At the right time, the palace examination officially began.

Under the accompaniment of the ritual music of the Temple of Literature, the emperor himself stood up and announced: "I announce, the palace examination has begun!" ”

From each side of the apse, two groups of court guards will come out, these guards will be divided into four rows, all the way to each seat to stand in front of one person, these guards will be the invigilators sent by the imperial court, responsible for observing and supervising the candidates without distraction, as for the officials of the Temple of Literature and the imperial court, they will be the patrol officials.

In other words, there are two invigilators for a candidate just staring at him, a palace guard, a small eunuch, and then there are people who patrol the Temple of Literature and the imperial court, which shows the rigor of this palace test.

At this time, all candidates can open the exam paper in front of them, the two sides of the exam paper are made of hard paper, inside is soft paper, and the ordinary play is very similar, after opening the book fold, it is printed with printed text, are dense small characters, about three or four hundred words alone in the question, and finally there is a blank place, candidates will complete their articles in the blank place.

Candidates need to find the questions in the article from a sentimental essay written in the emperor's voice, and then find the answer method from these questions, and then write their own essay, and the questions of the palace examination can be completed.

The questions of the palace examination are about three or four hundred words, and the articles answered, there should be thousands of words, in this era, there is no punctuation, in fact, to find the problem from the words that are connected together, and then write an article without punctuation, it is still a certain challenge for Ji Ning.

Fortunately, he has experienced this training himself, so it is not so difficult to write such an article.

Ji Ning first opened the format of the examination paper, and then looked at the content of the article: "The system said: I am only the son of heaven, the son of the father and the mother of the earth, and all the people of the world are all compatriots who are unified, so it is said that the monarch is my parents and sons, and the sons of the sects inherit their parents, and the monarch has a great responsibility in the world, and he must raise him in a good way, and he must teach his children in a good way, and the people of the world will not be able to do their best...... The sons of all life have been through history, and there will be burning opinions to be asked, and its detailed work is in the article, and I will see it for myself! ”

Different from the four books and five scriptures in the previous imperial examination, the articles tested in the palace examination should be written by the emperor himself, strictly speaking, and the emperor does not need to follow the content of the four books and five classics, but relies on the emperor according to his own understanding, write the article, ask the question, to make the answer, in the answer, do not need to follow some special style of writing, you can write how you want, but you can't answer with plain words, and the article you write must also follow the basic principles of ancient articles.

When Ji Ning saw this topic at first glance, he probably understood that this was a question about "filial piety".

The emperor used himself as an example to show the role of filial piety and etiquette in human relations, and from this he asked all the tributes questions about filial piety.

At the end of the purpose of the policy, the emperor said very clearly, saying that all the candidates present were full of poetry and books, and should have their own insights into the emperor's questions, so that the candidates could write an article according to the content of the policy-asking article, and the emperor would read it and find out a good article from it.

Ji Ning's degree of reading the article and examining the topic is very fast, and he can basically scan it quickly, and then know what the article is talking about and where to start.

The candidates present may not have the ability to review questions like him.

After the candidates gradually finished reading the article, all the candidates were also making difficulties, not because of how difficult the topic was, but because the topic seemed a little too simple to many people, so simple that they didn't know what direction to start answering and discussing.

Filial piety is the first, in an era of advocating feudal etiquette, filial piety is respected by the royal family and the Temple of Literature, and many of the characters who have always been admired are famous for their filial piety.

If the candidates present have no expectations for their swing in the palace examination, but just want to complete the article smoothly and obtain the title of a third-class jinshi, you can discuss it from the perspective of Emperor Shun, which is the most secure and the most pertinent, not to go off topic, if the article is well written, maybe you can directly come back from a second-class jinshi, as for the first-class jinshi, you basically don't have to think about it, because you talk about Emperor Shun, even if you say it well, it is a cliché, It's hard to write an essay that the examiner feels like it's top-notch.

Among the ancient sages, there are still many people who are famous for filial piety, among the many disciples of Confucius Sage, there are people who are famous for filial piety, including Min Ziqian, who has been mentioned in the twenty-four filial pieties, and even Confucius praised the people of filial piety, which should also be a model of the country.

Because there are so many people who are known for their filial piety, and in the questions asked, the candidates are asked to use the examples of ancient sages to discuss, so that the candidates present do not know where to start.

Ji Ning himself was thinking about this problem, and he was not in a hurry to start writing.

According to the experience of the previous palace examination, the examination starts at about nine o'clock in the morning, and during the four hours from noon to noon, candidates are basically thinking about how to write the article, how to start, or write their own manuscript on scratch paper, but do not write the article directly, and wait until after noon, until the four hours before dark, is the time to really write the article, transcribe the article to the test paper.

For Ji Ning, he didn't want to delay for too long, mainly because he didn't want to stay in a place like the palace for too long.

In Ji Ning's view, the quality of the article is not determined by the amount of time, it does not mean that an article has been written for a long time, it must be written well, as long as the article is good, even if there is no manuscript, write it directly, it will become a high-quality article, and it can even be the champion.

In less than a quarter of an hour after the opening, the emperor got up and left, and the palace examination examiners present got up to send them off, and the candidates present didn't care about what happened in front of them, because the emperor left silently, except for Ji Ning, other candidates didn't know that the emperor had left.

Ji Ning looked up and looked down, but the little eunuch was still looking at him curiously, which made him very embarrassed.

He thought to himself: "This little eunuch is too, why do you always feel that he has an aura on him?" Could it be that he is really a daughter? ”