Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 697: Understanding Current Affairs
This test was very fast. After the Chinese test, the candidates took a break and then started the math test immediately. Unlike the Chinese test, which was easy for them, many people in the math test wailed. They didn’t understand math. I understand, especially Xu Wei’s mathematics that quoted a lot of symbols and Arabic numerals from later generations.
These are very common things in Xu Wei's opinion, but they have a great impact on these candidates, because they are used to reading Chinese characters. Although they have learned these symbols unexpectedly here, there are still a large number of them during the exam. I can't remember what this symbol means! If you don't even understand the meaning of the symbol, it's naturally impossible to understand the problem.
Many people have protested to Xu Wei about these symbol issues, but firstly, these symbols are indeed easy to use, and the traditional calculation methods of the Han Dynasty are much more advanced. Secondly, Xu Wei never wants to learn mathematical symbols again. He is the boss in this world. , of course, do it according to what makes you comfortable and how you are used to it.
After the exam in the morning, these scholars came to eat in the canteen specially prepared for them by Da Gan. The food was neither too good nor too bad. Everyone had three dishes and one soup, all cooked by the military cooks. Not too delicious, but not too bad either!
At this time, candidates who are familiar with each other gather together!
Zhuge Liang gathered with the Jingzhou scholars who had come with him! However, Zhuge Liang also brought his newly recruited younger brother Pu Yuan, and Pang Tong and others also knew Pu Yuan. During this time, they often visited Kong Ming's blacksmith.
However, Pang Tong looked at Huang Yueying with admiration and said: "My sister-in-law is really a hero among women. She actually came to take the exam with Kong Ming!"
Among them, Huang Yueying was the only woman who took the exam. First of all, only Huang Yueying had such a level of talent and learning. Others in Laishi did not want their wives and daughters to be exposed. Compared with other places in Daqian, Jingzhou, which had just been recovered, was relatively Be conservative.
Huang Yueying said: "This is not a strange thing. There are many women among the candidates!"
After speaking, he pointed to a group of women gathered at the dining table not far away. Then they casually observed that there were not many female candidates in this examination room. There were about a few thousand people, and most of them were locals from Jidu. Try your luck,
Xu Shu could only sigh: "The folk customs in Daqian are really enlightened. Although it is not unique to this dynasty that women can become officials, it is probably the only one in the past dynasties that has had such a scale!"
There was one person who became the governor, dozens of county governors, and county magistrates. Such a large scale was unprecedented.
At this time, Pu Yuan said brilliantly: "The government has said that women can hold up half the sky, and in my country it is very common for women to do things, and many people even have higher incomes than their husbands. Our government has said that there are With an independent financial source, you can have an independent personality, and women don’t need to depend on anyone!”
"Being an official relies on wisdom rather than strength. Women are not much worse than men as officials. They don't have enough official positions in other dynasties, so how can they give them to women."
Such treacherous words sounded extremely harsh to Pang Tong and the others, but they also knew that this was a fact. The textile industry in Daqian has always been the most profitable industry, and women dominated this industry, and Cai Qiao was a world-famous woman. Rich woman.
Even when Xu Juan became the governor of Youzhou, her performance was no worse than that of men. If they really want to insist that women are inferior to men, they will only be humiliating themselves.
Seeing the silence in the atmosphere, Zhuge Liang immediately changed the subject and asked: "How did everyone do in the two exams this morning?"
Pu Yuan said dejectedly: "My performance in mathematics should be considered extraordinary. I can do most of the questions!"
Unlike the Han students, people like Pu Yuan have learned these symbols since they were young. With these extra lessons during the extra time, they have mastered mathematics quite well.
"But the Chinese language scores were terrible. I couldn't do many questions at all. I only wrote 500 words for the essay. I really couldn't compile it. I'm afraid it would be difficult to even pass the Chinese language."
Pang Tong smiled and said: "I can't vouch for mathematics, but I should be able to get above 90 in Chinese, especially the essay questions. I wrote them heartily and vented all the bad energy in my heart."
Xu Shu's expression suddenly changed and he said, "Did you scold the eldest sister for being in power?"
Pang Tong shook his head and said: "I'm not a fool, how could I do such a taboo thing? Of course I scolded the Central Plains' clan system according to the requirements above."
Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly and said, "Then you have to scold yourself too!"
Pang Tong said: "The turmoil in the world is all caused by the powerful nobles of the Central Plains. What does it have to do with us Jingzhou people? When the whole world is in turmoil, we in Jingzhou are the most stable. As a result, the world is lost, but we Jingzhou people also have to take the blame." , now I’m going to scold them for what’s wrong!”
Pang Tong's words were actually recognized by many Jingzhou scholars. In the turbulent era of the Han Dynasty, the entire north of the Yangtze River was raging with war, but the area south of the Yangtze River was like a paradise in the world, and no war occurred.
This made them feel that they were extremely innocent. It was clear that the Central Plains clan was responsible for the loss of the world, but they were asked to bear the responsibility. Their families were ruined and they were unable to serve. This was something that many people found difficult to accept. Obviously they also had grievances in their hearts, but they If they don't dare to vent to Da Gan, then they can only vent to the noble families in the Central Plains.
Only after Xu Wei wrote an article against the nobles and assigned the responsibility for the chaos in the world to the nobles, the reputation of the nobles in the Central Plains was completely ruined. They occupied the power of the court and enjoyed the best treatment, of course. Taking the biggest blame, the wealthy clans in other states all said that they were implicated by the Central Plains clan.
After Pang Tong spoke out, many Jingzhou scholars also expressed their strong condemnation of the powerful noble families in the Central Plains.
Zhuge Liang could only smile bitterly. Although the composition written in this way did not miss the topic, it seemed that they had also scolded themselves.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Many candidates spent the noon with an uneasy mood, had a simple lunch in the examination room, and then faced the afternoon examination.
When the physics exam is over, the exam is officially over, and students will have to wait for 10 days to know their results for the next exam!
These examination papers were pulled to the largest lobby in Jidu, where there are already 500 marking teachers prepared in advance. They will mark the nearly 100,000 examination papers. Fortunately, except for a few questions such as Chinese, most of the questions There are standard answers, and everyone only needs to compare them to know whether they are right or wrong!
The way Xu Wei asks everyone to mark papers is also a streamlined method. Each teacher only marks the questions of one major project, which can increase the overall speed of marking!
Xu Wei was on the side inspecting and supervising. He looked at the test paper and said helplessly: "The Chinese language level of our Daqian candidates is still not as good as that of Han candidates. Their questions are correct. Unlike our Daqian candidates, even the pinyin is not correct." It could all be wrong!”
Then he picked up a paper with a lot of wrong pinyin and said: "For example, this candidate named Pu Yuan is not a candidate who just came to my university, right? There are so many wrong pinyin!"
It is very simple to distinguish whether the exam is for scholars from the Han Dynasty or students from the Daqian. Even the scholars of the Han Dynasty are written with their first names and characters together. However, under the leadership of Xu Wei, everyone in Daqian is accustomed to taking a two-character name. , don’t take the form!
Moreover, the compositions of candidates from Daqian are generally written in vernacular, and this is something that Daqian has been promoting. Even though the candidates from Dahan know this, their more than ten years of study experience makes it difficult for them to change their writing style, so their compositions Most of them focus on classical Chinese, so just by looking at the papers, you can tell that the candidates were trained there.
Xiangkai, on the other hand, laughed and said: "You are too greedy to govern. Scholars of the Han Dynasty have read Confucian classics thoroughly since they were young. If even Chinese is surpassed by my candidates, then they will really become useless. You must know that this exam is... It brings together the elites of the noble families of the Han Dynasty, but the real elites of Daqian have long been recruited by the major government-run factories of Daqian, and there are not many people who come to take the entrance exam for any mechanical university!"
Then Xiangkai took out a mathematics paper and said: "Do you know that the ruler has always attached great importance to mathematics and physics? For Chinese, he has always believed that as long as people can understand things, it is enough. Studying in words and words is a waste of life! "
Xu Wei nodded and said: "Confucianism has entered such a dead end. Everything must be answered from the books of Confucius and his disciples hundreds of years ago. Confucius was a person hundreds of years ago. He would know that there are great men. , with our hard work, we know that new things like artillery and trains will appear in the world!
Conservatism and self-improvement are the reasons for the gradual decline of Confucianism and the Han Dynasty. Mathematics and physics are tools for us to explore the world. The more prosperous these two tools are, the clearer we can see the truth of the world! To be honest, in my case Mathematics and physics are a hundred times more important in my heart than Confucianism!"
But Xu Wei's words shocked Xiangkai. The ruler looked down upon Confucianism, and looked at mathematics and physics so much. He was afraid it would be difficult for Taoism to flourish!
At this time, Xu Wei took out a test paper again and turned to the content of the Chinese essay. It was a classical Chinese essay written by a Han examinee. This examinee roughly meant to condemn the aristocrats in the late Han Dynasty for their greed and excess, which made the world rise to millions. Refugees make it difficult for the world to settle down.
Obviously, this candidate understood what Xu Wei meant by asking this question. Xu Wei smiled and said: "It seems that these children of noble families are very aware of current affairs and know how to follow my steps!"
Xu Wei then read several such articles, most of which were condemning the powerful noble families of the Han Dynasty. Only a few scholars refused to repent, believing that the chaos in the world was caused by the favor of the eunuchs favored by Emperor Heng Ling!
And for people who write like this, Daqian's marking teachers don't care, they just give zero points, the questions are all gone, and there is no need to read at all!
Xiangkai also read a few test papers, sighing in his heart that these rich and powerful disciples can really afford it, but he was still worried and said: "The old Taoist is only worried that they will not accept it verbally and mentally!"
Xu Weidao said: "That's why I banned the powerful nobles of the Han Dynasty from entering the officialdom of Daqian, so that they could not influence my officials in Daqian. When 20 years have passed and the next generation of people living in Daqian grow up, this ban will naturally be lifted. And if we let them become engineers and imperial examination candidates, we don't have to worry about them affecting Daqian's government affairs, and at the same time, their wisdom can be fully utilized."
There is another point that Xu Wei did not say clearly. These people are the elites of an era and must have outstanding abilities. Their abilities cannot be used in military and political affairs, but can be used in science, even if the conversion rate is only one-tenth. , which is also a good thing for Daqian.
After speaking, Xu Wei continued to look at the essays of these candidates with great interest. When he saw the essays that scolded the nobles and nobles of the Central Plains, he said happily: "This essay is a masterpiece, I must give it a perfect score!" "
Then he looked at the author of this composition and found that he was actually a historical celebrity, Pang Tong!
Then he suddenly realized: "No wonder this article was written so heartily!"
In this article, all kinds of things that are difficult to see in the light of the wealthy nobles are revealed, such as raising bandits to respect themselves, falsely flattering their own children, suppressing poor families, plundering people's land, and arresting the surrounding barbarians as slaves. If he wasn't a member of a powerful family, it would be impossible to know this! This means that the word limit for the composition is too small, otherwise Pang Tong would have written a huge work.
Xu Wei felt a little pity. He had known that there would be such a huge work, so he gave Pang Tong an extra paper to continue writing.
Xu Weidu said this, and the marking teacher naturally gave it a score of 60! This was also the first essay with a perfect score in the examination room.
Then Xu Wei seemed to find fun, just reading the essays on the Chinese language test paper to see how these people criticized the wealthy aristocrats! But it is a pity that it is difficult not to read such heartfelt articles as Pang Tong just now, and even very few of them suit him. Few, as Xiangkai said, most of the scholars were dissatisfied verbally and heartily. They either wrote articles that sounded like flattery, or they passed the responsibility on to the powerful clans from the Central Plains who occupied the imperial court.
Xu Wei also felt bored after reading too many articles like this. Now his only pleasure is that he can find many historical celebrities in this test paper, such as Sima Yi, Lu Xun, Chen Qun and other famous ministers. Of course, such people are in the minority after all. , and Xu Wei didn’t know many celebrities from the Three Kingdoms, and most of them were chased away by him. Therefore, such test papers were mixed among more than 30,000 test papers, and not many celebrities were actually found. Soon he got tired of it and handed it to The teacher marked the papers.
Then he left here to wait for the final answer. At this time, Xiangkai caught up and asked: "I also want to select a group of students from the ruling normal college. How many students do you think should be retained?
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Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "Let's keep 3,000 people. After simple training, they will stay in Jidu to become primary school teachers. It just so happens that Jidu will be able to expand 100 primary schools next year."
Xu Wei planned to start the popularization of compulsory education in Jidu, but only Jidu could afford such a large expense.