Being so humble and humble, those who didn't know thought it was a competition between two famous people. Mr. Liu said: "This is just a competition. It's nothing more than piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, poetry, and poetry. Let's choose from these."
When Du Ruquan heard this, he thought to himself, poetry, poetry, and poetry are a bit difficult. If you are really good at poetry, poetry, poetry, and poetry, you can take the imperial examination.
Can anyone take the Jinshi exam? However, one needs to be knowledgeable and flexible. Some famous people with profound knowledge only have the title of famous scholar throughout their life, but have no merit. This shows how difficult it is to be ranked among the Jinshi.
As for chess, calligraphy and painting, even a literati has dabbled in it. He is good at painting and chess, but his calligraphy is mediocre, but he knows nothing about music. It is best to choose among the three chess, calligraphy and painting.
Mr. Liu saw that neither of the two contestants spoke a word and looked at Mr. Tang.
Mr. Tang chuckled, "I don't think it's necessary to embarrass these two juniors. I'll come up with an idea. I'll give you some Ming Jing test questions and let them answer them. It will be clear at a glance whether they are good or bad."
Mr. Liu took the words and said with a smile: "This is a good idea. Mr. Tang is ranked in the Ming Jing and is a Jinshi in the Ming Jing. It is appropriate for you to ask this question."
Mr. Tang looked at Du Ruquan and asked, "Master Du, what do you think?"
Although Du Ruquan was reluctant, he had already said it was casual just now, so it would be hard to object now.
Mr. Tang looked at Xie Fu again and asked directly: "What about you?"
Xie Fu smiled and said, "It's up to me."
Mr. Tang said: "There are three assessments in the Ming Dynasty Confucian Classics, namely, a review of scriptures, a test of its meaning, and a test of current policies. I will choose the simplest scripture review and ask a few questions."
Tantai Heqing nodded and listened to Mr. Tang say: "In order to show fairness, please Madam take me to the study room, and I will ask a few questions temporarily."
Tantai He said in a loud voice: "Steward Kong, please take Mr. Tang to the library."
After Mr. Tang left, Tantai Heqing asked Mr. Liu: "Mr. Liu, what is the test of this scripture?"
She was born into a noble family, so she was well versed in literature and ink. After all, she was a woman and had no chance of gaining fame, but these were not her usual concerns.
Mr. Liu smiled and said: "Tie Jing is one of the assessment contents of Ming Jing Ke. It mainly tests the candidates' familiarity with Confucian classics."
Tantai Heqing nodded and heard Mr. Liu continue: "The Ming Dynasty Classics Department examines the Five Classics, which are "Poetry", "Book", "Li", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn"."
Tantai Heqing was stunned when he heard this, "The assessment scope is actually so wide."
You must know that among the Five Classics, the "Spring and Autumn" with the smallest number of words has almost tens of thousands of words, and the "Li" has an exaggerated length of nearly 200,000 words.
It is no exaggeration to say that paper is expensive and books are expensive, and how many people can fully own and read all the Five Classics? No wonder people say that the Jinshi is only one in ten thousand.
Mr. Liu responded: "Yes, the scope of the investigation is a bit broad. The Book of Songs alone has 311 chapters and nearly 40,000 words." He said with a smile: "It is not easy to read all the Five Classics. I have almost memorized them all.
It’s impossible, so students who have passed the Ming Dynasty Economics Examination have to study the questions in a targeted manner and memorize them in a targeted manner.”
Mr. Liu said with a smile: "It is a fool to want to memorize them all. It will only result in more losses than gains."
After listening to this, Tantai Heqing looked at Xie Fu secretly, wondering if he could do it, but he saw that Xie Fu was closing his eyes and concentrating, as if he was confident.
No! He... he seems to be asleep!
Xie Fu really fell asleep. He stayed up all night last night. How could he take a nap now?
"Thank you, Fu."
Tantai Heqing called out, but Xie Fu didn't respond.
Tantai Heqing had a cold face and shouted unhappily: "Thank you, Fu."
Xie Fu woke up suddenly, "Has it started yet?"
But he really fell asleep. Tantai He cursed in his heart angrily, "This pretty boy actually fell asleep. Did he even take me seriously?"
Mr. Liu laughed, and the servants in the hall couldn't help laughing when they saw Mr. Xie's appearance, but they didn't mean to laugh. They just felt that Mr. Xie was very interesting, and he actually fell asleep in this situation.
Already.
There was a lot of laughter in the hall, without any seriousness. Tantai Heqing glanced around coldly, and the laughter stopped.
She doesn't think it's funny, but irritating. If it were another servant, he would be dragged out to play the top ten first!
Tantai Heqing stared at Xie Fu, indicating with her eyes that he had better not fall asleep again.
After a while, Mr. Tang and Butler Kong came back. Mr. Liu had two more pieces of paper in his hand, but on them were the questions that had just been asked.
Mr. Tang sat down and said in anticipation: "Two copies. The questions on this paper are the same. Due to time constraints, I only printed six papers, but it should be enough." He handed over the questions.
Mr. Liu took a look.
Mr. Liu nodded after reading it and confirmed: "The topics are indeed the same." Then he asked Tantai Heqing: "Miss Tantai, do you want to take a look?"
"No need. Since we have invited two gentlemen to be notaries today, there is no doubt about it."
Mr. Tang smiled and said: "Let's get started, half a stick of incense for a limited time."
Butler Kong stepped forward and put the test questions on their desks. A maid brought the incense burner, and Du Ruquan and Xie Fu took their seats respectively.
Du Ruquan just sat down and looked at the test questions, grinding them gently while thinking hard.
But Xie Fu sat motionless and did not grind.
Tantai Heqing saw this and thought to himself: "What? The question is too difficult. Did it stump him too?" Suddenly he saw Fu Xie put down his hands, and then he remembered that his injured hands were wrapped in gauze, and he couldn't free his fingers to grind them.
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"Steward Kong, help Xie Fu grind it."
As soon as Tantai Heqing said these words, everyone present was shocked. This escort was such a big shot, and even the grinding had to be done by others.
Tantai Heqing saw this and explained with a smile: "Xie Fu's hands are injured."
After hearing this, everyone noticed that Xie Fu's hands were bandaged with gauze, and they were curious. How would he hold a pen with his hands bandaged like this?
Du Ruquan sneered, "I think you are ignorant and want to use this to deceive you to get through. Why don't you get hurt sooner or later, but you get hurt at this time? I allow you to ask someone to write the answer. As long as you can read the answer out, it will count."
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The two old gentlemen nodded, this method was reasonable.
Xie Fu said, "No need."
Need not?
After hearing this, everyone was curious about how to write without you, and they were quickly relieved. They were afraid that they would not be able to answer the question and would simply give up.
The incense has been burning for a while. On Xie Fu's side, the two old gentlemen no longer have much hope, but Du Ruquan has been unable to finish the writing even though he has written it.
Mr. Liu smiled and asked: "Mr. Tang, is your question too difficult?"
Mr. Tang responded: "There is no so-called difficulty in this scripture assessment. It is easy if you can memorize it if you are familiar with it. If you have never read it, how can you answer it?"
