Chapter 57: The Shock of the Examination
As soon as the imperial examination ended, the system began. Those scholars who took the imperial examination didn't care about staying a few more days, they all watched the excitement with great interest. Zhao Jiaren's examination is different from the past, with a total of six courses. They are Chinese, Mathematics, Geography, History, Physics + Chemistry, Logic + Ideology and Politics.
Each course lasts an hour and a half, with two in the morning and one in the afternoon every day. Exams for six courses are completed in two days. Candidates are required to leave the examination room after the test, and they cannot stay overnight in the test room. Looking at the people who took the exam and held their books before the exam, the scholars couldn't help but laugh at the 'grinding guns are not fast and light'. Completely forgetting that so is with themselves.
The imperial examinations in the Great Song Dynasty were regular, and the examinations were irregular. The procedure for the examination was more cumbersome than that for the imperial examination, and those who took the examination were recommended by the ministers of the imperial court and then took a preliminary examination. Finally, the emperor himself will make the exam questions.
This time, the system is completely different, and the first person to be selected is the administrative officer, similar to a small official. Secondly, all persons, both men and women, can take the test as long as they have paid the examination fee. Thirdly, it is also a place where few people pay attention. This time, it was Zhao Taiwei who made the questions, or Zhao Taiwei appointed the teachers to write the exam questions according to the school education outline of the Nautical Guild.
Seeing that some women with 'cadre heads' also entered the examination room with serious faces, those who participated in the imperial examination did not know what to say. In addition to being surprised, those intellectual women in Lin'an also showed envy. Such an unprecedented exam caused an unprecedented shock in Lin'an, and before the exam was over, those papers were circulated.
"Mother, let me go out and have a look!" Liu Jingwen's daughter, Liu Fengfeng, pleaded with her mother excitedly. She was sixteen years old and received a systematic Confucian education, and although she failed to take the exams, her education level was no different from that of other boys in the family.
Liu Jingwen's wife looked at her daughter's burning appearance, and she didn't want her daughter to run around with others to read the papers so crazy. She shook her head with the cold expression of the mistress of a bureaucratic family, "No. Go back and be a female celebrity. ”
was rejected mercilessly, and Liu Hao's anxious tears were about to come out. But she didn't dare to sneak out of the door as a girl, and she knew that her wife was definitely not a person who could be moved by begging, so she could only go back to the house step by step. Looking at the manual work on the table sullenly, Liu Fengfeng's heart seemed to have wings and flew out of the house. It is not uncommon for girls to read in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is not uncommon for girls to teach in the Great Song Dynasty. In the Great Song Dynasty, women were involved in all walks of life, including sumo wrestling, but no women officially became officials.
It wasn't until Taiwei Zhao led the troops back to Lin'an that women working in the government appeared. They don't tie their hair, they don't tie their hair, they either have short neck-length hair or a simple ponytail. He wears flying fish suits on his right, and some even wear swords at his waist. It's not that no one said anything, but the prestige of Taiwei Zhao, who recaptured the old capital, is skyrocketing, and these criticisms are useless. For example, Liu Haofeng's own opinion of Zhao Taiwei is not the same as her father.
In my heart, I heard footsteps outside. When she looked up, she saw her brother trotting in with a stack of papers in his hand. His younger brother is a very smart and clever child, and Liu Haofeng is very happy.
"Sister, this is ......" Liu Haofeng's younger brother wanted to show his merit when he opened his mouth.
"Shhhh Don't be so loud, it's not good for my mother to hear it. Liu Haofeng grabbed the paper, and at the same time educated her younger brother to prevent his father and mother. I just glanced at the things on the paper, and I almost blurted out the sentence 'It's too sloppy'. However, according to previous experience, her brother would be angry if she said this, so Liu Fengfeng forced the words back into her stomach, she put the things on the table aside, laid out the new paper, picked up the pencil and began to recopy.
Seeing his sister deal with it like this, his younger brother was also a little embarrassed and said, "Sister, there are too many people, and I'm in a hurry......"
"Don't talk nonsense, write together." Liu Fengfeng moved a position for his younger brother while talking.
The two began to transcribe little by little, and soon after, Liu Haofeng's eldest brother also came in. Without much to say, he picked up a piece of paper and began to transcribe the other parts. It is easy to work when there are many people, and it is good to eat when there are few people. It didn't take long for the entire history exam paper to be copied.
The three of them were not eligible to participate in the imperial examination, and now they saw that even women could participate in the subject examination, and they excitedly commented on the questions together.
The first year of the Western Zhou Dynasty was the earliest year in China to have (). This topic caught my eye, and the three readers were confused. It is now the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Western Zhou Dynasty is a republic. What was this in the first place? They look at me, I look at you, and they immediately feel some awe for this volume.
If you have taken a history course at the Nautical Guild School, you will know that this is a question to be given, and the first year of the Republic of the Western Zhou Dynasty was the earliest year in China to have an era name. From that year onwards, China's history officially entered the era of chronology, and the year was not bad for the next year.
Wen Tianxiang and several officials who had a good relationship before also looked at the history volume together, and the Jinshi themselves felt that their cultural level was quite high, and they were naturally vigorous about historical things. Faced with the first question, these people were also confused. Fortunately, they all have exam experience and know that there are always questions that they can't do, so they give up this question and look down. Next is to fill in the blanks with dynasties. These people regained their faith, and this question did not bother them.
Some of the questions look very simple. () was the first female emperor of China. This question made the jinshi roll their eyes, "Who is going to be the second female emperor?" The taunt immediately kicked in.
Fill-in-the-blank questions, multiple-choice questions, quiz questions, essay questions. The Jinshi finished the whole set of questions, and there were many things that were inconclusive. Wen Tianxiang was thinking about the question and answer question about the internal struggle of the Jin Dynasty before the Five Hu Chaohua, don't look at the simple description of the text, in fact, the interior is very complicated.
Then someone asked, "How long has it been?" ”
"What, for how long?" Wen Tianxiang subconsciously asked rhetorically.
"I'm asking, how long have we been working on the question." The one explained.
Wen Tianxiang and the others' eyes fell on the alarm clock, recalling the time of the beginning, Wen Tianxiang replied: "It's been almost two hours." ”
As soon as these words came out, I didn't think of anything wrong at first, and then I thought about it, and the exam time was one and a half hours. Now the gang is completely past the exam time. The questioner, who was a little unconfident, replied: "If I do this paper, how many points can I get." ”
The Jinshi were all in their hearts, and after estimating, they found that if they did this exam paper, they could be sure that the score they would get might not be 60 points. A score of 60 is the passing mark, and it doesn't matter if you pass or not, but who has the highest score.
With the experience of the history exam, the jinshi also came to the momentum. During the Chinese exam, they each held back their strength, hoping to get a full score. However, in pinyin, I lost a lot of points, because I didn't learn, and I could only watch the full score disappear. The rest of the content has some grammatical problems in modern Chinese, and some cannot be answered.
In ancient Chinese, because I hadn't read "Man Jianghong's Angry Hair Rushing to the Crown by the Railing", I didn't get a full score, as for the final telegram, expository essay, and argumentative essay. They know that there is no first, and this thing can't get a full score when it is written.
The math score is 100, and the scores of the questions that the jinshi complete within the specified time are less than 20 points. Physics + Chemistry zero eggs, geography can determine the right questions, add up to less than 20 points. Logic + ideology and politics, their scores are slightly higher, and everyone no longer dares to evaluate the scores at this time. The jinshi are so embarrassed, they have already made a mess in the previous exam, not to mention the high scores, the five courses add up to less than 120, and the last one is no longer able to speak.
At first, many people had their own ideas about the system, but after the paper was released, all those who questioned the content of the exam temporarily shut up. Even the Jinshi did a terrible job, not to mention other people in the Great Song Dynasty who were not from the Navigation Guild.
It's the same with New China. After all the exam papers were collected and sealed, the correct answers began to be released. These answers can be regarded as sparking heated discussions. Literati can only make evaluations of language and history, and Wen Tianxiang is too lazy to get involved, he is also a person who wants to save face.
It wasn't until someone talked about the geography exam at a special gathering of the jinshi that Wen Tianxiang paid attention to it.
"Taiwei Zhao has to say that the earth is round. There was a saying that the sky is round and the earth is round, and those heavenly eunuchs also know this. I think it's a bit too ...... for him to take a taxi like this Trespass. ”
"I can't talk about trespassing. It's just that this geography says that the earth revolves around the sun, ...... is completely opposite to science. ”
"Cut, what Taiwei Zhao meant was already very clear when he was admitted to the Jinshi, Shi Miyuan was undefeated, and his name was broken. As for Zhu Xi's science, although it is not banned by the party, it is not much different from the traitorous party. Now even if you criticize science, what can you do? ”
Hearing this, Wen Tianxiang had no interest in listening to it anymore. He has also learned some knowledge of natural sciences in the past two years, and Zhao Jiaren has given opportunities to policies to Jinshi who 'still have a chance to transform'. In the course of astronomy, in fact, with the astronomical attainments of the Great Song Dynasty, he can accurately calculate the solar and lunar eclipses, and naturally know that the earth and the moon are round. and know that the Earth-Moon system revolves around the Sun.
This astronomical fact is not brought out because it conflicts with many of the ideas of science. Xunzi said, 'Heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for death'. In science, it is believed that the celestial and human inductions, and the solar and lunar eclipses are caused by the immorality of the Son of Heaven. Therefore, even if you know the natural sciences, you can't tell them.
I don't know if someone feels embarrassed, or someone feels helpless, in short, a voice sounded, "The system is difficult to test." This is a preliminary exam, so let's wait and see the scientific exam.
Half a month later, the new agricultural college examination under Taixue officially began. If you say that in the previous exams, the jinshi were barely able to read the questions. Now they can only recognize the words in the title, and they can only look at the meaning of what the title says.
Since then, the Jinshi class has stopped speaking about the system for the time being. After the subject examination, Zhao Taiwei ordered the opening of new schools in Lin'an, Gusu, Qingyuanfu and other places from July of the third year of the Republic of China. The content of the course is all based on the subject examination. Enrollment starts immediately. Zhao Taiwei then left Lin'an, leaving only a group of people who were disturbed by the news.