"Brother Gou, what did that person call you out to do?"

The two of them were full of wine and food, and they came out after eating and wiping them clean, and Luo Gui asked Li Gou Yudao. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Nothing, just talk about feng shui."

This fact is too coincidental today, and it is estimated that if he tells the truth, he will frighten this Luo Gui, Li Gouyu simply looked at him left and right: "Today's eight plates and eight bowls are delicious and tight, I haven't eaten and drunk so happily for a long time!" ”

Luo Gui understood, and didn't ask any more, the two talked and laughed all the way, and then went to the Shandong Hall.

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In a few days, this is the re-examination of the test, and after a full night's sleep, the students will begin to warm up their books, as the saying goes, grinding the gun is not fast.

The content and procedure of the examination are roughly the same as the township examination, and the re-examination is basically the same, it is said that it is a matter of drawing a gourd according to the gourd, and the candidates are all people who have been baptized by the township examination, and they are naturally not strangers.

Dip in ink, pen and snake.

"The child learns and learns from time to time......"

Today, Luo Gui and Li Weiguo are studying together, this person has a problem, he must read it aloud when he reads, and if he doesn't make a sound in his own words, his brain will not enter, Li Weiguo smiled, and he didn't say anything, he could read books in the city at the beginning, and he could still be stumped by this product today?

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The Gongyuan of Jingshi is also in the southeast of the city, built by water, and the map is also convenient for water.

At the end of the day, there was already a long queue in front of the gate of the Jingshi Gongyuan, although it was more than ten degrees below zero on a cold day, but this did not affect the enthusiasm of the students for the exam.

Just kidding, everything is inferior, and now it's a retest, and it's already one step away from trying to get into the department, which student will relax?

As usual, there are samurai with soldiers and guns in front of the gate of the Gongyuan to maintain order, and the number of them is afraid that there are thousands, one by one, holding a knife or catching a gun, and the image of a big waist and a round waist is still quite able to bluff people.

These sergeants were all transferred from the Beijing Camp or the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, specifically to escort this retest.

At the end of the day, the gong sounded, the Gongyuan opened, and the students rushed in.

Nowadays, the students who come to the capital to take the Jinshi examination are not young for many years, and many of them are even in their old age, walking there step by step with crutches.

Finally, this is the left Li Gou, there is also a simple tent surrounded by a curtain at the entrance of the Gongyuan, the exam is similar to the township test, and the candidates are allowed to bring the test introduction and some food and the like.

All food must be sliced and checked, there can be no entrainment, there can be no words, now it is the re-examination of the Beijing Division, it is a national examination hosted by the Imperial Court Rites Department, and the entrainment is naturally more strict! Candidates must be stripped naked, examined by the sergeants, and their hair must be spread out in order to ensure absolute impartiality in the examination.

It's funny to say, in a feudal society where there is no democracy everywhere and there is strict hierarchy, I am afraid that only this imperial examination is almost absolutely fair! If a candidate dares to bring a cheat sheet privately, and if he is caught, he will be imprisoned, even if he finds out that he cheated in the examination room afterwards, he will be removed from his reputation and sent to prison for the crime!

Why else is it that after the annual examination, so many people can be locked up in the prison cells of the Five Cities Terracotta Division?

The night is long in winter, if the color is still black today, and the five fingers are not visible, the students walked out with their hair scattered one by one, which is still a little crazy, Li Weiguo, like other students, just simply pulled his hair, and then went to the tribute courtyard with the boy who held the lamp.

People from all over the country have come to Beijing to take the exam, and you can imagine that there will be a lot of students after this exam! The crowd of black presses was crowded, and they were all listening to the examiners' lectures at this time.

This year, the re-examination was presided over by the squire of the Imperial Court Rites Department and the Hanlin Bachelor appointed by the emperor, two of whom were called presidents.

After saying a few sentences of official articles as usual, Li Weiguo entered with the students, and the cloud board outside the venue sounded, and the Gongyuan will no longer allow people to enter and exit in the past three days, and this year's general examination and re-examination will officially begin!

The examination was still held in the room five feet long, four feet wide, and eight feet high, one person and one single room, and there were people in the examination room who walked around holding question cards, and those who could not see clearly could ask the official to tell him loudly that these students were familiar with the road, and they were very familiar with the exams one after another.

Take three candles, lock the door, and the candidates will stay in the room to answer the questions, eat and live in the room, the same as the township test, the same three days.

To say that this test actually has an advantage, although the difficulty of the questions is greater than that of the hospital test and the township test, but in fact, the brain hole is not big.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were many types of interceptions and small questions in the imperial examination room, which made people quite a headache, but in the national examinations such as the examination, it was no longer allowed to intercept or too bizarre questions, and the examiner could only intercept the original words from the four books and five classics, and it must be a sentence or a paragraph, so that although the examination was difficult, it was not so difficult to deal with, unlike those exams at the lower level, sometimes the examiner sent someone to hold the scissors there to let the candidates answer the questions, you said that your candidates can still be comfortable?

This year, the first question of the four books in the first session of the re-examination will be called the female and the return, which is also healed?

Li Weiguo, who got the title, began to use his brain, and the title sentence came from "The Analects. Gongye Chang", probably means that Confucius asked Zigong, you also compare with Yan Hui, can you compare with Yan Hui?

Later, Zigong said truthfully that he was indeed inferior to Yan Hui, saying that Yan Hui was asking one to know ten, and what about himself, but asking one to know two was much worse, and Confucius also had a sense of approval when he heard it. However, Baguwen's understanding and play of the four books is based on Zhu Xi's annotations, and candidates cannot play freely, nor can they commit any of the above, so they can only think by this sentence, which is called honoring the question, and it is also an important principle of the imperial examination.

Since this is the case, then on the topic, Li Weiguo picked up the pen and began to solve the problem.

Ask the sage more and more, and want him to introspect himself.

The more is the words in the title, it is to respect the original, and the word self-reflection comes from the interpretation of Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty in later generations.

After solving the problem, it is to inherit the topic, the master tributes and Yan Yuan, the more the fruit is, the master doesn't know it? Do you want to ask Zigong for self-examination?

To put it bluntly, it is necessary to closely follow what you said to break the topic, Li Weiguo's last sentence can be described as impartial, and then this is an explanation for breaking the topic.

In fact, this is the way to make an article, just have the intention to go on with the theme, you no longer need to use so many brains, the article is written here, Li Weiguo is also first-class, writing hard, no longer need to bite the pen and think.

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The re-examination is generally decent, and a group of students have experienced the baptism of many exams, and there are already a lot of stocks in their brains.

It's just that it feels like a dream, and nine days have passed, and the re-examination has been completed.

"Brother Weiguo, how are you doing? Can you impress the chief examiner of this court? ”

Luo Gui said with a smile, it seems that for thousands of years, candidates will ask this sentence when they leave the examination room.

"Just ask for Sun Shan before." Li Weiguo has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

The results of the re-examination are not important, but they are not too important, in fact, it can also be regarded as a warm-up before the examination, some students may not have arrived in Beijing at this time because of the long distance, and can not participate in the re-examination, but they are also allowed to participate in the examination, and the re-examination will be made up after the examination.

The general examination is a national-level exam, probably to show seriousness, and people don't want to make a final decision like the previous exam.

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On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head.

On this day, almost all the students in China will go to the head shaving master to repair their hair, and the students are even more so, hoping that they can play a new atmosphere in the examination room, and all the students are not stingy with the few coppers in their pockets, and they have run to the head shaving master to shave their heads.

Said to be shaved head, in fact, it is just to trim the corners, the first sentence in the "Book of Filial Piety" is the parents of the body's hair and skin, the ancients are quite attached to their hair, it is simply to see the hair as if to see people, so in fact, the so-called shaving of the head is also like that, trim the corners to look better, the picture is auspicious.

Especially the students, most of them are out of the house, who doesn't expect that they can come to a carp jumping the dragon gate in this Beijing teacher exam and envy others? Therefore, no matter what the shaving master shaves into, the students all said that it was okay, anyway, it would be good to change the weather, Li Weiguo was a little funny, this is probably equivalent to changing the hairstyle and being a new person in later generations.

In addition to shaving their heads, now students go to worship God when they have nothing to do.

No matter what god it is, these students almost blindly worship the gods, and Li Weiguo can understand it by worshipping a kuixing, an old master, and the like, in other words, why are you Luo Gui looking at the portrait of the stove prince of a roadside stall so seriously?

The surname of the king of the stove is Zhang, and the person in charge is not the imperial examination!

Li Weiguo slandered in his heart, but he was still pressed and worshiped by Luo Gui several times, Li Weiguo shook his head, this baby, strange and pitiful, was stunned.

The exam is a big deal, students generally don't go out before the exam, and occasionally there are good ones who are also in the hall to find a half-old to deal with it, but most of the students are no longer holding books and gnawing wildly, after all, the exam date is approaching, and what can be learned is limited.

After all, it is in the people, and the success is in the sky, there are so many students from all over the Ming Dynasty who are rushing to grab the bowl of rice, even if you are talented, dare to say that you will definitely stand out, the champion of high school?

It's best if you have, and you won't come back in three years!

The imperial examination is too tempting and bewitching, enough to make people's hearts and minds, never give up, three years after three years, how many scholars have dedicated their best years to this imperial examination?

"In fact, the imperial court should erect a monument to pay tribute to those students who failed the imperial examination, they are also heroes!"

Li Weiguo suddenly sighed.

Luo Gui's face was lonely, and he seemed to feel the same way, this guy spent money to get a showman, as for the first place in the township examination, and even the first place in the later examination, he never thought of it, so he naturally agreed with it in his heart.

The imperial examination is a single-plank bridge, how many people rush to cross it? How many people got to the other end of the day?

The rest, didn't they all fall into the water?

In the great Ming Dynasty, the triennial examination, only 300 people were admitted in the end, and they were admitted according to the regions of the north and south.

The atmosphere was a little dull for a while, and both of them stopped talking, yes, on the road to the imperial examination, the loser is the same as a hero! They are not the same, and they have squatted in the number room for a few days and written a lot of wonderful articles? In the end, it may be just because they don't have the right examiner's mind, aren't they pitiful?

"Learn thousands of crafts and sell them to the emperor's family, but you don't know that a companion is like a tiger?"

Luo Gui, who is as cautious as he spoke, also has such a sentence now, and he is also lamenting the impermanence of the world, especially a talent like him who spends money and donates, I am afraid that this feeling will be more profound.

In fact, even if you enter the imperial examination high school and enter the court, can you immediately display your ambitions?

The emperor and the elders of the imperial court will never use you if they don't beat you for polishing! Don't talk about it far away, let's just say that there is a Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng in the current court, aren't they all silently enduring in the dark era and finally fattening themselves with one blow?

The philosophy of survival in the Ming Dynasty is forbearance, of course, it can't be blindly forbearing, this is an era of ten years of sharpening a sword, not like the fast food culture of later generations, no one in this era has absolute freedom, not to mention that the common people are often convicted, in fact, the emperor is not?

But no matter what, life always has to look forward, Li Weiguo smiled, he has now learned that the group of students around him are sentimental all day long, where is he like a traverser?

Li Weiguo smiled and stopped mentioning this topic.

After a few days of playing, a group of students ushered in the 35th year of Jiajing's Bingchen Branch examination.

It was still in the Jingshi Gongyuan, there were still so many soldiers guarding, and it was still the last moment, and a group of students rushed in and started the almost most important exam in their lives.

As usual, the examiner said a few words, the candidates found their own room, the inspector struck the cloud board, and this year's examination officially began.

As long as you can try, even if you have a Jinshi fame firmly in your hands, so all the students are also waiting for it, and their faces are quite serious, just hoping to be able to make a splash in this test, and come out of the carp jumping dragon gate!

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Nine days later, the test was over.

When they left the examination room, the students were relieved.

If you were asked how you would feel after trying, one word, tired, two words, very tired.

Just imagine that the elites of all China are working hard in a tribute courtyard like you at this time, and there are only 300 places in the imperial court a year, how much pressure do you have to bear?

Besides, the house is better than a dwelling in a snail's house, and the man of God can stand it? Therefore, a group of students don't care about anything after the exam now, and they all rush to the guild hall, just hoping to get a good night's sleep, and after nine days, they are too tired.

What about the results, let it be fate, at this step of the field, the people who can come to the exam are not ordinary people, and it is up to people to make a living, and whether they succeed depends on God and Master Kuixing. (To be continued.) )