Chen Yichen didn't know what the official in his mind was thinking at this moment. If he knew, he would probably say the famous saying from later generations.

"Sorry, you can really do whatever you want..."

Of course, this is just a little episode. Due to the rules of the exam, the official in the paper cannot communicate too much with Chen Yichen. After simply confirming his identity, he took away his test paper.

During the three nine-day exams, the locked gantry will not open no matter what, unless the capital is captured by the rioters.

So even if you hand in the paper, Chen Yichen could not leave, or even walk around loudly, and still had to stay in the account house honestly.

After all, there are other candidates who have not finished writing the papers, and their deadline can theoretically be delayed until the second exam will begin tomorrow morning.

So the only thing Chen Yichen could do was to go to the cottage accompanied by military officers, so he didn't have to worry about the black mark on the test paper.

On February 12, the second examination of the Yichou Department came as scheduled on February 12, 2018. This test was "Online", "Expression" and "Regulation".

"On" means an argumentative essay, which draws questions from the Four Books and Five Classics, but no longer requires answering in eight-part essays, and you can freely exert it.

"Edicts and Edicts" is a collective term for three official document formats. It can be simply understood as how to write official documents after becoming an official and imitate the words and deeds and writing styles of the superiors.

The word "judgment" is the simplest and clearest, which is the comments you issued after judging the documents submitted by your subordinates, which mainly tests the scholar's familiarity with the "Da Ming Law".

Just like the provincial examination, the second examination in the imperial examination was not highly valued, and he still paid more attention to the first Four Books, Five Classics, and Eight Essays. However, considering that he was almost 100% able to be assigned to an official, he could not write anything, right?

Therefore, as long as these questions can be written smoothly and there are no taboos, you can pass them smoothly.

February 15th is the last exam in the imperial examination, which is a "scheduling question". Each question starts with a question, and then gives the candidate a piece of material, answer the questions after reading or write down his own understanding.

This question is theoretically the simplest of the three exams, and it only plays the role of adding icing on the cake. A truly decisive question test requires waiting for the palace exam to set the questions in person in the face of the emperor.

Speaking of this third exam, we have to mention the "selling questions" case in Hongzhi's twelve years, which is the famous Tang Bohu fraud case.

The difficult and introverted test question at that time was in this irrelevant test. Tang Bohu and Xu Jing answered too perfectly, and the test question was finally found to be leaked.

Maybe this is fate. Even if Tang Bohu wrote it randomly at that time, he might have been selected as a Jinshi. However, the strategy theory was written too perfectly, and he was implicated in a fraud case.

Time and luck.

Not long after the "Cai Questioning" test paper was issued, Chen Yichen had already finished the answer and fell into a long-term boredom.

Not only Chen Yichen, but most other candidates are also like this.

Because the "examination-oriented education" criticized by later generations was not considered a matter of anything in the Ming Dynasty. Almost every literati pursued throughout his life was for the eight-legged essay in the imperial examination, and asked what it was.

Therefore, few of them are willing to write such irrelevant test questions seriously. When they are bad, Chen Yichen has a foundation in essays, and he will read the "Da Ming Law" for no reason. His questions are definitely above the passing line standard.

In order to pass the time, Chen Yichen could only work on food. The final stage of the test, and the dried fruits, dried meat and other dried foods brought basically had some odor.

The main reason is that there is a brazier, the temperature in the house is relatively high, and the continuous rain and humid spring is extremely fueled by the deterioration of food.

But there is nothing to do, there is only these things, and you will be hungry if you don’t eat them. So if you want to eat these slightly deteriorated ones, you can only suppress the odor in other ways, otherwise it will be really difficult to swallow.

The solution Chen Yichen thought of was "Barbie q (barbecue)"!

Put on the dried meat with bamboo sticks, then apply the remaining grease and place it on the brazier to slowly roast it. As the temperature gradually increases, the grease begins to crackle and a strong meat fragrance comes to your nose.

This is not the most critical point. Chen Yichen prepared salt and sprinkled it on it early, and with the blessing of charcoal fire, the whole house was filled with a food aroma, completely suppressing the odor.

You should know that at this stage of the examination, all the candidates are in a hungry state. When they smell this tempting fragrance, they start to curse in their hearts.

"Damn, who is tempting me again? Do you have a public morality?"

"After the exam, I will definitely report it to the academic administrator. Such actions have completely affected the fairness of the imperial examination!"

"It must be the bastard of 'Huohao' again. He also cooked the dishes in the house before!"

All kinds of low-key curses kept ringing everywhere in the examination room. I was still happy about this little bit of fun.

Even the aroma of barbecue attracted Qian Xili and Ma Yu, the chief examiner who was inspecting the examination room. When they found out that it was Chen Yichen's examination room, the expression on their faces was a bit wonderful.

"Mr. Qian, is Chen Yichen so unconventional? Is there still the mood to play with cooking skills in the scientific examination?"

Compared with Qian Xili, this was the first time Ma Yu saw Chen Yichen up close. He really didn't expect that Shuntian Jieyuan, the young student leader of the capital, would be like this, completely subverting his inherent impression.

Qian Xili couldn't say a word for a long time. Chen Yichen visited his mansion several times, and he was polite and kind, with a gentlemanly demeanor.

You should know that the ancients emphasized that a gentleman stayed away from the kitchen. Now Chen Yichen has a very large image contrast...

"Sir Ma, why don't we go over and take a look and see what Chen Yichence asked about it?"

Qian Xili sent an invitation, and he was quite curious at this moment. Since Chen Yichen let himself go like this, he must be very sure of the article. Since he has already inspected this account, it is better to see in advance how good it is.

"Just as Lord Qian said."

Ma Yu agreed happily, and he was extremely curious about the level of Chen Yichen. After all, the dispute over the leader of the Yichou exam was very fierce. Not only did the ministers in the court want to support their relatives and disciples to the throne.

Even Ma Yu himself planned to let his son first place in high school.

Because Ma Yu often felt numb in his hands and feet in the past two years, although medicine was underdeveloped in ancient times, he could always accumulate some experience in pathological causes, which is a precursor to stroke.

The disease of sudden stroke is a high-risk disease in modern times, and in ancient times it was either dead or disabled. So he had to hurry up and let his son Ma Zheng enter the officialdom in the Yichou examination where he served as the chief examiner. Otherwise, he would not know if it would be too late to wait for another three years.

The two walked to the front of the house like this. At this time, Chen Yichen was squatting in the corner, grilling jerky with a braised braised with a braised meat. He didn't notice that the two examiners were patrolling.

Ce Wen's test paper was placed on the table. Ma Yu just glanced at it and looked shocked on his face.

When I read the text first, I read the words, and Chen Yichen's test paper is like a "magic" style. He has seen a few people with this level in his tens of years, and they are all famous all over the world.

This scene reminded Ma Yu of the rumors about Chen Yichen in the capital, which was that his name had the charm of Chen Xueshi and Huaisu's muscles and bones. At present, what he said was not false!

Qian Xili saw the shocked expression on Ma Yu's face from the corner of his eyes, and couldn't help but smile. The Grand Secretary of the dynasty had never seen the world. Is it necessary to be so surprised?

But Qian Xili forgot that when Chen Yichen wrote in his mansion, the look of surprise that Chen Yichen showed was even more than that of Mah Yu now!

However, good writing does not mean that the article must be good. Ma Yu took Chen Yichen's test paper from the table and carefully read this "question".

To be honest, the impact brought by this question is far less than that of Chen Yichen's word that is the best for young scholars. It cannot be said that the writing is poor, but it can only be described as "mean" and a standard online article that passes the standard.

But then again, almost all candidates who can test the "Cai Question" are basically written casually. Even as the chief examiner, I will not carefully read the test papers of Ce Question when marking the papers. Chen Yichen is already very good.

"I don't know what this guy's eight-legged article is, but it aroused my curiosity."

After saying that, Ma Yu put the test paper back on the table.

Chen Yichen was originally concentrating on barbecue, but suddenly heard the sound of someone talking from behind, but he was shocked.

You should know that the examination requires absolute quietness. Whoever dares to make noise will be expelled from the examination room directly, just like the unlucky guys in the first exam. So Chen Yichen quickly turned around and found that it was Qian Xili and Ma Yu who came to their house.

"I don't know that the president is coming, so I'm very rude and I'm sorry for your crime."

The examiner of the examination also has a title of "president", so Chen Yichen also apologized according to this title.

"It's okay, we're in the inspection room, you can continue."

Qian Xili looked at the delicious taste of Chen Yichen's barbecue, and it was not easy to interrupt the other party's "elegant interest". Besides, the examiner inspector inspected the examination room and talked to the candidates, he still had to pay attention to the standards and boundaries. Once the rules were exceeded, he would be suspected of being favored.

"yes."

Chen Yichen bowed, but he didn't have the nerve to continue barbecuing, but sat down and pretended to answer the questions, with a slightly awkward expression.

Ma Yu and Qian Xili did not stay for a long time and instead went to other places to continue inspecting the examination room.

After walking around, he returned to Mingyuan Tower and Ma Yu said, "Mr. Qian, this provincial examination can be said to be a crouching tiger, hidden dragon, I wonder who do you think can win the championship?"

"Sir Ma, you're digging a hole for me, hahaha."

Qian Xili replied with a joke, cleverly avoiding this question and answered it.

Once you reach the level of the imperial examination, the ranking of the ranking can be regarded as a struggle between various forces in the North Korea and China in addition to knowledge.

Whether it is the chief examiner, the same examiner, or even the nominal boss, the chief tribute officer, there are acquaintances whom he likes and pays attention to. Now that he can tell the candidates in his heart early, he will be at a disadvantage and will easily be heard by people with ulterior motives as a handle.

"I am wronged."

Ma Yu also beat him up. He had no idea of ​​making any mistakes. He simply made a lot of money by asking, and he would not lose money if he couldn't ask.

He is worthy of being an old man who presided over the provincial examination and has nearly tenth sessions in the imperial examination. He is very nervous and he is obviously optimistic about knowing Chen Yichen and is still unwilling to let go.

"It's okay, Lord Ma is polite."

With the courtesy of the two, Zhengtong Ten-Year Yichou Examination arrived on the last day of February 16th.

In fact, to be precise, the examination was over on February 15th, but considering that it was impossible for students to hand over the papers and leave the tribute school in the early morning, it was postponed to the morning of the 16th that all the papers were collected.

It is still like the old process of the provincial examination. After the candidate handed over the paper, the candidate classified the paper according to the scriptures he was studying, and then sent it to the official seal of the candidate's personal information on the test paper, and closed the corner of the candidate's personal information on the test paper with a seal mark.

Then it will be sent to the copying officer and used a red pen to copy it, and the preliminary marking work will also begin.

Once during the transcription process, if you find that the candidates have not avoided the test papers, talk about the government affairs, the number of words does not meet the specifications, or even the papers are not neat enough, they will be directly knocked out and sent to the real marking officer.

Chen Yichen, on the other side, packed up his items and walked towards the gantry gate of the Gongyuan with great strides.

The sky is still dark and drizzling, but Chen Yichen's mood is different, and he feels a sense of ease after the college entrance examination in later generations. After all, as long as he passes the imperial examination, the palace examination will no longer involve the imperial examination, and his imperial examination career is almost over.

Next, he entered the official position according to his ranking and officially jumped from the literati class to the ruling class.

Many candidates at the Longmen were walking out one after another. When they saw Chen Yichen coming, many people bowed to him, with a very respectful expression.

Chen Yichen naturally bowed back the gifts, showing his modest attitude.

Just as Shen Yichen was about to leave, a man hurriedly ran to him and gasped and said, "Brother Chen, I'm catching up with you, I almost missed it again!"

The person who came was nothing but Xu Fengyuan.

That day, after helping him to set up a bridge and keep Ye Zong, Chen Yichen asked the miner Wang Neng to follow him for a few days and verified that he was indeed the son of a merchant. He had accumulated a large amount of goods in the warehouse in the capital and could not be sold.
To be continued...