After a day's rest, the second session of the Jiazike Township Test soon arrived as scheduled.

The second test of this township test is the same as the first, it is also a day in advance after a search and entry, and the test is conducted all day on August 12, and the third day is in the morning.

Shen Ze and Gao Yu entered the venue on August 11 one day earlier, just like in the first exam.

According to the regulations, the content of the second examination of the township examination is one test theory, five judgments, and one sentence and one table.

The second exam involves content that many candidates have never been exposed to when they took the county, government, and hospital exams before. The test theory is actually a test theory, which allows candidates to discuss current political issues and make suggestions to the imperial court. The judgment is to let the candidates make a judgment on the "doubtful matter" to check whether the student can distinguish between right and wrong. The form belongs to the category of applied essays, and it looks at the candidates' ability to write various official documents. This edict, edict, table, etc. are all more than officialdom application documents, as long as you master the format, in fact, it is not difficult to make. Therefore, this second exam is not too difficult!

However, the questions in this second exam are not difficult, but the amount of questions is very large. Each candidate has to do at least eight or nine articles, and the amount of writing is still very large.

Of course, the second game is nowhere near as demanding as the first. Even if you don't know what to do, just write the essay simply. Therefore, although this second exam has a large number of questions, it is not difficult for most candidates.

From the second session, the content of the exam is no longer required to be written in Baguwen, so it is more conducive to the free play of candidates in the writing of the essay answers.

It is precisely because there is no restriction on this style of writing, that candidates are more free to answer questions, which makes it more difficult to judge the content of the last two exams!

These topics in this second investigation are not as good as the four and five scriptures in the first one! As long as you look at the questions and lines, you can basically judge the quality of the article.

The reason why Daming Science Examiner chose Baguwen as the format of this article is actually because this Baguwen has a strict institutional format, and it is easier to judge the merits of this article!

Before the Jiajing Dynasty, there was no stipulation that the examination papers of the candidates in this township examination had to be sent to Beijing and Nanjing for "grinding and surveying" after they were reviewed.

The so-called "grinding survey", that is, the provinces will send the examination papers of the middle school to the Ministry of Rites for review and examination, which is generally completed by the Ministry of Rites in conjunction with the Hanlin Academy. Those noble officials will review each test paper to check whether the examiner has cheated in the marking process, and whether the examiner has marked the paper seriously, such as whether there are typos in the test paper, sentences that do not make sense, etc., and whether the examiner has marked it. Severe penalties will be imposed for mistakes and omissions in the marking process of the same examiner.

In the absence of direct supervision, the results of the candidates for the township examination are actually determined by the provinces themselves, and the township examination only needs to be submitted to the Beijing Normal Rites Department for reporting after the township examination. This means that the chief examiners and fellow examiners of the provincial and township examinations have the absolute right to judge the merits of these candidates' test papers, and they naturally come to their own convenience.

Although the number of words to be written in this second exam is more, Shen Ze's experience is much ahead of people in this era, and after the pre-exam training of his eldest brother Gao Yu, he can be regarded as easy to use these test-taking documents.

Therefore, although this second exam was all played by Shen Ze himself, he still completed it all before the unitary time!

After Shen Ze checked several times to confirm that it was correct, he handed in the paper when the unitary time winder just started to collect the volume.

After handing in the test papers, it was another long and boring night, Shen Ze finally waited until August 13 when the dragon gate opened, and returned to the Gao family's courtyard, Shen Ze still fell asleep first.

After waking up, I still drank tea with my eldest brother, chatted, and prepared for the next exam.

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On August 14, Shen Ze and his eldest brother entered the third test of the township examination.

The content of the third session of the township examination is five questions: scripture, history, and current affairs, and each question requires more than 300 words. The purpose of these questions is naturally to test the students' knowledge of ancient and modern political affairs.

The third test of this township examination is quite easy for all candidates, if the candidates think that the third test has a lot of content, they can reduce two questions as appropriate, that is to say, only three questions can be done on scripture, history and current affairs. Because this third exam is basically an insignificant exam, the examination of this third exam is very relaxed.

This time, Shen Ze didn't wait until the evening to hand in the papers, and he still handed in the papers at the unitary time. Of course, all the candidates in this third exam are basically all handed in by unitary time.

Since this third exam is not very important, this test question can be reduced by two as appropriate, which will naturally be handed in at the unitary time. After this exam, the candidates were also tossed and unclear, who could afford to rely on the evening and then hand in the papers. Besides, tonight is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, and it is already sad enough to be locked up in the Gongyuan and unable to get out, who can still be patient to answer the question at night. It is the most trouble-free to close the roll this time, and as soon as the unitary time comes, the volume will be completed quickly.

At night, the whole Gongyuan was in an uproar.

After all, the exam has been completed, and it was stipulated that candidates were not allowed to speak, which was to prevent cheating, but at this time, the test papers were taken away, and the time coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion night.

Seeing this, the invigilator, after confirming that all the test papers had been collected, ordered the soldiers guarding the door to open the lock of the dormitory and let the candidates get out.

However, according to the regulations, the dragon gate of this tribute courtyard can only be opened tomorrow morning, so although these candidates can get out of the number room, they can't get out of the tribute courtyard. The invigilator told the soldiers to open the door of the dormitory and let the candidates out. , I already take care of them very much, and the opening of this dragon gate is strictly regulated, and it is naturally impossible for this invigilator to open it for these candidates.

However, this is already very good, and these candidates don't have to kick their noses and ask to be released from the Tribute Academy. After all, there are strict rules for the opening of the dragon gate of this tribute academy, and these invigilators are not good at favoritism. If they have to go out of the tribute court and annoy these officials of the tribute court, I am afraid that they will not have good fruit to eat. After all, although they have finished the township examination now, but the results have not yet come out, if they really annoy these officials of the Tribute Academy, they may not be able to eat and walk around, so the candidates in the Tribute Academy are very knowledgeable and do not have to go to the Tribute Academy to reunite with their relatives.

Of course, most of these candidates do not have relatives in Jinan, which is one of the reasons why these candidates do not have to make trouble to go to the Tribute Academy. Even if they are mostly alone in Jinan, they have no relatives and are very lonely, so it is better to have a lively time with their friends in the same year in this tribute courtyard!

So these candidates for the township examination gathered in the aisle between the tents in the examination room.

On the aisles of these sheds, these talented men who had just finished the township examination and were completely relaxed gathered together in the same year as their friends in the east and west, and chatted at length.

Some candidates who had taken the township examination before were aware of these rules, so they specially prepared wine jugs and a few small wine glasses, and took them out to beckon some students who were good friends with the same examination to sit down and drink two glasses.

When the sealing and transcription work was completed, the outer curtain officials sent the test paper to the inner curtain officials, and these outer curtain officials began to evacuate one after another. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion night, and these curtain officials naturally can't wait to go home and reunite with their relatives!

Soon the outer curtain officials had been withdrawn, and then most of the officers and soldiers who were invigilating the examination were also withdrawn, leaving only a small part on duty, so the entire examination room of the Gongyuan seemed to be a big bazaar, and it became even more noisy.

Everyone was there talking, some were talking about difficult topics, some were complaining about bad luck, and some were in tears after drinking. But more people have a longing for this exam, hoping that their names will be listed in the final list of more than 40 people.

On the night of August 15, many people did not sleep at all, after all, the conditions for resting in the Gongyuan house were too poor, and it was better to get together to drink and talk than to toss and turn on the wooden planks of the house.

After the third exam, it is equivalent to the official end of the three-year cycle of the township examination, no matter whether the test is good or bad, the long-term things in the future, there is no need to think about it for the time being.

Shen Ze didn't know anyone in this tribute courtyard, so as soon as the door of this house opened, he naturally went to find his eldest brother Gao Yu to get together.

Gao Yu is the head of the Qingzhou Mansion Examination, and his popularity among the Qingzhou Mansion scholars is still very high, especially those who came to participate in the township examination for the first time and those who just won the school last year basically know Gao Yu as the head of the Qingzhou Mansion Examination. As soon as the door of this house opened, there were many scholars who came to talk to Gao Yu.

The chat of these talented princes is in the Gongyuan Academy, and their chat is naturally indispensable to talk about the exam, ask each other how the exam is, and exchange how the article is doing.

When Shen Ze came to the aisle outside his eldest brother Gao Yu's house, there were already more than a dozen Qingzhou Xiucai gathered here, and they were talking at length about the articles of this exam.

When Shen Ze came over, he heard a round, chubby scholar chattering endlessly about the four books he had done in the first scene, "To do things with the Tao, you can't stop". As he spoke, he waved his arms and foamed at the mouth, as if the examiner would be sorry for Confucius and Mencius if he didn't admit him.

Shen Ze happened to know this guy, this guy seems to be called Qian Yufeng, and his name is very auspicious, and it is similar to Qian Duoduo, that is, this name is a bit of a philistine, and it is estimated that his family is in business. Shen Ze had seen him before when he was in the Haidai Poetry Society.

Gao Yu saw Shen Ze coming over, and immediately beckoned him to go over and chat together.

Although Shen Ze didn't have much contact with these Qingzhou Mansion talents after coming to Daming, he also won the sixth place in the Qingzhou Mansion Academy Examination last year.

Those Qingzhou talents greeted Shen Ze very politely, and Shen Ze also politely made a group and returned the salute together.

The reason why Shen Ze made a group to return the salute together was because if he returned the salute one by one, he couldn't name many of these talents in Qingzhou Mansion. Although these talents from Qingzhou Mansion know Shen Ze, Shen Ze doesn't know them, because when he took the examination last year, the current Shen Ze hadn't passed it yet!

Of course, Shen Ze also knows a few of them, such as Liu Chengfu. There are also Liu Chengfu's brother Liu Yuanfu, who I met at the Haidai Poetry Conference before, and a Xiucai named Chen Jing. This is called Chen Jing, Shen Ze remembered that when he was at the Haidai Poetry Conference, he made a good poem, and he had some impressions.

After the Qingzhou candidates had enough of talking about the articles of this exam, they began to talk about the sea and the sky again.

Although these new talents in Qingzhou Mansion are all participating in the township examination for the first time, there are also a few seniors who have heard about the situation in this tribute courtyard, and they are carrying water and wine.

Although they are alone in a foreign land and cannot reunite with their relatives, this Mid-Autumn Festival is also a special taste.

However, when the bright full moon hung in the sky, sprinkling the cool and watery brilliance of the land, these sentimental talents began to miss their relatives a little.

"When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky. I don't know what year the heavenly palace is, what year is it in the past and ......" I don't know if it was the Xiucai who first recited Su Xian's poem of looking at the moon and thinking of relatives, anyway, soon a group of Qingzhou Mansion talents suddenly recited this song "Water Tune Song Head. When will the bright moon come!

“…… I want to go back by the wind, but I am afraid of Qionglou Yuyu, and the high place is unbearable. Dance to figure out how the shadow seems to be in the world.

Turn Zhu Pavilion, low Qihu, shine sleeplessly. There should be no hatred, what is the long time to say goodbye? People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and sunny, and this matter is difficult to complete. I hope that people will last a long time, and they will be together for a long time,"

Shen Ze didn't know when he was also infected, and chanted with a group of Qingzhou talents.

When this song "Water Tune Song Head, When Will the Bright Moon Be There" was recited by a group of Qingzhou talents in a deep tone, an indescribable thought suddenly surged into his heart.

Shen Ze's thoughts drifted unconsciously to the era in which he lived five hundred years later, and the sudden thoughts made him feel a little painful. I don't know if my parents have come out of the shadow of losing themselves now?! I don't know if my little sister is still working smoothly now?! In the future, my parents will have to rely on her to take care of her, I don't know if she can bear it?! I don't know what time they are now, and if they are also missing themselves in another time and space?!

After Shen Ze came to Daming, he deliberately didn't think about his relatives in later generations, because the feeling of being separated by time and space and never seeing each other was too heart-wrenching and unbearable. But today, on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, he was aroused by Su Xian's poem by Mochizuki Huairen, and this strong longing suddenly struck, which was really heart-wrenching and unbearable!

When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the sky, I don't know the heavenly palace, what year is it in the past? The buildings and characters around him should all be things that can only be glimpsed in the pile of old papers, but now they really appear in front of him, and the world he has lived in for more than 20 years is more like a dream of Nanke. The only thing that connects one's past and present seems to be the bright moon in the sky.

Zhuang Zhou dreams of butterflies, I don't know that Zhou's dream is Hu Die, and Hu Die's dream is Zhou? Which one is real and which one is illusory, Shen Ze was a little stupid for a while.

Today's people don't see the old times and moons, and the bright moon of the old days shines on today's people.

A hundred tastes, a thousand years in an instant, like a dream for a while. Shen Ze couldn't tell what kind of mood it was, but his heart was infinitely sour, and he was already in tears unconsciously. [.]