Han Xiufeng said before that it is unlikely that a fellow villager would come to Beijing to take the exam, but it does not mean that a fellow villager would come to the exam.

Because according to the rules, students in each province, even donate the regular supervision, you can take the exam in this province or come to Beijing to take the exam.

Shuntian Prefecture is the best place at the foot of the emperor. The Shuntian provincial examination has more than the provincial examinations. On average, only 145 students can get one in other provinces. However, in Shuntian provincial examinations, more than 20 candidates can win one juren. Although the tribute students in other provinces have to be different from those in Zhili, the Imperial College was selected by the Imperial College, and the number of students in the provinces was not that many, but it was easier to pass the juren than in the province. Therefore, the tribute students and tribute students in some provinces came to Beijing to take the exam.

It is worth mentioning that Shuntian candidates are the same as candidates in Baoding, Zhengding and other prefectures. They surrender to the Tianxue and Political Records. In addition, Manchu candidates, like astronomical students in the Imperial Heaven Supervisory, can participate in the competition, and even scholars who have worked hard in the editing and recording halls can take the exam.

It can be said that the Shuntian Provincial Examination is not only the Shuntian Prefecture provincial examination, nor is it just the Zhili provincial examination, but it is second only to the Ministry of Rites’ Union Examination. There were more than 8,000 candidates coming to the Grand Examination!

The tribute court is repaired almost every two or three years, and the required silver is spent by the Ministry of Revenue and the Zhili vassal treasury. However, in recent years, the court has spent much money on food to suppress the thieves and quell the rebellion. Now foreigners are in trouble again. Nearly ten thousand soldiers under Senggelinqin have eaten the first meal but not the next meal. Where will the court get the silver to repair the tribute court?

Many houses cannot live in, so they have to build mats and tables and semicolons.

The jokes made by having no money are more than that. For example, the same examiner and clerk, the servants had no food to eat after entering the tribute court and were angry with each other. For example, the test paper was too late to use paper, and almost didn't have time to start the exam... The examiner and the two deputy examiners were in a hurry and were in a mess.

However, Han Xiufeng didn't know about these things, because on the day the exam started on the ninth day of the eighth month, he took the nine Heying chief officers and the foreign commissioner to Tianjin again. And he stayed there for nearly a month and has not come back until today.

Ji Yunfei didn't know what he was busy with in Tianjin, but he only knew that Nanyuan was a good place to relax. This morning, he came leisurely in a mule cart.

Han Xiufeng was not at home, and Ren Yuer, who had long felt that it was nothing to show up in public, came forward to receive him.

First, let Yu Tiesuo find a few seafarers to help clean up a yard, then organize a wine pot with Lian'er, and then let Yu Tiesuo invite Ronglu and Wang Qianli to accompany him.

With all arrangements, Ji Yunfei felt at home. He drank again and slept until the sun was about to set before he woke up.

Lian'er, who was waiting outside, hurried to fetch water to wash his face. Ren Yu'er heard the news and came over to make tea for him. Seeing that he was sobered up, Ren Yu'er was so excited that he could not miss this opportunity. She ran back and brought a stack of articles and a few poems a few days ago, asking him, the Hanlin official, to comment.

Ji Yunfei took the article and looked at it, and couldn't help but ask, "Yu'er, are you taking me or you?"

Ren Yuer said embarrassedly: "How dare I take you? Of course I will take my own exam."

"Since you are taking the exam yourself, you should wait for your fourth brother to come back and take it to the examiner of the North Examination this time."

"Master Ji, you are not only Master Hanlin, but also a fellow examiner. I just want to know what you think, and I just want to know if you can get your eyes on it."

Ji Yunfei looked at Ren Yuer's test paper and sighed: "It turns out that he is a talented woman, and it turns out that men are not as good as men."

Ren Yuer asked excitedly: "Mr. Ji, as you say, this article is OK?"

"Not it's OK, but it's very good."

"Don't coax me."

Lian'er knew Ren Yu'er so well that she wanted to compete with those scholars when she knew she wanted to compete with those scholars. She couldn't help asking: "Master Ji, as you said, if my lady is a man and if she also goes to the competition, she will definitely be able to pass the imperial examination?"

Thinking of his experience as a fellow examiner, Ji Yunfei put down his article and said meaningfully: "Whether you can pass the imperial examination, you must do a good job in the article, write your poems well, and write your handwriting beautifully, and it depends more on luck."

Ren Yuer thought that the imperial examination was just a comparison of articles, so she couldn't help asking: "Luck? Master Ji, my little girl doesn't understand very much."

Ji Yunfei hesitated for a moment, then asked with a smile: "Yu'er, do you know how many students in the Beiwei exam will take the exam this time?"

"I know, it seems that there are more than eight thousand."

"Do you know how many examiners the emperor chose this Northern Examination?"

"Are you about ten?"

"That's it," Ji Yunfei took a sip of tea and said slowly: "The exam will start on the ninth day of the eighth month. The exam will be completed in three rounds. The exam will be completed in the sixteenth day. The exam will be released in the early September. The candidates have to copy the exam papers again, and there are only so many clerks working in the Gongyuan, and it will take three or four days to copy them at the earliest. In other words, more than 8,000 test papers will be read in just ten days. After counting, one room exam will have to read more than 80 copies a day, and you have to compare them. Do you think you can read it and compare it?"

Ren Yuer had never thought about this before and asked subconsciously: "Master Ji, are you saying that the examiners won't look at them all?"

"Although the imperial court always chooses people who are young, strong and capable when they choose the same examiner, they can't stand it no matter how capable they are. Moreover, there are many candidates in the house who are lazy."

"I really don't watch it?"

"It's not that I don't read it. Some house exams are all in one look at ten lines. I only look at the articles that are not neat, and then I pick a few copies that I have read carefully before, and submit them to the deputy chief exam for a pre-study. Some house exams... Some house exams even give the supplementary approvals, some points and other things to my family to handle. Do you think if you are not lucky, what's the use of just doing the articles well?"

"They will give the supplementary approval and leave some things to their families. Will their families be able to read?" Ren Yuer couldn't believe it was true.

"A family member who can bring to the tribute school naturally needs to know a few words. In fact, it doesn't matter if he doesn't know a lot of words. Many room tests will prepare some empty comments such as "Issues a warning" and "I haven't seen any outstanding performance" in advance. When the test is taken, they will look at the ten lines at a glance, and they will pick some neat handwriting and pleasing papers to the deputy chief examiner. As for other test papers, they will not read the content carefully, and will directly paste the comments they have prepared in advance on the test paper."

Looking at Ren Yuer's incredible look, Ji Yunfei smiled bitterly again: "There was a subject exam, and a talented candidate failed the exam. He was not convinced and insisted on checking the exam paper. It turned out that the words "A piece of ham" were posted on the paper."

"A piece of ham, what's the criticism?" Ren Yuer asked in confusion.

"You don't know that as long as you enter the tribute court, the court will provide food for the chief examiner, deputy examiner and house examiner rice, flour, grain, oil and ham, chicken, duck, fish and meat. The person who was in the room who was not in trouble for the time being did not deliver ham to him, so he wrote a note. As a result, his family made a mistake and even posted the note for asking for ham as a comment and posted it on the test paper."

"What happened later?"

"The candidate naturally would not agree. He found that the examiner who was marking the paper was still someone he knew, so he took the test papers to find the theory of the test. The test papers admitted that he had made a mistake and apologized. The candidate said that he had worked hard for three years and had not read them, so I was defeated. Are you embarrassed to get close to me?"

Ji Yunfei paused and then said, "The house exam was first pretending to be pitiful, and then he gave up. He said that if he had a lawsuit, you would definitely not be able to bear it. Even if he went to court, he would not be able to re-enter the exam after the results were released. If he wanted to compensate, he would not be able to compensate. He was a poor Hanlin, and his family was barely barely, and there was only one mule in the stable. If you really wanted it, you would take it away."

"What's the last one?"

"The candidate had no choice but to take the mule away."

Ren Yuer was stunned because all this was completely beyond her imagination.

Ji Yunfei thought she didn't believe it, so he thought about it and said, "As for those papers recommended by the house exam to the deputy chief examiner and the deputy chief examiner to the examiner's case, due to the rush of time for the marking and the large number of test papers, the examiner, like the two deputy chief examiners, will not read them all carefully.

I know a deputy examiner who only reads poems but not articles. First, he likes to write poems and thinks that as long as the poems are well written, the articles will naturally not be bad. Second, the poems are only a few lines, and reading poems is less worry-free than marking papers. I also know a examiner who is old and has poor energy and cannot read papers. He simply puts the test papers in a circle, puts the snuff bottle in the middle, and then turns the snuff bottle, and the snuff bottle faces the head of the snuff bottle and the candidates who will win the test papers."

"This is a great competition for the country's talents. It's too ridiculous for them to do this!" Ren Yuer asked laughed and cry.

"I won't talk about it for now. I just want you to understand that sometimes this luck is really important." Ji Yunfei sighed and picked up the teacup again.

Ren Yuer didn't know what to say, but Fugui, who had been running to Nanyuan during this period, came again. As soon as he entered the door, he walked forward with great sincerity to Ji Yun.

"I'm not a gift, and I'm not an outsider."

"Master Ji, you are indeed not an outsider, but you are not an ordinary person either."

"Not an ordinary person, then who am I?" Ji Yunfei couldn't help but ask with a smile.

"You are the master Hanlin, you are the nobleman! You are the nobleman of the Fourth Master, and my wealthy nobleman!"

"Master Fu, stop complimenting Ji. You are now amazing. Your eldest son is in charge of Nanyuan, and the second son is on duty at the foreign press office. Ji dare not accept this great gift."

"Master Ji, I'm talking to my heart." Fugui knew very well about Ji Yunfei and Han Xiufeng's relationship, so he bowed his hand again, then turned around and smiled, "Miss Yu'er, I'll come today to see my Jilu, and the other is to see if the Fourth Master is back."

"My fourth brother must have been delayed because of something, otherwise he wouldn't have come back until now."

"The Fourth Master is a hard-working man. He has been busy all these years, devoted himself to serving the court. He has not had a few days of peace and has been together with his wife and children." Fugui sighed lightly, and then said, "Others can be promoted and rich by doing nothing, but the Fourth Master is exhausted and still tiring to this day. It's really better to watch it if you do it."

"Master Fu, where do you start?" Ji Yunfei asked with a smile.

Fugui had no friendship with Wenxiang, and he had never even had much dealing with him. He really wanted Wenxiang to be the Minister of Military Affairs. However, the Fourth Master, who had promoted Wenxiang back then, was just Feng Chen Yuanqing, who was angry. Thinking of Ji Yunfei's relationship with Wenxiang was unusual, he hurriedly said: "Master Ji, don't get me wrong. I mean the adults who were in the court who were in vain."

"Who?" Ji Yunfei asked.

Fugui was asked with no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "I heard a news before coming that Bai Zhongtang was promoted again, walked out of the inner dragon gate, and after eating the Lu Ming Banquet, he received an imperial edict and was appointed as the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion to manage the affairs of the Ministry of War."
Chapter completed!