This academic officer was invited by the government to attend a banquet, and then entered the Gongyuan. After that, the gate of the Gongyuan was locked, and communication with the outside world was cut off. This was also the rule of the examination, and it would not be reopened until the early morning of the day of the examination.
Li You saw that there was nothing serious going on at the government office, so he asked for two days' leave. From his father's attitude, we could get a clue that the harem was unstable, so we had to send troops to pacify it.
When I got home, I first announced that I had bought the new house, and that I would be able to move in after it was renovated and repaired this month. Then I went from house to house to collect rain and dew, but Aunt Guan was left out in the cold.
On this day, Li You's nephew and grandson Li Zheng and Li Tongsheng came to visit him.
"My dear grandson, are you ready to take the exam? How are you preparing for your studies?" Li Tuiguan asked with cordial concern.
Li Zheng asked strangely: "Why did my uncle ask you about me? You should ask yourself? Or should I ask you how you prepared?"
"ask me?"
Li Zheng clenched his fists and said impassionedly: "Little uncle! Whether the Li family can produce the first scholar this year depends entirely on you! You must not be careless and careless, and you must go all out for the exam! The hope of the whole family is yours.
Your body and Li family's literary fortune will be tested here, and everything will be fine!"
Li You was so excited when he heard this that he almost shouted, "How dare you not try your best to follow up with blood!"
Damn...who is going to take the exam?
Of course, Li You understood what Li Zheng said, and it was nothing more than begging him to continue to open up the joints and protect him. If he had the ability, this was what he, a member of the Li family, should do.
But after all, the exam is the face of a scholar. Unlike a gray person like him, who has other ideas, don't say it so naturally and nakedly.
It can only be said that Li You doesn't have much contact with scholars. These days, many scholars have no upper limit to their thick skin.
Li You frowned and thought hard, feeling that it would not be easy to help with this task. In the college examination, the academic officer is the chief examiner, and one person has the final say whether he passes the mid-term examination or not. There seems to be no use looking for others.
But he has nothing to do with the official Ti Xueguan, and his humble background makes it hard to talk to him, and he doesn’t have many classmates in the same year that he can use to build friendship. You know, cheating in the imperial examination is a serious crime, and his personal background is not that tough.
To a certain extent, who would dare to go overboard for you easily? What's more, the academic officer has already moved into Gongyuan, and according to regulations, the door of the courtyard is tightly closed and isolated from the outside world.
It is said that although Li Tuiguan is very familiar with the affairs of the yamen, but due to his background and experience, he usually does not care much about the imperial examinations, and he is almost interested in the knowledge of the examination. People who have not participated and have no chance to take the examination will not
There are practical experiences such as cheating and trying to figure out the examiner's psychology.
"This matter is also very difficult to handle. It's a bit unimaginable." Li You said worriedly.
Li Zheng asked in confusion: "How come there is nothing you can do? Do you have any friendship with the great master? If you have any friendship, you can ask which book the question is from, or the agreed upon marks in the text."
This grandmaster refers to Ti Xueguan. Li You shook his head and said: "There is no friendship at all."
"Then you always have face in front of the master, right?"
Li You nodded and said, "Yes."
"That's it." Li Zhengdao: "How can there be no way."
You seem to have a lot of ideas... Li You gestured to his grandnephew to continue.
"According to the usual practice, there are examiners sent by the higher authorities in the examination room to take charge of grading and admission, and there are also local promotion officers to take care of the examination. The examiner of the college examination is the grand master, and the promotion officer is usually the prefect. Why don't you go and ask the prefect?
Get a job as a promotion officer?"
When Li Zheng talked about fraud, he spoke with great clarity, "There are several types of promotion officers, including prosecutors, inspectors, record collectors, transcribers, and supply officers... I would be happy if I knew what kind of job you got.
Get ready."
"If you are the prosecutor, I can be selfish and now I have to spend a lot of money to buy copybooks; if you are the patrol officer, you can secretly check the warehouse for me; if you are the collector, you can help me exchange the test papers; if you are the supply officer,
...I'll just hang myself! So you old man must prepare carefully."
"There are many types of entrapments, including being rolled into a pen holder, clipped into an ink cartridge, written on the lapel of clothes, stuffed into a bun, white silk, hairy paper, and potion..."
Seeing Li Zheng foaming at the mouth, Li You couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Is this still the simple boy who was teased by Xiaozhu? He had learned bad things after only one year... But he has gained a little experience, and he really has a specialization in the art. In the end
He couldn't help but put on the air of an elder and said: "The whole clan sent you to study, so you learned these heretical skills?"
Li Tongsheng said smoothly, and unknowingly he began to teach Uncle Guan, "Why do you have to be so honest, little uncle! What is ability? Those who are capable will naturally find their own way, and the rest who are not capable will have to rely on their knowledge to take the exam.
.Isn’t my ability only due to your uncle? Everyone wants to work hard, it’s just a matter of success. If I go to the exam honestly, I will suffer a loss in vain. There are people who are more capable, so they directly say hello to the grand master.
"
Do you dare to say that I am honest? I won’t curse people like this! Li You reprimanded: "You still need to teach these principles? Grandpa, I know better than you! I will ask the prefect after I ask. You go back and prepare your homework carefully. If you take the test this time
However, I will ask the clan leader to lock you up and study until you die!"
After sending Li Zheng away, Li You thought carefully, studied several methods mentioned by his grandnephew, and decided to seek a job as a prosecutor. Other jobs, although the fraud effect is better, also require his practical operation.
It is easy to be exposed and caught, and often there are witnesses, making it difficult to defend yourself.
In comparison, the prosecutor's job is low-risk and does not require him to do it himself. Even if he is involved in the examination, he can still say that he was careless and made a mistake, and at most he will be reprimanded. As for the examinee led by Li Zheng,
Whether the cheat sheet works or not is up to fate.
When Li You returned to Fucheng, he found that things were more troublesome than expected. In the past two days, seven or eight people came to visit Li Tuiguan with various famous assassins. They were either relatives of this person or old friends of that person, and they also brought enough money.
They all have friendships and contacts, and they all hope that Li You will show his favor if he becomes a promotion officer.
It seems that everyone unanimously believes that Li Tuiguan can definitely find a place in the promotion official position if he wants to.
For the first time, Li You felt the troubles of being an official in the local area. There were too many human relationships involved. If you were an official in other places, you wouldn't have so many human relationships to support you. You could just turn a blind eye and quietly help one or two people.
The more there are, the greater the possibility of problems.
He thought about it again and decided to grab a position first and then talk about other things. If you don't take it for free, don't take it. As Li Zheng said, if you don't do it, someone else will do it, which means you will suffer a loss.
A hot topic in Suzhou Prefecture this month is the upcoming college examination. Children in various counties who have some money can't wait for the exam day, so they come to Fucheng in advance to inquire about the wind direction and look for opportunities to camp. The rents near Gongyuan are rising three times a day.
The situation is gratifying.
Compared with the major three-level examinations such as the township examination, the general examination, and the palace examination, the form and content of the minor three-level examinations such as the county examination, the government examination, and the college examination are much more flexible. For example, the college examination can be taken separately in one county or one county.
Several counties jointly take the exam.
Suzhou Prefecture has a prosperous literary style. It has a Gongyuan that can accommodate thousands of people. It also has rich experience in administering high school examinations in the prefecture and counties. Therefore, the college examinations in all counties under its jurisdiction are taken together. This scale may be larger than the number of rural examinations. It also saves the need for academic officials.
Take the test in every county.
It is not easy to earn a living by studying. Look at Li You's family. There must be some people who have studied in their lifetimes, but there has never been a scholar since the beginning of the family tree.
Last year, nearly 3,000 people participated in Xujiang County's childbirth examination. How many were finally admitted by Chen County? One hundred. Li You's great-nephew Li Zheng might not have had the luck to become one of the 100 if Li You hadn't helped him get his joints straightened.
one.
These one hundred went to take the government examination again, and fifty of them were admitted, and they can be called Tongsheng. Li Zheng relied on Li You to entrust Wang Tongzhi and got through the government office to pass.
The remaining fifty children will take part in this month's college examination, competing with hundreds of other children from previous years in the county for twenty or thirty places in the county's mid-term examination. Only those who pass the examination can become students, and that's it.
Only a scholar can be regarded as entering the class of scholars and becoming a candidate for the ruling group of the Ming Dynasty.
You can calculate, in a place like Suzhou Prefecture where the imperial examination is prosperous, under completely fair conditions, would a person who has studied have a one percent chance of becoming a scholar?
But becoming a scholar is just the beginning, and there is a longer process waiting for you, with half of the school's scientific examinations and the provincial examination with an admission rate of one-thirtieth waiting for you. It is not until you win the imperial examination that you can change your family and ascend to heaven, and enter the ruling group.
Thinking about this, Li You suddenly felt that he was very lucky. If he really traveled through time and became a scholar who was still in school, his seemingly innocent family would be more popular among readers, but if he was not a real nobleman, the probability of becoming a Jinshi in the end would be one in ten thousand.
No, the probability of becoming a successful candidate is less than one thousandth.
In the early morning of this morning, the government office had a routine meeting in the lobby. The prefect Wang announced that the key task this month was to protect the hospital exams, and everything should be centered around this matter without making any mistakes. He also arranged for Xia Tongpan, who was responsible for catching thieves, to clean up the streets.
, to maintain order outside the Gongyuan. As for the promotion and division of labor in the examination room, it will be announced at a selected date.
After they broke up, Li You took the initiative to stay. When the prefect Wang saw him, he knew that he had something on his mind. The two of them walked to the second flower hall in the backyard. After sitting down, the prefect Wang asked, "What do you want to do?"
Li Youmao then recommended himself and said: "The boss proposes to be transferred to the academy, and the lower official is willing to join Jiwei."
Magistrate Wang smiled and nodded in agreement.
The next day, the government office announced the much-anticipated list of promoted officers, and Li You lived up to expectations and was promoted to prosecutor. People with whom he was acquainted came to congratulate him, and for a while, the crowd was crowded.
However, Li You was not proud for long, and the situation changed suddenly one day later. Su Song's administrative office suddenly announced that Shi Shenzheng himself would be the chief promotion officer for this court examination, and the list announced by the government office was invalid.
When the news reached the government office, it immediately aroused public outrage. This was an abnormal behavior. The prefect promoted the court examinations, and the governor promoted the rural exams. This was the rule of the imperial examination. Fen Shoudao blatantly interfered in the court examinations, which was against the government officials.
Great contempt.
However, Shi's reasons for participating in politics are also very strong - the national scholar selection ceremony, tribute students, how can the senior officials learn from the law?
It means that you, Wang Zhifu, are just a student, and Li Tuiguan is not even a scholar. Do you have the nerve to go to the academic examination hall to be a promotion officer? As a scholar, I am openly contemptuous of you two.
