The Prosperous Era of Longwan

Nanchang Gongyuan.

At this time, most of the candidates had already handed in their papers and left the venue, but there were still candles burning in the joint examination room. Those were the scholars who were still burning the midnight oil to fight.

Maybe they have completed the exam for this subject and are checking it out, or they are still writing hard.

Faced with such an exam, the responsible government official could only curse in his heart for affecting his rest, and he really did not dare to slack off at all.

According to the rules of the examination room, they cannot forcefully collect the papers and drive them away before the candidates run out of candles.

In the distance, the Mingyuan upstairs was also brightly lit, and many officials in various official uniforms were looking out from upstairs.

The people standing upstairs in Mingyuan are all the invigilators of this Jiangxi Provincial Examination. Most of them are gathered here at this time, looking at the examination booth with candlelight in the distance, and the stacks of test papers in their arms walking back and forth downstairs. Running around as a yamen servant.

The entire atmosphere upstairs was solemn. Everyone was watching the inside and outside of the Gongyuan with expressionless faces. There was no scene where officials would get together and laugh together in the past.

Not long after, the sound of "dong dong dong" came from the stairs as he walked quickly upstairs. It was the sound of official boots stepping on the wooden stairs, which broke the tranquility of the moment upstairs.

Everyone turned and looked over. Coming up the stairs was a big man wearing a red unicorn suit with an embroidered spring knife hanging on his waist.

After the big man went upstairs, he looked at everyone and rushed to the leading official, who just clasped his fists slightly and said, "Master Li, Master Sun has copied the first batch of test papers and they are still in Jieshen Hall and will be delivered to him soon. Heng Jian Tang asked the examiners to review.

My lords, I don’t know if I have any other instructions or if I need to conduct an on-site inspection. "

"No need, your people can just keep an eye on it."

The official named Mr. Li just nodded in reply, then turned around and ignored him.

The big man is the Qianhu of Jinyiwei stationed in Nanchang, and he is one of the outside examiners for this provincial examination.

The Jin Yiwei participated in the imperial examination, and the emperor specifically joined in order to ensure the fairness of the imperial examination. However, they would not touch the examination papers, but would only watch.

As a special secret service agency of the Ming Dynasty, as civil servants, they naturally looked down upon them, and no one wanted to get close to the Jinyiwei people.

The people of Jinyiwei naturally knew that they were an eyesore to these civil servants, and generally would not go to them for nothing. Just like the banquet held for the provincial examination examiners a few days ago, this Qianhu master did not attend.

Wei Guangde left the examination room after handing in his papers. He was no different from the other candidates. They all stared intently in front of him, and did not even notice the countless eyes around them that were staring at them.

If Wei Guangde had more knowledge, or asked Zeng Yuanshu after the exam, maybe he would slap his head and curse those directors, screenwriters and writers of later generations who harmed people. Those who he always thought were Nanchang's avant-garde men wearing blue cotton armor The soldiers are actually the soldiers of Jinyiwei, the famous secret service agency of the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Guangde was influenced by later generations. In this life, because he had never been in contact with Jinyiwei, he was still completely unfamiliar with this organization. According to the understanding of later generations, he thought that people in Jinyiwei should look majestic in flying fish suits and carrying embroidered spring knives.

Of course, he had no idea what the Xiuchundao looked like, but he seemed to remember that the knife was not long and was a kind of waist knife.

In his understanding, those guys in Feiyu suits should be hiding in the dark and observing them.

Wei Guangde was born in the Imperial Guard, so he was naturally familiar with the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty. Feiyu uniforms were not something that just anyone could wear.

However, his eldest brother and the others were not very clear about these things. After all, they had never dealt with people from Jinyiwei.

For the officials of this era, they don't look at the clothes but only the waist badges and seals.

At this time, in the Jieshen Hall, the examiner in charge was walking back and forth in several rooms. The newly received test papers were checked here for sealing, and then sent to the special recording room next door for copying. There were a large number of papers here. The scribes brought from the official schools of various prefectures and counties below are specially used to copy the candidates' papers. The candidates' ink papers cannot be sent directly to the same examiners.

And the copied papers don't just go through all the procedures. They have to be sent to the adjacent reading room for verification to ensure that the copied papers are completely consistent with the original papers. Even the candidates' typos must be marked out. .

After the program completes this step, it is divided into papers.

There are a total of six marking officers for the Jiangxi Provincial Examination, including one chief examiner, one deputy chief examiner, and four co-examiners.

All candidates' test papers are divided into four parts and must first be sent to the same examiner for preliminary selection.

Among them, the papers that are considered to have the strength to be on the list are found and put aside by the examiners. These are the "recommended papers", that is, the papers they recommend. Then the deputy examiner will screen them. After a batch is rejected again, the remaining Only then will the examiner be called to make the final decision.

In the end, among these thousands of papers, only ninety-five papers will be retained as the test papers for the B list, and the candidates who wrote them will be the candidates for this subject.

As for the secondary list, well, actually, no one cares about it to them.

Wei Guangde slept comfortably in the inn. Sleeping on a wooden board for many days in a row prevented him from getting a good sleep at all. Now these days are finally over.

The candidates became more relaxed after leaving Gongyuan. At this time, in the Hengjian Hall of Gongyuan, several examiners each had a room and were conducting independent marking work. Papers were constantly being thrown to the ground, and papers were being placed on the ground from time to time. On the table next to it.

These are the papers that were lucky enough to pass the first level.

The examiners only get together when eating, but there is nothing to talk about. After all, they have been looking at the test papers all day long.

Fortunately, these are all articles written by scholars, and the quality of the articles is always much better than those papers reviewed in the college examination.

"The test papers in Jiangxi are indeed much better than the articles I read in Shandong."

One of the examiners sighed as he held the food in his bowl.

"Generally speaking, the scholars in the north are more than a little bit different from those in the south. It's normal."

"You still only read the eight-part article in the first game? Didn't you read the subsequent strategies?"

"Of course I want to read it. I want to see if that person named Wei has handed the test paper to me. I also want to know what fresh ideas he can come up with this time."

"Yeah, me too, but what I see now is very bland, nothing much, just the same old tunes."

"We all thought of it together, haha"

"The purpose of the imperial examination is to promote talents for the country. Just like the examiners said last time, if you have good articles, you are a wise minister, and if you have good policies and arguments, you are also a capable minister. They are all needed, don't you think?"

The four fellow examiners chatted casually. The chief examiner and deputy examiner of this provincial examination in the room next to them all just looked at each other and smiled, then shook their heads gently.