Chao for Tian Shelang, twilight to the Tianzi Hall.

Students and scholars from all over the world have been studying hard for more than ten years, just for today's moment!

As long as the candidate who has achieved his or her ambition and impressed the emperor in the palace examination will be able to achieve a leap in life and walk on the pinnacle of life from then on.

Therefore, the palace examination has always been a serious atmosphere, strict requirements and strict conditions.

In the past, after the announcement of the imperial list of the second spring of February, the tributes with the title of the gold list stepped into the threshold of the imperial court with half a foot.

Why do you say half a foot? Just because according to the practice of Dajing in previous years, before the palace examination, there is an additional re-examination.

After the re-examination, half of the candidates were screened out, and only the last ten outstanding ones were left to be fortunate enough to qualify and enter the palace examination.

The palace test is generally placed in the palace Mingguang Hall.

Normally, it is also a written test, and it is generally only a policy theory.

The ritual of the palace examination is full of sense, and the process is cumbersome and complicated.

Ten candidates must wear a unified "test uniform" to enter the palace before dawn, and then go through a series of etiquette such as roll call, scattering papers, praising and saluting, and then, when the time comes, the policy examination questions will be issued.

The examination questions of policy theory are generally similar to those in the field of Gongyuan, and it is a current affairs question that is closely related to the current situation.

The length of the question is generally two or three hundred words, and the key points of the test can probably be summarized into one or two core essentials.

However, during the Yonghe period, the length of the temple examination questions became longer and longer, and five or six hundred words were sprinkled with water, sometimes even about a thousand words long.

In the twenty-seventh year of Yonghe, that is, in the last palace examination of the Spring Festival, Xu Mengzhang and Xu University proposed that the minister of marking the papers should refer to the examination of the Gongyuan Academy, and select three topics from the current affairs that have been hotly discussed in recent days, and expand them to three topics.

There is no limit to the length of the answers, in order to leave the candidates to learn and sway freely.

This is the most test of candidates' talent and learning skills, but in recent years, under the repeated orders of the Ministry of Rites, special emphasis has been placed on some formal frameworks such as formatting and writing.

For example, there is no explicit provision in the policy book, but the long-established "about 2,000 words" word limit, as well as fixed format and stylistic restrictions, even the simplest writing, must be written in the orthodox style, that is, the so-called "courtyard style", "pavilion style", the characters should be square, light garden, jet black, and large.

From a certain point of view, even noisy, the calligraphy of the scientific research manor selected in this way is often better than the article.

The drawbacks of such a scientific examination system have been criticized by many literati for a long time, but with the age of the current emperor, it has become more and more serious.

In the past two years, Emperor Jing has often sighed:

"Why is it that the talents selected by the scientific examination are not as good as one session?"

Looking at each class of candidates, I think it is the worst class, probably the inner OS of Lu Chengfeng's homeroom teacher in his previous life!

Emperor Jing, the head teacher of the Great Jing Dynasty, gradually became aware of it in his heart.

In this year's Spring Festival, it seems that he came to the examination room in person and temporarily asked for the palace examination, which may have been his intention for a long time! It's not a whim!

Temporary additional tests, there are no exam questions prepared in advance, there is no way to leak secrets, and candidates do not have a long waiting period to slowly warm up their books, relying on the deep accumulation and on-the-spot adaptability on weekdays!

It was really a surprise to kill them!

But this trick! As He Xu Zhi said, it is indeed high! Wonderful!

It's just that this time, how to operate the unconventional inner temple test of the Tribute Academy?

As the deputy chief examiner, Lu Chengfeng couldn't help frowning, thinking about it, and asked

Road:

"Your Majesty, since you have broken the routine and innovated the way, why don't you take the couplet test?"

"Couplet? Is it too child's play? ”

As the chief official of the Ministry of Rites, He Xuzhi is no longer more familiar with the rules and rituals of the scientific expedition, so he retorted without thinking:

"Conventionally, the palace examination is to be taken for one day, the third watch enters the palace, and the papers are handed in at dusk, and the candidates also have to undergo the papers, palm papers, seals, and other official storage. To the day of marking, 8 people are handed over to the marking officer, each person has a table, after the rotation reading, each adds ○, △, \, 1, × five kinds of marks, the most ○ is the best volume, and then in all the volumes, select the most ten copies of the emperor to submit to the emperor, the first, second and third place of the imperial approval of the first grade, the second and third place is the champion, the eye of the list, and the flower, the first three people are called Jinshi and the first, and the second and third people are called Jinshi origin. The top three and four people are given the same Jinshi background. Finally, the list is filled in by the list officer. It was not until this time that the triennial spring test was settled. The whole process is tightly knit and there is no room for sand. ”

"One day of the test? Does that mean that the emperor will personally accompany us and hesitate to move forward here? Since the emperor said that he wants to break the convention, I don't think we can use the inertial thinking of the past to look at this scientific expedition now! Even today's make-up exam can be dictated by His Majesty, why can't the palace exam? Since it can be dictated, isn't the couplet a simpler and more convenient way to test people's mental agility? What's more, now you have even skipped the retest that you said in your mouth! It can be seen that His Majesty is wise! Break the old bads! ”

Lu Chengfeng's face was full of disdain, and he continued to defend his proposal, and the more he talked, the more excited he became.

Simply lifted the edge of the official robe, and with a big movement, he knelt on the ground, pleaded on the ground, and recited in his mouth:

"Kyushu is angry and thunderous, and all the horses are sad.

I advise the Lord of Heaven to be vigorous and reduce talents without sticking to one pattern!

Weichen Road Riding the Wind seconded the proposal as above! ”

"Your Highness, this ......"

His bold remarks made Manager Feng, who had always been able to understand the emperor's inner direction, sweat deeply for him, and wanted to persuade him but didn't dare to say it clearly, so he had to stumble and call softly.

After listening to this, Emperor Jing's face really changed greatly! The face is cloudy!

Inside the Tribute Courtyard, the atmosphere dropped to freezing point in an instant!

The black clouds crush the city and want to destroy it, and the armor light opens to the sun!

Emperor Jing groaned a few times, but suddenly returned to normal, and solemnly called in a dignified tone:

"Ride the wind, get up! In your eyes, is your imperial grandfather so angry? ”

"Yes! The child obeys! ”

When Lu Chengfeng heard this, he knew that the weather vane in the emperor's heart had blown to his side.

Looking up at Emperor Jing again, although there was a trace of residual anger, it had eased down a lot, a pair of phoenix eyes and eyebrows were lowered, and his eyebrows were flying into his sideburns, thinking about something.

leaned less, only to hear Emperor Jing's calm, powerful, restrained and calm voice:

"Just do what Chengfeng says! I want to see what kind of talent is there in the new department this year? ”

Lu Chengfeng proudly raised his chin towards He Xuzhi and showed a triumphant smile.

But I heard Emperor Jing shout again:

"Chengfeng, since it's the method you came up with, why don't you come up with the question?"

Lu Chengfeng suddenly scratched his ears and cheeks, wanting to think about his head.

He Xu had a sneering smile on the corner of his mouth, looking at Lu Chengfeng's embarrassing appearance of riding a tiger, so unhappy!

Lu Chengfeng pondered for a while, and from his vast historical memory, he finally came up with a wonderful, difficult and incisive couplet exam question!

I saw him raise his head and chest, and the confident and heroic feeling that everything was under control exclaimed

If you want to come out, you can say sonorously and powerfully:

"I gave these ten candidates a five-character couplet, and the upper couplet is - smoke lock pond willow."

"Smoke lock pond willow?"

He Xuzhi listened and smacked.

"Not bad! When I first heard it, I saw a beautiful painting of smoke lingering in the willows, and there was also a poetic feeling. ”

Emperor Jing nodded in praise.

Not only that, but more importantly, this poetic Shanglian five characters also contains the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which is not so easy to match! What's more, candidates have no time to prepare, so they must make a decision immediately and immediately make the next link! ”

Lu Chengfeng confidently paced two steps forward.

To put it bluntly, this is really an eternal absolute!

Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong used the exam questions in a palace exam.

It is said that the talented Ji Xiaolan has spent his whole life failing to make the next couplet.

For highly nervous candidates in the palace examination, it is even more difficult to ascend to the sky.

"Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth? Wonderful! Wonderful! ”

After listening to Lu Chengfeng's explanation, Emperor Jing laughed and laughed.

He Xuzhi frowned and pondered for a long time, but he couldn't come up with a lower link that was equally exquisite and neat and contained the five elements!

After shaking his head helplessly, he bowed to the wind, gave a thumbs up to Lu Chengfeng, and said:

"His Royal Highness's talent is indeed worthy of his reputation! I was convinced! ”

"Don't be presumptuous! This couplet, even if there are many heroes and all the talents in the world are here, they may not be able to come up right! Because, this is originally a dead pair! To be honest, I, the person who wrote the question, can't come out either! If someone can really unravel this couplet today, it will be a genius! ”

"Good! Exam starts! ”

Emperor Jing spoke.

"Pass ten candidates for the examination into the temple!"

Feng Xianfu snorted and pierced through the clouds.

Those students who were able to participate in the palace examination had already been in the waiting area, eager to try one by one, just waiting for this moment, striving to show the emperor what they had learned in their lives perfectly and leave the best impression on the emperor.

However, what is waiting for is this kind of vassally elegant, disease-free moaning couplet!

The ten lucky ones couldn't help but be stunned!

This kind of couplet is understandable when it is placed in ordinary times to relieve boredom, but today's emperor actually brings this preference into the final stage of the scientific examination, such a national event!

They were all stunned! No one answered the question like a stream to pick up the upper and lower links!

After a few moments, one of the tributes stood up and made a gesture, as if to try the couplet.

But he looked down and said:

"Your Majesty's Shanglian is too difficult, and the end of the study is not right."

As soon as the words fell, the tribute turned to leave, but was stopped by Lu Chengfeng.

Lu Chengfeng glanced at him, and then said to the other silent tributes in the hall:

"This couplet is originally a dead pair, and being able to give up decisively after thinking about it is enough to show that he is honest and dares to give up, and he is self-aware."

In Emperor Jing's view, this tribute is trying to capture the past, on the surface he is telling the truth, but in fact, he is praising the emperor's superb level without a trace.

However, objectively speaking, this person can choose to give up immediately in the face of such a dead pair, which is quite decisive, and it is a suitable material for being an official.

It's just that Emperor Jing has already reached the age of Ershun, and he has been an emperor for thirty years, and he is used to being boasted about before and after being saddled, but he wants to unveil the hidden heart in everyone's hearts and see how much real ink is in his stomach.