In February and March every year, there are always a large number of parents who look in the direction of Mojing with worries and expectations.

Worried about whether their children are suffering on the way to the exam, looking forward to them being able to gain fame in the exam, and the villagers from ten miles come to congratulate them.

The examination will be completed in February, and the tributes who pass the examination will be summoned by the emperor to the palace in March, and the court examination will be opened to select the best talents.

I don't know how many people, for the sake of the champion Wencai, cantilever stabbing stocks, just to win a better future.

Yuan Lai mixed in the crowd, his head was a little shrugged, and unlike the slightly nervous people around him, he gave people the feeling that he was out of tune.

Alan and Tu Fengnian were standing in the distance, and when they saw Yuan Lai looking over, they beckoned, Tu Fengnian still clenched his fists, and his mouth made a cheering appearance.

He watched the two of them wave, and he had to wave his hand, and he looked more and more out of place in the crowd.

The examination venue is located in a teaching house in the Spring and Autumn Academy, and naturally no one is attending classes at this time, and the strict invigilators are holding tokens, their eyes are sharp, and their expressions are solemn, and the students around them dare not make loud noises, and most of them whisper quietly.

There are also a lot of women in the crowd, like Yuan Lai's left-hand side There is a woman in a red brocade dress, with a dusty temperament, but she is still holding a classic and reading it vigorously, not only her, many students are reading, maybe for a little comfort: I haven't forgotten to read before the exam, I should have been admitted, right?

After a short time, the candidates entered the venue one after another, and each examination room was guarded by two invigilators, a man and a woman, to search their bodies, check the status of the candidates, etc., every candidate could not avoid it, of course, the female invigilator checked the female candidates, and the male invigilators checked the male candidates.

Yuan Lai bored into the examination room, there were only about twenty people in an examination room, and they were very far away from each other, let alone communicating, he doubted that he could see the face of the other side clearly when he turned his head to look......

Shaking his head, he began to think about the subjects of the examination, which were extremely numerous, including astronomy, geography, Confucian classics, ethnic history, and even politics and diplomacy.

These complicated subjects are formed by the synthesis of all the problems encountered in the development of the big lance.

For example, before the birth of astronomy, the four seasons were not distinguished, the peasants could not make ends meet, and the production of land was insufficient. Later, people learned to observe the celestial phenomena and rely on the sky for food, but there are generally only two ways out for astronomical talents in Daqi, one is to enter the heavenly star platform, the main direction is research, and the other is to cooperate with agricultural experts to help farmers improve agricultural yields.

However, most of the second kind will go to the South China Sea, after all, a large part of the grain of the big lance comes from the South China Sea, and in exchange, most of the grain production of the South China Sea is exported to the big lance, and the big Zhou can't win if it is grabbed.

There are also many geographical uses, not to mention medical agriculture, the foundation of the people.

There are so many subjects that it is impossible for someone to be proficient in them all, but as a talent reserve of the big lance, even if you are not proficient, you must have a certain amount of common sense.

Therefore, the examination paper of the big lance adopts a three-volume system, which divides talents into three levels in various fields.

If you can't pass this paper, your results in this subject will be invalid, that is, you have no common sense, if you can pass, you will be a basic common sense talent, and those with high scores will be issued in the second stage of the test papers.

High-quality papers, specialized talents, those who pass this volume will be specialized talents, and those with high scores will be assessed in the third stage.

Special volume, master-level talents, everyone who passes is the future pillar of the country, and even a national treasure.

So how is the first place decided? Look at the ranking according to the highest score obtained by a person in a certain subject, that is to say, all generations of Huiyuan are talents who have passed the excellent paper or even the special paper in a certain subject.

The seemingly simple imperial examination system actually makes a big deal in the subjects, ensuring that the selected talents are absolutely genuine, but to a certain extent, it has also led to extremely serious multipolarization.

A few years ago, there was a Huiyuan who passed the special assessment in geography, but he almost didn't remember a word of his Confucian classics......

On the contrary, in other astronomy and medical and agricultural aspects, his score is ridiculously high.

Yuan Lai didn't know what he was proficient in, and he felt that he knew everything, but he also knew that he couldn't get high marks in all subjects, and he could only focus his energy on one or several aspects.

The rolls were quickly brought up, there were no restrictions, as long as you got the rolls, you could do it. For a moment, the examination room was extremely quiet, except for the slight sound of clothes rubbing and pen and paper touching.

There are many subjects, with a total of nine subjects: astronomy, geography, classics, medicine, agriculture, military affairs, political history, criminal law, and mathematics. The reason why there are so many is because these subjects are all-encompassing, like a geography, which can be subdivided into water conservancy, land, mountains and forests, and so on.

There are also compulsory and elective courses, geography, classics and political history are compulsory, and the basic papers of these three courses must be passed, otherwise they will be invalidated, unless you can pass the special assessment in a certain course, just like the one mentioned before.

That one was in the first assessment, the geography subject got a full score, and the culture subject (that is, the classics) got a single digit, and then Guozijian made an exception to let him continue to participate in the geography assessment, and finally he really got the huiyuan.

All candidates choose these three compulsory subjects first to ensure their examination qualifications, and Yuan Lai is no exception, after all, once these three papers are collected, they will be corrected within one day, and then screen out the high scorers and those who do not pass, and those who fail will be sent home and will not be allowed to continue to take the exam.

Time passed bit by bit, and some people handed in the exam papers one after another. Only a few people continued to answer the questions anxiously or indifferently.

Yuan Lai is one of them, he is very much pen writing, stroke by stroke, not very slow, but every word is angular, this day's exam, after Yuan Lai stroked by stroke, the sky gradually turned blue.

After Yuan Lai handed in the papers, he walked out of the examination room and looked at the sky, and the pale gray clouds in the sky made people feel a sinking and falling, as if they were sinking.

At this moment, Yuan Lai heard a gentle and immature voice: "Uncle Yuan, how did you do in the exam?"

Lowering his head, he saw Alain's face, in the dim light, his face became more and more delicate, different from the sinking feeling of the gray clouds, Alain gave people the feeling of being like a lake in a fairyland, which made people inexplicably swept away the exhaustion. 、

"It's not good, it's been doing it for so long. Let's go, let's go and eat mutton shabu!" called Tu Fengnian on the side, Yuan Lai took the two of them to a dimly lit mutton shop.

This mutton shop is located at the junction of Shutang Avenue and Qulin Avenue, and the business is the best at night.

Yuan Lai found a familiar table and sat down, and waved his big hand: "Little Brother Huang, give us a pot of mutton shabu at this table! Add two catties of soju." ”

The second batch of exams will be after tomorrow, after all, there are too many people, even if most of them hand in the papers before dusk, it is not easy to complete the exam papers of such a large number of people, and the day is already the fastest.

Alain always felt like he had forgotten something, could it be that he had forgotten to call some greedy girl?

He got up and said to Yuan, "Uncle Yuan, I'll call Sister Qiao, you can eat first." Yuan Lai pursed his lips and said, "That's the guy...... I'm coming this way. ”

Alan turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw Qiao Su probing his brain at the door, and when he saw their table, he ran over in a daze, glared at Yuan Lai fiercely, and then turned his head to look out the window, sulking. A steaming pot of mutton was finally served, and the four of them began to feast, so happy.