marquis of jingan

Chapter 187 You Are Very Spiritual!
There are only about four months left until the provincial examination.

Four months seems to be a long time, but for scholars who often spend one, two, or even several years preparing for the provincial examination, four months is actually very hasty.

Ordinary children, after becoming a scholar, will not take the provincial examination immediately unless they are too close to the provincial capital. Instead, they have to wait for one or even two subjects to prepare slowly.

The provincial examination is divided into three subjects every three years, excluding the free time, that is to say, newly promoted talents usually spend three to four years preparing for the provincial examination.

The candidates for the college examination and the township examination are all very confident "problems". These people are often called gifted scholars, and the young ones are even crowned with the title of "child prodigy".

Of course, in addition to carefully preparing for the scientific examination, there are other ways.

That is the number of places in the provincial examination.

Every year in the rural examination, the imperial court will issue quotas for the provincial examinations to the provinces, state capitals, and counties. For a dynasty like Dachen that has been in existence for more than a hundred years, the number of scholars in each county is not particularly small, and some remote counties have accumulated one or two hundred. For students, the rural examination quota is only given to [-] or even [-] students.

At this first pass, [-]% to [-]% of the students were stuck.

Therefore, the number of places in the township examination is also very precious and has to be carefully prepared.

The reason why Shen Yi was able to take the exam continuously was because of his good luck.

Jiangdu prefecture is originally a place of scientific research, and Jiangdu County, the prefectural city of Jiangdu prefecture, is a large household of scientific research every year, and Ganquan Academy in Jiangdu city is very famous in the whole Gyeonggi and even in the imperial court, so the township examination Quotas are not a big problem in Ganquan Academy. As long as the students of Ganquan Academy want to take the provincial examination, not to mention 100% of the quota for the provincial examination, there is still no problem if one of the two is allocated a quota. .

More importantly, Shen is a pro-student of Master Lu of Ganquan Academy.

With Lu Anshi's status, not to mention Shen Yi's consecutive exams, even if he fails in the exams repeatedly, Ganquan Academy can always give him quotas for the local exams.

However, even after passing the "preliminary screening" of quotas, the competition in the rural examination is still very high. In the Jiankang rural examination, the admission ratio is 29 out of [-].

You know, being able to be a middle school student is already equivalent to the "Qingbei" of later generations, and the provincial examination is almost [-] out of [-] to [-] in some remote places, even in the relatively prosperous Jiangdu Prefecture. In some places where the cultural context is relatively prosperous, the ratio is almost one in one hundred.

very intense competition.

Shen Yi's knowledge is considered good among his classmates, and he was personally trained by Mr. Lu for a period of time, so he can be regarded as a young talent, but even he has no confidence in the provincial examination.

Shen Yi arrived in Jiankang at the beginning of the year. After finishing the college entrance examination in March, there was only half a year left before the rural examination. Now he was made a fuss by those Qi people, and it took him another month or two.

With only four months left, it was too hasty for Shen Yi.

Now he must calm down and prepare for the exam.

Compared with the Sandao Tongsheng Examination, the rural examination puts more emphasis on policy theory, so during these four months, he should devote as much energy as possible to current literature policy theory. Look at the policies and theories of the provincial examination and the mid-term examination in recent years, as well as the collection of essays of Cao Qian, the chief examiner of the rural examination.

Although the teacher Zhao Shilang introduced seemed to be just an ordinary private school teacher in Dayifang, Shen Yi still gave Zhao Changping some trust. After getting the "composition topic" from Mr. Go home obediently and start writing a small composition.

Essays are also tested in the college examinations. Shen Yi was also trained by Mr. Qin when he was in Ganquan Academy. In addition, he is basically familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics. These few words can also understand their meaning. There is no difficulty in solving the problem.

It took Shen Yi almost a day and a half to write three essays, and then he went out for a few laps in the remaining day and a half, went to see Xu Fu and others, and went to the bookstore to buy a few books that might be useful. Get the book, take it home and read it carefully.

On the morning of the fourth day, Shen Yi changed into new clothes again, brought the three essays he had written, and came to the gate of the private school in Dayifang.

He reached out and knocked on the door, and after a while, a boy came over and opened the door for him. The boy had seen Shen Yi three days ago, and after seeing Shen Yi's appearance, he lowered his head and led Shen Yi to find Mr. Gu .

When Shen Yi saw Mr. Gu, the little old man was shaking his head and leading a group of dolls to read, but unlike other private school teachers, Mr. Gu read the original text first, and then stopped to say this sentence to these little dolls meaning of words.

That's not common in this day and age.

Because the private school teachers in this era generally only teach literacy and reading, and follow the principle of "reading the book a hundred times, the meaning will be self-evident", and few people will directly teach children the meaning of the text.

But Mr. Gu taught, not only taught, but also taught very meticulously and patiently.

Shen Yi didn't disturb Mr. Gu, but stood quietly at the door of the private school and listened.

Mr. Gu is talking about the Analects of Confucius.

After reading a sentence, he will stop to explain the original meaning.

The Four Books and Five Classics Shen Yi is a sage classic that he has memorized a long time ago. Sometimes he feels that he has fully understood these sage books, but when he listens to Mr. Gu again at this time, some places are quite different from what he understands. After listening to it again , I just feel that it has some meaning and benefits a lot.

Shen Yi stood at the door listening intently, and unconsciously saw that Mr. Gu had finished speaking an Analects of Confucius. The old man glanced at the boys below, ordered them to read by themselves, then got up and walked to the door of the school, looking at it thoughtfully. Looking at Shen Yi, the old man showed a faint smile on his face, and said: "Since you are already a middle school student, you should know the scriptures by heart, why are you eavesdropping here?"

Shen Yi came back to his senses, sincerely cupped his hands at the old man and said: "In the past, the students often misunderstood the saint. Today, after listening to the teacher's lecture, I realized that the students themselves are shallow."

Mr. Gu laughed, and said: "The sage speaks little about the righteousness, and countless sages have commented on it since ancient times, so there has never been a clear place for righteousness. You and I are traveling in the palm of the sage, and we only see a little bit of it. Today What the old man said is just the words of the family, you just listen to it, don't believe it completely, otherwise it will be the old man's crime."

After saying these words, he stretched out his hand, put it in front of Shen Yi, and said with a smile: "The essay that I asked you to write earlier, is it finished?"

Shen Yi took out a few white papers full of words from his arms, and handed them to Old Man Gu. The old man took Shen Yi's articles, found a gazebo in the yard, sat down, and began to carefully read the papers one by one.

The words of the three essays are not long, and it took only one stick of incense time for the old man to finish reading Shen Yi's article. After he finished reading, he first looked up at Shen Yi, and then said with a smile: "Some parts of the writing are a little bit sloppy. It’s immature, but there are some new ideas in the text, and some rare spirituality.”

The old gentleman looked Shen Yi up and down, and commented: "Although I haven't seen the policy theory you wrote, based on these three essays alone, even if you don't win the autumn this year, you will definitely win the autumn three years later. "

Because the township examination is in autumn, it is also called Qiuwei.

The examination in the spring of the next year will be called Chunwei.

This kind of rhetoric of "if you fail this subject, you must pass the next subject" is actually a very high evaluation. After all, Shen Yi is only 16 years old this year. If he can win the exam at the age of 19, he can also be said to be proud of his youth.

Shen Yi nodded respectfully, and said, "Thank you for your compliment, sir."

"The old man never praises others."

Holding Shen Yi's article with his hands behind his back, the little old man got up and said, "Go, go to the study with the old man, the old man will correct some mistakes for you, and then I will give you some policy questions."

Shen Yi nodded and followed behind the old man.

As the old man walked, he said, "Back then, Zhao Zhi was a bit spiritual in his writing, but it's a pity..."

Mr. Gu shook his head regretfully.

"It's a pity that after this kid became an official, his spirituality gradually lost, especially in the things he wrote in the past few years, there are only four words of gorgeous rhetoric, which have been completely reduced to vulgar things..."

(End of this chapter)