In the afternoon of this day, as soon as Li Yanqing's training ended, he saw Zhang Xian standing on the edge of the school field with an anxious face and waving to him, Li Yanqing walked up quickly and said with a smile: "What's the matter?" ”

Zhang Xian stepped forward and said hurriedly: "There is a weekly lecture by Professor Guo of Zhouxue this afternoon, have you forgotten?" ”

Li Yanqing scratched his head, "Didn't you say tomorrow?" ”

"You are confused, the lecture is today, and tomorrow is Xu Dazui's class!"

Li Yanqing found that he remembered the wrong time, and he was also a little anxious, Xiangzhou Confucian Guo Baisong is the chief professor of state studies, and he is the main examiner of the Xiangzhou Liberation Examination every year, and his Zhouli lecture is likely to leak a little about the scope of this year's exam, which is very important. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In particular, there are all kinds of rumors that there will be major reforms in this year's release test, and Li Yanqing is even more worried.

"Is it too late to go?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

"It's been a while, I just didn't see you before I came looking for you."

Li Yanqing gave the horse to Yue Fei and followed Zhang Xian to rush towards Wensitang.

Wensitang is the most important lecture hall of county studies, generally only Confucian-level professors are qualified to ascend the forum, today it is Guo Baisong, the chief professor of state studies, who came to Tangyin to give lectures.

Guo Baisong was born in Jinshi, has been an official in Guozijian, served as a doctor of Taixue for 20 years, returned to his hometown of Anyang County after retiring, and was hired as the chief professor of state studies.

Although Guo Baisong is over seventy years old and has gray hair, he is very energetic and has a loud voice, and his lectures are full of fun, which from time to time attracts laughter from the students.

Hundreds of students gathered together, and even many old students came to listen to the class, but everyone's mind was obviously not in the class, everyone was concerned about this year's release test, and it was rumored that there would be major reforms.

Guo Baisong is very old, the lecture time is not long, only half an hour before the end, the following is the Q&A time, according to the convention, he will answer three or four questions, and the content that everyone wants to know will appear at this time.

At this time, an old student sitting in the front row asked: "May I ask the old-timers, how will the examination be arranged this year, I heard that there are major reforms, I don't know if the rumors are true?" ”

The ears of all the students were pricked up, and the hall was silent, and everyone held their breath, lest they miss a word and miss their future.

Guo Baisong smiled, "I guess everyone is coming to the class for this question, if I don't reveal a little news to you, I guess I won't have dinner today, okay!" A few words to the family....."

At this time, one of the students couldn't help coughing a few times, and suddenly everyone glared at him angrily, so frightened that he quickly covered his mouth and lowered his head.

Guo Baisong continued: "Everyone knows that this year's imperial examination is Enke, last year the prince was seriously ill, and he suddenly recovered at the beginning of this year, and the Son of Heaven thought it was the will of heaven, so he decided to open Enke this year, and the specific admission quota of each state has been allocated, and it has not been sent to the states, but I have received a very unfortunate news that there are only fifteen places in Xiangzhou this year. ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the corporates were in an uproar, last year's quota in Xiangzhou was thirty people, and this year's quota is only half left, so what else is the test!

Guo Baisong saw that everyone was emotional, so he waved his hand and said: "The main event is behind, if you still want to listen, please be quiet." ”

The lobby was suddenly silent, and everyone was excited, but they had to listen to the main event, and they had to forcibly hold back the anxiety in their hearts.

Guo Baisong continued: "This time the quota has been reduced, not only in Xiangzhou, but also in the northern states, on the one hand, the southern states are very fierce, such as Jiangningfu, Changzhou, Suzhou, Huzhou, Xuanzhou, Yuezhou, Hangzhou, etc., the ratio of admission to these states has reached 300 to 1, and in the provincial examination in recent decades, most of the Jinshi have been taken away by the southern scholars, and the strength of the south far exceeds that of our north.

On the other hand, it was also the Son of Heaven who was very dissatisfied with the level of education in the northern states, and this year, taking the opportunity of Enke, the imperial court decided to carry out three major reforms in the northern states, and the reduction of places was only one of them. ”

Everyone held their breath and listened to Guo Baisong continue to talk about the other two reforms in horror, and they all had a bad feeling, and this year's reform may be more auspicious than lucky.

"The second major reform, the imperial court requires the northern states to follow the example of the south, and there are two exams for the liberation test, the first is called the county test, and the second is called the state test, what does it mean? In layman's terms, it is to reduce the number of reference people for the liberation test, and use the county test to eliminate a part, both of which are in charge of the state government, the county test is scheduled for September, and the state test is in November, and the specific time will be determined soon. ”

The discussion in the lobby became louder and louder, and the students were terrified, and the elimination system was about to be implemented, which meant that at least half of the people in the hall today did not have the opportunity to take the final official exam.

The discussion overwhelmed Guo Baisong's voice, Guo Baisong simply stopped talking, and let everyone talk as much as they wanted, he did not come to Tangyin to give a lecture this time, but came down to ring the alarm bell for the counties, and told everyone the news of the reform of the test in advance.

At this time, a county professor yelled, "Quiet me down!" ”

The lobby suddenly fell silent, Guo Baisong glanced at everyone, and then began to talk about the third major reform.

"The third major reform is to increase the difficulty of the examination and increase the fairness, starting from this year, the state examination will be changed to the imperial court, and the imperial court will send Hanlin bachelors to the states to take the main examination, and similarly, the first county examination will also be asked by the state government, and the state government will send officials to the counties to take the main examination.

In addition, I will tell you a very anxious news, starting from this year's Enke, the imperial court will abolish the Ming Law Department and the Poetry Department, and merge the content of these two subjects into the Jinshi Department, so this year's Liberation Test will increase the poetry test and criminal law, I think this is the biggest difficulty this year, there are only five months left, no way, everyone works hard! ”

There was an uproar in the lobby, all the students were stunned, since Wang Anshi changed the law, Jinshike has abolished the poetry test, and has not taken the poetry test for decades, everyone is desperately studying the new meaning of the Three Classics, the poem is basically deserted, and now it has to be re-examined, how can it be picked up?

There is also criminal law, which is the content of the Ming Law Subject, how can it be added to the Jinshi Subject, the key is only a few months, how can they prepare?

All the students were so anxious that they were about to stomp their feet and scold their mothers.

Guo Baisong had already finished the lecture and went back to rest, but the more than 200 students still refused to leave, at this time, someone shouted, "Let's go and tell the teachings!" ”

Everyone responded, and everyone walked towards the School of Politics.

Li Yanqing also panicked in his heart, in the past five years, he has memorized the three classics and new righteousness, but he has never made a poem, and now he is actually going to take the poetry test, and it is too late to hold Buddha's feet temporarily!

'Don't panic! Don't panic! It's a big deal to copy a few more poems to deal with it. Li Yanqing secretly comforted himself.

He was in a hurry to go back to sort out the review materials, but was dragged by Zhang Xian, so he had to follow everyone to participate in the petition.

"Lao Li, your level of poetry seems to be good, it's not a big problem, I'm miserable."

Zhang Xian was very annoyed in his heart, he just gave up writing poetry because he didn't take the imperial examination, so he gave up writing poetry, and he didn't even have the hobby of writing poetry.

Qin Liang next to him said: "Now there are still five months before the release test, a temporary assault to write poems, it will still have an effect, the criminal law is a big head, I think it will take time to memorize, maybe there are cases, we can't start at all, the county school should help us." ”

"I hope it's still time, Lao Li, you have to teach me how to write poetry!"

Li Yanqing smiled bitterly in his heart, he didn't know who to ask to teach him to write poetry.

Wen Si Tang was not far from the Xue Zheng Yuan, and more than 200 students soon came to the gate of the Xue Zheng Yuan, and they shouted one after another: "Please teach Yao to come out and speak." ”

The teacher is the principal, and it is generally concurrently served by the county school, and Tangyin County is no exception, the county school teacher is Yao Wannian, who is talking to several professors, and suddenly heard that a large group of students are petitioning at the gate, he was startled and hurriedly came out of the room.

More than 200 students gathered outside the courtyard gate, and they initially wanted to ask for a definite message, but as the emotions brewed and fermented, everyone became more and more excited, and their faces were full of anxiety, as if their future was about to be cut off because of this.

Yao Wannian said to everyone: "Everyone calm down first and tell me what happened?" ”

A student retold what Guo Baisong said, Yao Wannian was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but secretly complain about Guo Baisong in his heart, didn't he say that this matter would not be leaked for the time being? Even if he can't help but say it, he should at least communicate with himself first! As a result, it was leaked to the students, but they let themselves clean up the mess.

An assistant teacher brought a table, and Yao Wannian stood on the table and said loudly to more than 200 students: "Everyone be quiet and listen to me!" ”

Yao Wannian shouted twice in a row, and everyone gradually quieted down.