Yu Shen quietly tore the note into pieces, this is a code, Zheng Rongtai's first question is answered in thin gold font, the imperial examination requires that the question must be answered in regular script or line script, except for the two fonts here, it will be judged as an invalid volume, and the thin gold body is the first creation of the Son of Heaven, without the permission of the Son of Heaven, no one dares to use this font in public, Zheng Rongtai's thin gold font is an excellent hint. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yu Shen, as a Xiangguo, is no longer something that money can buy, especially when it comes to cheating in the imperial examination, which damages his reputation, he will not easily touch it again, and this time it is not trivial, it is the person designated by Liang Shicheng to admit him, although Yu Shen does not petition in his heart, he can only agree to it, this Zheng Rongtai is the brother-in-law of His Royal Highness the Prince, and the prince is the real behind-the-scenes instigator.

Although Yu Shen will no longer be easily suspected of cheating in the imperial examination, if other examiners have any favors, as long as they are not too excessive, he will also turn a blind eye, he knows that the imperial examination is held once every three years, not only is it in the limelight, but how many pairs of eyes in the court are staring at this opportunity.

At this time, Yu Shen saw a cart delivering ingredients slowly advancing into the Tribute Courtyard, and more than a dozen soldiers meticulously checked every detail on the cart, even the wheels.

Yu Shen laughed self-deprecatingly, what about the strict inspection that is almost perverted? Can the trading of power be stopped? Perhaps this is called only allowing the governor to set fires, and not allowing the people to light lamps.

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As the evening ticked out, 'Boom! Boom! Boom! The dusk drums of the Gongyuan sounded, and the time for rest and dinner came, and the scholars who were already dizzy with hunger packed up their rolls and vacated their tables, and they ate breakfast too early, and drank only a cup of tea at noon, and ate two pieces of dim sum, and they were already hungry and grunting, and they waited for the meal to begin.

Li Yanqing also cleaned up the table, he pulled the bell, and in a moment, a soldier walked over, Li Yanqing made a gesture to wash his hands, and the soldier nodded, "Come with me!" ”

The No. 1 of each alley is a dung toilet, the second is unmanned, the third and fourth are all famous dung horns, and the extremely strong breath corrodes their souls.

No. 5 was slightly better, but it was because the weather was not yet too hot, and the ecstatic breath was not yet able to go on an expedition, so No. 5 narrowly escaped.

Li Yanqing held his breath, went out of Gong at No. 1, and washed his hands in the pool next to him, and then returned to his room, at this time, the soldiers who delivered the meals had already begun to deliver meals to the candidates one after another.

The meals in the Gongyuan are not free, the scholars have paid 300 yuan for the meal when they signed up, seven meals in four days, plus a plate of snacks at noon, and a blanket at night, this price is not expensive, but it is by no means cheap.

The soldier handed a tray to Li Yanqing, which was not bad, a plate of steamed buns, two side dishes, and a bowl of pork ribs and winter melon soup.

At this time, there was a low muttering voice from next door, "This bit of food costs forty yuan, and at most twenty yuan in the snack shop, the black-hearted court!" Even we poor men have to earn money. ”

Li Yanqing couldn't help but laugh dumbly, this benevolent brother divided the three hundred wen yuan into seven and calculated a meal of forty wen yuan, but he forgot that there was a snack at noon, and he forgot the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, candles, flint, and so on.

After dinner, night fell, the candidates lit candles one after another, ready to continue to write hard at night, Li Yanqing wrote nearly 8,000 words in a day, basically more than half of the completion is completed, in terms of time, tomorrow daytime is completely in time.

Originally, the schedule of the imperial examination did not include night, the light was dim at night, the risk was too great, and the paper would be stained if they were not careful, but for the vast majority of scholars, night was the only opportunity they could take advantage of, otherwise they would not be able to complete the scripture questions in two days.

Li Yanqing carefully put away the test papers, and put down the plank, so that a bed was formed, he lay on the hardwood board with his clothes closed, folded the blanket into a pillow, and slowly lay down and closed his eyes.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly 'Ah! A scream woke Li Yanqing up suddenly, sat up at once, and only heard the sound coming from next door, and the soldier next door seemed to hit his head against the wall, "Bang! Boom! Straight sound, only to hear him cry out, "I deserve to die!" I'm done! The ink knocked over ......"

At this time, two soldiers with big shoulders and round waists rushed over, knocked over the soldier with a punch, each grabbed a foot and dragged him out, they were very skillful in their movements, and they cooperated tacitly, apparently they often did this, a thin soldier was dragged out of the examination room, directly gagged with rags, and the two soldiers dragged him away.

Li Yanqing couldn't help but shake his head secretly, shouting in the examination room is to disrupt the examination room, and the lightest punishment is also to suspend the examination for one time, this scholar has no chance to take the next imperial examination, this is six years in a blink of an eye, how many six years are there in life? Many scholars have lost their heads in the imperial examinations.

Li Yanqing lay down again, slowly closed his eyes, and fell asleep in a burst of cranky thoughts.

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Two days passed, and after breakfast on the third day, Li Yanqing washed his face with the water provided by the soldiers, so that his mind was clear, Li Yanqing glanced at the paper placed in the box, he had completed all the test questions of the scriptures yesterday afternoon, and carefully checked it again, and found no mistakes, so he pasted the paper, carefully rolled it up and put it into the test paper box, and each scholar had a test paper box of this kind of plug-in type, which was convenient for the storage of the test papers.

If the first two days of the imperial examination lie in proficiency and quantity, then the imperial examination in the last two days lies in the difficulty and depth, the amount is not too large, and it is required to write a treatise, five articles, each with a word count of about 1,000 words, and two poems on the last day.

Generally, candidates have prepared a lot of poems of various types, and they can always get to the edge of a little, so the time on the fourth day is basically extra, which is equivalent to two days to write six policy essays, so most soldiers can complete it, and the key depends on the quality.

The theory is to evaluate the things that have been done and express their own opinions, while the strategy is to propose solutions to various problems, so the policy theory is the key to the imperial examination, especially one of the policies, which is called the topic, and it is also the core question of the whole imperial examination, and everyone is very concerned about this topic.

The examiners of Lane 25 began to issue the papers in turn, and Li Yanqing quickly got the papers, like all scholars, he first looked at the fifth question of the strategy, that is, the title, which was exactly what Li Yanqing had guessed in advance: "Song Liaojin's Countermeasures".

At this time, there was a low exclamation in the examination room on the left, and it was obvious that this benevolent brother had also guessed the question.

Although the question can be guessed, it may not be answered well, Li Yanqing also answered this question in the solution test a few years ago, but at that time, Jin Chao was abbreviated, and now he is going to become the protagonist.

At this time, Li Yanqing flipped through other topics, and the topic of discussion was "Human life is the most important, and it is important to sages and sages", which is actually to discuss the system of mercy and punishment and careful killing in the Great Song Dynasty.

Several other countermeasures cover a wide range of topics, including the improvement of the Baojia Law, the requirement to talk about the monopoly system of wine and salt, the requirement to write the policy of clean government, and the requirement to write the law of Pingkou.

The last is poetry, poetry belongs to piggybacking, not very important, before Wang Anshi's imperial examination reform, poetry is the subject that determines the fate of candidates, but Wang Anshi thinks that the examination of poetry can not see the character and ability of the scholar, so he canceled the poems, changed the examination of the scriptures and policies, learn the sage scriptures and righteousness to cultivate virtue, do the world's articles to calm the people, this pragmatic thinking has been continued, although the poems have been added this time, but it is far from being compared with the policy theory.

The title of the poem is, 'The Moonlight Is Cold on the Battlefield After the War'.

This is from Wang Changling's poem: 'The horse crosses the white jade saddle, and the moonlight is cold on the battlefield. The sound of the iron drum was still shaking, and the blood of the golden knife in the box had not dried up. ’

Among them, the sentence "The moon is cold on the battlefield" is broken, and a poem is given, which is not limited to rhyme.

This is obviously an echo of the countermeasure question of "Song Liaojin's Countermeasures", but in fact, the intention of the countermeasure question has been obvious, and the imperial court has already intended the Northern Expedition.

Li Yanqing pondered for a long time, the pattern of the imperial examination has been decided, if he writes Lianliao to destroy Jin, I am afraid that he will be eliminated in the first round.

He sighed lowly, picked up his pen and wrote a poem first, which was modified from a poem by Lu You

Guan Shanyue

It has been a hundred years since the edict of Herong, and the general is on the border without a fight.

Zhu Men sang and danced heavily, and the stables were fattened and the bow was broken.

The tower is fighting to urge the moon to fall, and the thirty soldiers are now gray-haired.

Who knows the heart of a strong man in the flute, and the sand head is empty and the human bones are recruited.

Youyan has also heard of ancient times, how can there be descendants of rebellion.

The remnants endured death and hoped to recover, and a few tears were shed tonight!