Win the Ding 1617

The political structure of the Longwu court was a dual system consisting of the regular system of the cabinet and the temporary war system of the general Xingyuan.But no one is blind, and one can tell at a glance that the war is the priority right now, so naturally Xingyuan has to overwhelm the cabinet.Moreover, the salaries, money and food needed for daily administrative affairs in the palace and the imperial court were also allocated to the inner government and the cabinet by Xingyuan.In one hand is the handle of a gun and knife, and in the other hand is a purse, a rice bag, and by the way, the Xingyuan is also in charge of the black gauze hats of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

However, in recent days, the cabinet officials have also been working in full swing.Without him, Longwu Enke will be fired.This is a major event for the country!

All the adults are well-educated people who came from a regular background in Kejia, and there is such a good opportunity to earn face and earn money to recruit students, how can they not scramble for the first place? The chief examiner was taken by Huang Daozhou , The remaining examiners in each room are also the objects of competition among the six ministers, Shi Lang, Dali Temple Zhengqing, Shaoqing, and Yushitai's left and right censors.

Once the organization is determined, the next step is to clarify the scope of the exam, the format of the exam, and the topics.Theoretically, it is natural that all 63 provinces in the south and north can come to take the exam.However, this one cannot be realized in the first place.Not to mention that everything north of the Yangtze River fell, but the south of the Yangtze River was also where the Ming and Qing dynasties fought back and forth and fought over and over again.Do you want to let the hostesses from the enemy-occupied areas take part in this Enke?Also, the cabinet here is still discussing the scope of the exam, and there is a message from Xingyuan over there that students from schools in various places in Nanzhong, including Nanyang Luzon, are also eligible to participate in Enke.

This time it poked a hornet's nest.The cabinet officials were indignant, "The candidates in the provinces have been in the cold for ten years, and the iron inkstones have been worn out before they have achieved such fame. The students from all over the Nanzhong District have only learned some calculations, and they can barely read. Write letters on behalf of you, how dare you come to take the imperial examination?!"

The slander belongs to the slander, but he dare not say anything.

On the contrary, Huang Shoufu twitched his beard with his hands and nodded, saying: "The general's move is for the sake of the country's dignity." He knew very well that if it was really carried out as in previous years, few people would be able to participate in this Enke , the reason is very simple, too many places are lost.The Ming Dynasty did not cede land or make peace with each other. Accumulated over the years, it is already that there is no Shanhaiguan in the east, Jiayuguan in the west, and the Ming court is not outside the Great Wall. This is why the emperor guards the gate. (In other words, if you really follow the theory of the founding of the eighteen provinces of the revolutionary pioneers, don’t say that you can’t eat a large plate of chicken and mutton skewers. If you want to go to the snow-covered plateau to purify your soul, you will have to apply for a passport if you want to eat beef ramen.)

If the selection of talents for the country is also a sign of the legitimacy of one's own regime, so that everyone in the world recognizes that one is an orthodox imperial examination, but when it is held grandly, only three or two kittens come, this is not a slap Face, this is a slap in the face with a cron cannon!Therefore, Huang Daozhou greatly appreciated Li Shouhan's appointment of school-educated people from all over Nanzhong to take the Longwu Enke Examination.

Therefore, for those Nanzhong students who, according to the standards of the righteous gentlemen of Kejia, who not only have no fame, but are not even considered to have been in school, at most they can read, all of them have the status of Juren.

This is something that people with a legitimate background in Kejia cannot tolerate anyway.After some deliberation, they came up with a solution.On the grounds that the Jiangnan Township Examination was not reported due to the fall of Nanjing, an official document was sent to Xingyuan, asking for instructions to hold the Jiangnan Township Examination before Enke.

In this way, those scholars who did not have the status of Juren can also take the Longwu Enke Examination in a grandiose manner after taking the provincial examination and obtaining the status of Juren. , Completed the triple jump of identity change!

"Sir! Sir!" In front of Huang Daozhou's signing room, several cabinet officials rushed in excitedly. "Good thing! Good thing!"

"What made you lose your composure?!"

Although Huang Daozhou is not the kind of unsmiling Taoist gentleman, he still pays attention to manners on weekdays. People like him, deep in their hearts, learn from Xie An as a role model. Even if there is news from the front at this moment, the army has recovered In Nanjing, he is also going to say something like "Pack up your things and prepare to go back to Nanjing" like Xie An said, "The younger generation breaks the thief".But now that the few subordinates in front of him are so gaffe, it makes him feel a little unhappy.

"The general Xingyuan sent back the official document. Jue Shuai has approved the regulations for conducting the rural examination first and then opening the Enke. Order to spread it to all provinces so that it can be handled accordingly."

"Xingyuan Du Branch also sent a message to ask about how many scholars have participated in the provincial examination and how many students have participated in Enke. Let me wait for the statistics to inform them. They plan to plan money and grain to give subsidies. The students asked who came, and the degree According to the wishes of the general, the Branch Office will provide three meals a day, two meals with one meat and one vegetable, and an ordinary single room allowance. In addition, if the candidates are ill during the exam, Pay one silver dollar for the soup."

"There is one more thing to report to Lord Shoufu. General Xingyuan ordered the Fuzhou government to renovate the existing tribute courtyard and rebuild the examination shed. The kind of heavy rain outside and light rain inside, you can't stretch your legs when you go in, and you can't sit down. The examination shed at the waist is not allowed to appear in this imperial examination. For the insufficient part, temples and ancestral halls inside and outside the city can be requisitioned, and even military camps can be used as examination rooms.”

This series of good news immediately dispelled Huang Daozhou's dissatisfaction with these officials, and replaced it with joy.After all, it is the foundation of a scholar!When I heard about respecting scholars and respecting teachers, I was so happy,

"Although Jue Shuai was born as a warrior, his style of conduct is unavoidably rough, but he is unambiguous in the matter of promoting kingship and respecting teachers. Let alone other things, take a look. One by one, renovating the test shed, arranging board and lodging for the candidates and providing bait. These things make the old man remember the five things and empathize with him!"

"Exactly! In fact, Jue Shuai is just like what Mr. said, he is the one who promotes kingship. In just 20 years, he has turned the barren land into a place where books can be read. The general ruled all the places, For people who can read and write, the rate of children going to school is even higher than that of Jiangnan. It's a pity that it's a bit vulgar after all, and it doesn't read the essence of the scriptures."

"It doesn't matter. When the war is settled, I will have to help the marshal to make things right."

A group of people enthusiastically began to look forward to Enke, and after a large number of scholars Zichaowei Tianshelang went to the Tianzitang, they will carry on the past and open up the future, creating a grand occasion of ZTE.However, as the saying goes, too strong is easy to break and too strong is hard to defend.Just after enjoying a cup of tea, a cabinet official on duty today hurried in.

"Master Shoufu, Jue Shuai's approval for the Enke exam has come down!"

"Oh! It must have been a big draw." A few officials who were quite disdainful of Li Shouhan, who was born as a warrior and a dignitary in power, joked. In their opinion, Li Shouhan's bad calligraphy Well, that set of extremely rude language and writing is at best a correct word on the report, a decent word.What else can I say?

"The marshal valued Enke this time so much, he must have encouraged him more. We must keep it in our hearts, and we must keep it in mind when we do things."

The officials speculated about the content of Li Shouhan's reply to the submission, but their eyes fell on the face of the colleague on duty, trying to analyze something from his expression on duty.

"Of course Jue Shuai won't say anything else. However, there are people with bad intentions around him! This generation has a deep prejudice against me as a scholar, holds a grudge, and always makes things difficult for us."

Naturally, Huang Daozhou had to look over the official document first, and the official on duty told his colleagues about the approval of the official document rather angrily.

While listening, everyone watched the change in the expression on Lord Shoufu's face. Seeing that Huang Daozhou's expression gradually became solemn, they yelled in their hearts that something was wrong.I'm afraid that some of the articles in this reply go against Mr. Shoufu's thoughts.

"My lord," seeing Huang Daozhou's unhesitating expression, the colleagues in the cabinet were cautious, lest they say a word badly, and put themselves between the chief assistant of the cabinet and the general Liang Guogong. "But the general has new intentions for this Enke?" In order to wash himself off, he very cautiously changed the more respectful and affectionate title of marshal to the impartial title of general.

"It shouldn't be what Jue Shuai meant." Huang Daozhou let out a long breath.He tried his best to calm down, "The commander-in-chief is good at military administration, and he doesn't know much about the affairs of the imperial examinations. This," he held up a few pieces of paper in his hand with red heads printed on the official letter of the general Xingyuan. Zhu Sha approved a big letter of approval, and another line of small words, "Please cabinet Mr. Huang Shoufu, Dao Zhou, and all colleagues to handle it."

"It must have been written by someone in the Marshall's shogunate."

Li Shouhan's office belongs to a black yamen with no quota, no budget, and no grade regulations.Of course, in the eyes of the princes in the court, this is a private consulting agency affiliated to Li Shouhan, and they also have a lot of famous copywriters around them.No one would have thought that this office was like Daming's cabinet, an institution that wields enormous power. (Fourth Lord: What are you kidding? You took the military plane I built and turned it into a bullshit office, and you used it to fight against the emperor, who dared to reject the emperor's will at every turn, and the cabinet disagreed. , The imperial decree of the emperor is the straw paper to wipe the butt, oh, it’s not right, it seems that the straw paper to wipe the butt is also very valuable now. It can also make the emperor fall into the water and die at any time, compared to the cabinet that died of a cold?)

Several officials hastily accepted the regulations on the form and content of the Enke imperial examination proposed by the office, and read them at a glance.

The first part is the form of the imperial examination.The original three consecutive exams in five days and four nights was changed to three exams in three days.And there are two days of rest in the middle, so that candidates can recover their physical strength and adjust themselves.These officials have been through the examination room for a long time, fighting all the way from the pen, ink and paper, and relying on the pen, desk and inkstone in their hands to obtain fame in the pen array.They are well aware of the pain of the imperial examination.

The first test of the imperial examination is the scriptures and meanings. The test time is not too much, just three days and two nights.This seems to be much more tormented than the current college entrance examination.Readers who have visited the Gongyuan Courtyard in Nanjing can imagine, staying in that kind of test shed for three days and two nights, not to mention racking your brains to conceive an article, just let you stay in it, that feeling, enter Students who have been to the detention center of the police station should be familiar with this feeling.

Think about it, preparing to enter the examination room in the early morning of the first day, and then staying in the examination room for three days and two nights, eating, drinking and slacking.Note that the examination is in the second month of the lunar calendar. Whether it is Jiangnan or the capital, it seems uncomfortable to spend the night in a cowshed as big as a kennel during this season.Candidates in Jiangnan are faced with the pattering spring rain in early spring and February outside, while those in Beijing Normal University have to face the physical fitness test of cold northwest wind in spring. A few are not unusual.It is more likely that physical exhaustion and mental stress lead to collapse. There are also a lot of so-called insanity.

Why!The judge said, isn't it just an exam!Is it not a physical examination, or is it such a long time of three days and two nights, can you still be physically exhausted?Judge, don't be a hero in your mouth, wait for me to talk about the content and questions of this exam slowly, it's not too late for you to talk.

The content of the first scripture test is to give you seven scripture questions. You write seven scriptures and explain the scriptures in the form of eight-legged essays. After the seven articles are written, there are almost [-] words, plus drafts, the workload is your own. repair.Moreover, the paperwork requirements of the imperial examination are very high, if you refer to the standards of the college entrance examination, you will just wait for failure!The font requirement is "Taige Style".Not only is there a high requirement for writing, but the font size is also required, and even ink is also required.The characters written are black and clean.Later, there were more standard requirements for the so-called "black, big, light, and round".

Speaking of it, this pavilion still cannot avoid Zhu Chong and Ba Ye.Taige originally refers to Shangshu (an official who assisted the emperor in handling government affairs in ancient times).Because the Shangshutai is in the palace building, it has this name, and it was later extended to be the official name of the government.As the name suggests, Taige style is a special font for official writing.Due to personal preferences, Chong Bage and his son both vigorously advocated calligraphy, and calligraphy learning flourished for a while.Zhu Laosi even issued an edict to call on scholars who are good at calligraphy in the country to invite them to gather in the Hanlin Academy, which will be doubly favored.In the Ming Dynasty, when opening subjects and selecting scholars, they all answered the test papers in regular script to ensure neatness.Those who write poorly, even if they are full of knowledge, will lose their reputation.Not only do you have to fail the rankings, but you also have to hang up the papers to show the public, so that everyone can take a good look at the negative teaching materials.This had a great influence on the artistic style of calligraphy at that time.Therefore, when scholars write, they only seek to be correct and respectful, horizontal and vertical, neat and tidy, and write like a woodblock printing style. This formed the Taige style of Ming Dynasty, called "Taige style".So well!For those time-traveling novels who rely on a bad handwriting to gain a family background in the imperial examination room or to be astonished by a certain big shot, I advise you to give up this idea!As far as your bad calligraphy was expelled from the calligraphy class, you probably won't be able to make a living writing letters on the street. You still want to take the imperial examination?wake up!

Readers, think about it carefully, for three days and two nights, you have to conceive seven articles first, and then use the same font to write articles of at least 1 words. For such a talent, I suggest you not take the imperial examination. When it comes to code words, it is definitely at the level of a great god.

This is the form, the title, and the amount of questions, so let's talk about other things.Well, for example, the scope of the exam. (Knock on the blackboard! This paragraph is very important!) Although the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were divided into three sessions, only the first session was really valued;The so-called classics mean that each candidate should determine one of the five classics of "Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "Book of Rites", "Book of Changes", and "Spring and Autumn" as his specialization direction when registering, and write 4 or more articles during the exam. The sentences analyzed in this classic are the articles on the meaning of the classics; the meanings of the four books are the three questions from the four so-called "New Confucianism" classics: "The Analects", "Mencius", "The Doctrine of the Mean", and "University".That is to say, the examiner has to prepare a total of 3+4=3 questions for each exam, and each candidate actually answers 45 questions.

How, is not already a headache?These are the characteristics of the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty.It has an imperial examination system with the characteristics of starlings.

The imperial examinations began in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and were formalized in the Song Dynasty.Although the Tang and Song dynasties also examined the meaning of the scriptures, they also regarded the meaning of the scriptures as an important content. For example, Wen Tianxiang's "hard work encounters the classics" written in Guoling Dingyang is the inner monologue of this literary champion.However, the way to test scriptures and righteousness is very simple, that is, pasting scriptures (filling in the blanks) and ink meanings (writing silently). How about it? Do you immediately feel that you have hope?

After Wang Anshi's reform in the Northern Song Dynasty, poetry and Fu were abolished, and then the focus was on policy writing.When it's time to focus on starlings, focus on the assessment of Jingyi.

If you can stand the test and face the seven questions selected from this sutra and the four books, you can deal with them calmly and calmly, and the next two games will be much easier.Especially the third policy discussion, as long as you don't say that Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a traitor, and Zhu Di's position is not right, such reactionary words, then it's all over.Just wait to become Jinshi or fellow Jinshi!

However, this statute, which makes people feel outrageous and outrageous, or the reform proposal of the college entrance examination system, under the banner of frequent wars and reform of the ancient system, blatantly requires major surgery on the form and content of the examination.In addition to shortening the time, the difficulty is also reduced to the point of outrageous.For example, restore the scriptures and meanings to the Song Dynasty's Paste Sutra (fill in the blanks) and Mo Yi (silent writing).Moreover, Ce Wen's status will be greatly improved.

"This is a big matter, and it concerns the future of thousands of scholars in the world. I want to go to Xingyuan, meet the Marshal Jue, and talk to him about it!" Deputy Huang Daozhou ordered people to prepare sedan chairs .

"If Jing Yi is changed to Tie Jing and Mo Yi, then those ineffective younger brothers and nephews in my family can also get fame?"

Looking at the sedan chair and guard of honor going away by Zodiac Zhou, some officials couldn't help but feel joy in their hearts.