In the sixteenth year of Chenghua, there are 12 examination officers in the Zhejiang Township Examination, which is commonly known as the inner curtain officer, who is responsible for the marking work, and corresponds to the external curtain officials such as the promotion officer and the supervisor officer.

Among the 12 examiners, there is one chief examiner, one deputy chief examiner, and 10 same examiners. It can be said that the future of thousands of scholars is directly decided in the hands of these twelve people. A single thought when grading the paper can directly adapt a person's fate.

The examiners are extremely responsible, so they are extremely cautious in all their actions.

So far, the provincial capital has gathered two or three thousand scholars, and most of the reference students have arrived in Hangzhou City, even those who have not arrived are already on the way.

However, contrary to the scholars, none of the twelve examiners are in Hangzhou City, which is the "anti-idleness", and it is also a practice formed over the years. It is conceivable that if the examiner also stays in Hangzhou for a long time, how many can withstand the "round bombardment"?

According to the principle that they must be balanced with each other, the three examiners of the main examiner, the deputy examiner, and the same examiner are all different.

The chief examiner, the deputy envoy of the province, Li Shishi, has been supervising the school outside, and he is only afraid that he will not return to Hangzhou until the beginning of August, which is almost the Zuihou time before the exam. There is no way, he has the most power and needs to avoid suspicion the most.

The deputy examiner was sent by the imperial court from the capital, and Hangzhou did not know who the candidate was, and he would not arrive in Hangzhou too long in advance. It is estimated that at this time, the candidates have come out, but the specific arrival time is still unclear.

The ten examiners were selected from among the instructors of the province, and the candidates were jointly selected by the governor, the political envoy, and the procurator, and the time was also very late. It took a month to come out before the exam, and then quickly notified the winners to go to the provincial capital.

The atmosphere of the exam. To a large extent, this is how it is rendered step by step, and now it is time to select ten fellow examiners.

This day should be when the thing is studying. Seeing Xiang Chengxian coming to visit in a hurry, "Brother Fang Xian! I'm going back to Chun'an County once! Will you go back with you? ”

Fang Yingwu was very surprised, and rushed to the provincial capital from Chun'an County three months in advance for the exam to understand various market dynamics. Now that the exam time is only a month away, Brother Xiang is going back again, what kind of trouble is this?

Xiang Chengxian explained: "I am going to choose the same examiner in the next few days, I want to go back to the county and wait for news!" ”

Fang Yingwu still didn't understand, is there any logical relationship between the selection of the same examiner and returning to the county?

Xiang Chengxian explained again: "It is not impossible for the county to learn Meng's teachings to be selected as the same examiner, if he is really selected. We can deal with him in Chun'an County. When he arrived in the provincial capital, he was directly locked in the tribute courtyard, and there was no chance to meet. ”

Fang Yingwu understood a little, and it turned out that he had this idea. In recent years, there is a relatively safe mid-to-high-end cheating method, which is to agree on a mark with the examiner in charge of grading, such as what words to use at the end of several consecutive paragraphs.

But he still disagreed with Xiang Chengxian's behavior, "But you know that Meng Jiaoyu will be selected?" I don't know how likely it is, do you want a blind cat to kill a mouse? ”

Xiang Chengxian had his own calculations, "Instructor inside." It is unlikely that there will be any possibility of teaching, and only the official teachings, scholars, and professors of the county, state, and government schools will have hope. Today, there are 11 prefectures, 1 prefecture, and 75 counties in the province, with a total of 87 school officials.

Out of eighty-seven, only ten were chosen. Speaking of which, Meng Jiaoyu also has more than a chance of one percent. Let's weishenme not go to try it? Anyway, Chun'an is only a few days away from the provincial capital, and it will only take half a month to come and go, so it will not delay the exam time. ”

Fang Yingwu shook his head. retorted: "You're not right, the chance is not one percent." It's one percent! Even if Meng Jiaoyu was selected as a lucky person, there were a total of ten examiners who graded the papers. The chance that your test paper will fall into the hands of Meng Jiaoyu is still one percent.

When the two are stacked, there is only a 1 percent chance that you will receive the effect in Chun'an County this time. Do you have to spend time and money traveling hundreds of miles back and forth for the sake of one percent hope? ”

Xiang Chengxian said solemnly: "Brother Fang Xian, do you look down on this one percent? This year, it is said that there are more than 4,000 scholars, but the number of admitted scholars is still only 95, and the probability of winning the examination is only more than 2 percent.

If you can increase the chance by one percent, it is equivalent to an increase of fifty percent of the original hope, which is also very good, what is not to be satisfied with? ”

Although Xiang Chengxian's tone was ordinary, Fang Yingwu still deeply felt the cruelty of the township test and the torture of human nature.

The first is fierce competition and high elimination rate; Second, the reference scholar is simply eight immortals across the sea, competing in an all-round way in terms of knowledge, connections, money, etc.

Take Xiang Chengxian's move as an example, if he is a poor scholar, can he bear the cost of hundreds of miles back and forth for a 1% possibility?

This time, we must carry out the fraud to the end! Fang Yingwu secretly made up his mind, otherwise, he would have to toss every three years in the future, which would be too troublesome. Tossed a few times, a person's life is almost over, and then he really becomes a Fan Jin who is not in the move.

"You're not going back?" Xiang Gongzi Zuihou asked.

Fang Yingwu replied: "I am not on good terms with the county school, and it will be useless to go back." ”

In fact, Fang Yingwu has already begun to lay out in this regard, or the chief examiner Li has entrusted the layout of Fang Yingwu. But there are some things that God knows, you know and I know, even the most haode friends can't say.

Fang Daxiu was at the pass below, and it was none other than his cheap grandfather, Governor Wang. The practice of black-box operation and appointing the same examiner is definitely not Mr. Wang's style.

didn't mention it, but said that seeing that the time had come to elect the same examiner, the governor Wang Shu sent a post, inviting Liu Zhang, the political envoy of Zuobu, and Zhu Shen, the envoy of the inspector, to the governor to discuss the candidates for the same examiner in the township examination.

Among the three, Governor Wang and Liu Fantai both took office after the major case last year, and they have only been in high positions for a year, so they really don't have much impression of the instructors in this province. At this time, Zhu Zhentai took out a list and handed it to the other two.

Liu Fantai looked at it quickly, and he saw five names at a glance, and he was very surprised in his heart, and secretly muttered that this Zhu Shen had taken the wrong medicine?

There are only ten places for the same examiner, called the meeting, and each of them promotes meritocracy, but according to the rules, the boss must be the boss of Governor Wang.

Now that Governor Wang has not spoken, Lord Zhu has come up with half of the candidates first, which is tantamount to not taking the governor in his eyes at all.

And Liu Fantai doesn't understand that Lord Zhu has been very low-key and cautious for the past year after the robbery and got away with the big case last year, how can he be so bold today?

Is there anything he shouldn't have in mind? Or is someone behind him? Liu Fantai made up a lot of brain in an instant.

Not to mention Liu Fantai, even Governor Wang himself was also surprised. The main reason is that it is so unusual for people to dare to defy their direct superiors these days

After pondering for a moment, Lord Wang tried to find out and said: "Lord Zhu is in Zhejiang Province, familiar with the situation, presumably these are people with both talent and virtue selected from the instructors in this province?" ”

Zhu Zhentai looked down at the teacup in his hand, and muttered: "I don't know if this list has both talent and virtue, anyway, Fang Yingwu knows." ”

He said this with a clear emotion. One aspect of the hall was called back and forth in front of Fang Yingwu, and Fang Yingwu was weirdly "cared about" the issue of concubines, and it was strange that he didn't feel angry in his heart.

What should we do? When the name fell in their ears, Wang Shu and Liu Zhang's faces changed slightly. Does this list have anything to do with Fang Yingwu?

Wang Shu gradually became solemn, and asked Zhu Zhentai in a serious tone: "You mean, this list was drawn up for you by Fang Yingwu?" ”

Zhu Shen said angry words, but he didn't dare to open his mouth to talk nonsense, especially when he saw Governor Wang's tone, he knew that Governor Wang didn't know in advance. replied in a low voice: "It was Fang Yingwu who handed it over to the lower officials, but listening to his tone, it should be Li Tixue's meaning." ”

A few names were involved, and Li Shishi Wang Shu waved his hand, "That's it for today, and we'll discuss it tomorrow!" ”

Liu and Zhu must have known that this was going to happen, so they didn't say anything more, and they all got up and said goodbye. Seeing the two leave, Wang Shu quickly said to the left and right: "Go and call Fang Yingwu immediately, there must be no mistake!" (To be continued......)

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