Chen Yichen speculated on Sun Tixue's intentions and wanted to know the profound meaning behind his doing so.

In fact, Sun Ding himself really has no complicated ideas...

It’s purely because you take the exam in the classroom, you can’t just ask Chen Yichen to take the exam alone. This way, without other candidates’ testimony, it’s more like a secret operation method.

So I simply put the famous and controversial "thorns" in this college exam together and put them in the lobby for the exam.

In this way, there is also a witness and the risk is reduced.

As the pre-exam body search is approaching, the number of candidates who are arranged to take the exam has exceeded ten.

During the waiting process, everyone's faces had different expressions, but they never said a word. This is not because they were not familiar with a stern face, but because they were not allowed to talk casually after entering the examination room rules, even in such occasions.

Finally, after the last examination candidate entered the venue, a "clang" sounded and the gantry door of the Xiajiang Examination House closed.

Chen Yichen and others were taken to the lobby of Duzhi Building by the military service. Unlike the empty environment before, tables and chairs were already arranged in the lobby, and test papers were placed on them, waiting for them to sit and answer the questions.

Sun Tixue was in a high position and wore a formal civil servant robe in blue. In fact, just in terms of official rank, he was not as good as the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture Li Min who was the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture of the prefecture was Li Min.

However, the power and status of many officials in the Ming Dynasty did not simply depend on the grade.

It’s like many people know that civil servants are inferior to civil servants, and military officers of the same rank are far inferior to civil servants. In the late Ming Dynasty, even second and third rank military officers were trained as grandsons by civil servants of the sixth and seventh rank.

There are also such differences among civil officials, such as the capital officials are greater than the foreign officials, and the censors are greater than the consuls. Among them, the same rank is the Censorate and the six departments, and the Hanlin Academy is the most noble.

Although the Admiral Xuezheng was in the local area, he was not a local official and was still in the sequence of Beijing officials. And Sun Ding also served as the inspector and censor of the Southern Zhili, so even if the third-rank prefect Li Min was in front of him, he might be at most 50% in terms of status and power.

"Student Chen Yichen, Xu Donghai, Luo Zheng... Meet the Grand Master."

After Chen Yichen and others entered the lobby, they first saluted Sun Ti, and then stood there waiting for the other party's orders.

Seeing Chen Yichen come in, Sun Ding's eyes lit up, but he did not express anything, even the expression on his face seemed very serious.

After all, the college entrance examination is extraordinary. Those who win the exam have the reputation of scholars, and outstanding candidates can also enter the Imperial College as tribute students. It is equivalent to later generations entering colleges like Tsinghua and Peking University, and they also received the concept of full scholarships.

Therefore, various etiquettes should appear more rigorous in this situation.

In addition, he learned from Li Min's lesson in the college entrance examination. He was not too close to Chen Yichen and avoided giving others a handle to leave criticism. Moreover, Chen Yichen was not the only one who took the exam to take the initiative to say hello to him. So should other candidates treat everyone equally?

If everyone is treated equally and a dozen instructions are given, will it still be better if you take the exam?

When all the candidates were worshipped, Sun Ding lightly tapped his forehead, which was considered a response.

"The students were arranged to take the exam today. I believe you understand the rules and procedures, so I will not say more."

"Today's examination hall will take the four books and one article of the five classics. Among them, the meaning of the classics are selected by yourself. However, the official's selection is different from others, and the proportion of the four books and the meaning of the classics is the same. I hope all students will not be careless."

After hearing what Sun Ti learned, some of the dozen people who took the exam in Titang looked very happy, while some of them had a heavy expression.

Because according to the rules of the imperial examination system, we should pay attention to the first game, the four books, and even some games will pay attention to the first topic.

Take Chen Yichen's previous county exam and government exam for example. The first score can be directly determined whether to win or not, and even the ranking can be determined in advance.

It is better to understand the importance of the Four Books. In ancient times, the eight-legged essays used to select scholars in the imperial examinations, and the eight-legged essays were titled from the Four Books. If you don’t pay attention to this, what should you pay attention to?

Therefore, the college entrance examination tests for each of the Four Books and Five Classics. Theoretically, the score ratio of the Four Books questions exceeds that of the Five Classics questions. That is to say, if the two candidates have similar literary talent, one of them has the advantages of the Four Books questions, and the other has the advantages of the Five Classics questions, then when the ranking is finally considered, the candidates for the Four Books questions will win.

Under consideration of this rule, candidates will naturally focus their learning on the topic of the Four Books. Sun Ti’s learning is not the case, requiring candidates to develop comprehensively "morality, intelligence, physical fitness and aesthetics". For candidates who do not pay attention to the meaning of the scriptures, it can be regarded as a difficult task.

Unfortunately, Chen Yichen belongs to the candidates who do not value the Jingyi.

In fact, to be precise, it is not that Chen Yichen did not pay attention to it, but that he studied too much before and had limited energy and could only focus on the Four Books, ranking the meaning of the classics behind.

This is like Chen Yichen's poem was ruined, and he wrote a random poem to write a five-character and six-rhyme poem in the county exam, which did not affect the final score anyway. It is not a key point in whether it is good or not.

If Li Tingxiu had not helped him last year and became the top scholar Lin Zhen as his master, Chen Yichen might have set a precedent for the first time in the palace examination and failed the court examination.

Seeing that everyone looked different, Sun Ding didn't have to care what the group of candidates were thinking. He spoke again: "There are test papers on the test table. You can take the seat in order, and hope to be successful in high school."

"Yes, Grand Master."

All the candidates bowed their heads and then walked to the test table and took their seats in front of their serial number.

Chen Yichen discovered at this time that the position of his test desk was facing Sun Tixue, which was so weak that he was really low. I don’t know if it was an accident or Sun Tixue deliberately arranged it. It was a bit stressful to be stared at writing the test papers like this.

After taking the seat, Chen Yichen did not rush to open the test paper, but looked up at Sun Tixue, which happened to meet the other party's gaze.

The expression on Sun Ding's face finally changed, and a fleeting smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. It was obvious that he had been paying attention to Chen Yichen, hoping that he would win the championship again in this examination.

There is even something that Chen Yichen didn't know. The reason why Sun Ding emphasized the equal importance of the Four Books and Five Classics was actually because he wanted to create some advantages for him within his own authority.

Think about it, Chen Yichen has become Lin Zhen as his teacher. As the top scholar and master of the sutra, Lin Zhen can teach his disciples how weak the level of this sutra is?

Compared with other candidates who pay attention to the Four Books, Chen Yichen is ahead of the starting line!

Sun Ding will definitely not do anything to really help Chen Yichen to commit favoritism and fraud, so he has tried his best to help, just because Chen Yichen performed on the spot.

But what Sun Ding did not expect was that although Chen Yichen worshipped Lin Zhen as his teacher to treat the basic scriptures, it did not mean that his merits were just a temporary cram to make up for his shortcomings.

Therefore, this kind of well-intentioned operation has a sense of backfire...

When I opened the test paper, I saw that the test question pattern was different from the normal number room. The questions I took to the test were already written on the test paper, so I didn’t have to wait for the sign to pass by and copy it in the military service.

One of the test papers contains the four books, the title is: If the people are invincible, they are infatuated; if they are towering, they have success and their articles are brilliant.

After all, Sun Ding was a scholar and had been in charge for decades. Compared with the understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics, Li Min, the prefect of Yingtian, was much more professional.

This major is designed to set questions, so there is no need to find various underworld interrogation questions to harm the candidates. They can give some normal and regular test questions.

This topic comes from the fragment of Confucius praising Yao in "The Analects of Confucius: Taibo". The translation roughly means that Yao is a very great person, and the people no longer know what language to use to praise him.

His achievements are so noble, and the etiquette system he formulates are so brilliant and beautiful!

If you want to understand it in the simplest and most rude way, you can also regard this passage as flattery. Anyway, the boastfulness is so scattered that it is much more elegant.

The title of the Four Books is not uncommon, which means that the idea of ​​solving the topic is easy to find, and the direction is to praise the achievements of ancient sages and sages, point out what good things Yao did, what sages he appointed, etc.

Then don’t forget the most important point, that is, to use the past to describe the present.

This is not obvious in the college examination. After all, the emperor is far away. In the provincial examination, especially the imperial examination, if you see a question praising ancient sages and emperors, you must refer to the current emperor by mistake.

Then I wrote an article that I felt flattering, pointing out how wise and powerful the emperor of the dynasty was, with good governance of the country, great talent, etc. The highest level was that he was even more ruthless than Confucius' original text. So congratulations, he was not far from the acquisition.

The reason why you are not far from being the first to take the lead is that you cannot just brag and not do practical things. The emperor's selection of scholars is to make you an official and do things, not to make you flatter.

This way of blowing seems particularly insincere and unhappy.

So you have to add your ambitions in the last paragraph, inspire yourself to assist the current emperor in the future, and also do a great cause to benefit the people, etc.

This wave of blows the ancestors and the emperors of the dynasty, and finally praises himself. The response from the front and back is full, and it is a perfect score. I am sorry for the "reveal expression" in the article if I am not selected by the examiner.

Maybe he has written too much eight-legged essay. Now Shen Yichen is familiar with such conventional questions and can easily solve them!

Sun Ding sat in the lobby, his eyes constantly scanning the candidates in the hall, of course, his main focus was on Shen Yichen.

Sun Ding had never met Shen Yichen during this period, but he heard a lot of rumors about him, such as the county examination, the government examination, the government examination, the family school fraud of the Duke of Chengguo's mansion, and the "Sword Ruhong" at the flower appreciation poetry meeting, "killing all directions". Everything is well-known.

To be honest, Sun Ding did not expect that at the dinner party of Duke Cheng's Mansion, a young actor who was not very good-looking in the last seat could stir up the literary world of Yingtian Mansion.

However, the literary world is not as impressive as the name on the Golden List. Whether Shen Yichen jumped on the dragon gate or fell into a slum and fell into a sand today depends on the titles of these two Four Books and Five Classics.
Chapter completed!