Zhu Shuren carried out the division and disintegration of the conservative scholars in the world very smoothly.
Since some of them have seen a new ascending channel, and this ascending channel is temporarily only open to old scholars with a good reputation, why not seize the opportunity as soon as possible to gain some benefits for themselves?
Even if this upward channel will slowly be opened to others in the future to get a share of this cake, that will be a matter of the future. Maybe during the window period of these few years, I have already climbed up with this new opportunity, so why still?
Do you have to worry about rubbish that you can’t climb up?
A dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist. Those who can seize the window period will not care about the life and death of those who cannot catch them. Those people are the ones they want to get involved with, the ones they want to get out of the house and kick in the face.
I wish I could squeeze into the bus and the driver would immediately close the door, so that the bus could be more comfortable, spacious and breathable along the way. This is how human nature has always been.
Time soon came to October 15th, which was the scheduled exam day.
The registration deadline has been closed five days in advance. Because of the rush, there are not many people coming this year. Mainly candidates from Nanzhili and Jiangxi and Zhejiang came, and some from Shandong, Henan, Huguang, and very few from further away.
Come and sign up.
However, there is nothing fair or unfair about this kind of thing. It is the nature of Enke. Previously, Zhu Shuren deposed three to four hundred scholars in Nanzhili and Jiangxi and Zhejiang. The conflicts in these places were also the most serious.
Now it's like giving him a sap first and then giving him a sweet date, giving him both kindness and power.
This situation will only occur in the first year. From now on, there will be no problem of information asymmetry, and all provinces will be fair.
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Early in the morning on the day of the exam, just after dawn, there was a long queue at the gate of the Jiangnan Gongyuan of the Confucius Temple by the Qinhuai River.
The court did not bother with the location of the examination room. It was still the same as the old-style imperial examination. Many of the candidates had participated in the old-style imperial examination and were quite familiar with the routines and did not feel any discomfort.
It’s just that the queue at the entrance of the Confucius Temple was divided into several areas, arranged in categories to check the identity of the candidates. There was also a sign in front of each team, which read "Juren Area", "Supervisor Area", and "Xiucai Area" respectively.
Candidates with reference status can enjoy different treatments.
It feels like the check-in lanes of later generations of airports. There are express lanes for business class seats, ordinary lanes, and those for group tours. There are only a few people queuing up in the "juren area", a few times more in the "supervising students area", and in the "xiucai area"
"District" was packed with people.
An examinee in his twenties was standing in the queue in the examination area. He glanced back and forth and saw that there were not many people there. He couldn't help but feel a little happy and felt that he had come to the right place.
There was an examinee who looked older than him in line in front of him. He looked like he was in his thirties or forties, so he curiously approached him:
"I wonder where my brother is from? I am Li Guangdi in Quanzhou. Looking at the Spring and Autumn Period, my brother must have passed the exam for many years. Why don't you wait for the vacancy and come here to take the exam?"
The middle-aged candidate turned his head and glanced at him sideways, and said with an expressionless expression: "My Lord Zhou Pei of Jiangling, why should Li Xiandi ask questions knowingly? Those who can be ranked in the waiting area for candidates are naturally already famous. Why would I?"
I'm here for the same reason as you."
When Li Guangdi heard this, he couldn't help but smile with a bit of embarrassment and self-deprecation: "Isn't it true that after winning the national examination, it has been too late to take the national examination, so I came here to try my luck more.
Although after graduating from Nanjing University, you will still be at the Juren level, but after all, there are already many candidates for the Civil Service Examination, and there are unprecedented candidates for the Civil Service Examination, so who doesn’t want to give it a try."
After saying that, Li Guangdi and Zhou Peigong looked at each other and smiled knowingly, as if they were proud of changing lanes to overtake another car.
It turns out that these two people were the Ming's lackeys in the Kangxi Dynasty in parallel time and space, but now they also came to the Ming Dynasty court to seek fame.
But there is nothing that can be done. After all, history has been changed for decades. Zhu Shuren will definitely use more and more people from the Qing Dynasty in the future. Especially those who have never been officials in the Ming Dynasty in history, as long as
It will only become more and more common for those who have some ability to become an official. As time goes by, those who have never been an official may instead be mediocre people with unknown status.
At this moment, what these people are thinking is, "Even if there are already candidates for civil examinations, if there are more candidates for civil examinations, maybe the candidates can be admitted faster. It will be more convenient than continuing to take the Jinshi examination in liberal arts. At least try to find more ways."
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After Li Guangdi and Zhou Peigong exchanged greetings, they both inquired about each other's mathematical skills. When Zhou Peigong asked about each other's arithmetic skills, Li Guangdi was not modest at all:
"My younger brother is good at simple numbers and has dabbled in traditional simple arithmetic. However, I really don't understand the geometry and mechanical calculations listed in the inspection program I saw last month, so I just temporarily bought a copy of Mr. Fang's "
Physics" I crammed for a while."
When Zhou Peigong heard this, his expression darkened slightly, but he quickly returned to normal: "Then you are better than me. I am a cantilever and a cone thorn in the past two months, and all I have to do is sharpen my gun before the battle. I just bet that no one is prepared for this first subject, dwarf
You are taller than me. Brother Li Xian, you have a good foundation in Yishu. You must be in high school this time."
Li Guangdi felt a little proud in his heart, but he couldn't show it. He just comforted him with words: "Hey, it's useless to gain it in one moment. There is no predecessor in learning, and those who master it come first."
The Nanjing University recruitment examination is no different from the general examination. After passing the general examination, even if you no longer study in this life and become a degenerate, you still have to be promoted to an official. If you pass the scientific examination, you still have to enroll in school and study hard for three to five days.
If I just neglect my studies in this year, I will fail the exam in the future, and it will still be useless?
I have heard that the entrance exam for this mathematics subject is still based on ranking. No matter how low the score is, as long as you are in the top 300, you can enter. But the final exam after studying hard in the next few years will depend on the score.
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If you cannot reach 60% of the score, you will not be able to graduate even if you have studied for enough years. If you cannot reach 70% of the score, even if you barely graduate, you will not be able to get a practical position, and you may have to go to the Academy of Sciences for an internship."
Hearing this, Zhou Peigong nodded subconsciously: "I've also heard that it's not just a matter of passing the current exam, it will depend on how well you do in mathematics a few years later. But since graduation does not stipulate how many people will be dismissed, only
Looking at the score, maybe it's just a trick from above.
It's like after the general examination, there is no final test. There is also the palace examination, but who will depose people in the palace examination? It's just for the emperor's disciples."
Zhou Peigong speculated based on old practices, and felt that the relationship between the future graduation examination of Nanda and the current entrance examination is nothing more than the same relationship as the imperial examination and the examination of the Ministry of Rites. It must be "strict entry and easy exit", and subsequent graduations are just a trick of the emperor to show favor.
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A large group of people completed the inspection in a hurry and finally entered the Gongyuan to take the exam.
Throughout the whole process, Li Guangdi still felt some extra respect and convenience, which surprised him.
For example, when the candidates entered the venue, their identities were only verified, but they were not strictly searched, and there was no humiliation or politeness.
Just now, he saw that some candidates were not at ease, so he questioned the searcher about this.
It was obviously because the questioner was timid and there was absolutely no involvement. And it seemed that the inspector did not even search the person carefully. If other colleagues brought cheat sheets, wouldn't honest people like them suffer a loss?
If you can overwhelm the examiner, even if you just find a few cheat sheets, remove them from their academic titles, and revoke their examination qualifications, then wouldn't you be able to get rid of two more competitors and not have so many test papers?
The zero-sum game of career competition has always looked like this.
However, the examiner responded directly to the questioning candidates with great disdain: "The imperial court is considerate of the gentlemen and does not allow strip searches. What are you waiting for? This is the imperial government's virtue! You think this is a test of eight-part essays! A test of arithmetic
, so what if physics asks you to copy a few formulas? If you don’t know how to calculate, you just don’t know how to calculate!”
This matter was quickly settled. Everyone entered the venue, made some preparations, and started handing out papers and answering questions.
The content of the exam is also relatively fast. The science part is all done on the first day. Mathematics is tested in the morning, and the most basic physical calculations and some natural history and chemistry knowledge are tested in the afternoon.
Li Guangdi carefully looked at the examination scope of the paper, which was also covered by the popular science books published by the imperial court through the Ming Academy of Sciences in the past few years. There was no sneak attack with obscure knowledge, so it is suitable for candidates who usually have the intention to read some miscellaneous books of the Academy of Sciences.
To put it simply, it was like picking up a bargain out of thin air, as their interests and hobbies happened to coincide with the assessment content.
Everyone did their best and did as much as they could. If they couldn't do it, they didn't think too much about it. They felt that most of the other candidates couldn't do it either.
Generally speaking, the paper this time is still very simple. As for the latest mathematical results such as calculus, of course they will not be used to test candidates. It is too difficult, and few people in the entire Ming Dynasty can do it.
The content of calculus is something that candidates need to learn in the following years after they are admitted to Nanjing University. Even "derivatives" and the algebra and geometry content that many high school students in later generations learn are now only learned in universities.
In other words, if a future time traveler were to take the test of these two papers, he would find that the mathematical knowledge in them is at most the level of the first to second grade of junior high school. It is nothing more than replacing the X/Y of the multivariate equations.
It became A, B, C and D, reducing the amount of Western characters used.
As for the physics exam, it basically consists of calculations of uniform speeds based on Newton's three laws, calculations of various basic geometric applications of mass and volume density of objects, and geometric calculations of optics.
Thermal and electrical parts of other junior high school physics in later generations are not assessed at all now. Instead, there are some picture reading questions in biological natural history and common sense of chemical phenomena.
The last question in the physics paper or the science paper is the ultimate question that separates the top students from the bad students. It just tells you the gravitational force and orbital distance between certain planets, allowing you to calculate how long the orbit will last.
Calculate the centrifugal force/centripetal force required to move, and then calculate the linear speed and revolution period of the orbital motion.
In later generations, anyone who has the ability to answer physics questions at a passing level in the high school entrance examination will be able to pass the exam in the Ming Dynasty.
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The exam day ended soon. Li Guangdi, Zhou Peigong and others had mixed feelings.
Li Guangdi felt that he did well in the exam, but Zhou Peigong obviously didn't do well in the battle. There were big questions in mathematics and physics at the end and he couldn't hold back a formula at all, so he could only write down a solution.
A large group of candidates were hanging out in the city of Nanjing to answer questions. Some pretended to be ostriches and just wanted to wait for their results and did not dare to answer questions at all. They just indulged themselves in drunkenness and dreams on the Qinhuai River.
It is said that in those days, the best way to offend a scholar was to see a scholar on the Qinhuai River hugging him from one side to the other but still looking worried, and then go up to him and give him the standard answers for this year's exam paper.
Then the other party will usually get angry and pick up an ink stone or a wine bottle and hit them, and then cover their ears with their sleeves to stop listening.
After half a month of torture, on October 30th, the imperial court finally released the results. The list of all 300 candidates admitted to the first class was posted at the gate of Gongyuan.
Some candidates who are confident about their results will naturally come to watch the results in person, but those who are self-aware will not humiliate themselves and continue to get drunk on the Qinhuai River, hoping for a miracle and someone to come to announce the good news.
After looking at the posted list, the candidates still felt a little surprised and different: for the mathematics exam, not only the rankings were posted, but also the candidates' arithmetic scores were written in great detail behind each person's name.
, the scores for each of the two physics subjects, and the total score added together.
You know, in the traditional liberal arts examinations, there are no points given, so they are ranked directly. But no one knows why who is ranked in the front and who is in the back.
Literary writing is not the first, and martial arts is not the second. When it comes to evaluating the quality of an article, there are often no clear standards.
But the science and engineering exams are completely different. They are all objective questions. There is no suspense about correct or incorrect answers. Points are given according to the process steps, so there is no easy ambiguity.
Therefore, from the first to the 300th place on the list, the specific score of each person is clear at a glance. Because there must be people with the same score, so when you encounter someone with the same score, you can even directly write down the "tied number", clearly
Clearly.
Li Guangdi and Zhou Peigong also met to see the rankings that day. Li Guangdi was lucky enough to find that he had a total score of 148, ranking 53rd. He usually had some skills in arithmetic, and arithmetic helped him improve some scores. Unfortunately, physics was only average and a temporary supplement.
It's only above average. It seems that he can rank in the 30s and 40s in mathematics, but he is only outside the 80th in physics, and the average is over 50.
Zhou Peigong was very miserable. He was actually ranked 264th. And when he looked carefully, he found that there were more than 20 people tied for 264th place, because these 20 people all scored exactly 200 points.
The total score of the paper is only 116. If it falls to 115 by one less point, it will only be tied for 280 or so.
At the end of the list, the actual number of admitted people exceeded 300, reaching 309. Just because starting from the 297th place, there were 13 people with the same score of 112 points, all tied, so in the end we had to put these people
Thirteen people were admitted, so nine were over-admitted.
Many candidates couldn't help but gasped after seeing this formation.
This exam is too rigorous. The cutoffs and scores of each applicant are publicly announced. It is many times more accurate than the old Eight-part Examination. Those who lose can only be convinced.
In the normal imperial examinations in previous years, it was said that 300 people would be selected, and 300 people would be selected. The article would definitely tell the difference, but if it reaches 301, it would be a loss of reputation. How could there be a situation where everyone with the same score would win.
And soon, as the news of admission based on accurate scores spread, many people secretly complained. Some people tried to inquire about the process of generating scores and wanted to see the review of the papers, but they were dissatisfied with the scores.
Some people also found that since the use of objective numbers to determine scores, there seems to be no care for the north and south rankings, as well as care for special regions. The geographical structure of the imperial court's examination seems to be very unreasonable.
Some people think of Zhu Yuanzhang's north-south division in his early years, and the later east-west division, and fantasize about making a fuss and fighting for rights for their hometown.
There were over a hundred people of all kinds, with various interests in mind, and they all began to take action.
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