Prime Minister

Chapter 256 Examination
After the papers for the first round of assignments are received, the examiner will be busy with scribbling and transcribing.

As night fell, lights were lit in the tribute courtyard.

The officials of the Sealing Academy hurriedly walked among the rooms with the papers in their hands.

The Gongyuan is so big, there are always lights that can't reach the place, and there are many ghost stories about the Gongyuan in Tang legends, so it is inevitable that the timid people will have lingering fears, and they dare not walk around or look at it casually.

However, the stories of the Gongyuan that have been circulated are not all about gods and monsters, stories of revenge and revenge. For example, when Ouyang Xiu was the main examiner in the provincial examination in the second year of Jiayou, whenever he looked at the examination paper, he felt that there was a man in red clothes sitting behind him.

And when Ouyang Xiu thought the paper was very well written, the man in Zhu Yi nodded his head.

Therefore, it became a common saying "Zhu Yi nods".

According to the procedure of the provincial examination, after the examinee accepts the test paper, the editor first removes the name of the township at the beginning of the examination paper, and replaces it with the font size requested by the examinee before, and then sends it to the Sealing Institute, where the name is pasted by the seal officer.

Afterwards, it was sent to the Transcript Institute by Mi Fengguan, who ordered the scribes to transcribe, the Beijing officials to proofread, and the various divisions to confess, and then sent two internal servants to supervise,

The transcribed papers will be presented to the inspector in the outer curtain for reading, and then the inspector will write his own comments on the paper.

After that, write down the grades of comments written by the inspectors, and then submit them to the three chief examiners for review, and the chief examiners will write down the grades according to their own opinions.

Finally, according to the grades written by the spot inspector and the chief examiner, the detailed judge will make a reference to check whether there are any mistakes.In order to avoid the two officials, some are given high and some are given low.

If the point inspector and the chief examiner disagree, then if the detailed officer agrees with the chief examiner's opinion, there is no need to read it again, and the chief examiner's opinion is the main one.However, if the detailed decision officer supports the opinion of the examiner, he must report to the chief examiner, and then the detailed decision officer will discuss with the chief examiner accordingly to determine the final ranking of the candidates.

At present, the most important thing in the imperial examination is poetry and fu. The second and third rounds of policy discussion are now overestimated.That is to say, even if the policy theory is well written, if the poems and prose are not successful, just come back to the next subject.

Therefore, after the first round of poems and prose was transcribed, it was immediately checked by the inspector. After the inspector finished reading the written order, he had to submit it to three examiners for review, and finally the detailed judge had to review it.

Because there is a three-level marking process, the time for marking the papers is very tight, and if the inspection officer judges the wrong paper, it will be punished by the detailed judge.

Therefore, when the first batch of unsealed papers from the Sealing Institute were sent to the inspectors, ten inspectors were woken up from their beds to review the papers.

As soon as the papers of poetry and fu were in hand, these inspectors took a pen and scanned them line by line.Finally, write down your own comments on the side, and finally delineate the order.

The chief examiner and the detailed official will also review the real paper after passing the exam, and if they agree, they will write the ranking list. Of course, the top ten provincial exams before the list will be released will be sent to the emperor for personal review.

In short, this one after another procedure ensures the fairness of the provincial examination.

Therefore, the candidates who were able to solve the five and six solutions in the examination by virtue of their relationship still failed in the provincial examination. One reason is that the provincial examination is more difficult, and another reason is that it is more stringent.

As pawns, the spot inspectors have great responsibilities but little power, and each of them carefully checks the papers.

The inner-curtain officials are catching up with the progress, and those who are in the outer curtain cannot make mistakes, so they have no extra thoughts. However, these spot prosecutors are also human. ,ridicule.

I will also sigh with emotion because of some good articles, but finally because of the inconspicuous places that are empty and collapsed.

Sometimes I am not sure to ask the opinions of others.

At this time, a spot inspector surnamed Niu had already corrected hundreds of poems and prose, from the middle of the night until the sky was pale.

He credited himself with diligently correcting, but the transcription office continued to pile up papers beside him, forming a hill.

"Such poems dare to be used to shame people."

The Niu point prosecutor held a vermilion pen in his right hand, pinched his nose with his left hand and made an unsavory expression, and then smiled again: "But having said that, old cow, old cow, it would be great if the following papers were like this, really. It saves me a lot of work for Lao Niu."

The Niudian prosecutor took a sip of strong tea, walked aside and wiped his face.

As an examiner, the most fearful thing is to see a paper that looks good at first glance, so if there is a problem in the detailed investigation later, it will be miserable for him.

Niu ordered the prosecutor to drink tea, and immediately raised his sleeves to review the next poem.

The Niu point prosecutor said with hazy eyes, Lao Niu, Lao Niu, you have to watch it carefully for me, don’t make any mistakes... Heh, a long yawn.

Niu Dian inspector opened his eyes again, but saw the words on the Fu's head, "Born to be a treasure, time is precious and good gold."It can be seen from the appearance of Rong, that the application of Congre is coming.Shining brightly, jumping into the furnace at first glance; vertically and horizontally forming a tool, it should follow the heart of a philosopher'.

Niu Dian prosecutor suddenly woke up, well, he should follow the philosopher's heart.

Niu Dian inspectors first brought themselves into the identity of the emperor or the current prime minister. How did they react when they saw this sentence?

A good one should follow the heart of a philosopher.

This candidate has some knowledge.

In fact, an essay is about [-] words long, and the first thing the examiner sees is the outline of the essay. A powerful essay can make the examiner look at the candidate with high regard and encourage himself to read on.

The Niudian inspector looked at Futou again, and repeatedly said: "Okay, very good, very good."

He glanced at the candidate's name 'Jiashen Bingyin' and remembered it in his heart.

"I don't know how to write below, don't fall short."

The Niu Dian prosecutor put on a straight face and continued to read, but saw that it said, "Looking at the day and night, man is here..."

Okay, okay, the Niu Dian Prosecutor's heart is already happy, and he suddenly understands, um, it's a pity that there is no wine, so our old cow will use tea instead of wine.

A good article can only be tasted with wine (tea). A sip of wine and a paragraph of articles is the best situation in life.

Ah!This wine is strong enough.

Prosecutor Niu Dian was in high spirits, and his colleagues on the left and right saw his expression and knew that he had read the article he liked, but everyone was too busy to ask.

However, the cattle inspector has already got up, and behind the chair, he is pacing around the room like a cow chasing its tail.

After a while, the Niu Dian prosecutor suddenly said: "Yes, is it better to use this to restrain?"

Prosecutor Niu Dian read it for a while, and asked the case repeatedly with a smile: "Happy, happy, the article is good or not is the second, but the person who can write such an article at this unprecedented time has the air of a general." of."

After finishing speaking, the inspector scribbled down his comments at the end of the paper.

The examiner's grades for the papers are six grades 'upper, upper middle, upper middle, lower middle, lower, and unreasonable'.

It is generally not used, no matter how well written the paper is, it must be left to the examiner to choose.This is a trick to protect yourself as a point inspector and not take responsibility.

Therefore, the Niu point inspector gave this paper a grade of 'upper middle', which was the last grade he could give.

Prosecutor Niu Dian wrote an analysis of the article before, and finally wrote this sentence, "The article is the words of the prime minister, and the meaning is a tool of good looks."

In the end, the cattle inspector pressed the seal to confirm, and then the paper was sealed again and sent into the inner curtain.

The cattle inspector watched the papers leave, and then sat down again to approve the papers.

(End of this chapter)