Originally, the top ten examination papers were marked by the emperor himself. However, the founding emperor did not know that he was too lazy, or wanted the heads of the three academies and six departments to participate in the hard work of marking the examination papers, so that he would not be the only one to suffer.

It was stipulated that the top ten examination papers would be reviewed by the heads of the three academies and six departments before being handed over to him for final approval.

Therefore, although people like Zhang Changshen, Wu Huaisi, and Qi Xugu also have to participate in marking the test papers, the task is still very easy. They only need to quickly read ten test papers, write down their comments, and then hand over the rankings they have drawn up to the emperor.

After review, you can go home and sleep.

The remaining more than 100 copies will be reviewed by people selected from the three academies and six departments, and then ranked. This ranking will be the ranking of the final scholars and will not be changed.

In order to prevent the test papers from being destroyed or tampered with intentionally or unintentionally on this night, the marking officer could not wait until tomorrow to go to the office to make corrections. He could only stay up late and wait until the corrections were completed tomorrow before going home to rest.

In order to show seriousness, and to ensure fairness and impartiality, and not to be affected by other people, the marking officers basically do not chat, and try not to talk if they can.

The top ten test papers are sent to the heads of the six departments of the three hospitals. Basically, each person will mark one paper and then rotate it.

The first official to get Zhao Ruxi's test paper was Li Hongbin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice. When he saw the beautiful handwriting on the test paper, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Although his own calligraphy is not exquisite, he has practiced it since childhood and is not bad. He has basic appreciation ability. Why does he feel that the calligraphy on this test paper is not bad compared to Qin Zhe's calligraphy, even

It was comparable to Master Mingcang's calligraphy, and the style was completely different. From the bottom of his heart, he liked the calligraphy in front of him better.

He couldn't help but move his eyes to the place where his name was written on the test paper. There were three words "Zhao Ruxi" written on it.

He was so surprised that he almost screamed.

Zhao Ruxi and Zhao Zhiwei knew that this woman famous for her talent had been in the limelight recently. Even though Li Hongbin was busy with official duties, he never knew the gossip in the capital, and he also knew the deeds of Mr. Kumu, a great disciple.

If Zhao Ruxi is only successful in painting, then that's fine. There are also women who are talented in this field, and the head of Qingyang County is one of them. Although the ministers in the court think that this girl is good, they don't have them.

Much admiration.

After all, calligraphy and painting are talents and have nothing to do with governing the country or politics. To them, they are just a minor path.

But Zhao Ruxi dared to fight with men in the imperial examination, and she also ranked second among the candidates with Jieyuan and the second place in the imperial examination. The ministers in the Central Plains did not take her seriously.

They also slowly paid attention to her, and began to face her, respect her, and put her on the same level as them.

If it had been another competition, they might have thought there was an inside story. But the imperial examination was the fairest and just competition, and no one could deny Zhao Ruxi's results. She stood on the same starting line as all the male candidates, and she also

She achieved success. This courage is different from that of ordinary women, and her talent is better than that of all men. It has gained the respect of these ministers who have also studied hard in poverty and know how difficult the road to the imperial examination is.

Now, seeing the beautiful calligraphy in front of him and the article that was written in one go, with the same momentum as Zhao Zhiwei's landscape paintings, Li Hongbin couldn't help but want to stand up and praise him, and ask everyone to come and appreciate such calligraphy and article.

Unfortunately not.

He had no choice but to suppress the excitement in his heart and read the article carefully. After reading it, he thought about it and shouted loudly.

This article is really well written.

Li Hongbin's father was born into a poor family; but in Li Hongbin's generation, he has become the second generation of officials. He himself is now in his fifties, and his son and grandson can be regarded as coming from a family of officials and a scholarly family.

Their family understands the contradiction all too well.

Therefore, he does not agree with cutting off the nobles of aristocratic families and completely supporting poor families; nor does he agree with letting the nobles of aristocratic families have too much power and infringe on the interests of the country and the people. How to balance this is a profound imperial knowledge.

Zhao Ruxi elaborated on this issue in his article.

Probably out of taboo issues, she used historical examples, quoted from other sources, and used a large amount of data and historical facts to prove her point of view; and her point of view coincided with Li Hongbin's.

After reading Zhao Ruxi's three articles, Li Hongbin felt very excited, and the tip of his pen when drawing circles and writing comments trembled slightly. In his comments, he gave Zhao Ruxi's three articles extremely high praise.

Wu Huaisi, who was sitting next to him, had already read and commented on the article in his hand. Seeing Li Hongbin put the pen on the pen holder, and it seemed that he had finished reviewing the article in his hand, he handed over the article in his hand and asked for it.

Let Li Hongbin change another article for review.

Li Hongbin felt happy and took the article he handed over. He then pretended to read the article and looked at Wu Huaisi with his peripheral vision, wanting to see what he thought when he saw his little junior sister's article and calligraphy.

reaction.

As a result, Wu Huaisi looked at the words above, his eyes full of amazement, and he was obviously shocked by the master-level calligraphy. Then he raised his eyes and looked at the place where the name was written, and then his expression was stunned. Obviously

I didn't expect that this was the character of my junior sister.

He looked at the article again, then at the name, and then turned his head, as if he was asking Li Hongbin for confirmation.

Li Hongbin was worried that others would say that they were showing favoritism, especially since Wu Huai Si had a close relationship with Zhao Ruxi. He admired Zhao Ruxi and had a good relationship with Wu Huai Si, and did not want to cause trouble to them. He nodded towards Wu Huai Si,

He gave a quick thumbs up, then lowered his head to read the article in his hand, no longer looking towards Wu Huai Temple.

However, after a while, he couldn't help but raise his head and look at Wu Huaisi. He saw Wu Huaisi staring blankly at the test paper for a while, and then he calmed down and started reading the article.

Li Hongbin smiled slightly, calmed down and read the article.

Although among the examiners, Wu Huaisi and Kang Yannian have a close relationship with Zhao Ruxi, there are also examiners who are related by blood to other examinees and intentionally suppress others; or they are simply biased against Zhao Ruxi, a female examinee.

For example, Shen Wenyong, the minister of Guanglu Temple, is sixty-five years old this year. He has some conflicts with Kang Shilin and is very old-fashioned. He dislikes Zhao Ruxi very much. He feels that a woman cannot take care of her husband and raise her children at home, so she has to come here.

Show off your intelligence and compete for resources with men, which is very unruly.

If he had his way, he would have to give Zhao Ruxi the lowest score and write a bunch of bad comments to make him feel better.
Chapter completed!