Xu Yuan was a Jinshi and had also walked this way at this juncture. It was much more difficult to answer questions than to ask questions, because the questions in the provincial examination were not like the college entrance examination essays in later generations. If you give you a question or opinion, you will be free of the rest. This era is also a topic essay, but the essays you made cannot be in plain language, that is required.

The test questions have a realistic significance for the government affairs of the Tang Dynasty. In order to increase the difficulty, the remaining requirements are real abnormalities. The Jinshi examination and fu in the Tang Dynasty are basically limited to the rhymes, and are basically divided into "appointed rhymes, using the title as rhymes, using the characters in the title as rhymes, using the four tones and five tones as rhymes, and clearly specifying the number of rhymes."

The existence of this rhyme can not only explain the connotation of the question, but also standardize the content form of the question, providing an objective measure for the exam.

In short, you have to express your own ideas, but you can't express it randomly. You can say something about social quiz that even those who sell pork can say. It is definitely not OK to get the Jinshi exam and write it.

Although this thing is not easy to fix, if you don’t use it, you can’t prove whether you have tried your best to hang your head and sting your thighs. Moreover, this thing cannot be written by anyone who has rich or any child. So although it is difficult, it is fair. This is still the same as the college entrance examination in later generations.

If you think that there is only one rhyme to limit you to the Jinshi exam, then you are still too naive. The trial tribute writing has a limited program. As a complete trial tribute, no matter how long the length, it must be composed of four paragraphs: the head, the neck, the belly, and the tail.

Generally speaking, the first three or four pairs of the test fu are about thirty characters, the second three pairs are about 40 characters, the next three pairs are about thirty characters, the next two hundred characters are about thirty characters, and the last forty characters are about thirty characters, which is about thirty characters in total.

After more than ten or even twenty years of hard study, these 350 words were finally transformed into, and these 350 words can really reflect these students' real skills.

In addition to the fact that the superficial requirements are already very strict, through the questions of just a few words, candidates have to write articles with profound ideas and vision. What's even more fucking is that this article must be able to please the examiner and the emperor.

The examiner is a human being, so he is biased. Since ancient times, many stories of talented people being killed by the examiner due to disagreement are estimated to be endless in ten books.

But this time, Xu Yuan knew that he was just a tool person, and the one who was really in charge of the helm must be Li. Judging from the hope that Li had for this group of upcoming Jinshi, this topic must be produced by Li himself.

Li Qing looked at Xu Yuan with an anxious look on his face and first let him sit opposite him. Then he pondered for a moment, feeling that with his ability, he really couldn't come up with any too profound questions. He had never participated in the imperial examination, and had never read the classics of this era, and he knew nothing about any rhymes. Fortunately, the topic was only a few words, otherwise Li Qing felt that his knowledge might be revealed.

"I may have been delayed in this matter because of the time I left Chang'an City. I have to let me think about it!"

"Okay! Then your Majesty think about it here, and I am waiting here without saying a word."

"this……"

When Li Yan saw Xu Yuan's head was full of sweat, he didn't say anything in his mouth for a while. During the period when he was not in Chang'an City, Xu Yuan must not be able to focus on the trial.

This provincial examination is a major event. Li Yi also heard that the preparation in advance should be quite complicated. According to the time for the provincial examination after a month's postponement, there are only more than 20 days left, and nothing has been decided yet. It's not that Xu Yuan is worried.

So Li Qing could only calm down and really began to think about this topic.

In fact, it is not difficult to ask a question. Li Qing can make dozens of them out of his mouth at once, but he is now the emperor of the Tang Dynasty and is not a question-setting teacher for the college entrance examination. It doesn’t matter what the candidate will do after the exam is finished.

What he has to consider is what kind of talents he needs, or what kind of talents he needs now.

"Xu Yuan, you said that in the Tang Dynasty today, I yelled every day that there were lack of officials in the court, and various prefectures and counties also lacked officials. What kind of officials are missing?"

Li Qing pondered for a while and asked this question.

Xu Yuan obviously thought about this question, and he gave Li Yan an answer at that time.

"Your Majesty is dissatisfied with the officials and the official system of the Tang Dynasty, mainly because of the shortcomings left by Li Linfu and others in recent years. Since the year of Tianbao, the prime minister has been tyrannical. The officials before the prime minister are all silent and died in the hands of Li Linfu. So today, even the officials standing in the court have only been echoed. There are very few people like Liu Yan. What Your Majesty wants is someone who dares to stand up and speak."

After hearing this, Li Na nodded slightly. What Xu Yuan said might be a little bit less meaningful, but it is basically just this. What he wants is not only talents, but also talents who dare to express his opinions, rather than ministers who can express his opinions if others ask him to express his opinions.

A mere Yuan Zai can control the prime minister like Wang Jin, which fully shows that most of the officials in the court have become ostrich or quails.

"So what I have been thinking about this year's topic can no longer be as bland as in previous years. I need some explosiveness. In short, this year's imperial examination is to starve the courageous and timid. Even if only ten people dare to speak, I will only win ten Jinshi this year, and only five Jinshi!"

"I, I will follow your Majesty. Since Your Majesty said that, but have you already been calculating about the questions in the provincial examination?"

"Of course I have already had a problem with this mere question. I was just thinking about which question to use before."

"I... listen carefully!"

"This time in the provincial examination, let them take the title of 'If I am the minister'!"

"What? This... Your Majesty is afraid that you are going to discuss with several prime ministers, right?"

After hearing this, Xu Yuan frowned and thought to himself that Li Yan's words would probably cause an uproar. From ancient times to the present, there is indeed no such question as the level of the test-based examination.

"It's okay, don't discuss it with them. Then I will say that you gave the questions for this provincial examination and it has nothing to do with me. I am really tired. Since this matter has been settled, you can go back and prepare first!"
Chapter completed!