After Li Yanzhi and Jiang Yifan finished the first exam, the paper recipient put a seal on the surface of the paper that was collected, wrote the name, and then the name was sealed by the sealing official on the outer curtain. This paper was written with an ink pen, so it was called an ink scroll. After the ink scroll was sent to the transcription office, the transcription student copied it with a red pen and was called a red scroll. After the red scroll was released, the students read the original and copy it and confirmed that the transcription student was correct, so they were sealed on the red scroll. Both the transcription student and the students had to stamp the sealing title. This is a real-name responsibility system. If something happened to this paper, they would send the red scroll and the ink scroll to the palm office. After checking the red number of the red scroll, the two scrolls were separated. The ink scroll was kept at the outer curtain official, and the red scroll was sent to the tuner hall for approval.

As soon as the red paper was sent to the inner curtain, the chief examiner of the provincial examination and the deputy examiner of the provincial examination, under the supervision of the internal supervisor, convened the examiner of the sixteen rooms to draw lots and allocate the test papers. Then the examiner presented the written work he had planned - that is, the standard answers for the examination of this examination to the examiner of the joint examination of each room, and put forward the requirements for picking the papers.

The examiner of each room brought the red paper and Cheng Wen, and each went back to the room 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. This is called the recommendation paper. If it becomes the recommendation paper, the fame and reputation of the juren will be five or six points. After the deputy chief examiner read it, if he liked it, he would like to make a pick-up character on the recommendation paper and then give it to the main examiner. If he got the word "take", the fame and reputation of the juren will be 8 or nine points. If he felt satisfied after the examination paper was reviewed, he would be rated with another "Zhong" character - then the fame and reputation of the juren will be obtained!

The above is the review process of the provincial examination, and the imperial examination is similar. Because the rules are so strict, if you really want to have a cat after the exam, you have to connect the relationship between inside and outside the examination room. And because the responsibilities of each link are implemented by everyone, officials in each link need to help people produce cats, which is very risky, which also increases the cost of buying them. The examiner himself, after the article is accepted, he does not know what kind of person he is recruiting. From this level, the probability of having a cat in the imperial examination is very low, and it can indeed ensure a considerable degree of fairness. It would be good that one of the tens of thousands of people can succeed. Some scientific examination fraud cases are caused by the fact that they have few occurrences, so it is sensational. If successful cheating becomes the norm, then what else is worth making a fuss?

However, the fairness of this admission is only fair in the word "random". Excluding most of the interference between financial resources and power does not necessarily mean that this program itself can definitely eliminate the advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, due to its randomness, various unexpected things often happen.

For example, this time, the Fujian Provincial Examination was a little unexpected. Because one article was done very well, the examiner who was marking the paper couldn't help but cheer when he saw it, which attracted other examiners to watch it. Everyone was secretly surprised when they read it, and they all said: "Good article! Good article! But I haven't seen such a good article in many years!"

The examiner submitted the test paper to the deputy chief examiner. The deputy chief examiner had heard their movements. After picking up the paper, his eyes lit up and praised, "Okay, OK!" He approved the words on the spot and handed over to the chief examiner.

The main examiner took over the test questions. When he was watching, he saw several examiners surrounding him and said unhappily: "What are you doing!" The deputy examiner smiled and said: "It's easy to encounter such excellent words, so you naturally have to see how the undergraduate masters evaluate it."

The chief examiner laughed but said without saying a word, "I heard that there was a prodigy from Youxi in Fujian in this subject. A talented man surnamed Li. Before he entered the venue, someone connected him and said he wanted to congratulate him on the high school Jie Yuan. Is this a matter?"

All the examiners in the room had heard of this. Several of them even accepted the filial piety sent by Feng Qi in secret and asked them to deal with it in the circumference. However, the examiner would ask at this time, and everyone looked at each other and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

The chief examiner said again: "You do not care about the rules of the inner curtain and praise this article so much. Could it be that you recognize the author's writing style and want to be a private fault?"

All the examiners were shocked when they heard this. The crime of fraud in the imperial examination was quite serious. When they heard this, they all shook their hands and said, "Nothing is true, no such thing!"

The examiner who recommended this document actually did not receive filial piety. He was confident that he stood up and said, "Sir, those merchants shouldn't do anything wrong, but this article is indeed a rare wonderful writing! We are amazed, not selfish."

The chief examiner laughed, shook the red paper, glanced at it, and threw it into the pile of fallen papers, all the examiners were shocked.

The deputy examiner also stepped forward and said, "This, this is not right!"

The examiner asked: "What's wrong?"

The deputy examiner said: "Even if he is not selected as the leader of the Five Classics, he is qualified to be a juren. Now he has finished his paper. This... this is not surprising. If it is passed on, it may damage the reputation of the adults and attract people's words."

The chief examiner sneered: "What reputation is damaged? What is the sensation? If we win this subject, it happens to be the talented Youxi who was the one who was going to hold a banquet in advance to celebrate. That would be a huge joke!"

When the deputy examiner heard this, he secretly complained and knew that the chief examiner was now stubborn. Since the chief examiner had great power in picking up the papers, if he insisted on doing this, no one else could do anything about it.

But the examiner who recommended this paper was still unwilling to give in and went up to ask, "Sir, what's wrong with this paper? Please tell me clearly, so that we, those who have started, will not recommend the papers that are not as good as the adults' wishes, and it will inevitably be troublesome at that time!" He deliberately pointed out the six words "not as good as the adults' wishes", which implyed that the examiner was acting in anger and deliberately gave in!

As soon as he said this, the scene froze. The examiner was a big shot and the examiner was a tough guy. Seeing that they were not in the same way, the deputy examiner had to find a way to mediate. The examiner suddenly laughed at the sky, laughed five or six times, and suddenly slapped the case heavily and shouted: "Have you forgotten the two 17th year of Jiajing and the two 19th year of seventeen years!"

The examiners looked at each other and didn't know how to answer. The deputy examiner asked, "Sir, which two hasiths are you talking about?"

The chief examiner sneered: "In the 11th year of Jiajing, the pure and elegant articles of the scientific examination are gone, so he issued an order to ban the imperial examination. The provincial examination uses difficult and dangerous words, and those who have strange and voyeuristic characters will be dismissed. In the 17th year of Jiajing, examiners in various provinces were ordered not to use false wings and false wings as a fancy text. They should understand the meaning of smooth control before they can agree to the Chinese style! Have you forgotten the holy teachings of the emperor of this dynasty? Still knowing in your heart, but because you have collected money, you know that it was wrong!" In the last two sentences, they were already harsh and harsh! They were so scared that all the examiners dared not speak.

Only the examiner who got this paper refused to give up and struggled for the last time, saying, "If you follow what the Lord said, what kind of words should it be, you can be considered a clear and smooth Chinese article?"

The chief examiner took out a regular article from the papers he had already picked and said, "This article is nothing good."

The deputy chief examiner and the examiners circulated it all, but they all said: "This article is ordinary, and it's okay to pass the exam. If it's better, it may not be."

The chief examiner smiled and said, "That's why you haven't seen it! The wonder of this article is in the four words "normal and unparalleled"! The ordinary one is the middle, and unparalleled one is the right! Since this article is straight and righteous, isn't it the way of a saint?"

It is really a high-ranking official to crush people. The main examination not only has a high-ranking official, but also has issued an imperial edict to suppress people. The deputy examiner is not tough enough, so although the examiner is dissatisfied, there is no way.

The provincial examination results are mostly before the end of August, and this is the season when osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, so the rural list is also called the osmanthus list.

The day before the list is released, we must dismantle the number and write the list. Before writing the list, we must first remove the internal and external curtains from the internal and external curtains, inspectors, supervisors, and academic officials, and academic officials. We must be present, and gather at the main examination and reviewing papers. The scene is very grand.

At this time, the examiner had already written the draft list, and the ranking was the serial number of each test paper. First, the examiner handed over the red number of the draft list that had been filled in the ranking to the examiner, and then the ink scroll was retrieved according to the red number in the dot. After the ink scroll was transferred, the clerk asked to send the red scroll and sent it to the chief and deputy chief examiner with the ink scroll. The top five of the candidates were called "Five Classics" and placed in the middle. After checking, the number was removed. Then the deputy examiner wrote the name of the candidate on the red scroll surface, and then the main examiner marked the ranking on the right side of the ink scroll surface, and then his name and origin were marked on the draft list.

There is a rule for writing the list: start with the sixth place, and then write the "Five Classics" - that is, the top five, but you have to write the top five, that is, write the fifth place first, then write the fourth place, and finally write the first place.

Although the examiners already know the ranking of the test papers, they only know the serial numbers of the papers before the ink scroll is opened and they don’t know who they are taking!

If you have the opportunity to participate in this grand event of writing the list, and you will like to write the top five, it will be climax after wave! Due to the many rules and the process of writing the list, it was late at night when I wrote Yakui on this day, and only Jie Yuan has not yet opened.

All the examiners and Ti Xue secretly whispered, thinking: "I wonder which talented man Jie Yuanhui on this list is!"

The outer curtain official thought: "You Xi has not seen a name yet. With his talent and fame, he shouldn't have failed the exam. Could it be that he really understands Yuan?"

The examiner who had rejected the recommendation paper before thought: "Qiwen has long been deposed, and it is probably nothing surprising that Jie Yuan has been announced!"

The examiner smiled and seemed to be very proud of the admission situation. Suddenly, he heard the clerk sing: "The first place is Li Zhe, a student of Youxi County, Yanping Prefecture!"

The audience suddenly became quiet, and all the examiners were frozen there, and the examiners became even more like a clay sculpture. However, the officials of the outer curtain reacted first and said one after another: "It's him! The undergraduate master is really smart!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!