"I have met Mr. Xie and Mr. Chen."

"I've met two examiners."

"Why are you two quarreling?" Xie Mingtang asked with a calm face and looked at them.

The two scrambled to answer because whoever said first would often have the advantage, giving others a preconceived impression.

When Xie Mingtang saw Wang Kui holding the test paper in his hand, he said, "Wang Kui, let me tell you, what is going on."

Wang Kui bowed and said, "I am in the same group as Teacher Zhang. The test paper in my hand is too arbitrary. I think this is very unfair to the candidates, so they argued with reason, and the two started arbitrary dispute over this matter."

Wang Kui didn't dare to arrange it casually, and told the matter roughly. Xie Xueshi looked at Zhang Shouming, and Zhang Shouming also said that this was true.

"I'll take it to the test paper." Xie Xueshi said.

Wang Kui quickly presented the paper in his hand. Xie Mingtang took it and looked at it, but he was stunned. The handwriting was the same as the vocabulary he had just read. He looked at the number on the test paper's paste name again. No. 1008, it was indeed the same person.

Xie Mingtang opened the paper and looked carefully. Overall, after reading a few questions, the candidate's answers are moderate. If he follows this level, his grades should be good.

But when I opened the last paper and looked at the fifth question, I saw two completely different judgments from the same examiner. The first one was "not to take" and the next one was "A".

It seems that the last question is the one that the two argued. After Xie Mingtang patiently read it, he felt that the answer to this question was quite normal.

He handed it to the deputy examiner Chen Yao. After Chen Yao looked at it, he frowned slightly and looked at Zhang Shouming, but said nothing and put down the test paper.

After seeing Chen Yao's test paper, Xie Mingtang put down the teacup in his hand, looked at the two people in front of him, and finally fixed his eyes on Zhang Shouming, saying, "It seems that your dispute is the fifth question. I think the candidate answered this test question in a regular way and there is no crossover. Teacher Zhang, why don't you judge this candidate?"

Zhang Shouming replied: "The chief examiner, the junior judges this question, but because the candidate is suspected of plagiarism."

Xie Mingtang and Chen Yao were both stunned. It is not a matter of cheating in the exam. "Do you have a test paper with the same kind of answers? Who is the other person?" Chen Yao asked.

"There is no similar paper in this exam." Zhang Shouming replied.

His answer made the two examinees very disliked. Why didn't you say that they were cheating and plagiarizing?

"Then why did you judge this candidate to plagiarize?" Xie Mingtang's tone was already unpleasant. In fact, Xie Mingtang admired the candidates in this test paper very much. His calligraphy was beautiful and he could be ranked among the top few in this exam. He had read the classical questions and answered them well, especially the fu, which can be said to be very exquisite and can definitely be said to be a masterpiece. When he reads it, he likes it very much. The word "Autumn" is also a rare masterpiece.

Zhang Shouming would best give some reason. If he judged it casually, he would not let it go easily, and at least he would have to take away his identity as a test student.

Zhang Shouming said with a serious expression: "Xie Xueshu, three years ago, the senior officials had taken the Ezhou provincial examination and took the same exam. This exam question appeared in that class, "The ambition is so high that it is the lowest. Keeping his ambition is so strong that it will not be violent." I remember that there was an admitted juren at that time, which was exactly the same as this candidate. Since the question of the Scriptures was judged by me, I remember it deeply."

"If you use the answers that others have answered, what is it that you are not cheating?" Zhang Shouming said, and looked at Wang Kui with his neck in his arms.

In front of the two adults, Wang Kui ignored him and refused to turn his face.

After hearing Zhang Shouming's words, Xie Mingtang's brows frowned deeply. "You mean, Ezhou also gave the same test questions in the last provincial examination?"

"Yes, it should be the third question of the meaning of the scriptures." Zhang Shouming said.

"Come on, go to the Xuezhengyamen to check whether there are any of the exam questions in various provinces over the years." Xie Mingtang ordered.

Soon a minor official took the order out.

The room fell into silence for a moment.

About a quarter of an hour later, a minor official came back and took a thick book of test questions from various provinces and opened them to Xie Mingtang for reading.

Xie Mingtang was silent for a while before he said, "I gave the test questions in this time myself. I didn't expect that it would overlap with the test questions in other provinces. It was my mistake."

The others were startled and Chen Yao quickly said, "Bachelor, dozens of provinces across the country, was the test questions from three years ago. It is not widely circulated, and it is not an exaggeration to not know about bachelors."

"Besides, my dynasty has never had a requirement to overlap the exam questions. This should not be the fault of the bachelor's. Even so, the candidate's answer may not be exactly the same as the previous candidates. He has to check the paper before he knows."

But that's how it's hard for Xie Mingtang to let go for a while.

The main examination of the provincial examination has great power, and he is responsible for setting the questions and final admission. Every year in the provincial examination, the emperor sent Hanlin bachelors to take charge. Hanlin bachelors are the emperor's confidant consultant, and their status is very important. Those who are not Jinshi will not enter Hanlin. Hanlin bachelors are all reserves for the prime minister.

There are only three people in the Jinshi and the second-level scholar, and the No. 1 winner, Tanhua, all of them are from thousands of troops, and they are all the top group of people in their minds and knowledge.

Xie Mingtang is 42 years old this year. He is the top scorer selected by the first session of the imperial examination after the emperor ascended the throne. He is deeply trusted by the emperor, otherwise he would not have sent him to the most important Jiangnan examination room.

But he didn't expect that such a mistake would occur in this imperial examination.

In fact, this is not a mistake, because there are only so many questions about the classics, and they can always overlap with each other with different patterns. The last exam was too close to this exam, only three years later. Xie Mingtang chose the same question without checking for a while. It was a coincidence.

"Take all the answers of this candidate to me."

Soon, the other rooms brought the No. 1008 test papers. Xie Mingtang and Chen Yao read them. Now the candidate's post and ink questions are all correct, and the text is neat and can definitely be used as a template paper.

Chen Yao read the poem and fu again, and was also attracted by the "Fu of Mixed Things" above. He couldn't help but shouted "Oh," and the autumn poems were also excellent.

Chen Yao said: "This candidate has excellent answers to other questions. If you follow the results, it would not be an exaggeration to choose him as the first place this year. I think that the question of the Sutra is not a big problem. Even if the answers overlap, it can only mean that the candidate's reading group and memory group. If he can memorize the answers to the sutras over the years, it will not be difficult to answer the questions."

At this time, no one dares to say anything. Saying right or wrong will offend people.
Chapter completed!