It was already dark, and outside the Lin family's mansion, several slightly obsolete carriages were parked.

The group sat in a carriage and walked slowly.

Everyone was silent all the way, silently reviewing the scriptures, but they were not so nervous.

The children's test itself is only a test of the school's scholars' familiarity with the scriptures, and it is not difficult.

They have been learning all kinds of scriptures since they were enlightened at the age of six, and now they are fifteen years old, and it has been nine years.

The nine years have been spent in homeschooling, and they all know how well they are learning.

It's nothing if it's just a boy's test.

Only those poor scholars who can't afford to read will have some difficulties in this level.

After all, it also costs money to study, especially when it takes nine years to read.

There is a requirement for the Boys' Examination, which is between the ages of 15 and 25.

The examination is organized by the county, and the Daomai is supervised, and the exam questions change every year, but the number of people taken will not be too different.

It should be emphasized again that most of the time the imperial examination refers to the Taoist scriptures, because it is for people who can practice the Fa.

After gaining the fame of childhood, you have the right to practice legally.

If you don't have this fame, if you secretly cultivate the Fa, you can only be reduced to wild cultivation and casual cultivation.

Once discovered, the local Dao vein has the right to expel or even kill.

"The Law of Great Xia" says: Illegal cultivation is wild cultivation, and the Dao veins are self-controlled, and they can be killed or expelled, without limitation.

As soon as this law came out, the number of casual cultivators was greatly reduced, and a small number of cultivators were highly advanced and discrete cultivators, but they were appeased, and they all had their own rewards.

Especially the earth immortals in the scattered cultivation have opened sects one after another, summarized the Taoism, and formed their own lineage.

Dao Mai cooperated with the imperial court to jointly crack down on wild cultivation and loose cultivation, monopolizing the external material resources of their respective cultivators.

This law has been practiced for more than 7,000 years, and now there are almost no scattered practices in more than a dozen states in the Central Plains.

In this world where you can practice and live forever, the cultivation resources for sustainable regeneration are also limited, the Dao veins monopolize the resources, and the imperial court legally cracks down, and there is no longer any soil for scattered cultivation to survive.

Once selected, they will be qualified to participate in the Xiucai examination, and at the same time, the government will enter the meritorious name and issue a foundation building method.

Leaving aside what can be cultivated for the time being, at least it has given the people of the world a chance, and it has not completely blocked the cultivation path of the masses.

This move is even more clever, and the end is the bottom of the kettle.

Dayu controls the water, and it is better to be sparse than blocked.

In such a world where the Dao is holy and there are many sacred, the number of immortals who are one step ahead is already quite large, and they can completely supervise the world and completely cut off the path of cultivation for later generations, so as not to thin out the limited cultivation resources.

But in this way, the whole society will suddenly become a pool of stagnant water.

It will lay the foundation for the future.

Just imagine, when you know that you are in a world where you can rely on your own cultivation to live forever and enjoy immortal blessings, will you be envious, will you think about pursuing the method of immortality?

What if the other person refuses to teach you?

What if the other party doesn't teach you, but still refuses you to have this idea?

Even further, these immortals who have already been immortalized, in order to make progress in the future, are strictly guarding against stubbornness, and refuse to let any of you embark on the path of cultivation?

Do you resent it?

I think most people, yes.

Blindly blocking those who come after you will only lead to the endless emergence of loose cultivation, which will become more and more intense, until it will eventually lead to a catastrophe.

Therefore, it is better to be blocked than to be sparse.

Instead of completely blocking everyone's path, it is better to open an opening, so that the people of the world have such a hope, and slowly close, so that only the best of them can really get the opportunity of immortality.

The rest of the mediocre people have no hope of immortality, so a little appeasement and a little sweetness is enough.

During this period, it was even more difficult to avoid some mediocre people from embarking on the path and wasting the already scarce external resources of the Dao.

In this way, the Dao vein can be firmly in its position, sit and watch the heroes of the world, and enter its place.

This is a conspiracy, there is no shortage of wise and resourceful people in the world, but in the case of the Dao vein occupying the general trend of Middle Earth, there is nothing to be done if you see through it, and it is impossible to hit the stone with an egg.

But all the talented people are squeezing their heads, going to gain fame, thinking that they are the step to enter the body, in order to worship the Taoist veins and seek the opportunity for immortality.

Of course, in addition to this, there is also a path of self-condensation of the true seed, which can bypass the restrictions and directly enter the Dao vein.

However······· I don't seem to have heard of it these years, and people who can have this level can't even pass the exam.

Soon I arrived at the exam room.

The examination room is an examination held in the county, and there are about hundreds of people in one subject, and the area is not large, only a few acres of land.

Outside the examination room, there is a heavy white lacquer wall, and the gate is an iron gate with vermilion lacquer and gold nails, and two rows of armored soldiers are stationed.

At this time, several long lines had been lined up one after another outside, and they could be seen from afar.

When the group came to this end, Lin Zhiqing didn't say much, so he sent down their respective identity plates and commanded in a low voice:

"This bronze medal has your seat number on it, you must not lose it, otherwise this subject will be invalidated!"

After receiving the bronze medal, there was a warm current in his hand, engraved with his name, place of origin, date of birth on the front, and seat number written on the back.

The bronze medal is covered with several steel seals that glow with a faint light, and the words "Heisei County City God's ······" can be vaguely seen" Matsuyama View Lower Courtyard ······"" Heisei County ······" The words are probably official seals.

With this, you are not afraid of fakes.

"That warm current just now, it seems to be a kind of divine power, is the local city god distinguishing the authenticity?"

"Isn't this the method of preventing substitute exams and substitute exams in the Xianxia world?"

Divine power has all kinds of incredible uses, depending on what kind of priesthood.

The City God is already mixed with many duties, even if it is also a priesthood of scientific examination invigilation, it is not outrageous.

If you want to come to the locally born population, they have all been registered with the City God, and it is not impossible to take the test on behalf of the god and take the test, but there is a big price, just for a child, it is obviously not worth it.

This increases the difficulty and cost of fraud to reduce the possibility of fraud.

"Remember to take the test in a while."

As if he was not at ease, he instructed a few words again, and Lin Zhiqing stopped outside the white line and watched them enter.

The soldiers here are wearing red jackets, with chain mail, their eyes do not squint, their backs are straight, and they stand in front of the white line like an impregnable line of defense.

Obviously, this cannot be compared with the local county soldiers who have never experienced war, when they are veterans of the battlefield who have been temporarily recruited from other places.

Beyond the white line, the send-off stops.

Many send-off people, carrying baskets and burdens, watched the candidates enter it, and their earnest hearts were overflowing.

There are only hundreds of candidates, lined up, one by one to verify their identity, and only after checking that they are correct.

The chief examiner has always been served by the county Cheng, several patrol examiners invigilated the exam, Daomai sent people to supervise, and there is also the attention of the city god.

The clerks sent by the county were in front of the gate, carefully inspecting, and the local officials were also out of suspicion, not here, because they were all drawn from the county.

These clerical officials, who are rooted in the outside world, may not necessarily sell the face of the local clans, and this is also a measure to prevent collusion and fraud from the upper and lower levels.

For thousands of years, the rules have been strict and further refined.

In the early days, there were major fraud cases, and sometimes there were loopholes that were exploited, and in the past 100 years, there has been no news of them.

It's not that no one dares to cheat, but it's almost impossible to cheat······

Soon Lin Zhengyang arrived, and the clerk took the bronze medal, looked at it carefully, and then returned it to him:

"The number plate is correct, let's go in, next, hurry up, there are still people waiting behind!"

A candidate in the back hurriedly came up.

Looking at the clothes that are a little shabby, the family background must not be too generous, and at this time I am also a little inferior, rubbing my hands uneasily, and sighing.

Lin Zhengyang didn't look any further, and went straight to the door.

Behind the gate, there is actually a large hall, the temple is deep, and the dome is very high.

There are windows on all sides that let in the light, and the tables and chairs are neatly arranged and spotlessly clean.

There are planks under the feet, and occasionally one or two heaters rise, as if they were laying a ground dragon, burning coals, and supplying heating with pipes.

The county official was already wearing a red official robe and was sitting above the seat, overlooking the examination room below.

The examiner's seat is much higher than the lower seat.

From that point of view, it is just enough to take the entire examination room into view, no matter what small actions the candidates underneath, they can't hide from the examiner.

Immediately afterwards, several examiners took their seats one after another, and several scribes began to roll call, and they did the corresponding positions in turn.

There were about four or five hundred seats in the main hall, and the distance between each seat was quite far, and even then it seemed empty.

Looking at the candidates below taking their seats in turn, several examiners were chatting:

"The number of people in this section is less than five hundred, I don't know how many people can be taken this time."

"How many people can be taken, no matter how many people there are in this subject, as usual, only the top 20 will be taken."

Another examiner looked at the candidates in the field, looked at their nervous appearance, felt a little compassion in his heart, and suddenly sighed:

"How can these twenty places? Just because of the big families in the county, at least one family occupies one······ This went to three or five, and then a few more talents, accounting for a few, and suddenly half of them went, and there were always the top ten, and there were few people from humble backgrounds. ”

That's true.

As the saying goes, the poor are rich and martial, but don't underestimate reading, the cost is not small.

People from humble backgrounds are often busy with their livelihoods, how much time can they spend on reading in a day?

Wealthy families, and even large families, can do their best to provide for them, and they don't worry about food and clothing, just concentrate on studying.

Therefore, the top ten in each subject are all from the admitted families, and only the last ten are entered by scholars from poor families.

"Let's see, I heard that there seems to be a change this year, and it is said that the quota will be relaxed and the number of children and talents will be increased."

There was also an examiner from the county who seemed to have a wide range of roads, and he heard the news in advance, and then he spoke.

"How can such a thing happen?"

This is a break from the norm.

"I will know sooner or later, and I only learned about it because I served in the state in the same year."

Soon, the candidates all took their seats in turn, and seeing that the hour was approaching, a Taoist took out the test paper, cut the seal with a paper cutter, and a little red light flashed on the test paper.

Obviously, each paper is sealed with divine power, and it is impossible to falsify the test paper.

This is the power of the Dao, and it is also the greatest charm of this world!

The exam papers were distributed to the candidates by the examiners one by one, and when Lin Zhengyang touched the test papers, he clearly felt the residual divine power.

Unlike the previous god of the city god, this is an unfamiliar divine power, and it seems to be some kind of deity related to the exam.

With a smile, Lin Zhengyang spread out the test paper and roughly read the next question.

The first volume is really still the usual title, giving a sentence that requires a complete paragraph to be written silently, and the school's memory of the scriptures and meanings is examined.

This volume only needs to be memorized well and the handwriting neatly, and it is nothing.

The second volume is still the usual discourse, with a title of a sentence, or a few sentences, or paragraphs from the scriptures, and requires a concise discussion of what is right and wrong, the specific context, and so on.

Over the past thousands of years, everything that can be tested here has changed, and although it is difficult, there is nothing new.

Finally, a simple composition.

It is a little difficult to ask for an essay based on the topic.

Fortunately, the overall difficulty of the children's test is not high, and Lin Zhengyang boasts of his own writing, which is not difficult to do.

This level is not sad.

In fact, the Boys' Test is a points system.

The first volume occupies more than 50% of the score, and the test is rote memorization;

The second volume occupies 30% of the marks and tests the specific understanding of the scriptures;

The second volume is an essay, which occupies 20% of the score, and tests the ability to think logically.

Generally speaking, the first volume is not wrong, and the second volume only needs to be reasonable, but it is almost impossible for anyone from a large family to lose points here.

In the third volume of the essay, the test is the candidate's real level, or the ability to understand the truth, just need to say something.

Generally speaking, it is unlikely that there will be many splendid articles in the children's examination.

Before Lin Zhengyang left, he spent at least three months trying to figure out this article, and he memorized hundreds of excellent articles on the children's examination and the talent test in the past dynasties.

At this time, I feel that it comes naturally, and the inspiration continues, and it is not a problem to write a stable article, at least I feel that this subject is stable.

Lin Zhengyang took out the inkstone, poured ink, and slowly grinded it, while sorting out the thoughts in his heart and brewing the atmosphere.

At this moment, his wrist was slightly hot, and then a spiritual light came out from the plum blossom petals, and at the same time, the memory kept rolling and flooding into his heart.

He suddenly trembled, and his heart was shocked:

"My incarnation in the Fuso world is dead!"