As the monarch of a country, Zhao Yu has many state affairs to deal with, so it is naturally impossible to invigilate the examination in the main hall for a day. He only reigned while the tributes were saluting, and sat down when the tributes began to write, and then left after a while.

Out of the main hall, when he summoned Qi Bokun to discuss the matter, he casually asked: "Qi Muyuan, who will try the third place, is your grandson?" ”

Qi Bokun hurriedly lowered his head and replied: "It is the grandson of the minister." ”

Zhao Yu bowed slightly, did not speak again, and lowered his head to look at the information handed over by Qi Bokun.

……

There is no limit to the number of words in the strategy of the palace examination, but generally each article must be written to more than 2,000 words to be appropriate. Du Jinning wrote two policy essays in the morning, ate two drinking cakes with broth, continued to write the last one, and then carefully checked the three articles, and then copied the three policy essays to the test paper in a pavilion style.

It's pitiful. In ancient times, scholars had to practice calligraphy since they began to read calligraphy, and no matter what level of master they were interested in calligraphy. If you write poorly, no matter how good your article is, you will be despised first. At the beginning, Du Jinning's handwriting was not good, and he was given a very regretful look by his husband and classmates.

But the imperial examination has been passed all the way, and the only ones who can show their handwriting in front of the markers are the county examination and the palace examination. The rest of the time, he only showed a small face in front of the copyist, and the ugliness and beauty of the handwriting had no effect on the results of the scientific examination.

Thinking of this, Du Jinning was extremely glad that the system of scientific examination gave her time to practice her characters well - at this time, she didn't know that when she was going to take the exam, her pavilion body played a great role and saved her from the edge of the cliff in Huiyuan.

After copying the three articles carefully, it was not dark yet, Du Jinning thought about it, sat for a while, and saw that someone had handed in the papers, so she also got up and handed in the test papers.

Qi Muyuan followed closely and handed in the papers, and followed Du Jinning out of the main hall.

The two walked out of the palace in silence, and Qi Muyuan asked, "Tomorrow, what are you going to do?" ”

After reading the book for so many years, I have finally finished the exam. Between Du Jinning's diligence, he really wanted to know whether Du Jinning would continue to read as usual tomorrow, or in what form he would relax.

Du Jinning touched his chin: "If I continue to read books in Taixue's library tomorrow, will others think it is very strange?" ”

"Yes." Qi Muyuan is very sure.

“……”

Du Jinning pouted helplessly: "I entered Taixue with the intention of reading the books in his family's library." Now there is a bookshelf with unfinished books. I'm not a student who studies too much in the future, and I'm afraid Saifu won't let me go in again. “

Qi Muyuan was silent for a while and asked, "Why don't I accompany you tomorrow?" ”

Du Jinning suddenly smiled, and his smile was very good-looking.

She nodded, "Okay." He also reassured Qi Muyuan, "Actually, there are many books in the library that I have read in Lishui and Gui Province, and I don't need to read those books, just eliminate them directly." There are a lot of duplicate books on a shelf, and I guess there are only a dozen or so that I haven't read. I read books so fast that I estimated that I would be able to sweep the bookshelf in three to five days. ”

Qi Muyuan looked at her beautiful and lovely smile, his heart throbbed, and he wanted to reach out and touch her pink cheeks.

"Jinning......" he whispered.

"Huh?" Du Jinning turned his head and raised his eyes to look at him.

Qi Mu looked at her from afar, his throat sliding, but he didn't speak.

Feeling that the atmosphere was a little charming, Du Jinning's heart moved, lowered her eyes, and did not ask Qi Muyuan what she was calling her for.

The two walked forward in silence, until they crossed a street, and Du Jinning saw Wang Fulai and Yao Shuqi guarding a carriage looking this way from a distance, and she said, "Then I'll go back." Tomorrow, I'll go directly to Taixue, and you can go to the library to find me. ”

Seeing the embarrassment of knowing each other like just now, Du Jinning still did not refuse to accompany her, which seemed to be a tacit acquiescence to his existence, Qi Muyuan was overjoyed in his heart.

He said, "Okay." ”

Du Jinning waved his hand to him and went straight to his carriage.

……

There is Du Jinning's training of three articles a day, and this kind of policy topic was once written by Du Jinning for them to write, Guan Jiaze and Xu Chengyuan's policy topics were written very easily, and after Du Jinning and Qi Muyuan handed in the papers, they also handed in the papers.

"How's it going?" Fang Shaohua and Xu Chengyuan are brothers-in-law, and asked him with great concern after coming out.

"It's not badly written, thanks to Jinning." Xu Chengyuan said.

A benevolent brother sitting next to him probably hadn't seen anything in the world, he had been trembling when the emperor was there, Xu Chengyuan saw that he was trembling all over, and there was no way to polish ink and write articles. Later, the emperor went out, and he didn't seem to be able to find the situation, and he didn't finish the article until dark, and he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.

Ten years of cold window, the meeting has passed, if it is planted on the palace test, then I will really regret it and die on the pillar.

So Xu Chengyuan was really emotional.

Think about himself, if it weren't for Du Jinning's influence, he wouldn't be able to change his mentality, maybe he wouldn't be much better than the brother just now.

There are three or four hundred people in the palace examination, and it is impossible for all the test papers to be sent to the emperor for him to see. Therefore, it is still necessary to receive the volume, palm scroll, and seal it by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and then distribute it to eight marking officers to circulate it in turn.

The examiner will mark the test paper with five marks on each test paper: "○", "△", "\", "|", and "×", and the one with the most "○" will be the best paper, and then select the ten books with the most ○ among all the papers to be submitted to the emperor for approval.

Perhaps because of the influence of Du Jinning's teenagers, Zhao Yu is quite looking forward to Enke's test paper this time. As soon as the test papers arrived, he put down his business and reviewed the test papers.

Looking at the first test paper, he couldn't help but praise: "What a beautiful word." ”

This pavilion body, perhaps in the Ming and Qing dynasties, because it was too flooded, everyone did not feel amazing, but to criticize this word for being too rigid and not spiritual. But in the Song Dynasty, which had never seen this font, when I saw such a neat, well-proportioned, beautiful and generous character when I read the papers, I couldn't help but be amazed.

Zhao Yu was the same at this time.

When the emperor spoke, the chief eunuch Wu Gonggong standing next to him always had to be praised. He stretched out his head to look at it, and also praised: "Ah, it is indeed beautiful." ”

Zhao Yu began to read the article intently.

When he finished reading the first question on agriculture, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Well written, well written." ”

Although he is only the emperor, but in the past, the old emperor always asked them to read the articles of the palace test. Because many people have been immersed in hard reading for decades, they are very proficient in the Four Books and the Five Classics, but they are indifferent to state affairs. Therefore, when it comes to writing policies, there are always empty words and clichés, and there are few real materials.

But this article is different. It not only pointed out the current problems in agriculture in the Great Song Dynasty, but also put forward three high-level views. Moreover, every point of view is reasonable, and it is aimed at the problems pointed out above, which is simply the guiding principle of agricultural development in the Great Song Dynasty, which Zhao Yu has been thinking about recently but has no way to solve, and it is completely written to his heart.

"Who is this man?" His eyes looked towards the place where the name was written, and he saw that three words were written there in a very neat pavilion style: Du Jinning.

"Is that him? It turned out to be him! Zhao Yu was surprised.

He frowned.

Although eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics, as personal eunuchs, it is their duty to solve problems for their masters. Gonggong Wu asked with concern, "Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Is there something wrong? ”

"This Du Jinning, who is only fifteen years old, how can he write such an in-depth article? Isn't it ......" Zhao Yu didn't continue.