Manchu traitor, how can you let me be the emperor of the ages

Chapter 218 The Same Exam Questions, The Uncompromising Person in the Exam Room
A group of candidates dragged their test boxes and followed a few soldiers to the small courtyard on the other side.

The so-called search is not easy, it is for the candidates who voluntarily paid the money.

If you don't let these big soldiers of the soldiers and horses get enough benefits, even the inside of your intestines will be searched for you.

Of course, even after taking the money, the big soldiers are still not very satisfied.

For them, as long as they come to search, the bribe money is considered as basic labor income. Isn't it a matter of course to have basic income?Not worth the surprise at all.

And those things that are not in compliance with the regulations that are searched and then sold are considered extra money in addition to the basic income.

Now this kind of sloppy search and inspection has left the soldiers with only basic income, and their extra income has shrunk by nearly [-]%. No one will be happy about it.

It's just that this is the meaning of the above, and these big soldiers can only follow this path.

Although they searched in a small room, it was still too cold in the freezing weather. Many Juren who did not pay even had their clothes taken off, leaving only a close-fitting obscene garment, and their legs trembled from the cold.

But compared to the next test, this is just a piece of cake...

After the examination, the examinees dragged their test boxes, came out of the small room in disheveled clothes, their faces flushed with excitement, and hurried towards the back of the second door...

After entering the second gate, raise people through a corridor, which leads to the real examination room.

Rows of numbered rooms are located in it, and each row of numbered rooms is numbered in thousand-character characters. On the whitewashed wall facing the street, dozens of candidates' names are posted.

Zheng Guan, Yan Zhenqing, and Zhuge Liang all found their names on it. The three of them were not in the same row, so they split up and walked to the houses corresponding to their names.

The No. [-] building is in full swing. It doesn't look like an examination room, but rather like a construction site.

People carrying wooden buckets and rags lined up to fetch water from the tanks, and then went back to their cells to wipe clean the two chopping boards, one long and one short, and clean the fallen leaves, mud and snow inside.

After finishing these tasks, the Juren were not idle, and picked up hammers and nails, tinkling to repair the cell.

There is no way, the current account room has been in disrepair for a long time, once it rains or snows, it will leak continuously. up.

In addition, even if there is no rain and snow, the cold wind in the winter is inevitable.

If the curly head is blown away, dirty, or even falls into the small stove and burns, there is nowhere to cry.

After nailing the horn top, horn surround, and horn curtains, the basic work is considered completed.

At this time, the hungry candidates took out the dry food prepared in advance, and took cold water to deal with the two mouthfuls. If they were not hungry, they put the two chopping boards together, put them on the ground, covered them with quilts, and rested for a while to nourish their spirits. Recharge, wait for the question.

All the examinees were busy, and it was not until midnight that all the candidates entered the hall, and the dragon gate and the second gate were locked in turn.

clang clang ~
A burst of intense gong sounded, no matter what the candidates were doing at the moment, they gradually stopped their work.

Zheng Guan was still lying in the room squinting, but when he heard the sound of the gong, he got up with a jolt, put away the bedding, set up the chopping board, and sat very upright.

The gong sounded five times before it ended. Only then did the chief and deputy magistrates appointed by the imperial court appear in the examination room with teams of soldiers and horses.

The official Zhi Gong Ju of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Mang, the Minister of Rites, and the deputy Zhi Gong Ju is the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, Song Qiaonian.

Holding roll bags in their hands, the two walked slowly into the examination room with solemn faces.

The night was dense and the stars were like water. Fires were lit in the rooms of the Gongyuan to provide candidates with a bit of warmth in the cold night.

Wang Mang looked around, until every examinee he saw had sat down peacefully, and the examination room was completely quiet, and only the sound of wind and the slight crackle of burning carbon fire could be heard, then he nodded lightly.

"Send a question."

As soon as the words fell, a government servant immediately took the sealed test questions, pasted them on wooden boards, and then put the wooden boards on a small wooden cart, and slowly pushed them towards the rows of test booths.

There are still many such small cars, with torches on both sides, and finally they are placed in front of rows of numbered rooms for examinees to read the questions.

At the same time, the soldiers who followed also stepped forward with dead faces.

There is a soldier standing in front of each room and each examinee, realizing a real one-to-one invigilation.

For the next three days, these grudges from the Nancheng Bingmasi will stand still in front of the door of the room without stopping.

Once it rains and snows, the candidates still have a number room and a number curtain to keep out the wind and rain, so they can only suffer here obediently.

Therefore, the attitude of the soldiers towards the candidates is very bad. Don't look at them outside, they are high-ranking people, and many of them even have official status.

But here they are just candidates. Once they find any violations, the soldiers will find them out without hesitation...

There are a total of seven questions in the general examination, the first three are four-book questions, and everyone is the same.

The last four questions are the Five Classics questions, which are equivalent to the arts and sciences of the college entrance examination, except that there are five rooms: poetry, book, ritual, Yi, and spring and Autumn. One-room test questions.

Of course, no one cares about these minutiae at all now, because only the first four-book question is the most critical!
Almost all the candidates were staring nervously at the wooden board with the test questions. When they saw the first question, most of the candidates in the field stared wide-eyed!

"Same!!"

Zheng Guan took a deep breath, the exam questions on this wooden board were exactly the same as the exam questions he bought in a restaurant a few days ago! !

In the room six rows behind him, Yan Zhenqing also noticed the abnormality of the exam questions. He sighed quietly, his face was full of complexities, and it took a long time before he raised his head and began to copy the exam questions.

Not only the two of them, but all the test takers who bought the test questions were all overjoyed and ecstatic!

I'll try it, be sure!

That is to say, the examination room should not be noisy, otherwise there must be people whispering excitedly.

After the exam questions were announced, the atmosphere in the exam room gradually became subtle, and it seemed that even the bonfire in the furnace was gradually agitated.

Many excited candidates lit candles and studied ink, planning to copy the articles they had prepared in advance overnight... no, they wrote them out.

The candidates who did not buy the questions were still kept in the dark, looking at the test questions on the wooden board, carefully checking and copying them on their own manuscript paper.

But even so, listening to the continuous sound of grinding ink nearby, and the rustling of exam papers... They also felt the restless atmosphere in the air, and gradually realized that something was wrong.

You must know that the test room is very dirty and difficult to clean up. Many people have worked all day today and are already exhausted.

According to the practice of the previous examinations, the examinees will rest early tonight to eliminate the fatigue of the day, and save the first and most critical question tomorrow morning when they are most energetic.

Now in the middle of the night, I'm already too sleepy, even if I can write it, I'm afraid it will fall short of the standard.

Is someone really such a fool?
Some people frowned, as if thinking of the leaked rumors of the exam questions that have been circulating recently...

But no matter what everyone thinks, this act of doing the questions together has aroused many people's sense of crisis.

One person's censorship drives two people's volleyball, and half of the censorship almost drives most of the Juren's introversion.

Many Juren who were going to sleep lit candles, leaned over their desks to think about the article, and thought about how to solve the problem...

After the soldiers pushed the wooden cart, Wang Mang did not leave after the examination questions were placed, but walked forward slowly, as if to check the situation of the examinees.

Song Qiaonian on the other side originally wanted to go back, but seeing this, he had to lead a few outer curtain officials to follow Wang Mang's footsteps with trepidation.

While walking forward, Song Qiaonian's brain was spinning rapidly, trying to find a suitable reason to get Wang Mang back.

Wang Mang is a smart man.Even if he didn't pay attention to the news of the leaked exam questions before, if he was allowed to wander around like this, he might find something wrong.

Although Wang Mang has a tendency to invest in Cai Jing recently, but leaked the exam questions...it is better to have one more thing than one less thing.

But right now Song Qiaonian has nothing to do with Wang Mang, once he speaks to persuade, it is easy to reveal his flaws and attract Wang Mang's attention and suspicion.

Song Qiaonian's eyes flickered, and a bead of sweat quietly oozed from his forehead, which was dried by the cold winter wind.

Wang Mang walked forward with his hands behind his back, passing through the doors of each cell.

Each candidate sat up straight subconsciously when he saw the great uncle in scarlet robes and was scrutinized by his majestic eyes.

Some candidates originally planned to write quickly and copy the articles they had memorized in advance, so as not to have long nights and dreams, and forget them in the middle.

But at this moment, he hurriedly stopped in front of Wang Mang, pretending to be thinking hard with his pen, so as not to be seen as a flaw.

Some candidates were still dawdling, but when they saw Wang Mang, they immediately raised their chests and raised their heads, expressing their desire to express themselves, like a spring of writing, writing like a snake, and writing several sheets of manuscript paper in the blink of an eye.

"Ok?"

This action really attracted Wang Mang's attention. He bent down and stared at the examinee's manuscript paper for a while, then nodded, as if he had written down the examinee's name, then got up and left, and walked to the next room.

Seeing Uncle Wang Dazong nod his head, the examinee seemed to have been injected with chicken blood, his chest was raised higher, and he wrote faster.

"idiot!"

Song Qiaonian cursed in his heart, how could there be such a stupid candidate?How did this get admitted to Juren?
But seeing Wang Mang walking forward, he couldn't care about anything else, so he gave the candidate a hard look, and hurriedly followed.

Wang Mang looked at the candidates one after another, until he saw several rows of candidates, then stopped, turned his head to Song Qiaonian and a group of external liaison officers and said with a smile: "It's really the Holy King coming, the new king has a new atmosphere! !"

"Your Majesty just ascended the throne last year, and so many talents emerged in the first subject examination after ascension. This is the blessing of my hard work!"

Song Qiao Nianxin said that this has something to do with Xinjun, if you accidentally leaked the test questions, it would be useless for you to be Xinjun.

"What Uncle Da Zong said is very true. With a sage like His Majesty coming to court, it must be the beginning of my career and prosperity." Song Qiaonian nodded with a smile.

Seeing that the two leaders were very satisfied, no matter what they thought in their hearts, the liaison officers on the side also laughed and agreed, but they couldn't take away the leader's intentions, right?

Wang Mang nodded, and continued to walk forward, apparently still looking down.

Song Qiaonian was secretly impatient. There are a few candidates who are full of literary ideas, no problem, but if they catch a lot of such people, the pig will know something is wrong!

At this moment, he hoped that Cai Jing would also be here to stop Wang Mang's footsteps, but it's a pity that this is just a fantasy.

Because Cai Jing was still north of Feihong Bridge, he couldn't get through at all.

The entire Gongyuan is divided into two parts, the south and the north, which are separated by a Feihong bridge.

Feihong Bridge is also the demarcation point between examination and marking in Gongyuan Middle School.

The area in the south of the bridge is the largest, including the inspection, examination room, and outer curtain.

To the north of Feihong Bridge is the place where Cai Jing and other examiners are located. They are responsible for grading papers and ranking candidates. The chief examiner and deputy examiner are in charge.

One of the bottom lines of the Gongyuan is that the inner curtain officials are not allowed to go to the north of the bridge, and the outer curtain officials are not allowed to go to the south of the bridge, and the examination and marking must be kept absolutely separate.

So it is impossible for Cai Jing to come to the southern examination room.

At this time, the principal and deputy Zhi Gongju are the chief supervisor and the second supervisor of the examination room, and they say what they say in the examination room.

And these two official positions are also particular, because the examination is presided over by the Ministry of Rites, so the Minister of the Ministry of Rites has always served as the Zhigong Jue, and the Deputy Zhigong Ju has been held by the Right Minister of the Rites.

Outside, Wang Mang, Minister of Rites, is Song Qiaonian's direct superior. In the examination room, Song Qiaonian is Wang Mang's deputy, so he can't do anything to Wang Mang at all.

Seeing Wang Mang walked through another row of houses and continued to walk forward, Song Qiaonian became more and more anxious.

Suddenly, a burst of snoring came to everyone's ears.

Wang Mang paused, then his pace was a little faster, and all the outer curtain officials also hurriedly followed him.

After a while, everyone came to a house.

This place is different from the houses where there are candles around and fighting with lamps. The owner of the house here just lights a small stove and puts it by his feet, while he is lying on two wooden boards put together and snoring loudly.

Wang Mang, as Zhi Gongju, has also presided over several examinations. Such a situation is common in previous examinations, but it is the first time in this examination.

You must know that the other candidates are not without sleep, but most of them are lying on the mattress thinking about the exam questions, tossing and turning.

Only this player has already fallen asleep soundly!

Song Qiaonian quietly breathed a sigh of relief, it can be regarded as a normal candidate, and there should be more candidates like this.

Wang Mang frowned slightly, and looked inside, only to find that the examinee's head was facing inward, and the room was pitch black, making it difficult to see his face clearly. It has never been taken down at all, and people don't know his identity at all.

Wang Mang shook his head with a smile, and continued to walk forward.

Those who can be admitted to Juren and have the confidence to take part in the examination are all essay masters who are one in a million. They have passed countless tests and passed countless cards before.

Everyone has a wealth of experience and has their own unique exam strategies. Those who sleep tonight will not necessarily write worse articles than those who burn the lights at night.

A group of officials followed him and continued to walk forward without disturbing the sleeping examinee.

But if they can stop for a while and let people go to the whitewashed wall to check the quota, they will find that this sleepy candidate is Mr. Zhuge Liang, Mr. Wolong who has recently moved the capital...

(End of this chapter)