In the Jinling Gong Courtyard, Yin Wangxu of Jinling Mansion and all the officials of all sizes were in a hurry after reading the county examination questions.

They couldn't help but look at the main minister Kong Hanyou, as well as the imperial historian Wang Su.

But I saw that Master Kong's face was full of helplessness and heartache.

This examination paper is equivalent to abolishing the banner of "respecting Confucianism", and of course Confucian officials have great opinions.

Naturally, he disagreed.

However, the emperor made Xiao Duhou the chief examiner and let Xiao Duhou have full authority to deal with it. He also supported Xiao Duhou as the chief examiner at the beginning, but now that he has fallen into the pit, what can he do?

Wang Su looked up at the sky, with a look of "don't ask me about this, it has nothing to do with me."

The gate lord is noble, and he has little opinion on this exam paper. It's hard to return, but it is still beneficial to the scholars to be able to get rid of the Confucian students.

The exam questions in this county are the exam papers that Xiao Duhou insisted on.

The deputy examiner doesn't have much power to speak, just to be a foil. If Xiao Duhou is scolded because of this exam paper, of course it is none of his business.

Seeing that the prime minister and the imperial doctor were speechless, the officials couldn't help but be silent, looking at the county exam questions.... Even try to answer these questions.

This answer sheet made them a little confused.

With their knowledge and ability, answering this exam paper, it is estimated that they will be able to score about twenty or thirty points out of 100. What kind of standard is this?

They don't know either.

...

After three hours, I stayed up until the afternoon.

The county examination of the Jinling Gongyuan was finally over, and the examination papers were collected.

Whether it was a scholar or a Confucian student, tens of thousands of candidates were pale one by one, and they staggered out of the Jinling Tribute Academy.

"Brother Wang, how did you do in the exam?"

"Alas! It's hard to say, Xiao Duhou is too out of the question, what farmer's book, doctor's book, and Mo's book are actually taken for the test. The questions in this exam paper are seven or eight times out of ten, and I have never seen them before. Where do I start? What about you? ”

"Everyone is about the same, and the only ones who can answer are only two or three out of ten."

The scholars were a little better, and they forced their faces to laugh.

Although they can't answer many questions either. However, the wealth of the Tuo family has somewhat read some books. There are even lower Confucian students at the bottom behind him.

All the Jinling Confucian students trembled with anger.

When the exam papers were sent, they looked at the questions and looked at them all over the place.

“？？？”

This exam paper, the exam... What the hell.

"Heavenly reason, where is the way of heaven?"

"God, why don't you have long eyes. A thunderbolt fell and split the little dusk? ”

"This is a pit, a sinkhole!"

"In ancient times, Emperor Qin 'burned books and pit Confucianism', and now there is Xiao Duhou 'Imperial Examination Pit Confucianism'! This is to use the banner of the imperial examination to pit all our Confucian students to death! ”

"We have to petition, we can't take the test like this!"

Many Confucian scholars wept and walked out of the Jinling Tribute Courtyard.

This Jinling Gongyuan is like a purgatory, and these Confucian students don't want to come in anymore.

...

Gongin.

The county examination papers were collected.

Nearly 100 officials in Jinling Mansion began to mark the examination papers overnight with a vermilion pen, and ranked all the examination papers according to the standard answers given by Xiao Duhou.

They are all copied from the original text, and it is easy to judge the papers.

Two points for a question, two points for being completely correct. If the words are written incorrectly, but the general meaning is correct, you can still get one point.

The officials were busy for a day, and finally finished reading all the exam papers. Divide the exam papers into grades and separate them according to the scores, and they are graded by ten.

Several examiners spot-checked the exam papers and reviewed them to see if there were any omissions in the judging papers.

"Report to the Marquis of Xiao Du, Lord Kong, Lord Wang, my lords, one person over sixty points, ten people over fifty points, more than one hundred people over thirty or forty points, and more than 1,000 people over twenty years old. The rest are less than 20,200 and below 10,000. ”

"For those above 20 points, half of the gate lords and eunuchs are the sons, and half are the Confucian scholars. ... However, among those above fifty points, there is only one Confucian left, named Jia Sheng. ”

After the Jinling chief finished counting, he reported to the officials.

When Chu Tianxiu heard this, his heart was shocked.

He wanted to use this children's exam paper to screen the basic knowledge of the world's readers, but the score was unimaginably low.

Nearly 10,000 students in Jinling City went to the county examination, and more than 20 people did not know 1,000.

This means that only 1,000 people have answered more than 10 questions correctly.

It's terrible!

Chu Tianxiu also thought that the knowledge of the scholars of the Great Chu Dynasty would be very poor.

But when I really tested it, I found that there were too few knowledgeable readers. The vast majority of the candidates who went to the exam were indiscriminate.

It's not that the ancients were not intelligent, I'm afraid it's because there are too few books. I haven't read these books, and no matter how flexible my brain is, I can't answer.

It seems that there is still a long way to go to popularize knowledge and education for the entire Great Chu Dynasty!

Or there are too few books, so I need to print some more and sell them.

All the officials looked at Xiao Duhou in shock.

Wang Xu arched his hand towards Chu Tianxiu and asked, "Little Dusk Hou, what is the score of this boy's admission line?!" ”

"The admission score line for Jinling children is drawn at 20 points. A total of 1,000 children were admitted to the county examination, and they were eligible to participate in the second round of the Xiucai County Examination. One-fifth of them are recruited for the county examination, and one-fifth of them are for the national examination.

Lord Wang, after the ranking of the children is decided, it will be announced directly outside the Gongyuan! As for the county exam, it will be held after the 5th. Only children can participate! ”

Chu Tianxiu thought for a moment and said.

In this way, Jinling City can give birth to about 40 people who are strictly selected.

In the other 100 counties and 1,000 counties, 150 people were finally selected.

Then 200 people will participate in the temple examination together for the final ranking.

Not to mention ability, at least in terms of knowledge, these people are higher than the vast majority of the entire Great Chu Dynasty.

"This imperial examination is for the national selection of talents. This test allowed Dr. Ben to see the level of the entire Dachu readers! That's a big deal.

In the future, there will be a clear standard for the evaluation of county officials in the field of culture and education. It is determined by the number of children and talents. ”

Wang Su said approvingly.

"Humph!"

Prime Minister Kong Hanyou's face was heavy, and he walked away without saying a word.

He's been putting up with it for a long time.

was lucky, hoping that the Confucian students could get a good result, so he acquiesced to the results of this county examination.

However, the results of the Jinling County examination came out, and there were a total of 10 candidates with more than 50 points, but only one of the civilian Confucian students, "Jia Sheng", met the standard. The rest are all eunuchs and eunuchs.

This is also because Jia Sheng is a private school teacher in the Ping Wangfu and reads a lot of books. Ordinary Confucian students do not have the conditions to read so many books.

It's so unfair.

Just the condition of reading books has pushed off the vast majority of civilian Confucian students.

According to this standard, after the second round of the county examination and the third round of the national examination, there are very few Confucian students who are finally selected. I'm afraid it won't be more than ten.

The "great revival of Confucianism", which he had pinned high hopes on for hundreds of years, was also completely hopeless.

Once the emperor was "bewitched" by the imperial examination of the Marquis of Xiao Du, and the officials were selected by all subjects, where could Confucianism still have the hope of "exclusive respect".

His life's work was burned.

This is definitely unbearable!

In that case, then the Confucianism will completely break with Xiao Duhou! Get the little dusk marquis down and take back the power of the imperial examination.