Children who cry are fed by milk. If you have any grievances, cry them out first.
Shen Shoufu laughed dumbly, "What you said is too much. It's not that exaggerated. Xu Guo will not let you fail the exam."
Lin Daguan was dissatisfied and said to Shen Shixing: "I clearly gave you three questions, but in the end I changed one on the fly.
The nature of Xu Guo's behavior is to make small moves behind your back! If it were me, I would never tolerate it!"
Shen Shixing said generously: "Xu Guo is not my puppet. Everyone has their own little thoughts. As long as they are generally passable, don't worry so much.
The first two questions are enough to guarantee your admission, but at most you will be ranked lower.
You have offended Xu Guo before. You have clashed with Xu Guo several times over the Yangzhou Salt Industry. You have to let Xu Guo find a place to vent your anger, right?
Besides, the ranking in the general examination is not the final ranking, there will be a palace examination later."
Official Lin muttered: "But if the ranking in the general examination is last, the ranking in the imperial examination will definitely not be very good."
Shen Shixing asked back: "Didn't you say before that ranking is not important, as long as you can be on the imperial list?"
In the eyes of Shen Shoufu, ranking is really not important. Even if Lin Tailai is ranked last, he can be selected as a censor or be selected into the civil service department after going to the local government for three years.
Lin Daguan replied: "Thank you, Mr. Ge, for guaranteeing my bottom line! As for the specific ranking, I'll just do my best!"
Shen Shixing sighed: "Can you stop doing your best? I'm afraid of hearing you say you should do your best.
Xu Guo is in the inner hall of Gongyuan, isolated from the outside world, how can you try your best? Is it possible that you still have to fight in? "
Lin Daguan told the truth: "How can I be a reckless person? I just want to break the stereotype of me and prove myself with my eight-part essay skills."
Shen Shoufu: ""
This is simply the biggest joke I have heard since the New Year. Where did you, Lin Tailai, get your eight-part writing skills?
How did you pass the imperial examination? Don't you have a clue?
In the county examination, the county government was bribed, and the county magistrate, who was about to expire at the time, was heckled and handed Yangzi to the head of the case. His second son, Shen Yongjia, was suspected of being involved.
During the government examination, when the paper was handed in, I learned that the government could not get off the stage, so I gave the case manager.
The Taoist examination was a coercion and inducement for the Tixue official, and even threatened the Tixue official to prevent him from leaving Suzhou City, and then he got the case.
Not to mention the provincial examination, which was directly arranged by Shen Shixing, and Jie Yuan was given to Lin Tailai out of "compensation mentality".
So where do you, Lin Tailai, come from with such a big face that you dare to brag about your eight-part writing skills and want to rely on your eight-part writing skills to compete for rankings?
This kind of person who obviously relies on connections to get through the customs, but still claims that he is very powerful, will easily be beaten when he goes out to hang out!
The next day, which was the tenth day of the second lunar month, the candidates took a break and the staff in the Gongyuan began to work on sealing, transcribing, and reading.
"Aren't you going to exchange Lin Tailai's test papers?" a certain director of the Ministry of Rites asked Yu Kongjian, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites.
"What a change!" Yu Kongjian said angrily, "Lin Tailai used countless engravers to engrave plates overnight and printed thousands of copies of his first article, which he distributed randomly outside the Gongyuan!"
In all my thirty or forty years of living, I have never seen anyone so cautious!
After that, the two exams on February 12th and 15th passed uneventfully.
All the examination work for the outer curtain has been completed, and the pressure is only on the inner curtain of judging the papers.
The results will be announced at the end of February, with only about ten days to finalize thousands of test papers, and theoretically 30,000 to 40,000 articles. You can imagine the pressure.
According to the almanac, the auspicious day of February 28th is suitable for making the list, and the rankings for the examination will be finalized on the night of February 27th.
In the inner courtyard of Gongyuan, the Jukui Hall where the examiner is sitting is brightly lit, and eighteen fellow examiners also gathered here.
At this time, 348 Chinese-style test papers have been selected, and they have been roughly arranged in order.
At this time, the examiner only has the re-transcribed red scroll and serial number in his hand. He does not know the name of the candidate and cannot see the candidate's own handwriting.
Therefore, when ranking, you can only use the number of the ink scroll first, and then open the original ink scroll to obtain the candidate's name.
This moment is the peak of many examiners’ lives.
The examiner of this subject, Bachelor Xu Guo, sneered and assigned the lowest rankings to several test papers.
These test papers have a common feature, that is, the first two articles are acceptable, but the third article is very poor.
Rather than letting go of the wrong ones, Xu Ge veteran typed all the test papers that were suspected of someone's into the last few!
In fact, the rank in the general examination does not have much practical effect. The rank in the palace examination is the real rank of Jinshi.
Therefore, in the imperial examination, only the first-ranked Huiyuan may be of some use. It is generally assumed that Huiyuan's ranking in the palace examination cannot be low, and at least he will be given the treatment of a shujishi when he joins the officialdom.
So what everyone is most concerned about is which test paper the examiner Xu Guo will rank first.
Xu Guo took out the scroll No. 426 and said to the eighteen fellow examiners present: "You all only read the first and second chapters, but I only read the third chapter.
This person's third article, "The Doctrine of the Mean is a Virtue, Has It Been Completed," has a clear context, elegant diction, and is both noble and practical. It is impossible to reach this state without deep learning and cultivation.
A glimpse of his writings can be traced back to the pages of the prosperous times. His purity, elegance and upright style should set an example for the world."
Then Xu Guo emphasized: "The last sentence of "tying up the buttocks" deeply touched my heart."
All the fellow examiners circulated and read this eight-legged essay praised by Xu Guopang.
I have to say that Academician Xu is not just blindly boasting. This article does have some basic skills.
The whole text is windy and relaxed, natural and elegant, and the reading is cadenced. The syllables are golden and clear, like a spring breeze. There are no remote and eccentric words, and it has a graceful and elegant temperament.
As for the closing sentence that Xu Guo emphasized, it is - this is the persistence of pseudo-study, and the truth has been lost by relying on Fuzi.
After thinking about it, everyone thought that this sentence was meant to denounce Xinxue.
Because in the early years of Jiajing, Xinxue was once officially designated as "pseudo-xue" by the government, so people who are against Xinxue often use "pseudo-xue" to refer to Xinxue.
This is a matter of stance. Different people have different opinions. If Xu Guo, the examiner, thinks this sentence is good, then it can only be good.
Of course, Xu Guo would not tell others clearly what Xiao Jiujiu was thinking.
A few years ago, a candidate surnamed Lin fought against Gu Xiancheng, who was anti-Xinxue, for the sake of Xin Xue. Almost everyone in the literary world knew about this.
Therefore, Xu Guogan concluded that this test paper with "pseudo-study" writing was definitely not Lin Tailai's test paper, and it was safe to give him the first place.
From another perspective, this test paper may be a test paper for those candidates who are Lin Tailai's enemies and consider themselves "upright students."
After all, the most vehemently opposed scholar in the capital today is Gu Xiancheng, and those candidates who listen to Gu Xiancheng's lectures will also disparage the mind science as "pseudo-study."
Click this test paper for Huiyuan. It is the final stubbornness of a bachelor from the Second Auxiliary University under the high pressure of the First Auxiliary University!
The other examiners could not express any opinions other than passing it around.
Before the middle and late Jiajing period, the chief examiner of the examination was a senior Hanlin bachelor, and there was not much difference in status between the chief examiner and other examiners.
However, from the late Jiajing period to the present, the examiners of the joint examinations have been cabinet bachelors, and the status of other examiners is far behind.
The grand master who comes to be the examiner is what he says. The other examiners are only fifth or sixth grade. How can he compete with the grand master?
In the end, Xu Guo said with finality: "No. 426, the first place in the Ji Chou Examination in the 17th year of Wanli! Fill in the list!"
The other examiners are only obedient, so don’t dare to accept it!
Academician Xu Guo, who had been suppressed by the chief minister in the cabinet for a long time, now realized the long-lost domineering power of his words!
There was no name on the ink scroll. The scribe took the ink scroll No. 426 and made sure that the name and seal were intact before opening it in public.
Soon the name on the test paper was revealed, and everyone curiously came over to take a look.
All I can see is the line above - Lin Tailai, a student from Zhili Suzhou Prefecture, whose book is the Book of Changes.
Boom! The Jukui Hall seemed to explode instantly!
Lin Tailai is of course very famous. He can be called the most famous candidate in this subject. All the examiners know this.
But the examiners never dreamed that Huiyuan selected from the "blind selection" would be Lin Tailai!
He is obviously a martial arts champion who has defeated invincible opponents in both capitals!
Suddenly there was a "bang" sound from the main seat in the middle, and the helper's exclamation!
Everyone looked around and saw the examiner, the great scholar Xu Guo, whose face was as golden as paper, his eyes tightly closed, and he fell straight on the chair of the imperial master.
Before he passed out completely, Grand Scholar Xu shouted with all his strength: "Thieves have no shame!"
All the examiners looked at each other. After all, Mr. Xu Ge was an old man in his sixties. He had been locked in the tribute courtyard for a month. Maybe he couldn't stand it anymore near the end.
I just don’t know who the shameless thief Mr. Xu Ge is talking about?
Chapter completed!