The questions of the provincial examination are obviously much more difficult than those of the exam, and there is no need to mention the poetry of the test, which is to examine the foundation of the poetry and literature of Juzi's daily life, and it doesn't matter whether it is difficult or not, it is just written according to the meaning of the question. As for the style and rhetoric, etc., it is not a day's work, and it is not in a hurry, it is a person who can write the test paper all over the place, and as for the judgment of superiority, it can only be scratched by the examiner.

And the trial post is written by Moyi, which truly reflects what it means to drill the tip of the horns, and what it means to call which pot is not opened.

Since the Xia Shang period, the remarks collected by the subset of the history are as vast as the sea, and the cold window of more than ten years of hard reading can obviously only read a dime, most students will choose to read the common theories of the classics, in fact, most of the exam questions are also from these classics; But just as there are often confusing additional questions in later exams, there are a few cold excerpts in the provincial exam, which fills the examination booth the next day with painful sighs.

Su Jin is also the first two big, such as asking: Hunan stone carving Mo Gu in "Yu Tablet", Han Hui a poem, famous in the world. In addition, the Tang people still have inscriptions, can they cite their articles? The predecessors also have a preface? How many people have recently interpreted its text? There is a Confucian interpretation, the world thinks it is Bocha, and its results are credible?

Also: "Han Jiang Jun Monument" or Yun Jiang Wan, or Yun Jiang Song, which of the two? There is Cai Yong's inscription in Jiuyi Mountain, who wrote it? In the text of "Gu Lang Tablet", "Feizi" is "Feizi", and "Liuyang" is "Liu Yang", can it be proved by his book? "Tanglu Mountain Temple Tablet" is known as the three uniques, and the world ridicules it, why?

This kind of exam question is simply a disaster for candidates who stay at home, except for Hunan Juzi or who has been to see the "Yu Tablet", I don't know what to say, the following various "Han Jiang Jun Tablet", "Gu Lang Tablet", "Tanglu Mountain Temple Tablet" and so on, if you have not been to the local area, how do you know who wrote the inscription, and what is the content of the writing?

Su Jin didn't answer anything, and only wrote a limerick poem under these questions: It rained in Bashan last night, snowflakes fell in the north tomorrow morning, and the ancient books of the lonely lamp were not enough, how do you know the cold and summer, winter and summer?

It means that in order to take the exam, the students who study hard in the cold window can't read the books, and they forget about the cold, summer, winter and summer, not to mention the trivial matters of the inscriptions in the north and south of the world.

On the third day, the topic of the trial theory was distributed; Su Jin was hit hard by the Moyi of the Thessalonian, and all his hopes were pinned on the trial strategy; Originally, the trial strategy theory was the focus of the three scientific expeditions, accounting for the largest proportion, originally Su Jin hoped to write a strategy paper with his real skills to see how his level was, but after experiencing the defeat of Tijing Moyi, he was a little apprehensive.

According to the law summarized by himself, the strategy theory relies on the penal category for a solution test, so there will be no penal questions in the provincial exam, and then remove the types of the provincial exams in the last two subjects, the topics of this policy should be in the two categories of foreign affairs and official governance, after drawing out the questions in the envelope, Su Jin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The topic is indeed about the rule of officials, but unlike in the past, this time it lists all kinds of examples of corruption and corruption of officials in various places, but only describes the process of the incident, and does not give a clear title, and asks Juzi to formulate his own policy topic and write a policy theory based on the above content.

Su Jin is overjoyed and then worried, this time it is not much help to guess the type, you have to draw up your own questions according to these things and then write them out, although some of the things prepared have some effect, but in order to focus on a theme, you have to delete and choose, and it takes a lot of time to get it.

Su Jin's first thought was the theory of redundant officials, corrupt and redundant officials are actually the culprit, seven or eight candidates for an official position, and some people only get the opportunity to take office after seven or eight years of leisure after high school, just like a hungry wolf who has been hungry for a long time, how can there be no reason not to hurry up and make a big profit.

But Su Jin instantly vetoed this theory, the disadvantages of redundant officials as early as the Tiansheng period put forward the theory of three redundant and three fees, his redundant theory is also quite marketable among the people, and the court also acquiesced to his opinion, but it was unable to rectify it; As soon as this kind of topic comes out, I am afraid that more than half of the more than 2,000 people will think of making a fuss about redundant officials, and writing it by themselves is like chewing bagasse again, unless they can chew the taste of chicken legs, it will be difficult to enter the eyes of the examiner.

On the morning of the third day, Su Jin didn't put pen to paper, just kept pacing and thinking in the low and stuffy house; After eating two small pieces of shortbread and drinking a cup of new tea at noon, Su Jin directly put the bed up and lay down and fell asleep.

The third exam was closing in the afternoon, Su Jin actually slept until the end of Shen Shi, and his ears could hear the noise in the left and right rooms, Su Jin knew that everyone had finished writing the policy and finished preparing for the exam for an hour.

Su Jin washed his face, burned a piece of rose incense, dragged two balls of cotton wool into his ears and eyes to block the noisy sound outside, and sat down in front of the examination case to write the title "The Theory of Officials' Trade-offs"

"The husband listens to the officials, in the name of timidity, and avoids human affection, but it is inevitable, why not? The state is based on the law and precedents. Although his officials are noble, and his people are virtuous, they are illegal and indecisive, and they are not routinely indestructible. …… Knowing one of them and not knowing the other, if the officials know it, they have to raise the officials. …… Today, the next order, the night change an order, and the record is invincible. In addition, there are extrajudicial cases; and promulgated, both frequent, and immediately changed, annoying and untrustworthy...... Therefore, the officials do not know the laws, and the officials know the laws, and the officials have to rely on the officials......"

"And up to the imperial court, down to the state and county, each post and a division, the officials are only a few people, and the officials are overwhelming, although there are officials who are strong and diligent, I am afraid that they will not be able to look at it all and read it in detail, but they must do it in the record."

As a result, the officials relied on the officials, and when the judgment was unclear, the officials were not responsible, and the officials were innocent, and even the disadvantages were becoming more and more serious; The officials are busy, and the officials are in real power day by day, and because of the lack of education of the officials, they are unscrupulous, breeding rot and decay......"

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Su Jin sprinkled more than a thousand words in one go, and the ideas in his mind were extremely clear, integrating the known views into the arguments one by one, and finding another way to change the normal way of thinking of blindly accusing officials of dereliction of duty and greed, starting from the various decrees and regulations that were changed by the imperial court, and pointing out the dilemma in which most officials were in place.

In order to solve the problem of redundant officials, the imperial court greatly shortened the tenure of officials and carried out frequent promotions, resulting in most of the officials doing nothing at the local level, or not being able to act; The small officials who are not considered officials can pass on their duties from father to son and grandson, and in the eyes of the local people, the promises of the officials are more credible than those of the chief officials; As a result, there is a strange phenomenon that the words of the officials are often more effective than the words of the chief officials.

Moreover, there are a large number of small officials, and they are in charge of one piece, so they are more proficient in understanding the decrees of the imperial court than those who want to make overall decisions, so that the decisions of the chief officials often rely on the judgment of the small officials, which leads to the fact that the rights of the small officials in the scope of their authority play a de facto decision-making power.

Most of the petty officials are from the people, they have not gone through the imperial examination, and their virtues are uneven, and they are extremely contemptible, so they will use the decision-making power they actually hold in their hands to seek personal gain, and at the same time, they will try their best to pull the chief official into the water, which will cause the chief official's greedy behavior; Once in the water, everyone uses each other and becomes unscrupulous.

Su Jin also proposed solutions, such as the punishment of joint sitting, such as the streamlining of laws and regulations, and even proposed to make small officials also officials, abolish their hereditary system, and expand the official position from seven to ten ranks, which can not only accommodate a large number of redundant officials, but also improve the overall quality of low-level officials, and at the same time suggest that the term of office of officials be increased to maintain a long-term dynamic balance, and so on......

Su Jin didn't know if this kind of view would be accepted by the examiners, but he decided that picking up people's teeth and wisdom in this kind of ancient exam was not the way to win, or to find a unique way to have your own views in order to attract people's attention.

It's also a gamble.

When Su Jin carefully dried the test paper, pasted his name, straightened his waist and breathed a sigh of relief, the gong sounded loudly outside, and the invigilator outside the examination shed shouted loudly: "Open the number room, collect the test paper, stop answering the questions, and the violator will be disqualified." ”