakes in the article.
But it happened that such an excellent examination paper was dismissed. No excuse could be found. It was clearly pushing the examiner into the fire pit.
Shen Yuan forced himself to calm down and read the last part of the test paper to see how the candidate named Zhao Cheng answered.
"Wang was rich and Liu's family was poor. Wang spent hundreds of money to hire Liu to dig a well. The well collapsed and killed Liu. Wang refused to file a lawsuit. In fear, he abandoned Liu's body in the green Outside the door. Marquis Wu is inspecting, and if he catches Wang, he will file a lawsuit. Please stop."
The judge said: "The family was in a difficult situation, and it was extremely unethical. They drank and pecked countless grains of money, but there was not enough money to live on. So they were hired as servants to get the money, and they tried their best to get money. The two were greedy for each other, so they ordered the well to be dug."
Shen Yuan nodded, and the verdict clearly explained the cause and effect of the two people. He continued to read, and the verdict read: "Liu died when the well collapsed and was crushed. Although the circumstances of death were related to Chongyan, the death was really painful. You can tell your neighbors and ask for a lawsuit, provide the reason for his employment, and state that you are dead. How can you abandon the body in the wilderness and offend Tangluo?"
This pointed out that Wang should not leave the body in the wild and turn an accident into a crime.
If this is just the case, it cannot be considered an excellent examination paper. The student also wrote after the question: "Although he was sent to the official again, he still may not have enough clues. He was crushed to death by the clouds. Who knows the state of death? The body was abandoned in the empty road, but the body was still there. Check."
This is questioning the cause of death of the deceased. Without a clear cause of death, one should not make arbitrary judgments.
"An autopsy will not cause any harm, and there will be a root cause for pushing and pushing. Only when the symptoms are proven can the guilt be established, and if there is no doubt about the matter, the guilt can be established. It is better to investigate the facts and wait for the facts to be determined."
Shen Yuan couldn't help but secretly nodded. On the last question of this county's candidates, few people mentioned the cause of death of the deceased Liu. As an official, if he really encountered this matter while in office, he would raise it like Zhao Cheng did. Questions are the best and most appropriate way to deal with them.
"Such an excellent answer sheet, why was it dismissed?" Shen Yuan's tone was extremely severe at this time, and he looked at the instructors with cold eyes.
Several magistrates looked at each other in confusion. Feng Guannian, the magistrate of Qinghe County, looked at several colleagues and said: "I think that someone must be cheating when this happens. I suggest you to investigate the matter thoroughly and make sure that the candidates are innocent! "
The matter is indeed as Feng Guannian said, very serious. Once someone is found cheating in the imperial examination, no matter whether there are candidates who are affected or not, they will feel that their grades have been affected. The top few may be fine, but the latter, especially Those who fail will all stand up and denounce them.
Once the matter reaches this point, the court will be alerted, and everyone including the examiner will need to be examined. Even if nothing can be found in the examination, the people involved in the case will still be expelled.
Shen Yuan looked at the paper in his hand. He didn't want to make the matter so big, but after exposing it, he felt that he had taken advantage of the guy who had cheated.
But all the discarded test papers were thrown into this waste paper box. Now it is difficult to find out who threw it.
Moreover, Shen Yuan also knew that when examining papers, it was a cross-examination. After one examination paper was reviewed, the discarded examination papers were turned downwards and handed over to the second examination paper together with the excellent examination papers for another examination.
Even so, this excellent test paper was still rejected. It can only be said that at least two people among the on-site teachings were involved in this cheating.
Although I knew this was the case, I had no choice but to give up because there was no evidence. The only remedy available at the moment was to re-examine the file.
"From now on, all the papers in this year's county examination will be re-examined."
"Group into groups according to examination number. After each group is reviewed, the dismissal situation must be recorded. Which examinee's paper was dismissed by which examiner and why, it must be clearly understood!"
Shen Yuan re-established a more stringent paper review system. This time, it was required that rejected papers be recorded, and the examiners who graded papers were required to leave their names. This undoubtedly increased the risk of fraud, which is well documented.
Zhao Chengman was preparing for the retest at home. He thought the results would be released on the third day, but there was no news at all.
Not only was the reference person anxious, Magistrate Pan was also anxious. Although Shen Yuan did not pursue this matter and chose to get a new review file, he had to mention this matter to Pan Zhuo.
Strictly speaking, Shen Yuan was entrusted with presiding over the evaluation of this county examination. Pan Zhuo was the core figure of this county examination. If there was such an internal problem, Shen Yuan had no reason not to tell Pan Zhuo.
On the fourth day, the boy Zhang Dashun assigned to Zhao Cheng a few days ago went to the Yamen Gate early to wait for the results to be announced. He ran back before noon and said with a happy face: "Master, I won! bingo!"
After the main examination, there are still second and third re-examinations, so this time the "listing" is not the final list, but is called "reporting", in which the candidates' names are arranged in a circle in the shape of a clock. The person with the best performance is directly above, and a group of ten people is written counterclockwise.
The boy saw the first place in the first group at a glance, and it was Zhao Cheng's name. He checked the seat number and confirmed that it was Zhao Cheng, and then came back happily to announce the good news.
"First place in the first group?" Zhao Cheng was overjoyed after hearing this.
Although there are still two games left, the most important one is this one. This game can be regarded as a qualifying round, but at the same time, it has also divided the winners. The next two games are just to confirm again, the top few. Is there really real talent and learning?
Because the "case chief" of the county examination, that is, the scholar who is first on the list, must be personally received and encouraged by the county magistrate. It is also for this reason that when the "case chief" takes the government examination, as long as his score is not If it is too bad, he will generally not be deposed, so as not to lose the face of the county magistrate.
It is equivalent to saying that as long as you get first place in the county examination, then as long as you perform normally in the government examination, you are almost guaranteed to pass.
So when he heard the news, even Zhao Cheng, who had always been calm, couldn't help but get excited.
