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Chapter 788: Reform of the Imperial Examination System

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    The political structure of the Longwu court was a dual system consisting of the cabinet under the conventional system and the general's office under the temporary war system. On the surface, the cabinet was in charge of the government and the office was in charge of the army.  But no one is blind, and they can tell at a glance that the war is the priority right now, and naturally the cabinet will be affected.  Moreover, the salary, money and food needed for the daily administrative affairs of the palace and the court are all allocated to the inner government and the cabinet.  In one hand are the handles of guns and knives, in the other are money bags and rice bags. By the way, the carriage also holds the black gauze hats of all the civil and military officials of the dynasty. Which end is heavier and which is lighter, and which way to go, you can tell at a glance.  However, in recent days, cabinet officials have also been busy working.  Without him, Longwu Enke is about to open.  This is a major national event!  All the adults are well-educated people who came from the right academic background, and there is such a good opportunity to earn face and make money to recruit students. How can you not rush to be the first? The examiner was taken over by the chief assistant Huang Daozhou without hesitation.  , the remaining examiners are also the objects of competition among the six ministers, ministers, ministers of Dali Temple, Shaoqing, and the left and right censors of the Yushitai.  Once the organizational structure is determined, the next step is to clarify the scope of the exam, the format, and the questions.  Theoretically, all the 63 provinces in the south, north and south of the world can take the exam.  However, this cannot be realized in the first place.  Not to mention that everything north of the Yangtze River was occupied, but the south of the Yangtze River was also where the Ming and Qing families fought back and forth and fought over each other.  Should the leaders of these occupied areas be allowed to participate in this encore?  In addition, the cabinet here is still discussing the scope of the examination, and there is word from the office over there that students from schools in various places in Nanyang, including Nanyang, Luzon, etc., are also eligible to participate in Enko.  This is a hornet's nest.  The officials of the cabinet were indignant and said, "The candidates in each province have lived in poverty for ten years, and they have been grinding with iron inkstones to achieve this title. The students from all over the South Middle School have only learned some accounting, and can barely read.  How come you dare to come and take the imperial examination even though you are writing a letter for me?¡± He was slanderous, but he didn¡¯t dare to say anything.  Huang Shoufu, on the other hand, twirled his beard and nodded and said, "The general did this for the sake of the dignity of the country." He knew very well that if it was carried out as it was in the autumn of previous years, I'm afraid not many people would be able to attend this encore.  , the reason is very simple, there are too many missing places.  The Ming Dynasty did not cede territory or make peace with each other. Over the years, the Ming Dynasty could not reach Shanhaiguan in the east, Jiayuguan in the west, and the Ming Dynasty could not go beyond the Great Wall. Only then did the emperor guard the country.  (By the way, if we really follow the revolutionary forefathers¡¯ theory of the founding of the country with eighteen provinces, let alone the large plate of chicken and mutton skewers, it¡¯s impossible to go to the snowy plateau to purify your soul. If you want to eat beef ramen, you probably have to apply for a passport.)  If you select candidates for the country, it also marks the legitimacy of your regime and allows everyone in the world to recognize you as the official status of the imperial examination. When it was held grandly, only three or two kittens came. This is not a slap in the face.  Face, this is a slap in the face with a cloning cannon!  Therefore, Huang Daozhou greatly appreciated Li Shouhan's ordering people who had received school education from all over Nanzhong to participate in the Longwu Enke examination.  Therefore, according to the standards of the gentlemen of Kejia Zhengtu, those Nan Middle School students who not only have no fame, but are not even admitted to school, and who at most know how to read, all have the status of being elected.  ?This is something that people who come from a straight background in Kejia cannot tolerate in any case.  After some deliberation, they came up with a response plan.  On the grounds that the Jiangnan Rural Examination had not been reported due to the fall of Nanjing, an official document was sent to Xingyuan, asking for instructions to hold the Jiangnan Rural Examination before Enke.  In this way, those scholars who originally did not have the status of being a scholar can also take the Longwu Enke exam in a grand manner after taking the provincial examination and obtaining the status of a scholar. If they are lucky, their status can be changed from the scholars they were before to the same Jinshi or Jinshi.  , completed the triple jump of identity change!  "Sir! Sir!" In front of the door of Huang Daozhou's custody room, several cabinet officials ran in excitedly.  "Good thing! Good thing!" "What makes you so rude?!" Although Huang Daozhou is not the kind of Taoist gentleman who is unsmiling, he pays attention to his behavior and appearance on weekdays. People like him, deep down in their hearts, always care about Xie An  As a role model to learn from, even if news came from the front line that the army had recaptured Nanjing, he would be ready to say something like "Pack your things and prepare to return to Nanjing" like Xie An said, "A young man is a big thief".  But now that the subordinates in front of him were so rude, it made him feel a little unhappy.  "The general Xingyuan sent back an official document. The commander-in-chief has approved the regulations that the rural examination will be held first and then the encore. He ordered it to be notified to all provinces and asked them to handle it accordingly."  Scholars, let me wait for the statistics to tell you how many people have participated in Enke. They are going to plan money and provide subsidies. The student asked about the person coming, where is the branch?According to the general's wishes, I am going to give him three meals a day, two meat and one vegetarian dishes, and an allowance based on the standards of an ordinary single room.  In addition, if the candidates are ill during the examination period, they will be paid one silver dollar for soup and medicine.  " "There is one more thing to report to the Chief Assistant. The General Xingyuan ordered Fuzhou Prefecture to renovate the existing Gongyuan and renovate the examination shed.  The kind of examination booth where it rains heavily outside and it rains lightly inside, and you can't stretch your legs when you go in, or stretch your waist when you sit down, must not appear in this imperial examination.  For the shortfall, temples, ancestral halls, and even military camps inside and outside the city can be requisitioned as examination rooms.  " This series of good news immediately dispelled Huang Daozhou's dissatisfaction with these officials, and was replaced by a burst of joy. After all, it is the foundation of a scholar! This is the case when he hears about respecting scholars and respecting teachers.  Joy, "Although Jueshuai was born as a warrior and his style of conduct is rough, he is unambiguous in promoting the king's behavior and respecting his teachers.  Let's not talk about anything else. Just take a look. They are renovating the examination tent one by one, arranging food and accommodation for the candidates and providing medicine and bait.  These things make me remember them deeply and empathize with them!  " "Exactly!  In fact, the commander-in-chief is, as Mr. Wang said, a person who promotes the transformation of kings. In these short twenty years, he has turned a barbaric and savage land into a place where books can be heard.  In various places under the rule of the general, the rate of children who are literate and educated is much higher than that in Jiangnan.  It's a pity that it is a bit vulgar and does not read the true meaning of the scriptures.  " "It doesn't matter. When the war is calmed down, we must help each other to bring order to the chaos."  " After a group of people began to look forward to Enke enthusiastically, a large number of scholars became farmers and went to the Emperor's Hall in the morning and evening, and continued the past, creating a grand situation of ZTE. However, as the saying goes, too much strength is easy to break, too much prosperity is difficult to maintain.  Just as I was enjoying a cup of tea, a cabinet official who was on duty today hurried in. ¡°Sir, the Marshal¡¯s approval for the Enke exam has come down!  "    "oh!  It must have been a big drawing of the word "quasi".  "Several officials who were quite disdainful of Li Shouhan, a powerful nobleman with a martial arts background, joked. In their opinion, Li Shouhan's bad handwriting and rude language were at best useless.  Just put the word "accurate" on the report and the word "appropriate". What else can you say? "The commander-in-chief must have given more encouragement because he valued Enke so much.  We must keep it in mind when we live well and keep it in mind when doing things.  "The officials each speculated on the content of Li Shouhan's comments on the submission, but their eyes fell on the face of the colleague on duty, trying to analyze something from his expression. "Naturally, the commander-in-chief will not say anything else.  of.  However, there are people with bad intentions around him!  This generation has a deep prejudice against me, a scholar, and holds a grudge against me. They always make things difficult for us.  " Naturally, the official document had to be read by Huang Daozhou first. The official on duty told his colleagues quite angrily about the approval of the official document. As everyone listened, they watched the change in the expression on the face of the chief minister, and saw the expression on Huang Daozhou's face.  Gradually, he became serious and shouted in his heart that something was wrong. I was afraid that some of the articles in this reply went against the wishes of the Chief Minister.  Well, he was sandwiched between the chief minister of the cabinet and the general Liang Guogong. "But the general has new intentions for Enke?  "In order to clear himself, he very cautiously changed the more respectful and affectionate title of Jueshuai to the impartial title of general. "That's not what Jueshuai meant.  "Zhuang Daozhou let out a long breath. He tried hard to calm down, "The commander is good at military affairs, and he doesn't know much about many matters related to the imperial examination. This," he raised a few pieces of paper in his hand that were printed with the general's official documents.  On the red-headed paper, there was indeed a large mark of approval written in cinnabar, and there was also a line of small words, "Please ask Mr. Zhou, the Chief Assistant of the Cabinet, to work with all colleagues to handle this.  " "It must have been the work of someone from the shogunate.  " Li Shouhan's official office belongs to a black yamen with no quota, no budget, and no grade regulations. Of course, in the eyes of the princes in the court, this is a private consulting agency affiliated with Li Shouhan, and there are many around them.  Qian Liangxing is a copywriter. No one would have thought that this official office is like the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, which belongs to an organization with huge power. (Fourth Master: Are you kidding me? You used the military aircraft department that I built with my own hands to transform it.  It has become a bullshit official office, and it is used to fight against that person who dares to stand up to the emperor, dares to reject the emperor's decree at every turn, and the cabinet does not agree. The emperor's imperial decree is just the papyrus to wipe the butt. Oh, that's not right. It seems that the emperor is wiping the butt now.  The papyrus is also very valuable. It can easily make the emperor fall into the water or die from a cold?)Several officials hurriedly took over the regulations on the organizational form and content of the Enke imperial examination proposed by the official office, and read them at a glance.  The first part is in the form of imperial examination.  The original three consecutive exams in five days and four nights was changed to three exams in three days.  There is also a two-day break in between so that candidates can recover and adjust themselves.  These officials have been in the examination room for a long time, fighting all the way through the pen, ink and paper, and gaining fame in the pen array with the pen, desk and inkstone in their hands.  They knew the pain of the imperial examination very well.  The first session of the imperial examination is a test on classics and meanings. The examination time is not too extreme, it is only three days and two nights.  This seems to be much more torturous than the current college entrance examination.  Those who have traveled to Nanjing and visited Gongyuan can imagine how it feels to stay in that kind of examination room for three days and two nights, not to mention racking your brains to come up with an essay.  Students who have been detained at a police station should be familiar with this feeling.  Think about it, you prepare to enter the exam hall early on the first day, and then stay in the exam room for three days and two nights, eating, drinking, and having sex.  Note that the examination is in the second month of the lunar calendar. Whether it is Jiangnan or the capital, it seems uncomfortable to spend the night in a cowshed as big as a doghouse during this season.  Candidates in the south of the Yangtze River are facing the pattering of early spring rain outside, while those in the capital are facing the physical fitness test of the cold northwest wind in late spring. This is sour and refreshing. Therefore, there are often people who fail in the imperial examination. Every ten years  A few of them are not unusual.  It is more likely that physical exhaustion and mental stress lead to collapse. There are also many people who are so-called crazy.     Why!  The inspector said, isn't it just an exam?  It¡¯s not a physical exam, or is it three days and two nights, and you¡¯re still exhausted?  Reader, don't try to be a hero. It's not too late for you to tell me the content and questions of this exam slowly.  The content of the first Jingyi test is to give you seven questions on the meaning of the scripture. You have to write seven essays in succession to explain the meaning of the scripture in the form of eight-legged essay. After writing the seven articles, it is almost tens of thousands of words. Plus the draft, the workload is your own.  repair.  Moreover, the paper requirements for the imperial examination are very high. If you follow the standards of the college entrance examination, you will fail!  The font requirement is "Taige style".  Not only are the writing requirements very high, the fonts are required to be the same size, and the ink is also required.  The words written are required to be dark and smooth.  Later, there were even more standard requirements called "black, big, light, and round".  Speaking of which, this pavilion still cannot avoid Zhu Chongba and his father.  Taige, originally refers to Shangshu (an official who assisted the emperor in handling government affairs in ancient times).  Because the Chancellor's Desk was located in the palace building, it was called this, and later it was extended to the official name.  As the name suggests, Taige style is a special font used for official writing.  Due to personal preferences, Chong Bage and his son both vigorously promoted calligraphy, and calligraphy flourished for a while.  Zhu Laosi even issued an edict to invite people who were good at calligraphy in the country to gather in the Hanlin Academy and give him double favor.  In the Ming Dynasty, when selecting scholars for the opening of subjects, all answers to the examination papers were written in regular script to ensure neatness.  Those who write poorly will lose their reputation even if they are full of knowledge.  Not only will he fail, but the paper will also be hung up for public viewing so that everyone can take a good look at the negative teaching materials.  This had a great influence on the style of calligraphy art at that time.  Therefore, when scholars write, they only want to be upright and respectful, horizontally and vertically, neatly, and write like woodblock printing. This formed the Taige calligraphy style of the Ming Dynasty, which is called "Taige style".  So!  For those who have traveled through time and space with a bad calligraphy to gain a career in the imperial examination or to be amazed by some big shot, I advise you to give up this idea!  You were expelled from the calligraphy hobby class for your bad calligraphy. You probably can't even make a living by writing letters on the streets, but you still want to take the imperial examination?  wake up!  Dear readers, think about it carefully. In three days and two nights, you must first conceive seven articles, and then use the same font to write an article of at least more than 10,000 words. For such a talent, I suggest you not take the imperial examination.  When you reach the starting point of coding, you are definitely at the level of a master.  This is the format, title, and question volume, let¡¯s talk about other things.  Well, for example, the scope of the exam.  (Knock on the blackboard! This paragraph is very important!) Although the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was divided into three sessions, only the first session was really valued; the questions in the first session were 4 questions on the meaning of the classics + 3 questions on the meaning of the four books.  The so-called "Ben Jing" means that each candidate must determine one of the Five Classics as his specialization direction from the "Book of Songs", "Shang Shu", "Book of Rites", "Book of Changes", and "Spring and Autumn" when registering, and write 4 or more articles during the exam.  Sentences extracted from this classic are articles on the meaning of the classics; the Four Books of Meaning are three questions from the four so-called "New Confucian" classics: The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, The Doctrine of the Mean, and The Great Learning.  That is to say, the examiner has to prepare a total of 4*5+3=23 questions for each exam, and each candidate actually answers 7 questions.  How about it, do you already have a headache?  These are the characteristics of the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty.  It has an imperial examination system that emphasizes the characteristics of Bago.  The imperial examination began in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and became formalized in the Song Dynasty.  Although the Tang and Song dynasties also examined the meaning of the classics, they also regarded the meaning of the classics as an important content. For example, Wen Tianxiang wrote "A Classic of Hard Sufferings" in Crossing the Lingding Ocean.This is the inner monologue of this Wen Zhuangyuan.  But the method of assessing the meaning of the scriptures is very simple, that is, pasting the scriptures (filling in the blanks) and ink meanings (writing silently). How about it? Do you immediately feel that you have hope?  After Wang Anshi¡¯s reforms in the Northern Song Dynasty, he abolished poetry and Fu, and then focused on policy and prose.  When it comes to Chongba Ge, we will focus on assessing the meaning of the scriptures.  If you can withstand the test and deal with the seven questions selected from this book and the four books calmly, the next two games will be much easier.  Especially in the third scene, as long as you don't say that Zhu Yuanzhang was a rebel and that Zhu Di was not right in his position, then it's all over.  Just wait to become a Jinshi or a fellow Jinshi!  However, this charter, which makes people feel deviant and treacherous, or the proposal to reform the college entrance examination system, under the guise of frequent wars and the reform of the ancient system, openly requires major surgery on the form and content of the examination.  In addition to shortening the time, the difficulty also needs to be reduced to an outrageous level.  For example, restoring the meaning of scriptures to the Song Dynasty¡¯s Tie Jing (fill in the blanks) and Mo Yi (dictating).  Moreover, Cewen's status will be greatly improved.  "This is a big matter, involving the future of thousands of scholars in the world. I want to go to the palace, meet the commander, and tell him something!" Huang Daozhou knew that he couldn't do it, so he ordered someone to prepare a sedan chair.  .  "If the meaning of the scriptures is changed to the meaning of the scriptures and the ink meaning, then can the few incompetent brothers and nephews in my family also gain fame?" Looking at the sedan chairs and ceremonial guards going away in the zodiac, some officials couldn't help but feel in their hearts.  joy.
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