Time passed day after day as rumors spread. For the people of Bianliang City, this year's Spring Quarter Examinations was undoubtedly the most eye-catching.
That evening, Chen Chong, dressed in a blue Confucian robe, carried a bag on his back, and wore a Confucian turban on his head, walked in through the city gate. From that moment on, the people of Bianliang City were in an uproar.
Since ancient times, regional discrimination had been everywhere!
In general, the white people looked down on the black people, looked down on the yellow people, and the yellow people also looked down on the white people and the black people. As for the black people, forget it. They basically had no right to look down on other races.
In the Great Song, the Song people looked down on the Liao people and the people of the Western Regions. The Liao people looked down on the Song people and also looked down on other people.
There was only one place that had the capital to look down on northerners and southerners, and that was the people of Bianliang.
As people from the capital, they were like some people in the future in Yanjing. They looked at the entire Great Song as the grassroots.
However, before Chen Chong returned, it was difficult for the Bianliang people to show their pride. This was because their talents did not come.
Therefore, when Chen Chong walked through the city gate of Kaifeng City, the people of Bianliang were boiling with excitement. This was the hidden pride of the imperial city.
As a result, in just half a day, Li Yue jumped inside. The first place in the odds had already become Chen Chong, and the ratio had reached an astonishing 1:1.
As for Chen Chong, his expression was calm. He ignored the fanatical citizens as if the fiery capital did not affect him at all. He calmly walked into the examination hall and calmly walked out.
With Zhao Xuan's intervention, even if Nguyen Van Hao and Xiang Tianwen recognized Chui Mingchong, the matter between Chui Mingchong and Yun Shuang was already known by the public. They did not have the slightest confidence to threaten Chui Mingchong.
In a sense, Zhao Xuan had saved the lives of these two idiots.
This time, without a few idiots messing things up, the marking and the examination went very smoothly.
The Northern Song Dynasty was an era where Confucian culture exploded, especially during the Renzong period. In the history of his previous life, there were only 13 people who had such a joyous event, and Renzong took up three of them.
That's right. Although this guy was famous for his two-part saying, he was a straight-A student. He was a straight-A student with three straight points.
Of course, Feng Jing had nothing to do here. This was also the reason why Zhao Xuan was determined to hit the six-yuan mark in a row. In the Great Song, it was not rare to hit the three-yuan mark in a row.
After the exam results were released, there was no doubt that Chen Chong's name was at the top. He was the current member.
Including the members, Chen Chong had already scored five points in a row. He was only one step away from winning six points in a row. Even the civil and military officials of the Song Dynasty were shocked.
At this moment, in Bianliang City, there were already countless nobles who were commanding their servants to rub their fists and sharpen their knives to hunt for a son-in-law.
Other than Chen Chong, Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce, who were not affected, also got into the examination. Bao Zheng got fifth place in the general exams, Gongsun Ce got seventh place, and Nguyen Van Ho, who was famous before, only got 32nd place. Xiang Tian asked about the wrong question in the previous exam, and at this moment, he barely made it onto the list and hung at the bottom.
On the other hand, Sai Zhongyuan had quietly made it into the top 20 and was ranked 18th, which was still ahead of Nguyen Van Ho.
After the general exams, it was the court exams. Only those who passed the court exams could be called Jinshi. However, generally speaking, those who passed the general exams would not be dismissed from the court exams. However, there would always be a few idiots who would violate the taboos in every exam.
The court examination focused on both strategy and classics. It was different from the general examination which focused on classics. Many members did not get the top scorer because the emperor personally assessed them.
In this, the emperor's personal preferences were extremely important. The emperor's personal preferences never looked at the scriptures. They looked at the policy theory, which was your actual ability to do things.
If you can boast about yourself, then you will definitely be the top scorer.
This year's policy discussion questions were personally set by Zhao Zhen. The topic was also very simple: On the Great Song Literature!
This was actually a very strange question. To put it bluntly, it was to let you clearly say in public whether the civil officials, scholars, civil officials, and scholars of today were good or bad.
However, no matter if you said it was good, bad, awesome, or useless, you would offend a large number of people because there were a hundred different people and a thousand hearts. The human heart was the most unpredictable.
Most of the examinees, including Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce, were frowning at this moment, thinking about how to solve the problem. However, there was one person who was already writing at a flying speed.
Zhao Zhen had already heard about this genius of the Great Song who was able to pass the five elements in a row. Even the officials were paying close attention to him.
Very quickly, when the others had just started writing, Chen Chong had already put down his brush and applied to hand in his paper.
Zhao Zhen was also paying attention to Chen Chong. When he saw Chen Chong hand in his paper, Zhao Zhen hurriedly took it and took the lead to review it. He also wanted to see how talented this genius of the Great Song was and what his actual abilities were.
Zhao Zhen had also been taught by a great scholar since he was young. Although he did not participate in the imperial examination, he still had the ability to appreciate things. Therefore, when he saw the first line of the case file that Chen Chong handed over, Zhao Zhen was stunned.
Wen, should be the upper part of the heart of heaven, the lower part of the life of the people, so there should be four directions, why?
He had always been determined to serve the world!
Three directions, the ultimate technique of the past sage!
Four directions: to open up peace for all generations!
These four sentences were like a clap of thunder exploding in Zhao Zhen's ears!
That's right, wasn't this the ultimate goal that the Confucians had been pursuing for generations? Wasn't this the true goal of a scholarly scholar?
Chen Chong's opening words broke the question with four sentences, instantly magnifying his strategy theory question to infinity!
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