When the imperial examination was held for the first time, there was an important consideration. The consideration was that some test questions must be so difficult that no one could answer them. The arrogant scholars must be convinced to avoid being looked down upon because the questions were too easy.

He failed the imperial examination and thus lost respect for the imperial examination.

In the entire volume of "Classics", the test question for difficult people is a political question, which asks, "Why, after three hundred years, a king must rise? Why, after three hundred years, a dynasty must perish? Why, the general trend of the world, if divided for a long time, must unite.

What lasts a long time must separate?]

For this last political essay question, the answer position is on the entire back of the answer sheet. The five-foot-long sheet has all the blank space on the back only for answering this one question.

As the most difficult final question, the difficulty is beyond what one can answer by familiarity with classics and extensive reading. Even a highly talented person will find it difficult to answer.

But I saw that in the examination room, the scholars who had answered the last question were either scratching their heads and scratching their heads and frowning, or they were writing furiously with a slight feeling.

with distinction.

After a long time, a gong sounded, and the time was up, and the exam was over.

A scholar withdrew his eyes from the paper. On the back of the test paper, he had written the last political question thoroughly. When the invigilator took the test paper away from him, the scholar's face was filled with a feeling of unfinished content.

As instructed, the invigilators put away the examination papers in order and then used paper and black paper to cover all the names on the examination papers.

After finishing the exam, the invigilators showed it to the candidates, "Did you all see it? The place of birth and name have been sealed, and the people who judge the papers are all blind traitors, and there will be no malpractice for personal gain."

Seeing this, many candidates nodded secretly.

Soon, this wave of scholars who had finished the examination were repeatedly told by the examiners to keep the bamboo pieces they were given and not to lose them. After the explanation, Sergeant Yulin came on the stage and took all 800 candidates off the field.

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At this time, the people waiting outside the venue had been waiting for a long time. They wanted to wait for people to come down and ask how the exam went. As a result, the people who finished the exam left directly without giving any chance to meet.

Seeing this, many people figured it out after thinking about it. This was done deliberately because they were afraid of missing a question.

Liu Xuande was sorting out the test papers. Eight hundred test papers were loaded into two carts in strict order. After carefully checking them, Liu Bei ordered the Yulin Army to guard the test papers and seal them up for storage.

The second batch of candidates took the exam soon.

At the same time, in the accommodation camp, the first batch of candidates who had finished the exam gathered together excitedly and discussed the content of the exam.

During this discussion, there is inevitably a need to answer questions. No matter who is taking the exam, as long as it is an exam, there is inevitably a need to answer questions.

There were a couple of answers. Those who got the wrong answer beat their chests and beat their feet, while those who got the right answer were elated.

Those who answered better were even more happy.

When the discussion came to the last and most difficult political discussion, everyone looked confused. Even those who thought they had answered something felt very confused and did not know whether they had answered it correctly or not.

The final difficult question set at the end of the paper successfully met expectations and stumped everyone. This gave rise to the scholars' reverence for the imperial examination.

The second exam was not much different from the first one. After the candidates took the stage, the invigilator Habayashi checked their numbers to make sure they were correct, distributed the test papers, explained the answer details, and posted the test questions.

The second batch of 800 people was the same as the first batch of 800 people. Among the 800 people, there were also people who were illiterate, and there were also differences between those who knew a few words, those who were proficient in writing, those who were familiar with classics, and so on.

Although the imperial examination was held in a hurry, Liu Bei was experienced enough and well prepared. With enough preparation, everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

Time passed slowly, and it was nearly noon, and it was the fifth scene.

A ranger carrying two swords walked into the examination room. When he got to the examination room, when the test paper came down, the ranger could still answer the simple questions in the front, but when he got to the middle part, the ranger looked embarrassed.

I looked up and saw that the man sitting in front was writing non-stop and seemed to be very knowledgeable.

The ranger thought for a while and suddenly came up with an idea. He looked around quietly and saw that the invigilator did not pay attention to him. He found a pebble the size of a mung bean from the ground. The pebble was in his hand, and the ranger placed his hand covertly on the short table.

He lowered himself, pointed at the person in front, and flicked his fingers, and the pebbles flew out with a loud sound.

The seating arrangement in the examination room was very loose, and the candidates were far away this time. Five steps away, the pebbles triggered by the ranger with a snap of his fingers accurately hit the right shoulder of the candidate in front.

After receiving this blow, the candidate in front stopped writing and looked back with a frown.

It was in this gap, across a long distance, that the moment the examinee in front moved his arm away, the ranger's sharp eyesight, as sharp as a falcon, had already glimpsed part of the answers on his examination paper.

Spotting another answer, the ranger quickly picked up his pen and started writing.

Liu Bei may not have been prepared. There are many talents in the wilderness. Some people have amazing eyesight and can actually see another test paper from a few steps away.

The ranger used his skills to deceive others. He repeatedly harassed the person in front of him with pebbles, causing the person's body to sway, and he took the opportunity to peek at the answer.

It's always nice to peek at other people's answers, and I couldn't stop writing.

But as he was writing and writing, he realized something was wrong. Why did he repeat it?

The ranger quickly checked and found that starting from a certain question, the answer was repeated every three or four questions.

The ranger looked at the questions that had been written down, and then looked up at the guy who was writing non-stop in front of him. The ranger was so angry, he wanted to curse, he obviously didn't know how to write, is it useful to copy and write randomly? Is it useful!

The person in front is also an honest person. What people think is that if you can't write, you can't leave it blank. You have to write the word "Dian". Who would have thought that someone would copy it.

The ranger was unlucky and copied a question from a poor student.

When the exam was over, You Xia and the other candidates were taken away from the exam room. Once they got out of the exam room, the atmosphere was recreated all over again.

The candidates were all talking about the questions. You Xia was aloof and did not participate. He listened nearby. When others said their answers, he paid attention to check them with his own. The more he checked, he found that he was wrong.

The more. This made the arrogant ranger suddenly feel short of breath.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After noon, in the seventh game, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao finally came on stage.

Unlike others, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao had great opinions on Liu Bei, and they came with the purpose of finding fault.

The test papers were distributed and the test questions were posted. The pen Yuan Shao was assigned was a bald pen, which made him unhappy again.

Looking at the test questions, the first question asks, [The Master said, three people walked together], and the following sentence.

Yuan Shao suddenly laughed in his heart, what kind of talent can be selected by asking questions like this? Yuan Shao saw this so-called imperial examination in the dirt in his heart, and he was full of contempt.

Much like Yuan Shao, Cao Cao also despised the test questions when he saw they were too easy.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were born into noble families and had profound family knowledge. The classics they had studied were much better than the average person. However, despite this, after Yuan Shao felt good and answered more than fifty questions in one go, Yuan Shao began to

It feels a little tricky.

The next questions started to ask about the classics of hundreds of schools in the pre-Qin Dynasty, and the questions were still slightly off-topic.

If Yuan Shao hadn't been forced to study hard since he was a child, and he had solid knowledge and extensive knowledge, he wouldn't have been able to answer the question well.

After a period of time, Yuan Shao finally finished answering the basic questions.

He reviewed it carefully.

By this time, Yuan Shao had almost forgotten the purpose of coming here as soon as he got into the exam, and he was afraid that he would answer the questions wrong.

Yuan Shao actually finished answering the basic questions. The content of the basic test was designed, including "Confucius", "Mencius", "Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "Zhuangzi", "Spring and Autumn", "Han Feizi", "Mozi", "Historical Records", "Hanshu", etc.

There are dozens of classics from the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, covering almost all common classics, and the content is extremely extensive. If all these books are written on bamboo slips, they can be packed in a cart, let alone loaded.

There are five cars, and even ten cars can’t be loaded.

Yuan Shao was actually a man of great learning and wealth, and he was not an ignorant playboy.

Similar to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao also answered almost all the basic questions. Based on this, the two of them have surpassed 80% of the candidates.

Then, move on to practical questions and question paper formats.

This Cao Cao is familiar to me. Cao Cao served in the Yellow Turbans with the army, and also served as an official in Luoyang. He maintained public security, posted notices, tried security documents, and presented memorials. Cao Cao did many things. Therefore, this is a practical question:

Cao Cao was very skillful and wrote a lot of document formats at will.

Yuan Shao, on the other hand, had less practical experience than Cao Cao. At this point, Yuan Shao couldn't answer much, and he was immediately dismissed by Cao Cao.

The following speculative questions are: "A white horse is not a horse", Zhuang Zhou and Hui Zi discussed fish in the Yuan, Confucius traveled eastward and met two children arguing about the sun, and so on, several very famous debates.

The previous chapters are all well-known, but the last one is entitled "One-foot-long sticks, half of which will be taken every day, and will be inexhaustible for eternity."

Question: If a person is chased by a flying loss, he will lose a hundred steps. If he loses half of a hundred steps in a day, it will last for eternity. Isn’t it true that he will never encounter him in an eternity? However, how can he hurt someone if he is missing by flying?]

Whether it is the white horse is not a horse, or the problem of the fish between Zhuang Zhou and Hui Shi, or the problem of distinguishing the sun, the reason why these debate issues have endured is because they are difficult enough, so that from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Han Dynasty,

Hundreds of years later, there is still no definite answer.

Testing people on issues that have not been settled for hundreds of years clearly makes it difficult for people.

Yuan Shao frowned, unable to write.

Cao Cao frowned and couldn't write.

This is not the highest level of difficulty. The most difficult level is the last question. The last question is: Why will the world be united after being divided for a long time? Why will it be divided after a long time?

With just this sentence, Cao Cao was stopped.

This is a question that no one in this world can transcend the limitations of the times, and no one in this world can answer.

This question is not just for candidates to answer, it is purely to embarrass people.

After a while, the exam was over, and Cao Cao didn't write a word for the final question.

Others, even candidates who are illiterate, will give random answers in order to make the paper look better.

But maybe those who don’t know are not afraid, but those who know are deeply afraid. Maybe Cao Cao understands it too well and understands how difficult the last question is, so he doesn’t dare to make an arbitrary comment.

Sergeant Yu Lin took away the test papers, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao left.

Walking out of the examination room, Cao Cao was thinking, Liu Xuande dared to ask such a question, and he didn't know what Liu Xuande would answer.

When Cao Cao and Yuan Shao left the examination room, they could not help but feel the atmosphere after the examination.
To be continued...