Back In Time For Imperial Examination Chapter 62

Yongping Prefecture was hit by an earthquake in the first month of the year. The prefecture, Funing, and Linyu were the worst hit. Countless houses and city walls collapsed, and many victims were injured. The prefect Wang Wen was busy with disaster relief, and the prefectural examination was delayed again and again, and it was not until the end of February that it began.

Students from the six counties of the prefecture plus Shanhaiwei and several military settlements had to go to the prefecture city to take the exam. Outside the examination hall, there was a throng of people, and candidates from various counties stood together waiting to be called. The guards at the gate called the students in the order of Lulong, Qian'an, Funing, etc. to check their identities and conduct body searches. The prefectural examination did not require only five students to form a guarantor or one student on government stipend to guarantee, but two students to act as guarantors.

Zhao Yinglin asked his eldest brother to help find someone. He collected a guarantee of one or two taels of silver from each of the elementary school students as a token of appreciation, and stood outside the dragon gate to verify their identities.

This time, Ryan Cui did not receive the preferential treatment from the county. He was really checked and entered the examination room like other Confucian students, disheveled and barefoot. There were several people in front of him who were found to have brought in private papers. They were all dragged to the side of the road by the clerks and made to kneel with their backs to the wall. They were left outside the examination room for a whole day before they were allowed to leave. There were also some timid ones who threw their papers and mini question banks to the side of the road before they were checked and entered the examination room honestly with nothing.

The three prefectural examinations were more difficult than the county examinations. After all, if you passed the prefectural examinations, you would be a student and could directly take the academy examinations every year. If you failed, you would have to take the examinations again next year and would have to start from the county examinations. The prefectural master, Lord Wang, was not an examiner like County Magistrate Qi who pursued ancient customs and was too lazy to even answer small questions. Although he did not ask questions that were so difficult to find the source, he still had to use a chapter: