Chapter 96 96 Placing the Cards
A few days later, Wei Guangde and Zeng Yuanshu received the admissions for the college examination together, and were waiting to enter Gongyuan to participate in the college examination.
The weather is sultry, and their reading time has also shifted to the evening and early morning. The rest of the time they are either sleeping or eating and drinking.
After the Taolin Club, Zeng Yuanshu established contact with the children from Jiujiang Prefecture and the candidates from other prefectures and counties. Later, when he told the inn where he lived, he discovered that many people lived there. The candidates for this college examination were only admitted for a short period of time, so they were not encountered.
The academic examination is already the last hurdle of what is commonly known as the "Little Sanyuan". As long as you pass it, you will be considered to have entered the scholar-bureaucrat class. Although it is only the lowest level, because it is exempted from the corvee, you will not kneel down when you see the magistrate. You can use torture and other privileges at will. The most important thing is that you are considered to be the best among the scholars in this county. You don't have to fight for the few places in the official school with your classmates and friends.
In fact, for the ancient imperial examinations, the college examination was the most critical and the easiest place to make mistakes.
The imperial examination is a step-by-step process. You have to go up one level at a time.
The county examinations and government examinations are all conducted by the county magistrate. As a local official, he naturally has a lot of contact with the local area. It is really easy to obtain the qualification of "Tongsheng" by some means.
But it is different when it comes to the college examination. The examiner of the college examination is the academic officer of the province. His main job is to urge the students to practice filial piety, loyalty, trust, etiquette, integrity and other ethics and morals, to pay attention to true talent and practical learning, and to write a model. In practice, calligraphy must be correct in regular script, and the academic performance of students should be inspected. Linshan students who have been in school for more than six years and are not proficient in arts and sciences will be punished to serve as officials. Serve the people.
The verification students pretended to be Zengguang students elsewhere, pretended to be their place of origin, and took part in the imperial examination.
There is also the need to inspect the instructors of their respective schools. Those who are excellent in morals and literature should be treated with courtesy. Instructors with little knowledge should be warned first. If there is no improvement after taking the exam again, they will be sent to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for dismissal. Those who are corrupt, dishonest and guilty The instructor came with a instrument to arrest and question him.
This is actually to give the academic officer the authority to manage everything from teachers to students.
Of course, when it comes to the pros and cons of the local military and civilians, and the corruption and cruelty of officials who harm people, we can report it based on the facts, and we can accept the complaints of the military and civilians, but we cannot handle it ourselves. If the case is minor, it will be sent to the prefecture or county for handling, and if the case is serious, it will be sent to the procuratorate. Si asked.
It has a little supervisory role on the local level, but has no real power.
In fact, most of the academic officials are concurrently serving as censors of the province. It is conceivable that for such people, if there is fraud in the imperial examination, it will be unlucky, and they must bear full responsibility. Naturally, they will be responsible for it. The importance of the college examination is completely different from that of the county examination and the government examination.
Moreover, Jiangxi is a place that is famous for producing high-ranking officials. If there are any flaws in the college examination, people may criticize them. It is a trivial matter to lose an official position, but it is normal to be imprisoned.
Another thing worth mentioning is that Wei Guangde only took the main exam and did not participate in the subsequent re-examination. This was not feasible in the college exam.
Because of the main entrance examination, the number of admissions is two to three times the number of students in this subject, but at least the number of students must be twice that. During the re-examination, one or three choices will be made. one.
Having reached this point in the exam, Wei Guangde will naturally not back down. He will just take the exam. How can he not take the re-examination?
And by this time, Wei Guangde had already felt that this college examination should not be difficult for him.
Without him, those who travel through time will definitely be favored by God.
Although he felt that his background was contrary to the laws of heaven and it was incomprehensible that he was favored by him, Wei Guangde felt that he had no chance at all in the government examination, but he passed it smoothly. How else could he explain it.
On this day, Wei Guangde got up lazily. As soon as the waiter brought water for washing, Wu Dong hurried into the house.
"Guangde, hurry up, let's go to Nanchang Gongyuan to have a look."
"What are we going to do now? It's not time for the exam, and we don't know when the exam time will be determined."
Wei Guangde muttered while washing himself.
"The academic officer has just put out the examination cards for the college examination. Let's go and see when the students from Jiujiang Prefecture will enter."
Wu Dong said hurriedly: " Yuan Shu has already gone downstairs to eat, please hurry up."
After speaking, Wu Dong stood at the door, waiting for Wei Guangde.
Wei Guangde had no choice but to wash up quickly.
In fact, I have already hung up my exam card, and I won’t be able to run away, so there is no need to rush to see it. After washing, he tidied up his clothes and then followed Wu Dong out and downstairs.
For scholars, it is important to wear clothes at all times, so as not to be regarded as Meng Lang.
While eating, there were already many people sitting in the dining room downstairs, most of them were students taking the college examination this time. Wei Guangde and Wu Dong couldn't help but throw their hands away when they came down.
From time to time, students in twos and threes go out after breakfast, and they still cannot help but salute to other students who are still eating.
Well, it’s not surprising that many people are polite, it seems that ancient people were very particular about this.
When Wei Guangde and the others finished their meal and went out, only three tables of scholars were left chewing slowly.
This is a more traditional scholar, Wei Guangde thought in his heart.
In fact, it was quite rude to wolf down the meal like they did before.
After leaving the inn, walk across the Zhuangyuan Bridge and enter Gongyuan Street.
The last time they came here, they didn't go to Gongyuan, they just looked at it from a distance.
This time is of course different. After passing through the wooden archway engraved with the word "Gongyuan", we arrived at the gate of Gongyuan in a few steps.
But now after passing the gate, there are already more students on the road, and they are even more crowded at the Gongyuan gate.
“Look, I asked you to hurry up, you must be late.”
Wu Dong seemed more anxious than Wei Guangde, and kept talking about Wei Guangde.
"I slept very late last night. If I could get up so early, I wouldn't know how to put up the sign today."
Wei Guangde retorted: "I've already put up the sign, and I won't run away. Wait and see. It's the same."
"Okay, don't talk about it. Reading is also hard for Guangde."
Zeng Yuanshu tried to smooth things over.
Jiangxi is a big province, with 13 prefectures and 78 prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction. There are really a lot of candidates taking the college examination every year. It can be completed in one go, given the capacity of Nanchang Gongyuan. It is said that there are tens of thousands of examination booths in Gongyuan.
But obviously, the academic officer does not intend to conduct the formal examination at once. There are indeed too many students.
In the re-examination after the main exam, the selected students can be put together for the exam to determine the final quota of students.
After Wei Guangde and the others squeezed into the crowd, they quickly saw the reference games for each county under the jurisdiction of Jiujiang Prefecture on the test card, and they were about to enter the venue for the first game.
"Come back in three days."
After knowing the time and venue of the exam, Wei Guangde heard Zeng Yuanshu say.
"I heard that meals need to be prepared for the hospital exam, okay? Can you bring your own food in?"
Squeezing out of the crowd, Wei Guangde began to ask his questions again.
He also knew the rules of the college examination, but Wei Guangde felt that the food prepared for so many candidates in the examination room was not very good.
(End of this chapter)