The imperial examination system in the Ming and Qing dynasties was undoubtedly the pinnacle of the feudal dynasty's imperial examination system. Whether in terms of organizational structure or registration, it was very mature.
Well, strictly speaking, the imperial examinations should have matured in the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty was just a continuation.
In the Ming Dynasty, the five-level imperial examination system made talent promotion like an upgrade game for later generations, with clear goals and related welfare benefits, which made almost all scholars across the country crazy about investing in such an imperial examination.
Children's examination, court examination, provincial examination, imperial examination, palace examination, if these words are replaced with black iron, bronze, silver, gold, diamond, wouldn't it feel more like it? In order to be illusory, virtual accounts that clearly indicate that only use rights and no ownership rights can cause madness, let alone feudal dynasty without any entertainment?
So can Fei Qian copy the "Imperial Examination Entrance" by Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, which can establish the grand model of the imperial examination that lasted for thousands of years?
In fact, it cannot. If Fei Qian really does this, it will just be just to pull out the seedlings and encourage growth.
Everything has its own internal laws of development.
The same is true for the imperial examination.
To put it simply, if the examination is based on black iron and bronze... Bah, the examination is carried out according to the five levels of the children's examination, the provincial examination, the imperial examination, and the palace examination, how much manpower and material resources are required? The officials in each county are already a little short of sufficient positions. When will the additional positions be established? How should the imperial examination personnel be supervised? These series of questions are not simply about knowing a few hierarchical systems and being able to handle them well.
It was precisely because of these problems that Fei Qian asked Sima Yi and others to go to various surrounding counties and counties to carry out pilot work in advance, collect problems, and then solve problems. In the process of solving problems, the imperial examination system of the later feudal dynasties was improved and used little by little.
After Sima Yi arrived in Hedong, he immediately sorted out the Hedong examination institutions.
He sincerely admired the move of the cavalry.
People have limited knowledge, and then most people are full of fear of things outside of their knowledge and refuse to know. Simply put, most people know that they don’t know, but pretend that they know, because they are afraid of seeing the truth, and are more willing to immerse themselves in illusion.
It is clear that they are aware of the boundaries they know, but they can pretend that they do not exist. The reason is that they are generally unwilling to leave their old beds and leave their habitual territory. After all, this bed and territory has rules that they have become accustomed to, reputation and interests, and even the authority to combat the curiosity of young people's exploration.
For example, religion, and...
A small number of people can touch the transparent walls that isolate the cognition of the current era, and even overcome this cognitive obstacle. However, facing the chaotic and confused outside world, they have no direction, and sometimes they inevitably regard what they find in their hands as treasures.
Sima Yi is a young man. He is curious and not stupid, so he realized the boundaries of the world he knew very early...
He saw his own boundaries, but he could not see Fei Qian's boundaries.
So Sima Yi felt surprised and frightened, and tried to figure out and explore Fei Qian's boundaries.
Just like this time when he came to Hedong, Sima Yi also wanted to patrol Fei Qian's layout for the imperial examination and the political significance of the entire scientific examination, so that one day in the future, it can become a abilities that Sima Yi himself can use.
Sima Yi discovered that most of the outstanding young students in Hedong were admitted to the Shoushan Academy.
Those who stay in Hedong are usually older or poor children, and may not even get the basic tuition fees for going to the academy.
The Shoushan Academy has tuition exemptions, but it does not mean that anyone can tuition exemptions. First of all, you must have a certain level of your own. It is definitely impossible for those who are scrambling to get tuition exemptions or loans. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a heavy psychological blow to other students?
Therefore, these students who have not been able to obtain tuition fees for the Shoushan Academy, so they cannot go to Pingyang, which is not far away, to study in the Academy, and may have more or less the same problems.
Of course, it may also be that these students themselves, or something happened to be at home, such as illness, accidents, etc. After all, everyone doesn’t know which one will come first, death or accidents.
Not everyone can study in a comfortable and comfortable environment. Many people have to face all kinds of bad family events and then struggle in it...
Simply put, these students who were unable to refer to in Chang'an have been wasted for various reasons.
General Fei Qian of the Cavalry held a scientific expedition, not to do welfare, but to pick up scholars.
So although it is a local exam, it is inevitable that everyone can eat it in one bite, and the admission rate is still not high.
Everyone has something to eat, but it often ends up being nothing to eat.
But how to determine the admission rate and how much is more appropriate?
General Fei Qian of the Cavalry did not give Sima Yi a fixed indicator, and Sima Yi needed to make a judgment on his own.
Sima Yi originally wanted to report the specific situations in Hedong directly to General Fei Qian of the Cavalry, but after thinking about it, he stopped writing and hesitated for a while. In the end, he did not write a report for the time being, but came to pay a visit to Sima Fang first.
"My father... I have worked hard all the way. The child failed to be filial to the knees, which made his father work hard..."
Sima Yi lowered his head and bowed to Sima Fang's bed.
Sima Fang came from Henoi with a large group of Sima family and arrived in Hedong. I don’t know if it was because of the fatigue along the way or because of the recurrence of the original old disease. Anyway, he couldn’t walk anymore, so he could only hire a doctor from the Hundred Medical Center to treat it first, and stopped in Hedong to recuperate.
"The doctor from the Hundred Clinic has seen it, but I will not die for a while..." Sima Fang leaned halfway on the bed, "How are you doing business?"
Sima Yi bowed and briefly described his errands.
After hearing this, Sima Fang closed his eyes slightly and began to ponder.
Sima Yi did not urge him, but just waited aside.
When it was his ancestors, the Sima clan took the same approach as the military, that is, the military line.
Sima Fang's fifteenth ancestor Sima Kai was a figure in the Mo family during the Warring States Period. His 14th ancestor Sima Kuai Kui was a swordsman of Zhao during the Warring States Period. His 11th ancestor was Sima Jue and was named King of Yin of the Western Han Dynasty for his military merits. Until Sima Fang's great-grandfather Sima Jun, he still appeared as a general of the Eastern Han Dynasty...
It was not until Sima Fang's father, Sima Jun, that he had been successful in his pacification and became the prefect of Yingchuan. Being a prefect in a place where literary talent was so prosperous that he could not have done anything to do in literature, otherwise he would not know what others were saying if he was scolded.
As for why the Sima clan began to wash away points during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the generals' military force increased points began to favor literature, which may be related to Liu Xiu's suppression of the generals in the Liangzhou area of ​​Bingzhou. However, it has to be said that at least the Sima clan keenly chose a better direction when facing a turning point, and was not framed by the so-called traditions and precepts of Sima ancestors.
Therefore, this time, Sima Fang once again broke through the original limit. He left the habitual Hanoi, which had been accumulated by the Sima clan for many years, abandoned his original stubbornness, dragged his heavy body, and took the remaining Sima tribe members to Hedong.
This was undoubtedly a huge wall-blocking activity that crossed the Sima family's boundary wall.
In other words, Sima's family has washed up again.
This time, I washed away the civil and military officials, but I washed away the imprints on Cao Cao and Shandong, and threw them towards Chang'an and Fei Qian.
Sima Fang's father's baptism enabled the Sima clan to break through the category of generals of force and successfully penetrate into the family inheritance of the Confucianism. What will Sima Fang's baptism gain this time?
"Don't doubt..." Sima Fang said slowly. Although he was old, his eyes were still like a knife, prying open Sima Yi's doubts. "Don't doubt the cavalry, don't doubt yourself, and don't worry about gains and losses because we came to Hedong..."
『…』 Sima Yi became silent.
"The decision to move to Chang'an..." Sima Fang pointed at himself, "It's me. So since it was my decision, what did you hesitate? What should Hedong Science and Technology Expo be, that's what!"
"Boy..." Sima Yi said half of the sentence, but swallowed the next half back.
Sima Fang glanced at Sima Yi, "You are worried that if you do something wrong... In your opinion, our whole family and the whole family will be relocated to Hedong and will lose their way out, so you are starting to worry about gains and losses, and you are no longer as angry as before... I am afraid of this, and I am worried about that..."
Sima Yi opened his mouth, for some reason, he suddenly felt that he could not deny it, because in front of him was his father, "Yes, my father... I'm a little... a little scared... and a little worried..."
『But aren't all those you are afraid of and worried about have been lost?』 Sima Fang smiled and said, 『What's the point of being afraid and worried about those things you have lost? Although you have grown up,... you are not calm enough...』
Sima Yi was stunned, "has lost..."
Sima Fang nodded, "What you should consider is the future, how to regain..."
『Σ(⊙▽⊙”a!』 Sima Yi was shocked.
"I keep the boss by my side, not because I prefer the boss, but because the boss is calm and can't do anything big, so it's good to follow the steps," Sima Fang said slowly, "You are different, they were different when you were young, so... I believe you, even if the Sima family loses everything, they can stand up again..."
Sima Yi lowered his head and bowed to Sima Fang's bed, "My father..."
"Okay, I don't want to say these words again." Sima Fang reached out and helped Sima Yi up. "Now think about it again, think about what you should do... General of the Cavalry has gone a long way. If you can't keep up, there will be problems sooner or later... If you put your mind on my side, naturally there will be fewer people over there... You, I'm afraid you haven't thought about why the Cavalry sent you to Hedong..."
Sima Yi was stunned, then slowly lowered his head.
After a long silence, Sima Yi slowly raised his head, "I thought of it."
"Tell me," Sima Fang said softly.
Sima Yi's eyes flashed, as if he had seen the rising sun again, clear and bright, "My father is the limit...or, according to the lord, it is "class"..."
"Limits, "classes"..." Sima Fang repeated, then nodded and said, "Well...you keep talking..."
『When people eat grains, they will have various forms.』 Sima Yi said slowly, 『Some people born in the northern desert, some people live in the mountains and forests in the southern border, some people born and healthy, and some people plagued by illness. Therefore, the world cannot be fairly discussed, and must be bounded by their strength, which can be called "class".
"Is this what the cavalry said?" Sima Fang asked.
Sima Yi replied: "Some of them are."
"Well..." Sima Fang nodded, as if he was thinking about something, and did not continue to speak, but just waved his hand and signaled Sima Yi to continue speaking.
"Once this limit is formed, it will be like a fence, which will surround the people in it. It's like..." Sima Yi stood up and turned around and looked out of the hall. "It's like these houses, courtyards, and cities... I made fences first, then built the walls, and then repaired the city walls. Then I felt that the city walls were not enough, so I built the Great Wall...
"This metaphor is very wonderful." Sima Fang nodded, "Since the cavalry said this, it is naturally guiding you that the direction you should go in this scientific examination... Could it be that you haven't figured it out yet?"
"Lord..." Sima Yi looked in the direction of Chang'an, "Chang'an... the big man... So that's it, so that's it! My father, I... I figured it out!"
Sima Fang glanced at Sima Yi and said, "Since you figured it out, then go and do it!"
"Which!" Sima Yi responded in a deep voice, then bowed before Sima Fang's bed, and then stood up and came out.
Sima Fang looked at Sima Yi's back, smiled, and shook his head, "It's still like that... It's really... But what did this kid figure out?"
…(～￣▽￣) ～……
"Sir, Father! You're back!"
The young man's tender voice rang out after the gate was pushed open, and then he stepped forward to greet his father.
"Well, I'm back." The middle-aged man walked in, took off his coat, and handed it to his wife who was also standing by, "How about my father?"
"At noon, the doctor came, took some medicine, and entered some food, saying that he felt much better and had just fallen asleep..." The wife said softly, pointing to the room on one side.
The middle-aged man nodded, "Okay, that's good..."
The family of three entered the house.
The wife quickly served the meal, and the three of them started eating silently.
It was already dusk now, and the light in the house was not very good, but the three of them did not light the light or light the candle, but took advantage of the last remaining light of the setting sun to eat in a hurry.
The meal is very simple, bean rice.
Vegetables are pickled vegetables, a small plate.
Bean rice is boiled beans in water, pure beans.
It's not like later generations that were mixed with some japonica rice...
If you want to eat something rotten, cook it for a longer time and then mash it. However, if you want to cook it for a long time, you have to spend firewood. Most residential houses are not unlimited in quantity. You either go to the woodcutter or pay for it.
So basically, unless it is a special situation, most of the bean rice is cooked. In addition, there is no seasoning and hard and bean-flavored rice, which is definitely not a delicacy.
But the three still ate very carefully, and did not even let go of the residue on the edge of the bowl. After eating the bean rice, they took some water for boiling beans, rinsed the bowl and drank it.
After the three of them had a meal, the small plate of pickled vegetables on the table seemed to be as much as they were when they were served. Now they are still the same, and they have not reduced much. It is not because the pickled vegetables are not delicious. Well, it is actually not delicious, but because pickled vegetables also cost money.
After dinner, the middle-aged man took out a small purse from his arms, then smiled and handed it to his wife.
『This...this is..." The wife opened her purse with a little surprise when she heard the familiar and unfamiliar sound of coins, "Where does this money come from?"
Coins. In this era, it was like the letters of Bao and I found them in later generations, not everyone owned them. In many places in the Han Dynasty, people still lived a life without coins, using the grain planted in the ground, the firewood collected from the mountains, etc. to barter.
There was also a bit of pride on the face of the middle-aged man, "This is a congratulation money... I heard that I was going to participate in the Hedong County Entrance Examination. This is a congratulation gift given to me by a few classmates... You take it first and pay back some of the money we owe others..."
"Ah? Pay back the money?" The wife seemed a little reluctant, but nodded quickly, "Okay, I'll go now."
The wife left with the money.
The middle-aged man took a book, sat down by the stove, and took the opportunity to look through the fire of the stove, and while reading, he muttered something, as if he was reciting the book. He needed to seize every moment and make more preparations before the exam.
This is a rare opportunity...
He has old people above and young people below, and he must shoulder the burden of his family. If he leaves Hedong and goes to Chang'an for exams, don't talk about travel expenses, food expenses, accommodation expenses, etc. What should the old people at home do? So he can't walk away, so he can only watch others go to Chang'an to pursue their future, and he can only be here, burying his regret in his heart, smiling at his father, and his wife said, "It's okay, it's okay, anyway, I'm not sure I can pass the exam, and it's waste of money..."
But who doesn’t have a dream in his heart?
Not all salted fish want to be a salted fish, but sometimes, they can only be a salted fish.
After a while, my wife came back with a somewhat complicated expression and handed the wallet to the middle-aged man, "They... they didn't want it..."
"Ah?" The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, looked at the amount of coins in his wallet again, and said in confusion, "What does it mean? Let's not talk about it, didn't Zhao Laoliu come to our house two days ago, and he didn't leave until the evening for money?"
"Yes," the wife was also puzzled, "He asked me about the origin of the money, and I said it, and then he said we don't rush to pay it back, saying that he still has money...
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly shook his head and smiled, "I understand... You can collect this money first..."
The wife is not sure about it, but she will not go against the middle-aged man. She just takes it and then goes to work on other housework.
The middle-aged man squatted beside the stove, tilted his head, and turned his head to face the remaining light in the stove hole.
Chapter completed!