Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

In fact, although Su Mu valued Xie Ranran, he wanted to give him a good future.

But as an examiner, some things are inconvenient to do.Besides, the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination system was perfect, and almost all the loopholes were plugged, which he couldn't imagine.

In fact, as a modern person, he personally thinks that his future is bright now, and his status is quite different from that at the beginning of time travel.In many cases, it is better to follow the procedures, so why bother to get yourself into trouble.

Xie Tianran really couldn't hit it, and it was also his bad luck.

It is not a problem for me to go out and make money in the future. If I want to support Xie Ziran, there are many ways.

The last time he repelled the attack of the Tatars, Su Mu had already written a memorial and returned to the court to thank Nature for his merits. In a few days, the court will naturally reward him.

Soon, the nine-day and ten-night exam was finally over, and the gates were opened to release people. Thousands of examinees who had been imprisoned for many days were stunned by the exam. .

The time has come to September, although the midsummer has passed, but Qiuhu's residual power has been vented enough in these nine days.

The examination room of the Gong Yuan has become even hotter these days, and some candidates even suffered from heatstroke.

The clothes on their bodies have been soaked in sweat countless times, and almost everyone's long gowns are covered with white salt flowers.The entire examination room was shrouded in a smell of sweat, no different from a barn.

At this moment, the most important thing is to go home and take a shower.

However, this is only limited to candidates, Su Mu and the others have to work hard in the examination room for a few days, and they can only go home after the results are released.

Soon, the outer curtain officer delivered the test paper.Su Mu and Master Shi organized the examiners in the eighteen rooms to divide the papers.

The eighteenth room examiner acted quickly, and on the second day, he submitted the recommended Zhu Juan, and asked two examiners to review it.

Su Mu is physically strong, and unlike the examinees, as an examiner, he has to enter the examination room in advance.Therefore, the number of days exposed to heat is much longer than that of candidates.

These days, I have nothing to do in the tribute courtyard, chatting and farting with Mr. Shi and the governor all day long. I feel that I have talked more in the past half a month than I have in my whole life, and I have long lost my energy.

For him, as long as the scholars in the imperial examination room are recommended, they are all top students, and it is impossible to tell who is strong and who is weak.

Whoever gets first and who gets second has nothing to do with him.

When the time comes, randomly find a few papers that you can see well and order.

However, after reviewing the papers, Su Mu took a deep breath. Among the hundreds of recommended papers, more than 20 articles contained the three words "night", "moon" and "shadow". Words, as if there is a tacit understanding.

After a closer look, these more than 20 papers were all written by two recommenders.

This has to make Su Mu more vigilant, he has become more and more calm in his behavior and actions in the past year.He didn't order any clothes at the moment, so he ordered someone to find the original papers of these more than 20 candidates.

Just looking at it, it turns out that these three words were published in the original volume, all embedded in the article, and the words are written in larger size, which is very eye-catching.

"Although I don't really want to be nosy, but doing so is too blatant. It's okay if nothing happens. If something happens, I, Su Mu, will inevitably be involved, and the influence will not be good."

Su Mu felt slightly annoyed, and wanted to discard the twenty or so papers and throw them into the wastebasket.

At this time, the governor of Shaanxi ran over to chat with him with a friendly face, and talked about him from left to right, saying that if this person is an official, he may only have one chance to be a great master in his life.Naturally, one should carefully select a few talents to be one's own disciples, and the Juren sent out by hand, if they have a future in the future, they will also be honored as great masters.

Sending out a poor family scholar, who will be awarded a Jinshi in the future, of course, even the master will be famous for a while.But the imperial examination is only the first step in matters in the officialdom.When I become an official, I don't have to rely on my classmates and teachers.

Reading is another big money-consuming thing, and the signs of Shangpin Wu's poor family are getting more and more serious.

It is also frustrating!

……

For a big official in the frontier to say such a thing, Su Mu couldn't help but give him face.

In fact, what the governor of Shaanxi said was very explicit.First of all, if a person wants to study and make progress, he must have money. Without money, it is impossible to support you all the way through the exam, and finally become a Jinshi and become an official.Therefore, in the end, most of the Jinshi are the children of wealthy families.As for scholars from poor families, most of them choose to make a fortune as gentry in the countryside after changing their lives, or to become officials.They will not be of much help to you as a great master in the future. It is better to recruit a few wealthy scholars, which can be regarded as cultivating popularity and connections for you, a great master.

And behind these wealthy children, who is not standing with a group of classmates, the same year and the teacher, this is a proper ruling class, if they take them, wouldn't it be good for everyone to form a good relationship?

……

No need to ask, these more than 20 papers must be the children of prominent figures in Shaanxi Province.

Su Mu thought for a moment, then put the paper back silently, pretending he didn't see anything.

In the officialdom, there are some things that have to pretend to be deaf and blind, as long as it does not violate the general principle.

From Su Mu's point of view, it is acceptable to enroll more than 20 children from wealthy families, and the proportion of more than 100 candidates is not high, so it is also acceptable.

Su Mu didn't say a word, and Mr. Shi was an old fool, so naturally he didn't talk nonsense.

Seeing his greedy appearance before, Su Mu felt that this guy must have benefited from Xi'an gentry.

Who cares, the sky is falling and there is a tall man holding it up.He is of the third rank, but I, Su Mu, am only of the seventh rank, and let him go.

The recommended test papers are fine, and the next step is the joint review, which is a key link.A pile of papers, read in turn, the examiner used a pen to mark five symbols of circle, horizontal, vertical, triangle, and difference according to his own preferences, and then screened them again according to the results, and finally handed them over to the two main examiners to determine the quota for the Jinke Township Examination.

In the end, it was up to the two examiners to decide who to take and who not to take, and to rank.

So, in front of the inspector, Governor of Shaanxi, and all the inner and outer curtain officials and fellow examiners, Su Mu and Mr. Shi selected [-] papers according to their rankings. Naturally, the [-] papers with joints were also among them. , the rankings, they are all assigned a little later, and they don't pay attention.

Su Mu's eyes were sharp, and it was obvious that all the examiners were relaxed.I also sighed in my heart: These Guanzhong people were at the forefront of the Ming Dynasty's war, and they were much more courageous than others when they became officials! ,

For this exam, Shaanxi Province will take [-] places.

Su Mu stopped and said that he didn't want to choose, so he just picked 29 picks from the papers that were brushed down.

Picking up relics is also the last rule of the examination room, and now, after another person has selected a hundred copies, he can still come up with a glance.

Su Mu picked up the paper and read it carefully. After reading it for a long time, he suddenly found that the writing of a paper was not bad, and it was within the range of passing or not.Among them, the word "sunlight is dim" is actually embedded, which seems a bit dazzling and abrupt.

His eyelids twitched, he immediately paid attention, read it several times, and saw the words "red flag scroll" in the test post poem.

Suddenly there was a thrill in my heart:

The desert is dusty and the sun is dim.

The red flag was half rolled out of the gate.

The former army fought against Taohe at night.

Tuyuhun has been captured alive.

……

Isn't this the paper written by Xie Junfu?

What a coincidence, this time, it's hard not to give him this favor.

However, Xie Ranran had the grace to save his life after all.

Su Mu also admired this young man a little, and it would be a good thing if he could be a teacher and student with him.

Immediately, he kept the paper and randomly drew another 28 copies.

Said: "That's it, unpack and write the list!"

As soon as the seal was opened, the test paper was indeed Xie Ranran's, and finally won the No. 90 fourth place.

The other examiners were all focused on the twenty or so papers with joints, but they didn't notice Xie Ranran.

In the end, this rural examination came to a happy result.

Su Mu couldn't help sighing: It's too immoral, too immoderate!

I don't know if he is talking about others or himself.

On the sixth day of October, the list of Chinese-style newcomers for this phase of the Shaanxi Provincial Examination was released.

As soon as the list came out, the examiners were unlocked and released.Su Mu has lived in this tribute courtyard for a whole month, and now that the examination matters are over, it can be regarded as a long sigh of relief.

It can be said that he spent the hottest days in the three years of Zhengde in this Gongyuan.

The few sets of clothes I carried with me were already dirty, and I couldn't change the official uniform I was wearing.

Compared with the candidates, he, the chief examiner, was even more stinky.

After leaving the Gongyuan, Zhao Hulu and others who had been guarding the gate for a month quickly greeted him.

Zhao Hulu even had tears in his eyes: "My lord has suffered a lot for you this month, I see you are so tired that you have lost weight."

Su Mu stroked his already long beard and said with a smile: "You're so skinny, it's just that you worked harder in the last few days when reviewing papers. In the past ten or so days, you just ate and slept, and you got fatter after sleeping and eating. .Also, the body smells too bad, hurry up, go home and take a good bath."

Zhao Hulu heard what the old man said, so he hurriedly invited Su Mu into the sedan chair, and carried a cigarette back home.

When Su Mu first arrived in Xi'an, he first lived in a post house.After entering the Gongyuan, Zhao Hulu borrowed the yard of a big businessman. The place is spacious and the living conditions are very good.

After returning home, I soaked in the barrel for an afternoon beautifully, rubbing off several catties of old dirt on my body, and then I felt comfortable all over.

To be honest, the imperial examination system in the Ming Dynasty was so inhumane that people couldn't resist the heat alone.

It's strange to say that after resting at home for a day, the next day it started to rain continuously and the weather suddenly turned cold.It was about the cold air from Siberia moving southward, and the temperature suddenly dropped to around six or seven degrees, so winter clothes came in handy.

Come to think of it, it is now the first ten days of October.Converted to the Gregorian calendar, it is already mid-November, and it should be cold.

On the second day, the announcement was posted on the announcement pavilion outside the Gongyuan.According to Zhao Hulu who came back, candidates from the entire Shaanxi Province flocked to see the rankings like a tide.

"It's just like the one in the latrine..." Probably feeling that using maggots to describe a scholar is inappropriate, Zhao Hulu knew he had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly changed the topic to another: "That's crowded, the husbands are weak, and some people are weak. I couldn't stand being squeezed and fainted. Many shoes were dropped on the ground, and many people went to pick them up."

Speaking of the highlights, Zhao Hulu was beaming with joy: "Thousands of candidates, but only a hundred in the final Chinese class, and most of them are failures. Individual expressions are also different. Some of the candidates laughed and cried. However, the smiles accounted for The vast majority. Those who failed the rankings were young, so they sighed, packed their bags, and rescheduled to fight again. However, the older ones will be miserable."

"Some old scholars, whose hair and beard are all gray, saw that they failed, sat on the ground and cried loudly, saying, 'I have been taking the exam for 30 years.' It's so miserable!"

Su Mu suddenly felt a little sad for the old scholar who had never planned an interview. The imperial examinations are actually similar to the exams of later generations. There is a characteristic - bullying the old but not the young - that is, For things like exams, whether you are a civil servant or a certificate, you'd better take it all at once.Otherwise, once you procrastinate and pass a few exams, you will lose your temper.In addition, there are too many vulgar facts, and I can't calm down to study and prepare for the exam.The result is repeated trials and failures, a vicious circle.

Su Mu didn't bother to care about the list.Because, another letter from home has arrived.Then there is this month's Dibao, which is what Su Mu really cares about.