Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

To be honest, Su Mu was very satisfied with such days.There are few things close to home, the salary is not high, and the most important thing is that there is no need to bear any responsibility.

On weekdays, he can play with Emperor Zhengde in Xiyuan again, but after a few months, his body is much stronger than before.

Recalling the worrying about gains and losses during the test, and recalling that I was scared to sleep and eat because I was afraid of crashing, it suddenly seemed like a big dream.

There was nothing wrong with the Hanlin Academy, Su Mu went there every day to order rivets, and sometimes he couldn't go there for ten days and a half months because of delays due to official business.

Later, the Hanlin Academy simply let Su Mu stay in Xiyuan and be on duty in the cabinet.Anyway, Yang Tinghe, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, stayed there all year round, and the main responsibility of the Imperial Academy's editors was to assist the cabinet in doing things.

Compared with Su Mu, the No. [-] Scholar, who was leisurely, Kang Hai, who was second in the list, seemed not to be reused. He had never been called to complain by the cabinet, and he only dealt with some trivial daily affairs on weekdays.It's not that the cabinet has any prejudice against him. It's that although Kang Bianxiu is well-known in the literary world and has a high seniority, he is just a nerd and seems to be unreliable in his work.

After he messed up a few things, the cabinet didn't bother him much anymore.

Seeing that this good friend didn't seem to be doing well, Su Mu was also worried for him.Although there is a saying about the compilation and editing of the Imperial Academy, it is just a saying, and it only means that you have a higher starting point than others.But if you don't understand daily affairs, you may not be able to use it in the future.Su Mu vaguely remembered that during the orthodox period, there was a Tanhualang who failed in politics because of his political talents. After a few years in the Imperial Academy, he spent his whole life in the Six Departments.

In this regard, Su Mu is also helpless.The ancients learned and traveled to become an official, but not everyone is suitable for politics.In comparison, Kang Hai is more suitable to be a pure scholar, which is helpless.

In fact, there are many people in the Hanlin Academy. There are 74 Shuji scholars selected for this issue, plus bachelors, editors, and editors, there are hundreds of them.There are only a few people who can go in and out of Xiyuan freely, and only a few people, Yang Tinghe and Su Mu, have heard about the confidentiality.

Yang Tinghe's qualifications are there, and he will be able to become a cabinet in the past few years. As for Su Mu, he may be trained as a future cabinet minister. What is lacking now is experience in local politics.

However, the current Su Mu has not realized that he still lacks such qualifications on the way to join the cabinet.

Editor Su had a good life recently, and the people from the Imperial Academy didn't bother him. Anyway, if there was something in the courtyard, Yang Tinghe would tell him directly.

Although Lao Yang valued Su Mu's talent, he regarded him as his most proud student.But the two of them didn't talk much on weekdays. When Emperor Zhengde was the prince, they had a very unpleasant fight.

On this day, Yang Tinghe met Su Mu and said, "Su Mu, go to the courtyard tomorrow."

"Yes, can I ask you something?" Su Mu nodded and asked.

Yang Tinghe: "It's already autumn, and the new year will be two months away. The year after next will be the competition period, so next year, all provinces will hold the provincial examination. According to the rules of the imperial examination, the main examiners of the provincial examinations in each province must come from Hanlin. The courtyard sent out. Therefore, the courtyard will hold an exam, and the official recommended you, go and take it!"

"Bad in the exam?" Su Mu was taken aback: "It's only tomorrow, isn't it too hasty?"

The so-called bad exam, just now Yang Tinghe also made it clear, is to select the chief examiner of a province's rural exam in the Hanlin Academy.

This is a beautiful job, and the most direct thing is huge economic benefits.

After the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty, candidates would give gifts to the chief examiner.Moreover, there are certain rules.For example, in the examination room of the township examination, the red envelopes given to the examiners by Chinese-style newcomers are generally 20 taels and 30 taels. If you have a good family, you can also get 50 taels.There are at least [-] applicants for the township examination in a province, and it is possible for six or seven hundred candidates to get the honor in the end depending on the province.As for remote areas, there are always a few.

After a trip to the township examination, an examiner can collect several thousand or even tens of thousands of taels of silver in light of gifts.

Moreover, according to the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, this is just a normal exchange of favors, not a bribe.

The salary of the people in the Hanlin Academy is extremely low. For a regular seventh-rank editor like Su Mu, it is only three taels of silver per month, and a small half is food and precious banknotes like waste paper.

Going out of Beijing to local provinces is simply an opportunity for wealth for the people of the Imperial Academy.As long as you become an examiner, it is enough for ordinary people to eat for a lifetime.For example, as long as you become the chief examiner of the previous session, you will immediately have a net worth of several million yuan.

This is still the first, and the second is to be the chief examiner of the previous Grand Master, and to admit hundreds of candidates.These people are all qualified to be officials directly. In the future, it is not certain that they will be able to win Jinshi, or even reach the high position of a feudal official.But no matter what their status will be in the future, when they see you, they have to respectfully call out "Teacher!"

This is a strong network of contacts, and he can easily establish his own influence among scholars.

However, there were only thirteen chief envoys in the Ming Dynasty, plus the two capitals, and the provincial examination was once every three years.

Because of such benefits, the Hanlin Academy has always been fighting for the position of the great master in the provincial and township examinations.

Later, seeing that the disturbance was really outrageous, the imperial court came up with a policy.First of all, every bachelor, editor, and editor of the Imperial Academy has only one chance to go to the local government to preside over the provincial examination once in a lifetime.Secondly, if you want to get this job, you have to take an exam and choose the best.

Su Mu entered the Hanlin Academy this year, so he is naturally qualified to take the exam.

Yang Tinghe also informed Su Mu as a matter of routine, before turning around and leaving without waiting for him to ask any more questions.

Su Mu didn't even think about being an examiner in the past. First of all, he was not short of money, so he didn't pay much attention to the tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Moreover, he felt that it was not the time for him to leave Beijing.I haven't stayed in the capital for more than a year, far away from the center, and now I finally got a chance to drive at any time.The most important thing now is to get familiar with government affairs as soon as possible. There is a lot to learn.Going down to be the chief examiner may be able to recruit a large number of students, but the loss outweighs the gain.

Besides, he was also somewhat reluctant to part with his beautiful wife and concubines.Now, Xiaodie is also included in his room.The three wives have only been together for four months, and it is the honeymoon period, so naturally they don't want to leave home.

Fortunately, going out of Beijing to be the chief examiner requires an exam. Su Mu decided to take the exam casually tomorrow. He wrote a few random articles, so he naturally failed the exam.

Of course, you can't really write indiscriminately, Su Mu is still holding the title of the No. [-] Scholar now, and the poor writing of the article will also lose his reputation.

The exam on the second day is actually very simple, that is, a stereotyped essay, a policy question, and a test post poem.

Without the pressure of fame and fame, Su Mu wrote it rashly, and it feels very good.

Of course, Su Mu didn't think it was possible to get into the top 100 out of more than [-] people.

My real level is probably ranked in the sixty or seventy in the Hanlin Academy.

After the exam, the paper was reviewed for five days, but he won.