The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

On May [-]th of the seventh year of Jinghe, Emperor Jinghe appointed thirteen ministers as the examiners of the palace examination.

The so-called examiners, what they do is the work of the examiners, but because the palace examination is the emperor's main examination, they only assist the emperor in reading the papers, so they have no name as the main examiner.

Listening to it this way, do you feel that the style of the examiner seems not so high?As long as the academics are good enough, Hanlin can be competent? !
Haha, how is that possible!The imperial court stipulated that anyone who reads the papers should not be with the minister who is not in power.

Therefore, the officials who read the papers, that is, the ministers who read the papers, are mostly selected from the cabinet, the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Secretary, Dali Temple, and the Imperial Academy.

For example, this time, Emperor Jinghe chose the Crown Prince Taibao Minister of Officials Zhu Zan, Prince Shaobao Minister of Criminal Affairs Qin Ting, Minister of Rites He Benchu, Minister of Household An Suiyun, Minister of the Left Minister of the Ministry of War, and Minister of the Ministry of Industry Right Zhang Ruogui, Tongzheng Shi Tongzheng Shi Luo Yongke, Metropolitan Procuratorate Zuodu Yushi Yang Daren, Shaoqing of Taichang Temple and Bachelor of Imperial Academy Yan Qing, Minister of Dali Temple Chen Shile, Bachelor of Imperial Academy He Dengyun, University scholar Wen-based, And Yang Shouqiang, a bachelor, is the examiner.

Speaking of which, there are a total of 430 candidates who entered the palace examination this time, so they were distributed to [-] ministers who read the papers, and each of them had to read more than [-] papers, which was quite a heavy workload.

No, the ministers who moved into the outer garden of the imperial palace and waited after receiving the appointment also sighed with each other.

"When the late emperor was around, there were at least three hundred people in the general examination, but the number of ministers who read the papers was appointed by more than twenty people, and the number of answer papers that fell to each person was only fifteen or sixteen... Now, this task But double it, I'm afraid it won't be easy!" He Dengyun, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, whispered.

Zuodu Censor Yang Daren smiled and shook his head: "Although it has doubled, the time limit for reviewing papers is three days, which is okay."

University scholar Yang Shouqiang sneered: "It is said that it is three days, but we have to set aside time for the emperor to appoint the top three. It can be seen that more than [-] papers can be graded every day."

They said something to each other, and they looked a little ugly while they were talking. The Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Zhu Zan, frowned, and stopped talking: "The emperor's will is above. If you are dissatisfied, why don't you come to Lanzheng together?" Admonishment from the palace, no way, the emperor can make up for us with more than a dozen colleagues to read the papers together!"

When everyone asked him to say this, they immediately lowered their heads resentfully, and talked about other things in a haha.

Everyone didn't dare to continue complaining, and they didn't want to be silent, so when someone started talking about the candidates for the palace examination, the discussion gradually became heated.

Not long after, someone mentioned the popular candidate for the champion.

"I didn't expect that the champion this time could really be won by a girl!" Zhang Ruogui, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, sighed.

He doesn't think too much about women's scientific examinations. After all, his family only has one grandson, and there are more than a dozen granddaughters. The oldest of them is only twelve or thirteen years old. As far as it is concerned, it cannot be said to be a good thing.

But he has no objection, but it doesn't mean that others are happy to see this happen. For example, He Dengyun, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, is a conservative, and he dislikes girls competing for official careers with gentlemen.

"Some courtiers flirt with irregularities and are not fans of etiquette, justice, integrity and shame, shame on them!"

On the other hand, Yan Qing, who is also a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, smiled: "Brother He is exaggerating. Every time the list is published, the answer sheets of the top ones are posted and registered. Brother He has never seen it?!"

He Dengyun was dumbfounded, and gave him a slap in the face.

"My lords, there is no need to argue. The day after tomorrow will be the imperial examination, and we will know at that time. Why are you making a fuss now?" Yang Daren, the censor of Zuodu, was not as aggressive as usual, but smoothed things over with a smile.

Probably only for a short while, the atmosphere of the discussion became stagnant for two times, and the interest of the people to continue chatting was not high, so they simply found their seats, and read the books they had taken from the bookshelf before.

Those who had been talking hotly before quieted down, and most of the silent ministers Zhu Zan, Minister of Punishment Qin Ting, Minister of Rites He Benchu, and Minister of Household An Suiyun looked at each other, and they strolled in tacit understanding. The yard went.

"This time, your Majesty intends to promote women's imperial examinations. He prefers girls to compete, but he is much better than Lang Jun. Seeing five battles and five victories, I am afraid that the emperor has given him the title of number one scholar in his heart." Qin Zanchao, Minister of the Ministry of officials The colleague smiled, "Since the first and third names are appointed by the emperor, we should obey them."

Qin Ting, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, nodded: "Since Guan Guanyun has passed before, why did you obstruct it in the palace examination?"

After he finished speaking, his voice changed: "The answer sheet of the palace examination is only filled with names but not transcribed, but I don't know if the handwriting is easy to recognize."

He Ben, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, heard the two of them sing together, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "The notes of this year's candidates are exactly the same."

Not exactly the same!All of them were written exactly as they were printed.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help thinking, it seems that the candidates in the previous two or three classes were not like this!
It seems that at some point in time, the slogan "[The handwriting is the same for the common people and the rich and powerful, but the comparison of the marks is incomprehensible]" has spread among the students.

It is because of this slogan that the Ministry of Rites issued rules by the emperor's will, requiring that the rolled noodles must be clean, and the handwriting does not need to have personal characteristics.

As long as there are ink dots, wrinkles, etc. on the roll surface, and the handwriting and strokes are not horizontal or vertical, they will be discarded and not transcribed; as long as the verification officer finds that there is a violation of the regulations, all the marking officers will sit together.

Because of this rule, the first round of screening for all test papers is to remove all the illegal test papers in full view of the examiners, and then sign and approve all the test papers before starting the content screening.

Thinking of this, He Benchu, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, couldn't help sighing again: "The notes of the girl who won five yuan in a row are too unremarkable. If you take out a printed book at random, you can get it right. If you give her paper to the previous Look at her grading papers, I'm afraid they won't recognize her!"

He remembered that this girl was well-known in the dandies in the capital, and she was a flamboyant master. How could she be so cautious in the exam? !
But it's good, this will also help him avoid the accountability of several elders.

Thinking of this, he suddenly didn't know whether he should thank the person who proposed to strengthen the standard of handwriting, or thank the little girl for being upright.

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"Ah Choo! Ah Choo!" As soon as he entered the pavilion in the garden, Sheng Yuan sneezed twice.

"But did you catch a cold?" An Yu asked quickly.

Sheng Yuan shook his head: "That's not true, I feel like someone is muttering about me, and muttering twice!"

"Maybe the two of you are muttering about you in turn?" Lu Sheng, who was holding a book at the side, joked with a smile.

"Then I don't know!" Sheng Yuan shrugged and didn't care.

But she didn't care, but An Yu and Lu Sheng didn't dare to underestimate her, they pushed her to the front yard, and they had to ask the doctor to check her pulse.

"???" Sheng Yuan, who had just come out of the room, was suddenly stunned, she yelled with a face full of rejection, "Do you want to exaggerate like this!"