Idle courtiers

Chapter 470
Since it is a transaction, what is the method of interest exchange?

Master Wang began to think about how to leak the topic to Zhou Nan. This matter is easy to say, but it is actually difficult, and the situation is out of control, and the risk is too great. If you are not careful, you will lose yourself.

The reason is very simple. The Ming Dynasty will take the examination because once the candidates are Chinese, they can be directly awarded officials by Jinshi, and they are all officials above the seventh rank.It can be said that the eyes of the whole world are watching, and it is not easy to make moves.

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, the number of examiners was 20 in the 38th and 57th years of Jiajing.There were a total of 360 seven people in the seven rounds of examinations, with an average of 52 people who did not pass.

According to the system, the two chief examiners are the Minister of the Ministry of Rites and one of the ministers of the Ministry of Rites. These two must be from Jinshi, especially from the Hanlin Academy.

In addition to the main examiner, there is also the same examiner, that is, the room teacher of the Chinese candidate.Responsible for the primary selection of the test papers, the number is 18 people.The structure of official positions is as follows: Six Subjects Gishizhong, Bachelor of Attendance, Bachelor of Attendance, Editor of the Imperial Academy, Editor of the Imperial Academy.This is the so-called Eighteenth House Master.

No need to ask, these people are either Qing rumor officials or Hanlin Academy bachelors, they are extremely noble, and no one will sell face.

Under the chief examiner and the same examiner, there is also a proctor, each time two people, the official position is the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.This is also a speech officer, so I can't figure it out.

Below the supervisory examiner is the promotion officer, the number is two, and the head of the sixth grade of the Ministry of Rites will be in charge.This is my own, okay.The job of the promotion officer is to provide examination papers, supply materials for the examination, and handle all daily affairs in the venue. He is a liaison officer who runs errands.

There are also two scroll officials below, most of whom are the doctor and the chief of the Ministry of Rites, and they are their own people.

The two officials who collect the papers are the ones who collect the papers for the candidates. They are all Beijing officials randomly selected from each yamen.

The examiner and Mifeng each come from the Department of Pedestrians and the local magistrate or general judge respectively.

Transcribers, the four people who take the exam each time are all prefectural and county Zhengyin officials drawn from the local government, and they will not talk to Yan Nei.

For the five officials, they are still prefects and counties drawn from the local area.

There are six inspectors, these are military officers, and they are responsible for the security of the examination room. They are military officers drawn from the capital and localities.

There are other examiners, so I won’t introduce them one by one.

From the perspective of the setting of the examiner's function, background, and official position, there are three characteristics in general: first, there are a large number of people; second, there is a mix of real-time officials and Qing rumor officials;

The so-called smashing the ship with too many people, if you really want to do something, so many people, what do you do?
The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty has been perfected by this period, and all possible cheating loopholes have been plugged.

If you want Zhou Nan to be a Jinshi smoothly, you have to leak the questions.

The problem is that the questions of the test are not strictly chosen.

According to the system of preparing questions for the general examination, before the examination, the emperor asked the following ministers to draw up an examination paper and seal it in the palace.During the exam, he will randomly take a copy and send it to the exam room.

No one knows who wrote the question, and which paper the emperor will choose in the end.

Only in this way can we truly achieve openness and justice.

Then, there is a way to get Zhou Nan, and that is to leave joints in the examination papers.

That is to say, the two parties agreed that the examinee should embed the code in the article.After the examiner saw the specific words, he knew that this was the person he wanted to take, so he let it go as soon as he raised his hand.

This is also the best and most feasible way.

In the history of imperial examinations, there are too many such things, and it is impossible to be caught.

Of course, there are also people who are so confused and stupid that they are exposed at home.For example, in the late Qing Dynasty, when the grandfather of the famous brother Lu Xunxun was an examiner of the imperial examination, someone gave him 100 taels of silver, and the two parties agreed to write the words "100 taels of silver" in the article.

It's a pity that the family member of the cheating examinee accidentally sent the money to Mr. Zhou when it was sent to the assistant examiner, and even clamored for a receipt.As a result, this fraud case became known to the world, and Mr. Zhou was also sentenced to be executed, that is, death with a reprieve.

The Zhou family declined, and Xun's brother, Zhou Xun, went to Japan to study medicine and embarked on a different life path from his parents.

Lu Xun's grandfather's fraud case in the examination room was in the examination room, but this is a general examination.

In this kind of examination room for the selection of senior national real-time cadres, it is useless to try to save joints.

Even if you stay, if one is unlucky, you may be rejected in the house teacher's test, and the papers will not reach the examiner's hand at all.

Master Wang thought about it for a long time, and his head hurt from thinking about it, and he couldn't think of a perfect plan.

He has been with Yan Na all his life, but Yan Shangshu can't see the abacus in his heart.

Yan Na said: "Zhou Zimu, as Wang Shizhen's bachelor, will take over Wang Yuanmei's mantle in the future. This person is very good at poetry. It is said that his wife Zhou Xu's poems are also ghostwritten by him. They are really exquisite and are known as a generation of poets. Zong, the old man loves it very much. Recently, the government affairs are busy, and the old man wants to read some idle books for entertainment. I don’t know if there are any books by him in the market, so I will buy a few back.”

Master Wang immediately understood the master's intention: "There are a lot of Zhou Zimu's poems and articles printed in the market, I will buy some tomorrow." Yan Shangshu wanted to figure out the meaning of Zhou Nan's articles.

This sounds mysterious, but it is actually simple.Everyone who writes an article has his own habit of choosing words and making sentences, and his own thinking pattern of writing layout, just like a person's palm prints, which cannot be hidden at all.As long as you have the heart, you can easily recognize it.

This is what the so-called writing is like a person.

Judging from Zhou Nan's work as a person, the articles he writes should also have a strong personal style.

With Yan Shangshu's academic accomplishment, it is not easy to find Zhou Nan from a lot of papers.

On the second day, Master Wang went to several bookstores.

It's also luck, Zhou Nan's poems are indeed very good, and have already compared with other contemporary writers.

There are many collections of his works, and even the examination papers for the additional provincial examination and the provincial examination were dug up. Together with the stereotyped essays that had been circulated before, they were published as a collection, with more than 50 articles and more than 5 words.

Seeing the thick collection, Mr. Wang couldn’t help laughing and crying: There are too many mud horses, Zhou Zimu is so prolific, people who don’t know think he is the number one scholar, Wang Yuanmei wants to make a name for his proud student It's really omnipotent!
It turned out that these articles were all written by Zhou Nan when he wrote stereotyped articles a day with Wang Shizhen.

In order to cultivate this student, Wang Shizhen would show it to the public whenever Zhou Nan wrote a good article, and even printed it into a collection at his own expense and gave it away everywhere.

Master Wang opened the anthology of the time, read two articles, lifted his spirits, and thought to himself: Yes, it's done!

It turns out that Zhou Nan is a modern person after all, and many of his stereotyped essays have the unique way of thinking and writing habits of modern people. Some people may struggle to read them, but they are still very interesting.This style of writing cannot be hidden at all.

The biggest problem now is that in the future exams, the papers have to be handed over to Yan Shangshu at the end, don't even pass the room allocation test with the examiner.

Master Wang raised this point to Yan Na skillfully and cryptically, Yan Shangshu smiled lightly: "If Zhou Nan can't even pass that test, he is not qualified to be supported by Xu Shoufu, so don't worry."

At that time, he can also have an explanation to Xu Jie: It's not that the brothers are weak, it's because your people are so muddy that they can't support the wall.What I promised you is to be done, but Zhou Nan can't make it to my level, so what?But you, Xu Shoufu, cannot go back on your promise.

Master Wang smiled: "Uncle Da Zong is right."

Yan Na's plan is aboveboard, even if Zhou Nan's paper is finally recognized, no one else can say anything.

This is the rule of the examination room, and it does not violate Yan Shangshu's original intention.

This is conspiracy.

(End of this chapter)