Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1230 Six Yuan and Chapter [-]
Luoyang.

In the north of the city, Jide Fang in the upper east gate.

Hebei Road Jinzuo Academy was established in this square, which is located in the north of the city, just east of Shangmen, and adjacent to Caoqu in the south. The location is critical and the transportation is convenient.

Early in the morning.

Liu Cong, the head of the Hebei Dao Jinzuo Academy, sent people to the Hebei Guild Hall, Fanyang Guild Hall, and various inns in the square, and invited all the eunuchs who participated in the imperial examinations in Hebei Province this year to Jinzuo Yuan.

As the office in Beijing of Hebei Province, Hebei Jinzuo Yuan also belongs to the government office. They are funded by the local government. The task in Beijing is to take charge of the transfer of edicts and official documents of various departments of the imperial court, and transfer them to Zhangzuo. Distribute the documents to the relevant departments of the imperial court.

In addition, when local officials from various provinces entered Beijing Chaoji, they also stayed in Zuoyuan.Usually, they also undertake the tasks of liaising with various departments of the central government of the court, and inquiring about some court trends.

This year is the first imperial examination, the year of the big competition, all schools attach great importance to this imperial examination.As the representative of Hebei Province in Beijing, the Hebei Dao Jinzuo Academy, of course, has long been greeted by Hebei local officials, asking them to entertain the students in their hometown on their behalf.

"Master Liu, Ma Jieyuan has arrived."

As soon as Liu Cong heard that Ma Zhou had arrived, he hurriedly went out to meet him in person. Although he was the head of the eighth rank, Ma Zhou was still just a candidate, but Ma Zhou was now the number one scholar, and many ministers and ministers wanted to recruit him as his son-in-law. After all, this early He had to be admired and valued by the emperor, and he was supposed to be awarded the official censor, but this man insisted on taking part in the imperial examination in person. There are rumors in the market that Ma Zhou is the default champion.

Liu Cong naturally had to take such a scholar from his hometown seriously.

Enter outside the courtyard.

Headed by Ma Zhou, the [-] candidates from Hebei Province who participated in the examination have already arrived outside the gate.

"Hey, Qilin talents in my hometown, please hurry up and let me represent our fathers and folks in Hebei Province to bless you."

There is a quota for this test, and the total quota is 300 people, which is more than originally planned.But not every road has the same quota. Luoyang, Chang'an, Fanyang and other six capitals are separate from the other roads.For example, in Hebei, Henan, Hedong, and Guanzhong, each of the four roads has a quota of [-], while Shandong, Huainan, Bahan, and Jiannan each have a quota of [-]. In addition, such as Liaoxi, Liaodong, Andong, Longyou, etc. The amount of relief is decreasing, Longyou Road has [-] people, while Yunnan Road has only [-] people.

This kind of quota limit is actually related to the population at this time. The Central Plains has a large population and a large number of scholars. There are more than [-] counties under Luoyang Prefecture alone with millions of people, and the proportion of scholars is also the largest.And like a remote frontier, the population is small and there are few scholars.

Entering the courtyard, Mr. Liu first served a plate of dishes to the candidates.

"This is Migratory Locust Tengda, and this is Zhuangyuanhong."

Liu Cong pointed to the plate of roasted grasshoppers with a smile, and then picked up a glass of wine, "I wish you all the best in high school, and from now on you will be prosperous!"

He also made a special toast to Ma Zhou, "Everyone says that Brother Corbin must be the number one scholar in high school, please!"

The fried golden grasshoppers are placed on the plate in a bunch, and everyone is smiling when they look at it. Deep-fried, the most favorite food of scholars is this migratory locust.

Good omens.

Especially when they are strung together like this, no matter how you look at it, they are rising steadily.

For candidates from Hebei Province, they have a great advantage in this imperial examination. There are a total of 190 candidates, and Hebei Province has [-] quotas. Because Fanyang Mansion is in Beijing, there is only one One hundred quotas. In this way, it turns out that there are actually [-] quotas in Hebei Road.

Compared with Yunnan Road, which only has a total of [-] qualification places for the general examination, candidates from Hebei Road obviously have a higher probability of being a Jinshi.But in comparison, every move that can get the quota relief is only killed in the sea of ​​corpses and blood in this way, and they are indeed outstanding.

After eating migratory locusts and drinking Zhuangyuanhong, Director Liu personally led the gong and drum team that had been prepared a long time ago, beating gongs and drums all the way to send the ninety candidates from this way to the examination room of the Gongyuan.

He prepared a big horse for each juzi, and each of them wore big red flowers on their chests, and there were people in front of them who entered the concert hall to help open the way.

Walking on the long street, this team attracted people's attention, which made the Hebei candidates get ahead of the street parade treatment after high school jinshi.

This year's examination was held on the ninth, twelfth, and fifteenth day of February, so it was also called Chunwei.

The examination was presided over by the Ministry of Rites. Originally, the Ministry of Officials wanted to try to preside over it. Later, the emperor handed over this task to the Ministry of Rites.

After getting the qualification to host the examination, it is said that everyone in the Ministry of Rites was very happy, and even mobilized the small treasury of the Ministry of Rites to give everyone a bonus as a token of congratulations.

The emperor hand-picked the chief and deputy examiners for the examination, including four chief examiners and nine deputy examiners. Dian University scholar Wen Yanbo.

The nine deputy chief examiners are also purple-robed ministers of the third rank or above.

The four chief examiners are all Zaifu, which shows that the emperor attaches great importance to this examination.

230 candidates who have obtained the quota will participate in the Ministry of Rites Examination in Beijing, and more than [-] students from the six capitals and the Imperial College will compete for [-] Jinshi here.

One out of ten.

Although compared with the one-in-thirty for scholars and one-in-twenty for juren, this undoubtedly has a higher admission rate. Of the two thousand or three hundred people who may have gone to Luoyang Gongyuan, which one is not a good candidate.Even the 300 Juren who received their quota from the Imperial College were all selected from more than 1 classmates.

There are more than [-] students in the Guozijian, because most of them are the children of noble officials, so the competition for the [-] quotas is also very fierce.

The exam is divided into three sessions, one session every three days, and all candidates are in the same examination room of the Tribute Academy.

Before entering, you must search your body, and you are not allowed to bring in anything, even the clothes on your body. The Ministry of Rites will uniformly distribute clothes, quilts, paper, pens, inkstones, and even candles.

Each candidate has a single room in the Gongyuan. During the exam, they eat and live in this semi-enclosed small room, and they are not allowed to leave.

The outside of the Gongyuan was blocked by the imperial army early on, and no one was allowed to approach.

Even the food delivered to the examinees is in charge of the imperial army who is enclosed in the tribute courtyard.

After the test papers are handed in, they are handed over to a special copyer who is responsible for copying the papers and then affixing their names.In the end, the papers sent to the examination officials will not reveal the slightest information about the examinees.

The examiners didn't know whose papers they were reading, their names were all blocked, and even all the fonts were the same.

Moreover, all the examination papers had to be cross-reviewed, and finally they had to be handed over to the president, the four chief examiners, to review each paper together.

This is the greatest possible possibility of avoiding cheating. It will never happen again like the imperial examinations in the Sui Dynasty. In that way, go to visit those noble officials or celebrities everywhere, and ask for fame by casting their poems and prose.

After the general examination, the ranking of Jinshi is not determined, but only 230 Jinshi are admitted.

As for the ranking, it has to be handpicked by the emperor in the final palace examination.

After several days of intense exams, the examinees came out, but the Gongyuan was still closed.

Thirty fellow examiners, nine deputy chief examiners, four chief examiners, and many officials who were responsible for copying and aliasing the papers were still sealed off in the tribute courtyard.

Thirteen chief and deputy examiners, after three consecutive days of deliberation, finally judged the final 230 Jinshi papers.

"Just remove the names in this order and submit them to the emperor."

Although it is said that the ranking of Jinshi is not fixed after the examination, it is an official ranking. Before the palace examination comes out, in fact, after the examination papers are marked, a No.1 will be set, called Huiyuan, and the rest are called Gongshi.

"Invite the Secretary Supervisor, Internal Attendant Supervisor, Dianzhong Supervisor, Minister of Rites, and Doctor Yushi to come and open the seal together!"

Five purple-robed ministers entered the Tribute Court. They were in charge of supervising and witnessing, witnessing the opening of the test papers, and at the same time they retrieved the original papers for verification.

"Look who Huiyuan is!"

"It must be Ma Zhou!"

The five ministers did not participate in the review, but they all reckoned that the meeting leader this time was most likely Ma Zhou.

When the blurred name of the test paper judged to be Huiyuan was uncovered, the name on it was revealed.

"Wow!"

"really!"

"It's really King Ma Zhou and Ma Bin!"

"This guy, amazing, this is already five yuan in a row. Above the Golden Palace, I'm afraid there will be another champion. This is six yuan in a row!"

"Liuyuan High School, this son will be the prime minister in the future, and his future is boundless."

Even Fang Xuanling couldn't help sighing to Du Ruhui, as Jinshi in the Sui Dynasty, Fang and Du were also passed the imperial examination, but the imperial examination back then was completely different from this one.

If the current process and rules are followed, they don't even know if they can still get high school Jinshi after removing their family's reputation.

A guy like Ma Zhou who can get five yuan all the way is really against the sky.

"It's no wonder that His Majesty refused to grant him the eighth grade. He really has the ability."

Secretary Jian Wang Gui and others compared Ma Zhou's original volume, and found that Ma Zhou's handwriting was actually better. There was no typo in the whole volume, and it was very clean and tidy.

"Submit these 230 original volumes to the saint!" said the censor doctor Zhang Yichen.

A test paper was sealed again, stamped with the seals of thirteen examiners, and the seals of five supervising ministers, and then escorted into the palace by the general of the forbidden army, and presented to the saint.

After Luo Cheng saw this box of test papers, he didn't wait to read the memorandum in a hurry, but asked directly, "Who is Huiyuan?"

"Hebei scholar Ma Zhou and King Ma Bin, all thirteen examiners unanimously decided that his test paper is No. 1 in the general test, and no one objected!"

Hearing that Ma Zhou really won the Hui Yuan, Luo Cheng laughed out loud.

"This Ma Zhou really did not disappoint me, very good, open the box, I want to see what is written in his paper!"

(End of this chapter)