Although the "Rules for Disciples" are not long and easy to talk about, Zhao Bing felt that it was impossible to memorize it in a quarter of an hour. And these children did not understand the meaning and memorized them all by rote memorizing them. In addition, those children read in a peaceful and quiet environment on weekdays and did not interfere with the outside world. Now the environment is noisy and pressured, so he estimated that the success rate was minimal, and no one could get the reward he had.

Of course, Zhao Bing intentionally made things difficult for him, but if someone can complete it, he doesn't plan to blame the debt. After all, it's not a bad thing to be able to get a child prodigy. In such a big country, there are not many officials. If no one can complete it, don't blame yourself for being unhappy and taking action against them.

"Time is here!" A quarter of an hour passed in a blink of an eye. When the last grain of sand fell, Wang De shouted loudly, and the chanting of "buzz..." also came to an abrupt end.

The guards in charge of supervision immediately took back the books without any mercy. In order to show fairness, the children did not ask them to recite them, but sent paper and pen to let them write silently according to their memory. For half an hour, parents and teachers retreated aside. This would prevent them from saying that they had delayed and forgot them; or the listener behind them eavesdropped on them to make excuses, and they could also be used as evidence to avoid quibbling at that time.

In fact, Zhao Bing felt that it would be clear in two quarters of an hour, and the factors that slow writing were drawn out. If you didn’t write it out within this time, you would forget it and you wouldn’t be able to write it out. And the reason for this is to reflect his fair, fair and open ‘principles’ of being a person’ and establish a good image in their young hearts.

It was a little difficult to bear in half an hour. After a while, Zhao Bing stood up to see the performance of the candidates. In order to prevent pressure on them, he only looked at the distance from several steps. Although he couldn't read it in detail, he could see the approximate length of their writing. As he thought, the children could write all the things they could write? But for two or three hundred words, the most of them would not exceed five hundred words.

When the time is not right, some of them think hard? Some of them think hard? Some of them think hard? Some scratch their ears and foreheads, while others close their eyes and recall them? Some of them search their intestines and scrape their stomachs and fill in a few words. The rest of the time is obviously just torment for them. The most annoying thing is the parents and instructors of the children? The success or failure of the children not only affects the success or failure of the children? They also affect their destiny. Whether it is good or bad is all about the children's pen.

No matter how slow the time passes, there will be a time when it is over. When Wang De announces that the time is up, someone will come forward to take back the test paper? Then he will immediately proofread it? The count of words. The typos, sentences in which are inverted and the original text must be removed and counted. This is actually loose enough, and it is not invalidated as a whole due to the difference of one word. But not to mention that one can be written down in full, no one can even reach half of it.

Zhao Bing had checked it and handed it to Wang Yinglin for review. He looked bad after seeing it. Then Zhao Bing also ordered the test papers to be returned to the parents and teachers of the children, so that they could also see it. If something is wrong, you can appeal. But at this time, they will not have the chance to turn the tables by breaking the words apart? And his meaning is to convince them that they lose and don’t call themselves foolish.

After checking again, all of them drooped their heads? The swearing just now brought disaster to themselves? The facts in front of them made them unable to argue again, so they could only apologize in unison. The boy's trial came to an end. Zhao Bing issued an order to send them all back to the inn to wait for punishment, and then punish them after the discussion.

The next day, Zhao Bing issued an order to convene a court discussion. The topic was very simple. Zhao Bing proposed to stop the boy test and punish the crowd. In response, he first mentioned the harm, saying that the people were motivated by the boy test and irrational behavior of creating "child prodigy". Raozhou, Jiangxi was a hard-hit area, with the largest number of people taking the boy test, so that "the customary words were caused by Raozhou."

In the early years, Raozhou had a child prodigy who participated in the scientific examination and obtained fame and rewarded 50,000 yuan, so he "fighted with him for a common man" and hoped that such a child could also have a child prodigy in his family. "If a child doesn't ask what he is, he can study hard, and he will teach the next five classics from the age of five or six." No matter whether the child is really talented or not, as long as he can read, he will teach him to recite the "Book of Songs", "Book of Rites", "Book of Rites", "Book of Changes", and "Spring and Autumn Annals" from the age of five or six.

Then Zhao Bing criticized the vulgarity of "being famous as early as possible". Just because his parents envied others for having children prodigy, they did not care about their talents, and did not hesitate to take extreme behaviors of destroying and pulling seedlings to help grow, so that the children in the family can succeed quickly in their childhood and become the pride of heaven envied by everyone. Such blind efforts to help grow will harm him.

The old people here all entered the officialdom with the imperial examinations, including the top scholars like Wen Tianxiang. Of course, they know how difficult it is to pass the imperial examination. It also takes decades of hard study, rather than relying on childhood cleverness to succeed. They do not appreciate this kind of opportunistic behavior. They think that even if a child can be awarded an official position, he is simply incompetent with his age and knowledge. Besides, he is just a group of children who can only memorize the Six Classics by rote and cannot understand the meaning of it.

However, everyone also felt that since then, they still felt that the "child prodigy" had lost their progress, and they were a little regretful. Lu Xiufu suggested that local selections could be selected by the local government and was selected step by step, but the content and form of the exam had to be changed. After being selected, they could enter the Taixue School and not directly assigned to the official position. It has determined that their parents' opportunistic mentality can be determined, so that they can study steadily and achieve the goal of selecting talents for the country, thus returning to the right path to cultivating talents.

Everyone thinks this method is feasible, which is more reasonable than the current Boy Trial. As for the specific methods and methods, it is necessary to consider comprehensively, but it is inevitable that the Boy Trial was abolished. For those officials who deceived the emperor and the court, everyone thinks that punishment must be imposed to achieve the purpose of setting a warning to others, and to prevent the people from taking advantage of the trend of promoting seedlings and utilitarian world style.

This incident happened because of the failure of the Secretariat's supervision. Lu Xiufu and Gao Yingsong, as the first person in charge, first asked for punishment and asked Your Majesty to be reduced. Local officials must investigate the crime, especially whether there were bribery and dereliction of duty in the election; and the school children are innocent and are exempted from liability, but parents must punish them and punish them for exile. For those who need to be punished seriously for the sake of teachers, they can be said to be the promoters of fraud and accomplices who harm children.

Zhao Bing decided that the two first officials in the Secretariat Province would be fined for three months, and local officials would be handed over to the Censorate for investigation and handling, while parents and teachers would be investigated by the Ministry of Justice to investigate the crime of deceiving the emperor and fooling the court. The schoolchildren were sent back to their hometowns by a special person and handed over to their family to settle and raise them for their lives. At the same time, the three provinces jointly notified the states and prefectures across the country to abolish the boy test.

Everyone had no objection to this and followed the order. Zhao Bing sighed in his heart. He didn't know how many people would destroy their jobs, and how many people would feel heartbroken. He didn't know how to curse himself. But if these people couldn't do anything to them, they would probably expose their anger on the parents and teachers...

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July is approaching again, and the trade wind is blowing again, and the Song Dynasty sea trade caravans began to march to the West. Because Jiangnan has a good economic foundation, after Zhao Bing advocated overseas trade, the demand for traditional goods such as silk, tea, porcelain increased greatly, which led to the rapid development of handicrafts. As a result, the route also extended westward year by year, which inevitably affected the interests of some trade-transferred countries in the past, and the trade conflicts caused became increasingly serious.

The income from sea trade can be said to be one of the financial pillars of the Song Dynasty. It not only brought nearly 30% of the tariff income, but also increased year by year. It also brought huge wealth to Zhao Bing. Last year, the business related to sea trade caused the treasury to collect 20 million guan of gold and silver, as well as almost the same value of wood, copper, iron, lead, tin and other materials.

Therefore, the development of maritime trade allowed the Song Dynasty to have abundant finances. It could allow people to recuperate through tax reduction and exemption, weakening domestic class contradictions. It also had the spare money to develop and subsidize new lands, thereby consolidating the northern border defense and accumulating strength for the future Northern Expedition. The huge wealth also gave Zhao Bing the confidence to increase its R&D power, running schools and promoting education, building ports, clearing water conservancy, and doing more things he wanted to do.

Therefore, the obstruction of sea trade not only hindered Zhao Bing's interests, but also harmed the interests of the Song Dynasty. Maintaining the smooth flow of sea routes and ensuring the safety of the Song Dynasty's fleet, and cracking down on hostile countries became a common need of the court and the royal family. This is also one of the reasons why Zhao Bing did not receive any resistance from the court when he decided to reorganize the part of the imperial guards into an expeditionary force.

In addition to Zhao Bing's royal fleet, there are also a large number of civilian sea ships. He decided to send an expedition fleet to escort. This expedition fleet consists of new warships. There are ten Class A warships with only more than 5,000 hu of 1, more than 50 Class B medium warships, and more than 30 Class C and baggage ships. The entire fleet has 100 warships, and there are also one Marine brigade.

Such a large fleet armed with firearms can be said to be no country can match in the South and West. Therefore, this time not only demonstrates the maritime strength of the Song Dynasty and demonstrates to hostile countries. It also declares that the Song Dynasty's determination to protect the sea route and launch a war for maritime interests. In addition, Zhao Bing also regards this long voyage as a training force and accumulates experience in order to sail to a more distant southern hemisphere in the future.
Chapter completed!