The next day.
Wei Chen and the others rushed to the Tixue Dao Yamen early in the morning, and the other fifty-two new students also arrived.
A group of scholars, led by Wei Chen, paid homage to Hai Xiangqian. From now on, Hai Xiangqian would be regarded as the master of these fifty people.
In the Zhou Dynasty, teachers were divided into two types.
One type is a teacher who teaches students knowledge, which is called a professional teacher; the other type is an official who takes charge of the imperial examination, which is called a seat teacher.
According to the different times of the scientific examination, the examiners can be divided into college examiners, rural examiners, and conference examiners.
When it came to the higher-level palace examinations, there was no such thing as a master, because all Jinshi were appointed by the emperor, which was also called the emperor's disciples.
The status of industry masters is not as good as that of seat masters. This is a common trend among scholars nowadays.
After all, most of the industry masters were scholars and scholars, while the masters were all imperial officials who came from Jinshi. They were closely related to the scholars' future career and were obviously more worthy of adhering to.
Of course, this is only in general terms. Specific to the individual scholar, it still depends on the scholar's own inner weighing.
For example, Wei Chen, although he also respects the master Walrus Gan, he is closer to Shi Kai, Lin Yan, Zhuang Jun and others who spend time with him day and night.
After paying homage to the teacher, Walrus Gan, as an academic administrator, naturally had to give some admonitions and encouragement. After that, in front of the prefecture and county academic advisors, students were assigned to the school according to their place of origin.
According to the rules, each of the prefectural and county schools selects five students. Whether they are the first in the prefectural school or the county school, they can be directly guaranteed to be junior students, and the rest will be promoted.
Students with the highest scores in the college examination can be selected first and decide whether to go to a prefecture school or a county school.
Becoming a Linsheng, in addition to having the privileges of ordinary students such as being exempt from official duties, being exempted from service and food, and not being punished, there are also many benefits.
First of all, the government gave him six dou of rice per month. From then on, he could study with peace of mind and no longer have to worry about food.
Secondly, local students can also vouch for candidates during the boy examination (collectively referred to as the county examination, prefecture examination, and college examination) and earn extra money.
Wei Mingzhao earned the dozen acres of paddy fields that Wei Chen's family used to earn in this way.
In addition to these two benefits, Linsheng can also choose to be a tribute prisoner and become a tribute prisoner, while Zengsheng and lower-level appendages do not enjoy this kind of treatment.
For example, Lin Yan, Wei Chen's classics teacher, was a junior student at Jiangning Prefecture School, and was later selected to serve as a tribute to the Imperial College. After passing the examination at the end of his term, he was directly sent to the county school as a professor and became a member of the academic officials.
After Walrus Gan finished explaining the difference between growth and growth, a clerk immediately presented the writing and asked the students to fill in their personal confessions (personally written resumes).
Wei Chen was the head of the college examination, so naturally he was the first to step forward to make the selection. He couldn't help but smile when he saw this. Looking at this posture, he looked very much like his previous college entrance examination application.
Wei Chen took the pen from the clerk and without hesitation filled out the form and submitted it to the Fu School, occupying the only place for junior students in Jiangning Fu School this time.
Government schools are naturally better than county schools.
The county school's teaching edict is only to promote people, while the government school's teaching edict is to promote Jinshi. This is a gap visible to the naked eye.
Besides, with Shen Du, a cheap senior brother, Wei Chen can feel much more at ease in the school.
Mr. Lu from the Fu School looked at the personal confession handed in by Wei Chen and nodded with satisfaction. He then issued a seal on the personal confession, which was considered to have approved Wei Chen's admission.
After Wei Chen, Wang Yaochen, Weng Dingfan, Tang Henian, and Sheng Changbai came forward one after another, and they all also chose to study in the government school. However, Wei Chen's place for Lin students had been taken up, so they could only fill in for additional students.
However, the four of them were from well-off families and did not care about Lin Sheng's little money and food.
As for only local students being able to participate in the tribute selection?
The four of them all have high self-esteem, and what they are thinking about is the provincial examination in three years' time. They are just a tribute supervisor. How can they get the pleasure of being promoted to a high position?
What's more, after winning the imperial examination, it is still possible to be elected to the Imperial College, and it will not be too late to consider this at that time.
After the top five, the rest of the students also made their own choices one after another.
Although Tao Dazhi was only tenth, he was lucky enough. The people in front of him either went to a government school or were not from Jiangning County, so Tao Dazhi was able to enter Jiangning County School and become a junior student.
As for Chen Jun, he fell to thirty-second in the college examination this time, only in the middle, which was much worse than his ranking in the government examination. He could only enter Youyang County to study to become a prostitute.
After everyone has decided their respective destinations, written personal confessions, and been sealed by the edict, they can officially be called students in terms of paperwork.
The students stepped down and put on their blue round-neck sweatshirts and square scarves.
Wearing this 襕shirt means that one has attained a position of fame. Although it is the lowest degree of fame, one can be an official without worshiping him.
The neatly dressed students returned to the lobby, and Walrus Gan personally put on flower branches cut from colorful silk and performed the ceremony of hairpins for them.
With the bright flower branches above his head, Wei Chen always felt a little uncomfortable, thinking that if he laughed at this moment, he would really be "trembling with flowers".
After the hairpin ceremony, all the members came out of Tixue Road Yamen one by one and walked to Fuxue Academy.
This is the "Hairpin Flower Kua Street".
Along the way, the yamen servants sounded gongs to clear the way. Wei Chen, who was the head of the case, walked in front, and the others followed in order.
Both sides of the road were crowded with people watching the excitement, all wanting to admire the new talents and pointing fingers along the way.
Arriving in front of the Fuxue Palace, the yamen servants did not dare to sound the gong anymore. Walrus Gan stepped forward and said loudly: "The new students have arrived, open a household!"
After saying this, the three red doors in front of the academy, covered with yellow copper nails, were opened one by one by the students from the outside to the inside.
Wei Chen looked from a distance and saw that behind the three-layer gate was Panqiao Panshui. After Panshui, there were more than a dozen steps leading to the magnificent Dacheng Hall. In the Dacheng Hall, the most holy master is worshiped as the main worshiper, followed by the four concubines and twelve philosophers.
"Invite the new students to enter the pan!"
Hearing the salute officer shout these words, all the students could not help but breathe quickly.
Enter the palace and visit Pan.
This is a lifelong dream for readers!
At this moment, the students raised their folded hands, bowed their heads and walked forward, passing the Lingxing Gate and the Ji Gate, and moving forward along the central axis of the academy.
After crossing the Jimen Gate, the small half-moon-shaped blue pool in front of you is Panchi.
Only those with meritorious status can pass the Pan Bridge on Panchi, otherwise they can only go around.
As the sentient beings walked across the Pan Bridge and outside the Dacheng Hall, the salute official shouted: "A great salute!"
The students stood up after the great ceremony, then performed the ritual of purifying their hands. After entering the palace to pay homage, they retreated to Minglun Hall in the east of the palace. Only then was the work completed.
All the members took off their formal restraints, with relaxed smiles on their faces. They bowed to each other and talked and laughed happily.
Jiangning Mansion is a strong imperial examination house. According to the usual practice, among the more than fifty students in front of you, there must be a few Jinshi. These are all connections in the future, and everyone will naturally get to know each other.
When everyone gathers together, they first greet each other to show their respect for elders and younger ones, and then they interact with each other as equals.
Wei Chen couldn't help but suffer a bit at this time. After all, he was under twelve years old at all times and was a well-deserved younger brother.
Of course, this is because everyone present is a student. If it is a child student without any fame, that is a different matter. Even if the other person is old enough to be Wei Chen's grandfather, Wei Chen can easily call the other person "little friend".
