On March 26 of the first year of Taining, the examination was officially opened in the year of Xinsi, and more than 3,000 people from 13 states entered the tribute institute.

A large part of the general examination in Great Xia followed the general examination system of the Song Dynasty, because this was Enke, which was a little simplified, and the examination took place for three consecutive days.

On the first day, the Five Classics and Three Histories were examined, which were the five Confucian classics determined in the Han Dynasty, including the Book of Poetry, the Book of Rites, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes and the Spring and Autumn Period; The three histories are the Historical Records, the Book of Han and the Book of the Later Han, and the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms.

The main question type is also very simple, just like the current exam, one is to write sentences silently, and the other is to give sentences, pinch the head and remove the tail, so that students can complete it.

One is to give a sentence, write the general meaning, and give your own cognitive thinking, which is the test of memory understanding.

The next day, two poems, given the theme, have a keyword, there are five words, there are also seven words, and there is Fu, for a certain sentence, the number of words is approved, and the lyricism is fatal, either discussing things, or analyzing a certain phenomenon.

On the third day, the examination is simply a policy theory, which is to assess the thinking of the lifters and the solutions to some problems.

Yuan Rui has experienced too many exams, and he can't get along with him because of his nervousness, and in the past 20 days, he has also come over with a lamp.

He respects the exam, no matter what, since he comes, he has to work hard to do it, this is his principle.

He was sweating on the first day, and some of the books he knew well, but it was impossible to say that he had memorized them all.

Exams at any time are focused on, so there are those cheats for the exam, the examiner's personality preferences, the current main ideological direction, and so on.

Only by mastering these can we memorize and prepare for them. Otherwise, how can any candidate memorize all the words, even the so-called memory masters can't do it.

Therefore, for Yuan Rui, this time he floated, and he didn't memorize many questions, so it was very strange to look at.

He complained to himself in his heart, this time he was planted, he shouldn't have really come, he knew earlier, why did he do so many things.

At the end of the day, seeing that the paper was about to be handed in, I finally answered a rough answer, and one or two of those who pinched the head and tail couldn't, purely out of the way, and the rest didn't dare to say that they were all right.

The worst thing is dictation, two or three sentences really can't remember, that is, the kind that can't make a mistake in the original words, it's really a bit difficult for him, and he can't remember many words in the original text.

He was thinking, after reading so many novels, don't they all say that it is best to remember things after traveling, what articles and poems, after trial and strategy, are all casually said.

How can it be your turn, it won't work, where is a little bit of goldfinger flavor.

On the first night, he had no temper at all, and simply fell asleep with his head down, so be it.

The next day, when he saw the requirements for poetry and fu in the test questions, he held his head for a long time and didn't come back to his senses.

The exam questions are also very simple, there has been less rain in Jinling recently, so do seven words and one poem, which must have the words wind and rain.

There is also a poem that is even simpler, a poem according to the season, in seven-word format, and the rest is not limited.

As for Fu, I asked to think about it first, Wu is located in the richest place in the south of the Yangtze River, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there are many generals, compared with the other two countries, they are still young and strong, why was it not able to settle the dispute and unify the Central Plains?

It is to ask for endowment for this situation.

Having said so much, in fact, Yuan Rui understands it, and the test questions are actually more than 20 words, so it seems that you have to think about it carefully, how to mix it up. It was almost noon, Yuan Rui didn't have a clue, so he simply ate a little dry food and squinted for a while.

It's spring now, and it's really a little cold these two days, so he didn't plan to fall asleep, so he didn't cover it with a thick blanket, but after a while, the coldness hit his body, he shivered, and woke up suddenly.

He hurriedly took a thick dress and draped it on his body, not to mention, this freeze, he really remembered a poem, which was very appropriate.

This poem describes the scene of spring, the ghost sent the gods, he did not copy it, changed one of the words, and directly gave a name, it is called - spring!

The grass grows and the warbler flies in March

The willows are drunk with spring smoke

Children return early from school

Busy taking advantage of the east wind to release paper kites

There are poems in the season, but he has to think about it again with the words wind and rain.

This is the Gongyuan in the capital, and it is also in Jianye, he really remembered one, this poem was written when Jianye encountered heavy rain, and it is a vivid description of the feeling of comfort after the heavy rain.

The wind drove the heavy rain and sprinkled the clouds of Gaocheng, and the thunder was light

After the rain, I don't know where the dragon went, a pool of grass-colored frogs chirping

After writing this poem called Heavy Rain, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and these two poems were finally copied.

But what about Fu, he is really not familiar with this, and it is really a bit difficult for him to write.

Fortunately, the two poems didn't take much thought, so he still had a lot of time to think, Fu is too difficult to write, and the format is also very particular.

At this time, he remembered that he had read an online article in later generations, analyzed the situation in Soochow at that time, and said a few reasons.

First, it first lost Jingzhou, and then Liu Bei seized Yizhou, so that Eastern Wu lost a complete Dajiang defense line.

Second, with the loss of Jingzhou, Jianye turned out to be the most dangerous place at the junction of the three kingdoms, and there was no place to move.

Third, Jiangnan is rich, and it is precisely this kind of affluence that makes the people lose their motivation and sense of crisis.

I really couldn't copy it, so he thought helplessly, it seems that no matter what, he still has to make it up.

"The old land of Dongwu, the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the green water and white sails, the green mountains and red valleys, the lake and the blue sky are wide and ......"

It was also he who sorted out a lot of historical materials, even if he had a little literary attainment, and had his own thoughts and understanding of related events, and finally finished writing the 600-word fu before handing in the volume for two full hours.

He was really tired, so he hurriedly filled his mouth and tongue, and fell asleep.

Finally came to the last day, if he hadn't been able to leave early, he really didn't want to take the test, so he just went home, anyway, it was a dream to want to be lifted in this state.

This time he really saw it, and he knew that he still underestimated the ancients a little, and the ink in his stomach was still not enough.

Let's just say that this time the test questions are not a little higher than the township test and the government test, and he can't even think of many questions, so he said that the fu can be said to be very difficult to do.

There are still five ways of policy, the simplest is on the pros and cons of Enke, and the other four are on the increase and decrease of taxes, on the impact of commerce on Daxia, on the way out of the Yuezhou Shipping Division, and on the opening conditions of Youzhou to the outside world.

Looking at the dejected looks on the faces of many students in the examination booth opposite, and then listening to the sighs coming from the surrounding examination booths, he finally had a little comfort, okay, fortunately, he is not alone!

What are these topics?

Who is so ruthless, he simply doesn't let people live, if this person stands here, he will definitely hammer him!

He just thought about it, if he knew that this was a question from the saint himself, he probably wanted to die!

Yes, these questions are really from the saint himself, and they just came up with it last night, not to mention leaking the questions, even the examiner only found out about it this morning.

These questions can be said to be the three major problems that Great Xia is currently facing, taxation, commerce and trade, and border customs, not to mention that people can't interpret them, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are thinking about countermeasures.

Yuan Rui pondered for a while, and Enke can say clearly, he has a clear understanding of taxation and commerce, and he has a little idea, and he knows this statement for shipping and Yishi, and he doesn't understand many situations at all.

Alas, there's no way, how much can you write, let's finish writing first.

Enke started with the imperial examination system, and this advantage is obvious, and the effective selection of talents is conducive to breaking the rigidity of the class.....

Do you pay taxes, you can also say a little, take it from the people, use it for the people.

Combined with the new policy, he analyzed some of the current drawbacks, such as Ding tax, land tax, commercial tax and so on.

He also put forward his own thoughts on the idea of solving the problem, as the fundamental grain of the country, it must be controlled in the hands of the court, and those supplementary taxes, he also put forward suggestions......

When he finished writing, he suddenly found that he also had a new idea for commercial tax, and the value-added tax in later generations was a good thing, much stronger than the current fixed tax.

There is also the rated tax rate, which is levied according to the pre-rated tax rate according to different industries, which can effectively curb the bad problem of local officials collecting at will, and finally it is necessary to effectively control tax exemption.

But he really didn't know much about maritime trade, and he almost broke his head, and he couldn't write anything useful.

Even thinking about simply handing in the blank paper directly, the current maritime trade is relatively straightforward, and there is nothing to say.

Approaching the last half hour, he is also in a hurry, since there is no idea of Yuezhou shipping, you might as well learn from the practice of later exhibitions, make full use of the jurisdiction of the government, and play the role of a platform.

Create a trade bazaar, invite all kinds of merchants to participate, see the goods, order, and then count the transportation, the whole trade route will be opened, and the business will be more developed.

Not to mention, he really made a big policy when he said it together, from taxation to commerce, from the people to the court, and he really sorted out a clear idea.

Of course, it is undeniable that Yuan Rui speculated. There are some problems that he did not analyze and answer positively, nor did he really solve the problems well, it was just a train of thought.