Moreover, when you are an official, you can get a lot of money.

With the atmosphere of this era, even if you are an official and a county official, you can get tens of thousands of taels of silver, right?

After retiring, with the name of Jinshi, he once served as an official of the imperial court, and then ran a school, that fame was even greater, and if he didn't do it well, he could run the education business to Beizhili, do you still have a grudge against silver?

Besides, as far as Wei Bao knows, Liao Fuzi loves money like his life, how can such a person have an enmity with silver?

Obviously, I don't have hope for the entrance examination.

In addition, with his current social status, he is afraid that if he fails the exam, he will be laughed at and become a talking handle, and he will have 'idol baggage', hehe.

is like Song Yingxing, who has a reputation for making a fortune, but he is desperate to fight hard and fight again.

Song Yingxing and Liao Fuzi are scholars of this level, and they can all represent the mentality of Daming students.

In short, this is the feudal era where reading has a way out, and scientific research is the only posture unlocking scheme for ordinary people to carp jumping over the dragon gate.

I can't look down on Liao Fuzi's ability to brag, but with a 'famous teacher' like Liao Fuzi to teach and guide alone, Wei Bao still enjoys this special treatment.

This is equivalent to in modern times, there is a professor at the level of a university president who teaches in person, where do ordinary poor students have this kind of treatment?

Under the guidance of Liao Fuzi, Wei Bao studied hard, and it was not until midnight that Wu Sanfu came to the Maritime Chamber of Commerce under the 'custody' of Wu Xuexia.

Not only the two of them, but the Wu Zu clan actually sent hundreds of servants, and more than 20 servants accompanied by them, the lineup was huge, the scene was spectacular, and it was breathtaking.

Wei Bao was upstairs in the window, and Liao Fuzi was surprised when he saw this kind of battle.

Both of them secretly wondered, the son of the Wu family and the eldest lady, are they here to study to prepare for the exam, or are they here to fight?

These people didn't come mainly to watch Second Master Wu, but mainly to take care of Miss Wu.

This is all Wu Zu's careful matter!

Getting so many people to come and such a big show is mainly to show the world that Miss Wu and Wei Gongzi are both above board and upright together, and they have no reckless behavior, and they have won the approval of the Wu family's parents to prevent the gossip from going viral.

Wei Bao didn't think about it so much, and happily went down with Liao Fuzi to greet the two.

"Brother Sanfu, it's not easy, you got up before lunch?" Wei Bao laughed.

Wu Sanfu smiled and counterattacked: "Are you willing to get up at this point?" Didn't my mother and my sister force me to come? I'm not as good as you, Xiaobao, I heard that you sent my sister back yesterday after she fainted? ”

When Wu Xuexia heard this, her pink face quickly turned into a big red apple, she glanced at Wu Sanfu fiercely, and said coquettishly: "Brother! ”

Wu Xuexia is sulking about this, she is mainly angry with herself, not Qi Weibao or Qi Niang, and there is no Qi Xiang'er.

Wu Xuexia was angry that she didn't help, when she sent Wei Bao out of the house yesterday, she just felt a little dizzy, but she didn't expect to come out of Shanhailou and actually sleep in the carriage.

Later, I heard Xiang'er tell me how to go home, and I was ashamed and embarrassed.

Wu Sanfu mentioned it at this time, naturally which pot was not opened.

Wei Bao was also blushed by what Wu Sanfu said, and he laughed dryly, not knowing how to answer.

Liao Fuzi was very interested, and gossiped: "Oh, what is Wu Ergongzi referring to?" Xiaobao, he directly knocked Ling Mei out yesterday and sent him back to Wu's mansion? Can you tell me about the teacher? ”

Wu Xuexia, Wei Bao and Wu Sanfu couldn't help but sweat, they all knew that this master was virtuous, if they told him, in less than a day, it would spread throughout Shanhaiguan, with a big mouth.

However, even if Liao Fuzi didn't go out to spread the word, now the people in Shanhaiguan basically know how Miss Wu went home yesterday.

"Master, at such an old age, why do you still care about the affairs of these young men and women? Hehe, wait for noon, let's have two glasses of drink, Xiaobao's wine here is all good wine, and the dishes are all good dishes! Wu Sanfu put his arm around Liao Fuzi's shoulders with a smile on his face.

In the academy, Wu Sanfu could not be so profligate, and when he left the academy, he simply regarded Liao Fuzi as a drinking friend.

Liao Fuzi was hugged by Wu Sanfu on his shoulders, slightly embarrassed, secretly thinking mother, you treat Lao Tzu as a girl in the Qinglou, where do you put your hand? Shaking his shoulders, he shook Wu Sanfu's hand away, "Second son Wu, hurry up and start reading books, I will go to Beijing to take the township test in the near future, and I hope that you will add glory to Shanhai Academy this time, and strive to come back with a good background." ”

Wu Sanfu saw Liao Fuzi posing as a teacher, secretly funny, and said what's wrong? What's it for? How many times have we all drunk together, Lao Liao! "Master, just make a show, do you really think that someone in our Shanhai Academy can really pass the exam this time? Not to mention that the number of people in Shuntian Mansion is only 100 people every time, even if the quota is doubled this time, it will definitely not be the turn of the children of Liaodong in Liaoxi! ”

"Brother, you're here again, you're not allowed to drink at noon, read your books with peace of mind. Also, I don't allow you to say these frustrating words again to affect Wei Bao! Otherwise, when I go back at night, I will tell my mother, and my mother will punish you! Wu Xuexia immediately said with a breath. Half of them were really angry, and half of them were angry because Wu Sanfu had nothing to mention about her drunk home yesterday afternoon, and her anger was still gone.

Wu Sanfu stuck out his tongue and smiled at Wei Bao and Liao Fuzi: "See? My sisters-in-law are about to become my mothers. ”

When Wu Xuexia heard this, she slapped Wu Sanfu's arm angrily, this time it was not light, and Wu Sanfu, who was in pain, jumped away: "Hey, Xuexia, that's enough, I'm your brother." ”

"Mother let me look at you!" Wu Xuexia took out Shang Fang's sword.

Liao Fuzi watched his brother and sister fighting, and said with a smile: "Second son Wu, what you said just now is bad!" Although every year in the southern state capital of the Ming Dynasty, especially in Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and several provinces, the candidates are particularly powerful. However, it can't be said that my children in Liaoxi and Liaodong have no hope of being promoted at all. I heard that the township examination in Beizhili will increase a little more than in previous years! Will you still have the events of the Hongwu period? Maybe Liaoxi and Liaodong will be able to win a few people this time. From the teacher's point of view, you and Xiaobao have great hope! ”

From the Tang and Song dynasties onwards, the imperial examination was of great significance to the selection of national talents and the flow of cross-classes. After passing the three levels of the township examination, the general examination, and the palace examination, a scholar can enter the bureaucratic system of the empire, grasp the resources of the state, and give the township support either explicitly or covertly.

Therefore, the imperial examination has become a high-profile event in the country's political culture, and the results of the imperial examination are all valued by the central court, the local government, and the families of the common people.

As the economic center of gravity shifted southward, the center of China's culture and education shifted to the south, and the south also had a clear advantage at the level of imperial examinations.

To what extent is this advantage? According to statistics, there were a total of 867 scholars in various branches during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, of which 620 were southerners, accounting for 71% of the total.

In the discussion of the imperial court, Emperor Hongxi also said that "the northerners are far less knowledgeable than the southerners", and the southerners are very good at reading exams, which is a sure thing, and the government and the opposition know it in their hearts.

The most shocking scientific examination took place in the 30th year of Hongwu, and in the list of Jinshi selected this time, all the southerners were admitted, which intensified the dispute between the north and the south in the imperial examination.

The North-South List, the conflict between the South and the North intensified.

It happened in 1397, in the spring of the thirtieth year of Hongwu, and in February, 52 people were admitted.

After the court examination in March, the champions, Bangyan, and Tanhua were occupied by Fujianese, Yingtianfu, and Zhejiang, respectively, and all the scholars admitted to this list were southerners, and none of the northerners were admitted.

This was something that had never happened in previous imperial examinations, and the candidates in the north were completely enraged. Jointly signed a letter accusing the examiner of favoring southerners.

In fact, it is also a consensus that southerners have an overwhelming advantage in studying the imperial examination. The strange thing about this list in the spring of Hongwu is not that in the list of jinshi, southerners account for the absolute majority, but that no one in the north has become a jinshi, and the northern scholars have completely lost the imperial examination in this subject and have lost face.

The matter stabbed Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang also felt that this matter was very strange, how could it be that none of the admitted jinshi were northerners? As an emperor who rules the world, how can such a result convince the public? In June, Zhu Yuanzhang personally presided over the consultation, and the top three were awarded to Shandong and Shanxi respectively, and in this list, all 61 people admitted were northerners.

As a result, in the history of China's imperial examinations, there were two lists in this scientific examination, one for all southerners and the other for northerners, and the opposition between the "north and south lists" made the contradictions between the north and the south in the imperial examination unprecedentedly tense.

The imperial examination is a major national event, even if Zhu Yuanzhang can forcibly give Hongwu a quota for 30 years of northern candidates through administrative intervention, it is not a fundamental plan. Southerners are very good at studying and taking examinations, northerners can't pass southerners' exams, and Jinshi has a tendency to be monopolized by southerners, these are unavoidable realities.

If you count the 9 Jinshi from the first year of Jianwen to the 22nd year of Yongle, the Jinshi from the southern provinces are still as high as 83.6%, the northern Jinshi account for 11.6%, and the Jinshi from the southwest provinces only account for 4.7%. The southern provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Fujian, and Guangdong have an overwhelming advantage in the selection of talents throughout the dynasty.

Of course, Daming has also been thinking of ways to break the monopoly of scientific research in the south.

In the second year of Xuande (1427), the imperial decree made a major adjustment to the national imperial examination system, and 100 jinshi were admitted in each subject, including 60 southerners and 40 northerners, ensuring the possibility of northerners entering the official career through the imperial examination from the level of the national system.

In the fifth year of Jingtai, the Ming Dynasty in order to take care of the southwest region, where the imperial examination force was weaker, further divided the area corresponding to the imperial examination quota in detail, and there were 55 places in the southern examination area, including Yingtianfu, Suzhou, Songjiang, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang, and Guangdong; 35 places in the northern examination area, including Shuntianfu and Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi political departments; There are 10 places in the central examination area, including Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and Fengyang, Luzhou, Chuzhou, Xuzhou, and Hezhou.

Since then, the ratio of the number of places in the imperial examination in various regions of the Ming Dynasty has been maintained at 55:35:10.

This ratio is basically consistent with the population figures of each examination area, and has been greatly recognized.

As a result, the inter-national imperial examination competition became the imperial examination competition within each region, ensuring the possibility of scholars being promoted through the imperial examination in culturally and educationally backward areas.

Guaranteeing the quota of northern scholars is another kind of unfairness.

The results of the imperial examination are a reflection of ability, and southerners are good at reading exams, so they should have an advantage in the imperial examination, and the government uses administrative means to interfere with the admission results, what is the reason?

For the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination was not only the need of the state to select talents, but also the need to attract scholars.

The concept of "learning and excellence" should be connected to the two ends of learning and politics through the imperial examination. If we simply look at the results of the examination, and cause the scholars in the northern provinces to lose the channel of "learning and excelling", so that they cannot be included in the bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty may lose the heart of this large number of northern scholars.

Such a political price is something that the rulers of the dynasty do not want to see, so they need to design from the top to ensure that the northern scholars have the opportunity to participate in the politics of the dynasty.

Secondly, the imperial examination also has its own problems. As an ancient examination-oriented education, it is inevitable that there will be a large number of people who take exams for the sake of exams, and the developed education and culture in the south and the stability of society have given a group of scholars who are ignorant of the world and immersed themselves in scientific examinations.

Zhu Yuanzhang himself didn't treat these Jinshi very well, "Today, there is a division to take, and there are many young people." Look at the word, and if it is available, and try it, it cannot be measured. I seek talents with a solid heart, and the world responds to me with a virtual text, which is not the meaning of seeking talents with my responsibility. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the jinshi selected for the imperial examination were useless, so he was angry and suspended the imperial examination for several years.

Northerners are not good at exams, but that doesn't mean that northerners aren't good at politics. Yang Shiqi, a university scholar, believes that "the tools of growing up are all from the north, and although the southerners are talented, they are frivolous."

If the purpose of the imperial examination is to select talents for the country to govern the country and politics, then the need for selecting practical talents is greater than the need for examination results, and it is a kind of flexibility to demarcate examination areas to restrict candidates from the south and take care of candidates from the north.

Although Wei Bao is a southerner, he is a northerner in this life, and he is still an authentic child of Liaoxi.

But Wei Bao was a little speechless, although he was a southerner at heart, he really didn't seem to have any talent for the imperial examination.

After a few words of gossip, Liao Fuzi beckoned Wu Er Gongzi to hurry upstairs to Wen Shu.

Wu Ergongzi said that it was almost noon, so it was better to eat first.

I originally thought that after eating, I would take a rest again, procrastinate, mix until dusk, and then pull Wei Bao to have a good time, and the day will be mixed.

However, Wei Bao, Liao Fuzi, and Wu Xuexia were very enthusiastic about their hard work, and they all unanimously felt that before lunch, they could at least read the book for an hour!

Wu Ergongzi was 1 to 3, and in desperation, he had to go to the second floor of the Maritime Chamber of Commerce, the exclusive floor of Wei Gongzi, to work hard.

The imperial examination system did not start from the Ming Dynasty, but it was carried forward from the Ming Dynasty, although there were imperial examinations in the Tang and Song dynasties, but the number of admission places was very small, and only a few dozen people were often selected for a subject.

Since the third year of Hongwu (1370), the Ming Dynasty opened the imperial examination and expanded the recruitment, and those who wanted to be officials were squeezed out. They all took reading as a profession, and these people were the foundation of the civil power of the later Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the examination was divided into three levels, the first level was the college examination, and the examiners were collectively referred to as Tongsheng.

The scope of the examination is the state and county, and the people who pass the examination are the "Xiucai" that we are all familiar with, and the examination results have six grades, only in this examination, those who get the higher level can get the title of Xiucai, and those who get the first and second class can be qualified to participate in the higher level of the examination, which is called "Recording Subjects".

became a showman, and since then he has gotten rid of the identity of a commoner, and he is also an intellectual, and he has certain privileges, such as being exempted from servitude by one person, and he can not kneel when he sees the county order. But it's not an official, it's still far from it.

It's already so difficult to be a showman, but in order to be an official, you have to continue to struggle!

However, through study, Wei Bao did not deify the ancient imperial examination system, let alone the difficulty of the imperial examination and the people selected by this system.

In Wei Bao's view, many of the Jinshi scrolls collected by Liao Fuzi and published them into books, many of which were even very clumsy in calligraphy. In addition, there are many levels of Baguwen that are done and the level of thinking is very poor.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the scientific examination was an attempt to add questions about the actual content of the Pingliao Plague and the treatment of bandits in the imperial examination, and the answer sheets of the candidates at that time were not even touched, and the final admission papers were not correct at all, so that the emperor had the sigh of the world's talents.

If it is a Jinshi of this year, I am afraid that even if the best of them participate in today's national examination, it is certain that they will fall first.

The imperial examination has been held for thousands of years, and it cannot be said that there are no talents, but there are very few champions who can become great in the end, and there can be said that there is no one who can really turn the tide and go down in history.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang ridiculed the talents selected by the imperial examination, and asked any questions that were stiff and incorrect, and a waste of dim sum, which is why the famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty simply used more generals, and Yuan Shikai was not even a talent.

There are many talented people in history who have tried and tested, such as Liu Yong, Ma Zhiyuan, Yao Guangxiao, Cao Xueqin, and Pu Songling, but this cannot be simply attributed to the high difficulty of the imperial examination and the difficulty of the examination.

And most of them are because of the corruption and ills of the scientific field in their time. In that era, it was difficult to take the imperial examination, and those who were admitted were not necessarily better than those who fell behind, but it was certain that their family background was better. It's just unfair, it's not a matter of difficulty.

It should also be mentioned that all countries that have implemented the imperial examination system have gone to the dustbin of history.

In the face of a large amount of content, not only Wu Sanfu yawned, but even Wei Bao's head was bigger than two.

In particular, Wei Bao also carries the cognition that modern people despise the outdated and decadent product of the imperial examination, and there is a certain resistance in his heart, which increases the fatigue even more.

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