In the second exam, there were not too many waves, and after Ji Ning's answer was over, he didn't have to wait for the third day to write his answer on paper.

On February 13 and February 14, because it was the last two days of the second exam, Ji Ning had nothing to do, he was completely thinking about some problems, sorting out the affairs of the court, brainstorming, and deducing the possibility of some things, perhaps because the Gongyuan was very quiet, and his thinking was also very clear.

By the afternoon of February 14, the papers for the second session were put away, followed by the third session.

The three days, from February 15 to February 17, are the third test of the strategy, and there are a total of five questions.

Ten additional arithmetic questions were added.

In Ji Ning's opinion, the content of this third exam is a bit complicated, but one thing he can be sure of is that he has no intention of being a court official, and even if the answer is very accurate, he will only be selected as an official by the imperial court in the end, and he will not be awarded the name of the text in the way of Wen Jinshi, so Ji Ning simply didn't pay too much attention to the question of the scriptures.

What Ji Ningxian faced was the content of the five-way policy problem.

Not surprisingly, two of the five policy issues involve current affairs, one involves the exhibition of the Confucian Temple, and two involve the evaluation of historical events.

The question of the evaluation of historical events is almost like a question and answer question from a script, and the comparison is a test of Ji Ning's understanding of the history of time and space.

Although he is not a native of the Dayong Dynasty, in the past two years, he has made up for his historical knowledge, so that he has now become a well-known figure, and some historical facts cannot stump him.

The two "historical theories" of the policy interrogation involve two major events in the previous dynasty, one is the prince's struggle for the crown prince, and the other is the implementation of non-royal government after the civil unrest.

The crown prince competes for the crown prince, because it does not involve controversy and evil, but the turmoil within the royal family, Ji Ning focuses on "those who win the hearts of the people win the world", this argument is also novel, even if others have similar opinions, they are much weaker than him in words and induction, after all, the ideas he brought are the culmination of five thousand years of Chinese civilization in another time and space.

As for the non-royal government implemented after the civil unrest, it lies in the fact that there is a short period of "autonomy" of the people, and they elect "emperors" on their own, just like the three emperors and five emperors in history, in a short period of ten years of non-royal government, a total of more than a dozen emperors were elected, and most of these people are talented people, which is also the reason why the civil unrest can last for ten years, and even threaten the rule of the court of the previous dynasty.

In the end, the civil unrest was quelled, or because of the internal election of the emperor, there was a factional dispute, so that it was divided and disintegrated by the imperial court, and in the end, the civil unrest did not form a unified regime, but was destroyed by the previous dynasty.

The focus of the discussion on this matter has become the induction and summary of the idea of "benevolent government" in Confucianism.

The direction of Ji Ning's discussion is similar to the view he put forward in the township test, that is, "water can carry a boat and can also overturn a boat", believing that the people can decide the belonging of the king, and at the same time can also conform to the king or betray the king, and not be immutable to be ruled by the emperor, but Ji Ning also proposed that the monarch and the minister should also be tolerant, and the subjects should advise the emperor to be diligent and self-denying, etc.

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Ji Ning brushed aside the issue of the exhibition planning of the Confucian Temple, because this problem is too one-sided.

The key to the incense sacrifice of the Confucian Temple lies in the saints and the ancestors, and the Confucian Temple believes that the number of ancestors should be increased in each dynasty and each generation, and then the candidates who will take the examination will discuss it.

Obviously, this kind of policy is a bit biased, Ji Ning's view is that the first teacher is not a day's work, not only people with virtue and ability can enter the Temple of Literature, but also should pay attention to the literary atmosphere, to be able to leave a famous idea in history, in order to be qualified to become a teacher, this matter should be decided by history, not by people.

Because Ji Ning's own goal is to enter the Temple of Literature, he doesn't express too many opinions on this kind of policy, mainly because he doesn't know what the purpose of the person who came up with this question is.

There is more than one answer to every policy question, what Ji Ning thinks is right may be wrong in the eyes of others, all he has to do is to summarize and summarize these questions and express his thoughts.

What others think, that's someone else's business, and it has nothing to do with him.

The most important questions in the policy are the two current political issues.

Nowadays, the biggest problem of the Dayeong Dynasty is the competition for the prince, the crown prince, the five princes, and the princess Wenren are divided into courts, as if they all have the intention of getting involved in the throne, and the other two vassal kings, Chongwang and Huiwang, are also eyeing power.

However, on the issue of current political policy, such a sensitive topic was not involved, which was also expected by Ji Ning.

Ji Ning said in his heart: "The first policy question involves the dispute between the crown princes of the previous dynasty, which is actually alluding to the current dispute between the crown princes, but now after all, there is a crown prince in power, and openly directing public opinion to this kind of topic in the examination will inevitably cause a storm among the scholars, so the current dispute between the crown princes will not be involved in the examination." ”

One of the two current political issues involved the academic dispute between the North and the South, which can be regarded as a very acute topic.

The second way is that the four seas come to the world to be the same.

Ji Ning felt that these two questions were quite level, because in the examination, the candidates would encounter the problem of the dispute between the north and the south, and in order to balance the number of jinshi in the south and north of the Yangtze River, the imperial court even stipulated the rules of admitting one hundred and fifty candidates from the north and south in the examination, and there was no restriction on the palace examination, that is, among the three hundred tributes, there was no distinction between the north and the south.

Ji Ning's point of view is that talent and learning are not divided into regions, and he cannot be sent a few people to the position of Jinshi for the sake of the backwardness of academic thinking in a place, which in itself is an unfair phenomenon in academia.

As for the four seas to the world and the great harmony, it is more like a topic of singing praises for the emperor and the Great Yong Dynasty, Ji Ning does not want to be a flatterer, he still involves "being prepared for danger in times of peace" on this kind of topic, and does not blindly cater to the appetite of the emperor and the court.

After completing all five questions, the first day had not passed, and he carefully studied the ten questions of the scriptures.

After reading it, he was still very disappointed, in his opinion, the ten questions were at most "small promotion math exam questions", at most they involved a little probability problem, and in Ji Ning's opinion, it was not too complicated.

He can make a hundred of these problems in a minute, and none of them are wrong, but because the mathematical thinking of this era is still stagnant in a bottleneck period, these problems are too difficult for ordinary people who have not been exposed to systematic mathematics.

Ji Ning originally wanted to write down the answers to the questions, but after thinking about it, he really didn't want to use this "strange and obscene technique" to enter the imperial court.