The Academy's testing of candidates is not limited to examination subjects, but also the candidates' character. However, this aspect cannot be tested intuitively.
The Academy once tried to ask candidates to answer so-called xinxing test questions. The results were good at first. However, after a few years, after the test question routines were summarized by the wealthy families, the examination room became a stage for the children of the wealthy families to perform, and the original function was lost. effect.
Several PhDs in charge of admissions gathered together to study for an afternoon, and then decided on the current set of harmful recruitment.
Introducing ordinary people to watch the Academy Examination, which is called accepting supervision, is actually using these ordinary people to interfere with the candidates to a certain extent.
First of all, we must make it clear that the purpose of the Academy Examination is not to edify a group of elite officials, which is a matter for the Imperial College, nor to train a group of elite soldiers, which is a matter for the Ministry of War. Its real purpose is to recruit a group of practitioners with potential. By.
After establishing this premise, you will know the screening mechanism of the academy by looking at the four required exams. The two arts exams are to look for candidates with understanding, thinking, and dialectical skills, and the two martial arts exams are for candidates to show their physical strength. , skills and manipulation, on top of which a side consideration is given to the character of the mind.
Except for a small number of all-rounders with family background support, most candidates can only focus on two items in the literary test or two in the martial arts test, so the consideration of character must be more targeted.
The two liberal arts exams allow people to watch and discuss. The voice does not need to be too loud. The buzzing is the most annoying. Candidates who cannot ignore external interference and concentrate on answering the questions will naturally be eliminated.
This is just the beginning. After the military candidates hand in their papers, the invigilator disguised as a commoner will start to lead the crowd to talk about the candidates, usually with the following: I heard that a certain candidate from a certain place is not good at writing, or has very poor poetry, and so on. Or it all depends on luck, etc.
Under the influence of the formation, these discussions can be clearly transmitted to the ears of the candidates. Most literati pay attention to their appearance. When they hear the people next to them saying that they are not good, very few can remain calm. If their minds are confused, their performance in the examination room or It will be reflected on the test paper
As for warriors who like to fight bravely and fiercely, it's better to know what to do. As the saying goes, it's better to challenge a general than to challenge him. In addition, warriors are easy to be arrogant and arrogant. Just make a big fuss around "stimulation" and "arrogance", and the applause from the audience will be enough. In this way, the person concerned is proud and irritated to the bystanders.
Although these methods are not on the table, they are enough to get rid of most of the mediocre people and isolate them from the re-examination. This is a way to wash away the sand in a big way.
Today, something like Wei Feng's speedy submission of papers occurred, which resulted in the loss of too many onlookers outside the two examination rooms of the Literary Examination, so the chief invigilator temporarily decided to start the implementation in advance.
Not to mention the impact of the sudden discussion over there on the candidates who were doing the questions, the spectators outside the archery examination room were no longer satisfied with clapping and applauding Wei Feng and the other three, and the voices of motivating other candidates from the Ministry of War to compete together gradually spread to the venue, and they were booing. Who doesn’t know how to set up rice seedlings?
"What are these dozens of people doing standing there? If it were me, I would have competed with those three people."
"It's okay to be shocked. Everyone gets scared sometimes. If it doesn't work, don't do it."
"Yes, I don't think they are very good at it. They should just stand still and don't go up and embarrass themselves at this time."
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Words like these kept coming from the crowd of onlookers into the arena, like a demonic sound piercing their ears. Some of the Ministry of War candidates' faces turned green and red, as if some of them couldn't bear the excitement and wanted to enter the venue with bows and arrows.
It was at this moment that Wei Feng moved again.
Ever since the two men sandwiched him on the left and right in an obvious provocation, Wei Feng stood with his bow in hand as if watching the excitement, quietly watching their performance.
The two of them shot alternately, and now they have completed the fifty-foot target. One has hidden provocation in his eyes, and the other has pride in his eyes. They also look at Wei Feng at the same time, expressing the same meaning: It's your turn.
Wei Feng chuckled. He was already preparing to shoot the Baizhang target. Since these two wanted to play, he would just play with them. As long as he had enough confidence, he really didn't mind adding some fun.
I saw him take out three feather arrows from the quiver at once, hold the three feather arrows in his hand at the same time, first place one of them on the string, use two fingers to pull the bow and control the string, and use the remaining three fingers for the remaining two. Clamp.
The family member's eyes first showed confusion, and then some doubts. When he saw that Wei Feng had begun to pull the bowstring, the doubts turned into disbelief and deep doubts. Is this kid crazy?
He could see what Wei Feng wanted to do. He was planning to shoot three consecutive shots. If he only used two finger strings to hold the feathers, the stability and strength would be greatly reduced. If he shot a thirty-foot target, it would still be barely feasible, and it would be difficult. It was also huge. If all three shots hit, he would have to praise his superb shooting skills. But looking at Wei Feng's posture, it was clear that he was aiming at a fifty-foot target.
Yao Dayong, who had always shown his firm eyes, narrowed his eyes at this time. He also tried three consecutive shots at the fifty-foot target. The difficulty was very high. His best shot was only two shots on target, and one of them was far from the target. Quite far.
He had tried special training, but his military instructors told him that there was no need to get into trouble. It would be much easier to complete this task when he started practicing. Now, practicing now would be more effective than half the gain, so it would be better to work on his body more.
But now someone wanted to perform this in front of him, and it was still in the academy exam where stability was the main focus, and a certain fire that had been extinguished in his heart showed signs of igniting again.
Wei Feng didn't know what the two were thinking, and didn't care too much. He aimed, fired, held the feather, aimed, fired, held the feather, aimed, and fired. A series of actions were done in one go. His hand speed was so fast that the first feather arrow was still flying. During the flight, the third feather arrow had been shot by him.
The three arrows whizzed out one after another, and the three trajectories were exactly the same. Only three slight sounds of "Duo", "Duo" and "Duo" were heard. The three arrows arrived at the target one after another and were arranged in the red area in the center of the target in a "pin" shape. .
"Hiss~"
The original noisy cheers suddenly stopped, as if the speaker had been strangled by the neck, and only the sound of incredible inhalation came out.
"Wow!" "Okay!" "So beautiful!"...
After a moment of silence, the crowd suddenly became excited, cheering and howling, not sparing any praise.
Several Ministry of War candidates who were about to enter the examination room suddenly stopped. They felt their steps were a little heavy. They didn't know whether they should continue walking forward, but they were halfway there, and they couldn't just turn around in despair. Then It was too embarrassing, so I could only bite the bullet and move forward. I already regretted my impulsiveness just now.
(End of chapter)
