[Red House] Ban'er's Road to Imperial Examination

After the second policy discussion, the examinees re-entered two days later, and this exam was very interesting.

Originally, this test was supposed to be stereotyped essays, but after the reform, the content of this exam no longer only examines stereotyped essays, but added arithmetic and official documents.

There is only one question in the stereotyped essay, and it is a eulogizing essay. Compared with the questions in the second round, it can be seen that the examiner's attitude towards stereotyped essays is very casual.

The most common ones were arithmetic questions, with a total of 53 questions. Wang Yue could clearly hear the inhalation sound from the candidates next to him when these arithmetic questions were displayed on the question board in the hands of the yamen servant.

Thinking about it, although arithmetic has not been scorned as a strange skill for nearly a hundred years, it is not the right way in the eyes of literati after all. It is nothing more than a hobby on weekdays. There is no way to go further in the imperial examination field, but only low-level literati who want to be officials will delve into this kind of arithmetic. Therefore, in the eyes of orthodox and Jinshi-born officials, this kind of arithmetic is nothing more than trivial.

Even though in recent years, due to reforms, knowledge counts and has been paid more and more attention to, it has never occupied such an important position in the imperial examination field.

No one expected that the chief examiner would make such a slash this time, and it was no wonder that when these questions came out, everyone cried so much.

But Wang Yue was secretly delighted when he saw these questions. He roughly scanned the questions. Most of the questions were for primary school students, and the highest level was only for junior high school students. If he was at a loss for these questions, then his elementary school mathematics The teacher and junior high school math teacher would probably travel through time and space and kill him.

And these topics are her advantage, and it is also a great opportunity for him to distance himself from other people. In this environment that does not pay attention to mathematics, even if there are one or two who are proficient in mathematics, there are only a few, let alone Wang Yue. Don't think he, standing on the shoulders of giants, would be afraid of these ancient mathematicians.

However, the chief examiner probably also considered that these candidates also had difficult questions, but only a few, and most of them were relatively low-level, medium-level questions.

Some are directly excerpted from the Nine Chapters on Arithmetic, and only slightly changed the number. As long as you are not too stupid and can understand the problem, you can definitely solve the problem.

For example, in the first question, there are 72 steps for Hiroshi Arita now, and [-] steps for him.Ask Weitian geometry?

The second question now has one-third, four-ninths, and six-sevenths.Ask the geometry?

There are also slightly more difficult ones. For example, in the tenth question, there are six packs of upper grain, one pack of medium grain, five packs of lower grain, and 39 dou; Dou; one pinch of upper grain, two pinches of middle grain, three pinches of lower grain, total 34 buckets.Ask about the geometry of the upper, middle and lower grains?

In addition, there are more topics that have not been mentioned in Chapter Nine Arithmetic.

No. 20 eight questions, how much relief food is there now, it was originally planned to eat 500 catties a day, and it can be used up in one month, and then [-] victims were recruited, and an extra [-] catties a day, how many days can this batch of disaster relief food be eaten ?

No.20 Nine questions, today a good horse travels twelve miles a day, a bad horse travels seven miles a day, and the bad horse travels for twelve days first, how many days will it take for the good horse to catch up with the bad horse?

No.30 question, this is the most speechless question of Wang Yue when he was a child. Now there is a pool, water inlet pipe and drain pipe. If the drain pipe is opened alone, it will be full in six hours. [-]/[-], ask how long it takes to drain half of the water in the pool with only one drainpipe open

Wang Yue was very annoyed when he encountered this kind of question when he was a child. He deeply felt that the person who wrote the question was a bad writer. How could someone drain water while filling it?Are you stupid!

What a waste of water!

He still remembers that there was a classmate in the class who asked the teacher directly during the teacher's class, how could the teacher who gave the question not save water? They all think so.

Later, when he grew up, he realized that sometimes he would encounter the situation of draining while filling water.

But it is estimated that today's candidates will scold the examiner just like those students back then.

Many of these questions may take several hours for other candidates to solve, but for Wang Yue, these questions are very simple. Primary school students have more questions than this when they take the math test, and at most it only takes an hour to solve them. can finish.

And he is a college student anyway, and it only took him an hour to face these problems, which is because he checked it several times.

After finishing the arithmetic problem, he turned his attention to the last question, which was about maritime trade. He gave some data, assuming that the examinee was an official in charge of maritime trade, and he needed to report to the imperial court about maritime trade, and how to write it.

This is probably the same as the need to write official documents during the modern civil servant examination. It seems not difficult, but it is a blow to the poor.

Because the school does not teach how to write these official documents, and the ancient times were not as numerous as modern training courses, and reference books were flying all over the sky, so they had no chance to get in touch with them.

On the contrary, the children from the official family may have been in contact with the elders of the family, and what's more, they have ghostwritten for the elders, so they know the format of the memorial.

But the poor family's eyes are darkened, how did the memorial start, how did it pass, how did it end, they had no contact at all, so naturally they didn't know how to write.

Wang Yue could imagine that most of the candidates had passed the hurdle of the arithmetic problem, but they had to settle on this problem. It was estimated that many candidates' mental state would be hit when they left the examination room.

The chief examiner will definitely be scolded, but everyone really can't say that he made a mistake. Arithmetic is the focus that the court has been emphasizing in recent years, and he is also following orders.As for the writing of official documents, one can become an official if he wins the exam, and if he wants to be an official, he must be able to write official documents.

Even though many officials' memorials are written by their own teachers and staff, they are private and will definitely be written on the surface, so although it is the first time to use official document writing as the content of the exam, it can't be wrong.

However, Wang Yue remembered that the teacher of the Imperial College once mentioned that there was an examiner in the previous court who deliberately showed his knowledge, and the questions he asked were very remote, and most of the questions were sentence sentences. What's more, there was a question with only punctuation It fits, Wang Yue just thought hehe when he heard it, can punctuation marks be counted as questions?

Probably only God can answer the questions he asked correctly.

But the wicked have their own way. The chief examiner had a good time when he came up with the question, but regretted it later. The candidates exploded as soon as they left the examination room. They went directly to the Yamen to protest. In the end, there was nothing they could do. The court probably felt that the chief examiner did it on purpose. It was embarrassing, so I had to cancel that exam, the examiner was sent to prison, and the exam was re-examined.

I don't know if the candidates this time will have a temper, and if they will also protest, if that is the case, the exam will be in vain.

According to Wang Yue's meaning, of course he is not willing to retake the exam. He has done well in the previous rounds, and he has an exclusive advantage in this round. It is impossible to say that he can really come back with a Jie Yuan exam.

To be honest, before the exam, many people said that he could come back first again, but he didn't believe it himself, and neither would others. It was just an auspicious word for auspiciousness.

This is not the Tongsheng Examination. The candidates for the Tongsheng Examination are only people from the capital, and he did have an advantage of age at that time, but the rural examination is different. During the rural examination, the students of the Guozijian can stay in the capital for the examination without going back to their hometown.

Therefore, a small half of the candidates are their Guozijian classmates.There are dragons and tigers hidden in the Guozijian, even if Wang Yue has confidence in himself, he dare not say that he can surpass them to take the first place.

But if it is an arithmetic problem, it will be different. Wang Yue is really confident about this.

But it's useless to think too much now, let's finish the exam first.

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