The examination room for the palace examination is on both sides of the Chongzheng Palace, and there are rows of small tables more than two feet high neatly arranged in the examination room, and behind the tables are square stools.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, candidates had to bend their knees and bow down to the case for several seats in the Tang system of the examination table.

Extremely uncomfortable.

By the late Northern Song Dynasty, the Song people were accustomed to sitting on chairs, and it was really miserable to learn from the ancients, so the Southern Song Dynasty continued the system of the late Northern Song Dynasty and abandoned a few tables and chairs.

On the small table, the names of the examinees are pasted, and there are pens, inks, papers, and inkstones given by the emperor.

It's all a good tribute.

After the exam, candidates can take it away, which is regarded as a reward from the official family and a memory of the most important stage of their lives.

In addition to this, there is a knife to correct typos.

Because the test paper is a special rice paper white pomegranate, more than twice the thickness of the general rice paper, it is difficult to write, if you write a wrong word, you are not allowed to alter it, you can only use a knife to gently tell the wrong word to write again, otherwise it will be regarded as a 'dirty paper'.

In the past, it was not admitted, but now it falls directly to the top three, which is also miserable.

Finally sitting in front of the examination table in the magnificent hall, the young tributes couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, they recalled that since childhood, their heads were hanging beams, cones and stabbing stocks, five watches, three watches, after so many tests, so many failures, before sitting in this hall.

The hearts are full ......of hope, excitement, and suffering, and many people have not been able to recover for a long time.

Li Fengwu is different, he was drunk by his father in the morning, how dare he think twice? As soon as I sat down at the table, I tore off the cover and unfolded the roll into a tube, and I smelled the strong scent of ink.

The questions for the palace examination were drafted yesterday by the righteous officials and decided by the officials.

After the exam questions are set, they are engraved and printed overnight by the Imperial Pharmacy with the best secrecy measures in the palace, and there are guards of the Imperial City Division outside to prevent anyone from probing the exam questions.

The printing was completed in the early morning of the test day, and it was distributed to each tribute student before the test.

Li Fengwu saw that there were three questions in the exam, one poem, one endowment and one strategy, the exam time was the whole day, and those who could not complete the paper before the sun set must also hand in the paper, and their results were listed as the last.

Time was still very short, and there was no room for cranky thoughts, so he took a deep breath, and after writing his name on the test paper, he had no distractions and concentrated all his attention on the three questions.

I saw that the title of the poem was 'Luan Dao poem', the title of the poem was 'Minjian Fu', and the topic of the policy was 'Chongxun Deuteronomy' It stands to reason that these three questions are the first to be the first, the second to the poem, and the third according to their importance.

However, in recent years, the status of the theory has begun to rise, so it is impossible to be careless.

After reviewing all three questions, Li Fengwu first started with "Luan Dao Poems", and the questions in the palace examination were very particular, all of which were moved down from the Confucian classics, and would never cause misunderstanding.

For example, this one is from the "Book of Rites": "The use of the cutting knife, the preciousness of the Luan knife, the anti-original repair of the ancient, do not forget the beginning." ，

The tributes who can sit here have a high level of education, and it must be no problem to break the topic and compose poems, it depends on who does it well.

Li Fengwu became a monk halfway, and the famous teacher Lu You guided him very little.

Fortunately, in the past two years, I have benefited a lot from consulting Zhou Bida, and I have consulted Chen Junqing and Jiang Fu in Lin'an, which is also a little talented.

The most important thing is to remember.

It's not too easy to quote the classics.

The only thing he lacks is the talent and talent that has been precipitated over the years.

Of course, there is also the calligraphy attainment of egg pain.

It took half an hour to carefully prescribe words, rhyme, and find chapters and excerpts to complete this "Luan Dao Poem".

Li Fengwu began to attack the "Civil Supervision Fu" again, which is the top priority, even if the status of the policy theory is improved, I am afraid that it will not be higher than the law in a very conservative official family.

It took a whole morning for Li Fengwu to type out the draft of this fu, and just as he was about to scrutinize it, an eunuch shook the bell and said softly: "Please have lunch for all the tributes." ”

Then the servants distributed the meals.

Because it was eating at the examination table, it was definitely not possible to eat seven plates and eight bowls, and the imperial dining room used a plum-red ruler square box similar to the bento of later generations to provide food for the tributes.

Li Fengwu put down the pen and put away the test papers.

When I opened the lid, I saw that there were eight small grids inside, and there was a food in each grid, such as lychee white kidney, fresh fish fried shark, goose palm soup, mandarin duck fried belly, etc., four meats, two vegetarian soups, and a box of noodles, all of which were carefully cooked by the imperial chef, which was naturally delicious.

But it's not a lot and won't hold you up.

This is not the stinginess of the official family or the deduction of the imperial dining room, but for the consideration of the candidates...... If you eat too much, will you still take the exam in the afternoon?

However, most people don't have much appetite, because these dishes can be made by big restaurants in the capital, and they do it better, and they are tired of eating in Kaozimen in Lin'an.

Li Fengwu is no exception, simply filling his stomach, then pushing the lunch box to the corner of the table, and having his own servant to take it away.

He devoted himself to continuing to carve the "Civil Prison Fu".

The time for the palace test was very tight and could not be wasted at will, Li Fengwu only took half an hour to finalize it, and then transcribe it.

At this time, there were still two and a half hours before the end of the exam, and Li Fengwu still had one article left "Chongxun Deuteronomy".

The so-called "heavy Xun to deuteronomy, just Xun is righteous and aspiring" comes from the "Book of Changes", "Xun hexagram" elephant biography, "in fact, it only expresses one meaning, 'up and down Shun also"

The upper and lower shun is also reflecting the thoughts of today's officials.

Li Fengwu couldn't help but sigh secretly, the official Zhao Yan was just nearly forty years old, and it was a good time for him to be in the prime of life and have unlimited scenery.

But he has been emperor for thirty years, and now he has just ascended the throne.

Zhao Yan, the current official of the Great Song Dynasty, was taken aback by Tang Siwei and Zhang Jun to establish the prince not long after he ascended the throne.

Then how to write this policy is about to come out, and even the tone of 'Luan Dao Poem' and 'Civil Prison Fu' should be consistent with this, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve a good ranking.

Fortunately, Li Fengwu discovered this when he was reviewing the question, so the poems were extremely careful...... In fact, 'Luan Dao" is a kind of divine weapon, which here refers to Yue Fei.

For the current official family of the Great Song Dynasty, witnessing the unjust case of the turmoil pavilion with his own eyes made Zhao Yan, an official family who took the world of the Great Song Dynasty as his family property, feel ashamed, but because Yue Fei had interfered in the affairs of Lichu back then, Zhao Yan was also afraid of this.

Although Lichu was to help himself at the beginning, Zhao Yan's perspective is different now.

Naturally, we can no longer look at things as we did back then.

It is in this kind of psychology that this question comes out.

There are many ways to write such poems, such as 'make the best use of things, make the best use of people's talents' or 'swords, soldiers, ominous things, saints should be cautious to use, as an argument, are very good mouths, but combined with the psychology of the official, we know that the most appropriate way to write is actually to try to relieve the knot of the official's heart.

Therefore, Li Fengwu said that the Luan knife is stored in the sheath, which can not only protect the blade, but also not injure himself by mistake.

I don't believe that this poem can't scratch the hearts of officials.

And the tune of "Minjian Fu" is to sing praises of merit, not only sending today's sycophants, but also praising the true sect of Taizu Taizong, which is the safest way to write......

Written with flowers and thousands of Buddhas, it is also to win the favor of the official family.

Test-taking essays, as they should be.

When Li Fengwu finished answering the paper and put down the pen, there was still half an hour before handing in the paper.

I should be able to get a jinshi this time, right?

He breathed a long sigh of relief and wanted to check it carefully, but saw the inner servant Zuo Duzhi and the general servant Xie Shengtang coming over, pointing to the official family on the throne and pointing to Li Fengwu's scroll.

Li Fengwu looked at Zhao Yan in amazement, only to see the official smiling and nodding, and he understood that this was to see his own volume.

Immediately unpleasant, and darkly cool.

It's not because I haven't checked it yet, but it's because the emperor seems to be paying attention to me.

Can you not be scared?

Xie Shengtang put Li Fengwu's scroll away along with the draft.

This scene naturally fell in the eyes of the examiners who were invigilated, but this was not surprising, because the official family was the main examiner.

He was bored on the throne for a day, and he naturally met Hunting Xinxi for the paper he finished answering in advance, of course, it is also possible that the official family knows this person and wants to see it out of concern, in short, it is human nature.

The answer is definitely the latter.

Who doesn't know that the name of Da Song Xiaofeng was given by the official family.

However, the examiner still has to keep an eye on the official's expression to see his reaction to the article, and they have to make the results meet the official's expectations.

Wei Qi and Hong Zun were paying attention, and they wanted to know the wishes of the official family.

I saw the official family smiling while reading the papers, and even laughed embarrassedly.

Wei Qi and Hong Zun were both smiling bitterly in their hearts, your sister's Li Fengwu, this is a good shot of our king's sycophants, this palace test, I'm afraid it will be the first and first.

The official's smile is obviously Hao Ran's smile when the sycophants have been patted.

But to the surprise of the two, Zhao Yan didn't say anything, so he asked people to hand over the volume to the collector and put it in a box.

The roll was taken away, and Li Fengwu didn't know what to do, so he didn't dare to make a second time, so he had to sit and wait for the roll to be collected, but he was very bored, so he looked around......

Among the columns of people, seeing Yang Mai, he seemed to be doing well, and his brows were very stretched.

I didn't see Shi Mida and Zhou Lun, but I saw Mu to ask, with a comfortable face, obviously the exam question was in the ditch he was good at, and I thought about it, this product was originally the champion of this Jinshi department.

Just looked at the various beings of the exam.

Decades later, among the more than 500 people present, how many of them can be in power......

It was easy to get to the dark sky, and then I listened to the examiner's order: "Stop writing!" ”

Immediately, someone came down and took the exam papers and drafts together.

At this time, there were still candidates who failed to complete the transcription, but they did not dare to make a big mistake because of a small loss, so they had to hand in the paper obediently.

Then he beat his chest and stood, frustrated.

The rewinder took all the rolls, packed them in the large box, sealed them, and sent them to the sealing office in the apse.

Under the leadership of the officials of Hongfang Temple, the Gongsheng got up and lined up, saluted the official family and waited for Zhao Yan to leave, and then under the leadership of Yousi, they came out from Donghua Gate.

Ten days later, there will be a roll call, and in between, the candidates are both relaxed and nervous, inevitably painful and happy...... (To be continued.) )