Fan Zhongyu is the examiner, and this collection of Fan Gong's essays is a timely help for Jia Huan.
After reading this collection of essays, Jia Huan will have a fundamental understanding of Fan Zhongyu's writing preferences.
Then when writing for the exam, you will focus on it and cater to your preferences, and your chances of passing the exam will be greatly increased.
Thinking like this, Jia Huan picked up this collection of Fan Gong's papers and started to read through it.
Jia Huan's reading speed has always been very fast. Even if he read every word carefully, he finished reading this collection of Fan Gong's essays in a long time.
After reading it, Jia Huan couldn't help but take a breath.
This Mr. Fan is very powerful! After reading his collected works, Jia Huan had to admit that Fan Gong's articles were unique and had his own style.
Perhaps it is worse than those articles in history, but it is still a temporary choice.
Compared with Fan Gong's articles, my articles are much less popular.
However, the imperial examination is both a proposition essay and a time-limited essay, so the difficulty is naturally different.
Even if Mr. Fan were asked to write this kind of time-limited essay, he would not be able to do it so delicately and gracefully.
Jia Huan had a general understanding of Fan Gong's article.
On the ninth day of August, the first rural examination will officially begin. In the past few days, Jia Huan used Fan Gong's articles as a model and became gradually familiar with his style.
Of course, Jia Huan will not just imitate.
Articles are like people. Through the collection of articles, Jia Huan can roughly see the character of Duke Fan.
If you just imitate, you may not be able to please.
In the past few days, Mrs. Zhao, who was gradually getting better, was busy.
She was busy helping Jia Huan pack the exam supplies. Although she didn't have many things, she didn't need to prepare a few days in advance.
But she always felt that she owed Jia Huan too much. The provincial examination was coming soon. If she didn't do something for Jia Huan, she would feel uneasy.
Time passed day by day, and soon it came to the eighth day of August.
Jia Huan got up early, dressed and washed under Qingwen's service, and then ate the breakfast made by Qingwen before he went out with his examination basket.
Well, the main examination of the provincial examination is on the ninth day of August, but candidates need to enter the examination room one day in advance. On the eighth day of August, candidates will go to the examination room.
Qingwen sent Jia Huan out of the house, and then said: "When the third master goes, he will definitely win the game, succeed immediately, and become the number one scholar in high school."
Haha, another little girl who doesn’t understand the imperial examination process got the top prize.
Jia Huan didn't bother to explain to her, waved his hand and got into the carriage.
Well, in the past few days, the two Jinyiwei officers who were standing guard at the door have left and are no longer standing guard at the door of Zhao Mansion.
At the gate of Zhao Mansion, there are also carriages daring to come to the door.
This carriage was booked early.
Not long after, the carriage took Jia Huan to the entrance of the examination room.
This time is not yet early in the morning. Strictly speaking, it is still late at night on the seventh day of August.
I have to say that this exam time is really hellish. You have to arrange to enter the examination room one day in advance so early.
The first trumpet was fired at 0:00 in the morning, two trumpets were fired half an hour later, and the third trumpet was fired around one o'clock. After the third trumpet, the door to the examination room was opened.
At around three o'clock in the morning, a roll call was held in front of the door. Students from dozens of prefectures and counties in the province formed a team of more than a dozen people, called "Qi". It contains about seven or eight prefectures and counties.
Hang a lantern and erect a large flag with the time and date written on it during the first roll call.
Candidates who completed the call came to the first entrance, the "head gate", to undergo a body search. In addition to stationery, bedding and simple cooking utensils can also be brought in, but printed matter and notes are prohibited.
Four guards search a candidate, and if any prohibited items are found, they will be rewarded with three taels of silver. Therefore, the search is extremely strict, and they even cut open the buns to check the fillings.
Jia Huan was once again subjected to a humiliating body search by a strong man. This time, he didn't even have the shield of Jia's house.
After checking the items they carry, the candidates will get a bamboo sign called "Zhao Ru Jian" and come to the second gate, which is the Yi Gate.
After submitting the admission form, candidates will undergo clothing inspection and receive a booklet with examination regulations, which is called the "three-session procedure."
Finally, we came to the third gate, which is the Dragon Gate. Inside the dragon gate is the examination place, with tens of thousands of seats arranged, looking like a maze.
The examination room for the rural examination is called "Gongyuan", which is a permanent building in each provincial capital. It's only used once every three years.
Candidates enter their designated dormitories respectively. After all candidates have entered, a cannon is fired, and all entrances are closed and sealed by the supervisor. They are not allowed to be opened until the end of the exam on the third day.
After entering the dormitory, the candidates tidied up the room and prepared to spend two nights there.
Food is stipulated to be provided by the government, but in fact the quantity is small and the quality is poor. Candidates often bring their own steamed buns, steamed buns, etc. The wife prepared steamed buns for Jia Huan. The weather was still very hot at this time. If she prepared steamed buns, the filling would be sour the next day.
On the night of the eighth day of August, Jia Huan sadly slept in the narrow dormitory for one night.
Jia Huan really couldn't figure out the significance of entering the examination room a day early.
Well, probably because there are too many candidates, more than 10,000!
On the eighth day of the lunar new year, it took most of the day just to queue up and enter the examination room. If you are scheduled on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, you really won’t have enough time.
On the morning of the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, pre-deposited answer sheets and question sheets with test questions are distributed.
At the same time, check again whether the candidate who enters the room is himself or herself. After the check is completed, a "right" stamp will be stamped on the answer sheet, which is called a "check mark stamp."
The test questions on the first day are three questions from four books. The text of the four books must not exceed 700 words, and the total of annotations and corrections cannot exceed 100 words.
Jia Huan opened the test paper and looked at the first question first. When he saw the question, he felt refreshed.
Huh? This question is very familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.
The title is: "The common people are sufficient, which one is insufficient" (The Analects of Confucius·Yan Yuan)
This question was so familiar that Jia Huan suspected that he had memorized the text of this question.
After thinking about it carefully, I found out that I did not recite it in this world, but I recited this article when I was in school in later generations.
The excellence of articles that have appeared in textbooks can be imagined.
And this article has never appeared in this world, so Jia Huan is completely relieved.
Then he looked at the next two questions and confirmed that he would never have such good luck again.
However, Jia Huan is not discouraged. There is a familiar question and he has gotten lucky.
Next, Jia Huan began to write the first article on the scratch paper.
Although the article is almost printed in my mind, it still needs to be written on a scratch paper first, and it must not be word by word.
Not long after, this article appeared on the draft paper:
Since the people are rich below, the king is rich above.
The wealth of the emperor is hidden in the people. Since the people are rich, how can there be any reason for the emperor to be alone and poor? You Ruo deeply expresses the meaning of the unity of the emperor and the people to express his condolences to the Duke.
(End of chapter)
