Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 328 Imperial Examination
Wang Meng is actually about the same age as Li Yue.

After tidying up and putting on new clothes, people will be more pleasing to the eye.

His appearance is not handsome, but he has the perseverance and burly that the northern Han people often have.

Li Yue rewarded him with a mansion, but he refused to accept it, and made him Zuo Changshi, the king of Liang. Waste, I heard that the imperial examination is approaching, and I would like to give it a try."

He was so confident that Li Yue didn't say anything.

After finishing the daily business, he must be found to talk about the world's major events, ancient and modern anecdotes.

Wang Meng is erudite and talented, and he quotes extensively from sources, often hitting the nail on the head, which has benefited Li Yue a lot.

But staying with Wang Meng all day has also aroused the fear of other forces, and there are many people who secretly inquire.

Li Yue had to increase school affairs and protect his safety day and night.

A whole winter passed like this.

After the beginning of the new year, Liang Guo was busy again up and down.

Soldiers go hunting and training, common people tend their own land, slaves build roads in various counties, and Yueji continues to build medical houses.

There are more and more people receiving maternity subsidies from the government.

When Li Yue inspected Yecheng, he could often hear babies crying one after another.

And the sound of crying also makes people feel at ease.

The news of the imperial examination was released in the early autumn of last year, and many people from all over the country came to Yecheng at the end of the year.

For the first imperial examination, people in other places were waiting and watching. The world was in chaos, roads were impassable, bandits were everywhere, and news spread slowly.

The area with the most talents is undoubtedly Jiangdong, but the celebrities in Jiangdong look down on Beiguo.

Li Yue took a look at the list of imperial examinations. Among the 870 five people, [-]% were Cui, Liu, Lu, Zheng and other surnames, [-]% were Bian, Bao, Zang, Xin and other powerful people, and the remaining [-]% ​​were the children of the humble monk Wutang. There are very few common people.

People who can read and write in this age are by no means ordinary people.

Ordinary people have no access to books at all. They are busy all day long and it is difficult to fill their stomachs. How can they have time to read?
This is also the reason why the gentry tyrants did not oppose the imperial examination.

The imperial examination is divided into three categories, Ming Jing, Ming Calculation, and Policy Theory.

The Ming Jing began in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In the early Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Xuanshao studied "Yan's Spring and Autumn", and also mastered the family law. At the beginning of Jianwu, he cited the Ming Jing.

The Northern Kingdom has been reduced to Huchen for more than forty years, drinking blood like a hair, so the classics of the sages naturally have a certain progressive significance.

However, Confucianism in this era has not been castrated, not only is it not decayed, but it is also relatively vigorous.

During the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, they drilled through the Western Regions, and those who got on horses, hacked people and got off their horses to rule the people were all Confucian scholars.

A generation of great Confucian Lu Zhi raised troops to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Zhuge Wuhou, Sima Yi, and Lu Xun were all familiar with the classics, but in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the wind direction changed, turning to metaphysics, talking about emptiness and metaphysics, being pragmatic rather than pragmatic, and indulging in pleasure , extravagant and corrupt, ashamed to join the army.

The gentleman's six arts are rites, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics.

Mathematics is one of them.

Li Yue personally believes that mathematics is the starting point of all sciences. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, not only medicine had made great progress, but mathematics also had unique features.

At the time of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Liu Hui, a master of mathematics, had already sorted out the theoretical system of classical mathematics, advocating logical reasoning.

Li Yue personally feels that Huaxia does not lack metaphysical things, but lacks the spirit of seeking truth from facts.

Joining Mingsuan is always more reliable than metaphysics and the like.

And mathematics is also very useful. In the future, people with a certain foundation in mathematics will be required to measure land, count the population, calculate expenditures, and so on.

Of course, what Li Yue values ​​most is policy theory.It is tantamount to the way of governing the country by counseling the country, and it has already taken shape in the Han Dynasty.

The topic is also simple and direct: How to make a country rich and its army strong.

The exam was divided into three days. The first session of Mingjing had the largest number of people, and it almost became a special session for the powerful children of the gentry. There are only a handful of 31 people.

However, Li Yue could also see that although there were few strategists, they were all elites among the powerful children of the gentry.

Even Cui Hong died in person, and the Zheng family also sent talented people Zheng Huo, Liu Qun's grandson Liu Zhao, Lu Chen's grandson Lu Miao, etc. to join in the fun.

The most special among these people is Wang Meng.

After the imperial examination, Ming Jing and Ming Suan were handed over to Liu Qun, Shen Zhong, and Tiao You for review, and Li Yue reviewed his own policy.

Most of them are nothing new.

It is just to increase taxes, reclaim land, encourage births, etc. The calligraphy is good, and it is easy to read, which shows the literary accomplishment of the children of the aristocratic family.

But there is not much nutrition in self-cultivation.

Some people actually advocated that we should stop fighting with the Murong family and make peace, temporarily avoid the Murong family's edge, and form a country of brothers. , and then counterattack the Murong family...

Li Yue didn't even look at the name, and set it on fire.

Once the door of cutting soil and seeking peace is opened, it is difficult to close it later.

Taking a step back these days is not about broadening the horizon, but about others' progress.

The Liang and Yan families are already in an endless situation, and whoever retreats will be doomed.

Even Cui Hong's policies and theories are clichés, such as laws and decrees, the establishment of the imperial court, and the reform of the official system.

These things are useful, but it is not at this stage, there is no time for these fancy things.

Only Wang Meng's strategy is eye-catching. He advocates moving the powerful powers from the four states of Henan to the surroundings of Yecheng. The larger ones will gather in the city and the smaller ones will build forts to increase the strength of Yecheng. At the same time, it will reduce the powerful powers' control over the local area and release the land. ,population.

"...The reason why the great Han Dynasty was strong in the past is because the tyrants moved to the land of the capital in the past dynasties. The land of the six prefectures of Hebei, Henan, Yan, Qing, Xu, and Yang was trapped between the north and the south. Why? Big and big Not strong, but not prosperous, gentry tyrants segregate the land, the small ones have thousands of private soldiers, the big ones are over ten thousand, all good land is owned by them, no taxes are paid, no corvees are served! Counties and counties are all old officials of the former dynasty, and there is no progress heart, no desire to appease the people, the country is slightly turbulent, the north votes for Yan, and the south votes for Jin..."

After Li Yue finished reading, he couldn't help breaking into a cold sweat for Wang Meng.

Wang Meng, Wang Meng, is really a strong medicine.

If this policy theory is spread, I don't know how many open and dark arrows will be directed at him.

Now the question is before Li Yue, whether he dares to drink this strong medicine.

I also admire Fu Jian in history. Since ancient times, good ministers and Ming lords have complemented each other, just like Shang Yang and Qin Xiaogong. Without Qin Xiaogong's unwavering support, how long can Shang Yang live?Without Fu Jian's support, Wang Meng would have had a hard time succeeding.

He came here at Ge Daliang's order.

A smile curled up on the corner of Li Yue's mouth, and set Wang Meng's theory on fire.

The first imperial examination of the founding of Daliang was just like this.

Ming Jing recruited 75%, and Ming calculated that 72 people hired [-] people, and the remaining three people couldn't even do basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

In policy theory, Liu Zhao, Lu Miao, and Zheng Huo are the top three.

Cui Hong was fourth, which was a blow to him.

Wang Meng only ranked ninth, and Li Yue promoted him as the county magistrate of Dong'e, where most of the powerful Yanzhou tycoons lived.

(End of this chapter)