"I'll take a look, too." Lao Tongsheng took the document and read it, "The civil service examination is divided into two parts: written test and interview, the written test is divided into administrative ability test and argument, the administrative ability test includes a total of 50 multiple-choice questions, candidates need to choose the only correct answer from the four options of A, B, C, D, and the argument needs to be analyzed according to the materials provided by the test paper, put forward opinions, and be demonstrated. Each of the two exams is worth 100 points, and the exam time is one hour each. After passing the written test, an interview will be conducted, and those who meet the comprehensive results of the written test and interview will become civil servants of the Funing Municipal Government, and will be arranged according to their personal ability after training. Those who are interested in working for the Funing Municipal Government should register with the Municipal Government within one month and receive the exam training materials! ”

"This argument seems to be somewhat similar to the policy argument, and the administrative aptitude test will not work!" , Lin Xiucai figured out something, "But listening to the literal meaning, it seems to test our ability to be a politician." ”

"It says that I want to go to the city government to get the exam training materials, so there must be a question in it, right?" , Lao Tongsheng stretched his neck, "This thing sounds a little like the collection of current writings we bought before!" ”

"This is not a test of eight shares, not a test of scripture! What a system! Jiang Xiucai said indignantly, I don't know if he was really indignant that the Red Flower Society did not respect Confucianism, or if he had studied hard for many years and lost his usefulness to this day.

"No, no, no, you look at the argument, don't you still have to explain this topic in the words of a saint?" , Lao Tongsheng defended, "In the final analysis, this exposition is reasoning, is there any truth in the world that the saints have not finished?" ”

"It is good that these eight strands are wasted, and the rope ruler is trivial, and its way is already narrow. You must have read those collections of current essays, isn't that article full of flowers and empty? What is the use of these things with the state? It's just that I look at the appearance of this Red Flower Society, it seems that I don't even plan to take the saint classics exam, I'm afraid it won't last long! I'm not going to take this exam! Lin Xiucai leaned back in his chair in frustration, and didn't say a word since then.

Then everyone had no intention of drinking tea anymore, especially the poor Lao Tongsheng, who had been poor for many years, his butt twisted around on the chair, and he hurriedly left without even staying for dinner. followed by Jiang Xiucai, and after a while, Lin Xiucai's friends were almost gone.

Lao Tongsheng looked around for a moment at the gate of the city government, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to him, he hurriedly slipped to the guards, and asked with a smile. "This military master, the student is here to register for the civil service exam, I don't know which official to look for?" , holding a few copper plates in his right hand, reluctant to hand them over.

The guard looked at it a few times, and then walked down the sentry with his musket. "It's right next to it, I'll take you there!"

"Thank you for this military master!" , I don't even want a door bag, this safflower will be ruled in a good way! Lao Tongsheng secretly sighed in his heart, followed the guards to the right side of the yamen of the former prefect's mansion, and saw a sign hanging at the door of a house facing the street, which read "Civil Service Examination Registration Office" eight big characters, but this word was written in vulgar style, which was a lot less strokes than he usually used; I can't even write, and I don't know how this old man got into the Jinshi. Lao Tongsheng became more and more unhappy for himself many times; He knew that these were specifically requested by Chen Jialuo, but in terms of learning difficulty, simplified characters are much stronger than traditional characters, and they were only promoted in the army and schools before, but now they are officially announced to the public.

After entering, the member of the Red Flower Club who was in charge of the reception poured him a cup of tea, gave him a plate of snacks, and after asking him about his personal situation with a pleasant face, he handed him a booklet and an admission ticket, "The exam will start on the fifth day of the first month of next month, two in the morning and at noon, the morning is the first hour, and the afternoon is the application time." Don't be late! Naturally, there were other people to investigate his identity and background afterwards.

This attitude is much better than my Daqing! Lao Tongsheng had encountered such a good face when he entered the yamen in the past, and when he came out of the door, he couldn't help but feel proud of the spring breeze, and he met an acquaintance before he went out. "Jiang Xiucai, are you here too?"

"Well, come and see, come and see!" , Jiang Xiucai smiled awkwardly and followed the guards in.

Go back to the house and open the training materials. I saw that the front was a comparison table of simplified and traditional characters, and the back was the example questions of the administrative ability test and the essay, first the sample questions of the administrative ability test and the essay, and then several sets of mock test questions. Why do you still have to take the arithmetic test! And what are these circles, triangles, and squares, do you have to be an official in this Red Flower Club and be able to draw symbols? Flipping through the arguments again, this is normal, the materials given are all things that happened in the countryside on weekdays, Lao Tongsheng's family is poor, naturally he is not a person who does not know grains, and he is no stranger to these things, but he feels awkward when he looks at the answer, the whole text has no words of a saint, and the whole text is in the vernacular, but carefully pondering these words are very insightful, penetrating, and thoroughly analyzing the causes of the problem, although the solutions given are not quite in line with common sense, but also very operable.

There are great talents in this safflower club! Lao Tongsheng sighed, for the next month, he held this booklet all day long, pondering and pondering, at first he was just a person researching, and then he felt that he was unable to catch it and found Jiang Xiucai, after a few contacts, there were more and more people gathered around him, except for Lin Xiucai, the people who talked to him that day were actually gathered!

Time flies, and before Lao Tongsheng and others have studied it thoroughly, the time for the exam has arrived; He got up early in the morning and came to the gate of the city government, and the examination room had already been prepared in the yamen. This examination room is the Gongyuan of the previous government examination, but it has been renovated, and the seats are much more spacious than before. Go in and sit down, without the cramped feeling of the past.

The examiner rang the gong that represented the beginning of the exam, and first read out the rules of the examination room, which was nothing more than not allowed to talk to each other, peep at other people's test papers, etc.; Then someone sent down the test papers, Lao Tongsheng can't do anything else, this exam experience is still very rich, take the test papers and do it quickly, but if you encounter a problem, you don't get entangled, skip it first and then do the next one. An hour passed, and he actually made a ** score, of which nearly half were certain.

In the afternoon, there were two discussions, one was to give a piece of information on the sea trade to analyze the role of the sea trade in Funing, and the other was to negotiate the exchange of prisoners between the Red Flower Society and Yang Tingzhang and let them analyze it. Lao Tongsheng racked his brains to write a few hundred words. He waited anxiously when he came out of the examination room, and it was time to announce the exam results in seven days! (To be continued.) )

PS: I went to the magic capital on the weekend to participate in the starting point training class, and I worked hard to save the manuscript.