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Because the content of the Ming Dynasty Township Examination is complex, there are three before and after, and there are many candidates who participate in the Township Examination, which makes the first four books an important criterion for admission.

Three ways and four books can be said to be almost the entire content of this exam.

Shen Xi focused on the three questions and four book questions, and when he saw that his heart suddenly hung up, he secretly said "not good".

The three exam questions given to him by Su Tong, the interception question in the "Analects" "Excellent is excellent and excellent" directly collides with the question, and the "University" question "The so-called self-cultivation is in the right heart", although it is different from the question given by Su Tong, but in fact, they are all from the same article, but it is a summary of "absent-mindedness, turning a blind eye, hearing but not hearing, eating but not knowing its taste".

The title of the last four-book article of "Mencius" is "People can do something but not do it, and then they can do something", which is about what people do and what they don't do, and the question is relatively simple.

In general, only the Analects of Analects is difficult because it is a truncated question, while Mencius and the University are among the accepted questions by general candidates.

But Shen Xi felt the problem behind the question, that is...... It's really leaking!

If nothing else, the few questions given to him by Su Tong should be given by the outer curtain official, and then through the "horse banquet" before entering the sixth day of the new year, when the inner and outer curtain officials went to the banquet at the same time, the questions were handed over to the inner curtain official, and the inner curtain official was asked to use it.

In this way, there are not only one or two people who know this topic.

The exam questions for the sixth year of junior high school were released, and Su Tong came to see him with the exam questions on the same day, and then he entered the eighth year of junior high school, and there were two days before and after. These two days are enough for candidates who know the exam questions to find some talented and experienced people to answer the questions for them.

These people may be former lifters, or even Jinshi and Hanlin who are idle at home, as long as there is enough silver. You can ask any kind of person to answer the questions for them.

Shen Xi remembered that Su Tong came to see him on the seventh day of the eighth month, and when he saw that he didn't do the question, he looked very disappointed. He expected that with Su Tong's generous hand and extensive travel, there was a high chance that he would find someone to do the problem for him. How to say that Su Tong is also participating in the township test for the first time, and he does not dare to be conceited to be among the best in this township test. Shen Xi has read Su Tong's three articles, which can only be said to be superior, but it is still a little difficult to get promoted because of this.

With Su Tong's financial resources, he can know the questions in advance, and he will not be stingy with money to find someone to answer the questions for him, even if Su Tong does not use someone else's written paper in the end, it will also form a certain reference for his essay during the exam.

In this way, the opponents that Shen Xi had to face in the township examination were far more than these more than 5,000 candidates in the same field, and there were still many scripture masters who had been involved in Baguwen for a long time.

I want to be admitted in this case. The difficulty can be imagined.

Although Shen Xi knew the exam questions in advance, at this time, he actually didn't have much help, so he could only fight against the water.

At this time, Shen Xi finally understood why the bribery incident of this Fujian Township Examination would leave a heavy mark in history, but the water of this examination was too muddy.

Fang Guan, who was in charge of Fujian's coastal military, was able to cultivate evil forces in the provincial capital to do evil, and the people who set up the political envoys and the envoys who were in charge of the inspection department also abused their power for personal gain.

In this environment, I want to make the officials of Fujian, who are far away from the emperor of the mountain, honest and honest. Some are not realistic.

Although Shen Xi felt very uncomfortable in his heart, at this time, he could only collect his mind first and answer the four Five Classics questions first, anyway, the quality of the Five Classics questions would not affect the final admission, but the Five Classics questions could not be ignored. Before the mind is completely concentrated, it is a good choice to do the Pentateuch questions first.

Of the four questions of the Five Classics, one of which required about 300 words, Shen Xi completed it in less than two hours.

Turning around, Shen Xi began to carefully review the three questions and four book questions, as for the one "excellent is learned." "Learn and excel" can only be put to the end, and the other two questions, Shen Xi didn't dare to have any clumsiness, and even the writing was not mellow and spicy enough, which was enough to be directly brushed by the examiner.

Shen Xi concentrated on listing his two four-book essays on scratch paper, and it was already past noon, and there was a noise outside. Shen Xi stood up and leaned in front of the window to take a look, smoke was rising in the distance, it turned out that some students lit charcoal for heating, and as a result, the examination shed was set on fire.

The fire in the Gongyuan can be said to be extremely common, one of the most important tasks of each township examination is to guard against water, the candidate's examination shed is a almost completely enclosed space, the candles and charcoal fires inside, as well as straw and paper, are all flammable materials, and it is easy to burn if you are not careful.

Usually people who read books have little experience in fighting fires, and their first reaction after a fire is to flee, and when they find that they can't get out of the door, they start to beat them with their clothes, and the clothes are soon ignited, and the small fire becomes a big fire.

It's a pity that no one has instilled some necessary fire and disaster prevention knowledge in these candidates these years, so they can only wait for the fire to break out and find someone to save it.

It was noisy outside, and it had nothing to do with Shen Xi, but soon he felt that something was wrong with the situation, because the smell of choking smoke had drifted with the wind, and the original building where the fire started was not too far from Shen Xi, but because it was separated from other examination sheds before, it was impossible to observe the specific location.

Shen Xi first scolded in his heart, there was no way, he could only continue to work on the question with smoke and tears in his red eyes.

After transcribing the last two essays into the test paper, Shen Xi began to face the last exam question, which was also the most difficult four-book question.

"If you are good, you will learn and you will be excellent."

Those who can come to the provincial capital to participate in the township examination must know the origin of this sentence, but because it is cut off, it cannot be understood according to its original meaning.

The focus of this sentence is on the two "excellent".

It is extremely difficult to understand the change of parts of speech and to figure out the state of mind of the person who asked the question.

Even in the absence of sentence breaks, there will be a variety of ways to break sentences in such a sentence, such as "excellent, then learn, learn and, excellent" or "excellent, learn and excel", this is a question without a fixed answer, how to write it, but it depends on whether you can bump into the ideas of the questioner and the examiner.

Same article. In the eyes of different graders, there will also be excellent and very bad situations, which are not obvious in other topics, but this kind of questions are especially obvious.

Qiu Jun, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, once mentioned in "University Yanyi Supplement": "The question was written at the beginning of this year. It is often forced to read sentences, shatter the meaning of the scriptures, connect and connect when it is not appropriate, and break it when it is not appropriate, and the small test of learning from the constitution is particularly trivial. The main thing is to discuss the disadvantages of "interception questions". It is said that you are out of the title of the four books, but only the words of the four books, but in fact, the meaning of the scriptures has been destroyed, and there may not even be a complete meaning, so let the candidates answer, that can really make many kinds of specious answers, how can you form an exact standard to judge the quality of the candidates' articles?

Time has passed little by little, and Shen Xi still has no way to write, he has been in this world for so long and has done a lot of articles. But this kind of problem that I can't even find the pen point is the first time I have encountered it.

There were people patrolling outside who told each other about the time from time to time, and Shen Xi knew that if he didn't answer, he would probably not be able to finish answering. In this case, he can only bite the bullet and choose what he thinks is the most appropriate direction of discourse.

"If you have time to read and study, if you have spare time to study, you can understand reason, preach, and govern the world." It does not mean to destroy the original sentence structure, but only extends the problem from "being an official", not only that those who are officials have time to study, but also those who do other things, and that their studies are done well. Not only can you be an official, but you can also do something else.

Although Shen Xi didn't know if it would work to write like this, it was already the best explanation he could think of, and he didn't force some theories to follow. did not forcibly destroy the gist of the original text, let alone violate the will of the sages. Although this way of understanding is a little banal, a mediocre understanding can also make a high-profile article.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and Shen Xi had to light a candle to finish his article.

There were already people outside who had already handed in the papers, and Shen Xi didn't know what the quality of these people's answers was. His goal is to be in the middle of the list, among the more than 3,000 candidates, only about 60 people can be lifted in the end, and he can't compete with others for speed, because there is no need at all.

After the strict inspection was completed, even the sentence structure was slightly adjusted, and Shen Xi began the final transcription. By the time it was finished, it was the third candle.

For the first time, Shen Xi felt the urgency of the imperial examination, and the previous examination, he could complete it casually, and there was no pressure at all.

When I arrived at the township exam, I had to do seven articles in one day, and one of them was a strange question that was difficult to find even an argument, and it was not easy to finish it.

After Shen Xi blew out the candles, the soldiers guarding outside called the outer curtain officer who was in charge of collecting the rolls over and collected Shen Xi's rolls through the hole in the door.

Shen Xi looked out of the hole and was sure that the rewinder had placed his rolls in the wooden box, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The most important first game of the township test is considered to be completed at this time, and the last two games can be improvised and have nothing to do with the overall situation.

At this time, outside the examination booth, the outer curtain officer is busy, the inspector inspects the examination room, the officer in charge of the examination paper is responsible for collecting the paper and filing the case for future reference, the sealing officer is responsible for the candidate's answer sheet is pasted, the transcription officer is responsible for transcribing the name of the examination paper, and the reading officer is responsible for checking whether the transcription result is correct.

Both the transcription officer and the reading officer should sign the transcription of the test paper to ensure that the candidate's test paper is transcribed and proofread correctly.

After these are completed, the transcribed examination papers will be sent to the hands of the internal curtain officer, so that the two chief examiners and four fellow examiners will review them, and the same examiner will first find out the better writing from all the candidates' examination papers and submit them to the chief examiner, and then the two chief examiners will give their opinions respectively, and finally select the admission list and rank it.

After Shen Xi handed over the paper, he lit half of the candle again, not that he had to re-read the article on the scratch paper, since he had already handed in the paper, even if there were omissions in the article, it would be useless at this time, because it would affect the mood of the last two exams.

Shen Xi just wanted to find some light, so that the surroundings would not be dark during the meal, and that kind of darkness would make people despair. When he took out the test basket, his stomach suddenly rumbled, and he remembered that from getting up in the morning to the end of answering the questions in the evening, he not only didn't eat or drink for a whole day, but he didn't even defecate and urinate, so he stayed up like this.

It wasn't until after the end of the exam that the body was tightened and the clockwork was relaxed, and a feeling of exhaustion and prostration hit Shen Xi's heart.

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