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The Great Zhou Dynasty's examination was first set in February, and later changed several times and was set in mid-March.

Different from the prefectural and state exams, there are more questions in the general exam, and there are three tests in total, each of which lasts three days. The whole test lasted for nine days. The same thing as the examination is that these three are also tested on scripture, poetry, and strategy. The examination time is set for the 15th, 18th and 21st respectively.

Each exam takes three days, and once you enter the exam room, you must wait at least two days before you can hand in your papers and leave.

There is no doubt that although the examination is not in the "two lists", it is the most difficult and competitive level in the entire imperial examination.

The first test will be held on March 15, before the end of the day, at this time, the sky is not yet bright at all, but fortunately, in March, in the spring of March, generally speaking, it is the best time of the year, neither the rainy season, nor too cold.

The square in front of the Gongyuan is densely packed with people from all over the world, a total of 6,000, such as Ningjiang, under the age of 20, very few, the same, like the white-haired people who can be seen during the government examination and the state examination, there are almost none, and occasionally a few, often all of them are scholarly families with excellent family backgrounds.

Just because, students from poor families, even if they are confident in themselves and survive until they are forty or fifty years old, they usually can't survive anymore, and they often can only hand a sign to the ministry, saying that they have given up the imperial examination, and finally handed over to the poor countryside to become a magistrate, county official, and school official.

And the wealthy people, although they have not been in the middle school for many years, but they are not willing to go to other state capitals to be a small, eight-grade and nine-grade magistrate, after a certain age, they feel that they have no hope, so they simply honestly and honestly become a local squire in their own township, and generally transfer from other provinces to the county, county, etc., do not dare to offend easily.

In addition to the real scholarly family and scholarly family, they will refuse to give up even when they are fifty or sixty years old.

In the crowd, Ning Jiang raised his head and looked at the stars in the sky that were gradually becoming dim. At this moment, the stars began to retreat, but the dawn had not yet appeared, and it was the darkest time before dawn. Around the square, on the iron pots raised high, the flames rose, pouring out the criss-crossing shadows of the people around him.

In the past few days, Xiao Meng, as the female guard of the eldest princess of Luanmei's mansion, temporarily moved into the eldest princess's mansion, so that her brother could avoid worries at this important juncture, and Qin Wuyan also followed. Behind Ning Jiang, there was only Qin Xiaoya'er, who tied her chest and wore green clothes, looking like an ordinary little girl of eight or nine years old.

Outside the square, there were columns of soldiers, and for each test, troops were directly sent to maintain order. And on the many watchtowers around the Gongyuan, there are white path masters sent by the Yamen of the Three Law Divisions, which is not only to prevent people from cheating in exams, but also to prevent people from coming to cause trouble...... Of course, those who dare to come to the Gongyuan during the examination period are really impatient, and as for cheating, once they are caught, they will go directly to prison.

The walls of the Gongyuan are towering, the environment is gloomy, and when it was built, it has deliberately given people a sense of majesty. The official authority in the hospital was divergent, so that thousands of students were speechless. The time has come, and suddenly, the door opens, and there is a sense of divine power. The flames around them were fluttering and fluttering, and the audience was silent, and no one dared to speak.

This time, there were no boys and girls, only officials, one by one in the courtyard, and the students who were called entered respectfully, presented the above documents, and several people rushed forward to verify their identities and check that there was no entrainment. Enter the main hall of the public hall, worship in front of the icon of Confucius, receive the number in front of the examiner, and then be escorted by two soldiers, like prisoners, through the archway of "Gu Tian Kaiyun", enter the second gate, there is a tablet on both sides, one side is engraved with "Ming Jing to take scholars", one side is engraved with "recruit talents for the country".

Entering the dragon gate, two other soldiers accepted, also like prisoners, secretly taking the number received by the examinees, and escorted them into their respective examination booths.

There are more than 9,000 examination sheds in the Gongyuan Academy, and there are thorns between the examination sheds and the examination sheds. These more than 9,000 examination booths are arranged according to the "Thousand Character Text", and there is a watchtower in the center, and the surveillance officers sent by the Criminal Department are looking down. There are also many watchtowers scattered around, and each tower is guarded by the Baidao masters sent by the Yamen of the Three Law Divisions, who not only monitor the movements of the candidates, but also monitor each other, and do not allow any fraud.

More than 6,000 students, after all entered, the sky was already bright. Among them, Ningjiang was arranged to the seventh room of the word "widow".

Sitting cross-legged in the examination shed, the sun is sprinkled on the ground outside, the thorns on both sides are like needle, the entire examination booth has of course been locked, and a wooden barrel is placed outside the wooden fence. Ning Jiang came to the wooden fence and looked at the heights, only a line of clear sky could be seen. The sky was clear, and the white clouds were long. A gong sounded in the distance, and several teams of soldiers shuttled between the examination booths and the examination sheds, escorting the clerks sent by the Ministry of Rites to distribute the test papers.

With a snap, a paper tube was also thrown into the barrel outside the wooden fence of the seventh room of the word "widow". Ning Jiang stretched out his hand and walked through the railing, took the paper tube in, then turned around, and returned to the square low table step by step, sat upright, and poured out the two test papers inside.

On the first test paper, there are ten small questions, of which the first question is written in the "Spring and Autumn Period", "In the first year of the spring king's first month, the prince ascended the throne".

Ning Jiang shook his head...... Well, this is another "small talk"!

"In the first spring of the first year, the king ascended the throne...... This short sentence, in fact, is nothing more than the first year of Lu Yin in the Spring and Autumn Period, when Duke Yin ascended the throne, a simple "time" and "event". It's probably similar to what so-and-so did on a certain day, year, month, and day in a history book.

However, before Confucius, in the original words recorded by the historians of the Lu State, it was written that "in the first month of the first year, the prince ascended the throne", and later Confucius sharpened the Spring and Autumn Period and added the word "king", so why did Confucius add the word "king"? To explain this problem, it is necessary to mention the "Legend of the Ram", and then deduce all kinds of "great righteousness" that Confucius himself may not have thought of.

Of the ten topics, at least six are such "subtle words", and the remaining four are deliberately used to make things difficult and strange questions in the Four Books and Five Classics. Fortunately, anyone who is interested in the imperial examination has long been prepared for this kind of topic, and there is nothing to say.

The second volume, with only one title, is a historical treatise, which says "Jin Xiangong killed the son Shen Sheng", Jin Xiangong listened to the slander of the concubine Li Ji and wanted to kill his son Shen Sheng, and the son Chong'er said to Shen Sheng Why don't you explain? Shen Sheng said that his father doted on Li Ji, and he would not be at ease without Li Ji's company, and if I exposed Li Ji's conspiracy, I would hurt my father's heart, and I committed suicide because of unfilial piety......

If you write it according to the truth, Ningjiang will approve two big characters, one is "S", the other is "B", but this is the way of loyalty and filial piety that Confucianism has always advocated, the so-called "the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die, the father wants the son to die, the son has to die", unless he really doesn't want to try, otherwise he can only write on the words "loyalty" and "filial piety".

Fortunately, because this topic is so orthodox, it is impossible for anyone to digress from the topic...... Of course, no one dares to digress. Since everyone can only write on the words "loyalty" and "filial piety", the real competition is actually the beauty of the rhetoric and the ability to quote scriptures, and Ning Jiang is not too worried about this......

***

With a "pop", a pebble flew out of the lake, causing six splashes in a row. Six circles of ripples rippled out on the mirror-like water, intertwining with each other.

By the lake, a girl wearing a honey-colored **** skirt and a sword at her waist jumped excitedly. On the other side, the eldest princess of Luanmei looked at the innocent girl with a smile, and asked people to bring the piano again, and played the piano by the lake, and the sound of the piano spread melodiously.

In the evening, the two leaned against the pavilion and chatted. The girl told a lot of interesting stories with her brother when she was a child, and they were originally stories from small counties, but the eldest princess, who had not left the capital much in the past, also listened to them with relish.

Early the next morning, when the eldest princess got up in her clothes, she came to the garden, the girl had been practicing the sword in the garden, the flowers and butterflies in the garden, as if she was attracted by her, as she danced, beautiful, the eldest princess looked at it with a smile, and felt that the sword dance had reached such a point, it could be described as superb.

In the afternoon, the two sat together in the pavilion, basking in the spring and March sun. The girl thought, I don't know how my brother is now? The eldest princess also thought about the young man, and thought about it, if he really passed the two levels of the meeting test and the palace test in a row, would the queen mother really marry herself to him? Then I blushed a little inexplicably......

***

In the first test, Ning Jiang stayed in the Gongyuan for two days, and on the third day, he came out early in the morning.

After coming out, Qin Xiaoya greeted her and accompanied the master out of the inner city and returned to the mansion by the Dye Water River. At this time, there were only the two of them in the house, which seemed a little deserted. In the past two days in Gongyuan, the food is basically dry food, although Ning Jiang is not particular, but he still took the little girl to the nearby restaurant to open a meat restaurant.

In the evening, they ordered takeout. The reason why it is called takeout is mainly because Qin Wuyan, who takes care of their daily life these days, is not there, and the little girl can't get these.

Since tomorrow is the second test of the meeting, and it will also arrive at the Gongyuan before dawn, Ning Jiang went to bed very early, and then, that night, I had a dream, I dreamed of Qimeng, and I also dreamed of my sister.

In the middle of the night, before the little girl came to call him, he woke up by himself.

After cooking some noodles at home, after eating, we headed to the inner city. When he arrived at the Gongyuan, he saw that Sun Shan arrived earlier than him, so he said hello and asked him how he did in the previous exam?

Sun Shan said in a low voice: "Thank you...... Brother Ning takes care of ...... How I feel ...... OK! ”

Ning Jiang nodded, looked to the other side, and saw Lu Zhiyuan standing there in silence, and at the same time saw Lu Zhiyuan's sister Lu Xifu. For Lucifer, whether she can correct herself in the Zheng family in the future depends largely on her brother's fame, and she is naturally quite nervous.

The gate of the Gongyuan was also opened at the time of Mao, and this time, Ningjiang was assigned to the No. 2 examination shed of the word "knot".

I got the test paper and opened it, this one, the test is poetry, but, unlike in the past, most of the time, the test is a poem, a fu, and this time, only one is made, and the selected poem is actually "Chu Ci", it seems that it is intended to completely open up the gap between the candidates through poetry.

Chu Ci style, also called "Sao style", because the first to create this kind of poetry style was the poet Qu Yuan of Chu State, and the later Chu Ci were all made by imitating the genre of Qu Yuan's "Lisao".

Of course, for Ning Jiang, as a traverser, he has many masterpieces from another world that can be used for centuries, although they can only be used, limited to genre, rhyme and cannot be directly plagiarized, but after all, it is already a big advantage.

He spent a whole day reviewing the topic, and finally, he chose a poem from the works of a poet named Cao Zhi from another world to use. Because there is no Cao Zhi in this world, naturally there is no need to worry about being discovered, imitated, and borrowed.

There is only one stone in the world, and Cao Zijian has eight buckets. As long as you have really worked the rhythm and rhyme, the poetry is probably the least worrying place for the traverser. Ning Jiang even remembered that in another world, he once saw someone comment on the protagonists in the online article who only knew how to copy poems after crossing over, saying that they were ...... Not technical at all!

***

"Don't let the years, tired of waiting, my world will be far away with you; The light in front of the window is quietly extinguished at this moment, and my heart gently polishes your watery face. Your smile is still as sweet as it was back then, and your message is my cherished attachment ......"

In the eldest princess's house, a young girl sang softly, and after she finished singing, the eldest princess with a flying phoenix bun and a colorful xia dress asked suspiciously: "This song ...... It's so weird, whether it's the lyrics or the tune, it's unheard of. ”

The girl said, "This is what my brother sang, and he said he sang blindly." ”

The eldest princess said: "Since your brother can write amazing works such as 'The Sky Meets the Clouds and the Dawn and the Mist' according to the December drum lyrics, then he is by no means a person who knows music, how can he sing blindly?" This one...... This song must have a great meaning, wait for my life to study and study! ”

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