After the matter of re-determining weights and measures was decided, before Chongzhen proposed the dream of the Apocalypse carpenter, Meng Shaoyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, first went out to play and said: "Your Majesty, the minister also has this music." ”

Seeing that Meng Shaoyu, who usually doesn't speak out in the court, also played in class, Chongzhen suppressed the fact that he wanted to talk about the dream of the apocalypse, and said curiously: "What does Meng Aiqing have to play?" ”

Meng Shaoyu bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the first year of Chongzhen is coming, please ask Your Majesty to instruct, who is the main examiner?" What are the main questions? ”

Chongzhen frowned and said, "What kind of charter was the Ministry of Rites originally?" How was it in previous years? ”

Meng Shaoyu said: "Your Majesty, in previous years, the Son of Heaven appointed the president and vice president, and the people from all provinces and the students of the country can take the exam, which is the Spring Festival." ”

Chongzhen himself has not made up for classes, and knows how fucked up the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty is. Since the beginning of the imperial examination, Emperor Wen of Sui only had to ask questions, and Emperor Yang of Sui opened ten subjects. There were many examination subjects in the Tang Dynasty, and the permanent subjects mainly included Ming Jing (Jingyi), Jinshi, Ming Law (Law), Ming Zi (Writing), and Ming Arithmetic (arithmetic).

In the Ming Dynasty, there was only one subject. As for the Ming Law, the Ming Scripture, and the Ming Calculation, the contents of these imperial examinations have all disappeared. So much so that some people wrote crooked poems and ridiculed: "When today's Zizhong is an article, why should I talk about the Han and Tang Dynasties." ”

These two sentences are talking about this kind of fucking situation, and the entire Ming Dynasty is only left with Jinshike, playing the eight-strand article stipulated by Lao Zhu.

How fucked is Baguwen?

The eight-strand essay refers to the eight parts of the article, and the style has a fixed format: it is composed of eight parts: breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting to speak, starting, starting the share, middle share, back share, and bundle share, and the title is all from the original text in the Four Books and Five Classics. Each of the last four parts has two strands of dual text, for a total of eight strands. The length of the sentence, the complexity and simplicity of the words, and the pitch of the words must be relatively written, and the number of words is also limited.

The main content of the test is the scriptures, "poems", "books", "rites", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn", and choose certain topics from these five classics to write. The topic and the way of writing are formatted. There are four paragraphs in the eight-strand text, and each paragraph must have a comparative sentence, and the paragraph with a comparison is called a four-ratio. The four pairs of pairs are evenly matched, and the saint cannot be desecrated with allusions to the wind and snow, and each article includes four parts from the beginning of the stock to the bundle of shares.

Attention, if this is simply the case, it is estimated that those current top students will still have some hope if they work hard. The most damn thing that made Emperor Chongzhen feel the sadness of the eggs was that the content must be in the tone of the ancients, and it was absolutely not allowed to play freely!

The so-called use of the tone of the ancients does not mean that you can learn the way the ancients spoke, but to use the tone of Confucius and Mencius!

Damn it, the two sages of Confucius and Mencius have been buried in the soil for thousands of years, and there is a gap of more than 2,000 years from the Warring States to the Ming Dynasty, so you let the people of the Ming Dynasty study how they speak? What tone is used?

His mother! The wording should be in the tone of the ancients, the so-called speaking on behalf of the sages! Throw over the top students who study ancient literature or history at Tsinghua University and Peking University, it is estimated that these guys will also be confused!

And what's even more fucked up is that because the words of the sage are so much in total - of course, it may be to save bamboo, so they are all "small words", and the earth-shaking test, the questions will inevitably be repeated, what should I do in this situation?

There are a lot of talents in the Ming Dynasty, who can be difficult to do such a big thing? Isn't it enough to spell out two sentences for him? For example, the widow is lustful, and I am three times a day.

The previous sentence is from "Mencius: King Hui of Liang", and the next sentence is from the "Analects". Literally, it is because Lao Tzu likes little girls, so he has to self-reflect three times a day.

However, if you dare to write like this during the imperial examination, congratulations, it is a good thing to fall off the list, and it is a big problem to slander the saints! The place where this problem starts is not that it is not lustful at all, but on the body of Sanxingwu, but this lust, you can't ignore it!

In short, not only should these candidates be allowed to write flowery articles, but they are not allowed to play freely, and even the allusions after Confucius and Mencius are not allowed! Of course, this is an invisible collateral requirement, and it's no problem if you have to use it, anyway, you're deposed, so slowly find a place to cry yourself.

For example, a generation of bigwigs Pu Songling, how can this bigwig mix a starting point platinum or something now, but the eight shares can't be written, come on, where are you going to stay cool, this Qing Dynasty officialdom is not suitable for you! What happened in the end? After repeated attempts, he did not become a tribute until he was 71 years old, and the teacher became old, and finally died of illness at home.

If it's just like that, after all, Pu Songling can't do it, isn't there still Lu Wanling? There are more people who read this Ming Dynasty, and there will always be those who take the exam.

The point is, these guys who are admitted are more pitted than one! Reading and reading stupidly, it's just that these guys, either, their heads are full of sage thoughts, and they don't understand bullshit, or, after a few years of mixing in officialdom, they finally got their hands on it and began to mix officialdom well.

At this point, these people are polarized again. Some people like Wen Tiren understand what the officials do, and people also understand it.

The other part, I can only say hehe. There are big greed and small greed, and some bullshit all depends on the master, and sometimes it is not clear whether the master is doing it or these officials.

But I can't change this fucking imperial examination system! No matter how stupid Chongzhen is, he knows that all the scholars in the world live on this thing, if you dare to destroy this thing, it will really kill you!

The more he thought about it, the more painful Chongzhen simply stopped thinking about it, Lao Tzu couldn't destroy it, it didn't matter, Lao Tzu mixed it with sand: "In this case, this imperial examination will be led by the Ministry of Rites, with Zhang Ruitu as the president and Meng Aiqing as the vice president. ”

After Meng Shaoyu bowed down, Chongzhen continued: "However, in the first subject of Jinshi, there are only 300 people admitted, and I have more than 10 million people who study in the Ming Dynasty?" If you always fail, won't you waste your life? I was very sympathetic to it, and his order, after the Jinshi Branch, added Enke, took the Ming Law, the Ming Arithmetic Department, and the Gewu Department, and gave it to the Jinshi. ”

Meng Shaoyu bowed down and said, "Your Majesty Longen!" The minister dared to ask His Majesty, who are the examination questions and the president and vice president of Minglu, Mingsuan, and Gewuke? ”

Chongzhen said: "Since the Jinshi branch is not the first, presumably the eight-strand article is average, so the three subjects of Minglu, Mingsuan, and Gewu do not have eight-strand articles." There is a specialization in the art industry, those who know the law should be familiar with the Ming law, and those who know the arithmetic such as the ancestral rate and the nine chapters of arithmetic, and the same is true for Gewu. ”

"As for the president candidate, Mingluke has Yan Mingtai, the secretary of the Criminal Department, as the president, and Zhang Ruitu as the vice president. The Ming Computing Division has Guo Yunhou, the secretary of the household department, as the president, and Zhang Ruitu as the vice president. Gewuke, with Xu Guangqi as the president, and Shi Fenglai as the vice president. ”