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Chapter 467 Taking the Examination

Although the Imperial College of the Ming Dynasty was only a trial operation, it basically only reformed the education model and added new subjects such as calendar astronomy and astronomy.

Calendar astronomy, foreign vassal states, and the sciences newly named by the emperor have all been uniformly called new sciences by civilian scholars, and even the Propaganda Department has acquiesced in this statement.

Of course, regardless of the school of thought, the original model of the Imperial College has not changed much. If a graduate of the Imperial College wants to become an official, there is nothing more than the same old four-step ax... screening, calendaring, imperial examination and assigning academic officials.

The first two are relatively friendly, especially the first one which is a direct promotion. From the early Ming Dynasty to the present, there are many supervisors who have become officials through the screening system and have become third-grade officials.

The calendar system is slightly inferior, but it can also be regarded as a guaranteed distribution, similar to the Hanlin Academy. It is just that you have to intern in the six yamen for one and a half years before you can be released as an official.

As the name suggests, assigning academic officers generally means that older supervisors who have been unable to graduate for a long time and cannot be expelled will be kicked out to work as teachers.

However, since the last imperial examination, Zhu Yijiong has restructured the Imperial College and directly set a three-year academic system. Students must graduate after three years. Those who cannot graduate will directly be thrown into local government education teachers.

This is only the initial stage. In order to promote the new learning, it will definitely have to be revised after a few years when the new learning has completely taken root.

The imperial examination itself is one of the ways for the Imperial College students to enter officialdom. Pu Zheng and Ruan Fuyue, the two Korean and Annan prison students, were obviously deceived by the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers.

Ruan Fuyue doesn't know, but Pu Zheng should already know. He didn't know before, and he should know now, but he doesn't care. He just wants to do everything he can so that he can continue to stay in Nanjing of the Ming Dynasty and become a master.

With the examination certificate specially issued by the emperor, Pu Zheng was treated the same as other candidates. He was first identified and then entered the inspection room and took off his clothes for inspection.

Not only do you have to strip naked for the examination, but you also have to dig out the anus... which is the understanding of the anus, because there have been cases in the past where some people made the answers to the exam questions into wax pills and hid them in the buttocks. There are various methods of fraud and it is difficult to prevent them.

This kind of inspection method may be disrespectful in future generations, but it is necessary at this time.

Zhu Yijiong didn’t even try to make any changes. Old habits are just old habits!

And even so, there are still ways to cheat. In history, there was an outstanding person who spent a lot of money to open all the joints, and then hired a talented person to help him take the exam. In the end, it was revealed that this person was mentally ill.

Before the imperial examination, I wanted to do it myself, but then I saw the test questions given by the emperor... I was confused!
After a troublesome inspection, the candidates were finally able to enter the examination room Gongyuan.

Pu Zheng took his exam number and looked for his seat. After searching for a long time, he found a corner seat.This was really not Zhu Yijiong’s intention, because the test numbers were randomly selected without looking at the names.

But it doesn't matter, because the Ming Dynasty selected talents based on scientific examinations, so since the last scientific examination, Nanjing Gongyuan has been arranged to take care of it. It will definitely not be like before, when it was unlucky to assign a rubbish examination number, which was leakage and It's a spider web or something.

Wu Jingzi was among them this time, and the exam number he was assigned was very close to Pu Zheng. It would have been a rubbish exam number for the previous government.At this moment, his face was full of joy: "The new Ming Dynasty really treats scholars like me preferentially."

Pu Zheng had already learned about China and North Korea, and said with a smile: "Brother, what I am saying is that since our Ming Dynasty is the Kingdom of Heaven, Your Majesty is also the Holy Lord and Mingjun."

"Dangdangdang!"

Before the two could continue chatting, a supervisor from the examination room came out and beat the gong and shouted: "Attention, candidates, the examination will start in half an hour. Please stay in the examination room. No more walking around or making loud noises!"

Wu Jingzi, Pu Zheng and other candidates quickly entered their respective exam numbers and began to prepare for the exam.

After waiting for less than half an hour, the test questions were finally handed out.

This year's examination will be the same as in previous years, with a total of three examinations lasting for nine days. Candidates and examiners are not allowed to enter the examination room during this period, and it is completely closed management.

As for the examination questions, they included not only key subjects such as calendar mathematics and astronomy, but also the sciences newly established by the emperor.

Because science is new, it does not involve many points, and its score is also lower, but no matter how low it is, it actually accounts for some points.

From this point alone, the Imperial College invigilators took advantage, because the Imperial College was by far the most exposed to science.

Even Dean Huang Wu came to teach a few classes in person despite his busy schedule. Most of the lectures were in vernacular and mechanical structures, which are also the current science test topics.

However, there were very few invigilators for the Imperial Examination, less than one-tenth of the national examination, and it did not have much impact on the entire imperial examination. If it did have an impact, Zhu Yijiong would be more happy.The policy discussion of the National Examination was moved to the last session. Compared with the Provincial Examination, the policy discussion of the National Examination was not only compressed again, but also the questions involved in the examination gradually went beyond the outline.

It was almost time to catch up with the imperial examination questions of previous years. Many candidates had to take the exam for six consecutive days. Although the Gongyuan provided charcoal fires and other conveniences to avoid being hungry and cold, the mental loss could not be made up.

In this way, when they are exhausted, many candidates are overwhelmed when they see the policy questions, which are so serious that they are completely different from what they were tested in the previous six days.

After the nine-day exam, the candidates were released from the Gongyuan. Many of them were lost and looked haggard.

Not all of them were affected by the last policy exam, most of them were taken in the nine-day closed "college entrance exam".

Candidates are released from Gongyuan and can do whatever they are supposed to do, but there is one thing: they are not allowed to visit the teacher again!
The practice of paying homage to the master was carried forward from the Ming Dynasty to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It also spread to the officialdom and became a power and money transaction between officials of all sizes.

The examination is over and the results will be released half a month later.

Because a new score system was used this time, not only the candidates were not used to it, but it was also more troublesome for the examiners to mark the papers. The key is not to make mistakes. If they make mistakes, they will not be able to live with it.

The day the results were released.

Pu Zheng just stood under the list, looking from the back to the front, and within a few glances he saw himself: "I won, I won, 260 and eighth."

260 eight people. In this imperial examination, the emperor's imperial pen only approved 270 three people's Jinshi places. This is the beginning of selection. There is no shortage of Jinshi for high-level bureaucrats.

Just from Pu Zheng's ranking, we can tell that this is this guy's true ability.

Ruan Fuyue, who came with him, was not so lucky. When he saw the two names from back to front along the list, he stopped looking.He is still self-aware that he will never get that high in the exam, unless the emperor opens a back door for him, but this is impossible.

Not only were they watching, Wu Jingzi was watching too.

Wu Jingzi was very confident. Others were going from back to front. He went from front to back. He didn’t look at it a few times before he showed a look of pity: "There are only nineteen? Not even the top ten. Sure enough, there are so many talented people in the world. I am still too confident." ”

Some are happy and some are sad. Wu Jingzi is the winner, so he is naturally happy.There were many others who didn't win, and either left with a wry smile, or just burst into tears.

Most of those who cried loudly could tell by looking at their age that they were at least 30 years old, and they came to take the exam because of their age.Therefore, this is also their only chance to take the examination. After three years, they will really pass the imperial examination age stipulated by the emperor, and they can only enter the official position as a juren.

Moreover, the candidates who entered the official ranks this year were not only of a lower grade than the last time, but they could only be allocated to those newly occupied places. There was no other reason than that there was a shortage of officials in the newly occupied places.

However, these have nothing to do with Zhu Yijiong.

Because many of these people are those who stayed from the last scientific examination and were unwilling to start from the grassroots level.

As a result, he failed again this time. Not only did he lose the opportunity to take the exam in the future, but the starting point for recruiting people into official positions was also lower.

To sum up, in two words, you deserve it!
It's just that he is too ambitious and has high vision but low hand. He has delayed his official career purely by himself.

It has been more than seven years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and various official selection systems have begun to be gradually standardized. It is definitely impossible to promote at a high speed like before. Everything must be based on political performance and climb up step by step.

This year's competition to catch a son-in-law is more lively than in previous years, because fewer Jinshi have been admitted.

With so many wolves and so little meat, even Pu Zheng, a tribute scholar who ranked sixth in the exam, was questioned.

However, after learning that this guy was from North Korea, the businessman who handed over the name card quickly took it back.

　So how did the female consort pass the inspection?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)