Several academic officials kept making things more difficult for Hou Yao.
All the students watching felt anxious in their hearts. These old guys are really bad.
This is to bring Hou Yao to death.
Yao Yingzhe broke into a cold sweat when he heard the discussion among these old guys. According to their discussion method, wouldn't the difficulty of Hou Yao's poetry writing increase exponentially?
Several academic officials discussed for a while and finally reported the plan to the prefect.
When the prefect heard the plan, he felt a little sad for Hou Yao. These old guys were really bad.
"Hou Yao, listen carefully. Now I ask you to write a poem. It should contain a poem of five characters and seven characters.
The title is "Encouragement to Study", but no words such as "book" or "study" should appear in the poem. I will give you a moment to burn incense.
If you cannot write it down, I will expel you from your title and disqualify you from this reference."
As soon as the prefect came out with this plan, all the students were in an uproar. How could this be writing poetry? This was obviously life-threatening.
Let alone a stick of incense, even if it takes one year, ten years, or one hundred years, it may not be possible to write it down.
When everyone looked at Hou Yao again, they couldn't help but feel a little sympathy. It seemed that he was doomed today.
Hou Yao nodded indifferently:
"Okay, let the students write whatever the adults say. I'll think about it later."
After saying that, he really lowered his head and started to think deeply.
Fortunately, I memorized enough poems in my previous life, otherwise I might not have been able to find suitable poems.
After pondering for a few dozen seconds, Hou Yao found a suitable poem to deal with:
"Okay, sir, I have thought about it. Can I start writing now?"
As soon as these words came out, the crowd around him suddenly exclaimed. Everyone thought that Hou Yao would definitely speak out when the time was almost up.
But no one expected that he would think about it before even having a cup of tea. This was too fast.
The waiter sent by the store to get pen and paper hasn't come back yet.
The prefect looked at the academicians and then back at Hou Yao,
I was supposed to ask Hou Yao to write it out, but I haven't brought the pen and paper yet, so I had to say:
"The pen and paper haven't arrived yet, so please chant and listen first."
Hou Yao nodded and said:
"Sir, the students made a 'Today's Song' to encourage students to study."
As he spoke, he cleared his throat, and then chanted slowly and loudly:
"Today again, today is so little.
If I don’t do it today, when will this happen?
It is a pity that today is not the day of a hundred years in life.
If Yangu waits for the arrival of the Ming Dynasty, there will be matters in the Ming Dynasty again.
I will compose today’s poem for you, please start working hard from today.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yao Yingzhe suddenly burst out:
"good--."
He was really sweating because of Hou Yao just now, but he didn't expect Hou Yao to slap his face so hard.
"Please start working hard today. A boring farce has indeed delayed our hard work for a day. It's a pity."
Yao Yingzhe's words undoubtedly scolded everyone present, but what could he do if he scolded these people in his capacity?
It was these people who were causing trouble over nothing, and they innocently involved the two of them.
The prefect also looked embarrassed:
"Good..., it is indeed a good poem..."
Before he finished speaking, Hou Yao said again:
"Your Majesty, I will give you another song of "tomorrow". Tomorrow comes tomorrow, there are so many tomorrows!
Waiting for tomorrow every day will make everything go to waste.
Everyone in the world is tired of tomorrow, and tomorrow will be endless.
The rolling water flows eastward at dawn and dusk, and the sun slowly falls to the west now and in ancient times.
How many tomorrows can there be in a hundred years? Please listen to my song of tomorrow."
Everyone was stunned, and the whole place was silent. If anyone dares to say that the bamboo stone belongs to Huizhou Talents copied by Hou Yao, he will definitely be drowned in the spit of others.
"Sir, can the student now prove his innocence?"
"Clean... clear."
"Is there anything else, student? Can you go if you are fine? You haven't finished your meal just now and you are hungry."
"But...it's okay."
"Students resign..."
After Hou Yao turned around, the wall of people behind him automatically opened a path, and he walked out without looking back.
Yao Yingzhe also left closely behind him.
…
‘Today’s Song’ and ‘Tomorrow’s Song’ spread throughout the streets and alleys of Guangzhou overnight.
Hou Yao's reputation also spread throughout Guangzhou.
Some people have called him the most talented person in Guangdong, but some people are not convinced, saying that he can only write poetry.
The reason is that Hou Yao barely passed the college examination, and the main test in the college examination was classics and meaning.
This is enough to prove that Hou Yao’s level of classics and meaning is not good enough.
Daxia's Confucian Classics and Meanings Examination tests broad knowledge. The main Confucian classics include the Four Books and Five Classics.
In addition, more essays, nine-chapter sutras, etc. also need to be dabbled in,
If you can read the Four Books and Five Classics thoroughly, you can only barely pass the standard of classics and meanings. If you want to get better results, you must read more miscellaneous books.
Especially calculus and the like, the proportion is not small, and a large number of students will fail in this subject every time they take the scientific examination.
Classics and meaning are the subjects that are easiest to widen the gap. As for policy and theory, they are both very operable.
As for poetry, it depends on talent and luck.
No matter how people outside view Hou Yao, Qiu Wei has officially begun...
…
Hou Yao's fame spread, and in a sky-high room in Shangshu Yayuan,
Ming Hongbo's fists were clenched so hard that he already knew Hou Yao's identity:
"Hou Yao, huh, do you think I can't deal with you if you don't tell me your identity?
Now that you've exposed yourself, you can't blame me.
I'm afraid you never dreamed that I am also one of the examiners of this provincial examination.
Who is the most talented person in Guangdong? Huh, if you want to win the exam, you can live in the next life."
…
On the eighth day of August, the provincial examination officially begins.
Starting at Yinshi, thousands of candidates were waiting at the gate of Gongyuan to enter. It took a whole morning just to enter.
The exam is divided into three sessions, and the first session lasts for three consecutive days. During this period, all food, drink, and urination must be done in a room in the examination room.
Hou Yao was also shocked by the harsh environment in the dormitory. He originally thought that the examination room for the college examination was disgusting enough, but he did not expect that the provincial examination would be even more terrifying.
In a space of less than two square meters, you can eat, drink, and eat for three days, and the environment can be imagined.
The first poetry test consists of eight ancient poetry appreciation questions, each of which requires more than 200 words.
Finally, you need to write a poem or lyrics according to the regulations. There is no requirement for the meter, but the subject matter and content are.
For Hou Yao, this is a scoring question.
The second session is about the meaning of the classics, which is mainly about the interpretation of the content in the Four Books and the Five Classics and filling in the blanks silently. In addition, there are a few applied arithmetic similar to a chicken and a rabbit in the same cage.
The finale is a sixteen-square arithmetic problem. Fill in the sixteen-square grid from one to sixteen respectively, so that the sum of the horizontal and vertical numbers is equal to thirty-four.
These are elementary school-level arithmetic problems, which are incredibly simple for Hou Yao.
In the third session, policy and theory are tested together. Policy and theory are two different styles. Policy is to give a solution to a specific incident.
An argument is an exposition of one's own views based on a national policy.
The most difficult of the five topics this time is the one recently announced by the imperial court: its views on the policy of reopening mutual markets in the north.
Hou Yao watched so many discussions in his previous life, and it was no different from giving away points.
In fact, what this question focuses on is not your opinion on the policy itself. This is not important.
It is important to take this decision maker to a new level,
Of course, this is a piece of cake for Hou Yao.
The most difficult of the three questions is the last one:
If a sea king attacks the coast of Guangdong, how should the local government respond?
This is a real difficult problem. Even those in power cannot answer the question. It is indeed too difficult for people to become a provincial examination question.
When Hou Yao saw this question, he also felt it was quite difficult.
Fortunately, together with Yao Yingzhe, we can not only play as simple as playing, but also collect a lot of intelligence.
We also have a clearer understanding of the current situation in the world.
This is information that is difficult to obtain based on his current strength.
Fortunately, he had this information, otherwise, he might not have been able to write this policy question.
All four sea kings are called sea kings. Behind each family, they control the power of at least one country.
For example, King Jokai is headquartered in Kyushu Island, Japan, and has a close relationship with the Shimadzu family.
The reason why the Shimadzu family was able to dominate Kyushu was because of the support of King Jokai, who controlled one-third of Japan's maritime trade.
King Zhenhai secretly controls the Ryukyu Kingdom, and he controls the country's taxation and maritime trade.
King Feng Hai controls at least half of the Korean kingdom's maritime trade business on Jeju Island.
The Pokai King occupies Taketomi Island and surrounding islands, and controls the trade between Luzon and Daxia.
Each of them dominates one side and is as powerful as the Great Xia Navy.
If any family comes over, the Daxia navy may not be able to stop it.
No matter what happens, Guangdong cannot resist the next king's army alone.
Therefore, the difficulty of this policy question can be said to be quite high, and there is no perfect answer at all. How many points you can get depends entirely on the personal feeling of the chief judge.
…
More than half of the three days of the final round of exams have passed, and Hou Yao completed all the answers at Mao hour on the third day.
I endured the discomfort again and patiently reviewed and sorted out the exam papers I had written.
After feeling that there was no problem, I couldn't wait to escape from the examination room. It had just arrived at Chenshi.
He didn't want to stay in this damn examination room for a moment longer.
It really stinks in here, with all kinds of complex smells mixed together, which is even more unbearable than the simple smell of urine and feces in the cesspit.
When the person collecting the papers saw Hou Yao running away from the examination room so early as if running for his life, he thought he was a loser who gave up halfway like those candidates who couldn't hold on.
As a result, when he walked to his examination seat, he saw that the paper was densely packed with words, and he had finished writing. He immediately didn't dare to look at it anymore, and hurriedly called the transcription officer.
Candidates use ink pens to answer their papers, which are called "ink papers". They are sealed and numbered after they are handed in.
Personal information such as the candidate's name, place of origin, etc., will not be visible to anyone from the time the paper is submitted to the time the results are released.
In order to prevent candidates from making marks on the test papers or leaking their handwriting, after handing in the papers and before marking them, a dedicated transcriber will transcribe each paper with a red pen, which is called "Zhu Juan".
Then, a special person will check the examinee's "ink scroll" and the transcriber's "ink scroll" in detail. Only when there are no errors, the same examiner will mark the paper.
Normally, candidates submit papers after noon, and the latest handover time is xu.
It cannot be said that it is unprecedented to hand in papers before the hour, but it is not uncommon.
And usually the earlier the paper is handed in, the worse the result will be. All masters must make full use of their time to make themselves more comfortable.
The transcriber originally thought that what he copied would only be a rubbish test paper, but the more he copied it, the more frightened he became. He couldn't help but break the rules and check the name of the respondent.