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Chapter 76 Yanping County King
The quiz in Hongwenguan is similar to the pattern of the rural examination.

The examination room is on the territory of the Imperial College. Not only students from Hongwen Hall, but also other central-level schools will take exams at the same time. However, just like Hongwen Hall, there are only a few children who are not even scholars. Hundreds of people.

Students have to bring their own food, toilet, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then they will be locked in a cubicle with only room for them to complete a total of three big questions.The better thing about the rural exam than the general exam is that the exam time is shorter, as long as one day is enough, if you have full confidence in your physical condition, it doesn't matter if you bring less things.

Cheng Jinzhou's body is thin, and he feels that the space is small even if he is squeezed into the specially designed cubicle. Muscular men may suffer a lot in this kind of exam.He thought maliciously: The ancient scholars were all weak in physique, could it be that they were selected by the conditions of these small cubicles?
The guards composed of knights from the Imperial Army patrolled the examination room, and the rows of 40 cubicles were densely connected, like the temporary iron houses of later generations. Cheng Jinzhou saw from a distance that several royal family members also squeezed in alone, and couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

Naturally, the royal family does not need to take the imperial examination. For them, the current quiz may be more important.After all, His Majesty the Emperor also needs some data to judge the achievements of his filial sons and grandsons.

With the invigilator's order, the exam officially began.

Cheng Jinzhou gently placed the inkstone on the table, then dripped it with clear water, and slowly melted the ink stick. It is not that the Chinese in the past did not know how to make ink. The main reason why they did not use this more convenient item was ink. The quality is too poor and it is consumed too quickly.Things that seem very practical to modern people are completely worthless in ancient times. It is like an exam. Each examinee may use a bottle of ink, and it will not make the job easier.

Exam papers were handed out one by one.

Xiao Cheng turned it over with a calm face, and looked at the first sentence on the right hand, it really was "Gong Zhe, I think it's normal for a few years..."

It gave him the feeling that he was back at school again, the teacher marked the key points, but if you don't go to the examination room, you will never know how heavy the key points are.

After rubbing the ring and finding the answer you bought, the rest is as simple as eating meat. The most troublesome part is the copying process.After long-term practice, Dr. Cheng Da's calligraphy skills are now roughly equivalent to those of a calligraphy enthusiast at the junior high school level. Being able to write words that others can recognize is considered his greatest achievement.Just copying took him three hours to do, and at this time, Shen Cong and others had already begun to doze off.

You can't hand in the paper right away after completing the questions. Being unobtrusive is naturally one of the iron laws of plagiarism. Mr. Tang Bohu was in trouble because another plagiarist failed to follow the rules. As for Xiao Cheng, Too many of his companions were taken away with grinning smiles because of the 90 points on the test paper, and there were also many colleagues who played the crowns and celebrated because of the 70 points. After sitting on the seat for a while, Cheng Jinzhou simply opened the ring and tried to copy from the paper. Find the answer in the township examination record.

In this way, time flies by.He was also able to verify the quality of his cheat sheets - plagiarism actually proved the importance of books. Think about it, the Chinese 1000 years ago were already able to cheat unscrupulously in tightly guarded examination rooms. , 1000 years later, the Chinese people still rely on tools such as in-ear earplugs. There is really no progress at all. The main reason is the lack of theoretical summary and lack of practical inheritance.When the Taoist monks of Wudang Shaolin passed down all their skills to their sons, the plagiarists still kept their own secrets. How could such a style fight against the ever-changing level of counter-reconnaissance.
Relying on his advanced technology, Xiao Cheng prepared a cheat sheet so-so. In short, he copied what he found useful, which was right after all.

Modern Chinese people always imagine that the imperial examination is too difficult, but in fact it is not the case at all.Examinations of this level, such as the township examination, ask questions with fixed answers. For example, the examiner will write a long series of sentences that are not in a book, and let people explain their meaning and the relationship between them, basically If you can understand the Four Books and Five Classics, if you are serious, you will definitely be able to answer them. In this way, two big questions plus an essay are all the content of the exam.For people with ordinary intelligence, it is not difficult to pass the exam after 10 years of schooling. Those who say that the admission rate of the ancient imperial examinations is low are probably children who graduated from the National Development and Reform Commission and the Statistics Bureau. They like to use the people of the whole country as the base, and then use the Chinese Those who try to be molecular, God knows how many smart people, can only be coolies digging food in the fields all their lives, but they are not qualified to display their talents, and there are restrictions on women, businessmen, happy households, etc. not being able to participate in the imperial examination.According to the ratio of scholars among scholars, the imperial examination is not much more difficult than the college entrance examination—in fact, in the 10 years from elementary school to high school, modern students need more study time.

Of course, the provincial and general examinations for scholars and above, as well as the so-called Jinshi examinations in the Tang Dynasty, are still elite selection examinations, and the difficulty has not increased by a single star.

For the current Cheng Jinzhou, he can even go to the exam with only a ring in his head.In addition to advanced technology, there are not a few candidates like him who aim to plagiarize. Many people's so-called entrained materials are actually bringing in a book and annotations, and copying is easy and enjoyable.

After happily eating the meat dumplings I carried with me, people started to hand in papers one after another, especially the students of Hongwen Hall, who rarely sat quietly until night.Cheng Jinzhou could bear his temper, until the exam was over, the papers were collected, and the gong sounded, then he opened the door and went out.

The corridors between the two rows of rooms were full of people stretching, looking at each other and laughing.

Someone laughed loudly: "It's more tiring than mother's formal exam."

"That's why you went there twice."

Several people laughed.

Cheng Jinzhou smiled slightly. He didn't need to look at such a person to know that he was not from Hongwen Hall.

Among the five central schools, Guangwenguan has the best quality of students, Guozixue and Hongwenguan have the highest requirements, and the remaining Taixue and Simenxue are somewhat inferior, and their students are mainly middle and low-level civil and military officials, ordinary nobles Children, once they fail to pass the imperial examination, they will not have much ability to operate in private.Students of the Guangwen Museum like Shen Cong can easily spend thousands of taels of silver, how can they get the fame of a scholar, they will definitely not prepare for the exam two or three times, even if it is Cheng Jinzhou himself, maybe he still has it. Similar thought.

As he walked out of the examination yard with the crowd, the air seemed to become fresher. The shouting crowd behind him suddenly became silent. Cheng Jinzhou twisted his body unconsciously. When he turned around again, he saw four or five people staring at him. laugh.

According to the aristocratic teachings, Cheng Jinzhou first looked at the belt - a bright yellow wide-brimmed silk belt, with a milky white jade pendant on the right side and an empty left side. There was no collar badge on the chest. Seeing this, he had to bow deeply. He said politely: "I'm being wanton, please go ahead."

With that said, you have to get out of the way.If it’s just a yellow wide-brimmed ribbon, there are eight hundred people in Xiajing if not one thousand—the royal family, which never pays attention to family planning, is the most fertile human race in the world—but they can wear jade at will instead of hanging it on the collar badge on their chests. For things, in today's situation, it can only be the close royal family.

"This is the King of Yanping County." The attendant introduced.

Cheng Jinzhou had no choice but to salute again: "Hello, King Yanping."

I comforted myself in my heart, when I was in Shaonan, a grandson of Nanling County King dared to speak loudly to me, now I am with your grandpa.

Of course the king of Yanping County is not from his grandfather's generation, he is actually a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, with a fair complexion, red lips and white teeth, his chin slightly raised, and he kept smiling and said, "Are you Cheng Jinzhou from Shaonan?"

"You know me?" Xiao Cheng was so excited that he almost forgot the rules, but fortunately, no one cared.At this time, he was silently thinking about the King of Yanping, and only then did he realize that this is the third prince, and the emperor's son is given living expenses and pocket money according to his title, which is different from ordinary people.

"I heard that you have obtained contribution points from the Astromancer Association?" The third prince stepped forward, took his arm and said, "Let's walk over there."

Next to him, in addition to the two staff members, they were also noble children from the Hongwen Hall, and they also nodded to him.

Cheng Jinzhou shrugged his shoulders without any choice, and walked along.

After sighing for today's exam, the King of Yanping focused on the astrologist and asked him about his master's inheritance.Cheng Jinzhou carefully answered one by one, feeling more and more uneasy in his heart.

Sure enough, before reaching the place where the carriage stopped, the Third Prince said casually: "I heard that there is only one person here, and I also have real estate on Zhuque Street, why don't you move here."

This is naked solicitation.

If Cheng Jinzhou really becomes an astrologer, Cheng Jinzhou still has a lot of excuses, but he can only bite the bullet and say: "It's too much trouble for you, I live in the current place well, and my family will arrive in a few days... "

It takes about one and a half months to come here by car from Shaonan.

The third prince was silent, and the person next to him said: "Jinzhou, Yanping County King likes young and promising young people the most. Your achievements in astrology are impressive. There are astrology masters visiting the county king's mansion all the year round. Why don't you join us?" For details?"

Cheng Jinzhou's face was full of bitterness when he heard this, and he thought to himself: What and what is this all about.

It is natural to continue to refuse.

Seeing him like this, the few people stopped asking questions, and after saying a few polite words, they got into the carriage one after another, but they couldn't say they were happy.

Shen Cong came over at this time, and asked carefully: "The third prince wants to see you?"

Cheng Jinzhou shook his head, changed the topic and said, "You hand in the paper first?"

"I finished the answer in the morning. If I don't hand in the paper, how can I stay there?" Shen Cong smiled complacently, seeing Cheng Jinzhou's frown, so he said with a smile: "Don't worry about them, the third prince may just like astrology."

Dr. Cheng Da had watched too many court dramas about the nine sons seizing the heirloom, and rubbed his forehead in trouble. He thought he was a promising star warlock, so naturally he didn't want to get involved in royal affairs.Even if the third prince is really angry, he can't just sell himself to him because of this.

"Going to play in the music studio?" Shen Cong used an adult tone to seduce 13-year-old Cheng Jinzhou.

Cheng Jinzhou looked at the sky, shook his head and said, "I want to go back and write something."

Contribution points still have to be earned back. His main problem is actually what knowledge should be leaked.

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(End of this chapter)