Boom –

As soon as the exam questions came out, the scholars suddenly exploded.

Zhou Yuan's eyelids suddenly jumped again. Since he knew the scope of this year's imperial examination, Zhou Yuan's heart was very unhappy. The court does not play cards according to the routine, and the scholars will definitely make trouble when the time comes.

Sure enough, the moment the topic was revealed, the scholars suddenly burst into flames. Twenty or thirty scholars left their examination booths and rushed over.

As the chief examiner, Zhou Yuan couldn't count on others at this time, he stood up, walked into the examination room, and scolded everyone with a gloomy face: "Those who make noise in the examination room will be disqualified and expelled from the examination room." ”

Although the county order Zhou Yuan is the absolute authority in the examination room, in the face of the drastic changes in the content of the exam, there are still candidates who do not understand. walked directly in front of the absolute authority of the examination room, and said to Zhou Yuanzuo: "County Zun, student Yishui Tan Jiajiren, Tan Min." There is something unclear in my heart, and I ask the county to make it clear. ”

"Say!"

Zhou Yuan seems to have been prepared for this, originally, after the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial examination has been held sixty-one subjects, including Enke, and the early imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty has no time limit, sometimes one examination a year, there are also two years of examination, until the Zhenzong period only stipulated the provision of three years of examination. But it will also be uneven, so the total number will be counted in the past two years. It can be said that since the imperial examination was implemented in the Great Song Dynasty, poetry has never been absent.

According to the previous imperial examination regulations, on the first day of the examination, the scriptures, Moyi and poems. Regardless of whether it is a provincial examination or a solution examination, or even the county examination at the lowest level of the imperial examination, it is necessary to inevitably take the examination of poetry. Moyi, after the cancellation of the Sutra, was changed to the title of the Pentateuch. Before the poetry was also the most important one in the imperial examination, and even in the past, the examiner only looked at the poetry and did not look at other subjects. But the title of the poem is suddenly gone, how can the scholar not blow up?

"My lord, you are the main examiner today, and there is no student to speak."

"Then don't say it!"

Zhou Yuan's way of talking without giving any room suddenly made the other party a little waxy. But the stubbornness of the scholar made him still hold on.

"Adults, students still have something to say that they don't vomit and are unhappy." Tan Min seems to have become the leader of the scholars in Yishui County, and the scholars also want to save face, and even sometimes deceive themselves, raising their face to the level of righteousness, and then chanting in his mouth: "Kong said to be benevolent, and Meng said to take righteousness." "Regardless of it, he buried his head and rushed forward.

Until the head is broken, the blood flow is not hesitated.

If you're unlucky, you'll even end up in prison. Even if you eat the brown rice in the prison cell, the reader's face will still exude an unbelievably holy smell.

This kind of thing, Tan Min knows very well in his heart that he is going to become the spokesperson of the voice of the party, and his achievements in the future will definitely be higher. At least the scholars of Yishui County will take his lead as a follower.

Tan Min seemed to be participating in some important ceremony, and fell into a magical conjecture, and after bowing down, his back instantly straightened up, giving people a feeling of deliberateness: "Lord County, I waited for the scholar to study hard for ten years, just for today's three tests." However, today's exam questions are very different from previous years. The student asked the county honor, how can the law of the ancestors be abolished? ”

"Whose ancestor?"

Zhou Yuan's face suddenly darkened, the emperor was in power, and naturally he wanted to make a bold move to have a new operation on the court. But for civil and military officials, they are not willing to accept this method of being a son of heaven and a courtier. Is there any way to accept it?

And the first fire after the emperor came to power burned on the imperial examination.

Abolish the poetry fu, that is to say, next year's provincial examination and palace examination of the Jiaxu Branch, there will be no poetry fu. In the past, even if Wang Anshi reformed the imperial examination, there was no precedent for completely abolishing poetry. It's just that the role of poetry has been repeatedly reduced, and sometimes it is possible to improve the ranking as an auxiliary score for candidates.

But the reader, which one is not elegant?

On weekdays, reciting poems is also an indispensable thing in the literary society.

Many readers, don't look at the difficulty of the imperial examination, but they still have one or two poems at the bottom of the box, as a weapon to raise their image.

The imperial examination is undoubtedly the best occasion and opportunity.

Everyone wanted to show their hands, but suddenly the county order Zhou Yuan actually canceled the poetry exam questions, and it was reasonable that he couldn't accept it.

But in the examination room, Tan Min's reaction was too aggressive, and he even began to use the 'Law of Ancestors' to question the decision of the county commander Zhou Yuan. This is undoubtedly a question of authority, if Zhou Yuan can't suppress Tan Min's arrogance, then this county test, no matter what the result is, will become a hugely controversial county test, and Zhou Yuan, as the chief examiner, will take the blame for this failed county test.

Zhou Yuan can be close to the people on weekdays, and he can not let himself appear high, but now, he must not back down: "Who prescribed the 'law of the ancestors', Tan Min, if you don't give a reason today, this official will punish you for the crime of bewitching the public, do you know the truth from the mouth?" ”

"County Honor!" Tan Min also knew that it was too dangerous for him to come out at this time, but if he said it, where could he get it back?

I can only bite the bullet and say: "Since the Holy Ancestor, poetry has been the head, and now the county has canceled the poetry, which makes me puzzled." ”

"This is the will of the imperial court, does the imperial court make a decision, and does it still need your permission?"

"You are just a scholar, but you dare to bewitch other scholars in the field, what should you be guilty of?"

……

Zhou Yuan's series of questions continued, and Tan Min was indeed difficult to refute. Whether the county test is taken or not, it is in the hands of the examiner who marks the paper. In the local examinations, the magistrate is the main examiner. The county test, the solution test, are all like this. Before the exam, he offended the examiner, and Tan Min's county exam may have been more than lucky.

Tan Min was about to be frightened away.

Li Yun poked out his head and said to Li Kui in the examination booth next door: "Second brother, if these fools are expelled from the examination room, will the possibility of our success be greatly increased?" ”

Li Kui was stunned, looked at Li Yun with a strange expression, and then nodded.

Before he could warn Li Yun, Li Yun actually jumped out to support Zhou Yuan: "County Zun, dare to question the imperial court's talent ceremony, how can these people be used by the imperial court?" ”

"Expulsion from the exam room!"

"Expulsion from the exam room!"

Li Yun took the lead in shouting two sentences, and suddenly there were many helpers. It seems that there is a bargain in it. Because those who dare to stand up and question the exam questions are a group of scholars who are better at learning in the county. If you really come to fill the number of scholars, you don't care about anything. Only scholars who are good at learning and have the hope of solving the exam will pay special attention to the exam questions.

The imperial examination is held every three years.

Poetry accounted for a large proportion, and during the Renzong period, even as long as the poetry was on top, he could directly enter the Jinshi.

The scholars held back for three years, wrote dozens of poems, and spent an unknown amount of energy, but suddenly they didn't take the exam this year. It's like a candidate who has been repeating for three years, studying diligently according to the syllabus, and then leaving the field after three years, thinking that it is a chance to become famous in one fell swoop. Suddenly, the examiner touched his mouth, and his three years of hard work were in vain, who could accept it?

The scholars standing in Tan Min are twenty or thirty, to say the least.

And what about the scholars who participated in the county test in Yishui County?

The total is just over a hundred.

If a quarter of the scholars are eliminated at once, won't the rest of the people have a great chance of passing the county test?

Tan Min is not retreating at this time, nor can he advance, if he wants to say retreat, is it the act of a scholar? What about the position? What about the temperament? Do you want to do the festival!

But if he continued to stand up to Zhou Yuan, wouldn't it be that he spent three years of hard work, but in the end, the bamboo basket was empty?

He also wanted to try to enter Beijing, try to pay tribute in the province, and make a name for himself in the palace, so as to become a nobleman in front of people. If you don't even go out of your hometown, you will be tripped and fall to the ground, isn't it the first time you can get out of school?

No.

These people must not be allowed to succeed.

Tan Min doesn't remember that there are faces like Li Yun in the scholars of Yishui County. In his opinion, people with new faces are embroidered pillows who are not very good at learning. After all, things gather like people and divide people into groups, and if you really have the talent to learn, you will naturally move closer to yourself. Thinking of this, Tan Min decisively bowed his head: "County Zun, the student is wrong!" ”

"What's wrong?"

"Not for the official eunuch, privately discuss the government!"

Zhou Yuan really couldn't listen to Li Yun, and expelled a group of people from the examination room. After all, it's not just one or two. If he really does this, I'm afraid that he, the county magistrate, will be pulled over by his boss and reprimanded. Evaluations can also be terrible. He doesn't want to be a county magistrate all the time!

Zhou Yuan said with a calm face: "You are a first-time offender, and you know your mistakes, so you don't go to the exam!" ”

"The students thank the county for respecting a lot."

A storm suddenly stopped. This made the people watching the excitement dissatisfied. But what about dissatisfaction? They are all students, Zhou Yuan is the chief examiner, if he really deliberately makes things difficult, he doesn't know how to die.

The exam began with the sound of a gong.

The questions are all scriptures of the Pentateuch questions, and there are 40 of them. Twenty questions in the morning and twenty questions in the afternoon, and you can hand in the paper after writing.

Speaking of which, Jingyi is the simplest subject in the imperial examination. After all, it's all rote learning, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will naturally be able to pass. The title of the Five Classics is the five books of "Book of Changes", "Book of Books", "Book of Rites", "Book of Rites", and "Book of Songs", also known as the Great Classics. The Great Sutra Title is to select excerpts from the Five Classics and write the meaning according to the interpretation prescribed by the imperial court. For example, the title: 'The Past Gone'. The answer should be: from the "I Ching: Loss", the ninth day of the first month, its way up, should be really for the benefit of the upper and the lower loss, is actually the method of trade-off. Therefore, it is said: Shang Hezhi.

It's all this kind of topic, and a few words of the title have to be written in a large paragraph.

After the exam, the examiner commented on the right and wrong and posted it on the wall outside the county school. If you don't pass, you won't be able to use the second game.

For ordinary students, the number of these topics is already a lot.

Li Kui buried himself in hard writing, it was really hard writing. There used to be Moyi, but since Wang Anshi's reform, it has been canceled. After Moyi was canceled, it seemed to ...... By the way, the ancestor Su Shi also wrote an article to scold Wang Anshi. The abolition of Moyi and Shifu eventually doubled the number of scripture titles.

It was not easy to finish writing the morning topic, which was not very difficult for Li Kui. It's all rote memorization, and if you really don't even want to do this bit of hard work, you don't have to participate in the imperial examination.

After finishing writing, Li Kui glared at the official and said, "Seal the volume!" ”

"Second master, don't look at it again!"

"What's there to see?" The official had no choice but to curry favor with Li Kui's paper and store it, waiting for the new exam questions to come out in the afternoon.

And Li Kui took out the food from the food box and put them on the desk one by one. The food box was prepared by Fat Chun, since the two families decided to be married, Fat Chun no longer shy away from it, and he regarded himself as a sister-in-law before he passed the door. The food box prepared for Li Kui is not sumptuous, even if it is a wine banquet. Of course, Li Yun's food box is the same as Li Kui's.

In the examination room, Li Kui was definitely the first to finish writing. At this time, most of the students were struggling to write straight, and suddenly, the smell of sauce elbow seemed to waft through the tip of their noses......

Tsk tsk

There is also a meat skin unique to the elbow with a sticky mouth.

Li Kui is hungry, and others must be hungry too.

The student on the opposite side looked up at Li Kui blankly, only to see Li Kui holding the sauce elbow with both hands and gnawing on it, and for a while his stomach was like thunder, and he scolded angrily in his heart: "Your uncle!" ”

The stomach is obviously hungrier.

But there is no way, and there are still questions that have not been written. I had to bury my head in writing.

Li Yun, who was sitting next to Li Kui in the examination booth, also cursed in his heart, but he couldn't see the movement in Li Kui's examination booth, at least he could hold back.

Shaoqing, someone has sealed the file again.

I took out two dry biscuits from the bookcase, looked up and saw Li Kui taking a big bite, at least half a catty of fat, hanging on the side of his mouth with sauce, and then looked down at the dry biscuits in his hand. Suddenly there was a kind of bleakness. I finally made up my mind to take a bite of the cake, and suddenly felt tasteless.

hated so much that his eyelids jumped, and he comforted himself again and again in his heart: "This guy is probably a full bastard, and his talent is not as knowledgeable as him." Besides, Li Kui made a big fuss at the gate of the county school, and there were many people who saw it. guesses that Li Kui must have a very hard background, and it is better to turn a blind eye than to hate the other party.

Bah.

Bah.

After eating the sauce elbow, Li Kui found another roast chicken.

The chicken bones bite into the mouth and click.

For many candidates, this is even more uncomfortable than not doing the exam. But the problem is that Li Kui is also one of them, so Li Kui will not be allowed to eat the food he brought, right?

After a while, Li Yun finally finished the exam. hurriedly put the food box on the board, and after opening it, his eyebrows suddenly danced: "Sister Chunli is too righteous, second brother, what do you eat, I will exchange it with you?" ”

"It's all the same, what to change?" Li Kui's mouth was full of meat, and his speech was vague, but Li Yun still understood. Swing out and start eating and drinking.

The two of them eat and drink, which will naturally cause dissatisfaction among others. And the food is quite bold, I don't even use chopsticks, I just get started. At this time, Tan Min also handed in the file and sealed it, his family was poor, so he was counting on being able to become famous in the imperial examination, and then he would become an official and a half-job, so that his family would be prosperous. He was even poorer than others.

A few wheat cakes and a piece of pickles were the dry food for his exams.

Seeing Li Kui and Li Yun feasting, he gritted his teeth angrily. What made him even more angry was that he was close to their examination room, and he didn't even let Yirang move, and patronized himself to eat.

After barely eating two mouthfuls of dry biscuits, it was really difficult to swallow, so he slapped the biscuits on the board angrily, and said angrily: "It's insulting." ”

Li Yun raised his head blankly and looked at Tan Min, he felt very innocent: "I eat my own food, what's in the way of you?" ”

Li Kui was also attracted by Tan Min's reaction, but what kind of person is Li Kui! Opening his mouth directly made Tan Min's face pale: "Ignore him, take a big measure." ”

Tan Min stood up angrily, pointed at Li Kui and said, "You swear!" ”

Poor measures, these three words are definitely not good words! Even if Tan Min didn't understand the source, he knew that Li Kui was scolding.

But Li Kui grinned and said, "I am using the words of the Tang Dynasty Xiahou to encourage you, why do you scold people?" If you don't even know about Xiahou Gong, please ask Brother Tai to take a look at the book "Tang Jiayan", which is full of golden and jade good words. ”

For a while, Tan Min's face was red when he was said. But the question is, will Li Kui kindly use allusions from the ancients to encourage Tan Min, who has never been masked? Especially Tan Min is unreasonable in front, and Li Kui is in the back. Coupled with Li Kui's previous arrogance towards the servants, he didn't seem to be a reasonable person. Tan Min was speechless. But secretly remembered a book.

He hadn't read the book "Tang Jiayan", and if he wanted to reason with Li Kui, his natural momentum would be much weaker. But throughout the ages, words that are related to poor words are not good words, and he can still distinguish this.

I secretly hated it in my heart, and I was going to go back and find a copy of "Tang Jiayan" to see what it was talking about.

The confrontation between Li Kui and Tan Min suddenly amazed the surrounding scholars, who thought that a scholar like Li Kui should take the path of Mengshan Academy, based on refining the body, supplemented by talent and learning. I didn't expect to say an allusion when I opened my mouth, and everyone had never heard of this allusion.

The book "Tang Jiayan" is very biased, and all students have never heard of it.

What does it mean?

Li Kui's knowledge may have little to do with his looks.

Another reason is that Li Kui has read books that they have not read, which shows that Li Kui's family has a rich collection of books and family history. This belongs to class crushing, and if you don't accept it, you have to accept it.

After the county test was over, before the exam, Tan Min really did everything possible to find the book "Tang Jiayan", and finally saw the source of the three words of poor cuo, and after savoring it, he couldn't afford to get sick angrily.

There is a longer interpretation of this word: poor and sour lowly person, abbreviated - slut.