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- When Fang Bingsheng sent Qian and Jinyi out, it was already half past six in the evening, and the sky was slightly dark. He saw two rickshaws parked at the door of his neighbor Afu, and two people were standing talking. He hadn't seen who it was yet. Bian has already shouted.
"Master! The food and rice are ready. Ah Hui will bring it to you now? Ah, you have a guest." Lizai's voice came out.
"Oh, Boss Qian of Qilihe has something to ask me for." Fang Bingsheng, who was holding Qian Jinyi's hand and shaking it back and forth, immediately turned his head and shouted. Even if he couldn't see his face clearly in the dark sky, he could still hear the tone in his voice. That kind of joy.
As the name suggests, Qilihe is a place 7 miles away from the city wall. It is the core wealthy area of ??this rapidly developing area, with factories, shops, logistics and the brains of slums sprouting like bamboo shoots. So it is not surprising that Fang Bingsheng specifically mentioned the place name. For him, it was a matter of honor for every poor man in Shiligou to have a friend from Qilihe come to him.
But Qian Jinyi seemed to be really familiar with this place, and he laughed loudly: "You two are neighbors again, you old Zhou family's son? You still care about your master, how kind he is."
"Mr. Qian from the bookstore! Long time no see, come here for a sip of tea." Li Zai also looked overjoyed.
"It's time to go home for dinner. Let me know if your brother wants any tutoring materials or stationery." Qian Jinyi waved his hand and left with his apprentice.
After sending Qian Jinyi away, Fang Bingsheng received his royalties. He was in a good mood and strolled over with his hands behind his back, wanting to chat with Li Zai and the others.
"Isn't this Pastor Wang Qian?" Fang Bingsheng was stunned when he saw the person talking to Zhou Lizai at the door of Zhou's house.
"Yes. Pastor Wang wants me to listen to the evening sermon." Lizai rubbed his hands and laughed.
"Mr. Fang, long time no see. Our church has recently added an evening sermon. Do you want to come and listen to it together?"
Pastor Wang quickly came over to say hello to Fang Bingsheng. He was young and looked to be a few years older than his son Fang Bowen. He was thin and tall, with a long face, a parted hair, glasses, and a tattered cloth robe. Still wearing several patches. He looks like a well-mannered poor student.
This young man also just appeared in Shiligou a few months ago.
He is the new pastor of the local Qiufeng Church. I heard that he is a distant relative of the church manager Wang Xintai. He graduated from Guilin Theological Seminary and has the official qualification as a preacher. A theological student with a professional background. In Fang Bingsheng's eyes, he can be regarded as a cultural person. But logically, you shouldn't come to Li Zai, because Li Zai is a good guy at fighting and gambling, and Shili Gou Yiba can't get enough of him. But he was definitely one of the little hooligans, and I didn¡¯t hear that he was interested in Jesus.
Zhou Lizai jumped over, bowed in front of Fang Bingsheng, and lowered his face to Fang Bingsheng's neck before he said happily: "Master, let's go and see together! Besides, didn't I cook something delicious for the young master? I'm going to call him anyway. My little brother is coming back to eat and replenish his health. Why don't you call us together? You just happen to be teaching them a lesson and inspecting them."
It turns out that the Qiufeng Church also opened an imperial examination cram school called "Feihuang Lingyun Academy", which specially accepted candidates preparing for the imperial examination.
Fang Bingsheng¡¯s son Fang Bowen and Ah Fu¡¯s son Zhou Tianen are both studying there now. Because one of them failed the imperial examination last year, and the other gave up the official position and failed to retake the exam.
The competition in imperial examinations has been fierce since ancient times. Countries in the entire Confucian cultural circle, including China, Japan, North Korea, and Vietnam, all have the tradition of examinations. Candidates work hard to study examination skills, which can push the performance of any examination to the extreme.
The imperial examinations of the Hai Song Dynasty were originally new wine in old bottles. Except in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was no cultural class to stand up for them, which made the emperor so disgraced that he just followed the examinations. Later, as the empire's domineering power was exposed, thousands of troops appeared again. .
Even if the speed of translation lags behind the absorption of knowledge and many subjects have to be tested in a foreign language, it cannot stop a self-taught guy from giving you a perfect score.
Even if you don¡¯t know how to pronounce abc, the English written test will give you full marks.
And the traditional imperial examinations such as those in the Manchu and Qing dynasties were held once every three years. Candidates gathered in the capital to compete for candidate qualifications for national officials. However, the Haisong Dynasty was not that big. It did not have provinces, and the imperial court directly managed the unit: prefecture.
If a provincial governor is appointed, it will be equivalent to the emergence of a separatist regime in the Hai Song Dynasty.
This scale was small. The imperial examinations in the Hai Song Dynasty were equivalent to the provincial examinations held by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in various provinces. The emperor's thinking was very advanced, so it was held once a year.
What makes the whole of China excited the most is: the imperial examination of the Haisong Dynasty, the prize is directly the official vacancy.
The quotas for the Manchu and Qing imperial examinations were divided by region, taking into account population and economy in disguise. For example, maybe Zhejiang will add a few more quotas this year because of the large amount of compensation paid to foreigners.
The Song Dynasty court did not count this at all because it was too barbaric.As the family became stronger and the economy developed, the ghost of Confucius who lingered in the empire began to reappear, competing for position with new ideas. Prostitution, concubines and mistresses, corruption, human trafficking, patriarchal preference, and clan power came back hard. He even began to counterattack in the field of education. For example, newspapers began to advocate the abolition of imported physical education courses; the number of applicants for military academies never increased, leading to a decline in the quality of elites in the military field, and they stubbornly moved towards the democratic elite he was familiar with. The gun looks at the opponent and scares them away without moving in the direction.
The Huangbao also published its own plagiarized headline to find a gunman in an editorial titled "Transcendence to Sainthood¡ªCivilize your spirit, barbarize your body." ¡·Wait, but it¡¯s no use. Your subjects worship you, but they just don¡¯t listen to you and think you are just farting.
In anger, Zhao Kuo yelled again: "Shameless! Then insert the medicine into the feces and see if you take it?!" The palace examination model was changed and the elite candidates were forcibly divided based on their long-distance running and swimming scores. .
Candidates need to run and swim for a distance of five kilometers without a bicycle. Zhao Kuo regrets this: he can no longer be crowned with the title of triathlon.
He believes that those who can get into the top 120 in the country are absolutely cultural elites and have the same IQ. To put it bluntly: It is not a big deal for this kind of person to become the prime minister. It depends on whether he can strengthen his body. This may seem light, but it is actually a change in the culture-the tendency to value civility over martial arts. It is very difficult. I hope to use the imperial examination as an example. Orientation, changing the culture latently.
This matter has the support of most powerful people, because the imperial examination is also very important to their children, but the way the powerful raise their children is better than that of ordinary people precisely in terms of physical fitness: eating well, and all Western-style schools absolutely attach importance to sports.
If this imperial examination system is implemented, then a poor child will study hard every day under the oil lamp. As a Confucian elite from a poor family. If the four limbs are not diligent and the five grains are not distinguished, then you will never be able to become the number one scholar in your life: during the palace examination, let alone running a few meters, you dare to follow. They can knock you off with just one arm.
certainly. The only drawback is that it's too embarrassing. In the minds of everyone, including the rich and powerful, the number one scholar is the kind of white-faced scholar who is elegant and elegant. Now he seems to be a black-haired man who runs extremely fast and swims like flying. Of course, he reaches the finish line. He also held up a large plaque with the words "Civil and Military Perfection" written high, looked around, and shouted "yeah! yeah! yeah!" At that time, the black hair on his chest was wet with sweat.
"However, since it is good for ourselves and the emperor does not think it is embarrassing, of course we must support him; even if he does not think it is embarrassing, because it is good for our son, we must still screw him!
¡°It¡¯s just that I am too elegant and not as rough as the emperor who is so successful and still maintains the spirit of Jintian, so I didn¡¯t think of this good idea.
So some dignitaries took the initiative to write to the emperor: instead of judging rankings based on sports in the palace examination, simply include sports results in the imperial examination subjects. This would be fair to everyone and reduce civil resistance.
"It's a pity that although the emperor is rough, he is also a thief.
He saw through this memorial at a glance, which all the ministers who had seen it excitedly "liked" him. He threw the memorial on the table with disdain, and sneered: "The imperial examination triathlon (his true idea) is a national sensation. It is a major event, with everyone watching and watching like a wall. Even if you run at night, the reporter's lighting medicine can always light up the road. How can you cheat! Full test? Sports can't bring candidates together to take the test. How high is the cost? And if In this way, you guys will get perfect scores in physical education! Next year, "Physical Education Teacher" will become the most fattening vacancy in the Song Dynasty! The goal of the physical education test in the imperial examination has been achieved! You want to play tricks on me? Go ahead and play with it!"
If the powerful don't object, the support for implementation will be small. The common people never need to consider it, but need to be shepherded. The group of people who oppose sports are all remnants of Confucianism. It is precisely those who need shepherding the most, those who know how to shepherd them. He knelt down and whispered in a frightened voice, "Dad, you can't force me."
You¡¯re already on your knees, so what¡¯s the point of dad trying to ¡°strengthen¡± you?
Therefore, this paradox is only ridiculed among the people, and there is not much resistance.
Everyone is still thinking: "My son runs so fast, maybe he got 120th place in WenBi exam but 99th place in WUBi exam! Ha, he earned 21st place in one go!"
The main objection is to the top students who have been close to the goal but just a little short of it in the past few years. They have been physically exhausted from studying in these years. Originally, they were definitely in the top 100 in the essay test, but if they were completely defeated by the score in the palace examination, they would definitely die;
As well as the local imperial examination schools in the Song Dynasty that did not offer sports. As a result, since the new imperial examination was added, the elegant teachers could only gasp and stagger and lead a group of candidates to run along the river, shouting: "God bless the Song Dynasty." , running hit! 1, 2, 3, 4!"
To this end, Emperor Zhao Kuo issued an imperial edict: starting from 1871, the annual imperial examination season will be designated as the Thanksgiving Day of the Song Dynasty.
There was a national holiday for one week on the imperial examination day. One month later, there was a three-day holiday for the imperial examination. During the three days of the imperial examination, the people prayed for their children to become officials. A month later, they came to the capital to watch the 120 most powerful elites in the empire this year, as tired as dogs. They stumbled forward amidst cheers and shouts from the walls of people on both sides.
In social occasions, the emperor said this to the diplomats of the great powers: "Each country has different graces from God: when it opened up America, God gave food, and the United States designated it as Thanksgiving; our people hope that God will favor their children and be able to They serve the country. Therefore, I designate the imperial examination season as our country¡¯s Thanksgiving Day.¡±
Soon, this festival became as important as the Spring Festival. spontaneously by the people. (To be continued)During the three-day holiday for the palace examination and the three-day holiday for the imperial examination, the people prayed for their children to become officials. A month later, they came to the capital to watch the 120 most powerful elites in the empire this year, who were so tired that they staggered like dead dogs amidst the cheers and shouts of the human walls on both sides. Staggering forward.
In social occasions, the emperor said this to the diplomats of the great powers: "Each country has different graces from God: when it opened up America, God gave food, and the United States designated it as Thanksgiving; our people hope that God will favor their children and be able to They serve the country. Therefore, I designate the imperial examination season as our country¡¯s Thanksgiving Day.¡±
Soon, this festival became as important as the Spring Festival. spontaneously by the people. (To be continued) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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