The sound of gongs and drums rang out again in the early morning.
Today we will test the meaning of the scriptures.
After the test paper was handed out, it contained the text of the "Book of Filial Piety" and its meaning in ink.
This is why there are separate examination halls. In the Juren examination, you can choose one from seven, but in the Jinshi examination, you have to memorize all seven classics. Therefore, the test papers can be unified for the Jinshi examination, and in the Juren examination, naturally, they can only be taken separately.
Zhao Jun glanced at the questions. This one should be the easiest. Everyone around him had no hesitation. If you can't even recite the "Book of Filial Piety", then don't take the imperial examination.
Not long after, in just over two hours, most of the candidates had finished answering, but Zhao Jun was stuck.
He suddenly forgot how to write a certain word.
Although it is outrageous, it is indeed true. He was able to finish writing the policy essay before because he had something to copy directly. Now when he starts to copy the real ancient Chinese text, he feels a little awkward.
After all, before I traveled through time, even when I was in college, I didn’t write with a pen very often. Many students and even teachers often used mobile phones or computers.
Moreover, some characters in ancient times were different from those in later generations. Even after more than a month of intensive training, big problems still occurred.
That is to say.
The most difficult things for others are the easiest for him, and the easiest things for others are the most difficult for him.
It's very uncomfortable.
But Zhao Jun had no other choice. After writing on the scrap paper for a long time without any result, he had to continue copying other scriptures from memory.
After some stumbling, I finally finished writing the Ten Sutras and the Ten Ink Meanings.
Unfortunately, there were six typos in it. According to the scoring rules at the time, it would probably have been marked six times, which would have been a medium-to-low grade. If it had been marked nine times, it would have been a failing grade.
After handing in the test paper, Zhao Jun was too lazy to think too much. If he didn't do well, then he didn't do well. Anyway, he didn't need to rely on the imperial examination to become an official.
The only problem was that the first two days were fine, but the closer we got to the third day, the worse the smell in the exam room became.
The scholars ate, drank, defecated and urinated in the wooden house. After a long time, the stench in the wooden house was unavoidable and the smell spread everywhere, which was disgusting.
Fortunately, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and Taichang Temple had planted a lot of osmanthus flowers. The temple was filled with the rich fragrance of osmanthus, which neutralized the smell a little.
A large number of scholars spent the next day in this physical and mental torture, and finally arrived at the last exam on the third day.
In the early morning, the deadly sound of gongs and drums resounded throughout the Taichang Temple.
All kinds of noisy sounds suddenly rang out.
There are rules in the examination room. Students are not allowed to leave the cabin to communicate with others, but if they whisper to themselves, generally no one will care, so there is a constant rustling sound.
Zhao Jun got up early in the morning to grind. It was a cloudy day today and it might rain during the day. He looked at the time and it was already seven o'clock in the morning. The sky was not yet completely bright, but gray. The autumn wind was bleak and the temperature had dropped a lot.
"Calculating the time, it should be almost time."
"Although a lot of corrupt officials within the Imperial City Division have been exposed these days, many people were intimidated by my power and dared not take any action. If these people continue to stay in the Imperial City Division, they will become hidden dangers."
"So I must root them out completely and deal with them all according to the department's rules. After that, I will recruit a new group of reliable personnel to formally expand the scale of the Imperial City Department."
"Now that I've left the Imperial City Division and disappeared for two days, those people down there will probably be unable to contain themselves and will definitely take action."
"This tactic is to lure the snake out of its hole and then take the initiative to attack. I hope it will work."
Zhao Jun was thinking while grinding.
He has seen and understood a lot of things in recent days, and has grown a lot under Fan Zhongyan's guidance.
Since you have to sit in the Imperial City Bureau and make achievements, you can't just be reckless. Once the other party sets a trap and they arrest the wrong person or make a wrong case, it will immediately lead to a crazy siege from the court and the public.
By then, the other party will be standing on the moral high ground. If they can arouse the anger of the people and officials, I am afraid that even Zhao Zhen will not be able to withstand it, and Zhao Jun will have no choice but to run away and become a bandit and rebel himself.
Therefore, we must think of clever ways to do things. This time, we should start from the inside and then from the outside. This idea was suggested by Fan Zhongyan. After all, this guy had been working in Kaifeng Prefecture for so long, and he had achieved certain results and mastered many things.
It's just that he doesn't have the power to bring down the person behind the scenes, so he handed over everything he investigated to Zhao Jun, hoping that Zhao Jun could get it done.
With Fan Zhongyan's help, we achieved much more with half the effort.
While he was pondering, the test papers were handed out. Today's test was about poetry, ci, and fu. Normally, one poem and one fu were tested. However, Yan Shu guessed that this time the test would be about ci, so Zhao Jun lowered his head to read the test paper.
"Start with a flat line and rhyme it, and write a five-character quatrain."
When Zhao Jun saw this topic, he scratched his head and thought that he had been tricked by Old Man Yan. He had thought it was a test of lyrics for the past two days, so he kept recalling the lyrics he had learned before, but it turned out to be a test of poetry.
Fortunately, it is a five-character quatrain, with only four lines, so as long as there are no problems with the rhythm and rhyme, it will be fine. If it were a five-character regulated verse, it would be more troublesome.
Zhao Jun actually didn't understand much about meter and rhyme before. He only knew that poetry needed to rhyme. But in fact, there was no fixed meter in the poetry style formed in the Wei and Jin Dynasties until the Tang Dynasty. Many Tang poems did not follow the fixed pattern of the 28-meter rhythm at all, and even the rhymes were not well-formed.
The reasons for this are that the rhythm of Chinese characters was not unified in the past, and that there are differences between the ancient and modern phonology. For example, the character "上" (shang) is pronounced as the fourth tone in modern Chinese, which is a ze tone according to the rhythm of Chinese characters, but it was pronounced as the second tone in ancient Chinese, which is a ping tone according to the rhythm of Chinese characters.
After the Song Dynasty, the rules of poetry gradually became unified. For example, Liu Yuan of the Southern Song Dynasty created "Pingshuiyun", which perfected all the rhyme patterns.
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