Chapter 993 On how to achieve equality for everyone
After understanding the holy will, Chu Suiliang no longer gave in.
He ordered the student who had just taken a step forward: "All Jin Yiwei listen to the order. Anyone who follows Jiang Sheng to take a step forward will be arrested and temporarily detained in the Imperial College. This trouble is by no means as simple as the students. There must be thieves behind it."
If you interfere, I will report it to Your Majesty and ask for a thorough investigation. Anyone who dares to resist will be arrested and treated as treason, and will not be killed without mercy!"
As soon as these words came out, the students were all shocked.
Jiang Shengwei had already fallen, and the other students were even more afraid to come forward. They were taken away by the Jin Yiwei, and the examination room was restored to clarity.
Seeing that Chu Suiliang responded quickly enough, Xue Rengui smiled at him: "Master Chu is busy with imperial examination affairs. I think the leading student has something to say. Why don't I interrogate Master Chu for you? I have learned a lot of interrogation methods from your Majesty these years.
, should be able to gain something.”
Chu Suiliang saluted again: "Then I will help General Xue."
After Xue Rengui left, the inspection in the examination room was carried out normally. Seeing how strict the inspection was, some candidates silently left the Imperial College and returned after less than half a stick of incense. They thought they had thrown something away.
With the lessons learned from the past, examinees in various states did not dare to make any small moves. Except for a few candidates who had a sense of luck and were found to be carrying private goods and ordered to leave, most of the candidates successfully entered the examination room.
Then, the curtain of the scientific examination slowly opened.
In addition to the three predetermined subjects of essays, scriptures and policy questions, the two subjects of numeracy and manufacturing are also tested.
The first three subjects are commonplace for students from all over the world. They are confident that if they take the exam according to the old rules, they will be able to master it.
There is nothing special about the subject of essays. As usual, the title is set by His Majesty. The students may compose poems or articles, each with his own style. The young man in white is the most youthful and energetic. He completes the article with just a few strokes of pen and ink, counting in detail.
Come on, he was the first among this group of students to hand in the paper.
Because according to Qin Huaidao's requirements, all the papers must be completed before unified marking, so what exactly Xue Yuanchao wrote is not available to anyone for the time being.
Later, more students completed it one after another. Li Yi, a student who claimed to be one of the top ten students in Shannan Road, was full of thoughts. In just a few hours, he wrote a long essay. After checking it carefully, he handed in the paper with great satisfaction.
Next, Guo Zhengyi, Lai Ji, and Linghu Defen also handed in their examination papers one after another. Chu Suiliang was in charge of the Imperial Academy. Lu Dunxin and Lu Qingye patrolled with the Jin Yiwei specially sent by Qin Huaidao to prevent anyone from whispering and cheating.
All students are also writing carefully.
As for the scriptures, the content of the test is nine classics, namely "Book of Rites", "Zhou Rites", "Ritual", "Yi", "Book", "Poetry" and the Spring and Autumn Annals.
Since Qin Huaidao indicated that Chu Suiliang should not take too many exams on the content of rituals, the content of the exam was more focused on the Three Legends of Spring and Autumn Period.
Why is this so? Chu Suiliang thought that perhaps His Majesty was just like the rumors, and valued emotions more than the etiquette of the powerful class.
This kind of thing can be seen from His Majesty's announcement that scholars, farmers, workers, and merchants are equal. However, the world has long been accustomed to classes, and equality cannot be achieved in a short time.
As for policy questions, His Majesty himself poses the questions.
Many students were troubled when they saw the strategy question. They had never seen such a strange and novel question before.
The title is "On How to Realize Equality for All."
Some candidates panicked when they saw this question, so they asked Ce. He formed an alliance with many students to discuss possible directions for the question and prepared answers in advance. He prepared no less than ten questions, such as how to restore people's livelihood in the early days of the Han Dynasty.
Questions like how to build a super empire that encompasses the universe, etc., failed to win any of them.
The word "everyone is equal" is too unfamiliar to them.
Li Yi of Shannan Dao looked up to the sky and sighed: "Since ancient times, the imperial power has been as high as the sky, and the official level is overwhelming. Even an ordinary petty official can become a local overlord in a county. The king's power does not extend to the county. How many years does it take for the emperor's personal army to
Go there once? You can’t control it at all. How can everyone be equal?”
Su Baozhen also scratched his head and couldn't figure out how to answer.
The fastest answer to this question was Xue Yuanchao, a young man in white. As a young man with high spirits, he always believed that the world is a big place and he should move forward bravely. No matter how great the risk is, where can he go?
Isn't it a matter of course that everyone is equal?
The first sentence of Ce Wen is a true reflection of his heart.
"Everyone in the world, regardless of emperors, officials, petty officials, businessmen, farmers, or workers, is born equal." After this sentence fell, the young man was full of energy, and he quoted extensively during the Long March. He listed out a detailed discussion, explaining that everyone is born equal, and inequality is all.
It is brought about by humans, so if you want to achieve equality for everyone, you are not seeking the law, but seeking nothing.
Only when everyone does not seek to be superior to others can true equality in the world be realized.
Long Youdao was born in Su Baozhen, and his methods were a bit biased. It was not that he went to extremes, but that he really didn't think of a better way.
"Zhen believes that if we want to achieve equality for everyone, we must eliminate inequality, either eliminate those at the top to achieve equality for those at the bottom, or eliminate those at the bottom to achieve equality for those at the top."
After he finished writing, when he read it again, he broke out in a cold sweat. Could this be written? If he turned it in and made His Majesty furious, he would be charged with treason and his family would be exterminated. He quickly erased everything he had written and sat down again.
He shook his head and sighed while sitting in the examination position.
However, Guo Zhengyi’s writing is quite good.
When Chu Suiliang went over for inspection, he stared at the first sentence of his examination paper for a long time.
Because what he wrote is: Equality is relative.
In any dynasty, there is no absolute equality in anything, only relative equality. If you want to achieve equality for everyone, you cannot aim at pursuing absolute equality. Instead, you should draw a bottom line. For example, no one should worry about food, and everyone has everything.
Wearing clothes, not worrying about livelihood, and not being afraid of officials. If we take this as a thread, we can bless every ordinary person and achieve initial relative equality.
This kind of thinking was extremely rare even in the current dynasty. Chu Suiliang and Guo Zhengyi met once when they were discussing the situation at the inn. Looking back this time, the impression of this name became even more profound.
"Is equality relative?" Chu Suiliang thought that perhaps His Majesty could communicate with him on this point of view.
Interesting anecdotes about the examination room were learned by Qin Huaidao when he followed Xue Rengui to Ganlu Hall.
"It's interesting. There are actually people who don't know what is good and are openly causing trouble in the imperial examination room. Brother Xue, have you found any clues?"
Although Qin Huaidao was already the emperor of the Han Dynasty, according to his request, everyone could still talk about it separately unless it was in public, so he still called him his eldest brother in the Manlu Hall.
Xue Rengui said: "I have some clues. I used the method of paper punishment to find out that the candidate was under the instruction of the Jiang family of Jiangnan Province."