Jin Pengtu had already made plans to do business in the Ming Dynasty for the rest of his life, but because of the sudden changes in Jeju Island, his life took another path. He may never forget the news brought by a relative from North Korea in the sultry June of the capital.

"I hope you can become an official sent to Jeju through the Ming Dynasty and make some contributions to your family." The relative was naturally surnamed Jin, and he also brought five thousand gold as the resource for the operation of Jin Pengtu in the capital.

Jin Pengtu really can't talk about Kim's relationship because he was a concubine. In North Korea, his son took his father's surname but followed his mother's social class. For example, his father is a two-class nobleman, if his mother is just a pariah, the child is still a pariah.

In this regard, Jin Pengtu yearns for a society without classes in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, as far as he knows, the concubines of the noble family, no matter their mother's status, will not affect their status. Even the mother of the Ming Emperor was not very noble, and it still did not hinder their rule of this great country.

However, Jin Pengtu has a lot of feelings for "Jin", so he is very happy to be recognized by the Jin family who abandoned him, and happily accepted the five thousand gold.

In July of the 22nd year of Chongzhen, after a month of hard practice in Chinese, Jin Pengtu finally obtained the Ming Dynasty A-level diploma exam, which is also the highest diploma that can be obtained with his ability.

If you pass the exam by just a few prostitutes, then Jin Pengtu is really a bit out of the ordinary. What's more, although the official imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty does not prohibit foreigners from applying for the exam, the required household registration and guarantor are really unbearable.

After obtaining a Grade A diploma, Jin Pengtu also needed to pass the Chinese oral examination of the Siyiguan. The crown prince attached great importance to translation work, so in addition to the Siyiguan in the capital, there were branches in various places, which were also called the Siyiguan, but were directly under the jurisdiction of the Honglu Temple.

The Chinese oral examinations hosted by the Four Elements Pavilions in various places are said to be consistent in the content, but in fact they are very different. For example, the Four Elements Pavilion in Hangzhou is assessed in Jiangnan Mandarin, the Four Elements Pavilion in Fujian is tested in southern Fujian Mandarin, and the Four Elements Pavilion in Guangzhou is tested in vernacular... Only the Four Elements Pavilion in the Capital can test in Beijing Mandarin.

Jin Pengtu only speaks the official language of the capital, and has no choice. He is worried about whether various respectful titles will differ due to different men and women, and he is even more worried about whether prostitutes with low status have unique language habits. He inadvertently embarrassing himself in front of the examiner.

On the tenth day of the seventh month, the day of Dingmao.

Jin Pengtu got up early in the morning and sat in the pavilion to "revitalize" after washing. It was not until the servant came to report that he finally checked his clothes and confirmed that there was no rude place before he walked out.

He spent five thousand yuan to buy a small house with two entrances near Huitong Pavilion in Mixiang, Dongjiang, to facilitate contact with the North Korean envoys who lived in Huitong Pavilion. The servant was brought to him by the Jin family from North Korea, so he didn't have to spend a penny, and the man looked quite honest and reliable.

The only thing Jin Pengtu lacks now is the beautiful maid. He has indeed become a little tired of lingering in Huajie and Liuxiang for the past month. He plans to buy two after passing the exam.

Jin Pengtu thought about it all while walking through Shanglinyuanguan. The trees were shady along the way and arranged them straight. This was not common in the Ming Dynasty in the early years. It was a new policy implemented after the crown prince took office, and it wanted to introduce natural scenery into the city. It is said that because he believed in Taoism and was the Heavenly Lord descending to earth to create a fairyland on earth.

In contrast, North Korea's cities are really frustrated and dry, and dirty, and cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty.

With this in mind, Jin Pengtu was very worried about his future. If he really went to Jeju to become an official, wouldn’t he be able to see the fairyland of the Ming Dynasty? Moreover, Jeju is a place where officials were exiled, so who would be willing to become an official there!

——Or just find an opportunity to stay in the Ming Dynasty? Anyway, Jin and I have no relatives.

Jin Pengtu made up his mind secretly.

"Who are you? Just breaking in like this?" The gatekeeper stopped Jin Pengtu, and the guards on both sides, who were like heavenly soldiers and generals, also tilted their spears and glared.

Jin Pengtu quickly captured his soul and bowed to the end: "Sincere is a scholar who came to take the exam."

"Sir?" The concierge glanced at him contemptuously: "Where is the certificate?"

Jin Pengtu quickly took out the admission certificate and handed it over. After the doorman finished checking, he made a way out and asked him to enter through the small door next to the middle door.

After Jin Pengtu entered, he realized that he was actually late.

Many students from all over the world gathered in front of the shining in the courtyard between the main halls. They asked people to talk to each other with their accents, which was also absent when they were sharpening their guns in the face of battle. Jin Pengtu found that among these students were Annan people, Ryukyu people, and Nanyang barbarians. The rarest thing was that there was a big man wearing Mongolian clothes mixed with them.

Other foreign students wearing Hanfu consciously resisted him and no one talked to him.

At this time, there is still half an hour before the start of the exam.

Jin Pengtu didn't dare to walk around, but just looked around with his eyes.

A row of bamboo-separated examination sheds were set up in front of the east and west sides of the Siyi Pavilion, which were connected to the front and back, with reed mats on the top, and there was only a short space inside, and there was also a mat on the ground. It seemed that both examiners and candidates who were taking the exam had to sit on the ground. This way of sitting was sitting right in the Ming Dynasty, and attending high-end etiquette occasions still followed this ancient custom, so sitting posture was also one of the assessment contents.

This is really not good news for North Korean men who are used to sitting in a dick.

After a while, several old soldiers began to set up curtains in the yard, and the examiners who came early also appeared under the eaves of the corridor. They were all young people who were only young, with their waists straight and their heads slightly raised, savoring each other's testimony, which was quite condescending.

Of course, today they are examiners, which is naturally higher than those of candidates.

Three bells rang, an old army stood in front of the main hall, let go of their throats and shouted: "The time is here! All candidates will prepare for their own care and hear the slogan!"

The candidates from all over the country were suddenly silent, listening to the old army's call, fearing that they would miss it.

Jin Pengtu was also quite nervous. He heard that the oral exam was about 3 out of ten, and there were more than 50 people here, and only 15 of them were selected, so the competitive pressure was still a bit high.

As the figure swayed behind the curtain, twelve examiners took their seats.

At a moment, Lao Jun shouted out numbers and names, many of which were standard Han names. Jin Pengtu knew that this was a Han child doing business in North Korea. He first cheated his visa in Korean dialect, and then took the entrance exam as a foreigner to enter the officialdom. This was a shortcut.

——The Ming Dynasty doesn’t care!

Real foreigners were unhappy when they saw these troubled people sucking in troubled waters.

The Ming Dynasty had no choice but to do so.

The visa officer of the Maritime Department cannot conduct a detailed and effective background check. All documents are identity certificates issued by the North Korean official. This kind of certificate is clearly marked in North Korea, and it does not harm local officials anyway.

On the other hand, this behavior did not cause much damage to the Ming court. Because the positions assigned to foreign officials were all low-level officials, and there was little room for improvement, mainly a means of assimilation. If you pass the exam, you will be sent to Taiwan, Liaodong, and North Korea to serve. As for whether they are actually Ming or Koreans, there is no difference.

Moreover, proportional admission is just a rumor circulating among candidates, and is a misunderstanding of the statistics on the admission ratio announced by the Ministry of Rites. Each examiner has a bank of oral questions, randomly selected and strictly standardized scores. As long as the score is passed, it will naturally pass. There is no such thing as choosing the best.

Of course, there is no need to explain the specific rules so clearly to them.

After a long wait, Jin Pengtu finally heard his number and name, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, followed the old army through the curtain and entered a test room. Because he walked quickly, Jin Pengtu could still see the backs of the candidates leaving in front.

His examiner was a young man in his twenties. He had just started to grow his beard on his lips, showing a little childishness. The examiner compared the gesture of asking for a seat, with a wooden board in his hand, staring at Jin Pengtu's demeanor and posture while sitting, and began to score.

Jin Pengtu carefully closed his expression and performed manners. However, he was nervous for a moment, his knees became weak, and he almost knelt in front of the examiner, and his heart was thrust.

The examiner didn't smile.

This kind of knees falling to the ground at the same time is called "kneeling", not "sitting", but points will be deducted.

"Your way to tell me." The examiner said leisurely.

Jin Pengtu didn't expect that the oral exam not only had to test the accent, but also had to pay attention to speaking. He felt even more nervous and stuttered: "I'm the next name, Jin, and my name is Pengtu, and my name is Pengtu, and my name is Shinan. I'm a native of Jeolla, the country of Korea..."

The examiner listened, and had already drawn a cross on the thin wooden board in his hand, indicating that there was a place in his statement that the words were inconsistent with convention or rude.

——But his handwriting is good, it was taken from "Xiaoyaoyou".

Taking this into consideration, the examiner focused a little more on the side, which was considered a bonus point.

Jin Pengtu was still trying hard to collect Luo's words, but he didn't know that the words he had spent fifty-year-old to find a street fortune teller had added a score point to him.

After the confession, the examiner took some social knowledge of the Ming Dynasty today, as well as his understanding and views on the Ming Dynasty, and completed the second stage of the assessment.

The third stage is that Jin Pengtu takes a piece of paper from the paper box and analyzes and explains it based on the above words. These pieces include Tang poetry and Song lyrics, Four Books and Five Classics, and miscellaneous songs... Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, it only depends on whether it can be corrected.

This is the most likely part to lose points and is also the most likely part to win the examiner's favor. Jin Pengtu hollowed out his head to recall idioms and allusions, and finally saw a smiling expression on the examiner's face, which was much more relaxed.

The examiner's smile may not be because he uses the words beautifully, but sometimes it is simply because some idioms are outrageously wrong.

After coming out of the examination room, Jin Pengtu immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing someone outside the side door being upset, he deliberately pretended to be calm, as if he had just experienced a trivial matter worthless.

In fact, no matter how well the exam is, I can only wait for the results. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!