The sun is approaching the West Mountain.

The sound of the gong sounded nine early, and the papers in the examination hall had already been collected, Li Jin staggered out of the door, walked for a moment with his brain on his head, and turned to the side of the path.

He stretched out his hand to hold the nearest tree, leaned against the trunk of the tree tremblingly, and sat down on the ground with shaking hands and feet.

As a person from Jianzhou, as soon as Yanzhou recovered, he only watched for a few days, then immediately packed his bags, sold his property, and moved over with his wife and children.

He died at the age of fifteen, and by now, he has taken the exam nine times, and his family has a slight margin, and he has also been worn out by the hard work of studying year after year.

Jianzhou is a small state, naturally not as rich as the states in the south of the Yangtze River, and even less than the capital of Jizhou, which is full of talents, but it is not easy to get over the test.

I still remember that after the last exam, some good people went to inquire about the number of people who went down, and took the number of taxis, and more than 1,200 people went to the exam, and in the end only six people were taken.

It is equivalent to more than 200 people, only one can participate in the provincial examination.

He has reached the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, in these years except for studying, he will not know anything, the family lives on some of the inheritance left by his ancestors, or rents or sells, to now, there is not much left, if there is no way out, not to mention that his son will have no property in the future, it is himself, and in a few years, he will have no rice to cook.

Li Jin feels that he is talented.

In the state school, he was originally an outstanding group of people, at the age of fifteen, he passed the liberation test, but later failed to enter the Beijing provincial examination, which hit him to the end of the year without any intention to learn, and when it was easy to recover, the next liberation test was naturally not good, and he failed to pass as expected.

After that, as if he had been deliberately tricked by God, he went down several times, and at first he was able to pass the test once every two or three times, but once he was thirty years old, he failed to pass again.

Li Jin has never said kiss, originally thought that if it went well, maybe one or two, at most three or four, his own family will be able to enter high school, and then he will be able to enter Beijing, which nobleman will be caught by the son-in-law, the powerful Yue family will have it, and the lady who is like a flower and jade will naturally have it.

But the world is unpredictable.

Your own brain, your own clear.

How much self-confidence he was when he was young, how much anxiety he had when he turned forty.

In the past, if you memorize it thirty or forty times, you can memorize the scriptures by heart, but once you have passed forty, you can memorize it three or four hundred times, and it is always vague, as if the heart has been pasted with a layer of fine yarn, and it is misty, and it is no longer transparent.

A few years ago, his father and mother passed away in a year, making him feel like he had been beaten on the head.

My family is nearly forty years old, and if I continue to work hard like this, it's okay to be hit, but if I can't get it, will the blood of the Li family be cut off from my own hands?

He had to brazenly beg his aunt and say a kiss for himself.

is nearly forty years old, has no merit and fame, and the family property has been spent seventy-seven eighty-eight, such conditions, naturally there is nothing to say.

Fortunately, although the bride is only from a peasant family, she is also good-looking, gentle, doing housework, embroidering and farming, everything, seeing that he is studying hard at home every day, not giving birth, and not complaining, and more importantly, after a year of marriage, he gave birth to a boy.

dragged the family with the mouth, after having it, Li Jin naturally could no longer eat alone as in the past, the whole family was not hungry, and he could no longer come by temperament.

However, after reading all these years, he didn't even have a background or skills, so he really didn't know what to do. He gritted his teeth, planning to give his family one last chance, if it ends this time, there is no follow-up, he will find another way, at least not to let the family go hungry, let alone just rely on his wife to work to subsidize the family.

It was at this time that the news of Yanzhou's restoration came, and it didn't take long for him to learn from a passing caravan that Yanzhou had issued a recruitment order.

The border city is newly restored, and it is natural to recruit talents, as long as you go, after half a year, you can get the household registration of the place.

Li Jinxian didn't think about it, and when he talked to his classmates, the other party said half-jokingly, and said: "Yanzhou City is partial, and the literary atmosphere is thin, Yang Pingzhang has passed, and promised to register again, if you invite Enke next year, I'm afraid that you can get many people, compared to us studying so hard in Jianzhou, it's still better than people - it's a pity that that place is too chaotic, the war is endless, there is a life to go, there may not be a life to return, otherwise I want to take the test once." ”

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.

How many people study hard day and night, just for that one Jinshi identity!

Yanzhou is in a different place, and it is only after it is recovered, and Yang Pingzhang is in charge there, he personally asks the court to open Enke, and the number of places will definitely be more than in previous years.

That place is weak, and when there are more places, there will be more opportunities.

If you can't get into Jianzhou, can't you get into Yanzhou?

If you still can't get in Yanzhou, then you really have to find another way out!

At this time, everyone is afraid of war, and wealth is in danger!

After making up his mind, Li Jin sold his property, and sure enough, he brought his wife and three-year-old son to Yanzhou.

He rented a house in the city and studied hard in it, while his wife took care of his son, embroidered some purses and handkerchiefs, and planted some vegetable plots to subsidize the family.

This time, he made a desperate gamble and paid such a big price to come to Yanzhou to take the exam, and the expectations and nervousness in his heart can be imagined.

The first two days were fine, and he felt that his answer was not bad, but in the last game, when he saw the question asked, he was confused.

“…… In the city after year, there are many fireworks thieves, homeless wasteland......"

“…… In terms of what I have heard and seen......"

It was actually to inquire about the scholars and examine the detailed governance methods of one state and one city.

The questions are presented by each state, and the examiner is generally either a member of the army or a general judge, and the content of the test in different state capitals is often very different.

But Li Jin has been taking the exam for decades, and he has also collected the solution test questions of other state capitals, and he has rarely seen this kind of question.

For example, in Jianzhou's interpretation test, it is generally to quote scriptures and classics, extract a certain paragraph of textual meaning, and let scholars quote it.

After coming to Yanzhou, he also made a special inquiry, and took all the test questions in Yanzhou City in previous years to study and test, but he felt that it was similar to Jianzhou, and there was nothing surprising.

Who would have thought that this year's exam would be so partial and so meticulous?!

If it's just a test of the law of governance, then it's easy to write, in general, and then list a few arguments, paraphrase a few sages, and borrow a few allusions from famous ministers, and sublimate it at the end, carefully ponder the writing, and write a flowery article, which is appropriate!

But the questions are listed in such detail, "fireworks thieves, homeless wasteland......" actually requires candidates to correspond one by one and give the exact way to deal with it!

How do you write this??