Five hundred and seventieth chapters lying dragon and phoenix
The chief examiner of the Nanzhili Township Examination and his co-examiners, a total of ten people, lived in Gongyuan for about a month.
Thinking about this month, I don't know how other people feel. Anyway, Qin Dewei feels that it will be very boring.
Without computers, mobile phones and the Internet, I couldn't go out in the yard. There was really nothing interesting to do except Miss Li.
The ninth day of August is the first session of the provincial examination, and roll call begins in the early morning of August 9th.
The day before, that is, the eighth day of August, the examiner Qin Dewei had to draw up the questions for the provincial examination.
According to the rules, all the examiners gathered in the main hall, and the Four Books and Five Classics were placed on the table.
The examiner Qin Dewei turns the pages randomly, and then formulates questions based on the text on the page...
Qin Dewei picked up the book of "The Analects of Confucius" and flipped through the pages casually. Without showing it to anyone else, he pretended to lower his head and read: "The first title of the Four Books is, The way of heaven cannot be heard or heard."
The following questions are completely randomly turned over to ensure fairness and openness.
Two more questions from the four books were collected, and together with the first question, there were three questions in total, which all candidates must answer.
There are also four questions in each of the Five Classics, totaling twenty questions. Candidates can choose to answer four questions based on this scripture.
Then the craftsmen on the inner curtain will engrave the words, and then print the question papers overnight, and distribute them to the candidates after the exam begins.
As far as the examiners are concerned, it's okay for the time being. Because the examiners are not responsible for the affairs of the examination room, they have nothing to do before marking the papers.
The first game is on August 9th, the second game is on August 12th, and the third game is on August 15th.
Then, by the time the three to four thousand test papers were anonymized, transcribed, and sent to the examiners, it was already after August 20.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that before August 20th, the examiners could only eat and drink most of the time. One big feast every three days and one small feast every five days.
But it will be different after August 20th, because the list will be published before the end of August, so the marking time is only five to seven days, which is very tight.
There are three to four thousand test papers and tens of thousands of articles in total. How can I have the energy to review them all in a few days?
This is why examiners often only read the first article when reading test papers. They really don’t have time to read everything in detail.
This grading time is actually very unscientific, but Qin Dewei can't change anything at the moment.
The test papers were distributed to each room like a flowing stream. After being read by the examiners in each room, they each selected twenty or thirty test papers and sent them to Qin Dewei.
According to Qin Dewei's request, the first article was relatively novel and included a bit of Qi theory, and was basically selected by each room.
In the end, Qin Dewei personally selected one hundred and thirty-five test papers as the main list and arranged the rankings. The rest served as backup papers and deputy list.
It wasn't until this moment that Qin Dewei looked at the test papers in his hand, with no name or handwriting visible, that he felt that the provincial examination was a bit interesting.
Now it feels like he is opening a blind box. He doesn't know what kind of person he is after opening the name of each test paper.
On the official day of filling in the results, the inner curtain and the outer curtain were no longer isolated. All the promotion and examination supervisors and examiners gathered together, and the scene was filled with joy.
Then all the 135 red scrolls selected by Qin Dewei were piled in the lobby according to their order and number.
Then, amid the laughter and laughter, I opened the manuscript and ink scroll starting from the sixth place, looked at the names, and wrote them on the draft list.
From the sixth to the last place, everything is written on the draft list, and then starting from the fifth place, the papers are opened backwards.
Qin Dewei's expression kept pretending to be calm as he listened to the names being revealed one by one, looking very fair and selfless.
From a utilitarian point of view, these new imperial examination candidates will be regarded as his disciples from now on. I wonder how many of them can continue to work hard and continue to pass the examination.
When he heard that the 91st candidate with the surname Wen was the candidate, Qin Dewei sighed again, hey, a quota was wasted.
This person is already sixty-eight years old, and will be completely useless to the officialdom in the future. He is so kind-hearted that he even accepts a sixty-eight-year-old person.
When the first-place test paper is opened, it is the climax of the entire filling process.
The first place, Jie Yuan, is of course the most glorious figure in each provincial examination!
Even the examiner Qin Dewei, who pretended to be calm, perked up at this time!
I don’t know what kind of person Jieyuan I personally pointed out is.
But Qin Dewei believes that no matter who this Jieyuan is, he must be a super lucky person who won the imperial examination!
To be selected by myself, a time traveler and the youngest number one scholar in history, is a blessing that has been cultivated for hundreds of years and has been blessed by the god of imperial examinations!
When Chief Examiner Qin was holding a tea cup and was slightly lost in thought, the scribe in charge of the roll call loudly shouted: "First place, Kunshan County, Suzhou Prefecture, Gui Youguang, Yi Jing!"
Poof! Qin Dewei spat out a sip of tea. He was really a lucky person in the imperial examination.
The other officials on both sides were all surprised. What was so special about this candidate named Gui Youguang? Why could the examiner be so rude?
However, only Qin Dewei himself understood why he was shocked.
Gui Youguang, a famous writer in the Ming Dynasty, was also recognized as the strongest essayist in the Ming Dynasty.
The representative work of this person only says one sentence: "There is a loquat tree in the courtyard. My wife planted it when she died. Now it has a pavilion like a canopy."
This sentence is also one of the most widely circulated ancient Chinese sentences on the Internet five hundred years later, which shows the foundation of his skills.
Of course, in the sixteenth year of Jiajing, although Gui Youguang's first wife has passed away, the tree has not grown up yet.
However, in addition to his literary achievements, Gui Youguang is also very famous for his achievements in the imperial examination. In the original historical time and space, Gui Youguang failed the examination eight times!
Such a great writer failed to pass the examination for eight consecutive times, setting a record for failure in the Ming Dynasty examination!
This person is not lucky, who would dare to say he is lucky? Chief Examiner Qin’s hunch was right, the Jie Yuan he pointed out with his own hands is indeed a very lucky person.
At this time, Qin Dewei suddenly remembered the 91st old man named Wen.
If I remember correctly, this is Mr. Wen's tenth provincial examination, right? If it weren't for his butterfly effect, this old man would have never passed the exam in his life.
Anyway, I failed the first nine times, which is probably the record of failure in the Ming Dynasty Provincial Examination.
Therefore, compared with Wen Zhengming, who failed the provincial examination nine times, Gui Youguang's achievements in the imperial examination were not far behind.
Chief Examiner Qin couldn't help but secretly sigh. In the original time and space, in the original time and space, one of Gui Youguang and Wen Zhengming was the record holder of failure in the future imperial examination, and the other was the record holder of failure in the provincial examination. They could be called the crouching dragons and phoenixes of the Ming Dynasty imperial examination.
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Later generations were often pulled out together and used as material cases to criticize the imperial examination for burying talents.
However, this pair of sleeping dragons and phoenixes were on the list of the provincial examination that they were taking together. Their fate was incredible.
The examiner was in a daze for no reason, and the cheerful atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense.
Everyone secretly wondered, could it be that the examiner wanted to readjust the rankings? Or did he want to remove a few people and replace a few people from the preparation papers?
After Qin Dewei came to his senses, he felt that everyone might have misunderstood something, and quickly waved his hand and ordered: "That's it, fill in the correct list! Then publish the list!"