Lu Ling'er left, Yang Cong felt very sad.

However, he did not become depressed because of this. Instead, he began to become more motivated because Lu Ling'er's parents said that as long as he could pass the Jinshi, they would agree to this marriage.

Whether it is for his own dream or for Lu Ling'er, he must work hard. He must strive to pass the college entrance examination, the provincial examination, the imperial examination, and the imperial examination at least he must win the provincial examination in one fell swoop, become a juren, and go to the capital to participate in the imperial examination, so that he can have the opportunity to reunite with Lu Ling'er.

At this moment, with his genius speed in his studies, the college entrance examination should not be big, and the main problems are the provincial examination and the commemorative examination.

The provincial examination and the imperial examination are not as simple as the college examination. It takes three days to take the exam alone, and it is not just a standard eight-legged essay. In total, nine articles of meaning, theory, and strategy are needed, and the difficulty is more than three times greater than that of the college examination.

He was not confident enough to think that with his current three-legged cat's moves, he could pass the provincial examination and the imperial examination all the way, and then compete in the Golden Palace to get a Jinshi. He didn't even know what Yi Hece was writing about.

What exactly is Yihecai written about?

It is not difficult to know these, because now there are special collections of selected articles on the market for provincial examinations and examinations. These collections include wonderful articles from juren and tribute scholars who are ranked among the top in the provincial examinations and examinations, and there are also comments from erudites and scholars on it. Just buy a few books and you can know how to write Yihe Ce.

This kind of collection of selected articles can generally be bought in provincial capitals, and there are a lot of them sold in Jinling City, Nanzhili.

After Yang Cong returned home, he began a tense life of preparing for the exam. Exercise in the morning is essential. He did not lose his grudges when he went to the county school during the day. Although Mr. Yan's level is limited, his understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics is still deeper than that of him. Listening to it is still beneficial to familiarizing himself with the Four Books and Five Classics. At night, he also wrote an eight-part essay on the test, and the time was arranged tightly every day. At the same time, he asked Li Du to go to the provincial capital and Jinling to purchase selected articles for the provincial examination and the provincial examination, so that he could understand the questions of the provincial examination and the provincial examination in advance.

A few days after he came back, Li Du personally sent him several collections of selected articles for the provincial examination. These were ordered from the bookstore in Fuzhou City, and there were even articles about Tang Bohu winning the provincial examination.

After studying it carefully, Yang Cong found that there was something really in the past, and the articles written by Juren were indeed much better than those of Tong Sheng and Xiucai.

Of course, it is not about the county examination, but the articles in the government examination and the college examination are nothing. The main county examination, the government examination and the college examination are all about the thesis, which means that the topic is basically about the topic, and it hardly involves other things. It is dry and meaningless.

In addition to the discussion of the provincial examination and the commemorative examination, there are also righteousness and strategies, which involve other things, especially the strategies, which involve most of the problems in reality.

For example, current affairs policy adds the requirements for the current affairs, that is, candidates are required to explain how to use the supreme sayings mentioned by ancient sages in the Four Books and Five Classics to solve the current problems.

Yang Cong was so impressed by these articles that he found that his level was far inferior to that of a juren, let alone a Jinshi. With his current level, he probably wouldn't be able to pass the provincial examination.

At the same time, he was also confused. Judging from Mr. Yan's level, even if he is better than himself, he cannot be that much stronger. Why does this Juren article give him the feeling that his level is more than one level higher?

He did not ask Mr. Yan about this question because he was afraid that others would not be able to hold on. He directly found some time to ask the county magistrate Liu Shouliang.

After all, the county magistrate Liu Shouliang was born in a Jinshi, so his understanding of these is definitely better than Mr. Yan.

As a result, the answer was unexpectedly simple, because they all learned Zhu Xi's "Collected Notes on the Four Books", and most of their righteousness and strategy quoted the above content or opinions. That is to say, it is not that their level is very high, but that they have read "reference books" with very high level.

This is actually a common sense thing for scholars these days, because after being admitted to the scholar, they will study the "Four Books Chapters and Quotations Collection", and the provincial examinations and ministerial examinations basically regard the "Four Books Chapters and Quotations Collection" as the standard answer to the meaning and strategy, that is, the righteous plan you make must conform to the arguments in the "Four Books Chapters and Quotations Collection".

Of course, it is not that every scholar knows this, because many scholars can't even pass the county exam, and they don't have to learn "The Collection of Four Books Chapters and Sentences" or something.

Liu Shouliang naturally knew everything about Yang Cong, but he did not agree with Yang Cong now that he started to study "The Collection of Four Books Chapters and Quotations" because there were too many "The Collection of Four Books Chapters and Quotations", which totaled tens of thousands of words, while the Collection of Four Books Chapters and Quotations" had hundreds of thousands of words. In just a few months, he could not even learn the basics. Now Yang Cong is facing the upcoming academic examination, and learning "The Collection of Four Books Chapters and Quotations" is actually not very useful.

Moreover, based on his experience, this standard test-taking eight-legged essay is very important, because Yihe Ce is written on this basis. As long as the standard test-taking eight-legged essay is done well, Yihe Ce will be able to do it easily.

In other words, the standard eight-legged essays for the county, government and college examinations are the foundation. You must first lay a solid foundation before you can study the subsequent righteousness and strategy.

Liu Shouliang's statement really made Yang Cong hesitate for several days because he felt that his foundation was already solid enough. It took him one day to do a standard eight-legged essay, but only two hours. Isn't this solid enough?

How else can you be firm?

It seems that there is nothing else to do except keep writing. Is this meaningful?

However, he still attached great importance to the opinions of Liu Shouliang as a Jinshi. For this reason, he thought about it for many days, but unexpectedly, he really came up with a solution.

The solution he came up with was a simple one in later generations, but people in this era could not have imagined it.

The way he came up with was to count common characters, arrange the same rhyme together, and separate them according to the level and tone.

For example, the A-word part, the same rhymes include A, Ba, Sha, Da, Fa, Ka, etc.

For example, the word An is the word Ping Tone, and I, wait is the word "date"

The Four Books and Five Classics actually have only a total of more than 100,000 words, of which only three or four thousand commonly used characters. If these commonly used characters can be counted according to this method, there will be almost no need to think about the two most difficult problems in the eight-legged essays, Pingping Ze Ze and Rhyme, in the future. That is to just pick up the pen.

He didn't know if he could achieve this effect in the end, but he would know it by trying it. Anyway, he had no other way to consolidate the so-called "basic".

He specially prepared more than forty blank drafts, and then copied them one by one at a time from the Four Books and Five Classics. This actually means reviewing the Four Books and Five Classics, which is also beneficial to the college entrance examination.

In this way, he worked hard for almost half a year and finally compiled it into a thick book.

Well, how do you describe this book? In terms of function, it is equivalent to a secret book for the imperial examination.

Unintentionally, he actually wrote such a secret book on the imperial examination, which he never expected in advance.

So, how is this secret effective?

Immediately afterwards, he began to memorize secret books while writing. Not to mention, these secret books are really useful, and his speed of writing has indeed improved significantly.
Chapter completed!