The daily life of the crown prince of the Song Dynasty

The process of the rural examination is different from the previous children's examination. Of course, the content of the examination is still the same, but the difficulty is definitely different.If you use ten points to describe the difficulty, the difficulty of the three tests in the children's examination is only four points, so the difficulty of the rural examination is seven points.One can imagine the difficulty of crossing three dimensions at once.

There are three exams in the children's exam, either one or two, and you can go home after the exam on the same day, but not the rural exam.Although there are only three exams in the rural examination, you have to stay in the examination room for six days, and you cannot leave the examination room to go home during these six days.

The rural examination starts on April [-]th.The first round of the [-]th exam, the second round of the [-]th exam, and the third round of the [-]th exam.

The first exam mainly examines the Four Books, poems and songs, as well as classics and meanings.Among them, Jingyi is the most difficult, but also the most important.

The second exam mainly examines the Five Classics and Policy Theory.

The third exam mainly examines current facts and policy theory, as well as arithmetic.

During the provincial examination, students must stay in their own examination room.The examination room is very small, estimated to be only one square meter.Students eat and drink in this narrow space.And of course live in it.

Students should bring their own quilts.Of course they cannot bring their own beds, they can only sleep on the floor of their own examination room.

The examination room will distribute some necessities such as pots and hot water to the students, as well as lunch and dinner.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, students had to bring their own food for the provincial examination.Zhao Yang felt that the exams were difficult enough for the students. If food and hot water were not provided, the students would probably get sick.

Going to the toilet is also a problem.During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when taking the provincial and general examinations, going to the toilet was carried out in one's own examination room.The examination room will provide a manure bucket to the students.

It is impossible not to urinate for six days, and it is even more impossible not to defecate. One can imagine how bad the smell in the examination room is.Zhao Yang felt that during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, candidates who took the provincial or general examinations would be fumigated to death if they did not die of illness.

Zhao Yang deliberately ordered to build a toilet in the Gongyuan. If students want to be convenient, they can go out of their own examination room to go to the toilet.Of course, in order to prevent cheating, when the students go to the toilet, there will be two guards staring and watching.

In the examination room, hot water will be provided for twelve hours. If students need it, they can directly apply to the examiner in the examination room.

If the quilts brought by some students are thin or torn, they are not warm enough.The examiner may provide them with bedding.

In short, the provincial examination should be more humane, so that students can take the examination without any worries.

After a rigorous search, Wang Pangpang found his examination room with his luggage.

Although the test room is small, it is very clean.He took out the pen, ink and inkstone from the bag and placed them on a small table.Then, take out the bedding and pillows and spread them neatly on the floor.Next, take out the teapot and teacups and arrange them.

Students are not allowed to bring food, for fear that they will hide notes in their food.Besides, the examination room will provide meals, so they don't need to bring them.

After a while, the students arrived one after another.

At four quarters of the hour, the township examination starts on time.

The chief examiner walked in with the guards, and then took out the examination papers in public, so that the candidates could witness that the examination papers were sealed and had not been opened.

After the candidates have witnessed, the examiner will open the sealed bag and take out the test paper.Then, let the guards distribute them to the students one by one.

After the students get the test paper, they can answer the questions.Students can raise their hands if they want hot water.

Before, the students stood in the courtyard of the Tribute Academy to be searched, each of them was frozen with cold.

The weather in mid-April is still very cold, especially in the morning.

The chief examiner was very careful, and asked the guards to distribute hot water to the students before the candidates raised their hands to apply.

Wang Pangpang didn't rush to answer the question, but waited for the guards to give him hot water.

Before he took the provincial examination, Zhao Yang gave Wang Pangpang a jar of this year's Yuqian Longjing.Wang Pangpang gave some to his father, and took all the rest to the examination room.

Soon, it was Wang Pangpang's turn.

Wang Pangpang asked for a small pot of hot water to make tea.Immediately, the fragrance of Longjing before the rain came to the nostrils, refreshing the heart and spleen.

Following Zhao Yang's side, Wang Pangpang's tea ceremony improved a lot.

After taking a few sips of hot tea, Wang Pangpang felt himself alive, and his whole body felt comfortable.

After taking a few sips of tea leisurely, he began to answer the paper.After glancing at the examination papers roughly, he found that the rural examination was indeed much more difficult than the children's examination.However, the difficulty of the rural examination was not beyond his imagination.

Before Wang Pangpang took the provincial examination, Yan Shu and the others gave him the examination questions, and they were very difficult.Compared with the questions given by Yan Shu and the others, the questions of the township examination were much simpler.

This year's imperial examination questions were not written by Yan Shu and the others.Yan Shu and the others had been giving exam questions again, but they couldn't be allowed to keep giving them.

Half of the questions in the township examination, general examination, and palace examination were written by Zhao Yang.The rest of the exam questions were written by people from the Imperial Academy.

Zhao Yang's questions are naturally difficult, and they are very flexible.If candidates can't understand the questions well, they will fall into the trap, and they will miss the questions when answering the questions.

Wang Pangpang complained about Zhao Yang in his heart when he saw the title of Jingyi.Your Highness really likes to set traps on topics, it's really too bad.

One exam in three days is enough time for Wang Pangpang.For others, the time may still not be enough.

In the examination room, Wang Pangpang and other students are taking the exam seriously.However, it was early morning, and Zhao Yang was going to come to the Gongyuan to have a look.

He didn't go back to the East Palace to change his court clothes, and went directly to the Gongyuan wearing the scarlet court clothes.

When the examiners saw that the crown prince was coming, they were naturally busy welcoming him.

Zhao Yang asked the examiners to ignore him and go to inspect the invigilator properly.He didn't rush to Wang Pangpang's examination room, but went to other examination rooms first.

The examination room was very quiet, only the sound of students writing.

The students lowered their heads and focused on answering the questions.The chief examiner who inspected did not care.

Zhao Yang walked lightly in the examination room and carefully inspected it.He didn't stop in front of any student to watch the students answer the questions.He was afraid that if he stood in front of the students' examination room, he would frighten the students who were answering the questions.

A student was a little tired from answering the questions, raised his head and stretched his neck, and suddenly saw a young man in scarlet clothes in their examination room.He was puzzled at first, thinking which family's child this is, how did he come to the examination room of the township examination, could it be the son of a certain chief examiner?

No, even the son of the chief examiner cannot casually enter the examination room of the township examination.Then who is he... Suddenly a flash of light flashed in his mind, could it be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?

Zhao Yang noticed that someone was looking at him, so he followed his gaze.Seeing a student staring at him dumbfounded, he guessed that he should know his identity, and smiled slightly at him.

His smile made that student's face flushed.

Zhao Yang was afraid that if he stayed any longer, that student would not have the heart to take the exam.After turning around the examination room, he left and went to the next examination room.

The student who was noticed by Zhao Yang just now was very excited.

Was that person just now really His Royal Highness?

Did he really see His Highness the Crown Prince?

By the way, His Royal Highness just smiled at him?

Seeing the student blushing and smirking, the chief examiner said to him with a straight face, "Take a good exam."

The student was startled, and quickly lowered his head to answer the question.However, for a while, he couldn't write a single word.His mind kept replaying the scene where he met His Highness the Prince's eyes just now.

When Zhao Yang went to the next examination room, he was recognized by many students.They couldn't help exclaiming, and the examination room became "lively" instantly.Zhao Yang had no choice but to let the students take the exam with a serious face, and expressed his great expectation that they would pass the exam.

Hearing what His Royal Highness said, the students were of course very encouraged, and they all felt like they had been injected with chicken blood.

Zhao Yang went to several examination rooms and was discovered again, so he had to give another speech to encourage students to take the exam well.

He was the last to go to Wang Pangpang's examination room.

Wang Pangpang was the first to discover Zhao Yang.Seeing Zhao Yang appearing in the examination room, he widened his eyes in shock.

Seeing Wang Pangpang's surprised appearance, Zhao Yang couldn't help laughing.

Wang Pangpang opened his mouth and asked Zhao Yang silently why he came here.

Zhao Yang raised his eyebrows at him, opened his mouth and said silently that he was the chief examiner, and of course he would come to inspect the invigilator.

Wang Pangpang didn't believe Zhao Yang's high-sounding words. He felt that His Highness came to the examination room to tease him on purpose.

Zhao Yang looked away from Wang Pangpang, his face became very serious in an instant, and he inspected seriously.

Seeing Zhao Yang's appearance, Wang Pangpang gave him a supercilious look.

Soon other students discovered Zhao Yang, and they shouted out in shock: "His Royal Highness?!"

His call immediately attracted everyone's attention.

All the students in the audience immediately stood up and saluted Zhao Yang: "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince."

Zhao Yang quickly waved his hand to signal: "Sit down quickly."

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness." The students sat back obediently, but their moods were very agitated.

"I'm here to inspect the invigilator, and I didn't expect to disturb you."

The students hurriedly said: "Don't bother, don't bother at all."

Now that he was discovered, he must say something to motivate the students.

"You are the pillars of Song Dynasty in the future, I hope you can take the local examination well." Zhao Yang said with a smile, "I hope that my arrival will not affect your examination."

This is the provincial examination, and it is not easy for Zhao Yang to make a long speech, so a few simple sentences will do.

For the students, it is already a great honor to hear two words from His Royal Highness the Prince.

The students were deeply inspired by Zhao Yang's words.They are full of energy and enthusiasm at the moment.

Before Zhao Yang left, he winked at Wang Pangpang.

Wang Pangpang raised his eyebrows back.

After Zhao Yang left the examination room where Wang Pangpang was, he left the Gong Yuan directly.If he stayed any longer, it would also affect the chief examiner.

Because of the arrival of His Highness the Crown Prince, the atmosphere in each examination room has become different and very passionate.Both the examiners and the guards felt the excitement of the students and their full fighting spirit.

Cao Xu waited for Zhao Yang at the gate of the Gongyuan, and when he saw him coming out, he hurried forward.

"Your Highness, why did you come out so soon?"

"Being discovered by the students, staying any longer will affect their exams."

Cao Xu thought about it, "How about Fat Pang?"

"He was very comfortable, and brought the Yuqian Longjing that I gave him to the examination room."

"Ah?" Cao Xu looked surprised, "Is this kid going to take an exam, or to drink tea?"

"It's good that he's so relaxed." Zhao Yang got on the horse and walked slowly while leading the horse. "The township test shouldn't be difficult for him. Maybe he can really pass the Jieyuan test." Buy from Yanbei After many horses came back, Zhao Yang stopped riding in an ox cart and rode horses instead.However, at present, horses are still more precious than cattle, and not everyone is qualified to ride a horse.

"That's good." Cao Xu asked, "Your Highness, where are we going next, shall we go directly to the palace?"

"Don't go back to the palace yet, go to the Sun Academy."

"Yes."

Seeing that there were no problems with the Sun Academy and the poorhouse, Zhao Yang felt relieved.

Zhao Yang chatted with Liu Qi for a while.

For the past few years, Liu Qi has been teaching at the Sun Academy.He used to be in a bad condition, but his body has suddenly improved a lot in the past few years, and he is also very energetic.

Liu Qi told Zhao Yang that he had found the motivation to live. He wanted to teach more children to read and write, so he had to live longer.

Up to now, Liu Qi still doesn't know Zhao Yang's real identity.However, his temperament is not interested in Zhao Yang's real identity.For him, as long as Zhao Yang continues to open the Sun Academy, the rest is not important.

He thought that the Sun Academy would not be able to operate for a few years, but he did not expect that the number of students in the Sun Academy has increased in the past three years.

The children near the Sun Academy have all come to study, and they are all literate and can do arithmetic.

The first batch of students have graduated this year, and some students went directly to the shop as apprentices.They can read and do arithmetic, and they can make money after learning for a while in the shop.

If there are students who want to continue their studies and want to take the imperial examination.The gentlemen of the Sun Academy would recommend them to study elsewhere.

The Sun Academy only allows students to study for three years, and does not teach them to take the imperial examination.

Most of the students who graduated from Sun Academy this year went to shop as apprentices, and a small half were recommended to continue their studies in other private schools.

Whether they are shop apprentices or students who continue to study in private schools, they will often come back to tell the gentlemen about their recent situation.

The teachers and students of Sun Academy are very close like a family.

This is the scene Zhao Yang is most willing to see.Although Sun Academy can only allow students to read books for free for three years, these three years are enough for students to know a lot of characters and learn a little arithmetic.

Zhao Yang has been thinking about one thing.Some students want to continue studying and take the imperial examination, but their families have no money and cannot continue studying.He is thinking about whether to engage in student loans, so that students can study on Yamen loans.Wait until the students pass the exam and enter the official career before paying back the money.

When I return to Funing Palace, discuss this matter with my father to see if it is feasible.If it works, it's a good thing for students.