Even if it is the Shangyuan Festival, but because the scientific examination is tomorrow, the heads of the departments of the school, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of the Imperial Department are not idle. In recent years, the court of the Great Sui Dynasty attached great importance to education, and successively built four palaces of higher learning in Yecheng, Zhuojun, Taiyuan, and Daxing, and also established township schools, county schools, and county schools in the local area.

Children in the township school only need to learn the basic knowledge of "Analects", "Thousand Character Text", "Three Character Classic" and so on, as long as they recognize all the words on the "Thousand Character Text" and "Three Character Classic", as well as calculate the addition and subtraction within 100, they can after all, and then enter the county school to receive formal education. Although it is difficult for students from here to appear with outstanding wisdom and dominating the world, they can do practical things, can perfect the decrees issued by the imperial court, and can explain the imperial decrees to the parents of their hometowns and educate the children of their hometowns.

A higher level of county school, the same is unlikely to appear demonic talents, but can cultivate law, arithmetic, medicine, engineering and other fields of talent, take arithmetic as an example, the county school teaches basic operations and applications, but to the county school, to learn more deeply, into all walks of life, such as how craftsmen can do more efficient, such as how many bricks a house needs to be roughly how many bricks, etc., barely regarded as cultivating elite learning, but also the core force to promote the future of Dasui science and technology. Although they are not like Yang Gongren, Wei Yunqi, Yang Shanhui, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other auxiliary talents, they are low-level officials who cannot be needed to run the world, if there are no people at the bottom, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui are helpless no matter how powerful they are. Therefore, the ability of this kind of person may not be outstanding, but it is the cornerstone of the imperial court's management of the world, as long as these people graduate in batches, the imperial court can choose the best.

As for the final Four University Palaces, which are equivalent to the universities of later generations, they are the schools for the further study of the top students of the county school, and the students who have graduated can not only participate in the scientific examination, but also stay in the school for research, and can also go to the school to serve as a teacher of the county school, the county school, and the township school.

Of course, Yang Tong has very few things in his hands to educate students now, so many subjects in the county school are envisaged; For example, in engineering, if you ask a craftsman to build a farm tool or a weapon, he can easily help you get it, but when you ask him to say a ugly man, he will tell you, 'That's it's this,' 'That's how everybody does this', and then you ask him why everyone is doing this? He reluctantly answered; When he asked why the hundred-zhang-high Qianyang Hall was erected and why the things that were so heavy did not fall down from time to time, he was dumbfounded. Therefore, the fundamental problem is the lack of teaching materials; The same is true for arithmetic, when Yang Tong participated in the college entrance examination, he could score more than 20 points on 150 points in mathematics, and if you asked him to write mathematics textbooks, it would be better to let him cut people.

The only thing he remembers now is addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and there are also several types of graph area and volume calculation formulas, these kinds of graph formulas have been taken to the Great Sui, and they have been shocked by the elites of the times, you let Fang Xuanling and them write more advanced mathematics textbooks, is it possible?

There is also gunpowder, Yang Tong wants to make it, but the problem is that in his previous life, he lived in an era when he couldn't even hold a knife, and he didn't want to engage in terror/attack, so how could he have the leisure to study the gunpowder formula? If you ask him, it is better to ask the alchemy Taoist priests of the Sui Dynasty.

All in all, if the Great Sui wants to bloom in a hundred schools, the key lies in the teaching materials, and only by solving this root cause can science and technology slowly sprout. For the students, I will learn whatever you ask me to learn, and few of them take the initiative to create.

And this time the scientific expedition!

For the candidates, it is an unexpected surprise, although the imperial court has advanced the exam time, but the exam is still valid after two months, that is to say, this time you are not in the subject, you can also participate in the exam two months later, if you can't pass the exam twice, it is your own level is not as good as others.

The emperor ordered Liu Xuan, Kong Yingda, and Wei Zheng to serve as the chief examiner of the Luoyang examination center, and even said that he would enter the Luoyang Academy to observe the big exam, and attached great importance to this sudden attack on the examination.

After the correction is completed, it will be sealed, and the number on the copy will be completed by the school, the Ministry of Rites, the Royal Department, and the Ministry of Officials will be completed together by the school, the Ministry of Rites, the Royal Department, and the Ministry of Officials, so as to ensure fairness to the greatest extent!

Among the questions in the exam, scripture interpretation, arithmetic and policy theory account for a large proportion, but poetry and literature are not paid much attention. In previous years, the most common complaint of candidates was that the answers were not uniform, and there may be thousands of interpretations of the same volume of scriptures.

Qin Shi Huang burned books to pit Confucianism, resulting in the incompleteness of the pre-Qin classics, although many great Confucians in the Han Dynasty were studied and sorted, but there were a lot of deficiencies in the content, all of which were completed by later generations. After the two Han Dynasty, the war continued to the Great Sui, the correct interpretation of the classics was lost more and more, and there were more and more erroneous interpretations, taking the Four Books and Five Classics as an example, and now thousands of commentaries have been derived, because of this, Kong Yingda planned to gather the great Confucians of the world to compile the "Four Books and Five Classics of Justice".

Liu Xuan, Kong Yingda, Wei Zheng and others are all well-educated people, especially Kong Yingda's family history, which is closest to orthodoxy, and it is most suitable for him to preside over the revision, this is a Confucian event that will be passed down to future generations, and no literati can withstand this temptation.

The expedition was held in an orderly manner.

On the day of the exam, the candidates passed through layers of inspections and entered the Luoyang School Palace. These candidates entered the examination room early in the morning and retired at dusk. If the candidate has not submitted the paper by the specified time, he or she is allowed to burn a candle provided by the imperial court, and if the candle is burned out, he must hand in the paper, otherwise he will be deemed to have abandoned the exam.

In the past few days, Yang Tong will go to the Luoyang School Palace to inspect, and every day he sees more than 1,000 candidates entering the examination room, and when he hears the officials calling his surname, he enters the examination room. At the time of entry, the sky was still a little dark, like a long queue moving into the examination room. These candidates are all dressed in white, and they have a sense of immediacy that the white clothes are better than the snow, which makes Yang Tong quite a feeling of "the world's talents return to the Great Sui".

The Luoyang test center candidates who came out of the thousands of troops and horses, a total of 128 people were admitted, and the top 30 were brought into the palace by Kong Yingda to take the public palace test, Yang Tong had only done it once before, and the rest of the time was fighting outside, missing the time of the palace test, this time 'Enke' happened to be held when he was free, and he was also free to meet these pillars, so he arranged for these thirty people to meet in the Luocheng Palace in the west city, and the place of the palace test was also here.

The students learned the basic etiquette from the officials of the Ministry of Rites before they came, and when they faced Yang Dong, although they were sweating, the etiquette did not fall, and they got up tremblingly under Yang Tong's order.

They were all ordinary people before, even if their careers were promising, but their mentality was still the same, and when they saw the emperor who was close to the commoners, many of them were trembling with excitement, and various thoughts were swirling in their minds, but they didn't seem to be able to talk about it.

Yang Tong saw it in his eyes, so he said with a pleasant face: "Kaike is to seek talents for the country, you are a fierce general from thousands of troops, and your talent in your chest is naturally extraordinary." If I am satisfied with my performance in the temple examination, I can immediately confer a position. The theme is from the "Song of the Five Sons" "The people are the state, the people are the state, the country is solid", and you can write an essay based on this topic. Kong Shangshu, send the exam papers to everyone. ”

Kong Yingda had already transcribed the test questions, and now he only needs to send them to everyone. As soon as the exam questions arrived, the thirty students couldn't wait to answer them, and for a while, the hall was quiet.

Yang Tong sat for a while, feeling very bored, so he stepped off the throne and paced in front of everyone. Many people saw that the Son of Heaven was on their side, and they were all trembling in fear, and some people couldn't hold the pen steadily, Yang Tong knew that he made them nervous, so he quickened his pace, if he met a more stable person, he would stay for a while, but these people didn't make him feel refreshed.

When it came to the collection of papers, Yang Tong did not rush to comment, but asked: "Do you have any views on the policies of the Great Sui?" As long as you have an idea, you can accept it whether it is right or wrong, and I will never blame it. ”

Inside the main hall, there was an eerie silence.

Kong Yingda coughed, and said with hatred: "What did the Holy Lord ask you about, and you still don't answer?" This is your chance to perform. ”

cold, no one paid attention to him.

Yang Tong was disappointed, these candidates are just like the peasant children who have just entered the city, lack self-confidence, courage, and responsibility, and have the self-protection of silence is gold and do not say anything about it. Pick up the first paper and roll call.

When the candidate heard the emperor call his name, he was dumbfounded for a moment as if he was not prepared at all, and then replied in a panic: "Saint, saint." The grass people didn't have any views on the policies of the Great Sui, they just felt ...... I only feel that the Holy One is a Heavenly Saint who has the common people in mind, and the Holy One's policy of governing the Holy One is naturally good. ”

Yang Tong was even more disappointed, and casually asked, "Which point do you think is good?" What's so good? ”

The man was also hesitant for a while, and he couldn't answer for a long time, and in the cold weather, he was so anxious that he was sweating!

"You're too nervous to answer for a while, I can understand that." Yang Tong said with a smile: "If you have any ideas, you can express them in words, okay?" ”

"Thank you, Holy Lord!" This candidate was granted amnesty.

Yang Tong nodded, so he clicked on the next one, and the people behind him saw that Yang Tong was kind, but they behaved better than the other, although there was nothing good to suggest, but fortunately, they dared to say it, and after asking one by one, Yang Tong sent someone to send them out of the palace.

Kong Yingda sighed: "This year's candidates are really mediocre, there are two or three who can speak well and have clear regulations, but they have nothing to say. ”

Yang Tong looked at the exam papers one by one and shook his head: "After all, the students who come out of the people's families are not enough, because there is a gap in the congenital situation, so their knowledge, confidence, and courage are not as good as the children of the family, and when they encounter things, they are like flies without their heads... You need to hone it from the bottom. ”

This is also one of the reasons why the children of the family are more capable than the Han scholars, with a difference of hundreds of thousands of years, the Han Shi will undoubtedly have to work a hundred times harder to catch up with the children of the family. I don't know when this gap will be bridged, and it will be even more difficult for ordinary people. Fang Xuanling said on the side.

Yang Tong sighed for a while, and said: "We open the department every year, and hire all the powerful people, resulting in the level of the candidates getting worse and worse year by year, there is a sense of exhaustion and fishing, if it is not fundamentally solved, our officials may become the worst dynasty in history." The Four University Palaces must expand the enrollment scale and unify all the outstanding students of the county schools into the Four University Palaces to study, so that they can receive a better education and become real talents. Kong Shangshu, you must take this matter as a top priority. ”

"Whoa!" Kong Yingda bowed down to answer the order.

Yang Tong ordered Fang Xuanling: "Xuanling, you adjust the officials of the northern counties, promote the deputy official to the county order, the county order to the general guard, and the general guard to the county guard, and arrange for the top thirty in each test center to go to each county to be the deputy official." The people who are adjusted out will be used in the court. ”

"Holy!" Fang Xuanling bowed his hand and said, "Weichen thinks he can open Enke again." ”

"At this level, how can you open it? Are you kidding? ”

Fang Xuanling said with a smile. "Holy Lord, we open a department to take taxis, and the taxis are all people under the age of 30, but their family background is quite poor, while studying, they have to earn a living at the same time, and people in this age group have very little time to study. The Enko referred to by Wechen is aimed at people under the age of 50 and over the age of 30. People at this age are definitely better than these people now. ”

Yang Tong rubbed his head and said with a smile: "Yes, I forgot about it." ”

At the beginning, I was afraid that someone would study for the exam, and the rich family would be destitute, but he would not get anything in his life, so Yang Tong's imperial examination set a time limit, and those who exceeded the age of the scientific examination could let go of their unattainable dreams and work hard without family in a down-to-earth manner. In the era of abundant talents, there are indeed benefits, but now there are not so many talents, so Yang Tong's ban has a sense of self-destruction.

"Holy!" Fang Xuanling said again: "The ban on age is good, but it is a little out of place now. Weichen thought that after the unification of the world, the officials in all positions would be gathered, and then this prohibition would be activated. ”

Kong Yingda also said: "The imperial court can't go back on its word and change its orders overnight, so let's open a branch in the way of Enke!" This means that people of all ages can sign up, so that the more people participate, the more choices the imperial court has. ”

"Then we will do it again in the fall, and you will draw up the specific regulations first, and wait until the end of the scientific expedition in February before announcing it."

"Whoa."