Chapter 64: The Great Exam
"I know you may not understand these words for a while, but it doesn't matter, and I haven't fully figured it out yet. But I knew that the first thing I wanted to do was to let them benefit from what the court had done, perhaps to escape the slavery of Jiannu, perhaps to restore the Han family's clothing and customs, or perhaps to get some land and grain or money. ”
"What Lu Qing and others have done now is one of the most important ones: so that the Liao people can escape from Jiannu and get the lost land. In this process, to make the Liao people feel the care and love of the imperial court for them, to win the hearts of the people is to get the world. ”
"I have said so much to Lu Qing, I don't know if Lu Qing will think that what I said is a little contradictory, yes, I am very contradictory, some things need to be changed, some things need to be rebuilt, and some things will be beneficial to our nation, but it may damage me and my descendants, take your time, I will always figure it out."
"The first time I saw Lu Qing in the palace test, there was a sense of closeness, the first emperor's heir took me as the greatest, and I succeeded to the throne at a young age, and I often had a sense of powerlessness, and there was a brother who often supported me in my dream, similar to Qing, I once called Xiaotian."
This messy and unorthodox letter ends here, this letter Lu Xiangsheng has read it several times, and every time he reads it, he is moved to tears. The emperor is a brother, such trust, such expectations, and such deep kindness make Lu Xiangsheng unable to repay. There are only eight words that he repeats in his heart: "Do your best, and then die." ”
And his impression of Xu Dajin and Xu Mingsheng has also changed greatly, and even asked Xu Mingsheng to manage Tuntian's affairs, and Xu Mingsheng did not live up to his trust and made Tuntian impressive.
After Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai fled back to Haizhou, they immediately returned to Liaoyang to ask Nurhachi for their guilt, Nurhachi did not blame the two sons, but was more dissatisfied with Li Yongfang, and then had a worse impression of the Han army in Liaodong, seeing that every Liao general felt that he would surrender to the Southern Dynasty, and the oppression of the Liao people was even more severe.
On the one hand, the Liao people were brutally oppressed by the Later Jin, and on the other hand, Yang San and others now moved to the countryside near Liaoyang, bringing the grace of the Ming Dynasty emperor: those who fled to southern Liaoning could choose to be in Tuntian in southern Liaoning or into Shanhaiguan Tuntian, and they would be exempt from paying taxes for five years.
Such news dispelled the concerns of the Han people, so the vigorous escape movement was launched near Liaoyang, a large number of Han people destroyed buildings, burned grain and then left, the Han people in the areas occupied by the Later Jin were greatly reduced, and Nurhachi was anxious for a while, so he did not have the energy to deal with the guards in Gaizhou.
In Beijing, Zhu Youjiao was busy with the examination and admission work of the Beijing Normal University Hall. This was the most important move he made to change the world, so he took it very seriously, even more than the war against Jiannu.
There are already more than 18,000 people who have already signed up for the examination in Beijing, which is much more than the number of people who take the test every three years, and there are not so many places to place candidates at the time. Zhu Youxiao issued an order to open the dormitory building of Beijing Normal University Hall to candidates for free accommodation.
The dormitory is set to accommodate 3,000 people, but according to the set conditions, it is very good, and one dormitory houses eight students. If you squeeze it, there is no problem to live sixteen or even twenty-four. It's cold, and it's a little warmer to squeeze in.
The entrance exams for Kyoto University are classified according to the specific school you are applying for. The first test is a normal school, the subjects are divided into Chinese language and arithmetic, and the questions in the Chinese language test are extremely simple: the understanding of learning high as a teacher and being a model. Arithmetic is simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and finding the area, which is about the same level as the third grade in later generations.
There are 5,000 students enrolled in the normal school, which is inconsistent with the traditional view of the Chinese, because there is a saying that "the family has three buckets of grain, and it is not the king of children." However, in the weekly newspaper, Zhu Youxiao spared no effort to advocate education and rejuvenation of the country, and there was a sentence in it that greatly increased the number of people applying for the normal examination: If after 20 years of the Ming Dynasty, everyone under the age of 30 will be literate, then it will not be far from the world of Datong that the sage said.
These words made some young Confucian students excited, and they marched to Beijing regardless of it, wanting to become a glorious teacher as the emperor said. However, Zhu Youxiao also relaxed the qualifications for applying for the normal school, not only does it not require a person, but even a student can not be, as long as he can pass the examination, he can enter the normal school.
After the examination, students were admitted separately according to the national language and arithmetic, and the top 800 students in the national language and the top 400 in arithmetic were selected, and a total of 1,200 normal students were admitted.
The second batch of exams is the clerk exam, and the number of people who signed up for this is as high as 10,000, because there is no prohibition on repeating the exam, so many people who were brushed down in the first exam also joined the second exam to continue the exam.
The official examination is divided into national language and arithmetic like the teacher training examination, and the national language question is to give you a holy decree, and you explain the holy decree in the vernacular. Arithmetic is a little more complicated, there are two questions, one is to calculate the area of the field and the tax payable, and the other is the problem of commercial tax payment, the overall difficulty is about the same level as the fifth or sixth grade of primary school in later generations.
After the examination, admission will be based on the total score of the two subjects. A total of 1,200 people were admitted.
The third batch of exams is miscellaneous, and each candidate has to take the national language, in addition to this, there is also an additional subject, such as agriculture, or arithmetic, or equipment, or astronomy, or geography, or medicine.
The third batch of Mandarin is simpler than the normal school exam, and it is easy to write an understanding of another subject of more than 1,000 words, and the topics of the additional exam are more difficult, such as arithmetic, which has reached the level of the second grade of junior high school in later generations, and has added questions such as crazy pool administrators.
Because the questions in the Chinese language are simple, the third batch mainly depends on the results of the additional examination, and finally 600 people were admitted, 100 people in each subject.
At this point, the two-month Kyoshi University exam is over. The students who did not pass the examination received their travel expenses at the yamen set up by the household department to deal with the problem of candidates' tuition fees, and then went home happily. Although I didn't take the exam, at least I know what the test is, and when I go back, I will work hard in a targeted manner, and when I come back next year, it will not be the same as this time. The household department finally counted that out of 18,000 candidates, only 11,000 people received the travel fee, and it seems that many people have surplus money, so they don't care about this little money.
The students who were admitted were divided into three parts, and the normal school specially trained teachers, which were divided into the Chinese language group and the arithmetic group, and each group was divided into multiple classes according to a class of 50 people.
The clerk school is divided into three groups: taxation, administration, and accounting, and it is also divided into classes of 50 people.
The third part is called the Graduate School, and there is one class for each of the six subjects.
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