Wentang

Chapter 533 Withdrawal

"There were more than [-] applicants in the early stage, but only [-] actually showed up. Those who did not take part in the exam are probably the children of aristocratic families." Flipping through the list in his hand, Dou Lukuan said worriedly.

"What are you afraid of? For the sake of the country, we have to select those who are both moral and academic. We have no selfish intentions and are not afraid of wherever we go. No matter why those rich and powerful children withdraw from the exam, we will treat it as if they are not good at school, afraid of losing face, and dare not talk to other scholars. Fair competition is enough." Kong Yingda said disdainfully.

Dou Lukuan shook his head helplessly, the core figure of Kong Yingda's new learning, but he is not.

He doesn't care about the dispute between the new school and the ancient school. The reason why he is close to Yue Shan and Kong Yingda is because many ideas and policies of the new school are beneficial to the Ministry of Rites.

Especially in the imperial examination, he had to stand on the same front as Yue Shan.

But this doesn't mean that he must offend the nobles of the aristocratic family to death, this is not his style of Dou Lukuan.Now that so many children of aristocratic and powerful families withdrew from the exam, they would definitely bear a grudge against him.

But it's too late for him to regret that things have come to this point, he can only go to the dark with Yue Shan and the others.

Besides, after so many years in the officialdom, it is not a simple person to be able to sit in the position of Minister of Rites. He knows better than anyone else what to choose. This is one of the reasons why he is willing to partner with Kong Yingda.

"However, even so, the children of noble families still account for half of all candidates, and the number of scholars from poor families is still too small." Kong Yingda said again.

"Studying costs money, and most people can't afford to support a scholar. Only aristocratic families can afford to spend more than ten or twenty years cultivating an 'idleman'." Dou Lukuan said:
"Look at these humble scholars, more than one-tenth of them are from Dizhou. Yue Hou made Dizhou the richest place in the Tang Dynasty, and ordinary people's homes can cultivate scholars. It is really a great merit."

Kong Yingda nodded approvingly: "Not only that, the school and government system also contributed a lot. There are many academies in Dizhou, and the prefectural and county schools funded by the government are also encouraged to run private schools under the county. Let all school-age children There are books to read and teachers to teach, so that so many scholars can be cultivated in a short period of time."

"I heard that the Department of Education and Administration of Dizhou is built and managed by the governor Yu Kexun himself. Isn't your Guozijian planning to establish prefectural schools in 360 states across the country? Why don't you recruit such talents?" Dou Lukuan said.

"I've already talked with Yuehou, and I will transfer Yu Kexun to the Imperial Academy to be the Secretary of the Imperial Academy at the beginning of next year." Kong Yingda laughed.

The system of education and administration has been planned for several years, but it has not been implemented until now. There are many reasons for this. The main reason is that there are not so many available talents.

In the past few years, Kong Yingda has been silently reserving relevant talents.

Under the jurisdiction of Guozijian, there are Guozi Six Schools. The imperial court stipulates that each college has a quota of 300 students and 24 teachers.

However, the number of teachers in each of the six national schools now far exceeds the imperial court's regulations.Among them, the number of classrooms in China Zixue exceeds the prescribed number by more than ten times, which is larger than the number of students.

Because of this incident, he was often impeached, but Li Shimin stayed in the middle and did not let him go.As long as you recruit people, the imperial court will give the quota and pay the wages.

Gradually, everyone knew Li Shimin's attitude, and no one was watching them.

Why did he recruit so many gentlemen?Accumulate experience and reserve talents, just to spread the academy to the whole world one day.

After several years of training, he has a large number of available talents in his hands, and with the talents trained in Dizhou, he can finally start the study and administration plan.

Of course, it is difficult to spread the Academy to every county in the world in a short period of time, but it is not a problem to spread it to every prefecture.

According to the original plan, the first phase of the construction of the academic and political system will start in the next two years. It just so happens that this year Li Ji fought a big victory and captured Xieli alive, so it is determined to be next year.

Again, Li Shimin's personal prestige has reached a new peak, and his control over the army has been further strengthened. Many policies that could not be implemented before can be included in the plan.

The three-day examination passed quickly, and the imperial examination was successfully completed without any emergencies.

With the golden sound of "Dangdangdang", the door locks and gates were unlocked inside and outside at the same time, and candidates filed out.

At this time, the gate of the Gongyuan was crowded with people, and when they saw the scholars coming out, they surrounded them.

"Erlang, here, here..."

"Lang Jun, I'm here..."

"Da Lang, Mr. Lang asked me to take you back home..."

"Son, let's go home..."

Many scholars whose families were in or near the capital were picked up by their family members, while some others from other places took over by themselves and went to their borrowed places.

After all the students leave the gate of the Gongyuan, it will be locked again, and the next time it will be opened will be the day when the list will be announced seven days later.

Hua Shifang, who came out first, waited at the door for a while, until Qiu Liyue and He Feisu arrived.

"How about brother Qiu and He?"

"The topics are all within expectation. The scriptures are mainly about the Four Books, Mo Yi's topic is "Education", and the policy theory is about locust plagues and droughts. We can guess that others can also guess it. It is difficult to think well." Qiu Liyue shook his head. road.

"Write down everything you know, and it's up to the examiner to decide what the grades are. How about you, Brother Hua?" He Feisu said.

"I also wrote everything I could, but as Brother Qiu said, it's too difficult to shine." Hua Shifang also shook his head.

"But don't worry too much, we don't have the ambition to win the championship, we just need to be on the list." Qiu Liyue enlightened:

"During the break, I listened to the invigilator chatting. This time, more than 500 children of aristocratic and powerful families withdrew from the exam. I think there will be more opportunities for us."

"Really?" Hua Shifang and He Feisu said in surprise.

Although the number of people admitted each year is not fixed, everyone knows that the fewer people participate, the less competition there will be. What's more, most of the dropouts are the children of aristocratic families with status and background.

In previous years, these people relied on the support of their elders to snatch most of the admission places, leaving only a handful of places for ordinary scholars.

Now that there are more than 500 related households missing at once, the possibility of them being admitted is even greater.

"Let's go, let's go back and check the questions and estimate what we can get." Hua Shifang urged.

I used to feel that there was little hope, and taking part in the imperial examination was just for luck, so I looked at it more openly and took it lightly.

Now that he is sure that he has a chance to be on the list, he becomes nervous instead.

It wasn't just Qiu Liyue who heard the invigilator chatting, many people heard it.So it didn't take long for well-informed people to know the news that more than 500 rich and powerful children had withdrawn from the exam, and there was an uproar between the government and the opposition.

There are quite a few people who withdraw from the exam. This situation has long been expected, but they did not expect it to be so serious. One-third of the people withdraw from the exam.

Some were happy, some were surprised, and some were waiting to see the court's jokes.

With so many people withdrawing from the exam, it's like slapping the court in the face. The emperor must be very angry.

However, things were completely beyond their expectations.

At the Xiaochao meeting, when the supervisory censor gave Li Shimin the information about this matter, he didn't look angry at all.

He just said lightly: "I don't dare to compete fairly with the humble scholars, but they are just a bunch of pampered waste, not worth bringing to the court for discussion."

One sentence settled the matter, and the counterattack of the nobles of the aristocratic family was in vain.

Not only that, but it is equivalent to cutting off the official career of these people.The emperor himself said that they were pampered wastes, who would dare to let them become officials in the future?
Many dignitaries in the court changed their countenance on the spot, because many of the people who dropped out of the exam were their children.

God is sorry to see, they didn't let their children withdraw from the exam to make the court look bad.

It's because people who are really knowledgeable are generally not sure to pass the exam, and they withdraw from the exam in order to avoid losing their talents.

Anyway, the imperial court also said that it was only during the imperial examination that the nobility was prohibited from recommending officials, and it did not say that the nobility were not allowed to recommend officials.

They can find other opportunities for their children to become officials.

But now everything can't be done, the "trash" label that the emperor personally slapped, it's really over.

They are flustered and hateful.

He hates the family for being ignorant of current affairs, hates the emperor for being ignorant of feelings.

However, Li Shimin's next sentence turned all their hatred to the aristocratic family.

"All officials of the fifth grade or above and those who have meritorious service can serve as officials with one son."

(End of this chapter)