After the first examination paper is received, the examiner will be busy verifying the name and transcribing it.
As night fell, lights were lit in the tribute courtyard.
The officials of the Seal Courtyard hurriedly walked between the rooms holding papers in their hands.
The Gongyuan is so big that there are always places where the lights cannot shine. There are many ghost stories about the Gongyuan in the legends of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the timid people will not be able to walk around or look around casually.
However, the stories of Gongyuan that have been circulated are not just stories of gods and monsters repaying kindness and revenge. For example, when Ouyang Xiu was taking the provincial examination in the second year of Jiayou, every time he read the examination paper, he felt that there was a man in red sitting behind him.
When Ouyang Xiu thought the paper was very well written, the man in Zhu Yi nodded.
Therefore, it became the saying "Zhu Yi nodded".
According to the procedure of the provincial examination, after the candidates submit the paper, the organizer will first remove the hometown name from the beginning of the paper and replace it with the font size that the candidate applied for before. Then it will be sent to the sealing hospital, and the sealing officer will make the name.
After that, he was sent to the Transcript Academy by the official Mi Feng, who ordered the scribes to copy, the officials in the capital to proofread, and the various departments to provide accounts, and then sent two internal servants to supervise.
The transcribed paper will first be sent to the examiner outside for review. The examiner will then write down his or her own rating on the paper.
After that, the evaluation grade written by the examiner is copied and presented to the three examiners. The examiner writes the grade according to his own opinion.
Finally, the detailed officer will use the grades written by the inspector and the examiner as a reference to check whether there are any errors. In order to prevent the two officials from giving high fees and low fees from others.
If the checking officer and the examiner have different opinions, then if the detailed examiner agrees with the examiner's opinion, there is no need to read it again, and the examiner's opinion will prevail. However, if the detailed decision officer supports the examiner's opinion, he must report it to the examiner, and the detailed decision officer will discuss with the examiner accordingly to determine the candidate's final ranking.
At present, the most important thing in the imperial examination is poetry and Fu. The second and third examinations are now promoted, but poetry and Fu are still used to decide whether to stay or not. That is to say, no matter how well written the policy theory is, if the poems and poems fail, just try again in the next subject.
Therefore, after the first poems and poems paper was transcribed, it was immediately reviewed by the examiner. After the examiner finished reading and wrote down the grades, he had to submit them to the three examiners for review, and the final judge also reviewed them.
Because there is a three-level grading process, the grading time is very tight, and if the examiner judges the wrong paper and the detailed examiner sees it, he will be punished.
Therefore, when the first batch of sealed papers from the Seal Institute were delivered to the inspector, ten inspectors were immediately woken up from their beds to review the papers.
As soon as the papers of poems and poems were received, these inspectors scanned them line by line with their pens. Finally, write your own comments on the side, and finally mark the order.
The examiner and the determiner will also review the actual papers after passing the exam. If they agree, they will write down the rankings. Of course, the top ten in the provincial examination will be sent to the emperor for a detailed look before the results are released.
In short, these procedures one after another ensure the fairness of the provincial examination.
Therefore, Juren who was able to get five solutions and six solutions in the exam based on his connections never passed the provincial exam. One reason is because the provincial exam is more difficult, and another reason is that it is more strict.
As pawns, the examiners have great responsibilities but little power, and each one of them scrutinizes the examination papers cautiously.
The inner screen officials are rushing to make progress, while those in the outer screen can't make mistakes, so they have no extra thoughts. However, these reviewers are also human beings. They will praise the good articles when they see them, and they will laugh when they see the bad articles and show disdain. ,ridicule.
I will also sigh because some good articles ended up in vain because of an inconspicuous place.
There are also times when I am unsure about asking others for their opinions.
At this time, an inspection officer named Niu had already revised hundreds of poems and poems, starting from midnight until the sky turned white.
He worked hard at his own expense, but the transcription office continued to pile papers beside him, forming a hill.
"How dare you use such poetry to embarrass someone."
The inspector Niu held a red pen in his right hand, pinched his nose with his left hand and made a disgusting expression, and then smiled and said: "But having said that, Old Niu, Old Niu, it would be great if the papers below were like this. Really It saved me a lot of effort."
The cattle inspector took a sip of strong tea, walked aside and wiped his face.
As an examiner, what you are most afraid of is seeing a paper that looks good at first glance. If problems are discovered later, you will be in trouble.
Inspector Niu drank tea and immediately raised his sleeves to review the next poem.
The cattle inspection officer said with hazy eyes, Old Niu, Old Niu, you have to look at me carefully to make sure nothing goes wrong... Oh, a long yawn.
The cattle inspector opened his eyes again and saw the words on the head of the fu: "Born a treasure, time is precious and good gold is precious." It can be seen in the posture of Rong, and the use of Congge is about to come. The shining essence leaps into the great furnace; the vertical and horizontal tools are made according to the heart of the wise craftsman.
The cattle inspector suddenly woke up and said, "Well, you should follow the wise craftsman's heart."
The Niu Dian inspector first introduced himself into the identity of the emperor or the prime minister of the dynasty. How did they react when they saw this sentence?
A good one should follow the heart of a wise craftsman.
This candidate has some skills.
In fact, for a poem of about 300 words, the first thing the examiner sees is the head of the poem. A powerful head of the poem can make the examiner look at the candidate several times and encourage him to continue reading.
The cattle inspection officer looked at the futou again and tasted it repeatedly: "Good, very good, excellent."
He took a look at the candidate's font name 'Jiashen Bingyin' and remembered it in his heart.
"I don't know how well it is written below, but don't fall short of your efforts."
The cattle inspection officer continued to read with a straight face, but saw that it said, "Looking at the great achievements, Manchusi is here..."
Okay, okay, the cattle inspection officer was already happy in his heart, and suddenly he realized, well, it's a pity that there is no wine, so we old cows had tea instead of wine.
A good article can only be tasted with wine (tea). A sip of wine can lead to an article, this is the best state of life.
Ah! This wine is strong enough.
The Inspector Niu was in high spirits, and his colleagues saw his expression and knew that he had read the article they liked, but everyone was too busy to ask.
However, he saw that the cattle inspection officer had already stood up and was pacing around the room behind his chair like a cow chasing after its tail.
After a while, the cattle inspection officer suddenly said: "Yes, is it better to use this to restrain it?"
Inspector Niu Dian read for a while, repeatedly touched the case and said with a smile: "It's good, it's good. Whether the article is good or not is secondary, but if you can take advantage of this unprecedented time, the person who can write such an article must have the spirit of a general." of."
After finishing speaking, the cattle inspection officer wrote his own comments at the end of the paper.
The examiner's ranking of the papers is six grades: 'upper-upper, upper-middle, middle-upper, middle-lower, lower, and unreasonable'.
It is generally not used in the upper grades. No matter how well written the paper is, it must be left to the examiner to choose. This is a little tip that as a prosecutor, you are protecting yourself and do not take responsibility.
Therefore, the cattle inspection officer rated this paper as 'above average', which was the last grade he could give.
Inspector Niu Dian wrote an analysis of the article before and finally wrote this sentence: "Look at his writing as the words of the Prime Minister, and see that his meaning is a tool of good appearance."
Finally, the cattle inspection officer pressed the seal for confirmation, and then the paper was sealed again and sent into the inner curtain.
The cattle inspection officer watched the papers go and sat down again to grade them.
