As for being locked in the account room for nine days at a time, for most candidates, eating, drinking, urinating, and sleeping all over the room is harder than jailing.

But in the eyes of these scholars who seek fame and fortune, the hard work of the imperial examination must be overcome. Even if you don’t adapt to it before, you will get used to it after taking the exam a few more times.

And Chen Xi was still on the road to adapt.

Compared with the strict inspections of Tongsheng and the provincial examinations, the entrance inspections of the imperial examinations are much more relaxed. This is also the meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He believed that since the juren were talents selected by the state from various provinces, they were already considered to be a gentry class, and their personality should be fully respected and could no longer insult them like they did to civilians.

From the early Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the examination of the imperial examination was completed. Even when it was implemented, the inspection was very sloppy and the candidates would never take off their clothes or check the mezzanine.

Therefore, cheating of cheating in the early Ming Dynasty occurred frequently. It was not until the 44th year of Jiajing that the court "was ordered two censors to be added to conduct inspections. The offenders would first carry shackles one month before the Ministry of Rites, and still sent them to the court for conviction." This was why the examination was conducted in the examination, and even had to wear clothes and take off their hats.

In "Wanli Yehuo Chapter: The Seichang" Shen Defu sighed: "For the past forty years, although the imperial examinations have been strict and lenient, he took off his clothes and hats, searched again and again, and he had no intention of restoring the country to the main body!"

The meaning is very obvious. We took the Child Student Examination and the Provincial Examination to enter the gentry class. Now that we have passed the Juren and become officials, we are still treating us like we are guarding against thieves. This is really disappointing.

But that happened a few decades later. At least in this exam in Hongzhi 12 years, the search for entry was just a routine matter. Chen Xi just needed to take his own exam basket and casually rummage the things inside to the search gatekeeper to see them, and then he could enter the dragon gate.

When you get inside, you will be listed in a row based on the number of the candidate's house. Each candidate will have an officer and soldier responsible for guarding the house. If the candidate has anything to do in the house, he must pass the officer and soldier guarding the door.

When I arrived at my own house, Chen Xi looked at the narrow place inside. It was a bit narrower than the house in the countryside test. Even the wooden barrels that were scattered and urinated were old.

After entering, locking the door, Chen Xi suddenly felt like he was entering the boundless darkness.

Chen Xi felt a little disappointed when he thought about being imprisoned for the next nine days. Anyway, he didn't have an exam on the first day of entering the venue. He sat down, closed his eyes and thought about his worries, and it soon became dark.

The things Chen Xi brought into the examination room were basically the same as those in the provincial examination, including rice, pickles, and bacon, but a thick stack of cooked cakes were added.

It is said that it is a nine-day exam, but in fact, you have to stay in the vocational hall for seven days and eight nights, and you can leave the examination room on the morning of February 16th. You have to bring enough food for eight days at a time. It is definitely not enough to bring a little less, but if you bring too much, you can't bring it into the examination room.

Chen Xi did not plan to cook in the house, not that he was unable to do so. Instead, he was afraid that cooking would cause some trouble, so he brought some ready-made ones.

After all, it is only February day now. As long as it is not liquid food, it is still OK to keep it for seven or eight days. Many of them come from Lin Dai's intentions.

Lin Dai was already looking forward to Chen Xi becoming a serious couple with her after she left the exam room.

During the evening meal, Chen Xi was thinking about what Lin Dai was doing at home. She probably was sewing the clothes used for weddings, just a simple red jacket. She had been sewing when Chen Xi entered the Imperial College, but because of her poor skills, she had not made ready-made clothes yet.

The first exam in the imperial examination was still the Four Books and Five Classics, which was no different from the scope of the provincial examination. The three articles, four books, and four articles and five scriptures were relatively broad, and the papers were not submitted until the next morning.

In other words, the first exam was actually a day and a half, and I finished seven articles in one go.

For Chen Xi, writing the Four Books and the Five Classics is just like a common occurrence. The eight-legged essays he wrote over the years only have at least two or three thousand articles. Most of them can write more than a dozen articles a day. The Cheng articles he read and memorized, and the excellent eight-legged essays in the Ming and Qing dynasties that he remembered in his previous life, there are tens of thousands of articles.

For the imperial examination, the first four books and five scriptures are always the most important.

Since the teacher Feng Huaqi's sutra was "Spring and Autumn", Chen Xi's sutra also chose "Spring and Autumn", but this time he did not choose the title of "Spring and Autumn", but chose the "Book of Songs", which was particularly changed by him.

Chen Xi was thinking of winning unexpectedly.

For most candidates, what this sutra is must be thorough in research, but they basically don’t care much about other contents of the Five Sutras.

Chen Xi knew one truth very well, that is, many people were staring at him, and those examiners from Hanlin were likely to stare at him. If this sutra is the answer sheet of the candidates in the "Spring and Autumn Annals", these people would pay special attention to it, and might even be nitpicking, so he simply chose other questions.

On the morning of the ninth day of the second month, the first exam officially began.

The three and four books are from the Analects of Confucius, the Great Learning and Mencius, and the four and five scriptures selected by Chen Xi are from the Book of Songs, namely "National Style·Yingfeng·Ganqi", "Xiao Ya·June", "Daya·Ban", and "Zhou Song·Your Blind".

As the sun rose from the east, the light in the horn house was enough to read and write, Chen Xi began to seize the time to do something, but in fact, for the students who were in the imperial examination, there was no need to be too anxious for the first exam.

Because the final exam has to be completed before the final exam is completed. Even if you don’t answer anything in the first seven days, it is OK to complete it on the eighth day. However, after the entire exam, the text you have to write exceeds 10,000 words, and it is a bit unrealistic to write it on the last day.

For Chen Xi, the rules are certain, that is, let go of the Four Books and write the Five Classics first.

The content of the examination is basically the same as the provincial examination, but the marking of the papers will be much stricter than the provincial examination. The examination will never be like the provincial examination where you only read the four books.

The proportion of candidates' answers in the test paper is almost the same in three games. Regardless of the literary talent of the article, if the candidate writes a wrong test on which test, it is equivalent to being directly brushed.

The 3,500 candidates who participated in the exam are not ordinary people. If there are biased subjects and mistakes in the exam, it is almost impossible to win the Jinshi. If this happens, I'm sorry, please be early for the next exam.

On the first day, the waves were calm.

Chen Xi knew the questions of this session in advance. However, Chen Xi was very cautious before. Even if he did an article in advance for this exam, he never wrote it directly on paper. He always put the article in his heart, then carefully considered it and modified the content of the article.

Others took seven or eight days to answer the questions, but they only used them for four or five months. When Chen Xi learned that he had won the provincial examination, he had been preparing for this examination without neglecting it at all.

Facts have proved that the test questions are exactly the same as those recorded in history, without any deviation.

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February 12th, the second test questions are coming.

The second test is a public subject exam, which tests "theory", "edicts and words", and the discussion tests are discourse articles. They no longer use eight-part essays, and the questions will not be drawn from the "Four Books" and "Five Classics". The scope is quite wide, similar to the college entrance examination essays.

The essay in this session is "A gentleman is neutral but not leaning." It comes from the Book of Rites. The original text is "Therefore, a gentleman is harmonious but not flowing, and is strong and correct; a neutral but not leaning, is strong and correct." At first glance, it is the doctrine of the mean advocated in Confucianism. But in fact, it mainly examines that officials cannot form cliques for personal gain.

This topic is very confusing, from the title of "The Book of Rites: Doctrine of the Mean". If you answer it directly in the situation of the eight-legged essay, the scope of discussion will be very narrow. On the premise of making words on behalf of the saints, you can only use the words of the saints, and the saints will not tell you. Officials cannot form cliques for personal gain.

This is also the place where this question is vicious. "A gentleman is neutral but not abides by it." What I wrote is not the original text of "The Book of Rites". This is the test question, you can just use it freely. If there is really a nerd who insists on answering it in eight-part essays, then this question is basically a question. You can pack up the bedding and go home.

When Shen Xi understands this, it will be much easier to answer questions.

As for the "edicts and edicts" and "judgments" are all application documents in the officialdom and are something that can be used when becoming an official.

The first is to prepare official documents on behalf of others, and the second is to write comments. The first is to deal with superiors, and the second is to explain to subordinates, and the examination content is very comprehensive.

Shen Xi spent two days to do the second session. He did not wait for the third session to come down, and then copied it on the paper after drafting the draft, because Shen Xi felt it was very troublesome to do this. It would be better to write it on the draft paper and copy it directly on the paper, so that he could also give the third exam more relaxed time.

After the first two exams, for most candidates, the exam is basically the same as the end, because according to the previous rules, the "question" in the third exam is very simple, one question and one answer, and you can write your point of view.

There are five strategies in total. The "study questions" in the previous imperial examinations have always been a formality and belongs to "additional questions". It is difficult for examiners to judge the pros and cons of candidates' talent from "study questions". After all, the questions are simple and easy to answer.

But the reason why Shen Xi seized the time to list the first two test questions was that he knew that the biggest problem in this session was actually the fuse of the final sell-off case, which was on the third question of the last five strategies.

This question has always been the focus of historical debate.

But the debate itself is no longer about the topic, but outside the imperial examination. Did Tang Bohu and Xu Jing really get the test questions in advance?

This question almost stumped the entire candidates who took the exam. Only two of them answered the questions fluently, making Cheng Minzheng think that the two who wrote the test were Tang Bohu and Xu Jing, "very different, they would think they were the leader", so he was impeached by the Chinese people.

Without conclusive evidence, Hua Feng hurriedly submitted a report to Emperor Hongzhi based on Cheng Minzheng's words and the legend of the foreigners' stories about the sale of the title. A vigorous and exciting examination of the Ministry of Rites was launched, and finally ended with no evidence and fifty boards.

In this examination of the Ministry of Rites, the most famous poet, was not the last top scholar, Lun Wenxu, nor was it the last ranked seventh in the second place, but later became famous for his studies in the country. What he achieved was a great poet, calligrapher and painter Tang Bohu, who was unrestrained and unrestrained but had no chance of being in the career of the officialdom throughout his life.

This question changed the fate of many people. Cheng Min was in prison and died of acute illness in just a few days after he was released from prison.

It can only be blamed. Cheng Minzheng made this question too biased and difficult, and his words were too pissing.

On February 15th, the questions for the third exam were finally issued.

Chen Xi did not look at the other four questions, but directly paid attention to the third question, "Question: Scholars' attainments from the predecessors are not judged by questions or clarification..."

It was the policy that changed Tang Bohu’s fate!

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