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In the early morning, the sound of gongs and drums sounded again.

Today is the examination of the scriptures.

After the test paper was sent, it was the pasting and Moyi content of the "Book of Filial Piety".

That's why we have to separate the examination room, you can choose one of the seven in the lifting test, and you have to memorize all seven classics in the Jinshi test, so you can only unify the test papers in the Jinshi test, and you can only take the test separately in the lifting test.

Zhao Jun glanced at the question, this should be the least difficult, everyone around has nothing to hesitate, "The Book of Filial Piety" can't be memorized, then don't take the imperial examination.

It didn't take long, just over two hours, most of the candidates had already finished answering, but Zhao Jun was stuck in one place.

He suddenly forgot how to write a certain word.

Although it is outrageous, it is indeed a fact, he was able to finish writing the policy before, and there was something to copy directly, but now when he starts to write the ancient text silently, he is a little embarrassed.

After all, before the crossing, even when I was in college, I didn't write with a pen much, and many students and even teachers often used mobile phones or computers.

Moreover, some words in ancient times were not the same as those in later generations, even if they had been training intensively for more than a month, there were still big problems.

Other words.

The hardest things for others are the easiest for him, and the easiest things for others are the hardest for him.

It's very uncomfortable.

But Zhao Jun had no choice, he couldn't get it out after writing on straw paper for a long time, so he had to continue to write other scriptures silently.

After stumbling, I finally finished writing the ten scriptures and the ten ink meanings.

It's a pity that there are six typos in it, according to the scoring rules at the time, it is estimated that it will have to be erased six times, and it can only be a middle and lower level, and if it is erased nine times, it will be a failure.

When the test papers were handed in, Zhao Jun didn't bother to think about it so much, he didn't do well if he didn't do well in the exam, anyway, he didn't need to rely on the imperial examination to get into the office now.

It's just that the only problem is that the first two days are fine, and the closer to the third day, the worse the smell in the exam room.

The scholars ate and drank in it, and after a long time, it was inevitable that the stench in the wooden house would be stinking, and the smell would waft everywhere, which was disgusting.

Fortunately, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, Taichang Temple planted a lot of osmanthus flowers, and the temple is full of rich osmanthus fragrance, which neutralizes a little taste.

A large number of scholars spent the second day in this physical and mental torment, and finally reached the last exam on the third day.

In the early morning, the sound of the deadly gongs and drums resounded throughout the entire Taichang Temple.

All kinds of noisy sounds suddenly rang out.

There is discipline in the examination room, and it is not allowed to go out of the wooden house to communicate with people, but if you whisper to yourself, no one will care, so the sound of squirming is endless.

Zhao Jun got up early in the morning to grind, today is a cloudy day, it may rain during the day, look at the time, it is already seven o'clock in the morning, the sky is not completely bright, just gray, the autumn wind is bleak, and the temperature has dropped a lot.

"If you calculate the time, it should be almost there."

"Although these days, a lot of moths within the Imperial City Division have been exposed, but there are also many people who are under my power for a while and dare not make a move, and these people continue to be placed in the Imperial City Division, which is a hidden danger."

"So I have to uproot them and dispose of them all according to the rules. After that, a new group of reliable personnel was recruited to officially expand the scale of the Imperial City Division. ”

"Now that I have left the Imperial City Division and disappeared for two days, it is estimated that those people below will definitely not be able to hold back and make a move."

"This trick lures the snake out of the hole, and then seeks to take the initiative, hoping that it will work."

Zhao Jun pondered while grinding.

He has seen a lot of things and understood a lot of things in recent days, and he has grown a lot under Fan Zhongyan's advice.

Since you want to sit in the Imperial City Division and show results, it is definitely not possible to be reckless, once the other party sets a trap and lets them take the wrong person and handle the wrong case, it can lead to a crazy siege by the government and the opposition at once.

At that time, the other party will stand at the highest point of morality, if it can arouse public anger and official anger, I am afraid that Zhao Zhen will not be able to resist, and Zhao Jun can only run away and rebel himself.

So you have to think of an ingenious way to do things, this time first inside and then outside, it was the idea that Fan Zhongyan helped to come up with, after all, this guy has been working in Kaifeng Mansion for so long, and he still has certain achievements and has mastered a lot of things.

It's just that he doesn't have so much energy to bring down the people behind the scenes, so he handed over all the things he investigated to Zhao Jun, hoping that Zhao Jun would do it.

With Fan Zhongyan's help, it will be a lot more effective with half the effort.

While thinking about it, the test paper has been issued, and today is the test of poetry and songs, generally speaking, it is a test poem and a song. However, Yan Shu guessed that this exam would test words, so Zhao Jun lowered his head to look at the exam questions.

"Start with a rhyme and make a five-word quatrain."

Seeing this topic, Zhao Jun scratched his head, his heart was pitted by Old Man Yan, and he thought it was a test word for the past two days, so he kept recalling the words he had learned before, and the result was actually a test poem.

Fortunately, it is a five-character quatrain, only four sentences, as long as there is nothing wrong with the rhythmic feet, if it is a five-character rhythmic poem, it will be a little more troublesome.

Zhao Jun didn't really know much about rhythm and rhyme before, he only knew that poetry needed to rhyme, but in fact, there was no fixed rhythm from the poetry style formed in the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, and many Tang poems did not follow the 28 grid rules at all, and even the rhyme feet were not rhymed.

The reason for this is that there was no unity in the previous rhythm, and in addition, there is a difference between ancient and modern sounds. For example, a Shang character, the modern pronunciation is the fourth tone, which belongs to the Xuan according to the rhythm, but the ancient pronunciation is to read the second tone, and the rhythm is flat.

After the Song Dynasty, the rhythm was gradually unified, for example, Liu Yuan of the Southern Song Dynasty made "Pingshui Rhyme", which perfected all the rhythmic rhyme feet.

These days, several top academic masters such as Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Wang Sui, Cai Qi, Song Shou, Sheng Du, Yan Shu and other top academic masters have carefully taught, and Zhao Jun has figured out the rhythm and rhyme, and he also knows how to write poems.

For example, flat rhyme is the first two tones of a tone, and rhyme is the last two tones of a tone.

And this question is according to the rhythm of rhyme, that is, it is a mediocre, a mediocre, a mediocre. It's mediocre, it's mediocre.

But the poems written by Zhao Jun are probably no different from limerick poems, so they still have to be copied.

He looked at the rules of doing the question, thought about it for a while, and wrote "Thinking about it in the evening, I still haven't returned last year." The people in the garrison are cold, and they are looking at the clothes. ”

This poem was written by Fan Zhongyan after returning from the war with Western Xia in the northwest, and it has not been written yet, which just conforms to the rhythm.

It's a pity that his poem "The Fisherman on the River" was written by Lao Fan in Yingtian in the early years, and this guy's level was not enough at that time, and there were a few words that were not right, otherwise he would definitely copy his most famous poem.

As for the words of the song.

Zhao Jun thought about it and copied "Hou Chibi Fu" to him, although "Former Chibi Fu" could barely be memorized, but first, there were many words, and second, there were a lot of time, places, and people involved in it.

Fortunately, these things are taught in junior high school and high school Chinese classes, Zhao Jun is a liberal arts student, and he is a history department, so he can't be said to be more than enough to copy poems and songs, so he can also become a great writer.

It's just that the poems are all small ways, and he doesn't have the idea to forcibly copy and make a name for himself everywhere, or the matter at hand is more important.

After writing the poem, I quietly waited for the winding.

The hospital will open in the afternoon.

Time passed slowly, and by noon, with the sound of gongs and drums ringing again, there was a wail all around.

Zhao Jun makes these things very simply, and there is a direct scene, but they can't do it, they have to think about it temporarily.

A poem with a fixed formula, not only wants to complete the poem with perfect rhythm and rhyme, but also has an intention and content, which is no less difficult than making a dojo in a snail shell, which is not easy.

So most of the lifts are very difficult, either not up to the norms, or not very good at the content.

Even like many Jinshi poems, they are written very ordinary, such as when Ouyang Xiuzhong was a Jinshi, the poems were blowing at the examiner.

There are even more miserable talents, such as the one-year Jinshi test is an exam word, and a candidate wrote "Qingyu Case, Spikes Stepping on the Auspicious Talisman Road", saying that these candidates are quite miserable.

As for those who can write good poetry, there are very few.

Zhao Jun calmly handed over the papers, then rolled up the covers and began to pack his bags.

When he walked out of the wooden house, Zhou Xin had already come over and whispered to him, "Zhiji, something happened." ”

"What's the matter?"

"A clan family outside the Xuande Gate has taken away a clan girl, and there is news that the sect girl is in Potai Temple, and Commander Liu has brought someone over."

"How was it taken away?"

"That family lives at the east end of Xuandemen Street, and her daughter's name is Zhenshu. There was a relative of his family at the west end of the street, and he sent a servant to invite the young lady to play. Zhenshu's mother agreed, so the servant went back to find the palanquin. Not long after, a sedan chair stopped at the door and carried the young lady away. A moment later, another sedan chair came to pick up the young lady, and the family learned that their daughter had been cheated away. ”

"As soon as I heard this method, I knew that there must be an inner ghost to work, otherwise how could there be a sedan chair in such a timely manner, and there was news from below who did it?"

"Yes, it is generally done by the ghost fan building, those people like to send people to the mansions of the rich to be slaves to inquire about the news, and when they learn that the rich family's family members are going to travel or visit relatives, they will take each other away, either ask for ransom, or take it and sell it, but they basically will not do anything to high-ranking officials and clans."

"Did the servant catch it?"

"Nope."

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "I guessed what the situation is, that sect girl should be fine, you let the people below prepare to do something to Li Dewen." ”

Behind the ghost fan building is the gang of people in Kaifeng Mansion, and Li Dewen is only willing to buy a copy of the news because of his stinginess, and the spies who came up later were either rejected by him, or he was so annoyed that he even sent someone to call him out, so that some spies held a grudge and collected evidence of his crimes and handed them over.

In fact, Li Dewen's incriminating evidence Fan Zhongyan had already given him, and the reason for not doing it was to let the spies below reveal the prototype, and now it is almost over, and there is another case of the abduction of the daughter of the sect, so Zhao Jun has decided to attack Li Dewen first.

He went out of the backyard of Taichang Temple under the protection of everyone, and at this moment there were many people gathered in the front yard, and the test papers had been collected, and the door could not be opened until all the test papers were sent to the Ministry of Rites.

After about half an hour, the door finally opened, and countless scholars flocked outside.

Zhao Jun didn't care about the situation in the field, and after following the flow of people, he was about to send the things back first, and then deal with the affairs of the Imperial City Division.

As a result, Di Qing and the others, who were waiting outside, had just come over when they heard someone shouting: "Brother Han Long, Brother Han Long!" ”

Zhao Jun turned his head to look and saw that Song Cai and several other scholars had just come out of Taichang Temple.

Song Cai saw Zhao Jun stop, thinking that he was waiting for him, although Zhao Jun didn't seem to care about the imperial examination, but his status was noble, and it was a good thing to be able to climb it, so he hurriedly came over to greet him and said, "Brother Hanlong, what are your plans for Brother Tai after the test?" ”

Zhao Jun smiled: "I'm going to go to Lao Crow Lane." ”

"Raven Lane?"

Song Cai thought for a while and said: "The Qingfeng Building over there is good, I eat coarse cakes every day in Taichang Temple, and I am about to vomit, why don't you set up a banquet for my younger brother and invite my brother to join me?" ”

"It's fine."

Zhao Jun nodded, handed the futon to Shi Yu, asked him to send it back, and then said, "Let's go together." ”

So saying, he went southwest of the city.

Botai Temple is on the side of Chenzhou Gate in the southeast of the outer city, but Zhao Jun did not go, because he knew that there was no so-called sect girl there at all, and it was in vain to go, so it was better to do something serious.

On the way, Song Cai and his companions were both elated and sad, and they were all talking about the imperial examination.

Because he just finished the test poem test today, Song Cai asked Zhao Jun: "The difficulty of this year's poem test is about the same as in previous years, but unfortunately I prepared a flat rhyme poem, but I didn't expect it to be a rhyme this year, I don't know how Brother Zhao played this time?" ”

"It's okay."

Zhao Jun smiled and asked, "How are you doing?" ”

Song Cai said triumphantly: "A flock of geese under the mountain, boos rushed into the river." I jumped into the river and got the doctor hungry. What does Brother Tai think? ”

"Awesome."

Zhao Jun gave a thumbs up speechlessly.

Although the content is a bit outrageous, it really conforms to the rules of this year's style, and it can be regarded as a talent.

However, he also knew that if he didn't have something to copy, if he changed himself, the things he made were probably not much better than Song Cai, so there was nothing to despise.

If you really count according to the regular rules, at least half of the Tang and Song poems are unqualified, and if you want to do it brilliantly, you have to complete it within the specified time, and it is difficult to get the best of both worlds.

The group came to Qingfeng Building with a smile.

I ordered a table of dishes.

As he spoke, there was already a dense sound of footsteps downstairs.

Everyone hurriedly looked for a sound, and saw a column of Imperial City Division Praetorian Guards running downstairs, all armed one by one, and even carrying the bow and crossbow of the forbidden army.

"What's going on?"

"What is the Imperial City Division going to do? They had just guarded the exam room. ”

"Could it be that someone has committed favoritism and made a big case?"

Several people were surprised.

Since the imperial examination has come, fraud cases have emerged in endlessly, and now just after the imperial examination, the Imperial City Division has arrested people, which may be involved in fraud cases.

But what they didn't expect was that the people of the Imperial City Division did not go to catch the people who had just finished the exam on the street, but came all the way to the mansion of Li Dewen, a judicial officer in Kaifeng Mansion.

Qingfeng Building is in the east of Lao Yao Lane, and Li Dewen's mansion is near the entrance of the alley on the west side, which is far away, and everyone has gone out to look.

I saw a large number of soldiers of the Imperial City Division using ladders to kill into Li Dewen's mansion, and then the gate opened, and countless soldiers rushed in, and then all kinds of screaming voices came.

There are countless people in Bianliang who are watching below, and there are many people who applaud in the field, just because Li Dewen is arrogant and domineering, and he has always oppressed the good, and the people on the whole street have a very bad impression of him, so it is really pleasing to copy this person's home.

A moment later, a large number of Kaifeng government officials ran over. Immediately afterwards, the commander of the Imperial City Division who led the team ordered to raise the bow and crossbow, and shouted: "Li Dewen has been corrupted and perverted the law, and he is arrested on the orders of the official family and the magistrate, if he disobeys, it is no different from rebellion, and there is no mercy for killing!" ”

Many officials of Kaifeng Mansion looked at each other, and some people shouted: "The Imperial City Division took a chicken feather as an arrow, this is not an order from the official family at all, kill it, save the army!" ”

"Kill!"

There were a few fools who were fooled into rushing forward.

In an instant, bows and crossbows were fired in unison, killing several people.

Only then did everyone know that the Imperial City Division was really moving, and they hurriedly dispersed the birds and beasts.

For a time, the capital shook, and the government and the opposition were in turmoil.

(End of chapter)