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Chapter 214 The Cheating Talent

After finishing the exam questions, Yu Zhu threw away the pen and sat down to drink tea.

As soon as the exam questions came out, the transcription officers hurriedly copied them down, and then distributed them to the candidates in the exam rooms.

While drinking tea, Yuzhu felt as if he had been in another world.

A year ago, he was also a student taking the exam.Now, he is already the chief examiner who decides the fate of the students.

How wonderful is it?
Yuzhu deliberately didn't write the complete exam questions until today, just because he didn't want to reveal the top secret.

Historically, Yu Hongtu was beheaded by Yongzheng because his concubine stole the exam questions.

If the king does not keep secrets, he will lose his ministers, and if his ministers do not keep secrets, he will lose his integrity.

Yuzhu is a person who wants to do great things, so he naturally dare not be careless alone!

The supervisor, transcription officer, co-examiner and Mi Feng officer are all local officials in Guangdong.

As long as Yuzhu doesn't leak the exam questions in advance, even if he catches the cheating scholar, he has nothing to do with him.

Fan Shichong, governor of Guangdong, did not trust Yuzhu.

Wherever Yuzhu went, he followed there, lest the Yuzhu would disappear out of thin air in the blink of an eye.

Cough, Yuzhu has no ghosts in his heart, is he afraid of wool?

Since Fan Shichong deliberately followed him, Yu Zhu simply walked back to his three-in-one courtyard and played with the two beautiful maidservants.

However, Fan Shichong was not ambiguous at all.Not long after Yuzhu entered the yard, his people surrounded the courtyard so tightly that not even a fly could fly out.

Of course, Fan Shichong did not let Zhang Tingyu go.

In fact, Zhang Tingyu never suspected that there would be problems with Yuzhu, but was always worried that Fan Shichong would have demon moths.

Why?

Zhang Tingyu and Yuzhu worked together in the South Study Room.Yuzhu is also a watertight temperament when doing things.

Moreover, Yuzhu's future is bright, and Longkodo is a famous corrupt official, he is not short of money at all.

On the contrary, it was Fan Shichong's father, Fan Chengmo, who was famous for his success.

However, the current rural examination system is actually an institutional arrangement that is very unfavorable to the principal and deputy chief examiners.

Fan Shichong's people were all inside and outside the tribute courtyard, so it was easy for him to do something.

Just when Zhang Tingyu was very troubled, Yuzhu had already taken off his clothes, hugged Ermei comfortably, and lay high on the couch.

Did anyone cheat in the rural exam?
Surely there will be!
Because the interests involved are too great.

From scholar to Juren, to use modern terms, that is simply a leap in class!

The problem is that Yuzhu is not here to elect the old juren, but to find out of the more than 5000 scholars who understand Western trade.

Yuzhu really didn't care about whether the examinees cheated or not on the questions of the Three Daojing!

As for the strategy of the additional test, if there is no practical experience, even if they copy the book, there is no place to copy it.

To put it bluntly, as the main examiner, as long as Yu Zhu did not disclose the examination questions, and the top dozens of candidates were admitted, there was no major controversy, and he passed the test.

The first day of the exam was uneventful.

In the morning, when Yuzhu was having breakfast, Fan Shichong sent someone to report, but no one handed in the paper in advance.

Yu Zhu couldn't help but smile slightly, the guy who dared to hand in the test in such a short period of time is either stupid or idiot.

Even a genius would not dare to play like this.

In the afternoon of the next day, something happened in the Gong Yuan.

Fan Shichong sent someone to invite Yuzhu to discuss matters, Yuzhu changed into an official robe, and walked back to Mingyuan Building in a leisurely manner.

It is the prerogative of the chief examiner to patrol around in the tribute courtyard.

The examiners can only stay in their examination rooms, waiting for the test papers to be handed in, and can't go anywhere.

When Yuzhu arrived, Zhang Tingyu had already arrived.

As long as the exam is not over, Yuzhu is the highest officer in this tribute courtyard and has the final decision.

After the jade pillar was seated, Fan Shichong introduced the situation in detail.

It turned out that there was a scholar who had hidden a copy of the complete works of the Four Books.The cheating book, which was made smaller than a slap, was actually brought into the examination room by him.

Yu Zhu took the little book and read it carefully, hey, good guy, the words are very small, if you don't squint your eyes, you can't see clearly what is written on it.

What is there to say?

Yuzhu expressed his attitude on the spot, and said coldly: "Fan Zhongcheng, you are the prison officer, first send someone to arrest this thief. After the Longmen is opened, he will consult with the literature and government office. Show it to the public for a month, and let you examine it personally, okay?"

Fan Shichong has been watching with cold eyes.However, Yuzhu's arrangement was impeccable, so he had nothing to say.

According to the usual practice, if there is a case of fraud in the examination room of the township examination, the chief examiner can interrogate it himself, or hand it over to the supervisor for interrogation.

During the examination period, Guangdong Xuezheng was unable to enter the Gongyuan.

Those who can participate in the rural examination are all scholars.They can stand before officials and have the privilege of not being punished.

Even if the governor of a province asks the case, as long as the cheating scholar has not been dismissed, it is impossible to take any corporal punishment measures against him.

This is the real strength of the study test for fame.

No matter how rich the merchants were, they had to kneel down to answer questions when they met officials, and they could even be beaten up by the masters without restraint.

Candidates who cheated were just a small episode, and Yuzhu didn't even bother to do the interrogation.

Seeing that Yuzhu's handling was not messy, reasonable and compliant, Zhang Tingyu, who had been watching the changes, couldn't help secretly admiring it.

On the second day of the exam, there was just an episode of cheating.

You know, which year's Guangdong Provincial Examination does not catch a few cheating scholars, it is really a rare thing.

The next exam was quite peaceful, and no cheating scholar was caught.

Three exams in a row, a total of nine days, and a total of five cheating scholars were caught.

Yuzhu still used the old method, and did not get involved in it at all, and handed everything over to Fan Shichong to deal with.

After such a long period of observation, Zhang Tingyu has also seen clearly that the way of hanging the jade pillars high up seems timid and incompetent, but in fact it is extremely clever.

Why?

As long as there is a fraud case in the examination room, Yuzhu is the first person responsible.

Now, Yuzhu has no ghosts in his heart and does not intervene in the fraud case at all.Even if there is any secret in it, it has nothing to do with him.

When the examination papers started, Yuzhu, Zhang Tingyu and Fan Shichong were all in the same room.

According to the usual practice, candidates with odd numbers in Yuzhu's record and candidates with even numbers in Zhang Tingyu's record.

However, the rural examination in this dynasty only reinterprets Yuan.As for the so-called Yayuan from the second to tenth places, they are just respectful titles in the market, and they are of no value at all.

In other words, as long as you win the Juren, even if it is the last one, there is actually no difference between the gold content and the Jie Yuan.

After Yuzhu and Zhang Tingyu started grading papers, Fan Shichong became bored.

Through the past few days of getting along, Fan Shichong felt that he still underestimated Yuzhu before.

According to Governor Fan's original idea, shouldn't Yuzhu's age be the time when he is young and prone to act impulsively?

Then, after several fraudulent cases occurred in the Gong Yuan, Yuzhu's calm and sophisticated way of dealing with it changed Fan Shichong's inherent views on him.

When Yuzhu graded the papers, he had a steelyard in his heart.

No matter how well the examinees do in regard to the policy questions of the additional examination, it is impossible to get the best results.

There is no fixed number of total places for admission in the township examination. The total number of places has always been determined according to the number of scholars who take the test, and the ratio is one out of thirty.

In this provincial examination, the number of scholars who participated in the examination exceeded the 167 mark, and the last candidate was [-].

This is the right candidate, in addition to the admission of the sub-list tribute students.

The so-called tribute students on the vice list, that is to say, the scholars included in this list can enter the Imperial College to study.After they graduated from the Guozijian and passed the examination, they would be eligible to serve as county officials and other eight or nine grade sesame officials.

The future of Fu Gong is definitely incomparable with that of a serious Juren.

In the late Qing Dynasty, even the tiger class with a Jinshi background had to wait for a long time, let alone the so-called deputy tribute?
The township test is not a general test.The chief examiner of the township examination has absolute decision-making power over the candidates for Xie Yuan.

Deputy Chief Examiner Zhang Tingyu and Supervisor Fan Shichong can also express their opinions on the candidates for Jie Yuan.However, whether to accept it or not depends entirely on Yuzhu's own attitude.

After Yuzhu finished reading the last policy question, he couldn't help sighing secretly. It's a pity that in such a big Guangdong, no one is familiar with the trade with the West.

All policy questionnaires are nonsense with irrelevant text.

While rubbing his eye sockets and temples, Yuzhu secretly reflected.

In today's world where everything is low-grade, and only reading is high, the way of emphasizing agriculture and despising business is king.

Even in Guangdong Province, a coastal area, scholars are unusually light on businessmen, and they are ashamed to be involved in Westernization trade.

Those who really know the truth about Western trade are the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou among the cheap merchants.

Yuzhu's heart was a little cold. Among the students, no one is proficient in Westernization, so they can only train from scratch.

On the day of making the list, after Governor Fan Shichong personally stamped his seal on the list, Yu Zhu couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

Hey, this school difference has finally passed smoothly.

When the Guibang was posted at the entrance of the Gongyuan, Yu Zhu led two beautiful maidservants, quietly out of the back door of the Gongyuan, and walked to the streets of Guangzhou.

After wandering around four streets, Yu Zhu couldn't find a tea house for morning tea.

Hey, after Yuzhu pondered carefully, it suddenly dawned on him that it was himself who was in trouble.

Morning tea in Guangzhou originated from the "Yili Pavilion" in the Xianfeng period.

There is a wooden sign with the word "Tea Talk" hanging at the door of this "Yili Pavilion", which serves tea and pastries.

Later, independent teahouses appeared, called "ju", such as the time-honored Taotaoju.

During the Guangxu period, "ju" was changed to "building", such as the time-honored Lianxiang Building, Chengzhu Building, Huiru Building and so on.

That is to say, in Sijiu City, Yuzhu directed his own cook to make all kinds of Cantonese-style refreshments, such as boneless chicken feet, shrimp dumplings, siu mai, etc., which turned out to be the ancestors of inventions. Master!
(PS: Khan, the monthly pass has been blown up, begging all the old and young masters, give me a hand!)
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