The highest institution of learning in the country, Daxia Academy, which covers an active area, has rows of straw huts set up on the flat playground. The square tables under the straw huts are filled with students from the academies from all over the country. According to statistics, there are a total of 156 students who have registered this time.

The officials in charge of invigilators patrolled the rows of straw huts back and forth to prevent cheating and plagiarism.

This time the test questions were set by Wang Lang himself. Most of the questions were of natural science type, and the difficulty level was equivalent to that of the third grade of elementary school.

In terms of articles, Wang Lang only wrote a free-designed essay. He only had to write a 500-word article. The subject matter was not limited. As long as he could clearly write the meaning he wanted to express and try to fewer typos, he would be considered qualified.

This level of examination is simply free to modern people, but it is a big challenge for these students.

The exam starts at nine o'clock on the sundial and ends at noon. In just three hours, the students taking the exam can be said to have spent as many seconds as the year. Looking at the densely packed test questions on the test paper, many students were as big as a fight and didn't know how much hair they had caught.

As time passed, when the reflection of the sundial pointer turned into a black dot, accompanied by the sound of the gong of "Dangdangdang", the first selection examination of Xia Kingdom officially ended.

The candidates walked out of the examination room with exhaustion and dizziness. When they met their classmates, they asked each other about their answers to questions. When they learned that the answers to some of their questions were different from others, they immediately broke their chests and stamped their feet and regretted not falling. They all thought that they must have calculated the wrong ones.

Officials of the Ministry of Rites collected the test papers and placed the natural science test papers in the Ministry of Rites. These test questions have standard answers, and each question has corresponding scores. It is not very difficult to calculate the score.

The essays of the candidates were rushed to the palace by the rising officials and reviewed by Wang Lang himself.

In the palace, Wang Lang sat at the desk and carefully checked each essay. Even though the essays were written with the wrong lips, he still patiently finished reading it and wrote the scores he had judged.

An article titled "After I Come to Xia Kingdom" attracted Wang Lang's attention.

"I came to Xia Kingdom six years ago. At that time, I was only ten years old, maybe nine years old, and I can't remember it. Six years ago, His Majesty the Emperor brought us back in the valley. Not long after, I separated from my mother. Later, I learned that my mother was married. I didn't know what it means to get married. At that time, I was very scared and thought I would never see my mother again. I thought I was going to die. But not long after, I was sent to Linhe with other children and learned to write with Shangshu Lin. At that time, I was very reluctant to study and always wanted to return to my mother. If there were no other children around me, I might have run away secretly.

During the time in Linhe, he was not only working or studying every day. Shangshu Lin was very strict. Whenever he asked a question, he would hit us if he couldn't answer it. Thinking about it, Shangshu Lin was doing the right thing. If he didn't hit us, we would go to play with him. Now I wouldn't sit here.

Over the past six years, I have watched the Xia Kingdom become more powerful, from a few hundred people and only two small cities to such a huge scale today. During those wars, when I learned that the warriors of the tribe had defeated the invading enemy, I looked at the soldiers who returned home, and I didn’t know why I felt a sense of pride at the time. Maybe I had completely regarded myself as a member of the tribe.

Later, the tribe destroyed the five grassland tribes and established the Xia Kingdom. I was also asked to study in the Yancheng Academy. Here I met my mother once. After so many years, I grew taller and changed, but my mother became much older. She told me that her husband was a soldier and now she had two children. I went to my mother's house to see my younger brother and sister. The two children were very healthy. My mother asked me to stay and live with them, but I refused. For some reason, looking at their family, I felt indescribable and felt that I was not suitable to stay here. Fortunately, in the Academy in Daxia, a house called dormitory was built for us students who had no family, so that we would not sleep outside.

For my own life, classmates like me, after studying for a long time, they would go to the wild to catch some small animals or harvest some forage and sell them to trading stations. We used the accumulated copper coins to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstone. Paper is a good thing, but it is too expensive. I really hope that there will be endless paper in the future so that we can write more words.

If I can become an official in this exam, I must use the knowledge I have learned to enable all the people of Xia Kingdom to live a better life.

Your Majesty said that our Xia Kingdom is civilized, and the savages outside are barbarians. The Xia Kingdom has the responsibility to educate these barbarians, but for the barbarians who are constantly educating, they can only beat them and let them know the benefits of civilization. I think what Your Majesty is right. Humans in this world are unwilling to become Xia people unless they are fools.

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Wang Lang read this smooth article in one breath and stroked his beard with satisfaction. This article has more than fewer typos and fewer missing words, and the surface is also very neat. The brush writing is comparable to Wang Lang's level. It can reach this level, which shows how hard this student has worked on weekdays.

After looking at the signature, I saw that it said, Zheng Sen.

Wang Lang remembered this name and wrote one hundred or two eye-catching big words on the test paper in red ink.

Most of the following articles are still unsightly, with only a few, and they are still as good as Wang Lang's eyes, but no essay can be compared with Zheng Sen's.

As for Wang He's composition, Wang Lang has also read it. His handwriting is quite neat, but there are too many typos and the meaning is not clear. In the end, Wang Lang only gave him a passing standard of 60.

Three days later, the Ministry of Rites counted the results of all the candidates, and a piece of white paper two meters square was filled with dense names.

When the results were released, the candidates who were waiting for the results in front of the Ministry of Rites rushed forward and looked for their names on the list nervously.

"Zheng Sen! First place in the first place, 190!

Li Dahe! Second place in the first place, 183 points!

Feng Yu, third in the first place, 179 points!

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Looking at the names of the three people who were high above the list, everyone was extremely envious, and the three people stared at the list for a long time and couldn't speak.

"Brother Zheng! Congratulations! I knew at the beginning that Brother Zheng must have no problem taking the exam, but I didn't expect to be the first place!" One of Zheng Sen's friends said enviously.

"Brother Wu, I didn't expect this. Is this really true?" Zheng Sen, who was still childish, swallowed, unable to believe it.
Chapter completed!