The test papers of the examinees are not sent to the examiners after they are collected.

Before that, it has to go through a series of processing and pre-trial by the external curtain officials.

First of all, the 'Receiving Office' will hand over the collected test papers to the 'Sealing Office'. The sealing officials carefully inspected the test paper for signs of joint fraud such as folded corners and needle eyes.

If there is, pick out the test paper and be on the blue list.

Then the ink scroll that is okay is folded, sealed, and named, and numbered according to the blank red scroll, and then sent to the next place, the transcription office.

The 'Transcription Office' is the most important of the four institutions of the outer curtain, which is responsible for transcribing the ink papers answered by the candidates on the blank red scrolls with a red pen word for word.

The inner curtain examiner does not touch the candidate's ink scroll, and uses the transcription of the red scroll when marking the paper.

This is to avoid the inner curtain examiner from recognizing the candidate from the handwriting. Therefore, even the typos of the candidates in the transcription office must be copied as they are. And to mark on the red scroll, how many words have been altered in the ink scroll......

If the typos and corrections add up to more than 100 words, the test paper will be singled out and the name will be on the blue list.

In addition, those who do not submit the draft paper in the article must also be singled out, list the reasons, and send them to the blue list.

After the test paper is transcribed, it must be proofread by the 'Reading Institute'.

The reading staff is in a group of two, one for the ink scroll and one for the Zhu scroll, and they must proofread it word by word.

After confirming that the words of the two volumes were correct, he wrote on the Zhu scroll the words 'so-and-so reads Zhu, so-and-so reads ink, and there is no difference in reading'.

If any omissions or transcription errors are found, they are corrected with an ochre yellow pen.

Both transcription and reading require a lot of manpower, and it is naturally impossible to rely on officials alone, so they are all filled by students.

If the transcription is mispronounced, or the handwriting is scribbled and cannot be read, the student will be punished as a clerk.

Yes, you are not allowed to study anymore, and you are directly asked to go to the government to be the head of the department......

Actually, it's pretty good.

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After this series of rigorous processing, the test papers are finally handed over to the 'Outer Reception Office'.

The officials who received the outside office would check the numbers of the scrolls and ink scrolls again, and after confirming that they were correct, they would leave the scrolls in the office for temporary storage.

Then, the red rolls, which had neither the names of the examinees nor special marks, were divided into 18 bundles, numbered, and packed into boxes. The two officials of Zhigong put a seal, used the customs defense, and personally sent it to the Feihong Bridge.

Feihongqiao is the dividing point between the examination and marking of the Gongyuan.

In the south of Qiaonan, the entire process of the examination and the four outer curtain papers is generally responsible for the two Zhigong officials, and all the officials are called the outer curtain officials.

Qiaobei is responsible for marking the papers and arranging the rankings, which are completed by the two main examiners with the eighteenth room of the same examiner, who are both internal curtain officials.

The iron law of the Gongyuan is that the inner curtain official is not allowed to go to the south of the bridge, and the outer curtain official has to go to the north of the bridge, and the internal and external sides must be absolutely isolated.

The person who served as the chief and deputy governor of the current branch was Gao Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Wan Shihe, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

After the end of the second game, that is, on the 15th, the two of them led the officials in charge of the office to escort the 4,030 examination papers packed in nine large boxes to the south side of Hongqiao.

At the beginning, there were 4,500 people who entered the venue, so almost 200 test papers were dethroned in the outer curtain for reasons other than various articles, and they could not cross this Hongqiao.

On the north side of Hongqiao, Li Chunfang and Yin Shidan, the chief and deputy examiners of this section, had already led the officials of the 'internal management office' and had been waiting for a long time.

The four bigwigs went to the bridge at the same time, completed the handover procedures, and the nine large boxes were handed over to the internal office.

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When the two examiners returned to the 'Jianheng Hall' with nine large boxes, Shen Shixing and the eighteenth room examiners couldn't wait there for a long time.

It has been seven days since they entered the venue on the eighth day of the first month, and they have nothing to do all day, holding banquets of various names to eat and drink at public expense, and many people have gained a lot of weight.

Looking at the young people who were eager to try, the two big examiners made eye contact with the passers-over, and said with a secret smile, Your hard days have begun.

Li Chunfang asked people to bring the lottery holder and let the eighteen fellow examiners draw lots separately.

When you get a few numbers, you will mark the first bunches of exam papers.

After drawing numbers with the examiner, Yin Shidan tore open the seal, Li Chunfang opened the lock, and showed them nine boxes of test papers.

So Shen Shixing and the others picked up the test paper they had drawn and sat back at their desk. Tear off the bundle seal and straighten more than 200 red rolls in front of you.

The two examiners sat in the hall and watched the examiners behind the eighteen tables mark the papers in the hall.

The inner supervisor, who was in charge of monitoring the inner curtain officer, sat at the gate with his back to the examiner, facing the chief examiner, and remembered every move in the Jianheng Hall in his heart.

Each examiner was given two hundred and twenty or thirty examination papers. However, for the sake of fairness, each paper has to be marked separately by several examiners.

Therefore, each examiner has to mark thousands of papers in the first session alone.

And it's not like the college entrance examination essays in later generations, where you can just get a score at a glance.

They have to read the candidate's essay word by word, find out all the mistakes, and make no mistakes themselves, and finally give comments with a green pen.

Because after the list is released, the lifters can check their own papers.

Those who won naturally rejoiced, and those who didn't win complained about it, thinking that there was a shady scene in the field, and they were holding back their strength to find out the mistakes of the examiner's marking.

If they are allowed to pick it up, the lightest will be explained by the Ministry of Etiquette, and if they are not polite, they will even go directly to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Once verified, the examiners will be fined at least and lose their official positions at worst, and the consequences will be very serious.

Therefore, for every red paper they handle, the young examiners have to widen their eyes and judge carefully.

In this way, at the end of the day, each person can review a hundred papers, which is already dizzy.

And after dark, the door of Jianhengtang was immediately locked, and after dawn the next day, the examiners came back to mark the papers. None of the examination papers can be taken out of the court, so they can only be marked during the day.

According to the regulations, the same examiners only have half a month to read the papers, and they have to take more than ten days to understand the first scripture questions.

There are three or five days left, and if you have to complete the papers of two or three sessions, you can only go through them hastily, and there are no major mistakes......

So over time, the bad habit of the examiner only focusing on the first field has been formed, and there is no way, it is forced.

In fact, even if there are seven questions in the first field, the examiners don't have time to savor them all. tacitly used most of his efforts on the first four-book question. On the basis that there are no major flaws in the remaining six articles, the first four questions must be compared to judge the merits of the examination papers.

Therefore, when later people talk about which year and which subject's examination questions, they refer to this four-book question. The remaining six questions don't deserve a name at all.

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The examiner can only recommend to the examiner, and the examiner who thinks he can admit the test paper will be decided by the two examiners through negotiation.

However, the examiner can argue for the excellent test papers recommended by himself, of course, whether the two examiners listen or not is another matter.

When both examiners approved the paper, the deputy examiner wrote the word 'take' with an ink pen. The examiner is next to him, and he also writes the word 'medium' with an ink pen, and he officially takes this volume.

When you collect the seven colors of 'red, orange, dark green, blue, blue, purple' on your red scroll, congratulations, you are finally in high school.

ps. This chapter, which was written for a full six hours.