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

"Room A NO.17, 68 points."

"Room A NO.18, 87 points."

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"No. 27 Guifang, 77 points."

Xia Zizhou was standing behind the examiner who was in charge of recording. Seeing him earnestly record the scores on the test number, he felt more and more that the reform method proposed by His Majesty is really convenient, just like this imperial examination, where detailed scoring criteria are given. Those who are good will be given more points, and those who are bad will be deducted. In the end, the total points will be ranked according to the difference between the total points.

The reform has brought many conveniences to the imperial court one after another. Although there are occasional shortcomings, His Majesty has tried his best to correct them.

However, things in this world cannot be perfect. As long as the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, it is worthy of the court's determination to carry out reforms. I don't know what those old stubborn people think. They only grasp those disadvantages and blind them completely benefits of reform.

It is clear that King Daqi is thriving under the leadership of His Majesty, and everyone has a share of the reform. Those who see the opportunity and follow His Majesty's steps have already made a lot of money.

Those die-hards are stubborn and refuse to follow His Majesty. They lost their interests and blamed it all on the reform. They are really making trouble for no reason.

But now His Majesty is more and more dominant, those people will be forgotten sooner or later like bones in a tomb, but he, a loyal minister who follows His Majesty's footsteps, will get better and better.

After more than an hour, the scores of more than 3000 candidates were finally recorded. Xia Zizhou ordered someone to check it again. After confirming that it was correct, he sealed the paper with the scores by himself, and then ordered someone to take the test papers of the candidates. Either seal it up, or pick out the best ones and prepare to post them in the future, until after everything is cleaned up, the sky is already dark.

Xia Zizhou looked up at the sky, ordered someone to bring dinner, and then said to the examiners in the room: "Everyone, the matter of marking the papers is over for the time being. After dinner, everyone, go back to your room to rest."

Hearing what he said, the examiners all breathed a sigh of relief, stood up in unison, and said yes, the servants in charge of serving brought up the food, and everyone ate a few bites, because they were too tired these two days , Everyone has no appetite at all.

Seeing this, Xia Zizhou also put down the chopsticks in his hand, got up and went back to the room, and everyone else followed him back to the room to rest.

By Yinshi the next day, the examinees had already entered the arena one after another, and the examiners got up from the bed to prepare to distribute today's test papers.

Wang Yue returned to the examination room again, first took out the carbon in the basket and lit the stove. There was an autumn rain last night, and the temperature dropped sharply. However, the imperial court stipulated that cotton-padded clothes were not allowed in the examination room, but only single clothes. Fortunately, the Jia family A few servants were sent to make it overnight, and made him some new single clothes, which were all wrapped around his body, barely keeping out the cold.

However, the examination room was a little deserted, and it happened to be in the morning, so the chill was overwhelming. Even sitting in the examination room, the thin wooden boards could hardly resist the cold wind that sneaked in through the crack in the door.

As a last resort, as soon as Wang Yue entered the examination room, she stood up and walked back and forth. However, when answering the questions, she had to sit in the seat for a long time and could not move. When I got up, I had no choice but to light the stove.

Wang Yue put his hands on the fire, and finally made his stiff fingers come alive again. While warming the fire, he lowered his head and looked at the test questions he had recorded on the test paper, frowning.

Compared with the previous round, most of the questions were only in the middle range, and only the last question revealed the position of the examiner. This round of policy discussion completely exposed the ambition of the examiner.

The four policy theories are all about reform.

And these four questions are the most controversial questions in the court. The reformists and conservatives have been arguing for a long time in the court. It is a very difficult choice for candidates to make this kind of question in the examination room. Candidates are already being forced to make a choice.

Before he entered the officialdom, he was already involved in the battles in the officialdom. Sure enough, he was right in thinking about finding a job in the Imperial Academy.

However, choosing a position may be a difficult thing for others to struggle with, but Wang Yue is a firm reformer, and the only thing to worry about is that the Wang family is a conservative.

If his answer sheet comes out, I'm afraid he will break with the Wang family.

Wang Yue's eyes darkened, and he thought of the cipher box that Xiao Yan had given him. So far he has not found a chance to hand this cipher box into the hands of the Supreme Emperor. The background, roughly after the palace examination, was able to meet the Supreme Emperor during the Qionglin Banquet.

But Xiao Yan also said at the beginning that this box is not in a hurry to send out, as long as it is before the end of the emperor's life.

Now that Xiao Yan has said so, he is naturally not in a hurry.

Before leaving last time, he watched Xiao Yan write another letter and put it in the cipher box. It was Xiao Yan's letter telling his son to treat him kindly. worry too much.

However, Wang Yue recalled that she overheard the voices of some candidates discussing at the end of the session two days ago. The conservatives did not intend to let it go, they seemed to be planning something.

I don't know if the examiner is ready to deal with these incidents.

While thinking about these issues, he wrote like flying. He didn't have any articles in his mind that could be used for reference in these few policy theories, but policy theory has always been his strong point, and it was not difficult to write.

And in the past few years, he has been going to Wang's house every month. Although Wang Ziteng has been released from Beijing, he has left an aide at home to handle affairs in Beijing for him.

This staff member will collect the movements of the powerful and powerful families in the capital, and the changes in government orders in the court, and then report to Wang Ziteng, so that he can understand the changes in the capital even thousands of miles away.

Every time Wang Yue went back to the palace, the old gentleman would take out some of the materials he had collected and explain the court's plans to him.Therefore, he has a fairly deep understanding of the imperial court's decrees, which makes up for his last shortcoming in policy theory.

Thinking of the Wang family again, Wang Yue couldn't help showing a wry smile, guessing that the Wang family would think him ungrateful, but he had to.

Not to mention his own views, let’s say that the Wang family will definitely collapse in the future. From this, it can be deduced who will win and who will lose, the reformists and the conservatives. Knowing that the conservatives will lose, Wang Yue is naturally unwilling to set foot on this road that is doomed to ruin. boat.

What's more, the Wang family was doomed to collapse, so he chose the same path, which was of no help to the future of the Wang family. Instead, he chose the Reformist Party, and he could use the password box in exchange for the safety of the Wang family.

Another thing is that since ancient times, the most feared thing about reforms is that the emperor suddenly repented, and the minister in charge of the reforms failed and died, which means that the reforms failed.

But this reform was initiated by the emperor, so there is no need to worry about the emperor going back.

The Son of Heaven must not bear the reputation of failure, and Emperor Yongning used the victory of reform to continuously erode the rights in the hands of Emperor Tianxi, so Emperor Yongning is destined to firmly stand on the reform side.

If the reform fails, unless the emperor is changed, not to mention that once the conservatives take this step, they will face the risk of being rebellious officials and thieves, let alone they don't have the courage at all.

The biggest standard-bearer of the reformists is the emperor, and reforms can be carried out while the emperor is in power.

So he must choose to support the reformists.

Taking a deep breath, Wang Yue wrote firmly. There is no need to change this path, and he is determined to go.

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