Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

Regarding the follow-up of Li Jun and his son, Lu Ci has neither the intention nor the time to pay attention.

It is conceivable that Li Jun's obsession with ghosts caused Li's father to make mistakes, and what eventually resulted was mostly a cleansing of the court.

Obviously, it was not Zuo Yude's turn to worry about anything.

Looking at the pile of test papers piled up in the past few days, and not seeing much subtracted test papers, Lu Ci sighed deeply, asked someone to make a bowl of strong tea, and prepared to fight all night.

To his surprise, the examiners, who were full of complaints about the intensity of the work of grading the public papers, were full of complaints and did not dare to speak out, but this time they were very cooperative with the schedule he arranged, and they voluntarily and consciously asked for a bowl of strong tea. Boiled together.

Lu Ci didn't intend to torment these people who were not young, so he persuaded: "After all, I am younger and my body can still bear it, so I only stay up overnight occasionally. But you don't have to support me with me, you can rest on time, Come on time tomorrow."

The examiners didn't expect Lu Ci to say this, and they looked at each other in blank dismay, with flattery in their eyes, and then bowed their hands solemnly: "Thank you Lu Zuo Yude for your compassion, but for Yuchen and others, it's also the responsibility, and I dare not say it." Hard."

Lu Ci raised his eyebrows, and simply said frankly: "The reason why I was in a hurry is actually out of selfishness, not out of any noble sentiments."

Under the stunned gaze of everyone, he said with a smile: "Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, if you continue to be trapped in this courtyard, you can't reunite with relatives and friends, and you can only sing poems alone to relieve boredom. Wouldn't it be very boring? If the papers were approved earlier After the list is out, maybe we can catch up with the Lantern Festival."

Whether they believe it or not, compared to the illusory responsibilities, this is indeed the biggest motivation for Lu Ci to complete the examination paper correction.

Practice makes perfect, just like the "acceleration routine" he quickly found out when he was reviewing the test papers. For these test papers, he sorted out the most efficient scanning order on the second day: read them roughly first, and focus on finding the name. If the sum of non-examination patterns, dots, rhymes, etc. committed by the examinee reaches the level of being dismissed, they can be immediately taken to the pile that has been checked out.

There is no need to look at the specific content of the paper at all.

Although it sounds rather cruel, the penalty for violating the clean and noble answer sheet is clearly stated in the tribute examination regulations. Before the candidates go to the examination, they should know the serious consequences.

Knowing this, but not checking carefully, the result of being directly dismissed can really be blamed on no one.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even a genius who can be so careless when it comes to important matters, once he wins, his official career may be doomed to be bumpy.

——In any case, after adopting such a quick review method, it really saved Lu Ci a lot of time.

After all, the solution test is the one with the lowest threshold in the tribute exams. The level of the candidates is uneven, and there are far more people who stumble in the way of answering the questions than Lu Ci imagined.

Those who smear too much, those whose poems and prose are out of official rhyme, those who are completely off topic, those who miss "sincerely correct", those who have few words in the answer or forget to count and mark it at the end by themselves, those who overlap rhymes, those who use temple taboos and royal names, or even Those who handed in blank papers due to lack of time...

The mistakes made can be described as varied and varied.

There is simply nothing that Lu Ci can't think of, but nothing he can't see.

After three days, he was amazed at this.

For example this one.

When his eyes glanced at the poems in this volume, he frowned at the obviously too short length.

The handwriting is also anticlimactic: the first few lines are too cautious, and the time is tight, and the later becomes more and more messy, and finally ends hastily.

With the experience he has accumulated in the past few days, he doesn't even need to count, he knows that this personality is settled.

Lu Ci shook his head regretfully, and casually flipped through the pages of policy theory. Although he had expected it, he still laughed.

In black and white, only four large characters were written brightly - "Heaven will kill me".

Turning to the part of 'strategy' again, it is very appropriate to write four words-'helpless'.

Although it seemed unkind, Lu Ci was still amused by him.

The image of a hopeless scumbag whose mentality collapsed because of failing the exam on the first day, and who gave up on himself on the second and third day, through these simple eight characters, has come to life on paper, and it can be said to be vivid.

Lu Ci saw too many similar jokes in the next ten days.

It can only be said that it confirms a sentence - excellent test papers always have similarities, but scumbags have their own scumbags.

Compared with those who give up completely and make jokes, there are more people who are originally at the middle level, but because of being too nervous, they perform abnormally.

Lu Ci has already reviewed more than one poem and prose on the first day, but the theory was a mess, which led to the collapse of the papers that should have been the simplest silent writing on the third day.

It is regrettable.

The rarest one can naturally be regarded as an excellent answer sheet of "clever in thinking, thorough in art and science".

It is rare for Lu Ci to see the last copy, so he cherishes it very much, and the ones with neat and elegant handwriting, which can be persisted from beginning to end, are even more precious.

Whenever he encounters these excellent test papers, he will give a rating of 'last time' or 'upper middle' very generously.

When he was an examiner, he realized the importance of standard fonts very deeply.

In a pile of ghostly drawn characters that think the pen is wandering around, it is difficult to identify the characters that can be seen clearly, and then give a fair score...

It's okay if it's just one or two servings, but a few hundred servings in one breath is enough to make him dizzy and want to vomit.

The hard work paid off, and on the 40th day of the lock courtyard, all the test papers were finally reviewed.

With regard to the review of the ratings, the determination of the order of the top ten, and the comparison of the handwriting on the public documents to confirm that it is Juzi himself, Lu Ci still needs to continue to follow up and preside over it.

Fortunately, there was not much disagreement among the examiners. When evaluating the grades, after discussing politely with each other for a while, they reached a consensus very smoothly, and there was no such thing as blushing.

Lu Ci was not surprised either.

In the final analysis, this is just a small test solution.

Even if they are at the top of the list, they are Jieyuan, but there is one in each of the military supervisors in Zhulu prefectures. As one of dozens of Jieyuan, it is obviously not as beautiful as the unique Provincial Yuan and Number One Scholar.

Those who are good enough to enter the top ten must have greater ambitions.

Next, Lu Ci personally urged the officials to uncover the papers that had been buried one by one, find out the certificate of ordination, and then publish the list to announce the ranking...

Kaifeng Prefecture is the most benevolent district, and the amount of relief is indeed much more generous than that of other prefectures, which has attracted people from all walks of life.

In the previous session, 130 students were accepted. This year, more test papers were accepted, and the quota was slightly higher. 150 students were selected. The overall difference is not much different.

Lu Ci breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw with his own eyes that the list bearing the hopes of countless candidates from the Kaifeng Mansion was carefully pasted on the entrance of the Tribute Court, and the big lock of the Tribute Court was also removed.

His ministry can be regarded as completely over.

——I can finally go home!

Once this idea emerges, it is unprecedentedly strong.

But Lu Ci himself was taken aback.

Others can't see it, but he himself knows it clearly: from the inexplicably modern era to the Northern Song Dynasty, even though his temperament has made him never lack friends and relatives, he always has a tendency to drift away, and he doesn't have much sense of belonging.

Just like whether he left Mizhou three years ago or Fenzhou two years ago, he might not be too worried about leaving Kaifeng in the future.

Wang Dan's dedication without asking for anything in return, and his painstaking care of Da Song, certainly moved him, and he may have made a promise, but the sense of distance always exists.

Lu Ci was thoughtful.

And to be honest, before he was appointed as the supervisor, when he asked to take up the task of constructing the Caihe water conservancy, he did not go home for more than two months.

But after living in Gongyuanyi for nearly two months, he realized that whether he can go back or not is different from not being able to go back at all.

After confirming that in his subconscious mind, Lu Ci was really missing the few friends who lived at home, he couldn't help but slightly frowned and smiled from the bottom of his heart.

The smile was fleeting, he quickly came back to his senses, and turned to go back to his room to take out the bags he had packed in advance, when he happened to meet the sizing eyes of the examiners who had been working with him for the past month.

"It's been so many days, everyone has worked hard." Lu Ci blinked, and thoughtfully did not ask those people who were caught peeping and were caught in embarrassment. Mid-Autumn Festival, hurry back and reunite!"

After finishing speaking, Lu Ci strode back to the room without waiting for them to be polite.

Now that the matter of solving the test is over, Lu Ci thinks that he, as the test supervisor, no longer has the authority to order them.Even because they all work in Kaifeng Mansion, they are not even considered as colleagues, and the age gap is too big, let alone have nothing to say.

After a while, Lu Ci took out some simple luggage and walked out of the gate of the Gongyuan without looking back.

His horse was still tied in the stable next to the courtyard, and when he heard the master coming, he was still lazy, and he just flicked his long tail meaningfully as a greeting.

When Lu Ci hung things on both sides of its body, it also remained motionless cooperatively.

It was only when Lu Ci got on the horse that it made a loud "Pu Chi" sound from its nostrils, shook its head in a grand manner, and walked forward spontaneously without his urging.

Lu Ci patted its neck affectionately, and said with a smile: "The old horse knows the way, the ancients will never deceive me."

It seemed to have a problem with the word 'old', it stopped abruptly, stomped its feet on the spot, and continued to move forward arrogantly.

Seeing it lose its temper, Lu Ci laughed: "You have lived in the Gongyuan for so many days, could it be that you have been influenced by it and become able to understand human speech?"

Ma'er turned a deaf ear to Lu Ci's ridicule.

Lu Ci was also a little tired, and he just wanted to rush home before the road was blocked by the candidates who heard the news of the announcement.

In this way, you can sleep for a while, and at night, you can enjoy the moon and drink wine with friends you haven't seen for a long time.

However, Lu Ci, who had a rare good wish, was stopped by the palace servants halfway before he returned home.

When he heard that the little prince had something to ask, Lu Ci instantly had a very bad premonition.

After entering the palace, the premonition that was lingering in his heart unfortunately came true.

Zhao Zhen didn't understand that his teacher was almost exhausted recently, his eyes were full of hope, and his tone was more sincere and sincere: "Gong Ju is a great success, and since the Zhi Ju has been unknown for a long time. I intend to reopen the Zhi Ju, Lu Zuoyu Would Deke help me to set up a wide range of subjects in order to cultivate talents?"

Lu Ci looked back with a smile.

——He just wanted to round up this devil-like brat and make them into mooncakes with five kernels.

The author has something to say: Notes:

The imperial examinations, also known as "system subjects", "big subjects", and "special subjects", were imperial examination subjects set up temporarily by the emperor's decree, with the purpose of selecting all kinds of special talents.In the Tang Dynasty, the system was very prosperous, with nearly a hundred titles, but in the Song Dynasty, the tribute system developed greatly, and the system tended to decline.

Inherited from the system of the Later Zhou Dynasty at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there were three subjects in the system, which were "a virtuous and upright person who can speak out and speak admonishingly, a person who is excellent in Confucian classics can be a teacher, and a leisurely official can be educated".

The content of the examination is "three strategies and theory, with a total of more than [-] words", which will be sent to the Ministry of Officials by the state government.

However, after setting up the subject, there were no candidates.Therefore, Taizu made changes and became a bachelor's college examination, and then added an imperial examination, a total of two examinations.In the Zhenzong Dynasty, it was changed to six subjects, known as "Jingde Six Sections".However, following the farce of Tianshu, it was suspended for 20 years, and it was reopened in the seventh year from Renzong Tiansheng.