The joint entrance examination lasts for three days, with two subjects per day, including five of the six arts of a gentleman: calligraphy, mathematics, archery, music, and royalty. Etiquette is not included in the assessment, but it is also a compulsory course for students.

In addition to the above five subjects, there is also an additional chess subject in the exam. The Northern Han Dynasty has always believed that the level of chess skills and chess style can intuitively see a person's character and personality, so a large number of chess training institutions have appeared since very early times, and chess has become the most popular one of the eight Ya, which is a skill that all students must master.

In the above order, the assessment items on the first day are both books and numbers. The so-called book here is not simply writing articles, doing situational analysis and the like, its content specifically includes propositional composition, logical analysis and the writing of three different fonts, any of which are time-consuming and laborious, so this course alone takes a whole morning and almost two hours to assess.

Of course, in this world, it is also allowed to submit papers in advance, compared to modern civilization, the ancients seem to value the preciousness of time, since you have completed the task, or really don't want to waste time here, it is better to spend precious time on other things.

If it was left in the past, Chang Jinbai basically sat for more than an hour and handed in the papers early and left the scene. But this time is different from the past, teenagers can already participate in the township exam, the competition between peers is fierce, especially for those poor students who have no background to rely on, every big exam may be the opening stone for them to get ahead, so the big guy is basically full of energy to perform himself in this exam, and he naturally can't pass the test as easily as usual.

After an exam, the students in the examination room still maintained a high level of enthusiasm for fighting. Compared with the next four subjects, the most important thing in the scientific examination is literary literacy and mathematical theory, so these two subjects are also arranged on the first day when students are most energetic and focused.

The lunch at the college is also divided into men and women, and the canteen of Chunyang College is also divided into two directions, north and south, in strict accordance with the regulations. So at noon, the little brother didn't go to meet Su Ying and the others, and went straight to the canteen in the south to have a depressing lunch.

There's no way, the math exam in the afternoon is a question personally written by Mr. Li Rancang, a master of math in Tai Academy, just listening to this name makes people feel more stressed, how can they still have the heart to covet their appetite?

Looking at the students in the cafeteria who were holding books and forgetting to eat, Fang Chengying shook his head with emotion and said: "I don't know if knowledge is power, but I definitely have a deep understanding of the fact that I must toss people." ”

The remaining two nodded approvingly, hurriedly finished their lunch and hurried back to the exam room to prepare.

Speaking of which, among the three people, Chang Jinbai, who has experienced a full nineteen years and nearly twenty years of study, is very experienced in the two subjects on the first day. Even Chang Jinbai, the most difficult hieroglyph for modern candidates, was bored in his last life, of course, mainly because he had secretly practiced in order to pretend to be there, and the starting point was higher than that of children of the same age, but it was not a big problem, and the defects of the other two in mathematics were more obvious. Su Yi is okay to say, he attaches great importance to articles and despises others, and he has not worked hard to train children in this area of knowledge when he is young, but after all, he has a famous eldest brother, and he has not mentioned the studies of his younger brothers and sisters on weekdays, and on the whole, Su Yi has no particularly obvious shortcomings, but Fang Chengying's trouble is relatively big.

The Fang family is developed by relying on the protection of the clan, in the early years, the ancestors of the Fang family followed the founding king of the Northern Han Dynasty to fight in the south and the north, and the achievements were obvious, and they won the heart of the emperor.

More than 100 years ago, the Fang family has actually always been a family of military generals, but later, as traversers appeared more and more frequently, the truth that knowledge is power was gradually popularized, and a battle that originally required tens of thousands of soldiers to fight bloodily to win a tragic victory could be easily won with an astonishing battle loss ratio of seven to one with the blessing of powerful firearms, so that the position of the military generals group in the DPRK became more and more embarrassing.

In order to better stabilize the family's position in the court, the Fang family, like many other military generals, also began to gradually cultivate their juniors to be martial arts, and gradually developed in the direction of speech officials. When it came to Fang Chengying's grandfather's generation, the three brothers in the family all got on the list with good results, so that the ancestors of the Fang family firmly believed that the descendants of their own family actually had a good mind, so that the martial style of the whole family gradually disappeared, and was replaced by a more rigorous learning atmosphere than other families.

According to common sense, an environment like their Chang family is easy to cultivate children with rigid ideas and cold personalities like Chang Jinsong and Chang Yu'an. But who would have thought that the children of the current generation of the famous Fang family were born more feudal and conservative than the other, and finally gave birth to a Fang Chengying who inherited the legacy of the ancestors, but now he has become an outlier in the family.

In order to win more love and attention, Fang Chengying studied hard, but his talent was really not as good as Su Yi, and he didn't have Chang Jinbai's luck to preview in advance, it was not easy to catch up with the footsteps of the two of them.

Fortunately, Chang Jinbai unreservedly shared the learning experience he had summarized and accumulated in his previous life with the two of them, which was regarded as helping Fang Chengying find a shortcut. But despite this, Fang Chengying, who had always chattered as soon as he returned to the examination room, also obediently took out his textbook and reviewed it carefully, which made the other two people a little more serious, making the atmosphere in the entire examination room more and more tense.

The examination time for mathematics is relatively short, only one hour. But the question of this game is worthy of being made by Taidou himself, and there are many traps and routines in it, even Cheng Fei, who won several Olympiad titles in his previous life, feels that it is not easy, not to mention other students who are not very good at it.

After an exam, there was a wail in the examination room, and although Chang Jinbai was also under a lot of pressure, he still grasped the key point to comfort the two friends.

"Don't worry too much, you look at the results of this exam, everyone basically performs averagely, and the overall score of this subject should not be too high.

The wails of the others were still in their ears, and the two teenagers had to force themselves to accept his statement, so that they felt a little more comfortable in their hearts, and regained their spirits and prepared to go home to prepare for the next day's exam.

After waiting at the gate of the academy for more than a moment, the three of them didn't even wait for Su Ying and the others to appear. Strangely, a student who was in the same class as them passed by and saw them, and hurriedly went up to greet them: "Hey, why are you still standing here?" Something happened to the female school, I heard that it was Su Yi, your sister and another girl quarreled with Zhang Wenwen and their gang, and it was lively at this moment, you should hurry up and take a look! ”

The three of them were startled, and after thanking them, they hurriedly rushed in the direction of the female school.

They knew that Su Ying and Zhang Wenwen, the second lady of the family of Zhang Zeyuan, the middle lady of the imperial history, had always been at odds with each other, and the two of them had always looked down on each other since they were young. In addition, Zhang Wenwen later climbed into the relationship between the four princesses, and she has always been showing off her power in the women's school, and there have been many head-on conflicts between the two. It wasn't until Su Ying changed schools later that the situation gradually improved.

In the eyes of others, the conflict that broke out between the two people was nothing more than a battle of will between girls. But Chang Jinbai, who is familiar with the script, understands that the reason for such a big disturbance this time is probably not all due to Su Ying, but more likely to be because of the relationship between his third sister Chang Yujiao.

About two years ago, Chang Yujiao, who has always lived in a simple house, and her brother Chang Jinsong accompanied their mother Jiang to return to their parents' home to save relatives, and they met Jiang's mansion to hold a banquet. Jiang's father, Mr. Jiang, once served as the crown prince, and he has a close relationship with the present, has a deep friendship, and has many protégés before his retirement.

At that time, Concubine Hui, the biological mother of the seventh princess, learned that the teacher was going to hold a banquet, so she arranged for the seven princesses and the five princes born by Concubine Hui to go over to support the party, which not only gave the old man face but also allowed a pair of children to be taught one or two, which was a double win.

It was at that banquet that Chang Yujiao, who had never been paid attention to by the outside world, participated in the poetry activity with the encouragement of her grandfather, and her dazzling performance was a blockbuster, which really attracted the attention of many guests present. Especially when it was only an eleven-year-old girl who performed so well, it attracted the admiration of the guests present, but it gave Old Man Jiang and Jiang a face, and by the way, it also attracted the close attention of the Seventh Princess, who has always loved poetry.

After the banquet, the seventh princess also went to ask her identity in person, and the two became friends, although they were not very close, but they had a very close correspondence every month. are all characters who don't like to go out, this way of communication makes the relationship between the two people more and more intimate, and Chang Yujiao has unknowingly become a loyal seventh princess in the eyes of outsiders.

However, the things in the palace are never something that can be explained clearly in a few words. The seventh princess also has her brother and the fifth prince, and since ancient times, it has been doomed that it is impossible to guarantee absolute peace between the princes, and factional disputes between them are endless. For the two girls, the friendship that is so simple that it can no longer be simple, and in the eyes of those who have a heart, it is indispensable to have a relationship with the five princes, especially the two are of the same age, Chang Yujiao's appearance is really excellent, and there are still a lot of rumors that have reached the ears of the Chang family during that time.