In February of the sixth year of Jiajing, I will try!

The imperial examination is a great ceremony for the country's talents, which has been passed down for thousands of years, even if the Mengyuan alien race occupies the Central Plains.

However, the imperial examination has been carried out for thousands of years, from the fraud in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the manipulation of the imperial examination by the gate valve to the relative justice of the Song Dynasty, and then to the complete perfection of the imperial examination system in the Ming Dynasty, which has taken hundreds of years.

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination attacked the Tang system, and the scriptures, Moyi and poetry were examined.

Therefore, candidates take sound and rhyme as their business, and they are obscure about the ancient and modern, and the Ming Sutra only insists on memorizing and reciting, and its righteousness is useless to learn.

Wang Anshi changed the law, reformed the imperial examination system, abolished the poems, scriptures, and Moyi, and focused on the scriptures, theories, and strategies, which laid the general direction for the imperial examinations in later generations.

After the Ming Dynasty, because of the experience of a hundred years of alienation, the scholars withered and tired, and the Hongwu Emperor greatly respected Zhu Zi's science, so in the third year of Hongwu, he announced to the world, and set the Ming imperial examination system can only be taken from the "Four Books and Five Classics" annotated by Zhu Xi, and Zhu Xi has completely ascended to the altar since then.

The Ming emperors of the past dynasties also respected Zhu Xi, such as the preface to the "Four Books and Five Classics" annotated by Taizong for Zhu Xi, such as the orthodox emperor exempting all the taxes of Zhu Xi's descendants, such as ......

However, Confucianism developed into science by absorbing Taoism and the five elements of yin and yang, and science emphasized rote memorization, three obedience and four virtues, and stifled the drawbacks of human nature, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty all chose to turn a blind eye and listen to them......

Since then, Cheng Zhu Lixue, who has imprisoned his thoughts, has officially stepped onto the stage of history, and Chinese women have finally ushered in the dark years of five or six hundred years.

Why? I think it's because the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is surnamed Zhu, and Zhu Xi is also surnamed Zhu......

Of course, Emperor Hongwu has never been taboo about his origin, he has been a beggar and a monk, so what can he do?

After all, he is the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the generation of heroes who expelled the Meng Yuan and restored the mountains and rivers of the Han people, and the first emperor of the ages who has been righted in history!

However, the ministers still wanted to find a prominent ancestor for him, but they were severely refuted, but after all, they were all surnamed Zhu, so it seems that it is not incomprehensible that Zhu Hongwu admired the only saint surnamed Zhu in history.

In the Jiajing Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing was not interested in Confucianism, which was clear to almost all scholars inside and outside, but unfortunately Confucianism had no way to change Emperor Jiajing, and could not fight, so the only thing that could hold on was the last position of Confucianism......

Conventional!

All the ministers pinned their hopes on the next generation of emperors, so they could only suffer and strive not to let Confucianism lose the absolute right to speak in the court in the Jiajing Dynasty!

But all the ministers used to speculate when Emperor Jiajing would do something to Confucianism, and how!

There are only two points to be calculated, the first point is to support other doctrines to fight with Confucianism, such as Legalism! For example, the Mo family!

The second point is the imperial examination!

Emperor Jiajing made a move against Ke, but it was not the same as Confucianism imagined.

In the eyes of Confucianism, with Emperor Jiajing's ruthlessness, it is not impossible to completely abolish the imperial examination, even if the imperial examination is not abolished, it is purely normal to let the new learning become the main examination of the imperial examination, but Emperor Jiajing seems to be more interested in the set of boiled frogs in warm water, he still let Confucianism take the lead, and then mixed four auxiliary subjects as a choice, and the evaluation system was changed to a scoring system.

The imperial examination has been changed, but the magnitude is not large, which makes those officials who were originally ready to roll up their sleeves and work hard with the emperor, whether it is to defend the Tao to the death, to gain fame, or just to defend the Confucian Taoist system, as if they stretched out a fist, but hit the cotton.

Emperor Jiajing didn't hurt Confucianism, what else can he say?

If you can't say anything, it is difficult to force the emperor to abolish the imperial examination, and all the officials who participate in the defense of the Tao will become Confucian sinners.

Although the new system of the imperial examination was adopted, although it caused an uproar in Shilin, in any case, the emperor had already issued a clear will in the fourth year of Jiajing, announcing the world's scholars, so there was no surprise for the scholars.

Given nearly two years of preparation time for the world's readers, what else is there to complain about?

For readers, the only thing they need to do is to devote 100% of their energy to reading the scriptures to study secondary subjects!

Moreover, the auxiliary subjects cannot be selected randomly, because all scholars know the emperor's intentions, and the selected auxiliary subjects will directly affect their future careers, so how can they not pay attention to it.

The chief examiner, Jiang Mian, the head of the Ministry of Etiquette and Music, the deputy chief examiner is Zhang Xuan, the priest of Guozi, Yang Shen, the sacrificial wine of Yenching University, and 20 Hanlin talents as the same examiner, as well as 20 new talents from the Tongzhou Research Institute as auxiliary subject marking officers, forming the scoring lineup for this examination.

According to the imperial examination in previous years, the scholars who participated in the general examination would stay for a full nine days after entering the Gongyuan, and during these nine days, eating, drinking, and sleeping were solved by themselves in a small room with an open door, and then the candidates needed to complete three to five four-book questions, complete two or three questions on the selection of scriptures of the Five Classics, and finally the strategy.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty has lasted for more than 100 years, although there have been small changes during the period, but it is basically the same, the candidates are bitter, and the examiners are even more bitter, because the examiners must leave the tribute institute after the end of the marking, so it is not unusual to stay for half a month from the tribute academy to the end.

However, the examination in Jiajing's sixth year was different, not only the subjects were changed, but the time was also changed......

In Zhu Houwei's view, the nine-day examination is quite inhumane, so it should be shortened.

How to shrink?

Leave after the exam!

Two questions of four books, one question of the Five Classics, one policy theory, two auxiliary subjects, a total of six items!

The time is shortened to four days, candidates can directly hand in the papers and leave after the exam, and they can not hand in the blank papers after the exam in four days!

Fan He stepped into the examination room!

This is the second time he has entered the Gongyuan to participate in the examination, after the Jiajing three-year examination failed, Fan He did not return to his hometown in Guangdong, but chose to stay in the capital to prepare for the Jiajing six-year examination, and these three years are precisely the three years of earth-shaking changes in the Ming Dynasty!

In the past three years, Fan He has seen too many new things that he couldn't even think of before, and he also felt the absolute will of the supreme being in the palace for the first time.

In the heart of the Ming Empire, Fan He did not see the ragged people, the beggars begging along the streets, and the rows of displaced people and the starvation that could be seen at any time.

This is a dynasty that has been revitalized, and Zhongxing is not enough to describe the Ming Dynasty under the governance of Emperor Jiajing, which makes Fan He have the most intuitive feeling of the continuous changes in the Ming Dynasty in the past three years.

So Fan He, who originally planned to enter the Guozijian, rushed into Yenching University without hesitation!

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