Prime Minister

Chapter 85 This man is crazy

The snow scene in the southern country is unique.

On Huanghua Mountain, where the county school is located, although the snow has fallen, it is still difficult to hide the yellow-green color of the mountain. Some lonely and young plants and trees have been pressed by the heavy snow this winter. After the spring flowers bloom, the next year will be even more green and tall. .

It was night, and it was freezing cold.

There is a small room in the east of the first teacher's hall of the county school. Several rafter candles are lit around like arms, which illuminates the hall.

There are more than [-] scripture students in the hall who are studying the scriptures in the hall.

It was Zhang Yue's suggestion for everyone to gather in one place to read.

The county school advocated that the students of the Jinshi and Jingshi should study in the fasting room, but Zhang Yue always felt that it was not good to sleep in the fasting room.

Guo Lin also came here with Zhang Yue when they met. After so long, they gradually imitated many teachers.

Gradually, the classics students who became close to Zhang Yue gathered in a circle, and everyone read at night in a verandah, so there were more and more people, and now there are more than 20 people.

Jingsheng saw a scene and called it 'Yuezhai'.

After Zhang Yue entered the county school, he tried several times privately. At first, he did not do his best, but specialized in the "Book of Rites" and the Three Spring and Autumn Biography, which he was not familiar with before. Notes are all memorized.

If someone else saw that someone could read the Book of Rites and the Three Biography of the Spring and Autumn Period, which had the largest number of characters among the Nine Classics, within half a year, they would be surprised to dislocate their jaw.

When the night drums were sounded, everyone dispersed from the bungalows and went back to the fasting houses to sleep.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin left with the book in hand, just in time to witness the scenery of the snowy night, with the scattered students beside them, and the sound of long and short drums beside their ears.

"It's worth the time again, and now the public test is imminent! Senior brother, can you be sure?"

After more than half a year of study, Guo Lin was more prudent than before: "Do your best to obey the destiny, this time in the Shengzhai public examination, the first one must pass nine or more, to pass, and the second one must pass eight, to pass. Treating the three classics will pass seven, which is qualified, and curing the five classics will pass six, which is qualified.

Zhang Yue said, "Will the public audition hearing be reported to the Imperial College?"

"That's true. In the past, those who excelled in the public examinations from Jingshizhai could be recommended by the state school to take the Nanjing Guozi invigilator for the face-to-face examination. Those with outstanding knowledge could directly recommend the Bianjing Guozi invigilator for the face-to-face examination."

Zhang Yue said: "Senior brother, how is it considered to be erudite and outstanding?"

"There is no way to say this. According to the convention, it must be decided by the state, and finally reported to Zhizhou for recommendation to the Guozijian. The number of this state is no more than one person, and the Nanjing Guozijian is no more than two."

Zhang Yue remembered the Three Sheds Law in Wang Anshi's reform.

Wang Anshi's three-house method set Taixue as an outer house, an inner house, and an upper house. Among them, there are 2000 people in the outer house, 300 people in the inner house, and 100 people in the upper house.

In the Taixue internal examination, students are promoted from the outer room to the inner room, and then from the inner room to the upper room.After passing the examination, they can become officials.

This reform, even after Sima Guang came to power, was not abolished. When Cai Jing was the prime minister, it was carried forward even more, and the Three Sheds Law was implemented in the schools of the prefectures and counties of the world.

Cai Jing also set up the method of three houses in the prefectures and counties. Those who are excellent in the inner dormitory of the county school can be recommended to the outer dormitory of the state school, and the outstanding students in the upper dormitory of the state school can be recommended to the outer dormitory of the Taixue.

When the Sanshe Method was first established, in order to support the theory of election reform, Wang Anshi deliberately said that it was the method of 'selection in village elections' for three generations.

But whether Wang Anshi has reformed or not.

In the Song Dynasty, one condition for entering the Taixue remained unchanged, that is, the children of officials below the eighth rank could enter the Taixue without taking the test, while the children of the poor families had to take the examination.

So what are the benefits of entering the Imperial College?
Song Dynasty Guozijian can directly participate in the supervisory examination.

In Kaifeng Mansion, the Ministry of Rites takes about 150 Jinshi each year, and the Guozijian has about 80 to [-] people, and the ratio of various disciplines is similar.

Zhang Yue often remembered that the college entrance examination was unfair, such as geographical issues.

Then among the Jinshi in the Song Dynasty, Kaifeng Prefecture and Taixue background accounted for nearly two-thirds.

To use a very depressing sentence to describe it, what you pursue all your life is nothing but what other people are born with.

Why is there such an unfair thing?
This means that the Song Dynasty's consistent national policy 'strong stems and weak branches'.

The strong and weak branches are the established national policy of Song Taizu since the Song Dynasty absorbed the Anshi Rebellion and the separation of the vassal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

For example, 'Yiwen Yuwu' is only part of the strong and weak branches.

As far as Zhang Yue saw, why did the children of the two clans of the Zhang clan and Wu clan in Pucheng did not stay in their hometown, but entered the capital, and even entered the Kaifeng government.

At the beginning, Zhang Yue, with his status as a son of the Zhang family, if he begged the Zhang family to come forward, no matter how far away the relatives were, Zhao Yasi would not almost drive them to a dead end.

Because most of the descendants of Zhang Dexiang, Wu Yu and Wu Chong, and Wang Anshi did not return to their hometowns, they stayed in Bianjing and entered the Kaifeng prefecture just to facilitate the imperial examination.

Such a benefit is obviously obvious. The children of the local elites have moved to the capital for the imperial examinations, so that the officials sent by the imperial court to the local area are much easier to govern.

This is much gentler than Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty by forcibly moving local nobles into Beijing.

From Fan Zhongyan's reform to set up state schools in the county, Wang Anshi's reform of the Three Shepherds, to Cai Jing's Three Shepherds in the World, the reform ideas that have been inherited in the same vein can all be seen in the shadow of strong and weak branches.

Of course, this national policy of strong and weak branches is very pitiful for Zhang Yue's current situation.

There are 150 Jinshi quotas in the provincial examination. For his poor candidates, they must first take the first examination among 100 people in each state, while the official candidates can take the other test of 15 people and take [-] people. Then everyone competes for the provincial examination. quota.

Candidates for official status can directly enter the Guozijian, but Zhang Yue must be recommended by the state or county school to be excellent before he can go to the Guozijian for the examination.

Of course, although there is a risk of failure to go to the National Inspectorate Examination, the acceptance rate is still very high.Because Guozijian mainly looks at the real talents and learning of the scholars, so as not to recommend the related households without talents and learning from the prefectures and counties to come up.

After entering Guozijian, the imperial court has [-] jinshi places for each subject specially for imperial students, and the subjects are similar.

Therefore, for Zhang Yue, it is definitely worth fighting for it to be recommended by the state and county to go to Guozijian.

But the question is why did the state and county have to elect you?This is also the problem of the three-sentence method in history and the three-sentence method in the world.

There are only a few places in the whole state, and they are elected to the Bianjing Guozijian and the Nanjing Guozijian.

If everyone's public test scores are similar, who would the state recommend?The problem with the three-sentence method is that the grades are about the same, and the academic officials can refer to the students' daily virtues.When it comes to virtue, it doesn't mean that you can do it if you can, or that you can't do it if you can't.

In the end it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Zhang Yue said to Guo Lin, "Now I am Mr. Boyi's favorite student, and Hu Xuezheng from the county school is also very appreciative of me."

Guo Lindao: "Hu Xuezheng and Mr. Boyi are well-known figures in the county magistrate, but it is a matter of the state to recommend them to Guozijian. I'm afraid that the two of them will not be enough."

Zhang Yue admitted that Guo Lin was right, but there was something he didn't say. The business of Zhang's food shop was booming. Got a lot of benefits.

In our Song Dynasty, money can be converted into power.

But this money is still not enough.

"If I want to win, I must be one step ahead, and I must leave everyone speechless!"

Guo Lin said: "Then what are you going to do?"

Zhang Yue said: "You just didn't say that those who treat one meridian must pass nine or more to be qualified, those who treat two meridians need to understand eight, to be qualified, those who treat three meridians should understand seven, and those who treat five meridians should be able to understand six. I am qualified. If I take all nine sutras, how many are passed?”

Guo Lindao: "It used to be Tongwu!"

"What if it's all right?"

"All pass? Junior brother, please don't surprise senior brother me." Guo Lin couldn't help but stunned, "The provincial exam is the first in the nine classics subjects, but only the sixth. Besides, how can the Moyi of the county entrance exam be compared to the public exam. The meaning of ink is as rigorous as the provincial exam, and the words and expressions are extremely sophisticated.”

"Let's talk about the public exam. Every time the provincial exam asks about the ten principles of righteousness, I have never heard of anyone who can understand all ten principles of righteousness."

Guo Lin talked a lot.

Zhang Yue smiled and asked, "How about you? How many times did you take the test this time?"

Guo Lindao: "I've only tested the five classics. The cost of taking the nine exams is too much effort, not to mention the "Analects of Confucius" and the "Book of Filial Piety".

"In addition to the Analects of Confucius, the Book of Filial Piety says that there are five classics, but in fact, you got the seven classics, and your nine classics are actually eleven. It is speculated that there are not many people in the county school who have this plan except you."

Zhang Yue heard the words and smiled at Guo Lin: "If not, how can I show my means."

In Bianjing Guozijian and Nanjing Guozijian, there are only a few places in the entire Jianzhou, so even if Zhang Yue is the first in the county's economics, it may not be stable.

Therefore, if you want to win, you must win beautifully, until you have nothing to say.

It is said that three points are destined by heaven, and seven points depend on hard work, and Zhang Yue made these seven points to achieve ten points.

Of course, Zhang Yue's examination of the Nine Classics is difficult, but it does not mean that it is easy for county school students.

There are regulations in the public examination of county schools, and the test must be the Great Classic, which is the Book of Rites and Zuo Zhuan.

Examination of the second classics must be a major classic and a middle classic. The middle classic is the Book of Songs, Zhou Li and Rites.Of course, some people want to be brave (to die).

Examination of the three classics must be a major classic, a middle classic and a small classic. The minor classics are the Book of Changes, Shangshu, Gongyang, and Guliang.Of course, if you want to be brave, you can also test the two major classics and one small classic, or the major classics and two middle classics.

The Five Classics must have two major scriptures, and the remaining three scriptures are optional.

Of course, in terms of one passage to nine, two passages to eight, three passages to seven, five passages to six, and nine passages to five, everyone's lower limit of difficulty is not too much.

The difficulty of the upper limit is different.

Moreover, the Nine Classics of the Provincial Examination consists of 120 postscripts and [-] answers to Mo Yi, and the Nine Classics are combined in one paper.

However, the county school public examination is divided into eleven examination rooms.

The Analects of Confucius and the Classic of Filial Piety are compulsory examinations, and the other nine classics have one examination.You can take as many exams as you apply for.

On the other hand, Zhang Yue had to take eleven full exams!
Therefore, on the day of registration for the public examination, Zhang Yue was the only one in Jingshengzhai who applied for the Nine Classics.

When the county school heard about Zhang Yue's move, they all felt that this person had gone crazy.

(End of this chapter)