When Zhu Ping'an took the second exam, the examiners also began to get busy.

In fact, after the first examination, at five or six o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, the first batch of 100 sealed examination papers had been delivered to the examiners, and then more than 5,000 copies of the examination papers were sent immediately. On the seal of the red scroll, there are different words "south", "north" and "middle".

This is the Ming Dynasty pioneered the regional sub-list examination system, with the end of the Hongwu 30 years of the "North and South List" confused case, the Ming Dynasty "North and South List" examination system was also established, in the following days, it was constantly revised, to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, finally became the "South List", "North List" and "Middle List" (Anhui and Southwest Provinces) division method. The admission ratio is also fixed at 55% in the South List, 35% in the North List, and 10% in the Middle List.

Zhu Ping'an: When they were taking the second exam, the examiners had already begun to mark the papers.

The place where the examiners read the papers is in the "Zhigong Hall" of the Shuntian Gongyuan, and the Zhigong Hall is behind the Mingyuan Building, and the east and west sides are external curtains for the management personnel to live. After reaching the public hall, there is an inner curtain for the examiner to live. This is where the examiners mark their papers.

There is a couplet outside the main entrance of the Zhigong Hall, which is intended to explain that it is not easy for candidates, emphasizing the examiner's "knowledge of the empty group" and the selflessness of the judges, thinking that only in this way can the real talents be selected for the country and the candidates can be convinced.

"Three years of hard work to come here, people have the heart of sale, if it is not impartial, then the person who lifts it will be happy, and the wrong person can not be without complaints, and the resentment is slandered;"

"I look forward to sitting in the hall all my life, and I am good at the knowledge of the empty group, but if I am extremely cautious, I will be able to get it quickly, and I will be ashamed of it."

In the Zhigong Hall, after the first Zhu Juan arrived, the chief examiner Xu Jie and the deputy chief examiner Yan Maoqing led eight fellow examiners to the portrait of Confucius in the inner curtain hall of the Zhigong Hall, and the two chief examiners stepped forward to burn three incense sticks, and then knelt three times and bowed nine times under the statue of the saint of Gaokong.

Xu Jie is at the forefront. followed by Yan Maoqing, and several other examiners arranged their shifts according to their positions.

"For the sake of the country, the society is impartial, no favoritism, no invitation, no bribes - if you have this heart, the gods will die together."

Xu Jie led all the examiners and swore an alliance. This is an immutable rule for hundreds of years, and the two examiners retired after the oath. Then the deacons of the Gongyuan were busy with their work, offering sacrifices to Emperor Wenchang, Baikuili, and Emperor Guansheng...... All kinds of procedures are strictly followed by precedents.

After the procedure is completed, the lottery will begin, and the examiner Xu Jie and the deputy examiner Yan Maoqing will draw lots, and the examiner will draw lots. The deputy examiner draws the lottery of the test papers, and then decides which bundle of test papers to be assigned to which room for marking according to the lottery results.

The examiners drew lots to distribute the papers, and each examiner divided about 500 papers, all of which contained the test papers of different regions of "south", "north" and "middle", and the middle test papers were selected according to the proportion of 55% of the south list, 35% of the north list, and 10% of the middle list, that is, the recommended papers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, even if I don't say it, you should know the importance of this exam. The saint attaches great importance to this examination, and everyone must also see it. The second word is the will of God. So, just now I vowed to go to my heart."

Xu Jie said and swept his gaze over the examiners one by one. Xu Jie, a good old man who has always been smiling, is rarely serious at the moment.

"Otherwise, be careful of your net worth! There is no room for sand in the eyes of the saints! Okay, I believe that you are all fair people, so let's start recommending papers. ”

After Xu Jie finished speaking, he waved his hand and signaled that the examination papers of this meeting had officially begun.

The examination papers are the same as the township examination papers, and the marking officers of each room have no decision-making power, they just circle those papers that they think are good and recommend them to the examiner. This is known as a recommendation paper, commonly known as going out of the house. Those that are particularly good and receive special recommendations are called 'high recommendations', while those that are not recommended by them are called 'falling papers'. The examiner must also write a comment on these papers, explaining the reasons for not recommending them.

If it becomes a recommendation paper. The probability of being selected is five or six points. If the deputy examiner also likes, he will approve a 'take' word on the recommendation paper, and then send it to the main exam, if he gets this 'take' word, the probability will increase to eight or nine points, and the final examiner also likes. There will be another 'medium' word, and a red roll will be considered a positive result after these procedures, congratulations to high school.

The examination time is only about 12 days, and in this short period of 12 days, each examiner has to read more than 500 papers, and the total number of papers is nearly 1,500. In such a hurry, it is almost impossible to read all the papers in each session. Therefore, it has gradually formed a meaning that only focuses on the first test paper, that is, the "four books" that each candidate must make, and does not pay too much attention to the answer sheets of other sessions.

Of course, this exam is an exception, and they also have to pay attention to the second test paper, because this test paper has the green word questions issued by Emperor Jiajing.

While the examiner was busy grading the first paper, the second exam was over. There is only one last exam left for this exam.

The test questions of this last exam, in the eyes of all the candidates in anticipation, did not waste the candidates' prayers overnight, this last exam finally did not have any moths like the second exam, this exam is the same as before, it is also a test of the five ways of history.

The five questions in this exam are also decent, and there is nothing unusual about it. After painstakingly conceiving the green words, the candidates can finally breathe a sigh of relief and answer the questions step by step.

Zhu Ping'an is the same, the only difference is that he has one more mask than other candidates, and of course, there is a historical perception that surpasses them for hundreds of years, which is very helpful for the questions of economic history. If you stand high, you will naturally see far; If you see far, you will naturally have an advantage.

While Zhu Ping'an was trying to do the last exam, three large ships came along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to the port of Tianjin, which was mainly used for transportation and commerce.

"Miss, where is this, how can there be so many boats? Wow, that ship is so big! ”

A little girl with a bun appeared on the pavilion of the big ship, looking at the ship that was several miles away in front of Tianjin Port, and pouted in surprise.

"It's rare and weird, it's a sea ship, this is Tianjin Wei, and ships from all over the country to the capital have to pass through here." On the high pavilion of the big boat, another beautiful girl appeared, holding a book, and gently knocked it on the forehead of the little girl with a bun, and said coquettishly.

"Tianjin, isn't that about to go to the capital? Miss, I don't know if my uncle has finished the exam" The little girl with the bun covered her head with her big round eyes.

"Who has the time to care about that toad."

The beautiful girl flattened her lips and said angrily, then closed the scroll with her slender hand and walked down the pavilion.

Inside the scroll, a carefully collected Wen Si Fountain Charm reveals a small corner. (To be continued.) )