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Because the content of the provincial examination in the Ming Dynasty was complicated, with three sessions in the first and three sessions, and there were many candidates participating in the provincial examination, the first session became an important criterion for admission. Usually, as long as the three and four sessions of the first session were well prepared, even if the subsequent content was made up and the sentences were not understood, it would not affect the admission of the candidates.

The Three Tales and Four Books can almost be said to be the entire content of this exam.

Chen Xi looked at the title of three and four books, and when he saw that his heart suddenly became hung up, he said "Not good".

The three test questions given to him by Su Tong were directly answered in the "Analects of Confucius": "If you are good at learning, you will learn and learn" and the question was directly answered, while the title "The so-called self-cultivation is to correct your mind" in "The Great Learning" is different from the questions given by Su Tong, but they are actually all from the same article, which instead summarizes the question "absent-minded, blindly blind, listen but not smelling, and eat but not knowing the taste".

The title of the last four books in "Mencius" is "If a person has no way to do it, then he can do it." This topic discusses that people have what to do and what not to do, and the problem is relatively simple.

In general, only the title of "The Analects of Confucius" among the three topics seems difficult because it is a cross-sectional question. As for the title of "Mencius" and "The University", they are all within the scope of acceptance by ordinary candidates.

But Chen Xi felt the problem behind the question, that is... it really leaked the question!

If nothing unexpected happens, the questions Su Tong gave him should be given by the outer curtain officer, and then through the "horse banquet" before entering the examination for the sixth day of the first lunar month, while the inner and outer curtain officers attend the banquet at the same time, they handed the questions to the inner curtain officer and let the inner curtain officer use this to make the questions.

From this point of view, there are definitely not one or two people who know this question.

The sixth grade exam questions were released. On that day, Su Tong came to see him with the test questions, and then entered the venue on the eighth grade. There were two days before and after. These two days were enough for candidates who knew the test questions to find some experienced and experienced people to answer the questions for them.

These people may be former juren, or even Jinshi and Hanlin who are unemployed at home. As long as they have enough money, they will be able to ask any person they want to answer questions.

Chen Xi remembered Su Tong's expression of disappointment when he saw him not doing the test. He thought that with Su Tong's generous work and extensive friendship, he would find someone to do the test for him. After Su Tong's first time in the provincial examination, he did not dare to be proud of being among the top in this provincial examination. Chen Xi has read three articles by Su Tong, but it is still a bit difficult to win the exam.

With Su Tong's financial resources, he would not be stingy with money to find someone to answer the questions for him. Even if Su Tong did not use someone else's written papers in the end, he would form a certain reference for his articles during the exam.

In this way, Chen Xi faced far more than these more than 5,000 candidates in the same field, and there were still many scripture masters who had been involved in the eight-legged essay for a long time.

If you want to admit it in this situation, the difficulty can be imagined.

Although Chen Xi knew the test questions in advance, he actually didn't help much at this time and could only fight back.

At this time, Chen Xi finally understood why the bribery incident of this Fujian Provincial Examination left a lot of money in history. It was really that the water of this exam was too muddy.

The Fang Guan, who is in charge of the military affairs of Fujian coastal areas, can cultivate evil forces in the provincial capital to do evil. The people in the Governor's Office and the Censor's Office also use their power for personal gain. It is truly said that those who are close to the Red, those who are close to the Black, those who are close to the Black.

Under such a general environment, it is somewhat unrealistic to make officials in Fujian, where the mountains are high and the emperor are far away.

Although Chen Xi felt very uncomfortable, he could only concentrate his mind and answer the four and five classics questions first. Anyway, the quality of the five classics questions will not affect the final admission, but the five classics questions must not be answered. Before his thinking is completely concentrated, it is a good choice to do the five classics questions first.

The four and five classics are about 300 words per one, and it took less than two hours to complete Chenxi.

Looking back, Chen Xi began to carefully read the three and four books questions. As for the "good ones, learn and learn" they can only be done in the end. Chen Xi did not dare to hide any of the other two questions, and even the writing style was not round and sophisticated enough, it was enough for the examiner to directly apply it.

Chen Xi focused on listing his two four-book articles on the draft paper. It was already noon and a loud noise came from outside. Chen Xi stood up and looked at the window. It was smoke from afar. It turned out that some students had fired fires and burned charcoal for heating, but the examination room was ignited.

It is very common to catch fire in the tribute courtyard. One of the most important tasks of each provincial examination is to prevent water from being removed. The examination room of the candidates is a nearly completely enclosed space. The candles and charcoal fires, straw and paper inside are all flammable items and can easily burn if you are not careful.

Usually scholars have no experience in putting out fires, and their first reaction after a fire is to escape. When they find that the door cannot go out, they start slapping them with clothes. As a result, the clothes are quickly ignited and the fire becomes a big fire.

Unfortunately, no one has instilled some necessary knowledge on fire fighting and disaster prevention in these candidates these days. They can only find someone to rescue them after the fire breaks out. There are many water tanks filled with water in the tribute courtyard, which are prepared for this.

It was noisy outside and it had nothing to do with Chen Xi, but soon he felt something was wrong, because the choking smell of smoke had already come with the wind. It turned out that the fire house was not too far from Chen Xi, but because it was separated by other examination rooms before, it was impossible to observe the specific location.

Chen Xi cursed in his heart, but he had no choice but to continue to do the exam with smoke, red eyes and tears.

After copying the last two articles onto the test paper, Chen Xi began to face the last test question, which was also the most difficult question for the Four Books.

"If you are good, you will learn and be good."

Those who can come to the provincial capital to participate in the rural examination must know the source of this sentence, but because part of it is cut off, they cannot understand it according to its original meaning. If a whole sentence is broken, the meaning will be obviously different.

The focus of this sentence is on two "optimal".

To understand the changes in the part of speech, you also need to understand the mood of the questioner. This is an extremely difficult thing.

Even without breaking sentences, there will be multiple ways to break sentences such as "If you are good, learn, learn, and be better" or "If you are good, learn and learn to be better". This is a question without a fixed answer and can be written no matter how you write it, but it depends on whether you can collide with the idea of ​​the questioner and the examiner.

The same article will also have excellent and extremely poor situations in the eyes of different markers, which are not obvious in other questions, but this kind of question is particularly obvious.

Qiu Jun, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, once mentioned in "The Great Yi Purchase": "In recent years, I have often forced the question to read the sentences, break the meaning of the scriptures, and connect the meanings of the classics, and break the problem of not being able to be broken, and the small test of learning the Constitutional Minister is particularly trivial." It mainly discusses the disadvantages of "interrogation questions". It is said that you are asking the questions of the Four Books, but you just say the Four Books, but in fact you destroy the meaning of the scriptures, and you may not even have the complete meaning, so you let the candidates answer, which can really give many plausible answers. How can you form an exact standard to judge the quality of the candidate's articles?

Time passed little by little, and Chen Xi still had no way to write. He had been in this world for so long and had done a lot of articles. But this was the first time he encountered such a topic that he could not even find the point of writing.

There were patrolling people outside who told him time from time to time, and Chen Xi knew that if he didn't answer, he would probably not be able to finish answering. In this case, he could only bite the bullet and choose the direction he thought was most appropriate.

"If you have time to read more, you can learn more. If you have spare energy to study, you can understand the truth, preach and rule the world." It did not destroy the original sentence, but only extended the problem from "being an official". Not only do officials have time to study when they have time to do other things, but they can do other things when they have knowledge well.

Although Chen Xi didn't know if this was possible, it was already the best explanation he could think of. He did not forcefully find some theories to be misunderstood. He did not forcibly destroy the original text, nor did he go against the intentions of his ancestors. Although this way of understanding is a little mediocre, a mediocre understanding can also make high-profile articles.

The sky became dark little by little, and Chen Xi had to light a candle to complete his article.

Someone has handed in papers outside one after another, and Chen Xi didn't know how good the answers were. His goal was to win the exam in one list. Among the more than 3,000 candidates, only about 60 people were able to win the exam in the end. He could not compete with others for speed because there was no need at all.

After the strict inspection was completed, even the sentence structure was slightly adjusted, Chen Xi started the final transcription. By the time he was finished, the third candle had already reached.

Chen Xi felt the urgency of the imperial examination for the first time. He could complete the previous examination casually without any pressure.

When I arrived at the provincial examination, I had to do seven articles a day, and one of them was a strange question that was difficult to find even the arguments. It was not easy to finish it.

After Chen Xi blew out the candles, the soldiers guarding outside called the outer curtain officer who was responsible for collecting the rolls and collected the Shen Xi's paper through the hole in the door.

Chen Xi looked out of the hole and confirmed that the collector had placed his papers in the wooden box. He finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The most important first game of the provincial examination is now considered to be completed. The next two games can be improvised, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

At this time, outside the examination room, the outer curtain officer was busy. The inspector inspected the examination room. The chief examiner was responsible for collecting the papers and filing the case for investigation. The Mixed Office was responsible for pasting the candidate's answers, the transcription officer was responsible for copying the exam papers with the name of the exam papers, and the reading officer was responsible for checking whether the transcription results were correct.

Both the transcription officer and the reading officer must sign the transcription paper after the transcription paper to ensure that the candidates’ transcription and proofreading of the test papers are correct. If there is a deviation in the end, both will bear significant responsibilities.

After completing these, the copied test papers will be sent to the inner curtain officer. Two main examiners and four co-examiners will be reviewed. First, the co-examiners will find the test papers of all candidates and submit them to the chief examiner. Then the two chief examiners will give their opinions separately. Finally, the admission list will be selected and the ranking will be ranked.

After Chen Xi handed over the paper, he lit half of the candle again, not that he wanted to review the article on the draft paper. Since he had already handed over the paper, even if there were omissions in the article, it would be useless at this time, because this would affect the mood of the next two exams.

Chen Xi just wanted to find some light so that it would not be dark all around when eating. The darkness would make people feel desperate. When he took out the test basket, his stomach suddenly roared. Only then did he remember that from the morning to the end of the answer to the questions at night, he not only had no food or drink, but also had no urination and defecation for a whole day.

It was not until the exam that my body was loosened by the tense clockwork, and a feeling of exhaustion hit Chen Xi's heart.

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