Yu Shen tore the note into pieces without expressing his expression. This is a secret code. Zheng Rongtai’s first question was to answer it in thin gold style. The imperial examination required that the questions should be answered in regular script or running regular script. Except for the two fonts here, they would be judged as invalid. Moreover, thin gold style was the first creation of the emperor. Without the emperor's permission, no one dared to use this font in public. Zheng Rongtai’s thin gold style is an excellent hint.

As a prime minister, Yu Shen is no longer able to buy money, especially when it comes to cheating on the imperial examinations, which damages reputation, he will not easily touch it again. This time it is a very important person appointed by Liang Shicheng. Although Yu Shen did not petition in his heart, he could only agree with the promise that Zheng Rongtai was the brother-in-law of His Highness the Crown Prince, and the crown prince was the real messenger behind the scenes.

Although Yu Shen will no longer be suspected of cheating in the imperial examination, if other examiners have so many favors, as long as they are not too much, he will turn a blind eye. He knows that the imperial examination will be held once every three years, not only will it be the focus of the public attention, but how many eyes in the court are staring at this opportunity.

At this time, Yu Shen saw a large cart delivering ingredients slowly pushing into the Gongyuan. More than a dozen soldiers meticulously checked every detail on the cart, and even didn't let go of the wheels.

Yu Shen laughed self-deprecatingly. What can the almost perverted strict inspection be? Can it stop trading between powers? Perhaps this is called only allowing state officials to set fires and not allowing the people to light lamps.

It was getting late at night, and the evening drums in the Gongyuan were ringing. The time for rest and dinner was up. The scholars were already so hungry that they packed the papers and empty the tables. They ate breakfast too early, and only drank a cup of tea and ate two snacks. They were already hungry and waiting for the meal.

Li Yanqing also packed the table, he pulled the bell, and after a moment, a soldier came over, Li Yanqing made a hand washing posture, and the soldier nodded, "Come with me!"

The first in each alley is the manure toilet. No. 2 is unmanned, and No. 3 and No. 4 are famous manure numbers. The extremely strong aura corrodes their souls. The scholars who draw these two numbers are basically abandoned. They can only wait for another three years to look for opportunities in the next imperial examination.

No. 5 was slightly better because the weather was not very hot and the ecstasy aura was not yet available for the expedition. No. 5 escaped by chance.

Li Yanqing held his breath, left Gong on No. 1, washed his hands in the pool next to him, and then returned to his room. At this time, the soldiers who delivered the meal had already begun to deliver meals to the candidates one after another.

The meals at the Gongyuan are not free. The scholars paid 300 cents of meals when registering, seven meals for four days, plus a plate of snacks at noon, and a blanket at night. The price is not expensive, but it is definitely not cheap.

The soldier handed a tray to Li Yanqing, which was pretty good. A plate of buns, two side dishes, and a bowl of pork ribs and winter melon soup. The buns are big and the portion is sufficient, so you can basically eat enough.

At this time, a humble murmur came from the next door, "This amount of food costs 40 cents, and at the snack shop at most twenty cents. The unscrupulous court! Even the poor men have to make money."

Li Yanqing couldn't help laughing. This guy divided the three hundred cents into seven and calculated a meal of forty cents. However, he forgot that he had a snack at noon, forgot about pens, inkstones, candles, flints, etc.

After dinner, night fell. The candidates lit candles and prepared to continue writing quickly at night. Li Yanqing wrote nearly 8,000 words during the day, and it was basically half completed. In terms of time, it was enough time to go tomorrow during the day.

Originally, the schedule of the imperial examinations did not include night. The light of answering questions at night is dim and the risk is too high. If you are not careful, you will be defiled. However, for most scholars, night is the only opportunity they can take advantage of, otherwise they will never finish the verses in two days.

Li Yanqing carefully put the test papers away and then put down the wooden boards, thus forming a bed. He lies on the hardwood board with his clothes, folds the blanket into a pillow, and slowly lay down and closes his eyes.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, suddenly a scream of 'Ah!' woke Li Yanqing up suddenly and sat up. He heard the sound coming from the next door. The scholar next door seemed to hit the wall with his head, 'dong! dong!' and he cried and said, "I deserve to die! I'm finished! The ink was overturned."

At this time, two soldiers with big and round waists rushed over, punched the scholar over, each grabbed one foot and dragged it out. They were very skillful in their movements and cooperated tacitly. It was obvious that they often did this. A thin scholar was dragged out of the examination room and blocked his mouth with rags. The two soldiers dragged him away.

Li Yanqing couldn't help but shook his head secretly. He shouted in the examination room to disrupt the examination room, and the lightest punishment was to stop the exam. This scholar had no chance of the next imperial examination. In this blink of an eye, it was six years. How many six years did he have in his life? Many scholars have turned white in the imperial examination.

Li Yanqing lay down again, slowly closed his eyes, and fell asleep in a while of random thoughts.

Two days passed in a flash. After breakfast on the third day, Li Yanqing washed his face with the clean water provided by the soldiers to clear his mind. Li Yanqing glanced at the paper placed in the box. He finished all the test questions of the scriptures yesterday afternoon and carefully checked them again. Without any errors, he pasted the paper, carefully rolled it up and put it in the test paper box. Each scholar had a test paper box of this type, which was convenient for storing the test paper.

When the sound of the cloud board sounds again, the time for the posting is up. Today, the posting will publish tomorrow's poem test papers together. If the imperial examinations for the first two days are proficiency and quantity, then the imperial examinations for the next two days are difficult and depth. The amount is not too large. You are required to write one article of the thesis and five articles, each of which is about a thousand words, and write two poems on the last day.

Generally, candidates have prepared a lot of poems of various types and can always get a little bit of it, so the fourth day is basically extra, which is equivalent to spending two days writing six policy theories, so most soldiers can complete it, the key is the quality.

The theory is to evaluate the completed things and explain one's own opinions, while the strategy is to propose solutions to various problems. Therefore, the strategy theory is the key to the imperial examination, especially one of the strategies, which is called the question and is also the core question of the entire imperial examination. Everyone is very concerned about this question.

The examiners in Lane 25 began to hand over the papers in turn, and Li Yanqing quickly got the papers. Like all scholars, he first looked at the fifth question of the strategy, which was the tip of the question. The question was exactly what Li Yanqing guessed in advance: "Countermeasures of the Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties".

At this time, a low scream was heard in the examination room on the left. Obviously, this guy also guessed the question.

Although the question can be guessed, it may not be answered well. Li Yanqing also answered this question in the answer test a few years ago, but at that time, Jin Chao wrote a brief description and now he is going to become the protagonist.

At this time, Li Yanqing looked through other topics, and the topic was "Human life is the most important, so sages value it". This topic was actually discussing the judicial system of justice in the Song Dynasty to ensure punishment and killing.

The other countermeasures are widely studied, some require the improvement of the Baojia method, some require the discussion of the monopoly system of wine and salt, some require the writing of clean government, and some require the writing of the method of suppressing enemies. Each countermeasures are very pragmatic, and this is the real talent and knowledge of the testimonies.

Finally, there are poems, which are about the best and are not very important. Before Wang Anshi's imperial examination reform, poetry and essays were the topic that determines the fate of life. However, Wang Anshi believed that the character and ability of a scholar was not seen in the examination of poetry and essays, so he abolished the poems and essays and essays, and studied the meaning of the sages to cultivate virtues, and made peace with the people in the world. This pragmatic idea has continued. Although poetry was added this time, it is far from comparable to policy theory.

The poem is titled, "After the battle, the moonlight is cold."

This is from Wang Changling's poem to go out to the frontier: "The horse has newly crossed the white jade saddle. After the battle, the moonlight is cold. The iron drum sounds still shaken, and the blood of the golden knife in the box has not dried up."

Among them, the sentence "The moonlight is cold after the battle" is solved, and a poem is written without limiting the rhyme.

This obviously echoes the countermeasures question of "Countermeasures of Song, Liao and Jin". In fact, the intention of the countermeasures question is already obvious, and the court already has the intention of the Northern Expedition.

Li Yanqing pondered for a long time and the pattern of the imperial examination was decided. If he wrote a joint Liao and defeated Jin, he might be eliminated in the first round.

He sighed softly, picked up his pen and wrote a poem, which was modified by Lu You's poem

"Guanshan Yue"

It has been a hundred years since the reign of Rong, and the general is facing the border without fighting.

The rich people sang and danced heavily, and the horses in the stable were fat and had their bows broken.

The scattered fight in the garrison building urged the moon to fall, and the thirty-year-old army now has white hair.

Who knows the heart of a hero in the flute, and the sandy head shines on the bones of a man.

It has been heard in ancient times that there are no descendants of the Hu family.

The remnants endured their death to recover, and there were a few tears tonight!
Chapter completed!