This year was not supposed to be the year of the Spring Festival, but in order to stabilize the situation, Zhu Youzhen ordered the reopening of Enke, in order to attract the attention of scholars to the imperial examination, so as not to cause any chaos. However, in Yang Fan's view, it doesn't have much effect, the eyes of readers are firmly attracted to reading, if he doesn't read, what is the use?

In the past three or two days, there have been more people visiting the Hou Mansion. Probably some scholars, especially in Yangzhou, they heard that Yang Hou's ancestral hometown of Yangzhou, but also to find a reason to visit, as for the purpose, Sima Zhao's heart is known to passers-by, probe a mouth, mix a familiar face, ask for a face. However, Yang Fan closed the door and disappeared until the third day, when the test was about to start, and these people who had a trace of luck were gone.

Yang Fan is the president of this examination, Zhu Youzhen let him 'mess around', the original nine-day examination was to be held before and after, but Yang Fan was directly compressed to three days, in terms of test questions, as the vice president, Chen Baode, the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, has been repeatedly asking Yang Fan, whether it is feasible or not. The original nine-day exam period has been shortened to three days, will there be anything wrong?

Of course, the Ministry of Rites is not without preparations, and this has also backed up an extra set of papers in case of emergency. However, Yang Fan repeatedly emphasized that there would be no chaos and no chaos, which made these people's uneasy mood settle down a little. After all, the president is Yang Fan, and he is just a starter.

Daming will try eight strands of text, only a few hundred words, less than three hundred, no more than five hundred, this is clearly stipulated, so three days to hold out a few hundred words, to be honest. It's a bit of a waste of time. And most of the people who are time-consuming and laborious, sometimes unable to complete even three days. is thinking about how to choose words and make sentences, and work words, sentence patterns, and lines. That's putting the cart before the horse.

Thousands of candidates entered one after another, and the small compartment of this examination was like a small cabinet, five feet long, four feet wide, and eight feet high. Before entering, a person was responsible for a body search, and each person was given three candles. After entering, the door was immediately blocked, and the candidates answered the questions inside, and rested inside at night. If it was in the past, this eating, drinking, and lazing was in such a small single room, and some people still didn't take a bath for a few days or even dozens of days, and they came all the way over, so the entire test room was smelly. Now it has been shortened to three days, which is at least a little better than the last ten days of being bored in this single room.

The first test question was sent in. When everyone saw it, they secretly breathed a sigh of relief, this topic is not tricky, on the contrary, it is very simple. It's as simple as solving the problem. Yang Fan also has no intention of making things difficult for candidates, some perverted questioners always like to find some partial sentences in the Four Books and Five Classics as questions. Later, the Four Books and Five Classics were turned over, and there were no more exam questions. There are some annotations on the above sentences, most of which are important works of science since the Song and Ming dynasties.

Chen Baode, who was sitting in the main examination hall, saw the test questions. also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Master Hou, your question is too simple. This 'for the sake of government and virtue, such as the North Star, where the stars arch over it', comes from the Analects, and it is simply ...... It's ......" He approached Yang Fan and said in a low voice: "It's just to give them a chance to pat the saint's ass." ”

Yang Fan smiled and didn't say anything. What Chen Baode got was just a test question, and this requirement was not printed on his paper. Those candidates who got the questions looked a little abnormal.

Jingshi Shizi is a teacher, Li Yuhuan got the question, smiled knowingly, and said with a smile in his heart, Mr. is really Mr., and he always does not play cards according to the routine. The requirement this time is that the style is not limited, and the artist who uses eight strands will not be recorded.

The eight-strand essay refers to the eight parts of the article, and the style has a fixed format: it is composed of eight parts: breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting the lecture, entering the topic, starting the stock, middle stock, back stock, and bundle stock, and the title is all from the original text in the Four Books and Five Classics. Each of the last four parts has two strands of dual text, a total of eight strands, speaking in the tone of Confucius and Mencius, and the four pairs of sons are fighting on an equal footing, and the sage cannot be blasphemed with allusions to the wind and snow, and each article includes four parts from the beginning to the bundle.

In fact, in the beginning, the eight-strand essay was just a recommended format for writing argumentative essays, and there was no good or bad in itself. Later, however, because the imperial examination stipulated that this format must be adopted, it was opposed by many intellectuals. Baguwen became the scapegoat for the shortcomings of the ancient imperial examination system. Yang Fan proposed that the eight-strand artists should not be recorded, just to prove that the imperial examination without writing the eight-strand essay can still select talents. So why do you have to do it?

The first day of the exam is to test the essay, 500 words, and use a day to do some, not too much. If it were to be written to you in an hour according to the Great Celestial Empire in our hundreds of years, of course, this is not comparable.

There is no restriction on the style and style, this seems to be a relaxed requirement, but it makes the candidates in the examination room gasp, some people are very familiar with the melons, and they almost use the pre-made routines. Some people who were originally grateful for Yang Fan's topic had already scolded him tens of thousands of times in their hearts.

How to put this down, people who were originally confident are a little unsure, how to write this article. However, there are also some people, after thinking for a few hours, they begin to put down the pen, since the style is not limited, prose, prose or essays, then what is there to restrict, just write your own meaning.

"Master Hou, it's time for the inspection." Chen Baode arched.

Yang Fan nodded and walked down the main hall. The entire examination room is relatively large, and Yang Fan only walked through it hastily. Seeing the candidates scratching their ears and cheeks and squeezing into their brains to think about how to write, some of them are forty or fifty years old, and they are really university monks. When he came back from an inspection, Yang Fan saw that the candidates who were already a little eyebrow began to put down their pens.

When he walked through the examination room area of the Beijing master, he still saw Li Yuhuan, who was already writing. He glanced at it, then turned and left.

When someone goes to the toilet, they will be accompanied by an officer who patrols the examination to avoid cheating. General cheating, that is, entrainment of cheat sheets, but the ancients had too many exam materials, and sometimes they copied on clothes, which were not enough. In addition to saying a few words to Chen Baode, Yang Fan is to drink tea, go to the toilet, drink tea, and go to the toilet.

"Master Hou, you haven't said why this question is so simple." After a few idle words, Chen Baode took a detour to the original place.

"Does Chen Shilang think it's simple? I don't think it's easy. Nowadays, there are so many rebel armies, not because the upper ones are not virtuous, but because some people below are powerful and powerful in the local area. (To be continued......)