After the test paper was sent, Yi Jiuxiao first carefully browsed it, and it was actually different from the previous exam requirements.

The state and county examinations all require one poem and one fu, but this national examination paper can be used regardless of poems and fu, and there is no limit to the number of articles, but it requires no less than 500 words, and the subject matter is also very broad, describing rivers or mountains.

This may seem like a loose proposition, but it's not simple. If the candidate simply writes poetry, it is difficult to write a 500-word long poem in a few hours, and it is not so easy to write a 500-word poem simply as a fu. Besides, it is just an endowment, whether it seems too monotonous, and finally affects the examiner's score.

Yi Jiuxiao thought about it again and again, and felt that it was better to write a long poem and a short poem, and it was the examiner's ultimate intention to have both. But he didn't want to write it on his own, so he still used the method of the first two times and borrowed famous works.

He remembered a poem by Wang Bo in the Tang Dynasty, "Poems of King Teng", which is a classic work describing landscapes, and wrote it on the answer sheet:

King Teng's high pavilion is near Jiangzhu, and Pei Yuming Luan sings and dances. The painting building flies to the south of the clouds, and the bead curtain rolls up in the west mountain rain at dusk. The shadow of Xianyuntan is long, and the stars change a few degrees of autumn. Where is the emperor in the pavilion now? The Yangtze River is empty and artesian outside the threshold.

As for the Teng Wang Pavilion in the poem, there is definitely no Qi State, if others ask about him, they will say that they made it up by themselves, and they don't ask for realism anyway.

Since I used Wang Bo's poems, I simply didn't bother the two masters, and borrowed Wang Bo's words, so I moved Wang Bo's "Preface to King Teng's Pavilion" over, because it involved many characters and place names, Yi Jiuxiao was still not lazy, and made abridgements and adaptations.

In September, the order belongs to the three autumns, the water is exhausted and the cold pool is clear, the smoke is condensed and the twilight is purple. Just ride on the road, visit the scenery in Chong'a, the Changzhou of the emperor, and get the old museum of the immortals. The floor is towering and green, and the sky is heavy on the top;

... ... (numbers omitted)

Seeing that five hundred words was more than enough, Yi Jiuxiao stopped the pen in his hand, but he was not in a hurry to hand in the paper. When he was idle, he peeked at the field, and saw that most of the people were struggling to write, and only a few were scratching their ears and cheeks, as if they had exhausted their thoughts.

The examination room is very large, and the dozens of people in it seem very spacious, and the distance between the candidates is as much as five feet, and there are partitions separating them. Under normal circumstances, candidates can't see other people's test papers or what other people are doing.

Only four invigilators were constantly patrolling the room, observing the candidates' every move.

After a few glances, Yi Jiuxiao withdrew his gaze and looked down at his answer sheet, he didn't want to attract the attention of the invigilator.

Although his eyes didn't dare to look more, his divine thoughts were released, and the distance of several zhang was within his divine observations, and everything was vivid. He peeked through the exam papers of several candidates around him and found that the answers were varied.

When he stretched out his mind to the seat of the young man in brocade, he suddenly found a situation, and saw that the young man was also answering the question.

But his answer is different from others, he copied the content of a piece of paper to his own answer sheet, and he is almost finished. The content on the paper is the answer to today's test questions, and it is also a poem and a fu.

Yi Jiuxiao immediately understood, this young man was cheating, he must have known the question before, asked someone to do the answer and brought it into the field, and then just copied the answer to the answer sheet.

Who is this young man? With such great ability, he can actually know the answers to the national examination in advance, and the requirements of the national examination are absolutely confidential.

Just when Yi Jiuxiao was suspicious, this young man seemed to have finished copying, unlike Yi Jiuxiao, who was slowly mixing time, he directly got up and reported to the examiner that he wanted to hand in the paper, and he was the first person to hand in the paper.

Yi Jiuxiao held on for a while, and then waited for a few candidates to go out before getting up to hand in the papers, and then returned to Xiang Gui Fang's residence.

On the second day, the topic of the examination is to write a strategy on how to get along with neighboring countries.

There are several countries adjacent to Qi around it, and there are hundreds of countries that are not adjacent. Intrigue and disputes between countries are continuous, and it is inevitable that lives will be ruined. How to deal with relations with these countries has become the most troublesome problem for the imperial court, and it is also a difficult proposition to answer.

After reading the background introduction of the exam questions, Yi Jiuxiao couldn't help but think of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The environment in which the Qi State is now located is very similar to that of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with the heroes vying for hegemony and the princes dividing their territories.

In that chaotic era, there was also a wise man, among whom the strategy of "distant friendship and close attack" adopted by the Qin State was very effective, which greatly divided the contradictions between the enemy countries, and then broke them one by one.

There is also the strategy of "combining vertical and horizontal" proposed by the columnists in the Warring States Period, which is a very effective diplomatic and military strategy. Linking weak countries to jointly deal with strong countries, linking strong countries to destroy some weak countries, and rationally using these tactics to deal with the complex relations between neighboring countries in order to achieve diplomatic and military victories.

Yi Jiuxiao was born in the army, and he is very familiar with the art of war, and the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period has the most cases in the art of war. He combined the two strategies of "long-distance and close attack" and "joint vertical and horizontal" into his own economy, and after a little thought, the 800-word exposition was completed in one go.

At this time, no one had handed in the papers, and Yi Jiuxiao still did not have the first paper, so he began to release his divine thoughts to observe the surroundings.

When his mind stretched out to the seat of the brocade-clothed young man, he saw that he had copied the answers he had prepared in advance onto the answer sheet as he had done yesterday. This move made Yi Jiuxiao even more sure of yesterday's conjecture, this young man definitely knew the test questions in advance and prepared the answers.

It will take a month after the list is released, and Yi Jiuxiao can't live in Xiang Gui Fang all the time, not because he is afraid of spending money, but because he has a long-term plan.

After thinking about it again and again, Yi Jiuxiao decided to buy a property of his own in the capital, no matter whether he could win the list in this exam, he was unwilling to return to Kaizhou, the stage of Bozhou in the capital is broader and more suitable for his own development.

Anyway, he had nothing to do after the exam, he spent three days, looking for a lot of places, and finally bought a house for 5,000 taels of silver through a real estate agent.

This is a courtyard with seven or eight houses, about twenty miles away from the imperial city, the environment is clean and elegant, and the surrounding area is also very convenient. This was originally the property of a wealthy businessman from other places in the capital, and because it had been uninhabited, he took it out and sold it, and the condition was not old.

Standing in the middle of the courtyard, Yi Jiuxiao couldn't help but feel emotional, this was the first time he supported his home after being reincarnated, and after several years of displacement, although he didn't suffer much, his heart has never belonged. This small courtyard, between square inches, is its own world, and he is the master here, and he will cultivate quietly here in the future.

Immersed in martial arts cultivation, a month is fleeting, and it is time to release the list. Yi Jiuxiao walked out of the house, hired a carriage on the side of the street, and headed towards the examination center, and arrived near the examination center in half an hour.

There are naturally a lot of people, and there are more people watching the excitement than the candidates, plus some small vendors, the road to the list is simply impassable. Yi Jiuxiao had the experience of watching the list twice, so he was not in a hurry, he let the carriage go back first, and paced on the streets outside the list platform by himself, admiring the various forms of living beings.

There are constantly people coming in, people constantly coming out, most people are eager and enthusiastic when they go in, and they hang their heads when they come out, after all, there are only thirty places, which is really too few compared to thousands of candidates.

Yi Jiuxiao wasn't sure if he could win this time, let alone top the list. His mood is calm now, and he is not in a hurry to look at the list, anyway, whether he looks at it or not, everything has become an unchangeable reality.

He walked into a small makeshift tea shop, asked the owner to make a pot of tea, and waited for the crowd to disperse while drinking tea.

Suddenly, a few people came in from outside, it seemed that the candidates who came out of the list table, a few people sat down around a table, and began to talk, all speaking with the accent of Bozhou City, which should be local candidates in Bozhou.

"Brother Zhao, congratulations on your high school, and you will invite our brothers to drink happy wine then. One of them spoke, and then someone chimed in.

The man named Brother Zhao got up and clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, brothers, I will definitely invite you, and I will invite you to appreciate it then." ”

"I really didn't expect that the leader this time was Qi Yuanhu, has this kid ever read?"

One of them was complaining, but was immediately stopped by the others: "Brother Zheng is quiet, he talks a lot and causes trouble, his father is a scholar." ”

So several people stopped talking about the national examination and began to talk nonsense about some other things, and what they said was heard by Yi Jiuxiao, especially the name Qi Yuanhu, which made him sure that the leader of this national examination had nothing to do with him.

Although he won the top spot twice in a row, Yi Jiuxiao did not expect to win the top spot again in this national examination, and there was no expectation, so he was not disappointed, but he was still a little disappointed in his heart.

After drinking until after noon, the flow of people on the street gradually thinned out, Yi Jiuxiao paid for the tea and walked in the direction of the table.

Like the state examination platform, facing the direction of the flow of people is the general list, and Yi Jiuxiao looked at the twenty-seven names on the list through the crowd. I searched from beginning to end, from tail to end, and confirmed that there was no name of my own, and Teng Buyue's name was not seen.