After waiting for the reminder of the little guy, Lu Weibiao woke up, and after taking a nap, he felt in good spirits. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lu Weibiao secretly wondered, could it be that Wu Fanhui knew this, so he took a break after entering the examination room.

After tidying up a little, Lu Weibiao came to the examination room.

His gaze naturally fell on Wu Fanhui.

Wu Fanhui was full of energy at the moment, his eyes were focused, he was sitting in a regular manner, with a calm expression on his face.

Boy, you are really powerful, Lu Weibiao couldn't help but muttered secretly, of course, no one can hear it.

At the end of the day, the exam officially began.

The warden of the ceremonial room began to read out the rules of the county examination, which takes about a quarter of an hour, the most important of which is about the examination time, the first main examination of the county examination, starting from the hour and ending at the time of application, there is half an hour at noon to eat in place, not allowed to leave the seat, not allowed to leave the examination room, after the candidate finishes, enter the lobby to hand in the papers, the stool can not be moved immediately, stay in the examination room, if the candidate has passed the first main examination, did not get the notice to participate in the second early summer examination, He came to the examination room at the next afternoon and moved his stool.

After the ceremonial room warden read out the rules, the ceremonial room clerk announced the start of the county examination.

The candidates took out paper, pen, ink and inkstone, these things cannot be placed on the stool, and some can only be placed on the ground.

Lu Weibiao took out the test questions from his sleeve robe and handed them to the priest in the ceremonial room.

The clerk begins to read out the exam questions, and the candidates below are asked to memorize the exam questions.

The clerk will read out the exam questions three times so that the candidates can memorize them.

Wu Fanhui listened carefully to the exam questions, and when the priest read out the exam questions for the first time, he completely remembered them.

"King Xuan of Qi saw Mencius in the Snow Palace. The king said, 'The sage also has this pleasure?' Mencius replied, 'Yes.' If you can't, it's not your thing. It is not possible to be the one who is not above, and it is not; Neither is he who is for the people and does not rejoice with the people. Those who are happy with the people, the people are also happy; Those who are worried about the people, the people are also worried. Happiness in the world, worry in the world. However, if you are not a king, you will not be there. ’”

This question is from Mencius. The meaning of the whole paragraph can be explained by a sentence in Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" in the Song Dynasty, "The worries of the world are worried, and the joy of the world is happy."

As a county examination, although it is the most basic examination in the imperial examination, the examination questions are generally not too simple, because the examination questions are written by the county magistrate himself, and the county magistrate himself marks the papers.

It is not so much the county test students as the county test to know the county adults.

In order to show his ability, the magistrate will generally rack his brains to come up with questions.

It's a pity that there are only so many sentences in the Four Books and Five Classics, and the imperial examination has been inherited for hundreds of years, and I don't know how many exam questions have been produced.

This also leads to the emergence of some bizarre exam questions, when the examiner intercepts the classic words of the Four Books and the Five Classics, he will connect some unrelated classic sentences together and make them into exam questions, so that the candidates can think about it, and from these random patchwork exam questions, they will say something ugly.

In fact, this is also the root cause of the gradual decline of the imperial examination.

Confucianism is broad and profound, and the analysis is ever-changing, so it is okay to use other analysis to produce exam questions, but it is a pity that the Ming Dynasty designated Zhu Xi's "Four Books Collection Notes", and all the views of the imperial examination can not surpass the "Four Books Collection Notes", which makes it difficult for examiners and candidates.

After Wu Fanhui transcribed the exam questions, he did not start writing immediately, but fell into deep thought.

Why are the exam questions so simple for the magistrates, there is no need to think about the fact that the candidates will continue to use the phrase "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world", and it will also be extended to the view that the king should implement benevolent government and unify the world with the royal way.

Isn't it the same article that the county tried to make?

Turning his head to look at the candidates around him, many of them had already shown joy on their faces, and they began to write quickly.

Wu Fanhui's expression became quiet, he still didn't put pen to paper, and his mind began to think nervously.

Soon, he thought of the conversation with the magistrate, who asked about the people's suffering, and was very concerned about the famine suffered by Mizhi County, and even directly asked how to solve the problem of famine.

A quarter of an hour later, a smile appeared on Wu Fanhui's face.

After all, the magistrate of a county, the main thing that comes to mind is how to do a good job in many matters of the county, and the vision will not be so long-term, so when the county exam, it will also judge the quality of the article according to its own understanding.

In a word, the articles of the county examination should be in line with the actual situation of the county, and they should be able to have insightful opinions, rather than copying and copying the words of the ancients, which are meaningless for the county magistrate to manage the county's government affairs well.

Following this line of thought, Wu Fanhui continued to think.

Mizhi County has been in drought for three consecutive years, the people are impoverished, struggling on the death line, a large number of displaced people have appeared, some places under the jurisdiction of Yan'an Prefecture, there have been peasant rebellions, whether it is the magistrate of Mizhi County, or the prefect of Yan'an Prefecture, the most concerned is this matter, how to solve the problem of the displaced people, how to relieve the people, how to suppress the riot, how to stabilize the locality, is the most important thing.

It can be understood from this that the magistrate of the county did not only ask the candidates to explain the meaning of "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world", or to dogmatically explain that the king should implement benevolent government and unify the world with the royal road, and its real meaning is to continue to expand, that is, how to implement the royal road and how to let the people live a good life.

This exam question is also in line with the development of the current situation, after Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he made a drastic move to eradicate Wei Zhongxian and the rest of the party in one fell swoop, so that the government and the opposition were invigorated, and a clear atmosphere appeared, although at this moment, the Qingming atmosphere in the court has gradually disappeared, but the following Fuzhou County, it is impossible to feel it quickly, they are still happy and cheering for the changes in the court.

Half an hour later, Wu Fanhui had a second smile on his face.

He finally started writing.

The words of "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world", as well as the words of the king to implement benevolent government and unify the world with the royal road, only occupy the beginning, and there are few characters, which is just a problem.

The next theme extends to the famine suffered by Mizhi County, highlighting the importance of benevolent government with the spread of famine.

Starting from the lecture and starting point, Wu Fanhui instilled his own understanding into it, proposing that benevolent government should be in line with the actual situation of various places, and named the counties under the jurisdiction of Yan'an Prefecture as different situations, as well as the situation of solving famines, displaced people, and peasant rebellions.

Although the discussion in this must be based on Zhu Xi's "Notes on the Four Books", and must not go beyond the Lei Chi, but from the "Notes on the Four Books" to find the implementation of benevolent government insights, that is a big handful, behind each point of view, Wu Fanhui will attach his own suggestions and understanding.

An hour later, an eight-strand essay was finally completed.

Wu Fanhui looked up again and found that many people around him were bowing their heads and writing hard, which made him a little surprised.

Such an eight-strand essay took nearly two hours, and he felt that the time was too long, and it was impossible to have so many things to write, what happened to these candidates, could they all be scholars, and they all wanted to move all of Zhu Xi's "Notes on the Four Books".

Wu Fanhui was still a little confused, although he had a lot of things in his head, but after all, it was the first time to take the exam of the Ming Dynasty, even if he had great confidence, he had to pay attention to the situation around him.

Looking at the situation around him, Wu Fanhui lowered his head again, began to carefully read the eight-strand essay he had written, and once again pondered the connection between breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting to speak, starting, starting the stock, middle stock, back stock and bundle stock, and carefully scrutinizing it to see if there was anything blunt in it, or something that was not skillful in the wording.

After watching it twice, it was already noon.

When it was time to eat, there were still no candidates looking up, and most of them were still struggling to write.

This made Wu Fanhui a little crazy.

, could it be that all the scholars in the Ming Dynasty were scholars.

Taking out the wheat cake, Wu Fanhui forced himself to calm down and began to chew slowly.

Two wheat cakes were eaten, Wu Fanhui calmed down, he was going to hand in the papers, he had done his best, if he was grinding foreign workers here, it would have no effect, on the contrary, he would make himself impatient.

Wu Fanhui quickly thought of the previous exams, especially the college entrance examination, some candidates were busy throughout the session, almost did not look up, until the bell rang, as if they had not finished yet, but after the final scores came out, the results of these candidates were not very good.

Exams require accumulation, they require talent, and it is not necessarily useful to always work hard.

Wu Fanhui can only comfort himself like this.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Fanhui was the first to stand up and go to the lobby to hand in the papers.

The warden of the ceremonial room is waiting at the entrance of the lobby.

When Wu Fanhui handed in the papers, he saw the surprised eyes of the warden, but he didn't care anymore, his expression was calm, and he turned around and left after handing in the papers.

Many candidates also looked up at Wu Fanhui, as if looking at a monster, you must know that the exam will not end until the time of application, and there are still nearly two hours to go, this candidate has turned in the paper so early, it is difficult that he can't write anything.

Some candidates even have sympathetic or even gloating in their eyes.

Wu Fanhui didn't pay attention to these at all, his heart was already very calm.

When he walked out of the county office, Wu Fanhui looked at the people around him, opened his mouth and scolded a nasty word, what kind of exam is this, it is really torturous.

Walking on the way home, Wu Fanhui's mood was not particularly relaxed, after all, there is no standard answer for such an exam, you don't know how you did in the exam, everything depends on the judgment of the magistrate.