Laughing and proud rise again

Zhang Yu sat down, and an official handed out a stack of test papers. Zhang Yu checked that there were about ten papers.These ten sheets are all postscripts.

There are three exams for the scholar examination, the first of which is posting scriptures.

The so-called posting of the scriptures means that the examiner selects a page from the scriptures and prints a line of it on the test paper.

According to this line of text, candidates should fill in the context associated with it.

To put it bluntly, it was the fill-in-the-blank and dictation questions in Zhang Yu's previous life exam.

Of course, it is not that simple to be a scholar in the examination of candidates. You must know the Four Books and Five Classics, plus the annotations of all the great Confucian scholars in the past dynasties, it adds up to a lot.

But compared to the three exams, this is simple.

Just read carefully and be familiar with the scriptures.Basically, you can pass the first round.

But there are also failures, because there are ten test papers, and these test papers together have tens of thousands of words. Not only must they answer the tens of thousands of words, but they must also be good at every word.

This is not an easy task. There is no opportunity to modify the brush calligraphy. If there are typos, you can draw a circle and write orthographic characters on the side, but in this way, the evaluation will naturally be low.

Especially this kind of exam is related to the fate and future of life, so many people feel nervous, and when they get nervous, they will fail.

Although Zhang Yu was nervous, he was different from other candidates.

One is that he really doesn't care much about this exam, and the other is that the knowledge and calligraphy of the body he inherited is really good.

Zhang Yu finished writing a page, rubbed the ink once, and then wrote another page, and put each page on the table, waiting for it to dry by itself, so as to prevent the wet ink from stacking and staining the test paper.

Soon Zhang Yu finished writing ten examination papers.This test is over.

After the examination of the pasted scriptures, the next step is to test the meaning of Mo Yi. The so-called Mo Yi is a simple question and answer around the meaning and annotations of the scriptures.

That is to ask a question, you have to recite the corresponding paragraph and write it down.This test of memory is even more obvious.

For the first day, it was difficult.Who knows where to test the Four Books and Five Classics, and memorize all of them verbatim, which requires real skill.

The so-called entrainment is actually entraining this scripture.

But in Zhang Yu's view, this is not difficult, Zhang Yu can only lament that the knowledge of the body he inherited is indeed very powerful.

However, Mo Yi's word count is much smaller than that of posting scriptures, because the number of words is less, but it is only about [-] words, which is much easier for Zhang Yu.

So Zhang Yu finished writing the middle volume in one go, and it was not evening yet.

After writing, the sky turned dark.Zhang Yu lit the candles, opened the food box and ate something, then lay on the bed and took a rest.

The third test is the most difficult, this test is the classics

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The so-called scriptures and meanings are discussions around the meaning of the book, which is to judge the level based on the core interpretation of the scriptures.

Naturally, citing classics is indispensable. There are three questions in this round, that is, three volumes.

Zhang Yu opened the first question, and saw it said: "Dare to be the first in the world."

This is the question, and the candidate is asked to use this sentence to quote the classics to explain the meaning of this sentence.

This year's question is strange. This sentence is originally from a sentence in Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching".

The original sentence is: "I have three treasures, keep and protect them. The first is compassion, the second is frugality, and the third is not daring to be the first in the world."

Speaking of it, it has nothing to do with the Four Books and Five Classics.

In fact, Zhang Yu did not understand the attitude towards Taoism in the Ming Dynasty at this time. It was the Jiajing period at this time, and Emperor Jiajing advocated Taoism and liked to talk about it.

As the saying goes, what is good at the top will be worse at the bottom.Therefore, the officials during the Jiajing period were also good at talking about it.

But this time the exam is not easy, this time the Shaanxi local exam is a reformist official.

He came up with this question, ostensibly to curry favor with Emperor Jiajing, but in essence he wanted to use it to select a reserve force for the reformists.

But Zhang Yu didn't know the official secrets. He looked at the topic and thought for a while.

Picking up a pen, he wrote: "The victor of the Qin Dynasty dares to be the first in the world. The six kingdoms of the past,,,,,,"

Zhang Yu stopped writing, and just like that, Zhang Yu finished answering the first question.He used "Six Kingdoms" to prove his article.

Zhang Yu also finished writing the next two questions in a bumpy manner. After finishing writing, Zhang Yu read it carefully again.

The check this time is not to see if the questions are answered correctly, but to see if there are any taboo words in it. It would be a pity if you fail the ranking because of taboos.

After reading it carefully, Zhang Yu didn't find any taboo words, so he handed in the paper.

"Don't need to think about it?" the examiner asked Zhang Yu.

"Thank you for your love, sir, the students have been checked."

"In that case, then you go out."

"Student resigns" Zhang Yu turned around and left the examination room.

"Master, how did you do in the exam?" After leaving the exam room, Zhang Gui saw Zhang Yu open his mouth and asked about it.

"It's okay, let's go back first," Zhang Yu replied casually.The two walked towards the inn.

Not to mention that Zhang Yu left the examination room, but also after the examiner took the paper from Zhang Yu.Then he became interested in Zhang Yu.

"Let's see how this kid's essay is, he is so confident." The examiner thought about it, then opened Zhang Yu's paper and began to study it carefully.

"Okay, okay!" The examiner couldn't help shouting when he saw Zhang Yu wrote: "If you want to strengthen the country, you must be the first in the world."

"It's just that the literary talent is a bit lacking." The examiner couldn't help shaking his head and said to himself.

"Master Zhang, if you have a good article, how can you enjoy it alone, why don't you let us all read it together." A proctor next to him obviously heard the applause from the adult.

"Since Master Li said so, let's all take a look."

Master Zhang passed Zhang Yu's examination paper to the other invigilators, and the other invigilators also looked at Zhang Yu's paper one after another, and soon Zhang Yu's examination paper was circulated.

"What do you guys think?" Mr. Zhang asked the invigilators.

"Master Zhang, in my opinion, it is not advisable for this person's essay to deviate from the sage's general idea." At this time, another invigilator said something like this,

"Oh, Mr. Zhao, why is it not advisable?"

"This person is talking nonsense, tampering with the meaning of the saint. Of course it is not advisable." Mr. Zhao said.

"Oh, I think what this student said is right. The fact that Qin State was able to unify the six countries is because it dared to be the first in the world. Why does Mr. Zhao still think that Qin State did something wrong?"

These words are skillful.After hundreds of years, the reform of the Qin State has already been concluded, but Mr. Zhao has no ability to refute it.

"Zhang Juzheng, how dare you deviate from the righteousness of a saint so much, you..."

"How about me? It's a joke. I'm the examiner, so I'll take this person as Jie Yuan." Zhang Juzheng made a final decision.

"No, Mr. Zhang, this person is indeed good at learning, but from the perspective of the lower officials, this person's literary talent is a little bit poor. It would be a little unfair to other students if he is named as the first name. I don't think so, let's choose No.3." The previous Master Li came out to smooth things over.

It is true that Zhang Yu's literary talent is not good, this is an indisputable fact, Zhang Juzheng can't say anything more.

He had no choice but to nod and said, "Then according to Master Li's words, let's make it the third."

At this moment, Zhang Yu didn't know that he had been designated as the third, and he was worried.

After the exam is over, you must go home.Although both the parents of this body passed away, there are many relatives.Zhang Yu really didn't know how to face it.

Zhang Yu hurriedly finished his meal and went to rest early, and Zhang Gui also went to rest after serving Zhang Yu.

Before Zhang Yu got up the next day, there was a burst of firecrackers at the door of the inn.

Then I heard someone shouting downstairs: "Who is Zhang Yu, Mr. Zhang No.3 in high school."

"Master, you have won, you have won No.3." Zhang Gui, who was serving Zhang Yu, was very excited.

"Okay, isn't it just Juren. You go down first and reward those gentlemen who have announced the good news."

"Hey, I'll go right away." Zhang Gui left Zhang Yu and went downstairs.

The big brothers have worked hard, and the money is used to eat and drink. "Zhang Gui ran straight to the gentleman.

Several tolerances looked at the money in their hands and said with a smile on their faces: "Don't bother me, Mr. Zhang, the younger ones go first."