A group of talented students who participated in the township test stood in front of the gate of the Gongyuan and waited until the time came, and the gate of the Gongyuan slowly opened.

With the sound of three cannons, the autumn of the 14th year of Hongzhi is the beginning.

The first to come out of the gate of the Gongyuan were not the academic and political examiners who presided over the township examination, but two teams of sergeants dressed in splendid robes and carrying slender knives at their waists.

Raising his eyes and glancing at the outfits of the two teams of sergeants, Zhou Chen's eyes were slightly condensed.

Flying fish suit, embroidered spring knife, this is the unique costume of the Son of Heaven's pro-army brocade guard.

Emperor Hongzhi obviously attached great importance to the imperial examination of the current dynasty, and at present, it was just the township examination held by the Provincial Xuezheng Gongyuan, and there was actually a Jinyi guard from the Son of Heaven's army who came to guard the order of the examination room.

After those brocade guards lined up, a team of examiners came out of the gate of the Gongyuan, and the chief examiner began to explain the order of the examination room to the talented students present, and his voice was serious and cold.

After speaking for half an hour, the examiner waved his sleeves and announced loudly: "Open the door!" Admission! ”

As this voice fell, all the candidates in the field couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and they lifted their respective bookboxes and packages one after another, preparing to enter the Tribute Academy.

As soon as they crossed the gate of the Taiyuan Tribute Academy, all the candidates went to the long hall on the left and right sides of the gate under the guidance of the examiner and a group of brocade guards.

This is the East-West Roll Call Hall, where all candidates will be counted.

After the ordering, the candidates went to the east and west Dazha fields in the Gongyuan respectively, and were searched by a sergeant of the Jinyi Guard to check whether the candidates had any entrainment cheat sheets.

The Guangyang Mansion where Zhou Chen is located was divided into the façade of Dongdazhachang, and it was the first batch to be searched and inspected.

He, Lu Xiucai, and the other eleven candidates stood quietly aside with their arms outstretched.

The soldiers of the brocade guards stepped forward and took off the green shirts they were wearing, leaving only the intimate clothes inside.

Jin Yiwei began to inspect it very carefully, from top to bottom, without any exceptions.

Even the cuffs, headbands, shoes and socks were all checked.

In addition, the bookcases and parcels carried by the candidates were not missed.

Even the bread and other food prepared by the candidates themselves were broken into small pieces by the sergeants to check whether there were entrapments and cheat sheets hidden inside.

During the entire inspection, the soldiers of the Jinyi Guard who started the search did not say anything, and their expressions did not change in the slightest, and the whole person was as rigid and strict as a puppet machine.

Fortunately, these talented students in the field can be regarded as the future pillars of the imperial court, so they have avoided being searched in their intimate clothes.

If it weren't for that, the scholars present would have already protested with red eyes, after all, it was too insulting to be touched clean in front of the public.

Zhou Chen, who was at the front of the line, was the first to be inspected, and after he put on his clothes, he nodded at Lu Xiucai, who was still being inspected, and then followed the examiner to his own house.

Entering the house, Zhou Chen nodded secretly, the cleaning in this room is quite neat and clean.

Zhou Chen's luck is already very good, although this house is very small, but the repair is quite perfect.

At the very least, there are no gaps in the roof, so you don't have to worry about rain leaks on the way to the exam.

In the center of the number room is a small table and chair, on which the test papers for the first session of this autumn festival have already been prepared.

It's just that Zhou Chen didn't start answering the test at the first time, but instead took out the water bag and dough cake prepared in advance from the package and ate it.

After all, from the beginning of the dawn to the present, Zhou Chen has not eaten a grain of rice and has not touched a drop of water, even if it is the imperial examination, he has to fill his stomach.

After eating the broken cake pieces equivalent to three large sheets of bread with the broth in the water bag, Zhou Chen sat down at the desk with satisfaction and prepared to start answering the question.

The township examination is divided into three sessions, and each exam will last for three full days.

If it is changed to other candidates, after tossing such an early morning, you must rest for a period of time first, and then start the answer test after recuperating your energy.

However, as a martial artist, Zhou Chen's own spirit and spirit are far from being comparable to ordinary scholars.

Even if he stayed up for three days and three nights without sleeping, I am afraid that Zhou Chen's spirit would be stronger than most of the candidates in the field.

So when Zhou Chen was full of water and food, he leaned directly in front of the desk and began to write hard.

In the first exam of the Township Examination, there were a total of seven questions, three of which were from the Four Books and the other four were from the Five Classics, and the candidates had to answer a total of seven articles.

In the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, there is not much room for candidates to play freely, and everything follows the strict and standardized eight-strand method for admission.

All the questions are from a certain section of the Four Books and Five Classics, and the candidates will quote the scriptures to give the answers.

Moreover, the answers to the test questions must also have a fixed stylistic format, which is composed of eight parts: breaking the question, undertaking the question, starting the lecture, entering the question, starting the share, middle share, back share, and bundle share.

Even the length of the sentence, the complexity of the text, the pitch of the voice, etc., have fixed requirements, to be relatively written, and there is a limit to the number of words.

So at the end of the day, most of the answers given by the candidates are actually the same.

In this situation, the imperial examination is not actually examined by the profundity of the candidate's own knowledge, but by the candidate's reading of the Four Books and Five Classics, and whether the memory is huge.

If you don't read enough, I'm afraid you won't even be able to figure out which of the four books and five classics the exam questions are from, let alone quote the scriptures and answer them.

However, this is very beneficial to Zhou Chen, if he is asked to interpret the scriptures in the articles of those sages in the Four Books and Five Classics, it will really be difficult for him.

However, if it is changed to the current exam questions that are biased towards memory, it is very suitable for Zhou Chen.

With the tireless preparation for the exam in the past few months, Zhou Chen can be said to be able to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics backwards.

Raising his eyes and scanning the test papers on the table, he was immediately able to choose which article and chapter of the Four Books and Five Classics this question was from in his mind, so as to quote the scriptures to make the corresponding answer.

In this way, although Zhou Chen's answer is not very novel and refreshing, it can definitely be said to be decent, and no one can find fault with it.

Praise such as Xie Yuan and Yayuan may not be possible, but there is absolutely no problem with the middle move.

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