Ji Ning is unwilling to succumb to some inherent ideas recognized by the world in some academic thoughts, so he is more willing to innovate in some academic aspects and express his thoughts.

He didn't want to challenge the sages or be a maverick to gain the approval of others, he was just respecting the ideas of his predecessors, expressing his own opinions, and allowing his thoughts to be expressed.

In Ji Ning's thoughts, you can disagree with my point of view, but you have to respect my right to speak, so he will not make excessive criticism of anyone's remarks, and now he is also ready to be "crazy" in the examination to express his understanding of the sage book.

Ji Ning thinks that this is very appropriate, in addition to being able to express his thoughts, there is also a key point, this is an era of a hundred schools of thought, and the chief examiner Zhang Yujue is also a person who has collected a certain amount of Legalist thoughts, and he doesn't think there is anything too wrong with doing so.

"It's a big deal that my name fell to Sun Shan in this year's examination, and after three years, I will compete with the world's scholars on the stage of the examination!"

Thinking of this, Ji Ning's answer was very simple.

There are many things to say in his heart, and he feels that there are many thoughts to express on the topic of "human nature is good", and it doesn't matter what the final result is.

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The hardest part is to relax your mind.

When Ji Ning finished all the five questions in the first session, his mood was extremely relaxed, because in his opinion, the remaining exams were no longer too stressful.

It's just not about what kind of results you want to take the exam, then you can relax your mind and answer the last two games.

On the ninth day of the first month of February, Ji Ning finished all the questions of the first exam, but he was not in a hurry to write the essay on the final test paper.

Perhaps it is because candidates in this era are more hypocritical, and writing an essay requires careful consideration, and often a good essay takes three or five days, which makes the exam time for the exam set as one every three days.

Ji Ning thought to himself: "This amount of exams is not even as good as a college entrance examination in later generations, the college entrance examination is completed in two days, but the exam takes nine days, isn't this a toss-up?" In this ghost house, I also froze to death, and I have to face the problem of eating, drinking, and Lazar, and it is unpleasant to be locked up in a small black room! ”

On the tenth day of February, Ji Ning was listless, and he couldn't sleep at night anyway, so he thought about things, and it was not until February 11 that he transcribed his essay on the test paper.

It wasn't until near dusk on February 11 that the first exam was officially completed.

He handed out the test paper he had completed from the small square hole, and as for the scratch paper, he would keep it until after all three exams were completed, and the scratch paper would be collected uniformly.

There are only a dozen pieces of paper in total, and there will be no special marks on these things, and Ji Ning didn't take it seriously.

On the night of February 11, there was nothing to do, so he continued to stay, and it didn't matter what he took the test the next day, and he was more eager to leave the house, because for a traveler, the most terrible thing was not to adapt to the environment, but to be lonely.

When he feels like he's far away from the crowd, there's a huge sense of loneliness that leaves him at a loss.

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February 12 is the time for the second session of the examination.

In the second exam, the application questions of officialdom and the Temple of Literature were examined, that is, one question each of the Epigraphs, plus a five-character and eight-rhyme poem.

After the exam paper came in from the small square hole, Ji Ning's mentality was very relaxed, because the second game was bland in his opinion, as long as it was a normal candidate, he would pass the second exam smoothly.

As for the one that can compare the literary style, it is almost a "table", a good table article, which can be said to be a collection of many allusions from the past and present.

But no matter how well you do, there are only two results for the second exam, either you pass or you don't.

In the examination, there are so many candidates, such a low acceptance rate, and any question is crossed, which basically means that the name is lost to Sun Shan, so in Ji Ning's view, these five questions cannot be missed.

The questions are bland, and Ji Ning can't tell who came out of these questions, because the questions in the second exam are likely to be given by the same examiner, after all, this kind of question is relatively one-sided in terms of the examination room, and the questions are formatted unchanged, making it easy to distinguish the quality of the article.

Either the format is correct, and the central idea is expressed and written correctly, or the format is wrong, and the central idea is deviated and made a mistake.

In Ji Ning's judgment of the table, the time for each application was less than half an hour, and it was completed in the morning, and by the afternoon of the first day of the second session, there was only one five-character and eight-rhyme poem that was not completed.

But where poetry is involved in the imperial examination, the title comes from the "sentence", the so-called sentence, is to give you a sentence, let you write poems according to this sentence, this sentence may be quoted from a classic, or someone said a sentence, not "Spring Scene" or "Yongmei" such a simple topic.

The imperial examination poems originated from the "should be made poems", and then were widely used in the "trial poems", and the examination mode of the trial poems was also a widely used examination mode in the historical space that Ji Ning was familiar with, before the Song Dynasty and after the Qing Dynasty.

All the poems that should be made must be accompanied by the word "Fude" on the title, Bai Juyi's masterpiece "Farewell to the Ancient Grass", according to legend, is from Bai Juyi's poems made when he participated in the imperial examination at the age of sixteen.

The title of the five-character and eight-rhyme poem in this test is "Fengzhu Mingtang Fire Bead".

This topic does not seem simple, and it is even more complicated to complete a poem.

Literally, it means that in the Ming Hall, that is, the Imperial Palace Hall, the examination, I saw the "fire bead", that is, a kind of decoration in the palace, which is a kind of longing for the future palace examination, and the selected candidates will go to the palace to participate in the palace examination, and can appreciate the exquisite beauty of the imperial palace hall, look forward to the joy of their gold list title, and a kind of ambition and outlook for the national community......

Ji Ning shook his head helplessly, in his opinion, this topic is not too brilliant.

To put it bluntly, the questions of the poems are not grounded, which is why everyone is still taking the exam in a closed small dark room, but asking candidates to look forward to the future, how cruel it is.

When Ji Ning picked up the pen, he first had to write it down on scratch paper, not a sentence, but a title, which was "Fu De Feng Ming Tang Fire Bead", which is a fixed topic and cannot be deviated.

Then came his poem:

"Open the heavy house in the right position, and volley out of the fire. The night is full of two moons, and the star is lonely after dawn.

The sky is pure and the light is hard to extinguish, and the clouds are hopeless. Knowing the Taiping Dynasty, the national treasure is in the famous capital. ”