Happy Little Scholar

Who doesn't want to get ahead in one step? There are so many students who want to enter the School of Mathematics. Even after the Imperial Academy has gone through layers of screening, there are a full thousand people who participate in the final examination.

With so many people, the examination site cannot be chosen in the palace, but the strict guards of the examination room are not inferior to those of the palace.

Even the formal imperial examination is no more than this.

There are ten different test questions for a thousand candidates, and one hundred people in each examination room. Any candidate has different test questions in front, behind, left, right, and all directions, which makes it extremely unlikely that they will cheat and plagiarize each other.

Changde also questioned Li Yi about the fairness of this method, and the answer he got was that luck is also a kind of strength. Among these ten sets of questions, there are indeed some extremely difficult ones, but in general, the difficulty coefficient is comparable.

Changde didn't know what the difficulty coefficient was, but he understood what Li Yi meant.

If he got a difficult question in this situation, it can only mean that he is unlucky. People with bad luck should not enter the court...

I just don't know who will have bad luck?

But this is not what he should worry about. All he has to do is follow Li Yi's arrangement and do it step by step.

There is still one hour before the exam officially starts. A lot of people have gathered under a high wall outside the exam room.

Many candidates pointed at the red paper on the high wall.

"I was assigned to the 10th exam room, No. 35."

"Look for mine, look for mine..."

"There are so many names, my eyes are dazzled."

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The exam rules on the side clearly state that everyone needs to find their exam room and seat before the exam. Countless people are looking at this wall.

"I found it too. The fifth examination room, number one."

"It's number one. I admire you. I'm also in the fifth examination room, but number two. I'm just one number short of you."

"Thank you, thank you! You're actually quite impressive."

Looking at the two young men complimenting each other, a certain official from the Ministry of Rites came over, glanced at everyone, and said, "The examination rooms and seat numbers are randomly assigned. What are you admiring?"

The two people who failed to pretend to be cool blushed and went elsewhere. They were in the same examination room, but only one seat was missing. I'm sure they would have a lot in common in the next hour.

"May I ask this lord, why are there no first and second examination rooms?" A young man in ordinary clothes asked curiously.

The official from the Ministry of Rites glanced at him and said, "Why, your name is not on it?"

The young man shook his head quickly, "I've found it. It's in the tenth examination room."

"Then don't ask so many questions." The official from the Ministry of Rites said coldly and walked away.

When the young man was stunned, someone sighed and said, "Brother, there is no need to ask just now. Isn't this obvious? The first and second examination halls are all children of officials. How can we have any chance?"

All the students present were poor students, and they didn't have any powerful backgrounds. Therefore, they cherished this opportunity and came to the entrance of the examination hall early. Many people in the crowd shook their heads and sighed.

The fathers of those people were all powerful officials in the court, how could they compare with them?

Even many of them knew that most of the places would be among those people in the college enrollment this time. As for them, it was still unknown how many people could get in.

"Since it is an arbitrary allocation, why are the first two examination halls full of officials' children?" A student said with indignation: "This time, I'm afraid it will be their one-man show again!" "It's impossible. I heard that this time, His Majesty has won a lot of places for us poor students. In today's examination, Li Xianbo only gave 200 places to officials' children. No matter how you look at it, we have more chances..." If we want to say who the poor students are most grateful to, it is the current His Majesty and Li Xianbo, the director of the Academy of Mathematics. His Majesty has been very kind to poor students over the years. Various government orders and measures have given hope to many poor scholars. Although Li Xianbo is about the same age as them, what he has done has made him absolutely respected in the hearts of these people, especially the enrollment of the Academy of Mathematics this time, which is obviously intended to support poor students, so that everyone's respect for him has turned into gratitude. Everyone was silent about the question of the young student. How could this be so simple? The powerful and wealthy obviously would not give up these important positions to others. They themselves could not even compete for them, so how could these people from poor families have any chance?

It couldn't be simpler to get the quotas they wanted.

When there was still a quarter of an hour before the exam, the candidates were allowed to enter.

At this time, sedan chairs finally appeared in the distance, and some young people with extraordinary clothes and temperament came here in groups of three or five, talking and laughing.

"Brother Qin, why are you here too?"

"No way, no one in my family is willing to come, so the old man directly designated me..., do you also want to enter the mathematics academy?"

"Alas, me too, my second uncle said that mathematics talents are scarce, and the mathematics academy will surely take off in the future, so I have to get in no matter what."

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Someone came up from a distance, took these people to the examination room, and arranged them to sit down according to the order that had been arranged long ago.

"No noise in the examination room!" More than a dozen palace guards stood in the examination room with cold expressions. No matter how arrogant and domineering these officials' children were on weekdays, they could only shut their mouths at this moment.

Even the palace guards were sent here, which shows that His Majesty attaches great importance to this recruitment.

However, they were not worried about the results. Those who were sent here by their families were naturally not fools. In terms of educational resources, they had much more than the poor families. Under the premise of fair competition, they could easily win even without power.

After a gong sounded, an official from the Ministry of Rites took out the unsealed test papers, which were checked by the palace guards and distributed to everyone one by one according to the numbers on them.

Among the poor students, some showed joy when they opened the test papers, while more people frowned. The questions were not the new math they were worried about, but they were much more difficult than what they had seen in the past. After a glance, they felt that they might not be able to solve a few questions in an hour.

For similar questions, the officials' children in the first two examination halls performed slightly better than the poor students. Many of them began to answer with confidence, but some people had different expressions from everyone else.

Chen Lisen, the second son of the Chen family, glanced at his test paper and felt dizzy. He no longer had the courage to look at it again.

What are these ghostly scribbles?

He didn't even understand a single question on the entire test paper!

Limit, double integral, derivative..., he knew these words, but what do they mean when they are put together?

The expression on Mr. Chen's face was extremely confused.

There were many people with such expressions, including Qin Feng, the fourth son of the Qin family, Cui Xixin, the second son of the Cui family, and Li Jianren, the son of the Minister of Works...

Picking up the pen but unable to put it down, they turned around and saw the people around them writing. After a brief shock, they began to doubt their lives.

They------are all so powerful?