In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the Beijing test, the sun was warm, the sky was blue and white, and it was a good weather.

Although it was the cold winter season, I didn't feel too cold.

The literary academy in the capital is located at the south gate of the imperial palace, and countless scholars have gathered outside the gate early in the morning, yes, they are all candidates from all over the country who come to take the exam.

There are tens of thousands of people as far as the eye can see, and it is hard to imagine how fierce the competition in the Beijing test is.

It can be said that the Beijing examination is a watershed in the life of scholars, and the biggest difference between it and other imperial examinations is that once the title of the gold list is inscribed, they can be promoted to Hanlin, and they can be directly officials in the court.

Either staying in Beijing to take up a post, or returning to his hometown as an official, or being sent to other places, it is an opportunity to show a variety of performance platforms for scholars.

The Beijing examination is divided into two sessions, the first is a paper exam, which is still inseparable from the knowledge mastered by the reader, and it is still necessary to write articles, poems, and test strategies in a regular manner.

And the second is to select 1,000 of the best scholars according to the ranking of their results, and the Confucian students of the Guoxue Palace will take the exam on the Jinluan Palace, also known as the palace exam.

After the palace examination, the scholar will be arranged to serve in a suitable official position, and officially go to the official career to show his talents.

The palace examination may determine the future of the reader.

Therefore, every reader who participated in the Beijing examination was very nervous and nervous.

In front of the gate of the Liberal Arts Academy, hundreds of civil officials were inspecting the candidates, dozens of scholars were patrolling around, and thousands of Imperial Forest troops were also mobilized.

The Beijing test is not trivial, and the selected talents are all the pillars of Liang Guo in the future, and they have to be taken seriously.

It was not until noon that all the candidates entered the examination room of the Faculty of Arts and waited for the examination to begin.

There is no separate examination room at the Gyeongju Academy, and there is only a screen between each location, and the aisles and corridors are flanked by each other.

This is to facilitate the invigilator's inspection, there must be two invigilators every 100 steps, and there is a university scholar every 500 steps, so I am not afraid that any candidate will peek at others or plagiarize.

After all, the candidates had already been checked once before they entered, and no one could bring in any papers and cheat sheets.

Lu Ming sat in the screen of the examination room, finished sorting out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then quietly waited for the start of the exam.

In the vast examination room, there are neat and neat scholars sitting as far as the eye can see, and a statue of Confucius is set up in the center.

The person who presided over this Beijing test was the highly respected scholar Fan Guanhai University in Jingzhou City, and I saw him standing in front of the statue of Confucius, respectfully saluting the three pillars of incense, and then bowing deeply.

"Please be a saint to see what is going on!"

Fan Guanhai's voice didn't sound loud, but it clearly resounded in everyone's ears, and it didn't make people feel harsh when they listened.

The sound is like spring!

Suddenly, a wave of talent fell from the sky, enveloping the entire examination room.

"Boom!"

As a bell rang, Fan Guanhai announced: "The Liangguo Jingzhou Hanlin test will start immediately, and the first test of poetry will take half an hour!"

A quarter is about fifteen minutes, and a half-quarter is seven minutes!

"Roll in!"

Fan Guanhai's voice sounded again, and then he waved his sleeves, and a Qiankun bag flew out of it, and after opening it, he saw countless exam papers flying out of it quickly, and in an instant, it seemed to be a "curling rain", flying to every candidate's desk one after another.

When the exam papers fell, Lu Ming looked at it, and his face suddenly changed, there were dozens of them, and the content of the poems in each exam paper was different.

"The biggest difference in the Beijing examination is to fill in the correct answer in the shortest time, which is a test of the reader's reaction to the answer immediately after seeing the question, and also a test of the reader's calmness and analytical ability. ”

"Time is limited, no delay!"

Thinking of this, Lu Ming didn't dare to slack off, and immediately checked the question as quickly as possible, and at the same time used the power of Wenxing to "write a chapter", which was done in one breath, and the speed was extremely fast.

Although there is the power of "writing a chapter", after all, you have to think and write the answer while reading the question, which will definitely be much slower than usual, and the questions are so complex that I am afraid that there is no time to revise them, and if you make a mistake, you will be wrong.

If you are too anxious, you may answer the wrong question, and if you answer one question incorrectly, your score will be 108,000 miles off.

This is enough to cause huge psychological pressure on the candidates.

The sound of "pounding" knocking on the table sounded in my ears, followed by a sigh, needless to say, someone had already written the wrong topic and regretted it.

"The hour has come!"

As soon as Fan Guanhai's voice fell, before everyone could react, the exam papers were automatically folded and flew back into Fan Guanhai's Qiankun bag.

"Hey, how fast!"

"Damn! there's no time to revise it!"

"This Beijing exam is too difficult, I haven't even finished the exam paper!"

Many test takers began to complain, but soon regained their composure.

Lu Ming took a deep breath and showed a look of some happiness, because he finished writing the test paper just at the end of time.

"If nothing else, more than 90% of my test papers should be correct. ”

Even Lu Ming can't be 100% sure of his achievements at this moment, because time is pressing, and it is inevitable that there will be negligence, but it is only a few mistakes and many more.

"Now for the second essay exam, a quarter of an hour!"

As soon as Fan Guanhai's voice fell, many readers immediately changed their faces, although the essay was a self-selected topic, but the content was quite varied, and if you want to write it in a quarter of an hour, you have to omit most of the words.

This essay is even more difficult, and the difficulty lies not only in simple words, but also in writing profound truths.

Even if the readers present have the strength to "write hard", they have to work the article and think twice before doing it in a short time.

There is no possibility of cheating at all, and if you want to stand out, you must rely on real talent.

After the test paper was issued, Lu Ming did not start writing immediately, with the power of "writing into chapters", he could write a short essay in a short time, although he had already prepared the subject, but he had to save a lot of content.

In a quarter of an hour, there is so little to write.

Half an hour later, Lu Ming made a calculation, wrote down the title "The Pros and Cons of the Literati Rivalry", and then made a simple and clear discussion.

Broadly speaking, it is a good thing for literati to compete with each other, and through mutual learning and competition, scholars can increase their knowledge, sharpen their own mind, and constantly improve themselves.

But looking at today, scholars are all vying for fame and fortune, contrary to the ideas of the saints, and some people even betray their promises and do things that hurt nature and reason, which is really stupid.

Based on his own experience and perceptions, Lu Ming criticized this, and scolded those children of the family who were invincible and had done a lot of evil.

If it were other people's scholars, they would naturally not dare to offend the family.

But Lu Ming is different, he is the author of Zhenguo, he has the courage to write in an instant, and the content he writes conforms to the authorities, even if the Holy Court is wrong, even if it is criticized for a heinous crime, he has the courage to write!

Because this is always the world of reasoning, the world of readers!