Idle courtiers

Chapter 473

According to the imperial examination system, there are two Jinshi subjects.They are: General Examination and Palace Examination.

The examination will be conducted by the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and the questions will be written by important ministers of the imperial court.After the questions are finished, they will be sealed in the palace. On the day of the exam, the emperor will randomly draw a paper and send it to the exam room.

Before it was unsealed, no one knew what the title was, not even the emperor.

Zhou Nan is going to compete with the best of the country's elites this time, and he knows his own affairs well, so this time is enough.

If you want to pass the test, if you say it is not good, you can only cheat.

The problem is, this question is sealed in the palace, and there are special people to read it, it is a serious crime of beheading, who can figure it out?
Ask the person who caused the problem?Is it possible? You are not the emperor, but you can't deal with so many ministers and academicians. Even if you are the emperor, it is impossible for others to buy it?
After passing the test, you are a member of the Huiyuan. In a sense, you are already a Jinshi, and the rest is to arrange seats, which is what the palace test is for.

The palace examination is presided over by the emperor. The book is opened, names are not obscured, and stereotyped essays are not tested. The simplest is a form.

After passing the palace examination, you can become an official.

This time Zhou Nan went to the exam with all his heart, so he simply closed his eyes to thank the guests, and shut himself up at home to read and write articles day and night, and he didn't even go to Ah Jiu's side.

Ah Jiu is too lively, and it is inevitable that I will be distracted when I go to her place, but Xun Fangyu knows how to take care of others.

Fortunately, Ah Jiu also knew that this matter was of great importance, so he didn't come to bother her.

The days passed day by day, and it was the first day of February, and there were seven days before entering the examination room, and Shi Wenjiang, the prime minister of Wanping County, was going to visit.

Zhou Nan hadn't seen a guest for a long time, but Shi Wenjiang was his confidant, and he knew that this person was well-informed.Unconsciously, his heart moved, did something happen to him again, so he asked someone to invite him to the study.

Ask: "Wenjiang, what do you have to do?"

Shi Wenjiang: "Sheren's test this time is terrible."

Zhou Nan's heart trembled, and he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Shi Wenjiang said: "I have inquired clearly that many talented people have come to this exam. It may be difficult for Sheren to get a good ranking."

He said that apart from Zhou Nan’s old friend Xu Yangda, the top three candidates who participated in the test were Xu Shixing from Changzhou, Suzhou Prefecture, Wang Xijue from Taicang, Suzhou, Yu Youding from Yin County, Zhejiang, and Fengcheng Juren from Jiangxi. Li Cai.

In the past few days, they are all famous talents all over the world. Not only are they good at poetry and prose, but they are also very young, all in their early twenties.

As a literary lover, Zhou Nan is no stranger to these people.Not to mention Wang Xijue, the future chief minister of the cabinet who had a holiday with him, he has been famous for several other people for a long time.

Xu Shixing is Shen Shixing, and he also served as the chief assistant in the Wanli year.The reason why his surname is Xu now is because his family was poor, and he was adopted by a family surnamed Xu since he was a child.According to real historical records, in this subject examination, Shen Shixing was the champion of high school, and the grace of the court allowed him to return Shen's surname.

As for Yu Youding, he later went to the Imperial College to sacrifice wine and served as a minister in the cabinet. He did not make any achievements in politics, but his poems were good. The poem "Nostalgia of the Guangling Mausoleum" is a rare masterpiece in Ming poetry.

Li Cai later became the governor of Yunnan. He was a scholar who wrote many books and taught many excellent students.

Speaking of which, three cabinet ministers and a large group of governors and ministers were selected in this subject examination, and the competition was extremely fierce.

Zhou Nan was amused, I wasn't even sure whether I could be Chinese, but you, Shi Wenjiang, asked me to compete for the top three, and I was too high on my lord.

Yes, a lot of my anthologies have been circulated, and many people have read them.But it was all revised by my teacher. In fact, my own composition level is only average.

Don't be ridiculous if you lose your name to Sun Shan.

However, he thought about it again, this time he had reached a tacit agreement with Yan Na, the chief examiner.Lao Yan should think of a way to let me pass the test, and besides, he is now well-known among scholars, if he pretends to be worried and worried about gains and losses, it will make people suspicious.

That's right, one has to be humble, but it also depends on the occasion.Zhou Nan's own personality is a good drinker, greedy for money, sensationalist and maverick.If it's low-key now, it doesn't fit the personality.

If the big talk is released now, it will benefit in the future, and everyone feels that this is in line with common sense.

If something goes wrong, it will be a demon, and if something goes wrong, it will inevitably be targeted by people with intentions.

Back then, Tang Bohu was revoked his Jinshi scholarship and suffered a lawsuit because of his big talk, but it was not because he was arrogant or at fault.What's wrong is that his reputation is not loud enough, not loud enough to Yang Shen's kind of place where it's normal to be a Jinshi, and it's weird to fail.The fault is that he does not have the father of the chief minister of the cabinet like Yang Shen, and he does not have the grandfather of the chief minister of the cabinet like Zhou Nan, who is as brotherly as the court officials.

It can be seen that this world still pays attention to power.

Zhou Nan deliberately pretended to be very depressed, and sighed: "It seems that the top three will not pass the exam, so I can only win over the good ones. What, what!"

Shi Wenjiang also sighed for a long time, and finally reassured Zhou Nan: "Sheren, if you can't get in the top three, it's good to have a Jinshi background in the exam. As long as you become a good scholar, you can join the cabinet in the future. Zimuxiu should be discouraged." .You are Beijuan, so it shouldn't be difficult for a concubine."

Jinshi subjects are divided into three grades: first-class, second-class and third-class.

There are three people in Yijia, namely the No. 2 champion, No. 3 No. [-] and No. [-] Tanhua.This is the proper Jinshi fame.

Erjia confers the background of Jinshi, which means to give Jinshi, the emperor is gracious, and bestows you with the title of Jinshi.

The top three are bestowed with the same background as Jinshi, which means that the emperor gave you the same fame as Jinshi.

Zhou Nan's goal is the top three, even if it is the bottom of the crane.He smiled and said, "It's really not difficult."

Isn't it difficult?
difficult!
But he couldn't lose his will.

In Zhou Nan's opinion, the difficulty of the examination is second only to the 26th year of Jiajing.That department produced a large group of cabinet ministers and great politicians.This year, there are three cabinet assistants and two chief assistants in this subject.

My luck is really good for the mud horse, as soon as I crossed, I encountered the blowout period of Ming Dynasty talents.

Complaints in his heart were complaints, Zhou Nan thought about it, anyway, he was just fighting for a Jinshi quota, and he didn't expect first-class and second-class, no matter how much ability he had in the examination field, there was no threat to himself-the reason is very simple, the Ming Dynasty The Jinshi examination is divided into north and south rankings. This year's exams are all from Jiangnan, and have little to do with me.

After being greatly developed in the Tang Dynasty, Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty was the most prosperous area in the country, and most of the scholars came from the south.

In the year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the officials of the Manchu Dynasty were all from the south.When it came to the imperial examination, all the places were filled by scholars from the south. Knowing that this would not work, they used the north and south files to divide the Jinshi department into the south and the north, and made a policy preference for the northern scholars to achieve a balance between the north and the south.

It is stipulated that the distribution ratio of scholars from the north and the south is six out of ten for southerners and four out of ten for northerners.

As early as years ago, the imperial court had set the admission quota for Jinshi this year.The first class is naturally three, the second class grants a total of 85 people with Jinshi background, and the third class grants 210 people with Jinshi background.

A total of 290 nine people.

Zhou Nan was divided into the North List, and the number of places in the North List was 110 nine people.

According to his foresight of history, among the Yijia and Shuji scholars in this period, the southern scholars accounted for the absolute majority, and there were only a few pitiful scholars in the north.

So, the competition is actually not fierce!

"It seems that my lord is not so high-profile!" Zhou Nan thought about it, and his heart became happy again.

He was studying hard at home during this time, and a nerve was stretched to the verge of breaking, but thinking about it now, he relaxed a lot.

In the past few days, all the candidates who came to Beijing to take the general examination have arrived, and more than 3000 people are crowded in the city.Looking around, there are Eguan robes everywhere, and a stone thrown out can hit a master Juren.

The capital is the largest city with a population of over one million.The so-called one hundred people, all kinds of people.In addition to the ministers, nobles, and officials, there are more traffickers who lead carts and pulp sellers.

Due to the sudden increase in the number of scholars, the hard-working people in the city have also become much more refined. One is to please the scholars who are studying, so that they can get some rewards.The second is that I am worried that my speech is too vulgar, which will offend the master Juren, and you will have no place to reason after eating and beating you.

The best business in the city is the bearers in inns and restaurants. Candidates must hire a sedan chair when visiting relatives and friends, doing essays, and playing landscapes.

At dusk that day, several bearers took the sedan chairs and sat in a group in the sedan chair row. They set out a jar of rice wine, spread out the stewed meat in the lotus leaves, and chatted about today's harvest while drinking.

One of the bearers asked, "How much is your income today?"

"It's not much. The money I got was given to the car dealer's share, and there are about seven dollars left."

Another person took a deep breath: "Zhiniang thief, seven dollars a day. After a month, it's more than 20 taels, which is enough to buy a small house, and he said it's not much, don't be too greedy."

Several other people also scolded you, saying that you work too hard, you are busy from morning to tens of thousands, non-stop, you really want money and life.

The person who was scolded was a little embarrassed, and cupped his hands: "My brothers, don't blame me, you have gained a lot, and no one has four or five dollars in the account. Hey, this business, tsk tsk, it would be great if it was like this every day."

A bearer broke his wine bowl and touched him, and continued to curse: "This is the case every day. After a year, you can become a landlord, and then marry the concubine of the second room. You are so beautiful. It means that you only get a fortune in three years, and you are content." Let's go! We'll have to eat and eat again when the palace test is held in April."

Shajiao means the end, and usually refers to the ending aria of actors at the end of a play.

The palace test is on April 21st.

In fact, as soon as the test results are released, the candidates will eventually return to their hometowns one after another, and only three to 400 people will be able to enter the palace examination room.

"Yeah, starting in April, it will be another two years." Everyone sighed.

Since the topic came up with the imperial examination, a bearer asked, "By the way, who do you think can win the first prize, the second place and the third prize in this exam?"

One laughed and scolded: "So what if you know, what has it to do with you?"

(End of this chapter)