The Red Mansion Is Like a Jade Gentleman

Time flies by in no time!After the August Township Examination, Master Yan sent a letter to the Lin family, saying that he had been admitted to Juren!

He didn't say anything about wanting to live in the Lin family, but just said that he wanted the Lin family to help him find a place for him in the capital first.You must know that the next exam will be for students from all over the country to go to Beijing to catch up with the exam. This accommodation is a big problem in front of them. It is late, not to mention the upper room of the inn, even the firewood room has no seats!

Master Lin read the letter and didn't say much, but asked his servants to clean out the Lin family's three-entry house in the outer city.Master Lin bought it back then just in case. Although he got through it safely, he didn't buy it because the house was really nice.

The spring of March is coming soon!

The ninth day of March is the day when the general examination begins.In order to ensure the smooth holding of the examination, the state machinery began to operate from the third watch of the ninth day of the lunar new year.On the third watch, the entire imperial city was under martial law, and the main passage leading to the Tribute Court of the Ministry of Rites was completely under martial law.Candidates unless they have an admission ticket are not allowed to pass.

The Lin family made an unprecedented effort this time, with a total of [-] candidates participating in the examination, although compared to the base number of candidates from the Lin family in Suzhou, these [-] candidates can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket.But because of this, the Lin family got busy early in the morning.

After eating something and getting everything ready, Master Lin asked Mr. Fu of the Lin family to lead the eighteen Lin family children to set off.

This test will last for nine days and eight nights, no one will be able to get out before the time.Therefore, after Uncle Fu watched several young nephews and grandnephews enter the arena, he asked someone to drive back in a carriage!

And the Lin family's children carried the expectations of their elders, the glory of their ancestors, and the pride of generations of officials, and entered the examination room with their heads held high. This will be the beginning of their official career.

The general examination is more difficult than the provincial and government examinations.Government examinations and rural examinations mainly test basic cultural knowledge, relying on memorization and understanding of scriptures.The general examination is different. If you pass the Jinshi examination, you can directly become an official in one step.When meeting a wise emperor, no one is willing to select them all to be bookworms.

Therefore, the test questions of the meeting are more focused on the cognition of the current system and certain working ability.

Although the Lin family's children were not fully prepared before, but after Master Lin found some people for them to make a surprise attack, with the support of the Lin family, it is still very easy to pass the test, but there may be some problems with their rankings.

On the day when the examination ended, Master Lin asked Uncle Fu to send someone to drive the car to the Tribute Court of the Ministry of Rites to occupy the best position.

Seeing the wrinkled clothes, loose hair buns, red eyes, unshaven beards, and smelly Juren lords walking out of the dragon gate one by one, even those drivers have to admit that this is really not a human life. It's not easy for people either!This is not an exam, it is simply roasting people!

Then the young servants of the Lin family noticed that the young masters of the Lin family had come out, and hurried forward to help them get into the carriage.Another one was picked up one after another, and finally they were all finished. Several carriages started to go back, but they didn't dare to rush too fast, because there was already a lot of snoring in the whole time.And of course the by-product is the stink.

Waiting for the boys to rush to carry these men who couldn't wake up to the room, help them take a bath, wash their hair, change their clothes, and clean up. They are already sweating profusely, but these people are still not at all reaction.

They slept until the next night before waking up one by one.Then there is grooming, eating, taking the pulse, and a series of arrangements.

Jiang Shi also watched his elder brother pass the general examination back then, so he also knew that for nine days and eight nights, he chewed dry food every day, and birds faded out of his mouth!So without saying anything, he first prepared a large table of sumptuous food for a dozen or so Lin family boys.

Sure enough, everyone was devouring food like a wolf, almost making up for the lack of these nine days.

The examination was over, and the candidates finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then it's time for the examiners to get busy.Nameless, transcribed, graded.And marking work must be cautious.This is a test, almost the most advanced test.You must know that the palace examination is just a ranking, and there is no such thing as losing Sun Shan.The importance of the examination can be imagined, so the revision of the paper must not be sloppy, and the workload of the examiners is still very heavy.Generally, the revisions are completed by the end of March, and the rankings will be released on April [-] at the latest.

As for the palace examination, the candidates who participated were the candidates who had passed the general examination.After passing the test, almost 500 people were admitted. These people are also called Gongshi, which means talents who have contributed to the emperor. Only these [-] people can be qualified to participate in the palace test.

As long as one is admitted as a tribute, no matter how poor the palace examination is, there is no such thing as losing one's reputation.Moreover, the exam questions in the Palace Examination are also very simple. It is just a theory, an article with hundreds or thousands of words. For many people, it is easy to pick up a pen, and there is no difficulty at all.

The so-called palace examination supervised by the emperor himself is just to rank these people, and sometimes they don’t even read the papers, let the examiner review the papers first, and then circle them with a red pen.That is to say, except for the first few, the people behind, as long as there are no accidents, the results you will test will be the results of your palace test, and the emperor is just going through the motions.

Therefore, apart from being the emperor's invigilator, delineating the top three of the first class and the top few of the second class, the importance of the palace exam is far less than that of the general exam.

Master Lin paid special attention to the examination, not only let them all talk about what he wrote, but also asked a few friends to comment.The results are very gratifying. Except for the five sharp ones that have problems, the others are [-]% sure that they will be Gongsheng.

On the day the imperial list was posted, Master Lin sent a dozen people to look at the list.The copper coins have already been exchanged for several large baskets, and the first-class red envelopes are also a plate, just waiting for someone to announce the good news.

Master Lin was sitting in the room drinking tea dully, staring straight at the door, and the others were not much better, their small eyes kept looking at the door.

Even the Jiang family, who never cared about the affairs of the outer court, was very anxious in the inner court, and kept sending maids to watch over the outer court, telling her to come back and tell her when there was news.

At this time, the only person in the Lin family who is calm is Lin Hai!

He is not a purebred person of this era. Although he knows the importance of the test, no one in this era knows how important the test is.In modern times, we all say that all roads lead to Rome, but in ancient times, everything was inferior and only reading was superior.

So Lin Hai sat beside Master Lin very calmly, directed the servant girls to do things calmly, drank tea and ate snacks calmly...

Before Lin Hai could continue to calm down, there was a loud sound of gongs and drums outside the Lin family...