As the name suggests, the county exam is an exam that is held in the county. With the power of a county to provide an examination venue for hundreds or even thousands of candidates, the conditions can be imagined. Generally, when the exam is approaching, a temporary examination booth is set up. For some poorer counties, even building such an examination shed is so difficult, not to mention the lack of decoration and beauty, even the ground is exuding the fragrance of earth...... Dirt soil, dusty on a sunny day, muddy on a rainy day...... Because there is no money to build a roof.

But that's not the worst of it. The most miserable remote states and counties do not even have the most basic tables and chairs, and candidates need to bring their own. There are still many candidates from the countryside who can take the exam, and there are no roads extending in all directions at this time, and many people have to go over the mountains and mountains to come to the county seat for the exam, and it is just a matter of carrying a bench, and it is impossible to bring their own tables.

So after they arrived in the county seat, they had to show their magic skills and try their best to borrow a set. But how can there be so many tables and chairs in a small county? If you can't borrow it, you have to settle for the next best thing, borrow a door board or a cutting board, or even a coffin board, a wooden pier or something, and then take a few bricks to enter the field.

When the time comes, divide the bricks into two stacks, one stack of shelves, one stack of buttocks, and then just lie on top of the answers, if you are unfortunate enough to catch up with the rain just now, your ankles can sink into the mud...... It was a very special experience.

Fortunately, this is the old Mengjin county seat of Luoyang, the old capital of the Tang Dynasty. Mengjin, Xia belongs to the Mengtu feudal state; In the early Shang period, it was the interior of the country; Zhou set up Pingyin and Spy City, and the Warring States period was Korean; Qin changed the city to a county, called spy city, Pingyin County; The Western Han Dynasty is under the jurisdiction of the three counties of Spy City, Pingyin and Pingxian, and belongs to Henan County; Wang Mang changed Ping County to Zhiping County, and the Eastern Han Dynasty restored and changed Zhiping County to Ping County; During the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, the three counties of Ping County, Pingyin and Spy City County were Heyin County, which belonged to Henan County; When the Jin Dynasty reached the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the ownership changed repeatedly, but the name of the county was not changed, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty placed Heyin County; Sui merged Heyin into Luoyang County, which belonged to Henan County; In the second year of Tang Wude (619 AD), Daji County (west of present-day Meng County) was placed in the province of eight years. Xianheng four years (673 AD) replaced, the first year of Xiantian (712 AD) renamed Heqing County, belongs to Henan Province. (At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the river was drawn out of Luoyang and crossed the Yellow River to Daji County, which was later changed to Baiya County and Heqing County, which belonged to Henan County); In the first year of Song Kaibao (968 AD), he migrated to Baipo Town (now Jili District, Luoyang City). In the Song Dynasty, it was Heqing County, and now the old town of Mengjin County, Luoyang City.

Some of the examination rooms left over from the previous dynasty still exist, but they are in disrepair, and most of the doors and windows are dilapidated. However, this year, it is a different scene, because Emperor Renzong attaches great importance to education, this year basically transformed the old examination room into a special college, which is usually used for the county school to teach, and the county examination can accommodate thousands of people at the same time, and the conditions are much better than elsewhere...... For example, this will be the county school, so the huge yard will be paved with green bricks, and then put on pine tables and chairs, and even set up a grass shed above the tables and chairs, so that even if it rains, there is no need to interrupt the exam.

Li Yanpu and a few fellow villagers followed the crowd into the county's front street, and now the candidates on the left and right of him, regardless of age, have a cute title called 'Tongsheng'. Then he saw a hunchbacked old man with gray hair, who looked to be seventy or eighty years old, and walked in a white shirt with a basket. In fact, I saw him when I was outside, but at that time, I thought that the old man was sending his grandson to take the exam.

When the children gathered in front of the county school, they were divided into five teams by officials wearing big red uniforms and stood in front of the door.

I saw that the county commander was wearing a crown of two beams, wearing a red Luo dress with a green edge, a leather belt around his waist, a jade pendant hung on the leather belt, and a red and white silk belt on it. Under the hood to cover the knees, stepping on the black face and white bottom of the official boots, standing on the stone steps quite majestically...... The court clothes of Manchu officials were generally like this, the difference was the number of beams on the crown, the leather belt around the waist, and the ribbon with jade pendants. For example, the two-beam crown, silver leather belt, glazed pendant, and three-color flower brocade ribbon with the pattern of Lian Que can clearly indicate his identity as a seven-grade official. The county order's face was very dark, and when he heard that his surname was Bao Li Yanpu, he wondered if it was Bao Zheng.

After the expiration of the candidates, Bao Xianling began to speak, which was nothing more than to preach Confucius and Mencius first, and then praise the emperor, and then announce the number of examinations, and strictly enforce the discipline of the examination room...... Except for the time and number of exams, it's basically all nonsense.