With the arrival of October, the topic of internal and external topics in Longdu has become a matter of the imperial examination, and even the subordinates in the palace of the Marquis of Hejian also talk about the imperial examination from time to time. The imperial examination is held once every three years, and generally speaking, the emperor will add an additional imperial examination when he ascends the throne, but in the first year after Emperor Dade ascended the throne, the imperial court mainly focused on dealing with the Jiangnan rebellion, so this additional Enke was exempted. According to the normal order, October 15 of the third year of Dade is the day of the imperial examination, and it is also the day that all talented and beautiful people in the world are most concerned about.

Zhang Xiaowu listened to Mangzhong's chatter, saying that about this imperial examination, there are ten talented people who have good deeds in Longdu, and said that these ten people will definitely be the top ten on the heavenly list in the future.

"This is a person who is a talented man of the scholar clan, and he will be a pillar of the court in the future, and you know it? These ten people are still not married. "I don't know who will be so lucky to marry them in the future." ”

Zhang Xiaowu knocked on her little head and said, "You little girl, if you lose weight, you have a chance, but your current fat appearance will definitely not be in their eyes." ”

Mang Chong said angrily: "Can't people think about it? ”

Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said: "From this year onwards, even if the candidates for the imperial examination win the big list, they will not be officials directly, no matter how good the ten of them are, they will have to study in the Imperial University for three years before they can become officials." ”

According to the past practice, Tianbang had to be transferred to the Hanlin Academy to study, and the top ten then entered the imperial study to serve the emperor directly, and that was the close minister of the Son of Heaven, and the other students were just protégés of the Son of Heaven. But starting this year, the imperial court will cancel the three lists of heaven, earth and people, and set up a list of three hundred and sixty people, and these three hundred and sixty people are called Zhongshi, that is to say, they are already reserve officials of the imperial court, of course, the first person on the big list is still the champion, the second place is the list eye, the third place is Tanhua, and the court will focus on rewarding. However, 360 people will enter the Imperial Royal Academy to continue their studies of being an official, learning the experience of current affairs and management, learning the way of being an official, and so on.

The reason why Zhang Xiaowu strongly demanded the establishment of the Imperial Royal Academy was that he needed a technical official, not a group of literati who could only write poems.

"Master, on the day of the imperial examination, can I go and see?"

"See what?"

"Look at the champion."

"What's so beautiful about the champion, you look at the central order every day, isn't he fragrant?"

Mang Chong pouted and said, "Master, you are just handsome and resolute, but you have nothing to do with handsome, okay?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu hated iron and said: "Foolish woman! ”

"I'm not married yet, I'm not a fool!" Mangzhong retorted.

Zhang Xiaowu said: "That's a stupid girl." ”

Mang Chong snorted: "The master is jealous of other people's talents. ”

Zhang Xiaowu turned his head and left, thinking that he had to talk to Xiang Rui this year, the exam questions were more difficult, and those people must not be cheap.

The chief examiner of this imperial examination is Xiang Rui, who was attacked by the scholars because Xiang Rui was responsible for the reform of the tax law, and the central government in order to restore Xiang Rui's influence and prevent him from being attacked, and Xiang Rui was the chief examiner. This is a balance, and the court cannot always be led by the nose by the nobles.

Zhang Xiaowu doesn't know much about the imperial examination, who made him a technician from a science background, he recalled his past life, if it wasn't for his poor liberal arts grades, he wouldn't have chosen science. And he is most familiar with the imperial examination, is the eight-share scholar, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, whoever does a good job in the eight-strand essay will be able to take the office. The eight-strand text is composed of eight parts: breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting to speak, entering the topic, starting the stock, middle stock, back stock, and bundle stock, taking the content of the four books and five classics, and speaking in the tone of Confucius and Mencius, and the four pairs of children are fighting against each other.

After work, Zhang Xiaowu because he was in the library, so he was fortunate to see a Qing Dynasty township test eight strands of the original, but also the treasure of the library, but he felt that people wrote very well, not only beautiful handwriting and elegant writing, but the library director at that time said that it was the owner of this article, and he did not take the township test, which shows that the southern students studied hard, if this person is not a Jiangnan student, born in Shanxi, Shandong, Zhili, I am afraid that I can take the first few in the township.

The imperial examination of the Holy Han Empire is to conduct three examinations, the first of which is the examination paper of the scriptures, which examines the students' memory of poetry and books, and the examination questions are mostly from the Four Books and Five Classics, when Zhang Xiaowu saw the Four Books and Five Classics, he suddenly had a feeling that his soul was hit hard, and the four books and five classics were actually in addition to some place names and personal names that were different from the history before he crossed over, and other written languages were almost identical, and it was no wonder that many idioms he said could be understood by others.

The test is the students' rote memorization ability of books, and also their learning attitude, so this exam is only half a day. After the examination, the imperial examination room is to be opened, and the students return to their residences to prepare for the next one, rather than the Ming and Qing dynasties, which need to be locked in the examination room for three days and three nights.

Since only 100 fill-in-the-blank questions are examined, students who answer more than 10 fill-in-the-blank questions incorrectly will not be eligible for the next exam. But basically, as long as the people who can participate in the imperial examination are rich and rich, very few people will be eliminated in the first examination - of course, it is not excluded that some candidates are not in a good state or dizzy or disturbed by the world.

On the third day after the examination, the second examination of the imperial examination is poetry, in which the examiner's examination questions are solved in the form of long poems or fu arguments, and at the same time, the examination questions are played according to their own ability, and the form is similar to that of an argumentative essay in another world, where the questions are solved first and then discussed. The Poetry Exam tests a student's ability to write a beautiful, well-argued, and persuasive essay.

After the second exam, the students will only have a day off, and then the third exam will be held. Policy theory is an examination that focuses on practical knowledge such as governance, current affairs, personnel, politics, and learning. Ordinary civilian students are on a par with scholars in the two exams of the Book of Scriptures and Poetry Fu, but they are slightly inferior in the strategy exam, after all, many civilian students are not familiar with the imperial court and even the general trend of the world. Because of the relationship between their families and clansmen, the scholars are more familiar with the general trend of the imperial court, so they are more able to write articles that echo the requirements of the imperial court in their policy discussions, and achieve corresponding good results.

Zhang Xiaowu looked at the questions in the third exam, and couldn't help but ask Xiang Rui: "Is this too tricky?" ”

Xiang Ricky said: "Didn't Lord Shaobao make the exam more difficult?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu coughed, blushed and said, "I made it difficult for you to take the test, but I didn't let you kill them." ”

Xiang Rui laughed: "Master Shaobao, don't underestimate the abilities of the students, they are smarter than you think." ”