The snow scene in southern China is a unique scenery.
Although the snow has fallen once on Huanghua Mountain where the county school is located, it still cannot cover up the yellow and green color of the mountain. Some young grass and trees have been suppressed by the heavy snow this winter. When spring warms and the flowers bloom, they will become more green and tall next year.
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It’s night, and it’s freezing cold.
The county's pioneer in the east is the first house, and a few candles are on the surroundings as the arms, and this hall is bright.
There are more than twenty Confucian students studying the meaning of the Confucian classics in the hall.
It was Zhang Yue’s suggestion that everyone gather together to study together.
The county school encourages Jinshi classics students to study in their own studios, but Zhang Yue always felt that it was not good to sleep alone in his studio, so he always liked to go to the veranda to study by himself, each with a book and a lamp.
When Guo Lin saw him, he also came here with Zhang Yue. The two of them had been together for a long time, and many businessmen gradually followed suit.
Gradually, the scripture students who were good friends with Zhang Yue gathered in a circle, and everyone read in a veranda at night. The number of people increased, and now there are more than twenty people.
Jing Shengli saw this scene and nicknamed it "Yue Zhai".
After Zhang Yue entered the county school, he took several private exams. At first, he did not put all his efforts into it. Instead, he specialized in the "Book of Rites" and the Three Biography of the Spring and Autumn Period, which he was not familiar with before. Now it has taken him more than half a year to master the classics and meanings of these four books.
I memorized all the notes.
For other people, if they saw that someone could read the "Book of Rites" and the Three Chunqiu (Spring and Autumn Annals), which have the largest number of words among the Nine Classics, within half a year, they would definitely be so surprised that they would dislocate their jaws.
When the night drums were played, everyone dispersed from the verandas and went back to their houses to sleep.
Zhang Yue and Guo Lin left with their books in hand, and happened to witness the scenery of the snowy night, with people scattered beside them, and the sound of drums, one long and one short, in their ears.
“It’s time to live up to it again, now the public examination is coming! Senior brother, are you sure?”
After studying for more than half a year, Guo Lin became more stable than before: "Let's do everything we can to obey the destiny. This time, in the public examination of Jingshengzhai, the first meridian must be passed through nine or more to be qualified, and the second meridian must be passed through eight to be qualified.
If you treat the three meridians, you can understand seven, and you are qualified. If you treat the five meridians, you can understand six, and you are qualified. I don’t know how many meridians my brother has treated?"
Zhang Yuedao: "Will the hearing of this public trial be reported to the Imperial College?"
“That’s true. In the past, those who excelled in the public examinations of Jingshi Zhai could be recommended by the state school to go to the Nanjing Imperial College for the interview. Those with outstanding knowledge could be directly recommended to the Bianjing Imperial College for the interview.”
Zhang Yue said: "Senior brother, how can one be considered to be erudite and outstanding?"
"There is no explanation for this. According to the usual practice, it must be decided by the state's xuezheng, and finally reported to the magistrate for recommendation to the Imperial College. There is at most one person in this state, and there are only two in Nanjing's Imperial College."
Zhang Yue thought of the three-part method in Wang Anshi's political reform.
Wang Anshi's Three Houses Method set up Taixue as outer house, inner house, and upper house. Among them, there are two thousand people in outer house, three hundred people in inner house, and one hundred people in upper house.
In the internal examination of Taixue, students are promoted from the outer house to the inner house, and then from the inner house to the upper house. After passing the examination, the students in the upper house can become officials.
This reform was not abolished even after Sima Guang came to power. When Cai Jing was the prime minister, it was further carried forward and the three-she law was implemented in schools in prefectures and counties all over the world, and it was called the three-she law.
Cai Jing also established a three-house system in prefectures and counties. Students who are outstanding in the upper house and inner house of the county school can be recommended to the outer house of the state school, and outstanding students in the upper house and inner house of the state school can be recommended to the outer house of Taixue.
When the Sanshe method was first established, in order to support the theory of selection reform, Wang Anshi specifically said that this was the method of "selection in rural elections" of the Three Dynasties.
But no matter whether Wang Anshi had a reform or not.
In the Song Dynasty, there was one condition that remained unchanged in order to enter the Imperial College, that is, the children of officials below the eighth rank could enter the Imperial College without taking the exam, while the children of ordinary people from poor families had to take the exam.
So what are the benefits after entering the Imperial College?
In the Song Dynasty, the Imperial College could directly participate in the supervisory examination.
In Kaifeng Prefecture, the number of Jinshi admitted by the Ministry of Rites every year is about 150, and the number of Imperial Scholars admitted by the Imperial College is around 708. The proportions among various subjects are also similar.
Before Zhang Yue traveled through time, he often remembered that the college entrance examination was unfair, such as regional issues.
Among the Jinshi scholars in the Song Dynasty, nearly two-thirds were from Kaifeng Prefecture and Imperial College.
To use a very depressing phrase, what you pursue all your life is nothing more than what others are born with.
Why is there such an unfair thing?
This is about the Song Dynasty’s consistent national policy of “strengthening the trunk and weak branches”.
Strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches is an established national policy adopted by the Song Dynasty from Taizu of the Song Dynasty after it absorbed the Anshi Rebellion and the separation of feudal vassal towns in the late Tang Dynasty.
It is like "using culture to control force", which is only part of the strong trunk and weak branches.
From what Zhang Yue saw, why did the descendants of the Zhang family and the Wu family in Pucheng not stay in their hometown, but entered the capital, and even entered Kaifeng Prefecture.
Based on Zhang Yue's identity as a son of the Zhang family, if Zhang Yue asked the Zhang family to come forward, even if they were distant relatives, Zhao Yasi would not almost push them to a dead end.
Because most of the descendants of Zhang Dexiang, the descendants of Wu Yu, Wuchong, and Wang Anshi did not return to their hometowns but stayed in Bianjing and registered in Kaifeng, just to facilitate the imperial examination.
Such benefits are obvious. Children of local powerful clans moved to the capital one after another for the imperial examination, which made it much easier for the officials sent by the imperial court to the local areas to govern.
Compared to the methods used by Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han to force local wealthy families to move to Beijing, this method can be described as much gentler, and it can also be regarded as an upright conspiracy.
From Fan Zhongyan’s reform to establish prefecture and county schools, to Wang Anshi’s three-partition method, and to Cai Jing’s three-partition method for the world, we can all see the shadow of strong branches and weak branches in the reform ideas that have been inherited from the same line.
Of course, this national policy of strengthening the branches and strengthening the weak branches is very deceptive for Zhang Yue's current situation.
There are one hundred and fifty Jinshi places in the provincial examination. For poor candidates, they must first take the first-class examination among one hundred people in each state, while official candidates can take the first-class examination among one hundred people and fifteen people. Everyone
Let’s compete together for provincial examination places.
Candidates with official status can directly enter the Imperial College, but Zhang Yue must be recommended by the prefecture and county schools for excellence before he can go to the Imperial College to take the exam.
Of course, although there is a risk of rejection when taking the Imperial Examination, the admission rate is still very high. This is because the Imperial Examination mainly looks at the real talents and practical learning of the corporal scholars, so as to avoid the recommendation of the prefecture and county for those who are not talented and academic.
After entering the Imperial College, the imperial court allocated 80 Jinshi quotas for each subject specifically for imperial students, and the same was true for all subjects.
So for Zhang Yue, it was definitely worth a try to get a recommendation from the prefecture and county to go to the Imperial College.
But the question is why do states and counties have to recommend you? This is also a problem of the Three Shed Laws and the Three Shed Laws of the World in history.
There are only a few places in the entire state, and they are recommended to Bianjing Imperial College and Nanjing Imperial College.
If everyone's public examination scores are similar, who will the state recommend? The problem with the three-part method is that if the scores are about the same, the academic officials will refer to the students' daily morals. When it comes to morals, it doesn't mean that you are good at it.
If you say you can't do it, you can't do it.
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In the end, it doesn’t matter whether it works or it doesn’t work.
Zhang Yue said to Guo Lin: "Now I am Mr. Boyi's favorite student, and Hu Xuezheng from the county school also appreciates me very much."
Guo Lindao: "Hu Xuezheng and Mr. Boyi are indeed famous figures in the county magistrate, but their recommendation to the Imperial College is a matter for the state. I am afraid that their weight will not be enough."
Zhang Yue admitted that what Guo Lin said made sense, but he still had something else to say. At present, the business of Zhangjia Food Shop was booming. He helped the chief of the restaurant to point out some textbooks for undergraduate examinations, and the other party made a lot of money, and he also
Got a lot of benefits.
In the Song Dynasty, money can be converted into power.
However, this little money is still not enough.
“If I want to win steadily, I must be superior and leave everyone speechless!”
Guo Lindao: "Then what are your plans?"
Zhang Yue said: "Didn't you just say that those who treat one meridians must understand nine or more to be qualified? Those who treat two meridians must understand eight to be qualified; those who treat three meridians must understand seven to be qualified; those who treat five meridians must understand six.
To be qualified. If I take the test on all nine classics, how many of them will be considered qualified?"
Guo Lindao: “In the past, it was Tongwu!”
“What if it’s all pass?”
"All passed? Junior brother, please don't shock me." Guo Lin couldn't help but be dumbfounded, "I passed the nine classics subjects in the provincial examination, but I only passed the sixth. Not to mention how can the Mo Yi of the county academic examination be compared to the public examination. The public examination
The meaning of Mo is as rigorous as that of the provincial examination, and the wording is extremely sophisticated."
“Let’s talk about the public examination. Each provincial examination asks about the ten principles of righteousness. I have never heard of anyone who can master all ten principles of righteousness.”
Guo Lin talked a lot.
Zhang Yue smiled and asked: "What about you? How many tests will you take this time?"
Guo Lindao: "I only tested the Five Classics. It would be too time-consuming and laborious to test the Nine Classics. What's more, there are also the Analects of Confucius and the Classic of Filial Piety. There are many questions on the classics and their meanings."
“In addition to the Analects of Confucius, the Classic of Filial Piety is said to be the Five Classics, but in fact it turns out to be seven classics, and your nine classics are actually eleven. I guess few people in the county school would have such a plan except you.”
Hearing this, Zhang Yue smiled at Guo Lin and said, "If not, how can I show off my skills?"
The Imperial College in Bianjing and the Imperial College in Nanjing only have a few places in Jianzhou, so even if Zhang Yue gets the first place in the county's economics studies, he may not be able to advance smoothly.
So if you want to win, you must win beautifully, and win until people have nothing to say. Zhang Yue reported the Nine Classics in one breath, just to win until people have nothing to say.
It is said that 30% of success is determined by fate and 70% of it depends on hard work. Zhang Yue worked hard to achieve 10% of the 70%.
Of course it is difficult for Zhang Yue to take the Nine Classics exam, but it does not mean that it is easy for county school students.
The county school public examination stipulates that the first class to be tested must be the Great Classics, and the Great Classics are the Book of Rites and Zuo Zhuan.
To examine the two classics, one must study one major classic and one middle classic. The middle classic is the Book of Songs, Zhou Rites and Rites. Of course, if some people want to show off their talents (seeking death), there is no problem in testing the two major classics, the Book of Rites and the Zuo Zhuan.
The examination of the three classics must be one large one, one medium one, and one small one. The small ones are the Yi Jing, Shangshu, Gongyang, and Guliang. Of course, you have to show off your ability. You can also examine two large classics and one small one, or one large classic and two medium ones.
Yes.
The Five Classics must include two major classics, and any other three classics.
Of course, in terms of one meriding through nine, two meridians through eight, three meridians through seven, five meridians through six, and nine meridians through five, the minimum difficulty level for everyone is about the same.
The upper limit of difficulty is different.
Furthermore, the provincial examination of the Nine Classics is a test of 120 scripts and 60 answers to the nine classics in one paper.
However, the county school public examination is divided into eleven examination rooms.
Two exams of "The Analects of Confucius" and "The Classic of Filial Piety" are compulsory, and one exam is required for the other nine classics. The number of exams you take will be determined by the number of exams you take.
And Zhang Yue has eleven full exams!
So on the day of registration for the public examination, Zhang Yue was the only one in the Jingsheng Zhai who applied for the Nine Classics.
When everyone in the county school learned about Zhang Yue's move, they all felt that this man had gone crazy.
