The Great Grandson of the Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the slaughter of General Tiance's mans

Chapter 189 I personally set the questions to select talents

The result of the examination fraud case came quickly. Li Chengdao's thunderous methods shocked countless people.

Five examiners, including the Minister of Rites, were sacked and arrested, and among all the candidates on the list this time, 54 were actually involved in the fraud!

This number is shocking, and it also reveals how corrupt and dark scientific research really is!

But what made countless poor scholars happy was that all 54 corrupt scholars were arrested and imprisoned by Li Chengdao, and were transferred to Dali Temple for trial, and at the same time they were stripped of all their honors!
After dealing with these fraudulent scholars, Li Chengdao began to take the first step in reforming the imperial examination.

To this end, he specially summoned Jia Xu and other confidants to discuss.

"This year's examination will be held again. I will personally come up with the test questions. This is my new test paper. All my dear friends, please take a look."

Li Chengdao said and asked the eunuch to present the prepared examination papers.

"Your Majesty will personally set the exam questions?"

Wei Zheng was a little surprised, but more curious.

Jia Xu, on the other hand, had already taken a paper in his hand to observe, but after just looking at it for a few times, his expression suddenly became a little weird.

Upon seeing this, Changsun Wuji and others began to read the test paper prepared by Li Chengdao. However, after reading it, their expressions suddenly became strange.

Because the exam paper drawn up by Li Chengdao was different from any exam paper they had seen before. It was so weird!

The examination paper issued by Li Chengdao is divided into several major categories such as "Criminal Law", "Numbers", "Industry and Metallurgy", and "Art of War". The propositions adopt a scoring system. Each question has a fixed score, and the total score is Yes, one hundred percent.

The content of these questions is also varied.

Take the first question at the beginning of "Criminal Law" as an example, it is very confusing.

[Question [-]: On a rainy night, a murderer broke into a house and robbed him. He was discovered by the owner and fled in a hurry. The owner of the family and his neighbors went to chase him in the rain all night. They chased him to a ruined temple in the city and found the suspect. There were three people, a rude strong man, a rogue with no fixed abode, and a wandering monk. The clothes of the three of them had not been wet by the rain.Unable to determine who the thief was, the crowd took the three to the government, but the county magistrate saw the real culprit at a glance.Let me ask: Who is the thief for? 】

"This……"

Changsun Wuji opened his mouth and was stunned.

What is this topic?How did the county magistrate in the exam question "see through the criminal at a glance"?That county magistrate is simply divine.

Fang Xuanling said with some uncertainty: "It must be a rogue. The most likely suspect is a gangster committing murder and robbery."

But Li Chengdao just smiled and said nothing.

"It's the wandering monk."

After Jia Xu thought for a while, he directly gave the answer, "The wandering monk is pretending. He can change his wet clothes, but his hair is not easy to dry. He must have cut off his hair because it rained heavily that night as mentioned in the question." , the robbers being chased must also be wet.”

After Jia Xu explained, everyone suddenly realized, and then felt embarrassed.

However, this is only the first question, and the subsequent questions are even more brutal.For example, the second question: [A man's mother passed away. At the funeral, he saw a woman who came to pay his respects and fell in love with her at first sight.After the funeral, the man killed his sister. What was the motive? 】

Another example is the question in the "Counting" category: [A family has two children, one of whom is a boy. Ask the probability that the other one is also a boy. 】

[A man bought a pig for eight taels and sold it for nine taels. Then he thought it was not a good deal, so he bought it back for ten taels and sold it to another person for 11 taels. Ask him how much he earned. 】

For the topic "Art of War", a map was drawn directly on the paper, and the candidates were required to lead a number of soldiers to conquer a mountain stronghold based on the landforms on the map, and were asked to write down the specific process.

The titles of "Gongye" are similar to this. For example, one title also draws a map under the title, and the theme is digging canals to irrigate village fields.

Among them, there are two types of labor in the question, villagers and "hired workers". The difference between the two is that villagers are free but their digging efficiency is not high, while hired workers need to be paid daily but are twice as efficient as villagers.

Finally, the question requires candidates to calculate the number of villagers and employees, as well as the costs within the specified date and time, under the three guidelines of "the fastest", "the most economical (required within the time limit)" and "the most reasonable" Condition.

……

And so on, there are so many different things that have nothing to do with each other, it is completely confusing.

Even though Changsun Wuji and others were extremely resourceful people, they were completely confused by the questions in this test paper.

"Your Majesty's test paper is really, really..."

Changsun Wuji was sweating profusely. He tried to answer the paper in his mind, but in the end he found that he couldn't even get fifty points!
Wei Zheng, on the other hand, worriedly raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, with all due respect, if you use this test paper to test the school's scholars, I am afraid that only those with small cleverness will be screened out, and it will be difficult to select the true talents of the country. "

Jia Xu was not in a hurry, stood up and said with a smile: "Your Majesty should have taken the exam long ago, so your Majesty should stop trying to sell things with your ministers, right?"

He has followed Li Chengdao for the longest time, so he naturally knows his character well and cannot fail to see the shortcomings in this test paper.

As expected, Li Chengdao smiled and said: "I have naturally considered this. These topics are all subjects that I plan to add in the future, and they will be implemented temporarily."

"In addition, the test paper is divided into two volumes, A and B. One is a comprehensive subject of "The Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "Book of Rites", "Book of Changes", "Spring and Autumn", and "Ce Lun". It is Volume A drafted by the Ministry of Rites. "

"The one I have drawn up is for Roll B. It mainly selects people with special talents. Even if their scores in Roll A are not satisfactory, they can be promoted to corresponding official positions in the six departments based on their scores in Roll B."

"The results of Papers A and B are independent of each other. There are two separate rankings. Scholars can just choose one of the papers to answer."

Li Chengdao's words gave everyone a feeling of enlightenment.

Jia Xu's eyes lit up, he patted his thigh and exclaimed: "Wonderful! Your Majesty, what a plan!"

"Scroll A can select talents who can govern the country, while scroll B can select talents who can do hard work!"

"Scholars may not have the ability to govern a country, but who can be sure that they have no talent in criminal law, military art, industry, and mathematics?"

"Your Majesty's move is truly a way to keep talented people out of the wild! Screening out talents to the greatest extent possible!"

(End of this chapter)