As the candidates finished their breakfast, they washed the washbasin and porridge bowls themselves, poured the sewage into the drainage ditch at the entrance of the room, and the examination room quickly calmed down again, and all the candidates were involved in the intense work of the questions.

Such an arrangement seems to sacrifice hygiene slightly, and it is also to minimize disturbance to the candidates. If the bowl is given separately when dividing the porridge, the staff will have to collect the bowl again after eating, which is very troublesome and can easily interrupt the thinking.

On the last day's exam, Mingsuan and Mingfa subjects test their own professional courses A, while Virtuous and Zhiwei and Zhiwei subjects test their own professional courses B. Maocai subjects test their same mathematics and law as Mingsuan and Mingfa.

As for the filial piety and honesty who are the minimum living allowance, they no longer need to take the exam today, so they are all released in advance.

Such an examination arrangement seems to be of little use at the moment, but in fact it is also the result of Li Su's careful consideration of planning, in order to make the most secure "preventing questions from leaking questions".

Because Maocai had to take the professional course A of four other majors at the same time, Maocai took the professional course A of his two subjects, including Xianliang and Zhibing, and Mingfa took the professional course B of his own.

On the third day, Maocai and Mingfa took the professional courses A of those two subjects, including the virtuous and Zhibing, and then he could ensure that he would never miss the questions.

Of course, this year it is not useful, because everyone is locked up for three days and cannot be released. But who knows if someone will try to get out of the field and bribe the staff to send the completed questions with a code. If the time is used simultaneously, there will be an extra insurance.

After all, Dong Yun is still a young man and has no profound knowledge, so of course he cannot accompany Maocai to take the exam. He took Mingfa. As a second-generation official, his father Dong He certainly would not harm him, but helped him carefully design his career.

Dong He studied Li Su's policies and found that even if the peace era comes, Zhibing is no longer a necessary subject for "graduate-to-master", law and mathematics are always required to be taken. His son's mathematics is not very good, and young people have learned little. In addition, Dong Yun is a rigid person and has a rule in his work, so Dong He asked his son to get the law first.

He calculated clearly: as long as his son passed the Ming law exam, he would be an official for a few years in the future, as long as he had a good political record and had another math exam, he would be qualified to be a general official. Just like directly taking the official exam for Maocai, this is the most labor-saving approach.

Coincidentally, in another venue, the aristocratic families behind the group Yang Yi accompanied him were calculated to have similar ideas, but the specific paths they chose just complement each other:

There are a few of their family who are good at math, at least they are following the trend in their studies, and they feel that they have caught up with the trend of "math tutoring". They want to take advantage of the fact that mathematics education has just been rising for a few years and everyone's level is low, so they can sneak past mathematics first.

In this way, you can become a money and grain official first. Later, when you have a solid knowledge and then add the laws, you can also "each a junior college" and obtain the qualification of a general official.

It can be seen that everyone who wants to be an official is not stupid. They all know how to use the existing system to take the least subjects and get the qualification of a general administrator. In contrast, the popularity and value of subjects such as Xianliang and Zhibing that can be avoided have decreased.

Time flies very quickly, and it is soon evening. Dong Yun has finished answering the law questions of the day and packs his luggage and is ready to leave.

He felt very good about his exams, because at the end of the exam, there were several case questions mainly based on "Nine Chapters of the Laws" and supplemented by "Zhangwuke", which were very cleverly presented and actually designed some cases with obvious value conflicts.

Finally, the candidates are asked to give their own conviction and sentencing opinions based on the principle of "Spring and Autumn Prison Decision, Conviction of the Heart", and to discuss the reasons according to the "decision ratio" provided in the question.

This involves a lot of choices about the systematic value level of the Spring and Autumn Period. It is estimated that candidates who only focus on the law do not get it very well. However, because Dong Yun's tutoring was relatively meticulous, his study was not as utilitarian as other candidates who wanted to take the legal route when he was a child, and he should have a little more advantages.

In contrast, while Dong Yun was so energetic that he went out to take a shower and change his clothes, Yang Yi was still struggling in a corner.

Because today's math paper, the last two major questions were really eye-opening. Yang Yi wanted to give up several times, but he also realized that these two difficult questions may be the key to determining whether he can pass it.

The finale first quotes some basic principles of trigonometric functions in "The Sutra of the Perfection of the Perfection", and corresponds to some function values ​​in "Nine Chapters Collection of Notes", implying that students want to solve the problem from this perspective, people who want to solve the problem seem to be too difficult, and they all take the initiative to suggest the direction of the problem.

Then, a bunch of conditional data are listed on the surface: on the summer solstice, a shot is set outside Xiangyang City, with a pole three meters high, and the shadow is long at noon. On the vernal equinox, the same shot is long, and the shadow is long, and the shadow is long, and the winter solstice is how...

Then ask the candidates to ask: If the earth is set to 360 degrees, find out the angle between the position of Xiangyang and the equatorial plane of the center of the earth (that is, find out how many degrees north latitude, but there was no professional term for north latitude at that time)

After solving the first question, there is a more hellish difficulty later. The data from Kuaiji, Changsha and Panyu were listed for the same experiments (in fact, the data was reversely fabricated by Li Su), but only the data on the winter solstice and the vernal equinox were hidden, allowing candidates to determine which city was on the regression line.

Yang Yi almost grabbed a lot of his hair and spent it until the third day was dark. He asked to collect all the papers in the exam room, so he barely solved these math problems that were only equivalent to the level of the first and second grades of junior high school in later generations.

"It can be calculated. No matter whether it is right or not, the process reasoning is sufficient, and you should be able to win the imperial examination! The young master of Kuai Fujun will definitely not be able to solve this question!"

The head of the Yang family sent Yang Yi here this time, and half of the motivation was to try his luck. The other half also felt that he had been young and had mostly failed the exam, so he sold his favor to Kuai Liang. This subject gave the quota for Xiangyang County to Kuai Liang's son and Wang Lang's son-in-law.

When she left the venue, Yang Yi noticed that because she was too focused, she didn't stop eating lunch at noon. She also had two dried plums and vegetables in her pockets, so she ate the dried cakes while packing them home.

...

Two days after that, as usual, the time for judging and deciding the papers was tight.

While the examiners were busy, the candidates relaxed, and the rich were resting and relaxing in Xiangyang City, waiting for the results to come out.

Those who have no money can continue to live in the number room. The government will continue to open the venue for everyone to extend their accommodation and continue to supply two meals of porridge and dried vegetable cakes every day, which is to reduce the economic burden of poor candidates for taking the exam.

In theory, if the candidates fail the exam, they can still receive a pack of dry food from dry vegetables and cakes when they return home as food on the road. Many poor people who are accompanying the poor have praised the new emperor for his good governance and Li Sikong's virtuousness.

Not to mention, although the number room for the exam is restricted, it is also clean, giving people a sense of elegance. Many wealthy candidates still miss that atmosphere after the exam, just miss the atmosphere, not physical hardware.

As a result, the first batch of Qinlou Chuguan in Xiangyang City, which had a relatively fast reaction, immediately smelled the business opportunity and learned to arrange a room for rest and health after taking a bath, and then arranged projects such as knocking on the back and pinching the feet and pedicures. Some candidates from Yizhou still had special requirements and had their ears cleaned up.

Of course, Li Su didn't have to mark the papers in person, but considering that many of the people around him were not as good as him in math thinking and Zhuge Liang was not around, he still ordered the marking officers to check out all the math papers that made the finale problems for him to personally read.

On the fifth day of October, the paper was quickly approved, and those who had good grades and had final questions were sent to Li Su for a review. Li Su rarely worked overtime and looked at it carefully at night.

"Yang Yi... was actually the first place in the mathematics paper. Well, but the previous public courses in Jingyi did not do well. Fortunately, the mathematics scores were high, so I still got it. It seems that he has had a talent for mathematics since he was a child. No wonder Zhuge Liang had to rely on him in his money and food accounts in history.

This person has used it well, and the effect is even older than Sun Zi and Jia Kui. Hey? He is only sixteen years old? Is the problem of junior high school students so serious?"

Thinking of this, Li Su quickly flipped through some other papers, and even asked his staff to take all the candidate's resumes and recounted the age and other information of the candidates.

The staff had no idea what Li Su was thinking, so they had to do it. As the chief clerk, Deng Zhi asked instead of his colleagues: "Sikong, why is this? We didn't say before the exam that we could not select young or even young juren."

Li Su: "But you didn't realize that the proportion of young people at the age of 16 or 17 years old has passed the exam this year. Maybe more young people who failed the exam."

Everyone checked for a long time, but in the end they found that young people under the age of 20 actually accounted for more than half of the candidates!

Deng Zhi saw Li Su falling into deep thought, and he also thought about it for a while, and then said in a reasoning tone: "I probably know what's going on. People's bad deeds and evil deeds accumulate with age. Young people's moral conduct is not easy to have flaws.

Therefore, it is not easy to leave a handle by referring to them, and it is not easy to refuse the recommendation of the noble family to those who are in good faith. At the same time, young people are not studying for a long time, which makes it easy to give the impression that the aristocratic families are not well-educated. Choosing young people to take the exam around will not easily lead to the direct scholars they really want to be intercepted.

This should be a mistake. Sikong Please read, many counties with more young candidates are five people in each subject, one senior, and four are young! This is deliberately bullying young people to study less, but there are also young geniuses who break through."

Li Su: "Why didn't you notice it before? Although you didn't ask you to change it in the first year of this year, you also built files for people before the exam."

Deng Zhi was also helpless: "If you don't compare this kind of details deliberately, you won't be able to discover them."

Li Su was slightly stunned, and then realized what the problem was: the current candidates in the literature department built files, and they were all made into a piece of paper for each candidate's resume, which was folded and saved.
Chapter completed!