As a university lecturer, Shi Bufan also came up from layers of schools, can he not know a common saying in the mouth of that student? The behavior of these students is thought that the teacher does not know, but in fact the teacher is very clear. Students think that the teacher does not know all kinds of so-called cheating and so-called methods, but in fact, they do not know that the teacher has accepted many more students than them. In fact, many teachers themselves came over like this back then, and they knew a lot. What exams don't cheat to be a junior in the next year, what would rather have no personality, and if you can't fail, the teacher actually knows. Ordinary people deliberately avoid the teacher and say, in fact, it is useless. Even the teacher came over like this, they were all thousand-year-old foxes, what to play and talk about fasting!

However, Shi Bufan's words would never have been said in ancient times. There is no cheating in the exam, and the words of being a junior in the coming year actually come from the mouth of a master, which is simply incredible. Shi Bufan actually persuaded his students to cheat, which was simply too ruined, even Dugu Daxue and Qin Jiarui almost vomited blood. Is there such a master?

"Master, cheating?" Xin Mao will be a little incomprehensible.

Shi Bufan said directly: "You go to Tang Jian, that is, Tang Jian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites." You just say that they are my students, and then let him take care of you in next year's imperial examination, so that there will be no problem with your middle examination, just before and after the ranking! ”

"......" Ren Yaxiang and Xin Mao will be speechless.

"Master, this ......" General Xin Mao was still a little cheeky, obviously very hesitant.

"Go or not, you don't want this opportunity, I'll give it to someone else! Anyway, my Datang imperial examination is not open cheating? If you don't cheat, you won't pass the test! Shi Bufan said.

Ren Yaxiang and Xin Maojiang looked embarrassed, so they were obviously complaining about the imperial examination in the early days of the Tang Dynasty.

It is not clear what else is happening, but it is a very important research topic for the evolution of the imperial examination system. The imperial examination originated in the Sui Dynasty and was perfected in the Tang Dynasty, reaching its peak in the Song Dynasty. However, in the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examinations in the early, middle and late periods were different. Some people foolishly think that the imperial examination system is a way out for the poor, but in fact, in the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination system was not perfect, or even just a model. The imperial examination system in the early Tang Dynasty was not vague. The so-called obfuscation is to cover up the candidate's name and prevent the person who corrects the paper from reading it. However, during the Tang Dynasty, the names and materials of the candidates were clearly visible to the people who revised the papers, so how much fairness could be guaranteed in this way, which is very doubtful.

In later generations, those anti-cheating methods were almost the same in the Tang Dynasty, so you can imagine how rampant cheating was. Even this kind of cheating is no longer a matter for ordinary candidates, but a matter that the bigwigs of the court also participate in personally.

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, the person in charge of the imperial examination was just a foreign lang of the official department examiner, a six-rank petty official! A six-rank petty official doesn't seem to be timid in power, but this is a country's annual selection of talents, and it only sends a six-rank petty official to preside, so how much the imperial court attaches importance to this imperial examination, this can be imagined.

What's even more terrifying is that a word from this powerful person can change the ranking of candidates. At that time, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty was preparing to take the imperial examination, and his poems were appreciated by a certain magnate, and the magnate helped to say the item, but the examiner in charge of the examination said that the top three had been booked, and the famous poet wanted to be ranked after the fourth place.

Although no matter which magnate appreciates the poet's poems and is willing to help him say that he has a good ranking, this seems to be an emphasis on talent on the surface, but in this kind of bones, it can't change this is cheating. But it's just cheating, the top three are booked, this kind of thing is ridiculous. This kind of thing is written in the history books in a grand manner, which is enough to show that the imperial examination in the early years of the Tang Dynasty was completely unjust and unfair, and it was more powerful than whose cheating methods were more powerful.

So in the early days of the Tang Dynasty, there was an act called "Xingjuan", that is, to write your own works and some poems, speech directions, etc., into words, and then throw them into the courtyards of those dignitaries, and then the dignitaries and nobles can help you say items during the imperial examination after seeing them. Even many dignitaries and nobles think that they are promoting talents and reusing talents.

Shi Bufan simply scoffed at this kind of person. Even if the talents they select are real talents, don't use methods that break the rules of the exam to promote talents! Although this kind of selection may be a real talent, it can't change the fact that this is cheating. In the early days of this imperial examination system, those who were really talented were forced to cheat, and you can imagine how distorted and perverted the imperial examination system was in the early years of the Tang Dynasty.

"You don't have to be ashamed of this, it's the world that doesn't give you a stage to show your talent and develop yourself. So you don't have to be ashamed of cheating, because this exam is supposed to be better than who's cheating, not the real talent. If this imperial examination is fair, I will naturally advise you to participate in the imperial examination fairly. But this imperial examination is not about talent, but about cheating, so I naturally suggest that you cheat. Because of the talent that the imperial examination relies on, then I have nothing to say. Natural selection, survival of the fittest, how can people ask you to do the same, so what do I have to be angry about? Shi Bufan said.

"Master Xie!" Ren Yaxiang and Xin Mao said together, and then left immediately.

Shi Bufan doesn't think that he is wrong, if the exam is really fair, then Bufan will naturally not advise them to cheat. However, in the early Tang Dynasty, cheating in the imperial examination was so rampant that it was recorded in the history books. In an exam that is essentially cheating, if you go to the exam in a dignified manner, you can only be eaten. The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was not the college entrance examination of later generations, it was fair. The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was essentially a game of cheaters, so why did Bufan suggest that they go to a decent exam at that time? Shi Bufan is not pedantic.

"Husband, aren't you teaching bad students by doing this?" Qin Jiarui also couldn't help but ask.

Shi Bufan instead said: "I'm just teaching students according to their aptitude!" ”

"Teach students according to their aptitude?" Dugu Daxue felt strange.

"It's very simple, if it's an ordinary child, then I would naturally suggest that they learn truth, goodness and beauty. If I am facing an academic student, I will tell them about my mental studies, and let them study academics. But this Ren Yaxiang and Xin Mao will not be this kind of people, they are politicians. Because they aspire to be politicians, then I tell them that they don't have to care about the means, as long as they can achieve the ends, for the benefit of their own class, they can do whatever they want. Could I be blamed? This imperial examination is not a competition for talent, but a competition for cheating methods and backers, so what can I say? Shi Bufan said.

"However, their talents, when the time comes, can they enter the official career, can they help you?" Qin Jiarui hurriedly asked.

"Huh, talent? Talent is important and important, but it is not important or important. If the officialdom is completely full of capable people and mediocre people, then there will be no chaos in this world for a long time. In the final analysis, the imperial examination is just a stepping stone, which represents your qualification. As for what to learn, it doesn't matter. The knowledge of being an official cannot be learned from textbooks, not by professions. It's not about their talent that matters, it's about blending into officialdom. How to play after mixing into the officialdom, that is to practice in the individual! In fact, it doesn't matter what is tested in the imperial examination. As a politician, his thinking does not affect what he studied or what he examined. The only ones who can really make an impact are the interest groups behind them. Shi Bufan said.

Shi Bufan didn't think that the imperial examination was problematic, and even he didn't think that the so-called Baguwen or various examination contents would have too much influence on a politician. Perhaps many later generations blame the decline of ancient China and the reluctance of various literati to expand their territory on a certain doctrine or the idea of the Eight Strands of Literature Imprisonment. In fact, this is not necessarily the case, because as an official, as a politician, as a politician, we all have our own classes and interest groups. They want to make profits for their own interest groups, and if it is beneficial for that interest group to expand their territory, then they will naturally not hesitate to expand their territory.

However, when opening up the territory to the outside world has no interest in this interest group, but is harmful, then as a spokesperson, it will naturally oppose it. In the final analysis, a certain doctrine has a very low impact on politicians themselves, and it does not matter how they came into officialdom because they were born in a certain doctrine. The important thing is to see which interest group he represents. It doesn't matter what the eight strands are, what the content of the exam. As for what the eight-strand text imprisons the thought, this is not an ordinary but disagreeable one.

Those who are imprisoned by the eight-strand text are just those nerds. But how many nerds can be in this world? On the contrary, a court official, an official who can mix to the top, is definitely not a nerd. Film and television dramas and various literary works exaggerate those nerds, making people think that everyone is a nerd. But in fact, politicians and nerds are not the same thing. Politicians are never nerds, some just pretend to be nerds, pretending to be pigs and tigers.

Therefore, Shi Bufan does not believe that the content of the imperial examination will have absolute influence on a politician, but what is really influential is the interest group behind it and his own governing philosophy. Those who stubbornly believe that it is the Baguwen that imprisons the mind, which has caused such consequences in China, is just a casual thought of patting the head, and it is the result of no real research and analysis. It is obviously unfair not to look at the interest groups and classes represented by those officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and to blame the content of the examination completely.

"Husband, is it worth it for you to do this? Is it worth it to use this favor that Tang Jianshangshu owes you to them? If you use it this time, then Tang Jian won't owe you anything in the future, is it worth it for you to do this? This is a favor from a scholar, you used it for their gentleman, is it worth it? Dugu Daxue asked.

The favor that Dugu Daxue said was the credit for Tang Jian's extraordinary reputation at that time. This time, the two sides signed the treaty with the Turks, and the main signer of the treaty was Tang Jian, and the person recorded in later history was also Tang Jian, and Shi Bufan was just a "translator". Therefore, Tang Jian took advantage of the reputation of Shi Bufan's history, so he naturally wanted to repay the favor. This is a favor from a scholar, but it was used by Shi Bufan on these two guys, isn't it too wasteful?

Shi Bufan nodded and said, "Don't waste it, about Tang Jian's favors, it's better to use them as soon as possible." Now there is no need to lose this favor, and Tang Jian will not be a scholar in two years. Tang Jian has become a lame duck, if we don't use favors as soon as possible, then I'm afraid we won't have a chance to use it in the future. As for counting on Tang Jian's son? Hum! ”

Shi Bufan knows that others owe you favors, so you have to give the other party a chance to repay the favor as soon as possible. Once a person owes a favor for too long, the party who owes the favor often has a change in mentality. The ancients said that a long time of great kindness becomes enmity, when others are kind to you, but at this time, others will not let you return this kindness, but use it as a bargaining chip to negotiate conditions with you, how will you feel? A person who can't get the reward for a long time, which will cause a change in mentality after a long time, is originally a good thing, but in the end it becomes an enemy.

Shi Bufan didn't want to delay for too long to let Tang Jian repay his kindness, because Tang Jian couldn't mix in the position of a high-ranking official for too long, and he would most likely face the result of being promoted and secretly demoted and relieved of power. Tang Jian can't go down, so how can others come up? If Shi Bufan's memory is not bad, then it seems that it is Li Xiaogong, Li Tang's prince, who succeeds Tang Jian.

At that time, Li Xiaogong didn't owe favors, did he go to Tang Jian, who had been secretly surrendered by Mingsheng, to ask for information about people? When the time comes, even if people want to pay it back, they will be powerless. Therefore, if you don't maximize the benefits as soon as possible, then use them quickly, which is the best. Use it quickly, not only can you get the maximum benefit from Shi Bufan, but Tang Jian can also repay the favor as soon as possible and solve the burden in his heart, which is good for both parties. Otherwise, at that time, there would be no benefit to both sides, and at that time, Bufan and Tang Jian would also be embarrassed.

In order to avoid embarrassment, it is better to take the initiative to use the favor as soon as possible, which is the best.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow I'm going to take office. Fortunately, the county government of this Wannian County is also in Chang'an, so that our family can still be together and will not be separated! Shi Bufan said.

(To be continued.) )