Chapter 404: When You Get the Fish (Part 1)

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There is no cold door in the upper grade, no scholar clan in the lower grade, and in the past, the high-grade scholar clan monopolized a qiΔ“, so it has to be recommended, and it can be an official.

And today's way of the imperial examination, to learn from talent, to give equal opportunities to anyone, scholars have a little pride, people present, who do not think that they have no hope of being examined.

A broad road is equal to being placed in front of everyone.

Li Chongjiu saw the excited look flashing in the eyes of the scholars, smiled slightly, and said at the moment: "On the two days of the county examination, the candidates had to go out of the examination room, and I personally took the lead examiner, and Wen Changshi, Chen Sima, Wei Junshou, and Lu Juncheng were the deputy examiners, and there were twelve examiners with them. ”

"The same examiner will read the papers first, and after the papers of all the scholars have been named, they will be reviewed and annotated by two fellow examiners, and no one of them will be dismissed if he thinks it is desirable. The papers that pass are then read by the four deputy examiners to determine the papers of ten scholars, and these ten people are the last to enter the county government as officials. Finally, I personally read the scrolls of these ten people to determine the ranking. ”

All the scholars were happy and convinced by this arrangement, so as to put an end to the ills of personal likes and dislikes and dislikes.

"No!"

All the scholars gave up their hands together, Li Chongjiu smiled slightly, this is the way to take scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and now it is copied by himself, although it has been criticized by later generations, but for the current era, it is really advanced.

All the scholars were smiling, but Zhou Zhou sneered, and asked in a low voice in the congratulatory letter on the side: "Brother Zhou, why are you laughing?" ”

Zhou Zhou said: "This is the art of the emperor, you look at the past to take the scholar, the scholar will only be grateful to the person who recommended, in a state of Zhongzheng, the court here but there is no favor, and now this power is concentrated in the hands of the chief examiner, the ten people who will be officials in the future must be in line with the political views and Li Tingshi, and they will be personally recorded, how to be grateful to Dade." ”

"The grace of a scholar, the same as the teacher, isn't this a good way to win people's hearts?"

The congratulatory letter suddenly realized and said: "Brother Zhou is really insightful. ”

Zhou Zhou thought for a while and said: "But this is very beneficial for our poor scholars, okay, Li Tingshi's personal recommendation relationship, being an official is equal to his protΓ©gΓ©, and he can be regarded as having a background, and he is not afraid of being excluded by his colleagues." ”

"Exactly, exactly."

After Li Chongjiu finished the rules of the exam, the soldiers entered together.

Before passing through the gate, Zhao Xin happened to enter with Zhou Zhou and the congratulatory letter.

Zhao Xin glanced at Zhou Zhou, slowed down and smiled: "Brother Zhou, this county test, the one who can take the lead, either me or Ruer, dare to bet with me?" ”

The congratulatory letter said on the side: "Brother Zhou, Mo Yan listens to his nonsense, he is trying to disturb you and prevent you from taking a good ranking." ”

Zhou Zhou listened and said, "It's okay to say everything. ”

Zhao Xinyan said: "If any of the two of us fall behind, how about inviting all our classmates to the Yuelou banquet?" ”

Mingyue Tower is the most expensive restaurant in Zhuo County, Zhao Xin said this, obviously putting pressure on Zhou Zhou.

"Boring." Zhou Zhou sneered.

At this time, a person suddenly passed by and knocked the test basket of the congratulatory letter.

The congratulatory letter was accidental, and a few cooking cakes in the examination basket were thrown on the ground, and the other party turned a blind eye and deliberately stepped on the cooking cakes. A piece of fine yellow and clear wheat cake was suddenly printed with a shoe print full of black mud.

"Sorry, sorry, it wasn't meant to be." The man said this, but his face was full of smiles.

The officials on the side happened to be blocked from sight and did not see this scene.

Zhao Xin smiled when he saw this, and immediately strode towards the door.

Zhou Zhou and the congratulatory letter glared angrily.

Zhou Zhou helped He Xin pick up the cake from the ground, He Xin patted the cake, and said with a reluctant smile: "It's okay, it seems that you can still eat, Brother Zhou should not be angry about this, it will affect the county test." ”

Zhou Zhou's eyes were calm, but he secretly made up his mind.

At present, more than 100 scholars are entering their respective examination booths according to the examination cards issued.

The examination shed is transparent on three sides, with a thatched roof, government soldiers standing guard on the left and right, examiners patrolling, and small officials supervising, so that the probability of candidates cheating is almost zero.

There are also large water tanks in each examination booth, which are used by candidates to drink water or extinguish fires.

Zhou Zhou couldn't help but be impressed when he saw this, he thought that there would be many flaws in the first imperial examination in Youzhou, but he didn't expect that one by one would be arranged so carefully, as if the examiner had presided over a lot of experience in scientific examinations.

How did Zhou Zhou know that these were all rules that Li Chongjiu copied from a thousand years later.

Zhou Zhou entered his No. 3 examination booth, and the candidates entered and talked about a bunch of rules, and then when everything was settled and the test papers were to be distributed, it was almost noon.

Many candidates began to cure their hunger at this time, and Zhou Zhou also broke half of the cooking cake from the examination basket and put it in his mouth, thinking of Zhao Xin's companion's bullying of the congratulatory letter, he couldn't help but be angry in his heart.

But then he realized that he was not so bad for the villain's trick, so Zhou Zhou took a deep breath, took the egg from the test basket and peeled it carefully, and adjusted his feelings.

When an egg was eaten and the test paper had been issued, Zhou Zhou took a deep breath and began to read the paper while grinding ink.

Watching the distribution of the test papers on the high platform, as the chief examiner, Li Chongjiu's intention to ask questions is like this.

The test paper is still in this era, and the four books and five classics that readers must read, the four books are compulsory questions, and the five classics are optional questions, which is the first paper.

In addition, there is astronomy, geography, arithmetic, and agricultural knowledge, which is the second volume.

Finally, there is a treatise, which is the third volume.

The Four Books and Five Classics are just simple fill-in-the-blank questions, or they extend the meaning of classical Chinese, which are all basic common sense.

The Four Books and Five Classics are the foundation of Chinese culture, and the thoughts of the sages are that if you want to be an official, you can't be illiterate, you can't break sentences, and you can't understand classical Chinese, which are the basic qualities of officials.

Although Li Chongjiu's rhyme and punctuation have been popularized among the people, especially the people who like Sinology in Huaihuang and Yuyi two towns are even more enthusiastic, but for traditional scholars, they look down on these and think that they are not as good as the people of Xiariba.

The second volume is also basic common sense, not to mention astronomical and geographical, basic arithmetic is not enough, and it is also worthy of being an official, as for agricultural knowledge in this agriculture-oriented country, agricultural knowledge is also the basic quality of being an official.

In Li Chongjiu's intentions, the first and second volumes do not have a large proportion of scores, and the most important thing to open up the gap is the one on the strategy.

The Han Dynasty took the scholars, there was a policy question, the Song Dynasty took the scholars, it was the policy theory, the Ming and Qing dynasties were eight shares, and in the Heavenly Dynasty, there was also the argument.

According to thousands of years, the intention of Chinese examiners, the exams are all similar, if the first two papers are to assess whether you have the ability to be an official, then the basic IQ is normal, and people who have undergone some training can be qualified.

As for the last paper, it is a test of how strong your ability to be an official is.

Li Chongjiu stood on the high platform, watching the scholars rustling and writing on the examination room, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

Seeking talents for the country is the country's top priority, needless to say Li Tang, it is Li Shimin's talent reserve of Tiance Mansion, and now it is better than himself.

Li Chongjiu sighed deeply what it means to be thirsty for talent, and couldn't help but think that he took a taxi for the first time in Huaihuang Town six years ago, when there were more than 8,000 people in Huaihuang Town, and there were only more than 20 people who could write smoothly and express their meanings, which was equivalent to the level of modern middle school students.

Among them, the best, Ji Chuan, Liu Yi, and Zhou Xu, were changed to be sergeants in the stage, and their talents were between them and better than them, I don't know how much.

Now this is a county of talents, I have been in Youzhou for two or three years, so I can have such a weather, maybe in the future, among them, they will be able to have their own Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui.

I remember that Ji Chuan said to himself that the matter of county learning and county learning is a matter of teaching and fishing, and it will take at least ten years. But I didn't expect to go from Huaihuang Town to Youzhou, but in just five or six years, Li Chongjiu has reached the time to get fish today.

Li Chongjiu stepped off the high platform and inspected the examination room, most of the scholars answered the first and second papers, all without hindrance, in one go, obviously this exam level is much stronger than those people in Huaihuang Town back then.

But when it comes to the third roll, many people are stuck here.

The third policy is for candidates to play and write their own opinions, but because there is no format specification, it is also the most difficult.

When Li Chongjiu saw this, he knew it in his heart.

On the first day of the exam, at night, the officers and soldiers gave each candidate an oil lamp.

Some of the candidates fought at night, and some picked up the bedding, went to sleep directly, and got up early tomorrow to answer.

Overnight, the officials did not dare to be careless, at this time, first, it was the time when the candidates were most likely to cheat, and secondly, if the scholars who were tired of the exam, if they went to sleep and knocked over the oil lamp, and a fire broke out in the examination room, it would be bad.

The fearful night was spent safely, and the next day the candidates continued to answer the questions.

Li Chongjiu was sitting on the high platform to review the official documents, but at this time, he saw a candidate come out of the examination booth, hand in the papers directly, and then left.

The paper was transferred from the hands of the same examiner to the hands of the deputy examiner Lu Chengqing, who came to Li Chongjiu and said: "Qi Shanggu Gong, this is the first test paper of a scholar to be completed. ”

Li Chongjiu took the scroll and glanced at it, the other party's name was Zhou Zhou, and there was no Zhou clan in Zhuo County, so it seemed that he was not a child of the Shi clan.

After Li Chongjiu read this test paper, he couldn't help but be shocked, stood up and asked, "Where is this person?" ”

Zhou Zhou strode out of the door and returned to the Zhaoxian Pavilion, the familiar shopkeepers, and the guys all stepped forward to salute, and said that Mr. Zhou, he is only eight years old, and this time he must be in high school.

Zhou Zhou returned the salute one by one, but when he returned to the room, he cleaned up and saluted, and after cleaning up, there was a commotion downstairs, obviously other scholars had also finished the exam.

Zhou Zhou's door was opened, and it turned out to be a congratulatory letter.

As soon as the congratulatory letter saw Zhou Zhou, he asked: "Brother Zhou, seeing that you have submitted your first paper, you should be confident in this test, right?" ”

Zhou Zhou smiled and said without saying a word: "No, Brother He, how did you do in the exam?" ”

He Xin sighed and said: "I'm afraid it's difficult, but you don't have to worry, I have my own arrangements, even if I don't win, Zhou Saijiu will also get me a county doctor in Liangxiang County, but what about you, Brother Zhou?" ”

Zhou Zhou said with a smile: "If I don't win the first place in this volume, I will fall off the list, and there is no third possibility." (To be continued.) )