After the examination, all the candidates left the Gongyuan and the gate of the Gongyuan was locked again.

At this time, the chief examiner, deputy chief examiner, invigilator, paper reviewer, sub-author, honorary recorder, etc. are not allowed to leave the tribute court.

This is the sect school system in "The Imperial Examination": Not only should candidates lock in the tribute school during the exam, but all examiners who participate in the exam must also lock in the tribute school. Until the exam paper is reviewed and the tribute list is determined, no examiner is allowed to leave the tribute school or communicate with the outside world.

This is done to prevent fraud.

Of course, there are many ways to prevent fraud.

For example, what the reviewer saw was not the candidate's own answer sheet, but the copy of the memorials handwritten version, which could prevent cheating with special handwriting.

Moreover, the test papers read by the marking officer are drawn in lots, with only the copied number on it and there is no information about the candidate.

In other words, the marking officer has no idea whose test paper he is looking at.

The official who is responsible for sealing the information of candidates and the masters responsible for copying are not allowed to participate in the marking of the papers, and they cannot even meet and talk to the marking officer from beginning to end.

If you separate them from each layer, you can't cheat.

Actually, it is not the case.

Because the examiner and the invigilator are basically the same group of people.

Dozens of invigilators? Could it be that the tribute court let the others sleep for ten days and half a month, and then dozens of other officials were transferred to detain them in to review the papers?

This is naturally impossible. The invigilator is definitely not sleeping in Guangongyuan. They usually participate in the review of the papers.

Therefore, the content of this candidate's answer sheet is a common model for cheating within the examiner.

Generally, many examiners collude with each other. Before reading the paper, they will inform other examiners who participated in the paper in various ways.

In this way, the test papers of cheating candidates can basically pass the preliminary selection of the examiner.

Of course, whether these candidates can eventually be on the tribute list depends on the final judgment of the examiner and the deputy examiner.

If both the examiner and the deputy examiner participate in cheating, the cheating candidates will definitely be on the tribute list.

In other words, if Gu Bingqian or other eunuch party officials were appointed as the chief examiner, then Wu Kongjia and other candidates who were appointed under Wei Zhongxian in advance would definitely be on the tribute list.

Unfortunately, the examiner is Emperor Taichang at this time, and the two deputy examiners are both imperial parties.

So, what will happen?

The imperial examination was over, and the Gongyuan was still in a busy scene.

The rows of honorary recorders were sitting in the transcription halls of the Huijing Hall and writing quickly, copying the candidate's test papers quickly.

The rows of paper marking officers were also sitting in the various paper receiving halls in the court, carefully reviewing the copied test papers.

The two deputy examiners Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang sat in Jukui Hall carefully screened the test papers for the preliminary selection of the examiner.

The supervisory censor sent by the Censorate and the staff selected by the six ministries were wandering around and constantly patrolling.

There are also soldiers from the Shenwu Camp.

The entire Gongyuan passage, intersection, front door and back door, and the small doors of all pavilions stand straight, like wooden carvings of Shenwu Camp infantry.

If it's okay, they are responsible for serving tea and water to the examiners, delivering test papers, or sending food outside to these examiners, just like orderly soldiers.

Of course, if something happens, they may also drag some examiners out and chop them up.

As the chief examiner, Taichang should have been locked in the tribute court.

However, he is the emperor and naturally does not be subject to the restrictions of this lock-up system.

Generally, he would arrive at the tribute court after lunch and would not leave until nightfall.

Time passed by like flowing water. I had been reading the papers for nearly twenty days, and there were not many test papers that had not been copied yet. It was time to start to make a list of tribute scholars.

After lunch that day, he came to the tribute court as usual, and inspected everywhere as he was just pretending to do so.

Immediately afterwards, he came to Jukui Hall, sat in the position of the examiner, and carefully read a stack of test papers.

He has already seen the test papers of Liu Zongxiang, Sun Yuanhua, Song Yingxing, Song Yingsheng, Cheng Yuandan and others.

These people know the questions in advance, so they will naturally get a good exam. It is definitely okay to pass the primary election. If they fail the primary election, then there will be problems.

After they passed the primary election, Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang would naturally not be stuck, so these people were already tributes.

However, Taichang did not intend to include them in the top three, because that was too eye-catching. Those who are interested would know that he was taking the lead in cheating at a glance.

Moreover, the talent of these people is not mainly in the imperial examinations, and the eight-legged articles they make are not so top-notch. It is really a bit of a slight leap in the top three.

He can cheat without any problem, but it will be bad if he is seen through at first sight.

You know, sometimes scholars are really hard to mess with, especially during this exam, which is very hard to mess with.

If all the juren who participated in the examination were annoyed, it would basically be annoyed all the scholars in the world.

This governing the country still requires scholars, so he naturally won’t offend all scholars in the world stupidly.

Therefore, he decided to rank the top three by real talent and knowledge, and not to stuff his confidants into it.

Anyway, as long as his confidants were ranked second in the palace examination, they could become the prime minister if they were a Hanlin Academy Shujishi. There was no need to occupy the top three to provoke scholars all over the world.

The test papers he looked at were selected by Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang, with several outstanding literary talent and a desire to serve the country.

These are definitely not nerds. If they are nerds, they will definitely not answer the three additional questions.

Just like those who worshipped under Wei Zhongxian in advance, they are eager for quick success and instant benefits, and read the "Four Books and Five Classics" to gain fame, enter the officialdom, and fight for power and profit.

Those guys answered all the three questions in a mess, and they didn't know what they were talking about.

Therefore, they were all eliminated, and they were eliminated openly. Even if the reviewers sent all their papers through the primary election, it would be useless.

Question: Who ranked first, who ranked second, and who ranked third in the top players selected by Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang?

Taichang took a stack of test papers and read them for a while, then took out three copies and handed them to Liu Shiyou, who was beside him, and told him: "Go and bring the answers to these three candidates, and call them all over the official position, the censor and the clerk."

He actually just wanted to act in a play to show his justice.

These sub-grant officials, the censors and the officials must have eunuchs, but they cannot be all eunuchs. Their identities can represent most of the officials in the court today. If they perform in front of these people, they will be almost done.

Soon, Liu Shiyou came in with the test paper and brought more than ten fame officials, more than ten censors and ministers.

There are actually acquaintances here, such as Yao Zongwen and Wei Yingjia, who often jumped out of trouble and censors, who were listed.

Taichang didn't care about these guys. After the monarch and ministers greeted him, he said seriously: "The palace examination is just a few days later, and the papers are almost finished. It's time to start considering the ranking of the tribute scholars. I carefully checked it. These three people should be the most talented among the candidates. Therefore, I decided to disassemble the test papers of these three people and rank them."

Uh, is this in compliance with the rules?

It seems that there is nothing wrong with the rules, because the test paper will be read in the past two days, and the tribute scholar list must be posted in these few days. Otherwise, the palace examination time will be up and the tribute scholar list has not yet been released, which would be a bit ridiculous.

All the officials, the censors, and the officials did not speak out, which means that they were just accusation.

Of course, they also knew that it would not be possible to not accept this time. They were the emperor, so there was no need for them to offend the emperor for no reason in such matters.

The top three tributes list doesn’t matter much, and this is not the last palace test list. Even Wei Zhongxian didn’t think that his godson must be ranked in the top three!

Seeing that everyone was silent, Taichang raised his hand to the leading official Mi Feng and said, "Then Kaifeng, let's take a look at what the three talented candidates are named after who are the names!"

So, who are these three people?
Chapter completed!