When entering by name, your entire body will be searched. This is to prevent cheating.
Fortunately, the county examination inspection was not very strict. The searchers only asked Su Yizhao to take off his outer jacket and expose his inner clothes.
It’s over.
Su Yizhao asked Su Wenqing, that is, during the provincial examination and the general examination, the inspection is a bit more stringent than the child examination, but you will not be allowed to stand there naked.
Scholars have a good reputation, but this is an insult to elegance.
These are all disciples of the emperor, and they will become government officials in the future. Yamen servants are of low status, so how can they dare to offend them?
It was because Su Yizhao understood this that he thought about becoming an official through the imperial examination, otherwise he would not be able to pass the body search.
After entering the examination room, there were so many pairs of eyes staring at me. Even if I brought the cheat sheets in, I might not have a chance to copy them.
But before that, she was still a little nervous.
After being called to enter, Su Yizhao saw the examination booth inside.
A brick wall is divided into small rooms, and each room has no door. There is a wooden board at the front, about three feet six inches long and two feet four inches wide. This is the chopping board for candidates to write on.
Each dormitory is very small, with just enough room to turn around.
The rows of examination booths look like a long queue when you look at them, which is a bit shocking in your eyes.
Beiyuan Mansion is a high-class mansion. Although it is not as wealthy as Jiangnan, it is not bad, as you can see from the examination shed.
I heard that some prefectures and counties are very poor, and the county government examination sheds are very crude. Some candidates have to bring their own benches. Where are the dormitories? It would be nice to have a temporary shed above.
What I fear most is rain. When it rains, the shed starts to leak.
Candidates sitting by the booth have to move their seats and squeeze forward.
However, poor counties also have relatively few candidates, and it is not surprising to have thirty or forty students in one session.
Su Yizhao looked up and saw that the examiner in charge of the examination this time was the prefect, named Liao Haitu.
This man is past his forties, has a broad face, big ears, fair complexion, and prides himself on official authority.
After observing the prefect, the next step was to sing the defense. When Su Yizhao heard Master Li's name, he took a step forward.
Upon seeing this, Master Li nodded, confirming that he was a guaranteed candidate.
Magistrate Liao glanced at the young man in front of him. It was his first time meeting Su Yizhao. He had to say, "Longzhangfengzi, at least his appearance and demeanor are one of a kind."
He smiled slightly at Su Yizhao, his expression was very gentle.
Su Yizhao bowed towards him and saluted, then he felt puzzled.
Why does the prefect seem to be so kind to her? Is it because she won the literary fight with Meng Lingxi?
Putting her doubts aside for the time being, Su Yizhao took her paper, glanced at her seat number, and then a guard came forward to lead her to her dormitory.
The scene just now fell into the eyes of everyone, and everyone couldn't help but have different expressions, and they were all guessing.
Su Yizhao's name has been well known in Fucheng these days.
Now that I am here, everyone can't help but turn their attention to that young man again.
If we couldn't talk to each other here, I'm afraid this place would become a noisy market.
The candidates who had previously doubted Su Yizhao's top spot in the academy were all speechless after the competition between Su Yizhao and Meng Lingxi.
However, as the chants continued to sound, Su Yijue and Su Yiliang were both descendants of the Su family, and they also attracted everyone's attention.
They were thinking about how these two talents would learn. After all, the number of places was limited. If they could have one less opponent, they would have one more opportunity.
After Su Yizhao arrived at the dormitory, he glanced at the steamed buns divided into three pieces in the examination basket and quickly took them out.
Steamed buns can also be carried, so they need to be cut open and inspected during inspection.
At this moment, a hint of fish belly white appeared on the horizon, and it was almost dawn, and everyone just sat down at this moment.
The county examination was divided into five sessions, each taking one day. Su Yizhao immediately polished his ink and then filled in his admission ticket number.
Next, the yamen officers used sign lights to patrol the venue, and there were examination question boards on display. Su Yizhao memorized the questions carefully, and then quickly copied them down.
Candidates are not allowed to write answers outside the sealed line, otherwise they will be given zero points.
Su Yizhao picked up two pieces of plain paper, which were used for drafting, because no corrections or typos were allowed on the paper.
Today is the main exam, and the tests are all about scriptures, essays on the Four Books, poems, etc.
The admission requirements for the first round are very broad. As long as you are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, it should not be a problem.
In the previous dynasty, the imperial examination already had the prototype of the eight-legged essay, and it even had an intensifying trend.
Until now, many students have long been accustomed to answering questions in this form, and the questions they ask are becoming more and more tricky.
Su Yizhao took a look at the questions. There were scripture questions in front of them, which were simply points.
What is "Tie Sutra"? It is the kind of fill-in-the-blank questions in previous life exams, all chosen from the four books.
As long as you read the four books carefully, you will never forget them.
Especially in ancient times, there were only so many books to read over and over again, and many students had studied hard for more than ten years. If they didn't know how to do it, it means they didn't work hard on weekdays.
Su Yizhao did a visual inspection and found that there were about twenty questions, but there were not many words to fill in.
This should be a continuation of the county examination model before the Wu Dynasty. However, during the Wu Dynasty, the content of the imperial examination had changed.
Look below, there are four books and one essay.
It is to select a paragraph from four books, then cut off the beginning and end, and only take a few words to let you solve the problem and then solve the problem.
I heard that the general questions are so mysterious that they make people want to break their heads.
Su Yizhao looked at the title and was stunned.
"Jun Ziping?"
Although Su Yizhao was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and could almost recite them by heart, he was also dizzy by this topic.
She closed her eyes slightly and carefully recalled all the passages about gentlemen in the four books.
After a while, she thought silently in her heart: A gentleman will guard himself, cultivate his body, and the world will be at peace.
This is a sentence from "Mencius·Jinxinzhang". If Su Yizhao hadn't greatly improved his memory after his rebirth, his recollection would be like walking around and extracting the content he was looking for in the memory palace.
Find it soon.
Knowing where it came from, Su Yizhao took the lead in writing the broken question on the scratch paper, planning to solve the problem in detail later.
Looking at the end, there is a test poem in five characters and eight rhymes, titled "A tree has a hundred harvests".
Su Yizhao was a little surprised. This was not a question in the Four Books.
She had read a lot of books before, and it was from "Guan Zi Quan Xiu". This paragraph read: A one-year plan is better than planting a valley; a ten-year plan is better than trees; a lifelong plan is better than planting people.
I didn’t expect to get this book in the exam, but it is quite famous, so I don’t know how many people have read it.
Su Yizhao was secretly glad that he had studied extensively and did not stick to the Four Books and Five Classics.
Only when you know the source and understand the thoughts you want to express can you compose poetry.
It is very important to focus on the topic of the poem in the test post. If it misses the topic, it will not be regarded as a mistake no matter how colorful your writing is.
On the contrary, as long as the topic is correct, even if your poetry is not very good, you can still pass it.