"Damn, I've been getting better and better lately, but I don't dream anymore!" Wu Jie felt a burst of chagrin in his heart.

He needs to travel back to modern society, but the higher the fit between his soul and the current **, the fewer times he travels back.

The last time I crossed was a year ago, and half a month has passed, but I haven't gone back again.

Now it is impossible to go back to modern society to check the relevant information.

Besides, even if you go back, it may not be easy to find a suitable test poem, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

In fact, in the past six months, Wu Jie has also checked the trial poem, the problem is that the quality of the suitable is not high, and the slightly eye-catching one is not deductible.

It's a little annoying.

Wu Jie was a little frustrated, his goal was to enter the top three, judging from the eight-strand model text and strategy model text he had at hand, even if he took the first place in Huiyuan, there was no difficulty. If there is a problem, it will be in the trial poem.

This poem is not good, although with the article at hand, it is not difficult to become a jinshi in the future. But if you encounter a nitpicky examiner, or if you are extremely disgusted with your own test post poem, you will deduct the score, but I am afraid that you will really be brushed into the second grade.

Anything can happen in the imperial examination.

Do you really want to write it yourself?

Wu Jie was a little helpless, and then, he also went to the street to buy a lot of exam papers issued in the market for the previous examinations, and he also tried to write a lot of trial poems, but they were not satisfactory, but he made himself mentally exhausted.

Think about it, everyone in the poetry world, Wu Jiewu Shizhen of a generation of poets wants to be included in the trial poem, isn't it a joke to pass it out? This matter may not be enough to make Wu Jie's name fall to Sun Shan, but it is related to his face, and he cannot be dealt with carelessly.

Time flew by, and in a blink of an eye, it was February 6th.

This day was the day when Zhang Bang announced the examination procedures and the list of examiners for the 40th spring of Jiajing.

Even if he knew in advance who the examiner's surname was, Wu Jie still rushed to Gongyuan Square with Lian Laosan early in the morning to see the list.

The exam is scheduled for February 9, and there will be three consecutive exams on February 9, February 12 and February 15. The procedures and rules are similar to those of the township examination, the only difference is that candidates cannot leave the examination room halfway and must stay in it for nine days.

After today's list, tomorrow I will rest and prepare for a day, and then I have to order the names for a whole day, and then enter.

As soon as I arrived at Gongyuan Square, I saw many acquaintances, all of whom were people who came to take the exam. Many people met with Wu Jie in the literary meeting a while ago.

Seeing him, the whole square was a sensation, and people kept coming forward to talk.

"It turned out to be Shizhen, the little brother has been waiting here for a long time, just to see you."

"It's okay, Shizhen has finally arrived. I thought Shizhen wanted to be that noble man, disdainful of fame! ”

"Ouch, this is the world-famous Wu Shizhen, who can be the same year as you, and it is an honor to be able to do it!"

"Shizhen, it's a coincidence, a few of our classmates are about to go to the restaurant to talk, go together, go together."

Even the third child saw so many people at once. Excited blush. If it had been before, I would have been at a loss. But his lord is a close minister of the Son of Heaven and has a noble status. Even the emperor has seen the old three companies, and he is used to the big scene, but he is no longer worried.

Seeing so many acquaintances, Wu Jie smiled and bowed his hand one by one, with a grandmaster demeanor: "Everyone, I still want to go to see the list." ”

Some people laughed and said: "Shizhen, there are so many people in this square." I have to wait to squeeze to the top of the list. I don't know how long it will take. Anyway, I've already seen it, whether it's the exam procedure or the examiner's name. It's all memorized, so let's talk while we drink. ”

Wu Jie was also a little upset when he saw the black crowd on the square. There are more than 10,000 candidates in this meeting, and the small square is crowded, and the three floors in front of the list are full of people, and there is really no way to squeeze through. …,

This is also the first time he has taken the general examination, and there are still many differences between the general examination and the township examination.

These are all old people in the same year, so you might as well ask them for advice.

So, Wu Jie didn't shirk, just nodded generously, and was surrounded by a group of people and went to a restaurant next to Gongyuan Street.

The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors.

When he was able to drink into the alley, a lifter sighed and stopped drinking: "The little brother has been lifted since the last time, after entering Beijing to go to Jinshike." He has lived in the capital for nine years, and his name is Sun Mountain. After studying hard here for ten years, this Keben is determined to succeed. But I don't want to, the number of admission places in this phase is so small, it seems that this phase will return empty-handed again. ”

Hearing him say this, several other lifters were also full of sadness, and sighed again and again: "Eighty-one admission places, and they are divided into three states, north, south, and middle, and there are only about 20 people on each list, which is too tragic." ”

Another person slapped the table angrily because he drank too much wine: "How can this be reasonable, the admission quota for the previous session examination was between 300 and 400, why did it become 81 this year, and I don't know what the cabinet thinks?" The elders of the cabinet are also from Jinshi, don't they know the suffering of the scholars for ten years? ”

Some people even sneered: "The cabinet is not all from a serious background." ”

"Yes, it's Yan Shifan, it must be him!" The drunken lifter shouted: "National thief, national thief, swear to kill!" ”

Wu Jie also felt that the admission quota for this phase was really small, isn't it embarrassing?

However, this was set by Emperor Chrysostom, and no one else could do it. Wu Jie naturally won't explain it to everyone, so let Yan Shifan bear this notoriety.

After a long time of uproar, the crowd finally quieted down. There was a middle-aged person who was taking the examination for the first time and asked carefully: "How is this north-south middle school three list divided?" "He took decades to get a lifter, and compared with everyone here, he had the lowest status.

It immediately attracted a group of disdainful glances.

Someone sneered: "Lin Juren doesn't even know this, oh, by the way, you are a person who is a talent this year, it seems that the ranking is still very low." ”

Everyone whispered, but after laughing, they still told Lin Juren in detail about the score.

Wu Jie had also heard about the score, but the specific details were not too clear, and he was interested.

When I heard it, I realized that this matter was originally done by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, he used the imperial examination to select scholars and implemented the civil official system.

At that time, after years of war and turmoil in the north, it was ruled by the Mongols for many years, and the place was ruined, and culture and education were not flourishing. On the contrary, the first literary style in Jiangnan is prosperous, but it has produced many talents.

Reflected in the examination room, most of the people who can be promoted in the middle of the jinshi are southerners, and there are only a handful of northern scholars.

There has even been a strange thing that the entire Jinshi Department is all southerners, and the northern scholars are not successful.

This incident caused an uproar in the world, and the northern scholars fought hard, causing a great **.

In desperation, Zhu Yuanzhang divided the list of Jinshike into three parts, and stipulated the admission ratio, which was a preferential policy for northern scholars.