He had just walked out of the examination room. There was no brazier and his clothes were cold. He tightened his clothes and stepped out of the dragon gate.
Shortly after he left, the main entrance was closed. Candidates who were being collected inside had to wait until the gantry reopened before queuing out to prevent a stampede.
This is the advantage of submitting papers early.
But Zhou Yuan and others who came with him were still in the examination room, and he was waiting at the door.
From time to time, a few people walked out of the examination room.
It is probably the same idea as Bai Gui's, to submit the papers in advance when the clerk collects them, so that they can come out early.
"Brother, I wonder how you answered the four book questions? How did you solve it?"
When a middle-aged Confucian scholar from the county town walked out of Longmen, he saw Bai Gui waiting with a test basket. His eyes suddenly lit up and he quickly stepped forward to ask.
The county town is not big, and the four young men studying in Bailu Academy are particularly noticeable. They can be placed side by side with the students. Although there are some tricks, but they can do this. As long as they are not mediocre people, their knowledge must be poor.
Not going anywhere.
Therefore, he wanted to ask Bai Gui how he answered the test paper to give him a little more confidence.
"By the way, there are also historical topics..."
The middle-aged Confucian scholar walked up to Bai Gui and asked.
"Can not remember."
Bai Gui shook his head, how could these things in the examination room be disclosed to others so easily. Tang Yin in the previous Ming Dynasty said that he would win the exam after Chunwei. Everyone knew that Tang Yin was talented, but Tang Yin was still deprived of his honors and was forced into
He was involved in the imperial examination fraud case and never raised his head in his life.
In February of the twelfth year of Hongzhi, Tang Yin, Xu Jing, Du Mu, and a group of people who had participated in the examination had a dinner to celebrate the end of the examination. Tang Bohu ranked first in the Yingtianfu Township Examination, and the Yingtianfu Township Examination ranked first. The gold content was too high.
Then Tang Yin got drunk and said that he must be Huiyuan in the general examination and ranked first in Wenwu. When other candidates asked, Tang Yin immediately revealed the contents of the examination paper. When the results were released, Tang Yin was not listed on the list.
He was arrested by Jin Yiwei and sent to the prison of the Zhenfu Division on charges of fraud in the examination room. At the same time, Cheng Minzheng, the Minister of Rites, was also unlucky, and was also tricked by Tang Yin.
After the exam, there is no good in talking loudly.
This is a society ruled by man.
The middle-aged Confucian scholar's expression became much gloomier, but he still maintained his demeanor, cupped his hands towards Bai Guixu, and prepared to retreat.
"What a rambunctious young man. Senior asked, but he was so perfunctory?"
Some candidates were angry, thinking that this was contempt for middle-aged Confucian students, and immediately complained. But they were limited to pointing fingers at Bai Gui, and for a while, he became a crazy student.
"Everyone, now that we have left the examination room, what is the benefit of thinking about the content of the paper?"
"It's better to relax your mind and face the next exam."
Bai Gui apologized to everyone and said.
He was not angry about this. He was worried about learning from the past, so he had concerns, but other candidates were different.
Besides, although his tone was modest, the content was indeed a bit excessive. Today these candidates can help a middle-aged Confucian scholar to fight against his injustice, and they can help him fight against his injustice tomorrow. They also have justice in their hearts, so there is nothing to blame.
Hearing this, the candidates who had just made sarcasm also looked ashamed and bowed to apologize to each other. For a while, they became friendly and the atmosphere became more harmonious.
Although thousands of people compete for fame, it is not that everyone hates each other.
Judging by talent and learning!
Soon, the dragon gate opened wide.
The candidates who walked out at this time were not as energetic as the previous candidates. Some candidates burst into tears and covered their faces with their sleeves. Relatives and friends who had been prepared for a long time came forward to comfort them.
Several elderly candidates looked sad, shook their heads, sighed, and hid alone in the crowd carrying shabby examination baskets. After a while, they disappeared.
Back then, they were teenagers and had relatives and friends to comfort them.
Today, he is alone.
All sentient beings are like this.
"Brother Bai, I didn't expect you to hand in the paper so early. No wonder we didn't see you."
Zhou Yuan smiled and said.
In this county examination, as long as the ancient county magistrate does not obstruct it, we will be sure of success!
"Go back first."
Bai Gui glanced at the three people taking the exam. Zhou Yuan looked the proudest. He was the most proficient in Confucian classics and had an idea of the ancient county magistrate's temperament. It shouldn't be a big problem. The remaining Bai Xiaowen was neither happy nor disappointed. Lu Zhaopeng was a little bit.
Worrying about gains and losses...
At this moment, if Zhou Yuan is so proud, it is no less than rubbing salt on someone's wounds.
Zhou Yuan also realized something, apologized to a few people, and then they took advantage of the night to carry the exam basket to the academy together.
Come to the entrance of the academy.
The frustrated Lu Zhaopeng fell a few steps behind others. Bai Gui stepped forward to comfort him, "Zhao Peng, you just failed the county examination. Your other knowledge is also excellent. Now you don't only have the imperial examination as a way out."
During the Westernization Movement, the imperial examination system underwent many changes and was different from the previous dynasty.
For example, in the third year of Tongzhi's reign, the Guangdong Provincial Provincial Translation Examination was established in order to cultivate translator talents for the Qing court to communicate with foreigners. It was stipulated that if they had achieved success in Tongwen Hall for three years, they could be admitted to the Translation Provincial Examination, and their qualifications were equivalent to those of the Imperial College.
Supervising students. If there are people who are proficient in Spanish and Chinese, they can be directly transferred to Beijing to take the exam and be awarded official positions.
During the Westernization campaign, there were also Westernization factions who discovered that "the strength of the navy is based on ship artillery, and the skill of ship artillery is based on arithmetic." Therefore, in the ninth year of Tongzhi, Shen Baozhenlian and Ying Gui proposed the establishment of a special arithmetic department.
The plan. As for the admitted people, they can "internally serve as prime ministers of the national affairs yamen, households, and two ministries of industry, and externally serve as naval officers, customs officials, salt and grain yamen, and ship and artillery bureaus." Although it was ultimately rejected, but
After the Sino-French War, the Algorithm Department was also specially established.
It’s just that arithmetic students in the algorithm department have to learn not only modern literature and science, but also the words of saints from the Four Books and Five Classics, and the number of students admitted is also quite limited.
In the Jichou Enke Township Examination in 1889, there were only fifteen candidates, and even the most basic requirement of setting up an examination room with twenty people was not met.
In addition, there are also design and art subjects.
Later, the Reform and Reform made many improvements to the imperial examination and added many special subjects.
But compared to the above special subjects, the traditional eight-part essay method is the right way to recruit scholars.
Of course, the current eight-part essay selection process is different from that of the previous dynasty. In the reform and reform, it was mentioned that "the orthodox subjects and the economic examinations will be merged into one, both based on policy and theory, and the discussion will be based on anecdotes; the policy will be based on current affairs, and both
specialized."
Song Bolu, the imperial censor, wrote bluntly: "Those who came from the imperial examination will know nothing about Western learning; those who came from the school will be at a loss in middle school."
Therefore, for the current main examination, in the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, the Ministry of Rites re-drafted thirteen articles of the township examination regulations: "Each person should express his or her own opinions on policy, and the style should be broad. This is to test scholars, in order to pay attention to practical economics, and it is especially important to be practical.
There are no empty words…”
but……
This all involves the provincial examination and the general examination.
Whether it was the Westernization Movement or the Reform Reform, it was a top-down reform. The rural examinations at the top were changed, but the county examinations, government examinations, and hospital examinations at the bottom were still the same as before, with only slight additions and changes.
For example, in the just-concluded Zishui County Examination, according to the usual practice, there were no historical topics, only questions on the Four Books, Five Classics, and poems.
The Ming and Qing Dynasties did not place much emphasis on poetry, so the first county examination canceled the examination poems.
"Yes, Brother Gui, it's just an exam!"
Lu Zhaopeng murmured to himself, tears falling down his cheeks, "E's dad and E's father sent E's and E's brother to school just so that they could set off a few strings of cannons on E's ancestor's grave before they died, so that they could have the honor to see their ancestors after they went down.
…”
"Well, you are not a human being. You clearly know the character of the ancient county magistrate, but you just... insist on writing this reform..."
"Well, I'm sorry to my ancestors!"
He murmured softly, then turned into howling.
Bai Gui was silent and could only gently caress Lu Zhaopeng's back and comfort Lu Zhaopeng with silent words.
Writing this reform seems like a fool's errand.
But...there are some fools.
Silly and cute.
Do it knowing you can't do it.
There was a saying in the past life that was very popular. It said: "The reason why the years are beautiful is that someone is carrying the burden for you."