Su Xun and Chen Xiliang have both suffered from the poor requirements of poetry, so when cultivating the younger generation's studies, they have always taught poetry as a key point. Since Chen Ke came to this world, he has learned rhyme, battle, and fate...... In the daily competition with the Su Shi brothers, he laid a solid foundation for poetry and learned how to get high scores in the exam.

For example, this "Tiande Qingming Poem" requires the rhyme of the flat words in the title, and it is limited to five words and six rhymes. First of all, you have to understand that this is from "Mao's poems" 'Qing Temple, worship King Wen also'Note: 'Tiande Qingming, King Wen Xiangyan.' To solve the problem, it is necessary to dig out and pull several contents in the title from their top and bottom, left and right, front and back, front and back, front and back, inside and outside. It looks clever and interesting, but in fact, like the later Bagu essay, it does not have any thoughts or feelings of the author himself, let alone make a discussion.

If it can be close to the topic, and there is no mistake in the use of rhyme and antiphon, the poem is qualified, and if the rhetoric is gorgeous on this basis, it is considered superior. If you can write one or two aphorisms, you will be a top master. But if you want to write a famous article, I am afraid that the poet saint will not be able to do it if he is reborn......

As for the song "Music in the People and Not in the Voice", it is the same, four or six pun texts, limited to eight rhymes, and required to be used in order according to the limited rhyme, and the rhyme words are embedded in the text. And to use allusions, talk about battles, and explain things, it is really like a dojo in a snail shell, which is a great test of a person's level, knowledge accumulation and on-the-spot performance.

Chen Ke asked himself if he was not a genius like Su Shi, where did he dare to be careless? After he typed out the draft, he scrutinized it word by word, deliberated it repeatedly, and did not even eat lunch, and did not finish the three poems until after noon.

After carefully transcribing it, he looked at the hourglass, and there was still an hour before it got dark, so he carefully dried the test paper and put it in his pocket. Then copy down the five policy questions. One by one, he didn't start writing until dark.

After eating some dry food in the evening, Chen Ke lay on the bed cover and continued to play the draft. After a while, there was a thunderous snoring in the examination room, and most of the candidates didn't fall asleep last night, but today they naturally slept deeply, and the snoring was a cut higher than yesterday. Of course, there were those who couldn't sleep for two nights in a row. Red-eyed people who want to kill ......

Chen Ke didn't fall asleep right away. But he was mentally prepared, so he closed his eyes and continued to beat his abdomen, until the second half of the night. Wait until dawn. The invigilator called early, he went out to wash up briefly, and hurried back to the table. Copy the five abdominal manuscripts that were typed last night on the manuscript paper, carefully consider and revise them, and copy them into the test paper.

After checking it again from beginning to end, confirming that there were no typos and not forgetting to avoid it, Chen Ke breathed a long sigh of relief and saw that it was just noon.

But as the name suggests, the locked hall test is to lock them in the office for the exam, and never open the door until the hour. Chen Ke had no choice but to put the exam papers into the roll bag. Eat something, then put down the rolls and get ready for a good night's sleep.

The invigilator walked over and said with a dark face, "What do you sleep in broad daylight?" ”

Answer: "Nap ......"

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As soon as the time came, a tight gong sounded in the examination room, and the candidates had basically finished answering the papers. The examiner collected the papers, tied up and sealed the examination papers in the ten examination rooms, and then opened the door of the Gongyuan and let the candidates leave.

Chen Ke carried the examination box on his back and carried the cover papers, and joined Song Duanping and Wulang in the courtyard and walked out of the tribute courtyard. And their exam papers. It was sent to the reel station. In the winding room, there is a take-up officer who checks each test paper first. Whether there are any irregularities mainly depends on whether the words are written on the outside of the grid, and then to see if there are marks on the inside. If there is, this test paper will be singled out, and it will be completely out of play.

Passing papers will be stamped with an exam number and handed over to the seal office. The duty of the seal office is to blur the name, that is, to seal the candidate's personal information and seal it, even if the examiner cannot tear it open.

After that, it was handed over to the transcription office, and all the scribes were transcribed by 100 people, and the examination papers were transcribed with a red pen, and each copy must be copied in its original form, and there could be no mistakes in one stroke at a time...... Include typos. On the completed volume, the name of the person who transcribed it should be indicated.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the transcription, the examination papers are also transferred to the reading center. In a group of two people in the reading room, you read me to start reading wrong, and after confirming that it is correct, you should also indicate the person who read it. A copied test paper is signed by three people, and all three will be held accountable if there is a problem in the future.

The examination papers were completed to prevent fraud, and then they were sent to the inner curtain officer...... There is only a curtain between the courtyard where the test papers are processed and the marking papers are marked. But this curtain is insurmountable, you can only speak through the curtain, people outside can't go in, people inside can't come out, this is absolutely not violated, in case the inner curtain and the outer curtain people collude.

The inner palm received the red paper sent by the outer curtain and gave it to the chief examiner Xie Jingchu, but Bachelor Xie did not read the papers, but distributed the test papers to the examiners of the same subjects. Although the imperial examination of the national dynasty opened more than ten subjects at the same time, and the jinshi was only one of them, but today, the imperial court is the only noble jinshi, so the entrance to the scholar department is much more than the Ming Jing, the Ming Law and other subjects combined.

Therefore, there are also the largest number of fellow examiners who are sentenced to the Bachelor's Examination, as many as 28...... Fortunately, the most important thing in the Great Song Dynasty was officials. In order to avoid suspicion, bundles of test papers are numbered, and the same examiner shakes the lot, and which bundle is read when it is shaken.

Each examiner reads about 200 copies, first reading the scriptures, and then reading the Moyi, which has standard answers, and is the easiest to read. Following the same standard as the examiner, candidates can make a maximum of one mistake in the ten questions of the scriptures, and a maximum of two mistakes in the ten questions of Moyi, and the sum of the Moyi and the scriptures cannot be wrong in a total of two...... Only such a volume can be qualified to be read further.

If you don't meet the requirements, you will be deposed directly, and the examiner won't even look at it, regardless of the flowers written behind you. Some people think that this is unfair, but it does greatly reduce the workload of the examiner, and it makes sense...... If you don't even have solid basic skills, you can see how your learning attitude is. How can such a candidate be dismissed from the Ministry of Rites?

Probably at this point, two-fifths of the candidates will be dethroned, but the real difficulty lies in the back - poetry theory and policy theory are both subjective questions, and the examiner must read through them over and over again in order to judge the merits. Afraid that the examiner will be perfunctory, they will ask them to read the candidate's essay sentences. Only by adding punctuation can you prove that you have read it, and that every copy should be punctuated.

It's not enough to read intensively, you also have to write reviews. Regardless of whether you are admitted or not, you must give reasons...... 200 test papers, 1,600 articles, and the requirement to be completed within 10 days can definitely make people collapse.

But no one dares to be perfunctory, because the approved test papers will finally be sent to the Ministry of Rites for grinding and reviewing the examiner's marking work. Even if it's just incorrect punctuation, it's a misjudgment. If there is a misjudgment, you will be fined, and if you misjudge, you will be demoted...... The pressure can be imagined, so no one wants to be this fellow examiner, and every time the Ministry of Rites has to be forcibly assigned.

The same examiner will send the paper that he thinks is desirable back to the examiner, and the deputy examiner will first read it, and if he thinks it is desirable, he will write a 'desirable' and hand it to the examiner, and if he thinks it is not desirable, he will send it back.

The examiner generally does not refute the face of the deputy examiner, and finally approves the word 'medium', and the candidate who answers this paper is selected.

In addition, the two examiners also have the responsibility of reviewing the examination papers of the locked hall...... Because of the introduction of anti-fraud methods such as locking the hospital, sealing, and transcribing, the papers of candidates who are locked in the hall no longer need to find another person to read the papers, but are sent into the inner curtain together with the papers of other candidates, and then randomly assigned to two fellow examiners.

It's just that after the two of them have finished grading, the two examiners have to search all the papers to make sure that there is no favoritism.

On this day, it was the thirteenth day of grading, and Mr. Xie was checking the examination papers of the locked hall test. He listened to the instigation of Wen Sangongzi, and regarded Chen Ke as a merry scholar who was addicted to relying on red and green and did not do his job. Mr. Xie is an old-fashioned reader, and he is determined to suppress impetuousness and establish righteousness, so he has the intention to pick out Chen Ke's volume and dethrone it.

But there is no name on the scroll, and even the handwriting is not his own, so how can he identify it? However, Master Xie has an insight, he knows that Chen Ke is a student of Ouyang Xiu, and Ouyang Xiu hates Taixue the most in his life, and his students must not be able to write Taixue style.

So Master Xie focused on the 'theory' to find out the Taixue style and take the middle, and the non-Taixue style was not taken...... There are really a few good articles that are not too academic, but Mr. Xie is ruthless.

A few days later, the ranking was agreed with the deputy examiner, and the examiner agreed, and usually except for the first few places, the ranking of the liberation examination was not important, because it was only a qualification to participate in the tribute examination. Therefore, the examiners were more relaxed and quickly drew up the rankings.

By the 28th of August, the two examiners and their respective scripture rooms were in the public court to fill in the list. I filled in the main exam first, and when I saw that the first place was the famous Liu Ji, the examiners cheered loudly...... The recognized solution element was taken, which shows that they were fair in grading.

The second name is Su Shi, this candidate is relatively unfamiliar to everyone, but everyone was amazed by his article, thinking that it was really better than Liu Ji, but because he was not too academic, he was dropped to second by Bachelor Xie. It's convincing.

The third is Zeng Gong, this is Ouyang Xiu's high feet, and naturally no one is unconvinced.

The fourth place, Su Zhe, is actually a brother with that Su Shi, the examiners laughed, but it was a good story.

Then fill it in, and the fifth place is Lu Huiqing...... 10th Chen Qi, 11th Zhang Zai, 16th Zeng Bu, 28th Jia Jia, 38th Zeng Fu, 68th Lu Deqing, 170th Cheng Hao...... The examiners have already reached a consensus that the level of the Guozi invigilation examination in this subject is extremely high, and I am afraid that the people who will solve the problem will basically be able to get to the top in the coming year.

After filling in the 500 positive forehead lifters, fill in the lock hall test. I saw the unwinding officer singing the number of the first volume, and the scribe found the corresponding test paper, opened the name in public, and sang loudly: "The surname of the middle is Chen, Mingke, Yizhou Qingshenren, and the official left Chengshi Lang ......"

......The officials had all heard of Chen Ke's name, and they all laughed and said: "Sure enough, it's him, there is no strong hand in this section lock hall test, I'm afraid I have to wait until the palace test to weigh his two catties and ......."

But he didn't see that Bachelor Xie's nose was about to be crooked, he asked Chen Ke to read the original volume, and it was right. couldn't help but be extremely depressed, and scolded in his heart, aren't you a student of Ouyang Xiu, writing your sister's too academic style!. (To be continued)