The entrance of the college is somewhat similar to yesterday, there are already many college students standing, and the second exam today still needs to be checked when entering the college.

Xu Mingyuan parked the donkey cart on the side of the road and walked with a bamboo box on his back, so it was not as eye-catching as yesterday. Although all the beings saw him, but with the lessons of yesterday, no one would come out first.

However, yesterday's incident of Xu Mingyuan sleeping in the examination hall has become a well-known thing after Qian Qingfu and some students' intentional diffusion. And today, although no one stepped forward to mock Xu Mingyuan, he talked about it in private, and he was ashamed of it.

Xu Mingyuan ignored the inexplicable gazes of those people, and walked straight to Zhou Binjie and Bai Molou who were standing in the shade of the trees by the wall.

Bai Molou came early today, standing by the white wall, gently shaking the jade fan, and staring at a vine sticking out of the academy. Zhou Binjie stood aside, fanning hard with a large fan in his hand, but he was still sweating, and the clothes on his chest were already soaked with sweat.

Xu Mingyuan stepped forward, smiled and reached out to take Zhou Binjie's fan, helped him fan it, looked at Bai Molou and said with a smile: "Xiaobai, what do you look at, you have to see that the flowers are coming." ”

"There's a tweed here." Bai Molou said coldly without raising his head, his gaze still staying on the vine.

Xu Mingyuan poked his head and saw that between the green vines and leaves, a small white flower really bloomed, hidden between the clumps of green, which looked particularly good.

Enjoying the cool breeze that Xu Mingyuan fanned himself, Zhou Binjie also poked his head and said with a smile: "He likes these strange things, he really let him go to see the flowers, and he doesn't want to take a second look at the lotus pond in the South Lake." ”

Bai Molou ignored Zhou Binjie's words, gently put away the jade fan, turned his head to look at Xu Mingyuan and said, "I heard them say that you slept in the exam hall yesterday, and the questions were done quite quickly." ”

"When will Xiaobai listen to what others say?" Xu Mingyuan stretched out his hand and flicked the emerald green leaves, pretending to be surprised.

"When there are more people who say it, they will naturally hear it." Bai Molou said in a cold voice: "I heard that the deputy capital of Chengdu Mansion invited a lot of people to dinner a few days ago, and Sun Xuezheng was among them. ”

Xu Mingyuan's hand paused slightly, then plucked the tender green leaf, pinched the petiole with two fingers, turned it gently, and said with a smile: "It's really an annoying season." ”

"If he's not stupid, he should know what to do." Bai Molou nodded.

Xu Mingyuan smiled, didn't pick up the topic again, and asked instead: "After today's exam, how many days will it take to release the list?" ”

Zhou Binjie, who had been confused about the conversation between Xu Mingyuan and Bai Molou, finally found an opportunity to interject, and hurriedly said: "It should be able to release the list in three days, because it is the academy examination, so it will be reviewed and corrected directly in the academy, and then you can know whether you are on the list." ”

Xu Mingyuan hummed, handed the fan in his hand to Zhou Binjie, who didn't sweat as much as before, looked at Zheng Zhi and Ma Zhixiao who were walking towards them and nodded with a smile.

After a while, the catcher at the door opened the gate of the academy and began to check.

Because there were five people, Xu Mingyuan directly chose a pair and lined up at the back of the crowd. Zhou Binjie didn't care, holding a big fan to cover the sun that had begun to rise, and Bai Molou didn't say anything.

Today's inspection was still led by Guo Dongcheng, and when Xu Mingyuan was inspected, he really brought him a bag of exquisite pastries, it should be Liu Sanniang who was afraid that he would get tired of eating the cakes.

After entering the academy, there were still special officials who came forward to verify their identity posts. However, Sun Xuezheng doesn't need to lecture today, so after the identity check is completed, all students can go directly to the examination hall to take the exam and wait for the start of the second college exam.

Today's examination hall and seats are the same as yesterday, after Xu Mingyuan entered the examination hall and sat down, he took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and placed it, and began to study the ink.

With yesterday's experience, after the students entered the examination hall, they also began to prepare one after another, so as not to start studying ink like others did yesterday, but they became more nervous.

After all the students entered the examination hall, after a while, an official and two small officials holding thick test papers also walked into the examination hall.

Today, Xu Mingyuan, the official of the examination hall, is still the Li Chuanxian with a pair of sword eyebrows yesterday, Li Chuanxian's eyes swept around the examination hall, and finally fell on Xu Mingyuan in front of him, and he couldn't help but look at him twice.

After the first session ended yesterday, someone from the school station began to transcribe the test papers overnight, and it was he who was in charge of the inspection last night, and happened to see Xu Mingyuan's test paper.

Generally speaking, the name of the test paper is already obscure at the time of transcription, so even the person who transcribed it does not know who the paper he has transcribed belongs to. However, Li Chuanxian stared at Xu Mingyuan for a long time after all, so he recognized Xu Mingyuan's handwriting at a glance.

Because he has already lost his name, it doesn't hurt for Li Chuan to look at the test papers first. Li Chuan first just casually looked at Xu Mingyuan's test papers, and his surprise was even greater than when he was invigilated. Regardless of the beauty of the handwriting on the volume, even the person who transcribed it was full of praise, even saying that it was the best in years, and the title on the volume was difficult to find mistakes.

Li Chuanxian even felt that this kind of test paper could stand out even if it was above the spring. He was originally born in the same Jinshi, and four years ago he was the first, so he naturally knew the difficulty of the Jinshi and the first.

But after seeing Xu Mingyuan's test paper, although he has not seen the poetry and strategy, he has already set a very high future for Xu Mingyuan in his heart.

Xu Mingyuan also found Li Chuanxian's gaze at him, although he didn't know why, but he could still see that Li Chuanxian had no malicious intentions, so he also smiled and nodded at him.

However, being stared at like this by the invigilator in the examination hall, Xu Mingyuan was still a little uncomfortable, so he could only bow his head and hold the ink pier and continue grinding.

Seeing that all the students were seated, Li Chuan first nodded at the two little officials, signaling that they could distribute the test papers.

Today's test paper is similar to yesterday's, the questions and test papers are separated, there are more than a dozen, and there are two blank sheets of paper without crossing, which should be used for drafting.

Xu Mingyuan got the test paper, and first put the title of the poem at the bottom, which can be said to be what he is not good at, it is easy to think more after reading it first, which is not conducive to the previous strategy and Fu's answer.

There are three kinds of test questions today, one poem each, and five strategies. In terms of importance, it should be the policy theory that is the most important, and in the final evaluation, it is also the policy theory that is most valued.

Although poetry is also important to test students' literary skills, it is still much worse than the strategy for national affairs.

The poems are similar, but Xu Mingyuan feels that the poems are slightly simpler than the poems, after all, he is a person who has walked the world's famous rivers and mountains, and he can still write some poems if he asks him to write them.

The questions of the policy theory are generally raised from politics, economics, law, military affairs, government affairs, Cao Yun, and salt politics, and then let the beings answer them.

Xu Mingyuan first opened the question of the policy, read it in general, and already had a bottom in his heart.

The first of the five policy topics is about how to solve the frequent riots in many prefectures on the border of Dawan. The second is related to the problem that the transportation of the section of the Grand Canal excavated by the previous dynasty has been repeatedly blocked. The third issue is about the overflow of illegal salt in the coastal states of Gangnam Province and the chaos of the local salt administration. The fourth is an analysis of the pros and cons of the paper money Jiaozi that appeared in Jiannan Road. The fifth is the view of the pros and cons of the Dawan Dao Domain.

It can be said that these five policy topics involve politics, transportation, salt administration, economy, and military affairs.

This is the most difficult part of the Jinshi exam, which involves a wide range of topics and is beyond the reach of those who are bent on the books of the sages.

Xu Mingyuan put the topic aside, turned out a blank piece of paper as a draft, thought about it for a while, and wrote some key words on top of the draft.

For Xu Mingyuan, strategy is indeed his most dominant point. He was able to understand the questions written in the question just by reading them once.

Let's just say that the state of the state, which was originally a tribal area under the shroud of Dawan's military power, was established as a state and county, and its officials were hereditary by the tribal leader, and the affairs of the state were governed by themselves, and they paid tribute to the imperial court every year. However, the state also had some responsibilities, such as being loyal to the Chinese court and providing military supplies according to the requirements of the imperial court. Dawan has a vast territory, and there are many fetters on the border, and there are several fetters in the southwest of Jiannan Road.

Xu Mingyuan himself doesn't know how many detention states he has been to, so he naturally knows what the detention states are, and he has encountered the problem of frequent riots in the detention states.

Dawan's attitude towards the state is actually similar to the attitude towards Nanzhao, and the state is mostly subordinate to Dawan's tribes and is controlled by Dawan to establish it.

Although Dawan does not collect the tax burden of the state, the requirements for tribute are not low, so the survival pressure of the people in the state is still not small.

Moreover, most of the prefectures are on the border, adjacent to Tubo, Beili and other countries, and are often harassed. Although the military towns of Dawan have the responsibility of defending the prefectures, they often take into account the states and counties under their jurisdiction first, so the prefectures also have many complaints.

Therefore, the problem of riots in the state of Guanzhou has become an important uneasy factor on the Dawan border, in addition to the staring Beili and Tubo.

Back then, Xu Mingyuan and his master had encountered the riots in the Anxi Protectorate of Longyou Dao, which was deep in the Western Regions, but they were soon suppressed by the local military town's Dawan Iron Cavalry, killing more than 100 people, which can be described as full of complaints.

If you haven't seen that kind of scene, or really visited which prefectures, you can't understand what kind of environment these prefectures are facing, and it is difficult to put forward insightful opinions based on just a few records in some books.

It can be said that these places that Xu Mingyuan has followed his master over the years seem to be out of order, but he has already traveled all over the world in more than ten years.