Chapter 115 115 Waiting
Wei Guangde checked the test papers carefully. This time, he actually had five questions on classics, history, and current affairs. They were completely different from the questions Wei Guangde had taken in previous exams, which required him to improvise on the spot. .
More than half a month ago, Wei Guangde and his eleven classmates took two boats dispatched by the Wei Institute and came to Nanchang City to participate in this year's rural examination.
The provincial examination is held in three sessions. The first session tests the three meanings of the "Four Books" and the four meanings of the "Five Classics". Each question is more than 300 words. It actually tests the candidates' basic skills.
The content of the second examination is one "Lun" and five "Judgments": one from the imperial edict, the imperial edict, the table, and the internal medicine. This is actually to test whether the candidates have the basic conditions for being an official.
The questions of the third exam were changed again, and the five subjects were changed to classics, history, and current affairs policy, which can be regarded as the candidates' opinions on Anbang and Dingguo.
In order to prevent cheating, the atmosphere in the township examination room was very tense.
Candidates enter the venue at dawn and are not allowed to bring anything else except their own pens, ink, inkstones, and twelve pieces each of cursive scrolls and main scroll paper.
There are patrol inspectors who will search the candidates one by one, from hair, clothes to shoes. If any inclusions are found, they will be expelled from the examination room immediately and their qualifications for the examination will be cancelled.
Another thing that is different from previous exams is that the three exams of the Provincial Examination do not pass the exam. All candidates who take the Provincial Examination must take the exam in full. If they miss one exam, they will be deemed to have given up. Passed this exam.
Before coming here, Wei Guangde was still a little worried. After all, many of the things he learned in this exam were crammed into Jiujiang Mansion.
But when he met Zeng Yuanshu in Nanchang City and learned the details of the provincial examination, he relaxed a little.
The examiner of this provincial examination is the same as the examiner of the previous college examination, the provincial academic officer.
The chief examiner of the rural examination, at this time, is actually recommended by the three parties: the Chief Envoy, the Inspector Envoy, and the Patrol Censor. This is not the case that Wei Guangde had previously thought that Beijing officials were sent directly from the capital, or even It was Hanlin who came to invigilate the exam.
From Zeng Yuan’s account, there seems to be a precedent of sending officials from the capital to various provinces to invigilate the provincial examinations in the early years. However, they were canceled by the court after only two visits. It is said that it was related to etiquette disputes with the invigilators.
But no matter who invigilates the examination, Wei Guangde can only go on one test at a time, and the exam he is taking now is the third and last test of the provincial examination.
At this time, the draft has been thrown aside by Wei Guangde. He is now focusing on checking the main paper, which is the answer sheet. This answer sheet is not ordinary, and is slightly different from the previous answer sheets.
First of all, the examinee's name, year, place of birth, names of three generations and the classics must be written on the paper. The paper must be printed and placed in the book by Jiangxi Chief Envoy, and a seal should be written on the seam, and the paper must be printed. The official name is printed in a long strip at the end of the scroll.
This has many more marks than the grid test papers that Wei Guangde got before, and it also shows that the provincial examination is extraordinary and far from comparable to the previous examinations.
Actually, for Wei Guangde, these are secondary. His main concern is that this exam will be taken in the whole province. In the past six months, he has heard about Nanchang Prefecture more than once. And the candidates from Ji'an Prefecture are amazing.
Yes, although he was still very confident in himself, at this time, he had to worry that he would not be able to pass the exams of the candidates from those two places.
Thinking about it, this may be one of the reasons why Zeng Yuanshu decided to come to Nanchang to study.
When he arrived in Nanchang City, Wei Guangde did not settle down to prepare for the exam. He was handed over by Zhu Shilong and Prince Zhu to have banquets all day long.
And Zhu Shilong's pomp was also great. Not only did he invite candidates from Jiujiang Prefecture, but also candidates from all prefectures. Anyone who met him would be invited to join him for a banquet. This was something he missed before this provincial examination. A face.
During the banquet, Wei Guangde contacted candidates from various prefectures, and through communication he also learned some information about the candidates for this provincial examination.
The passing rate of this provincial examination was not high. Nearly two thousand talents participated in the competition to compete for the 95 places. This was nothing. What shocked Wei Guangde the most was that at the banquet, Wei Guangde also heard that many "heroes of the time" did not come to Nanchang to participate in the provincial examination.
There was a man named Sun Pu from the Sun family in Fengcheng who did not return to Jiangxi to take the provincial examination. It is said that because his father was an official in Nanjing, he directly participated in the provincial examination in Yingtianfu. Over there The admission quota is one hundred and thirty-five.
Well, the person who said this was a student from Nanchang Prefecture, and a student from Ji'an Prefecture next to him immediately said that there were many similar candidates in Ji'an Prefecture.
Wang Ning, a scholar from Anfu County, Ji'an Prefecture, was similar to the one named Sun Pu. He went to Huguang with his father who was an official, and he also participated in the provincial examination in Huguang.
Wei Guangde sat on the side and opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.
It seems that the fight has started again. You guys from Nanchang Prefecture saw that Yingtian Prefecture had a lot of quotas for candidates, so you ran there to take the local provincial examination, while those from Ji'an Prefecture took the exam in Huguang, and there were no quotas in Huguang. It’s the same as Jiangxi, and it’s also a major province in imperial examinations.
Okay, what else can Wei Guangde say? He immediately handed over his hands and said to the two men: "When the two scholars return to Gan, they must introduce them to Guangde."
"Easy to say. , easy to say.”
Both of them agreed with a haha.
The provincial examination in Jiangxi is so scary that the talented people in their eyes have gone to other provinces to grab the quota for the provincial examination. This shows that the competition in Jiangxi's provincial examination is fierce.
Rubling his swollen temples, Wei Guangde finished checking the essay he had written and was almost ready to hand it in.
Although the provincial examination is held three times in a row, the time for the first exam is the tightest. The next two exams are much better, at least the time is not so tight.
However, at this moment, Wei Guangde was still a little exhausted from taking three consecutive exams. If it were not for his identity as a time traveler, Wei Guangde felt that there was really no need for him to take the exam, and there was really little hope.
So far, Wei Guangde is still confident in his provincial examination.
Without him, it was really smooth to pass the exam, and he was worthy of his status as a time traveler.
With the end of the rural examination, Wei Guangde walked out of the gate of Nanchang Gongyuan along with the candidates who left the examination shed one after another. This rural examination was completely completed.
At the agreed place outside Gongyuan, their classmates from Nanchang Fu School gathered together, and then left Gongyuan and returned to the inn where they were staying.
Although the weather is sultry, soaking in a bathtub filled with hot water to sweat away can relax your tired body and mind.
In the following days, all the candidates who came to Nanchang City had no intention of going out for sightseeing or visiting friends. Most of them chose to stay quietly in the inn and wait for the results of the provincial examination.
From the Ming Dynasty to the present, there has been a mature set of procedures for the college examination and the provincial examination. However, there has never been a fixed time for releasing the results. It is very random and completely depends on the work progress of the examiners in Gongyuan. arrange.
However, the provincial examination is a very important examination after all. The list of provincial examinations in each province must be submitted to the emperor in the capital for his inspection. Naturally, he must pay special attention to it, so the marking will take longer.
More than ten days have passed in a flash, and time has quietly entered September.
(End of this chapter)