Loyalty in the Time of Tyranny Chapter 16

In ancient times, people who took part in the imperial examinations had to go through four difficult stages: the Tongshi, the Xiangshi, the Huishi and the Palaceshi.

The Tongshi exam is divided into county exam, prefectural exam and academy exam. Adrian Tang will face the county exam in three months.

There were five sessions in the county examination, and the first one was the most important, known as the county examination. It required writing two essays and a five-character six-rhyme test poem. Since making a bet with Tang Yun and deciding to take the county examination, Adrian Tang began to write two eight-part essays and a test poem every day.

This is much more difficult to write than later essays. There are strict requirements for parallelism and structural patterns in writing art, and the test poems are even more difficult. Even the number of words, level and rhyme of each sentence are arranged exactly, and even a single mistake is not allowed.

After reading the two pieces of craftsmanship, Oliver Liang stroked his beard and said with a smile, "I don't understand a single word!"