Holy as a lotus, but also from the dirty and smelly mud, but its mud is not stained, clear ripples but not demons, everything in the world has its own fixed number, the holiness of the lotus, is it also God is warning human beings, no one can stay out of the matter, alone? If you want to do something, you have to endure some pain that ordinary people can't bear, and Lotus endures the mud to have the day of holiness, and if people want to be glorious, do they have to go through deep darkness?

When Xiang Qing came back, the test basket in his hand was gone, but his face was not very good, and he seemed to be mindful, Zheng Guang didn't say anything, patted him on the shoulder, and smiled at him, that's the only way, Xiang Qing did have some mind in his heart, and the words of the long-term sage made him have his own standards in his heart, but this is just the first step to enter the WTO, and he is faced with the matter of subverting his thoughts, so is there something missing in the doctrine of the sage?

But it didn't take long for him to begin to be full of gratitude to Zheng Guang, the number of candidates this year exceeded that of previous years, the number of people reached more than 4,000, and the admission order of candidates in Wu County ranked second to last. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This year's exam is similar to previous years, a small number of new candidates, and most of them are the seniors who passed the county exam in previous years and did not pass the government exam, the number of people exceeds the imagination of all candidates, everyone is also secretly swallowing saliva, worried about their future, according to the rules of previous years, the highest admission ratio of the government exam is also one out of fifteen, in more difficult years, lower acceptance rates have been encountered, according to the original rules, a government can only take forty talents, and then it continues to increase, to now, There are about 100 places in Suzhou Prefecture that have passed the provincial examination.

Suzhou Mansion is a big house for the imperial examination, the masters are like clouds, not that those who can't pass the imperial examination are weak chickens, among the seniors who have not passed the imperial examination, Zheng Guang has seen a lot of middle-aged men with a very strong bookish atmosphere, and people who are about thirty or forty years old occupy the main force of the imperial examination......

Zheng Guang saw a gray-haired veteran driver about fifty or sixty years old in the imperial examination team in Taicang Prefecture, obviously he had participated in the imperial examination for at least thirty years, and he was more experienced than Zheng Guang when he split it into two, not to mention other men in their thirties, one by one, they had at least ten or twenty years of experience in the imperial examination, but it was also a tragedy to say, the best years of life were spent in the examination, all kinds of sadness, not enough for outsiders.

The door of the examination hall opened, several officials with a group of soldiers armed with water and fire sticks began to preside over the entrance of the candidates, according to the order previously scheduled, the candidates from each county took turns to enter the field, at this moment, the county candidates who were ranked lower realized how worthwhile everything they had done before, for the candidates in front, it didn't matter, it was better to talk than nothing, and it was naturally better to occupy a good position.

When Zheng Guang was called by his name and was ready to enter, the sky was already bright, and the messenger who searched the body obviously knew Zheng Guang's name, and seeing Zheng Guang carrying a big food box, he naturally didn't think that Zheng Guang, the head of the county test, would cheat, but there were still rules, even if it was just a formality, they also opened Zheng Guang's food box, checked it, and sighed at the eternal criterion that it is good to be rich, and then let Zheng Guang enter.

What is the value of a tael of silver, Zheng Guang does not have a clear concept, it is about the value of more than two hundred yuan, this is the market criterion, but in the world, this two taels of silver is not ordinary, especially at this time, Zheng Guang feels that Zheng Jiang probably spent more than one or two silver, but no matter how much, to be able to get such a good seat, or in the case of the examination hall is already crowded, even if it is a hundred taels of silver, it is worth it.

Earned!

Zheng Guang generously walked to the position where he put his test basket, and looked at this superior position, there is a shed to protect from the wind and rain, and there is a relatively spacious space, no matter whether it is a strong wind and rain or a big sun today, Zheng Guang doesn't have to worry, after sitting down and looking, there is no one around who knows, and he can't help but be a little happy, because the county examination and the government examination are not so strict in terms of discipline requirements, and some of the unspoken rules of the examination room inherited from a long, long time ago are also constantly being staged.

For example, a little fat paper behind Zheng Guang's side waved a fleshy fist and threatened a thin monkey sitting next to him, saying that if you don't show yourself the answer later, you must be good-looking, and so on, the harmonious exchange in the examination room is so intense, so that Zheng Guang can't help but sigh, it's really the ancients who are honest and don't deceive me, before the exam, whether it is a modern person or an ancient, it is a virtue!

With the first ray of golden light sprinkled into the land of the examination institute, the entrance of the candidates is all over, and the government examination has caught a total of 21 candidates who want to cheat, thinking that either the technology is too poor or the psychological quality is not up to par, this level of search can be searched, it can be seen that these candidates are shallow, for the imperial examination candidates who have a history of cheating for hundreds of years so far, cheating has long been a compulsory course like the Four Books and Five Classics.

And those who are caught, is the high score and low ability, even when Tang Shunzhi taught his own experience in the examination room, he vaguely mentioned some special cheating methods, Zheng Guang believes that in this examination room, among the 4,000 candidates, about 90% have the idea of cheating, and those who put it into action are about 30 percent, because not everyone dares to gamble with their future, and they are lucky to be exempted from the exam for three or five years, and unfortunately, they are not allowed to take the exam for life......

In the more than half a month of getting along with Tang Shunzhi, Zheng Guang has roughly sorted out the knowledge in his memory, lamenting the hard work of his predecessor, and the perseverance to write more than a dozen eight-strand articles every day is not something that everyone can have.

Zheng Guang in the former "king of the exam" Tang Shunzhi under the teaching, has the mantle of inheriting Tang Shunzhi's posture, become a new generation of the king of the exam, even Zheng Guang, who has experienced the hell of the college entrance examination, can not help but be shocked by the huge amount of questions done by his predecessor, in the era of the college entrance examination, Zheng Guang is also buried in the sea of questions in the examination mountain, chopping waves, fighting on the battlefield, and now compared with the predecessor, he suddenly felt the breath of the weak.

It's really unreasonable to do questions and exams like this, and not to take the top prize......

The candidates finally all entered, and the examination room became extremely noisy, Zheng Guang looked around, and saw Xiang Qing's figure in a row of positions behind the side, Xiang Qing waved at Zheng Guang in surprise, Zheng Guang nodded, and then didn't see any other acquaintances, so it's okay, at least no one threatens himself like that little fat paper, but if anyone really dares to do this, Zheng Guang said that his spear skills and boxing skills will teach him to be a man in minutes.

As the last candidate entered and sat down, the door of the examination hall slowly closed, and then it was locked by a huge iron lock, dozens of heavily armed soldiers guarded the gate, holding waist knives, which was very rare in the examination room where iron blades have never been allowed, and there were no less than 300 patrol soldiers in the entire examination room, all of whom were armed with water and fire sticks, and Zheng Guang could feel that these soldiers were not soldiers with good equipment, very tall and tall, typical elite soldiers and horses, and it is estimated that there are fierce people who have been with the Japanese Kou in front of each other.

Zheng Guang opened the food box, took out a vegetable and meat bun and ate it beautifully, got up too early in the morning, was not very relaxed when queuing, and did not feel hungry, now relaxed, suddenly felt hungry in the stomach, and began to eat breakfast, the fragrance of the vegetable and meat buns spread to a certain area around along the slight breeze, many candidates looked at the vegetable and meat buns in Zheng Guang's hand and swallowed saliva, and then tragically took out the dry steamed buns to fill their stomachs.

While eating, Zheng Guang thought about it.

According to this year's posture, it is estimated that the outside is not stable, and the actual combat troops must be protected during the examination, and the degree of this year's Japanese rebellion does not seem to be light, and in previous years, there has not been an examination that has been affected by the Japanese rebellion, and many times the county government examination is forced to cancel or postpone because of the Japanese rebellion, Suzhou Mansion is within the range of the threat of the Japanese Invaders, and it is very unstable.

Everyone doesn't know, because of the need to stabilize people's hearts, the chaos seven years ago gave many people a profound lesson, the original nothing, after being falsely spread by some people, caused a huge panic, everyone rushed to escape, and even affected the operation of the official army, disrupted the deployment of the government, caused the Ming army to be defeated, Suzhou City was almost breached, that is, that time, his father Zheng Wei died heroically.

Since then, the local government and the local army in the southeast have paid attention to the blockade news, and they cannot disclose some news about catching wind and shadows until they have to do so, and once the people who are frightened by the Japanese invaders know about it, it is another tragedy to make a bad mess under false rumors, and the Ming military guards in the southeast have been abandoned for a long time, and the Ming army mobilized in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River is weak in combat effectiveness, and it is impossible to fight the Japanese invaders head-on.

However, Rao was like this, and the frequent battles still created a group of troops with considerable combat effectiveness, and before Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Tan Lun, these famous generals and ministers, arrived in the southeast to fight against the Japanese, and bought them valuable time and valuable experience.

Counting the years, Zheng Guang knew that Qi Jiguang was two years older than himself, a hereditary military general, and now he was still an official in Shandong.

Today, the Ming army is still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of war conditions, and most of the Ming army generals and local government leaders, and even the people in charge of the Ming central government, do not know who the enemy they are facing is, whether it is Japanese or Chinese.

The situation is worrying, if you say that all of them are Japanese, if you kill them, you will kill them, but the key thing is that more than 90 percent of the members of the Wukou are all Chinese who cannot survive on the southeast coast because of the maritime ban policy and are forced to take risks, and the rebellion of the Wukou is from the very beginning a rebellion in the southeast region against the imperial court's maritime ban policy, and this is the fundamental problem, the resistance of the active commodity economy in South China against the rigid administrative policy of North China.

To put it bluntly, the name of the Japanese is just to hide people's eyes, this is a civil war, a civil war in the Ming Dynasty in which a few foreigners participated!

The solution is very simple, and in the eyes of modern people, it is even simple and unbelievable, that is, to open the sea, but in today's Ming Dynasty, it is extremely difficult.

After thinking about it, Zheng Guang felt that he was no longer hungry in his stomach, so he stopped eating, adjusted his breathing, adjusted his state to the best, and waited for the arrival of the chief examiner of this exam, the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture, and after a while, with a shout: "The Mansion has arrived!" All the candidates stood up together and saluted in the direction of the main hall, and the prefect wearing the five-grade official uniform also arrived at the main hall, turned his back to all the candidates, and saluted the master of the main hall, the sage Confucius.

Then the audience shouted, "Students pay homage to the Lord." ”

"Excuse me, sit down."

This sentence made Zheng Guang frown, he always felt that this voice was so familiar, so special, quietly raised his head, and glanced at the examiner of this exam not far away, the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture, his eyes suddenly widened, his mouth opened slightly, and his brain suddenly went blank!