Time flies, the sun and the moon fly by.

In the blink of an eye, it is already noon on February 16th, the fourth year of Chongzhen... This is the time when the candidates who participated in the Chongzhen Fourth Year Examination hand in their papers and leave!

The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were hard and tiring. They not only tested the candidates' knowledge, but also tested their physical fitness, gastrointestinal and sleep!

Yes, the intestines and stomach are very important! Sleep is also very important!

Because the joint examination and the provincial examination in the Ming Dynasty were very torturous. It was said that there were three exams, but in fact it was three days in one exam and three exams in a row. That is, nine consecutive days of exams! A full 108 hours! The candidates taking the exam are here 108

During this hour, you have to stay in a small dormitory, and you are not allowed to leave in the middle. You are eating, drinking, and having sex in there... Needless to say, it smells bad. People with mysophobia may be

Those who have no chance to take the imperial examination.

Moreover, the examination room does not care about food. Candidates have to prepare their own meals. They have to prepare nine days' worth of meals and bring them into the examination room at a time... There is no refrigerator in the Ming Dynasty. If this meal is kept for nine days, I don't know if it will go rancid?

If it's not good enough, you might die of diarrhea!

In addition to having a strong stomach, you also need to sleep well. Who can stand going without sleep for nine days? Moreover, the Gongyuan examination room is not large, and each dormitory is packed tightly. They are all separated by wooden boards. The sound insulation is very poor, and there are people next door.

You can probably hear me grinding my teeth and snoring...

In short, staying in such a torturous environment for nine days is a kind of mental and physical torture for the candidates. It is also a torture for the 13 candidates involved in the incident of being able to write letters on the bus.

A double torture.

Because all the other candidates enter the examination room with the thought of getting a spot on the gold medal list... No matter how hard and tiring it is, as long as they think about the good days after high school, they can survive no matter what.

But they all entered with the intention of seeking humiliation... because they knew that they were all registered with the little emperor and were all candidates for loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.

If you pass the exam, you are not far from death!

But it’s not okay to skip this exam, because Tiqi from Jinyiwei has been coming every day since the Chinese New Year to urge them to review well. If they dare not enter the exam room, they may have to go to jail.

Moreover, the candidates in the Ming Dynasty were very face-conscious, especially those who reached the level of scholar leaders. They had to maintain their integrity and dignity as nurses and doctors - but they couldn't just go to Beijing to take the exam and dare not enter the hospital.

Doesn’t this make people laugh out loud? Is your promotion of people real? It couldn’t be bought with money, right?

So you have to take the test for these thirteen exams, and you can't take the exam blindly, at least you can't hand in a blank paper. If you hand in a blank paper, you will be the laughing stock of the world... Are you an illiterate person? Why do you just hand in a blank paper?

Got a white paper?

Not only can they not hand in a blank paper, they also have to bite the bullet and write the article in a decent way...but they can't be in high school, otherwise they will become loyal martyrs.

It’s hard to even think about it!

Fortunately, all candidates have high IQs and always have ways to deal with it. Their method is to make a fuss about taboos, word count and paper. According to the regulations, if there are no taboos, insufficient word count or incomplete paper, they will be in trouble in the hands of the official.

Fallen.

Before registering, the registration officer must first check whether the answer sheet in his hand has any of the above errors or omissions. If there are any, there is no need to register, and it will be eliminated directly.

Therefore, the thirteen people involved in the bus letter, including the "traitor" Niu Jinxing, all chose to die in the hands of the official. In fact, Niu Jinxing still wanted to go to high school, but he was rejected by many people who gathered in the capital.

Juren mistakenly thought he was a traitor who betrayed the public and wrote a letter...

This pressure is so great! Public enemy of Shilin! Once you enter the officialdom, why don’t everyone have to step on you?

If the emperor doesn't give him little shoes to wear, he will be killed by his superiors and colleagues.

Therefore, Niu Jinxing still chose to take a step back to open up the world... If Jinke fell into decline, he would naturally not be misunderstood by the scholars.

When he walked out of the Gongyuan with exhaustion, he felt very relaxed.

"Ju Ming...how did you do in the exam?"

Niu Jinxing heard a familiar voice and turned around to see that it was Li Xin. This guy was lucky and was not implicated... But from the look on his face, it seemed that he did not do well in the exam!

Niu Jinxing shook his head, "I didn't do well in the four book meanings test... The four book meanings of Jinke are not easy to write. The article is not easy to write, and I failed the test! Xinzhi, how are you?"

Li Xin also sighed and said with a wry smile: "The meaning of the Four Books of Jinke is not difficult. It is just that the gentleman in "The Analects of Confucius.

, Qi Zhi. According to "Mencius and Gaozi", the official of the heart is thinking, thinking is what you get, and if you don't think, you can't get it. Also, in "The Doctrine of the Mean", virtue is a saint, respected as the emperor, and rich all over the world..

....It’s a pity that my writing power is limited. Whether I can win or not depends on my luck.”

Niu Jinxing nodded and said with a smile: "Brother Xin's luck has always been good, I will definitely pass this exam! But I can't, I will definitely fail!"

Li Xin smiled. He knew what Niu Jinxing was thinking, so he couldn't say anything more, so he just handed over and left alone.

Niu Jinxing looked at Li Xin's back, sighed, and walked to the hotel where he was staying...

...

"Long live my Lord, I have brought you all the examination papers for the fifteen candidates you requested..."

In the Yuxi Palace in Xiyuan, Shi Fenglai, a bachelor of Jianji Palace and the Minister of Rites, had already come to see him with a large stack of test papers and a smile.

Shi Fenglai is one of the examiners of this subject. According to convention, he will work with another examiner and eighteen co-examiners to decide the candidates and rankings who pass the examination.

But today is only February 17th, and it is not the time for the examiner to mark the papers at all - the examiner has to mark the papers only after the examiners have finished reading the papers. He only reads the papers recommended by his fellow examiners and selects a group of them. The rest is

I will take the exam for high school papers.

But now it's good, he actually took some of the papers and came to Yuxi Palace to face the saint... Moreover, these papers are all originals, not transcribed, and they have been torn apart to make sure their names are unknown!

If Shi Fenglai had not acted according to orders, the crime of beheading would have been enough.

"How did you do in the exam?" Zhu Youjian asked with a smile, "Are the knowledge of these fifteen candidates good? Can they all go to high school?"

Shi Fenglai frowned when he heard this question.

"What?" Zhu Youjian looked at Mr. Shi Ge who was hesitant to speak, "Tell me the truth! How are these people's knowledge?"

"In response to Master Long Live," Shi Feng said, "I have already read these papers. Except for Wei Zaode's paper, all others will be in disgrace!"

"What?" Zhu Youjian glared, "Mr. Shi Ge, can you mark the exam? How is it possible that everything will fade? This Niu Venus will also fade? And that Li Xin... these two

Are you going to be depressed?"

"Long live my Lord," Shi Fenglai shook his head, "the knowledge of these two is really bad... among them, Niu Jinxing forgot to avoid taboos, and the paper was not clean. It's really inappropriate! That Li Xin's article is also quite good.

Ordinary, you’re lucky to win.”

"How is it possible?" Zhu Youjian waved his hand, "This is impossible... How could Niu Jinxing be uneducated? How could Li Xin fail? Why do you open a subject to get a scholar? Isn't it just to treat them like this?

Find someone to be an official?"

Yes! If Niu Jinxing and Li Xin are appointed as officials, they will stop rebelling!

"These two must be in high school!" Zhu Youjian said directly, "The first place in this subject will be given to Niu Jinxing, Li Xin will be given second place, and Wei Zaode will be third..."

Wei Zaode's knowledge is actually the best, but he is a current official participating in the examination, so it is inappropriate for him to get the honorary title.

But getting Huiyuan for Niu Jinxing's article is a bit too much... Shi Fenglai looked embarrassed, "Long live Lord, this Huiyuan article is to be passed down from generation to generation, Niu Jinxing's knowledge is not good...

If Your Majesty doesn’t believe it, you can read his article!”

"Nonsense!" Zhu Youjian glared at Shi Fenglai, "How could he not be good at knowledge? This matter has been settled, he will be... the second place, Wei Zaode is the third, and Li Xin will be the one

Top ten! Is that okay?"

"Long live my Lord, please stop looking at the papers..."

"Don't read it, don't read it...it's all bullshit!" Zhu Youjian waved his hand impatiently.

He had carefully read the papers for this subject in his previous life, and had read all the Gongshi articles. There were indeed a few papers that were very well written...but so what? It was useless!

The elected officials can't beat Niu Jinxing and Li Xin at all! The last word is that they can beat them!

"Your Majesty, the remaining thirteen people..." Shi Fenglai asked while thinking in his heart: How about I help Niu Jinxing make another test paper! I am Wanli Ding Mo Ke Hui Yuan, Ting Ting

I was ranked second...my article is still passable, right?
Chapter completed!