On the wedding night, the substitute princess cured the war king's poison

Ning Luo also saw the expression on the faces of the officials below - the expression common to students with jet lag in exams.

These questions are so difficult, I can’t do them.

Why can't I understand this question?

What an unlucky person, why did I encounter such a problem?

That's great. I can't do it, and neither can anyone else. Let's just mess it up together.

……

Ning Luo smiled secretly: This is a test question for the civil service examination in the 21st century. Whoever takes the exam will know how difficult it is.

The first question is a numerical reasoning question.

The second question is a graphical reasoning question.

The third question is a logical judgment question.

"Princess, this is not an imperial examination question."

A bad old man took the lead in protesting.

Others echoed: “These are not things in the books of sages.”

……

Ning Luo scolded in a deep voice: "These are reasoning questions, which can test the wisdom of officials."

"Just because you can't do it doesn't mean others can't do it."

"As officials of the common people, you are responsible for governing a country. Your daily government affairs are to resolve cases and make decisions on farming and mulberry matters. If you are not good at reasoning, how can you resolve the case and make the right decisions?"

"These questions are simpler than the imperial examination questions. You are not required to write poems or articles. If you are lucky, you may be able to guess it. There are answers below each question. You just need to choose the correct answer."

"If you can't answer these questions today, you can go to the military fields to farm on your own initiative. If you don't want to go, keep your life!"

"In this exam, no whispering is allowed. Those who have figured out the answers should line up and come to the front to answer the questions."

After that, he ordered people to light incense and time it, and ordered ten guards to take notes and record it.

As a result, these officials are left scratching their heads trying to figure out the answer.

No one wants to farm.

After a quarter of an hour, someone finally plucked up the courage to step forward and hand over the answer.

One person takes the lead and the others follow.

In line with the mentality of showing off and not punishing everyone, they thought that even if they got the answer wrong, the princess would not dismiss everyone from their official positions.

Otherwise, who will take care of the government affairs of the state governments in northern Xinjiang?

These three questions are multiple-choice questions, each with four answers.

The questions are numbered, 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the respondent reports his or her name, official position, and options.

After everyone finished reporting their answers, the guards handed it over to the Princess Regent for review.

Ning Luo glanced over quickly.

"The magistrate of Quancheng gave all the wrong answers. Someone comes and takes off his official robe."

"The magistrate of Ming County only answered one question correctly. Come and take off his official robe."

"..."

Guards with swords came out in response.

In a short while, the official hats and robes of more than a dozen officials were confiscated, and some of them were also confiscated along with their official seals.

"Princess, you are humble and disobedient. How could you get all the answers wrong? At least let us know where we are wrong."

"Yes, the answer must be announced, otherwise we will not accept it."

All the officials cried out that they were aggrieved.

"Okay, since you want to know where the mistake is, I will open your eyes."

Ning Luo quickly read all the answers.

I don't know if two people were really talented or just lucky enough to guess the answer, and they answered all three questions correctly.

That's fine too, let others lose clearly.

Ning Luo put down her answer sheet, stood up slowly and walked to the writing board.

"This question, 3 6 7 8 15 10 [empty] 12 63"

If there is an empty number in the middle, only two people can answer it correctly.

"Prefect of Yinzhou, tell me how you solved the problem, so that they can all be convinced."

The magistrate of Yinzhou was both happy and embarrassed to be named.

"Humble job... is the guessed answer."

Ning Luo asked another person, and he also answered that he guessed it correctly.

"Both of them guessed three questions correctly and retained their official positions."

Ning Luo announced and looked at the other officials with a sneer.

"A hundred of you take the test. Even if you don't know how to solve the problem, there will always be someone who can guess the correct answer."

"It really comes true to what I said, the person who succeeds in the imperial examination only relies on one-third of his own hard work and seven-cent of it on luck."

"You have all studied nine chapters of arithmetic, but you will not be able to answer the test questions when you encounter them. Therefore, officials who study hard must be officials who cannot solve cases."

After the words fell, there was no one to refute.

"Now, I will tell you how to solve this problem. At first glance, these adjacent numbers have nothing to do with this problem. However, if you analyze it carefully, you can figure out the clues. Just like solving a case, you can peel off the cocoons and find clues."

"Look at the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth digits, they are all different by two. Is there a pattern?"

The official nodded understandingly.

"What's the pattern when looking at the first, third, fifth, and seventh numbers?"

Immediately, someone drew inferences from one example, discovered the pattern, and shouted: "It's two times plus one."

"I know the answer to this question, it's 31."

"It's 31."

"I see!"

Ning Luo nodded, but said: "The paper has been handed in, it is too late, you can study while farming from now on."

Then she analyzed the answers to the remaining two reasoning and analysis questions.

After listening to the regent and princess' explanation, some of the dismissed officials were completely convinced.

Reflection: It turns out that I really studied hard and got my fame by luck.