Before dawn the next day, the Confucian Temple next door to the county school suddenly became nervous. Hundreds of soldiers stood guard on several streets around the Confucian Temple and were not allowed to approach the Confucian Temple to disturb today's exam.

Today's county examination is a provision for the court to issue an examination reform. It is a formal imperial examination and is completely different from the previous examinations in various counties. It is called a county examination in name, but it is actually a state examination, but the location is in Tangyin County.

The examination process alone is very strict. First, the lock-up system is implemented. The questioner and the marker are both locked up in the Xiangzhou Gongyuan, and they are not allowed to have any contact with the outside.

Stereotype and printing were also closely monitored by military soldiers, and craftsmen were also under house arrest and would not be released until the exam began.

The test questions are sealed and the examiner is sent by the prefecture to take them to various counties in Xiangzhou. The sealed test papers must be opened during the exam.

Before dawn, more than 500 Tangyin County candidates gathered in the square outside the Confucian Temple, and dozens of large lanterns shone the square as if it were daylight.

They lined up in three long lines, each candidate received a roll call and searched behind him to enter the venue. The candidates were not allowed to bring any items, and they could not even carry pens. No matter what items were found, even if they were not cheating, they were recorded on the record, leaving a bad impression and would definitely fail the exam.

There were a total of ten invigilators today, three of whom came from the state government to serve as chief and deputy examiners. Three tables were placed in front of the gate, and behind each table was an official from the state government. They had a stern look and expressionless face.

Zhang Xian whispered to Li Yanqing: "The one in the middle is our chief examiner of Tangyin County, named Han Hongjun, who is currently the chief academic officer of Xiangzhou and the teacher of the prefecture school."

Li Yanqing knew that Han Hongjun was the official in the prefecture who went to Li Wencun to investigate his father's character. He is now a scholar in Xiangzhou.

"What about the one on the left?"

Li Yanqing saw that the state officials sitting behind the table on the left were very handsome, with a sharp top and bottom and wide middle, with a bare face, like a peeled egg, and such a face shape was rare.

Zhang Xianxiu said, "That's a doctorate in the state, and his name is a bit strange, and it is Wanqie."

Li Yanqing was stunned. This is Wan Qisheng, a famous treacherous minister in history. He actually studied as a doctor in Xiangzhou Prefecture, and he should have really brought Yue Fei to recognize him.

"Qin Liang, Tangbei Township!" someone shouted in front.

Qin Liang hurried forward, "Student is here!"

Li Yanqing also took his eyes back from Wanqie's body. The next one was himself. He looked at the group of old people on both sides. These were guaranteed juren. Each candidate must have a guaranteed juren, which guaranteed that it was his own exam. Of course, Li Yanqing was guaranteed by his master Yao Ding.

At this time, he finally saw the hunched back in the crowd, and his thin and thin master was as thin as a boy. Li Yanqing's nose was a little sour, and his master had been caring for him!

"Next, Li Yanqing, Xiaohe Township!"

"Students are here!"

Li Yanqing hurriedly walked forward, and the chief examiner Han Hongjun looked him up and down, and an examiner next to him shouted: "Guarantor Yao Ding!"

Yao Ding took a step forward, "I am Yao Ding, a juren in Yuanyou for the third year, and I can guarantee the candidate Li Yanqing. This person is the candidate himself."

The examiner shouted again: "Turn around!"

Li Yanqing turned around and faced hundreds of candidates. This was implementing the reporting and exposing system. When entering the examination room to roll the list, if someone revealed that the candidate was not himself, the exposing person would get extra points, and the cheater and the guarantor would be severely punished. When Li Daqi was a knife-catching man, he was exposed while rolling the list.

After a moment, the examiner waved his hand and signaled that he could enter the venue. Li Yanqing walked to the search area. Several scholars were being searched. Everyone was carrying shoes and socks in their hands. Li Yanqing also quickly removed the shoes and socks.

At this time, the two soldiers searched him from head to toe, not even letting go of his shoes and socks. They were pinched and touched by four big hands with shrugged hair. This feeling was really uncomfortable, especially when they didn't even let go of sensitive parts, Li Yanqing felt a little bit like vomiting.

Li Yanqing put on his shoes and socks, looked back and saw Zhang Xian with a bitter face, but three soldiers took off their coats and searched carefully. Li Yanqing cast a sympathetic look at him, glad that he had not been taken off.

The Dacheng Hall is also brightly lit, and two examiners stand on the high platform above, monitoring the candidates' every move. At this time, even if the father and son meet, they must pretend not to know each other. As long as they say a word, they will be recorded as a suspect of cheating.

Everyone could only find their seats silently, and sat down immediately after they found them, and they were even more desperate. This was not a county exam. Everyone laughed and said, "It was not a county exam, but it was a first exam for the trial, which was related to everyone's future and destiny. No one dared to joke about this.

Li Yanqing quickly found his seat, No. 174 Jiahai. He was lucky. His seat was at the edge and was not easily affected. He saw a basket on the table, which contained a pen, ink, ink, and four pieces of manuscript paper. There was also a cup of water next to the basket. This was not water for the candidates to drink, but for grinding ink.

Of course, this is because Tangyin County has no conditions. When they go to Anyang County for the examination, everyone has to sit in the tribute room. However, even so, the state is extremely strict in cheating in the examination room. There are three inspectors in each examination room, and two people are hiding in the dark to monitor the candidates' every move.

Dong! The crisp bell rang, and the time for the exam was up. The candidates began to meditate. Three state examiners gathered in Dacheng Hall and took out the test papers from the sealed bag under the supervision of five county examiners.

The county exam time is much shorter than the formal answer exam. It only takes one exam, four hours, and a total of ten Mingjing questions and one strategy topic were tested.

An examiner sent the paper to Li Yanqing's desk. He was not allowed to write at this time, but only to mark the papers. He immediately picked up the papers and read them from beginning to end. He breathed a little relieved. Although the Ming Dynasty questions were very remote, they were all within the prescribed examination scope.

At this moment, a candidate was raised. The examiner Han Hongjun took away his paper and pointed outside and shouted loudly: "Go out!"

The candidate cried and begged, "I didn't do the questions, I just wrote my name first and gave me a chance!"

His begging was useless. Han Hongjun sentenced his test paper to invalid on the spot. The candidate left in tears.

Several candidates who had already picked up the pen were so scared that they quickly put down their pens, secretly glad that they were not discovered.

Li Yanqing turned a deaf ear. He was concentrating on the countermeasures. The first ten Mingjing questions cannot be separated, and the strategy exam is the key to who can pass the county examination.

The so-called strategy is to ask a question and let you write out various solutions, mainly to examine the candidates' ability to solve problems.

The title is in the first year of Chongning, the grain mold in Guantao County, Daming Prefecture was severely rotten, and nearly 10,000 stones were lost. The candidates were asked to write a plan to deal with the grain mold in Guantao County.

This question is very down-to-earth, and it seems to be a test of how you can be a qualified warehouse keeper.

Li Yanqing's heart moved. He seemed to have seen this incident somewhere.

At this time, a crisp sound of cloud board came from afar. The hour of Mao was coming, and the exam officially began. The candidates picked up their pens and began to write quickly on the answer sheet.

Li Yanqing couldn't remember where he saw the grain mold in Guantao County, but he knew that it was not a test for how to be a qualified warehouse keeper. The question was not that simple.

He then went back to the previous Ming Sutra questions, and there were ten questions in total, either to produce scriptures and answer the corresponding interpretations or to provide the explanations. Let you write the corresponding scriptures, which are basically all things that are memorized by rote. Among them, "The New Meaning of the Book of Songs" and "The New Meaning of the Book of Songs" and "The New Meaning of the Book of Shu" were two questions, and "The New Meaning of the Zhou Guan" was tested for six questions.

Although the questions are relatively simple, the number of questions is large. If the candidates do not give them any time to think, they must be completed in one go, otherwise they may not be finished.

Li Yanqing took the pen and dipped it in the ink, and a line of extremely beautiful small characters in running script jumped out of his pen.

The first question is to test "Xiao Ya. The Turn of October" in "The New Meaning of the Book of Songs". The poem has been written, allowing the candidates to write and interpret it dictately.

Li Yanqing wrote: The first three chapters of this poem talk about disasters and changes, and the four chapters of this poem say that disasters caused by heaven, and then the transformation of heaven is born of human demons...

As long as you memorize the new meaning of the Three Classics carefully, the title will be very simple and you can make a good word. In the end, the standard for judging the title of the Ming Classic is to read calligraphy.

Only rustling sounds were heard in the examination room, all the candidates were writing quickly, and the two invigilators sat high in the dark, observing the candidates' every move, while the other two invigilators inspected back and forth.

Time flies very quickly. Noon has passed in a blink of an eye. Li Yanqing has completed the ten Mingjing questions. There is only one and a half hours left before the end of the exam. He began to consider crucial countermeasures.

He had already remembered where he had seen the granary incident in Guantao County. In his father's fifth notes, his father collected more than 200 local government incidents in the Song Dynasty. One of them was the case of grain mold in Guantao County in the first year of Chongning. This was actually not a problem of storage at all, but a problem of corruption.

The chief clerk of Guantao County colluded with Douzi, who was in charge of the granary, bought moldy grain at a low price and entered the warehouse, exchanged it for good grain, and then sold it at a high price to earn the difference from it, and finally accepted a light punishment for poor storage.

The trap of this question seems to make you think of various ways to prevent grain from rotting, such as ventilation, drying, etc. This is the general way of thinking for ordinary candidates.

Either the bucket in charge of the granary is irresponsible and does not check the mold in time for the grain. Therefore, the candidates with a little wise mind will write about the system to prevent mold in the granary, starting from the system, which is a little closer to the question, but still fail to answer the core.

But this question actually tests that you will draw up a strict inspection system to prevent collusion between inside and outside the granary, use inferior products as good products and embezzle public grain.

This is the key to eliminating most candidates. It seems a bit unfair, because not everyone knows the granary incident in Guantao County, but just think about it and find that a small county actually had a muddy grain in Wanshi. This is also a big case. There are many factors of corruption and abuse of power.

If it is just a simple question of food prevention and control, will four of them be eliminated from the five candidates?

Li Yanqing pondered for a long time, and decided to use the internal audit system of later generations to establish a strict granary inspection system.

He must start from the topic itself to prevent mold from grain, advance it layer by layer, talk about establishing a system to prevent mold from grain, and continue to deepen it, and talk about the internal audit system to prevent corruption with a large amount of time, with appropriate details and clear layout. This is a high-level countermeasures article with a level and insight.

Li Yanqing wrote with his pen. Cang is a country's important weapon. It is easy to cause natural disasters and more likely to occur...

Li Yanqing wrote more than a thousand words in a scattered manner, and finally ended with a finishing touch. Therefore, the system built the corruption of grain and the corruption of people's hearts is the best.

He carefully checked it twice and revised two points of misunderstandings. Then he used his best running script to copy the title "Official Warehouse Anti-corruption Strategy" on the official test paper, ensuring that every word is good and no word is changed.

When Li Yanqing finished writing and stopped writing, the bell of reminder to hand over the paper rang, and less than half an hour was left before the end of the exam. Li Yanqing carefully checked it from the beginning and found no error. Then he wrote his hometown, name and test number on the head of the paper, and then used the Feng Mi note to paste the name column.

In no uncertain terms, Li Yanqing raised his hand and handed over the paper.

An examiner stepped forward to take away his papers, and another guided officer came forward to take him out of the examination room, which was also a very critical last step.

Before leaving the examination room, no matter how excited you are in the exam, you must not say a word to anyone. Once you are caught by the inspector, record it and write it down, no matter how well the article is written, you must deduct one point first, which may mean that you have missed the state exam.
Chapter completed!