Chapter 96 96 Placing Cards

In the next few days, Wei Guangde and Zeng Yuanshu received the examination invitation for the academy examination and waited to enter the Imperial Academy to participate in this academy examination.

The weather was hot and humid, so they moved their reading time to the evening and early morning. The rest of the time was either sleeping or eating and drinking.

After the Taolin meeting, Zeng Yuanshu established contact with the students of Jiujiang Prefecture and other candidates from prefectures and counties. When he told them about the inn where he lived, he found that there were also many candidates for this academy examination living there, but they stayed for a short time, so they did not meet.

The academy examination is the last hurdle of the so-called "Little Three Yuan". As long as you cross it, you will enter the scholar-official class. Although it is only the lowest level, you have privileges such as exemption from corvée, no kneeling when meeting the county magistrate, and no arbitrary torture. The most important thing is that you have made it out among the scholars in the county, and you don't have to fight for the quota of official schools and classmates.

In fact, for the ancient imperial examination, the academy examination is the most critical and the easiest to fail.

The imperial examination is a step-by-step process. You have to take the exams one level at a time.

The county and prefectural examinations are all presided over by the county magistrate. As a local official, he naturally has a lot of contact with the local area, and it is really easy to get the qualification of "Tongsheng" by some means.

However, it is different when it comes to the academy examination. The chief examiner of the academy examination is the provincial education official. His main job is to urge students to practice ethical morals such as filial piety, loyalty, propriety, integrity, and pay attention to real talent and learning. Writing should be classic and realistic, and writing should be in regular script. The students' academic performance is examined. If the students who have been on the stipend for more than six years and are not proficient in literature and science, they will be punished to serve as clerks. If the students who have been on the stipend for more than six years and are not proficient in literature and science, their student qualifications will be revoked and they will serve as clerks for the people.

Check whether the students who have applied to be the students of other places and falsely impersonated their place of origin to participate in the imperial examination.

There is also the inspection of the instructors of the schools under their jurisdiction. Instructors with excellent moral character and literature should be treated with courtesy. Instructors with shallow knowledge should be warned first. If they still do not improve after re-examination, they should be sent to the Ministry of Personnel for dismissal. Instructors with corruption, lewdness, and notorious crimes should be reported and arrested.

This actually gives the school inspectors the power to manage the official schools from teachers to students.

Of course, the advantages and disadvantages of local military and civilians, and the corruption and cruelty of officials can be reported from the facts, and complaints from military and civilians can be accepted, but they cannot handle it themselves. Minor cases will be sent to the prefecture, county, and county for handling, and serious cases will be sent to the Censorate for questioning.

It has a little supervisory effect on the local area, but no real power.

In fact, most of the school inspectors are concurrently serving as provincial censors. It can be imagined that for such people, if there is cheating in the imperial examination, they will be unlucky, and they will be responsible for all the responsibilities. Naturally, the importance of the academy examination is completely different from that of the county examination and the prefecture examination.

Moreover, Jiangxi is a place famous for producing high-ranking officials. If there is a little flaw in the college examination, it may be criticized by others. Losing office is a small matter, and it is common to be thrown into prison.

It is also worth mentioning that Wei Guangde only took the main test and did not participate in the subsequent re-examination. This is not feasible in the college examination.

Because the number of admissions in the main test of the college examination is two to three times the number of students in this subject, but at least the number of people must reach twice, and in the re-examination, two or three choices are made.

Having reached this point in the examination, Wei Guangde will naturally not back down. Just take the exam. Can he not take the re-examination?

And at this time, Wei Guangde has already felt that this college examination should not be difficult for him.

There is no other reason. People who travel through time must be favored by heaven.

Although it feels that his origin is actually against the way of heaven, it is incomprehensible that he is favored, but Wei Guangde felt that he had no chance at all in the prefectural examination, but he passed it smoothly. How else can he explain it?

On this day, Wei Guangde got up lazily. As soon as the waiter fetched water for washing, Wu Dong rushed into the house.

"Guangde, hurry up, let's go to Nanchang Gongyuan to take a look."

"What are we going to do now? It's not the time for the exam yet, and we don't know when the exam time will be determined."

Wei Guangde muttered while washing.

"The academic official has just hung up the exam cards for the college exam. Let's go and see when the students from Jiujiang Prefecture will enter the venue."

Wu Dong hurriedly said, "Yuan Shu has gone downstairs to eat. Hurry up."

After speaking, Wu Dong stood at the door, waiting for Wei Guangde.

Wei Guangde had no choice but to speed up his washing.

In fact, the exam cards have been hung up, and he won't run away. There is no need to rush to see it.

After washing, he tidied up his clothes and followed Wu Dong out and downstairs.

For scholars, dressing at any time is very important, so as not to be regarded as Menglang.

During the meal, many people were already sitting in the dining room downstairs, most of them were students who were taking the college entrance examination. Wei Guangde and Wu Dong couldn't help but bow when they came down.

From time to time, students in groups of three or two would go out after breakfast, and they still had to bow to other students who were still eating.

Well, the more courtesy, the less blame. It seems that this was very important in ancient times.

When Wei Guangde and his friends finished their meal and went out, there were only three tables of scholars left who were still chewing and swallowing slowly.

These were more traditional scholars, Wei Guangde thought to himself.

In fact, eating like they did before was considered quite rude.

After leaving the inn, they walked across the Zhuangyuan Bridge and entered Gongyuan Street.

The last time they came here, they didn't walk to the Gongyuan, but just looked at it from a distance.

This time was of course different. After passing through the wooden archway with the words "Gongyuan" engraved on it, they arrived at the gate of Gongyuan in a few steps.

But now, after passing the gate, there are already more students on the road, and they are even more crowded at the gate of the Imperial Academy.

"Look, I told you to hurry up, but you are late."

Wu Dong seemed to be more anxious than Wei Guangde, and kept talking about Wei Guangde.

"I slept very late last night, so how could I get up so early? Besides, I didn't know that the sign would be hung today."

Wei Guangde retorted: "It's already hung, and it won't run away. It will be the same if we wait and see."

"Okay, don't say it, Guangde is also tired of studying."

Zeng Yuanshu said on the side to smooth things over.

Jiangxi is a big province, with 13 prefectures and 78 counties under its jurisdiction. There are really many candidates who take the imperial examination every year. In fact, it can be done with the capacity of the Nanchang Imperial Academy. It is said that there are tens of thousands of examination halls in the Imperial Academy.

But it is obvious that the official in charge of education does not intend to conduct the main examination at one time. There are indeed too many students.

The re-examination after the main examination can gather the students who are selected for the examination together to determine the final number of students.

After Wei Guangde and his team squeezed into the crowd, they soon saw the examination schedules of the counties under the jurisdiction of Jiujiang Prefecture on the examination board, and they had to enter the first session.

"Come back in three days."

After knowing the examination time and session, Wei Guangde heard Zeng Yuanshu say.

"I heard that meals need to be prepared for the college examination, is that okay? Can I bring my own food in?"

After squeezing out of the crowd, Wei Guangde began to raise his own questions.

He also knew the rules of the college examination, but Wei Guangde felt that the food prepared for so many candidates in the examination room might not taste good.