I have lived forever since the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 413 Big Man Hot Search List

After the examination for Taixue to recruit doctors was over, scribes from various counties who came from all over the north and south of the Han Dynasty became the most "idle" people in Chang'an while waiting for the results to be announced.

Therefore, when they have nothing to do, they hang out in taverns or tearooms and chat. These people appear to be relaxed, but they feel a little anxious inside, and they need to talk about it and talk to others.

If there was a "hot search list" in this era, the top three on the list would all be topics related to the Taixue Examination, and there would definitely be a big red [explosion] behind the entry.

As for the first place on the hot search list, it is "Surprise, think about the questions on your test paper."

This topic did not become popular the moment the exam ended.

But the next day, many scribes exchanged their experiences with each other. In the process, they were surprised to find that there were slight differences in the papers they made.

For example, for scribes who study Confucianism, the first part of the examination paper is the interpretation of "Three Biography of Spring and Autumn Period", while for scribes who study Huang Lao, this content is replaced by "The Debate between Zhuangzi and Huizi".

Originally they thought they were the chosen ones.

Each basic interpretation question happens to be the ideological content of its own school.

I didn't expect the truth to be so realistic. There were actually several sets of papers A, B, C and D.

Therefore, this topic is quite debatable and spreads rapidly in the wine shop. After accumulating to a certain extent, it instantly triggers heated discussions.

It's just that scribes and ordinary people have somewhat different views on this matter.

For those scribes, what they are concerned about is whether there are differences in the difficulty of test questions among various schools.

After all, if you want to recommend a disciple of a certain school, manipulating the questions is undoubtedly the simplest and most cost-effective solution.

When you get to the examination room, it seems that everyone is competing fairly, but in fact some people's questions are easier. The final result is that some people are not as capable as you, but because their test questions are simple, their scores are higher than yours. A large section was successfully landed.

However, after various schools of thought exchanged their test questions, they found that the difficulty level was basically maintained at the same level, maintaining a relative balance.

This exam is fair.

Of course, ordinary people don't understand so many twists and turns in the test questions.

When they heard that Taixue had specially prepared several sets of test questions for this exam, they subconsciously stood in awe.

They are really diligent in recruiting doctors.

Those who can pass the exam are probably sages with real talents and learning.

For a vulgar person like me, even if he took all four or five sets of papers, he would probably not get as high a score as one of their sets of papers.

So they praised Taixue.

This was part of Chen Luo's plan.

He worked hard and had people specially design several different sets of test papers, and kept their difficulty within a certain range. It was definitely not because he was full and had nothing to do.

The establishment of credibility does not happen overnight.

It will take a long time to build trust for the people of the world to recognize Taixue and recognize local officials who come from Taixue.

This exam is just Chen Luo's first move.

Through the influence of public opinion, it can increase people's recognition of it.

When the results are announced, the merits of those who passed the selection and became doctors of Taixue will also be recognized.

And as time goes by, these doctors with real talents and knowledge will further enhance the reputation of Taixue, making it worthy of the title of the highest academic institution in the Han Dynasty.

Linked to each other, most people are subtly influenced by it in their daily lives and begin to recognize Taixue from the bottom of their hearts.

After becoming the inherent thinking, Taixue's status is as stable as Mount Tai.

The second place on the "Big Man Hot Search List" is also closely related to Chen Luo's arrangement.

Its content is "What is your policy intention? Let's talk about it."

Since the previous exegesis questions are different in each school, there are very few scribes who pay attention to the content of the questions, and the scope of discussion is only in small circles. Moreover, the standard answers are in the book, and there is rarely any controversy.

Policy theory is different.

It needs to express its opinions based on current affairs.

The test paper thoughtfully cites an example, that is, the "On the Passage of Qin" written by Jia Yi, a famous minister of Emperor Wen's dynasty, when he was young, which requires ideological insights and clear viewpoints.

The views of various schools of thought on current affairs will never be entirely consistent.

This is going to cause a lot of noise.

You must know that every scribe who comes to take the exam must want to be successfully hired as a doctor of Taixue, and this strategy accounts for a large part of the score.

In such a situation, no one is willing to admit that their idea is wrong.

So in the wine shop, you can often see the two factions of scribes arguing with each other, often with red faces. Fortunately, Chang'an is a place in the capital, and the security is quite strict. No one dares to be too presumptuous, and the sword at the waist still stays there. in the sheath.

The common people drinking and eating tea nearby were originally just spectators, but they also became interested after listening to the topics debated by the scribes.

After all, the policy question in this exam is "What is the way to stabilize the country when foreign barbarians invade the border?" Not to mention scribes, most common people can talk a few words.

Among them, the radical faction is the Gongyang School of Confucianism. They advocate great revenge. If foreign barbarians invade the border, then let the barbarians repay blood with blood and beat them severely and cripple them, so that they will not dare to invade the border again in the future.

It was just ordinary people with simple folk customs who thought that the ideas of Gongyang School were too conservative when they were discussing in the wine shop.

Foreign barbarians invade the border. Now the only foreign barbarians who dare to invade the border are the Huns from the north.

Back then, they took advantage of our Han Dynasty's early establishment and weak national strength to invade on a large scale, burning, killing and looting. The Marquis of Huaiyin led his army to drive them away, but we have never forgotten this hatred.

In addition, in these years, news of the Xiongnu harassing border counties came frequently.

And we heard that those Huns wanted to grow pasture on fertile fields to feed their cattle, sheep, and horses.

Who can bear this?

Therefore, what is the way to secure the country?

We don't understand those fancy words. We only know that if we kill all the Huns, there will be no foreigners, and then the country will definitely be peaceful.

As for the grasslands outside the Great Wall, the places where wheat can be grown are occupied. Wherever wheat cannot be grown, all the Huns will be killed. Every ten or twenty years, a wave of killings will be carried out to ensure that no future troubles are left.

This made the Confucian scholars of Gongyang School break into cold sweat.

The Han Dynasty has implemented Huang-Lao's policy for so many years. Shouldn't it be that the people are conservative?

Why are you more radical than me?

Although the Huns did not attack directly near Guanzhong like in history, Chang'an could still hear news of looting on the border, and the people in Chang'an had a sense of resentment in their hearts.

As the Han Dynasty became stronger and stronger, this resentment did not fade with the passage of time, but became more intense.

At the beginning, we were unable to take revenge on the grasslands, so we could only fight back locally and endure it for the time being.

Now that we have the ability, you are still jumping up and down. You must be tired of living, right?

The policy topic selected by Chen Luo had the effect of probing the people's hearts.

It is not easy to understand people's thoughts and ideas on a large scale, and it is difficult to get accurate answers.

First of all, how to clarify the object of investigation is a difficult problem.

Old farmers in the fields, vendors in the market, and boys in the inns, these people usually have no channels of their own to speak out, but they are the main component of the Han people and they are the silent majority.

Moreover, the questions asked during the survey need to be carefully designed to avoid the situation where the interviewer guides their answers.

For example, if asked directly, "In the face of the Xiongnu problem, do you more support the court's conservative response or the proactive attack?" Under the current national policy of the Han Dynasty to recuperate and the respondent himself wants to avoid trouble, most people will definitely choose the "conservative response" plan. .

But do they really think so in their hearts?

Not necessarily.

Therefore, Chen Luo used this policy discussion to involve most of the people in this topic.

You must know that compared to passive interviews, people tend to express their true inner thoughts more when they actively output their own opinions.

So the policy topic is naturally not chosen randomly.

"Foreign barbarians invade the border, what is the way to stabilize the country?" As the topic of policy discussions spread, Chen Luo arranged for someone to be in the tavern. In teahouses and markets, the general identities and ideological tendencies of the participants in the discussion were quietly recorded, from which we could see the people's aspirations, whether they were seeking war, tired of war, or anti-war.

As for the third place on the "Big Han Hot Search List", although it is still closely related to the Taixue Examination, it does not belong to Chen Luo's arrangement.

It is called "This person is a disciple of He sect, and he debated eighteen wine shops and teahouses in one day."

This is about the day after the exam, someone was debating scriptures in a teahouse. With his own efforts, more than 20 scribes in the teahouse were speechless. Although the people nearby could not understand the content of their argument, But they know how to look at their faces.

Those with pale faces and dim eyes can tell at a glance that they have failed miserably in debate.

If this man had only accomplished such a feat in a teahouse, he would not have attracted such attention.

But after he finished the debate in a teahouse, he went to another nearby liquor store and also made a sweep.

This aroused the interest of many viewers, who followed this person one after another, wondering if he would go to other places to debate scriptures.

The result was that they were not disappointed.

This person went to sixteen different wine shops and teahouses one after another. In the end, he was followed by hundreds of people on the road, making a huge noise.

The result of the debate was that he never failed.

Famous in Chang'an.

We must know that the total number of scribes in wine shops and teahouses is five to six hundred, which is nearly half of the scribes who came to Chang'an.

In other words, this person alone defeated half of the scribes who came to Chang'an.

The next day, many scribes were well prepared in the tavern, waiting for this person to come again. No matter how easy they were to argue, the man never appeared again until the next day, which made many good-hearted people I felt disappointed and felt that I had missed a good show, not being able to watch the man "pick off" the other half of the remaining scribes.

(End of this chapter)