Shen Yichen speculated on Sun Tixue's intentions and wanted to know the deep meaning behind his actions.

In fact, Sun Ding himself really doesn't have any complicated ideas...

Simply because you are sitting in the exam hall, you cannot ask Shen Yichen to take the exam alone. This way there will be no other candidates to witness, and it will be more like a secret operation.

So we simply gathered the most famous and controversial "thorns" in this college examination and put them in the lobby for the examination.

In this way, witnesses are also available, and the risk is reduced.

As the pre-exam body search comes to an end, the number of candidates who have been arranged to take the exam has exceeded ten.

During the waiting process, everyone had different expressions on their faces, but they remained silent. This was not because they were unfamiliar with keeping a straight face, but because the rules of the examination room prohibited casual conversation after entering, even in this situation.

Finally, after the last examination candidate entered the room, a "dang" sound was heard, and the gantry of the Xiajiang examination shed was closed.

Shen Yichen and others were brought to the lobby of Duzhi Building by the military servicemen. Different from the empty environment the previous two times, this time tables and chairs had been set up in the lobby, with test papers placed on them, waiting for them to sit down and answer questions.

Sun Tixue holds a high position and wears a blue official civil official robe. In fact, in terms of official rank alone, he is not as good as Li Min, Yingtian Prefecture Yin who took the imperial examination.

However, the power and status of many officials in the Ming Dynasty were not purely based on their rank.

Just like many people know that the civil servants are noble but the military officers are inferior, and military officers of the same rank are far inferior to civilian officials. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, even second- and third-rank military officers were being disciplined by their grandchildren by sixth- and seventh-rank civilian officials.

There are also such differences among civil servants. For example, Beijing officials are greater than foreign officials, and Yan officials are greater than consuls. Among them, the same rank is the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Among the six subjects, the Hanlin Academy is the most noble.

Although the admiral and academic administrator is in the local area, he is not a local official and is still among the ranks of the capital officials. In addition, Sun Ding also serves as the inspector of the Southern Zhili Province, so even if Li Min, the third-rank governor, is in front of him, In terms of status and power, it may be a 50-50 split at most.

"Students Shen Yichen, Xu Donghai, Luo Zheng... meet the Grand Master."

After Shen Yichen and others entered the lobby, they first saluted Sun Tixue, and then stood there waiting for the other party's instructions.

Sun Ding's eyes lit up when he saw Shen Yichen coming in, but he didn't show any expression, and even the expression on his face looked very serious.

After all, the college examination is extraordinary. Those who succeed will have the reputation of being a scholar, and outstanding candidates can also enter the Imperial College as tribute students. It is equivalent to the concept that future generations will enter a college like Qingbei and receive a full scholarship.

Therefore, etiquette should be more stringent in this situation.

In addition, he learned the lesson from Li Min in the college examination. He should not be too close to Shen Yichen to avoid giving others a reason to criticize. Moreover, Shen Yichen was not the only one sitting in the exam this time. You took the initiative to say hello to him. , should other candidates be treated equally?

If everyone is treated equally and a dozen of them are given instructions, will the exam still be possible?

Faced with all the candidates praying, Sun Ding responded by lightly tapping his forehead.

"Everyone is scheduled to sit for the exam today. I believe you understand the rules and procedures, so I won't say more."

"Today is the main entrance examination of the college. There is a test on four books and one article on each of the five classics. Among the questions on the meaning of the classics, you can choose the classic. However, my selection is different from others. The four books and the meaning of the classics have the same weight in the examination. I hope all students will Don’t be careless.”

After hearing Sun Tixue's words, among the dozen or so people who came to sit for the exam, some looked overjoyed, while others looked a little heavy.

Because according to the rules of the imperial examination system, the first question and the four books should be emphasized. In some cases, the first question should be repeated.

Take the county and government examinations that Shen Yichen took before. The first result can directly determine whether he succeeds or not, and even the ranking can be determined in advance.

It’s easier to understand if you focus on the Four Books. In ancient times, the eight-part essay was used to select scholars in the imperial examinations, and the eight-part essay was based on questions from the four books. If we don’t pay attention to this, what should we pay attention to?

Therefore, in the college examination, there is one question each for the Four Books and Five Classics. In theory, the scoring proportion of the Four Books questions is higher than that of the Five Classics questions. In other words, if two candidates have equal literary talent, one of them has the advantage in the Four Books questions, and the other has the advantage in the Five Classics questions, then When the final ranking is considered, the candidates who took the four-book question will win.

Under the consideration of such rules, candidates will naturally focus their study on the four books. Sun Tixue is not like this, requiring candidates to develop all-round development of "morality, intelligence, physical beauty". For those candidates who do not pay attention to classics and meanings, It can be said to be a difficult road.

Unfortunately, Shen Yichen is one of those candidates who are not valued by Jingyi.

In fact, to be precise, it's not that Shen Yichen doesn't pay attention to it, but that he was too exhausted in his previous studies and had limited energy and could only focus on the Four Books, putting the classics and meaning at the back.

This is like Shen Yichen's poor poetry writing, and he casually wrote a poem to cope with the five-character and six-rhyme test poem in the county examination. Anyway, it does not affect the final score. Whether it is good or not is not important.

If it weren't for Li Tingxiu's help last year and the appointment of Lin Zhen, the number one scholar, as his master, Shen Yichen might have set a precedent for being the first in the government examination and failing the college examination today.

Seeing the different expressions on everyone's faces, Sun Ding didn't need to care what these candidates were thinking. He spoke again: "There are test papers on the examination table. Please take your seats in order. I hope you can achieve high school honors."

"Yes, Grand Master."

All the candidates bowed their heads and then walked to the examination table and took their seats facing their own serial numbers.

At this time, Shen Yichen discovered that his exam table was facing Sun Tixue, and he really had a low eyelid. He didn't know whether it was an accident or Sun Tixue's deliberate arrangement. Being stared at and writing the test paper in this way was stressful. It's a bit big.

After taking his seat, Shen Yichen did not rush to open the test paper. Instead, he raised his head and glanced at Sun Tixue, and just caught his eye.

I saw that the expression on Sun Ding's face finally changed, and a fleeting smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. It was obvious that he had been paying attention to Shen Yichen, hoping that he would win the first place again in this college examination.

There was even something that Shen Yichen didn't know. The reason why Sun Ding emphasized equal emphasis on the Four Books and Five Classics was actually to create some advantages for him within his scope of authority.

Think about it, Shen Yichen worshiped Lin Zhen as his teacher, and as Lin Zhen was the No. 1 scholar and a master of Jingyi, how could the level of the disciples he taught be so weak?

Compared with other candidates who focus on the Four Books, Shen Yichen is ahead of the starting line!

With Sun Ding's character, he would definitely not do anything like really helping Shen Yichen engage in cheating for personal gain, so he tried his best to help Shen Yichen. It was up to Shen Yichen to show his ability on the spot.

However, what Sun Ding did not expect was that although Shen Yichen worshiped Lin Zhen as his teacher to treat the classics, it did not mean that his strengths in the meaning of the classics were purely temporary to make up for his own shortcomings.

So this well-intentioned operation is quite self-defeating...

When I opened the test paper, I saw that the test question pattern was different from that in the normal dormitory. The questions for the sitting test were already written on the test paper, so there was no need to wait for the soldiers to pass by and copy them.

One of the test papers has four questions written on it. The title is: Dangdanghu, the people have no name; Weiweihu, it has success, Huanhu, it has articles.

After all, Sun Ding was an academic officer and had been supervising schools for decades. His understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics was much more professional than that of Ying Tianfu Yin Li Min.

This major focuses on question setting, that is, there is no need to find all kinds of underworld questions to harm the candidates, and it can produce some normal and satisfactory test questions.

This question comes from the fragment of Confucius praising Yao in "The Analects of Confucius: Tai Bo Chapter". The roughly translated meaning is: Yao was a very great man, and the people no longer knew what language to use to praise him.

His achievements are so noble, and the etiquette system he formulated is so splendid and beautiful!

If you want to understand it in the simplest and crudest way, you can also regard this passage as flattery. Anyway, it is a wave of boasting, but it is relatively more elegant.

This kind of four-book title is not uncommon, which means that it is easy to find ideas for solving the problem. The direction is to praise the achievements of ancient sages and sages in education, pointing out what good things Yao did, which sages he appointed, etc.

Then don’t forget the most crucial point, which is to use the past to describe the present.

This is not obvious in the college examination. After all, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. In the provincial examination, especially the general examination, when you see a question similar to praising ancient sages and emperors, you must make indirect references to the current emperor.

Then write an article that feels flattering to you, pointing out how wise and powerful the emperor was, how well he governed the country, how talented he was, and so on. The highest level is to brag more harshly than Confucius's original text. Congratulations, you are not far away from winning.

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The reason why it is said that it is not far from being successful, rather than being completely successful, is that you can't just talk about it and not do practical things. The emperor recruits you to be an official and do things, not just to flatter you.

This dry blowing method seems particularly insincere and careless.

Therefore, in the last paragraph, you should add your own ambitions and inspire yourself to assist the current saint in the future, to do great things, to benefit all people, etc.

This time, I praised the sages, then praised the current emperor, and finally praised myself. It echoed back and forth, which is a perfect score. If it was not chosen by the examiner, it would be a shame for the "true feelings" in the article.

It may be that he has written too many eight-part essays, but now Shen Yichen is very familiar with this kind of conventional questions, and he can solve the problems easily!

Sun Ding was sitting in the lobby, his eyes constantly scanning the candidates in the hall. Of course, his main attention was on Shen Yichen.

During this time, Sun Ding had not seen Shen Yichen, but he had heard many rumors about him, such as winning the first prize in the county examination and the government examination, the fraud in Chengguo Gongfu's private school, and "Sword Like a Rainbow" at the Flower Appreciation Poetry Contest.

"Killing all directions" can be said to be a thunderous response to everything.

To be honest, Sun Ding did not expect that at the Chengguo Duke's family banquet, an unattractive young man sitting at the bottom of the table could shake up the literary world of Yingtian Mansion.
Chapter completed!