Kaiyuan Merry

() The palace examination is the last process of the imperial examination, which especially attracts the attention of scholars. Its emphasis is far higher than that of the college entrance examination in later generations. However, there are only 30 to [-] people who can participate in the palace examination.

Bai Juyi once wrote a poem "the title place under the Ci'en Pagoda, among the 17 people, is the youngest." It can be seen that there were only 17 people in the Jinshi at that time. This unspoken rule of convention.

These people present at this time were able to kill out of so many scholars in the entire Tang Dynasty, which shows their ability.

Don't think that being able to follow the line of the powerful is not a kind of ability. If your own strength is not up to the standard, even if you have a line, you will be deposed. Cui Linzhi is a typical negative example.

To put it in a more frank way, most of the people who can win Jinshi are talented children of powerful and powerful people, or celebrities who are really good at hyping themselves. This is where the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty are not complete. Much more.

However, there is no doubt that the Jinshi department is becoming more and more expensive, and the Mingjing department is second only to the Jinshi department.

Jinshi examines poetry and fu, and those who read dead books must not write poems well.But like the Mingjing scientific examination, you must read rote books.The scope of post scriptures in the Mingjing examination in the Tang Dynasty is much wider than that of Jinshi. The scriptures of "Qiu Zuo Zhuan" are the "Five Classics". Candidates must familiarize themselves with the works of more than 40 characters. During the exam, the examiner covers the front and back sides of the scriptures, leaving only one line in the middle, and sticks the three characters in a line with paper, so that Candidates read out the three words posted.This method of examination is called Tie Jing.Such an examination, of course, can only admit some nerds, far less than Jinshi with real talents and learning.

Officials in the Tang Dynasty, who were born as Jinshi, were called Qingliu, and most of them were court officials; those who came from Mingjing and other scientific research were called Zhuoliu, and some were also court officials; Qingliu and Zhuoliu were collectively called Liunei.

And those who become officials through other channels are called outflows; those who have certain talents and learning but cannot become officials are what is said today after becoming an official.

In the officialdom, Qingliu looked down on the turbid Liuliu, Liuinai looked down on Liuwai, hated each other, and fought against each other, which made the ancient officialdom into chaos.

The great poet Yuan Zhen, who was as famous as Bai Juyi in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, was intelligent since he was a child. The contempt of Qingliu headed by Niu Sengru.

Once when court officials were eating melons together, flies flew over. Wu Ruheng waved his fan to repel the flies, took a look at Yuan Zhen, and said, "Where did this thing come from?" The ego of officials.Unable to bear the humiliation, Yuan Zhen fought hard, re-entered the examination room at the age of 27, and finally reached the rank of Jinshi.

So you can imagine why Wang Wei in the past was obsessed with Jinshi instead of Mingjing. Yushi, take the route of talking about the official mouth, the more people you spray, the higher the grade, and you can spray ideas, the speed of promotion should not be too fast.

Of course, in the Tang Dynasty, if one wanted to reach the highest level, one must have experience in governing the local area. It is not enough to rely on one's mouth, one must also have the ability to do things.

The examination process of the palace examination is also very solemn. On the previous day, the officials of Honglu Temple are responsible for setting up the throne and yellow case at the specific examination place, and the officials of Guanglu Temple place the examination table and arrange the candidates' seats.

Today is already the day of the palace examination, and Wang Wei and many tributes who participated in the palace examination waited in line in front of the gate of the palace used for the examination at dawn.

Wang Wei, who is young, is very conspicuous among the tributes, because many of them are already very old. For example, there is a tribute named Xu Anzhen who is already 48 years old. One is Li Boyu, who is also in his 30s, and Pei Yaoqing and Li Linfu, who are also in their 30s, are the county magistrate of Chang'an at the top of the fifth rank, and the other is the prince Zhongyun at the bottom of the fifth rank. Chances are really incomparable.

Age is very important to an official, the younger he is, the further he can go.

Therefore, even though many of the tributes present were jealous of Wang Wei's youth, they were always very polite and kind to Wang Wei. Wang Wei's fame and talent were enough to calm those who were jealous of him.

The servant sent a pack of palace cakes to each of the tributes for breakfast.

Civil and military officials from Chang'an came here one after another, separated on both sides, some closed their eyes and rested their minds, while others watched these tributes with their eyes, as if recalling their own imperial examination career.

When Prime Minister Song Jing and Deputy Prime Minister Su Ting arrived, all civil and military officials saluted them respectfully, with extremely humble expressions on their faces.

The tributes naturally had to salute the prime minister, the head of all the officials. Wang Wei was envious when he saw Song Jing appearing, so many court dignitaries showed respectful looks. A prime minister with more than [-] people... If the constitutional monarchy directly restricts the imperial power, the prime minister may be the one who truly controls a country.

Wang Wei's ambition suddenly grew. As a person with a modern soul, how could he be willing to serve the imperial power honestly?

Maybe he can't care about the whole common people, but he can make his family the real controller of the country, just like the dark controllers of some countries in later generations are chaebol consortiums.

Song Jing glanced at Wang Wei, the leader among the tributes, with a look of admiration in his eyes. Although he knew that Wang Wei was talented, he really didn't expect him to win the first place in the provincial test.

Although Song Jing asked Wang Wei to send a letter to Zhang Ting, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, there was nothing in the letter that made Zhang Ting favor Wang Wei, and the review of the test papers that day was also spread as gossip .

It is said that Zhang Ting summoned all the examination papers and asked them to judge Wang Wei's examination paper together, making it as fair and just as possible, but the result of everyone's evaluation is still the first, which is very authoritative...

But in fact, there is a coincidence factor in this, because everyone saw Zhang Ting's anger at the deputy before, and some of the officials who had also been greeted were naturally guilty and dared not do anything. Thinking carefully, in order to cater to what I wanted, I simply gave Wang Wei the first place in the evaluation. Afterwards, many reviewing officials had a herd mentality, which caused Wang Wei to take the first place by some accidents.

In fact, although Wang Wei is talented, he is a little immature after all, not as good as those who have taken the exam many times.

After all the civil and military officials arrived, the sound of orchestral silk and bamboo sounded, and Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty ascended to the palace amidst the vocal music.The bachelor took out the test questions from the yellow case in the hall, awarded them to the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and then the officials of the Ministry of Rites put them on the yellow case outside the hall.

After the civil and military officials and tributes had given counselors to pray, the officials of the Ministry of Rites began to distribute the inscription papers.

The inscription paper is mounted on rice paper, which is extremely elegant.Each page is 24 centimeters long and [-] centimeters wide, with red lines and vertical grids. Each line is required to write [-] characters, and each character must be neatly written.

After the tributes knelt down one by one to receive the question papers, they went to their seats and began to answer the questions.

Enter the venue in the early morning according to the regulations, and hand in the paper at the end of the day.

The questions for the palace test were pre-drawn by the Zhengshitang, and then submitted to the emperor for selection.Sometimes it is prepared by the examiner and then sent to the emperor for delineation, or the emperor directly draws up the topic.

The palace examination questions are now more focused on policy questions, but they have not been changed to poetry and fu. However, after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the wind of poetry and fu flourished, and the palace examination also changed to focus more on poetry and fu. Similarly, there are five characters and six rhymes, or seven characters and eight rhymes, which have strict requirements on the rhyme and rhythm.

The style of the palace examination is parallel style. During the palace examination, the emperor asked a few questions about current affairs, politics, classics, righteousness and history. Candidates for the examination must follow the neat sentence style of parallel four Li six pairs.

In fact, Wang Wei is very good at countermeasure questions and poetry questions, but he still hopes to be policy questions, because poetry and prose, if you want to write well, you really have high requirements for inspiration. How could it be possible to have such a comfortable state of mind during the naturally stressful exam?

Even though Wang Wei had been devastated by exam-oriented education in his previous life, oh no, it was a test, but when he knelt down to receive his own test papers and questions, he still felt his heart beating faster. To put it bluntly, the ancient The palace examination is much more important than the examinations of later generations.

If he succeeds, he will be named on the gold list, get the official status, and honor his ancestors; if he fails, he will have to prepare for the provincial exam again and challenge the palace exam again. A guy like Wang Wei who is astonishingly famous will definitely be ridiculed...

"You can't pass the imperial examination even if you are the first in the provincial examination? How did you come to be the first? There must be something inside!"

"The fame is so great, the talent is boasted so much, but in the end he still failed the ranking. It seems that all the fame and talent are all blown out!"

"I didn't expect the famous and talented poet Wang Mojie to be here today. God has eyes!"

"Wang Wei, even if you pass the provincial test, so what, if you fail the palace test, you still have to do it all over again, anyway, you still have to follow my path!"

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Wang Wei shook his head, forcing himself to abandon these thoughts that interfered with him. He should have confidence in his own strength. If he did not integrate the original Wang Wei's soul, no matter how hard he tried, it would be useless for a modern person. After more than ten years of edification, I just want to take the imperial examination, which is simply a fantasy.

After all, Wang Wei has a big heart. People who do big things are always very determined. He quickly calmed down and opened the paper calmly.

Sure enough, at the beginning of Kaiyuan when poetry and prose had not yet emerged, the questions in the palace examination still focused on policy questions, but I don't know if Li Longji would really read the answers of these tributes in person.

Because although the candidates who can pass the provincial examination and come to this palace examination examination room are all elites among the elites, after all, these so-called elites are candidates with no actual political experience.

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