In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the name system was the daily routine of the imperial examination.

If we do not solve the problem of fairness in the imperial examination, how can we advocate scholars to conduct the imperial examination?

Although Chen Zhengtai wanted to change the election system together.

But he knew that this was unrealistic, because if he couldn't be promoted, it would be equivalent to fundamentally solving the problem of the gate valve interfering with the imperial examination, and the resistance was too great.

What's more, Chen Zhengtai alone recommended nine lifters, and he was not clean.

Since this is the case, then simply start in other aspects, such as the name system.

Seeing Li Shimin looking at him with burning eyes, Chen Zhengtai couldn't help but speak.

"Teacher, the vague name system advocated by the students is to abandon the preference of the teacher and the examiner for the candidates, and it does not matter whether the teacher is fair or not, the important thing is that the subjects of the whole world are convinced that the imperial examination mechanism established by the teacher is fair and just, therefore, only an excellent regulation can be convincing."

"When everyone in the world believes that as long as they have talent and learning, they can pass the imperial examination and leap into the dragon gate, the imperial examination does not need to be deliberately advocated by the imperial court, and the talents in the world will naturally flock to it."

When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but be moved.

He glanced at Fang Xuanling, and Fang Xuanling nodded to Li Shimin secretly.

As the chief assistant who connects the previous and the next, Fang Xuanling understands the thoughts of the subjects of the world better than Li Shimin, and the rumors about the injustice of the imperial examination are not unfounded, after all, ...... After all, the examination is difficult to convince, and those who pass the examination are of course convinced that the imperial examination is fair, but what if they do not pass the examination?

How to stop the complaints of those who have fallen behind, and put an end to the casual mouth of the people in the world, how can the court not do a little effort?

Now the imperial examination is only the beginning, since the beginning of Emperor Wen of Sui, although there is a prototype, but the concept of the imperial examination has not yet been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the Tang Dynasty followed the Sui system, and naturally hoped to establish an effective system on this basis.

Li Shimin saw that Fang Xuanling also nodded, and his heart became more determined.

He never imagined that Chen Zhengtai could still ponder this matter, what Chen Zhengtai said made sense, but ...... Now there is another big problem.

Li Shimin frowned, and asked Chen Zhengtai with a puzzled face: "Is the vague name system mentioned by Zhengtai related to making people in the world believe that this is fair?" ”

"Exactly." Chen Zhengtai said confidently: "It's just that if the student explains, I'm afraid that he won't be able to explain it clearly for a while, so he might as well ...... How about students practicing on the spot? ”

Li Shimin laughed: "Can you practice now?" ”

He still didn't believe that Chen Zhengtai only had one way to make people all over the world deepen their confidence in the imperial examination.

If it was so easy, since Emperor Wen of Sui began to now, the imperial examination has been held for decades, how could he not have thought of it?

Under Emperor Wen of Sui, how many virtuous people are there, and which of my civil and military ministers is not a hero?

Li Shimin sat upright and groaned slightly: "Okay, I want to see how Zhengtai practices." ”

"I'm afraid that I need the help of Fang Gong and Yu Gong, so I might as well invite the two to the side hall to write an essay on the topic of 'Mid-Autumn Festival', how about it?"

In the past, where was Chen Zhengtai qualified to instruct these two scholars of the Hongwen Pavilion in the court, not to mention that one was the emperor and the other was the prime minister.

But Chen Zhengtai sold a pass, which made Fang Xuanling and Yu Shinan curious.

Fang Xuanling bowed his head and said, "Very good." ”

Yu Shinan originally wanted to say that he was feeling unwell today, but he was afraid that his writing would not be good, and he would definitely come next time he was mentally refreshed.

However, it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, although he is afraid that he will not be in a good state today and insult his reputation for erudition, but he thinks that Fang Xuanling's essay is not as far as his own, so he agrees with a smile.

When the two of them went to the side hall, a little eunuch prepared a pen, ink, paper and inkstone for them.

The two of them each wrote a book.

In the main hall, Chen Zhengtai glanced at Zhang Qian, the regular attendant: "Has Zhang Lishi ever read?" ”

Zhang Qian's body was shocked, he couldn't imagine that this drill still had his own share, so he glanced at Li Shimin, Li Shimin nodded at him, and he knew that His Majesty acquiesced, so he said: "This ...... We don't know much. ”

Chen Zhengtai looked disgusted: "I don't know much about reading, and you are also worthy of coming to the palace to be a wrestler." ”

Zhang Qian was originally modest, but when he heard it, he almost didn't mention it in one breath, his face was like a steamed bun that had been flattened, and he grinned with his teeth: "Let's ......"

Li Shimin was beside him, he couldn't cry or laugh for a while, Zhengtai was still too real, but he appreciated this look, and the young man should be sharp. He is not Emperor Tang Ming after all, and he relies too much on eunuchs.

Seeing that His Majesty didn't say anything, Zhang Qian wailed in his heart, what's wrong with being modest, so he had to explain: "Actually, I still understand something." ”

Chen Zhengtai couldn't help but say: "Say it earlier, come, help." ”

The curiosity in Li Shimin's heart became more and more aroused, and he looked forward to it with great interest.

After half an hour, in the side hall on the other side, a little eunuch hurriedly came and said, "The two scholars have finished the article. ”

Chen Zhengtai hurried to the side hall, and sure enough, he saw Fang Xuanling and Yu Shinan sitting on their respective desks waiting.

Chen Zhengtai stepped forward, took their rolls, tore two pieces of paper, and asked someone to take a hard white paper and paste it on the name of the article.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Zhengtai called Zhang Qianlai again, and what Zhang Qian saw were two articles that had already been named, and Chen Zhengtai instructed him: "You take pen and ink and transcribe these two articles." ”

"Shall we copy it?" Zhang Qian looked at Chen Zhengtai suspiciously.

Chen Zhengtai gave him an affirmative look.

Zhang Qian had no choice but to nod, and after arriving at the case, he took the paper and transcribed the article, and then Chen Zhengtai pasted the newly copied article on the original article.

Then he went to the main hall and sent these two articles to the imperial front.

Li Shimin lowered his head and looked at the two test papers on the case, and the names of the candidates on the two test papers had been blurred.

Looking at this article next, Li Shimin was stunned, because these two articles are all in the same handwriting, obviously...... They were all transcribed by Zhang Qianyi.

In this way, in addition to the different articles, the rest of the calligraphy is no different, even the volume, are also in a unified format, the candidate's name, has been covered with hard paper, Chen Zhengtai deliberately stamped a ink, as long as the piece of paper is opened, see the name, you can see the clues.

Li Shimin was shocked at first, and then said in shock: "I am beginning to understand what you mean, so ...... It can prevent the examiner from cheating, or there is collusion between the examinee and the examiner. Wonderful, wonderful, I can't tell now whether these two articles were written by Fang Qing or by Yu Gong. ”

"It's not enough." Chen Zhengtai said with a smile: "There is a more direct and effective method, that is, just in case, when the imperial court marks the papers, you can set up a chief examiner, six deputy examiners, everyone scores each other's test papers, and then ...... Remove the highest score, remove the lowest score, and the results given by the remaining five test scores can be included in the final score. ”

Chen Zhengtai paused: "This is to prevent the candidate's style from being seen by others, if there is an examiner and the candidate have a close relationship with each other, once they see the style of writing and give a high score, there is a possibility of cheating, but once the highest score is removed, the impact of individual examiners on the candidate can be minimized." ”

Li Shimin was stunned......

Fang Xuanling and Yu Shinan were also thoughtful.

Fiercely, Yu Shinan's eyes widened, and a look of surprise flashed.

"This old minister is seeking the country, Your Majesty, Chen Zhengtai's plan is very good, haha, yes, yes, if it is implemented, in fact, for the imperial court, it does not need to use too much manpower and material resources, but for the imperial examination, it has a very significant effect."

Fang Xuanling was originally a very cautious person, but at this time, he also saw the great benefits of Chen Zhengtai's plan, and what made him even more pleased was that all of this was without touching anyone's interests, once the imperial court implemented it, it would hardly attract too much opposition, Fang Xuanling was overjoyed, he couldn't help but look at Chen Zhengtai deeply, it was really strange, Mengjin Chen's family could also produce such a character, the old man's four sons were not as good as him.

"Your Majesty, this can not only eliminate the influence of fraud in the imperial examination, but most importantly, as Chen Zhengtai said, once this policy is implemented, the world's scholars will be like a reassuring pill, which is of great benefit to Your Majesty's search for talent. Your Majesty, Chen Zhengtai is a talent that can be created, and the minister has seen it today, and he can be regarded as a teacher. ”

Fang Xuanling sighed in his heart, and wanted to say in his heart, he knew that this was the case, and the old man accepted him as a disciple.

Li Shimin was overjoyed when he heard this: "Immediately draw up a charter to announce this new policy of the imperial examination to the world." ”

Fang Xuanling should be down.

Li Shimin is in a good mood today, his children have won shares for nothing, and this paper has countless wonderful uses, so even the imperial examination has a direction of innovation.

He couldn't help but be even more impressed by Chen Zhengtai, and his heart was settled, so he asked Chen Zhengtai to make paper well.

Chen Zhengtai should come down, and the implementation of the new imperial examination system also reassured him in his heart, you know...... He recommended nine students, and these nine people are all monster-like existences, the most difficult Jinshi can be in high school, Chen Zhengtai believes that they have real talents.

Li Shimin's pursuit of talent is definitely fairness, and the imperial examination in history will definitely not release water to nine people, so Chen Zhengtai has a great grasp of their high school entrance examination.

It's just that all of a sudden, most of the people I recommend are in high school, and it is inevitable that there will be gossip, and there will definitely be people who feel that they are cheating by relying on relationships.

I, Chen Zhengtai, am also a face-saving person, how can I let people gossip behind my back.

In that case, let's introduce a fair examination system, at least for the time being, there is almost no possibility of cheating, and even if someone thinks of a way to cheat, it will be many years later.

Then I have to see who dares to say that the scholars in my Erpigou University Hall are cheating.

It was not early, Chen Zhengtai and others retreated, Fang Xuanling helped Yu Shinan out of the hall, and Yu Shinan stopped Chen Zhengtai.

Chen Zhengtai hurriedly stopped, and saluted Yu Shinan with a smile: "Is there anything else to do with Duke Yu?" ”

Yu Shinan looked at Chen Zhengtai with complicated eyes, with an unspeakable look, but finally said: "Erpigou County Gong, to be a man is to be honest, faith is the foundation of people, you know what the old man means." ”

"Ah......" Chen Zhengtai was a little confused: "Everyone says I'm honest." ”

Yu Shinan is still very satisfied with Chen Zhengtai's attitude, but he doesn't know much about Chen Zhengtai's character, so he doesn't want to have too much contact with Chen Zhengtai, so he just bowed his head and said: "That's good, the three hundred catties of paper will be sent earlier, and the old man lives in Ping'anfang." ”

Chen Zhengtai: "......"

That's a bit embarrassing.

Yu Shinan seemed to be afraid of what Chen Zhengtai was going to say next, so he didn't answer, he was still trembling slightly, asking someone to help him, and in the blink of an eye, he walked like a fly, and walked by by a staggered step.

This made Fang Xuanling embarrassed and half dead, and it was not easy to catch up for a while, so he and Chen Zheng were about to stare at each other.

"Ahem......" Fang Xuanling coughed, and then said slowly: "Erpigou County Prince, yes, yes, although you are young, you are young and promising, the old man has a good word, I don't know if I want to listen to it." ”

Chen Zhengtai said in his heart, you won't also come to ask for paper, right?