Although Ji Jiu, the acting head of Banshan Hall, lacked prestige, many people were dissatisfied, but since Zhang Shou had personally named him as the head of the hall, they could only temporarily ignore it. Even though some people thought that Ji Jiu's father didn't love him, and he didn't have Zhang Chen to rely on like Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu, and tried to blackmail him to help cheat, Ji Jiu had another trick up his sleeve.
As a result, the newly appointed acting head monk successfully avoided the difficult two days before the branch examination.
However, when the day of the test was sunny and windy, and Zhang Shou announced that the test would be held in Banshan Hall, countless eyes stabbed at Ji Jiu like knives. However, even in Banshan Hall, most people could not find a chance, because this place was originally large, and each table was nearly ten feet apart from each other. How many people had such good eyesight that they could see other people's papers
What's more, Xu Heida from the Shengqian Hall personally brought two minor officials to inspect and supervise the exam, so those who wanted to cheat could only sigh in vain.
When the papers were handed out, a few quick-witted students quickly glanced at them and, regardless of the solemn atmosphere at the moment, let out a low wail. This strange sound spread in an instant until the sound of the wake-up wood was heard in the lecture hall. The huge Banshan Hall fell silent again.
It is still unclear whether the questions are difficult or not, but everyone realizes one thing, that is... there are a lot of questions!
Before the exam started, Zhang Shou had already revealed the answers - most of the questions were from Xu Heida, and a small part was from the emperor. Therefore, in the absence of the emperor, Xu Heida naturally became the target of all the glares. However, Xu Heizi, the famous person in the Shengqian Hall, seemed not to notice and continued to patrol the exam room like a hawk inspecting his territory.
However, he was still quite grateful to Zhang Shou in his heart. Although he was famous, he was not a proper academic official like the doctors of the Imperial College. He was just a miscellaneous official. It was his duty to deal with the students who violated the school rules, but he was not qualified to set questions for them. He had secretly attended so many of Zhang Shou's classes, and now he felt that it was not in vain.
Therefore, Zhang Shou asked him to increase the number of questions, and he unceremoniously gave three full test papers, and finally even used five clerks to lock him in a small dark room to copy the test papers - in order to keep it secret, they have not been released yet. From Zhang Shou's initial history lectures to the later natural sciences and mathematics, everything was included. Although the difficulty was not high, it was not easy to answer because of the large number of questions.
Xu Heida was not a Jinshi, but he also fought his way to the top in the imperial examinations. He passed the county examinations, the prefectural examinations, and the imperial academy examinations and became a scholar, but he failed repeatedly in the examinations for juren. It was at that time that he heard that the imperial examinations were suspended in the early years of Taizu, and that all the county schools, state schools, and prefectures in the country studied at the Imperial Academy, and the best were selected from each school and sent up, and only those who graduated from the Imperial Academy were granted official positions. He was very surprised by this system.
Therefore, after he passed the imperial examination at the age of nearly 40, he gave up the idea of taking the imperial examination, worked hard to get the qualification, and finally entered the Imperial College. However, the situation of the Imperial College disappointed him greatly, and over time, he became more and more severe to the students. However, as a selfless supervisor, he could not save the Imperial College, which was gradually showing signs of decline.