There was no martial arts exam at the county exam, and there was only one interview, mainly to screen out disabled students. However, since the new magistrate Jiang Dadao took office, the interview has been changed to a martial arts exam. This year is the third year, which also meets the requirements of the court's military preparations, and it is understandable.

There are three main items in the martial arts exam: running, weightlifting and archery. The simplest one is weightlifting. If you lift a 50-pound stone lock three times, you will pass it. It is not lifted over the top of your head. As long as you can lift it and get it one foot off the ground, you will be counted.

The most difficult thing is archery. The minimum requirement is 50 steps away from 50 archery. Last year, less than 30 people were admitted to the county school based on their knowledge, and they were basically all fallen on archery.

This aroused public anger, and the students wrote to the State Administration to complain. Finally, under the pressure of the State Administration, Jiang Dadao was forced to change the rules. He passed the three martial arts exams.

But Jiang Dadao was angry that the student had sued him to the prefecture, so he made another small move. This year, the county exam extended the running distance and asked the students to run around the county town within half an hour. The circumference of Tangyin County was twenty miles long, and it was even required to finish the running in half an hour. This was simply forcing the students to fight their lives.

However, running is not like archery. You can barely do it after trying your best. Archery is about skills, and even if you try your best, you can't do it.

There are no more students taking the martial arts exam today than yesterday. This is because many students failed the exam yesterday. They knew that there was no hope of going to the county school, so they were too lazy to suffer.

In addition, those who spend money to go to school can also not take martial arts exams. This is also Jiang Dadao's usual style. He never can't get along with money.

This way, there are less than 300 people taking the martial arts exam in the end.

The first one is the weightlifting test, which is also the simplest. It lifts 50 pounds three times, and almost every student can pass it, but running is cruel. He runs twenty miles in half an hour.

Many candidates complained angrily that they would not take the martial arts exam in the future, so why should they take the martial arts exam? But no matter how they complain, they had no choice under the authority of the magistrate, either going home, paying for money, or just gritting the bullet and passing the exam.

With a bell ringing, three hundred candidates rushed out of the county school gate and rushed towards the north city gate. The martial arts examiner Jiang Zhixian was afraid that the candidates would cheat, so he ordered the South City Gate to close. In this way, the candidates could only go out through the north city gate and then come in through the north city gate.

Jiang Zhixian was calmly drinking a cup of tea and ate another plate of snacks in the county school. Then he got on the horse and took more than a dozen village soldiers to the north gate. Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the county school gate, he saw two students running towards the gate one after another, with their heads steaming. Jiang Zhixian was furious and pointed at the horse whip and shouted: "I have passed the martial arts skills halfway. What are you here now?"

The yamen runners behind were panting and shouting: "Mr. County, they are candidates who have returned from running!"

Jiang Zhixian was shocked. Are there anyone who came back from running now? He hurriedly asked around, "How long have you been running?"

"About a quarter of an hour!"

Zhixian Jiang's eyes widened and ran twenty miles in just a quarter of an hour. Is there any cheating here?

Jiang Zhixian stopped going to the north gate. He turned his horse's head and followed the two candidates into the county school. He followed behind and saw the two candidates walking vigorously and running with their legs vigorously. It was like two antelope running on the grass. In just a moment, the two candidates rushed into the schoolyard and ran past the finish line.

Jiang Zhixian urged him to go forward, but he saw two candidates running for twenty miles without gasping violently, nor were they tired to collapse to the ground. The two were talking and laughing. He was very surprised and urged him to go forward and ask, "Which school are you candidates?"

The first candidate who ran past the finish line stepped forward and bowed and said, "The student is Li Yanqing, Lushan School!"

A candidate behind also stepped forward to salute, "The student is also a Lushan School, named Yue Fei!"

"Not bad! Not bad!"

Jiang Zhixian praised him very much and asked again: "It seems that you have been running all the time! How many runs every day?"

"Report to the county lord, we get up and run before dawn every day, running at least forty miles a day, and have never stopped for five years."

Jiang Zhixian gave a thumbs up, "This is a real scholar. He can go to court and go to the battlefield, and he is a pillar of the country!"

"The county magistrate has been awarded, and the students are ashamed of being a student!"

Jiang Zhixian was happy. The candidate who finally satisfies him this year showed up. He asked again: "How about you two shooting arrows?"

Li Yanqing and Yue Fei looked at each other, and Li Yanqing smiled and said, "It should be possible to pass!"

"Okay! I'll take you personally to take the exam later."

After another stick of incense, Wang Gui and Tang Huai also appeared. Although they fished for three days and had two days of drying the net, they followed Li Yanqing and Yue Fei every day in the past half month. They ran for more than 40 miles a day, and their physical strength increased greatly. It was no problem to run twenty miles. Although they were far inferior to Li Yanqing and Yue Fei, they were much stronger than other candidates.

Moreover, they used the breathing method taught by Li Yanqing to run, but they only breathed a little, but they were not exhausted.

When Jiang Zhixian learned that they were also students of Lushan School, he couldn't help but praise Li Daguang for his good academic performance and deserves praise. This time, Li Daguang was lucky and did not know anything. He was praised by the magistrate and recorded it on the record.

It was not until the limited time was about to end that a large number of students finally came back, about 200 people. They tried their best to run back to the county school before the end of the time. Everyone was so tired that they were paralyzed and could not say a word on the ground. Many candidates vomited violently, which made Jiang Zhixian frown and asked to wash it with water.

Although they were so tired that they died, the more than 200 students were still lucky. After passing the martial arts exam, nearly 100 people were blocked from outside the county school gate. Unless they could pass the archery, they would be ruthlessly eliminated.

The third item is archery. In order to deal with the martial arts exam, each school has arranged archery courses, and almost every student can shoot archery, but the level is different.

Jiang Zhi County set up three martial arts test subjects with strong targeting. He considered that once the Liao army came, he could directly recruit these students to the army, lifting weights and transporting materials. Running was to escape with him when he was defeated, and archery was even more clear, so he went straight to the city to fight.

Therefore, Jiang Zhixian attaches great importance to archery. Archery is also held in the school grounds. There are a total of ten targets. Ten candidates can take the exam at the same time. Ten steps can shoot ten arrows. Five arrows are qualified. Six arrows are the best. Ten arrows are the best. Ten arrows are the best. Ten arrows are the best.

If you pass the qualification, you can enter the county school to study, but if you want to enjoy a subsidy of one liter and two meter per day, you must at least have good martial arts grades, that is, you must get 6 arrows.

As for the Ten Arrows Eighth Middle School, that was the requirement of Zhou Tong, the new martial arts tutor. If you want to become Zhou Tong's disciple, you must have a solid foundation to be selected. However, Zhou Tong is not here today. He rushed to Daming Mansion with some private matters and will take a few days to come back. He entrusted Jiang Zhixian to check and select talents for him.

On the eve of archery, Wang Gui and Tang Huai found Li Yanqing. Wang Gui chuckled in a low voice: "Old Li, drinking deer blood yesterday really worked. I just pulled the Ba Dou Bow and pulled it away easily."

Tang Huai also smiled and said, "So too. Although I didn't sleep well last night, I'm still energetic today and in a very good state. I have to say that Deer Blood is such a good thing."

Li Yanqing blinked and said, "Next time Lao Tang goes on a blind date, I suggest you drink a glass of deer blood first. You won't be so picky about the blind date. Lao Tang, don't you think so?"

Li Yanqing smiled and left. Tang Huai and Wang Gui were confused. What did Lao Li mean? After a moment, Tang Huai's face turned red and he understood a little.

"Old Li! Here."

Yue Fei waved to them in the distance, and the three of them walked over. Yue Fei said to them: "A yamen runner came to me just now and said that the magistrate arranged us at the tenth target position, so that we can go there now."

The archery test has begun. Each candidate has his own target number, and there is a long queue in front of each target. For a moment, arrows flew around in the air, and most of them disappeared. Soon, the first candidate left crying. He failed to pass the run, and the archery shot was 10 times. In this way, no matter how good his academic performance was, he could not enter the county school.

Jiang Zhixian had a long face, and he was not sympathetic at all. He was watching him come, and he was a scholar who was useless. He could not carry his shoulders, carry his hands, go to the battlefield, fight wars, and studying was useless.

Twenty candidates were shooting arrows at the No. 10 target. Except for Li Yanqing and Yue Fei, the other 18 were candidates who had personally approved the notes by Jiang Zhixian County, including Tang Huai and Wang Gui.

In fact, these eighteen people do not have to take the martial arts exam. They can enter the school by passing the most basic academic exam. But the problem is that some children of large families cannot even pass the most basic academic exam, so they can only enter the county school in the name of martial arts preparation.

Li Yanqing and several friends sat on the grass waiting for the examiner to call. Li Yanqing rested his head on his hands, chewing a juicy grass stem in his mouth, and squinted at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky. He was thinking about where he would go next if he passed the exam at the end of the year? Should he come back to continue learning martial arts with Zhou Tong, or as his master said, walking out of the capped mountains and entering the vast plains, he has been considering this issue, but it is really difficult to decide.

"Li Yanqing!"

An examiner shouted, and Yue Fei quickly pushed Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing woke up from his thoughts and immediately raised his hand, "Here!"
Chapter completed!