When Emperor Chongzhen finally saw Huang Zongxi's name from the last page of the list of Gongshi, the little caution in his heart suddenly disappeared.

So I started from the beginning again and looked at the list carefully.

"Song Shilie?! Who is this? ”

Emperor Chongzhen looked through the list again, and the first thing to see was, of course, the candidate for the Huiyuan of this Spring Festival.

As a result, at a glance, what caught my eye was a completely unfamiliar and unimpressed name, and I muttered in my heart and couldn't help but say it.

"Your Majesty! The ministers and peers, yesterday according to the order of the three test rolls were arranged, and the seal was removed, so that this person could be obtained.

At first sight, the ministers and peers did not know where they came from, where they were from, where they were taught, and who they were taught by.

"After some verification, the ministers and others learned that this Song Shilie was actually a scholar who was recommended by the Korean national election and went to Beijing to take the exam!"

After Emperor Chongzhen asked, "Who is this?", the chief examiner of Chongzhen's fourth year's spring, that is, the president Xu Guangqi, immediately stood up and bowed down to the emperor to say such a thing.

Of course, these ministers present at this time had browsed the list of scholars from various provinces who had submitted them to the Ministry of Rites to adapt to Beijing, but no one really cared about the scholars from North Korea, let alone really attached importance to them, so they did not seriously remember the Chinese names of each of them.

The imperial examination has always been the specialty of the Chinese Dynasty, and the content of the imperial examination, namely the Four Books and the Five Classics, is the ability of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, no one in the government and the opposition took the Confucian scholars from Korea, a small country in the eastern part of the Strait, seriously.

Including the current Emperor Chongzhen himself, the same.

After Xu Guangqi finished speaking, he raised his eyes and saw Emperor Chongzhen's look full of surprise, and continued to bow down and say:

"The ministers never expected that today, the attainments of the Korean national scholar Lin in Zhu Zixue would be so surpassed! Although the country is small, the Chevalier is very strong!

"Only at this time, the members of the Ministry of Rites and the Tribute Academy will be promoted under the seal of the Zhu Juan, and the ranking has been decided, and the practice cannot be changed.

After the minister opened the seal, he looked at the Zhu scroll of Song Shilie's three fields, and saw that it was not only profound in learning, but also flawed in style!

"Yes, the ministers will maintain the original rank of the tribute, and present it to His Majesty's palace as it is, and everything will be judged by His Majesty!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was stunned for a moment, looked at Xu Guangqi, the cabinet minister and scholar of the Ministry of Rites, who was now gray, and nodded, did not speak, but continued to look down.

In fact, a situation like Song Shilie's is not an isolated case under the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not uncommon.

In order to put an end to the occurrence of fraud in the scientific field, especially to prevent the marking officials, the president and vice presidents, from abusing their power for personal gain and taking care of their protégés when they were admitted to the examination rankings, the examination system of the Ming Dynasty was very complicated.

Those who participate in the Ministry of Rites examination cannot meet directly with the marking officer after each paper is handed in.

Instead, the non-marking officers first seal a page with the candidate's name, place of origin, etc., and give a number, and this practice is called a seal.

After that, the sealed rolling paper will be handed over to the Hanlin or Shuji scholars who are waiting in the Gonglin Academy, and they will be asked to transcribe the candidates' rolling paper with a red pen in its original form, completely, and stroke by stroke.

This piece of rolling paper, which was transcribed by the officials of the Hanlin Academy with a red pen, is called a red scroll.

And this kind of red paper is the examination article that the graders at all levels can really come into contact with.

The graders at all levels who were ordered to mark the papers decided whether to be admitted to the examination and the ranking of the candidates on the basis of this copy of the red papers that they had no idea who was behind them.

After the ranking of the candidates to be admitted has been arranged in full accordance with the content of the Zhu scroll, the examiners will open the original scroll again and compare them one by one.

If the comparison is correct, the ranking of the admitted tributes will be finalized in this way.

If there is a mistake in the comparison, it means that there is a big case of fraud in this subject.

If that's the case, I don't know how many people will fall to the ground.

Of course, because there are too many candidates in each subject, the chief officers and vice presidents of the examination such as Xu Guangqi, He Ruzhong, and Jia Jichun will not personally pass the purpose of all the Zhu papers submitted by the marking officers at all levels.

They only look at the top few Zhu scrolls that have been recommended by the various marking officials, or the top 10 and top 20 Zhu scrolls.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen was anxious to see the results, so even if Xu Guangqi, He Ruzhong and others were already very conscientious, in the end, they only personally reviewed the top fifty Zhu scrolls.

So by doing so, will we be able to put an end to the drawbacks of the imperial examination system, and will we be able to ensure the fairness and justice of the imperial examination system?

Of course not.

The Ming Dynasty not only had many cases of fraud in the imperial examinations, but also the final ranking according to this system was not entirely fair.

The Zhu Juan, which was transcribed by Hanlin, achieved a kind of fairness that everyone was equal in front of the examiner, but it also added another kind of unfairness.

That is, the candidate's calligraphy level cannot be reflected, and the candidate's personality reflected by the calligraphy level cannot be reflected.

Because the Zhu scrolls seen by the examiners were all in the same Hanlin Academy pen, the candidates' handwriting was covered.

However, on the whole, in an era like the Ming Dynasty, it is already a kind of institutional fairness and justice to be able to do this.

Because of this system, it gives those poor scholars who come from humble backgrounds, have no background, and have no prominent teachers to have a chance to leap into the dragon gate and make a splash.

This time, Song Shilie, a Confucian student born in North Korea, got this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a blockbuster.

Of course, Huiyuan doesn't have to be the champion.

Because the champion needs to be selected by the emperor himself above the palace examination.

But in the era of the imperial examination, winning the Huiyuan in the examination itself is already an extremely rare honor.

Let's say that Emperor Chongzhen listened to the explanations of Xu Guangqi and others, and continued to flip through the list of tributes.

In fact, behind the names of each tribute, their basic information is marked with a fly's head.

Even if Xu Guangqi, He Ruzhong, and Jia Jichun don't stand up and explain specifically, Emperor Chongzhen can figure out who are behind the names that have never appeared in the history of the Ming Dynasty as long as they take a closer look.

It's just that since Emperor Chongzhen opened his mouth to ask, they, the ministers in charge of Jinke Chunqiu, had to stand up and make some explanations.

Xu Guangqi, He Ruzhong, and Jia Jichun sat quietly for inquiries, while constantly looking at the direction of the emperor with the peripheral light of their eyes, paying attention to the change of the emperor's expression.

Jia Jichun saw that the emperor's brows were sometimes wrinkled, sometimes stretched, and his mood was also up and down, up and down, and he was thinking about his thoughts, when he suddenly heard Emperor Chongzhen ask himself:

"Who is this Song Junji?"

Jia Jichun said in his heart, there is a mark at the back, Your Majesty, just turn the page and look down.

It's just that he is different from Xu Guangqi and He Rupet after all, and he didn't dare to say this to the emperor, and when he heard the emperor's question, he quickly stood up and bowed down and replied:

"Your Majesty! This Song Junji is also a scholar recommended by the Korean state, and like Song Shilie, he is a disciple of Pyongyang's Fulin Academy! ”

"Oh? But the Fulin Academy that Zhang Pu led people to run?! ”

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen's words fell, Jia Jichun was already in his mind, as if he had realized something, and immediately continued:

"Your Majesty! It is the Fulin Academy that Zhang Pu led people to run! Jinke Chunfu, scholars from North Korea, are all run by Zhang Pu together with the Korean National Rite Cao and Sungkyunkwan, speaking of which, they are all related to Fulin Academy! ”

After Jia Jichun finished saying this, he saw that Emperor Chongzhen continued to look at the list with an expressionless face, so he continued:

"Today, the Confucian students who came to Beijing to take the exam, and those who won the tribute, such as Song Shilie, Song Junji, Jin Ji, Li Huan, Li Jingyu, and Jin Yixi, were all recommended by Zhang Pu, the imperial envoy in Korea!

"In the land of North Korea, there are six Chinese-style people in one fell swoop, and all of them are among the best, even if Your Majesty does not ask, there are also doubts in the hearts of the ministers!

"Fortunately, the list of Chinese style in the current examination has not yet been announced, if Your Majesty thinks that the list of tributes is inappropriate, in the opinion of the ministers, it is better to depose a few people in North Korea, and it is not impossible to select a few people from other unsuccessful people!"

Just when Emperor Chongzhen asked about Fulin Academy, Jia Jichun thought of the Donglin Party and Donglin Academy in an instant, and at the same time thought of the true attitude of the quiet young emperor in front of him towards the Donglin Party, so Shi Shiran said this.

After Jia Jichun's words were finished, without waiting for Emperor Chongzhen's reaction, He Ruzhong, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites who was also in front of the emperor, also immediately spoke:

"Never! Our emperor Ming imperial examination system has always won the trust of the world! And the rules of the scholars, there are already laws and regulations in advance! Without evidence of fraud in the field, once the Zhu Juan is opened, it will be a verdict!

"Although the list of Gongshi has not been announced, His Majesty and his ministers, as well as the officials of the Ministry of Rites, the Hanlin Academy, and the Gongyuan have all known about it!

"If Your Majesty deposes a few people because there are many Korean scholars in the Chinese style, how should the imperial court win the trust of the government and the opposition in the future, and be widely used in the world!?"

"Lord Jia's words can be described as a big mistake! If Your Majesty has a decree on the order of the current list of Kogongs, the ministers will be ordered to reconsider the order!

"Besides, the rank of the tribute submitted by the ministers is not the final rank, if Your Majesty thinks that it is inappropriate for the Korean scholar to win the first place, you can make a choice above the palace examination, and you must not easily depose the tribute, so as to hurt the reputation of our emperor Ming Ke to take the scholar to the public and upright!"