The official examination is placed in the military camp outside the town, and the military academy and the civil academy are on the east road of Xuanfu Town, which is far away. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The canteen in the special military camp is bright and tidy, and it is the best to use it as an examination room, but now that the army is constantly pulling out, the military camp in the town has been emptied a lot, and many canteens are even more empty.

These candidates have been notified in advance, the Xuanfu Town exam is different, although it is two days in a row, but it is not a few days to stay, and they eat and sleep in it, but to take a test in the morning, take a test in the afternoon, and return to the inn to rest after the test.

In addition, after the morning exam, lunch is provided in the barracks, so there is no need to bring bedding and utensils.

The candidates were informed that the examination on the 22nd would be held from midnight to noon in the morning, from midnight to midday in the afternoon, and then one more test tomorrow morning, and the examination for clerks would be over.

Facing a major turning point in fate, Zhao Zhongju and others were nervous, so the sky was bright, and when they went to the Juxian Pavilion Restaurant with the scholars to eat, they had a bit of an unpleasant taste.

In fact, the breakfast is good, porridge and side dishes, and there is an egg per person, which is considered to be a good match and nutritious, but Zhao Zhongju and others are nervous.

And like him, many people have bloodshot eyes and pale faces, obviously the result of staying up late to read books such as Nine Chapters of Arithmetic and Da Ming Law.

"Daddy, you must take the test well, Xiao'er wants to stay in Xuanfu Town, drink porridge and eat eggs every day."

His daughter Xiao'er drank porridge and said innocently to her father.

He reprimanded: "Xiao'er." Drink porridge, don't embarrass your father. ”

She said to Zhao Zhongju gently: "Xianggong, the peace of mind test is ...... I didn't pass the exam this time, and I can take the exam again next time. The same can be ground tofu in Xuanfu Town, so that the relative peace of mind can read the exam. ”

Zhao Zhongju shuddered, looked at his wife's thin and yellow face, and suddenly felt extremely guilty.

She used to be so dignified, but now she is so haggard, all because she has been supporting herself for a year to study, as a big husband. but asked his wife to hold up the pillar of livelihood in the family. I'm ashamed.

He seemed to let go of something in his heart, and laughed loudly: "The lady is right, for the husband to take the test with peace of mind, but he just doesn't ...... It doesn't get in the way. I read the books of the sages. It is to teach Mengxue in Xuanzhen School. It's not that you can't live. ”

There was silence for a while, and many people smiled like Zhao Zhongju: "What this brother said is extremely true, he can't pass the exam." Can't you live? There are so many opportunities in Xuanzhen, there is always a way to live. ”

Some people even praised: "Brother Zhao's family has virtuous help, and we envy it." ”

said that Zhao Zhongju's family was a little ashamed, Zhao Zhongju smiled and laughed, proud in his heart, there is a good wife in the family, what can the husband say.

At the same time, many people's nervousness has also gone, indeed, is it true that if you fail the exam, the sky will fall? Not to live? I'm really scaring myself these days.

Many people upstairs in this area are relieved, drinking porridge and eating eggs with peace of mind, and there is a lot of noise.

Worried, Zhao Zhongju also had a great appetite, and drank his share in a few gulps, and at the same time licked the vegetable plate and porridge bowl cleanly, leaving no leftover soup.

Looking at the surrounding scholars, it is the same, everyone's plate is snow-white and bright, and it is clean without washing.

At present, there is a great drought everywhere in Daming, how difficult is it to be able to eat and drink enough? Therefore, the scholars cherished the food in front of them.

Comfortably put down his dishes and chopsticks, and saw that his daughter was also full, but there were still some surplus porridge and soup left in the bowl, Zhao Zhongju taught her seriously: "Xiao'er, don't waste it, one meal at a time, it's not easy to think about it." ”

took his daughter's porridge bowl and licked the remaining porridge soup inside.

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After breakfast, there were special officials who took these scholars of the Yingfu Inn to the examination room, and instructed them in advance to take their examination cards, without which they were not allowed to enter.

Zhao Zhongju walked on the street, from time to time people converged into their team, all of them were scholars who lived in other inns, although the sky was only slightly bright, but the streets of the town were already noisy, after all, today is the day of the officials' examination, and countless people and officials will pay attention.

There are also local candidates, who are constantly sent out by their families in person, a tearful scene of a mother sending her son, and a wife sending her husband, and most of their family members will be sent outside the examination room, and then they will not be able to enter.

Zhao Zhongju's Hun family and daughter, one left and one right, each grabbed the corner of his clothes, and sent each other speechless all the way. Liu Dongyang's family is also all dispatched, his wife, his son and daughter, his parents, and his sister will accompany him all the way to the entrance of the examination room.

After leaving the city gate, there was a huge flow of people, all of whom were candidates and their families, and hundreds of people were standing on both sides of the road, all watching and pointing, guessing how many people would pass the exam this time.

A huge military camp in the northeast of the town, at this time, a large number of them were vacated as an examination room, and I saw banners at the entrance of the palace, and there were soldiers of the Jingbian Army in helmets and armor standing guard, all holding flint guns in their hands, and the atmosphere was solemn.

The scholars continued to concentrate, gathering according to the direction of the examination cards, and the black pressure was pressed one after another, only gathering on the flat field outside the examination room.

They held their signs, all nervously waiting for the time for the exam.

Finally, when the time came, the sound of several trumpets in the barracks examination room, when the hour arrived, the fence door was opened, Zhao Zhongju and others held their own examination cards, carried their own examination boxes, and entered the sound behind them.

"Xianggong, take the test well!"

"Son, take the test well......"

Jackie Chan, Jackie Chan, Jackie Chan, has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

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Zhao Zhongju, Liu Dongyang and others have been tested by the "test", so they naturally know all the rules in the examination room, and before entering the examination room, a body search is necessary, and here, anything with cheating will be searched out, and then they will be cancelled from the school and will not be allowed to take the test again for life.

And this kind of body search is naturally quite humiliating, and the soldiers who are searched will be touched from head to toe, and even the butt hole will be touched a few times to prevent anything from being stuffed in. There are also everyone's test baskets and test boxes, which must also be checked and checked. I prevent the internal mechanism. Even each person's brush will be taken out to see if it is hollow.

In short, it is very strict, and there is no dignity, and the examination room is low and narrow, you can't stand straight, you can't lie down, you can't turn comfortable, and you eat, drink, and sleep in it for a few days during the exam, which is really comparable to being in prison.

But to be an official for the imperial examination. This level is again necessary. However, the official examination in Xuanfu Town did not have any body search procedures, and the candidates passed directly.

Many people are happy and cold at the same time, it seems that Xuanzhen is extremely confident in coming up with the question. It is useless to determine that the candidate is cheating.

Candidates pass through the gate. Go straight to your exam room. From time to time along the way, there were sergeants or officials to guide, Zhao Zhongju, Liu Dongyang, Huang Bowen, Li Tanran and others were led to their own examination room, which turned out to be a canteen of the Jingbian Army. The interior is clean, bright and tidy, with large tables and chairs.

Next to each table, there is also a stove, when the hands and feet are frozen, you can bake it, this form of the examination room, quite surprised Zhao Zhongju and others, but they didn't care about looking at it, and quickly found their own table according to the sign in their hands, on which were posted with each person's examination number, which was also compiled in 1,000 characters.

Everyone sat down, took out their pen, ink, paper, and inkstone while looking around, and thought at the same time: "Isn't it easy to cheat on each other in such a room?" ”

When they were neutral, a lot of cheating methods came to their minds, or throwing small paper balls, or looking up and down, left and right, but these tables were quite far away, and to look at each other, they needed good eyesight, and there were invigilators in the field, and it was expected that the officials of Xuanfu Town also expected this.

Let's concentrate on the exam, calm down, and wait patiently.

Not to mention anything else, this kind of examination room is indeed much more comfortable than in the past, not in prison, but a formal assessment of knowledge, which reflects the local respect for scholars in Xuanfu Town.

Soon, in the middle of the hour, with the sound of the horn, one by one the invigilators and paper issuing personnel with serious faces entered the examination rooms......

Zhao Zhongju and the others couldn't wait to open their exam paper bags, and before opening them, they felt that this paper bag was too thick.

After opening it, taking out the exam question paper and answer sheet, many people couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

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After the candidates entered the venue, Wang Dou also led the shogunate in the town into the barracks examination room, and the deputy capital protector Li Banghua was also by his side.

Of course, Wang Dou attaches great importance to this officer examination, looking at an examination room not far away, he thought slowly: "This officer examination, I don't know if there will be eye-catching talents?" ”

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Zhao Zhongju and others are not the first birds in the examination room, many people have fought many times, in their impression, although there may be dozens of questions in the imperial examination, but the articles they write are actually only a few of them, and the articles that need to be written may only be less than ten.

However, the view of Xuanfu Town is different, but the exam questions are dense, and they are all questions that need to be answered, which makes people's scalp tingle. And in general, a single paper lists all the exam questions, and then each or several exam questions give one or more answer sheets, with a draft sheet.

The eight-strand text is strictly formatted, and it cannot be offset a little, and it may be exhausting to answer it in the end, but it is not easy to win the exam questions in Xuanfu Town. There are also things to note, such as using the punctuation marks of Xuanfu Town when answering questions.

Looking at the dense exam questions, many people have a feeling of dizziness, but fortunately, they have been tested by the "test", and their psychological quality is still strong.

Just a cursory look, many people nodded secretly, Xuanfu Town's questions are still clear and clear, not as good as the imperial examination, because the questions that can be produced for hundreds of years have been all over the place, and they are often truncated and confused, so that people have to guess for a long time to review the questions.

It's just that when answering the paper, many people who die reading Baguwen still secretly complain, because the coverage of the exam questions on this side is too wide, Confucianism, humanities, world conditions, society, management, everything, it seems that in addition to the accumulation of weekdays, dead reading is useless.

No wonder the examination room is not afraid of candidates cheating, because even if you bring in the Four Books and Five Classics, it will not be useful at all.

There are even laws and militarily military affairs sandwiched in it, such as an exam title: "There was a county official in the Tang Dynasty, and when someone gave a gift when the case was tried, he judged that it was unforgivable and extenuating." If no one gives a gift, it is excusable and unforgivable...... If you are a magistrate, what is your judgment? The number of words in the answer should not exceed 100. ”

"What is my verdict?"

Zhao Zhongju's eyes were straight, and he couldn't put pen to paper for a long time.

There is another question: "Li Qingzhao sued the second prime minister, but was sentenced to prison." If you are a judge, what is your judgment? ”

There is also a military judgment question: "The thief and slave drive the women and children to attack the battle, if the guns are opened, the women and children will die, and my division will live." If you don't open the gun, women and children will live, and I will repeat it. What are your options? Within ten breaths, a decision must be made, and the order must be given now, immediately. Right away! ”

Zhao Zhong's hands trembled. There seemed to be an overwhelming cry of women and children who had been driven away, perhaps as many as their own daughters. Beaten up. Behind. It is a Tartar soldier who is eyeing and waiting for battle.

Another of his own sergeants anxiously waited for his orders, and then he opened his guns. Or don't open the gun?

With Zhao Zhongju, there are many candidates, oh my God, this is the official exam question in Xuanfu Town, it seems that it is more difficult than the Jinshi exam.

However, there are still many people who answer quickly, such as Li Tanran, Huang Bowen and others, because this tests their ability to be sophisticated, analytical, and their own judgment and decision-making ability.

It is no problem to say to them that many questions are fine, but for the dead readers who do not listen to the outside of the window and only read the books of the sages, they are doomed to be miserable in this examination room.

Fortunately, there are still simple places in the exam questions, such as if there is a question that is to write a thousand-character essay silently, or you can write Li Bai's Hu Wuren poems.

Zhao Zhongju's spirits perked up, of course he chose a thousand-character text, "Heaven and earth are yellow, the universe is desolate, the sun and the moon are bright, and the Chen Su column Zhang ......" and other words slowly flowed through his heart, he didn't need to make a draft, and wrote directly on the answer sheet.

The handwriting of the brush is delicate and upright, quite the style of the Tang people.

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Generally speaking, after the exam in the morning, there were many people who sighed and sighed, and their eyes were straight, and the afternoon seemed to be dominated by strategy, and many candidates were in good spirits.

Sprinkled with enthusiasm, splashing ink with a pen, is their favorite thing, but when they get the exam questions, many people have a headache, because the big and small questions are not according to common sense, many questions can be said to be unseen in history, and all dynasties and dynasties can not find clues and traces.

For example, this question: "There is a state, at the beginning of the country, there were more than 340,000 mouths, the summer tax and autumn grain annual amount of more than 140,000 stones, now there are more than 600,000 mouths, and the summer tax and autumn grain annual total of 50,000 stones, why is this?" Please answer. ”

And then there's the question: "What is responsibility?" Please discuss the relationship between the family and the State. ”

And then there was this question: "Please explain the necessity for everyone to pay taxes." ”

Zhao Zhongju and the others were dizzy, and it was not until after the paper was closed that they left the examination room in despair.

They don't even remember what they answered in the paper, they just hope that the answers they answer will satisfy the examiner and the Marquis of Yongning.

After they got out of the examination room, the people outside the venue got the news of the exam questions, and there was an uproar, and all kinds of "experts" were born immediately, and I don't know how many people began to analyze the style of the exam questions in Xuanfu Town, and formed experience for the future examination room exams.

From the facts, Zhao Zhongju's group of people can be regarded as the first batch of people who went to landmines, and it is not unreasonable that they will be respected as "predecessors" in the future.

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Not to mention how to wail all over the field that day, everyone exclaimed that the assessment of the officials in Xuanfu Town was perverted, and the difficulty was many times more difficult than the official examination of the previous dynasties, and the next day's examination was still held as scheduled.

Yesterday's test was the state of the Chinese language and law, which made many candidates secretly call "cheating father", because there is really no trace, but today's arithmetic test, there should be traces to be found, right?

In particular, I heard that there was an arithmetic problem carefully designed by Yongning Hou today, and after solving it, he was immediately treated as a researcher, and many people cheered up their spirits.

It was sent to Zhao Zhongju and others again, and when they opened it, they looked at the first few questions, and it was Zhao Zhongju and others who were weak in arithmetic, and they all showed a relieved smile on their faces, and there were indeed traces to be found.

"Today, there are doctors, not more, hairpins, Shangzao, and public scholars, all five people, a total of five deer, want to divide them by knighthood, and ask how much each has got?"

Such a simple question is that Zhao Zhongju casually calculated and pulled out a few times, and it also came out: "The doctor gets two thirds of a deer, not one of the three deer, one of the three deer, one of the hairpins, two of the three deer, and one of the three deer." ”

"There is a square cone today, two feet and seven feet below, and two feet and nine feet high.

Zhao Zhong did the math and replied, "Seven thousand and forty-seven feet." ”

There is another question: "Today, there are cows, horses, and sheep eating human seedlings, and the seedling master is responsible for the five buckets of millet, and the sheep owner says: My sheep eats half a horse." The owner of the horse said: My horse eats half a cow. Now if you want to decay, ask each geometry? ”

Zhao Zhongju frowned, and he made a lot of calculations, but fortunately, he finally figured it out.

But the next strange question made Zhao Zhongju stunned, what, Diao Fantu's epitaph?

The inscription reads: "Passers-by, there are Diao Fantu's ashes buried here." The following numbers can tell you how long he really lived in his life: one-sixth of his life was a happy childhood; lived a twelfth more, and a thin beard grew on his cheeks; Diao Fantu got married, but he never had children, so he spent one-seventh of his life; In another five years, he had his first son, and he felt very happy; But fate gave the boy only half the glorious life of his father in this world, and since the death of his son, the old man lived in deep grief for four years, and also ended his earthly life...... Can you tell me, how old did Diao Fantu live before he died? ”

At this, Zhao Zhongju pressed his hand on the abacus, and he didn't move for a long time, and his mind was in a mess.

"The tone of this question is a bit strange, could it be that the Marquis of Yongning came out? But the topic is actually very simple, I will respond to it with the Tianyuan technique! ”

Huang Bowen, who was sitting on the table not far from Zhao Zhongju, had a gleam in his eyes, he stroked his goatee, smiled calmly, his fingers were pulling out in the calculation, and a bead flew out, "I set up Tianyuan as the age of Diao Fantu, so increasing and decreasing power, advancing and retreating left and right, rampage......"

He calculated like a rainstorm, and in a short time, he came up with the result, and filled in the answer sheet with confidence: "Eighty-four years old." ”

Looking at Liu Dongyang, Li Tanran, etc., they also had a relaxed smile on their faces, and their fingers were dexterously pulling out and calculating, and they soon came to the same result.

This kind of simple one-dimensional equation, the Southern Song Dynasty had a special Tianyuan technique to deal with, for many candidates, it is not very difficult, listening to the sound of the abacus, only the candidates in this examination room, the people who make the question account for more than half.

Later, there is another problem of a one-dimensional equation: "Measure the depth of the well with a rope, measure it with three folds of the rope, and measure the remaining rope outside the well by four feet, and measure the rope by four folds, and ask how many feet is the depth of the well and the length of the rope?" ”

Huang Bowen and others also calculated it easily, but the later exam questions slowly became difficult, and binary and ternary equations slowly appeared, and even the famous 100 chickens question appeared, of course, it was not the original question in Zhang Qiujian's arithmetic, and the number of chickens and ducks changed.

And in this examination room, only Huang Bowen, Liu Dongyang, and Li Tanran are still calculating, this exam question is more difficult than the other, and they also feel dizzy.

Huang Bowen stared at the title: "There is a chicken Weng today, which is worth ten; Hen hen two, worth five ......"

He took a deep breath: "I ask for the four-element technique...... Each has four elements: Heaven Yuan, Earth Yuan, Human Yuan, and Material Yuan......"

He pulled out the abacus with his fingers, frowned and calculated this quaternary system of higher order equations, calculated for a long time, and finally calculated the result, but he was no longer sure in his heart, whether it was right or wrong.

And these questions are so difficult, what will happen to the arithmetic problems carefully designed by Yongning Hou at the end?

"There is a number, three or three is the remaining two, five or five is the remaining three, seven or seven is the remaining two, and I ask what this number is?"

Huang Bowen shook his dizzy head: "I set up a great Yan to ask for a technique......

"Today there is a triangular stack of fruits, which is worth three hundred and twenty Wen, only the cloud is worth two Wen from the previous one, and each of the lower layers is expensive and expensive, and ask the bottom of each side of the geometry?"

"I ...... the Stacking Technique"

Up to now, only Huang Bowen and Liu Dongyang are still calculating the answer questions in the entire examination room, and Li Tanran is still busy using the quaternary technique to calculate the chicken's problem. (To be continued.) )