In the carriage, Tang Ying smiled and said, "Mr. Shen is honest and self-righteous, and is a role model for us. The officials are very impressed. There are some small gifts here, please accept them with a smile."

As he said that, Tang Ying took out a few folded pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to Chen Xi.

Chen Xi took it and saw several contracts for sale and land deeds, among which the land deeds are mature fields around the capital. Someone had already cultivated them and could get them and wait for rent every year.

As for the contract of selling body, they are not ordinary servants, but singers and dancers. Their special notes are that they are bought from the Jiaofangsi. They are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and can compete for face for their masters.

"The fields need not be said." Tang Ying said, "There are more than twenty acres of land, and less. As for these girls, they are all thirteen or fourteen years old. The most important thing is to be clean. Whether Lord Shen raises it as a foreign house or uses it as a way, the government and county government will provide help... Lord Shen, are you still satisfied?"

It is really everywhere to win over and corrode!

Chen Xi thought to himself that this is a basic routine in the officialdom. He will give money first. If the money doesn’t work, he will give a house or a land deed. In the end, it will be just beauty and antiques.

For thousands of years, the patterns have not changed much.

Chen Xi shook his head, pushed the things back, and said, "I am the first to enter the officialdom and I can't use these things for the time being, so... I can't accept them, I hope I'll forgive me."

Tang Ying saw that he was very experienced, but was not angry and embarrassed. He smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's the same if you send it out after the matter is done. If Lord Shen feels it is troublesome, the subordinate will help arrange it and transfer these things to Lord Shen's ancestral home..."

Giving gifts here in Shenxi is not working, so I will send them to Fujian. If you don’t accept them in Chenxi, but your family will receive them the same. Because Fujian is far away from the mountains and rivers of Beijing, it will take several months to go back and forth, and it is too late to stop them. So Tang Ying first gave a vaccination from Shenxi and told Chenxi that they were going to use this method to force him to submit.

“There is no shortage of these in Xiajia Township.”

Chen Xi had a very warm smile on his face, which meant to tell the other party that you should be self-righteous and see if I would make concessions on the sales topic. However, since Tang Ying did not break his face with him, he would not speak ill of him. He just needed to show an attitude of "it wouldn't work if I wanted to get the question from me."

If you turn against each other without asking, it would be irresponsible to your family and relatives. Tang Ying represented Shuntian Prefecture. Even if Chen Xi was a Hanlin official who could meet the saint, he had no real power and could not be compared with the senior officials like Shuntian Prefecture, who were later in life, who were "the secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee and the chief of the city" who were later.

Tang Ying did not force himself, and the carriage arrived at the gate of the Gongyuan. At this time, the curtain officials inside and outside had almost arrived.

Chen Xi was thinking about a question. Tang Ying came to greet him without greeting Jin Gui. Could it be that Jin Gui had been bribed by them?

When Chen Xi got off the carriage and greeted the curtain officials inside and outside the crowd, a carriage protected by a brigade of officers and soldiers came across from the opposite side. After the carriage stopped, Jin Gui and a middle-aged man dressed in the government came down at the same time. From Jin Gui's helpless expression, Chen Xi could realize that Jin Gui was also bribed with a generous gift on the road.

"Chen Yude, don't you be fine?" Jin Gui bowed with a wry smile.

Chen Xi nodded and passed the ceremony, and then entered the Gongyuan Courtyard with the inside and outside curtain officials. When the number of people passed, the inner curtain officer would enter the Huijing Hall with towering walls and gloomy environment. The yard door was locked, and there were only a few comrades serving inside. The printing papers would be completed in the other courtyard behind the Huijing Hall. In addition to supplying, a dedicated person would come to distribute the test papers, and the outer curtain officer would not be allowed to enter at the rest.

Generally speaking, the questions must be completed on the afternoon of the sixth day of the eighth month. Before the first 9th day of the 19th day of the year, the test papers must be printed and distributed to the examination room where the candidates are located.

"Chen Yude is a fashionable student in the subject and is a student. This class is already the chief examiner of the Inner Curtain, which is really admirable."

When everyone entered the Huijing Hall, the door outside was locked, and the inner curtain officials who had never greeted Chen Xi before began to come over to compliment.

Most of these inner curtain officials have some connections with people outside. After all, many of them were elected by Shuntian Mansion and are not qualified to challenge Shuntian Mansion, so they are very sensible. They will collect as much as the money they send to Shuntian Mansion. Shuntian Mansion wants to bribe the price of Daming Baochao, so they pretend not to know.

Chen Xi didn't need to use his brain to know that the purpose of these people coming to say hello was to ask him about his ideas on the provincial examination questions so that he could leak the news in advance.

Among the many cheating methods of the provincial examinations, the most effective one is to learn about the test questions in advance. Among the curtain officials in the inner circle, only Chen Xi and Jin Gui have the right to set questions. In other words, Chen Xi and Jin Gui have the final say on what the question is. Chen Xi and Jin Gui have the final say because of their high position in the matter of setting questions.

Just when Chen Xi finished the question, the inner curtain watching from beginning to end with the examiner would quietly release the question.

After the outer curtain officer learned that those students who paid less bribes only got the questions and needed to find someone to do it well and memorize it. Just copy it during the exam. Those who paid more money also received better services. Shuntian Mansion will help people to the end. Because they have a large number of Confucian celebrities, they can easily find someone to do the questions, and then hand it over to the "financial owner" to memorize it and then enter the field to take the exam.

In this way, even if Chen Xi and Jin Gui are honest and self-disciplined, because they are not clear about the fact that the questions have been sold, Chen Xi will choose those cheating candidates based on the quality of the article alone.

Chen Xi was praised by others and seemed to be very helpful. He had a smile on his face and had a social engagement before entering the presidential room in the Huijing Hall with Jin Gui.

Seeing that there was no one around, Chen Xi's smile faded and asked, "Have Jin Zhongyun thought about the direction of the question?"

"This... it's better to listen to Chen Yude's meaning." Jin Gui said shirkishly. Even though he knew that there might be something wrong with this provincial examination, he would have to take responsibility for whom the final question was.

If you have the question, the final question is leaked. Is it not your responsibility to be another examiner?

This is also the reason why Cheng Minzheng fell. The test questions for "Four Sons' Attainments" were not thought of by Li Dongyang, but Cheng Minzheng insisted on showing off his literary talent in the exam questions.

"The two Shangguans don't know when to set the questions? Let's first figure out the questions in advance so that they can be targeted when marking the papers."

Now everyone knew that Chen Xi and Jin Gui were preparing to set the questions. The inner curtain officials did not give Chen Xi and Jin Gui any private space. They gradually gathered in the presidential office, just waiting for the two examiners to get the questions well and then send them out through some secret channels.

Jin Gui didn't want to make a question, and Chen Xi didn't want to show off, so he seemed embarrassed now.

Neither of the two examiners wanted to be a show of the topic.

Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty advocates the governance of rituals and music, and in the Jiwei Palace Examination, he used the governance of rituals and music to ask all the tribute scholars. In this provincial examination, it is better to use the governance of rituals and music as the topic."

The inner curtain officials present nodded and thought that this big question was very good, but someone immediately asked: "Mr. Shen, this governance of rituals and music involves many things, and there are three ways of the four books and three ways of the five scriptures and four ways of each of the five scriptures. This is just the first session with twenty-three test questions. How to summarize the entire thing with the governance of rituals and music?"

The provincial examination is divided into three sessions. The first session is the Four Books and Five Classics, the second session is the edict, judgment, expression, and the third session is the current affairs plan. Just the number of questions is very large.

The provincial examination seems to be both important in three exams, but because there are many candidates and many questions, the inner curtain officer who has drawn the papers, and the two main testers, has only nine people in total, and has 3,000 or 4,000 candidates and each has nearly 10,000 words of test papers. It is simply difficult to decide whether to accept or to rank after admission.

Therefore, Shuntian Prefecture, like the provincial examination of the Thirteenth Provincial Administration and the General Secretary, also conducted the primary selection based on the advantages and disadvantages of the first three-dea and four-book text.

Only if you write the Four Books well will you be promoted. As long as you answer the Five Classics and the last two test papers in a relatively consistent manner, you can be admitted to a juren.

In other words, the key points and difficulties of the test questions presented in this provincial examination mainly depend on the three or four books.

Chen Xi smiled and said, "How about this? Arrange the four books, "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" each, "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "The Proposal of the Mean" and "The Proposal of the Mean" and "The Number of Pages" first determine the number of words, and then determine the number of words. Which sentence is the title of this word? How about it?"

The inner curtain officer present was stunned when he heard this.

Grab lots and set questions?

Wouldn’t this provincial examination become a joke?

"Mr. Shen, you can't laugh. This provincial examination tribute college is a place where saints educate, and it's not a joke."

An old man next to him with white hair and hair heard this and immediately wanted to argue with Chen Xi. However, he was only a juren, not even a Jinshi. He was only a famous person, but he was elected as an inner curtain official because of his fame. He didn't realize that he was not qualified to criticize Chen Xi, a lecturer in the East Palace and a lecturer in the Japanese lecturer.

Chen Xi smiled and said, "Does Mr. Hu think... "The Four Books" are children's plays?"

"this……"

Chen Xi is very good at quizing.

It is true that drawing lots is a joke, but the final question is still found in the Four Books. This exam at all levels of the Ming Dynasty was tested every year. The questions for the Four Books and Five Classics must be the original sentences in the Four Books and Five Classics, so that candidates can use this sentence to derive their own eight-legged articles.

But there are only so many sentences in the Four Books and Five Classics, but in fact, each sentence is basically used up.

Although it is not prohibited to interrogate questions in the provincial examination, it is obviously insulting to ask Hanlin officials to interrogate questions in the provincial examination, so this provincial examination still needs to use the original sentence to design the questions.

The method of drawing lots mentioned by Chen Xi is a better choice for secret operation, but now it is inevitable to cause criticism when it comes to the open.

"Chen Yude, why not... it would be better to discuss carefully and then issue the question, so just don't hurry." Jin Gui was a little embarrassed because even the enlightened method of setting questions Chen Xi said could not accept it.

Chen Xi smiled and nodded: "Then let's get the second game first, the third game's topic, as for the first game, it's the next one."

The second and third exams are of application text types and do not have much tricks on the questions, but the current decisions can still distinguish the level of the candidates.

What major events have happened in the court right now? The candidates need to discuss them carefully. Whether the question is good depends entirely on the examiner's ability to control major events in the court.

Chen Xi has already considered this.

The biggest problem of the court now comes from the weak imperial heirs, but this question cannot be asked because it is a vain discussion on the government affairs. When setting the question, you should consider the idea of ​​the ruler. The emperor does not want people to casually discuss how many wives and sons I have. You also let three or four thousand candidates discuss this issue. I am sincerely embarrassed.

In addition to the problem of the weak imperial heir, there are also things that have happened in the court in recent years. Among them, the recovery of Hami and Tatars invaded the border can be discussed, but two test questions involving military affairs cannot be issued at the same time. In addition, famines such as the Yellow River breaking, the plague raging, the southeast wind disaster and insect disaster cannot be mentioned. Even if you want to ask questions, you must focus on the world to be peaceful and peaceful.

The merits and demerits of the imperial officials cannot be discussed, and the major policies that the emperor has made decisions cannot be discussed...

In fact, sometimes when you think about it, the scope of the question setting is actually quite narrow.

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