Three days later, the second exam was held as scheduled.

This time it's easier to do, at least you don't have to nail the tarpaulin anymore. But the candidates' mood is even more worried, especially Li Ying, who was forked out of the examination room, has been hovering on the verge of self-abandonment.

Because the eight-strand essay is too important, as long as the eight-strand essay in the first exam is well written, the next few exams are the icing on the cake.

In fact, Wang Yuan is even better at the content of the next two exams!

The second test is entitled as "On one issue, one for the edict, one for the edict, one for the table, and one for the table", and five sentences to be judged. It is to write one argumentative essay, write three official documents, and write five judicial decisions.

As soon as the candidates got the questions, they collectively let out a wail.

The "treatise" question is out of outline, from Zhou Dunyi's "Taiji Diagram Theory": "Zhongzheng is benevolent and righteous and the Lord is quiet." ”

This is talking about Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, the relationship between the five elements and people, except for a few who govern the "Book of Changes", the other candidates are confused, and they can't even fully understand the true meaning of the question.

Most candidates start directly from "benevolence and righteousness". Although it is not far away, it will definitely not impress the examiner, and it can only be awarded a passing grade.

Wang Yuan was also a little blind, so he chose not to do it first, and then said after writing the official documents later.

Until noon, Wang Yuan sliced ham meat, and always felt that this topic was very familiar, and he seemed to have seen it somewhere.

If Wang Yuan is honest and obedient and helps Wang Yangming finish copying "Zhou Yuan Gongji", he will definitely be able to answer this question easily.

It is very likely that Wen Shu talked to Wang Yangming about "Taiji Diagram Theory", so he came up with this question inexplicably!

The "treatises" are all casually asked, and they are not confined to the Four Books and the Five Classics, but they must be discussed with the ideas of science. Therefore, it doesn't matter if you exceed the outline, you can justify yourself, and the marking officer can understand.

Wang Yuan ate the ham sandwich halfway through, suddenly put down the food, and wrote the word "Tai Chi" on scratch paper.

He finally remembered that this sentence had been mentioned in "Zhuzi Language", and a whole chapter was devoted to discussing it in detail!

At that time, Master Shen blamed Wang Yuan, he shouldn't criticize Zhu Xi in vain, at least he had to finish reading "Zhu Zi's Language" first. So Wang Yuan went to read "Zhuzi Language", this thing is not a textbook, but he didn't expect to use it today.

Thank you, Master Shen!

Figure out the main idea, and write the rest casually, and the "thesis" question is easier to play freely than the four books and five classics questions.

Of the 400 Guizhou scholars who participated in the township examination this year, only Wang Yuan really accurately pointed the questions, and all the others were completely deviated, and none of them had seriously read "Zhuzi's Language".

When Wen Shu read Wang Yuan's scroll again, he smiled and said to the other examiners: "This argument must have been written by the first name of the previous game, and the style of writing is as simple as that!" ”

The third test asked five questions, which is equivalent to current political essay questions, but in fact, there is nothing to talk about, it is all cliché.

……

Inside the courtyard.

Li Ying sighed sadly: "I can't do it this time, it's really a shame to walk thousands of miles in vain!" ”

Zou Mu said freely: "No need to be like this, this time I won't win, I'll come back in three years, and I'll accompany you again when the time comes." ”

"Yes, yes, next time." Yue Zhen smiled.

Wang Yuan wiped the bowstring and said, "I won't comfort you." ”

"You must be in the middle of the lift, you must have a treat when you return to Guizhou!" Li Ying took the opportunity to slaughter him.

Wang Yuan smiled: "No problem. ”

Li Ying was originally helping Wang Yuan maintain the steel knife, but at this moment, he suddenly stood up and danced the knife in the courtyard, as if he wanted to vent his depression.

The more he danced, the more angry he became, and he actually cut off a branch of the laurel tree in the courtyard.

Jin Weiben sat in front of the window and drank, and when he saw this, he scolded: "You have fallen from the imperial examination, and you are just indignant, why do you want to cut down that laurel tree?" ”

Li Ying raised his knife and pointed at Jin Wei: "I cut it down, and it wasn't the tree you planted, so it's your turn to teach you a lesson?" If the owner wants to blame, I will pay him a sum of money! ”

"Hmph, rude brute." Jin Wei snorted coldly.

Li Ying was even more angry and shouted, "Come out and practice." Compare knives, arrows, fists, wrestling, you can choose! ”

Wang Yuan persuaded: "Forget it, Li Sanlang, this time you are at a loss, why do you cut down other people's tree trunks?" ”

"Rough martial artists are better than those," Jin Wei sneered, "You and I are both test takers, do you dare to fight with me?" ”

Li Ying chirped: "The poem of fighting fart, that thing is not tested in the pediatric examination, only poor and sour literati can learn it." ”

Jin Wei smiled: "That's better than Shiwen." ”

Li Ying raised the bar and said, "You are so powerful, why don't you lift in the Five Classics?" ”

The middle of the Five Classics is to answer all the questions of the Five Classics during the imperial examination, rather than only answering your own scriptures. This is equivalent to writing twenty-three eight-strand essays in one day, and there are really people who have done that!

It was purely a bar-raising speech, and it actually scared Jin Wei to stop talking.

This person is very conceited, and this time he also thought about the Pentateuch, but he only wrote twelve articles and eight strands, and he couldn't write it.

In fact, the guys in the Pentateuch are purely based on quantity. Every article is written in an average manner, but as long as you answer all the questions of the Pentateuch, you will be able to lift 100% of the 23 articles and throw them at that point—no matter how sloppy the writing is, you must know the Pentateuch.

And Jin Wei's essay strives for perfection and is unwilling to write garbage articles, so it is naturally impossible to produce twenty-three articles and eight shares in one day.

Li Ying cut off the laurel branch, knowing that he was at a loss, and seeing that Jin Wei didn't speak, he also sat down in a daze in anger.

"Alas, let's wait for the list." Yue Zhen patted Li Ying's shoulder.

……

The excitement of the scholars is putting out the list, and the excitement of the examiners is filling in the list.

The day before the release of the list, the official in the curtain dismantled the number and wrote the list.

In addition to the two examiners, there are sixteen rooms for marking papers, and each room has a room officer. They recommend the papers that they think are very good to the examiner, from good to bad, and the examiner only needs to look at the dozens of papers in front of them, anyway, just fill the number of lifters.

If anyone is promoted in the exam, these room officials who recommend papers are the "room master" of the candidate, and they must meet the "room master" and give red envelopes at the Luming banquet.

"Fifth place, Golden Tooth Hygienist He Xing!"

When the roll call came out, a room official immediately got up and laughed: "This is the roll I recommend!" ”

That is to say, this person is the fifth room master, and he has face and can take red envelopes.

"Congratulations!" The other house officials immediately congratulated.

It must be written from the fifth place to the first place, and the first to the fifth place must be different!

Wang Yuan's scripture is "The Book of Rites", if it is selected as the first, then it is impossible for other Guizhou scholars who govern the "Book of Rites" to rank in the top five, and no matter how well the article is written, it can only be ranked sixth.

This is called the Five Classics, one Meridian and one Kui.

The first place must be ordered by the main examiner, and the second place must be ordered by the deputy examiner.

The remaining third to eighteenth places were recommended by 16 house officials. If there are several exam papers recommended by the room official and selected by the examiner, then he must divide the excess, and he cannot take several red envelopes by himself.

The house officials who successfully recommended the Five Classics Kui, each person put a red candle in front of him, and his mouth could smile crookedly, which was the most glorious thing.

They can go out and brag and say: "The "Book of Songs" in this township test is exactly what I recommended!" ”

The second official said, "What are you?" I recommend the Yakui in this township test! ”

The first-place room official laughed: "You are all scumbags, and the one I recommend is the Five Classics!" ”

Well, the first place does not mention the name of this scripture, and is directly called "Wujing Kui", and it is also "Xie Yuan".

After the top five finished filling in the list, there was an uproar, and the officials began to compete for the five red candles. It is said that taking home the red candle representing the Five Classics can make the descendants get the luck of the Kui star.

This routine program is called "Trouble Wukui".

It is very cost-effective to make Wukui in Yunnan, because there are also Wukui in Guizhou, and a whole ten red candles can be grabbed.

When Wen Shu chatted with Wang Yangming, he had heard Wang Yuan's name. When the first place in Guizhou was called, Wen Shu suddenly realized, and laughed to himself: "It's actually Wang Bo'an's disciple, no wonder he has such talent." ”

"Mr. Tachibana knows this person?" Professor Zou asked curiously.

Wen Shu said with a smile: "A beloved disciple who forgot his old friend, he blew his disciple into the sky, and today I found out that what he said was true." ”

Professor Zou asked, "What's so strange about it?" ”

"This student named Wang Yuan has written three poems." Wen Shu immediately picked up the pen and wrote all the three poems plagiarized by Wang Yuan on a redundant piece of paper.

The public reading officials were amazed and shouted prodigies, all saying that this year's Guizhou Xie Yuan is worthy of its name.

Yes, Wang Yuan is the first, there is no suspense.

This is thanks to the fact that he traveled through the right era, and the civil officials in the Zhengde period were relatively shameless, and the more they went to the back, the more shameless they became!

During the Chongzhen period, civil officials were shameless to the extreme.

When they were grading, many of them simply looked at the questions. A glance at a volume, the first two sentences are written ordinary, and the flowers written at the back cannot be admitted, because the marking officer does not look at the back at all.

This kind of is not bad, but it is even more deliberately suppressed talents.

For example, Li Lianfang, the Shanxi envoy of the Chongzhen Dynasty, deliberately did not record Guo Pengxiao, the most famous talent in Shanxi, when he presided over the local scientific examination, Guo Pengxiao was not even qualified to participate in the township examination.

Guo Pengxiao was so angry that he hurriedly found a relationship to enter the Guozijian and participated in the township examination through this identity, and as a result, he was promoted to high school in a row.

There is also a scholar named Bi Zhenji, who was also suppressed by Li Lianfang and was not qualified to participate in the township examination. Bi Zhenji simply went to another province to take the exam, and suddenly won the first place in that province!

The official of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the college student of Wenyuan Pavilion, and the second assistant of the cabinet - Xu Guangqi, this cattle man failed to pass the township examination five times.

It's not that the knowledge is too bad, but the house officials who are responsible for marking the papers are completely favoritism and fraud!

Xu Guangqi took the township examination for the sixth time, and the chief examiner was the great Confucian Jiao Qiu. Jiao Qiu found that the papers recommended by the housing official were all scum, so he ran to look through the answer sheets that were not recommended, and when he read Xu Guangqi's test papers, he immediately took the case: "This famous scholar is undoubtedly a great Confucian!" ”

Look, he was directly praised by the examiner as a "famous and scholarly Confucian", which shows how powerful Xu Guangqi's article is, and he has changed from a famous Sun Shan to the first in the township examination.

If Wang Yuan is reborn in the Chongzhen Dynasty, it is estimated that the better he answers the test papers, the more he will not be able to win, so he will simply raise a knife and rebel against the ball.