Three days passed in a flash.

At about the fifth day, Xu Yan got up early to wash up.

After having breakfast, it was time to go out for the exam. Shuangxi had already prepared the exam basket and looked at Xu Yan very sadly.

"Young Master, this is the first time you've gotten up so early. Are you really not sleepy?"

Xu Yan almost turned his back and rolled his eyes and said, "Young Master, am I so useless?"

I thought to myself that Xu Yan had left too deep an impression on the playboy of the little Shutong.

"No, no, I just said that. Master, you must work hard!"

Shuangxi said with her big watery eyes blinking.

Dinghai County is not big, so naturally there are not many candidates.

Xu Mansion is very close to the county examination site and county school, and you can get there by foot.

Even though Xu Yan said he could do it, Xiao Shutong still insisted on following, saying that this was the wife's order.

Xu Yanzhi was a little helpless and smiled bitterly: "Then let's go."

This is the first time Xu Yan went to the county school. As an official school, only scholars who have obtained the fame of scholars are qualified to study in it. However, now that the official school is in decline, many students who pass the exam for scholars can also place a tuo at most every day, and they do not really study in it. In contrast, folk academies are places where they are more willing to study. In other words, county school is just a springboard.

When Xu Yan came to the county school, he found that many candidates had gathered. Looking around, there were both teenagers over ten years old and many old children who had already reached the fortunate level.

He roughly counted and found that there were about a few hundred children of children who were referring to, which was far from comparable to those counties that often had two or three thousand candidates.

It is of course a good thing to have few candidates, and there are few competitors who have a great chance of standing out. In addition, Dinghai County’s culture and education are not strong, so it is naturally not difficult for Xu Yan to pass the county examination.

The chief examiner of the county examination was the county magistrate, and the questions were all from him. Xu Yan had previously collected and analyzed several articles written by the county magistrate Zhao, hoping to find out his personal likes and dislikes. Although it may not be accurate, it is somewhat helpful.

More and more people were seen, and the yamen runners began to order the candidates to arrange them in several rows, preparing to check their identities and enter the examination room.

Xu Yan took the exam basket from Shuangxi and whispered: "You go back first."

Xu Yan was assigned to the third column and happened to be separated with his clan brother Xu Yan.

Xu Wei seemed very excited and squeezed at Xu Yan and said, "Although Brother Qiu is young, he must be confident in seeing his calm and composed look, right?"

Xu Yan said lightly: "My clan brother is joking."

After about a moment, we finally started to release people.

The yamen runners inspected it very carefully, so it took a long time to make it his turn.

The county yamen runners had known this Xu Xiaolangjun for a long time, and they were naturally very good at him. After checking the basket, they put Xu Yan in.

There is another last step before the exam starts, which is the lecture by Magistrate Zhao.

The content of the lecture is naturally not nutritious, it is nothing more than encouragement to learn, but the process must be done.

The candidates patiently listened to the lectures of Zhao County Magistrate, and finally could prepare for the exam.

The Minglun Hall of the County School will definitely not accommodate so many candidates to take the exam together, so the yamen runners built simple examination sheds in the County School early.

This examination room is naturally not as comfortable as a house, but it is still OK to hide from the sun.

Xu Yan followed the instructions of the yamen runners to sit down, put down the test basket, and took out all the pen, ink and inkstones. As for the test papers, they had long been placed on several cases in advance.

Next is waiting for the announcement of the test questions.

In order to prevent cheating, the test questions are not written directly on the paper. Instead, after all the candidates are seated, the clerk will write them on the wooden board and then hold them up and walk around the examination room to make public announcement.

The first question is the Four Books, and the title is the Taoist politician. The second question is the Five Classics, which requires candidates to choose one from the Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn, Book of Rites, Book of Songs, and Book of Books. Xu Yan's original sutra is the Book of Songs, so he naturally chooses the title of the Book of Songs. The last question is the test-posting poem, which is what Xu Yan is best at.

He quickly copied the three questions on the draft first, and then took a deep breath to calm down.

Time is enough, but Xu Yan is preparing to leave the most time for the four books questions, because this is a question that determines the success or failure of the exam, which is crucial.

Calm and concentrate and analyze the problem.

This title comes from "The Analects of Confucius": Taoism is used to govern, and discipline is used to punish, so that the people are exempted from shamelessness.

The meaning is very simple. Leading the people with political affairs is to come from above and below. Although it is a legal ban, the effect cannot be deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Of course there is the next sentence. The next sentence is to tell him virtue, to be polite with etiquette, to be ashamed and wise.

Confucius affirmed the rule of ritual governance by comparing the rule of law and the rule of ritual governance. He advocated that the rule of ritual governance should be based on the rule of law should be the end.

When he was in Hangzhou, what Mr. Xushan taught Xu Yan the most was to solve the problem. Therefore, he now has a lot of ideas about getting to the problem.

After thinking carefully for a while, Xu Yan raised his pen and wrote: The sage discusses governance, and argues his response to his thoughts. Political and punishments can temporarily approve the people, and this trace should be polite to the people gradually. This is the response to the people. Knowing that this can be discussed governance.

In a simple sentence, it is exquisite to bring the sages' discussion on the way to govern the country to his own views on this matter.

After solving the problem, what you want to write is simple. Xu Yan planned it and wrote it in one go.

"I think the Master's intention was that it is better to teach the people to do good than to punish the people for doing evil. The people do not know their evil, and they feel guilty.

Try to compare politics and punishment, so it is a tool for banning people from doing evil;

Virtue and etiquette (that is), is the tool for teaching the people to do good.

The first one is to open the way, and the second one is to be neat, but the other is to find different things.

Is there anyone who is like the way to do politics and to align it? It is said that only the country's discipline is rectified and the implementation is to be punished, and to use this harsh observation as the governance body, and to rectify it as the merit of governance, and to examine the people at any time. Those who serve the people will be troubled by their efforts to avoid it, and to escape the political and punishments with their own traces. They will be obsessed with it. They will be careful to deal with the relaxation of my political and punishments. They will be careful and do not do anything. They will regard this as a matter of serving the king and the superiors, and if their body and mind are not in harmony with each other, it is said that it is not a shameful thought? It is because the superiors practice politics and the subordinates carry it with their ears and eyes, the superiors practice punishment and the subordinates carry it with their bodies and bodies, and the superiors and the subordinates carry it with their bodies and bodies to achieve this governance.

Is there anyone who is like the way to do it with virtue and the complimentary one? It is said that only those who are born and the people are deeply cultivated and simplified, use this to express the right as the governance body, and use the wind to encourage the people as the merits and achievements, and those who are responsible for the people will enjoy their cultivation and gradually become enlightened, and they are not willing to be two of my virtues and rites. And think about it as one of my virtues and rites, and how can they do what they are kind and kind? Just take this as the matter of my body and mind, and you should not be troubled by the king. Who is not a shameful thought? It is because the top cultivates virtue and then the bottom knows that it has its nature, the top cultivates etiquette and then the bottom knows that it is the situation, and the top cultivates etiquette and then the bottom knows that it is the treatment.

It is necessary to show the people what they cannot do, and to be virtuous and commend the people with what they are inherent;

Punishment governs the people in what they are attached to, and etiquette prevents the people in what they are not in shape.

The two are curbed outside, so even though the ban is strictly prohibited, they will not be entered;

When both are touched internally, the teachings are broad but they are self-confessed.

The governance of the verdict cannot be said to be honest and pure, because shamelessness and shame, the judgment of the mind has been long. Those who govern should examine it."

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