Princess Consort of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 67 Imperial Examination 1
Empress Wu left Shen San to ask for details.

The imperial examination at this time is no different from the examinations of later generations. As a seasoned veteran, Shen Sanwen is very clear about how to torture these candidates.

The suffering of these years has not been in vain, and this is an opportunity to share the suffering with others.

Empress Wu obviously needed the imperial examinations, otherwise the government would be united and united, and many things would be opposed to her. If she had to forcefully order her subordinates in everything, everyone would go crazy, and these subordinates would also go crazy.

If you are not a person with a firm mind, I am afraid that you will doubt life.

Those high-ranking officials couldn't tolerate her being arbitrary all the time.

But how long has the imperial examination been around?Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty came up with an idea, perhaps in order to have an excuse to bestow officials on people he liked.

When Shen San asked about the assessment method and the assessment process, Empress Wu couldn't hide her excitement.As an actual emperor, there are not many things that can make her excited, but there are quite a lot of things that make her angry.

Think about the test papers you have done before.

Nothing less, multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, true or false questions, analysis questions, and composition.

There is also a question of translation.

Now the posting scriptures and ink meanings in the imperial examination are filling in the blanks and translation questions.

Selection can be divided into three steps.

The first step is dictation, judgment, and selection.

The ancients said that reading a hundred times reveals its meaning.

This is really self-deception.

I have read Li Bai's poems many times, such as Yun Xiang's clothes and flowers, but I didn't understand how beautiful the artistic conception is as the ancients said.

After looking up the explanation, I found out that this sentence means that Yun Xianglai made her clothes and Hua Xianglai adorned her appearance, which is indeed quite beautiful.

Therefore, understanding is still very important.

This step of the assessment can eliminate some people who are dead-readers.

If you are really familiar with the classics and have your own understanding of the allusions in them, then it will not be too bad to understand current affairs.

In this step, students who are tough and hardworking can be selected.

At least the topic is a bit difficult, and those who can understand the topic, attention and perseverance should not be inferior to others.

The second step is to test the analysis again.

such as.

How to solve the land problem.

How to solve the empty treasury.

How to manage merchants.

How should the Tubo rebellion be appeased.

Give some solutions, let these people analyze and screen out the suitable ones.

People in society should learn more about social issues. Even if what is said is wrong, it is great to have your own opinions.

And this opinion can also tell whether this person is a jerk or a person.

A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets.

Whether a policy is beneficial to the country or the people, or to let the masses speak, this step is for candidates to analyze and clarify.

Examinations in the 21st century also have analytical questions, and candidates cannot simply answer yes and no.

Even if you turn the topic upside down, copy it back and forth, and explain it in plain vernacular, the teacher will be very pleased to see it.

As if you really understand the connotation of the words, you are a great student.

On the other hand, those who answer right and wrong and cherish words like gold.

Even if you get the answer right, the teacher will think that you guessed it, and there will be another comment that you don't understand well enough.

It makes people want to cry without tears.

This is probably a thousand words in the chest, but no words in the pen.

Since it is said that people with strong opinions are selected, even though these people are talented and intelligent, they can only regret being eliminated.

After all, being able to persuade others is also an important skill, not everyone can correctly judge right from wrong.

Being able to express one's point of view and persuade people who have no opinion is really an important skill for an official.

The third step can only be composition.

An article written down, short, can also cover up one's character.

After a long time, you will reveal your true thoughts between the lines.

Just like the author who is typing at this time, you can tell from the text that he is a person with single-minded feelings.

But this is not absolute.

In fact, Shen Sanwen has never been able to figure out why an official has to take a poetry test, which makes people have the illusion of choosing a poet.

Perhaps after the imperial examinations came out, the emperors of these generations thought that those who could make good poems were smart people.

At this time, the composition has already taken the embryonic form of the propositional composition of later generations.

A political question is given and candidates are allowed to play freely, which is called political discussion.

These question types really have not changed for thousands of years.

Just a preliminary understanding, Shen Sanwen has a lot to complain about.

However, it is also immoral to criticize the ancients by relying on common sense that is thousands of years ahead.

Shen Sanwen still suggested that the separate scoring of poetry should be cancelled, and political comments should be the main focus, and poetry could be used to highlight literary talent in political comments.

With the topic, there must be a process.

The process is nothing more than the township examination, state examination, provincial examination, and palace examination.

The township takes an exam first, and the state takes another exam.

The Provincial Examination is presided over by the Ministry of Rites and is the provincial examination of Shangshu.

The palace examination is an examination presided over by the emperor.

Empress Wu was very pleased, "In the past, most of the imperial examinations were sent directly to the Ministry of Rites by aristocratic families to take the exam, so these elites have been rampant until now. With this detailed selection strategy, I can finally break this pattern. The concubine's contribution is not small."

With an ambitious boss, at least he doesn't have to worry about having nothing to do.

Empress Wu immediately opened an Enke, and after three months, students from all over the country were allowed to go to Beijing for examinations and select talents.

Shen Sanwen became the chief examiner.

With a wave of this big hand, the flow of people across the country has to rely on it. If there are too many people, it will be difficult to manage.

But the ruling and opposition parties are very optimistic.

There are jokes to watch.

Empress Wu wanted to make great achievements through the ages, bringing forth the new from the old, but it was Shen Sanwen who suffered the most.

It is conceivable how crazy these people will be when they hear the news of Enke.

After ten years of cold window no one asked, he became famous all over the world.

I'm afraid there must be millions of people coming.

Chang'an cannot accommodate so many people.

Fortunately, Empress Wu gave him enough power to act cheaply, so that this imperial examination can select people with real talents and real learning.

Well, let's take the regional exam.

Luoyang and Chang'an are in charge of the second test, and Qizhou, Youzhou, Shangzhou, and Liangzhou are all in charge of some candidates in the first test.

It's going pretty well.

After two months, batch after batch of people have been screened out.

I don't know if it's because there are a lot of people making up the numbers, or because the teacher resources are scarce, or because the test questions are too difficult.

Of the millions of people rushing for the exam, only one-tenth of them can pass the exam.

Only one tenth of the people who passed the second test passed.

In the end, there were more than [-] people left in Chang'an.

Thousands of troops have always crossed the single-plank bridge in the imperial examination, and the Tang Dynasty was no exception.

There are more than [-] people, and there are probably less than a hundred people who can be used in the end.

Candidates are panicked, half a year has been wasted like this, and they are still a little dissatisfied.

Especially knowing that poetry has been cancelled, only political commentary.

You don't bring such a joker, do you?
A doggerel was passed down from among the students.

"Thousands of miles to go to the imperial examination, the test questions are so difficult, if you are the king of Luling, your poems and prose are also romantic."

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