Although the story is ridiculous, Zhao Yu also knows that this is also the helplessness of being an emperor, especially for an emperor with low cultural literacy, you must know that everyone can stand out from the first-level exam, which shows that the gap between knowledge and writing level is very small, this is really embarrassing, to find out the level of the reader from between the lines of several articles, it is really difficult, what can you do without some small means?

The reason why Zhao Kuangyin used the speed of handing in to judge the level of the tributes is also somewhat reasonable, and the fast handing in of the papers at least shows that this person has quick thinking, quick response, and flexible brains, and will be an official in the court and local government in the future, and his ability to do things will not be bad. But this also leaves a loophole for people to drill, so after three consecutive sessions of "each person with the advanced volume will be given the first person and the first", everyone has found an opportunistic way, that is, like Xiao Li's flying knife - only fast and not broken.

So there is something good on the top, and it will be very bad under it, since you look at the speed of handing in the paper, the composition must be written quickly, everyone is faster, so the folk have become popular with fast composition, whether there is fast composition training is unknown, but there is indeed a fast composition competition. Zhao Kuangyin also occasionally held quick poetry competitions, and the winners could also be selected by the imperial court, for example, there was a project called "100 poems a day". There is a person named Zhao Changguo who took the exam with confidence, and as a result, he wrote twenty or thirty articles from morning to night, and the quality was really so-so, and Song Taizu reluctantly admitted him.

However, there are times when only fast and unbroken, and there will be accidents when they arrive in the Taizong Dynasty. Scholar Li Shuji, has always been famous for his fast writing, he thought that this would be his own exam insurance, but he didn't expect that one year the emperor changed, and his appetite naturally changed. Let's say that Li Shuji was the first to hand in the exam papers in the examination room, but he never thought that Taizong felt that he was too frivolous, so he scolded him and drove him out, but Sun He, who frowned and thought hard about the delay in submitting the papers, won the top prize.

What's going on with this mutation? It turned out that a minister named Chen Jing made a small report, saying that this Li Shuji held a quick essay contest in a cooking cake shop, which made everyone think that fast is beautiful, and ignored the literary and theoretical level of the composition, which will inevitably lead to a decline in the level over time. And this Chen Jing is Sun He's friend. As a result, Li Shu was unlucky, he could have been the champion, but he didn't even get into the jinshi. After many years, when the imperial court almost forgot about it, Li Shu was only a few years old.

Zhao Hao remembered that there were many such things in later generations, and the later Ming Dynasty once decided who was the champion by appearance, and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty once looked at whose handwriting was good, and Cixi took the champion by whether the name was appetizing. This seems to be a cute thing, and how many scholars are sad in it, not only do they have to be knowledgeable, but also look at the emperor's hobbies. And when he met an emperor who didn't play cards according to common sense and had to fight for character and luck, it was simply Sven who swept the floor, stepped on his face on the ground, and rubbed it again.

What the scholars of the Great Song Dynasty never expected was that the current emperor learned the imperial examination system in the ridicule with the concubine, and saw through the essence of it, that is, the hand-picked champion is actually a game for most emperors, and there are any rules. Even if there are rules, they can still be broken and modified, but they are not immutable. Not only the content, time, and even system of the test can be changed. As for how to change it, it also depends on the emperor's mood and what he wants to do!

In addition, there is another detail that subverts Zhao Yu's deep-rooted concepts for many years, and it can also be said that those historical idiot film and television drama directors and unscrupulous screenwriters are the victims, and he just figured out that Da Song has no talent. Xiucai said that it was to aid the 'Xiucai Department' in the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty, which was a more powerful subject than the Jinshi Department.

Later, the imperial examination of the Ming and Qing dynasties had four major levels: the county government and the three examinations, the township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination, and there were five levels of scholars, including Tongsheng, Xiucai, Juren, Gongshi, and Jinshi. Among them, although Tongsheng is not an official fame, he must also pass the two examinations of the county government to obtain this status, and he can also call himself a "student" in society and kneel when he sees officials. However, Xiucai's status is far inferior to that of the Tang Dynasty, and there is no way to enter the office, but he has obtained the qualification for the examination, and if he fails to make the list, he can only be a sword and pen official or a teacher.

In addition, in the Song Dynasty, there were also children and children, but they were very different. The Song Dynasty children's test is not a "common choice", more like a selection of "prodigies", whenever a smart prodigy is found in various places, it is immediately recommended to the imperial court, and the imperial court entrusts the relevant departments to take the exam. In the Song Dynasty, the palace examination has become a permanent system, therefore, the children's examination is often the emperor's own test in the end, in addition to meeting the prodigy, the more important purpose is to encourage scholars to learn the style.

Therefore, the rise and fall of the Tong Zi test and the number and frequency of prodigies recommended to the imperial court in various places actually depended on the interests of the reigning emperor. The emperor or the prodigy test to mark the contemporary Confucianism and the great rule of the world, or to guide the construction of contemporary politics and culture, the number of recommended prodigies in various places has increased significantly, and the frequency has been significantly accelerated, but this can only be regarded as a 'special move', and it has never been able to enter the list of regular choices, and it is very different in future generations.

In addition, the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty only had three levels: the examination presided over by the state government, the provincial examination and the palace examination presided over by the Ministry of Rites, but anyone who met the requirements could go to participate in the first level of the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty - the examination and examination. However, the solution test has a shelf life, that is to say, the fame of lifting people is a one-time, if the provincial test is not passed, the next subject has to start from the solution test, and under normal circumstances, the retention period is one term and three years. Unlike the later generations, as long as it passes, you can be a master for a lifetime.

And Zhao Yu soon found another thing that he regretted. Since the establishment of the examination system, the struggle to prevent cheating in the 'national examination' has not stopped for thousands of years, especially the participation of public servants. In this era, there have long been systems such as identity verification, name blurring, transcription, etc., and there is also a practice of 'locking up'.

The purpose of the system is to prevent the examiners from leaking the test questions and colluding with the candidates inside and outside, that is, after the chief examiner and the official are determined, these people cannot go home, and go directly to the tribute academy to avoid asking for help. That is, to lock them all up, to isolate them from the world, and not to release them until the end of the exam, which is like being under house arrest.

What Zhao Hao regretted was that after the main examination was announced at the court meeting that day, he did not immediately 'lock' Ying Jieyan and Liu Di, but kept participating in the assembly. If they hadn't objected to it, they might have been galloping on the sea in a warship to fight the enemy at this time, so why bother with these idle things. But now it's too late, it must be the old man who has informed the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother will make her wives watch her words.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hao broke out in a cold sweat, and he didn't know what these wives would do to him. He felt that every man who had watched "The Legend of Deer and Ding" in his previous life would enjoy the blessings of Wei Xiaobao and be envious of sleeping with his wives, unless there was something wrong with him. But when it really came his turn, he was a little bold.

There are many rules and regulations in the palace, and of course there are rules and regulations when it comes to sexual affairs. Theoretically, the emperor can spare every woman in his harem, but in reality it is not a simple matter. Because this kind of thing is not only related to the happiness of the emperor, but also related to the reproduction of children and grandchildren, a strict system has also been formulated.

In the Central Plains Dynasty, etiquette was emphasized, and the "Zhou Rites" was also followed by later generations. According to the "Book of Rites", the concubine system of the Zhou Dynasty was: "After the Son of Heaven, there were six palaces, three ladies, nine concubines, twenty-seven wives, and eighty-one royal wives." That is to say, the Son of Heaven has a total of one hundred and twenty-six wives of various ranks and names, and with this so-called concubine system, the Son of Heaven naturally enjoys it, and passes on this unreasonable thing from generation to generation.

However, in the Zhou period, there was no eunuch in the courtesy room, and the emperor's affairs were decided by the sun, moon, stars, and stars. The Zhou people decided that things like to conform to the way of heaven, and liked to use celestial bodies, yin and yang, and calendars to determine the order. The order in which the concubines and the emperor share the bed should also be according to the cloudiness of the moon.

According to the so-called moon cloudy and sunny, we must first understand that the moon will gradually be full on the first fifteen days of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, and the day after tomorrow from the fifteenth to the thirtieth will gradually become short. It can be inferred from this that from the first to the fifteenth day of the new year, the object of favor changes from a lower status to a higher status; In the second half of the fifteenth to thirtieth month, it is just the opposite, gradually arranged from the high status to the low status, that is, the emperor is obliged to satisfy all his wives.

The emperors of the past dynasties were still not satisfied, and they were still expanding their inner palaces. In the Tang Dynasty, the Daming Palace was built, which was three times the size of the Forbidden City in the Ming and Qing dynasties. When the place is big, there will naturally be more people in it, and other dynasties are "three thousand beauties in the harem", and the number of people in the harem in the Tang Dynasty has reached an astonishing tens of thousands. In order to manage such a large "women's army", the Tang Dynasty implemented a grade system, with a total of eight levels, which is similar to the management model of officials.

In this way, the rules are more clear and detailed. The queen is the mother of the country, as unique as the emperor, and does not need to be classified into the grade system. …… Its nine concubines have been lowered, all of them are nine people and the emperor, and eighty-one people are nine nights. Twenty-seven women are three nights, nine concubines are one night, three wives are one night, and fourteen nights. After one night, it is the fifteenth night. On the 15th of tomorrow, it will be recalled, and on the 16th, it will be restored...... All those who are below nine concubines, above the female queen, and less than fifty will all enter the palace, and fifty will stop. Later, Mrs. did not enter this case, and fifty was still royal.

According to this statement, it was not easy for the emperor to complete the prescribed task. The eighty-one royal wives, also known as the female queens, are divided into nine nights, nine people per night. The twenty-seventh woman is also nine per night, divided into three days; Nine concubines are sharing a day; The three ladies also share a day, but after all, the number of people who share this right, or share the obligation, is only one-third of the previous ranks. Only the "Queen" is a solo night. From the first round to the fifteenth, and from the sixteenth day to the new round.

However, some people have suggested that the first and fifteenth days of the new year are not suitable for sexual intercourse, so there will be problems with the ordering, whether it is nine people or one person waiting for that day, will it be in vain? Two rounds a month, if it were not for many people at the same time every night, each of the one hundred and twenty-one people would not be able to take turns two or three times a year, provided that the emperor had to be idle for a day, and he was extremely diligent and fair. The result is that the emperor is pitifully tired, and the concubines are pitiful......

Zhao Yu currently has six concubines, and there are still a lot of vacancies in the harem waiting to be filled, and according to the rules and the emperor's preferences, they have to be drafted every year or every other year to constantly fill the harem. And with the moral concept of his previous life, he has now broken through the bottom line, although he can't help himself, but he also thinks that this kind of rule cannot be continued, otherwise it is just a matter of morality, and he may follow in the footsteps of several ancestors, and he will be killed by the Mongols at a young age, and he will have to die of exhaustion.

"Not good!" was thinking hard about it, Zhao Yu suddenly felt that his back was sweating again, and he couldn't help but exclaim secretly. He believes that human beings are constantly evolving, and when he first arrives in this world, he can be said to be in danger all the time, and he may lose his life if he is not careful. At the same time, he found that his senses had become more sensitive, and it was necessary to say that he was intuitive, and he would be alert when he was threatened.

"I won't guess it again!" In the cold field, Zhao Yu found that his wives were not idle, but reunited on the other side of the pavilion, muttering together, and looking at themselves from time to time, looking at their little faces with shy red faces, which made his heart beat faster, and he couldn't help but trust his intuition again. What made him even more uncomfortable was that he felt like a rabbit at gunpoint, wanting to run but unable to run.

"The official family, the concubine and several sisters have discussed ......"

"What do you want to do?" Just when Zhao Hao was full of suspicion, Chen Shu walked over, but before he finished speaking, he was as vigilant as a frightened rabbit.

"Official, why are you in a hurry!" Seeing the little emperor's nervous look, Chen Shu sat down next to him, poured a cup of tea and held it to him personally, and said with a smile, "The queen mother repeatedly told her concubines not to let the official family leave the palace without permission and lead the army to conquer in person." But you were too cunning and slipped away without paying attention, so the concubines and sisters decided to follow the rules of the palace and take turns to serve the official family, so as not to make mistakes! ”

"What the hell do you want?" As expected, Zhao Yu was more vigilant.

"Official, why are you sweating?" Chen Shu wiped his sweat from the silk handkerchief and said, "The concubines and others have already discussed, and in the future, the queen and the concubines will accompany the official's family for three days every half month, and the rest of the sisters will be changed every two days." Today is the beginning of the month, so Concubine Chen will serve the official family first! ”

"You are going to put me under house arrest, no!" Zhao Yu waved his hand again and again, and said in trepidation.

"The official family, the concubines are also acting on the orders of the Queen Mother, do you want to invite the Queen Mother to come and talk to the official family!" Chen Shu smiled beside the emperor, but suddenly changed her face and said viciously, "Don't let me not see, you have coveted Concubine Chen for a long time, haven't you!" ”……