Peach Blossom Island and the Red House

The Lin family selected three candidates this time, and two of them were old scholars in their forties who failed to pass the exam due to poor health or other reasons in their early years. The blessing of the nameless transcription system!If the examiner sees their age and their gray hair, as an old scholar who has no chance of becoming a Jinshi, and has no investment value, it is impossible for him to win the exam. I can fool myself into being a gentry in my hometown and enjoy the benefits of the national tax exemption system.

But now they are in it!Although the ranking is not very good, but it is really in the middle!The Lin family has two more Juren, which is definitely an improvement in the overall political status of the entire family!The more people in the family, the more officials there are, the higher the political status in Suzhou, like the Lin family, there is a family like a second-rank official, who can even be on the same level as the county magistrate!

In today's Lin family, apart from Lin Ruhai, there are two other officials who were accidentally taken advantage of during the succession of the new imperial power, and were promoted to the sixth rank. This is the rise of the Lin family's power in the court!In addition, the number of people in the family began to increase, and the Lin family finally began to rise among the Jiangnan family.

And Lin Lang, this 15-year-old Juren, made the Lin family's lintel even more glorious!Although Lin Lang himself didn't realize the reason why he was selected.

Actually!To put it bluntly, Lin Lang won such a ranking this time, it is really a combination of various reasons!

First of all, let me talk about the process of grading papers in the township examination. Candidates' examination papers are written in ink, called "ink scrolls".After handing in the volume, the serial number will be sealed immediately, and it will be transcribed into "Zhu Juan" with a vermilion pen. After proofreading, it will be sent to the house officer for review.The house official reviews the selected test papers, and then recommends them to the chief examiner, which is called "recommended papers".The chief and deputy chief examiners review the recommendation papers of the housing officials, mainly in the first round.After reading, combined with the situation of the second and third games, read and discussed each other, and decided on the middle amount.

Therefore, for the first paper of the Four Books Examination, if the examinee answers well, he will succeed more than half of the time. Perhaps this is the so-called first impression.

The test papers that are "clicked" by the room officer are called "falling papers".It is not without chance that the papers will be dropped. As usual, the examiner will also choose among the papers to see if there are any suitable papers for supplementary recording. This is called "searching for leftovers".But after the list was released, the examiner's strings were still tense.Because it's not over yet,

One is to check the papers. "It is stipulated that after the announcement of the township examination in each province, the examination papers shall be unsealed according to the time limit and sent to the Ministry of Grinding, and those who delay will be punished... the words and sentences are suspicious, the style of the style is not correct, and the name of the applicant will be removed. If there are more than a few volumes, the examiner and the same examiner will be dismissed or arrested. Salary or downgrade."

The second is to check people.In the 15th year of Shunzhi (1658), "Emperor Yi Shuntian and the Jiangnan examiners all failed with bribes, and the personal reexamination of the two exams was the beginning of the reexamination for the township examination." "In the 38th year of Kangxi, it was unfair for the emperor to select scholars from the northern imperial court, so he ordered the inner court to re-examine."

If a cheater is found, his reputation will be abolished immediately and the examiner will be punished.From time to time, Emperor Qianlong ordered governors and academic officials to re-examine Chinese-style juren, and it became a custom after Jiaqing.In this superficial era, things like this are common, not to mention that this is the first provincial examination for the new emperor to ascend the throne, and that person is not working with a tight skin!I'm afraid that I will be the rafter in the early days.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that there is also a humane measure that respects the candidates: "The papers that are not recommended by the house official and the papers that are not taken by the main examiner must also be slightly commented and sent to the candidates after the test." If you are happy in the exam, you also have to understand if you fail the ranking.So in fact, this exam is still somewhat open, fair, and fair.

Lin Lang's first examiner was a well-known radical. In his heart, if he can participate in the examination this time, he must be reused by his superiors. It is because his political ideas have come into play. In such a situation Under the leadership of his thoughts, he read the papers with great spirit, but unfortunately, most of the articles he saw were relatively mediocre articles, which made him very unhappy, and then Lin Lang's papers appeared, it was like ice cream in summer, like that I was so happy, so satisfied, I immediately put Lin Lang's article in the best column, and then sent it up.

The deputy chief examiner took a look, hey, there are excellent articles sent up so soon?I became interested and wanted to take a good look at it, so I simply put down the other articles in my hand. After reading this article, I frowned.It's too radical!But think about it now that the new emperor came to power, looking at the officials who delivered the papers, it seems that the new emperor has just promoted, is it possible, is this a hint?Hinting at the political orientation of the new emperor?Or is it because Xinhuang wants to select and trust, or it is a signal to reuse young people?

With such a thought, he was in a dilemma holding the paper!This is not easy!Although I don't look very pleasing to the eye, but this can't be done anyway, right!Look at it again, this article can be considered fluent in writing at any rate, it has something to say, and the allusions are used properly, why don't you let it go?

After thinking about it for a long time, I put it down and picked it up again, and finally settled on a middle-top one, and then put it aside. According to such comments, there is no problem with this article's middle-ranking list, which is probably above fifty and below twenty. It's a good ranking, no one will be offended, this is the deputy examiner's mind.

Then, this paper was transferred to the main examiner. It is said that Lin Lang's paper will not have any other problems because of this evaluation. The ranking is probably determined in this way. Anyway, it is not bad if they are all selected. I was lucky, but things changed again. During the final review, the examiner inadvertently mentioned that there were a lot more people participating in the rural examination this time, and he also mentioned Lin Ruhai, and finally said yes I heard that Lin Ruhai's cousin is only 15 years old this year, and he was from a junior Sanyuan background. He must have taken the exam this time, and I don't know what rank he can get in the exam.

After saying this, the deputy chief examiner subconsciously thought of the examination paper that he had been tossing about for a long time, and immediately had some thoughts in his mind, and turned out the paper again, then pointed to the paper, and said with emotion:

I have read this examination paper several times, and I only feel that there is something to it, and every sentence is reasonable, but the words are a little fierce, and I don't know how to evaluate it for a while. The first-class evaluation, but I am a bit old-fashioned and prudent and dare not make a decision. I want the examiner to help me take a look.

Hearing this, the chief examiner found such an interesting incident in such a dull grading process, but he also regained his energy. After taking the paper and looking at it, he frowned slightly, and looked at the assistant chief examiner suspiciously. Turning around, I immediately thought of something, smiled slightly, and then said very gently:

In this case, let's just see who the genius is, let us have such a headache, let's take a look together.

According to the regulations, if there are papers that are undecided, several chief examiners and deputy chief examiners can sign and open the papers together, and check the candidates' information as the final evaluation basis. This loophole has been exploited. Everyone nodded with interest, wanting to see Which talent is this that embarrasses both the chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner? After opening it, Lin Lang's name came out immediately.

Let's take a look, okay, I just mentioned this kid, and it came out immediately. Thinking about his age, he is only 15 years old. It is absolutely normal for such a young man to be a little excited. I didn’t like it on the Internet, and when I looked at the article again, everyone felt that it was indeed well done. It can be regarded as a classic scientific research article. The writing, format, and layout are all rigorous, as if they have been done for many years A master of time.Everyone couldn't help admiring, after all, it is the origin of family education!Look, how old is this, and it is not easy to write such an article!

Well, as soon as this difficult evaluation came out, the examiner immediately made up his mind. The younger brother of such a second-rank official still looks like a seedling with a good future. If he doesn't invest at this time, when will he invest? You need to get the name of a teacher and tie up a relationship. In the future, maybe even your own children will benefit!Immediately, he laughed and praised Lin Lang's article for a few words, and said a few words such as "Young people are awesome", and then moved the paper to a few more places, turning the original middle-upper into top-notch.

As a result, there were three kinds of comments on Lin Lang's paper: upper upper, upper middle, upper middle, and finally the other examiners who participated in the evaluation and watched to reveal the list were not fools, and they all knew what they meant. Everyone cares, this is the old rule in the officialdom, there is no such thing as deep hatred, it is impossible to be a thankless bad person!So I went up and circled one by one, which means that I have no opinion on evaluating them.

Now it's all right, Lin Lang's test paper has been improved. As we all know, the most difficult thing about this test paper is that it is difficult to adjust. No one can say that his test paper can meet the tastes of all examiners. It is normal that there are several kinds of comments. Yes, but almost all the evaluations are not below the middle level, which is great. It can only be said that this article has been recognized by most people, and even the examiners who don't like this style think it is a rare good article. Under the circumstances, everyone said, how could the ranking of this paper be low?

So just such a simple paper, which Lin Lang thought was a way to vent his anger, became the top ten papers all of a sudden!

It can only be said that God thinks Lin Lang is pleasing to the eye!Such an opportunity, such a coincidence, stunned him all!If he doesn't win, who wins?

Of course, Lin Lang didn't know anything, until after the ranking was released, he looked at the comments on his paper and didn't realize what was going on!Even when the chief examiner kindly talked about Lin Ruhai, he had a little understanding, but the specific things inside were probably a mystery.