At first glance, Xu Yan's article was unfolded according to the words of the saint. After careful consideration, he found another way to find a way.

He first pointed out that "the punishment can be temporarily appropriated to the people" and "rituals can gradually be matched with the people", so he took it naturally and pointed out that the way of governing the country "it is better to teach the people to do good than to prohibit the people from doing evil."

Looking at the full text, the first article says "Tao it to govern" and "the people are exempted from shameless"; the next article says "Tao it to virtue" and "has shameful and stubborn".

The idea is clear and the needle is at the forefront.

If it were put a month ago, Xu Yan would definitely not be able to write such a perfect article. He may have many highlights, but how to combine these highlights together to form an article is not as simple as saying it casually, but depends on practice.

It can only be said that divine hard work rewards, and Xu Yan's devil training has worked. The students who went to the county exam with him may be harder than him in studying hard, but they are far inferior in practicing writing articles and summarizing and improving effectively. After all, Xu Yan had a great scholar, Mr. Xushan, who was a teacher and had a small training session. If he couldn't understand anything again, it would be a failure.

After writing the title of the Four Books, Xu Yan put down his pen and moved his fingers.

Although this article is only a few hundred words, my fingers are still a little sore after writing it in one breath.

After about a while of resting, Xu Yan felt that the adjustment had been almost done, so he began to prepare the Five Classics test questions.

Xu Yan's sutra is the Book of Songs, and the title is "No Clothes".

The title is from "Qin Feng Wuyi".

Xu Yan happened to practice this question, so he naturally got it at will.

Pull the pen and dip it in ink, write quickly, and write an article on the paper.

Xu Yan read it through again, except for a few words that were written in surprise because he was too excited.

The last question is to test the poem.

In the Ming Dynasty, the test-posting poems were not formal questions for the imperial examinations, and they were not set for this. However, in the county examinations, the government examinations often used test-posting poems instead of an article. After all, the local level of the papers were all marked by the parents. If you read the articles, the county magistrate and the prefect would be exhausted to death.

The title is: Fu is the water surface of the heavenly heart.

When writing poems in the test, you should first figure out where the title comes from, otherwise even if the poem is written well, it will be useless.

Xu Yan’s favorite thing in his life was reading poetry and savoring poetry, and he was naturally familiar with this sentence.

The surface of Fu Detian Xin comes from "The Song of Qing Night" by Shao Yong, a great scholar in the Song Dynasty.

The whole poem says, "When the moon reaches the heart of the sky, the wind comes to the water surface, the general meaning is clear, and few people know it."

It can be seen that the title of the test poem is taken from the first two lines of Shao Yong's poem. We should write a five-character and eight-rhyme poem based on this.

Writing poetry is Xu Yan's strength. After a moment of thinking, he picked up his pen and wrote:

"The moon shines on the island at night, and the spring breeze fills the liquid pond.

The sky is clear and the water is quiet and ripples.

Pu Bozhan is like this, and he is clear about it here.

Jade Heng hangs from the right way, and gold is selfless.

First study the news, but understand the poems.

The virtual world returns to the Immortal World, and the leap turns into a random opportunity.

When the star collects the chest, the clouds wash their eyes.

If you carefully practice the Qin and Imperial Theory, the sages know the most rational principles.”

Although this poem is not as artistic as those of the peak Tang poems, it is better to integrate the rhythm. It is great to be able to write a poem like this in a test.

After finishing the three questions, more than half of the time has passed.

Most of the other candidates were writing quickly, and Xu Yan had nothing to do.

The county examination did not copy the name. He wrote his name on the paper and read the articles and poems through it.

Such a quality test paper can be considered a standout in the county examination.

Although Xu Yan was not sure that he would definitely win the case, there should be no doubt that he would pass the county examination.

Without wanting to waste time, Xu Yan decided to hand in the paper in advance.

This is extremely rare in the county examination. After all, candidates hope to seize every trace of time to polish the article in order to achieve the best results and win the favor of the county master.

But rare does not mean that it is not allowed. As long as the candidate decides to submit the papers in advance, the minor officials will also collect the papers.

However, after handing over the paper, the candidates can no longer stay in the examination room and must leave the county school immediately.

Xu Yan naturally didn't want to stay in a place where the smell of "sweat smell" gathered for a long time. After handing in the paper, he left the county school.

After the first main exam, all Xu Yan had to do was wait.

If nothing unexpected happens, he should have passed directly and he doesn't need to take the exam.

Of course, Xu Yan still looked forward to the ranking.

But Xu Yan returned to the mansion, which scared Xu Huaiyuan.

"Why did my son come back early? Didn't he encounter a question I don't know? Alas, how did my father tell you before? Even if he can't write the question, he would have to compile an article to fill the paper."

Xu Huaiyuan's expression of pain made Xu Yan amused.

"Dad, why do you look down on your son so much? How come these simple questions are rare to make your son? It's boring and boring. To be honest, my son only took half of the time to answer the three questions!"

"ah?"

Xu Huaiyuan was obviously scared: "My son is having a headache again? What should I do?"

Xu Yan looked at Xu Huaiyuan with a dark face, spread his hands and said, "Dad, can't you trust your son once? Take a step back and say, can't you trust Mr. Xushan once?"

When Xu Huaiyuan heard about Mr. Xushan, he felt a little relieved.

It is said that famous teachers produce great disciples. Mr. Xushan is a great scholar of his generation. Even if he teaches his son 30% of his knowledge, his son should be able to handle the county trial.

"Dad believes in you." Xu Huaiyuan patted Xu Yan's shoulder and sighed: "My son is finally going to have a future, Dad is so pleased."

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The first county examination was finally over, and the magistrate Zhao Ruohai frowned in the face of the test papers that were set up on a table.

It would be fine if these candidates wrote the article better, but each article was worse than the other, and some even made no sense.

If you think about it carefully, there is no way to do so. The Zhejiang Provincial Administration and Education are booming, but that is mainly because scholars in Hangzhou, Shaoxing and other prefectures are well trained, and good seedlings are one after another.

The culture and education of Ningbo Prefecture are at the middle level among the entire Zhejiang Provincial Administration. As for Dinghai County, it is the bottom of Ningbo Prefecture. It is no wonder that this is the case.

Zhao Ruohai was also a Jinshi, so the level of eight-legged essays is naturally useless.

At the beginning, he could read the whole article seriously. After reading dozens of articles, his mentality was broken and he wanted to poke his eyes.

In order not to ravage himself, County Magistrate Zhao decided to see through the questions first, and those who wrote the questions poorly will continue to take the second exam and resume the first round.

Just when County Magistrate Zhao was on the verge of despair, an article lit up his eyes.

"A sage discusses governance and argues about his response to his thoughts. Political and punishments can temporarily approve the people, and this trace should be polite to the people gradually. This is the response to the people. Knowing this can be discussed about governance."

This is a sharp problem!

County Magistrate Zhao immediately became interested and read the whole article in one breath. He couldn't help but exclaim: "Good article, good article! I didn't expect that I can still have such talent in Dinghai County."

Then he remembered to see the candidate's name. When he saw the words Xu Yan, he sighed: "Xu Yishi, Xu Yishi, you did not disappoint our county!"

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Chapter completed!