With the exams taking place one after another, the exam system, or "imperial examination", gradually became less and less the same as it was before. Instead, it had more codes and rules, and it became more and more like the same thing.
Speaking of which, although the "imperial examination" system promoted by Fei Qian has been implemented for some time, it has not yet reached a very complete level. Just like the frequency of the examination, it is not completely fixed and changes according to the actual situation.
This time, there were more students coming to Qinglong Temple for the lecture, so I took advantage of the situation and opened Enke.
It's like one of the three famous sayings of later generations, "It's all coming anyway..."
In the feudal dynasty where the imperial examination was popular, during the Song Dynasty, the few sentences in the chapter on encouraging students to study became the motto of many students, "A rich family does not need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of grains of millet in books; there is no need to build a high hall to live in peace, books are
There is a house of gold in the house; don’t hate an unscrupulous matchmaker when marrying a wife; there is a beauty like jade in the book; if a man follows his life ambition, read the Six Classics diligently in front of the window."
But there is a problem with this poem describing the imperial examination.
This poem was written by Zhao Heng.
Zhao Heng was the third emperor of the Song Dynasty.
Is this guy...
Zhao Heng was neither Taizong's eldest son nor the queen's son, so he was originally not in line to succeed him. However, his eldest brother Zhao Yuanzuo went crazy due to the death of his uncle Zhao Tingmei, and his second brother Zhao Yuanxi died suddenly without illness, so he was lucky enough to become the emperor.
Prince. Of course, no one dares to say how many dirty things happened in the palace, but Zhao Heng's "Chanyuan Alliance" was indeed a very important factor that led to the Song Dynasty's cowardice.
The Chanyuan Alliance was the result of Zhao Heng suing for peace under a favorable military situation. What is the specific reason? It is not that he cannot fight, but that he is unwilling to fight...
For the Song Dynasty, on the one hand, most of the land in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun could not be recovered, and on the other hand, they had to pay money and silk to prevent the Liao Dynasty from invading southward. After that, the Liao Dynasty continued to ask for money in exchange for peace. For the Liao Dynasty,
In other words, he took advantage of the unfavorable military situation and got something that was not available on the battlefield.
In order to be patient in the military and to implement the strategy of using civility to control military affairs smoothly, Zhao Heng tried his best to advocate in the imperial examination. The poem to encourage students to study is a complete "royal advertisement". Through this poem, Zhao Heng depicts the leap of the fish
The various beautiful scenes of getting rich overnight, falling in love with a beautiful woman, and gaining power after Longmen can be regarded as the most "splendid article" in the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Heng wrote this to seduce students and publicize his family's imperial examination, in order to make scholars all over the world go crazy about his family's imperial examination.
It’s not that there is anything wrong with this “shuangwen” that describes the imperial examination, but those guys who are simplistic in mind because of studying hard have memorized this first cool essay in the Song Dynasty, and it has become an obsession in their hearts.
, once these guys become officials, the first thing they do is to use their power to get money, money, cars for themselves...
So what else can the Song Dynasty do well?
After all, advertisements are advertisements. They only exaggerate the efficacy, but forget that they are actually ordinary drinks, not a magic elixir that can cure all diseases.
Just like exams are not the purpose, but selecting talents through exams is the purpose, studying should not be just for money and cars...
There is a saying that "one general can make thousands of bones wither". Isn't this true of fighting in the literary field?
The long-term suppression and obsession in his heart were finally released, and the ugly appearance of Fan Jin's passing was evident.
The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, which ultimately leads to the lower beam being crooked.
Among those lucky ones who fought their way out of the siege, who didn’t pay an extremely heavy price?
They have been studying hard since they were young children, and then took part in examinations with an astonishing elimination rate. It takes an average of thirty years to finally pass the Jinshi examination.
Thirty years is enough to turn a childish child with a sweet voice into a wretched uncle with an unshaven beard. The most beautiful and precious boy in life, his youth, has just passed by in such a wasted time, and the price is not heavy.
This heavy burden has been placed on students from generation to generation.
The hunger and thirst in the early stage and the madness of compensation in the later stage are becoming more and more obvious, and this survivor bias of suddenly getting rich will stimulate the next batch of students to plunge crazily into this huge vortex...
Fei Qian wanted the efficacy of the "imperial examination" medicine, but he also wanted to clearly eliminate its side effects, so he had to be careful not to brag too much about the efficacy of the imperial examination, and at the same time open up a promotion channel other than a bachelor of arts, so as to avoid
Everyone was crowded on a single-plank bridge, and eventually they inevitably stepped on each other.
How could three single-plank bridges and a thorny road be better than the feudal dynasty of later generations?
But even so, because the actual promotion space in various counties in the Han Dynasty is almost zero, and the private recruitment of local governors cannot be recognized by the central court at all, so the number of people referred to this time's Enke Examination also greatly exceeded Fei Qian's.
prediction.
At the same time, Fei Qian did not expect that new problems would arise in this Enke exam.
Some old problems from the past are actually being solved.
Such as accommodation.
This time, there were many students who came to participate in the Qinglong Temple's lectures. Most of these students were descendants of noble families from various places, and they were more or less accompanied by some entourage. They were usually scattered in various tombs, and when they went to Qinglong Temple, they were not
We advanced and retreated together, and during several major debates and lectures, Feiqian sent soldiers in advance to maintain order, so there were no problems with accommodation and travel.
But there are many other new problems...
For example, when the encyclopedia exam was held in the Anthology Studio, students from all over the country gathered in large numbers. The large number of people naturally made things complicated, and all kinds of bizarre situations occurred.
Among these students, some went out to have fun on the eve of the exam. After all, there is no shortage of fun in any age; there were also some who discovered that they had forgotten something after arriving at the exam room. Even after packing and checking it again and again last night, it still remained the same.
Forgot; also, stepping on dog poop when going out, or tripping over the right foot with your left foot on the ground...
All kinds of strange and bizarre things will happen on the day of the exam, which are simply unimaginable.
Some came smelling of alcohol and were unable to stand firmly, swaying as if they were falling but not falling. Others were so nervous that their faces turned pale, as if a thief had been caught committing a crime for the first time.
The inspecting soldiers had to check their identities again and again. Some even lost their nameplates and cried bitterly begging to be admitted to the examination room.
What's even more outrageous is that when the time has passed, the tom drum has been beaten, most of the candidates have already entered the venue, and some are running from a distance, and then naturally they can't get in, and the result is that they kneel down and close the door.
Weeping outside the gate, rolling around and complaining about the injustice of heaven and earth, the inhumanity of the cavalry, the officers and soldiers in the examination room showing no humanity at all, etc.
Isn't it just a little off?
It’s just about the front and back legs. Can’t we wait a little longer?
As for whether their crying will cause some negative impact on the students in the examination room, these guys don't think about it at all, saying that they are so miserable, can't others have more compassion? No
Can a compassionate heart still be like a human being?
This kind of thing becomes more complicated the more people refer to it.
Sima Yi stood on the high platform with his hands behind his back, looking coldly at the students who were crying and cursing outside the examination room. He frowned and said to the officials beside him: "Blow them away quickly! If they disobey, they will disturb the gate."
Theory of crime!』
The petty officials quickly led their soldiers and beat the students away with sticks, which reduced the noise at the entrance of the examination room.
"What kind of rules should be followed for making noise and making trouble outside the examination room, and how much punishment should be given... Nowadays, the Law Council has become more and more lazy. My lord has not explained anything, but it is just nothing. Hmm... My lord ordered me to preside over this meeting."
Is this the reason for the exam?"
It seems possible to deal with it by crashing into the government office, but it is not very appropriate after all.
Sima Yi thought to himself. Now that he is the minister of Dali Temple, he naturally pays more attention to the law. The examination for the Hussar General has been held many times, and there is still no established law. He didn't sit in the examination room before.
Naturally, he didn’t pay much attention to it. Now that he was the examiner, it aroused Sima Yi’s thoughts.
For example, those who have reached Sima Yi's current position are basically not fools, and no one wants to be a fool.
Including Sima Yi, the middle- and upper-level political officials of General Fei Qian all understood one thing, that is, this examination model will continue to be promoted and will eventually become an important way to select talents.
Maybe there were some people who had concerns before, but now that more and more people are participating in this exam model and gaining benefits from it, even the stupidest people understand that the general trend cannot be violated.
These officials who were promoted from the examination and began to gradually go to the court. As time goes by, as long as they can be stable for ten years or even shorter, some of the most outstanding people will go to the central court.
position, and then this examination system will be completely stable as these people take control of the central government.
This is easy to understand.
Before serving as the examiner for this exam, Sima Yi was called by Fei Qian. In addition to talking about the news from the Shangdang, the rest was about the exam mode. With the gradual expansion of the current exam mode
, this kind of basic screening test for candidates will be decentralized to counties.
In other words, Feiqian is preparing to launch the second-level examination mode.
Similar to county examinations and joint examinations, there may also be lower-level township examinations in the future.
This preliminary screening examination model for talents to be decentralized to the county level will require a more standardized and strict process system, as well as supervision measures.
This is the main task of Sima Yi's visit this time.
Although he was somewhat worried about his father Sima Fang, it was said that the threat of pursuing soldiers had been eliminated. After arriving at Shangdang under the escort of Zhang Ji, he was basically safe. So Sima Yi said to Fei Qian,
He can do the job of examiner without any problems.
Seeing that the time indicated on the drip was approaching, Sima Yi nodded towards Zong Li, the prosecutor on the side.
Zong Li was a native of Anding County, Nanyang, Jingzhou. He came here when a large number of Jingzhou people migrated to Guanzhong. He was also a civil servant selected through examination. He had considerable literary skills. He served as Cao Shuzuo in Jingzhaoyin and served as a civil servant.
The official is upright and responsible, and this time he was transferred to serve as the "gate inspector" in the examination room.
The gate inspection system is newly established. Although it has existed before, it is basically relatively simple.
Precisely because the previous inspections were simple, a new problem arose in the last few exams, namely cheating.
As the number of references increases, certain means must be used to conduct rapid preliminary screening. Adding some fill-in-the-blank questions is obviously the most appropriate mode.
There are policies from above and countermeasures from below. As the simple screening mode of fill-in-the-blank questions in exams increases, the number of people who commit fraud also increases.
This has already happened in the last exam. Some people tried to seduce others, others simply peeked in the examination room, and some even tried to bribe the invigilator...
There are always more solutions than difficulties.
How bold a person is, how productive the land is.
Things like that vary.
Cheating, plagiarism, piracy.
According to the spying of the Youwen Division, many candidates had some wrong ideas in this exam, and they must be stopped in time, otherwise the consequences will be endless.
Because there were several exams in the past that only tested policy theory, and there were even semi-public exams such as "On Pastoral System", so even though the exam pattern has been improved and the exam questions are no longer announced in advance, some candidates are still unavoidable.
I plan to finish the article first and bring it in to copy, or I plan to bet on a few topics first and copy whichever one is close.
It is said that this time, many candidates placed their bets on the "serious answers" and "Chinese Quartet" questions...
Some of them are written by themselves, and then they are written after they are memorized. This is not a big problem. It is like which kind of exam in later generations does not have pre-test questions? The big problem is that those who simply find gunmen to replace them do not even memorize them.
Those who are too lazy to memorize and just want to copy an article on the spot and get it done.
Are you cheating? It’s simple and easy. How happy and wonderful!
In later generations, China still does not pay enough attention to copyrights, patents, technology, and related intellectual outputs, and even openly supports, allows or acquiesces others to cheat, plagiarize, and piracy, and profit from it, and at the same time, it also mocks originality.
Those who are stingy, obsessed with money, or not organized enough.
Paper fraud, copyright fraud, theft of ideas, etc. are too numerous to mention.
When the entire country is poor and even food and clothing is a problem, survival is naturally the first priority.
But when the problem of food and clothing is gone, and it can even be said that you have a certain amount of money in your hands, you still only think about cheating, plagiarism and piracy, especially when the country has clearly shifted to the direction of developing technology and developing productivity.
At this time, there are still some people who still take cheating, plagiarism and piracy as an honor and think that they only have the ability to cheat, plagiarize and piracy, which is very problematic.
Sima Yi's attitude was that once any of these students were found to have problems, they should be completely eliminated and beaten to death with a stick...
However, Fei Qian said that he still had to give him a chance. After all, no one is perfect. As long as he is willing to truly correct his mistakes when he makes a mistake, it will always be better than those guys who refuse to correct themselves and put their own face on the line.
So when Zong Li arrived at the venue, he faced the candidates who were lining up to enter the examination room and said: "Everyone! Recruiting talents based on their talents is the most important thing. Fairness is the most important thing! When you enter the examination room, your gains and losses depend on your knowledge. If you have the intention of plagiarism and cheating in the examination room,
I definitely have no intention of working hard for the people as an official! Qiaoqi is kind and willing to give you a chance to repent. If you are trying to cheat with various kinds of documents, you can throw them all on the ground within ten breaths, and you will not be considered cheating.
Punishment! If those who are obsessed and do not change, once found out, will not only be punished with shackles on the spot, but also their names will be widely published in counties and villages, and they will not be able to work for the rest of their lives! I hope you will not make this mistake!"
After finishing speaking, Zong Li paused for a while to let all the candidates think about it, and then ordered: "Everyone in the examination room, surrounding soldiers, and patrol officers, all stand with their eyes closed. After a certain number of seconds, they will open their eyes and then be admitted for examination!"
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"Ten, nine, eight..." Zong Li closed his eyes first, and then began to count slowly.
After Zong Li gave the command to open his eyes, some miscellaneous things appeared on the ground.
Sima Yi, who was standing on the high platform, sneered twice and asked the clerk beside him, "Have you written them all down?"
The clerk on the side quickly said: "I have written it all down."
General Hussar is merciful, but Sima Yi is not merciful. He plans to keep all these guys who carry cheat sheets in the dark. He may just be a petty official in this life, but don't think about getting promoted. He treats his own knowledge with the thought of falsification.
Can you really do anything if you become an official?
However, due to the order of Hussar, Sima Yi would not investigate these people on the spot.
Zong Li was also a little stunned at the debris in the venue, but he didn't say anything more and just ordered to prepare for inspection.
These candidates followed the instructions and began to line up one by one through the newly built passage, only to realize that what Zong Li said before was definitely not just talk...
The first thing to check is the clothing. Whether it is a hat or a robe, it must be taken off and inspected by two people in turn. Then a special person will check the remaining single clothes on the body.
The next step is to search the items carried, pens and ink, inkstones, and some food, etc.
Of course, what is better than later generations is that there is a curtain before entering the examination room, so at least when you take off your clothes, you will not be seen by the long line of people behind you.
Some people were very dissatisfied and shouted that it was insulting to politeness, and then they were thrown out by the soldiers.
But more people lowered their heads and accepted the inspection.
There are always lucky ones. Although it is not as perverted as when the imperial examination system was complete in later generations, where even the anus and navel were checked, a few students who still refused to give up cheating were found in the search.
Immediately, he was knocked to the ground by the patrolling soldiers and shackled with wooden shackles before going out to show the public.
When they were caught, these guys cried loudly, expressing their regrets and hoping to be forgiven again. They must study hard and make progress every day, but whether it was Zong Li or other officials and soldiers,
They all looked at it coldly, as if they heard the chirping of a few cicadas before the end.
Immediately, they found out the place of birth, names, etc. of these guys, and announced them loudly in the examination room. This also made people from the same hometown or county feel a little offended by these guys, and they took a sip to express their disapproval of these guys.
Humanoid contempt, and one's own innocence.
"This...this is coming true..."
"..."
In the waiting queue, I don't know when there were some more "miscellaneous items".
Zong Li saw this, frowned, hesitated, and said nothing. Although he said that he would not be held accountable within ten breaths, in fact, as long as he voluntarily gave up before entering the examination shed, he would not directly go to the shackles.
show to the public.
After all, the inspection system has just begun, and many rules and regulations need to be continuously improved in the future.
Examination and cheating, these natural enemies, started a bloody fight at this moment, a hundred years in advance...
