During the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Rites tried not to make a name aside.￥f,

Therefore, before the exam, candidates take proud articles and privately present them to those with status or examiners, asking for recommendations. This is called the "Product Paper".

After using the paste name system, the volume flow is greatly reduced.

But it is not without it. In fact, the scholar privately gave the article to the officials, or even the examiner, and had the intention of a disciple in advance.

I won’t talk about the example of Tang Bohu’s crime case in this dynasty. Lin Chengyi also handed over the article to Hu Tixue before the exam.

There is also a joke in the capital, saying that a scholar lives next to a high-ranking official's residence. He specially made a round rod on the wall and threw his poems into the high-ranking official's courtyard, hoping to get his appreciation. This scholar also called the round rod a poem hook.

Therefore, when Lin Yanchao visited Shen Shixing, he also showed him the article.

Shen Shixing accepted it and said nothing. At that time, he was not the chief examiner of the exam, so it would be okay to accept the paper.

Shen Shixing seemed to be chatting, and asked Yu Youding: "Brother Yu, have you found the article you have ever encountered in the ages?"

Yu Youding frowned and said, "This is not. Strange, it shouldn't be like this."

Shen Shixing listened to Yu Youding's words and knew that Lin Yanchao's article was indeed not included in the 302 volumes, but he did not respond on his face. He just smiled and said, "Brother Yu is talking about the article I read in the exam room before, but it's nothing. He's wrong. Even Brother Yu, you still have times of mistakes."

Yu Youding heard this and said anxiously: "Wheng Shen, this is really unreasonable."

Shen Shixing interrupted Yu Youding and said, "We have reviewed the papers presented by each party below. The following is to search and set the draft list. Tomorrow is the twenty-five, and generally the draft list will be set on the twenty-sixth day, and the draft list will be released on the twenty-ninth day. Calculate it or be sufficient."

Before the final exam, there was a rule that the examiner went to each room to search for the papers. There was a provincial examination before. The examiner was disdainful of the recommendations of the examiner and specially selected talents in the papers, but he was angry.

Later, the examiner rarely searched for the papers, or took a formality and made a situation. If he was very serious about the papers, it meant that the examiner distrusts the vision of the examiners in each room. This is a matter of offending all the people, and most examiners would not do this.

I Ding Zheng was hesitant to ask for a search of the fallen paper, but he heard that Shen Shixing had no objection in his words just now. So he said: "Wheng Shen, the writings are numerous and the time is limited, so we cannot say that we should take them all. We must accept them, but there is no talent. I think there may not be any pearls in the fallen paper."

Shen Shixing continued to guide him after hearing this: "That's true, but if the search for the fall is too much, I'm afraid the examiners in each room will say that we will pass the joints."

Yu Youding immediately said, "What's wrong with this? As long as I wait for one's heart to be the public, no one can say anything about it."

Shen Shixing said: "Brother Yu is really impartial. Since this is the case, our cabinet will follow you to patrol the various rooms."

Yu Youding was very moved when he heard this: "There are the cabinet ministers in the hall. Those people dare not object."

At this moment, Shen Shixing and Yu Youding went to several rooms to search for books, and the fifth room of the Book of Changes was the first to go to.

When Shen Shixing, Yu Youding and others picked out the papers from the papers. First, they looked at the comments of the examiner and the examiner, and whether they were compared with the articles.

There are places in the paper where the examiner says that the article is in violation of the rules, just find out the correctness in the article.

For example, some words that need to be avoided, and candidates need to avoid taboos, but candidates do not, and they may call the saint's name directly and accidentally scold the question when solving the question. Then you just need to look at one place and don't need to read the others, and you can just throw it away.

Therefore, the search and papers are lost very quickly. It is only when the examiner is evaluating this article, which is not very good at literature and science, and the article is not well understood, so you need to read it carefully.

Even so, it took the two of them a whole morning to review the fifth room of the I Ching.

Yu Youding asked immediately: "Wen Shen, I will have to set the grass list tomorrow. It seems that the seventeenth house cannot be visited one by one. See which room to go to in the afternoon."

Shen Shixing hesitated for a while and said, "I have reviewed the Book of Changes, and the Book of Songs is also the fifth room. If you look at it one by one, it will be too complicated. As for the Spring and Autumn Period, there are only two rooms each, and it is too few. It is better to choose the Shangshu."

Yu Youding smiled and said, "Wen Shen Gao saw that the third room of the Book of the Books and the Books can be searched in one afternoon, so let's go now."

At this time, Shen Shixing was about to move, and I Ding came to He Luoshu's room.

He Luoshu was born as a Shuji scholar, and Yu Youding was a Shuji scholar before. Now He Luoshu paid homage to Yu Youding with his disciples.

Since he was a disciple, Yu Youding was not polite and pointed at several piles of books to He Luoshu and said, "Among all rooms, you are the slowest to present the book."

He Luoshu said solemnly: "The students thought that after three sessions, they would recommend the book to the room and show their solemnity."

Shen Shixing and Yu Youding looked at each other, nodded and said, "It's reasonable."

So I had Ding and Shen Shixing investigated the case and He Luoshu was not on the spot according to the rules to show his avoidance.

There were only two people and three judges in the room.

Yu Youding was checking the documents, while Shen Shixing asked three people to ask questions one by one.

Shen Shixing was about to ask about the official who checked the papers. The two chatted for a few words. The official who checked the papers suddenly said, "Your Madam, I saw a strange thing in the examination room for three days. I don't know whether to say it or not."

Shen Shixing said gently: "But it's okay to say it."

Fang's official reviewer said: "At that time, the humble vocational department was preparing the papers in the room. He was tired from the road, so he sat down and slept. When he was half asleep and half awake, he saw a man standing under the shadow of a candle."

Shen Shixing showed a cautious look when he heard this. There were many ghosts and gods in the exam, so everyone dared not ignore it.

Shen Shixing said: "Is this the matter of Ouyang Gong taking the red robe in red clothes?"

Mr. Ouyang is Ouyang Xiu. Legend has it that whenever Ouyang Xiu was a examiner, he saw a man in red nodding to him. Any nodding means that this article was written very well. Only Ouyang Xiu can see this scene, but no one else can see it.

Therefore, Ouyang Xiu once said that articles have no evidence since ancient times, so he only wished that red clothes would nod. Later generations used red clothes to point their foreheads, indicating that the article was noticed by the examiner.

Shen Shixing immediately asked, "Where is the man in red?"

Fang's reviewer pointed at the pile of fallen scrolls. Shen Shi walked to the side of the fallen scroll and took the scrolls and read them. He suddenly turned to one fallen and stopped and blurted out: "Good article, how can you feel wronged here?"

After Shen Shixing finished speaking, he came to Yu Youding with the paper and said, "You can take a look at this volume first."

Yu Youding took the paper from Shen Shixing and suddenly said, "I almost missed it, Shen Weng, where did I tell you this paper?"

Shen Shixing immediately called Fang's reviewer and told the story of the man in red.

Yu Youding sighed: "It's really thanks to this brother Fang."

Fang reviewer said seriously: "Why are the two presidents, the subordinates dare to make merits? This is a divine gift. The heaven does not want to see the court lose this literary title."

After saying that, the official reviewed the paper and lifted his robe and bowed to the sky.
Chapter completed!