At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the competition for the deer in the world

Chapter 170 The Confucianism of the Imperial Examination

Chapter 170 The First Confucianism of the Imperial Examination

The sky in Sizhou City is slightly bright, and the streets are already crowded with people.

Today is the day of the Confucianism assessment. Although the first Confucianism session started at Sishi, many people woke up early.

These people, except for the scholars who participated in the Confucianism subject assessment of Sizhou City's imperial examination today, are all vendors who set up various services around these scholars.

Some people are dedicated to guide scholars, and each person charges five Wen at a time.For example, the location of the examination room in Sizhou City, where is it? Many scholars came to Sizhou City from other places to take the exam, and they are not familiar with the local area of ​​Sizhou City. .

Some people sell pens, inks, and inkstones to scholars, and others sell breakfasts for scholars. There are so many kinds of breakfasts, it is dazzling.

The examination room was set up at a distance of about [-] steps from Yuanmen. This place was surrounded by Sizhou Army soldiers three times inside and three times outside.

The surrounding area occupies a very large area. This place was originally a school ground, but now it is simply arranged as an examination room for scholars to participate in the imperial examination.

The examination room can accommodate at least thousands of people at the same time.

Although there is still an hour before the examination room, the outside of the examination room has already been surrounded.

If it weren't for those Sizhou Army soldiers standing there with a stern face, giving people a great deterrent, I am afraid that some of these people who are brave enough will dare to break in.

Many people saw that the time for the exam was still early, so they took out the four books and five classics, and embraced the Buddha's feet at the door.

There were also people who were confident, and glanced at these Sizhou Army soldiers, looking at the location of the examination room.

The layout of the examination room is also extremely simple.

All you can see are small desks, and there is a short pier under the desk for people to sit on.

There are three steps between desks and desks.

Three blank sheets of paper had already been placed on each desk, and a small square of paper was pasted on the upper left corner of each desk. Due to the distance, it was impossible to see what was written on the square paper.

What puzzled these scholars was that at the entrance of the examination room, on the left and right sides, there were two large boxes. The boxes were open and contained nothing.

They wondered what the empty box was for.

What confuses them even more is that there is actually a big sign in the middle of the entrance of the examination room, on which it says "Where to collect the test admission number" in big characters, and there is a big box next to the sign, but The box was tightly closed, and there were a few brave soldiers with long knives guarding it, with extremely sharp eyes.

On the left side of the entrance of the examination room, a few steps forward, there is a scribe sitting in front of a large case, and a soldier on the left of the large case is holding a large wooden sign with both hands, and the sign says 'check information office' .

As for the big case, there are full files.

The scholars present, even those holding books, were attracted by what they saw.

They were all curious about the layout of the examination room.

Driven by this curiosity, some daring scholars approached the scribes.

This scribe was none other than Ke Shancai who had been crazily flattering Cheng De before.

Cheng De heard Jin Yiwei say that after Ke Shancai came to Sizhou City, he lingered in Goulan all day long, and he was very unrestrained every day.Thinking about the fact that I have been so busy in the past few days that I have not touched the ground every day, and the other officials of the Sizhou Army are also busy, but this Ke Shancai is living a happy life every day, so Cheng De played the pretense of training Ke Shancai's ability, So he was sent over to take charge of checking candidates' information.

Ke Shancai's eyes were a little distracted, and the faces of Huakui still appeared in his mind.

For Ke Shancai, Sizhou City is a paradise on earth.

Especially the Goulan land here is rare in his life, and in his opinion, it can be regarded as the best in the world.

Especially those endless means that almost emptied his waist, as well as the money he had accumulated over the years.

"Dare to ask this lord, can you answer some doubts for the students and others?"

The oiran's face quickly disappeared from Ke Shancai's mind, and his eyes refocused on the scholars in front of him.

The leading scholars were quite organized in terms of clothing and manners, which aroused Ke Shancai's interest.

Regarding this scholar's doubts, Ke Shancai didn't even think about hiding it, so he replied with a smile: "What doubts do you have?"

The leading scholars, including the scholars behind them, and the scholars not far away, all held their breaths at this moment.

"This is where the information is checked, and there is also a place where you can get the test admission number."

Hearing the scholar's words, he paused obviously, and turned his eyes to himself. Ke Shancai squinted his eyes, glanced slightly at the eyes of the scholars who cast him around, and replied with a pleasant face: "This check information department , Naturally, it literally means to check the information, to prevent someone from taking the exam for you. We have collected the information of you scholars as early as when you signed up. Of course, this also includes your appearance and place of origin. Therefore, I would like to advise those present here not to be lucky. Otherwise, if it is found out, not only the person who was tested for but also the person who took the test will not be able to participate in Sizhou within three generations. The imperial examination under the military rule. Moreover, it will be published in the "Sizhou Daily", and the reputation may be widely spread."

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of several of the scholars who were near here changed drastically on the spot, and their faces turned pale.

Ke Shancai continued: "After checking the information and there is no problem, the examinee can go to the place where the admission ticket number is obtained to get the admission ticket number. With the admission ticket number, the candidate sits in the designated position under the leadership of the invigilating soldiers in the examination room. On the upper left corner is the admission ticket number that each of you candidates received. How do you get the admission ticket number? It is mainly drawn from the closed box in a way similar to lottery."

The scholars present nodded their heads, expressing their understanding.

Suddenly, a scholar said: "Dare to ask my lord, what is the use of the empty boxes on the left and right sides of the entrance of the examination room?"

Ke Shancai saw that other people present also looked at him, so he replied with a smile: "After you get your test admission number, you will naturally have to go through the entrance. But before you pass by the entrance, I will naturally search you briefly. To prevent people from carrying cheat sheets or books or interlayers. We have to check your pens, inks and inkstones before entering the examination room."

"I see."

As soon as the scholars present heard Ke Shancai's explanation, they understood the usefulness of these things.

"Dare to ask my lord, I looked in from here, it seems that there are blank papers on every desk, are those papers used for answering?"

Hearing a question from a scholar present, Ke Shancai replied with a smile: "Of course. There are three blank sheets of paper on each desk, one for making drafts, and one for your official answering and handing in examination papers. There is also a backup sheet in case you don’t answer enough questions or the answer paper is damaged during the answering process.”

The scholars present secretly praised this thoughtful consideration.

Afterwards, the scholars present waited patiently outside the examination room, and calmed down and continued to silently recite the relevant content of the Four Books and Five Classics.

In a blink of an eye, half an hour passed.

At this moment, Ke Shancai started to stand up, looked towards the scholars, and said, "All candidates for the imperial examination have come to my side to line up, and now we will check your information."

As soon as Ke Shancai's words fell, the candidates present came to line up in front of Ke Shancai's big case.

At the same time, on the left and right sides, there are ten Sizhou army soldiers maintaining the order of the queue.

Ke Shancai checked the candidates' information one by one at an extremely fast speed.

After checking the candidates' information, the candidates successfully came to the place where the test admission number was collected, and each took out a piece of paper rolled into the shape of a small stick from the box.

After opening the note, he went to the entrance of the examination room and conducted a body search.

The books and cheat sheets carried by the candidates seemed to be transparent in front of these extremely experienced soldiers.

After all, these people have been trained by Cheng De himself. If they don't do well, they will be locked up in a small black room.

That's why these soldiers of the Sizhou Army who conducted the search performed so amazingly.

For those candidates whose books or cheat sheets were searched out, the soldiers of the Sizhou Army did not make things difficult for them, but let them enter the examination room after confirming that there was no problem.

suddenly.

Something happened at Ke Shancai's verification information office.

"name?"

"Li Jie."

"Nation?"

"Dingyuan people?"

"Parent's name?"

"this."

"Come on, take this person down." Ke Shancai asked someone to take the person in front of him who didn't even know the names of his parents. Naturally, Jin Yiwei would help to deal with it later. Some information came, and this person's name will also appear in the "Sizhou Daily".

Hearing this, his face turned pale, and he quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "My lord, I don't dare to do it anymore, please forgive me."

Ke Shancai was unmoved, and replied calmly: "Good words are hard to persuade, you damn ghost! I have already stated this matter, but you have to try your own way. It is not up to me whether you will be spared or not. Naturally, someone will have a hard time with you." Calculated."

After all, at this moment, two Jin Yiwei came over and took this person away.

This scene changed the faces of several candidates present who wanted to take chances.

They quietly left the examination room at the same time.

After nearly half an hour passed, the candidates were already sitting on the short pier in the examination room.

Ke Shancai counted the information of the candidates who participated in the Confucianism examination: 73 candidates should have attended, 960 actually attended, 30 substitute candidates, and 83 absent candidates.

After counting, Ke Shancai just raised his eyes at this moment, and found Liu Bowen and Xu Da, behind Xu Da was a group of soldiers, carrying several large boxes.

Seeing this, Ke Shancai bowed to Liu Bowen and nodded to Xu Da.

After Liu Bowen nodded in response, he led Xu Da and his party into the examination room.

Liu Bowen went straight to the candidates present. He took a look and found that every five candidates were guarded by two soldiers from the Sizhou Army. He felt a little relieved.

Then, Liu Bowen opened his mouth and said: "I am Liu Bowen, the chief examiner of the Confucianism Examination. The time for answering the exam is two hours. When the two hours are up, candidates must stop answering, and those who violate the test paper will be invalid. It will be cancelled. Every candidate, don’t forget to write your name and your own test number on your test paper. After the results are released, they will be displayed with the test number.”

Before Liu Bowen said it, the soldiers guarding the examination in the examination room transmitted Liu Bowen's words to the ears of every candidate.

"Start distributing the test questions now." After Liu Bowen finished speaking, he signaled Xu Da to distribute the test questions to the examinees.

After Xu Daren opened the box, there were stacks of thick papers stacked in the box.

These papers are the test papers for the candidates.

Afterwards, Xu Da sent people to distribute these test questions one by one.

Soon, all the examinees present got a long sheet of test questions, so densely packed that it made one's scalp tingle.

Liu Bowen sat next to the big case in front of all the candidates for a while, then walked down and began to patrol the examination room.

In this exam, the content of the Four Books and Five Classics was tested. There were thirty silent writing questions, thirty filling-in-the-blank questions, ten sorting questions, ten reasoning questions, and thirty interpretation questions.

The way these questions are arranged is also arranged by the chief bookkeepers of various ministries after asking the generals.

After Liu Bowen inspected the examination room, he sat back next to the big case, holding a blank test question in his hand.

This blank test question is just one drawn from the test questions of the absent candidates.

Liu Bowen wanted to see how difficult the exam questions were.

So, Liu Bowen looked at the first question in turn.

The first question: silently write a chapter of "The Great Learning".

Question 1: Write Chapter [-] of the biography of "University" silently.

No.80 Question: What do you mean when a gentleman stays away from the kitchen?
Question [-]: Mencius said: "One cannot be shameless, the shame of being shameless, ___".

After Liu Bowen read them all, he found that he was still unsure about how many questions, so he decided to go back and look through the books to consolidate after the invigilation.

However, according to Liu Bowen, the exam questions are too simple.

He raised his head and looked at the candidates present, only to find that many of them were scratching their heads and their brows were frowning. He couldn't help being stunned.

This exam shouldn't be that difficult, right?

Or are these people mediocre?
Time passed extremely fast.

This is especially true for these candidates.

In the blink of an eye, two hours arrived.

Liu Bowen stood up at the right time and said, "All candidates, stand up and stop answering questions!"

A soldier nearby shouted, "All candidates, stand up and stop answering questions!"

Candidates present listened to the words and stood up according to Liu Bowen's words. No one dared to challenge the rules of the examination room.

Liu Bowen gave Xu Da a look, and Xu Da immediately led people to sort the examination papers and drafts of all the candidates present and put them into boxes.

After Xu Da and his group collected the answer sheets from all the candidates in the examination room, Liu Bowen said, "All candidates, you can leave the examination room."

The Sizhou Army soldiers nearby also shouted: "All candidates, you can leave the examination room!"

Candidates present walked out of the examination room one by one. The expressions of each candidate were different. Some were confident, some were downcast, some looked indifferent, and some answered the answers in small groups.
(End of this chapter)

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