Prime Minister

Chapter 220

There is actually a monk's dormitory for the exam, and Zhang Yue is very impressed.

There are only more than 300 monks' rooms in Kaibao Temple, and Mingjing scriptures of various disciplines certainly do not have this kind of treatment. As for Jinshi subjects, only more than 300 people can live in monks' rooms.

The rest had to sit in the lobby.

Although the monk's room is only one zhang square, it must be much more comfortable to have a shelter from the wind and rain.

The most important thing is that the monk's house is still facing south, so that the sun can be seen and the iron tower of Kaibao Temple can be seen.

It seems that the examiner deliberately took care of himself for Chen Xiang's sake, which was regarded as an invisible benefit.

The monk's room has been cleaned and is very clean.Zhang Yue spread the mat on the couch, and then covered it with a thin quilt at night.

Such a man with rough conditions just fell asleep without even bringing a sheet or a mat.

Zhang Yue was also worried about sleeping in the lobby and the ground was cold, so he brought a bedding, but now he doesn't need it.

Zhang Yue took out the inkstone, ink ingots and pens from the examination box and put them on the table.The candle table was set up on the table, Zhang Yue took out all the candles, this time he brought five candles.

For the three-day and two-night exam, five candles should be enough.

After arranging the papers, Zhang Yue knocked on the window.The window of the monk's room is a lattice window. Zhang Yue saw a gentleman come to the window and asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhang Yue stuffed a copper coin into the opponent's hand and said, "Mr. Duan, bring some incense sticks."

The other party weighed the copper coins in his hand, and after paying no attention to anyone else, he accepted it nonchalantly and said, "Wait."

Soon the other party handed over incense sticks through the lattice window.

Open flames are not allowed in the examination room, so we can only use incense sticks to ignite the fire.

Zhang Yue took out the censer and put spices in it, and ignited it with incense sticks. After a while, a wisp of green smoke ignited from the spices.

Burning incense can calm the mind, it can be used as a medicine, and most importantly, it can be used to repel mosquitoes and insects.

The mosquitoes in Bianjing are too damn poisonous.

Most of the people in Bianjing suffer from mosquitoes, but Maxing Street is the only one who is not afraid of mosquitoes.

Why?

Because the whole street is full of pharmacies, and every family is rich, burning incense to repel mosquitoes is worth the cost.In addition, the business on Ma Xing Street is all night long, and the whole street is brightly lit all night.Therefore, the scent of mosquito repellent medicine permeates the whole street.

After burning the incense, Zhang Yue felt much more comfortable. He took off his beanie, put on a loose single shirt, and took a sip of mung bean soup to relieve the heat.

When I was about to get some pastries to eat, the examiner came to deliver the examination papers soon.

Zhang Yue's paper was attached to the family certificate, and it was submitted early in the morning, but now it is stamped and returned.

After Zhang Yue confirmed the stamp on the test paper, he took the paper with the test questions printed on it and read the questions.

Zhang Yue glanced at the exam questions of the Guozijian today, and he had an impression in his heart.

Zhang Yue understood that for Jinshi subjects, the weights of the above subjects were arranged from high to low.

The most important thing is endowment.

Fu is decided to stay. Su Shi Jiayou's Jinshi examination in the second year was dismissed by the examiner because of poor Fu.

If it weren't for Ouyang Xiu to search out Su Shi's papers, and read Su Shi's "Theory of Punishment, Reward and Loyalty" and set it as the second policy theory.Su Shi failed the imperial examination.

Poetry followed Fu, and Tang Dynasty imperial examination poetry was more important than Fu.In the Song Dynasty, especially after Ouyang Xiu advocated the ancient prose movement, the proportion of poetry dropped significantly.

The proportion of policy and theory below is now elevated by Ouyang Xiu in the imperial examination, and now it is no less than poetry, second only to Fu.

The last scripture question is just a cutscene. For many Jinshi who disdain to read the scriptures, even if they are all wrong, it will not affect their admission to Jinshi.

However, if you pass the test, you can get a higher grade. For example, Su Shi was almost eliminated because of Fu. Although he had a strategy to save the game, he was only ranked among the top five Jinshi in the end, but because he was the first in the Spring and Autumn Classics, he was promoted to the fourth. .

Among these, Zhang Yue is most sure about the scriptures, followed by policy theory, and finally poetry and prose.

On the Confucian classics and righteousness, Zhang Yue can be said to beat all the imperial students of the Jinshi department in Taixue, and even the Jing students of Zhuke Mingjing are willing to bow down to Zhang Yue.

At the beginning, the Jing students who studied the Nine Classics, the first of all subjects, looked at Zhang Yue and sighed that they were not as good at studying Confucian classics. The more they said, the more they said, the Nine Classics would be difficult to take the exam, and Zhang Yue went to the Jinshi Department to let them go The meaning of a horse.

However, no matter how strong the Confucian classics are, it has no substantive effect on the Jinshi department, it can only be icing on the cake.

After reading the paper, Zhang Yue first rubbed the ink and wrote all the topics of the scriptures.

The scriptures are the Analects of Confucius, the Classic of Filial Piety (compulsory), and the following is the Great Classic. Candidates can choose their own spring and autumn, and one of the books of rites.

As for the Yi, Shu and Poems included in the Five Classics, there are also random tests.

Because the Nine Classics were all memorized by Zhang Yue, the process was really boring, but I finished writing all the scriptures and ink meanings in half an hour.

After that, Zhang Yue conceived the following topic.

Both the solution, the strategy and the theory must be more than [-] words. Although there are not many words, it is very brain-intensive.

As for the fu, it must be more than 360 characters, and the poem is limited to six characters, with five characters and six rhymes.

These are recorded in the test solution instructions bought from the knowledge bookstore.

At the same time, there is no limit to the number of couplets per rhyme, and no limit to the number of words per couplet.

At the same time, if the official rhyme is suspicious, please allow it.Poems with the same font and rhyme can also be used as appropriate.

This may seem simple, but it is not.The imperial examination in the Song Dynasty had extremely strict requirements for the score of the roll.

The examiner grades a paper based on point and mark.

The specific standard is that three points count as one touch, and one touch is lowered by one level.

Take smudges for example.

Smearing five characters is one point, and fifteen characters is one touch.

That is to say, if you smear fifteen characters on a paper, you will be lowered.Remember a little bit of five words.

In other words, to keep the paper score from being deducted at all, typos must be controlled within five words.

Therefore, candidates must think clearly before writing every time they write.

In addition, there are fifteen non-examination formulas.

The so-called non-examination of the fifteen items means that if there is an error, it will be directly judged as unqualified, and there is no need for a point-and-shoot judgment.

Specifically, there are fifteen places.

The minimum word count was not met.

I don't know the question.

Poems fall into rhyme.

Use less words in rhymes.

Poetry is flat.

The poems all use a couplet from the ancients.

Do not write the title.

Temple taboo.

The meaning of the title is not seen before the two rhymes of the poem, etc.

There is also the twelfth grade with the wiping method, that is, the grade will be lowered by one grade in this situation.

Misuse of things.

Take off three characters.

Wrong title.

Poetry is wrong.

The four sentences of the small Fu do not understand the meaning of the title.

Poems use every other sentence.

There are more than ten sentences in ancient and modern texts and so on.

Basically committed one, unless the article is particularly outstanding, it is almost the same as failing the ranking.

As for the point style, there are only four.

borrowed words.

Poems and Fu take off one word.

Poetry and Fu are dry.

Poetry overlaps words.

In the fiercely competitive exams for poor students, as long as there is one point, except for the outstanding features of the article, it will basically fail, let alone erase the style.

With so many restrictions, Zhang Yue must first ensure that he does not make mistakes in the exam, and then he can consider whether he is outstanding in the next step.

Zhang Yue is most worried about his poems.

Compared with Celun Jingyi, Shi Fu is a younger brother.After two years of training in the Imperial Academy, Zhang Yue has made great progress.

Now in the examination room, everyone has finished writing the scriptures and meanings like Zhang Yue, and then everyone is meditating in the room on how to develop poems and poems.

Zhang Yue also paced in the room thinking, drank some soup when he was thirsty, and ate some pastries when he was hungry, and before he knew it, Yue had climbed the iron tower of Kaibao Temple.

At this time, Zhang Yue heard the candidate calling next door: "Mr. Duan, do you have something warm to eat?"

Duan Gong scolded: "There is hot shit, do you want to eat it?"

The examinee laughed and said, "If it's anywhere, just try a mouthful of hot soup and rice, and I'll pay you the usual amount."

When Zhang Yue heard this, his heart moved. It would be great to have a mouthful of hot soup and rice in the examination room.

The gentleman said: "Yes, there is, but it is my own food. If I sell you, what will I eat?"

The examinee said happily: "I still have some cakes here, if Mr. Duan doesn't mind taking them."

The gentleman nodded and said, "Wait."

Soon the gentleman brought a bowl of steaming noodle soup and passed it in through the lattice window.

Zhang Yue's examination room was next door to this person, and he heard this person eating a bowl of noodles like a pig eating chaff.

A bowl of vegetarian noodle soup with little water in clear soup was eaten by this person as if it tasted like a full Han feast. This was really a first-class torture for Zhang Yue.

The rest of the examinees couldn't help being moved. Some of the candidates who had rich families and acted with sincerity asked aloud, "Duangong still has hot noodle soup."

Another person asked: "Duan Gong, Duan Gong, do you have any wine?"

Zhang Yue heard that someone asked for wine, and there was such a strange demand.

However, the officials brought a wine gourd, and as for the other requests of the candidates, these officials also satisfied them one by one.

Zhang Yue couldn't help sighing, our Great Song Dynasty was really a rich man's world, and there were no human beings.As long as you have money in your pocket, you can spend so much money in the examination room.

Zhang Yue even suspects that if the money is enough, the girls can call you two.

But if you are reluctant to part with money, you can only be like Zhang Yue, where others eat noodles and you smell them.

Looking at the bright moon on the iron tower, Zhang Yue felt that this scene had an artistic conception full of ancient interest for some reason.

While looking at the bright moon on the pagoda, he peeled the eggs and ate two. Suddenly, he felt sleepy, so he didn't care about other things and went to sleep first.

So Zhang Yue didn't even light the candles, and lay down on the bed in his clothes.

Zhang Yue fell into dreamland, but saw the exam questions lined up in the dream world.Immediately, countless words shone with golden light, surging in the sky, rolling in like a tide.

Zhang Yue hugged his knees like this, leaning against a big tree, watching the words flow in front of his eyes.

Under the five topics, there are five poems and articles, and then countless words are arranged and combined among them.

Zhang Yue thought about it for a while and felt something was wrong. With a wave of his hand, the text gradually faded away, and after a while, another paragraph of text was added.

This scene seems miraculous, but these words are the accumulation of Zhang Yue’s daily poems and articles, and they are only expressed in a more specific form in his dreams.

During the six hours in the dream, Zhang Yue couldn't help but see countless arrangements.That is to say, without any effort, Zhang Yue has typed hundreds of times for these articles.

I don't know how long it took, Zhang Yue woke up from his dream, and the crisp birdsong sounded in his ears.

Zhang Yue walked to the window, but saw that Kaibao Temple was silent, the gentleman was dozing against the door wall, and the other examination rooms were also quiet, only the iron tower was immersed in the morning light.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yue smiled and took a deep breath of the morning air. When his eyes fell on the paper, he felt that each topic was much more familiar, and it was no longer the cold look of yesterday.

(End of this chapter)