The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 495 Exam Questions
Facts have proved that there is no previous rule to bet on, and in the end, you can only bet on loneliness.

Sheng Yuan sat in the examination room, listening to the explanation of the examination questions by his old acquaintance Mr. Yin Chen of Shuntian Mansion, and sighed helplessly.

To say that the kindness of the academy is not in vain, after all, it has played a psychological comforting role.

Many of the classmates she knew walked into the examination room confidently.

All right, if you get frightened after entering the exam room, because the exam time is limited, everyone doesn't care about panic, but naturally completes the transition from self-confidence to immersive experience.

Thinking of this, Sheng Yuan couldn't help suspecting that this was the academy's strategy, maybe the academy called them to go there because of the strategic and tactical requirements.

"There are five questions in this exam. You must answer three questions. You can choose any of the five questions. The remaining two questions can be answered by those who are capable. There is no mandatory requirement... Those who answer more questions will not be awarded more points. , only a tie in ranking can be used as a selection criterion."

Sheng Yuan listened to this, and automatically translated it to the system: "That is to say, answer more questions if you have time. If you don't have enough time, it counts. There will be no points for answering more questions. It will only become the judging standard when the ranking is tied with others. Under the same conditions, answer more questions. The winner wins, and if everyone answers more questions, the better one wins."

[Sister Yuan, answer!Let's answer all! 】The system cheered Sheng Yuan up with its small fists.

"That's for sure!" Sheng Yuan also nodded firmly.

There are quite a few students who are as thoughtful as she is in the whole examination room, and even those who do not compete for rankings are prepared to answer as many questions as possible.

As the chief examiners, Yan Xuezheng and Fuyin Chen Wen breathed a sigh of relief seeing the unsurprising reactions of the students in the examination room.

They invigilate the exams, and they are most afraid of encountering troubles from candidates, but students are often the most prone to emotional fluctuations. As long as someone provokes or booes, someone will respond as if they are cooperating.

"The exam questions this time are also very different from the previous ones. Not only has the number of exam questions increased, but the format of the exam questions is also different." Ling Xuezheng made a foreshadowing, "As we all know, the children's exam is a qualification exam for the imperial examination, and it is the entry point for the imperial court to select talents. Because this exam reveals a new atmosphere, the officials of the Ministry of Rites believe that the evaluation of the college exam should follow the situation and change, and pay more attention to the ability of talents to govern the country, so the policy theory is stronger than the evaluation of poetry and prose."

"Wow!" The candidates understood what they heard.

It seems that the five questions this time are probably all policy theory, and there are no poems.

Realizing this, there were thousands of people in the examination room, some were happy and some were sad.

But the exclamation on the field didn't last too long, the moment the inspector's eyes appeared intensively on the examination room, the examination room... was quiet!

Sheng Yuan belongs to the least affected group of people.

Based on the principle that everything in the exam depends on making up, Sheng Yuan's mood is extremely stable.

Especially with the support of the direct ratio between the thickness of the skin and the state of mind, she is not afraid!

As long as the imagination can keep up, as long as it can be related to the words and sentences of the classics, the questions answered will not be too ugly!

Regarding this kind of experience, student Sheng Yuan is very confident!

"Examination questions will be released soon, students, get ready." As soon as Fu Yin Chen Wen said this, Sheng Yuan's casual eyes instantly became firm.

I saw her delicate ears instantly pricked up like radar, and turned slightly imperceptibly.

Sure enough, when the test questions were pasted on the question board, a question reader read aloud:

"Question [-]: When the barbarians attacked the city, you defended the city officials. The food was stored for ten days, but morale was low. The superior officials ordered the city to defend the city for more than a month. What did you do?"

"..." The tip of Sheng Yuan's pen trembled, resisting the urge to complain, and quickly wrote down the question.

After the first question is recorded, it is the second question.

"You are a county magistrate, and you camp by the sea. There are refugees in the front, and invaders in the back. The garrison is not enough, so how can you survive?"

"..." Sheng Yuan let out a breath, shaking his head and not stopping writing.

"The third question: Encouraging learning is an important task for officials. However, in your jurisdiction, social studies do not exist, and people's customs are dull. What do you do?"

"???" Sheng Yuan couldn't help suspecting that the reason for changing the exam questions this time might not be so complicated. It was entirely because the examiners were fed up with the candidates' fake answers and enough ignorant and arrogant words, so they bribed the superiors, Only then have these more down-to-earth questions.

However, these require the quality of government affairs that local officials have. Can these candidates who compete with the qualifications of the provincial examination really be able to control it? !
Sheng Yuan felt less confident.

If she had known this, she would have read more local files. She remembered that there were many such notes in the sea of ​​books sent by the emperor's cousin!

Of course, it is useless to regret now, they are all sitting in the examination room!
[Sister Yuan, what should I do? ] But the system was so anxious that it scratched its ears. It wanted to help her open the exam in disguise!

"Stop it!" Sheng Yuan hurriedly stopped it when he heard that it meant this.

"I don't know these things clearly, even if I open the book, it won't be of much use, but it will easily get you in. It's really not worth it! Why don't I make it up now!"

She calmed down the system a little, and hurriedly continued to record.

"Question [-]: You are the magistrate of the county. The county is poor and the land is poor, the people are struggling to do business, and the town is desolate. It is difficult to pay taxes in full. What do you do?"

"It's the county magistrate again." Sheng Yuan, who had roughly guessed the direction of the exam questions, had already entered the mood and began to think seriously.

"Question [-]: On the side of your government, the banditry has existed for a long time, and it is difficult for the government to go down to the wealthy gentry. They occupy the main roads and block the commercial roads. The people complain and everyone is in danger. Why?"

"Suppress bandits?!" Sheng Yuan's eyes lit up instantly!
Where her brother went to work, there were bandits who had been entrenched in the mountains for a long time. Speaking of which, her brother went to those bandits!It is said that the performance of suppressing bandits is quite impressive!
Wishing she could go to her brother and come to Shengyuan, where brothers and sisters suppress bandits, feel inspired.

If she could reunite with her brother, she would be able to write thousands of words of advice now!
The more Sheng Yuan thought about it, the more excited he was, and a picture of himself going to the meeting with two swords to take the leader of the bandit had already formed in his mind!

【Sister Yuan, why don’t you consider the method of subduing others without fighting? 】

The system feels that its own host has no potential to be a general or handsome talent at all, this is a reckless man who wields a knife and sticks to charge!

Sheng Yuan acted as if she didn't hear the complaints from the system, she couldn't go there anyway, she was just thinking about it, she was just having fun, why should she be serious!
Fortunately, it was time for the official exam. When the gong sounded, the audience was so quiet that only the sound of writing was heard.

……

"I heard that this time, there will be five grassroots governance questions in the test. I don't know if Sister Yuan can answer them well."

Sheng Xiangxun walked around from outside, then came back and whispered to his wife.

"If I had known this, I would have had the cheek to get close to my peers and show her how the place works."

Zheng Shi didn't pay attention to him at first, but Sheng Xiangxun was really good at chattering, she made his chattering ears almost buzzing, so she could only stare at him in the end: "The candidates are not only the sons of officials, but also the sons of common people and farmers. Could it be that they don't want to take the exam?"

(End of this chapter)