Wentang

Chapter 372 Simulated Imperial Examination
Park Sung-sung?Hikawa Okamoto?

Emmmmm... The names of these two people, could they be half-brothers.And it's not about being born on the same day, the same month, but about dying in the same year, month, and day.

Speaking of which, Yue Shan would also like to thank the two of them, without them, the recruitment of Wang Dahu and his group might not have been so smooth.

After all, as far as the Chinese are concerned, most of the people who are willing to become pirates are unable to live on land, or they are simply forced to leave due to feuds with the government, gentry, landlords, and rich people. It is difficult to gain their trust.

Some people are willing to come back with the idea of ​​returning to their roots, and there are bound to be people who are not willing to come back.

It's all right now, the two half-brothers made such a fuss, especially when they burned the island with a torch, and they couldn't do it if they didn't come back.

And with this life-saving behavior of sending charcoal in the middle of the snow, they are also very grateful to the Dizhou Navy.Naturally obediently came back together.

In order to thank the two brothers for their contributions to the Dizhou Navy of the Tang Dynasty, Cai Yang kindly sent them to the underground reunion together, never to be separated.

However, in this battle, Wang Dahu and his group also suffered heavy losses, and the little wealth they had accumulated over the past few decades was basically wiped out.More than a dozen Qing Zhuang died, five or six were seriously injured, and the rest were all wounded.It is estimated that there are only twenty or so that can be used after the injury is healed.

Women, children, old and young are not much better, directly reducing the number of employees by one-third. It can be said that every family wears mourning.

In order to win the hearts of these people, Yue Shan personally went to ask about their health, provide them with housing and accommodation, and arrange work.

Those who are willing to go to the Navy will join the Navy. Those who do not want to go or are not fit to go, some will be arranged to work in the shipyard, and some will stay in the Navy as logistics personnel, and the family members will also be arranged in the same way.

So this group of pirates was grateful and returned home.

With the participation of this group of people who lived at sea, the navy's understanding of the ocean quickly reached a new level, and they also learned more about ocean warfare.

The officers and soldiers of the navy, who were somewhat resistant to the joining of this group of pirates, were convinced now, and nothing more happened.

After solving the problem of the navy, Yueshan set off another anti-corruption wave in Dizhou. This time, there is a county magistrate, a county magistrate, and two masters. Dozens of low-level officials, evil gentry, bullies, gangsters Get knocked out.

Some guys who remember not to eat but not to fight have developed a long memory, and the nine counties of Dizhou have changed again.

As for these vacant positions, Yue Shan did not directly promote them from the local area, but were all selected and appointed by the Ministry of Officials.This is an opportunity for others to mix sand.

If he really made Dizhou his own, even if Li Shimin didn't say anything, other people would jump out and object.Now that some positions are vacated for others, everyone can rest assured.

But for the bureaucratic gentry and landlord class in Dizhou, what they are most concerned about is not the fight against corruption, but the establishment of three classes and six houses.

Everyone wants to get in.

The third class is easy to say, the fast class is given to bad guys, and the bad guy Guan Lijun recruits himself.It is up to him to decide whether to recruit from the local area or transfer from other places, and no one else can control it.

The soap class and the strong class are recruited by the local yamen. For these positions, the thresholds of various county yamen have been smoothed out a lot recently.

But yamen servants do menial work after all, and Yue Shan said that he should recruit from poor families as much as possible, especially the headhunters must recruit poor and good families, so the competition is not very fierce.

Those gentry and landlords are really interested in the six-room scribes, and this is the fat job.

Although Yue Shan emphasized that the right to recruit Liufang belonged to the state government, and that the selection process was uniformly assessed, and no back door was allowed.But still can't stop the enthusiasm of these people.Basically, they tried their best to trust the relationship and wanted to get some useful information in advance.

Even the brothers from the Zhao family who first took refuge in Yueshan would run up to him from time to time, without saying anything, just talking about it.Yue Shan was so angry that he almost beat someone.

After asking, I found out that the boss of the Zhao family wanted Zhao's second son to be a scribe, so he came here through the back door because he was afraid that he would not pass the exam.

Yue Shan yelled, "You want to be a clerk just because you are so worthless, so get out and help Gan Yuanfeng build a new city."

Then the two brothers left with great gratitude. According to the person who guarded the door afterwards, the two brothers walked with the wind as if they were about to float.

Even the Zhao brothers are interested in the identities of these officials, let alone others.It is said that more than a thousand people signed up.

Yue Shan was a little surprised. He always thought that there were no more than a thousand literate people in Dizhou, a remote place. He didn't expect so many scholars to appear all of a sudden.

The number of applicants exceeded expectations, and Yue Shan had to change the assessment rules.This time he completely copied the examination methods of later imperial examinations.

It is divided into three exams, each of which is more difficult than the last, and those who pass all three finally participate in the interview.

The setting of the examination room is also completely in accordance with the rules of the later imperial examinations, but some improvements have also been made.

In an independent examination room, examinees are not allowed to bring pens, ink, paper and inkstones with them, and the governor's office will distribute them uniformly, and the governor's office is also responsible for eating and drinking.

This is much more humane than the imperial examinations of later generations. The imperial examinations of later generations brought their own pens, inkstones and food.It not only creates opportunities for some people to private, but also appears inhumane. Poor candidates often faint because they cannot keep up with nutrition, thus delaying the exam.

In order to prevent people from cheating, Yue Shan also specially prepared different types of clothes, and even changed clothes before entering the examination room.

Don't think that he is making a fuss out of a molehill in this way. Scholars of later generations can think of any way for the imperial examination.For example, someone stuffed a cheat sheet into the valley.

So that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in order to prevent carrying cheat sheets, candidates were not only required to take off all their clothes, but also to insert their fingers into the valley to check whether they were private.

When watching this period of history in his previous life, Yue Shan found it both sad and funny.However, he thought it would be interesting to think about those glamorous figures in the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties who were stabbed across the valley, even if they were only poked with their fingers.

Naturally, Yueshan would not set up a link to check the valley road. In the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was not even held a few times, and no one could think of such an extreme method.

In other words, the way to become an official at this time is not just a way of imperial examinations, and no one wants to ruin his reputation by doing such a thing.

Not only that, in order to prevent the examiners from cheating, Yue Shan also came up with the obfuscation system hundreds of years in advance.

Candidates paste their names, and the test papers are copied by a special person, and the examiners can only see the copied test papers, which prevents cheating based on handwriting.

It can be said that Yue Shan has already thought of all the methods he can think of to prevent cheating, and there is nothing he can do if someone cheats.

As for why it is so formal, it is naturally to accumulate experience for the future imperial examination system.

The person in charge of this exam is Yu Kexun and an old local scholar. Yue Shan just proposed various rules and regulations, and then went to work on other things.

If the gentry, landlords and bureaucrats in Dizhou are most concerned about the establishment of three shifts and six houses, then the common people are most concerned about the construction of the new city in Yanci County.

Building a new city means needing workers, and coming here to work as a worker has become an opportunity for many people to support their families.

(End of this chapter)