Ming politicians
Chapter 65 Reality
After chatting for a few words, Su Tiancheng turned to the main topic.
"Brother Liu, I just arrived today, so I don't know much about the situation. I don't know who the chief examiner is for this rural examination."
"Hehe, look at me, I forgot such an important thing."
Liu Zhongji glanced at Su Tianhao inadvertently. For such an important matter, Su Tianhao also had to take part in the provincial examination. He supposedly knew about it. Why didn't he say anything about it? But Su Tiancheng just arrived, so it's normal that he didn't have time to say it.
"The chief examiner this time is Xu Eryi, the head of the Ministry of Engineering, and Fu Youliang is the chief of the engineering department."
Su Tiancheng's body trembled inadvertently.
Xu Eryi, he knows that the head of the Ministry of Industry of Zhengliupin, in the first year of Chongzhen, Shangshu appealed for Xiong Tingbi's grievances and asked for his redress, Chongzhen refused, and in the second year of Chongzhen, he continued to go to Shangshu to serve Mao Wenlong protested his grievances and pledged his family's life to guarantee that Mao Wenlong did not embezzle military pay. Chongzhen still refused to allow it.
As for Fu Youliang, he is not very familiar with it, but the power in the matter is very great and cannot be ignored. Although it is only the rank of the seventh rank, the duty in the matter is to impeach officials. Leader of the emperor, this trick has caused headaches for many officials. Every year during the Spring Festival, the six departments will gather together with the cabinet ministers. In name, it is to discuss the gains and losses of the government, but in fact it is to appease many officials. middle.
During the meal, everyone drank a little wine. After the meal, Liu Zhongji said goodbye and went back to the inn, probably thinking that Su Tian needed to rest after a long journey.
After returning to the mansion, Su Tiancheng went directly to his room, he wanted to think about some issues quietly.
During the reign of Chongzhen, the phenomenon of corruption in the imperial court was serious. Officials only knew about greed and enjoyment, and did not care about state affairs at all. The rural examination has become one of the main means of collecting wealth. If the background is strong, you can raise people in high school.
Su Tiancheng even remembered an allusion. Candidates who passed the provincial and general examinations were unlucky when they took part in the palace examination. They were exposed. In front of the emperor, they could not write anything or speak well. There was nothing to do but to deprive the candidate of his fame.
Su Tiancheng didn't want to encounter such unspoken rules anymore.
In terms of knowledge, he has sufficient self-confidence. It is really strange that Su Tiancheng's knowledge in the past and his own knowledge that has been hundreds of years beyond this dynasty are integrated together.
If the imperial examination system is strict, and everyone follows the rules, if they are not knowledgeable enough to pass the provincial examination, then there is nothing they can do about it, no wonder others are to blame.
If you have knowledge and are squeezed out by those ill-informed candidates, that would be a shameful injustice.
The township examination is only once every three years, and the next time is seven years in Chongzhen. I am young, so I can wait for three years. After three years, the 21-year-old Juren is also very good, but unfortunately he has no time to delay .
This is not an age of peace.
Su Tiancheng has always believed that he must become a member of the imperial court officials, hold power, and be able to do many things well. Starting from scratch, he wants to strengthen his own strength, wants to protect his family, and wants to reverse the course of historical development. The process is a bit like an idiot's dream.
He thought of Xu Eryi, "History of the Ming Dynasty" had a good evaluation of this man, calling him a great husband.
Judging from Xu Eryi's grievances for Xiong Tingbi and Mao Wenlong, Xu Eryi is the kind of person who admits death, never looks back when he hits a wall, and even resigns from office, and his understanding is a bit extreme.It should be said that Xu Eryi has a sense of integrity, but his flaws are also obvious. He thinks he is noble, even if he does something wrong, it is difficult to realize it, and he takes it for granted.
Let’s talk about Yuan Chonghuan’s killing of Mao Wenlong. Yuan Chonghuan didn’t report to Zhu Youjian, he killed him first and then played. On the front line, the situation is critical, and Zhu Youjian must consider the overall situation.
As long as Xu Eryi thinks about it a little, he shouldn't go to Shu.
In fact, what happened later proved that Xu Eryi's Shangshu incident was still in agreement with the emperor's ideas. Zhu Youjian rehabilitated Xiong Tingbi and killed Yuan Chonghuan.
I don't know if Xu Eryi will change after experiencing these things. After a few years, he is still the head of the Ministry of Industry, which shows that he is still stubborn.
This is really a country that is easy to change, and one's nature is hard to change.
It was a good thing for Su Tiancheng to meet such an examiner.
<Qiu calls it the Five Classics, and the examination questions are the original texts of the Four Books and the Five Classics.
The content of the rural examination must be based on the annotations of the Four Books and Five Classics by Cheng Zhu School, and other annotations are not allowed.
The structure and style of the articles in the rural examination is also fixed, which is the well-known stereotyped essay.
Stereotype essay, as the name suggests, is eight parts, breaking the topic, inheriting the topic, starting the lecture, entering the topic, starting section, middle section, back section, closing section, and finally adding a conclusion, a stereotyped essay is formed.
Among them, the most important part is the stock market, which is the focus of the whole article. Candidates need to give full play to it.
Later generations criticized the stereotyped essay extremely, thinking that the stereotyped essay is of no practical use, no matter public or private documents, literary and historical works, notes, lyricism, reasoning, etc., all of which are useless, and are only a stepping stone for the imperial examination.
But Su Tiancheng doesn't think so. Even the exams after hundreds of years still have rules. The knowledge that must be mastered is for the exams. This is a fixed mode. Only under the fixed mode can the exams It is easy to operate, otherwise, everyone will write articles according to their own ideas, and there will be no standards between the examiners and the examiners, and it will be impossible to mark the papers.
Of course, Su Tiancheng didn't support stereotyped essays, let alone dead reading, and even went so far as to know nothing about the content of stereotyped essays.
The imperial examination needs to rely on the knowledge mastered by the former Su Tiancheng.
After thinking about this clearly, Su Tiancheng didn't plan to find a way to visit the chief examiner.
The next day, Su Tiancheng went to the Taiyuan government office to go through the formalities.
To participate in the rural examination, there are still many procedures that need to be completed. Some of them need to go in person, such as confirming the identity.
The formalities are divided into two periods. Before the county examination, there is a period, which is mainly for the Guozijian who participated in the rural examination. After the county examination, three to five days are concentrated for the candidates who have obtained the qualification of the rural examination.All the procedures are directly in charge of the Taiyuan Government Yamen, and are entrusted by the governor, including the publication of the list, which is also on the wall outside the government office.
There is no difference between Taiyuan government office and Pingyang government office, and the specifications and models are similar.
Su Tiancheng took the letter, including many certificates issued by the Pingyang government office, and went directly to the Taiyuan government office.
The sergeant guarding the gate of the government office saw Su Tiancheng's guide and waved his hand to let him go.
After entering the gate, passing through the corridor, passing through Yimen and Jieshifang, we finally see the lobby.
At this time, someone was already waiting outside the lobby, presumably to guide the candidates. These people were all yamen servants in the yamen.
After seeing the yamen servant, Su Tiancheng took out a piece of broken silver from his body and handed it to the yamen servant naturally.
This action was very fast, if I didn't pay attention to it, I thought it was Su Tiancheng asking the yamen servant about something.
Seeing the silver, the yamen servant was of course happy, and led Su Tiancheng through the lobby to the back wing.
The formalities are handled in the ceremony room.
There are a series of certificates on Su Tiancheng, all issued by the government office of Pingyang Prefecture, indicating that you are a student of a certain year, have participated in several provincial examinations, and whether you are qualified to participate in the provincial examinations. He handed these certificates to the ceremonial office Officials or pawns, waiting for them to confirm their identities.
The next step is to wait for the notification, get the number plate on August [-]th, and enter the Gongyuan examination in the early morning of August [-]th.
The registration procedures are actually very simple. After the officials reviewed the materials and found that there was no problem, they put away all the materials, and then issued a certificate to the candidates, stating clearly the relevant time, including when to arrive at the Yamen Come to get the number plate, when do you have to go to the Gongyuan, etc., and finally register the place where the candidates live, this is to prevent something that needs to be notified urgently.
The time for registration is also limited. It must be completed on the fifth day of August. On the sixth day of August, as the chief examiner and fellow examiners enter the Gongyuan, the officials in the examination room are busy, doing all the preparations, including pasting the test number etc.
The examination rules of the rural examination are very strict. After the papers are collected, a special transcription officer will guide the writers to re-transcribe the candidates’ test papers, and then proofread the readers to see if there are any transcription errors. The chief examiner and fellow examiners All I saw was a kind of handwriting, and it seemed impossible to fake and cover up.
But there are so many people who say hello, and the relationship should also be paid attention to. What should I do, that is, I will make a fuss from the test number, and the test number can be seen on the transcribed paper. If the examiner remembers someone, just remember His examination number will naturally be taken care of at that time. As for how knowledge is, that is another topic.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system was strictly enforced. Unfortunately, in the Wanli and Tianqi years, especially the Tianqi period, when Wei Zhongxian was in power, he regarded the imperial examination as a tool to collect money and attract lackeys, disrupting the imperial examination system.
Once this cancer spreads, the impact is fatal.
Su Tiancheng went through the formalities very smoothly, thanks to that letter. In the eyes of the officials and officials, those who hold this kind of letter are candidates with unusual relationships. Of course, they will not neglect.
"Brother Liu, I just arrived today, so I don't know much about the situation. I don't know who the chief examiner is for this rural examination."
"Hehe, look at me, I forgot such an important thing."
Liu Zhongji glanced at Su Tianhao inadvertently. For such an important matter, Su Tianhao also had to take part in the provincial examination. He supposedly knew about it. Why didn't he say anything about it? But Su Tiancheng just arrived, so it's normal that he didn't have time to say it.
"The chief examiner this time is Xu Eryi, the head of the Ministry of Engineering, and Fu Youliang is the chief of the engineering department."
Su Tiancheng's body trembled inadvertently.
Xu Eryi, he knows that the head of the Ministry of Industry of Zhengliupin, in the first year of Chongzhen, Shangshu appealed for Xiong Tingbi's grievances and asked for his redress, Chongzhen refused, and in the second year of Chongzhen, he continued to go to Shangshu to serve Mao Wenlong protested his grievances and pledged his family's life to guarantee that Mao Wenlong did not embezzle military pay. Chongzhen still refused to allow it.
As for Fu Youliang, he is not very familiar with it, but the power in the matter is very great and cannot be ignored. Although it is only the rank of the seventh rank, the duty in the matter is to impeach officials. Leader of the emperor, this trick has caused headaches for many officials. Every year during the Spring Festival, the six departments will gather together with the cabinet ministers. In name, it is to discuss the gains and losses of the government, but in fact it is to appease many officials. middle.
During the meal, everyone drank a little wine. After the meal, Liu Zhongji said goodbye and went back to the inn, probably thinking that Su Tian needed to rest after a long journey.
After returning to the mansion, Su Tiancheng went directly to his room, he wanted to think about some issues quietly.
During the reign of Chongzhen, the phenomenon of corruption in the imperial court was serious. Officials only knew about greed and enjoyment, and did not care about state affairs at all. The rural examination has become one of the main means of collecting wealth. If the background is strong, you can raise people in high school.
Su Tiancheng even remembered an allusion. Candidates who passed the provincial and general examinations were unlucky when they took part in the palace examination. They were exposed. In front of the emperor, they could not write anything or speak well. There was nothing to do but to deprive the candidate of his fame.
Su Tiancheng didn't want to encounter such unspoken rules anymore.
In terms of knowledge, he has sufficient self-confidence. It is really strange that Su Tiancheng's knowledge in the past and his own knowledge that has been hundreds of years beyond this dynasty are integrated together.
If the imperial examination system is strict, and everyone follows the rules, if they are not knowledgeable enough to pass the provincial examination, then there is nothing they can do about it, no wonder others are to blame.
If you have knowledge and are squeezed out by those ill-informed candidates, that would be a shameful injustice.
The township examination is only once every three years, and the next time is seven years in Chongzhen. I am young, so I can wait for three years. After three years, the 21-year-old Juren is also very good, but unfortunately he has no time to delay .
This is not an age of peace.
Su Tiancheng has always believed that he must become a member of the imperial court officials, hold power, and be able to do many things well. Starting from scratch, he wants to strengthen his own strength, wants to protect his family, and wants to reverse the course of historical development. The process is a bit like an idiot's dream.
He thought of Xu Eryi, "History of the Ming Dynasty" had a good evaluation of this man, calling him a great husband.
Judging from Xu Eryi's grievances for Xiong Tingbi and Mao Wenlong, Xu Eryi is the kind of person who admits death, never looks back when he hits a wall, and even resigns from office, and his understanding is a bit extreme.It should be said that Xu Eryi has a sense of integrity, but his flaws are also obvious. He thinks he is noble, even if he does something wrong, it is difficult to realize it, and he takes it for granted.
Let’s talk about Yuan Chonghuan’s killing of Mao Wenlong. Yuan Chonghuan didn’t report to Zhu Youjian, he killed him first and then played. On the front line, the situation is critical, and Zhu Youjian must consider the overall situation.
As long as Xu Eryi thinks about it a little, he shouldn't go to Shu.
In fact, what happened later proved that Xu Eryi's Shangshu incident was still in agreement with the emperor's ideas. Zhu Youjian rehabilitated Xiong Tingbi and killed Yuan Chonghuan.
I don't know if Xu Eryi will change after experiencing these things. After a few years, he is still the head of the Ministry of Industry, which shows that he is still stubborn.
This is really a country that is easy to change, and one's nature is hard to change.
It was a good thing for Su Tiancheng to meet such an examiner.
<Qiu calls it the Five Classics, and the examination questions are the original texts of the Four Books and the Five Classics.
The content of the rural examination must be based on the annotations of the Four Books and Five Classics by Cheng Zhu School, and other annotations are not allowed.
The structure and style of the articles in the rural examination is also fixed, which is the well-known stereotyped essay.
Stereotype essay, as the name suggests, is eight parts, breaking the topic, inheriting the topic, starting the lecture, entering the topic, starting section, middle section, back section, closing section, and finally adding a conclusion, a stereotyped essay is formed.
Among them, the most important part is the stock market, which is the focus of the whole article. Candidates need to give full play to it.
Later generations criticized the stereotyped essay extremely, thinking that the stereotyped essay is of no practical use, no matter public or private documents, literary and historical works, notes, lyricism, reasoning, etc., all of which are useless, and are only a stepping stone for the imperial examination.
But Su Tiancheng doesn't think so. Even the exams after hundreds of years still have rules. The knowledge that must be mastered is for the exams. This is a fixed mode. Only under the fixed mode can the exams It is easy to operate, otherwise, everyone will write articles according to their own ideas, and there will be no standards between the examiners and the examiners, and it will be impossible to mark the papers.
Of course, Su Tiancheng didn't support stereotyped essays, let alone dead reading, and even went so far as to know nothing about the content of stereotyped essays.
The imperial examination needs to rely on the knowledge mastered by the former Su Tiancheng.
After thinking about this clearly, Su Tiancheng didn't plan to find a way to visit the chief examiner.
The next day, Su Tiancheng went to the Taiyuan government office to go through the formalities.
To participate in the rural examination, there are still many procedures that need to be completed. Some of them need to go in person, such as confirming the identity.
The formalities are divided into two periods. Before the county examination, there is a period, which is mainly for the Guozijian who participated in the rural examination. After the county examination, three to five days are concentrated for the candidates who have obtained the qualification of the rural examination.All the procedures are directly in charge of the Taiyuan Government Yamen, and are entrusted by the governor, including the publication of the list, which is also on the wall outside the government office.
There is no difference between Taiyuan government office and Pingyang government office, and the specifications and models are similar.
Su Tiancheng took the letter, including many certificates issued by the Pingyang government office, and went directly to the Taiyuan government office.
The sergeant guarding the gate of the government office saw Su Tiancheng's guide and waved his hand to let him go.
After entering the gate, passing through the corridor, passing through Yimen and Jieshifang, we finally see the lobby.
At this time, someone was already waiting outside the lobby, presumably to guide the candidates. These people were all yamen servants in the yamen.
After seeing the yamen servant, Su Tiancheng took out a piece of broken silver from his body and handed it to the yamen servant naturally.
This action was very fast, if I didn't pay attention to it, I thought it was Su Tiancheng asking the yamen servant about something.
Seeing the silver, the yamen servant was of course happy, and led Su Tiancheng through the lobby to the back wing.
The formalities are handled in the ceremony room.
There are a series of certificates on Su Tiancheng, all issued by the government office of Pingyang Prefecture, indicating that you are a student of a certain year, have participated in several provincial examinations, and whether you are qualified to participate in the provincial examinations. He handed these certificates to the ceremonial office Officials or pawns, waiting for them to confirm their identities.
The next step is to wait for the notification, get the number plate on August [-]th, and enter the Gongyuan examination in the early morning of August [-]th.
The registration procedures are actually very simple. After the officials reviewed the materials and found that there was no problem, they put away all the materials, and then issued a certificate to the candidates, stating clearly the relevant time, including when to arrive at the Yamen Come to get the number plate, when do you have to go to the Gongyuan, etc., and finally register the place where the candidates live, this is to prevent something that needs to be notified urgently.
The time for registration is also limited. It must be completed on the fifth day of August. On the sixth day of August, as the chief examiner and fellow examiners enter the Gongyuan, the officials in the examination room are busy, doing all the preparations, including pasting the test number etc.
The examination rules of the rural examination are very strict. After the papers are collected, a special transcription officer will guide the writers to re-transcribe the candidates’ test papers, and then proofread the readers to see if there are any transcription errors. The chief examiner and fellow examiners All I saw was a kind of handwriting, and it seemed impossible to fake and cover up.
But there are so many people who say hello, and the relationship should also be paid attention to. What should I do, that is, I will make a fuss from the test number, and the test number can be seen on the transcribed paper. If the examiner remembers someone, just remember His examination number will naturally be taken care of at that time. As for how knowledge is, that is another topic.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system was strictly enforced. Unfortunately, in the Wanli and Tianqi years, especially the Tianqi period, when Wei Zhongxian was in power, he regarded the imperial examination as a tool to collect money and attract lackeys, disrupting the imperial examination system.
Once this cancer spreads, the impact is fatal.
Su Tiancheng went through the formalities very smoothly, thanks to that letter. In the eyes of the officials and officials, those who hold this kind of letter are candidates with unusual relationships. Of course, they will not neglect.
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