In the fourth year of Jianxing, on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, the first imperial examination held in Liaodong was opened, and all the questions were personally examined and approved by Wei Shuo, and the content of the examination focused on the actual ability of the scholars.

The qualification examination is divided into two sessions, mainly based on Confucian classics and arithmetic, and the content of the preliminary examination is relatively simple, mainly used to distinguish ordinary people from scholars. The content of the re-examination is much more difficult, and in the end, only the top 200 will be admitted to participate in the next round of the fixed position examination.

In addition, in order to appease the unsuccessful scholars, Wei Shuo announced that the state schools under Liaodong would recruit some unsuccessful scholars to enroll. This commitment greatly relieved the nervousness of the reference scholars, many foreign scholars have been in Jicheng for a long time, and most of them know the status of state studies in Liaodong.

Liu Zan, Kong Su, Zhu Zuoche, Kong Zan, Hu Wuyi, and Huangfu Fang Hui are all famous Confucians, not to mention that there is also Sikong Liu Kun in charge. When you enter the state school, you can accept the guidance of famous teachers, greatly improve your ability, and prepare for the next scientific examination.

Yang Yu, Feng Yu, Huang Fuzhen, Pei Kai, Xie Ai, Wei Hui, Yi Yi and others were divided into different examination rooms, sitting in their respective seats with serious faces.

The first question is a fill-in-the-blank question, which mainly examines the scholars' familiarity with Confucian classics and their ability to memorize them. Most of the scholars saw the fill-in-the-blank questions, and their eyes lit up, and they picked up the pen and answered them quickly.

Fill-in-the-blank questions are relatively simple, and as long as you have studied the Confucian classics attentively, you can basically answer them, which is almost equivalent to giving points to everyone.

For a while, the examination room was silent, and all the scholars were immersed in writing.

At this time, I saw Wei Shuo quietly walking into an examination room with Wen Qiao and Mo Han. And the invigilator saw him walk in and was about to step forward to say hello, but saw Wei Shuo waving his hand at him and hurriedly stopped.

Most of the scholars were answering the questions seriously. Basically, no one noticed Wei Shuo coming in, only a young man named Xie Ai raised his head and quietly looked at the famous Zhenbei general.

After Xie Ai got the exam paper, he didn't rush to answer the questions like other scholars, but first quickly skimmed the test questions, and after a while, his brows furrowed deeply. It's not that the topic is too difficult and leaves him helpless, but the last policy topic. Let him see General Zhenbei's ambition to reform the maladministration.

Next, Xie Ai answered the question very smoothly, whether it was filling in the blanks or explaining the meaning of the scriptures, there was not much difficulty, and soon came to the last question: "On the Nine Products Zhongzheng System", which directly pointed to the disadvantages of the imperial court's selection and employment.

Because Xie Ai himself is a victim of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, he knows very well about its pros and cons, and he only thinks about it a little, and he writes like a god.

I looked around and saw that there was no problem. Wei Shuo took Mo Han and Wen Qiao to quietly leave the examination room where Xie Ai was and walked to the next examination room.

"The Lord opens the way of the imperial examination and provides a step for the children of the poor to enter the body, and he will definitely win the hearts of the poor scholars in the world!"

As soon as he left the examination room, Mo Han couldn't help but express his admiration to Wei Shuo, he was born in a merchant family and was a lower class than the Hanmen Shu clan, if he hadn't met Wei Shuo, his talent might have to be buried.

Wen Qiao was born in a family, but he also had to be impressed by Wei Shuo's courage. The imperial examination system can be said to have directly dug up the foundation of the rule of the Wei and Jin dynasties. Take this expedition as an example, although most of the families in various places have resisted. However, there are still hundreds of scholars from poor families participating in the scientific expedition.

"In fact, those families are too worried, and people with real vision can see that the imperial examination system is only half of the pros and cons for the family. If the family really made up its mind to participate in the imperial examination, with the background of the family, it was not something that the scholars of the poor family could compete with. ”

Wei Shuo was quite embarrassed, history has clearly told him that the Bai Imperial Examination can only have some restrictions on the family, but it cannot completely suppress the family. And if the family adapts well. It is not impossible to regain the heyday of gate valve politics. Just like during the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination system was greatly developed, but in the end, it was still the family headed by the Jingzhao Wei clan and the Taiyuan Wang clan that benefited.

Historically, what really brought the family to ruin was the frequent wars during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, which destroyed everything, including the family that lasted for hundreds of years. Besides. All policies can only weaken the Maison, but not completely eliminate it.

"In fact, looking at the young generation in Liaodong is very telling, the students who graduated from the state school this year, among the best performers, are still the children of the family. Although there will be one or two top-notch talents in the poor family, on the whole, the poor scholars are far from the children of the family! ”

"That's right, such as Pei Kai of the Pei family, Huangfu Zhen of the Huangfu family, Feng Yi and Feng Yu of the Feng family, Yang Yu of the Yang family, Yang Hu and other children of the family are all young and handsome people of the ancestors of Liaodong. But there are no eye-catching talents in the poor scholars, but I don't know if this scientific expedition can recruit a few poor talents. ”

"I heard a few rumors in the next place, some time ago, there was a Liangzhou Hanmen scholar surnamed Xie who was in the limelight in Jicheng!"

"Surname Xie? Liangzhou people? Wei Shuo was shocked when he heard this, could it be Xie Ai? He forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked, "Do you know what is this person's name?" ”

"Lord Yu, I don't know exactly what his name is, but I know that he is a newly emerging scholar in Jicheng."

Hearing Mo Han's answer, Wei Shuo couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he didn't blame the other party. There are nearly 1,000 scholars participating in the scientific expedition, and Mo Han has an unknown number of affairs to deal with every day, how can he have the energy to pay attention to a reference scholar.

"Don't worry, although I don't know who the scholar surnamed Xie is at the moment, but since he has appeared in Jicheng, and because he is from a poor family, there is a chance that he is answering questions in the examination room. As long as he is good enough, I believe that it will not be long before the lord can see him. ”

When Wei Shuo heard this, he could only say with a little regret: "Well, it makes sense!" Let's go, let's go to the other exam rooms. ”

Looking at Wei Shuo's back in front of them, Wen Qiao and Mo Han glanced at each other with a tacit understanding, and they both saw a little surprise in each other's eyes. As far as Wen and Mo knew, the two talents who made Wei Shuo remember last time were the two of them. And Wei Shuo's performance today couldn't help but make them murmur in their hearts: Could it be that the scholar surnamed Xie is an earth-shattering talent?

When Wei Shuo was busy inspecting the various examination rooms, the reference scholar had completed most of the previous test questions and was nervously doing the last policy question.

For this question, the views of the children of the family and the scholars of the poor family are obviously different, and most of the scholars of the poor family lack a good impression of the positive system of the nine products, so the scholars of the poor family generally answer the question from a critical point of view; And the children of the family, as the beneficiaries of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, will naturally answer the question from the perspective of praise.

"My lord, judging from the preliminary investigation on the scene, the last question is obviously polarized, and the ministers are worried that going on like this will cause unnecessary trouble?"

"Hehe, in fact, everyone is too worried! There are pros and cons to everything, and it is normal for all scholars to have different views on the Jiupin Zhongzheng system! However, Wei needs to remind you that scholars can express different opinions from their own point of view. But when you judge the question, you must stand from a neutral point of view! ”

"Remember! The main purpose of the questions is to test the ability of the scholars, as long as the opponent answers reasonably, whether they agree or disagree, they can get points. ”

That's right, Wei Shuo introduced the test scoring system with a golden finger, no longer using the rough grading in history, reducing the subjective influence of the markers on the answerers, and trying to give the answerers an objective evaluation.

"No!" Gao Zhan, Wen Qiao, Mo Han, Pei Wei, Lu Chang, Liu Han and others got up one after another.

"Well, the selection of scholars for the imperial examination is related to the rise and fall of Liaodong, and it is not sloppy at all, this matter is left to the gentlemen, Shuo will rest assured!"

Although the forces of all sides were relieved that Liaodong had converged its expansion momentum, in order to make up for the gap with Liaodong, all parties tried to expand around. Among them, Liangzhou aimed at the Western Regions, Jiangzuo was ready to fight into Han, and Shi Le was still stuck in Qingzhou and couldn't extricate himself. (To be continued.) )