Chapter 11 Disadvantages of Scientific Examination
He suddenly came to Anyi from his hometown Yingling, and asked him to be lenient to go to Shixun's Mansion to pay a visit, and his intention was actually very simple - he came to find the examiner and go through the back door.
Let's say that on the same day, Shiyi resigned from the post of Dengzhou Assassin and returned to Yingling, so he pondered the identity of filial piety for his eldest son - he did not plan to let Shi Zhi become an official, because that kid was not the material for being an official at all, but with the crown of filial piety and honesty on his head, he was like being admitted to the Jinshi in later generations, and he had the qualifications to be an official.
However, the number of filial piety is extremely limited, the former Han Wu Emperor stipulated that each county Taishou each year to raise filial piety, Cha Lian each one, and later combined the two subjects into one, then two people per year to raise filial piety, in addition to the state assassin history in the gradual transformation into administrative officials, also have the qualification of two filial piety per year. That is to say, Qingzhou plus Beihai County, where Yingling County is located (in the twelfth year of Jian'an, the king of Beihai was removed from the country and renamed Beihai County), only four filial piety were allowed to be raised every year.
If you change to a remote place, you may not be able to get all the people together, but in Qingzhou, where the literary style is at its peak, there are countless talents at will...... Or to be more precise, there are countless outstanding children of the family, and it is not the turn of the family that is not noble enough. Besides, Qingzhou Assassin Wang Xiuyou is a Qingjie upright and upright, and he is not used to opening the back door to people, so Shi Yi spent a lot of energy, and he was unable to promote Shi Yi in a short period of time.
Of course, it is also because Yi deliberately wants to cut off from the Xun, and he refuses to play the flag of the Xun, otherwise with the prestige and position of the Xun, there are still fewer magistrates who want to hug their thighs? Even Wang Xiu had to take care of Ling Jun's face. But if Yi can ask for a handwritten letter from Shixun, Beihai Taishou or Wang Xiu will definitely open the door of convenience.
It's to stretch your face all day long. complained that his father treated him as well as a few brothers. It's a fire. The heart said that your brothers are all their own businesses, when did I help? But you, who have no ability to do it, blame your father for refusing to help - this was a few years ago, and I could have written to ask you to help you, but now even if he can pull this face, he may not be willing to stretch out his hand again!
As a result, as soon as I waited for Anyi to issue an edict, it is said that the Duke of Wei had countless officials. I was going to get rid of all the talents in the world through the evaluation and examination, but I couldn't sit still any longer, so I asked my father to die and live, saying that I wanted to submit myself and go to take the exam.
The old man Yi couldn't stop it anymore, and seeing that Cao Cao was in power, how could he be as filial and honest as Wei Zhimaocai? It's really what kind of official and what position is awarded after being Maocai, let's talk about it when the time comes. Yes, I am full of confidence: "Hongfu sees that it is the main exam, how can I not be justified?" "It's Yi smiled bitterly in my heart, I have a deep knot with that Xibei goods. It's just that your stupid son doesn't know, he will take care of you? Not necessarily......
But after all, the old man has served as a assassin for many years. There is still a certain amount of energy in the officialdom, Wang Xiu can't go through the road here, we can go elsewhere. He asked for connections everywhere, visited the door, and finally changed his current household registration to his mother's hometown -- Ji County, Hanoi. Then Shi Yi sent Shi Yi to Anyi, but warned him: Don't go to Shi Xun first, go to your own brother Shi Kuan first, he has more eyes than you, so it is safer for him to go and greet Shi Xun.
So in desperation, he had to lead his eldest brother to knock on Shixun's door in person. It's Xun who can't cry or laugh: it's just the first time I've tasted and examined, and there are cheaters...... As the saying goes, "there are policies and countermeasures", it is really like the sea of society, and human feelings are like waves, and you can't escape the waves when you fall into the sea......
In addition, many scholars from Qing, Deng, Hai, Xu, You, and Pingping Prefectures who recommended themselves, as well as Hedong scholars, also found Shixun's door and asked for help. It was Xunxin who said that Chen Changwen and they had no experience, but I was greedy for comfort for a while, and I didn't propose that the examiner should thank him a month in advance...... If this was closed early, why would it be so big?
Those strange or semi-strange guys, he is mostly perfunctory, but he is not perfunctory to the brothers. Shixun does still have a pimple about Shiyi in his heart, but it really doesn't seem to be Yi, it is a wide estimate of them, and then he hates the whole Shishi - he has no relatives in this life, and it is rare that he has been with the Shishi brothers in the camp for several years, and they have escaped together, not to mention family affection, and there is always some friendship left.
- Except for Kuan, not long after they met, he set up a trap to let himself marry Cao's daughter, and then he fought-for-tat in the dispute between Moose and Cao, and then deliberately did not associate with each other, he didn't think that Xun was his brother, why should Xun recognize him as a brother?
So he begged to come to the door in person, but it was inconvenient for Shixun to pretend to be public and selfless, so he thought about it and simply leaked the exam questions to the other party secretly. But he immediately took care of him and said that the eldest brother is unreliable, you should take a good look at him these days, don't let him run around, and then reveal the exam questions to others. Although he is not on good terms, he must also admit that these three brothers are quite cautious and reliable, which is very different.
It was a wide patter of the chest and said that you can rest assured, and then frowned again: "But when you hear about this exam, you should be confused, what can I do?" It was Xun who twisted his beard and smiled: "This is easy to hear—only so, so, ......."
The exams under the two Han Chaju systems are very simple, not systematic, and there are no certain rules, neither joint examinations, nor closed books, most of them are temporary test questions conceived by the chief, giving candidates a few days to answer, and then adding a defense after the end, to prove that your article was not copied from elsewhere. Therefore, Chen Qun and others were defenseless against cheating in exams.
Yes Xun is different, not to mention how the cheating methods in the closed-book examination in later generations are full of tricks, and he has not played with a conscience in his previous life - he is considered a top liberal arts student, but when he encounters science and engineering exams, if he does not cheat, he will inevitably fail the course - just talking about all kinds of cheating anecdotes under the imperial examination system, what I have read from ancient books has also gone to sea.
Although it is difficult to feel at ease that the system he formulated is the first to be destroyed, he is Hongfu and is not a thorough honest and honest person like Mao Xiaoxian, besides, it is not a big deal to open such a small back door......
After all, it was Xun who proposed the imperial examination system, and the main purpose was really not to promote the virtuous for the country. It's to open up one more upward channel for the poor scholars.
The imperial examination was made in the Tang Dynasty. But the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were really not like those in the later Song Dynasty and even in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Another entry and body search, another three days of testing, and soldiers standing guard, making it look like a prison. The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was still mixed with many human feelings, so after the scholars entered Chang'an, they had to intervene in the power gate, or write poems to make a name for themselves, in order to add points. Cheating was not a problem at all for the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty. In order to plug this loophole, later generations made the system more and more strict, but the wind of cheating also grew and became more unpreventable.
Of course, this is also due to the fact that the number of taxis taking the examination is increasing day by day, and if the system is not strictly enforced, it will be completely unmanageable. Don't look at the scale of this exam, it is beyond Xun's expectations, but in real terms, it may not be able to compare the number of township exams in some important states in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming and Qing dynasties......
Therefore, Xun comforted himself: At the beginning of the imperial examination system in history, I didn't deliberately avoid cheating, so why should I be too persistent?
Let's talk about the first imperial examination. It was arranged on September 25, the 14th year of Jian'an, with more than 300 participants. The second Ming Jing examination was scheduled for October 5, with more than 200 participants. Then by the 8th, the first round of subjects had basically been judged, and the examination papers of the Ming Jing subject were uniformly judged. As the chief examiner, Shixun can give priority to holding a large stack of papers to check, and pick a few copies to review - it can't all be read by him alone, otherwise he will have to vomit blood.
But he didn't flip through it randomly, and it wasn't long before he saw two tiny ink marks in the lower right corner of one of the exam papers—well, that's it, let me take a look at it first.
When I unfolded the scroll, my first impression was that the handwriting was quite beautiful, and the neat and tidy official script was very different from what I had seen when I was still in the camp, but if I looked closely, I could indeed see a trace of the handwriting of that day - it seemed that Bo Ming had been studying at home for many years, and he had not completely messed up his life.
Look at the prose again, it is smooth and clear, the structure is rigorous, and the meaning of the text is profound and dense, and it is to the point - this is definitely not my ability, is it not because I can do it in advance, let him go to the examination room and write it silently?
If the article is not well written, it will be fine, since it is well written, it is Xun who simply put it down, or give it to others to criticize, in order to avoid suspicion. Moreover, it took nine full days before and after the determination of the scriptures, and all but a dozen of the more than 300 examination papers were evaluated except for those that did not answer the questions asked, or those that were defiled were all evaluated. Of course, it was not a 100-point system, but it was also divided into nine grades according to the rules of the Zhongzheng system—that was a common hierarchical system at the time, not a new invention of Chen Changwen.
In the end, Xun reviewed it again, and adjusted the grades of more than twenty of them—all of them were downgraded for those who were flashy, or whose buttocks were too obvious to sit on the side of the family, and for those who were humble and profound, they were raised by one or two. After reviewing it, I saw that it was the file, and the first reviewer was Chen Qun's disciple Duan Fang, who gave a high score of "up and down" - well, this article is worth the price. But Xun still deliberately pressed two levels and changed it to "Zhongzhong" -- this is really a high score, and he will be assigned to a better post, isn't that foolish for the country? In the future, if something happens to that goods, I will lose my face!
After the scoring is completed, it is not like the imperial examination in later generations, which is announced on the spot, but all of them are handed over to the selection department for the record. In short, those who are rated as the top grade will be added to the second class, the first class will be added to the middle grade, and the lower grade will be equivalent to the self-recommender, so the final grade and ranking will be determined.
For example, his Zhongzheng product is rated as Zhongzhong, and his Mingjing exam score is also Zhongzhong, so the final score is Zhongzhong.
Those who have been evaluated at the fifth level of the Communist Party of China (still not given to anyone) will be transferred to the Ministry of Officials, and Chen Qun will lead the team of the Ministry of Officials to assign functions - not only the Ming Jing, but also the evaluation process of other subjects.
This was the first imperial examination in the world, and there were nearly 600 people who referred to it, and more than half of them finally passed guò, and 300 were strange. Different from the original era when the imperial examination system was in full swing in later generations, first, it mainly depends on the results, and there is no rigid limit on the number of admits - anyway, there are still many empty pits in Chen Qun's place, and even if they are filled, they can also hang the title of "Maocai" as a reserve team for Wei officials. The second is that the number of scholars in these years is relatively small, and the relative quality is also fine, and there are not as many people as those in later generations.
As for yes, he was finally assigned to the secretary and supervisor as an official - Liu Fang took a fancy to his good handwriting. (To be continued......)
ps: Old friend Duan Fang wants to join, just let him be Chen Qun's doorman, in the future life, Shu chaos, maybe there will be a chance to appear and then die, hahahaha~~R1292