The county school has two fixed exams every year, one is the mid-year exam in June and the other is the annual exam in December.

The June exam is indeed a mid-year exam for the lower and middle students, but if it is a year of the imperial examination, it is the graduation examination of the county school for the upper students.

The county examination is also a preliminary examination for the examination, and only after passing the examination can you get the admission ticket for the examination, and a recommendation letter issued by the county school.

Although the students in the first two years have graduated from the county school, they have not all left the school, and some students are still observing the master's secret classes as the chief professor's disciples.

This is why the chief professor accepts disciples, the imperial examination is only held once every three years, and many important contents must be taught to students in the imperial examination year, so it is necessary to give some outstanding students a reason to stay in school and listen to classes.

The annual county examination is held on June 15, with a total of three days of examination, one day of poetry and meditation, one day of argumentative questions, and one day of countermeasures.

All students from prefectural schools are required to take the exam, and students who have not taken the exam in the previous year can also take the exam as a make-up exam.

Before dawn, the bell of the main building rang.

Nearly 200 students from the upper dormitory and students from previous years entered the main building in turn.

The first day of the test is an argumentative essay, which requires no less than 1,000 words, and the time is four and a half hours, that is, nine hours, starting at 6 a.m. and ending at 3 p.m.

Two hundred people sat in five classrooms, and Fanning sat in the second examination room, and his exam number was B15.

Of course, the county exam is not as strict as the exam, but it is not allowed to bring books, bring your own stationery, no need to search yourself, and there are two professors in one examination room to invigilate the exam, one after the other to inspect the examination room.

'When! A bell rang and the exam began.

A teaching assistant walked into the examination room with a sign, and on the sign was today's argumentative essay exam question: "Twice the Effort".

The title is from "Mencius: Gongsun Chou Shang": "The story of a person who is half ancient will be twice as good." ”

To do this question, you must understand the content of the whole article, and then elaborate on it, name your own opinions, and look for some arguments to support it.

The questions are really not difficult, as long as you can understand the meaning of the questions, you can basically pass the test.

At this time, calligraphy has become the key to whether it can be passed, and if the calligraphy is too bad, it will be rejected and eliminated first.

Fan Ning's calligraphy is no longer Wuxia Ameng two years ago, after two years of hard practice, his calligraphy has risen several steps, and even Zhao Xiuwen is full of praise.

Fanning is especially good at writing down a word, like flowing water, very beautiful, even Zhu Pei's line back then was slightly inferior to him.

Fanning wrote the title on a piece of manuscript paper, "The Achievement Must Be Doubled".

Of course, he was very familiar with this question, and the whole article was written by Gongsun Chou, a disciple of Mencius, asking whether Mencius needed to establish meritorious deeds if he was in charge of the affairs of the Qi state.

Mencius believed that the state of Qi was powerful, and if it was governed by royal and benevolent government, as long as the favors to be exerted on the people were half as much as those of the ancients, the merits established could be much greater than those of the ancients.

This is where the idiom comes from.

There is a lot of room for this question to be used, and it can be used for study, and it can also be used to write about the national economy and people's livelihood, such as the development of productive forces.

Fanning decided to start with agriculture.

The emergence of various agricultural books, silkworm books and other agricultural monographs, the refinement of various agricultural tools and tools, the refinement of the use of manure, and the popularization of various agricultural technologies have greatly increased the income of grain.

Because of this, the same iron farming tools appeared in the Tang and Song dynasties, but the Song Dynasty played a much greater role than the Tang Dynasty. ’

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The three days of the county exam passed in a flash.

The end of the county examination means the end of the two-and-a-half-year county school career of the students, of course, the student can apply for an extension of residence for half a year, until the end of the year officially leave the school.

Three days later is the day of the release of the county examination results, the county examination only announces the list of passers, not the second ranking, for most students, they are not very nervous, after all, the pass rate of more than ninety percent of five makes the vast majority of students reassured.

However, for students with poor grades, today's list is a list of life and death, if they can't even pass the county exam, it means that they don't even have the qualifications to show talent.

Early in the morning, Akihito and Mingli lingered under the sign in front of the Diligent Building, and they kept visiting the building, waiting for the list to be delivered.

Behind them were dozens of students, most of whom were in the middle or lower grades, or who had failed before, and they were anxious and anxious, waiting as tormented as Akihito and Mingli.

Every student knows that they may not be able to pass the exam, but at least they are qualified to participate in the examination and obtain the title of a showman, which can be regarded as an explanation to their parents.

"It's out!"

Someone shouted, and I saw several teaching assistants coming out of the school building with a roll of red paper.

Everyone dodged out of the way, and the three teaching assistants smiled, brushed a layer of paste on the billboard, and pasted the five lists.

There is a list for each college, and there is also a list for the make-up examinations of students who failed in previous years.

Mingren and Mingli pounced and looked for their names on the first list, which was the list of Luming Academy, the first name was Fan Ning, then Su Liang and Duan Yu, and they also saw Li Dashou.

"Pham Minh Ren, Pham Minh Li!"

The two of them saw their names at the same time, cheered excitedly, and clapped their hands hard.

Their names are lower in the middle, indicating that the two of them did well in the exam.

Fan Ning, Su Liang, and Duan Yu happened to come over, but they saw Mingren and Mingli jumping out from a distance like two big horse monkeys, shouting loudly: "We have passed the exam!" I've passed! ”

All three had black lines on their foreheads.

"Fanning, no! They actually passed the test? Su Liang was very surprised.

Fan Ning also felt incredible, Mingren and Mingli were jokingly called 'the cornerstone of Luming Academy', if these two people passed the exam, it could only prove one thing, the county school was released.

"It is impossible for the county school to release water!"

Duan Yu said calmly: "Sect Zhang made it very clear before that this county examination will be strictly required. ”

"Just check it out!" Su Liang ran towards the list.

At this time, Mingren and Mingli saw Fanning, and hurriedly ran over, Mingren said triumphantly: "Aning, we have passed the test!" ”

"Good luck! Won't it be in the last two again? ”

The two glanced at each other, with an embarrassed look in their eyes, and Mingli said: "This performance is really good, we are all ranked a little lower than the middle." ”

"Really? Both played well? ”

Fanning heard the loophole in his words, and both of them were ranked in the middle.

It's also that he knows these two guys too well, and these two guys are not good at calligraphy, and they can actually rank in the middle and bottom, which shows that they are not generally good, is this possible?

At this time, Su Liang ran over and whispered to Fan Ning: "There are four people in Luming Academy who are not on the list. ”

Fan Ning nodded and said to Su Liang and Duan Yu, "You guys go first!" I'll talk to these two guys. ”

Su Liang and Duan Yu left, and Fan Ning said to Mingren Mingli: "You come with me!" ”

He led the two brothers to a deserted place, and Fanning asked coldly, "Say! How did you get the problem? ”

With the usual performance of the two of them, it is already fortunate not to fall off the list, and they are still ranked in the middle, so there is only one possibility, the two of them have already got the county exam questions in advance, and then spent money to find someone to help them make an article.

Other than that, Fanning really can't think of any other reason?

"A-Ning, don't talk nonsense! Where are we likely to get the question? Akihito muttered quietly, obviously a little unconfident when he said this.

"Then it's none of my business, you go and explain the reason to the Teaching."

Fan Ning turned around and left, his brother hurriedly grabbed Fan Ning, Mingli scratched his head, and said a little embarrassed: "The main blame is that the window of the Teachings has not been repaired, we went to find a place to cool off, and inadvertently turned into the Teachings' study, and inadvertently found a handwritten test question in his drawer, we were curious to write it down, and then ......"

"And then I spent money to consult a certain Confucian, didn't you?" Fanning coldly added the following words for them.

Akihito snorted, "That's probably what it means!" Ask the great Confucian, who is ignorant of life, does not mean that he means how to do it? ”

Fanning struck each of them on the head with a folding fan, "You two fools, since you have done it, then at least you must be a little more hidden, and the last few places in the exam can be considered to be accountable, but the test is average, this is not the same as telling others, do you know the exam questions in advance?" ”

The faces of the two of them were bitter, and Mingli said for a while: "A-Ning, you give an idea!" ”

Fan Ning took a few steps and said to the two: "If Zhang Jiaoyu asks about you, you will say that the poem was written by me before, and you have written it down."

The Silent Sutra is the entrance question of the county exam that I once bet, and you just memorized it, and the countermeasure question was tested this time, and you said that this was the last test solution, and you have seen many similar countermeasure questions.

As for the argumentative question, let's just say that Zhao Xuezheng had this question in his secret class last year, and you asked me for advice, and the teaching said it like this, do you understand? ”

The two were overjoyed and said in unison: "We understand!" ”

At this moment, Su Liang and Duan Yu beckoned to Fan Ning in the distance, "Fan Ning, Xuezheng is looking for us, there is something important." ”