The four auxiliary officers looked at each other: The question asked by Chen Di in the court today is to choose the chief examiner, why did His Majesty suddenly announce the reform of the examination content. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It seems that His Majesty has been thinking about the change in the content of the imperial examination for a long time, otherwise how could he suddenly announce the reform. The crowd thought.

As for the change in the content of the imperial examination, it is not something that the minister can put his beak on at this time, and Yunxi's change is not a big step, so no one has raised opinions.

It's just that, "Your Majesty, the imperial examination is a matter handled by the Ministry of Rites, did you summon Chen Di, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites?" Storm Zhao said.

Yun Xi thought for a while and said, "Then call Chen Qing over." But I am a message, not a consultation. ”

After a while, Chen Di came over, and after listening to Yun Xi's reform, he said: "Your Majesty, I think it is very appropriate to change the scriptures to the Five Classics, and it is also right to pay more attention to the policy theory. It's just that if this math problem is too difficult for His Majesty, I am afraid that many talented people will regret falling off the list. ”

Yun Xi said: "In this exam, I personally came up with math problems to ensure that the questions are not too difficult. However, it is not uncommon to add a math problem to an exam, and the difficulty increases gradually. ”

Since Yun Xi said this, Chen Di couldn't say anything more, bowed down to accept the order, and said: "Now there are only twenty-one days left before the first exam of the Hui Examination, and the minister immediately ordered someone to post a list at the gate of the Gongyuan to inform the candidates of the changes in the imperial examination this time. ”

"It is also necessary to send people to the hotels where the candidates live to preach that many people may not often pass through the Gongyuan." Yun Xi said.

Chen Di promised.

Yun Xi also asked Xia Yuanji to draw up a decree and inform the provinces of Yun Xi's changes to the test content of the township examination and the general examination in the future.

At this time, Chen Di said: "Your Majesty, who is the chief examiner appointed for this examination?" "The question he asked earlier this morning has not been answered by Yun Xi.

Yun Xi said something that surprised him: "This time there will be no examiner." ”

"No examiner?" Not only Chen Di, but also everyone else was very surprised, Xia Yuanji, who was drafting the will, did not hold it for a while, and when he wrote the word 'Wen', he wrote a foot long. He hurriedly changed to a yellow silk and rewrote it.

Chen Di was stunned for a long time and said, "Your Majesty, there is no chief examiner, how can this be examined?" ”

"If there is no examiner, why can't I take the exam?" Yun Xi asked rhetorically.

Chen Di felt as if he had a thousand words, but he just couldn't figure out a clue and didn't know how to say it.

Yun Xi began to say his idea: "Abolish the chief examiner, and set up three officials: the marking officer, the question issuing officer, and the promotion officer." ”

"The promotion officer is in charge of the order of the examination room and prevents cheating; The question writer is responsible for writing the questions, and the titles of the scriptures and texts; The marking officer is responsible for marking and evaluating the examination papers. Each of the three performs its own duties, so why do you have to set up an examiner? ”

According to Yunxi's own examination experience, there is no examiner at all in the college entrance examination, and the three parts of the questioner, marker, and invigilator are completely irrelevant, and only the officials of the Ministry of Education need to appoint the questioner, the local person in charge of the marker, and the local person in charge of the invigilator, and there is no problem.

Chen Di was stunned for a long time and said: "Your Majesty, if there is no examiner, then what if the final examiners have objections to who to admit and who not to admit?" Also, How are admitted candidates ranked? ”

The two most important powers of the chief examiner of the imperial examination in ancient times were that he could make a final decision when there was a dispute between the examiner about who was admitted to the bottom of the list, and second, he could play a leading role in the ranking. The reason why the chief examiner was called a seat teacher by the Gongshi in the Ming and Qing dynasties and became an errand that countless officials in the dynasty wanted to be responsible for was because of these two powers.

Yun Xi said, "I also know these two problems, so I decided to change the grading mode. ”

"There are still 10 marking officers, but the previous examiners have been renamed marking officers. No, there are 20 graders, 10 of whom are only responsible for evaluating the meaning of the scriptures, and the other 10 are only responsible for evaluating the policy. Each article still needs to be rated by three people. But the pattern of the assessment changes. ”

"Before, the test papers were just graded into several grades, and there was not much difference. In the future, a 100-point system will be established, with 90 to 100 points being the original first class, 80 to 90 points being the original second class, and so on. ”

And in order to prevent a tie, it is not allowed to score the whole score, that is, it is not allowed to score 90, 80, etc. Except for perfect marks. ”

"Each person's score is the sum of the scores assessed by a total of six graders, and they are ranked by the total score. If there is still a tie, look for a fourth grader to rate the papers. ”

"If there is a difference of more than 20 points between the scores assessed by the three graders, a reassessment will be ordered."

If Yunhee changed the content of the examination in order to promote new ideas and promote progress in cultural thought, then changing the examination format of the examination was to increase his power and reduce the influence of the examiner.

Historically, the influence of the examiner has increased, and countless officials who have served as examiners have formed their own political forces and become important figures in the political arena. So much so that in the late Ming Dynasty, all qualified officials had to compete for the position of chief examiner, and those who could hold this official position could basically become cabinet scholars.

Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi's original intention of setting up the palace examination was not realized at all, because the palace examination did not brush people, so there was no Jinshi who thought he was a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and everyone recognized the examiner of the examination as a teacher. Even a small number of people who will be ranked high in the test and ranked low in the palace test will be dissatisfied with the emperor.

Yun Xi knew that it was inevitable to form a gang as an official, but he couldn't accept such a gang formed by the examiner, and decided to completely shatter the dream of some people who wanted to pass the examiner's gang and form a clique.

After thinking about it carefully, all the officials present found that Yunxi's method can indeed solve the admission problem and ranking problem, although there are some minor problems, but they can be solved.

However, could it be that the position of chief examiner of the imperial examination, which began in the Tang Dynasty, will become history? Everyone was a little hard to accept.

Especially Chen Di, who is now the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, he was originally the most likely person to serve as the chief examiner in this examination, but now this is a bubble.

It's just that everyone doesn't have enough reason to oppose Yun Xi. The plan proposed by Yun Xi is completely feasible, although more officials need to be used, but although there are few local officials in the Ming Dynasty, the central court has a lot of mixed food, and there is no need to worry about the officials sent temporarily.

And they also vaguely thought of the purpose of Yunxi's reform of the examination format and the abolition of the examiner, so they didn't dare to speak out against it.

After thinking hard, Chen Di finally bowed down and said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

Yun Xi nodded with satisfaction and said, "In this case, Xia Yuanji will draft an edict to all the yamen in the capital. ”