Daily life of the mistress

Chapter 88: Appearance and Inner Dissimilarity

Lu Kuan was brought in.
    "Big sister, I'm here to return a book."

    "Have you finished reading it so quickly?" Lu Lingjun looked at him with a smile.

    "Um."

    It took Lu Kuan two days to transcribe it himself.

    Once you have copied it, it will be yours and you can read it slowly, so that it won’t get dirty or damaged at home, and ruin Lu Lingyun’s book.

    "Don't worry, you need to study slowly." Lu Lingjun pulled Lu Kuan to sit down, "Which school are you in now?"

    Lu Kuan shook his head. "I didn't go to school after I passed the exam last year. My father said that the new school will depend on my performance in the provincial exam this year."

    Males of the Lu family are usually sent to school when they are seven or eight years old, but those are elementary schools that can only teach up to the county examination level.

    The imperial examinations for men were divided into county examinations, prefectural examinations, provincial examinations, metropolitan examinations and palace examinations.

    The county examination was the most basic assessment, and those who passed it were called tongsheng.

    The provincial examination is to test the ability of scholars, and those who pass the examination are called scholars or students.

    The provincial examination is for Juren. Those who pass the Juren examination can be directly selected to be officials in the local area, usually small officials like county magistrate or legal advisor. If you have confidence in yourself, you can continue to take the lower exams. The first Juren is called Jieyuan.

    The joint examination was a grand spring examination. Once you passed the exam, you would become a member of the imperial court, and the top of the list was called a member of the imperial court.

    All students can enter the palace examination. There is no elimination in the palace examination. Those who pass are Jinshi, so those who pass the spring examination are basically Jinshi.

    The ranking of successful candidates in the palace examination is divided into three categories, also known as the three lists.

    The third-class Jinshi are called Tong Jinshi, and they can wait to be selected to serve as officials, but they usually cannot enter the Hanlin Academy and other big places. They are often sent to the countryside to serve as local officials, prefects, county magistrates, etc.

    The second-class Jinshi are genuine Jinshi. The first one in the second class is called Chuanlu, who can usually be directly appointed to a seventh-rank official position. The other second-class Jinshi are called Shujishi. If they want to enter the Hanlin Academy, they often need to take another exam. If they want to directly enter the court to become an official, it depends on their family background and luck.

    The first list of Jinshi is the top three Jinshi, the top scholar, the second scholar and the third scholar. These three people often have a bright future.

    If one won first place in the provincial examination, the metropolitan examination and the palace examination, he would be called the first place in the provincial examination, the first place in the metropolitan examination and the first place in the palace examination, which is the so-called winning the first place in the imperial examination consecutively.

    Winning three prizes in a row would really mean soaring to the sky.

    Lu Kuan has passed the county examination and became a student. Now he is about to take the examination for a scholar.