Chapter 35 The Imperial Examination Begins
Tonight, the emperor has a good memory and drinks a little casually, but he dares not get drunk.
And tell Chen Xiao that he won’t come every day now.
After drinking and leaving, the emperor said to Chen Xiao: "You can't let your fiancée suffer!"
Chen Xiao curled his lips again: "I know my woman loves you, and you don't need to care about you. If you don't know, I really think my fiancée is your daughter!"
The emperor lost his temper, sighed and said, "In addition, aren't you going to the imperial examination? Can you be more concerned?"
"Oh, are you a guest who comes to drink or my father-in-law? What's wrong? It's embarrassing for me if I can't pass the exam? Are you really planning to marry your daughter to me, right? I've said that I have a fiancée!" Chen Xiao was helpless.
The emperor was stunned and thought to himself that I really don’t want to marry my daughter to you, but I can’t control my own daughter…
So he sighed and left.
Chen Xiao looked at the emperor's back and said, "Damn, you're so stingy? Do you really think you are the emperor?"
The emperor almost staggered and fell down after hearing this.
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After returning to the store and looking at the project, Chen Xiao’s business was getting better and better.
This made him very happy and rich, which was great.
This restaurant has been open for less than ten days, but the income of 200 taels per day, plus the silver notes given by the emperor several times, has been 6,000 taels.
At most, in another half a month, you can easily make a profit and then make a profit.
However, as the restaurant's business is booming day by day, the imperial examinations are gradually approaching.
One or two days before the imperial examination, all the candidates who were qualified in the Imperial Capital or county towns under the Imperial Capital began to settle near the tribute school.
Chen Xiao and Fatty handed over the shop to the shop's shop's shop's shop and began to prepare for the imperial examination.
It is said to be preparation, but in fact it is just to inquire about some procedures or something.
After inquiring, there were three examiners in the Imperial Capital this time, one chief examiner and two deputy examiners.
The chief examiner is the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, and the deputy examiner is the two ministers of the Ministry of Rites.
The exam is divided into three games, one is three days. After finishing the questions, you can get it out first.
After the news was cleared, Fatty and Chen Xiao did not pay too much attention.
The reason is very simple. Chen Xiao doesn't pay attention because he is confident that he will pass the exam.
The fat man doesn't pay attention because he is more confident that he won't pass the exam.
Time flies very quickly, the next day, early in the morning.
After the fat man and Chen Xiao got up, they washed up and headed towards the imperial palace.
The Gongyuan was built in the southeast corner of the imperial capital Chongwen Gate, and there is a archway with "Tiankai Wenyun" in front of the gate.
When you enter this archway, you will see a huge tribute courtyard. There is a plaque in front of the gate with the words "官网".
At this moment, just after entering the archway, there were hundreds of officers and soldiers guarding outside the gongyuan, and a circle of soldiers surrounded the entire gongyuan.
In front of the door, many officials were set up to inspect the candidates, and two rows of officers and soldiers stood at the right and left at the door.
So many officers and soldiers, and officials here, are scared by normal people.
The purpose is to intimidate these candidates and allow them to enter the exam in a regular manner.
At this moment, candidates lined up to a temporary "house" built in front of the gate surrounded by cloth.
Then, the officials searched very carefully, and even took off their shoes, socks and clothes, and carefully inspected their private parts to prevent cheating.
Not to mention, there are really cheating.
After only a few checks, I found the cheat sheet he was carrying on the sole of a candidate's feet.
However, he didn't even let him wear his clothes, and was dragged out by several soldiers and was still on the ground.
Then he was beaten by several soldiers. That was not counting. His scholar and fame would be cancelled and he would never be hired. It would be difficult for his descendants to follow this path in the future.
This is the severe punishment for cheating people. It can be seen how strict the imperial examination system is.
Next, people were constantly found cheating, some hid their cheats in their hair, and some stuffed them into their cheeks.
Some people use their butt groove to hold the cheat, while some birds have too long banana peels, so they stuff the cheats inside...
Some even more, I rolled up the cheat sheets, stuffed them into the back door, and just pulled them out after entering the examination room.
It can be said that these people are simply doing everything they can to pass the imperial examination in order to cheat.
However, these will be discovered very easily by experienced inspectors.
Even if it is stuffed into the back door, you will be snatched out by the officials...
I have to say that these inspectors have also fought hard.
They can't do it if they don't care. Once they let go of the cheating and are found out, it is their dereliction of duty.
After rounds of inspections, the fat man finally arrived.
After he entered, there was nothing at first, but soon, a voice came from inside: "Brother, my banana peel is not long and I can't hide it..."
"Brother, don't pin me behind. Oops...hell...ah...ah...um~~~"
Soon, I saw the fat man blushing and his butt coming out of it, and then he entered the tribute court in a very strange walking posture.
This made Chen Xiao and the chrysanthemum tighten...
Then, he went in too.
Take off your clothes and let them be inspected.
The official looked at Chen Xiao’s little brother and said, “Brother, you have a lot of tools!”
"It's average, only about twenty centimeters." Chen Xiao said.
Then, under the envious eyes of several officials, he carefully checked him.
It's not as exaggerated as the fat man, just look carefully and it's fine.
With doubts, he put on his clothes and came out. After entering the tribute courtyard, he saw that the fat man was still holding his butt and walking like a duck. Chen Xiao was confused:
"Why are you right? I've also entered the checkup. It's not as exaggerated as you? It's like they're doing something about you..."
"Oh... they checked my back door in various ways..." The fat man was helpless.
"No, just take a look?" Chen Xiao said.
The fat man touched his fat butt: "Maybe my butt is too fat and clamped too tightly, which always makes them feel that they can hide things..."
Chen Xiao was speechless. After putting aside this topic, he stood in the yard of the Gongyuan.
A long time later, thousands of people who took the exam arrived.
Chen Xiao took a look at it and there were about seven or eight thousand people!
It shocked him, but he didn't expect so many people to come to participate in the imperial examination.
In other words, these are scholars from the Imperial Capital Prefecture and nearby Zhili County.
This is just the area under the Imperial Capital Prefecture. Today, in the entire Long Kingdom, the provincial government tribute courts in dozens of provinces, the same situation is also true, and the number of participants in each province may be greater.
However, there are only a few dozen juren who can pass the exam in each province.
In other words, there are thousands of scholars in each province, but only dozens of scholars have passed the imperial examinations.
As the saying goes, the provincial examination is the most cruel. Only among a hundred scholars can one be produced.
Today, Chen Xiao is going to compete with the seven or eight thousand people in the Imperial Capital for the one-percent quota.
And he was not worried at all because he cheated!
Thinking of this, he smiled!
Chapter completed!