The Prosperous Era of Longwan

The next day, just like the previous days, Wei Guangde got up early, washed up, had breakfast prepared by the store, and then went to Nanchang Gongyuan again with Zeng Yuanshu, accompanied by his cousins ​​Wu Dong and Zeng Yuanrui.

It’s no different from last time. There are still many candidates coming here this time. After all, candidates for the college entrance exams from the entire Jiangxi Province are here. There are hundreds of people in each prefecture and county, and Nanchang Prefecture, Ji’an Prefecture and other wealthy places are here. Ganzhou Prefecture, a big government in charge of thirteen counties, has hundreds of people.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Chief Envoy of Jiangxi Province had jurisdiction over 13 prefectures and 78 counties. After this academic examination, seven to eight hundred scholars would be born. Although it is not known what standards were used for admission to the re-examination, the candidates who participated in the re-examination were definitely Thousands of people.

There is still no shortage of screening procedures for candidates. After the roll call, Wei Guangde entered Nanchang Gongyuan.

After entering the gate and searching, the candidates in their group entered the examination room area under the leadership of the clerk and began to look for their own examination room.

Because they had been here once before, Wei Guangde and the others were all familiar with the journey this time. They quickly arrived at their own examination booth and sat down. As the servants in the yamen delivered baskets full of examination supplies, Wei Guangde began to prepare for the final exam of this hospital. It's an exam.

As the candidates finished entering, the examination room was closed again, and a group of servants who had been prepared shuttled between the examination booths carrying the wooden boards with written examination questions for the candidates to copy the examination questions.

Wei Guangde was the same as before. After the guards brought over the wooden board with written test questions, the first thing he did was to copy down all the questions. That was something he would do later. The questions must be copied accurately and there should be no omissions.

This re-examination only tests two eight-part essays. The silent writing and test poems have been deleted and will not be tested. It is very simple.

Wei Guangde's first reaction after seeing the question was that the current Jiangxi academic officer was pretty good. He could only rely on the eight-part essay to get the answer. Anyway, he was just selecting the candidates for the provincial examination.

In the rural examination, as long as the eight-part essay is done well, this requirement will continue to the national examination.

Just look at the two eight-legged questions on the board. The first question is: Not following the rules.

It was indeed against the rules, Wei Guangde cursed in his heart, quickly copied it onto the paper, and then started copying the second question.

Just look at the question below the board and it's very simple. It's just six words, and everyone in the country thinks of it as Master.

Seeing this, Wei Guangde truly understood the meaning of asking the academic official to ask the first examination question. "Not according to the rules." It really was not based on the rules. Both questions were all from "Mencius". This is actually very unusual in the imperial examination. It was rare, at least Wei Guangde had never heard of anyone doing this before.

Is there something wrong with this college examination?

That's what Wei Guangde was thinking at this time, but he wasn't sure. The main reason was that the test questions this time were too coincidental.

However, what Wei Guangde didn't know was that while the candidates were still entering the venue, upstairs in Mingyuan, the academic examiner who was responsible for presiding over the examination of candidates from various prefectures and counties within the Jiangxi Chief Envoy's jurisdiction this time asked him to The examiners below each asked a question, crumpled it into a ball and put it in a small box. Then he took out two paper balls from behind his back to determine the questions for this college examination.

Well, the question was not raised by him.

It's just what he smoked.

When he unfolded the paper ball, he was also frightened. Both questions came from "Mencius", and it seemed a bit illegal to take it out.

At this time, he had already drawn the paper ball, but he could not throw it back. He could only pass the paper ball to others to look at, but he also made up his mind that it would be best to draw it again.

"Haha. The test questions chosen this time are really out of order."

Unexpectedly, after reading the test questions, Jiangxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Siyou Councilor Hu Shiliang, who came to invigilate the exam, laughed and joked.

When other people saw it, they all smiled.

"What did Wang Yushi say?"

When Master Tixue heard Hu Shiliang's joke, everyone else just smiled, and no one said anything about redrawing the test questions.

Yes, the questions were asked by the examiners below, and he just randomly picked them out.

Two days before this, he was still struggling with what questions to ask in the re-examination. Letting the examiners set the questions was also a decision he made on the spur of the moment this morning. He had not discussed it with anyone else, and I doubt anyone would know that he would do this. .

"Open the other paper balls and take a look. If there are no problems, then it is God's will."

The man named Wang Yushi was naturally the Supervisory Yushi of Jiangxi Province. He left Beijing and arrived in Jiangxi at the beginning of the year. He was responsible for the work of inspecting various prefectures and counties in Jiangxi Province. He happened to have a college examination, so he came to take a look.

The Supervisory Censor came from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and was divided into the Supervisory Censors according to the Thirteenth Road, patrolling prefectures and counties, and specializing in the inspection and impeachment of officials.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Ming Dynasty could not only supervise the judicial organs, but also had the power to "report major matters and make decisions on minor matters", making it the highest supervisory organ.

The right counselor and the supervisory censor have both said so, and it is natural for you to be promoted to academic officer.

Wang Yushi then unfolded the remaining pieces of paper one by one. The questions asked by the examiners were also varied, including questions from the Four Books and Five Classics. However, the academic officer was the only one who drew two articles from "Mencius". The meaning of the first question was It’s also very practical.

For the questions that were to be asked next, the academic officer smiled and said, "If you don't follow the rules, what else will happen?"

I have been worrying about what questions to ask in this hospital exam a few days ago, and I never thought about it until just now.

Since God has chosen such a topic, I can just go with it. "

Wei Guangde didn't know this. He just felt that there might be something fishy about this exam, but no matter what, he still had to do the questions seriously.

"Not with rules" comes from "Mencius·Li Lou Chapters", the original text is: Mencius said: Li Lou's Ming Gong loses his son's cleverness. Without rules, the party members cannot be successful. The teacher Kuang Zizhi is not able to correct the five tones without the six laws. The way of Yao and Shun cannot be correct without benevolent government. Rule the world peacefully.

Wei Guangde's previous compositions started with the two characters Ming and Qiao in "Li Lou Zhi Ming Gong Loses His Son Qiao", so naturally he still copied his past compositions.

"If you don't follow the rules, you just rely on this knowledge and cleverness."

This is his solution, and he continues writing.

Although he had a manuscript in his mind, Wei Guangde still wrote it on the draft first, and would check it again later to prevent any omissions. Although it had not happened before, it was nip in the bud.

After copying the first article, it’s time for the second question.

"The people of the country all regard the Master as a master" comes from "Mencius: Jinxin Chapters". The original text is: Qi Hunger Chen Zhen said that the people of the country all regard the Master as a master who will be restored to the state of Fatang. It is almost impossible to recover. Mencius said that this is the wife of Feng. The people of Jin are good at fighting tigers if they have the wife of Feng. If he is a good scholar, there will be people in the wild chasing tigers and tigers. No one dares to raise his eyebrows. When he sees Mrs. Feng, he rushes to greet her. Mrs. Feng rushes to get out of the car, and everyone is happy. He is a scholar and laughs.

This question is actually an excerpt of the first half of a sentence. Fortunately, Wei Guangde has done something similar to this question. It is just the original sentence "People in the country regard the master's return as Fa Tang". It would naturally be a bit inconsistent if I use what I originally had in my mind. The question is clear and needs to be revised.

Wei Guangde spent the rest of the morning thinking about how to revise the article in his mind.

First, delete the inappropriate words and phrases, and then add some. I searched my mind and recalled the commentaries on the scriptures I had read. After all, they were written by saints, so I couldn't make mistakes on this point. The revision work lasted until the afternoon and was barely completed.

"Everyone agrees that the people of Qi have high hopes for great sages."