After the martial arts examination, the next day, more than 8,000 candidates who were stranded in the school received an order. The order said that the imperial examination had been completed and examination papers for each subject were posted outside the city. You can go and take a look.

Many days of hard work finally came to fruition, and the scholars rushed out of the school grounds in large numbers.

Others in Luoyang were waiting, because there had been no news about the test taker for many days, and family members and other relevant people had not seen anyone. They couldn't let go. The eagerly awaited people in Luoyang gathered outside the gate of the inner city to look forward to their family.

Appear.

Suddenly there was a burst of noisy footsteps accompanied by noisy and jubilant voices, the city gate opened with a creak, and a huge crowd rushed out from the city gate. The scholars did not care about anything else and ran straight out of the city.

The people of Luoyang who didn't know what happened also followed him out of the city.

At this time, outside Luoyang City, on the outer wall of the huge city of Luoyang City, countless pieces of cloth were hung up against the city wall by ropes from the battlements.

There are hanging hangings all the way down to the foot of the city wall, as if the huge city wall is clothed with cloth.

Before the scholars arrived, other Luoyang people who had been coming and going were attracted by the changes in the city wall, and many people stopped to watch.

Soon, the test taker came out of the city gate and saw the densely packed test papers hanging on the city wall.

There was a Yulin Shi on duty nearby. The scholar came forward and asked a question. Yulin Shi pointed at the city wall and said, "From this gate, go east, west, and around, and it will be all over the city.

You can look for it according to the subject you are taking, the examination room you are in, and the examination number, and you should be able to find it."

As early as the Julu Imperial Examination, there were hundreds of people taking the Julu Imperial Examination, taking more than a dozen subjects, and tens of thousands of test papers were produced for one imperial examination. At that time, all the test papers of all candidates were made public to show fairness.

The place where the test papers were posted at that time was also a city wall. Tens of thousands of test papers were posted all over the Julu City Wall.

In the current Luoyang Imperial Examination, there were eight thousand people taking the examination. After taking the examination in many examinations, the number of examination papers was nearly eighty thousand. This volume was far larger than that of Julu.

Fortunately, Luoyang City is a huge city with vast walls. When more than 80,000 test papers were hung all over the city, they happened to be completely surrounded by the outer city wall without any gaps. I wonder if this was God's will or not.

coincide.

The scholars, with excitement and anticipation, ran around the city wall with their heads raised at the foot of the city wall.

The posting of the test papers was personally arranged by Liu Bei. Liu Bei had experience in holding imperial examinations in Julu, so he took every detail into consideration during the arrangements.

The city wall was tall, but the roll surface was so narrow that people under the wall could not reach the top with their eyes. Therefore, Liu Bei collected a large number of ladders and placed them around the city wall. This was to make it easier for the soldiers to climb up the ladder and check the roll surface.

In order to let scholars know why their answers are wrong and why they are right, in the area where each subject's test paper is posted, in the middle area of ​​the subject, a large number of answer sheets as big as a house are hung at intervals for people to check.

As for the test paper itself, on the paper, there are no marks for correct answers, and wrong answers are marked with cinnabar. In this way, each paper and everyone can see it clearly as long as they find their own test paper.

【Confucian classics】A place where examination papers for a subject are posted.

Together with a group of people in the examination room, he found the area where the test papers were posted for his session. The first-rate candidate arrogantly grabbed other people's ladders, and after leaning the stolen ladder against the wall, he felt as numb as a monkey.

Climbed up.

The man held onto the steps and looked left and right. Among the pile of test papers, he saw his white paper.

Seeing that the two finger prints of the circle he had drawn on the white scroll were still there, the man immediately felt happy.

Then he looked at other people’s answers, and then looked up at the huge answer hanging on the top. This man was illiterate, and it was as if he didn’t read it. He turned back and shouted to the people watching below, “Li Wa’er, you wrote this

Miles?"

The person called Li Wa'er raised his head and looked up, "Look at the left side, it seems to be mine. I made a cross on it."

Hearing what his companion said, the man on the ladder turned around and looked again. Without taking a second glance, he found Li Wa'er's test paper. When he saw that Li Wa'er's test paper also had not a single word written on it, he was immediately happy.

He jumped down from the ladder with a cry, "Damn it, you can't write a word!" He walked up to Li Wa'er and patted Li Wa's shoulder hard and said.

Li Wa'er's shoulder hurt from being slapped, so he punched his companion in the face and cursed with a smile, "You've never written a single hair in a stupid way!"

Those who are literate are still worried about the test results, while those who are illiterate are the happiest and least burdened.

After reading their own papers, and there were still more to come, the two of them went to the side together.

The scholars were scattered in all directions around the city wall. Some people kept finding their own test papers. When checking their answers, some people understood the wrong answers as soon as they saw the answers and beat their chests and regretted them.

Still wondering, some people were thoughtful about the answer.

It was also the test paper posting area for the first subject of [Confucian Studies]. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao also found the location of their test papers.

The two men forcefully grabbed the ladder from the side and climbed up one ladder at a time. Once they got up, they couldn't get down.

Cao Cao held up the ladder, glanced at his test paper, and then looked up at the answer sheet high up.

The first part of the Confucian classics mostly contains original sentences from the classics of various scholars. Cao Cao answered most of these questions correctly, and even the ones he answered incorrectly were able to understand the answers once they were given.

After a while, we came to the second part of practical content. The test question asked about the format of the answer document.

Cao Cao looked at his answers and looked at them. He thought that the nearly ten categories of documents he had answered were complete, but in the end, there were more answers than this.

The document categories in the standard answer include grain and grass accounts, medicinal prescriptions, and project details. These are indeed categories of document formats.

After Cao Cao raised his head and read the answers, he saw that his answers were not enough and that he was missing a lot. He had no objections in his heart and was convinced of the verdict.

On the side, Yuan Shao answered very few questions about the format of the document, so when he saw that there were so many standard answers, Yuan Shao was very unhappy.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Prescriptions have their own requirements and a basic format, so it is not a document.

Down below, everyone couldn't stand Cao Cao and Yuan Shao and they were occupying the ladder. They pointed at them and denounced them. Yuan Shao glared down and cursed angrily, and everyone could only endure their anger.

The last question in the Confucian Classics subject was one that Cao Cao found too difficult to answer during the exam that day. The question asked, "Why, after three hundred years, will a king rise? Why, after three hundred years, will a dynasty perish?"

Why, the general trend of the world, if it is divided for a long time, it must be united, and if it is united for a long time, it must be divided?】

Cao Cao was very curious about this problem and wondered how Liu Xuande would answer this question.

He looked up.

High above, there is a huge answer sheet hanging. If you look carefully, you will find that the answer to the last question is——

【The world must be divided if it is united for a long time. The destiny of the country has been countless for hundreds of years, and its roots are countless.

First, it lies in the land. In troubled times, wars occur frequently, plagues occur everywhere, and the population wilts.

Therefore, every time when chaos first comes, many people will wither away, but there will be many acres of land left, and many people will be divided into many lands. Therefore, everyone in the four seas will have land, and everyone will enjoy their work.

But since the world has been stable and peaceful, the people have multiplied and thrived, and the number of people has increased over time. This growth has lasted for hundreds of years. By this time, compared to the beginning of the country, the population has increased dozens or even hundreds of times, and the acres of land in the world have

But it didn't increase much.

When the population is large and the yield of a few acres of land is insufficient to feed the large number of people, famine will arise. People who are hungry and have no way to survive will take desperate risks, and turmoil will arise from this.

This is one of the limitations of land.

Secondly, we have heard that starting a business is difficult, and staying in business is even harder.

At the beginning of starting a business, our ancestors felt deeply that it was difficult to start a business and did not dare not to work hard and diligently.

Up to the second generation, although the people of the second generation have not personally experienced hardships, they have grown up from the hard work of their ancestors, so they know the hardships and the hard work.

By the third generation, it is difficult for people of the third generation to see difficulties. If they do not see the difficulty of starting a business, they will not be able to work hard.

The lineage has been passed down from generation to generation, and the number of those who know hardships is too few. The stupidity, tyranny, and mediocrity often come from those who don’t know hardships.

Since ancient times, heroes have suffered many hardships, and mediocre people have never been born. This is the second reason why it is difficult for a country to last for hundreds of years.

Thirdly, the dynasty has been established for a long time, and the rich and powerful have used their power and wealth to seize land. Eventually, all the land in the world has gradually been concentrated in the hands of a few. This situation has become more and more intense. It has lasted for three hundred years, and the problems in land administration have been deep-rooted and spread all over the world.

, the rich have fields stretching across the country, and the poor have no place to stand. Land is the basis for survival, and landless people have nothing to rely on, and there will be no way to survive in the slightest turmoil.

All the people in the world are full of people who are as miserable as slaves and like duckweeds. If all the people are unstable, how can the world be stable? There will be chaos.

The fourth is the time of heaven.

The year is divided into four seasons, and the movement of the heavens also follows a sequence. It is said that the celestial phenomena cycle through the cycle of cold and heat every three or four hundred years.

At the end of every four hundred years, there will be a sudden cold that lasts for ten or even decades. All things look up to the sky to live. Spring and summer are prosperous and seedlings are strong. However, autumn and winter are cool and everything is dormant. In the year of sudden cold, every year

The harvest will definitely fall sharply. If there is a normal disaster year, the disaster will not last for a moment or three years, the people may still be able to survive, and the country will still be able to support itself.

However, the cold weather lasted for tens or even decades, and even for more than ten years, harvests failed everywhere in the world, making it difficult for the people to survive and to continue domestic production.

Four hundred years have passed since the founding of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Gaozu in the troubled times of Qin. The weather has turned to the period of great cold. In recent years, it has become colder every year, and the summer harvest has been delayed every year. Last year, the ripening period of wheat was already late.

After June...]

When he saw this, Cao Cao's heart skipped a beat. This is true! In recent years, it has indeed been cooler every year, and the wheat has indeed not matured until June.

It turns out that the sudden cold has arrived. The sudden cold has not been able to turn around for more than ten years, and the annual income has dropped sharply year after year...

A horrifying picture of irreversible chaos emerged in Cao Cao's mind.

Cao Cao looked solemn and quickly looked down.

[As mentioned above,

When the number of people increases a hundred times, the fields fail to support them;

Peace lasts for a long time, and the king's way is unclear;

The land is annexed and the people are unstable;

The weather is extremely cold, and disasters will last forever.

When the dynasty reached the 400th year, it was precisely the time when land annexation caused people's livelihood to be unstable, and the population was so large that it was difficult to support it. It was also the time when peace and happiness had been long-lasting, and the country's government was ruined and the people were ignorant. In addition, hundreds of years had not passed.

Sometimes the great cold comes together, and natural disasters and man-made disasters come one after another. The hardships are so great that they are so overwhelming that there is no way to save them!]

Cao Cao's heart was shaken, and he was extremely horrified. Cao Cao felt like a heavy mountain was pressing down on his chest, making him unable to breathe.
To be continued...