Ning Jiang entered the examination room, and the guard locked the door outside, and with a bang, the iron lock was put down, driving the chain to rattle, and then, the guard dragged the big stick.

During the imperial examination, eating, drinking, and Lazar were all here, and to some extent, there was not much difference from imprisonment.

There are two tables in the examination room, but there is no bed, so when it is time to sleep, I put the table together and sleep on it. There are some necessities of life next to it, and they are all so simple that they can't be more simple. Of course, Ning Jiang has no complaints about this, in the life before being reborn, what hardships have he not suffered? Even in places like Xiling, he came over stiffly.

What's more, the imperial examination is the "dragon gate" in which the carp jumps the dragon gate, and no matter how hard and tiring it is, there are many people who rush to it.

He sat upright at one of the tables, took out the three rolls from the cloth bag by the table, and looked at them one by one.

The first volume is a poem with "ascending to express nostalgia", and then extending this poem to make a poem. The topic is relatively vague, but the rhyme is very narrow, which can almost be said to be "making a fuss in the eye of the embroidery needle", which is a test of pure poetry skills.

The second volume is an explanation of the Book of Changes, "the sun and the moon can shine for a long time, and the four seasons change and can be completed for a long time", this is the part that belongs to the "scriptures", the answer is actually dead, and the test is the reading range of the four books and five classics of the students, but because the I Ching is basically a course that must be read by readers, people who will make mistakes are really not necessary. However, after explaining the meaning of the scriptures, immediately after that, the candidates are asked to analyze with examples, and the examples must be from the "Zuo Chuan".

It can be said that the first half of the question is completely about giving points, and the second half of the question is really used to open up the gap.

Spread out the last volume, but it is a policy question, the title is in the tone of the emperor, mentioning the case of a scholar who avenged his father, killed the enemy with his own hands, and then tied himself in front of the official mansion, and the villagers jointly interceded for him.

It seems to be a relatively simple topic, but when it comes to the conflict between the law and the filial piety advocated by Confucianism, there is actually a small trap hidden in the shadows.

According to the law, murder pays for life, even if it is blood revenge, if it is not the death penalty, it is a violation of the law and condemns him to death, which is not in line with Confucianism's promotion of filial piety, not to mention that the question mentions the issue of "joint names of fathers and elders", and "public opinion" has always been the top priority.

If you have to worry about the question of which is more important than the law and human feelings, let alone three days, three hundred years will be entangled, Ning Jiang believes that at least more than half of the candidates will be planted on this issue.

But he only groaned slightly, then picked up the manuscript paper at hand, sharpened the ink and held the pen, and wrote with a smile.

The title of this third volume seems complicated, but few people know that it actually has a real case, which was almost 700 years ago, and it is almost the same case, which has caused several great people to debate. And the final verdict is that the dignity of the law must be maintained, the murderer must be sentenced to death, but filial piety must also be maintained, therefore, after the death penalty, the emperor will "extrajudicial grace" and pardon him, so that the law has been maintained, filial piety can be promoted, the people can be satisfied, and "rain, dew and thunder are all king's grace", and the imperial power has also been strengthened.

This topic is easy to say because as long as you know this case and cite it, it is basically equivalent to giving away points, and it is difficult to say because this case is not recorded in the Four Books and Five Classics, and ordinary readers cannot read it at all, and if you do not read through the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty and have a grasp of many cases in the past, it is basically impossible to know this case.

And if this case is not cited, even if the same and perfect solution to the problem is come up, it will lose points after all, just because, in the judgment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, "there are precedents to follow" is a very important thing.

As for Ning Jiang, he relied on his strong memory from the "Golden Spirit" to read all the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty and all kinds of unpopular books, and he was truly prepared. He even remembered the exact date of the case and the regulations cited, and that alone was enough to make his essay stand out among all the candidates.

After making this policy first, he did not continue to work on other topics, but just like this, he sat up in this narrow space and continued to cultivate his soul.

In the scientific examination, once you are locked in the examination shed, basically no one asks, no one cares, there is a stove in the room, there is a fire fold, there is food that can be easily cooked, the problem of eating is solved by yourself, the problem of bathing is forgotten, the time is up, you can pull the small rope by the door, the bell at the other end will ring, naturally someone will come to open the door and let you out, the time has not come, and no one will pay attention to you after pulling the bell.

In the same way, the guards in the examination room cannot leave the venue once the examination starts, and must stay for three days and three nights, except for sending the candidates in at the beginning of the examination and finally letting the candidates out, they cannot have casual contact with the candidates for any reason. Although this method of treating candidates as criminals is indeed unkind, to a certain extent, it is indeed frightened by the endless cheating methods that have emerged in the past.

Ning Jiang was like this, in this room that was almost eight zhang long and eight zhang wide, he had been sitting, and outside the examination room, the sky was already bright, and then it was slowly darkening.

In the middle of the night, he slowly flew up to the ceiling, through the wall, and floated on the eaves.

At this moment, the entire examination room was quiet, and outside the courtyard, soldiers were also patrolling, and there were several warriors who served in the imperial court, monitoring the surroundings in case someone from the rivers and lakes came to the examination room to make trouble, or helped a candidate cheat.

Although Ning Jiang's soul is already at the level of "Golden Spirit", it is much stronger than ordinary people, which makes him not fly away even if his soul leaves his body, but in the entire system of practicing soul, Jin Soul is only the lowest level, and it cannot be too far away from the body, and it will cause some damage when it encounters too strong wind and sun.

Of course, although it is only the "lowest level", because it is already able to clearly perceive and control one's own soul, for ordinary people, it is already a big step, and it is a matter of "can" and "can't".

Floating on the eaves, he looked at the night sky, the night sky at this moment, the moon stars are scarce, and the star of Emperor Wen is still shining in the night sky, even the bright moonlight can't block its light. All the stars are slowly rotating around it, and the entire starry sky seems to be a funnel that slowly rotates according to the four seasons, and the once purple micro star ...... Today's Wendi Star is in the center of the starry trajectory.

Heaven and earth are set in place and easy to do? Among them, the Tao is in heaven and earth, and the law is nothing else, two rituals and four images, yin and yang are rooted in each other......