Daming primary school students

Chapter 440 But He Wrote Ten Thousand Words!

When the last test paper of today was sent to Du Qixi, the Mifeng official, Du Langzhong felt that his assignment had been insulted.

As mentioned earlier, his job is to seal up the candidate information on all the test papers, so that the examiners cannot see the names, in theory to ensure fairness.

But everyone else has one test paper, only Qin Dewei has three test papers, so what's the point of sealing Qin Dewei's personal information?
Such a sensational thing as writing thousands of words a day will definitely spread from the examination room. Anyone who sees this test paper can be sure that it was written by Qin Dewei.

Du Langzhong sighed, folded and pasted the first six pages of the first page of Qin Dewei's test paper, that is, the examinee's information, and then sealed it with a seal.

Officialdom is a place that pays attention to formalism, and it is not shameful to deceive oneself and others by trying to cover it up!

Then he glued the three papers of this test paper head to tail, and after connecting them together, it looked like a complete thing.

It's just that the thickness of the test paper is three times that of others, and it is still eye-catching.

So far, all the 25 test papers that have been sealed have been sent to Wenyuan Pavilion, guarded by officers and soldiers.

And all the examiners will stay in the Ministry of Rites tonight, and they cannot go home during the examination period. They will still stay in the Ministry of Rites tomorrow night. This is also the rule set in the early years of Jiajing.

Because during the palace examination, if the minister reads the test papers in Wenyuan Pavilion during the day and then goes home at night, there will always be gossip and even a commotion.

In recent years, there have been many such examples. For example, in the eighth year of Jiajing, when Yang Yiqing, the former chief assistant, was grading papers, someone summoned a little fellow Tang Shunzhi to his home at night.

Of course, he wanted to ask Tang Shunzhi what was written in the test paper, so as to give Tang Shunzhi, who was already a member of the Huiyuan, another first prize, but Tang Shunzhi was too thin-skinned to meet Yang Yiqing.

Another example is in the sixth year of Zhengde, when Yang Tinghe, the former chief assistant, was still the second assistant, he read the test papers in Wenyuan Pavilion during the day, and went home at night to meet his son Yang Shen who was taking the test. Otherwise, how did the superstar Yang Shen become the number one scholar?

This is true for famous ministers and virtuous ministers, let alone treacherous ministers.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty may have been designed to be fair on the whole, but in recent years, the palace examination has often been unfairer than the general examination and the rural examination.

Emperor Jiajing was also annoyed by this kind of ministers who joined forces after returning home. A few years ago, he ordered the ministers who read the papers to stay in the Ministry of Rites collectively, and they were not allowed to go home until the papers were finished.

On the third day of April in the 14th year of Jiajing, more than a dozen examiners entered the inner court from Chengtian Gate and Meridian Gate, and then came to Wenyuan Pavilion from Zuoshun Gate.

This was originally the office of the cabinet, but in the past two days it will be used as a place to read papers for the palace examination.

The first is the handover of the test papers. As the chief examiner, Zhang Fujing, the chief assistant, does not need to divide the test papers.

The first batch of test papers with a total of dozens of copies, of course, cannot be randomly divided, and there are also default practices.

These are the test papers of candidates with top rankings in the general examination, as well as the test papers of very few candidates who have been greeted and have received the attention of the bosses.

There are more than [-] small transparent test papers left, which are not allocated for the time being, and are piled up in the middle hall of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Any examiner who reads the test papers in his hand can take a few more copies and continue to read until all the test papers have been read.

So far, the chief examiners do not know the specific text of any of the test papers, but they all know that there is a long essay with [-] characters in this palace test.

After getting the test papers assigned to them, the conscientious bosses quickly checked the thickness of all the test papers in their hands, and found no particularly prominent thickness.

Immediately, another six or seven big bosses raised their heads, glanced at each other, and then looked at the remaining test papers piled up in the middle hall.

They immediately discovered that among the pile of test papers on the middle hall table, the top one was obviously much thicker than normal test papers!
that's it!The legendary test paper of ten thousand words!right there!
Immediately, several people couldn't hold back, Qiqi stretched out their claws, and instantly seven hands appeared on the top of the [-]D test paper, and the scene was a bit embarrassing for a while.

Those who stretched out their hands included University Scholars Fang Xianfu and Zhai Luan, Minister of Officials Xia Yan, Minister of Rites Gu Dingchen, Minister of Military Affairs Wang Hung, Minister of Punishment Wang Tingxiang, and Deputy Governor Huo Tao.

Anyone who could think of taking the No. 90 test paper of Mr. Qin was immediately exposed.

Master Xia glanced at Zhai Luan and Gu Dingchen suspiciously. It is understandable for others to reach out their hands. Why are you two weak chickens joining in the fun?
Zhang Fujing, the presiding general reading officer and chief assistant, pointed to the Wanyan test paper and said, "Wait for those who are interested in this paper, circulate it sequentially, and then decide whether it can be included in the first class."

According to the rules of the hall examination papers, the first-class test papers are selected first, and then the cabinet selects the top three from the first-class test papers, and the rest are ranked down.

If you can't get into the first-class test paper at the beginning, you won't be able to rank high.

The seven people, starting with Cifu Fang Xianfu, circulated the [-]D test papers one by one, and those who didn't want to get involved didn't read it.

After passing it around once, Huo Tao, the deputy governor of the left, took the lead in attacking: "I see that the grammar of this test paper is rough, it can't be called a masterpiece, and it can't be regarded as the first class."

Wang Ting counterattacked: "But he wrote [-] words! If you Huo Tao wrote a [-]-word book before dark, don't you care about carving words?"

Xia Yan added: "The country selects scholars based on strategy, not on quality but on writing! Grammar comes second, and the content should be considered first."

Wang Hung, Minister of the Ministry of War, raised another question and said, "The handwriting on this test paper is scribbled and random, and there is nothing elegant about it. How can it be regarded as the first class!"

Wang Tingxiang continued to fight back: "But he wrote [-] characters! Let you, Wang Hong, write a [-]-character book with a brush before dark, do you still care about calligraphy?"

Master Xia also continued to add: "The country selects scholars by strategy, not in words!"

Fang Xianfu shook his head and said, "This test paper is mostly biased and accusatory, criticizing the sentences that are either good or bad. The writing of the palace test should still be mellow and elegant, and avoid surprising and weird things."

Wang Tingxiang still retorted: "But he wrote [-] words!"

Fang Xianfu felt that Wang Tingxiang was making trouble on purpose, and asked angrily, "What is the relationship between writing style and more words and less words?"

Wang Tingxiang said loudly: "As long as you can write thousands of characters every day, it doesn't matter how you write!"

Fang Xianfu scolded: "This person has corrupt moral character, acts outrageously, escapes punishment repeatedly by luck, even if he can write tens of thousands of words a day, so what!"

Wang Tingxiang asked in confusion: "It seems that you know who this test paper is? So you must be unfair, please don't say too much!"

Fang Xianfu: "."

Zhang Fujing was also constantly thinking about it. If it was ten years ago, when the ceremony was full of gunpowder and the emperor still fully supported and trusted him, it would be fine to suppress the test paper directly.

But now, Zhang Fujing no longer dared to gamble.The emperor became more and more reserved about himself, and the intimacy between the monarch and his ministers was no longer that of ten years ago.

He didn't know if the emperor would hear about Wanzi Cewen, and he couldn't guess how the emperor would react.

If the emperor really reacted, he, the one who was criticized by Qin Dewei before the imperial examination, would be the first to bear the brunt.

Zhang Fujing made the final decision and said, "Let's be listed in the first class for the time being!"

Huo Tao became impatient, "Think twice!"

Only Gu Dingchen, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, thought to himself, based on the knowledge of these people, it seems that he is the winner in the end.

　All kinds of bad luck today, no mind to code words, let’s talk about it tomorrow, try to update it as soon as possible
　　
　
(End of this chapter)