The night before dawn was the coldest and darkest.

In front of the Tribute Courtyard, it is very lively.

The scene of thousands of lifters gathering is so spectacular, most of them are handsome and elegant.

Even if the children of rich families look ugly, they can rely on clothes, wear high-quality Confucian shirts, wear elegant Confucian scarves, and then shake their heads and chant a few words of sage poetry, which is full of spirit.

Five more drums.

Five or six forbidden army sergeants in front of the Gongyuan took out a salute, and opened the fence gate in one round of three shots.

It means a good start.

After another round of three rings, the gate of the Tribute Courtyard was opened.

Three more rings, and the dragon gate behind the gate was opened.

Then countless forbidden army sergeants lined up to maintain the order of entry, and then a group of examiners stood in front of the gate, holding signs for all the examinees to line up according to their exam cards.

Most of the process of the spring is no different from the autumn one, Li Fengwu is already familiar with it, and after waving his hand to let Zhou Qingfeng and the others leave, he whispered to Li Julu and asked him to continue to follow Xu Meijiao to investigate the Shangyuan fire.

If possible, it is best to get the evidence before Xu Meijiao.

Only then did he carry a heavy test box and two beds of cotton wool into the fence, find the ranks of the "yellow" character of his examination card, and wait to enter the Gongyuan.

This time's examination card is the "yellow" character thirteen group No. 26, relatively late, this examination card received, in a way, this is also a loophole in the imperial examination, enough to let people know about some people's examination institute.

Li Fengwu was not in a hurry, quietly waiting for the exam, and looking at the people around him.

Li Fengwu participated in the first test this time.

The purpose of the alternative examination is to limit the privilege of the children of bureaucrats and scholars to take the examination, and if the children and relatives of the examiner take the examination, they also need to take the additional examination.

Compared with Zhou Lun, who participated in the Spring Festival this time, although he has no official position, because his father Zhou Bida is the chief examiner of this Spring Festival, he can only participate in the other first exam.

The hall lock test that Li Fengwu participated in is also a kind of other test.

After entering the venue, it is natural to take a shower and check your clothes.

Autumn is okay, after all, it is August, there is still dry heat, but the spring is a bit miserable, although there seems to be a bright sun today, but at this time there are only fish scale spotted clouds on the horizon, and the temperature is extremely low.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Rites and the Guozijian were thoughtful, and in the makeshift bathing shed, there were dozens of stoves constantly boiling hot water, and then hundreds of sergeants poured hot water into the large vat at the top of the shed, mixed with cold water to form warm water, and then flowed into the shed through the bamboo tube to form a simple shower.

The Ministry of Rites and the Guozijian do not provide Confucian shirts, and they still wear their own clothes after washing.

Of course, those clothes have been searched by the soldiers of the forbidden army a long time ago, and there will definitely be no plagiarism in the clothes.

After that, the children gathered in the main square of the Gongyuan.

After the salute was fired, the chief examiner Zhou Bida and the deputy chief examiner Liang Kejia wore official robes and walked to the incense case to offer incense to the holy master.

After that, there is the traditional ceremony, the secretary office knelt to invite the Three Realms Demon Emperor Guan Shengdi to enter the field to suppress, invited General Zhou to enter the field to patrol the field, and then knelt down to invite the Emperor of Qiqu Wenchang Kaihua Zitong to enter the field to take the main test, and invited the Lord Kuixing to enter the field to shine, it is already in the middle of the day.

Then there was the lecture of the main examiner, and finally the booklet wrapped in yellow silk was opened, and the undergraduate spring test questions were taken out.

At this time, many officials of the Ministry of Etiquette copied the test questions and prepared to distribute them to various examination halls, and the candidates entered the second gate to their own examination hall under the leadership of the examination department.

This is not the slightest difference from the autumn slight.

After entering the examination hall, it was already noon, and the examinees took out food one after another to fill the temple of the five organs.

Li Fengwu's examination institute this time is slightly different from Qiuyu.

It is a standard large quadrangle.

Like a pocket box, forming a closed "mouth" character, the four main walls are divided into 40 small rooms, each with only three sides, and its shape is similar to the squatting position of the public toilet in later generations.

This shape is convenient for invigilators and examination inspectors.

The invigilator in charge also ate until all the candidates in the examination hall were quiet, and then walked into the examination hall with two subordinates and four forbidden soldiers, ready to start the examination.

Candidates clean up their desktops and sit in front of them waiting for the exam to start.

The examiner had to announce the discipline of the examination room again before the soldiers of the forbidden army posted the exam questions on the wall facing them.

Li Fengwu and Qiu Yu were not in a hurry to read the exam questions, but first stood up and moved, activated their muscles and bones, warmed up their bodies, and poured a cup of hot water, and then went to read the exam questions.

This time, there are a total of test poems, fu, and treatises, five strategies, ten posts of the "Analects", and ten articles of Moyi in the "Spring and Autumn Period" and "The Book of Rites", which are basically the same as those in the Autumn Period.

Don't look at the simplicity of the words, the amount of questions is huge, it is difficult to complete in one day or two, it is to take the imperial examination for three days, in the past it was still three exams, after the Qingli New Deal, it was changed to a three-day continuous examination.

During the Spring Festival, candidates are to be locked up for three days in the Gongju of the National Prince's Prison.

As a master of taking the test, Li Fengwu runs through the strategy of Qiuqiu,

First do the simple scoring questions, then do the medium difficulty parallel questions, then do the difficult selection questions, and finally the bald questions for selecting talents.

It is to do the scriptures first, that is, to write the classic passages in the Analects silently, which belongs to the basic question of sending points.

After all, the people who participated in the Spring Festival were all the children of Qiu Qiu High School, and those who could pass the Autumn Festival, who did not memorize the Analects backwards and write them silently, not to mention that Li Fengwu was not difficult, and any one of them in the Gongyuan could be easily handled.

Li Fengwu was cautious, writing carefully word by word, before it got dark, he finished the post scripture, and took advantage of the fact that the sky was not dark, carefully checked it several times, and then copied the answer to the post scripture to the exam paper.

With the experience of autumn fur, Li Fengwu quickly ate and washed as soon as he entered the night, then laid out the quilt and shrunk into the quilt to count the dumplings.

If you go to bed too late and are disturbed by the snoring of the person who fell asleep first, you will want to rest tonight.

The invigilator and the examiner are a little harder, and they need to divide the work and keep vigil.

When he woke up in the morning, Li Fengwu really found that many people were in a state of low spirits, and obviously failed to sleep well last night.

are all competitors, the enemy's failure is their own success, Li Fengwu is a little gloating, no way, who calls himself so black.

After eating the food prepared by Zhu Zhao'er, I exercised on the spot, did some squats, and after opening my body, I went to pour a cup of hot water for preparation, and prepared to answer the question while grinding ink.

Because I repeatedly checked the scriptures last night, I don't need to check it again today, and I immediately started to answer the questions in Moyi.

Moyi, also known as Jingyi, is the question and answer questions around the Jingyi and commentaries, which is not difficult for me, after all, I have read so many commentaries during this time, and I have an unforgettable golden finger.

First draft the answer on the scratch paper, and then carefully check and check, and then copy it word by word to the test paper, Kankan finished Moyi before lunch, Li Fengwu ate lunch first, although it is spring, but today is still sunny, there is a little spring sleepiness, meaning to take a nap.

After taking a nap, I went to wash my cold face and sober up, packed up and sat down to prepare for the most important poetic theory.

In the Great Song Dynasty Imperial Examination Examination, the requirements must be rhythmic poetry, and Fu is also a rhythmic endowment, which is quite demanding, and the requirements for candidates' literary literacy and basic skills are extremely high.

For example, poetry, first pay attention to a broken question, and the Ming and Qing Dynasty Bagu text in the broken question, requiring candidates to find out the source of the question from the "Thirteen Classics", and then solve the question, which requires candidates to memorize the "Thirteen Classics" to be familiar with it.

The poems written by the imperial examination are different from ordinary poems, they are official poems, and they may even be seen by the Son of Heaven, so in terms of ideological content, they must be great and upright, lacking agility and spiritual rhyme, so that the examination Zi's mastery of the form and words of the poem will be increased, and the poems made can not be a little wrong in the battle and rhyme, of course, it must be relevant.

If there is a slight mistake, then I'm sorry, only down.

The same is true for the rhythm, not only with rhyme, but also with rhyme, and even the order is also exquisite, what is the beginning and the end of the eight rhymes, more difficult than filling in the words.

This is really an exam for ordinary scholars, especially those who are talented and talented, and they often have a bad side in the exam-taking poems: they like the well-written poems and sentences, but they are not perfect in form, which makes it extremely difficult for people to choose.

Li Fengwu spent an afternoon composing the poems, carefully checking them, and then revising them repeatedly until there were no problems with the form, and then they copied them to the test papers.

After completing the scriptures, Moyi and poems, tomorrow's task is that the only thing left is to plan the five paths, and there is plenty of time, and Li Fengwu does not have the slightest worry.

However, for the sake of insurance, Li Fengwu decided to take a risk.

After washing, I didn't rush to sleep, but in the bed to deliberate the five strategies, and after having a rough prototype in my heart, I found that the snoring came and went, so I had to smile bitterly.

Sure enough, it really hurts to sleep late.

Early in the morning of the second day, the sky was slightly bright, Li Fengwu got up, he didn't sleep well last night, and his spirit was slightly sluggish today, but fortunately today is the last day, just stick to it.

After washing up, I began to write the first draft, and then carefully considered and revised it repeatedly, and finally prepared the draft at the end of the afternoon, and then it took more than an hour, and at the end of the day, the five policy theories were also copied to the test paper.

However, this is not the end of it, Li Fengwu still needs to check it carefully.

This inspection is mainly to check whether there are any typos in the transcription, and there is an extremely important thing: evasion. For example, the name of the current official family is Zhao Yan, so the word Yan should never appear in the test paper.

And the name of Emperor Zhao Gou is also to be avoided, not only the names of today's officials and emperors, but also the names of Taizu Taizong and the emperors of previous dynasties, all of which must be avoided, otherwise they will be regarded as disrespectful and dethroned.

After careful inspection, after confirming that there was no problem, Li Fengwu let out a sigh.

After answering the answers, you can't hand in the paper in advance, until the end of the Shen period, a dense drum beat sounded in the Gongyuan Square, signaling that it was time to close the paper. (To be continued.) )