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Looking at this examination room, Zhong Hao felt like a world away.

The examination room of this provincial examination, except that it is larger than the examination room of later generations, is almost the same as the college entrance examination room of later generations.

However, this examination room is indeed very large, it has to be two or three as large as the college entrance examination room in later generations, and the distance between each person's examination desks is very large, and it is unlikely that they want to plagiarize.

Zhong Hao estimated that the reason why it was so big was to make it easier for candidates to sleep at night.

This provincial test is to be taken for three days, and candidates are not allowed to leave the examination room under any circumstances except for pulling and sa during these three days. If the exam room is too small, you won't be able to sleep at night.

During the "Qingli New Deal", there were three exams, each of which was a one-day recital, but with the death of the "Qingli New Deal", this recital also ended without a problem.

Zhong Hao found his No. 16 table, put down the examination box, hung the roll bag on the table, and took out the pen and ink inkstone from it and set it up.

After sitting down, Zhong Hao sighed a little. Although the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty were not good at fighting, the administrative execution was still very strong. Preparing for a large-scale event like the provincial test is actually very arduous. However, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were able to organize so carefully and orderly, and their administrative ability was indeed outstanding.

But this is not the time to sigh, while the candidates are not in place, Zhong Hao hurriedly took out some food to fill his stomach. I was really hungry for most of the day, but fortunately I ate a hearty breakfast in the morning.

When Zhong Hao took out a slice of sauce duck and a few pieces of shortbread from the bottom of the exam box, and was about to start eating, planning to fill the Five Organs Temple first, he found that the room was already full of candidates, and they were all doing the same thing as him, and they were all eating!

All the candidates got up at about the beginning of the year, and now it is almost the end of the Shen time, and after most of the day's tossing, it seems that everyone is the same as themselves, and they are indeed tired and hungry.

After everyone sat down, a special military man carried a large kettle to pour water for the candidates in turn.

Seeing this, Zhong Hao also hurriedly found a water cup and asked the military man to pour a cup of warm water.

This water is not only used for the candidates to eat, but also for an important purpose - to grind ink later.

Zhong Hao checked the candidates in the same examination room while eating, and inadvertently saw Shen Kuo sitting on a window seat, with a chicken leg in his mouth, and he was also probing his brain around. The forty candidates in the examination room with the name "River" are the forty who took a bath together in the morning, and this Shen Kuo is naturally in the same examination room as Zhong Hao.

At this time, Shen Kuo also saw Zhong Hao, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

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After another moment, the official in charge of the invigilator entered, followed by three low-ranking officials in green robes, and four military men in straight shirts. Forty candidates, eight invigilators, and mobile patrols are completely anti-thief postures, and the strictness of this invigilation is indeed higher than that of the college entrance examination in later generations.

Regardless of whether they were full or not, the candidates quickly cleaned up the table and sat upright.

After the four military men came in, they went to the four corners of the examination room to stand still, and then stood without saying a word.

The invigilator will announce the discipline of the examination room again in front of the examination room, such as no talking to each other, no looking around, no leaving the seat without permission, and any action must be reported to the invigilator first, etc., and then the exam questions are posted on the facing wall.

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination was divided into Jinshi, Nine Classics, Scholars, Ming Classics, Ming Law and other subjects. But those who participate in the lock hall test are naturally for the purpose of being admitted to the Jinshi. These people all have official status, so they came to the exam because they were not from the right path of Jinshi, and then they went to take the Ming Sutra, Ming Law and other pictures, so it was naturally impossible to take those exams. Therefore, the questions posted in the examination rooms of the East Courtyard are all the questions of this Jinshi subject.

Of course, there are some examination rooms in the West Courtyard of the Gongyuan that test the Nine Classics, Pedantry, Ming Sutra, Ming Law and other subjects, but there are not too many.

This Jinshi scientific examination examines one poem and one treatise, five strategies, ten posts of the Analects, and ten Moyi articles of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Book of Rites. Regardless of whether it is a locked hall test or not, the questions are the same. This is still a very large amount of questions.

Zhong Hao originally thought that there were three days for this exam, and the time should still be very generous! Who knew that before I started answering the questions, it was already the end of the Shen time, and it was almost dusk on the first day. It was almost five o'clock at the end of the Shen period, and it was still winter, and it was getting dark early, so at this hour, the sky had already begun to get dark.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Gongyuan provided candles for candidates. In the Great Song Dynasty, in order to prevent candidates from cheating in the dark, and to ensure safety in order to prevent fire, candles were not allowed, that is, once it was dark, they had to stop writing and wait until dawn to answer.

It is still very time-consuming to carve a good poem and strategy, and I basically can't do many questions on the first day, but it is actually very tense to do it in two days.

Fortunately, Zhong Hao doesn't care too much, his poems and strategies are useless even if they are carved, and it is his limit to rhyme! It took two days to make those questions, and if he didn't have to work on them, he should still be able to do so, so he didn't have much sense of urgency. Besides, his level was originally meant to be a formality, and if he survived these three days, he would be considered a victory.

However, although I know that I am unlikely to pass the exam, I still have to take this exam seriously!

Although he was not nervous, Zhong Hao, like all candidates, seized this time before dark, read all the questions, and knew it in his heart first. If you can't sleep at night, you can meditate on it and make a draft.

Of course, there are also some anxious people who start to write and start the question.

Most of these questions are written and answered, and they are doing the scriptures and ink questions.

For those students who have read the scriptures and books, these are the most basic things, and the answers are naturally trivial, and they can answer them directly on the exam paper without even typing the draft.

Do more today, and the day after tomorrow will have more time to carve that poetry and strategy.

It wasn't until it was almost dark, and they couldn't see the surface of the paper clearly, and they were afraid of writing bad words, that those candidates put down their pens one after another.

Although it was not completely dark now, these candidates all stopped writing without exception. The main reason is that I am afraid that the volume will be broken. Once the paper is broken, this subject will be directly explained!

Because of the examination papers of this provincial examination, after the papers are handed in and before the papers are sealed, someone will specially pick out the papers that are defaced, scribbled, or have special marks, and these papers will be registered and written on a list with a blue pen, and they will not even be qualified to see the marking officer.

Seeing that it was getting dark, the invigilator lit an oil lamp at the door, the light was dim, and people could only see the outline clearly, so that they would not fall or knock down the inkstone, but no one could see their own papers clearly, let alone the exam.

With this light, the invigilator said, please eat and sleep, please go to the toilet, you can queue up and report.

Zhong Hao went to a toilet next to the number, he had just eaten, and he didn't need to eat anymore at this time, he was ready to go to bed quickly. Zhong Hao didn't care much about this exam, he just asked not to get out of trouble in the past three days.

There are so many men sleeping in the same room in this examination room, and if they sleep late, the sound of snoring will not make people to death. In this winter, I can't sleep well, how can I still have energy tomorrow. It's almost bad if you don't do well in this exam, and if you freeze and catch a cold again, the gains outweigh the losses.

At that moment, Zhong Hao took out the cover roll that Xiao Tao had prepared for himself and spread it out under the exam table.

To the right of each candidate's desk in the exam room is a rectangular red frame painted with red paint. The bedding of each candidate in this examination room can only be spread out in this red box, which means that the candidates can only sleep on it, and cannot go anywhere else or move around.

This is also to prevent candidates from cheating at night. If the candidates are allowed to rest casually in the room, although there are four military men on duty in this dark examination room, it is difficult to ensure that the candidates will communicate privately.

For example, if there is a question that the candidate does not understand and asks someone else, then perhaps a random reminder of the other person's sentence can benefit the person who asks a lot. Therefore, in order to prevent this drawback, the candidates who sleep in this examination room can only be in the red box on the right side of their examination desk.

It has been nearly a hundred years since the Great Song Dynasty scientific examination, and all kinds of things in this tribute courtyard have a relatively mature model, and there are certain preventive measures for all kinds of cheating. If you want to cheat in the Gongyuan, it's still very difficult.

If it's still very cold today, if you lay on the floor, the cold is still very heavy. Fortunately, Xiao Tao's preparation for Zhong Hao is still very sufficient, in addition to the thick moisture-proof felt pad, there is also a warm dog skin mattress on one side, these two are spread on the ground, and they will not feel a little cold at that time.

Zhong Hao laid down the floor and lay down on it, and couldn't help moaning comfortably~ groaning. Today's entry is really tiring, and it is really tiring to run from Yin Shi to Shen Shi.

At that moment, Zhong Hao pulled the quilt that Xiao Tao had prepared for him, and quickly closed his eyes and rested!

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Zhong Hao fell asleep early, and he slept well this night.

One of the few unaffected.

Yesterday, he was really tired, and when he woke up, rubbed his eyes and woke up, he saw that it was already bright outside!

Looking at the examination room again, half of the people have already gotten up to answer the papers, and half of them have finally fallen asleep. The snoring of this night made these locked hall test candidates, who were mostly pampered children of rich families, tortured.

Zhong Hao went out to go to the toilet, washed his face, ate a few more snacks, and let him drink the porridge prepared for him by making a cup of Xiao Peach, and then returned to the examination room refreshed and started the day's answers.

Yesterday's invigilator and those four military men have changed today. Obviously, they work in shifts, otherwise they can't stand the continuous invigilation day and night.

When Zhong Hao took out the "Tijing" question and was about to start doing the question, the invigilator saw that the sky was already bright, so he asked the four military men to wake up the candidates who were still sleeping one by one.

Zhong Hao decided to finish the ten posts of the Analects first in the order of the easy and then the difficult. The so-called 'Ti' is called 'Ti Jing', that is, the passage in the Analects is written silently. In fact, it is equivalent to a fill-in-the-blank question, which will have the above and the following on the exam paper, with a blank space in between. When the candidate is doing the question, he should fill in the blank space with the passage from the Analects that should be filled in.

This is the most basic exam question, and it is also the first thing to be examined when the examiner judges the papers, if the candidate can't even memorize the "Analects", you can imagine how much effort he has put into it on weekdays. Naturally, you don't even need to look at it later......

Zhong Hao is actually quite smart, at least he thinks so. For more than a month, he still memorized the "Analects" almost by heart.

And he was lucky, he answered all the ten "Analects" scripture questions.

When he finished the "Sutra Question", he then did the "Moyi Question".

The so-called "ink meaning" is the pen answer to the scriptures, and it is also a total of ten questions. This is not too difficult for most candidates, and they only need to memorize the "Spring and Autumn Commentary" and "Commentary on the Book of Rites" in the "Commentary on the Thirteen Classics". When doing the Moyi question, write out the answers in the "Spring and Autumn Commentary" and "Commentary on the Book of Rites" corresponding to the exam question.

Today's Confucianism in the Great Song Dynasty is out of a period of change, and there are many schools of Confucianism, and there is no school that completely occupies an orthodox position. Later, Cheng Zhu Lixue, which occupied the orthodox position of Confucianism, was just budding at this time and was far from rising.

Cheng Hao, the founder of Cheng Zhu Lixue, and Cheng Yi are still studying at home, and they will not go until the next subject, that is, the subject in the second year of Jiayou, and these two Cheng will be promoted to the top of the ranks, and their ideas are far from being formed.

It is precisely because of the various schools of Confucianism that the "Commentary on the Thirteen Classics" is now criticized by many scholars of different schools, but in the imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty, it is still used as the standard answer!

Otherwise, without a standard answer, this Moyi volume will not be approved.

The "Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Period" and the "Commentary on the Book of Rites" are more difficult to recite than the "Analects", Zhong Hao actually only read most of them a few times, and he has some impressions, and he can't do it if he wants to memorize it word for word.

Therefore, Zhong Hao only made this Moyi question based on the impression in his memory, and he can only guarantee that the meaning is about the same, but he cannot guarantee that it is word-for-word and according to the script.

Fortunately, there is still a little leeway in judging in this Moyi question.

The examiner doesn't really take this scripture and Moyi so seriously. Although everyone thinks that these things are a scholar's must-know, in fact, there are occasionally some omissions and mistakes, as long as the later poems and strategies are done well, they can still be Chinese.

Of course, it is not very important, but the candidates can't be too bad, one or two of the ten questions in this post are okay, if most of them are wrong, it is impossible for any grader to give you a side of the net. In the same way, what you mean is almost okay, if you explain the meaning is different, there is also no hope that the marker will let you pass.