In the examination room of Hangzhou Fuxue, more than ten examination booths are densely packed with candidates.

After a wave of screening in the county, more than 2,000 candidates from the entire Zhejiang gathered here to participate in the 22nd year of Chongzhen's township examination. With so many people taking the exam, the original examination booth was simply not enough, so the government sent people to urgently build several temporary examination booths, which barely put everyone down.

Zhejiang had just experienced war, and Hangzhou was also broken by the rebels, and there were too many official vacancies in Zhejiang, and most areas were under military control.

This year's Zhejiang Township Examination was co-chaired by Qian Fenglin, the governor of Jiangnan, and Yuan Kewang, a student in Zhejiang.

Temporary Enke, the time is too hasty, and the preparation is naturally not as sufficient as in previous years. The examination questions are not unified propositions of the imperial court, but the provinces and localities come up with their own questions, and the imperial court sends the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate and the Jinyi Guard to inspect the provinces and supervise the normal conduct of the examination.

Zhejiang's township examination is only held for one day, which is divided into two sessions, morning and afternoon, respectively, to test the Five Classics and Mathematics.

The morning session is a piece of eight-strand text, and Qian Fenglin is responsible for writing the questions, Qian Fenglin is from a person's background, and it is naturally not a problem to come up with an exam question.

In the afternoon, the test was mathematics, but Qian Fenglin selected several shopkeepers from Qiyun Commercial Bank to jointly come up with questions, and the questions were all about the actual mathematical knowledge used in actual business operations. Although the difficulty is not too difficult, it is impossible to answer well without a certain amount of accumulation and experience.

Qian Fenglin was wearing a scarlet official robe and sitting on the main seat, condescending to look at the audience, while Lin Fucheng, the chief shopkeeper of Qiyun Commercial Bank, was dressed as a subordinate official and stood beside Qian Fenglin.

"The subordinates just went to take a look, and the little cubs answered well." Lin Fucheng said with a smile.

Qian Fenglin shook his head: "The questions are all up to you, and the answers from your Qiyun Commercial Bank are naturally good." “

Lin Fucheng said with a smile: "Don't get me wrong, Lord Governor, your subordinates don't have any behavior of leaking exam questions. After receiving your order, your subordinates immediately selected a few of the best shopkeepers in arithmetic, and then your people took them away, and the Jinyi guard watched and escorted the questions. Even the subordinates don't know what their problems are. “

Qian Fenglin said: "The question is made by the shopkeepers of Qiyun Commercial Bank, and there are more than 300 Qiyun Commercial Bank participating in this township test, right?" Even if there is no leakage, they are still close to the water, and there is no reason not to pass! If even they can't pass, then I really don't qualify to participate in your big treasurer to the prince. “

Lin Fucheng laughed: "If this is the case, our people have passed too much, will it cause any criticism?" “

Qian Fenglin sneered: "Who dares to criticize? We passed the exam above board, and there is nothing to be bored, so what if the court comes to investigate?

Our great cause must be controlled in our hands, how important is the Ministry of Commerce, how can anyone be an official in the Ministry of Commerce? “

"It's still the king's wisdom!" Lin Fucheng praised.

The two were whispering when there was a sudden commotion below.

"What's going on?" Qian Fenglin said angrily.

"Your Excellency the Governor, there are candidates who are dissatisfied with the questions and are making a noise." An examiner from the examination room hurriedly came to say.

"Anyone who dares to make noise in the examination room will be shackled for three days to show the public, and the text will be disqualified from the examination forever!" Qian Fenglin's murderous words spread out, and the more than 2,000 candidates in the audience were suddenly silent.

Ren Siqi looked at the student who was crying and being taken off with sympathy, shook his head and continued to answer the question. This man's life is over, but at this time he has no time to sympathize with others.

So far, Ren Siqi has understood that this township examination is clearly to select talents who are proficient in arithmetic. The eight strands in the morning are very simple, and the topic is that he, a talent who hasn't read much in two years, can easily solve the problem. However, the current mathematics exam questions are very professional, and several questions are clearly the actual problems encountered in business.

Although the topic is difficult, Ren Siqi has been concentrating on arithmetic for two years after all, and he has worked hard in order to make a living in the past two years. He had read all the nine chapters of arithmetic and the arithmetic of the Five Classics, and had learned abacus from the old account of the silk shop, so these topics could not stump him.

It took an hour for Ren Siqi to finish the five questions one by one, and then neatly copied the answers on the answer sheet. After all this is done, there is only one incense stick left before the end of the exam.

Ren Siqi did not rush to hand in the papers, but sat in his position and closed his eyes and pondered, if he was not wrong, there should be no problem in this scientific examination. is famous, and the ideals that have been given up are very likely to be realized, which makes Ren Siqi quite excited.

The gong sounded, and the whole exam ended, and the invigilators ordered the candidates to put down their pen and paper, and then began to collect the answer sheets.

As the crowd left the exam room, all they heard was cursing. For most of the talents who are obsessed with fame and hard reading the books of sages, the math problem just now is too difficult. Most of them are in vain!

Hearing this, Ren Siqi was already full of joy, but he didn't dare to show it at all, but quickly returned to the silk shop on an errand.

"How is the public examination of Xiucai?" The shopkeeper asked with a smile, but Ren Siqi could see the mockery in his eyes.

"Normally, as you know, I haven't read a book for more than two years." Ren Siqi sighed deliberately.

"It doesn't matter if you don't pass the test, after all, the master is a Wenqu star in the sky, and not everyone has the luck to pass the test." The shopkeeper patted Ren Siqi on the shoulder and comforted him, and then began to assign tasks, "You have been focusing on scientific research for the past two days, and there is a lot of backlog in the store, so hurry up and sort it out." It was almost the end of the month, and the proprietor soon sent someone to check the accounts. “

"Yes, shopkeeper." Ren Siqi hurriedly ran to the counter and began to fiddle with the abacus beads.

Seeing that Ren Siqi's attitude was quite respectful, the shopkeeper nodded and went out with his hands behind his back.

In the next few days, Ren Siqi worked as hard as ever, although he believed that he could be lifted, but before the results came out, he had to work as always, after all, it was not easy to find a job.

During this time, the silk shop business was exceptionally good, and a large number of accounts were accumulated every day to be counted, and Ren Siqi was busy from morning to night every day, so that he didn't have time to go to the school to read the list.

"Ren Xiucai, it's time for today's list to come out." The third child walked to the counter and said with concern.

"It should come out, but I still have a few accounts that I haven't done, so I'll wait until noon to look at it." Looking at the stacked accounts on the counter, Ren Siqi sighed.

The shopkeeper who was busy greeting guests in front glanced at Ren Siqi, but he didn't have the mind to let him go to see the list.

At this moment, there was a faint sound of gongs, and then I saw a young man running into the store.

"Won, Ren Xiucai, you've been promoted!"

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