"Only the sage has the principle of governing the world with the most sincere virtue."

Chen Yichen wrote two sentences to solve the problem on the straw paper, and the translation means: Only when a saint has the most sincere character can he unify the great way of the world!

Solving the question directly points out the central idea, without any twists and turns, and it will fill the political correctness of the eight-legged essay.

Inherited in the title: The most sincere one is the basis of the foundation. Since a sage’s virtue is extremely sincere, then his nature is the whole. Wouldn’t he be able to rule the world with the principle of governing the world?

Chen Yichen's problem solving is the standard answer, and other candidates will also try their best to rely on Saint Kong. Therefore, if you want to compare the pros and cons of the article, you cannot just rely on solving the questions and the words of the sage in the future. You must write the following questions and the later sages.

So Chen Yichen's inheritance of the title explained why the moral standards of Confucius could unify the great way of the world. As for the later sages who made the words, it was to narrate some classic Confucian moral remarks.

Don’t underestimate the narrative of Confucianism, which requires extremely high basic skills for candidates. Because not only should we correspond to the previous question, we should also pay attention to the beginning, inheritance, transformation and convergence, and neat parallelism.

The more complicated the test questions are, the more important they are to win in the details. Therefore, Chen Yichen wrote this first question very seriously and took a long time far beyond the previous imperial examinations.

The military officer guarding the gate was curious and looked at Chen Yichen from the corner of his eyes from time to time to do the questions. He found that the Shuntian Jieyuan did not seem to answer the questions quickly, and could even be described as slow.

It's a pity that I have such strong psychological qualities, but it seems that my knowledge is not as good as I imagined...

After writing the first question, it was almost noon. This may be the longest eight-legged article that Chen Yichen took since he arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking that there were more than two days left to finish the exam and that I could not hand over the paper in advance, Chen Yichen did not rush to write down a question, but instead continued to drink his tea.

In fact, it was not because Chen Yichen had any hobby of tea tasting, but because he didn't dare to eat too much, he was afraid of going to the cottage. When he was hungry, he had to rely on drinking water to fill his fill...

Chen Yichen dared not eat, and most other candidates were the same, so the first day of the first exam was extremely quiet at noon.

In the afternoon, Chen Yichen began to speed up and finished writing the other two four-book titles in one go.

Compared with the first question, Chen Yichen chose to take a different approach. After all, those who could reach the level of the test in ancient times were not much worse than rote memorization. He did not have absolute confidence that the first question could surpass the heroes.

When everyone is in a state of being half a dozen, the value of the other Four Books and Five Classics will be highlighted and should not be despised at all.

After nightfall, the gongyuan began to blew a howling north wind, and the temperature suddenly dropped sharply compared to the daytime. Chen Yichen was still acceptable, because he was afraid that any "talent" would be blown over the candlestick or add carbon to the brazier to keep warm.

You should know that during the reign of Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty, two fires occurred in the Shuntian Gongyuan, namely the autumn examination in the third year of Zhengtong and the spring examination in the seventh year of Tianshun.

Among them, the seventh year of Tianshun was the most painful fire in the history of the imperial examination, and more than 90 candidates were burned to death. It was after that, the old wooden houses in the Gongyuan began to be greatly renovated into brick and tile structures.

The fire has not happened yet. At present, most of the Shuntian Gongyuan houses are still mainly made of wooden structures. Once a fire occurs, under the spread of the howling north wind, the fire can be put out by the water tanks in the aisle.

At worst, I will be a hero again after three years of burning the test paper. If I give my life here, it will be a loss of blood...

Chen Yichen slept very uneasy that night, and he was ready to run away if the fire caught.

The next morning, Chen Yichen took two panda eyes and took off the bed board and continued to use it as a table board.

To be honest, I saw the "dual-use" design of "bed and table" for the first time in my experience, Chen Yichen also lamented the wisdom of the ancients. But it was really my turn to use it every day. Chen Yichen felt like a dog in his heart. If you build the house bigger and place an extra wooden board, can it still make the Ming Dynasty bankrupt?

I just have to search like this, and I have to work hard to do it every day just by tidying up the bedding.

What's even more fatal is that it's okay to curl up and sleep for one night. I felt sore in my back and forth on the second night. I wanted to turn around, but I almost fell off the bed.

The exams in the past few days have really put the Confucian classics into practice, which are painful, tired, and hungry.

He poured a pot of tea and ate a few pieces of dried fruit and dried meat. Chen Yichen cheered up and focused on the first topic of the Five Classics.

He had a vague premonition in his heart that the first question of the Four Books of the Yichou Chronicle in the past ten years was so "mean". Then the final test questions for the students who went to the exam might be placed on the first question of the Five Classics, and they could not be written as if they were in the same way as the provincial examination.

When you open the test paper, what catches your eyes is the first Five Classics: A gentleman has no freedom. If you know the difficulty of farming, you will know the basis of villains.

Chen Yichen chose the "Shangshu" as the original sutra among the Five Classics, so the test questions are naturally the same.

This question is taken from the "Shangshu·Wuyi". The translation means that a gentleman should be in his position and must not seek comfort. If he knows the hardships of farming in advance and then enjoys a comfortable life, he will understand the sufferings of the common people.

To understand it in the simplest and most rude way in modern times, the core content is four words "Imitation".

Almost everyone in later generations learned a poem, especially when eating, they would emphasize it, that is, "Who knew that every grain of food on the plate was hard-working."

The title of the Five Classics also expresses a similar meaning, but the idea should be more profound, and the artistic conception is more about emphasizing that gentlemen should not be greedy for pleasure, but should be sympathetic to the sufferings of the people, rather than waste them.

In addition, there is another big trap for this Five Classics question, that is, although it expresses the meaning of empathy, you cannot write it on it when answering the question.

The reason is very simple, what is a gentleman?

A gentleman was in the Zhou Dynasty and referred to people with high status, and later he extended his meaning of noble character.

Therefore, a gentleman represents the ruling class and the literati group. Just shout the slogan of the people who value the king and neglect the king. Could it be that you really want the ruling class to farm with the mud legs and experience life?

Therefore, the focus of solving the problem is not on the suffering of the people, but on the gentleman himself. As long as you have noble character and good deeds, the people will naturally live a good life. On the contrary, the ruling class will be destroyed, and no matter how hard the people endure hardships and endure, they will be extremely poor.

Although such explicit words are not very nice, they are not dry. Especially in the feudal era, the level of rulers directly determines the life and death of the people.

After understanding the idea of ​​solving the problem, Chen Yichen's mouth raised slightly, showing a faint smile. Only with such difficulty can one meet the level of the exam. As expected, my premonition was correct. The key point of this year's showdown was on the Five Classics!

With the direction of solving the problem, the next thing is to splash ink. Chen Yichen wrote the first sentence of the eight-legged essay on the straw paper.

"You should be diligent in dealing with yourself, without any violation of the times. You must be diligent in living a life and know what the people rely on."

The general meaning of this sentence is that a gentleman should use diligence standards to demand himself and cannot be endlessly greedy for comfort and enjoyment, so that he can become a support for the people.

According to this idea, the subsequent texts were natural. In just a moment, Chen Yichen had finished writing the first topic of the Five Classics, and he used it more quickly than yesterday's Four Books.

After reading the article I wrote, Chen Yichen's previous joy of guessing the exam questions from the middle school entrance examination officer was gone. The topic that should have been sympathetic to the suffering of the people, but after writing it, it turned into a gentleman's words and deeds, and the protagonist changed.

I wonder if such changes should be called the tragedy of the times?

With the foundation of the first question, Chen Yichen's writing speed of the last Five Classics has increased again. After all, the importance of the Five Classics is not as important as that of the Four Books. After deducting the proportion of the first question, the value of the gold content is even worse.

At the same time, drizzling raindrops fell in the dark sky, and soon the rain continued to increase and began to pour down freely.

However, after Chen Yichen entered the account room, he made his rainproof preparations fully. At this moment, the rain did not touch his body. He did not care about the changes in the outside world's climate at all, and devoted himself to writing.

The military officer guarding Shen Yichen's door, looking at his calm appearance, changed his mind again.

He is truly worthy of being Jie Yuanlang. Other scholars hurriedly finished the pen and were afraid that the test paper would be wet. Only Chen Yichen was extremely calm and unaffected.

This calmness and calmness, even with previous candidates, few of them can match it.

Chen Yichen was not affected by the rain, but he heard a scream from the examination room: "The test paper is dizzy, and I am dead!"

There is no doubt that if you can scream like this, it must be that some unlucky guy's test paper was wet by the rain.

But the matter was not over there, and another roar sounded: "Inspector, I'm asking for another house to change, and the roof of the shed is about to collapse!"

Before the inspection and military service could react, the leader of the adjacent number covered his head and cried, "Call you call me, my mother, I have already collected the clothes, but I was so scared that I hit the roof and hit it. Now it's leaking!"

The originally quiet examination room was now accompanied by the shouts of several candidates, and the order suddenly became chaotic.

"Silent, quiet! Violators will be dealt with as fraud and will be expelled from the examination room and displayed in public with shackles!"

The inspector of the gatekeeper rushed over at this moment to stop the noise of the candidates in the examination room. The several candidates who took the lead in shouting were pulled out of the vocational hall by the guards and rushed out of the examination room without asking for the reason.

Chen Yichen was about to finish writing, but he was so amused and laughed at these roars, especially the last one, which was not an exaggeration to call him an old unlucky guy.

You should know that the number house is very low, even if it is not tall, it is not easy to stand up straight inside.

To describe it insultingly, this tmd is no different from a doghouse, and it is even worse than some luxurious doghouses in later generations. At least it is not leaking.

It’s like Chen Yichen. He always bent his waist in the account house. In addition to being afraid of hitting his head, he was worried that he could knock a hole into the roof of the tofu shoddy shed.

By then, relying on the oil cloth to protect water will probably not be enough.

Moreover, officials of the Gong Academy will not be abusive to candidates. They will have to complete the exam in which number they arrange. Even if the sky falls, you cannot leave the boundaries, otherwise it will be considered fraud.

Unless it is the slack stage of the imperial examination in the late Qing Dynasty, candidates can be allowed to grab the account with their abilities, and you can't even think about it in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

As several noisy picks were "invited" to the tribute school, the atmosphere of the examination room became quiet again, and Chen Yichen seized the time and finished the last few strokes.

Looking at the seven pieces of text on the straw paper, which were presented in front of me, Chen Yichen sighed with relief. The most important answering session of the exam was finally completed, and the only way to copy the test paper was left.

But at this moment, Chen Yichen smelled the smell of food coming from the stove next to him and couldn't sit still in an instant.

You should know that the food most candidates carry when taking the exam is mainly dry and cooked food. It is okay to eat this thing for one or two meals. If you eat it for a day or two, it will seem a bit boring in this cold and frozen environment.

To solve this problem, one is to rely on the candidates' own brazier to simply heat the food. The other is to entrust the guards to use the stove of the tribute school to heat or process semi-finished meals, which will have a better taste and taste.

Chen Yichen started taking the imperial examination in the early morning of the eighth day of the second month, and at noon on the tenth day of the second month, it had not officially eaten a "full meal" for more than two days.

Although the exam is not physical labor, the consumption caused by crazy mind operation is not low. He has been cooing hungry.

It’s okay if there is no external temptation and interference. Now the aroma of the food is right next to you. How can Chen Yichen resist it?

Damn! I never expected that the biggest requirement for the exam was to have a good meal...

Not only Chen Yichen, but also many of the candidates in the adjacent row of vocational houses couldn't help but start swallowing their saliva at this moment.

At the same time, I kept scolding in my heart which dog god was "discharged" by "discharged poison". It would be fine if you eat it secretly, but you still have to use the stove to heat it. Now everyone has smelled it, how can you concentrate on taking the exam?

Unable to resist the temptation, Chen Yichen also took the initiative and was too lazy to think about copying or going to the toilet.

Add two pieces of charcoal to the brazier to make the fire more prosperous. Then use a small pot of boiling water to make tea to soften the noodles. Finally, I took out the small pot at the bottom of the box, put a small piece of lard, beat an egg and torn jerky, and then took out the noodles and put them in to make fried noodles.

Originally, Chen Yichen only planned to make some simple soup soup to fill his stomach. Since there was a big brother who used the stove to "discharge poison" around him, he might as well fight the poison with poison. The aroma of stir-frying oil is far more than steaming and cooking. I don't believe you can't smell it!

It is unknown whether the chef who used the stove could smell it. Anyway, Chen Yichen's neighbors were cursing in their hearts. This was simply a planting plant, and there were also people who cooked in the store, which was really unheard of!

Even the inspectors and the inspectors were attracted by the fragrance of the fried noodles.

Because the number house where Chen Yichen is located is the "fire number" next to the stove, these officials would never have thought that the candidates inside would be Jie Yuanlang from Shuntian Provincial Examination. They thought that some ignorant student had begun to eat and drink when he felt hopeless in the imperial examination.

"This candidate is really a bit beyond the rules. Under this smell, how can other students take the exam?"

"Forget the smell, aren't you afraid of causing water to escape when using braziers like this?"
To be continued...