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Chapter 478 Imperial Examination Reform (2)

The four auxiliary officials looked at each other: The question Chen Di asked in the court today was to select the chief examiner, why did His Majesty suddenly announce the reform of the examination content of the examination?

'It seems that His Majesty has been thinking about the changes in the content of the imperial examination for a long time, otherwise how could he suddenly announce the reform?' Everyone thought.

As for the change in the content of the imperial examination, it is not something that ministers can argue about at this time, and Yun's reforms are not very fast, so no one has given any comments.

However, "Your Majesty, the imperial examination is a matter organized by the Ministry of Rites. Should the Minister of Rites Chen Dixuan be summoned?" said Bao Zhao.

Yun Xi thought for a while and said, "Then call Chen Qing over. But I am sending an order, not discussing it."

After a while, Chen Di came over and listened to Yun's reforms and said, "Your Majesty, the meaning of the scriptures has been changed to the Five Classics as the main principles. It is also reasonable to pay more attention to policy theory. However, if Your Majesty has done this math problem too hard, it may cause many people with great literary talent to fail the exam."

Yun Xu said: "In this exam, I personally gave math questions to ensure that the questions will not be too difficult. However, adding a math question to a test in the current text will become a common example and gradually increase the difficulty."

Since Yun Yu said this, Chen Di could not say anything anymore. He bowed to answer the order and said: "Now there is only twenty-one days left before the first examination of the mortal exam. I immediately ordered someone to post a list at the gate of the Gongyuan to tell the candidates about the changes in the imperial examination this time."

"We also need to send people to hotels where candidates live to promote it. Many juren may not often pass through the tribute court." Yun Xu said.

Chen Di Ying promised.

Yun's name also asked Xia Yuanji to draft an order to notify all provinces of the changes in the content of Yun's examinations and the examinations in the future.

At this time, Chen Di said: "Your Majesty, who is the chief examiner of this examination appointing?" Yun Yu has not answered the questions he raised this morning.

Yun Xi said something that surprised him: "There will be no chief examiner in this examination."

"No chief examiner?" Not only Chen Di, but also others were very surprised. Xia Yuanji, who was drafting the order, was not in control for a while. When he wrote the word "wen", he wrote a foot long. He quickly changed into a yellow silk and rewritten it.

Chen Di was stunned for a while and said, "Your Majesty, there is no chief examiner, how can you take the exam?"

"Why can't you take the exam without a chief examiner?" Yun asked back.

Chen Di felt that he had a thousand words, but he just couldn't figure it out and didn't know how to say it out.

Yun Yu began to talk about his idea: "Abolish the examiner, set up the examiner, set up the question-setting officer and the promotion-setting officer."

"The officials are in charge of the examination room order and prevent cheating; the question setting officer is responsible for the questions, the questions of the classics and the current text; the paper marking officer is responsible for the paper marking and evaluation of the test paper. The three are each performing their duties, so how do you have to set up a chief examiner?"

According to Yun Huang's own examination experience, there is no chief examiner at all in the college entrance examination. The three parts of the question setter, the examiner, and the invigilator are completely unrelated. Only officials from the Ministry of Education need to appoint the question setter, the local person in charge of the examiner, and the local person in charge of the invigilator, and there is no problem.

Chen Di was stunned for a while and said, "Your Majesty, if there is no chief examiner, then what if the final reviewers have objections to whom whom is not? In addition, how are the admitted candidates ranked?"

The two most important powers of the chief examiners of the imperial examination in ancient times were: one was to decide when the same examiners had disputes over who was admitted to the last few people on the list, and the other was to play a leading role in ranking. The reason why the chief examiners were called masters by tribute scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties was that they became one of the responsibilities that countless officials in the court wanted to be responsible for was that they were born from these two powers.

Yun Xu said, "I know these two issues too, so I decided to change the marking mode."

"There are still ten paper reviewers, and only the previous examiners were renamed as paper reviewers. No, twenty paper reviewers were established, ten of whom were only responsible for evaluating the meaning of the classics, and the other ten were only responsible for evaluating policy arguments. Each article still requires three people to evaluate. However, the evaluation model changed."

"Before, the test paper was only graded at a few levels, but the difference was not big. In the future, a percentage system was set up, with 90 to 100 as the original first class, 80 to 90 as the original second class, and so on."

"And in order to prevent equal scores, no scores are allowed, that is, no scores of ninety or eighty equals are allowed. Excluding full scores."

"Each person's score is the meaning of the classics. The sum of the scores evaluated by the total scores of the six judges in total are ranked by the total score. If there is still an equal score, look for the fourth judge to evaluate these equally divided test papers."

"If the score difference between the three reviewers assessed by the scores is more than 20, the evaluation will be ordered to be re-evaluated."

If the content of the examination is to promote new ideas and promote progress in cultural and ideological aspects, then changing the examination form of the examination is to increase one's own power and reduce the influence of the examiner.

In history, the influence of the chief examiner of the imperial examination has become increasingly greater. Countless officials who once served as chief examiners have established their own political power and become important figures in the political arena. So in the late Ming Dynasty, all qualified officials had to compete for the position of chief examiner of the imperial examination, and those who can hold this position can basically become cabinet ministers.

The original intention of Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty Zhao Guangyi to set up the palace examination was not realized at all. Because the palace examination did not win people, there was no Jinshi who thought he was a disciple of the emperor. Everyone recognized the chief examiner of the imperial examination as his teacher. Even a few people who ranked high in the imperial examination but had low in the palace examination would be dissatisfied with the emperor.

Yun Yu knew that it was inevitable to form cliques when he was an official, but he could not accept this kind of cliques, which was mainly the chief examiner of the society exam, and decided to completely shatter some people's dream of becoming the chief examiner of the society exam.

After careful consideration, the officials present found that Yun's method can indeed solve the admission and ranking problems. Although there are some small problems, they can all be solved.

However, does the position of chief examiner of the imperial examination that appeared since the Tang Dynasty have become history? It is difficult for everyone to accept it.

Especially Chen Di, who is now the Minister of Rites, was originally the person who was most likely to be the chief examiner in this examination, but now it has become a bubble.

But there was no sufficient reason to oppose Yun's. The plan proposed by Yun's is completely feasible. Although more officials were needed, although there were few local officials in the Ming Dynasty and many officials in the central court had made a living, they did not have to worry about temporary dispatch.

They also vaguely thought about the purpose of reforming the examination form and abolishing the examiner, so they dared not object.

After a difficult thought, Chen Di finally bowed and said, "I obey the order."

Yun Xu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Since that's the case, Xia Yuanji drafted an edict to announce an edict to the various yamen in the capital."
Chapter completed!
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