The highest school in the country, the Great Xia School Palace, which covers a huge area, has set up rows of grass sheds on the flat playground, and the square tables under the grass huts are full of students from all over the country.

The officials in charge of the invigilator patrolled back and forth between the rows of straw huts to prevent cheating and plagiarism.

This time, the exam questions were proposed by Wang Lang himself, and most of the questions were natural science types, and the difficulty level was equivalent to the level of the third grade of primary school.

In terms of articles, Wang Lang only came out with a free proposition essay, as long as he wrote a 500-word essay, the subject matter is not limited, as long as he can write the meaning he wants to express clearly, and there are as few typos as possible, he is considered qualified.

This level of examination is almost the same as giving it for nothing in the eyes of modern people, but it is a big challenge for these students.

The exam starts at nine o'clock on the sundial and ends at noon, in just three hours, the students who take the exam can be described as a year, looking at the dense test questions on the test paper, many students have big heads, I don't know how many hairs have been scratched.

Time passed little by little, the reflection of the sundial hands turned into a black dot, accompanied by the sound of "dangdangdang" gong, Xia Guo's first selection exam officially ended.

The candidates walked out of the examination room exhausted and dizzy, and when they met their acquaintances, they asked each other about their answers.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites collected the examination papers and placed the examination papers of the natural sciences in the Ministry of Rites, and these test questions had standard answers, and each question had a corresponding score, and it was not very difficult to calculate the results.

The candidates' essays were hurriedly sent to the palace by the cabinet officials for review by Wang Lang himself.

In the palace, Wang Lang sat at his desk, carefully examining each essay, even if the donkey lips of these essays were not the same as the horse's mouth, he still patiently read them and wrote his own scores.

And an article titled "After I Came to the Xia Kingdom" attracted Wang Lang's attention.

"When I came to Xia six years ago, I was only ten years old, or maybe nine years old, and I don't remember exactly. Six years ago, His Majesty the Emperor brought us back with someone on the other side of the valley, and soon after I separated from my mother, and then I learned that my mother was married, I didn't know what it meant to marry, I was very scared at the time, thinking that I would never see my mother again, thinking that I was going to die, but it didn't take long for me to be sent to the other side of the river with other children, and I learned to write with Lin Shangshu, at that time I was very reluctant to study, and always wanted to return to my mother, if there were other children around me, Maybe I just ran away at the time.

During that time in Linhe, in addition to working every day, Lin Shangshu was very strict, as long as a question was asked, he would beat us if he couldn't answer, thinking about it, Lin Shangshu did the right thing, if he didn't beat us, he would let us play, and now I won't sit here.

In the past six years, I have watched the Xia Kingdom grow stronger little by little, from a few hundred people at the beginning, only two small cities, to such a huge scale today, I feel very shocked, those wars, when I learned that the warriors of the tribe defeated the invading enemy, I looked at the victorious soldiers, and I didn't know why I had a sense of pride, maybe I had completely regarded myself as a member of the tribe.

Later, the tribe wiped out the five tribes of the grassland, established the Xia Kingdom, I was also asked to come to Yancheng to study in the palace, here I met my mother once, after so many years, I grew taller and changed, and my mother is much older, she told me that her husband is a soldier, and now he has given birth to two children, I went to my mother's house to see my brother and sister, the two children are very healthy, my mother asked me to stay and live with them, but I refused, I don't know why, looking at their family, I have an indescribable feeling that I don't fit to stay here, but fortunately, in the school palace of Daxia, a house called a dormitory has been built for us students who have no families, so that we will not sleep outside.

For their own lives, classmates like me, after studying for half a day, they will go to the wild to catch some small animals or harvest some forage to sell to the trading post, we use the copper money we have saved to buy pen, ink, paper and inkstone, paper is a good thing, but too expensive, I really hope that in the future there will be endless paper, so that we can write more words.

If I can become an official in this exam, I must use the knowledge I have learned to make the people of Xia Kingdom live a better life.

Your Majesty said that our Xia country is civilized, and those savages outside are barbarians, and the Xia country has the responsibility to educate these barbarians, but for the barbarians who are constantly being educated, they can only beat them and let them know the benefits of civilization, I think what Your Majesty said is right, unless the human beings in this world are fools, they are not willing to become Xia people.

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Wang Lang finished reading this fairly smooth article in one go, and stroked his beard with satisfaction, this article not only has fewer typos and omissions, but also has a very neat volume, and the level of writing with a brush is comparable to Wang Lang's, and it can reach this level, which shows how hard this student works on weekdays.

looked at the signature, and saw that it was written, Zheng Sen.

Wang Lang remembered the name and wrote one hundred or two eye-catching characters on the examination paper in red ink.

Most of the next articles are still unsightly, and only a few of them can be regarded as worthy of Wang Lang's eyes, but none of them can compare with Zheng Sen's.

As for Wang He's composition, Wang Lang has also read it, and the handwriting is quite neat, but there are too many typos and the meaning is not clear, and in the end Wang Lang only gave him a passing standard of sixty.

Three days later, the Ministry of Rites counted the results of all the candidates, and a two-meter-square piece of white paper was filled with dense names.

When the list was released, the candidates who were waiting for the results in front of the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites rushed up, nervously looking for their names on the list.

"Zheng Sen! First place, 190 points!

Li Dahe! Second place in the first class, one hundred and eighty-three points!

Feng Yu, third place in the first class, one hundred and seventy-nine points!

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Looking at the names of the three people who were high at the top of the list, everyone was extremely envious, and the three of them stared at the list in a daze for a long time and were speechless.

"Brother Zheng! Congratulations! I knew at the beginning that Brother Zheng would have no problem taking the exam, but I didn't expect it to be the first place! A friend of Zheng Sen said enviously.

"Brother Wu, I didn't expect this, is this really true?" Zheng Sen, who was still childish, swallowed his saliva, a little incredulous.