The much-anticipated imperial examination has finally begun, which used to be the provincial examination, but since last year, the provincial examination has been divided into two, that is, there are two examinations, the Ministry of Rites Examination and the Palace Examination, which together can be called the provincial examination.

The Ministry of Rites Examination is also the first examination, and then the first 3,000 go to Daming Palace to participate in the palace examination, of which the results of the Ministry of Rites Examination account for seventy percent, and the results of the palace examination account for three percent.

At the fifth watch, the scholars gathered at the examination institute, which has been repeatedly repaired and expanded, and now can accommodate 100,000 candidates to take the examination at the same time.

Last year's imperial examination reform was not only divided into two provincial examinations, but also a lot of rules were changed in the examination room, and the scholars would sign a letter of commitment when they signed up, promising that there would be no cheating in the examination.

In this way, the body search, which had been criticized by the scholars for many years, was canceled, and the body search had to untie the hair, take off the shoes and socks, stand on the ground barefoot, and be touched all over by the soldiers, and the private parts could not escape, which made many scholars extremely disgusted, and they wrote to the Ministry of Rites to ask for reform.

Since last year, the Ministry of Rites has complied with public opinion, implemented a pledge system, and abolished body searches, which has won the warm welcome of the scholars.

In fact, even if it doesn't make much sense to carry cheating, the competition is so fierce, if the scholar still needs to rely on cheating to complete the answer sheet, then he will definitely not be able to pass the exam, not to mention that there are two more exams to enter the Shike, and the second palace exam is an open-air exam, and there is no chance to cheat at all.

Some people say that the scriptures can cheat, but although the Ming scriptures mainly test the scriptures, they are not only Kaomo writing the scriptures, but also the final test, that is, understanding the scriptures, just like the argumentative essays of later generations, from the scriptures to give a sentence, the scholar writes a paper based on this sentence, discusses the ancient and modern, and comes up with strong arguments to prove that his understanding is correct.

Whether you can be admitted to the Ming Jing Department depends on the level of this article, as well as details such as calligraphy and word errors.

As for the Sutra, it must be completely correct and good in order to have a chance to enter the second round of marking, so cheating in the scriptures is at most a chance to enter the second round of marking.

Guo Jincheng, Bai Juyi and Xue Qing took a special ox cart to the examination institute, which is located in the new city and has to cross the Xi'an Gate Street to enter the new city.

They weren't too late, but they were already coming in.

Guo Jincheng and Bai Juyi took the Jinshi Examination, Xue Qing took the Ming Law, the Ming Law only had ten places this year, but nearly 1,000 people signed up, the Ming Law and the Ming Jing are different, the level of the Ming Law is the same as the Jinshi Branch, and they can also be appointed to the official position of Cong Jiupin after the examination, so Xue Xun agreed to his son to participate in the Ming Law Examination.

Because the content of each subject is different, the test is held in different areas.

They lined up to enter the examination room in turn, and when they arrived at the door, Guo Jincheng handed over the exam ticket and signed up loudly: "Chang'an scholar Xue Jin, with honest reference, there is no fluke and fraud." ”

This is a sentence behind the exam ticket, everyone must say it seriously, the examiner looked at the exam ticket, and then looked at Guo Jincheng, and asked, "How old?" ”

"The student is fifteen!" Guo Jincheng replied calmly.

There was an exclamation around him, and it was another teenage prodigy candidate.

Last year, Pei Mingjing, a fourteen-year-old son of the Pei family, participated in the imperial examination and was admitted to the Jinshi in one fell swoop, becoming the youngest Jinshi in more than ten years.

The examiner nodded, "Ambitious, play well!" ”

He returned the exam ticket to Guo Jincheng, and Guo Jincheng walked into the examination hall quickly.

The examination hall is too big, and the sky is not bright, there must be a special person to guide them, and the three of them are in different districts, so they made an appointment to meet at the door after the exam, and then parted ways to go to their respective waiting areas.

Guo Jincheng was in the Ding District, just a soldier carrying a lantern in the black Ding District led a group of scholars to set off, there were 50 test streets in the Ding District alone, and there were lantern signs at the entrance of each test street, Guo Jincheng quickly found the 26th Street in the Ding District, each test street had 200 test numbers, Guo Jincheng was 135 test numbers, leaning outside.

Soon, Guo Jincheng found his exam number, which was the same as he knew, the exam number was five feet wide and six feet long, and inside was a platform made of bricks, with cloth pads on it, and the mats were newly laid, which was not bad.

It is said that in the past few years, there have been mats that have not been collected for several years, and they are full of bed bugs and fleas, and some candidates have been bitten and fainted, and several officials of the examination institute have lost their official positions for this.

At this time, there was a slight voice overhead, Guo Jincheng was not surprised, and he didn't bother to look up, his personal guards always followed him in various ways that he couldn't think of, needless to say, his personal guards had arrived in advance.

He put down the wooden board, put the basket behind him on the board, took out the candle and lit it from it, the basket was a pen, ink, paper, inkstone, a small gourd, clear water, and a box of paste, and then there were two notes of paste, which were long, long, wide and wide.

Guo Jincheng looked at the pasted note, and there was a number printed on it, Jinshike 17870, this is the Tianzhu number, which has already been promoted on a large scale, but it doesn't matter if the candidates recognize this group of numbers, this is actually the volume number, they have to take the test for two days, there are two exam papers before and after, and if you want to combine the two exam papers into one, you rely on this volume number.

Guo Jincheng put everything down and blew out the candles, the glimmer of the morning light had made the trumpet half-light and half-dark, and the eyes could see.

"Knock-knock-knock-"

The preparatory bell has been ringing, the door of the examination hall has begun to close slowly, the square outside has been empty, and after a stick of incense, as the examination bell rings, the test questions will be issued.

On the first day of the Jinshi Course, the content of the Meditation Sutra and the Ming Classics is the same, but the number of test questions is much less than that of the Ming Classics, after all, the Ming Classics have to be done for two days.

The next day, the Jinshi scientific examination of poetry and strategy, this is the difficulty, especially the countermeasure essay, the most important condition for the Jinshi examination is to see if you can write a high-level countermeasure essay, the palace examination is also a test of poetry and countermeasures.

Of course, there are many other conditions, such as a strong foundation in calligraphy, such as today's exam, you must get a high score, and you may lose some points when you do it, but the meditation must be all right.

Guo Jincheng studied ink while reading the test questions.

'The people are foolish and do not know the chaos, and if they are cowardly and cannot do more, it is a failure to govern. ’

It is this sentence that requires the completion of the article and the argument.

This is a sentence in the eighteenth chapter of "Han Feizi", "South", Guo Jincheng was able to recite it backwards when he was nine years old.

He was not in a hurry, he wrote his name and place of origin and the test number on the answer sheet, waited for the ink to dry, and then pasted the name on the name paper.

Everything was done, and then he took up the pen and pondered for a while, and wrote: 'Han Feizi's 18th chapter south'

This is the title of the whole article and the title of the chapter, and it must be written, and all scholars know that they cannot be omitted after learning the lessons of others.

In another line, Guo Jincheng wrote: 'The fault of the master is in his own position, and he will be prepared against those who do not appoint, and this will be the enmity of those he appoints, and the lord will oppose those who he does not appoint. ’

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The time for the exam is not sufficient, if you want to write a good paper, you need to conceive, you need to revise and polish, it takes at least a few days, and even a month or two to revise it repeatedly, but there are only four hours for the scholars, this is the real talent of the school scholars, even if it is a substitute exam, it may not be able to pass the exam.

After all the scholars finished the scriptures, most of the time was spent thinking and polishing, and before they knew it, time flew by, at this time, the bell rang, and an official shouted: "There is still one hour to hand in the papers, please answer the questions quickly!" ”

Thousands of words, it takes almost an hour to finish writing, and everyone has no time to think about it, so they have put pen to paper and started to make arguments.

For a while, there was a rustling sound in the examination room, and at the same time, it was so silent that it was audible when a pin dropped.

At this time, Guo Jincheng felt something, and when he looked up, he found that his father was standing in front of his number, looking at him with a smile.

Guo Jincheng's heart was warm, and he pointed to the paper, indicating that he had answered well.

Guo Song nodded slightly, motioned for his son to continue answering the questions, and he continued to inspect the examination room again.

"Knock-knock-"

For all candidates, this is the shortest hour of their lives, and it has passed in the blink of an eye.

As the bell rang, the examiner began to collect the papers one after another, basically will not stay, you don't hand in the papers, the examiner will leave, many candidates finally panicked to write their names, paste notes, catch up with the examiner and beg for a long time, was reprimanded by the examiner, and reluctantly accepted the paper.

After Guo Jincheng packed up the basket, he got up and left the exam number and went out, but when he walked out of the door, he only saw Xue Qing, not Bai Juyi, Guo Jincheng asked with a smile: "What about Brother Bai?" ”

"He's going to the latrine!"

Xue Qing pointed to the distance, there were many people piled up there, all of whom went to the toilet.

Guo Jincheng laughed, indeed, time is very tight, and many people don't have time to go to the toilet at all, and even think too much about it, forgetting to go to the toilet.

"How did you do on the test?" Xue Qing asked.

"It's okay, play normally, don't lose Master's face, what about you?"

"The first day of our law course is relatively simple, and if anyone doesn't even get the first day right, then they don't have to take the second day's exam."

After a pause, Xue Qing said again: "It seems that Bai Juyi's answer is very good, your father has been reading his papers." ”

"Oh!"

Guo Jincheng's face was slightly red, his father must have known that he had a good relationship with Bai Juyi.