"These people..."

Out of the Moon Tower, Tong Yuan couldn't help but clench his fists, of course he knew that these people were laughing at him, but it didn't matter, he couldn't bear them laughing at his master.

Although Liu Jin didn't teach them anything at all in terms of the Four Books and Five Classics, they still learned a lot of useful knowledge from Liu Jin, which benefited both of them a lot, and they also deeply admired Liu Jin as a teacher.

"Don't pay attention to them, it's just that we have to work hard to avoid losing the face of our teacher this time."

Huang Jinquan shook his head slightly and said, just thinking of the difficulty of this imperial examination, and then thinking about his own level of knowledge, he couldn't help but be discouraged.

"Hmm."

Tong Yuan nodded solemnly, and secretly swore in his heart.

Early the next morning, the two came to Liu Jin's mansion early, ready to listen to Liu Jin's teachings, and worked hard to prepare for this township test.

"Why did you come here so early to do something?"

Liu Jin was naturally carefree, and slept until three o'clock in the morning, and when he came to the study, he realized that his two cheap students had come very early, and they were studying the Four Books and Five Classics seriously in the study at this time.

"Teacher, we know that our qualifications are mediocre, and we are only shallow in learning, I am afraid that this township test is to embarrass the teacher, but as the old saying goes, grinding guns in battle, if you are not happy, you will be light, and there is still half a month to go, so you naturally have to concentrate on hard work."

Tong Yuan hurriedly said respectfully.

"Hmm~"

Liu Jin said in an old-fashioned manner, then came to the desk where the two were reading, looked at the books on the desk of the two and asked, "What books are you reading?" ”

"Students are watching."

Tong Yuan replied.

"Students are watching."

Huang Jinquan also replied.

"It's only been a month since the township exam, and it's useless for you to read these books now, put them aside."

Liu Jin also nodded after hearing this, and then said with a smile.

"Put all these books aside?"

The two of them said suspiciously at the same time.

"yes, put it aside."

Liu Jin came to his desk, sat down gently, and continued: "In the next half month, we won't read these Four Books and Five Classics, let's brush up on the questions." ”

"Brushing questions?"

As soon as the two of them heard this, they were even more puzzled, and Huang Jinquan hurriedly asked, "Teacher, what is brushing questions?" ”

"Brushing questions is, that is, to keep doing questions, simply put, we will take the questions of the township examination and the meeting exam in previous years to practice, and continue to practice how to write the eight-strand essay, after writing the eight-strand essay, the three of us will score each other and jointly study the shortcomings of each other's articles."

"After we've brushed enough questions, the three of us will come back to the questions, according to our own inferences, ask each other's questions, and then do the questions."

Liu Jin thought for a while and explained to the two.

"I see~"

As soon as the two of them heard this, they immediately understood what was going on with this brushing question, and then Tong Yuan thought for a while and asked, "Teacher, what is the use of this brushing question?" ”

"Of course it's useful, this is for you to practice the questions of the imperial examination, so that you won't be nervous during the exam, and your head won't be blank, if we can still be lucky to press the exam questions when we bet on the questions, the probability of us passing will be greatly increased."

Liu Jin said very confidently, the trick of brushing questions has been tested countless times in the college entrance examination in later generations, and after doing some questions a few more times, its meaning is self-evident, some questions are brushed too much, and the same topics can be encountered in the college entrance examination, which is the benefit of brushing questions.

"Well, let's start now, come up with a question for the teacher, this question is the township test question of Beizhili in the sixth year of Tianshun, the topic is the knowledge of the first scholar, let's do the question."

Liu Jin had already asked people to find out the imperial examination questions of the township examination and the general examination in advance, and said casually.

Hearing Liu Jin's recitation, Huang Jinquan and Tong Yuan also immediately pondered, and then quickly frowned.

This question is very insidious, the question stem hides the second half, the original words should be 'scholars first understand and then literature', the person who asked the question must be deliberate, if you don't know the whole sentence, it is easy to review the question unclear, and answer it randomly.

So what exactly does this mean?

This sentence is in the middle, the scholar is far-reaching, first instrumental knowledge, then literature and art, that is to say, to be a scholar, you must first have instrumental knowledge, and then talk about literature and art.

Who did Pei Xingjian say? Lao Pei is talking about Wang Bo, Luo Bin Wang, Lu Zhaolin and Yang Jiong, who are the four heroes of the early Tang Dynasty, saying that although they are very famous, except for Yang Jiong, the first three are arrogant and impetuous, and they must not die well, or why is this old Pei's mouth so poisonous, and then he really beheaded one and drowned two, and only Yang Jiong got a good death.

Of course, during the imperial examination, you must not talk so much useless, understand the essence of this sentence, and know that the focus of this topic is on that aspect.

Huang Jinquan and Tong Yuan are both constantly thinking and pondering, of course, it is possible that they are thinking about the source of this exam question, and at the same time thinking about how to compose.

As for Liu Jin, he has a golden finger, and he can instantly form a standard excellent eight-strand essay in his mind, so he is also idle at this time, carefully observing his two cheap students.

Both of them frowned at this time, as if they were constantly thinking about the source of the question, which is very important, because only by figuring out the source of the topic can they be able to write the full text of the source, and then carefully study the full text, and then study the situation of the author who wrote the article at that time, and then study the historical background of the article at that time.

This is only the first step, and the requirements are already quite high, which must be memorized by the four books and five classics, so as to know the source of this question in a very short time.

Compared with this, the fill-in-the-blank questions in the Chinese questions of the college entrance examination in later generations are simply pediatrics in pediatrics, and there is no comparison at all.

For these talents who participated in the imperial examination, this endorsement is a basic skill, and many people have already been familiar with the four books and five classics.

But knowing the source is only the first step, and we must also deeply understand this article in combination with the author's situation, the background of the times, etc., and we must also know the annotations of some Confucian sages in history on this and this.

If this step is also done, then you can start the third step, that is, to combine the current affairs and politics, combined with the personal preferences and political views of the examiner in front of you to judge how you should answer the question.

Once you've done that, you're ready to start writing the eight-strand essay, but you think the eight-strand essay is pretty simple?

According to the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, these eight strands of writing have extremely strict requirements for each step from the beginning of solving the question, and it is definitely not easy to write out the answers according to the requirements of the eight-strand text.

Okay, if you write a good eight-strand essay, you think it's over?

No, there is still something to be done, and that is to find out if there are any taboos in the eight-strand essay you have written.

There are a lot of taboos in ancient times, there are big taboos, small taboos, etc., and so on, which is simply understood to be equivalent to the ancient river crab god, and there are many things that cannot be written on it.

For example, the emperor's surname in the Ming Dynasty is Zhu, this pig is considered a taboo, and things like Zhu Di taking away his nephew Jiangshan must not be said, this is a big taboo, in addition, there are emperors, queens, queen mothers, queen mothers, the names of the previous emperors, year names, etc., which cannot be mentioned, these are taboos.

Only when all these things are done and done well, can it be regarded as a successful eight-strand article, otherwise any step done wrong, you will face the situation of falling into the name of Sun Shan.

Huang Jinquan and Tong Yuan were very slow to answer the question, and it took more than an hour to figure out the source of this question.

As for Liu Jin, he was very bored waiting for it, so he also wrote one early, to be precise, he copied out an eight-strand essay and left the study, leaving two people to meditate and think about how to answer the question.

The imperial examination is not at all something that ordinary people can test, and everyone who can stand out in the imperial examination is a person with real talent and real learning, of course, this real talent and real learning is only limited to these things of Confucianism, which is too one-sided and narrow.