However, because there were so many celebrities taking the exams this year, including the prime minister’s son and the former prime minister’s son, everyone waited in tacit understanding for a while. Then, as more and more test papers were sent, more than half of them began to be marked.
In fact, the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty did not have the eight-legged essay system in the Ming Dynasty. If there were rules, it would be "beauty" and "thorn". To put it simply, what the Jinshi had to do was to follow the title and write a political article that flattered Zhao Guan's family and pointed out their faults at the same time.
The paper comes out. As long as the flattery is good and the criticism is on point, then this is a typical good article for the imperial examination. You don’t have to worry about getting a good ranking, let alone being dismissed.
No matter how wise or powerful an official is, it is impossible for the 800 articles with blurred names to be read one by one. They just ask the prime ministers, ministers, and Hanlin scholars to review them together, make a rough ranking, and then select outstanding nouns.
Not only that, as the formal examination of papers began, no matter what their origins, once the official ranking was determined, no changes were allowed. The test papers were also posted outside Xuande Building for people to see, to show the court's selflessness.
However, some papers, even if they are anonymous, can still make the monarchs and ministers in the Imperial Palace of Emperors feel astonished and treat them with caution through their first-hand articles.
For example, when Zhao Jiu looked at the test paper in his hand, which was filled with neatly written characters, from beginning to end, he felt that the shock in his heart was no longer enough to express his feelings.
This man actually wrote more than 10,000 words about the conduct of imperial examination heroes without the examination paper that Hu Quan handed in very early. The whole article is only more than 3,000 words, but it can be said to be a comprehensive article that points directly to the current ills, as if it was written out of accumulated knowledge.
Hands of senior officers.
What is even more commendable is that he integrated these four issues into a whole, and the awareness of the overall situation fills the whole text. The first sentence at the beginning is, "After the Jingkang Rebellion, everything was muddy and sandy. The court acted unconventionally, and in troubled times, it was only through the establishment of a unified situation. However,
Since we are unified, we must put the peace of the people first in governing the country, and make legislation the most important thing in order to bring peace to the people." Simply put, the most important thing is that the most important thing is that the people in the newly recovered areas have enough to eat.
Then he pointed out very rudely that as the core of the absolute leadership of the Zhao Guan family, it is appropriate to always run away during wartime, but it is not doing their job properly in peace and prosperity. Just as you are simple and most officials do not dare to be extravagant, if the official family does not pay attention to
Your own work will also lead to ups and downs. You must not be unscrupulous because of your unprecedented prestige after the Huolu War. You must know that public opinion is like running water, and no matter how high your achievements are, you can't withstand hardship. A wise person like you must know Li Longji.
If you just say that, everyone will only think that this is a seedling to become a censor, but the content behind it is also very exciting. Combined with the title, it is definitely right to point out how to recuperate and how to do it. There was a template during the period of Emperor Han Wen, but this dynasty is more
The system of equalizing land and dividing land into acres has been further developed. This is good governance through the ages that cares for farmers. It must not be repeated just because problems arise in the process. Lessons should be learned from Wang Anshi's reform, pay attention to bottom-level politics, prevent good laws from bad laws, and strengthen supervision.
It's best to establish a system. If it doesn't work, I would rather suffer the monks and wealthy businessmen than suffer the common people.
Regarding the issue of military strength, he pointed out that military chaos has a fatal impact on people's livelihood. Today, the world should strictly guard against this. He agreed that the government should leave tens of thousands of troops in Yanyun and Hedong. After all, the maintenance of public security and stability was also very important after the war.
.Furthermore, he believed that the ethnic minorities in the southwest who were most likely to cause trouble in the past few years, such as the pious thieves on Jiangnan West Road, where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, had a tradition of rebellion.
Ten thousand people were stationed in Jiangxi and other places, cooperating with the local areas to educate the barbarians, gradually weakening the authority of the chieftains, and turning the tyranny into actual control.
Seeing this, Zhao Guan's family has decided that this is at least a prodigy. Good guy, isn't this the Song Dynasty version of "reforming from the soil and returning to the countryside"?
Finally, he also said that it is not advisable for the civilized and the military to be inferior, but using civilized people to control the military is the theme of the new era. But to improve the status of warriors, especially if they can no longer engage in assassinations and banishment of the army, strong generals start from soldiers, whether they are common people or soldiers.
Everyone must respect soldiers, and the court should also establish a system to limit the room for advancement of soldiers who do not study well. This is because the years after Jingkang fully demonstrated that the commanders who studied well generally have higher integrity, such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, who later awakened.
The negative example is Yang Zheng who skinned people.
Finally, he added that he could not cover everything, he could only write down the suggestions he thought were useful on the test paper.
This is really not modesty, because he did not go into details about the loopholes in the military award.
But Zhao Guanjia was still very satisfied. There was no mention of the divine power of the ancestors in the whole article. It was all discussed from the perspective of people's livelihood and politics. Therefore, let alone his literary talent, he said based on this attitude alone: "This person should be the number one scholar."
"There was no other way. He worked hard for ten years and developed the Two Sages of Original Learning and Criticism, and finally changed the thinking of some elites.
In other words, Zhao Jiu sat there and read this article. First he was amazed, then he was amazed, then he laughed out of control, and finally said such a sentence, which had already attracted the attention of all the important officials in the palace. He didn't know what it was.
article.
After Zhao Jiu read it, he came back to his senses and didn't care at all. He just handed the article to Lu Haowen, the prime minister, to read it. Lu Gongxiang read it at a glance and did not express his position after reading it. He just circulated it to Zhao with a smile on his face.
Ding, then Zhang Jun, Li Guang and even Lin Jingmo and others, not even Yue Fei was able to pull him down.
Except for Zhang Jun's slight objection that this person's writing style is too rigid, everyone unanimously praised it, because raising problems is not the focus, the focus is on raising problems while also accompanying solutions, which is tacitly understood in the center of "utility".
Han Shizhong and other generals were even more convinced of his judgment.
Therefore, the minority obeys the majority. Since the emperor and the prime ministers have jointly agreed that this person is the first in the first class of the palace examination, the officials of the Ministry of Rites present no longer hesitate, directly open the name, copy the list... But it is a
I call him Wang Shipeng from Yueqing County, Wenzhou.
Lu Benzhong on the side rolled his eyes involuntarily. He was an acquaintance and all of them liked to write poems. But it was not appropriate to say anything more on this occasion. So, this famous official became a Jinshi nineteen years in advance. Even his ranking did not change.
He is the number one scholar. It can be seen that this cone is in the bag. No matter he meets a foolish or wise king, he will naturally be able to stand out.
In the afternoon, as all the 822 articles were delivered, a group of prospective Jinshi were either anxious or confident to leave Xihuamen and return to Imperial College. They saw that they would have to wait a few more days for the results to be released, but they did not know that the emperor here
In the Yi Palace, the frivolous officials and ministers of the Song Dynasty had already achieved rough results by being simple and quick.
Among the five first and fifth grades, the first and second grades are Jinshi and the third grade, the fourth grade are Jinshi origins, and the fifth grade are the same Jinshi origins.
Except for the top five, the ranking itself is actually not very important. The important thing is that you don't fail the ranking. After all, the official said that only 600 people will be selected, so even Zhao Ding cannot add one more.
But this problem doesn’t seem to be too big, because in fact there are always some people whose skills are really poor, and I don’t know if it’s a problem of improvising on the spot, so everyone is not so entangled.
It is worth mentioning that among the young prodigies, only Fan Chengda successfully became a third-class Jinshi at the age of fourteen. The other two can just continue studying in college.
Zhao Guanjia expressed his calmness about this. The palace examination was about policy theory, not poetry. Children who do not have much life experience and feel emotional often suffer. This is also the reason why Yue Fei and Qu Duan were generally favored by people at that time. Otherwise, these few people would not be able to succeed.
In the history of society, it was only after several decades that one could obtain the rank of Jinshi.
Li Xiuzhi successfully answered the question about the heroes of the Taihang Mountain rebels and ranked first in the second class. Zhao Fen, who had been working with his father as counselor for many years, was slightly worse than him, ranking third in the second class and ranked among 800 people.
Eighth, judging from Zhao Ding's face, I believe he is very satisfied.
On the contrary, the next problem of ranking the first A is a bit of a headache for Zhao Guan's family.
Because there are actually two names mixed in, Zhao (Wanyan) Yong and Liang Su.
Both the monarch and his ministers felt extremely strange for a moment.