Unconsciously, the fourth and last exam is finally coming, there were originally four imperial examinations, and the policy and theory are divided into two exams, after the reform of the imperial examination this year, the policy and the theory were merged into one, and the criminal law and poetry were additionally examined, but the fourth test was only one day, the amount was not too large, and the weight in the entire imperial examination was not heavy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, even if the weight is not heavy, for this year's Xiangzhou examination, which only admits fifteen people, it is enough to determine the final success or failure.

Since the addition of criminal law and poetry was only announced five months before the imperial examination, for all the local scholars of Xiangzhou, this was their biggest weakness, on the contrary, for the students of Tai and the students of the four major academies, they themselves had studied criminal law and poetry, and the two additional exams were not difficult for them, so one side was sad, but the other side was happy.

Before dawn, as soon as the two came out of the inn, Zhang Xian said to Li Yanqing with a sad face: "This time I am really finished, I have done a mess in the previous exam, I haven't read "Song Criminal Unity" at all, I only read a little case, and I have to take the poetry test, I'm really confused!" Why go to Cizhou with them? ”

Zhang Xian has unknowingly reduced to the role of Xianglin's sister-in-law, "It's good not to go to Cizhou that day....." He himself didn't know how many times he said it, if there is really a regret medicine sold in the world, he Zhang Xian must be the first guest.

Li Yanqing is full of fighting spirit, and he is bound to win the last exam, but he doesn't want to be strong in front of Zhang Xian, so he comforted him: "The people who took the liberation test for the first time are really rare, you look at the few Linzhang County scholars next door, which one didn't take the test two or three times, this time it should be regarded as accumulating experience, anyway, we have the back road, and we really can't pass the exam, so we will go to the state to study, prepare well for two years, and then take the liberation test the year after tomorrow, I believe that I will be able to be admitted at that time." ”

Zhang Xian actually had this idea, but he needed someone to comfort him, so that he felt that his choice was wise, and it was reasonable that he could not pass the imperial examination, he felt a lot more comfortable, and asked with a smile on his face: "Lao Li, how did you do in the exam?" ”

"I don't know, it's a bit confusing to take the exam, it's up to the examiner."

After sleeping last night, Li Yanqing was really a little remorseful, he found that he was not thoughtful when doing the countermeasures, he should not write about the Jin Dynasty, the news of the Northern Song Dynasty was closed, and the examiner most likely did not understand the situation of the Jin Dynasty at all, and if the content he wrote was not good, the examiner would regard it as nonsense, which would seriously affect the score, so he was a little uncertain about whether he could be admitted to the Juren.

"Don't worry about the past for now, and focus on today."

Li Yanqing shook off the worries in his heart and walked quickly towards the Gongyuan, Zhang Xian hurriedly followed, he also made up his mind, and after the exam, he would go directly to the state school.

When he came to Gongyuan Square, the two separated, Li Yanqing was looking for the Bingxiang team, and he heard someone call him, "Lao Li, this way!" This way! ”

Li Yanqing saw a fat body at a glance, like a hippopotamus standing on two feet in the dark night, Zheng Fatman's eyes were also poisonous, in such a thick night, he could actually see himself.

Yesterday, Zheng Rongtai took Li Yanqing to have a meal again, and brought Zhang Xian, after two friendships at the wine table, Zheng Fatzi has regarded him as a confidant, although Li Yanqing is three years younger than him, but his mind is more mature than him, plus he is also tall, sometimes Zheng Rongtai unconsciously regards himself as a little brother, in fact, it is normal for him to feel this way, Tang Huai and Wang Gui are older than Li Yanqing, but they regard Li Yanqing as a leader.

Zheng Rongtai heard Zhang Xian call Li Yanqing 'Lao Li' last night, and he felt that it was smooth, so he also shouted.

In fact, there is an unspeakable secret in this, yesterday when the strategy was examined, when the sergeant sent Zheng Rongtai a question in the middle of the night, he was seen by the candidate on the other side of the next door, that is, No. 77.

The candidate hated the snoring of the dead fat man, so after the exam, the candidate wanted to expose it to the examiner, but Li Yanqing patted him on the shoulder and pinched him on the shoulder, and the candidate didn't dare to say anything anymore, Zheng Rongtai was grateful to Li Yanqing, and he felt that Li Yanqing was an iron buddy who could make deep friends.

"How about it, let's celebrate after the exam?" Zheng Fatzi suggested enthusiastically.

"No problem! We're not drunk. ”

"Looking forward to it!" Zheng Fatzi's eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and looking at his expression, he couldn't wait to drink two cups now, nibble on a pork knuckle and then take the exam.

At this time, the entrance examination began, and the last examination was particularly strict, and every scholar had to search his whole body, even his hair.

A voice muttered in the back: "I heard that seven or eight cheating candidates were caught in the first few games, and the invigilator was ruthless." ”

Li Yanqing turned around, the person who spoke was the scholar of Lin County who was reminded by his friendship yesterday, I don't know if this guy has figured it out? The examiner was originally the one who helped Zheng Rongtai cheat, but he wanted to seek skin with the tiger, wasn't he looking for death?

The gentleman glanced at Zheng Rongtai with disdain, and when he saw Li Yanqing, his eyes were a little more afraid, although he only knew the identity of the big fat man after he went back yesterday, and he was naturally a little more grateful to Li Yanqing for stopping him in time, but Li Yanqing's two pinching on his shoulders made him feel abnormal pain, and his fear of Li Yanqing overpowered his gratitude.

"Next!"

When it was Zheng Fat's turn, Zheng Rongtai grinned, "Lao Li, I'll go first." ”

"Go ahead! Go ahead! Hurry up and squint for a while. ”

Zheng Rongtai laughed, "Those who know me, Lao Li also!" ”

He dragged his fat body to the examiner, but the examiner didn't ask him, waved his hand, and asked him to go in directly to search his body, many candidates laughed out loud, like this fat man who wanted to find a stand-in and probably couldn't find it.

"Next!"

Li Yanqing stepped forward, the examiner looked at him carefully, his square face was thick eyebrows, his hands were close to his knees, he was wearing five feet five inches, and the examiner asked the soldiers to measure their heights, which were exactly the same, so he waved his hand to Li Yanqing, "Next!" ”

Today's exam is not allowed to bring any items, not even food, every candidate must be strictly searched, all invigilators are very clear that in the last exam, there will inevitably be many people considering cheating.

"What are you?"

A sergeant yelled from the side: "You dare to sew a note into the sole of your shoe?" ”

A sergeant next to him lowered his head and looked frightened, the sergeant found two pieces of paper from the soles of his shoes, which were densely written with criminal laws, the examiner had a gloomy face, and with a wave of his hand, the two soldiers took the man who tried to cheat down.

Li Yanqing was searched, and walked into the examination room with a cloak and a hairbeat, he didn't like the feeling of being searched, I heard that the provincial exam was bathed and entered, this way is not bad, why is the test not implemented?

He hastily tied his hair, and soon arrived at his room, when there was a thunderous snoring next door, and someone had already quietly taken a nap.

Time passed little by little, and all the scholars were patiently waiting for the time of the exam to come, at this time, the sound of the cloud board on the upper floor of the school sounded, and the exam time finally came.

The invigilator of Lane C came over and woke up the sleeping Zheng Fat Man with a pointed stick with a blank face........

The test paper was sent down, Li Yanqing didn't look at the criminal law first, but turned to the second test paper, he first had to look at the poetry questions, he was already confident in the criminal laws, but he was betting on luck when doing poetry questions.

The title is the first two sentences of Du Xunhe's "Idle Books" in the Tang Dynasty: "On the bamboo shadow of the window, the sound of wild springs enters the inkstone." ”

This is a reading question, requiring candidates to write a poem about studying and reading, Li Yanqing's mind jumped out of at least seven or eight poems of reading after the Southern Song Dynasty, he breathed a sigh of relief, and turned the paper over in front of him, ready to do the criminal law question first.

The criminal law question is divided into two parts, the first half is the paste, that is, the silent writing of the designated "Song Penal Union", there are a total of five questions, each question is at least 1,000 words silently, although the posting has always been a sub-question, but that refers to the four books and five classics, today's "Song Penal Union" is not necessarily, at least thirty percent of the candidates have to fall on these five questions.

Li Yanqing has a talent to never forget, but he also memorized it day and night for two months before he memorized the twelve "Song Criminal Systems" stacked up like two bricks.

The second part of the criminal law is beyond everyone's expectations, it is not the case question that everyone thinks, but compared with the "Tang Law Discussion", the candidate is required to write down the three differences between the Song and Tang laws.

At this time, there was an exclamation in the examination room, it should be this question that made most of the scholars stunned, this question was actually beyond the scope of the examination given by the imperial court.

"Song Criminal Tong" itself is a copy of "Tang Law Shu Yi", it is not easy to write the differences between the two, not to mention the candidates, even the general trial of the county may not know.

However, Li Yanqing does not feel that this question is out of the scope of the exam, but this question is very deep, and these differences have actually appeared in the cases, and the judgments of at least five cases have involved the similarities and differences in the criminal laws of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Of course, there is no answer in the case given by the imperial court, and candidates must study it in-depth on their own to find out, but how can ordinary candidates have time to study?

Speaking of which, Li Yanqing is also grateful to Zhou Chun for the case collation notes lent to him, and Zhou Chun's grandfather annotated more than a dozen differences in the criminal laws of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Li Yanqing felt that there was always a kind of providence in the dark, if he hadn't gone to the restaurant with Zhou Chun and the others that day, he would not have encountered the provocation of Zhao Yushu and other students, and if he hadn't punched Zhao Yushu, Zhou Chun would not have lent him the notes compiled by his grandfather because he was grateful to him for venting his evil anger for him.

Otherwise, he would have planted on this problem today.

Li Yanqing did not hesitate to write down three differences on the papyrus: first, because of the avoidance of secrecy, the Song law changed the "not very respectful" in the Tang law to "great disrespect"; second, the Song punishment added the cane punishment to the supplementary punishment; and third, the Song punishment changed the slave and maid clause in the Tang law.

After finishing the scripture questions, he elaborated on these three differences in depth.

It was already noon after finishing the criminal law questions, and the sergeant brought tea, of course Li Yanqing knew what it meant to Zheng Fatzi next door to send tea, and he was already surprised, and he didn't bother to take a look.

After drinking tea and wiping off a little water stain on the table, Li Yanqing began to think about how to write the final poem.