Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 643
As the monarch of a country, Zhao He has many state affairs to deal with, so it is naturally impossible to invigilate the exam in the hall for a day.He was only in place when Gongsheng saluted, and sat down when Gongsheng began to write articles, and then left after a while.

After leaving the main hall, when he summoned Qi Bokun to discuss the matter, he asked casually, "Qi Muyuan, who will be No.3 in the exam, is your grandson?"

Qi Bokun hurriedly lowered his head and replied, "It's the minister's unworthy grandson."

Zhao Wei nodded slightly, did not speak any more, and lowered his head to look at the materials Qi Bokun handed over.

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There is no limit to the number of words in the theory of the palace examination, but it is generally appropriate to write more than 2000 words for each article.Du Jinning wrote two policy theories in the morning, ate two cakes with broth, continued to write the last one, and checked the three articles carefully, and then corrected the three policy theories in the form of a pavilion copied onto the test paper.

It is also pitiful.Ancient scholars had to practice brush calligraphy from the beginning of their literacy, and no matter what level of master they were, they attached great importance to calligraphy.If the handwriting is poor, no matter how good your writing is, I will despise you first.At the beginning, Du Jinning's handwriting was not good, and his teacher and classmates often gave him extremely regretful eyes.

But all the way through the imperial examination, the only ones who can show their handwriting in front of the graders are the county examination and the palace examination.For the rest of the time, they only show a small face in front of the copyist, and ugly or beautiful handwriting has no effect on the test scores.

Thinking of this, Du Jinning was very grateful that the system of the scientific examination allowed her to have time to practice her characters well-at this time, she didn't know that she would take the test, but her pavilion style played a great role in helping her from Huiyuan was rescued from the edge of the cliff.

After carefully copying the three articles, before it was dark, Du Jinning thought for a while, then sat for a while, and when she saw that someone had handed in the test paper, she also got up and handed in the test paper.

Qi Muyuan handed in the paper right after him, and followed Du Jinning out of the hall.

The two walked out of the palace in silence, and Qi Muyuan asked, "What are you going to do tomorrow?"

After reading the book for so many years, I finally finished the exam now.Due to Du Jinning's diligence, he really wanted to know whether Du Jinning would continue reading as usual tomorrow, or in what form to relax.

Du Jinning touched his chin: "If I continue to read in the library of Taixue tomorrow, will others think it's weird?"

"Yes." Qi Muyuan said with certainty.

"..."

Du Jinning pouted helplessly: "I entered Taixue because I planned to finish reading the books in its library. Now there is still a shelf of books that I haven't finished sweeping. I won't be a student of Taixue in the future. I'm afraid won't let me in again."

Qi Muyuan was silent for a while, and asked, "Why don't I accompany you tomorrow?"

Du Jinning smiled immediately, and his smile was very beautiful.

She nodded and said, "Okay." Then she reassured Qi Muyuan, "Actually, there are many books in the library that I read in Lishui and the capital city of Gui Province. Those books don't need to be read, just delete them. Repeat in a bookshelf." There are a lot of books, and I guess there are only a dozen or so that I haven’t read. I read books very fast, and I estimate that I can clean up the bookshelf in three to five days.”

Qi Muyuan looked at her beautiful and lovely smile, his heart throbbed, and he really wanted to reach out and touch that pink cheek.

"Jin Ning..." He whispered.

"Huh?" Du Jinning turned his head and looked up at him.

Qi Muyuan looked at her, his throat slipped, but he didn't speak.

Sensing the charming atmosphere, Du Jinning's heart moved, lowered his eyes, and did not ask Qi Muyuan why he called her.

The two walked forward in silence, until after passing a street, Du Jinning saw Wang Fulai and Yao Shuqi watching from a distance in a carriage, and she said: "Then I'll go back. Tomorrow I will go directly to Taixue , you can find me in the library.”

Seeing the embarrassment that they knew each other well just now, Du Jinning still did not refuse him to accompany her, which seemed to acquiesce in his existence, Qi Muyuan was overjoyed.

He said: "Okay."

Du Jinning waved to him, and went straight to his carriage.

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With the training of Du Jinning's original three articles a day, Du Jinning asked them to write this kind of policy topic. Guan Jiaze and Xu Chengyuan wrote the policy topic very smoothly. After Du Jinning and Qi Muyuan handed in their papers, they also followed suit.

"How did you do in the exam?" Fang Shaohua and Xu Chengyuan, who are brother-in-law, asked him very concerned after they came out.

"The writing is not bad, thanks to Jin Ning." Xu Chengyuan said.

The man sitting next to him probably hadn't seen much of the world, he was trembling all the time when the emperor was around, Xu Chengyuan saw that his whole body was trembling, and he couldn't write with ink at all.Later, the emperor went out, but he couldn't seem to find the situation. He didn't finish writing the article until dark, and he was sweating profusely.

It's been ten years of hard work, and I've passed all the general examinations. If I fail in the palace examination, I'll be so regretful that I'll slam my head against the big pillar to death.

So Xu Chengyuan was really emotional.

Thinking about himself, without Du Jinning's influence, he couldn't change his mentality, and maybe he wouldn't be any better than that man just now.

There are three to 400 people in the palace examination, and it is impossible to send all the examination papers to the emperor for him to look at.Therefore, the officials of the Ministry of Rites still have to accept the scrolls, hold the scrolls, seal them, etc., and then distribute them to eight reviewers for reading in turn.

The marking officer will mark each test paper with five marks "○", "△", "\", "｜" and "×". The one with the most "○" is the best paper, and then all Among the volumes, the ten with the most ○ were selected and submitted to the emperor for review.

Perhaps because of the influence of Du Jinning and the youngsters, Zhao He was quite looking forward to Enke's test paper this time.As soon as the test papers came, he put down his business and began to review the test papers.

After seeing the first test paper, he couldn't help but praise: "What a beautiful word."

This style of pavilions, perhaps in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, was too overflowing, so people didn't think it was amazing. Instead, they criticized the word as too rigid and unspiritual.But in the Song Dynasty, who had never seen this kind of font before, when I saw such neat, well-proportioned, beautiful and generous characters when checking the papers, I couldn't help but be amazed.

The same is true for Zhao He at this time.

When the emperor spoke, Eunuch Wu, the chief eunuch standing next to him, always cheered him on.He stretched out his head to take a look, and praised in the same way: "Ah, it's really beautiful."

Zhao Yu began to read the article intently.

After reading the first policy question about agriculture, he couldn't help but burst into praise: "Well written, well written."

Although he has just become the emperor, the old emperor always asked them princes to read the articles in the palace examination.Because many people have been studying hard for decades, they are very proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics, but they are indifferent to state affairs.Therefore, when writing policy questions, there will always be more empty words and less facts.

But this article is different.Not only pointed out the current agricultural problems in the Song Dynasty, but also put forward three strategic viewpoints.Moreover, every point of view is well-founded, and it is aimed at the problems pointed out earlier. This is simply the guiding principle for the development of agriculture in the Song Dynasty. It was something that Zhao Fu recently thought about but could not solve. up.

"Who is this person?" He looked towards the place where the name was written, and saw three words written there in a very neat pavilion style: Du Jinning.

"It's him? It's him!" Zhao Wei said in surprise.

He immediately frowned.

Although eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics, as personal eunuchs, it is their duty to solve problems for the master.Eunuch Wu asked with concern: "Your Majesty, what's the matter? Is there something wrong?"

"This Du Jinning is only 15 years old, how can he write such a profound article? Could it be..." Zhao Yu didn't continue.

(End of this chapter)