Chapter 197: Xia Yan and Yan Song
Located on Gongyuan Street, the first floor is already overcrowded, not only the first floor, it can be said that the inns in Beijing, especially the restaurants and inns on the streets near Gongyuan, have been rushed from all over the world to participate in the examination.
Some of the people who come late and don't want to live too far from the Gongyuan don't want to stay in Taoist temples and temples.
At this time, in an upper room on the first floor, three scholars were drinking around the table, even if it had been a few days since they could try, they did not see the slightest sense of anxiety and urgency in several people.
In fact, for top students, the more big the exam, the more they must relax their minds, treat the exam with a normal heart, and often as long as they play normally, they will not care too much about not getting good results in the exam.
Only those scumbags who usually don't work hard and only think about cramming for a while before the exam will study all night, counting on themselves to sharpen their guns, even if they don't shine.
From time to time, the three confident scholars took a sip of wine and talked a few words, and the content of the conversation was naturally to try, and the focus was also on the strategy.
There is nothing to say about the Four Books and Five Classics, no one knows what will be tested until the day of the exam, even if you want to bet on the question, there is no place to bet, because the exam question may be taken by the Son of Heaven at random, and then click a few sentences casually, or the emperor has a flash of inspiration in his mind and remembers some sentences, in short, there are too many uncertainties.
However, the policy question is different, and the question is very likely to be in the question, because the policy question is almost closely connected with the current politics, and when the emperor asks the question, there is a good chance that he will ask the question because of his view of the current political issue.
Is it important to ask questions?
Important is not important.
If the three examinations are set at 10 points, then the 4 book test will be worth 5 points, the 5 scripture test will be worth 3 to 4 points, and the policy question will only be worth 1 to 2 points.
For traditional Confucian scholars, the Four Books and the Five Classics are the foundation of all learning, and reading the books of the sages to understand the subtle words of the sages is the basic skill, and the only end if the basic skills are not solid is to fall off the list.
Thousands of people participate in the examination, eighteen will be the first to read the papers, the first to read is naturally the four book questions, if the four book questions are not well written or even the donkey's head is not in the horse's mouth, then the back of the Five Classics questions and questions can be written even if they can be written out of the flower is useless, because the four book questions have been brushed, even if the candidates continue to take the exam, the paper will not appear in front of the marker.
It can be said that it is not an exaggeration to directly brush off half of the move in a four-book test.
The same is true for the Pentateuch questions, and the Doctor of the Pentateuch who serves as the grader will start a new round of frenzy, but the Pentateuch is different from the Four Books.
Generally speaking, at least three marking officers will read four books, and if more than half of them think it is not good after reading, it will be eliminated.
But the Pentateuch is read by the Doctor of the Pentateuch, and what is the concept of being a Doctor of the Pentateuch, that at least shows that the Doctor of the Pentateuch is definitely a leader in his understanding of the Pentateuch in their respective fields.
However, the Pentateuch is broad and profound, and each doctor has his own understanding, so the subjective intention is relatively large, and the Pentateuch question may not be badly written, but once it does not match the concept of the Doctor of the Pentateuch, or even goes against it, then no matter how well it is written, it is a death.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there will be a lot of people who will try to fall first, and they will come to high school again three years later, which shows that people must have talent, otherwise it is impossible to stand out from the imperial examination room where thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge, but why the previous time was not in the middle and back, a large part of the reason is that their Five Classics inscription is not the appetite of the Five Classics Doctor.
Those who can successfully pass the same examiner in the four books and five classics are all outstanding people, and it is natural to write questions that are not limited to the subject matter.
At this time, it is the turn of the examiner to appear, and almost 25% of the papers that can successfully enter the examiner's eyes are closed, which means that before this, 75% of the candidates have already failed the list.
The examiner marks the paper or from the four books to the five classics and then to the question, at this level because of the possibility of the four books and five classics being brushed off, after all, the same examiner is also full of sage books, their level may not be much worse than the examiner, the reason why they become the same examiner, is nothing more than insufficient official position or qualifications.
The policy question is about current affairs, and current affairs is the big man in the court, and the field that can only be involved by the ministers of the court, and the same examiner generally does not express his subjective opinions on the policy question, so as long as it is not bullshit, it will generally be sent directly to the examiner for decision.
There is no serious partisan struggle in the current Ming Dynasty, so even if the views on current affairs will not be consistent, the differences will not be too big, that is to say, as long as the candidates do not scribble, basically the problem will not be too big.
To put it bluntly, it is a question of letting candidates grasp the psychology of the examiner.
Since it is current politics, then candidates will bet on the question, combined with the clearest political events at the moment, to speculate on the emperor's psychology, guess the direction of the emperor's question, generally speaking, the probability of winning the question is very high.
"The feudal system of the feudal king, the reform of the salt administration, the commercial tax, and the military system, one of these four points must be the focus of this strategy, and it is not impossible to even have all four points." Jiangxi Shizi Xia Yan took a sip of wine and made a categorical judgment.
Xia Yan, the sixth in the Jiangxi Township Examination in the fifth year of Zhengde, according to the original trajectory of history, Xia Yan will participate in the examination for the first time in the ninth year of Zhengde, and fall off the list, and then enter the political arena in the 12th year of Zhengde.
However, history has a turning point here in Zhu Houwei, and Enke, who would not have been, has appeared, and no one knows whether Xia Yan will be tested.
Zhu Houwei watched "Daming Dynasty 1566", which can be called one of the pinnacle TV series, and learned about the Jiajing Dynasty through this TV series, but there is no Xia Yan in this TV series, because Xia Yan was framed by Yan Song more than ten years ago, and was finally beheaded by Emperor Jiajing and abandoned the city.
Xia Yan thus became the first and only cabinet chief in the history of the Ming Dynasty to be beheaded by the emperor.
The cabinet chiefs of the Chongzhen Dynasty, Xue Guoguan and Zhou Yanru, were given death by the emperor, not beheaded.
Sitting on the left of Xia Yan is Yan Song, a traitor who left a great reputation in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
No one is born a traitor, at least when they are not out of office, and only read the books of sages, these Confucian students all want to cultivate themselves and govern the country and level the world, but they have been mixed in the officialdom for a long time, and they are naturally lost and fall into the bottomless abyss.
Now that the emperor has become Zhu Houwei, instead of the Daojun Emperor Zhu Houxi, who is a maze of alchemy, Yan Song's fate and career will inevitably change, at least Zhu Houwei will not give him the slightest chance to harm Daming, if this guy is easy to change and his nature is difficult to change, then Zhu Houwei will not mind sending him to the guillotine earlier!
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