Chapter 120: The First Test of the Little Sanyuan Palace (Part 2)

The examination room for the Shaoxing Prefecture Examination is located in the Fuxue Palace, which covers an area of ​​100 acres and has very good examination conditions. However, there are also the same problems as the county school... The seats in the examination room are still good and bad, some are not very light, and some are relatively windy, so everyone hopes to occupy a better position.

At this time, the examination room opened and the first county began to call the name. Candidates from other counties found the staff in the examination room and took out the money to ask them to put the examination basket on the table with the good position in the examination room. According to convention, this means that someone has occupied this seat. After they enter the venue, they just need to find their own examination basket and sit down.

But the officers did not dare to collect the money this time. They said with regret: "Mr. The Master of the Mansion has ordered that the seat number must be determined according to the paper, and the number must be entered and the exam will be cancelled." The candidates gave up.

Five thousand Tongsheng entered the venue in ten groups, and they only received the answer sheets when it was bright and they entered the venue. The silent luck finally came back. His seat was three rows, six, and three sixteen and eighteen. It was not only auspicious but also had an excellent location.

Sitting in his seat, he found that he knew no one in front, back, left and right, and couldn't help but say happily: "You can take the exam with peace of mind." The county exam was not strict, and the candidates around him whispered to him how to solve the questions, which made people annoyed. It is said that the discipline requirements for the provincial exam were also relaxed.

I heard the buzzing sounds everywhere, and maybe some pre-exam social activities such as "I'm all brothers and brothers, I'll help each other later!" "If you show me, be careful to go out and ruin you!"

After silence, all the candidates were finally ready to sit down.

At this time, the entrance to the examination room was slowly closed, and a seal was posted after the lock was locked. Seeing this scene, the candidates couldn't help but feel irritated and thought to themselves, "Isn't you going to be serious?"

While everyone was thinking about it, a male voice shouted in a long tone: "The magistrate is here!"

There was a sensation of noise, and the candidates stood up one after another and bowed to the main hall. The prefect walked to the front of the hall, but also faced the main hall, and gave the owner... Confucius put three incense sticks, and then took the candidates to bow three times, then turned around.

The students saluted him again and said, "Students pay homage to the governor."

"No gifts, sit down." The prefect's voice was very clear and charming.

I felt the sound was very familiar, so I looked up while I was sitting down and couldn't help but be surprised. The official standing in front of the main hall, wearing a golden black gauze, a crimson fourth-rank official robe, and a skylark on his chest turned out to be his uncle who suddenly appeared - Tang Shunzhi!

The candidates also looked up at the Lord of the Mansion. When they saw the crimson blush, they couldn't help but gasp. They should know that although according to the old Hongwu system, the prefect should be the fourth rank. However, since the Chenghua period, the governor's responsibility system has gradually taken shape. By the Jiajing period, the governor had surpassed the Third Division and became a veritable head of a province. The original Third Division had become a departmental local authority institution, and its rank was naturally lower than that of the Governor... Although the governor himself did not have a rank, he must have the title of Assistant Minister of the Department of War or the Censor of the Chief Censor... Like the governor of Zhejiang, he was usually Assistant Minister of War, and was the third rank.

Therefore, when the Ministry of Personnel awarded the title of Zhejiang officials, it demoted the second-rank governor to the third-rank; the third-rank supervisor to the fourth-rank, and the prefect also demoted the fourth-rank to the fifth-rank...

But the new Tang Fuzun was actually a fourth-rank official. The candidates didn’t know what this really meant, but they simply believed that this showed that the Duzun must be very awesome!

So I felt respectful and did not dare to be a little bit contempt because of his appearance.

After putting on the official uniform, Tang Shunzhi disappeared. Instead, the prefect Tang Dynasty prefect, who was not angry and powerful. His eyes slowly swept across the audience and did not stop at anyone. He only heard his voice solemnly: "Everyone, this official, the deputy envoy of Zhejiang Military Preparation and the governor of Shaoxing, Tang Shunzhi, is also the chief examiner of this year's prefecture examination." The deputy envoy of Zhejiang Military Preparation was a fourth-rank official, so Tang Shunzhi had a lark on his chest.

The scene was silent, and the prefect Tang said in a deep voice: "No need to hide it, the top priority in Zhejiang now is to prepare for Japanese people, especially to prevent Japanese pirates from launching attacks when the government concentrates its manpower. Therefore, this official requested to recommend the students to follow the examples of the institute and shorten the government examination this year to one day. The Ministry of Rites has approved it and agreed to order all the six coastal provinces to handle this accordingly." Although the word "province" in the early Ming Dynasty was very taboo, during the Jiajing period, as long as it was not written, even officials would use "province" to replace the difficult-to-mouth "province" of the "government and envoy".

The candidate was in an uproar and said loudly in an impatient manner: "This is not in accordance with the rules!"

As soon as the noise started, the officers and soldiers guarding the examination room shouted in unison: "Silent!" The saints could not see weapons in the examination room, otherwise there would be a "boom" sound of water and fire sticks poking the ground.

The candidates calmed down.

"The wartime power is the rule!" The prefect Tang said in a deep voice: "If you are not satisfied, you can quit and come to the exam again next year." After saying that, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said: "If the Japanese pirates are pacified next year, you can do as many exams as you want."

I am a fisherman, and I am a fisherman. What else can candidates say? They can only bow their heads and accept their fate.

"Now I'll give the exam questions." The prefect Tang ordered in a deep voice. Then a team of officials sent the envelope containing the exam questions according to the serial number. The prefect Tang said loudly: "I have produced nine sets of questions in total. It is guaranteed that the questions each of you will get are different from those in front, behind, and left and right. So please concentrate on answering your own papers, don't whisper or peek at other people's papers, because that's useless..." As he said, he turned cold and said: "Of course, you can't peek at the cheat sheets. As long as you violate the discipline, you will be expelled from the examination room immediately!"

As soon as the test questions were issued, how could the candidates have the time to deal with the noisy prefect? ​​They all nervously opened the envelope and took out their own test questions.

Shen Mo saw that the test questions he had assigned were two four-book questions. The big question was a question saying "Tao it with virtue"; the small body was a question saying "It is all elegant and Ye Gong". It was obvious that the big question was the test of the skills, with the true pharaoh as the most important, and the small body was thinking, and the appropriate scheming of the question was the most important.

So he took advantage of the clear mind at the beginning and looked at the topic "Ji Yayan Ye Gong". He had to see how this inexplicable sentence was born, and then find the source... This is not a rote memorization test, it is simply an intelligence test!

After thinking for a while, Shen Mo added a dot after the first four words and determined the sentence as "all are elegant words" and "Ye Gong", and then he could conclude that these two sentences are "The Analects of Confucius. Shuer". The former is the last four words of Chapter 15, and the latter is the beginning two words of Chapter 16. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly: "My uncle is really a genius!"

Because although the interrogation questions are widely used, the court has never officially recognized this method of setting questions. If you encounter a censor who doesn't like you and consider your crime of "splitting the scriptures", you have to resign. But the censor who finds faults will have no choice but to treat this prefect Tang... Although everyone knows that he is giving interrogation questions, the six words are clearly connected. If you don't believe it, go back and look through the book to see if it is next to each other.
Chapter completed!