"How?"

"It's okay, it's just a ruffian who smashes the pot when eating, how can the poor master embarrass me because of this." Wang Qinian patted his chest. "Let's go, let's drink!"

Saying that, the two came to the door of a shop selling alcohol on the street, Wang Qinian touched his body, and found that he had no money, and he was struggling with how to save the scene, but Liu Guanshan took out a piece of broken silver and handed it to the store.

"A jar of rice wine."

Rice wine was the most common wine at this time, and it was no different from the rice wine of later generations. Seeing Liu Guanshan so knowledgeable and interesting, Wang Qinian was very happy to meet such a friend. "Since Brother Liu has paid him money first, I will invite you next time."

After passing through a few simple but clean-up alleys, I returned to the "dormitory" specially prepared for candidates. He took out a simple key and opened the wooden door, and the two of them opened the jar and sat down to drink, and the smell of wine soon filled the room.

"I wish Brother Wang the title of the gold list!"

"Brother Ji Yan, I also hope that Brother Liu can go to high school. Come to think of it, Brother Liu has been able to get a good ranking since he was a child. ”

In the early morning of the third day of the ninth lunar month, Wang Qinian and Liu Guanshan embarked on the road to the scientific examination site together.

It is said that it is a reference to the academic examination in the Tang and Song dynasties, but in fact, it is more like the civil service examination in later generations, and the degree of attention is comparable to the college entrance examination--- Zhu Youlang personally mobilized the forbidden army to seal the road near the examination room and prohibit vehicles from entering and leaving.

If it is seen by that group of rotten people, it will have to be complained again; But as early as a few days ago, the brocade guard in the flying fish suit was swaggering through the street of Ava, and now even the blind know to keep their mouths shut.

Around the examination room, several old men with iron horns were loudly reading the precautions to the candidates, and the content was similar to that of later generations. But in Liu Guanshan's ears, it was extremely fresh, and he pulled Wang Qinian over to listen.

"The importance of the examination is the same as that of the imperial examination, and cheating is the remnants of Burma to corrupt the imperial court! If the candidate is caught cheating, he will be thrown into the Jinyiwei dungeon! The old man read this sentence in a hurry.

"Brother Liu, what do you mean by what the old man said?"

"Let's put it this way, this sentence probably means that the cheating loses the brocade guard."

"Aye!" Although Wang Qinian was a man who rolled three times in front of Lord Yama, he couldn't help but exclaim when he heard the three words Jinyiwei.

"Shhhh It's so loud that everyone has seen it. ”

The two of them were touched by calloused hands on the knuckles of two pairs of fingers, and only after confirming that they had "no long objects" were put into the examination room. Liu Guanshan was still a little uncomfortable, his eyes were dull and he walked slowly, but Wang Qinian patted him on the shoulder with a big grin, signaling him to hurry up and follow.

"Eh, you haven't taken the exam yet?" The little official who copied his body was a little anxious.

"What is this test for?" Liu Guanshan took the two bamboo plaques and looked at the Chinese characters and Arabic numerals on them.

"The number above is your seat number in the exam room." The little official probably knew that these people had learned a little bit of "arithmetic", so he didn't explain much.

According to the bamboo card received, he found his seat number, and the two were temporarily separated. Candidates in different clothes walked in one after another, but most of them were wearing long shirts or obviously remade of military uniforms, and occasionally a few were neither, and they immediately became the focus of attention in the field, and some radical candidates even demanded that these "outsiders" be driven out of the examination room, until the invigilator patted the shocked wood, and then hated and stopped.

"Your Majesty will come to preside over it in person, what do you want?"

Hearing that the emperor was coming to preside over the exam, those Confucian scholars who were just trying to make a living stopped clamoring. These poor Confucians, who only have one stone of rice a month to make ends meet, know very well that if they fail this exam, the imperial court will no longer support them in vain, and they will starve to death. Although the emperor has been displaced all the way, there is also a sense of peace at the moment, and there is no need to offend the owner because of such unpleasant "subsections".

At this time, there was not even a steam engine, and naturally there was no electric bell, and after the two hand bells, the huge examination room was already full. The "Tribute Courtyard" where the examination room is located is directly in front of the palace, so Zhu Youlang quietly entered the examination room from the back door.

Zhu Youlang, who still had the thinking of later generations, instructed his entourage and officials not to alarm the candidates, but walked into the examination room lightly, wanting to patrol for a while like the invigilators of later generations, but the sound of the door opening and closing was too loud, so that everyone raised their heads almost at the same time.

Seeing the bright yellow clothes in the distance, everyone knew who was coming in at this time, and they all put down their pens and paper and knelt next to the table and chair and shouted long live. Zhu Youlang didn't speak, waved his hand to signal them to get up, and he sat down on a chair similar to the back of the podium.

"Your Majesty attaches so much importance to this exam, is it a palace exam as soon as it comes up?" Liu Guanshan raised his head and secretly glanced at the emperor, and couldn't help but guess in his heart.

"That's it, I'm only a shallow learner, and I can't figure it out, so it's right to solve the problem in front of me!"

Seeing the topic of writing vulgar characters from left to right in front of him, Liu Guanshan felt a strong sense of disobedience.

"Why didn't you take out a six-dollar silver province a few days ago and buy a workbook? Although there are sample questions in the pamphlet, what are the similarities between the questions in the pamphlet and those in the pamphlet? ”

Liu Kanshan sighed, just did a few simple calculations, and threw the math aside.

Seeing a few lines of Burmese in Brahmi alphabet, Liu was overjoyed, thanks to the fact that he endured the complaints of the next door every day and read the Burmese text aloud! At this time, these little tadpoles turned into Chinese characters in their minds one by one. Liu looked at the mountain and blessed his soul, and he wrote with a spirit, and filled the volume in three or two clicks.

The rest of the history and temporary general methods are mostly rote fill-in-the-blank questions, and as a child who has endorsed since childhood, Liu Guanshan feels as easy as chopping melons and vegetables. At first, he thought that the exam time of one and a half hours was a bit short, but he finished writing the paper in less than an hour.

When he looked up, the emperor had left at some point, and the one sitting on it had become the little official with a fierce face, his expression was like that of an old monk, and he did not feel nervous at all when he sat on the chair of the emperor.

Liu Kanshan was about to hand in the papers and leave, but was stopped by the clerk at the door. Say what it is, "Before the end time, you can't leave". Stopping people in a strip of red cloth was really unpleasant to him.

However, perhaps because they did not want to offend these future officials, two men dressed as servants brought a large vat of mung bean soup. On the third day of the ninth month in Myanmar, like the midsummer of the Central Plains, two large bowls were poured down, and the feeling of dryness and heat on Liu Kanshan's body subsided a lot.

There was the sound of paper turning in the examination room from time to time, and the sound of clattering footsteps signaled that the exam was coming to an end, and more and more people handed in their papers in advance.

Some people have triumphant faces--- most of these people are children who have read and read since childhood, and have learned "official learning", while some people who are preoccupied are mostly from the army, and their faces and limbs look like middle-aged and elderly people. Liu saw that the mountains were idle, so he stared at their respective micro-expressions.