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This time, Zhou Tingyu not only built a shed, but also borrowed tables and chairs from all over Yanglin County in the name of the official, and finally borrowed enough tables and chairs.

The rules of the county exam are not strict, just a simple check, and one by one candidates are allowed to sit down, Luo Xin's test number is relatively high, so he picked a middle position to sit down, anyway, in this northern February, it is still very cold outside, and sitting in the middle can also allow the surrounding candidates to block the wind.

There are not many candidates participating in the scientific examination in Yanglin County, there are less than three hundred, there are people of all ages, the youngest is the twelve-year-old Luo Xin, although the oldest does not know how old it is, but Luo Xin saw a gray-haired old man also sitting there. As for the middle-aged people, there are many of them, but more of them are young people.

In the cold wind.

After all the candidates were seated, Zhou Zhixian stood in front of him in a neat official uniform and began to speak. First worship Confucius and Mencius, then worship the saints, and finally announce the number of examinations and the discipline of the examination room.

There will be four tests in this county exam, one test for one day each and one test every other day.

This is not because there is more content in the exam, but because there are more opportunities for candidates. In fact, candidates can pass the first game, and there is no need to take the next three games, and for various reasons, such as status, candidates who have not passed can continue to take the second test, so the second and third games are called resumes, and the last one is an interview, and all candidates have to go through the fourth one. The fourth session is mainly to screen some candidates who have not been found to cheat, and the county order will conduct an interview in person to eliminate these candidates who are sloppy and cheating.

After Zhou Tingyu's words fell. Soldiers began to distribute answer sheets. Unified format, and the county test is not confused, Luo Xin's name, age, hometown, three generations. Physical characteristics are written on the answer sheet on the first page.

From the second page onwards, there is a real answer sheet, and each page has a red grid, similar to the manuscript paper of later generations, except that the square is much larger than the manuscript paper of later generations. Only one word can be written in a cell, and it is not allowed to write extraordinary.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and I could see the manuscript paper on the table clearly, but the cold wind was blowing, and my body was chilled.

The weather is cold, and it is not only the candidates who suffer from the cold. The soldiers who invigilated the exam were also frozen, and Zhou Zhixian couldn't stand the cold, so he hurriedly wrote down the exam questions on a large piece of paper. Then it was held up by two soldiers for the candidates to watch.

There is only one topic, an essay.

It stands to reason that the standard county test of the Ming Dynasty is to produce two articles, but the degree of freedom of the county test is very large, and it is up to the county order to say it himself. Therefore, some counties have published two current texts, and some counties have published a piece of current literature and a trial post poem. But this is usually done in the south, and in the north because of the cold weather. It was an outdoor expedition again, and it didn't take long for my hands to freeze. The hardships of the conditions are not at all comparable to those in the south, so the northern county test usually only publishes a current article, and even the test post poem is not published, just to let the candidates finish the paper as soon as possible, anyway, a current article can already see the quality of the article.

Luo Xin looked at the exam questions, and a wry smile appeared on his face. There was a sound of inhalation all around. Luo Xin knew that it was not frozen. Rather, they were scared. And Zhou Zhixian's gaze swept over the frightened scholars, and a trace of smugness appeared on his face, and he also looked at Luo Xin, with a look of what kind of question.

"Where is this county test, I have caught up with the township test." Some candidates complained in a low voice.

"Quiet!" Some soldiers reprimanded, and the examination room fell silent again. But there is an atmosphere of pathos.

There are a total of four sentences in the title, namely: the way of the university, the predicate of the mandate of heaven, learning and learning, Mencius sees King Hui of Liang.

It's not just a quote in one article, not even a book, but a sentence in each of four books.

"The way of the university" comes from the first sentence of Zeng Shen's "University", and the original sentence is "The way of the university is in Mingmingde, in being close to the people, and in stopping at perfection." ”

It means that the purpose of the university is to promote the moral integrity of the upright, to make people abandon the old and make the new, and to enable people to achieve the most perfect state.

"The predicate of the mandate of heaven" comes from the first sentence of "The Mean" written by Zisi, and the original sentence is "The predicate of the mandate of heaven is sex, the predicate of the nature is the Tao, and the predicate of cultivation is teaching." Those who are also in the Tao must not be separated from it; can be separated, not the way. ”

It means that the temperament given by God is called sexuality, and doing things according to nature is called Tao, and the method of cultivating the Tao is education. This Tao cannot leave my body and mind for a moment; If you can leave, then it is not the right way.

"Learn and learn" comes from the first sentence of Confucius's "Analects", the original sentence is "learn and learn when you learn, not also say"

It means that what has been learned should be practiced regularly, which is one of the important academic ideas of Confucius.

"Mencius meets King Hui of Liang" comes from the first sentence of Mencius's "Mencius", and the original sentence is Mencius meets King Hui of Liang. The king said, "Suo! Thousands of miles away, there will also be Eli my country? ”

Mencius said to him, "King! Why bother? There is also benevolence and righteousness.

It means that Mencius visited King Hui of Liang. King Liang Hui said: "Old man, you have come from thousands of miles away, you must have something beneficial to my country, right?" ”

Mencius replied, "Great King! Why bother talking about profit? Just say righteousness.

Zhou Tingyu took out one sentence from the opening sentence of the four books and composed a sentence as an exam question, the four sentences belong to the four books, which has nothing to do with each other, and the four books are separated into a sentence, which is the most difficult kind of exam question, called truncated questions.

Because this kind of question is forcibly merged together, the meaning of the question is difficult to understand, and there is nowhere to start to solve the question, which often makes candidates make mistakes when they solve the question.

And the general truncation question is just one sentence from each of the two articles, this week Tingyu is good, one sentence from each of the four books, the whole four sentences are made up into one sentence, perverted to such an extent, how can the candidates solve the question?

There was a lot of mourning in the examination room, and Luo Xin also frowned slightly. But he wasn't too worried, it was still early, but it was cold and moving. He simply opened the bookcase, first took out the pen, ink, and inkstone, and put them on the table. Then he did not grind, but took out the small stove inside, carried a small copper teapot and a hand stove to draw some water, and then put charcoal in the small stove and lit it, and first put the hand stove on the small stove.

Not to mention that those candidates were dumbfounded, but Zhou Tingyu was in a daze.

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