Zhong Hao will also go south with the middle camp of the Pingxi Army this time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Pingxi Army now has no chief and deputy commanders, and even Du Yuhou has now been transferred to the Pingrong Army, and Shuai Si Xingwen asked Zhong Hao to temporarily take the position of commander of the Pingxi Army.

Although there are few civilian generals in any army, Zhong Hao now has the title of Yincheng County Boy, and the position of commander of the Pingxi Army is reasonable.

Fu Bi was also in favor of Zhong Hao going south with Di Qing's rebel army. Although the warriors of the Great Song Dynasty had no status, there were still many advantages for civilian officials to be military. In the Great Song Dynasty, if a civilian official is through the military, the career will be much smoother than that of a civilian official who is not military.

Not to mention far away, just like Xia Zhu and Fan Zhongyan, who had just died, all of them have such prestige, which is related to their military versatility and long-term presiding over the war against Xia. And the current prime minister Pang Ji and privy envoy Han Qi have also led troops in the northwest. In the Great Song Dynasty, if a civil official wants to achieve a high position at the level of the prime minister, it is really difficult to do it if he doesn't understand some military affairs!

Therefore, Fu Bi is still very much in favor of Zhong Hao going south with the army. In any case, Zhong Hao can at least be gilded and get a military name. Besides, in Fu Bi's opinion, this time Di Qing led the Western Army south to quell the rebellion, dealing with the Southern Barbarian monkeys who were not very successful in the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty, and they should still be able to capture them. Fu Bi also passed through the northwest, and now he is in Hedong, and he still has a good understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Western Army.

But Fu Bi instructed Zhong Hao not to miss the "lock hall test" to be held in the spring of next year. In the hearts of civil officials like Fu Bi, scientific research is the big thing. He felt that with Zhong Hao's literary talent, he could still get a "lock hall test".

It was Fu Bi who instructed Zhong Hao to return to Beijing in time next year to catch up with next year's "lock hall test". Fu Bi felt that Di Qing led the Western Army to deal with Nong Zhigao, and he should be able to win, and it wouldn't take long. But in case the Western Army and Nong Zhigao fight a protracted war, Zhong Hao will have to find a way to leave the capital to participate in the scientific expedition. Anyway, Zhong Hao went south with the army, I'm afraid it won't play a big role, there is no more than him, and there is no less than him.

Next year, the provincial examination of the Great Song Dynasty will be held in February, and now August is the time for the states to hold the solution test. Of course, Zhong Hao now has an official status, so he naturally participates in the "lock hall test", and he doesn't need to participate in the solution test.

The imperial examinations of the Great Song Dynasty were very different from those of the later Ming and Qing dynasties.

In the scientific examination of the Ming and Qing dynasties, after the county examination and the government examination, you can obtain the fame of the child, which can be regarded as a lifelong fame, and enter the ranks of scholars with status.

If you pass the college examination and get fame, you will already be considered to have entered the threshold of the privileged class in this life.

If you take the re-examination, you will definitely be considered to have entered the privileged class, even if you can't pass the Jinshi exam for a lifetime, you basically don't have to worry about mundane things such as eating and drinking in this life. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, people not only had the right to be officials, but also had many privileges of tax exemption and servitude, and at that time, they only ate the land rent of those who were sacrificed and sold as slaves, which was enough for daily life.

However, if the person who took the test in the Great Song Dynasty failed to pass the Jinshi, he was still just a poor man. The title of the Great Song Dynasty is just a one-time consumer product, which is only valid when it is valid, and it will be invalid if it expires.

This is undoubtedly a great challenge for the scholars of the Great Song Dynasty. The so-called "poor literature and rich martial arts" is difficult to establish in the Great Song Dynasty, if there is no certain family background as a material guarantee, it is difficult to cultivate a scholar and support this scholar to be admitted to the Jinshi.

In the Great Song Dynasty, it is a well-off family, if this scholar fails to pass the Jinshi examination for a long time, it is estimated that it will not take many years to become a destitute household. The daily expenses of studying and studying are really not small. Books, pen and ink, and paper are very expensive in this day and age.

If it is a scientific examination method like the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, it can attract more people to take the road of studying and scientific examination. After all, as long as a poor child is admitted to Xiucai, he can have some privileges of tax exemption and forced labor, if his grades are better, he will become a student in the school palace of the prefecture and county, and there will be some money and food every month, which can basically ensure daily life, and let the students go to study with peace of mind.

Compared with the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, the scientific examination of the Great Song Dynasty has many shortcomings for the students who should take the examination, but it also has some advantages.

For example, after the Great Song Dynasty passed the scientific examination, if you feel that you are not satisfied with the ranking, you can give up this ranking and the title of Jinshi, and come back to the exam a few years later. After all, the rankings of the first, second and third ranks are still very different for future careers. Of course, such people are absolutely confident in their own level. There are not many people who are willing to give up the status of Jinshi who finally got it, but it is not without it in the Great Song Dynasty.

Like Wang Anshi, as one of the main generals, Zhang Dun once did it.

In the second year of Jiayou, Zhang Dian entered Beijing to participate in the imperial examination, passed the provincial examination and the palace examination, and finally ranked eighteenth in the second class of high school. It is said that this ranking is definitely not low. You must know that the dragon and tiger list of the second year of Jiayou is known as the most shining list in the history of the millennium scientific expedition. There are countless people on this list, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zeng Gong, Zeng Bu, Lu Huiqing, Wang Shao, etc., all of whom are famous figures, and they have left their own strong marks in the annals of the Great Song Dynasty. Only those who later became among the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties included Su Shi, Su Zhe, and Zeng Gong. Among the eight families of the Tang and Song dynasties, three of them were from the Dragon and Tiger List in the second year of Jiayou, accounting for half.

Undoubtedly, the gold content of this scientific expedition in the second year of Jiayou is quite high. Zhang Dian can be the eighteenth place in the second class of middle and high school in this best subject in history, which is really not low. But on the occasion of the list, Zhang Dian saw that his nephew Zhang Hengming was in front of him, and he was also a high school champion. The arrogant Zhang Dian was ashamed of it, so he refused to accept the identity of the second-class jinshi, abandoned the identity of the second-class jinshi, and drifted home to prepare to study and fight again. It wasn't until the fourth year of Jiayou that Zhang took the exam again, this time in fifth place.

Of course, there are not many Jinshi who dare to give up their status as Jinshi like Zhang Dian and go back to retake the exam. However, in this regard, the Great Song Imperial Examination is still better than the Ming and Qing dynasties' system of "one examination for life", giving more opportunities to those students who are really powerful but because they are not good at playing once.

Moreover, the difference between the imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty and the imperial examination of the Ming and Qing dynasties is that even if an official of a grade is not satisfied with the current situation, he can participate in the "lock hall examination" in order to obtain the status of a jinshi.

And the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties, this situation is also not allowed. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, as long as you have to be granted the official position of Pinliu, you will never have the opportunity to participate in the scientific examination. Of course, if you are an official or a variety of economic officials who are not yet in the stream, such as the classics and historians, or various economic officials, you still have the opportunity to participate in the scientific examination.

The so-called locked hall examination was a special examination for officials in the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty.

Most of the officials who participated in the entrance examination relied on the favor of their parents, military merits, recommendations, or non-jinshi examinations to obtain official positions. Of course, in addition to those with official positions, those with knighthoods can also participate in the lock hall test.

It is said that the purpose of taking the Jinshi examination is also to become an official, so why should you be admitted to the Jinshi again after becoming an official? However, in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, Jinshi was the right way, with fast promotion, big face, and good reputation, and all high-ranking officials in the imperial court and local areas had to be born as Jinshi to serve. And most of these officials who participated in the lock hall test were from miscellaneous backgrounds, most of them were idle, or trapped at the bottom and could not be promoted, and once there was a problem, they were always the ones who carried the black pot, no way, who made them not from the right path! Therefore, these miscellaneous officials have taken the Jinshi examination one after another, in order to improve their political and metallurgical status and obtain better exhibitions.

Most of these officials who participated in the lock hall examination were those who were favored by their fathers and those who were born in the military. An official with the grace of his father wants to get a jinshi through the lock hall examination and eliminate the incompetent label of being born in the shadow of his father, while an official with military merits wants to get a jinshi through the lock hall test and eliminate the marks of martial artists on his body, after all, he is more promising in the Great Song Dynasty.

There are relatively few people like Zhong Hao who are recommended to participate in the lock hall test. The status of the officials who were born through the recommendation of the Great Song Dynasty is not low, although they do not have the title of jinshi, but most of the officials who can be recommended as officials have real skills, and there are also recommenders as backers, so the career is not bad. However, the recommended official did not have the title of Jinshi on his head, which was a pity after all, and he would occasionally be looked down upon, so he persuaded Zhong Hao to take the lock hall exam in order to obtain a Jinshi title.

The attitude of the Great Song Dynasty towards the participation of officials in the Jinshi examination went through a long process from prohibition to restriction, to permission and then to laissez-faire.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the monarchs and ministers of the Taizu Dynasty summarized the regime changes caused by the dictatorship of military generals since the end of the Tang Dynasty and the people's misery, and began to consciously govern the country with literati. As the main means of recruiting talents from all over the world, opening a branch has become a top priority. In order to avoid the powerful from infringing on the interests of ordinary scholars and establishing a fair image of the imperial examination, the Great Song Dynasty changed the policy of the imperial examination in the former Tang Dynasty and began to prohibit "officials" from participating in the imperial examination.

At that time, this was a great reform compared to the imperial examination of the former Tang Dynasty. In the former Tang Dynasty, the imperial examinations were basically controlled by the gate valves, and the imperial examinations became an important means for the officials of the family to obtain jinshi and change their faces, and it was basically impossible for the children of the poor to pass the examination. At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the prohibition of officials from participating in the scientific examination was a great progress in the history of the imperial examination, which completely opened the door to the children of the poor family, and also completely brought the gate valve family to the end.

However, as the rule of the Great Song Dynasty was completely stabilized, this policy began to run counter to the interests of the Great Song officials. Because the Great Song Dynasty court in order to win the hearts of the people and maintain the rule, the indiscriminate grace of officials is unprecedented, as long as the officials do not make mistakes, no matter how bad they are, they can always have a son in the end. As for those high-ranking and powerful officials, they can shade several children. Therefore, successive generations of officials went forward and one after another, slowly prying this ancestral system little by little, until it became a feast for the new magnates.

First of all, when he arrived in the Taizong Dynasty, some officials began to be able to lock the hall to take the exam. However, some officials need to take the exam in a separate examination room, and after the examination, the Ministry of Rites will review it separately and present it to the emperor to avoid favoritism. However, at that time, after passing the qualifications, he could only transfer to the official rank, and could not be given the name of the department, in order to show that the imperial court cherished the name of the department and did not give it lightly. Moreover, during the Taizong Dynasty, those who failed to take the entrance examination in the locked hall would also be canceled from their official positions. Moreover, the prefects who recommended them to be escorted were also punished, and it was obvious that the imperial court still had a negative attitude towards "officials" participating in the imperial examinations.

Under such harsh regulations, many officials did not dare to ask for the examination, and even if they were willing to take a risk, the local examiners and recommenders did not dare to easily agree. Such a provision is obviously detrimental to officials, and naturally it is opposed. Later, he came to the Zhenzong Dynasty. Only then will the first one be treated equally. However, some officials did not award the champion to show the court's love for the poor scholars.

In this dynasty, taking advantage of the bullying of orphans and widows, under the unremitting appeal of officials, the restrictions on the lockdown of the hall began to be relaxed, first no longer punishing those who fell behind and their escorts, and then canceling the policy that those who did not follow would be disqualified from their official positions, and then the number of times officials should be lifted from one to two, and even to an infinite number of times. Up to now, there is no difference between officials and ordinary scholars except that they have to take separate exams and cannot win the top prize.

Of course, without these policies, Zhong Hao would never have thought of taking the lock hall test and trying his luck. If it was to participate in the lock hall exam and give up his official position and the title he just received, Zhong Hao would never do it.

After all, he is now also a seven-rank civil official, and he also has a knighthood, which is considered to be a good mix in the Great Song Dynasty, and there is no need to give up his official position and title for the title of Jinshi. Besides, with his level, the possibility of Zhongjin Shi is not too high, but it is really a bamboo basket for water. Fortunately, there are very few restrictions on officials participating in the lock hall examination in the Great Song Dynasty now.

In the final analysis, the reason why Zhong Hao agreed to take the lock hall exam was because he had a little hope for the Jinshi in the examination. After all, I have also studied in Songlin Academy for a while, and I can still do some basic test-taking poems and articles. Many officials who took the lock hall exam were afraid that their level was not as good as their own, and the admission rate of the lock hall exam was still relatively high, so Zhong Hao decided to try his luck.

At the beginning, in order to protect the commoners, the imperial court ordered "officials" to lock the hall to take the exam, and the measure of separate marking and admission has now become a privilege with the surge of commoner children taking the exam. The difficulty of the provincial examination is now much greater than that of the locked hall test.

Most of the officials who participated in the hall lock examination were the children of official eunuchs, and the children of these official eunuchs were seriously polarized, although there were some top-notch people who were cultivated under superior conditions, but there were also a large number of Yanai Second Ancestors who did not learn and did not know how to try their luck, which increased the probability of admission to real scholars.

Although Zhong Hao is not really talented and learned, he feels that he is a little better than those Yanei Second Ancestors who are eating and waiting for death.