Seeing that the spring festival is approaching, the Wang family regards the scientific expedition of their eldest brother-in-law Li Boran as a top priority, especially Wang Fugui and Zhang Cuihua, who attach great importance to this.

There is an old Chinese saying: "Learn to become a scholar and martial artist, and the goods are with the emperor's family." ”

However, before the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was not so easy to serve the imperial court and realize their ideals and ambitions, until the birth of the imperial examination system, which could be regarded as giving the world's scholars a relatively fair way to rise.

China's official selection system has undergone changes. In the pre-Qin period, most of the official selection relied on the hereditary system.

If a person has made meritorious contributions at the beginning of the founding of the country and is made a doctor, often after his death, his son will inherit the position of doctor. At that time, the fief of the princes was called the country, and the fief of the doctor was called the family, so in ancient China there was the so-called "Qi family ruling the country and leveling the world".

However, this hereditary system has major drawbacks. The king of a country, if he is virtuous, it is okay, if he is mediocre, it will be a disaster. An ordinary fool is at most just messing around at home, but a king, if he is a fool, will harm thousands of people. But the key is that many faint kings do not think of themselves as faint kings, but regard some people who tell them what to do as disobedient ministers, and some treacherous villains as the loyalty of the country. The hereditary system is a widespread evil.

In the Han Dynasty, the selection of officials was mainly based on recommendations. The main names recommended are filial piety and Xiucai. The Han Dynasty particularly emphasized filial piety, so the emperors of the Han Dynasty were crowned with the word filial piety.

Filial piety is naturally a person who respects filial piety to his parents, and the ancients often said that loyal ministers must come from the door of filial piety, which has a certain truth. People who can be filial to their parents, generally speaking, can also finally reach the country and love the people.

Xiucai is proficient in some classics, such as Confucian classics, "Book of Songs" and "Book of Songs".

Relatively speaking, there are fewer recommended for Xiucai, and more recommended for filial piety. Flipping through the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", the vast majority of officials made their debuts on the road of filial piety and honesty. Why? Because filial piety is easier to cheat. Xiucai must be proficient in the classics, and as soon as the two chat, it is clear how much ink they have with each other. But filial piety or not, the key is to look at the evaluation of parents and fellow villagers. However, in all dynasties, as long as it was profitable, there were people who cheated. In the Han Dynasty, filial piety could be an official, and the more filial piety was, the more praised by everyone, and since there were practical benefits, then parents and neighbors would also participate in the fraud. As a result, the drawbacks of the election system also came out. The recommendation places too much emphasis on the integrity and fairness of the examiners. If you say that he is filial, that is filial piety, and there is no unified quantifiable standard.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the atmosphere was on the side, and the emergence of the imperial examination system can be said to be a major breakthrough in the system of electing officials.

The imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang dynasties was divided into many kinds, among which the more important ones were the Jinshi Department and the Ming Jing Department, and other Ming Laws, Ming Calculations, etc.

At that time, the most valued was Jinshike. At that time, someone said: "Thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi". At the age of thirty, the Ming Jing is considered to be old, and at the age of fifty, it is considered young.

It is said that during the period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, eight or nine hundred people took the Jinshi exam every year, but how many were admitted? There are only twenty or thirty people, and the admission rate is less than 3%, which is far more difficult than the current college entrance examination, and even master's and doctoral degrees. At that time, those who were able to come to the capital to take the Jinshi exam were themselves talented people from all over the country.

"Imperial examination" is a word with rich and complex meanings and dynamic characteristics. The broad imperial examination refers to the division of the imperial examination or the establishment of the imperial examination, which is roughly the same as the tribute examination, which began in the Han Dynasty, and the narrow sense of the imperial examination refers to the imperial examination of the jinshi, which began in the Sui Dynasty.

Many characteristics of the imperial examination system are gradually formed after a long process, but to set a starting era, there must be a landmark creation, and the real landmark significance and the word "imperial examination" in history is only the historical event of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty founding the Jinshi Branch, from the creation of the Jinshi Branch in the first year of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty (605 years) to the abolition of the imperial examination in the 31st year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1905), the imperial examination system has existed in Chinese history for 1300 years.

The imperial examination system began in the third year of the Sui Dynasty (607), and more than ten years later, in 618, the Tang Dynasty was established, which further improved the examination mechanism and opened the examination system. Since then, the imperial examination has become the advanced road for scholars all over the world.

Those who have participated in the college entrance examination should know the feeling of "thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge", some people are proud to step on the Chang'an flower one day, and some people are ashamed and shameless after "Sun Shan".

In order to allow Li Boran to be named on the gold list, Zhang Cuihua specially went to various temples to burn incense and petition. I don't know how much money was spent on sesame oil alone.

Regarding his mother's approach, Wang Dazhui did not agree with it, whether he could pass the imperial examination of the imperial court or not depends on the candidate's own true talent and learning, not these gods and Buddhas.

If there is really any shortcut, it is better to visit the examiner of this scientific examination, maybe it can still play a role. But he didn't dare to mention this to his parents, for fear that they would be confused and really do something to bribe the examiner.

According to Wang Dazhui's contact with his eldest brother-in-law Li Boran, Wang Dazhui believes that with Li Boran's talent, as long as there are no mistakes, it should not be a problem to pass this scientific expedition. This is not Wang Dazhu's words, but the results of his analysis after looking at the test questions of the last few scientific examinations.

In order to make his eldest brother-in-law Li Boran have a greater chance of passing the exam, Wang Dazhui specially asked Qin Huaiyu to help find all the exam papers after the founding of the Tang Dynasty and let his eldest brother-in-law Li Boran refer to it.

At the same time, Wang Dazhui also specially asked Di Renjie to help tutor his eldest brother-in-law, and gave Li Boran a lot of mock papers according to the previous test questions, so that Li Boran could practice every day.

Under Di Renjie's careful guidance, Li Boran made rapid progress and increased his confidence in passing this scientific expedition a lot.

"Big brother-in-law, the day after tomorrow is the official scientific examination, you should also relax yourself, put those book test questions aside for the time being, let your body slow down appropriately, don't be nervous." Wang Dazhui saw that his eldest brother-in-law Li Boran was approaching the exam, so he still locked himself in the study and studied hard, and came to remind him.

"It's a sledgehammer, thank you for helping me during this time and inviting Master Di to help me with my homework." Li Boran saw Wang Dazhui coming to find him, put down the pen and paper in his hand, got up and thanked him.

Wang Dazhui hurriedly stopped him and said with a smile: "The family doesn't talk to two families, as long as you are wholeheartedly devoted to my eldest sister in the future." I'm here today to take you out for a walk and relax your nerves. ”

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