Chapter 645 Born by Mother (Please subscribe!)

Author: Linjiang Jun

Chapter 645 Born by Mother (Please subscribe!)

Then, Pan Boheng entered the next step: full body examination.

This time it was completely naked, and the two yamen servants carefully inspected it with their hands, so it would be useless even if you were Princess Taiping, saying you were a woman pretending to be a man.

Even though everyone was a man, Pan Boheng still felt a little embarrassed.

In the future, when he rises through the ranks and becomes a high-ranking official, will some government official say, "Your Majesty, Prime Minister? I examined him back then and found that he had bad breath!"

He doesn't have bad breath for the time being, and he didn't eat garlic this morning.

The conscientious government officials looked inside his mouth again and again to make sure he was not hiding anything.

Pan Boheng actually didn’t understand that cheating could be contained in his mouth?

But something even worse happened. A government official turned around and walked behind Pan Boheng and began to conduct a further inspection...

The most sour thing is that I haven’t escaped yet!

Ah this?

Is there anyone else hiding cheat sheets in Chrysanthemum?

This kind of cheating and anti-cheating methods is really unheard of!

This is the rigor of Ming Dynasty!

I saw the yamen officer squatting and checking with a serious look on his face.

Pan Boheng couldn't help but think that he was really responsible. What if someone accidentally farted, how embarrassing it would be!

Damn, he ate a sweet potato in the morning.

Just as I was thinking about it, there was a "poof" sound!

He farted.

The yamen servant was almost killed by the gas and couldn't help but take two steps back.

Is this just subduing the enemy without fighting?

Although Pan Boheng had seen all kinds of big scenes, this was the first time he encountered this scene. He was so embarrassed that he was at a loss. He kept saying: "Brother, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! My natural reaction..."

"Okay! You can get dressed!" the yamen officer who was checking his anus said angrily.

It just so happened that Pan Boheng felt a little cold after taking off all his clothes.

After putting on his clothes, Xiao Pan finally passed numerous inspections and entered the examination room.

He took a deep breath and sat down in his examination booth with his head held high.

It’s as if this is not an examination room, but a battlefield!

In fact, this is also a battlefield for scholars! Among the tens of thousands of candidates present today, only three hundred were selected!

Most of them are "accompanying the exams", and the scary thing is that they have to accompany the exams in one subject after another.

This is why some people want to bribe examiners and even take risks to cheat.

Because they want to be officials too much.

Generally speaking, colluding with the examiners is the most difficult, because the imperial examination also has a "transcription" system, that is, the submitted examination papers will be copied by a special transcriber to prevent the examiner from sending favors through handwriting.

However, under the money offensive, transcription students can also be bribed.

There is a cheating method called "bee collecting honey", which is to select a transcription student with better literary talent in advance and hide the test papers and pen and ink in the transcription room before he enters the transcription room.

After the test paper for a specific candidate is handed in, all the good words and sentences from all the current articles will be copied into a complete test paper, and then the test paper for that candidate will be burned.

Because this kind of test paper, which combines the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought, is like honey that condenses the essence of countless flowers, it is called "honey collected by bees".

"Bees collecting honey" is quite troublesome to operate. There is also a simple method. The paid examiner cuts off A's test paper and replaces it with B's paper when marking the paper.

In the thirty-eighth year of Wanli (1610) alone, 18 examinees who changed papers were found. Among them, the examiners who participated in sealing, transcribing, and grading papers were naturally colluding, and they were all accused.

The current imperial examination of the New Ming Dynasty is relatively pure. Jinyiwei has arranged manpower supervision in each chain. If there is any problem, it means that Jinyiwei has also been bribed!

Then the new Ming Dynasty is still playing tricks!

The above methods are definitely not affordable for civilian candidates. More extensive and cheap cheating methods require cheat sheets.

A cheat sheet was found in Luoyang, Henan. The whole book is only 6.5 centimeters long, 4.8 centimeters wide, and 1.5 centimeters thick. However, such a compact book actually contains 300,000 words, and the content is the full text of the "Complete Notes on the Five Classics".

The locations where test takers hide cheat sheets are much the same as today. Some are hidden in the middle of clothes, some are hidden in the middle of shoe soles, and some are stuffed in food and brought in.

Some people write cheat sheets on the clothes they wear during exams. For example, someone in Laizhou City, Yantai collected a mandarin jacket from the Ming Dynasty. It was densely covered with small scripts. The average length of a word was 1.8 mm. I don’t know how the candidates could read it clearly.

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This is why Pan Boheng went through so many inspections.

As soon as the Si hour came, the sound of knocking on the cloud board was heard, and the door of Confucius Temple was slammed shut.

From this moment until the end of the exam, the examination room is isolated from the outside world. People inside cannot get out and people outside cannot enter.

After a while, it was finally time to hand out test papers.

The difference between the general examination and the provincial examination is that each person has one test paper and no scratch paper is needed to copy the questions. Of course, the cost of the test paper is included in the examinee's examination fee.

As a result, the examination fee for the competent examination was twice as high as that for the provincial examination.

The test paper and answer sheet are separate. No answers or markings are allowed on the test paper. They must be collected together after the test.

The answer sheets are also sealed independently. It is said that the famous answer sheets of the number one scholar in history can be preserved for hundreds of years.

The question types of the general examination are roughly the same as those of the provincial examination. The first test is Confucian theory, with a total of seven questions.

This exam is the most important. If you do well, you will most likely pass.

Because the theory of True Confucianism was proposed by His Majesty, it is of course the most important.

Pan Boheng is not hypocritical in this regard. He relied on his eldest brother's relationship and was specially trained by the bachelor Wang Fuzhi, so it was easy!

Pan Boheng wrote the answers on the scratch paper to avoid typos when written directly on the answer sheet. If he made a mistake, all the previous efforts would be wasted.

This exam will change the fate of many people. To break public opinion, Pan Boheng must get a good name.

Pan Boheng wrote hard and quickly. When he arrived, he finished writing on the draft paper. He checked it carefully several times before writing the answer on the paper.

By noon, he had finished writing the test paper and checked it twice to make sure there were no mistakes. Only when he found that there were no errors or omissions did he hand the Zhen Confucian Theory test paper to the Yamen!

Pan Boheng handed in his paper. Naturally, other candidates heard the voice and began to guess, who is the great master?

He didn't know that handing in his paper would attract other people's attention, so he ate quickly and then fell asleep.

The examiner, Liu Dian, the Minister of Rites, was inspecting the site on the first day. He was very happy to hear that someone had submitted a paper and wanted to see if there were any good candidates in this subject.

Liu Dian, the Minister of Rites, ordered: "Bring up the submitted test paper and take a look!"

The yamen officer next to him saw such a big official for the first time, so he tremblingly replied: "Yes, sir!"

Next to him, the Minister of Rites, who was also supervising the examination room, said: "Master Shangshu, if you hand in the paper so quickly, you probably didn't do well in the examination."

Liu Dian waved his hand and said, "It's okay! Let's see if there are any real materials."
Chapter completed!