Chapter 42 Examinations

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Early the next morning, as soon as Zhang Xuan finished solving his personal problem, he heard thirty-six cannons from outside, followed by seventy-two drums, and finally a voice from a small official came from each courtyard, "The scholar has an order, and in the fifteenth year of Tiande, the Yangzhou Academy examination has begun." It indicates that the hospital examination has officially begun.

After hearing the sound of cannons and drums, the students in each examination room only felt a hundred times more energetic, and immediately sorted out everything they had and sat quietly waiting for the exam to begin.

However, this is just the feeling of ordinary candidates, under Zhang Xuan's qi qi technique and the induction of divine sense, after thirty-six cannons and seventy-two drums, the divine sense vibrated very much, and the divine sense that could originally extend a hundred zhang was compressed by only one zhang. This is still because Zhang Xuan's divine soul is extremely powerful, and if he is an ordinary Jindan monk, he may not even be able to do it out of his body.

Later, with Xuezheng's order, hundreds of phantoms condensed in the sky above the entire Gongyuan, enveloping the Nuoda Gongyuan, and words spit out from the mouths of these phantoms, and there was a burst of reading in the ears. Then a golden seal rose into the air, casting a golden net covering a radius of ten miles from the Gongyuan.

A coercion was immediately suppressed, and the mana vortex in the upper, middle and lower dantians in Zhang Xuan's body felt a little stagnant, but the Nine Turns Xuangong was worthy of the title of the strongest technique, and immediately counterattacked, speeding up, more than ten times faster than Zhang Xuan's usual cultivation speed.

Although he couldn't improve the realm, in Zhang Xuan's feeling, the mana was becoming more refined, more dignified, and more vigorous step by step, and the physical body was also tempered to become more powerful, and the divine soul was also growing and condensing a little.

Unexpectedly, the Dynasty's Tribute Academy still had this effect, if it weren't for the fact that his cultivation method was strong and abnormal, and there was no malicious intent, it would probably be suppressed now.

The power of the country is really strong, Zhang Xuan believes that at this moment, if any demon dares to appear within a radius of ten miles from the Gongyuan, he will definitely be scattered by the suppression. Under the suppression of the powerful dynastic luck and the literary spirit of the ancient sages, all the methods of the monks will be useless, and the possibility of someone using the power of the monks to cheat will be eliminated.

In the examination room of Tianzi 606, Zhang Xuan was sitting upright, and with the rapid operation of the exercises, Zhang Xuan only felt that his brain was clear for a while.

"Tuk tuk tuk!" After a knock on the door, a stack of exam papers and a small basket came in the small door, Zhang Xuan got up and took it, and after a brief look at it to confirm that it was correct, he put the basket aside, picked up the exam paper and studied it carefully, and found that there were fourteen in total.

The first day of the examination is the foundation, called "Moyi", and the content range is the four books and the five classics are extremely annotated. Generally, it is written and paraphrased, or a passage from the scriptures is taken and asked to write a blank part according to the context, or a paragraph of the original text is given to you to explain its meaning, or an explanation is given and you are asked to write the original text silently, or directly you are asked to write a commentary silently.

Although the scope is only four books and five classics, it looks very simple, but the entire four books and five classics plus the annotations of various scriptures, add up to tens of millions of words, and the exam is randomly selected, if you want to ensure that you can answer correctly, you must memorize all the words without falling, which is difficult for most candidates to complete, after all, they will forget after memorizing, and then they can only rely on luck.

Those candidates who are entrained just want to bring in scripture slips that they are not familiar with to cope with this first exam.

However, for the pervert Zhang Xuan, who can never be forgotten, these are all pieces of cake.

Of course, in the imperial examination, the neatness of the volume and the beauty of the font also account for a large part. Fourteen exam papers, almost 20,000 words to write, want to be word for word, and use a brush to answer, that is very difficult, and as long as you write a wrong word, you can only draw a cross to tick off, the beauty of the entire volume has been destroyed since then, it will inevitably give the examiner a bad impression.

Moreover, when answering with a brush, you must pay attention to the use of ink, otherwise if a drop of ink drops on the test paper, it will be completely ruined.

But this is the same as the modern college entrance examination, even if we modern high school students who have passed the test of a small test in three days and a big test in ten days, it is not uncommon for them to faint nervously in the college entrance examination room, not to mention the scholars who have studied hard in the cold window for ten years in ancient times and rarely experienced the exam.

So, even if you are careful, nearly half of us will make a typo. Zhang Xuan also heard that many candidates couldn't control their bodies because of nervousness during the college examination, and they made mistakes when their hands trembled, or sprinkled ink, knowing that they had no hope in this subject, so they cried and made a fuss, and even went crazy, and finally were pressed out of the examination room by the soldiers.

Some serious people even faint as soon as they enter the examination room, or their hands tremble as soon as they sit down, and they can't hold a pen, and they have a shadow on the examination room from then on, which is called "Qinchang", and there is no hope in this life.

Of course, our Zhang Xuan is not in this ranks, the imperial examination is not only about literary talent, but also about body, perseverance and luck, and Zhang Xuan is now not lacking in these four things, so he is naturally full of confidence.

As for words, Zhang Xuan thinks that he will not be worse than anyone else. The hard training in the previous life, coupled with Zhang Xuan's words in this life, is not bad, and now Zhang Xuan's thin gold body has a trend of great success.

Every time Zhang Xuan gets a question, he will read it carefully three times, and then confirm it in his mind, so that he will write the answer carefully and carefully, and finally every time he finishes a test paper, he will carefully put it in the empty space of the table and let it dry naturally to prevent staining the paper.

Time passed quietly when Zhang Xuan was concentrating on answering the questions, and after Zhang Xuan finished writing the last question and put the test papers, he stretched his waist, feeling that the whole person was very comfortable physically and mentally, and had a special sense of achievement.

"Goo", after Zhang Xuan moved his hands and feet, he found that he even forgot to eat, the current Zhang Xuan has no ability to Bigu, and because of the consumption of refining the body, the amount of food is amazing.

So he took the small basket, and didn't mind the coldness of the food, so he ate the tea, and after eating all the food, he finally had a full five.

After the meal, Zhang Xuan sorted out the air-dried test papers one by one in order, and checked them word by word three times, then exhaled, pressed the test papers with an inkstone, and prepared to be collected by others tomorrow.

After doing this, Zhang Xuan found that it was dark outside, so he blew out the oil lamp and went to bed to meditate and practice.

Although due to the characteristics of the Nine Turns Xuangong, Zhang Xuan's cultivation could not improve the realm, but it could make the mana stronger and more refined, and had the effect of refining the body and condensing the soul. In terms of restoring energy, it is a hundred times better than sleeping.

However, now that I am in the Gongyuan, in such an environment, enlightenment is not to be thought of!

It wasn't until the middle of the night that Zhang Xuan fell asleep, this is Zhang Xuan's habit as an ordinary person, and it is difficult to break it for a while, but Zhang Xuan doesn't want to change it, although he has become a monk, Zhang Xuan doesn't want to give up the happiness of ordinary people.

The next morning, a small official opened the small door to deliver new test papers and food, and by the way, yesterday's test papers were sealed and taken away.

After the little official left, Zhang Xuan opened the test paper and browsed it, but the middle paper tested the "Sutra" and "Jingyi".

The scripture is that the examiner selects a page from the scripture and prints one of the lines on the test paper. Based on this line, candidates are asked to fill in the context associated with it. This is a little more difficult than the "Moyi" in the previous volume, after all, there are too many similarities in the scriptures!

And if you want to write the context according to one sentence, it requires enough care and good memory, and the difference between one word will be a thousand miles!

As for the scriptures, it is a discussion that revolves around the meaning of the book. If tomorrow's next volume of "Strategy" still has room for candidates to play, then Jingyi no longer cares about personal thoughts, and candidates can only abide by the "sage book" designated by the imperial court!

In Zhang Xuan's view, this is the ancient ideological and political examination, you can write whatever he says, and it is a brainwashing education for the imperial court to consolidate the rule.

In this volume, the main test is the candidate's caution and memorization ability. Zhang Xuan was naturally not afraid, and finished it in one go.

There are only seven test papers this time, and the number of words is only 5,000 words, and before the time of application, Zhang Xuan finished it, and after checking that it was correct, he went to eat and practice.

Another day passed, and the next exam paper was also sent out, this time in a strategy.

The so-called strategy is discussion. Based on the questions raised by the examiner about economic or political affairs, candidates express their opinions and propose countermeasures. The scope of policy inquiry is wider, including politics, education, production, management, etc., which is more difficult than the scriptures, Moyi and scriptures, and some also have some practical value.

This is the most difficult and important paper in the exam, and it is no longer dead, but incorporates the spirit and ideas of the candidate.

Zhang Xuan read the original text of the scriptures and the requirements of the title more than ten times, carefully figured out the central idea of the examiner's examination, thought about how to write the text and the structure of the article, and after a full hour, he took a blank piece of manuscript paper, picked up the pen and began to compose.

Zhang Xuan's article is written in a stable manner, without any overly novel arguments, but it is written according to the mainstream understanding of the scriptures and meanings in this world, plus some insights from his previous life, which can be described as mediocre with a little novelty, and steady with a little novelty.

Because Zhang Xuan doesn't know what the examiner's temperament is, whether he is conservative or open-minded, if he is enlightened, it is fine, if he is conservative, but you write wild words and write some novel arguments, so that he thinks that you have a flamboyant and arrogant personality, and you still need to polish your experience, and finally fall into Sun Shan, wouldn't it be unjust to wait for another three years?

Zhang Xuan's article seeks stability, but in order not to make the article obscure from the public, he added some personal opinions, so that it is just right to be mediocre and not mediocre.

With Zhang Xuan's six-grade character, Zhang Xuan knew that it would definitely be no problem for him to pass the exam, so he was naturally unwilling to take this risk.

Of course, with such an article, there is definitely no hope of getting into the top three, but if you meet an old-fashioned one, there is still hope to enter the top one.

A policy essay of 2,000 words, Zhang Xuan took two hours to write, plus one hour of thinking, it was only three hours. After eating some food, Zhang Xuan carefully checked the written essay three times, and after confirming that it was correct, he transcribed it on the exam paper, and spent another half an hour, checked it three times again to confirm that there were no unsmooth places and typos, and then put it aside to dry and wait for the paper to be collected.

On the last day of the exam, the time to collect the papers was advanced to the time of application, that is, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, regardless of whether the candidates have completed it or not, they must hand in the test papers uniformly, and then leave the venue. If the test paper is torn due to a dispute, the consequences will be borne by the candidate.

With the sound of thirty-six drums, it was announced that in the fifteenth year of Tiande, the hospital examination in Yangzhou was officially over, and the majestic aura above the Gongyuan was finally lifted.

Standing at the door of the Tribute Courtyard, Zhang Xuan let out a sigh, it felt so good to be free, although these three days were not imprisonment, but Zhang Xuan had a feeling that he had finally walked out of the prison and saw the light of day again.

Looking at the crowded and noisy scene in front of the door, Zhang Xuan was full of emotion. The face that did well in the test was happy, the general silence of the test, and the howling and crying of the poor test, what a life situation!

Some of them have wind and frost, and some have gray hair, which is really the so-called "old test for children, old test for children." ”

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