If you want to talk outside the Gongyuan wall late at night, the golden-haired rat will come over and bite you.

Moreover, under the dark light, he didn’t even know what he was bitten by.

But if this person makes a cry of pain, the embroidered guards who are guarding both inside and outside the Gongyuan will definitely hear the sound and rush over to check.

Therefore, the calculations Shi Zhongkui made before the trial were still very effective at this time.

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In the quiet marking room, an exclamation suddenly came from the room, "What a poem, what a poem."

The chief and deputy examiners looked up and saw the deputy examiner who had spoken loudly, "We are determined to stick to the green mountains and never let go. Our roots are still in the broken rocks. We have endured countless blows but are still strong, no matter how strong the wind is from east to west or north to south."

This poem is composed of bamboo and stone. It has an excellent character and should be ranked first among poems in the current examination."

When others heard it, they also felt that the poem was excellent and at the same time, they immediately thought of Shi Zhongkui.

But this poem was actually written by Jin Mao Shu for a Juren named Fan Dao.

And this guy's policies are just like his character, they are not only radical, but also a bit unrealistic.

Otherwise, Shi Zhongkui would not dare to choose him as the scapegoat.

Moreover, Fan Dao passed the exam all the way, and even took the exam for 9 years. No matter how extreme his personality was, he could not and did not dare to commit taboos in the examination policy theory.

Some examiners had smiles on their faces, but their hearts became cold.

Needless to say, these people must be on a mission.

Even the examiner sighed secretly.

It is said that I was personally selected by the emperor to be the chief examiner of the examination, so long as it does not affect my future and the morality in my heart.

If Shi Zhongkui does really well in the exam, there is nothing wrong with choosing him as Huiyuan.

Not to mention raising fish in rice fields, it can be regarded as an additional way for the world's gentry to increase their wealth from farmland.

Shi Zhongkui himself was already considered a great talent who was famous in the north and south because of his winning four yuan in a row and a few poems.

Since the article is indeed good, Shilin cannot blame himself as the examiner.

It's a pity that someone let the elders of his hometown and his own son invade other people's fields and even beat people to death, and they were caught.

If you don't do what the other party says, your reputation will be completely ruined.

Even if my son doesn't have to go to jail, it will be difficult for him to take the imperial examination in the future.

However, although the examiner has so many concerns in his heart.

But we can’t really ignore excellent articles and poems.

After all, with this "Bamboo Stone", the article would be good.

If you don't take Shi Zhongkui's word for it, wouldn't he have clearly told the outside world and the emperor that he was cheating and was a traitor?

When the time comes, the person who threatens him and Wang Fa has not killed him, the emperor will never let him go.

The emperor only needs to send the embroidered guards to investigate, and the affairs of the elders and the eldest son will still be found out, which will result in the whole family being exiled.

As long as Shi Zhongkui breaks the path of winning six yuan in a row, it can be regarded as fulfilling those people's requirements to a certain extent.

By then, the worst case scenario would be to resign and go home and make other plans.

In the following days, papers that were determined to be excellent by the deputy examiners were selected one after another.

Some people believe that the poem "Bamboo and Stone" was written by Shi Zhongkui, so they decided to choose that Fan Dao as the representative of Jinke Huiyuan.

However, some people disagreed with Fan Dao's policy on the grounds that it was too radical and unrealistic, and the paper was full of empty talk.

I also took out an article called A Flower Group for comparison.

As for this article, it goes without saying that it must have been written by Shi Zhongkui.

I went to Wenchang Emperor Temple before and paid so much, but the reward was not small.

In addition to getting closer to the star king in heaven, even though he endured repeated bombardments of poisonous gas during the examination, he still wrote excellent articles.

Not to mention that he knew the general scope of the questions in advance.

It took several days of preparation in advance.

The deputy examiners who wanted to choose Shi Zhongkui read it carefully several times. For a moment, they even felt that if they could write such an article back then, it would not be an exaggeration to be selected as the number one scholar by the emperor.

In the end, I can only use this article on poetry, and it can only be considered good to object.

But this statement is actually untenable. Whether it is the previous dynasty or the Zhou Dynasty, the provincial examination and the general examination have always placed more emphasis on policy and discussion.

Even the chief and deputy examiners present, who were born as Jinshi, and were basically among the top dozen Jinshi in the second class, knew in their hearts that after becoming an official, poetry would indeed be a minor thing.

People who rely on poetry to become officials in the court are, to put it nicely, called Ci Chen.

If you are harsher, most of your colleagues will say you are a flatterer.

But whether it sounds good or bad, once such a person gets the emperor's favor, he will be promoted very quickly.

But on the other hand, there are more officials who are jealous of him.

Therefore, in the officialdom, from the previous dynasties, and even from the Southern Song Dynasty, the proportion of Jinshi science and policy theory was more important than that of poetry.

As a result, later examiners gradually formed the unspoken rule of not selecting those who are best at poetry as Huiyuan.

Because if the poetry is good and the ranking is good, it is not necessarily a good thing for the entire civil servant group that is already competing with the emperor for power.

Of course, if you are ignorant about poetry, it means that this person has no real talent or learning.

Therefore, on the way to the imperial examination, luck is indeed very important, because the thinking of the person in charge of the examination often plays an absolute role.

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The news that Mrs. Zhen was seriously ill that day had already spread throughout the capital.

The time has also come when the results of the joint examination are about to be announced.
Chapter completed!