After Shao Song

Chapter 19 The Cone in the Sac
However, because there were so many celebrities taking the exams this year, including the prime minister’s son and the former prime minister’s son, everyone waited in tacit understanding for a while. Then more and more test papers were sent, and only more than half of them started to be marked.

In fact, the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty did not have the eight-legged essay system in the Ming Dynasty. If there were rules, it would be "beauty" and "thorn". To put it simply, what the Jinshi had to do was to follow the title and write a political article that flattered Zhao Guan's family and pointed out their faults at the same time. The paper comes out.As long as the flattery is good and the criticism is in place, then this is a typical good article for the palace examination. You don't have to worry about getting a good ranking, let alone being dismissed.

Eight hundred articles with blurred names, no matter how wise and powerful officials are, it is impossible to read them one by one. They just ask Zaizhi, Shangshu, and Hanlin scholars to review them together, set a rough ranking, and then select excellent definite nouns.

Not only that, as the official name review begins, no matter what the origin, once the ranking is determined by the official imperial pen, no changes are allowed.The test papers were also posted outside Xuande Building for people to see to show the court's selflessness.

However, some papers, even if they are anonymous, can still make the monarchs and ministers in the Imperial Palace of Emperors feel astonished and treat them with caution through their first-hand articles.

For example, when Zhao Jiu looked at the test paper in his hand, which was filled with neatly written characters, from beginning to end, he felt that the shock in his heart was no longer enough to express his feelings.

This man actually wrote more than 1 words about the conduct of imperial examination heroes without the examination paper that Hu Quan handed in very early. The whole article is only more than 3000 words, but it can be said to be a comprehensive article, pointing out the current shortcomings, as if it was written over the years. Operator's hand.

What's even more commendable is that he integrated these four issues into a whole, and the overall awareness filled the whole text.The first sentence of the opening article is, "After the Jingkang chaos, mud and sand fell, the court acted unconventional, and in troubled times, there was a unified situation. However, since it is unified, the governance of the world is based on the people, and the people are based on legislation." Simply put, the most important thing The most important thing is that the people in the newly recovered areas have enough to eat.

Then he pointed out very unceremoniously that as the absolute leadership core of the Zhao Guan family, always running away was appropriate in wartime, but it was not doing their job properly in peace and prosperity.Just as you are simple but most officials dare not be extravagant, if officials do not pay attention to their own work, it will lead to inefficiency. You must not be unscrupulous just because your prestige is unprecedented after the Huolu War. You must know that public opinion is like running water, and no matter how high your achievements are, Don't bother, a wise person like you must know Li Longji.

If you just say that, everyone will only think that this is a seedling to become a censor, but the content behind it is also very exciting. Combined with the title, it is definitely right to point out how to recuperate and how to do it. There was a template during the period of Emperor Han Wen, but this dynasty is more The system of equalizing land and dividing land into acres has been further developed. This is good governance through the ages that cares for farmers. It must not be repeated just because problems arise in the process. We should learn from Wang Anshi's reform, pay attention to underlying politics, prevent good laws from bad laws, and strengthen supervision. It is better to establish a system.If it really doesn't work, I would rather suffer the monks and wealthy businessmen than suffer the common people.

Regarding the issue of military strength, he pointed out that military chaos has a fatal impact on people's livelihood. Today, the world should strictly guard against this. He agrees with the government to leave tens of thousands of troops in Yanyun and Hedong. After all, maintaining public security and stability is also very important after the war. .Furthermore, he believed that the ethnic minorities in the southwest who were most likely to cause trouble in the past few years, such as the pious thieves on Jiangnan West Road, where the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, had a tradition of rebellion. It would be best to recruit [-] soldiers from the imperial camp with the best military discipline. He stationed himself in Jiangxi and other places, cooperated with the local government to educate the barbarians, and gradually weakened the authority of the chieftains and turned the tyranny into actual control.

Seeing this, Zhao Guan's family has decided that this is at least a prodigy. Good guy, isn't this the Song Dynasty version of "returning from the soil and returning to the countryside"?

In the end, he also said that it is not advisable to be noble in civility and inferior in military power, but using civility to conquer military power is the theme of the new era.But in order to improve the status of military personnel, in particular, there should be no more promotions and recruitment. A strong general starts from the soldiers. Both common people and scholars must respect soldiers. The court should also establish a system to limit the room for advancement of soldiers who do not study well.Because the few years after Jingkang fully demonstrated that the commander-in-chief who were educated generally had higher integrity, such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong who later awakened, and the negative example was Yang Zheng who skinned people.

Finally, he added that he could not cover everything and could only write down the suggestions he thought were useful on the test paper.

This is really not modesty, because he did not go into details about the loopholes in the military award.

But Zhao Guanjia was still very satisfied. There was no such thing as the divine power of the ancestors in the whole article. It was all discussed from the perspective of people's livelihood and politics. Therefore, let alone his literary talent, he said based on this attitude alone: ​​"This person should be the number one scholar." "There was no other way. He worked hard for ten years and developed the Two Sages of Original Learning and Criticism, and finally changed the thinking of some elites.

By the way, Zhao Jiu sat there and read this article. First he was amazed, then he was amazed, then he laughed out of control, and finally said such a sentence, which had already attracted the attention of all the important officials in the palace. He didn't know what it was. article.

After Zhao Jiu finished reading it, he came to his senses and didn't care about it. He just handed the article to the public minister Lu Haowen to read.Lu Gongxiang glanced at it and did not express his opinion after reading it. He just circulated it to Zhao Ding with a smile on his face, and then to Zhang Jun, Li Guang and even Lin Jingmo. Even Yue Fei did not pull him down.Except for Zhang Jun's slight objection that this person's writing style is too rigid, everyone unanimously praised it, because raising problems is not the focus, the focus is on raising problems while also accompanying solutions, which is tacitly understood in the center of "utility".Han Shizhong and other generals were even more convinced by his judgment.

Therefore, the minority obeys the majority. Since the emperor and the prime ministers have jointly agreed that this person is the No. 1 in the current palace examination, the officials of the Ministry of Rites present no longer hesitate, directly open the name, copy the list... but it is a I call him Wang Shipeng from Yueqing County, Wenzhou.

Lu Benzhong on the side rolled his eyes involuntarily, acquaintances all like to write poems.But it’s not appropriate to say anything more on this occasion.As a result, this famous minister won the Jinshi 19 years in advance, and his ranking did not change. He was still the top scholar.It can be seen that this cone is in the bag. No matter whether you meet a faint king or a wise king, you will naturally be able to stand out.

In the afternoon, as the two articles of 820 were all delivered, a group of prospective Jinshi were either anxious or confident to leave the Xihua Gate and return to Taixue. They saw that they would have to wait a few more days for the results to be released, but they didn't know that inside the Imperial Palace, The frivolous officials of the Song Dynasty and the chief ministers had already achieved rough results in a simple and quick manner.

The first and second grades are from Jinshi, the third and fourth grades are from Jinshi, and the fifth grade are from the same Jinshi.

Apart from the top five, the ranking itself is actually not very important.The important thing is that you don't fail the list. After all, the officials have said that only 600 people will be selected, so even Zhao Ding cannot add one more.

But this problem doesn't seem to be too big, because in fact there are always some people whose skills are really poor, and I don't know if it's a problem of improvising on the spot, so everyone is not so entangled.

It is worth mentioning that among the young prodigies, only Fan Chengda successfully became a third-class Jinshi at the age of 14.The other two can just continue studying in college.

Regarding this, Zhao Guanjia expressed his calmness. The palace examination is about policy theory, not poetry. Children who don’t have much life experience and feel emotional often suffer. This is why Yue Fei and Qu Duan were generally favored by others. In the history of society, it was only after several decades that one could obtain the rank of Jinshi.

Li Xiuzhi succeeded in answering the question about the heroes of the Taihang Mountain rebels and ranked No. 1 in the second class. Zhao Fen, who had been working with his father as counselor for many years, was slightly worse than him, ranking No. 3 in the second class and ranked second among 800 people. [-]. Judging from Zhao Ding's face, I believe he is very satisfied.

On the contrary, the next problem of ranking the first A is a bit of a headache for Zhao Guan's family.

Because there are actually two names mixed in, Zhao (Wanyan) Yong and Liang Su.

Both the monarch and his ministers felt extremely strange for a moment.

　Haha, do you still remember who these two people are?
　　The wise kings and wise ministers in the history of the Kingdom of Jin appeared in the examination room of the Song Dynasty.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)