[Red House] Ban'er's Road to Imperial Examination

After the exam, it is naturally a tense time to wait for the rankings. The candidates are outside in fear, and the examiners are very busy inside.

"My lord, the top ten test papers are here, please have a look at them."

After a whole day of busy work, the examiners finally finished reading the test papers. In addition to selecting enough admissions, they also had to select the top ten test papers and sort the list.

Lu Zhuang picked up the test papers, looked them over one by one, and soon his eyes locked on a test paper, and said: "This test paper is not bad, what do you think?"

The examiner standing below him took the test paper, took a look at it, and felt a little confident in his heart, and said with a smile: "Everyone approves of this test paper, if adults think it is well written, it can be decided as a test paper. head."

In fact, the group of examiners already recognized the owner of the test paper as soon as they got the test paper. This is not a great skill, especially for these small officials, handwriting recognition is just the most basic ability That's all.

They had seen the previous two examination papers, and what they got was not the posted copy, but the original manuscript that would be sealed inside the yamen.

The reason why they read the original manuscripts is of course not to appreciate the articles, but to identify the handwriting of the official test case.

Although it is said that Xuezheng officials are independent of local officials in the court's laws and are not under the jurisdiction of the magistrate, but the real situation is not the case.

There is no need to be afraid of the magistrate, but most of the Jijiu doctors and others under the magistrate are locals, and their relatives and friends are all under the jurisdiction of the magistrate, so naturally they are not willing to offend the magistrate.

If the attitude of the academic officials is relatively tough, the attitude of the subordinate officials will also be affected, but unfortunately, their immediate superiors were probably affected by the scandal many years ago, and they usually don't care about things at all. In return, most of the government affairs are handled by themselves, or according to the usual practice, so the prefect, who does not seem to be their boss at all, has already inserted his hand into the authority of the academic and political officials.

One is the boss who doesn't care about anything at all, and the other is the person who holds the power to kill them first. The fool also knows who they should obey.

Since the magistrate decided this to be the candidate as the No.1 of the government examination, then of course he should be the well-deserved No.1 in the college examination, otherwise, what would the magistrate's face be?

Similarly, as the highest official in charge of local education, the test papers of the candidates who participated in the county examination and the government examination must be reviewed by him before they can be sealed in the file. Naturally, Lu Zhuang recognizes the handwriting of the candidate who is the first in the county examination and the first in the government examination of.

Because of the scandal many years ago, the family has already given up on themselves, and now their only requirement for themselves is to be a wooden man quietly, neither to discredit the family nor to cause trouble for the family, so when deciding who He doesn't have any say in the No.1 matter.

If he refuted the face of the magistrate, the family would definitely push him out without hesitation to appease the magistrate's anger, even if the family power behind him was far greater than that of the magistrate.

What's more, it is a great achievement for him to have a small Sanyuan under the rule. Although the emperor has long hated him, and even deliberately disgusted him, he was arranged in the position of academic and political official in the capital, unless he can Do something earth-shattering, otherwise he has no possibility of promotion at all.

When the emperor completely loses interest in him one day, he will be directly found guilty and dismissed from office. He will never have a bright future in his career in this life. The only thing to do for the family.

Looking at other people's test papers again, based on his own impression and the ranking list of the government test, Lu Zhuang determined the ranking of the hospital test.

"The ranking of the top ten has been determined. You can discuss the rest by yourself, and then delineate the list. The case will be opened tomorrow morning."

He gave a faint order, and without waiting for the people below to respond, Lu Zhuang had already walked away. The examiners who came to participate in the examination papers were already used to their way of being the immediate superiors. I got used to it and started my work.

There are two college exams. The first round has twice the number of admitted scholars. It is announced in a circle. Only the seat number is written, not the name, and there is no ranking. It is called the draft.

This draft is not released, but remains in the hands of the examiner. After the second re-examination, the results will be combined, and half of the people will be removed from the draft, and the ranking will be completed before it can be opened and the name written.

Now that the examiner has left, the examiners are naturally responsible for the rest of the work. The list of admissions has already been selected, and the next work is not difficult.

Carefully peeling off the name on the test paper, everyone was relieved to see the familiar name on the test paper, and finally there was nothing wrong.

Soon they unpacked all the test papers, and then transcribed the list. There is no big difference between the list of the hospital test and the government test, but the ranking has changed by one or two. There is no big mistake in this list, although People will be criticized for parroting and copying what others say, but this is the scapegoat that the chief examiners need to bear. Naturally, these examiners do not have any pressure.

The list was posted the next day, and it did not exceed everyone's expectations. Wang Yue once again accepted everyone's harmony. It's easy, but how hard will the next exam be?

After another round of entertainment and walking around, Wang Yue was finally free, so Wang Yue received a notice from Jia Zheng, saying that Wang Ziteng had returned to Beijing, and it would be Mrs. Wang Ziteng's birthday in a few days, so let him go to celebrate her birthday.

Mrs. Wang Ziteng's birthday was not a big one. Firstly, it was not a full birthday. Secondly, it happened to be the anniversary of the death of the late empress. Although the birthday of the former empress was being neglected intentionally or unintentionally because of the grand emperor's birthday, the people below It is very likely that Wang Ziteng has forgotten this matter, but Wang Ziteng, as Jane's character in the emperor's heart, naturally pays great attention to this point, and he also understands the emperor's feelings for the former empress, so according to him, it is actually not enough. of.

But the birthdays of family members of high-ranking officials like them are recorded in the Ministry of Rites. The day before Mrs. Wang Ziteng’s birthday, the Ministry of Rites sent congratulatory gifts as usual, and the emperor also had other wishes, although it was just a few pieces of cloth and a set of jewelry. Well, people like them don't take these birthday gifts seriously, but after all, they are bestowed by the emperor, this is face, even if he has concerns, Wang Ziteng can only happily accept them.

After thinking about it all night after going back, Wang Ziteng guessed that the emperor probably didn't want to publicize the death of the queen, so after much deliberation, it was still necessary to hold this birthday, but it was not a big one, just inviting some relatives and friends over for a meal.

Naturally, Wang Yue was also invited.

Although the Wang family was not as prestigious as the Jia family who said they were one family and two dukes, when they heard that Wang Ziteng was a second-rank senior official, Wang Gou'er and the Liu family were so happy that they didn't know what to do.

Sending away the trivial matter sent by Jia Zheng to pass the letter, the two of them took out the family property, while counting the money, while figuring out what birthday present would be a good deal.

Wang Yue came over and took a look, the kang was full of broken silver and bank notes, plus the remuneration Wang Yue brought from the young master of the Huang family, and the gift from the Jia family before were exchanged for silver taels. , although it cost a lot because of Wang Yue's exam, but after careful counting, there are 800 taels of silver. The couple are thinking about whether to buy an ancient painting or something to send over, which is both elegant and decent.

Wang Yue smiled and dispelled their thoughts: "Their family was originally a military officer, and now this Lord Wang is still serving as a military officer. He sent ancient paintings over. Those who knew said that it was you who sent the congratulatory gifts, but those who didn't know thought you were mocking him. What about him!"

After thinking about it carefully, the two of them felt that what Wang Yue said was very reasonable, so they thought about whether to send a sword to him. Wang Yue was speechless at his father's proposal, let alone weapons like swords. Buying and selling is prohibited, and what Wang Ziteng can see must definitely belong to the peerless swords. This kind of thing is inherently rare. Once it is born, don't even think about buying it without thousands of silver.

The two discussed for a long time but did not come up with a clue, so they turned their eyes to Wang Yue who was leisurely at the side: "Ban'er, what birthday gift do you want to give?"

"I don't think this birthday gift needs to be too good. Just now, Mr. Jia sent someone to say that he was going to hold a family banquet. Naturally, there is no need to give too precious things. As a junior, a calligraphy and painting written by myself is almost enough. "

"How can this work? You will definitely rely on the support of their elders when you go to officialdom in the future, but our family is a little estranged from him. I'm afraid it's not easy to ask for something in the future. Naturally, we have to take advantage of it now." Building a good relationship will make it easier to act in the future, you child, why are you so ignorant?"

"Why is Ban'er so ignorant? Go and see if there is a kid as old as him who can pass the exam as a scholar in the ten miles and eight towns. Besides, he is young and doesn't see many things, so he has such an idea." , as a father, you can’t teach him well, saying that he is ignorant, he is much more sensible than you.”

Wang Yue is Liu's lifeblood, even if Wang Gou'er is her husband and the father of his son, he can't say a bad word about her son.

Faced with Liu's seriousness, Wang Gou'er naturally had no choice but to admit his mistake, and Wang Yue understood that his father and mother used the entire family property to organize the birthday gift. It was not just nonsense, but a real plan, but he didn't think People like Wang Ziteng can be moved by a mere birthday gift, but his father and mother are afraid that they won't listen to his persuasion, so Wang Yue said: "Don't be busy, wait until I go to Jia's house to ask who are you?" What kind of birthday gift did the aunt give you? I'll do the same as them."

The author has something to say: I'm starving to death! ! 〒_〒It has been raining heavily since the morning, and the downstairs has been flooded, but there is no food in the house, only a bunch of grapes, if the rain doesn't stop, I will starve to death! !