Chapter 330 There is a great way to make money

In February, the spring is chilly in Beijing, especially in the morning and night, the whistling north wind is just like the saying "Febre spring breeze is like scissors". We must expose the skin outside and scrape the shocking little holes.

In this environment, answering the paper is a double test of the spirit and body. Although the candidates are lighting a brazier, the rectangular test house has only three walls, and they keep pouring wind into it. The candidates must put down the brush in their hands from time to time and rub the ten carrots hard, otherwise they must not write if they are frozen. As for the frozen legs, no matter what they do, they don’t need to write anyway.

Compared with most candidates, the silent test-taking life is undoubtedly very comfortable. I slept until dawn the next day, I cooked a white porridge with the leftover rice from yesterday, chopped two peeled eggs, and made a simple version of peeled eggs and lean meat porridge.

After washing his face and brushing his teeth, the porridge was ready, and he had two bowls of full meals, and his whole body was warm. Then Chen Si brought the ultra-thin sable gloves prepared by Ruohan. This thing was perfectly sewn according to his hand shape. It did not affect writing at all after wearing it, and it was very warm.

In addition to the small warmer in his arms and the small wind furnace under his feet, he can ensure that he is completely free from the pain of wind and cold and can answer the paper with peace of mind.

After his body and mind were adjusted to the best state, he took off the bag of the paper from the wall, opened the test paper, and carefully reviewed the first three and four book questions. These three questions were fundamental in the provincial examination, and now the test was even more serious. Because these three were the emperor's questions, examiners naturally had to devote all their energy to it. I have never heard of anyone using the Chinese style of the Five Classics questions, and I don't even think about the next two games.

Among the three questions, the first question is the heaviest, which is beyond doubt. When I saw the first question in silence, I couldn't help but smile, and saw that the question only had five words, saying, "There is a great way to make money." It can be seen that people are so poor that they can do anything. Emperor Jiajing actually asked directly on the test questions about how to solve the serious economic crisis of the Ming Dynasty.

But this topic will not cause criticism, because this sentence does come from Chapter 10 of the "Biography" discussing the way of governing the country. The original sentence is "There is a great way to make money. There are many people who produce it, few people who eat it, and those who do it are sick, and those who use it are comfortable, and those who use it will be sufficient, and then the wealth will always be enough."

‘The more people who give birth to it’ means that there are many people who create wealth; ‘The few people who eat it’ means that there are few people who are parasitized in the former; ‘There are those who make it’ means that the speed of creating wealth is that the speed of consuming wealth is that the slow speed of consuming wealth. So everyone knows that this sentence explains the truth of enriching the country and benefiting the people, lies in increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, earning more and less money, and then it is natural to spread it out and write a stable article.

This is naturally safe in normal times, and I believe most candidates do the same. However, with his clear understanding of the political situation, he knew that the Ming Dynasty's finances had reached a precarious point. Even officials who were "cannibals" were owed their salary for several years and did not see any meat during the New Year. It can be seen from the sight of the leopard. From this, Chen Si judged that Emperor Jiajing's question must have hoped to see solutions to the problem, rather than getting some big and empty general discussions.

A few months ago, Chen Si must have chosen to follow the crowd without hesitation and win with his solid words. However, after so many ups and downs and seeing the sensational Emperor Jiajing, his thoughts changed - a real man was born here, and he was brave enough to speak and do! He always wanted to please him from all sides but could not get what he wanted. He said in a grievance that he didn't say it, but he was so bad that people could see clearly. It would be better to speak freely and let go and do it. Even if he failed, he would not regret it!

After answering the first exam with great pleasure, unlike the provincial exam, the candidates are not allowed to appear. Instead, after the papers are completed, the second exam paper will be distributed and the next exam will be immediately conducted.

As for the collected ink rolls, they were signed and sealed by the scroll collector, and then the name was sealed by the Mixed Clothing Officer on the outer curtain, and sent to the transcription office by the transcription officer to copy it into a red scroll with a red pen. After reading it for a special person, the red scroll of the Mixed Clothing was confirmed and the two scrolls were sent to the Shuo Palm. The red scroll was checked and the red scroll was separated. The ink roll was stored at the outer curtain official, and the red scroll was sent to the inner curtain flying rainbow bridge.

In the "To the Court" written by Master Yan, the vice president of this examination, Li Ben, the senior secretary of the 18th room and the examiner, and the eighteen internal supervisors all looked at the door... The president of this examination, Xu Jie and Lu Bing, and the chief officer of this examination, escorted Zhu Juan from Feihongqiao, who was in the first contest.

When they saw the two adults coming, everyone in the room hurriedly left their seats to meet. Xu Jie and Lu Bing also bowed back and returned the ceremony, and then brought them to the hall and performed the ceremony of kneeling three times and nine times in front of Confucius' tablet of the "Dacheng Supreme Sage". Xu Jie also went to the incense on behalf of all the reviewers to swear: "See scholars impartially for the country and the country, do not follow personal feelings, do not accept requests, and do not accept bribes - if you have this heart, the gods will kill you together!"

After completing this set of work, Xu Jie stood up and turned his head and said, "Everyone, I have given many instructions. In fact, it is just a word, be 'fair'. You have done all this exam questions, so you should know how much Your Majesty values ​​this exam..." A pair of small but bright eyes swept over everyone majestic and said, "When you mark the papers, even if you forget what 'fairness' is, you still think about your wife and children at home and start drawing lots."

The examiner of the 18th room took the order to draw lots, and each person was assigned a test paper. He returned to his seat and sat upright, waiting for the president to show his planned Chengwen - that is, the standard answers for this exam. After Xu Jie posted the article he had drafted according to the emperor's will, and then announced the requirements for picking the paper. The examiner of the examiner opened the paper and began to review the review. If he saw the paper he liked, he would circle it with a green ink pen and make an evaluation, and then handed over to the deputy chief examiner.

Just like the provincial examination, this is called the recommendation paper. If it becomes the recommendation paper, you will have five or six points to be taken. If the deputy examiner also likes it, he will make a "take" character on the recommendation paper and then give it to the main examiner. If he gets the "take" character, he will have eight or nine points to be grasped. When the examiner finally likes it, he will write the "zhong" character. Congratulations to this contestant, his lifelong future will be obtained!

Because the marking process is so meticulous and complicated, it is almost impossible to get a thousand yuan after the exam. However, in this era when the Yan family father and son covered the world and were omnipresent, procedural fairness is difficult to implement in actual operations. In fact, some people will pass the Jinshi, which is destined before the exam...

Just one day before entering the examination room, Yan Shifan tried every means to send someone to meet Li Ben, the vice president of the undergraduate examination in confinement, who was in lockdown. He gave him a list and asked him to help. When Li Ben heard this, he immediately changed his face and stood up angrily. While walking into the room, he said seriously: "Yu Xiuzai, Yu Xiuzai..." That is, the meaning of 'Forget it,' it sounds very just.

The person who was passing the message was disappointed and went back to complain in anger. However, Yan Shifan, who had extraordinary comprehension, heard the implicit voice of Li Ben, and sneered to his confidant: "Li Ben doesn't speak well, but insists on using difficult classical Chinese, obviously telling us the secret code!" He ordered people to pass on the three words "Yu Xiuzai" so that those related households who gave heavy gifts could remember them and find ways to use them during the exam.

Of course, in order to reduce the risk, it is impossible to buy all the examiners of the 18th room. Moreover, such articles with "same joints" are often not meaningful, stinking, and not very good at recommending papers by examiners. Therefore, this kind of cheating is mainly concentrated in the "search and fall". Li Benhui used this power to justify the test papers that passed the joints, and also called it "really seeking the beads" without leaving any handle.

We know that the "leniency" obtained from the search and the papers must be ranked outside the fifty. Therefore, this kind of cheating will not completely ruin the country's talent competition ceremony. At least in the normal review process before the search and the papers, fairness and justice can still be guaranteed... This is also a hidden rule.

The examiners followed the process and reviewed the papers day after day. In a blink of an eye, it was the end of February. With three days left before the deadline, they finally selected 400 test papers and collected the 400 places to be admitted this time. Next, they ranked the 400 future Jinshi... For the fate of these 400 people, this is almost decisive; because although His Majesty will reorder the rankings of new Jinshi in the later palace examinations, in fact, as long as the characters are not too ugly, the ranking changes will not be too big... I have never heard of any candidate outside the ten, who was ranked first, nor have they heard of any candidate in the top 30, who fell outside the second grade, so examiners are often very particular about this process.

Fortunately, the CEO Xu Jie is a good and easy-to-talk person this time. He has basically no objection to the opinions of Li Ben and his fellow examiners. Therefore, in a harmonious atmosphere, the ranking work is carried out slowly. Two days later, except for the top ten papers, all the other 390 were ranked.
Chapter completed!