The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1064: Inside and outside the field

The exam in Governor Sheng’s small examination hall has begun!

The shortlisted candidates this time are all talented women who have escaped from the rigorous examination process.

At present, everyone is sitting in rows in front of the examination table, and everyone looks like they are determined to win.

In the examination room, the atmosphere gradually reached a certain level; outside the examination room, the crowd of people watching also lingered for a long time.

The main reason was that I couldn't break up, because a storyteller who played allegro came from nowhere, found a shade outside the examination room, and started talking and laughing.

Most of what he talked about was the proud things of the female officials in Kyoto.

Because Zezhou Prefecture and Kyoto are thousands of miles apart, this man's listeners listened very carefully.

After a while, the listener, who was still suffering from the heat, gradually forgot about his irritability in the content of the other person's rap, and only the other person's pleasant words were left in his ears:

"... in the Gyeonggi village outside Kyoto, there are scholarly people in the Gyeonggi village. The scholarly family hopes to go to high school, and two of their sons enter Confucianism. One son has three grandchildren, and the other son has a daughter.

The four grandchildren prefer three of them, just because Sun Ke is an official. Three generations have grown up in one dynasty, and the family is divided into high halls.

A grandson's son stays at his knees, a daughter's son is driven out; brothers grow up together, one is rich and the other is poor.

One line of wealth has ten hectares of land, and one line of poverty has three hectares of land. A family has enough clothes and food, but a family does not have enough to make ends meet. Another ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and the situation between the two families suddenly reversed.

Rich children have been studying for a long time, but they are still hovering in front of the entrance exam; a girl from a poor family works hard, and once she is able to fly to the sky in the exam; she is valued by the court, and the emperor orders her to be a court official.

The official robes are full of momentum, and the titles and titles are complete, as well as the parents; the family returns to their hometown in brocade clothes, and the three of them are honored in the ancestral hall; looking back at the old relatives, there is regret among the compliments.

I want to make up for the shortfall in property, and my family affection has cooled down and I want to warm up; my cold face turns into a flattering smile, and I only see praise but no anger. They were already strangers, but they traveled across the sea to get back together.

The authorities are intoxicated with the fine clothes, while the bystanders are cold-eyed and sweating. It used to be that the gap was determined by nature, and women were inferior and men were superior. But now I know that it is all about profit, and profit drives people to consider inferiority and superiority.

Regardless of the girl or the husband, the color of the official robe is the real one; if the green is better than the commoner, the red is the superior person; whoever can benefit the family affairs is the guest of the family!

So far, the village has changed its ideas, and no longer values ​​men and women over capable people; whoever is good at reading will be good at taking exams, and who will be the first in the family; by now, the exam style has been getting better and better, and the net has been widely cast to bring good news frequently..."

The storyteller's words are simple, easy to understand and catchy. Even an ignorant urchin can understand it, not to mention an illiterate old man or woman.

After a story is told, it is naturally impossible for everyone to be sure of it. I just don’t know how many people will change their minds after it is passed on orally and pondered over and over again. In other words, how many people will be attracted by the benefits involved.

After all, if a seed is planted and it wants to sprout and bear fruit, it must withstand the test of time.

……

Outside the examination room, the storytelling continues; inside the examination room, the question papers are opened.

Sheng Yuan sat high in the hall, looking at the candidates below who exclaimed as expected, and couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.

Very good, the character design of Wu Yi Ce is maintained well!

As the question maker, Sheng Yuan was very satisfied that the scene reported by the candidates was very similar to the one imagined.

The test questions this time did not continue the style of the previous selection test. Not only did they not test poetry talent, but down-to-earth test content such as questions about policy and civil affairs, economic assessment, legal decrees, etc. were not included.

There are only three questions in this exam, one of which asks: "If from the Xia Dynasty to the present, those in high positions are not divided into men and women, and those who are glorious in history are also half men and women... You were born in a prosperous age, how should you choose your future in life?" Another asked: "Returning to reality, you have passed the exams, become an official, have a bright future, and have children at your knees. How to educate and train them?"

The third question asked: "If there is a holy decree at your disposal, you can open up your career as a girl, not only by studying and becoming an official, but also by allowing a hundred flowers to bloom and a hundred schools of thought to bloom. How will you plan and arrange it?"

These three questions seem a bit far-fetched, but they are actually a series.

The candidates present can sit here and prepare to take the test. They must be people who are familiar with the history of various dynasties.

So in the first question, Sheng Yuan drew a circle for them and asked them to use the perspective of Lang Jun to give them a growth plan for the imaginary self who can be as free as Lang Jun.

In other words, Shengyuan is asking these candidates to try a simplified version of self-development.

As for the acceptance of candidates, Sheng Yuan has no control over it.

After all, candidates’ adaptability is also one of the assessment contents.

When it came to the second question, although Sheng Yuan quickly brought them back to reality, he did not let them feel the gap immediately. Instead, he wanted to see how they would educate their children after they had a bright future.

In this question, what Sheng Yuan actually wants to see is how many people are aware or unaware of the double standard.

She wanted to see how many of these people "when it comes to oneself, men and women are equal; when it comes to children and grandchildren, men and women are different."

In other words, the purpose of this assessment is to learn from small things to big things.

People say that old people are as old as others, and young people are as young as others. If he doesn't even value his own daughter, how can he promote and train other people's daughters after he becomes an official?

Because official positions are limited and the cost of assessment is extremely high, Sheng Yuan feels that it is better to assign the limited good positions to more suitable people, so that the trial and error rate will not be too high.

As for the third question, it is for the candidates to use their imagination and help her improve the female officer training plan from the side.

After all, she had lost so much hair these days because of the assessment, so there was nothing wrong with letting them work together and brainstorm as compensation.

……

The more Sheng Yuan thought about it in the hall, the more she felt that she was a very smart person. However, the candidates in the examination room felt that there was something wrong with this temporary examiner.

If you want to take the exam, you must maintain your style from beginning to end!

The intense continuous examinations before made everyone really feel that the imperial examinations were not easy; they originally thought that this time they would simulate the imperial examinations, but unexpectedly, the formal assessment suddenly turned into a test like playing house!

This makes candidates whose minds are full of poetry, books, and strategies somewhat unacceptable.

Immediately, several candidates who were dizzy and couldn't find their way cried out.

The guards who maintained order in the examination room saw this and did not immediately drive them away. It was not until the situation was as Governor Sheng had warned before and the rude people became polarized that they took away the candidates who were obviously unable to continue taking the examination.

After a few more candidates who had voluntarily abandoned the exam left, the examination room returned to its proper serious atmosphere.

Sheng Yuan sat in the hall and looked out for a moment, counted the number of people studying for the exam, and nodded with satisfaction.

Candidates save nine out of ten, which is really not easy!

Next, we have to see who is the material that can be made and who is the talent that can be used!