Hearing that he was going to choose a topic, Wu Jie perked up, straightened up, and raised his head to look over.

If he still has any expectations for this palace exam, it is to see what the emperor is, and it is best that this exam question is different from the real history, so that he can play to his heart's content. This is a suspense in this palace exam, and another suspense is that he defiled himself in front of Jiajing that day, and I don't know how Jiajing feels about himself, will he order himself to enter the Hanlin Academy?

As soon as Huang Jin's voice fell, Yan Song, the chief reader of the palace examination in this issue, the head of the hundred officials of the imperial court, the first assistant of the cabinet and the secretary of the ministry, unfolded a file and presented it to Jiajing.

If you guess correctly, there should be more than ten questions on this volume, and the emperor needs to choose one question as the exam question.

In general, these topics are formulated in advance by the cabinet ministers. However, there was such a big case of fraud in the examination room of this session, more than 100 candidates cheated, and Vice President Zhao Wenhua also lost his head.

Naturally, the emperor would not hand over the task of solving the problem to others, but would draw it up himself.

But formally, he still has to go, and Yan Song is probably very dissatisfied, and his face is uncomfortable.

Emperor Jiajing lifted the red pen and was about to tick the topic. But he stopped and looked down at the examinee below. His gaze shuttled through the crowd for a while, and finally fell on Wu Jie.

After looking at it for a long time, I went around the topic and set a question.

Huang Jin: "Thank you, the minister of reading the papers." ”

Immediately, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Li Chunfang and others walked behind Yan Song and bowed down to the emperor, a total of eight people.

Jiajing held his hands weakly, and the eight of them straightened up.

"The minister who reads the paper takes the oath!"

With Huang Jin's shout, I heard Yan Song, Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng and others singing and reading a certain article, and what kind of rhyme should it be. Anyway, it's a text that praises virtue. Don't listen to it.

Yan Song and the other eight people are the ministers who read the papers of the palace examination. After the candidate's paper in the temple examination is counted. The scroll was to be read to the emperor by the eight themselves. Therefore. In a sense, Yan Song, Xu Jie, and others should be the teachers of the candidates. It's just that the emperor is the main examiner of the palace examination, and the examiners cannot be called the presidents.

Wait until Yan Song and the others finish singing. Wu Jie originally thought that Jiajing would personally issue the title. But the reading officer and others were a burst of "Long live, long live, long live!" ”

The chariot on which the emperor sat was lifted up by the eunuchs. He came down from the temple and walked away in a crowd.

Then, the eight ministers dispersed. It is estimated that he will have to go back to the ministry to deal with the government affairs at hand. Among these people. Except for Zhang Juzheng, who is younger, they are all old. The palace exam will take one day, and if you stay here, I'm afraid that I won't be able to endure it. Besides, there are a lot of things going on in the cabinet and ministries.

Only a few ministers remained, including the official of the Ministry of Rites who had previously guided them to Wu Jie.

The temple test is not related to it. It's another strategic topic, and it's useless to bring in a cheat sheet. Candidates can all go this far. The worst can also get a seven-grade magistrate, who is willing to make small moves to ruin the future?

Besides, this is the palace, aren't you afraid of losing your head?

Therefore, the ministers of the supervision and examination all seemed very relaxed, and when the emperor and the ministers left, they all sat down on their chairs and picked up a cup of strong tea to refresh themselves.

Only then did the candidates let out a long breath at the same time, and their bodies relaxed.

Shen Shixing happened to be sitting next to Wu Jie, and couldn't help but whisper to himself: "The majesty of the Heavenly Family is so shocking, just now I only saw a circle of bright yellow light, and I didn't even see what Long Live looked like, it's a pity!" ”

Wu Jie couldn't help but smile: This Shen Shixing is only twenty-five or sixteen years old now, but his courage is much greater than that of other candidates. In real history, this guy became sleek and sophisticated as soon as he entered the cabinet, but his current appearance was very different. ..., hearing Shen Shixing's words, the proctor frowned, and was about to scold sharply, when he heard "Boom!" A cannon rang out, and he swallowed the words he was about to say back into his stomach.

A chief eunuch shouted: "The question has been awarded!" ”

The other candidates were also shocked at the same time.

A big yellow silk was put in the hands of the proctor and examiner, and the proctor took a look at it, and immediately said loudly: "The current affairs are together, and the Xinjiang salt iron tea horse is strategic!" ”

This question asks candidates to put forward their own opinions on the northern frontier defense and mutual markets, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the imperial court's policy of exchanging horses with the steppe peoples with salt and iron.

This kind of topic is not difficult, the policy of exchanging grain, salt and iron for horses has been around for a long time, starting from the Western Han Dynasty, and it has been more than 1,000 years now. There are many such articles, and there are certain routines to follow.

Candidates have read books for many years, I don't know how many such articles have been read, how do they not know what to write and what not to write?

Obviously, the emperor did not want to embarrass the Chinese newcomers on the topic. After the fraud in the field, the candidates already knew what was going on, and they knew that the exam question they would take was the emperor's imperial system.

Everyone was brisk, and they were more grateful to the emperor.

Hearing this topic, Wu Jie was disappointed: it hasn't changed, this question is exactly the same as the 40-year palace test in Jiajing in real history, it seems that my idea of free creation has been dispelled.

Wu Jie had already prepared a model essay before, which was written by Hou Fangyu, one of the three masters of ancient literature in the early Qing Dynasty.

Hou Fangyu is a member of the Restoration Society, and a master of articles. The Book of Dolgon that was written by Shi Kefa to Dolgon was written by him.

This person has a bad reputation in history because he was a traitor. Qing man Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan" took him as the protagonist and made a mockery of this Hou scholar.

However, when it comes to the article, this person is very good.

He used this article to cope with this exam, and naturally there was no problem.

Wu Jie also thought about not relying on plagiarism, but making his own one. But the problem is that this question is really simple, and after the general candidates start, they will definitely start from the current situation of the northern defense, pointing out that if they do not export salt, iron and grain to the grassland peoples, if there is a famine on the grassland, they will definitely go south to plunder. But if there is too much output, but there is no line, the strength of the grassland people is strengthened.

Therefore, the so-called deeds are excessive, but too much. The annual output of materials must be strictly verified. In the famine year, the output is a little more, and the ordinary year is strictly controlled, supplemented by education.

In fact, this question has become an eight-strand essay with strict routines so far, and other candidates will definitely be able to do it very well. No matter how unconventional you are, you can't write better, and you may be self-defeating and be compared to others.

Wu Jie could only sigh: Let's copy! Pity me Wu Jie has participated in so many imperial examinations, and he really relies on his true ability, but he only has a few questions. Copy it down all the way, copy a name all over the world, ashamed, ashamed!

Hearing Wu Jie's sigh, Shen Shixing next to him felt strange in his heart and couldn't help but look over.

In this hall test, if nothing else, the champion should be produced between him and Wu Jie. Except for himself and Wu Jie, no one can see this subject.

In this regard, Shen Shixing still has a strong self-confidence.

Speaking of which, he and Wu Jie are both friends and competitors, sympathizing with each other and appreciating each other.

"Wouldn't Shizhen do this question, impossible?" Shen Shixing thought about it for a while, and suddenly understood: "He thinks that this question is really easy, and he can't show the means!" ”

Famous people like them are not afraid of off-topic and strange topics, if they do a good job, they will add a little more outstanding and outstanding, and they will also make others lose convincingly. ..., I'm afraid of the most common basic questions, this kind of question is rotten on the street, and there is a certain routine, so anyone else can do it. As long as you follow common sense and write smoothly all the way, and the text comes again, it is a good article.

However, this routine has been tested by time, and if you want to write it out of the rules, it is easy to make a mess, and it also invisibly puts a shackle on people.

smiled in his heart: "Shizhen was also stumped, haha, it's funny." ”

"It seems that if you want to win Brother Shizhen and get this champion, it depends on this opportunity!" Shen Shixing suddenly came to his senses, wrote the title, and pondered intently.

After reading the questions, the examiner placed the yellow silk on a black lacquered wooden board.

Then, there were four officials from the Ministry of Rites carrying the wrench and parading around the examination room so that the candidates could see clearly.

This board is called the Jade List.

The candidates sharpened their ink, took out their papers, wrote the questions on the papers, and then looked up: Ministers to ministers......

This is the standard format for the question of the temple examination, and these four words must be written at the beginning.

By now, the candidate is already a de facto Ming official, so he naturally wants to be called a minister.

After writing these four words, the candidates all stopped writing and looked down to think about what to write next.

There is no draft word for the palace examination, and it needs to be completed at one time, and the test is the overall planning ability of the newcomers.

In the past, there were people who accidentally wrote the wrong sentence or left a smudge when writing the question.

Wu Jie sighed, but without thinking, he picked up the pen and began to write quickly on the volume, and in a moment, he wrote hundreds of words.

Shen Shixing next to him felt a pang in his heart: Brother Shizhen started writing the scroll so quickly, he didn't think about it at all, he was so good, could it be that my previous guess was wrong.

Thinking of this, he didn't dare to think about it anymore, and hurriedly wrote it one by one with Wei Bei, which had a favorable standard.

Unlike other examinations, the palace examination does not need to be transcribed except for sealing the candidate's name and place of origin. Therefore, candidates do not need to use that nasty pavilion style composition. In fact, no matter what calligraphy font you use, as long as you write well, there is a score bonus.

After all, the candidates in the palace examination have already had the reputation of Jinshi, and the examiner is not very willing to read the article carefully, if you write really well, let the examiner's eyes light up, maybe you can give you a good score.

In addition, the questions of this exam are really uninteresting, but in a sense, it has become a big competition in calligraphy