After a while, some soldiers locked the door of the examination house with a basket, and after the soldiers locked all the examination houses, the drums on the observation deck sounded, and the test was officially begun.

Then countless soldiers began to distribute exam papers and candles, these soldiers were illiterate, and they were rewarded with two taels of silver for their hard work these days.

In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination emphasized the scriptures and righteousness, and the poems were light, as long as the scriptures and righteousness passed, the poems were barely qualified, and under normal circumstances, no one would be in the poems.

Prime Minister Yang Tingjian looked at the scripture question:

"It's easy to be a gentleman, but it's hard to say.

I can't say it, I don't say it.

and its making people also, instrumental things.

The official of the heart thinks, thinks about it, and gets it, and if you don't think about it, you can't.

Virtue is a saint, respected as the Son of Heaven, rich in the four seas. ”

If you want to write an eight-strand article, the prime minister must understand the meaning of this passage, and if he does not know the meaning, he can only scratch the blind, and the meaning of this passage is:

"It's easy to serve a gentleman, but it's hard to please a gentleman.

If you don't please the gentleman in the right way, the gentleman will not like it.

And when a gentleman wants to appoint people, he always uses them only according to the quantity.

The function of the mind is to think, and if you think, you will gain something, and if you don't think, you can't get it.

(Shun) is a saint in terms of virtue, a noble son of heaven in status, and wealth owns the whole world. ”

Yang Tingjian understood the meaning of this passage, and then found out a few sentences from the Four Books and Five Classics, and then recalled and understood the entire article, and finally it was possible to write a good Bagu text.

This is also difficult for Yang Tingjian. Yang Tingjian searched his memory a little and found the source of these words:

This passage consists of three parts.

The first part is from The Analects? Zi Lu", which contrasts the gentleman and the villain. Here are two sentences that say about the gentleman. ”

The topic of the exam was formulated by Chongzhen himself, and Yang Tingjian felt that this question highlighted Chongzhen's arrogance! …… Chongzhen: Is this intentional?

"The second part is from Mencius? The first sentence of "The official of the heart is thinking", it is still an idiom, and the idiom story is about Hua Tuo. It always doesn't hurt for everyone to think more, and His Majesty hates the parasites of the corpse vegetarian meal the most. ”

This thundered Yang Tingjian again, which shows how much Chongzhen hates those bureaucrats who are vegetarian. At the same time, it also expresses Chongzhen's urgent state of mind to seek treatment from the side.

"The third part is from "The Mean", Zi Yue Shun is amazing!"

Do you remember what Zhu Youxiao said before holding Zhu Youzhen's hand. "Come, my brother should be Yao Shun!" , this is the meaning of the drunkard of Chiguoguo. As a test question, it is also a spur for readers to remember Yao Shun's wisdom. Be self-motivated. We can't forget the eight honors and eight shames.

Yang Tingjian is also drunk, this exam question is not difficult for Yang Tingjian, Yang Tingjian thought about it for a while, and began to make a draft, Yang Tingjian is a collection of ancient and modern people's thoughts, as for such a question, it is completely indisputable.

At noon the next day, Yang Tingjian finished the scripture questions for this examination. Eight hundred words are sprinkled, and every word is beautiful. A splendid article is considered complete. (These eight-strand texts are hard to die of falling leaves, scratching their ears for a long time, and they really can't write a sentence of eight-strands, and they cry and faint in the toilet.) ）

After carefully checking his article, Yang Tingjian hurriedly packed the test papers into a test paper bag made of cowhide, mainly to prevent rain.

At this moment, several soldiers in the aisle of the examination house began to add tea to each examination house. This tribute institute provides tea three times a day for free, which is morning, noon and evening, and the food is provided by the candidates.

"Grab some tea."

Yang Tingjian hurriedly took out a copper teapot from the examination box and handed it out through the crack in the door, this door is made of wooden strips, and the distance between the wooden strips is about twenty centimeters.

Chen Yutai, who was next door to Yang Tingjian, also handed out the teapot he was carrying, and Yang Tingjian couldn't help but ask when he saw Chen Yutai's outstretched hand:

"Brother Chen, can you start working on the questions?"

"Still working on drafts? How is Bingru doing? ”

"The scriptures have been completed, and I will do poetry in the afternoon."

"If the ice is only eight buckets high, it is better to be big."

This will still be able to talk between the test houses, and there is no way to plagiarize the Bagu text, but the soldiers still scolded Yang Tingjian and Chen Yutai:

"Hurry up and do the question, don't talk to each other."

At this time, Yang Tingjian did not have anything special, and he was still casually scolded by these illiterate big-headed soldiers in front of an ordinary person.

……

Nine days later, with a bang, the Gongyuan began to collect the papers, in order to avoid confusion, this paper is also an examination area to hand in the papers.

Wen Tiren did not compete for the main exam, but he was more active in collecting the papers than anyone else, Yang Tingjian's test paper was handed over to Wen Tiren, Wen Tiren just glanced at Yang Tingjian's test paper a few times with his eyes, and memorized Yang Tingjian's test paper.

Chen Yutai didn't hand in the papers with Yang Tingjian next to each other, but their division was Wen Tiren to collect the papers, and Chen Yutai also knew the battle between Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, even if Chen Yutai didn't want to hand over the test papers to Wen Tiren.

After Chen Yutai's test paper was handed over to Wen Tiren's hands, Wen Tiren did not have any performance on his face, it was completely businesslike, but Wen Tiren's eyes just quickly swept Chen Yutai's test paper, and Chen Yutai's opening words were remembered by Wen Tiren in his heart.

This test is definitely the fairest way to select talents, but as long as the examiner deliberately favors a certain candidate, there is a way, of course, there is a chance to deliberately haunt someone. Of course, a test paper is read by nine examiners, and if you can take it, you can draw a circle, and if you can't, you can draw a cross.

If an examiner wants to focus on killing a candidate, it is not so easy, because he only has one-ninth vote, and the final admission is a number of laps.

Wen Tiren remembered the exam papers of Yang Tingjian and Chen Yutai, and he must have his own plans, and the battle between him and Zhou Yanru has become white-hot.

Yang Tingjian also saw Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren very thoroughly from the evaluation of later generations, in fact, both of them are mediocre talents, no matter who is in power, they do not have any merits in the Ming Dynasty.

Folk songs: The Ministry of Rites reopened the heavenly list, the champion explored the flower list, some panicked, the cabinet turned into a brothel, and the turtle Wang Ba (Wang Yingxiong) slice (Wu Zongda) always suffered from the plague. (Zhou Yanru is the champion, Wen Tiren Tanhua)

Wen Tiren has been in charge of the government for eight years, and he has not put forward any strategy for the economy and the world, nor has he established any meritorious deeds for the benefit of the country and the people.

"Ming History Chronicle" records that on the eve of the death of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial history Wu Luzhong summed up the loss of Chongzhen's governance and said: "Wen Tiren trusts the righteousness of solemnity and righteousness, and acts of flattery and jealousy, so that the court cannot appoint anyone to govern things, causing a source of disaster, and the crime of benevolence." ”

[The iron-blooded part is about to begin, Yang Tingjian killed the eight traitors, causing a huge butterfly effect, and Jin entered Kou Daming to take revenge. 】

…… (To be continued......)