Before dawn the next day, tension suddenly became around the Confucian Temple next door to the county school, and hundreds of soldiers stood guard on several streets around the Confucian Temple, not allowing idlers to come close to the Confucian Temple to disturb today's exam. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Today's county examination is the regulation of the imperial court to release the examination reform, which belongs to the official imperial examination, which is completely different from the previous examinations in various counties, it is nominally called the county examination, but it is actually the state examination, but the location is in Tangyin County.

The examination process alone is very strict, first of all, the lock-up system is implemented, and the examiners and markers are locked up in the Xiangzhou Gongyuan, and they are not allowed to have any contact with the outside.

Stereotypes and printing were also closely monitored by army soldiers, and craftsmen were also placed under house arrest until after the exams were held.

The test questions are sealed and carried by examiners sent by the state government to the counties of Xiangzhou, and the sealed test papers must be opened at the time of the exam.

Before dawn, more than 500 candidates from Tangyin County gathered in the square outside the Confucian Temple, and dozens of large lanterns illuminated the square as if it were day.

They lined up in three long lines, each candidate accepted the roll call, and searched the entrance after the body, the candidates were not allowed to bring any items into the venue, not even pen and ink, no matter what items were found, even if it was not cheating, but it was also recorded, leaving a bad impression, and it was definitely off the list.

There were a total of ten invigilators today, three of whom came from the state capital to serve as the chief and deputy examiners, and three tables were set up in front of the gate, and behind each table sat an official from the state capital, their eyes were stern and their faces were expressionless.

Zhang Xian whispered to Li Yanqing: "The one in the middle is our chief examiner in Tangyin County, called Han Hongjun, who is currently the head of Xiangzhou Xuezheng and the state school teacher. ”

Li Yanqing knew that this Han Hongjun, the state official who went to Li Wencun to investigate his father's conduct, was this person, and now he actually became Xiangzhou Xuezheng.

"What about the one on the left?"

Li Yanqing saw that the governor sitting behind the table on the left looked very distinctive, pointed up and down, wide in the middle, and his face was smooth, like a peeled egg, such a face shape was rare.

Zhang Xian said with a smile: "That is a doctor of state studies, and the name is a bit strange, called Wan Qiao. ”

Li Yanqing was stunned, this is the famous traitor Wan Qiaodi in history? He actually studied as a doctor in Xiangzhou Prefecture, and he should really pull Yue Fei to recognize him.

"Tangbei Township Qin Liang!" Someone shouted from the front.

Qin Liang hurriedly stepped forward, "The student is here!" ”

Li Yanqing also withdrew his gaze from Wan Qiao, the next one is himself, he looked at a group of old people on both sides, these are all guarantors, each candidate must have a sponsor, the guarantee is his own exam, Li Yanqing is of course guaranteed by Master Yao Ding.

At this time, he finally saw the master with a rickety back and a thin boy in the crowd, Li Yanqing's nose was a little sour, and the master had been caring about himself!

"Next, Li Yanqing of Xiaohe Township!"

"The students are here!"

Li Yanqing hurriedly stepped forward, the chief examiner Han Hongjun looked him up and down, and an examiner next to him shouted: "Guarantor Yao Ding!" ”

Yao Ding took a step forward, "In the next Yao Ding, Yuanyou raised people for three years to be the guarantor of the candidate Li Yanqing, I can vouch for it, this person is the candidate himself." ”

The examiner shouted again, "Turn around!" ”

Li Yanqing turned around and faced hundreds of candidates, this is in the implementation of the whistleblowing system, when entering the examination room for roll call, if someone reveals that the candidate is not himself, the whistleblower will get extra points, and the cheater and the guarantor will be severely punished.

After a while, the examiner waved his hand, signaling that he could enter the venue, Li Yanqing walked to the search area, several scholars were being searched, everyone was carrying shoes and socks in their hands, and Li Yanqing also quickly removed his shoes and socks.

At this time, the two soldiers searched him from head to toe, even his shoes and socks, and was pinched and touched by four big hairy hands, this feeling was really uncomfortable, especially when he didn't let go of the sensitive parts, Li Yanqing wanted to vomit a little.

Li Yanqing put on his shoes and socks, looked back, and saw Zhang Xianzheng with a bitter face, being stripped of his coat by three soldiers and searched carefully, Li Yanqing cast a sympathetic look at him, glad that he was not stripped off.

The Dacheng Hall is also brightly lit, and there are two examiners standing on the high platform above, monitoring the candidates' every move, even if the father and son meet, they must pretend not to know each other, as long as they say a word, they will immediately be recorded as suspected cheating.

Everyone can only silently look for their own seats, and sit down immediately after finding them, and they are even more self-defeating, this is not the county exam, and everyone is giggling and laughing in the county exam, but this is the first test of the liberation test, which is related to everyone's future and fate, and no one dares to joke about this.

Li Yanqing quickly found his seat, Jiahai 174, he was lucky, the seat was on the very edge, not easy to be affected, I saw that there was a basket on the table, which contained a pen and ink inkstone and four manuscript papers, and there was a glass of water next to the basket, which was not water for the candidates to drink, but for grinding ink.

Of course, this is also Tangyin County has no conditions, when they go to Anyang County for the state examination, everyone has to squat in the number room of the Gongyuan, but even so, the state is very strict about cheating in the examination room, there are three patrol invigilators in each examination room, and two people are hiding in the dark to monitor the candidates' every move.

'Boom! The crisp bell rang, the time to prepare for the exam came, the candidates began to study the ink, and the three state examiners gathered in the Dacheng Hall and took out the exam papers from the sealed bag under the supervision of the five county examiners.

The time of the county examination is much shorter than the official liberation test, only one test, four hours, a total of ten Dao Ming scripture questions and one policy thesis question.

An examiner sent the paper to Li Yanqing's desk, at this time he was not allowed to use the pen, only allowed to read the paper, he immediately picked up the paper and hurriedly read it from beginning to end, and breathed a sigh of relief, although the Ming Jing questions were very remote, but they were all within the scope of the examination specified in advance.

At this moment, a candidate was raised, and the examiner Han Hongjun took away his paper, pointed outside and shouted: "Get out!" ”

The candidate cried and begged, "I didn't do the question, I just wrote my name first, give me a chance!" ”

His pleas were useless, Han Hongjun invalidated the paper he gave him on the spot, and the candidate left the venue crying.

Several candidates who had already picked up the pen were so frightened that they hurriedly put down their pens, secretly glad that they had not been discovered.

Li Yanqing turned a deaf ear, he was concentrating on looking at the countermeasures, and the ten Daoming scripture questions in front of him couldn't close the distance, and the strategy test was the key to who could pass the county exam.

The so-called strategy is to ask a question and ask you to write various solutions, mainly to test the candidates' ability to solve problems.

The topic is that in the first year of Chongning, the official warehouse of Guantao County, the Daimyo Mansion, was seriously rotten in grain, and the loss was nearly 10,000 stones, so the candidates were asked to write a plan to deal with the grain rot incident in Guantao County.

This question is very down-to-earth, and it seems to be a test of how you can be a qualified warehouse keeper.

Li Yanqing's heart moved, he seemed to have seen this incident somewhere.

At this time, there was a crisp sound of cloud boards in the distance, the time was coming, the exam officially began, and the candidates began to write quickly on the answer sheet.

Li Yanqing couldn't remember where he saw the grain rot incident in Guantao County for a while, but he knew that it was definitely not a test of how to be a qualified warehouse keeper, and the topic was not so simple.

He turned back to the previous Ming scripture questions, a total of ten questions, either out of the scriptures, answer the corresponding interpretation, or out of the question interpretation, let you write the corresponding scriptures, basically rote memorization, including "The New Meaning of the Book of Poetry" and "The New Meaning of the Book of Songs" each have two questions, and "Zhou Guan Xinyi" has six questions.

Although the questions are relatively simple, the amount of questions is very large, and candidates must not be given any time to think, so they must be completed in one go, otherwise it is likely that they will not be completed.

Li Yanqing dipped his pen in ink, and a line of extremely beautiful small characters jumped out of his pen.

The first question is to test "Xiao Ya. At the turn of October", the poem has been written, allowing the candidates to write and interpret it silently.

Li Yanqing wrote: 'The first three chapters of this poem speak of disasters and disasters, and the fourth chapter speaks of disasters that fall from the sky, and the changes of heaven are born from demons......

As long as you are familiar with the new meaning of the three classics, then the topic is very simple, you can do a good word, and in the end, the standard for judging the Ming scripture question is to look at calligraphy.

Only the rustling sound was heard in the examination room, and all the candidates were working hard to write, while the two invigilators sat high in the dark and observed the candidates' every move, while the other two invigilators patrolled back and forth.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, noon had passed, Li Yanqing had already completed the Ten Dao Ming Sutra questions, and there was only an hour and a half left before the end of the exam, and he began to think about the crucial countermeasures.

He had already remembered where he had seen the Guantao County Granary Incident, which was in his father's fifth notebook, in which his father collected more than 200 local government incidents in the Song Dynasty, one of which was the Guantao County Grain Moldy Case that occurred in the first year of Chongning, which was not a matter of custody at all, but a matter of corruption.

The main bookkeeper of Guantao County colluded with the bucket in charge of the granary, bought moldy grain at a low price and put it into storage, exchanged it for good grain, and then sold it at a high price to earn the difference, and finally accepted a light penalty for poor storage.

The trap of this question seems to make you come up with all kinds of ways to prevent grain from rotting, what to ventilate, what to dry, etc., which is the common way of thinking of ordinary candidates.

Either the bucket in charge of the granary is irresponsible and does not check the grain mildew in time, so the candidates with a little brains will write the system of preventing mildew in the granary, starting from the system, which is slightly pertinent, but still did not answer the core.

But this question is actually a test for you to draw up a set of strict inspection system to prevent collusion inside and outside the granary, shoddy goods, and embezzlement of public grain.

This is the key to eliminating most of the candidates, it seems a little unfair, because not everyone knows about the granary incident in Guantao County, but as long as you think about it, a small county actually has a mold of Wanshi grain, how is this also a big case, there are nine times out of ten that there are factors of corruption and perversion of the law.

If it is just a simple question about food mildew prevention, will four out of five candidates be eliminated?

Li Yanqing pondered for a long time, and he decided to use the internal audit system of later generations to establish a strict granary inspection system.

He must start with the topic itself on the method of preventing mildew in grain, advance layer by layer, talk about the establishment of a system to prevent grain mildew, and then continue to deepen, talk about the internal audit and inspection system at a large length, prevent corruption, and be detailed and appropriate, and have a clear layout.

Li Yanqing picked up the pen and wrote, 'The warehouse is also the important weapon of the country, which is easy to attract natural disasters and man-made disasters......

Li Yanqing wrote more than 1,000 words with a smile, and finally finished with the finishing touch, 'Therefore, the system is built, the corruption of grain is the bottom, and the corruption of the people's hearts is the top. ’

He carefully checked it twice and revised two inconsistencies, and then used his best line to copy this "Guancang Anti-Corrosion Policy" on the official examination paper, ensuring that every word is good and not a word is changed.

When Li Yanqing stopped writing and stopped writing, the bell of the handing in reminder rang, and there was less than half an hour left before the end of the exam, Li Yanqing carefully checked it from the beginning again, and did not find a single error, so he wrote his hometown, name and exam number on the head of the paper, and pasted the name column with the seal prepared in advance.

Foolproof, Li Yanqing raised his hand and handed over the papers.

An examiner stepped forward to collect his papers, and another usher stepped forward to lead him out of the examination room, which was also a crucial final step.

Before leaving the gate of the examination room, no matter how excited you are in the exam, you must not say a word to anyone, once you are caught by the inspection officer, record it, and no matter how well the article is written, you must deduct one point first, which probably means that you will miss the state exam.

．．．．．．