Wu Haowen had already found his seat at this time, and it was a rather dilapidated table, which was used daily by the Guozi prisoners and Tai students, and was now used by the Gongsheng.

There was also a small bucket on the side of the desk, which contained half a bucket of water for the Gongsheng to polish ink. The four treasures of the study are all brought by Gongsheng, and Wu Haowen brings the stationery he uses daily, which are all quite ordinary things. Of course, books are not allowed to be brought into the examination room, and I checked them when I was showering and changing clothes just now.

Before the Shenzong Dynasty, there was not only one subject of Jinshi, but also the Nine Classics, the Five Classics, the Kaiyuan Ceremony, the Three History, the Three Rites, the Three Transmissions, the Pedantry, the Ming Law and other subjects. However, now the subjects are gradually abandoned, and only the Jinshi is left alone.

The examination time for Jinshi is very long, basically from early morning until the lights are lit, and of course early papers are allowed, although few people do this. For such a long time, of course, I have to eat halfway. When each candidate enters the examination room, they bring dry food with them. Before entering the examination room, there were officers and soldiers who checked to prevent entrainment.

The questions of the examinations were already posted - unlike the practice of later generations who handed out papers one by one, the imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty were to put the questions of all four examinations in the hall where the examinations were held, and the examiners still had copies in their hands. If you have good eyesight, you can just look at the exam questions that are hung out, and if you have bad eyesight, you can also ask the examiner for a copy.

Before officially starting to answer the questions, the Gongsheng will first copy all the exam questions one by one to the paper they brought or distributed in the examination room, and then start to answer. The so-called four exams are actually one, anyway, it is one day of exams, and after the exam, people are not allowed to leave halfway, and the big and small solutions must be solved in the temporary toilets guarded by special personnel.

Wu Haogu, who had polished the ink, opened the paper, moved the pen like flying, and soon copied all the examination questions of this imperial examination. Among them, there are a total of 30 questions about "one classic" and "concurrent classics", which are tricky and unpopular. However, for Wu Haowen, there is no difficulty in answering the questions. The question is just that he can only use the annotations on the "Three New Classics" of the "Cai Edition" to answer it, and as for whether it is in line with the current "latest spirit of the imperial court", then he can only resign himself to fate.

"Commentary" and "current affairs" are both fuss. "Treatise" is similar to a propositional essay, which usually asks Gongsheng to comment on an allusion or a certain historical figure recorded in the scriptures. The test is actually the writing and familiarity with the scriptures and history, Wu Haowen's writing is very good, and he is also extremely familiar with the scriptures and history. As long as you play normally, you should be able to pass the level.

And what really worries Wu Haowen is the "current policy". "Current Affairs Policy" is similar to the "Argument" in the civil service examination in later generations, generally the examiner asks specific questions about current affairs and allows candidates to express their opinions, so it is also called "policy questioning", and the candidate's answer is called "countermeasures". This is difficult, because most of the tribute students are hard-working people who don't hear or don't hear anything outside the window. They don't know what's going on at all? Therefore, those who are well written in "Current Affairs" are generally candidates who are from official eunuchs, or who are simply already officials. Ordinary people who are bitter and cold are often planted in the current affairs.

Although Wu Haowen is also from an official family now, how long has Wu Haogu been an official? Basically, he is also a hard-working scholar, he is young, and he has no experience at all, so what good insights can he have on current affairs? So when he copied the "physical strategy" question, he was very worried.

But when he finished copying, he was already confident. Because the topic of "Current Affairs" this time was almost guessed by Wu Haogu! At first glance, although the title is about how Eastern Wu and Shu Han should get along with Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of the Later Han Dynasty, it is actually a reflection of the relationship between the Liao and Song dynasties today, or how fraternal states coexist, and how brothers should rescue or profit from them when they are in trouble.

If it weren't for the "state of Liao and Song brothers" that Wu Haogu told him before, Wu Haowen might have solved it from the way of the Sun-Liu alliance to defeat Cao Xinghan. If you write like this, you may be able to go to high school, but it's hard to excel. Because everyone will think of such a route, the rest is spelling writing. It seems that this question is the key to deciding who can get into the first class in this subject.

It seems that in this subject, I am not only a must, but also a winner!

And Wu Haowen has now become a bamboo in his chest, put aside the "theory" and "current affairs policy" for the time being, and began to concentrate on writing the answers to the "One Classic" and "Concurrent Classics" test questions.

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Ji Yi, who was sitting in another examination room, first started answering the questions from "Current Affairs". His kung fu in the scriptures and meanings is far more than Wu Haowen, no matter the "old or new", he can cope freely, and he can also find the common answer of the two to the greatest extent - after all, whether it is "old or new", it is Confucianism.

His "this subject must be hit" is not bragging!

As for the question of "current affairs", of course, he can see the essence at a glance. And he also thought of the "brotherly state", he himself was a participant in a series of recent negotiations between the Liao and Song dynasties! So as soon as he saw the question, he immediately had inspiration, and simply started answering the question from "Current Affairs".

The countermeasures (answers, meaning of the essay) are usually around 1,000 words, but Ji Yi is preparing to write a long countermeasure of more than 10,000 words today, explaining how Soochow should preserve Shu Han from many aspects such as politics, diplomacy, economy, military, and terrain, how to use Shu Han, and how to strengthen itself when the defeat of Shu Han has become inevitable, etc.

Among them, how to seize Xiangyang with the benefit of the fisherman during Guan Yu's Northern Expedition, and take the risk of the whole river; And how to seek Dongchuan to become a solid mountain and river when Shu Han collapsed, and it has become the top priority of the whole story.

The article was written quickly, more than 10,000 words, all of which were synthesized in one go, and it was very wonderful. Putting down the brush, Ji Yi let out a sigh, looked at the article he had just written, and thought: You can obviously use the article to reach the Son of Heaven, why bother to learn martial arts and be a villain? What a miscalculation! It seems that you still have to be down-to-earth and less tossed!

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Fan Zhijin was taking the exam with a group of Gongsheng from Hebei East Road at this time, and he was still coughing, answering thirty scripture questions, but he wrinkled tightly.

It's not that the scriptures can't be answered, but the topic of current affairs is unexpected, it is actually based on the past to discuss the present, nominally talking about the Three Kingdoms, but in fact talking about the Song Liaoxia - most people will not regard Liao as "Shu Han", but as "Shu Han", and Fan Zhijin is no exception. So the focus of the answer he thought of was how Eastern Wu could win over Shu Han to fight against Cao Wei...... As a result, a current policy topic focusing on politics, economy, and diplomacy was finally written by Fan Zhijin as a half-baked military policy! He thought he was taking the martial arts exam?

Of course, the article is good, Fan Zhijin is an expert in writing essays! But the content is a little unreadable, what military does he know? It's not just nonsense, fortunately, he has also read the seven books of the Martial Arts Classic, and he still knows some of the grand strategy, and he also knows a lot of terms in the art of war, so he also quoted the scriptures and wrote three or four thousand words, which looks quite like the truth.

If you meet an examiner who doesn't really understand military affairs, you can probably give him an evaluation of "knowing soldiers", right? So his countermeasures are okay. After all, there are about 500 jinshi out of five or six people now, and only a few can really fully understand the question?

What the? Some people say that the question is unfair?

It's a "current policy"! Those who are well-versed in current affairs will naturally score high. I only know that the poor scholars who read the scriptures should answer so-so, as long as the writing is good enough and the writing is reasonable, it can still be hit, but the ranking is a little worse...... This "current affairs policy" is actually to "open the back door" for the children of officials and current officials who are well versed in current affairs.

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Fan Zhijin's brother Fan Zhiwen also began to write "countermeasures". He, like Fan Zhijin, also regarded "Western Xia" as "Shu Han". However, he thought that Western Xia was a nominal vassal of the Great Song Dynasty...... And Dongwu and Shu Han are not in this relationship?

How do you write this? Do you want to write "Shu Han" as a vassal of "Eastern Wu"? This one...... Coerced Liu Bei during the Battle of Chibi? Or simply let Eastern Wu also learn from Cao Cao, find someone surnamed Liu (of course not Liu Bei) to be the emperor, and then coerce the Son of Heaven to order Liu Bei? Doesn't seem right?

As the last star of hope of the Fan family in Yanggu, Fan Zhiwen was actually stumped by a current policy, and he didn't know how to write for a while!

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When Fan Zhiwen didn't know how to write an article, the white-bearded old man Wu Zhongyi wrote quickly, and seemed to have found a feeling. His answer direction is the same as Wu Haowen and Ji Yi!

Of course, it was not that he was familiar with the world's major events, and he could see through the weakness of the Liao State and the danger faced by the Great Song Dynasty at a glance. Instead, Wu Haowen discussed with him the current "Liao-Song relationship" the day before the imperial examination, and informed him of the weakness and the possibility of collapse of the Liao State.

Of course he knows who Wu Haowen's elder brother Wu Haogu is? So I memorized the content of the conversation by heart, and today I will know how to solve the exam questions on current affairs. Although his article is mediocre, the key to current affairs is to find the right direction. The direction is right, and the article can be read a little worse.

This is really heavenly, I want to make myself high school!

The white-bearded old man's heart was so excited! This is really a lot of years to become a jinshi! I'm really going to come out...... Roll call outside the Donghua Gate, the king above the Jinluan Palace, and the son-in-law under the gold list, and then there is a parent official! It is estimated that the first class will not be able to enter, but the fourth and fifth class are also jinshi! A county lieutenant who catches thieves is sure......

But how should the thief be caught? The old man suddenly thought, he is so old and has never practiced martial arts, can he catch a thief? Why don't you catch old thieves who are old?