"Lord Inspector, it's freezing at this time, do you have to strip off your clothes and carry them on your hands?"

Shen Yichen asked again, although it was the first time for him to take the exam, he had already made sufficient understanding and preparation before going to the exam.

There is a body search in the examination, but I have never heard of the statement that you need to strip naked and put it on your hands, unless something abnormal is found, or the key suspect of fraud.

As a Shuntianfu Township Trial Solution Yuan, theoretically he wants to give some face-saving preferential treatment, and the inspector's request is really a bit unreasonable.

"Shen Jieyuan, there is an order from above to focus on the investigation, don't make it difficult for the official."

The inspector replied without a smile, and he could be regarded as telling Shen Yichen the reason behind it, it was not that he wanted to make things difficult for Shen Yichen, but that someone above had ordered it to be so.

Hearing this, Shen Yichen's heart was like a mirror, and he would try to do it with the power, which was nothing more than the tripartite tripartite of the Zhigong Raising Official, the Inner Curtain Chief Examiner, and the Outer Curtain Invigilator.

The invigilator of the outer curtain of the examination is served by the thirteen superintendents of the imperial history, and the official of the Dao Yan in the Ming Dynasty is like a flat-headed brother, and anyone who dares to bite if he is not satisfied. But as long as they are not provoked, they are basically safe, and it is difficult for high-level elites to control them.

The possibility of the chief examiner of the inner curtain is not very likely, Ma Yu himself is a cabinet minister, and he has no grievances with him, so there is no need to target. Qian Xili will not be able to, after all, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, has personally visited the door, and he has to look at the face of the Buddha if he doesn't look at the monk's face.

After a circle of elimination, only the only one who can give such an order is Zhigong Juguan.

The so-called Zhigong Raising Officials, popularly speaking, can be understood as the nominal organizer and boss of the examination, which is generally served by the Grand Zongbo and the Young Zongbo of the Ministry of Rites.

That's why, the test is called "Liyu", and today Hu Hu and Wang Ying were present to preside.

Wang Ying doesn't need to say much, he can't wait for Shen Yichen to be given preferential treatment, so that in the future, there will be people in the court who can speak, so that people will not go to the tea.

Then the answer is obvious, the inspector's difficulty comes from Hu Hui's instructions.

Since Uncle Dazong personally ordered it, although the stripping inspection was unreasonable, it was in line with the rules, and Shen Yichen had nothing to say.

Honestly remove the clothes on the body, put the shoes and socks on the hands, and then dump the contents of the examination basket on the table for the soldiers to carefully check.

The examination requires three sessions and nine days, plus the day of early admission today, in fact, you have to stay in the Gongyuan for ten days, and it is naturally impossible to lose any of the items you bring.

Regular examination supplies such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, as well as food, warm clothes, bedding, waterproof tarpaulins, and even coal, braziers and other items for cooking and heating are at least several times more than those of the township examination.

As soon as there are many things, the inspection time will naturally be long, and after just ten minutes, Shen Yichen is already shivering from the cold, and his face has become iron-blue.

Seeing Shen Yichen's appearance, the inspector didn't dare to continue tossing, after all, the instruction he received was to make things difficult and affect Shen Yichen's mentality in the imperial examination, not to kill him!

In case Shen Yichen was really frozen out of any accident, it caused the anger of the Guogong, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu couldn't protect himself. Immediately, he ordered Shen Yichen to put on all his clothes and everything, and motioned for the military service to speed up.

It's just that this move, in the eyes of the literati waiting for the search, seems very unusual.

"I will try to take care of my face, but the search is not a formality, why does Shen Xie Yuan have to strip naked?"

"Did Xie Yuanlang offend the school inspector, he has participated in the three sessions of the examination, and he has never seen such a strict investigation."

"Maybe there is a suspicion of fraud, but I have heard of the fraud incident in the Chengguo Mansion."

"Fart, Shen Jieyuan is talented, and he has read the township test article countless times, how can he cheat?"

With the discussion of the waiting sons, Shen Yichen finally completed the search and was led into the examination room by a soldier.

Shen Yichen has experienced the admission process once, and it can be said that he is familiar with it, but this time the route is different from the township test, and it is not brought into the newly built brick structure number house area, but in front of an old and dilapidated number house.

What's even more outrageous is that next to Shen Yichen's house is the stove that warms meals for Juzi, which means that he chose the legendary fire number!

The stove with this dilapidated house is simply a must, if it rains, you are afraid of leakage, and if it doesn't rain, you are afraid of fire. The only thing that can make Shen Yichen feel fortunate is that there is no "smelly" arranged next to the toilet, otherwise he will be attacked by "poison gas".

But then again, the stove is located at the end of the house near the aisle, so you can place a water tank to extinguish the fire at any time. The toilet is at the end of a row, and it is impossible to achieve the best of both worlds.

The smell of the toilet is much weaker when the temperature is low, and if you have strong willpower, it may not be very affected.

The stove is different, it will not change according to the will of the candidate, and it is useless for you to pray to God and worship Buddha if you are unlucky, so it is more "reasonable" to arrange it.

"Hey, I'm really good at mentality......"

Shen Yichen laughed self-deprecatingly, and then walked into this house with great calmness, so that the soldiers who led the way couldn't help but admire when they saw it.

You must know that after many scholars are assigned to a relatively poor number house, they are generally all kinds of depressed complaints, and there are even stupid and noisy people who ask to change the number house.

The one that Shen Yichen was assigned to was already one of the worst houses in Shuntian Gongyuan, but he could still laugh, he really deserved to be Xie Yuanlang, this realm was really different.

On the Mingyuan floor of the Tribute Academy, the two examiners were looking at the candidates who entered the first place in the distance, and they knew in their hearts that if nothing else, the first person to enter the Tribute Academy would be Shuntian Xie Yuan Shen Yichen.

When assigning the location of the number house before the exam, Qian Xili specially greeted the promotion officer of the outer curtain and asked him to take care of Shen Yichen and assign the best bricks and tiles in the center to build the new number house.

In addition to selling Cheng Guogong a face, it is more about Qian Xili's appreciation of Shen Yichen himself.

On that day, he and Zhu Yong came to visit, and when he left, Shen Yichen's modesty and respectfulness made Qian Xili feel very useful, and said the affectionate words that he could come to the house at any time.

In the follow-up, Shen Yichen also beat snakes and sticks, and really took the time to visit the door a few times, especially on the Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and also spent time to find some specialties of Qian Xili's hometown, which satisfied his thoughts of missing his relatives every festival.

Coupled with the recent Guozi Priest Wine Incident, Shen Yichen stepped forward and led the scholars to knock on the grievances, and he was not afraid of Wang Zhen's power and finally cleared the innocence of the Dasi clan.

All kinds of factors are superimposed, it can be said that Shen Yichen has an extremely good appetite for Qian Xili, both in interpersonal communication and in character, and it is difficult not to win favor.

Just looking at it, Qian Xili realized that something was wrong. Shen Yichen did not go to the newly built brick and tile house, but went to the old house, and also arranged the "fire" next to the stove at the head end.

No, even if he didn't specifically instruct him, according to Shen Yichen's reputation for trying to solve the yuan in Shuntianxiang, he would get preferential treatment, at least he had to arrange a central house.

"Hey, why is Shen Yichen's house in such a position, is it because the promotion officer is mistaken?"

Before Qian Xili could speak, Ma Yu, the cabinet minister next to him, was the first to question it.

As the first entrant, Xie Yuan attracted the attention of everyone, and it was impossible to place it in this kind of house. In this case, either the promoter made a mistake or was greeted by someone.

Theoretically, with Shen Yichen's current fame and the background of the Chengguo Mansion, no one should deliberately fix him, right?

"Maybe I'm mistaken."

Qian Xili thought about it, there is a high possibility that he should be mistaken, after all, he was greeted by the examiner, and how many others can overstep his authority?

"Then I don't know if Shen Yichen can stabilize his mentality and ensure that the article plays in this environment."

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty all came all the way through the examination, so they naturally understood what it meant to be poor, and under the pressure of the imperial examination, it was a great test for the psychological quality of the candidates.

"It should be okay, this son is young and old, calm and calm, and has the talent to achieve great things."

"It seems that Brother Xi Li knows Shen Yichen very well."

Ma Yu said lightly, his son Ma Zheng also participated in this session, and Shen Yichen was one of the fierce opponents.

Before the orthodox years of the Ming Dynasty, there was no clear order for the chief examiner's relatives to avoid the policy, and when they met their own children, nephews, and students, they completely relied on consciously abiding by the examiner's morality and not engaging in favoritism.

In the Jiajing period, an official named Wu Qing served as the chief examiner, and under the secret operation, he wantonly took his relatives and fellow villagers, which made the matter bigger. From then on, the order clearly stipulated that the chief examiner of the township examination must not be a local official, and he must not have his own immediate family members for reference.

But in the examination, this rule has basically not been well implemented, and when you meet your own relatives to take the exam, what should you do.

Even in the Qing Dynasty, where imperial power was at its peak, there were many cases, such as Liu Yong, the protagonist of the famous TV series "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", whose chief examiner was his own father Liu Tongxun.

"Now that this son has become a famous Jingshi, how can he not understand?"

Qian Xili did not explicitly say his connection with Shen Yichen, after all, he could mix in the officialdom of Beijing, and he had to keep a few points when he spoke and did things.

"Indeed, this son is in the limelight now."

Ma Yu smiled and followed Qian Xili's words, and the two tacitly agreed.

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On the other hand, after Shen Yichen entered the house, the first thing he did was to set up the ceiling with a tarpaulin, and make a curtain to protect him from the wind and rain. At this time, it has entered early spring, and it is the season of spring rain, and there is a high possibility of rain and snow during the nine days of the exam.

You must know that there are very strict rules for the examination, and the test paper must not be wet or damaged by rain, otherwise it will be regarded as an illegal test paper and selected by the officer in charge of the test paper.

This kind of test paper will be published with a blue pen after the end of the exam, which means that the list is not listed, also known as "on the blue list".

After making preparations for the rain, Shen Yichen began to lay the bedding. Each room is three feet wide and four feet long, and each foot in the Ming and Qing dynasties is about 31 centimeters, and the indoor area of the house is only more than one square meter, which is extremely cramped.

The so-called bed in the dormitory is actually the bench where the examinees sit, and when they want to sleep at night, they feel that it is not wide enough, so they remove the "table" for writing. Thus the two planks are combined into one, making a simple bed that can be curled up for a night.

The big thing of rain prevention and sleeping at night is done, Shen Yichen's next thing is to light the charcoal fire in the brazier to keep warm, but he was not lightly frozen, and he urgently needs to drink a cup of hot tea to warm up.

After some operation, when the other candidates were still entering the examination room one after another, Shen Yichen was already curled up in the quilt, and a cup of steaming spring tea was placed next to him, taking a sip of it.

The only thing to pay attention to is the fire of the brazier, which is essentially cotton cloth soaked in cooked tung oil, which can easily be ignited by sparks. If this gets carried away and burns the house, then Shen Yichen's beauty at the moment is probably going to turn into happiness and sadness......

The leading soldier who was guarding outside the number building, looking at Shen Yichen's unhurried and bitter style, admired it even more in his heart, I was afraid that he would have to witness the birth of a Wenqu star.

In the afternoon, as thousands of people who went to the examination entered the Gongyuan, a drum sounded, indicating that the dragon gate was about to be locked.

After it was locked, the courtyard was equivalent to forming an independent small space, and no longer allowed any entry and exit.

Among the people who came in, some of them were repeating Shen Yichen's steps, some of them were assigned to the poor room and scolding, and some of them were usually used to being served by their subordinates, so they didn't mean to do it themselves at all.

It was not until nightfall, accompanied by the warning sound of the soldiers, that the courtyard finally fell silent.

After a night of nothing, Shen Yichen woke up from his sleep the next morning, rubbed his sleepy and fluffy eyes, and dismantled a piece of the "bed board" where he was sleeping, put it back in the card slot of the number house, and converted it into a table.

Then he took out the wicker and green salt, brushed his lower teeth to remove the bad smell of his mouth, and omitted the part of washing his face, and it was not easy to use water.

After doing this, I added some charcoal to the brazier that had not been extinguished last night and boiled a pot of tea. He took out the dried food such as preserved fruits, jerky, pancakes, etc., which had been prepared long ago, and dealt with two mouthfuls improvised, but he didn't dare to eat too much.

Because in order to prevent candidates from cheating in the imperial examination, unless there is really no way, the examiner does not allow candidates to move around at will during the examination.

If candidates need to urinate, there is a toilet in each room, and they can solve it by themselves. And bite the lid tightly after use, so as not to emit the smell and affect other people.

As for pooping, you have to go to the thatched hut at the end of the house, but the steps are extremely cumbersome. You have to report to the invigilator, then you have to take care of the test papers, and you have to ask another person to accompany you to the toilet.

You think that's the end of it? It's not that simple, the invigilator will also stamp a black mark on the candidate's test paper, which was called "poop poke" in ancient times.

If this black-stamped test paper goes into the hands of the examiner, it will be treated as an inferior test paper by default, and they will basically not read it much, and they will feel unlucky. Unless you write the first sentence of this test paper amazingly, it is equivalent to falling off the list.

Therefore, if you want to go to the thatched house, you can only go between the two exams, which means that you have to endure three days and two nights.

Shen Yichen naturally doesn't want to fall off the list because of the problem, eat as little as he can, and endure as much as he can!

Just before Shen Yichen finished drinking a cup of tea, he heard the sound of a gong ringing in the Shuntian Gongyuan Temple, which meant that the orthodox ten-year examination had officially begun.

The scribe distributes the encapsulated test papers to the candidates, just like the township examination, and there are seven questions in the first exam, which are three questions in four books and four questions in the five classics.

There is no clear rule on when it will be completed, just turn in the paper on February 12, before the second exam.

The old rule is that the imperial examination of the Ming and Qing dynasties focuses on the first and first questions, so after Shen Yichen opened the test paper, he immediately focused on the first four-book question.

In addition to the two conventional requirements of avoiding and not being able to ridicule current affairs, there is also a point that you can't cut off the classics without authorization. This also means that the kind of underworld interception questions in the children's test will not appear in the exam, which is a great benefit to the candidates.

The first four books are right: the foundation of the world with sincerity.

This sentence is taken from "The Mean: Chapter 32", although it does not separate the classics, but it also synthesizes a complete sentence.

The original text is: Only the sincerity of the world can make the world's great scriptures, establish the world's great foundation, and know the transformation and education of heaven and earth.

The translated meaning is: Only the most sincere people in the world can grasp the outline of governing the world, establish the moral foundation of the world, and know the truth of heaven and earth to nurture all things.

The selection of this question is very righteous and dignified, without the slightest possibility of ambiguity and confusion, and it vividly shows the Confucian concept of morality and benevolence in governing the country.

But when Shen Yichen saw this kind of topic, he felt a little embarrassed. Because the more "Wei Guangzheng" exam questions are, it means that there are not many directions to choose from to solve the questions, and all the candidates write very similarly, and it is difficult to rely on the way of thinking of later generations to win by surprise.

And from the meaning expressed in the exam question, you can also understand that the same examiner who came out with this question is most likely an old pedantic type official, and it will be self-defeating if you go off the rails.

It is worth mentioning that in order to prevent the exam questions from being leaked out by the examiner in the Ming Dynasty, the exam questions were written by the examiner plus eighteen people with the examiner, and then seven questions were randomly selected to become the official exam questions.

Therefore, candidates not only can't get the questions from the examiner, but they can't even figure out the examiner's style preferences, and they can only answer the questions with real skills.

After thinking about it for a long time, Shen Yichen finally put pen to paper, since he can't win by surprise, let's compete to see who has a more solid knowledge foundation. I have been studying hard day and night for the past two years, and I didn't come through the mess!

According to the meaning of the translation of the question, you can get the intention that the examiner wants to express, that is, who is the most sincere person in the world and can set moral standards?

Expand the association, who has such a big face and dares to admit that he is a sincere person in the world and can set moral standards?

The answer is not just about to come out, of course it is a saint!

Under the policy of governing the country with Confucianism, you can pick out the thorns of whoever you write about as a moral model, but only write about the sage Confucius, and no one dares to say anything, which is absolute political correctness!

I didn't expect that modern times need to follow all kinds of political correctness, and this is still the case in ancient times, so I will try this first question, which is to compete who is more correct......