A barrel-thick ginkgo tree stands alone in the Gongyuan. Whenever late autumn comes, the golden leaves cover the ground, making it look extremely beautiful.

However, at this time of year, there are only bare branches and a few crows standing on the tree trunks, screaming miserably.

In the Gongyuan, Liu Yuanjing was sitting in her examination seat, waiting for the examiner to hand out the test papers.

Although the significance of bringing cheat sheets for Mingshu Ke is far less than that for Ming Jing Ke, there is still a strict search when entering the examination room, and there are also personnel patrolling everywhere after entering the examination room.

It seems that Wei Zheng has made great efforts to improve the discipline in the examination room this time.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

With the sound of the gong, the spring boudoir of the tenth year of Zhenguan officially begins.

Soon, officials from the Ministry of Etiquette came over to distribute examination papers, pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and the atmosphere in the examination room immediately became tense.

"hiss!"

Soon, there were a lot of noises in the examination room. Some people scanned the examination papers in advance and immediately discovered that the number of questions in this year's examination was much more than expected.

This is to test not only everyone’s computing power, but also everyone’s computing speed.

According to the usual practice, Mingshuangkeke mainly examines the contents of the "Jiuzhang Suanjing", "Five Classics Suanjing", "Wucao Suanjing", "Xiahouyang Suanjing", "Zhangqiu Jian Suanjing" and other arithmetic classics.

The number of exam questions each year is relatively fixed, and the difficulty does not change greatly.

However, this convention has obviously been broken this year.

However, Liu Yuan was not panicked at all.

In Guanshishan Academy, all students have been required to take various examination papers continuously in the past month.

It can be said that Li Kuan fully applied the examination-oriented education style of later generations to the review before the imperial examination.

In addition, students at Guanshishan Academy are accustomed to using Arabic numerals for data calculations, and then using equations in books such as "Basic Mathematics" to greatly reduce the difficulty of solving problems.

If it weren't for him not being allowed to bring an abacus in, Liu Yuan would have been confident that he would have completed all the exam questions in the morning.

Even the number of questions in this subject has increased by several percent.

The more advanced you are, the more difficult you want the exam to be.

The academic masters of later generations have the same roots.

If the test questions are very simple and everyone gets about the same score, it will be impossible to take advantage of the top students.

Mathematics, for example, is easy. A top student can score 148 points on the test, but a good average student can probably score 140 points on the test.

But if the questions are difficult, then a top student might still get a score of 148, while an average student might only get a score of 120.

Liu Yuan carefully filled in his personal information on the test paper, then read the test paper once before starting to answer the questions.

At the same time, Wang Sheng was not far away, and he was secretly surprised.

This year's spring boudoir is indeed much more difficult, and I am going to be completely famous now.

I'm so happy.

It seems that the top academics have similar thoughts in their minds.

…

At the gate of Gongyuan, as in previous years, there were many people waiting for the Spring Boudoir to end.

Especially the scholars in Chang'an City basically have their families waiting outside. Even though they know that this will not have any impact on the results, they still want to get the results of the exam as soon as possible.

"Are this year's exam questions difficult?"

"How was your exam?"

"Do you think you can hit it?"

Whether it is the Tang Dynasty or later generations of college entrance examinations, the scenes faced by candidates after the exam are similar.

"Fourth brother, I'm here!"

Several servants around Wang Jie helped to occupy a good position, and he saw Wang Sheng walking out of the gate of Gongyuan at a glance.

"How did the exam go?"

"Brother! Fortunately, you have lived up to your mission!" Wang Sheng smiled, "This year's exam questions are very difficult, and the number of questions has also increased. Many scholars did not finish it before the time came. Although there are a few questions that I am not very confident about.

But I don’t think other people can easily solve a problem of that difficulty.”

"Okay! I knew you could do it!"

Wang Jie had been worried for a day and finally gave up.

"Let's go, brother, let me take you to relax. Anyway, it will take some time for the results of the boudoir to come out."

…

Liu Yuan and Chen Xing walked out of the examination room at about the same time. They looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

Soon, the thirty students from Guanshishan Academy who took the scientific examination this spring all came out. Judging from everyone's expressions, they should have done well in the examination.

Well, except for Lin Ran's expressionless face as always, making it difficult to guess the situation.

"Participating in the Minshu Department is just the beginning of a new beginning. No matter what the result is, it doesn't mean anything. Everyone should go back to the academy."

Liu Yuan ignored the hustle and bustle around him, said a few words to the classmates next to him, and started walking towards the academy.

The few students who were originally thinking about celebrating also retracted their thoughts and followed back to the academy.

Although everyone is basically familiar with the contents of the Mingshu Science Examination, there are many things that everyone in the academy does not understand about the new arithmetic textbook written by His Highness the King of Chu.

At this moment, there is really nothing to celebrate.

…

During this time in early February, brothels and restaurants all over Chang'an City were bustling with activity and business was booming.

After participating in the spring boudoir ceremony, the scholars were like kites that had lost their direction and began to fly themselves.

However, the time of joy is always short-lived, and soon, everyone needs to face reality again.

"Your Majesty, in two quarters of an hour, the rankings will begin!"

Li Kuan had nothing to do, so he followed Xu Jingzong and the others to the gate of Gongyuan today to see the final result.

At this time of year, the entrance to the Gongyuan is the busiest. Not only the scholars and relatives and friends participating in Chungui will come here, but also some people in Chang'an City who have no relationship with Chungui at all will come to join in the fun.

I even heard that some people like to find their son-in-law at the bottom of the list and lock in potential stocks in advance.

"With so many people, I thought the list had already been released."

"It's like this every year at this time. Before dawn, there are people waiting here."

Xu Jingzong seemed very familiar with the situation in front of him.

Right next to Li Kuan, Wang Jie and Wang Sheng also arrived.

"His Royal Highness King Chu, I didn't expect to see you here. Could it be that the prince also participated in this year's spring boudoir?"

The children of Wang Jie and other aristocratic families are very good at talking nonsense to people and ghosts.

"I heard that you have already entered the official position. Why, do you still want to prove your strength through the imperial examination?"

Li Kuan and Wang Jie came and went. From a distance, they thought they were good friends talking.

"The list is released!"

A shout from someone unknown completely interrupted the conversation of everyone on the field.

The first ones to be released are the top three.

The results of five subjects including Ming Jing Ke, Jin Shi Ke, Ming Fa Ke, Ming Suan Ke and Ming Medicine are announced together.

"Haha! I got it! I got it!"

"Ah! I got hit too!"

"Your Majesty, they are all from our academy!"

All kinds of voices suddenly sounded in the field.

Wang Sheng looked at the list on the wall, feeling a little regretful but also a little relieved!

Unfortunately, I didn’t win, and I’m happy that Xin Hao didn’t win!
Chapter completed!