The second test began, and all the candidates sat in their respective seats, separated by partitions on the left and right.
What was different from the previous scene was that other officials also participated, but they were waiting in the lobby.
County Magistrate Lei Liquan originally thought that he could find the Household Officer Tian Gaoyuan to discuss the matter, but unexpectedly, he, Chen Yunxuan, and Lu Fengyu all needed to sit in front of the lobby door and watch the students take the exam.
Lin Tongxi took out the daily documents, read them out, and asked the candidates to record them on the spot.
"Dear candidates, you are not allowed to write any personal information on this exam. Violators will be immediately expelled from the examination room!"
"Your seat numbers are already marked on your papers, so we can recognize them."
"Now read the topic: The county magistrate needs to hold a civil service examination and needs to write a notice..."
After hearing this, everyone was delighted. How could the notice be difficult to write?
After listening to the question, the candidates began to write the notice.
Although this question is simple, there are many details that are easy to be overlooked.
Many candidates thought they had answered well, but ended up making mistakes and missing many rules in this question.
These errors and omissions include time, place, precautions, etc. What's worse, even the signature of Guangyang County is not written.
"Now continue with the remaining questions..."
The topics assigned by Lin Tongxi were all closely related to the daily work of the chief clerk and were all government affairs.
To sum it up in four words: practical ability.
As for the content, it was read out based on the existing materials in Guangyang County.
Zhu Li and Su Ruoxue collected the papers one by one, and then handed them to the helper hired by Lin Tongxi to copy.
These helpers were invited by the two men from Ruihe Town and Hegu Township. They were all literate people.
But for the helpers, their only job is to copy it out completely and they don't care about anything else.
Even a dot or a cross was copied down.
Zhu Li and others first conducted a preliminary review of the copied papers and found that some people had circled and drawn a lot, or made other special marks, such as words or graphics without reason.
Seeing this, Lin Tongxi and others asked about these conspicuous bags one by one.
Just before this, Lei Liquan had instructed some candidates that if they had to take a written test, they should try to leave special marks so that he could interfere and speak well of them.
However, Lin Tongxi had already considered this point.
If you want to do this, you will have to accept the questioning of the government!
Those who made special marks had to explain that it was a typo, and then Lin Tongxi asked people to remove these special marks until there seemed to be no risk of being recognized.
Zhu Li and others reviewed these re-copied test papers again and then handed them over to Lin Tongxi.
After Lin Tongxi confirmed that there was no risk, he handed it to the clerk in the lobby for revision.
The examiner also had to sign his name and fingerprint. After another hour, after being reviewed by Lin Tongxi and others, the test paper was presented to the three county officials.
Of course, these three county magistrates did not sit there motionless in a daze, but instead handled the official business at hand and issued instructions.
"The second test has ended. Please confirm it, the three adults." Zhu Li divided the test paper into two parts, which were confirmed first by Chen Yunxuan's two deputies and finally by Chen Yunxuan.
Lei Liquan took the test paper and found that the handwriting was unrecognizable to him, and there were no special marks. How could this be partiality?
Moreover, the handwriting was almost the same, and there was no handwriting that Lei Liquan could recognize.
The most important thing is that these things must be signed by Lei Liquan! If the favoritism is too much, Lei Liquan will bear the responsibility.
Helpless, Lei Liquan had to make corrections objectively.
After this set of processes, the practical ability test is considered complete.
Compared with previous imperial examinations, many scholars felt that this examination was much more humane, at least it did not lock them up in a small room for the whole day and night.
"Okay, now on behalf of the government, I declare that the second test is over."
"For this test, we will remove the highest score and the lowest score, and then take the average of the remaining scores as the final score."
"After calculation and verification, the first place is Ye Moqing, with 90 points... The second place is..."
Lin Tongxi read out the names one by one, and Ye Moqing was the happiest among them.
God will not fail those who work hard. With only 3,000 soldiers from Yue, we can conquer Wu!
He finally seized this opportunity! All his hard work over the past few years wasted.
At the same time, Ye Moqing's third brother Ye Qishou's face turned red with anger.
In order to pass this exam, his Ye family paid a lot of money.
He didn't expect that Lei Liquan, Tian Gaoyuan and others could not help at all!
Even though the secret code was told in advance, Lin Tongxi was unexpectedly so cunning that he asked someone to help copy it and even specially removed the special marks of crosses and drawings.
Of course, if someone else was elected, Ye Qishou could still accept it, but it had to be this illegitimate son Ye Moqing!
Ye Qishou considers himself smart and a decent student, yet he constantly comes second to Ye Moqing! How infuriating!
Lei Liquan, who was sitting at the main table, was also helpless. He had already signed his name on the answer sheet and transcript, so it was difficult to go back on his word.
He sighed and decided to try again. He invited the two county magistrates to the hall to discuss the matter. "My Lord, if we only test two subjects, I'm afraid it won't be conducive to selecting those who are truly suitable for the position of official."
"How about adding one more exam? What do you think, sir?" Lei Liquan asked.
Chen Yunxuan shook his head: "County Magistrate Lei, aren't these two items enough to confirm it?"
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