The examination location was at the county government office because the agricultural supervisor did not have that many desks and chairs.

The county magistrate is also in charge of civil affairs. Whenever there are theoretical examinations, they are basically held in the examination room of the county government.

The county magistrate Li Wenzheng was not seen. The examiner and invigilator were still acquaintances of the agricultural supervisor, but the number of people from the county government to invigilate the examination increased to fifty, and there were also more officials delivering food and water.

There is no endurance test this time, so someone will bring meals to the exam room during the exam.

The exam lasts for two days, so there will naturally be no shortage of test papers.

After Zhao Xing found his corresponding examination room and sat down, he waited for the test papers to be distributed. There were forty papers in total!

Thirty of them are test questions and ten are blank.

Zhao Xing was not in a hurry to write. He first took a rough look at the test questions and requirements, and then checked to see if there were any errors or omissions.

The first fifteen cards are score questions, and they are questions that can be scored by rote memorization.

For example: "Which ancient book does "The Seventy-Two Phenomenology of the Moon Order" come from? Who compiled it and when?"

Zhao Xing didn't even need to think about it and wrote down the answer directly: "It comes from "Shi Xun Jie", compiled in the ninth year of Kaiping by the great minister Wu Cheng."

Or cut out a sentence from the work and fill in the previous or next sentence.

For example: Ping does not grow, and the yin energy is full of anger. ________

Answer: If the singing dove does not flutter its feathers, the country will not be able to manage the army; if the hoopoe does not surrender to the mulberry tree, the politics and religion will not be in harmony.

This question is the 'Yin-Yang Phenology Question'. It means that if the Yin Qi in the Yin-Yang Qi is too heavy, then some abnormal 'phenology' phenomena will appear accordingly. At this time, the country had better not use weapons or issue some new policies. government decree, otherwise the results will be relatively poor.

Zhao Xing answered the question fluently and quickly handed out the points.

Now comes the situational questions for screening candidates.

"There are winds in the south of the city that move violently, droughts in spring and autumn, rivers in the east of the city, excessive rainfall, floods in summer and winter, and it is difficult for grains to survive. What's the explanation?"

If you want to change to an official whose basic theory is not solid, you must directly answer, "Change it with the method of regulating weather and weather, and you will have a good harvest."

To answer this question, if you can only give 2 points out of 10, you can even give no points at all.

Because there are only answers and no process, it is not good for theory tests.

Moreover, the answers are not on point. This is because the question has not been examined clearly or the theoretical reserve of magic knowledge is insufficient.

"The south wind blows violently all year round in the small town, blowing away the clouds and rain in spring and autumn, causing drought. But there is a river in the east of the city, and the rising clouds cause floods in summer and winter, so this is not a question of weather at all, but It's a geographical question. No matter what Tianshi sect's spell is used, it is wrong." After seeing clearly the trap contained in the question, Zhao Xing began to answer the question.

In fact, it is very simple. The way to solve it is what Zhenjun Caoxi once did.

"Nurture the earth's veins in the south, and the high ground will regulate the wind. Build a channel in the east to divert water around the city. Select a low-lying area in the east of the city to store water in a lake, and then build a Guiyuan waterwheel. Then the rainfall will be balanced in the four seasons. Supplemented by solar terms. , the weather will be smooth in three years.”

After Zhao Xing finished writing, he was sure that he could get full marks, so he continued to answer.

It wasn't until the last question that I encountered difficulty.

This is a situational question involving the Five Elements and Four Seasonal Taboos:

"The earth is cold and cold, the spring trees are not used, the summer sun is steaming, and locusts are blooming. What's the explanation?"

The fewer the words, the more difficult the question.

What's more, it's a linked question.

Because it describes seasonal disorders and natural disasters, the question links the two together, so when answering the question, it must be answered jointly and cannot be separated.

The standard answer must start from the direction of the Five Elements and Four Seasons theory, and it is best to find the basis from classic works. Otherwise, if you use the examinee's own words, it will lack basis and be unconvincing.

If you are not convincing, even if the answer is correct, points will be deducted.

After figuring this out, Zhao Xing began to think and read through various works in an effort to find a perfect answer.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Xing took up his pen and answered.

"If there is lingering cold in the spring, the earth will be overcast and hundreds of trees will not grow. It is necessary to use Bing fire from the earth veins to adjust the weather. If there is no Bing fire in the earth, use Ding. If there is no Bing Ding, then the weather will be postponed."

"The excessive steaming of the sun in summer means spring is short, and insect plagues are rampant and need to be corrected. When the sky returns to the sky, it is spring, and the earth's fire is Ding. It returns to the season of spring, and then returns to summer. Summer is short of the season, and the four seasons return to the right time."

The standard answer refers to the contents of the Geographical Advantages Chapter and the Tianshi Chapter of the book "The Theory of Four Seasons and Five Elements".

This question talks about how to solve the problem if spring trees are unavailable, the soil is cold, the summer is extremely hot, and a locust disaster occurs under the rule of the agricultural officer.

The topic involves the five elements, the four seasons, and natural disasters.

When answering, we can answer according to the five elements, heavenly stems and earthly branches, and give a relatively perfect answer.

First, use the method of the Dili faction to adjust the power of the earth veins. The earth veins have different attributes. Bing fire is the most prosperous and can be used to regulate the cold phenomenon, followed by Ding fire, but it can barely be used.

If the environment in that place is really harsh and cannot guide the fires of C and D, we can only change the weather and make spring pass quickly until the next season, which is called "postponing the weather".

In summer, the sun is too strong, resulting in steaming heat and various insect pests. This is because the spring is too short. Following the previous sentence, it is the cause and effect.

Don't think too much at this time and just change the weather, because the insect plague has already appeared. Summer is the most suitable time for the insect plague to be rampant. There is no way to solve it if you stay in the summer.

Therefore, it is necessary to restore the saying that "the weather is spring". Can it be changed to autumn and winter?

No, because the ‘Diyin Binghuo’ was used in the spring to solve the problem of cold and cold, which caused the spring to be shortened, and now it is necessary to make up for the spring.

The earth vein is Ding Fire, which is relatively mild and will not cause the return of cold and cold. It will not be too far away from summer, because after solving the natural disasters of insects, we still have to return to summer. This is called "returning to the correct position of the four seasons."

When Zhao Xing answered the question, he considered the possibility of a recurrence of the insect plague, so when he returned to the country and resettled, he wrote to make the summer shorter.

Because the difference between the heat in summer and autumn is not that big, if you wait a shorter period of summer and a longer period of autumn, there is no problem and it will not have a big impact. A shorter period of spring and a longer period of summer will cause big problems.

"If the examiner were not blind, I would have given full marks to this question no matter what." Zhao Xing checked it, turned over the page, and continued to answer.

Time passed slowly, and at night, many candidates had begun to stop writing, because most officials did not have the ability to see at night.

Zhao Xing didn't want to waste time here, so he planned to finish the paper as soon as possible and submit it in advance.

So even when the light dimmed, I didn't stop writing.

After answering all the previous types of questions, he began to review them again to see if there were better answers and where he might have lost points.

After checking this several times, you will proceed to the next category of questions.

When it got dark, Zhao Xing only had the last type of questions left:

There is only one question of this type, and it is also the most difficult school thought question.

"Please match the five elements, heavenly stems, and earthly branches with the four seasons, and explain the matching ideas."

If you don’t like these theories, you can skip them. If you like them, don’t take them too seriously, because some of them have been modified by the author to blend into the fantasy framework. After all, the four seasons cannot be changed in the real world, and they cannot all be based on reality.
Chapter completed!