Chapter 131: Discussion on the sidelines of the examination room
The morning sun is beginning to appear, and above the square, there is a piece of gold.
Crowded with people, lively and punishable
In the square at the entrance of the Annam Palace, many heats crowded together, all waiting for the posting of the results in the palace.
The night before Runzhi was sure that he wanted all the fame, the arrangement of first and second place was almost racking his brains.
After all, there are many histories and cultures in Kyushu, for these people, although there are big differences in many aspects, but for those who are knowledgeable, it is still a dish.
In order to allow everyone to play better, Runzhi deliberately set the time of the exam as five hours, so that everyone can display their talents to the fullest.
Runzhi invited many great Confucianists, Mohists, Legalists, Taoists, and soldiers from the Four Books and Five Classics in Kyushu near Annam, and formed a special examination group composed of the leaders of these factions, and the number was as high as forty-nine.
The first question type on the Four Books and the Five Classics is written by the scholars of all factions of the examination group, and this question needs to reflect the characteristics of all these schools of thought, and can be answered with the knowledge of all schools.
This question is actually quite interesting, and it is excerpted as follows:
Basic Comprehensive Questions: Try to explain the core essence of all the classic books you know in the Siku Quanshu, and focus on the essence of the Four Books and the Five Classics, and try to discuss the origin of many books in the Siku Quanshu and the Hundred Schools of Thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
This question may seem very complicated, but it is actually a very large type of question, which requires the answer to have an extremely in-depth study of the history and culture of Kyushu, so that he can write like a master.
In the face of such a question, many talents actually ignored this question and directly began to answer the following two big questions, which accounted for ninety percent of the total score.
In the examination room, I saw all the talents answering the questions with a pen, or concentrating on the Sith, or hesitating, or swiping the pen, many appearances, not to be named.
These talented people in Annam have not taken the examination for decades, and these people are full of longing for this imperial examination, but the previous Pang Huachen listened to the advice of a traitorous minister and delegated all the authority of this official to the so-called "merit-based selection" of the incumbent officials for their positions after retirement.
In the end, all official positions became private property, and all of them were inherited by their own children and grandchildren, so there are many crazy people who can serve as feudal officials, so how can they not be chaotic?
On the day of the exam, many people gathered outside the exam room, and they came to:
"This exam is really powerful!"
"Bodhisattva bless, Amitabha, finally let my hard-working child wait for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I hope he must win in the C position."
"I hope my son can achieve the desired results and get a good official position!"
"I hope that my son can be a woman who looks like a country and a city! After all, my family is not short of money! ”
"As long as your son does well in the exam, then it is naturally okay, if he does not do well in the exam, then it may not be!"
"I hope my husband can get good grades, as long as it is good grades, a good official position is proper!"
"According to Annan, all the talents from all over the country have come to take the exam, and the number of participants is not less than one million, and the threshold of some examination rooms has been broken!"
"There are so many people, it seems that there is a lot of pressure on competition!"
"That's for sure, if the pressure is not too big, how can it be possible to give birth to the talents played by the new lord!"
"That is, the more participants the better, gold will always shine, and this time the real talent will definitely be able to shine brightly!"
"That's true, according to this time, everyone handed out hundreds of blank answer sheets, and it took a lot of effort to draw them with a pen."
"No, hundreds of pieces of paper, how is it possible, how many people can use them up?"
"That's it, so much paper, can these candidates use it up?"
"You don't have to worry about this! There are still countless pieces of royal paper, but if you find a number of people, its value is far more than a hundred times the total value of these papers! ”
"That's right, talent is the most important thing, with talent, it means that everything is ready and only the east wind is owed, so there is still no need to worry that our Annan will not get better in the future?"
"If you say that, that's great, we can finally say goodbye to those well-fed and corrupt so-called officials, and let these people all go and help us clean the thatched house!"
"That's right, under the governance of the new lord, Annan thinks that the premise is unlimited!"
"Actually, it would be best if we all returned to Kyushu!"
"What, you're so bold that you dare to even mention it! But I appreciate your courage, and in fact, I also hope that our Annan will return to Kyushu! ”
"You two are right, it was a traitor's act to split Wu Quan in our country at the beginning, and after separating one side, it was just a country, and there were many fewer places to play!"
"That's true, my fruits and rice, if the traitor surnamed Wu hadn't cut the territory, I would have been able to sell it directly to everyone across Kyushu, and I didn't have to bribe to get a customs clearance diploma, and after passing through those layers of checkpoints, it was really troublesome!"
"That's true, if I were in Wu Quan's Ming Dynasty, I would definitely not agree to his secession, so, if those surrounding countries came to attack, the strength was a lot, and more soldiers had to be raised, so that this tax and conscription were so heavy, if I was still in the territory of Kyushu, there would not be these things."
"That's true, a lot of things, where our people can control, fortunately, the old man opened his eyes, and there was such a wise new lord, if he directly brought us back to Kyushu, then I would definitely be the first to raise my hands in favor!"
"It's just your opinion, and there are still a lot of people who are probably not very willing!"
"He's right, there are still people who don't want to, such as those who were originally feudal officials, if this state of secession is ended, then wouldn't his official position mean that he will be demoted by one level?"
Many people, on the edge of the examination room, quietly cheered for their sons or husbands who took this exam, hoping to use their talents to gain the appreciation of the new lord, so that they could achieve a leap of class overnight, for many talented poor people, this is one of the few days that can get ahead.
Runzhi directly sent the elite of the Eight Banners Army and the remaining soldiers of Annam to various examination rooms, and some soldiers with a talent or above education level served as the chief examination officials, and strictly monitored these people who participated in the examination, and the slightest bit of favoritism and malpractice occurred.
In order to prevent fraud, Runzhi specially posted a notice "Anyone who cheats will be beaten with 20 sticks, and the words "national test fraud" will be engraved on his face, and he and his children and grandchildren will be banned from being officials for life.