Time flies, the sun and the moon fly by.
In the blink of an eye, it is already noon on February 16th, the fourth year of Chongzhen... This is the time when the candidates who participated in the Chongzhen Fourth Year Examination hand in their papers and leave!
The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were hard and tiring. They not only tested the candidates' knowledge, but also tested their physical fitness, gastrointestinal and sleep!
Yes, the intestines and stomach are very important! Sleep is also important!
Because the Ming Dynasty's examinations and provincial examinations were very torturous. They said they were three exams, but in fact they were three exams each for three days, three exams in a row. That means taking the exam for nine consecutive days! A full 108 hours! Candidates taking the exam must stay in a small dormitory during these 108 hours. They are not allowed to leave in the middle. They eat, drink, and have sex inside... Needless to say, the smell is... People with mysophobia probably have no chance of taking the imperial examination.
Moreover, the examination room does not care about food, and candidates have to prepare their own meals. They have to prepare nine days' worth of meals and bring them into the examination room at a time... There is no refrigerator in the Ming Dynasty. If the food is left out for nine days, I don't know if it will go rancid? If your intestines and stomach are not healthy enough, you may die from diarrhea!
In addition to having a healthy stomach, I also need to sleep well. Who can bear going without sleep for nine days? Moreover, the Gongyuan examination room is not large, and each dormitory is packed tightly and separated by wooden boards. The sound insulation is very poor. If someone next door is grinding his teeth and snoring, he can probably hear it...
In short, staying in this torturous environment for nine days is a kind of torture for the candidates taking the exam, both mentally and physically. It was doubly torture for the 13 officials involved in the incident.
Because other candidates enter the examination room with the thought of being on the gold list... No matter how hard and tiring it is, as long as they think about the good days after high school, they can survive no matter what.
But they all entered with the intention of seeking humiliation... because they knew that they were all registered with the little emperor and were all candidates for loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.
If you pass the exam, you are not far from death!
But it’s not enough to skip this exam, because Jinyiwei’s Tiqi has been coming every day since the Chinese New Year to urge them to review well. If they dare not enter the examination room, they may have to go to jail.
Moreover, the candidates in the Ming Dynasty were very face-conscious, especially those who reached the level of scholar leaders. They had to maintain their integrity and dignity as nurses and doctors - but they couldn't just "go to Beijing to take the exam and dare not enter the hospital." Doesn’t this make people laugh out loud? Is your decision true? Wasn't it bought with money?
So you have to take the test for these thirteen exams, and you can't take the exam blindly, at least you can't turn in a blank paper. If you hand in a blank paper, you will be the laughingstock of the world... Are you an illiterate person? Why did you hand in a blank paper?
Not only can they not hand in a blank paper, they also have to bite the bullet and write the article in a decent way...but they cannot be in high school, otherwise they will become loyal martyrs.
It’s hard to think about it!
Fortunately, Juren is a highly intelligent person and always has a way to deal with it. Their method is to make a fuss about taboos, word count and paper size. If there are no taboos according to the regulations, the number of words is not enough, or the paper is not neat and tidy, it will fall into disgrace in the hands of the official.
Before the registration, the registration officer must first check whether the answer sheet in his hand has any of the above errors and omissions. If there are any, there is no need to register the candidate and he will be eliminated directly.
Therefore, the thirteen people involved in the bus letter, including the "traitor" Niu Jinxing, all chose to die in the hands of the official. In fact, Niu Jinxing still wanted to go to high school, but he was rejected by many people who gathered in the capital. Juren mistakenly thought he was a traitor who betrayed the public and wrote a letter...
This is a lot of pressure! Public enemy of Shilin! Once you enter officialdom, why should everyone step on you?
If the emperor doesn't give him little shoes to wear, he will be killed by his superiors and colleagues.
Therefore, Niu Jinxing still chose to take a step back to open up the world... If Jinke fell into decline, he would naturally not be misunderstood by Shilin.
When he walked out of the Gongyuan with exhaustion, he felt very relaxed.
"Ju Ming...how did you do in the exam?"
Niu Jinxing heard a familiar voice and turned around to see that it was Li Xin. This guy was lucky and wasn't implicated...but judging from his expression, it looks like he didn't do well in the exam!
Niu Jinxing shook his head, "I didn't do well in the four book meanings test... The four book meanings of Jinke are not easy to write. The article is not easy to do, and I failed the test! Xinzhi, how are you?"
Li Xin also sighed and said with a wry smile: "The meaning of the Four Books of Jinke is not difficult. It is just that the gentleman in "The Analects of Confucius. , the instrument. According to "Mencius and Gaozi", the official of the heart is thinking, and if you think, you will get it, and if you don't think, you won't get it. There is also the virtue in "The Doctrine of the Mean" that means a saint, respected as the emperor, and rich all over the world... ....It’s a pity that my pen power is limited, so whether I can win or not depends on my luck.”
Niu Jinxing nodded and said with a smile: "Brother Xin's luck has always been good, I will definitely pass this exam! But I can't, I will definitely fail!"
Li Xin smiled. He knew what Niu Jinxing was thinking, so he couldn't say anything more, so he just handed over and left alone.
Niu Jinxing looked at Li Xin's back, sighed, and walked to the hotel where he was staying...
...
"Long live my Lord, I have brought you all the examination papers for the fifteen candidates you requested..."
In the Yuxi Palace in Xiyuan, Shi Fenglai, a bachelor of Jianji Palace and the Minister of Etiquette, had already come to see him with a large stack of test papers and a smile.
Shi Fenglai is one of the examiners of this subject. According to convention, he will work with another examiner and eighteen fellow examiners to decide the candidates and rankings who pass the examination.
But today is only February 17th, and it is not the time for the examiner to mark the papers at all - the examiner has to read the papers recommended by fellow examiners and select a group of them. The rest is I will take the exam for high school papers.
But now it's good, he actually took some of the papers first and came to Yuxi Palace to face the saint... Moreover, these papers are all originals, not transcribed, and they have been torn apart to make sure their names are unknown!
If Shi Fenglai had not acted according to orders, beheading would have been enough.
"How did you do in the exam?" Zhu Youjian asked with a smile, "Are the knowledge of these fifteen candidates good? Can they all go to high school?"
Shi Fenglai frowned when he heard this question.
"What?" Zhu Youjian looked at Mr. Shi Ge who was hesitant to speak, "Tell me the truth! How are these people's knowledge?"
"In response to Master Long Live," Shi Feng said, "I have already read these papers. Except for Wei Zaode's paper, all others will be in disgrace!"
"What?" Zhu Youjian glared, "Mr. Shi Ge, can you mark the exam? How is it possible that everything will fade? This Niu Venus will also fade? And that Li Xin... these two Are you going to be depressed?"
"Long live my Lord," Shi Fenglai shook his head, "these two are really not good at learning... among them, Niu Jinxing forgot to avoid taboos, and the paper was not clean. It's really inappropriate! That Li Xin's article is also quite good. Ordinary, you’re lucky to win.”
"How is it possible?" Zhu Youjian waved his hand, "This is impossible... How could Niu Jinxing be uneducated? How could Li Xin fail? Why do you open a subject to get a scholar? Isn't it just to treat them like this? Find someone to become an official?"
yes! If Niu Jinxing and Li Xin are appointed as officials, they will stop rebelling!
"These two must be in high school!" Zhu Youjian said directly, "The first place in this subject will be given to Niu Jinxing, Li Xin will be second, and Wei Zaode will be third..."
Wei Zaode's knowledge is actually the best, but he is a current official participating in the examination, so it is inappropriate to get the Hui Yuan.
But getting Huiyuan for Niu Jinxing's article is a bit too much... Shi Fenglai looked embarrassed, "Long live Lord, this Huiyuan article is to be passed down from generation to generation, Niu Jinxing's knowledge is not good... If your Majesty doesn’t believe it, you can read his article!”
"Nonsense!" Zhu Youjian glared at Shi Fenglai, "How could he not be good at knowledge? This matter is settled, he will be... the second place, Wei Zaode is the third, and Li Xin will be the one Top ten! Is that okay?"
"Long live my Lord, please stop looking at the papers..."
"Don't read it, don't read it...it's all bullshit!" Zhu Youjian waved his hand impatiently.
He had carefully read the papers for this subject in his previous life, and had read all the Gongshi articles. There were indeed a few papers that were very well written...but so what? Useless!
The elected officials can't beat Niu Jinxing and Li Xin! The last word is to win!
"Your Majesty, the remaining thirteen people..." Shi Fenglai asked, thinking in his heart: How about I help Niu Jinxing make another test paper? I am Wanli Dingmo Ke Huiyuan, and I came in second place in the Imperial Examination... My articles are still passable, right?
"The rest are all in high school!" Zhu Youjian said solemnly, "Don't even think about running away! They all go to Shaanxi and become officials in the frontier!"
