Chapter 96 96Place the Cards
In the next few days, 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 hot, and their reading time has shifted to the evening and early morning. The rest of the time they are either sleeping or eating and drinking.
After the Taolin Meeting, 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 candidates for the college examination also lived there. , but their stay was short, so I didn’t encounter them.
The academic examination is already the last hurdle of what is commonly known as the "Little Three Yuans". As long as you pass it, you will be considered to have entered the scholar-bureaucrat class. Although it is only the lowest level, it has the privileges of being exempted from corvee, not kneeling before the magistrate, and not being tortured casually. In the end, The most important thing is that you have become a standout among the scholars in this county, and you no longer have to fight for a few places in the official school with your classmates and friends.
In fact, for the ancient imperial examinations, the academic 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 and government examinations are all administered 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.
However, it is different when it comes to the college examination. The chief 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. They should pay attention to real talent and practical learning. The writing should be classic, the calligraphy should be correct in regular script, and the inspection Regarding the education of student members, if Linshan students have been in school for more than six years and are not proficient in arts and sciences, they will be punished to serve as officials. If students in Zengguang have been in school for more than six years and are not proficient in arts and sciences, they will be stripped of their qualifications as student members and 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 the schools where they belong. 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.
In fact, this is to give the academic officer the authority to manage everything from teachers to students.
Of course, we can learn from the facts about the pros and cons of the local military and civilians, and the corruption and cruelty of officials and harm to others. We can accept complaints from military and civilians, but we cannot handle them ourselves. Minor cases will be sent to the prefecture and county for handling, and serious cases will be sent to the prosecutor's office for questioning.
It has a little supervisory role on the local level, but has no real power.
In fact, most 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 bad luck, and they have to bear full responsibility. Naturally, they attach less importance to the college examination. It is completely different from the county examination and prefecture 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 before Wei Guangde only took the main exam and did not participate in the subsequent re-examination, it was not feasible in the college exam.
Because in the main entrance examination of the college, 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 will be selected from two or three.
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 origin was contrary to the laws of heaven and it was incomprehensible that he was favored, 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 you going to do now? It's not time for the exam, and I don't know when the exam time will be determined."
Wei Guangde muttered while washing himself.
"Master Ti Xue Guan 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 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.
During the meal, there were already many people sitting in the dining room downstairs, most of them were students taking the college examination. Wei Guangde and Wu Dong couldn't help but hand over their hands when they came down.
From time to time, students in twos and threes would go out after breakfast, but they still couldn't help but salute to other students who were still eating.
Well, it’s not surprising that many people are polite, it seems that ancient people were very particular about this.
By the time 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 their 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.
Of course this time was different. After passing through the wooden archway engraved with the word "Gongyuan", we arrived at the gate of Gongyuan within a few steps.
But now after passing the gate, there were already more students on the road, and they were even more crowded at the gate of Gongyuan.
"Look, I told you to hurry up. You must be late."
Wu Dong seemed more anxious than Wei Guangde and kept talking about Wei Guangde.
"I went to bed very late last night. I couldn't get up so early, and I didn't know I would put up the sign today."
Wei Guangde retorted: "Even if he hangs out, he won't run away. It will be the same if we wait and see."
"Okay, stop talking. It's hard for Guangde to read."
Zeng Yuanshu was on the side trying 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 who take the college examination every year. It can be completed in one go. In fact, it can be done with the capacity of Nanchang Gongyuan. It is said that there are examination sheds in Gongyuan. Tens of thousands of rooms.
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 students who were admitted based on merit 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 card test, 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 you need to prepare meals for the hospital exam, okay? Can you bring your own food in?"
After 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.