Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

At dawn, all the examinees got busy, even the crying scholar on the opposite side knew that the matter was important, so he didn't care about being sad, so he set his eyes on the paper.

Following the sunlight and flickering lights, Su Mu began to think about the exam questions.

The first thing to consider is naturally the four questions in the "Four Books", which are compulsory questions.

The so-called "Four Books" are "The Analects", "University", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Mencius", which are the most important classics of Confucianism.Ancient scholars learned from the "Three Character Classic", "Bai Family Surname", and "Thousand Character Classic" at the beginning, but it can be said that they have spent their entire lives on these four books, and naturally they have memorized them fluently.

Since traveling to the Ming Dynasty and determined to take the imperial examination, Su Mu has also put a lot of energy on it.From the beginning of his studies in Shaotai, Su Mu also knew that his foundation in Chinese studies was weak, so he used the most stupid method, making a model essay for each sentence in the four books, so as to gain a lot of money.

After about half a year of hard work, it's finally time to reap the rewards.

Seeing these four "Four Books" essays, Su Mu was very happy. He did not know how many times he had done these questions.In addition to writing the first question once with Shaotai, the model essay he wrote was revised word by word by Ms. Wu a while ago.Up to now, although I can't remember word for word, I still remember the structure and sentences.

Now you just need to copy it directly. As for the other two questions, although it has been a long time, I still have an impression. You just need to recall the righteousness, the so-called fullness of the content.

From Su Mu's point of view, if the full score of the whole rural examination is [-], the eight-point essay in the first round will account for eighty points.He can basically do these three "Four Books" questions, that is to say, he can get [-] points properly.As for the remaining five questions, even if you can't get full marks, thirty points should be fine.

The last two games were not difficult, so Su Mu was confident of getting full marks.In this way, you can get eighty points.This result can basically be within the top [-].

As a modern person, Su Mu is still accustomed to using scores to calculate test scores.

Thinking of it this way, he also settled down in his heart.

At the moment, he didn't bother to look at the next five questions. While he still had some impressions of the first three questions, he quickly copied the three model essays on the draft.

The first article was a little faster, and by the time I finished copying it, it was already lunch time.

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the township examinations in each province started on the ninth day of August every year. There were three tests in total, and the test was completed in nine days.Within nine days, candidates eat and sleep in their own rooms, and soldiers have to escort candidates to dump and wash any shit basins and urinals in the big gray circle.All kinds of examiners in the tribute courtyard also never leave the tribute courtyard for nine days.

As for the problem of eating, the candidates have to solve it themselves, not because the examination room can't afford the food expenses of the more than 2000 candidates.I'm really a little scared, afraid that the examination room will find someone to cook and deliver the food, and will collect the bowl after eating. The cooks alone need dozens of people.There are many people with mixed hands, and people with ulterior motives get in among them. If you take this opportunity to pass a note or something, the trouble will be big.

This kind of thing happened in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle were ruthless people. When encountering such a situation, they just said "kill". Yamen servants did not let go.

It is precisely because of the high-pressure policy in the early Ming Dynasty that the system of the imperial examination room was forced to be perfected to the point where no loopholes could be found.

The examinees all came to the tribute courtyard early in the morning, and all of them were hungry.

Then, someone raised the stove, and green smoke came out of the test house.

Smelling the smoke, all the people seemed to have received the signal, and at the same time put down their pens and went to tinker with lunch.

Most of the poor scholars don't work hard and don't know the five grains. They don't cook at home on weekdays, so how do they know how to live.

In a blink of an eye, the examination room was full of violent coughing, and many people couldn't help but wipe their tears, but they couldn't run outside, so they could only suffer.

Su Mu was going to go to light the stove, but suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the smoke and dust blinded his eyes, so he had to find a pancake from Kaolan, rolled a green onion, bit it, and swallowed it with difficulty.

When the scholars lit the fire, the examiners and government officials in the examination room carried buckets and pots one after another and stared at all the large examination rooms to avoid catching fire.

There are fireworks in the examination room, and the scholars are all high-scoring and low-energy, with no life experience.It happened before that people were burned to death while cooking, but there are rules in the examination room, once the door of the Gongyuan is locked, even if the sky falls, they are not allowed to open.

During the reign of Xuande, the Nanjing Gongyuan was on fire, and the people inside did not dare to run out, and the people outside did not dare to go in to save others. They just watched helplessly as God Zhu Rong took the candidates and examiners together.More than 100 people were killed in the fire, which shocked the government and the public.

The smoke was too much for the scholars to bear. Amid the sound of coughing, many candidates slapped their writing boards loudly, accusing the examiners of their inaction, but they didn't think that the smoke was made by themselves.

Seeing that the commotion was really outrageous, the yamen servants rushed over again and stabbed the sticks in disorder, which calmed everyone down.

Su Mu had long thought that things would be troublesome, so he sat against the corner after eating pancakes, but he didn't suffer.

Only now did he understand that the examinee who had been robbed of his dry food was already so hungry that his eyes turned green, and he just drank cold water one after another, trying to suppress his hunger.

Su Mu was a little worried for him: this is the first day when he ran out of food, and there are still eight days to come, and he doesn't know if this talent can last until then.

It is said that if a person does not eat or drink water, he can only persist for three days at most.If there is water, it is estimated that it can survive for a few more days.I hope he is lucky and has a solid foundation to survive this catastrophe.

Su Mu himself had many more important things to do, and he couldn't care less about sympathizing with his opponent.

After the examination room calmed down, he began to deal with the remaining two "Four Books" questions. This time he wrote slowly.First, I listed the outline of the two questions, and then wrote them word by word by memory, and finally revised it for a long time before letting go with satisfaction.

In this way, the first day of the rural examination is over.

It was already dark, and many of the examinees who had dinner still ordered and waited to continue with the questions.

But Su Mu lay down early on the kang at the back to recover his energy.

These three "Four Books" questions are considered to be in the past, even if they are revised, there will be no qualitative improvement.

He decided to get up early tomorrow and spend the whole morning transcribing these three articles on the paper.In the afternoon, consider the next topic.

The kang is short and narrow, there is no way to straighten your body, you can only curl up into a ball like a cat, and it is time to sleep, and your whole body hurts from sleeping.

However, too many things happened on this first day, and Su Mu's spirit was also a little tired, and he soon fell asleep.

In this way, the first day of the first round of the Beizhili Township Examination passed.