During the exam days, the examiner usually just sits in the examination room and does not need to do anything. If there is any errands to be done, an illiterate servant will be sent to take care of it.

Although it's a bit boring, since I want to add to my resume as the host of Zhejiang Province, it's not a big deal to endure it.

Yang Bichuan held a cup of tea and drank it slowly, then got up and went to inspect the examination room in a low-key manner, bringing only two more honest fellow examiners with him.

The three examiners paced around the quiet examination room without disturbing the candidates who were immersed in writing their answer sheets. Only a few candidates who were not paying attention to the questions noticed their arrival and quickly sat upright to continue answering questions.

If you do something indecent while the examiner is watching, you may get stamped as suspected of cheating. Don’t be careless!

Yang Bichuan walked up and down along the way, and when he reached the row of dormitories where Brother Wen was, he didn't look too deliberate.

His eyes fell on Brother Wen, the smallest person in the room, and he couldn't help but take a few more glances.

Having prepared the foundation for the quiz, Brother Wen didn't panic at all when answering the questions. He typed out the drafts of several questions very smoothly. There was not a question that he found difficult at all! After lunch, he

You can start transcribing the main volume.

Brother Wen was very excited when he answered the questions. He was so focused when writing the questions. The hand holding the pen was clearly the size of a child, but at this moment, his pen was moving like flying. This shows that these questions did not pose a big challenge to him.

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Not only Yang Bichuan paid attention to Brother Wen, but also the fellow examiners who accompanied him.

They couldn't help but look at Brother Wen a few more times. Seeing that Brother Wen was already in the perfect state to answer the questions wholeheartedly and didn't notice their arrival at all, they could only sigh that the little prodigy was indeed a little prodigy. No wonder his father and

All his teachers felt comfortable letting him take the exam.

If he could really be in Jinke High School, he would be a Jinshi at the age of nine!

Whether it is in terms of qualifications or reputation, it is enough for him to be proud of countless people, and he may not be able to achieve greater achievements than his two old teachers in the future.

The two fellow examiners looked at Brother Wen with envy in their eyes.

Why wasn't such a child born in my own home?

Yang Bichuan saw that Brother Wen was focused on answering the questions and didn't seem to be uncomfortable at all, so he didn't stay any longer and looked around the examination room before going back.

At noon, the examination room provides meals to the candidates. This time, they were given steamed buns. Although they were brought in in the morning, they were not hot enough to eat, but they were enough to satisfy their hunger, and they were quite soft to eat.

Brother Wen finished eating the government-funded steamed buns with satisfaction, and gnawed on a pear to quench his thirst, and then he concentrated on transcribing his seven short essays.

Even though the provincial examination papers had to go through a process of anonymous transcription, Brother Wen was not careless and tried his best to write the papers to perfection and never let himself have the chance to be deducted from the paper points.

This first essay is also very particular about the number of words.

First of all, it cannot be less than the specified number of words. The meaning of the "Four Books" cannot be less than 200 words, and the meaning of the classics cannot be less than 300 words.

Secondly, it should not exceed the prescribed number of words by too many words. Such long and smelly writing will not only make the transcriber want to curse, but the examiner will also pinch his nose in disgust after reading it.

It’s best to keep each article around four to five hundred words. If it exceeds five hundred words, it will become too lengthy!

After Brother Wen finished writing the draft, he slightly adjusted the words and sentences in the text, trying to make the layout of each essay neat and beautiful. It was very pleasing to the eye at first glance, and then he copied them into the main volume with satisfaction.

After all this busy work, it was almost getting dark.

According to the provisions of the "Imperial Examination Form", each exam will be composed of essays at dawn, and papers will be collected at dusk. If students cannot finish writing, candles can be provided to allow candidates to continue the exam.

If the candidate has not finished writing until the candles have burned out, the soldiers standing guard in front of the dormitory will forcibly help the candidates out of the examination room.

According to the regulations of the Chenghua period, they can only renew one candle now, and only those who have written a good draft are allowed to replenish the candle. After the candle is burned, they must leave even if they have not finished writing!

Brother Wen didn't know how long the candle provided by the official could last. He checked the copied document and made sure that he couldn't find any typos before he carefully put it away and took out a piece of paper.

It's almost dark.

According to the provisions of the "Imperial Examination Form", each exam will be composed of essays at dawn, and papers will be collected at dusk. If students cannot finish writing, candles can be provided to allow candidates to continue the exam.

If the candidate has not finished writing until the candles have burned out, the soldiers standing guard in front of the dormitory will forcibly help the candidates out of the examination room.

According to the regulations of the Chenghua period, they can only renew one candle now, and only those who have written a good draft are allowed to replenish the candle. After the candle is burned, they must leave even if they have not finished writing!

Brother Wen didn't know how long the candle provided by the government could last. He checked the copied document and made sure that he couldn't find any typos before he carefully put it away and took out a fresh water spirit.

The pears started to be chewed.

These are the pears that I worked so hard to carry into the examination room, so I can’t let them go to waste!

While Brother Wen was eating, he watched the afterglow of the setting sun invade the dormitory little by little, making the table in front of him shine golden.

He didn't move when the drum for taking papers first sounded. It wasn't until candidates from a nearby dormitory followed the soldiers and were about to leave, Brother Wen's eyes lit up.

What does it mean when someone hands in a paper?

It means he can hand in the paper!

It is our Chinese habit to never be the first!

As long as someone takes the lead, you can quietly blend in with the crowd and become an ordinary member of the crowd!

In order not to become a maverick and get shot, Brother Wen carefully waited until the second person went to submit the paper, then he discussed it with the elder brother guarding the dormitory and handed in the paper in a serious manner.

Follow the few candidates out of the examination room.

As the sky gradually darkened, people started to hold candles in the venue.

Brother Wen walked out of Zhejiang Gongyuan after an interrogation. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the examinee next to him come over and talk to him: "Don't you know how to write a single question? This year's questions are too difficult!"

Brother Wen:?

Brother Wen hesitated and said: "There's no problem..."

The examinee said: "Stop bragging. If you couldn't write, why would you be out so early? Alas, I told my father a long time ago that I was not the material for the imperial examination. He still didn't believe it, so he insisted on making a lie.

As a Confucian scholar, let me come in and give it a try. No, it will be in vain!"

The so-called "full field Confucian scholar" means that even if you are not a current student, as long as you are extremely smart and attract the attention of academic officials, you can participate in the imperial examination with current students.

As long as you pass the provincial examination, you will be the master of the people's education directly, and you don't have to study hard with others!

Since there is this path to take, naturally some people will take shortcuts. Those who are destined to fail in school examinations will find ways to take this path.

To the academic officer, this is just a number of candidates taking the exam, no big deal.

Of course, if too many people come to ask for help, the screening will be more stringent.

No one likes to get into trouble for no reason.

The candidate in front of me is obviously a "confucian scholar" who has some connections in his family and some spare money.

As a scumbag who was forced by his family to try his luck, when the other party saw that he was so young, it was true that he was forced and he didn’t want to come at all!

He definitely didn't want to be elected as a scholar at the age of eight and become a Jinshi at the age of nine!

He is not a silly boy who is too ambitious!

Both were forced!

So do you and I!

He is such a miserable child!

Together they denounced the elders in the family with the same hatred and exchanged names.

Only then did Brother Wen find out that this man's name was Hong Cheng, and that his father was Hong Zhong, the inspector general of Sichuan. He was a local official of the third rank and was currently engaged in the work of reforming the native land and returning it to the countryside.

To put it simply, it means to get rid of the local emperor who is causing trouble and replace it with serious officials appointed by the court (liuguan)!

Many places in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Chongqing are always controlled by ethnic minority chieftains. It doesn’t matter whether you are the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty or Ming Dynasty. As long as you send someone to ask, they will say, "Ah, yes, yes, we are your subjects." In fact,

We should still implement local autonomy and ignore the imperial policies you promulgated.

It is difficult to govern.

Hong Zhong is currently in Sichuan trying to crack this difficult bone.

Hong Zhong was away from home all year round and had no time to teach his son Hong Cheng. He only pushed him to study every time he remembered.

Hong Chengshu's reading was mediocre, and he had never passed the provincial examination in his twenties.

Rather than reading the Four Books and Five Classics, he actually prefers to read miscellaneous books that are hard to find on the market. He especially likes to collect Song and Yuan scripts. Whenever he gets a new book, he is immersed in it without asking about foreign affairs.

Therefore, he was not very interested in and did not know much about official affairs, so naturally he was not familiar with Brother Wen, a famous little prodigy in the capital.

He can be regarded as another kind of bookworm different from Qiu Jun.

I don’t want to read a single word of the serious book, but I just think the novel is too short!

Hong Cheng said with emotion: "Speaking of which, my son is about the same age as you. You have already taken the exam, and I, the father, have not yet passed the exam."

Brother Wen replied: "I'm just here to gain experience."

Knowing that Hong Cheng had a large collection of books at home and spent a lot of money to collect many unique copies of novels from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Brother Wen immediately made an appointment with Hong Cheng to go to his house to read books after finishing the exam.

Seeing that Brother Wen didn't look down on his hobbies, Hong Cheng welcomed him to his home.

Brother Wen was very happy.

Very good, I have a place to go after the exam!

You must know that it must be very difficult to wait for the results for a few days after the exam, and you must find something else to distract your attention.

Seeing Jin Sheng already waiting outside the second fence, Brother Wen waved goodbye to Hong Cheng and went back to his residence with Jin Sheng to get some sleep.

The first round of inspections and exams took almost a whole day, and even someone as energetic as him was a little bit into it.
To be continued...