At the end of May of the 16th year of the Great Mongolian Kingdom, Liaoning Province was traveling to Liaoyang City.

On this day, the southern city of Liaoyang City rarely became quiet, especially near the Nancheng Academy in Liaoyang. The official road entering this place was long ago controlled, and no carriages were allowed to enter. Scholars who came to take the exam and family members who were taking the exam could only get off the bus early and walk into the school area.

As the first school in Liaoyang City, the size of Nancheng School is also the largest in the entire Liaoyang Province. In the past, it was originally a warehouse for storage after the government collected taxes, but after the arrival of Eastern Mongolia, it was changed to use.

Some of them are used as school buildings.

In order to enter the examination room early, Zheng Mingyan came to Nancheng School early in the morning. As the destination approached, more and more people gradually became. Men, women, adults, and children all rushed to Nancheng School like they were going to the market.

When I saw the tall eaves of Nancheng Academy, the people moving forward were blocked.

Zheng Mingyan was a little anxious and was very afraid of missing the time. Fortunately, the crowd in front of him finally moved, and he heard someone shouting, "People who have nothing to do with the imperial examination should leave here so as to give way to the scholars who took the exam."

Slowly, the crowd in front began to actively line up. The people taking the exam lined up to the left, and all those who did not take the exam lined up to the right, so as to pass the other and leave the school directly.

The relatives who accompanied the exam and the people who were simply watching the fun were soon evacuated. Zheng Mingyan quickly lined up to the entrance of the school, where there were already people from the security army guarding it.

When Zheng Mingyan arrived, he immediately asked him to show his certificate of registration for the imperial examination a few days ago. If not, he could go to the other side to make a reissue. As long as he reported his household registration and wrote down his name by himself, recite the "Three Character Classic" on the spot, and paid the registration fee for five copper coins, he would be considered successful.

Zheng Mingyan went through this process when registering a few days ago. The official responsible for registering for him at the time said that when the exam was over, the registration fee could be refunded in full.

Of course, if you find that you have abandoned the exam or cheated, you don’t want to go back to the registration fee.

At this moment, Zheng Mingyan handed over the nameplate representing his identity information. After checking the security army checked it, he began to check his salute again. When he found that he had a bedding, straw mat and even a chamber pot for small slacks, he suddenly felt a little amused and confused: "Brother, our imperial examination here is different from the imperial examination in the tribute school. You don't need to stay in it all day." As he said that, he began to explain the rules of this examination to him.

There are only four exams in East Mongolia this time. Among them, three were held in Nancheng Academy, which are divided into Chinese studies, arithmetics, and strategy theory. Each session is set as an hour. Once the time comes, no matter whether the candidate completes the answer or not, he must leave the examination room.

Moreover, candidates are not allowed to bring in writing tools such as pen, ink, paper, etc. They will be arranged uniformly in the examination room, and carrying them privately will be handled as cheating.

Therefore, most of the things in Zheng Mingyan’s backpack are not required or allowed to be brought in. Fortunately, there is a storage place next to the gate of the examination room, which can be stored for free with the registration certificate.

Such examination regulations made Zheng Mingyan feel novel and relaxed a lot. After all, he didn't have to stay in the tribute court for two or three days, and he would eat, drink, defecate and urinate all of them, which was also a great test for people's physical strength.

However, the fourth exam was called riding and shooting, and the exam room was set up in the military camp in Beicheng. I heard that the time was the test of riding and shooting skills that Mongolians were accustomed to, and even arranged troops. Zheng Mingyan was not afraid of this. When he was in Pingyang Mansion, he had not ridden a horse, and he often liked to follow the hunters to hunt up the mountains, so he was extremely confident in these four games.

When I was storing things like this and when I was about to enter the examination room, there were examiners responsible for the examination to register every scholar.

When asked whether Zheng Mingyan chose Chinese or Mongolian exams, he immediately chose Chinese. As a Han Chinese, he naturally tended to Chinese. As for Mongolian, he couldn't understand them at all. And among the registered scholars present, almost all of them chose Chinese exams. This made him a little curious. Could it be that there are really Mongolians here to take the exam?

After registering this way, they were randomly assigned to a certain examination room with five people. Zheng Mingyan received the No. 2 wooden sign, and immediately four candidates who received the No. 2 wooden sign were in the same examination room as him.

Two of them are about the same age as him, and one is a middle-aged man with a little fat body, while the other looks young and light, with few beards on his chin.

"I am Wang Lutao, from Shun'an County, Ningzhou. Today I have a fate with you guys." A man with a slightly longer face, but wearing a narrow-sleeved top, a cloak on his face, and a short hair, bowed to everyone first and introduced himself.

"I am Gao Jianqing, from Changning County, Qingzhou, Hailar Province. Hehe, I have graduated from junior college. I'm here to try it this time." The youngest man, who is still a little innocent and honest, also introduced himself after Wang Lutao spoke.

Zheng Mingyan hid it shyly and immediately introduced himself. When he learned that he was from Central Plains, Gao Jianqing was very curious and asked Zheng Mingyan to tell him about the interesting humanities of Central Plains.

But because the exam was about to be taken, Zheng Mingyan could only refuse to say it after the exam was over.

The remaining man of similar age was Puchasijin, a native of Shenzhou, Liaoning Province. Seeing that he looked like he was not close to him, everyone just bowed to him, and he had seen him.

The last middle-aged man, named Dou Mo, from Feixiang, Mingzhou, West Road, Hebei. Compared to Puchasi Jin, who showed a cold face and did not enter a stranger, he was even more inaccessible. His whole face was wrinkled even more bitter, as if he had experienced many hardships.

The group of five people waited for a while, and then waited for the fifth team of scholars. A total of twenty-five people were led to the No. 2 examination room by people inside the examination room.

There are twenty-five tables in it, each table is separated by a distance. A large table is placed directly opposite the entrance to the examination room. An incense burner is placed on it, and four incense sticks are inserted on it, but it has not been lit yet.

At this time, they were arranged to queue again. They handed over wooden signs one by one in order, and then were led into the examination room to sit in order. And the nameplate for the examination registration was also placed in the upper left corner of the table.

The examiner in charge of the invigilator will check whether the nameplate is wrong one by one. At the same time, taking advantage of the time before the exam, the examiner asks everyone to check the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table. If there is any problem, you can directly ask for replacement.

Zheng Mingyan didn't dare to be careless and tried to grind and tried it. After finding that writing was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he found that there were also a few feather-like pens in the ink used for writing. He had seen this thing in Zhongdu, and it was said to be a writing tool in Eastern Mongolia.
Chapter completed!