166 The Decisive Battle of Spring (5)
One morning, Zheng Guang completed the second draft of the three questions and four book titles, carefully reviewed it, felt that there was no problem, looked at the sky, and found that it was almost noon, so he picked up the manuscript paper and roll paper, and began to wash rice and cook, and after a burst of tempting aroma, Zheng Guang's surrounding people looked at Zheng Guang with very complicated eyes, for no other reason, this aroma can always disturb their thoughts, so that they have to stop writing and prepare for dinner. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In fact, it is normal for people to have to eat when they arrive, Zheng Guang has not done anything wrong, and he does not intend to admit his guilt.
After eating, Zheng Guang followed the old rules, leaned on the house to take a nap, but today can not sleep like yesterday, take a nap in the afternoon to be more energetic, an hour later, Zheng Guang woke up on time, with cold water to cheer up, dispelled all the sleepiness, suddenly energetic, then took out his manuscript paper, the third and last revision, until about four o'clock, Zheng Guang completed the final draft, and then, before the last ray of light of the sun disappeared, Zheng Guang completed the decisive answer to the three questions and four books.
The completion of these four book questions is equivalent to the completion of 70% of the exam, and the remaining 30% is not important, the key is that the arts and sciences are smooth and decent, so plus the first three eight-share articles are done beautifully, there is a chance that nine out of ten will not fall first, if it is more appreciated by the examiner, then it is not a luxury to be taken as the top few, anyway, Zheng Guang set the goal in the top ten of the second grade, that is, the top thirteen of the entire ranking, so that it is most likely to be selected as a Shujishi, and it is not too difficult.
After all, Zheng Guang is still a little confident about himself who came out of Suzhou Mansion and Nanzhili.
Before it was completely dark, Zheng Guang took out the Five Classics questions and began to read, but he was not in a hurry at all, there were still two days ahead, but the meeting test was different from the township test, and it was not allowed to leave halfway, and after the completion of the first exam, the exam papers for the second exam would be issued, and then the exam would begin, which was quite torturous, Zheng Guang had never left the examination room during the township exam, so he was not worried, and he was still confident in this.
When it was completely dark, Zheng Guang ignored the candlelight around him, ate by himself, rinsed his mouth, wrapped himself in a quilt, and went to sleep.
When I woke up, it was about a quarter of the hour, most of the students around me didn't get up, they were falling asleep in a strange manner, it was really a good morning look, Zheng Guang got up and washed himself, and ate the noodles below, and so the whole body was warm, and the person was in good spirits, so he took out the manuscript paper and began to draft the Five Classics questions. I'm not worried that my article is not doing well, in fact, it's also my own full effort.
Zheng Guang handed in the paper early in the morning, and then took back the paper for the second exam, when the examiner did not have the rest of the exam papers on the examiner's desk, so Zheng Guang was the first to hand in the papers, according to the rules, the examiner could not read the papers at this time, and he needed to hand them over to a special person to copy the papers before he could watch them, but Sun Chengen was obviously a little interested, and the invigilation was really a little boring these days, and he inadvertently glanced at the candidate's name, and Zheng Guang's two big characters attracted his attention.
When the attaché finished the paste, Sun Chengen directly reached out and took the test paper, and looked at it, this is not a strange thing, and the attaché doesn't care, after all, several fellow examiners have gone to inspect, at this time only Sun Chengen is sitting here, he is really bored, reading the paper is a pastime, not strange, but Sun Chengen's heart is not calm, after all, these days, it is really not the first time he has heard the name Zheng Guang.
The battle of Suzhou annihilated two thousand Japanese invaders, killed the Japanese chieftain Lin Bichuan, killed seven thousand Japanese in the battle of Su Song, captured the southeast giant Chen Dong, beheaded him, and annihilated nearly 10,000 Japanese in the two wars, and pacified Su Song's Japanese plague in one fell swoop.
This makes Sun Chengen feel a little incredible, you say that young generals are not nothing, such as Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty, who also joined the army at this age, made great achievements one after another, and finally became the totemic figure of the Han nation, it is Zheng Guang's turn, but it reminds people of Zheng Guang, the last general of the Southern Song Dynasty with the same name and surname as him two hundred years ago. History will be rewritten.
Such two characters, in Sun Chengen's heart at this time, gradually coincided with Zheng Guang, he was keenly aware that the appearance of this young man and his participation in the examination may not be so simple, thinking of what the emperor said when he issued a decree to him to take the exam, such as what is the future of the Ming Dynasty, young people, pay more attention to excellent scholars, etc., these very suggestive words, Sun Chengen suddenly felt, could this be the emperor's meaning?
However, as a virtuous scribe, Sun Chengen would not take a scholar who should not have been selected in order to welcome the wishes of the emperor, so that those scholars who could have been selected were defeated, so the quality of the article is always the first priority, and the four-book question is the top priority of the imperial examination and is of decisive significance, so Sun Chengen decided to take a look at how the article in this volume is doing first, and then think about other things.
Under this look, Sun Chengen was amazed, not to mention anything else, just this round font, like a printed font, is enough to win the favor of any person, the volume is fair and neat is the first step, and only then will someone read the content of the article, and obviously, the content of Zheng Guang's article is also hard enough, and Sun Chengen nodded again and again, not only has something to say, but also has not departed from reality and the words of the sage, such a good article is really a tyrannical thing if it is not high.
In this way, this kid can achieve such excellent results in the previous exam, the first imperial examination even broke through several levels, and it really didn't come by relying on relationships, it was real, and some of Zheng Guang's remarks that he had heard before were not vain words, but a solid real feeling, thinking of his previous contributions, Sun Chengen became more and more sure of his guesses, and determined that his ideas were correct.
Sun Chengen quickly put the test paper back in place and didn't continue to watch, because the second scholar who handed in the paper also came, a young man about 20 years old, with a dignified appearance, a face like a crown of jade, very attractive, Sun Chengen took his test paper, gave him the test paper of the second exam, and glanced at the candidate's name, well, Zhang Juzheng, I remember, this word is really beautiful, and then, this article seems to be good......
Zheng Guang returned to his house after receiving the papers of the second exam, looked through the papers, and began to wash rice and cook at the same time, and when the rice was cooked, the papers were almost seen, the difficulty was there, but it was definitely not to the point of being unacceptable, the test was to face a group of selected elite lifters, if the difficulty was not as good as the township test, what is it? Fortunately, the second and third exams are Zhongzheng Ping and the liberal arts, and the real decision on the ranking has ended.
After eating the hot meal, and the body got enough calories, Zheng Guang began to draft and answer these questions, and by the afternoon of the fourth day, Zheng Guang had basically completed all the finalizations, and on the fifth day, he took a morning to seriously transcribe the papers, and before eating at noon, he handed in the examination papers for the second exam, as usual, it was still the first one, Sun Chengen did not despise Zheng Guang's talent, and looked at his test papers, and the results were still very satisfactory to him.
On the afternoon of the seventh day, Zheng Guang finished the policy theory, sprinkled thousands of words, several policy papers were all finalized, and the transcription was completed, I wanted to immediately hand in the paper and leave this torturous place, but after thinking about it, it is still early now, and it is too early to go out, but it is easy to cause unnecessary twists and turns, so I decided to eat first, and after putting away all the papers, I took out all the ingredients, used a lot of materials that I had saved before, and cooked a lot of rice, the taste was more fragrant and delicious, and then I was still a little dissatisfied. When eating, I also used bacon to live in a small pot of broth, and I drank it very happily, and many people were stunned, especially those Jinyi guards who knew the inside story, and they were impressed by this big-hearted candidate.
As for Li Chunfang, it was painful and happy, and he was taken care of by Zheng Guang, but he was also the first to be attacked by aroma bombs, although there was hot water to drink, but this was also the limit, food could not be exchanged with each other, let alone let Zheng Guang cook for him, it was impossible, he could only gnaw on cold pastries every day, although there was a taste, but his body had instinctively begun to call for calories, seeking high-calorie deliciousness.
Zheng Guang's extravagant behavior of drinking soup while eating is about to cause public anger among the candidates.
However, early on the morning of the eighth day, after Zheng Guang ate all the noodles, he packed up and was ready to hand in the papers, many candidates had just completed the first draft of the strategy, and some slow drafts had not been completed, and they planned to drag it out until the last minute of tomorrow, but Zheng Guang didn't want to continue to toss, and stayed in this place for seven or eight days in a row, it was really suffocating, watching Zheng Guang get up and hand in the papers, they were all stunned, this is probably the fastest candidate, right? Li Chunfang had just finished the first draft and was polishing and revising the second edition, when he saw Zheng Guang walking towards the examiner with the exam papers, he was surprised, and couldn't help urging himself to speed up and not continue to delay.