It is mentioned in [Yang God] that there is no god in the world, and when there are many people who worship, there is a god.

Here, Huang Shang has similar feelings.

Confucius was not a saint, but when there were many worshippers, he became the most holy.

It is hard to imagine that in a state that is not outstanding, a statue made of ordinary clay will have such a brilliant atmosphere.

"The Holy Teacher, the Master of All Ages!"

Huang Shang sighed in his heart.

No matter how much later generations say about Confucius and Confucianism, it cannot be denied that he brought changes to the world.

As a Confucian student in this life, Huang Shang listened to the command of the salute official and saluted with all the students.

Bye!

Bye-bye!

After worshipping Confucius, Mr. Guo lectured the candidates, cliché, mainly emphasizing discipline in the examination room and not cheating.

After speaking, he opened the test questions in public.

The test questions were distributed to all states by the capital, and the national unified examination papers were wrapped in yellow silk and sealed.

Under the gaze of the candidates, the roll opened, and the question that decided their fate was taken out.

After signaling impartiality, Mr. Guo waved his hand, and the six examiners hurriedly copied it and prepared to post it in various examination rooms.

And the candidates have been divided into six batches, each batch of nearly forty people, to the real examination room.

This examination room is not a honeycomb-like room in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but a large examination room like modern times.

Forty pairs of tables and chairs are neatly arranged, and a piece of paper is pasted in the upper right corner of each table, on which are written the candidate's name, place of origin, and year one.

Don't have too much sense of déjà vu.

Huang Shang found his seat, put down the examination box, hung the roll bag on the table, and took out the pen and ink inkstone from it.

His movements were not hurried, but more scholars had begun to race against time.

First take a water cup, go to the drinking place at the door to pour warm boiled water, half for drinking, half for grinding ink, and then return to your seat, take out the food you are carrying when the exam paper is not issued, and start to fill your stomach.

Huang Shang looked at it and was amazed.

It's all old fritters in the exam room!

Indeed, as mentioned earlier, the Song Dynasty's lifting of people was not a lifelong system, and those who did not get into the Jinshi in the examination had to take the retest when they turned around.

Therefore, in this examination room, there are many serious candidates, who are familiar with the road.

Of course, there are also beginners.

That's even more stressful than the college entrance examination.

Modern college entrance examination candidates, after all, are experienced in a hundred battles, especially in the third year of high school, with a small exam every three days and a big exam every week, and the exam is already commonplace.

But in this era, there are only three imperial examinations, such as the capital is fine, there is the idea of mock exams, some children in remote places, hard study for more than ten years, the first exam is thousands of troops across the single-plank bridge, deciding people's lives.

Who can stand this?

Therefore, many students are shaking their hands with pens, and some people don't even see the exam papers, and their faces show a look of collapse.

Others simply glanced at the other candidates with hostility, as if they would definitely be able to win as long as the others in the exam room died.

The small examination room is already a variety of life.

Huang Shang looked at it, and his heart calmed down.

Wen Qi rotates all over the body, faintly resonating with the statue of Confucius in Gongyuan Square.

He calmly lifted the Zhuge pen.

"Let's get started!"

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"Let's get started!"

A few days later, Mr. Guo looked at the stack of scrolls in front of him, like a general on the battlefield, and issued a clarion call to charge.

Indeed, an alternative war began.

Reprint.

The number of people in the Yongzhou exam is small, but there are also very few examiners.

Less than ten examiners, faced with hundreds of test papers, cannot be evenly distributed, and are repeatedly corrected.

Because the examination papers reviewed will finally be sent to the Ministry of Rites for grinding and reviewing, and the examiner's marking work will be reviewed.

If there is a misjudgment for the first time, you will be fined, and if you misjudge again, you will be demoted directly.

Therefore, there is still a lot of pressure to revise the papers, and you need to concentrate and not misjudge a word.

One by one, the examiners spread out their eyes, and began to write "pass" and "no" on them, and attached their own opinions.

The title of this time, "Analects" ten posts, Moyi ten articles, five strategies, and poems each one.

The ten posts of the Analects are filled in the blanks and written silently.

This is the most basic exam question, and it is also the first thing that the examiner should review when judging the paper.

If you can't even memorize the Analects, you don't even need to read it later.

The next ten articles of Moyi are written answers to the meaning of the scriptures, picking out some fragments in the nine classics as questions, and asking candidates to write the main meaning of these sentences.

This is also a basic skill, if there is a mistake, it is also the end of being eliminated.

Soon, one by one, the unqualified test papers were eliminated.

The number of examination papers has been reduced to half.

And what is left of this, strategy and poetry, is the key.

The so-called policy is a question and answer question, which is closer to reality and asks some things about the current situation of national policy.

But in fact, this is not very important, after all, let a group of scholars talk about national politics in vain, you can imagine how ridiculous those answers are.

It was not until ten years later, that is, in 1073, that Wang Anshi changed the law and changed the questions of the imperial examination to Jingyi Policy Question, which made the policy question take seriously.

However, each examiner is different, and some examiners "value" strategies, such as the current Bachelor Guo.

"It's Meng Ke (Mencius) again! Absurd! Absurd! ”

Mr. Guo shuddered and wrote a big "no".

His criteria for judging are very straightforward.

As a supporter of Sima Guang, whoever says Mencius is good, he is in a hurry.

Of course, even if you want to deny it, it can't be just because you support Mencius, you need to have other reasons.

Find fault in the poem.

Unless you really have top talent, how difficult is it to pick a bone in the egg and judge no?

He is the chief examiner, as long as he says something, other examiners will naturally give a little face, even if he returns to the Ministry of Rites for review.

If it is not a low-level error, the so-called review is just a formality after all.

In this way, after approving dozens of papers and coming up with various reasons for rejection, Mr. Guo closed his eyes tiredly.

The process of marking papers became more and more boring, until a paper appeared in front of me.

"Huh? This is transcribed like this, and the original volume is even more unusual! ”

Mr. Guo's eyes lit up.

Now these examiners are correcting not the candidates' test papers.

The candidate's paper has already gone through the two major procedures of obfuscation and transcription, that is, covering the name and finding someone to transcribe it again.

This is to prevent the examiner from cheating by handwriting and connecting up and down.

In the process of transcribing, some people will specifically pick out the papers with defaced, sloppy handwriting, and special marks, and directly eliminate them, and they will not even be qualified to be corrected.

On the other hand, those regular scripts of the three museums are extremely standard, and the writing will be more tidy and increase the first impression.

But the test paper in my hand now is not only bright and neat, I can't describe the feeling, anyway, it's different.

Mr. Guo nodded, looked at the foundation in front of him, all of them were correct, and then looked at the poems, and he was even more happy.

He took a deep breath and looked at it carefully.

I was moved by the idea of loving talents, thinking that if this student also agreed with Mencius, who was chaotic in the world with benevolence and righteousness, would he want to open up the net.

But after reading the whole text, there was no mention of Mencius's remarks, which immediately made him smile and be greatly satisfied.

As for whether the policy is useful to the country, it is secondary.

Mr. Guo wrote down a big word "Tong" and attached the best praise.

Yongzhou's position as the solution to the yuan is basically decided.