high official

Chapter 526

In order to prevent cheating, the examiners have to live in the tribute courtyard since they received the decree. The outer curtain officials can't go out until the exam is over. As for the inner curtain officials, they have to wait until the results are released before they can regain their freedom.

After coming out of Beiyuan, Wang Xian and all the curtain officials took a car to the Gongyuan located in the east of the city.On the carriage, there are civil officials who are co-examiners talking as if no one is around. Usually they are with the military officers. They talk more and are more polite. meaning.For example, the Gongyuan and the observatory stand opposite each other, which is the meaning of "observing astronomy, observing time changes, observing humanities, and transforming into the world" in the "Book of Changes"... often can make a group of military officials feel ashamed, and become more and more embarrassing Dare to say anything.

But this year's situation is different, because there is Wang Xian in the military attache team, and the military attaches all hope that he can say something to save their face.Wang Xian, however, knows everything about his own family, and with the ink in his belly, if he really wants to talk to others, he will most likely reveal his secrets.Fortunately, those civil servants didn't call him his official position, but called him by his name. Obviously he didn't want to regard him as a military officer, and they respected him quite a lot...

"Brother Zhongde made a big splash yesterday!" A head of the etiquette department who served as the reader said with admiration: "Mr. Hu's palindrome poetry couplet actually has a lot of background, but it wasn't actually made by them on the spot," said mysteriously. He smiled and said, "Does Zhongde know who wrote it?"

"Could it be Scholar Hu?" Wang Xianxin said 'as expected', also very curious.

"It's not Xueshi Hu, it's Xueshi Xie. Hu Xueshi is knowledgeable, but he is not as talented as Xie Xie," the head of the etiquette department laughed. The look on his face: "At that time, Bachelor Xie was so romantic and uninhibited. After finishing work every day, he would call a group of officials, drink and have fun together, or sing poems, or make a play with words. This couplet is a banquet. When drinking, Xueshi Hu thought of it, but unfortunately, with his talent, he didn't think of the second couplet."

"How did brother Zhicheng know so clearly?" Wang Xian asked strangely.Before getting into the car, everyone greeted each other. The head of the etiquette department was Zhang Wenzhicheng, and Wang Xian remembered it correctly.

"Brother Zhicheng was also one of the editors of "Yongle Dadian" back then." The civil official next to him said.

"Disrespect, disrespect." Wang Xian hurriedly said solemnly.

"Where is it?" Mr. Zhang said proudly, but also bitterly: "The "Yongle Dadian" is naturally astonishing in the past, but I am just one of hundreds of editors and editors, so it is really not worth mentioning." There is still half a sentence left, but from his lonely expression, everyone knows what he means...According to the regulations, the readers are all around forty years old, from the fifth rank to the seventh rank, and those with conduct and deeds will be in charge.This article was born in Hanlin back then, and he became an official to the sixth rank at the age of 30. Just because he participated in the compilation of "Yongle Dadian", he was naturally classified as a party of Xie Jin. He has been suppressed brutally these years, and he is still the chief executive.However, Mr. Zhang did not resent Xie Jin, but was very grateful to him for giving him the opportunity to participate in the editing of "Emperor Yongle". He sighed and said, "Bachelor Xie has knowledge, and I must be very pleased to know that Brother Zhongde has published the second couplet."

Although the news of Xie Jin's death did not appear in the mansion newspaper, how can there be an impenetrable wall in the world?It has already spread all over the capital.In fact, this is also the reason why Wang Xian is behind the scenes, otherwise the news will come out too late, and others will mistakenly think it is his responsibility.

Speaking of Xie Jin who died in prison, everyone sighed for a while, until they reached the gate of Yingtian Gongyuan, they stopped talking.

The carriage stopped at the square in front of Gongyuan. This is the place where the disciples gathered a few days later. After Wang Xian got off the car and looked around, he saw a memorial archway on the left and right sides of the square. On the outside of the memorial archway is written "Qifeng", and you can see it when you cross the archway. On the back of the two archways, there are four powerful characters "Seeking scholars from Mingjing" and "Seeking talents for the country", which fully point out the usefulness of this place.

In the square in front of the Gongyuan, hundreds of bearers and servants have gathered. These are the servants serving the examination officials in the next period of time.As a talent-giving ceremony in the Ming Dynasty, the cost of the examination was very huge. Only the expenses listed in the account books of the household department included the repair fee of the tribute courtyard for the examination, the handling fee for the items for the examination, the supply fee for the banquet for the examination, and the expenses in the examination hall. Provide nearly a hundred items such as supplementary house fire expenses, craftsman labor costs in the examination hall, and daily expenses for the examination.

There are as many as 640 jin of firewood used for heating and cooking in the test site, 3000 130 jin of charcoal, [-] jin of coal, [-] jin of sorghum straw, and [-] jin of reed. A thousand [-] catties... It can be seen from this that the cost of the test is huge.

As for the examination officials of the examination, the imperial court also gave them great honor and preferential treatment. Needless to say, the chief examiner and chief inspector, Wang Xian, the inspector alone, allocated him sixteen grooms. Take care of his daily life and diet, and listen to his dispatches.The leader was a team leader named Chen Laoliu, who led the crowd to pay his respects to him, and led the horse over to invite the prosecutor to mount.This horse is one of the two tall horses used by inspectors during the examination. There are also two red satin horses to produce mattresses, two white fans, two large umbrellas, two hand beds, and two green silk umbrellas. , Sixteen tops of red silk, all received in advance by Chen Laoliu and others, carried them on their backs and entered the tribute courtyard with him.

At this time, all the officials bid farewell and began to enter the tribute courtyard surrounded by their servants. There was also a memorial arch in front of the gate of the tribute courtyard, with the words "Heaven Kaiwen Yun" written on it. Behind the arch was a gate with a wooden fence beside it. There are also soldiers guarding day and night to prevent idlers from entering and leaving.Entering the center of the gate is the gate of the Gongyuan. The gate faces south and is divided into three gates on the left, middle and right. On the main gate is a plaque of "Gongyuan" written by Emperor Taizu's royal pen.

All the curtain officials entered through the left door. After bypassing the screen wall, there was the Yimen. The two large gilt characters show that this is where scholars "jump over the dragon's gate".But in fact, after entering Longmen, not to mention whether they can rise like a phoenix or not, a gentle sweep of the floor is a must, because the corridor in Longmen is the place where candidates will be searched.

In the past, the corridors were layers of houses that could not be seen at a glance. The houses were dense and narrow, with no room for seats, densely packed like a honeycomb, with a hundred rooms in each row, forming a long alley only four feet wide. There are gates and toilets at the end of the alley.During the examination, the candidates ate, drank and slacked all over here.

Going north from the avenue between the houses, there is a very majestic building in the middle, which is the Zhigong Hall.The Zhigong Hall is the landmark building of the outer curtain part of the Gongyuan. It is the place where the chief examiner invigilates the examination during the general examination.After that is the living place of the curtain officials.

When Wang Xian found a place to live, he wandered around accompanied by Chen Laoliu. He saw that the wall of the tribute courtyard was one foot five high, covered with thorns, and there was a tall watchtower standing on the tower. The situation in the tribute courtyard It can be seen at a glance, and it is actually compared with the imperial prison he is in charge of.

"It can be said to be strictly guarded against Juzi!" Wang Xian couldn't help sighing.

"Hey..." Chen Laoliu is a Xiaoqi of Long Xiangwei, and he didn't know that this young Lord Wang is the boss of Beizhen Fusi. Seeing his polite speech, he said without any scruples: "My lord Haven’t you heard the saying that there are policies above and countermeasures below?”

"Of course I have heard of it." Wang Xian said calmly: "Could it be that under such strict precautions, there are still people who can't cheat?"

"Of course there are, and they are not isolated." Chen Laoliu smiled and said: "It's not a small boast. Since the early years of Yongle, he has been working as an errand in the examination room since the early years of Yongle. I have experienced it, and I can say that I am very clear about the crooked ways here."

"You might as well tell it and listen to it." Wang Xianruo glanced at him enlightenedly, and said, "You will be rewarded for what you say."

"It's easy to talk about," Chen Laoliu saw that the young adult was very good, so he said like a treasure: "The first thing to say about this tricky trick is to take the exam. This is mainly to take advantage of the name recognition, as long as the appearance is roughly similar , it is possible to pass the test for others. The person who takes the test is called a gunman, and some people specialize in this. They take the county test, government test, and hospital test for others, and generally they can pass it smoothly. It is very common in the examination of talents, almost three or four out of ten. There are also people who take the provincial and general examinations, but because the difficulty is too high, there are fewer, but you can still find one and a half out of ten people."

"That's two to three hundred people," Wang Xian said, "It's really a lot."

"Two or 300 people are for the provincial examination, and the general examination is even less." Chen Laoliu hurriedly explained: "After all, it is very difficult to find people who are not qualified but have the ability to take the Gongshi examination."

"As long as we strictly recognize this, we can still find it out?" Wang Xian said.

"We can find out some of them, but there is a way that we can't recognize them." Chen Laoliu said: "That is the 'Longmen Tune Paper', which allows candidates and gunmen to enter the examination room innocently, and after entering the examination room, the two exchange test papers and exchange test papers with each other. Go to the other party's dormitory to answer the questions. But the price is too high to bribe Juren to give up a chance of Chinese style."

"After the exam starts, add another room-by-room recognition, won't that solve the problem?" Wang Xian said.

"It seems to be possible." Chen Laoliu thought about it.

"Continue." Wang Xian nodded, letting him continue.

"Then there's 'entrainment'. There are various methods of entrainment. The purpose is to avoid the dragon gate search. It depends on whether it is hidden or searched thoroughly." They were found in hair, shoe soles, cushions, candlesticks, and pancakes, and the most amazing one was to find a cheat sheet out of an examinee's ass..."

Wang Xian felt sick for a while, and hurriedly said: "What else?"

(End of this chapter)