Facts have proved that there are no rules to follow, and in the end you can only bet on loneliness.
Sheng Yuan sat in the examination room, listening to the explanation of the examination questions by his old acquaintance Master Yin Chen of Shuntian Prefecture, and sighed helplessly.
To say that the Academy's kindness was not in vain, after all, it had a psychological comfort effect.
Many classmates she knew walked into the examination room with confidence.
Okay, don’t be frightened after entering the examination room. Since the examination time is limited, everyone does not care about panic. Instead, the transition from confidence to immersive experience is completed naturally.
Thinking like this, Sheng Yuan couldn't help but suspect that this was the academy's strategy. Maybe the academy sent them there in the name of the title based on strategic and tactical requirements.
"There are a total of five questions in this exam. You must answer three. You can choose any of the five questions at will. The remaining two questions can be answered by those who are capable. There is no compulsory requirement... Those who answer more questions will not be given more points. , only tied rankings can be used as the selection criteria.”
Sheng Yuan listened to this and automatically translated it to the system: "That is to say, if you have time, answer more questions. Even if you don't have enough time, no points will be awarded for answering more questions. It will only become the criterion when the ranking is tied with others. Under the same conditions, answering more questions will The winner will be the winner. If everyone answers more questions, the winner will be the winner."
[Sister Yuan, answer! Let’s answer them all! 】The system clenched its little fist to cheer Sheng Yuan up.
"That's for sure!" Sheng Yuan also nodded firmly.
There are many students in the examination room who share her thoughts. Even the students who are not competing for ranking are ready to answer as many questions as possible.
As the examiner, Yan Xuezheng and Fu Yin Chen Wen looked at the unexpected reactions of the students in the examination room and breathed a sigh of relief.
They invigilate exams, and they are most afraid of encountering candidates making trouble, but students are often the most emotionally volatile. As long as someone provokes or makes noise, someone will respond as if they are cooperating.
"The exam questions this time are also very different from those in the past. Not only has the number of exam questions increased, but the format of the exam questions is also different." Yan Xuezheng briefly foreshadowed, "As we all know, the children's exam is the qualifying test for the imperial examination and the entrance to the imperial court's selection of talents. Examination, and because this examination has revealed a new atmosphere, the examiners of the Ministry of Rites all believe that the assessment of the academy examination should change closely with the situation, and pay more attention to the ability of talents to govern the country, so policy theory is stronger than poetry assessment."
"Wow!" The candidates all understood when they heard this.
It seems that the five questions this time are all about strategies and there is no poetry at all.
Realizing this, there were thousands of people in the examination room, some were happy and some were sad.
However, the exclamations on the field did not last long. The moment the inspector's eyes appeared in the examination room, the examination room... was quiet!
Sheng Yuan belongs to the group of people who are least affected.
In line with the principle of relying on fabrication for everything in the exam, Sheng Yuan's mood is extremely stable.
Especially with the support that the thickness of her skin is directly proportional to her mentality, she is not afraid!
As long as you can keep up with your imagination, and as long as you can relate it to the words and sentences in the classics, the questions you answer will not be too ugly!
Student Sheng Yuan, who has rich experience in this type of work, is extremely confident!
"The exam questions will be released soon, students, be prepared." As soon as Chen Wen, the governor, said these words, Sheng Yuan's casual eyes suddenly became firm.
Her delicate ears suddenly stood up like radar, and turned slightly and slightly.
Sure enough, when the test questions were posted on the question board, the question reader read aloud:
"The first question: When the Yi and Di people attacked the city, you were the official guarding the city. You had only ten days of food reserves, but your morale was low. Your superior officer ordered you to defend the city for more than a month. What did you do?"
"..." The tip of Sheng Yuan's pen trembled, and she quickly wrote down this question, resisting the urge to complain.
After the first question is recorded, it’s time for the second question.
"You are the magistrate of the county and camp near the sea. There are refugees in front of you and invaders in the back. If you can't garrison enough troops, how can you survive?"
"..." Sheng Yuan breathed out and shook his head without stopping.
"The third question: Encouraging learning is an important task for an official. However, in the area under your jurisdiction, social education does not exist and the people are dull. What do you do?"
"???" Sheng Yuan couldn't help but suspect that the reason for changing the test questions this time was not that complicated. It was simply that the marking officers were fed up with the candidates' false answers and ignorant and arrogant remarks, so they bribed the superior officials. That’s why we have these more down-to-earth questions.
However, these are the government affairs qualities that local officials must possess. Can these candidates, who are competing with the provincial qualification examinations, really be able to control them? !
Sheng Yuan felt less confident.
If she had known this, she would have read more local files. She remembered that there were many such notes in the book sent by the emperor's cousin!
Of course, there is no use regretting it now, as we are all sitting in the examination room!
[Sister Yuan, what should I do? 】But the system was so anxious that it scratched its ears. It wanted to help her take the test in disguise!
"You can stop it!" Sheng Yuan heard that it meant so and hurriedly stopped it.
"I don't know these things clearly. Even if I open the book, it won't be of much use. Instead, it will be easy to trick you into it. It's really not cost-effective! It's better if I make it up now!"
She calmed down the system for a while and hurriedly continued recording.
"Question 4: You are the magistrate of the county. The county is poor and the land is poor. The people are struggling to do business. The countryside is in decline and it is difficult to pay taxes in full. What should you do?"
"It's the county magistrate again." Sheng Yuan, who had a rough guess about the direction of the test questions, had already entered the state and began to think seriously.
"Question 5: You are in charge of a government, and banditry has persisted for a long time. From the government to the wealthy gentry, it is difficult to stop it. It has occupied important roads and blocked trade routes. The people are complaining and everyone is in danger. Why?"
"Suppressing bandits?!" Sheng Yuan's eyes instantly lit up!
Where her brother went to work, there were bandits who had been entrenched in the mountains and forests for a long time. Speaking of which, her brother was going for those bandits! It is said that the results in suppressing bandits are quite impressive!
She wished she could defect to her brother and come to Shengyuan to suppress the bandit brothers and sisters. She felt inspired.
If she could be reunited with her brother, she could write thousands of words of advice now!
The more she thought about it, the more excited Sheng Yuan became. The image of herself going to a meeting with two swords and taking the head of a bandit had already formed in her mind!
[Sister Yuan, why don’t you think about subduing others without fighting? 】
The system feels that its host has no potential to be a general and a handsome man. He is just a reckless man wielding a knife and a stick to charge!
Sheng Yuan pretended that she didn't hear the system's complaints. She couldn't go anyway. She was just thinking about it. She was just having fun, so why should she be serious?
Fortunately, it was time for the official exam. As soon as the gong sounded, the whole place was so quiet that the only sound was the sound of writing.
…
"I heard that this time there will be five questions on grassroots governance. I don't know if Sister Yuan can answer them well."
Sheng Xiangxun walked around outside and came back to whisper to his wife.
"If I had known this, I would have shamelessly approached my classmates and show her how the place works."
Mrs. Zheng ignored him at first, but Sheng Xiangxun was really good at talking. She made his ears buzz, and in the end she could only stare at him: "The candidates are not only the sons of officials, but also the sons of common people and farmers. Is it possible that they don’t want to take the exam?”
(End of chapter)
