fake prince

Chapter 64 Mutation

A few meters away stood a few obviously different people. These people were all wearing official uniforms, with knives on their waists. They looked like they had at least ninth-rank official titles. .

They stared at every student who came forward, and all the students who were watched had pale faces.

The middle-aged man who made Su Ziji look familiar, holding a small metal plate in his forehand, examined it, and was stunned for a moment when he met Su Ziji's eyes.

Su Ziji quickly restrained his mind, and replied to the yamen servant who asked himself again: "It's the student, Su Ziji."

The yamen servant nodded, and immediately two people went forward to touch Su Ziji's hair bun, and searched his lower body briefly to see if he brought in something. This is the first check.

After the initial investigation, Su Ziji was immediately urged to move forward.

Su Ziji resisted the urge to look at these people, and walked into the Gongyuan.

"Why, is there something wrong with this person?" Seeing the eyes of the middle-aged man looking at the young student, several military officers asked.

"No, it's just that we met a few times." The middle-aged Gao Yaochen shook his head.

"Sure enough, this errand is not so easy. I don't know how the examination rooms in other counties are?" One person nodded and said casually.

"Master Zhang, it is impossible for the nobles of Tianhuang to be buried here." The middle-aged man glanced at the students behind him with a piercing gaze, and said softly when he looked back: "There was a change in the imperial clan board last night, and you can only take the exam today if you think about it carefully. .”

"In other words, it is very likely that it is among these students, so let's continue." The person who spoke was obviously just complaining casually, and continued to pay attention after speaking.

Su Ziji didn't know that he had been paid attention to just now. When he entered the tribute courtyard, he saw four officials holding lamps standing in front of him.

They stood facing the entrance, and the words on the lanterns in their hands were clearly visible. Because of the test guide, candidates naturally knew which test room they were going to.

"Ting field?" Su Ziji took a look at Kao Yin, walked to the lantern holder who was holding on to the "D" lantern, and lined up.

As the thousands of examinees were separated one by one, the sky was completely bright at this time, an eighth-rank official came out, said a few words loudly, and the yamen servants sang under the signal: "Students enter the venue—!"

The four lamp bearers turned around at this time and walked in four directions respectively, while the long dragon behind them also moved.

It wasn't until he finally reached the T-shaped field and was searched carefully again that Su Ziji heaved a sigh of relief.

"Although the government examination has been simplified and the content of the examination must be much less, it is really troublesome just to go through this procedure."

"I hope I can pass the exam once."

Sitting in the simple shed, there are only simple partitions on both sides, and there is a straw shed on the top. If it rains heavily or catches fire, the students here must suffer.

"It's no wonder that the exam was chosen in April. In other months, this environment will be more difficult for candidates."

To find his own seat according to Kaoyin, Su Ziji does not need to study ink. According to the regulations of this dynasty, starting from the government examination, in order to prevent unnecessary accidents, except for Kaoyin, candidates are not allowed to bring in anything. , pens, inks, papers and inkstones are provided by the examination room, even meals and water are the same.

The Xingfu test was shortened, only one day, one meal at noon, and you can leave after handing in the essay. At the latest, it will be dark, so you can light a candle.

Su Ziji didn't think it would be so easy. In fact, it was quite the opposite. After a few days of government examinations, he could slowly polish his essays, but this required students to be impatient.

If you get stuck for a while, you can't think about it, you can only sigh and miss this opportunity.

"In line with the atmosphere of the new dynasty, efficiency is required in everything." Su Ziji couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Candidates enter the arena and only wait for a while before the yamen servants who distribute paper, pen and ink arrive.

Su Ziji touched a stack of white paper and checked the brush and ink, and then he was relieved. These are not high-quality goods, but they are quite satisfactory, and no one can fault them.

Although these things are worn out and can be replaced at any time, if there is no problem, there is still no problem.

After a while, the yamen servants patrol the venue with sign lights, and the examination questions are displayed on the board, which is generally the same as the county examination.

The students who came to take the government examination had all gone through the county examination, so naturally they quickly entered the state.

"The theory of the direct exam?" I thought I would take the memorization, rhetoric, and ink meanings, but I didn't expect to skip it this time, and only took the theory of strategy.

Su Ziji was startled at first, and then he was overjoyed.

Although the first two are not afraid because they are familiar with the Five Classics, it is more advantageous to only consider policy theory.

It's hard to say what the seventh level is, and it may not be as high as Juren, but in the government examination, there must not be many children with this level.

And he already has Fang Juren's experience in policy theory, and Fang Juren believes that as long as he is lucky, he will be able to pass the exam.

"Recitation, rhetoric, and ink meanings are cancelled, because they all take basic skills, and the basic skills have already been tested in the county."

"Although they are not difficult, they are very trivial and time-consuming. If you take the test for three days in a row, the time does not matter. If you take one day, it will squeeze the candidates' time."

"It's only natural to cancel the memorization, rhetoric, and ink meanings."

"As for this theory, it has something to do with the flood." Su Ziji raised his eyebrows slightly, he was a little surprised that such a topic would come up.

"Although this court selects scholars and inherits the Great Wei system. In order to select officials and govern one side, it has always focused on practicality, but this is only a government examination, and it is based on such a topic as a policy discussion. Is it because of the high opinion of Tongsheng, or is the flood already imminent?"

Such thoughts only flashed by, Su Ziji picked up the pen and started to write slowly on the draft paper.

"For this topic, there is no need to be sure when writing. The left and right are just water control... No, it's not just that." Su Ziji immediately put down his pen again.

"It seems that it is only related to the flood, but in fact it involves all aspects, the money from the Ministry of Households, the people from the Ministry of Industry, these are only superficially known, and there must be other forces involved. This seems to be just water control. It may be a competition between several forces."

Su Ziji deliberated over and over again, and still followed his will, picked up some water control methods he knew in his previous life, and wrote them down now that he can use them.

However, the language has been polished to make it beautiful and not sharp.

The current calligraphy is much better than that of the county test.

Fang Zhen once commented on the deficiencies of the pavilion style written at the beginning, and now this deficiency has been made up for with a lot of experience and hard work.

Although it is not considered to be elegant and elegant, it can also give people a sense of uniformity, roundness and fullness.

"In this way, we can get some questions, but we won't show our sharpness and cause trouble instead."

When Su Ziji finally finished writing the draft, it was already noon, and there were yamen servants delivering food and water to the test sheds one by one.

Because everyone's stomach and intestines are different, the food is cakes, not even oily or meaty, and the water is boiled water, not even rough tea.

This is not because the government is stingy, but because they are afraid that if there is a problem with food and water, whose responsibility is it?

Su Ziji was afraid of soiling the paper, so he hurriedly vacated the things on the table for a while, had a tasteless meal, and rested for a while, before seriously copying the contents of the draft on the official scroll.

After copying every word, I blew on the ink, and my forehead was dripping with sweat. It took a lot of energy to finish writing in one go.

"Even I feel a little dizzy, what about the other students?"

At a glance, everyone was pale, and he didn't dare to look more, so he checked again, and found that there was no problem, and there was no taboo word left out by him, so Su Ziji was relieved.

At this time, it was approaching dusk, and candidates rang the bell one after another and handed in their papers.

"Or, I can try it now." Seeing that everything was completed, Su Ziji moved his lips slightly, as if he was reading his own test paper silently, and reached out to touch the test paper.

"Boom" suddenly changed.

(End of this chapter)