It’s the ninth day of August and the weather is fine.
Feng Ziying stood calmly in front of the gate of Gongyuan, and the excitement in her heart slowly calmed down.
After all, this day has finally arrived, and everything needs to be performed in the next few days to see the true outline.
Lines of candidates held their breath in silence, waiting to be admitted after the inspection.
Candidates who are not from Northern Zhili Province have already returned to their hometowns.
People like Fu Zonglong, Wang Yingxiong and others had already set off to return to their hometowns even before the heavy rain in the capital. There was no way, the journey was too long and it would take more than a month. They had to return home early.
If they can pass the provincial examination, they will return to Qingtan Academy and study in Xiyuan as soon as possible.
If they fail the provincial examination, it's up to them. In principle, they can still go back to Qingtan Academy and continue to study hard for three years in an effort to pass the provincial examination.
Of course, there are also quite a few students who may not continue studying due to family, livelihood or other personal reasons. There are many such situations.
Like Fang Youdu, he was going back to Nanzhili to take the provincial examination. According to his original idea, if he failed the provincial examination, he might not have the chance to study again.
However, he participated in many academy activities in Qingtan Academy and gained a good reputation. The mountain chief and the dean of the Academy encouraged him to return to the academy to study for another three years even if he failed to pass the provincial examination. This made Fang Youdu very grateful.
Xu Qixun also returned to Nanzhili to take part in the provincial examination. He and Fang Youdu set out together.
Song Shixiang returned to Shaanxi, and Chen Qiyu, Zheng Chongjian, Sun Chuanting and others from Shanxi also left two days later than Song Shixiang.
In the entire Qingtan Academy, the West Garden side has not moved, and the East Garden side. Before August, there were only about ten people left. These were all from the state capitals in Beizhili, and they had to go to Shun.
Tianfu Gongyuan participated in the provincial examination.
The only person who was really familiar with Feng Ziying was Fan Jingwen, who was from Hejian Mansion.
Fan Jingwen stood beside Feng Ziying with his hands behind his back, "Ziying, are you nervous?"
"Brother Mengzhang, I can't compare with you, can you not be nervous? You have studied hard for eight years just for this experience. If you are going to fail, where will you put your face when you go back?" Feng Ziying laughed to herself.
He smiled and said, "My family wanted to send me off, but I firmly refused. I was afraid that the pressure would be too much and it would affect my exams."
Fan Jingwen was indeed not too nervous. He took the exam because his mother Ding You had lost his mother and could not take the exam, so he took the Qiuwei exam, otherwise he would have passed the exam long ago.
This subject does not put much pressure on him. Whether it is classics or current policy theory, he should be quite confident.
Of course, this autumn and spring are too random. Even if you have everything in mind, there are still many people who often fail the exam unexpectedly. This situation is not uncommon, so Fan Jingwen does not dare to say that he is sure to pass.
He is nineteen this year, not too young in Jiasheli. He has a deep foundation in classics and meanings, so he has a better grasp of Qiu Wei. However, he thinks he is much inferior to Feng Ziying in terms of current policies.
, so he was more worried about Chunwei.
Autumn period pays more attention to classics and meanings, while spring period focuses on policy theory.
This is an obvious trend after the increasing changes in the scientific examination system of the Great Zhou Dynasty after the 35th year of Yuanxi. Moreover, even in the autumn period, the weight of current policy theory has greatly increased, but it is not basically the same as in the spring period.
There is no big problem with classics and meanings, but the insights of current policy theory are all that matters.
"Ziying, your classics and meanings are indeed a bit poor, but you have to know that this is the Shuntian Prefecture Township Examination. I believe your problem is not big, but it may be difficult to get a good ranking." Fan Jingwen smiled.
"Brother Mengzhang, are you saying that Shuntian Mansion's provincial examination quota is the most generous?" Feng Ziying laughed.
This is the advantage of Shuntian Prefecture. Since the Imperial College is in the capital, there were originally only 120 rural examination places in Beizhili. However, after the 35th year of Yuanxi, the 30 independent places of the Imperial College were merged into Beizhili.
This suddenly made the rural examination in Beizhili a lot more relaxed.
Although nominally students from the Imperial College in various places can take the Beizhili Township Examination, strict attendance and roll call are required as a prerequisite for taking the Beizhili Township Examination.
Many Gongsheng students thought that in order to take advantage of this small advantage by referring to Beizhili, they would have to spend several years in the Imperial College, so basically no one was willing to take advantage of this "small advantage".
This is equivalent to adding 30 places to Beizhili. In addition to the five additional places in the autumn of the first year of Yonglong, the number of Chinese-style rural examination places in Beizhili increased to 155. The harmonious academic style flourished in South Zhili.
Compared with the official students, there is only a difference of five, so the pressure of passing the exam here is much less.
"It's not just that." Fan Jingwen smiled slightly and shook his head: "This is Shuntian Mansion, at the feet of the emperor, at the root of the imperial city, and the presidents are directly dispatched by the Ministry of Rites, so when it comes to choosing topics, Brother Yu will definitely be more inclined to current affairs.
It is more suitable for you to perform. Brother Yu thinks you can use your strengths and avoid your weaknesses to make up for your shortcomings in scriptures and meanings."
"Oh?" Feng Ziying's heart moved. He didn't expect that the reference in Shuntian Mansion would have such an advantage over him.
"This may not be the case in other provinces. Well, this is also Brother Yu's intuition." Fan Jingwen smiled slightly.
Shuntian Prefecture Gongyuan is one of the largest tribute academies in the country. It not only undertakes the Beizhili Autumn Ceremony Competition for each subject, but also holds the National Spring Ceremony Competition here next year.
In terms of conditions, the environment here is difficult to compare with the Gongyuan in Nanzhili, but the level of sanctity has long left the Nanzhili place behind.
There are more than 4,500 people. This is the number of people who took the test in Qiuwei, Beizhili, Jinke, and there are only 155 places. So you can naturally calculate the chances of your own Chinese style.
Of course, for the students of Qingtan Academy, they are more confident. Whether it is the foundation of classics or current policies, they are far better than other ordinary academies and private academies.
A total of 19 students from Qingtan Academy in Beizhili participated in this round of autumn, including Fan Jingwen and Feng Ziying.
Compared with the eight-part essay system of the previous Ming Dynasty, the Great Zhou Dynasty has experienced gradual changes in the past ninety years, especially the changes after the 32nd year of Yuanxi. Both the autumn and spring periods have undergone relatively large changes.
First of all, it has changed from three rounds to two rounds, and the classics and meanings have been compressed into the first round. Although regulations also have strict requirements, they are no longer as strict and harsh as before, and the importance of policy theory has gradually increased.
This is also Feng Ziying's greatest confidence, otherwise he really would not have the confidence to compete with these classmates who have been studying the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood.
When the first round of the classics and meaning exam ended, Feng Ziying felt a little bitter.
Although he realized that this was his shortcoming and felt that he performed well, when he compared it with other students, especially after discussing with Fan Jingwen, he realized how far behind he was in this aspect.
Fan Jingwen doesn't care very much. Everyone knows that Feng Ziying has a shallow understanding of the classics. To be honest, Zhou Chaozong's targeted tutoring for him for more than a year has improved him a lot. Of course, you have to talk to Qingtan Academy
There is definitely a gap between other students in terms of classics and meanings, but compared with students from other academies, you may not be much inferior.
So when the second round of political theory examination questions came out, Fan Jingwen looked at it and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this was to send Feng Ziying to pass the exam.
The test question was very simple, "A brief discussion of the government's response to the post-disaster disaster in the North."
What the hell is the difference between this and blatant cheating?
Although Feng Ziying and others sent a piece of "Epidemic Prevention Preparation", the participants knew that it actually covered many prevention matters after the flood, and more importantly, these students participated in the entire disaster relief process, not only
Qingtan Academy, Chongzheng Academy, Tonghui Academy and Diecui Academy also participated, but if you want to write, you need to write from conception, planning and practical operation. This is a truly good article, but this is exactly what happened before
What a group of people did.
It can be said that when this question came up, none of the four major academies complained. After all, the capital city suffered this disaster just a month ago, and everyone participated. Only the Imperial College and the others were the ones who suffered the most, but they themselves
They have no sense of existence, so they are naturally ignored.
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Yulin Town.
Feng Tang has been standing on the top of the city wall for an hour.
like a statue.
He knew that today was the day of the Autumn Palace Competition. His son started studying at the age of six, and now, eight years later, especially after he went to Qingtan Academy in the past two years, the changes were obvious to all.
But in the final analysis, no matter how big the change is, it still depends on whether we can survive this autumn.
This is also related to the future of the Feng family. The two years I have been living here seem to be insignificant at this moment. As long as Brother Keng can pass Qiuwei, everything there will be worth it.
A soldier under the city wall quickly entered along the urn, and then walked up the wall from the side.
"Report!"
"speak."
"Xu Yongxing Fort's guard was attacked by Tatars while hunting, and his current whereabouts are unknown."
"Oh? This guy!" A smile flashed across Feng Tang's eyes, but his face was full of anger, "Order General You Shen to coordinate the attack of the Xin'an Border Fort town troops, so as to ensure safety and not fall into the enemy's trick of luring the enemy.
.”
"Here!"
"Order, the Yongxing Fort garrison must not act rashly. All operations must be done after General You Shen arrives."
"Here."
"Also, let the dragon prepare the team and prepare to attack."
"Here!"
Looking at the messengers who were walking down the wall, a sinister smile appeared on Feng Tang's lips. You Shigong really could endure it, having delayed it for so long.
This cancer should have been eliminated long ago.
When he was attacked by the Tatars, I don’t know what means You Shigong used to lure Xu Jianzhong out of Yongxing Fort and kill him in one fell swoop.
These methods are worth revealing, and I finally chose the wrong person.
Thinking of this, Feng Tang felt more and more that his son was his lucky star. If he had not met the three You brothers, he would have been able to gain a foothold in Yulin Town, but he would not have been so fast and efficient.
After solving the unstable chess piece behind Xu Jianzhong, the entire Yulin Town is basically under his control, and some plans can be implemented.
This chapter has been completed!