It seems that Song Zhong and the other three were overly preoccupied, so Liu Jing added: "Although Kong Ming and Zhong Xuan represent me, they will not interfere in the examination room. Sir, Qi Wujun, and Sima Jun are still in charge of everything."
Having said that, Liu Jing lowered his head and flipped through the examination papers. Since time traveling, he has basically never let go of the papers, but he only has a general view of the book and does not study the chapters.
Shece's first "Tie Jing" test was based on verses from the "Five Classics", and he thought it would be easy to pass. The second "Trial Meaning" test was based on chapters and verses from the "Five Classics", which was a bit difficult to handle.
In other words, if Liu Jing himself takes the exam, there is a high probability that he will not pass the second round.
Students who take this exam must at least pass the second round of exams before they have a chance to meet Liu Jing and get an official position.
It is not difficult to imagine that with the implementation of the scientific examination system in the future, countless talented but uneducated people will fail the examination and be unable to enter the officialdom.
In contrast, the inspection system, represented by Maocai and Xiaolian, is much more extensive in selecting talents. The inspection system not only depends on whether you are proficient in classics, but even proficiency in classics is not the first choice. Character, talent, and origin
...even being proficient in law, art of war, etc. can be used as a step to advance.
Of course, even though the imperial examination system has shortcomings, it still has incomparable advantages compared to the increasingly rigid examination system, and historical development has also proved this.
Moreover, this time, there is not only a subject of Ming Jing, but also a Ming Fa subject, but it is not as popular as the former.
In addition, Liu Jing plans to add Ming Shu, Ming History, Ming Zi and other subjects in the near future to expand the scope of talent selection as much as possible.
Liu Jing hurriedly flipped through it, closed the examination paper, looked at Sima Hui, who was sitting in a dangerous position, with a humble but elegant appearance, and asked: "I wonder how Sima Jun has considered the previous request, and whether he has made a decision.
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Sima Hui was a famous scholar in the Central Plains and had taught in Xiangyang for many years. He was highly respected among scholars in the north and south. Even if he only stayed around to be a mascot, he would have a great effect. Liu Jing naturally wanted to recruit him.
Under his command.
Sima Hui had been busy preparing for the exam, and Liu Jing could not come to bother him, so he asked Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong to test his tone first.
Unlike Pang Degong, who wanted to live in seclusion, Sima Hui did not refuse the temptations of Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong's two disciples. He said that he was currently busy with planning and planning and had no time to take care of him for the time being. He would think about it for some time before replying.
Sima Hui did not refuse on the spot, which meant that he had the intention to become an official, so when they met today, Liu Jing couldn't wait to ask.
Sima Hui bowed his hands and said: "I am a Confucian and layman. He has a white head and a poor understanding of the classics. He is ignorant of current affairs. Unexpectedly, he is so valued by the general. I am afraid that he is old and has lost his talent and may not live up to the general's expectations."
Liu Jing smiled and shook his head and said: "Sima Jun is an eminent scholar from Yingchuan. He is an elegant and well-educated scholar. He is tireless in teaching others. He claims that he is not talented. Isn't that too modest? As for old age, Sima Jun is older than Zhao Chongguo. How about Jiang Ziya? Zhao Chongguo was more than seventy years old and settled the country.
, Jiang Ziya is the master of the Emperor at eighty, and Sima Jun is only fifty, how can he say he is old?"
Sima Huilian said that he did not dare to take it seriously, "The general's words are really embarrassing for me. How can I be so virtuous and capable as to dare to compare with the sages?"
Zhuge Liang couldn't stand it anymore and said from the side: "Sir, don't be too humble. You are a generous elder, a man of benevolence and sincerity. He has the tools of the world and the tools of Taiwan to assist you in great things."
Wang Can had an impatient temper and couldn't stand Sima Hui's "pretentiousness", and believed that a young scholar like him had only a false reputation and no talent to help the world.
However, since Liu Jing was interested in recruiting, he also said: "As the saying goes: 'If you are poor, you can be good for yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world.' Liu Jingsheng divided Jing and Xiang to see the world, and the northern soldiers who wanted to avoid chaos in Jingzhou were numbered in the thousands.
All the talented people in the country, but Liu Jingsheng could not use them, all knowledgeable people sighed. Sima Jun had no talent, so he stayed in Xiangxu, teaching for his own entertainment. The general had the world in mind, and he was thirsty for talent. Since entering Xiangyang, talented people from all over the world have returned.
Like running water, if Sima Jun doesn't come out now, when will he wait?"
Song Zhong, Qi Wukai and Sima Hui had known each other for many years, and they were very aware of the latter's talents. They knew that he was not just a scholar who only specialized in Confucianism, so they all gave advice to each other.
Sima Hui saw that everyone in the room came to persuade him one after another, so he no longer shied away, he straightened his face and said slowly: "The general and all the princes think that Hui's talent and intelligence are useful, so they reluctantly accept the order. It's just that things should have a beginning and an end.
The general allows me to continue to invigilate the examination, and when the shooting strategy is completed, I can then enter the shogunate and serve under his command."
Liu Jing naturally agreed.
The exam was scheduled for tomorrow, and the time was quite tight. Song Zhong, Qi Wukai, and Sima Hui could not sit still. They said goodbye within a moment, and Liu Jing got up and sent the three of them outside.
Song Zhong and the others returned to the school by car and immediately announced the news of the exam. In an instant, the school was abuzz with excitement. In an instant, all the students returned to their dormitories, immersed themselves in books, and sharpened their guns before the battle.
That night, the lights in the student alley were brightly lit, and they gradually dimmed in the second half of the night. Some stayed up all night, and the lights remained on all night.
During the next solar eclipse, the students had breakfast, got ready, walked out of their dormitories in twos and threes, and rushed to the examination room like hundreds of rivers flowing back.
Liu Biao advocated Confucianism and established education, but he rarely opened courses to obtain scholars before. Therefore, the students responded with great enthusiasm for this initiative, ranging from white-haired old men in their fifties and sixties to those with tied hair in their teens.
Adults and children are all eager to sign up. According to statistics, more than 1,500 people have signed up. It should be noted that the total number of students in the school is only just over 2,000.
Due to the large number of candidates, the examination room had to be set up in an open area outdoors. Fortunately, it was mid-September, the autumn air was crisp and the weather was pleasant, so it would not cause any inconvenience.
The students arrived at the examination room one after another. Under the guidance of the school secretary, they lined up to receive the bamboo plaques with numbers written on them, and then took their seats.
Zhuge Liang, Wang Can, Song Zhong, Sima Hui and others sat on the podium together.
Wang Can was surprised to see Cui Jun and Shi Tao coming to take the exam from a distance. When he recommended northern talents to Liu Jing before, he mentioned them. With their relationship with Zhuge Liang, how could they come here to take the exam? He turned and asked
Zhuge Liang said: "Kong Ming has known Cui Zhouping and Shi Guangyuan for many years and knows their talents very well. Why don't you recommend them to the general?"
"It's not that I don't recommend it, but it's that Guangyuan doesn't want to." Zhuge Liang told the whole story, "Guangyuan said: 'There is no beginning, and you have to end well, otherwise it will be a failure of all these years of hard work. This strategy is just right.
Verify what you have learned.'Zhou Ping knew his intentions and declined the recommendation..."
Wang Can showed his admiration and commented: "Shi Guangyuan is not an extraordinary talent, but he specializes in economics, is polite and polite, and can be regarded as a good man."
Wang Canya had the experience of knowing others, and his comments about Shi Tao were quite pertinent in Zhuge Liang's opinion. Among his four friends, Cui Jun and Xu Shu were the most talented, and they were equally equal.
Zhuge Liang was the first to get acquainted with Cui Jun, and he often heard about his gains and losses. Later, he met Xu Shu and learned a lot from them. Zhuge Liang learned a lot from them. Meng Jian, Meng Gong, who had returned to his hometown, was slightly less powerful than Cui, Xu, and Shi Tao.
However, although the talents of the four people are high and low, they are not very different. They are all rare talents.
In less than a moment, Zhuge Liang and Wang Can saw several familiar faces one after another, including northerners and southerners, especially Xi Zhen, who was famous for his romantic talks in Xianghan in recent years and was as famous as Pang Tong. , Wang Can couldn't help but laugh and said: "It seems that there are not a few people who are eyeing the leader of this shooting."
Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "This is not surprising. Nowadays, there are many talents under the general's command, and the system is becoming more and more strict. It is not as good as when Changsha was founded. Only a talented person like Zhongxuan, who has the strategy of Wang Zuo, can make the general go beyond the ordinary and be promoted. With Dong Cao's position as a hero, he ranks among the best."
Wang Can couldn't hide the color on his face when he heard this.
Zhuge Liang continued: "This shooting strategy is undoubtedly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you can outsmart the heroes and come out on top, you will definitely be favored by the general and rise to the top."
After hearing this, Wang Can put his hands on his hands and laughed and said, "Then we will wait and see."
Yang Yi and his younger brother Yang Yong were assigned to different areas. He held a bamboo sign and walked calmly to his seat and sat down. He was not interested in the surroundings at all and just studied ink by himself.
As more than a thousand candidates took their seats one after another, the examiners began to hand out examination papers one by one. The examinees were all impressed by the tight, tough, flat and smooth Changsha paper.
In fact, the candidates are not unfamiliar with this kind of paper. Before Liu Jing came to the school, he gave the school some Changsha paper, but the quantity was limited, and only a few people were lucky enough to get it.
When the historians distributed the examination papers, hundreds of officials from the academic city also stationed in the examination room to monitor the candidates and prevent cheating.
After the paper distribution was completed, Song Zhong stood up and came to the front of the podium to announce the rules of the examination room to the candidates. Since it was a rough creation, there were only a few rules. For example, you are not allowed to include words, you are not allowed to discuss with others, you are not allowed to peek at other people's test papers, and you are not allowed to sit over someone else's desk and change your papers. When writing, if you want convenience, you need to ask the invigilator for instructions and have him accompany you to the toilet, etc.
Then Song Zhong announced the content of the exam. Although the students already knew it, it was still necessary to explain it in detail before the exam.
The first "Tie Jing" test involves covering up a number of words in the scriptures to be tested. The examinee will supplement the sentences based on the previous and following scriptures and correctly fill in the missing words. In the words of later generations, it is a fill-in-the-blank question. "Tie Jing" mainly examines It is the examinee’s familiarity with Confucian classics.
"The Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "Book of Rites", "Book of Changes", "Spring and Autumn" and "Book of Filial Piety" each have ten stickers, for a total of sixty stickers. Thirty correct answers are considered qualified, more than 40 are considered B, and more than 50 are considered A.
The "Five Classics" and "The Classic of Filial Piety" are books that Han scholars have been familiar with since childhood, and they have been studying in schools for many years. Not to mention memorizing them by heart, they are also familiar with them. Moreover, you can pass half of the answers correctly. Generally speaking, this level is not difficult. , mainly to screen out the unlearned and unskilled.
After Song Zhong finished speaking, he immediately announced the first topic. Song Zhong hung a wooden board on the podium. On the wooden board was written: "The world is not visible, but it is still a wing." There was a blank line. After that, it was written: "The kingdom suppresses life and maintains the Zhen of Zhou." "Another empty line.
The historians in the audience immediately copied it on the bamboo slips, and then ran around to spread the word to the candidates.
Ma Liang was sixteen years old and was one of the youngest candidates to take the test. He was quite nervous at first, but when he heard the Chinese character "The world is not clear, it is still a winged one", he immediately calmed down and wrote: " Thinking of the emperor and his disciples, he was born in this kingdom... He helped the emperor and his disciples, and King Wen brought peace to him."
This title comes from "The Book of Songs·Daya·King Wen". Thinking of the emperor Tuoshi, who was born in this kingdom, I hope that many outstanding talents will be born in this kingdom. It is undoubtedly an expression of the desire to seek talents. I use this poem as the first question of the strategy, and then
Couldn't be more appropriate.
Soon after, Song Zhong put up a second wooden plaque, which was from "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·First Month". This poem criticized the monarch for being fond of villains, distant virtuous ministers, and practicing tyranny. This poem obviously had some meaning.
As time went by, ten chapters of the Book of Songs were published one after another, followed by the Book of Songs and the Book of Rites...
Contrary to what the candidates imagined, the test questions were all-inclusive, but rarely involved uncommon words. This disappointed many candidates who had prepared in advance, and all their efforts were in vain.
This is what Liu Jing specially told Song Zhong and others. He did not want the people selected by the chief to be a group of scholars who only know how to talk.
The sixty examination questions may not seem like many, but when the tenth post of "The Book of Filial Piety", which is the last question, was announced, it was already mid-afternoon. The entire examination took more than four hours in total, which was very satisfying to the candidates both physically and mentally.
All tired.
Yang Yi handed the examination papers to the invigilator, turned around and left the examination room, walking calmly as before.
An exam as high as "Tie Jing" is not difficult for him at all, and he can pass it easily with his eyes closed. Even tomorrow's "Trial of Meaning", he doesn't pay attention at all.
To put it bluntly, the first two examinations of the shooting strategy are just a threshold. Only by crossing this threshold can one be qualified to meet Liu Jing.
For a talented person like Yang Yi, everything is just a formality. Liu Jing himself comes up with solutions to the questions, which is the real test.
What is a countermeasure?
Explicitly ask questions about political affairs and classic meanings, and ask each one to compare them, and judge the superiority by looking at the diction.
Yang Yi thought very highly of himself. He believed that although his reputation was not as good as that of Pang Tong and Xi Zhen, his talents were not inferior by half.
Pang Tong defected to Liu Jing as an old friend and became Zuo Sima, accompanying him on the left and making plans. Yang Yi knew that he could not compare with him.
Xi Zhen also participated in this shooting plan. Even though the two of them were on good terms, Yang Yi secretly wanted to compete with him. This time he was determined to outdo Xi Zhen, making Liu Jing know that Jingxiang not only had Pang Tong and Xi Zhen, but also
With him, Yang Yi, it would be better if he could win the championship with countermeasures, but Yang Yi is so proud that he doesn't think there is much hope.
Yang Yicai came out of the examination room and saw his clan brother Yang Yong talking with Xi Zhen, Ma Liang and others.
Yang Yi quickened her pace and came to a few people, looked around, and finally landed on Ma Liang, asking: "How did Ji Chang do in the exam?"
Ma Liang smiled shyly and replied: "The test questions are much simpler than I thought. It shouldn't be difficult to pass. Tomorrow's "Examination of Meaning" will be difficult to say. There is a high probability that you will not pass."
Xi Zhen said: "The Examination Yi tests the Five Classics, but it is not necessary to have a thorough knowledge of the Five Classics. If you pass one classic, you will be qualified. Ji Chang has been studying Zuo Zhuan for several years, so he may not have a chance to pass the second round."
"Then let me borrow my elder brother's good words." Ma Liang knew that he had little hope, so he held up his hands and said with a smile.
While they were talking, exhaustion came to their minds. They had been taking exams all day, and now they were hungry and tired. They didn't have much time to talk, so they returned to their dormitories together. They all came from a wealthy family in Xiangyang, so they didn't have to cook dinner themselves.
The servants have already prepared meals to welcome him.