Father can be an enemy to the country

This examination fraud case, which shocked the world, turned out to be unstoppable during the trial. Within a few days, the entire truth was found out, and all those involved were arrested and brought to justice.

There is no way, there are too many people involved in this kind of case, and there are many insiders, there is no way to keep the secret.

But what is puzzling is that, except for Zhao Hao who wanted to push back, all the civil servants from Liu Sanwu on down readily admitted what they had done...

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"Yes, it was all my idea." Liu Sanwu stood in the hall and said bluntly to Duke Xin who was interrogating him: "We are worried that His Highness the King of Chu will definitely give some questions that only college students can do, in order to prevent people from taking the exam. I passed the Jinshi exam. So I asked Zhao Butang to try to send out a copy of the arithmetic test paper so that the candidates can preview it in advance."

"Good guy." Tang He was dumbfounded and asked Kaiji, the Minister of Punishment on the side: "Did he admit to leaking the test questions?"

"Yes." Kaiji nodded expressionlessly.

"What about 'send a copy' and 'preview'? It's such an understatement. I thought it was a big deal." Duke Xin Guo couldn't help laughing.

"Weighing the pros and cons, compared to the serious consequences of failing all the exam candidates, my behavior of giving them preview questions is really insignificant." Liu Sanwu said matter-of-factly: "I have also done math problems, and I know that using this to test school candidates is Deliberately trying to deceive people.”

"It seems that you scholars also include arithmetic among the six arts, right?" Tang He asked uncertainly.

"Yes, yes, but in fact, most scholars only focus on reading books by sages." Kaiji coughed awkwardly.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu uses what they are best at to deal with what they are shortest for. This is so unfair! An unfair contest is just a one-sided massacre, so we must take the initiative to defend ourselves!" Liu Sanwu said plausibly.

"Active self-defense? Scholars really do a lot of things." Tang He grinned, suddenly slammed the table, and said with a change of expression: "Let's not talk about studying this subject. Just talk about Confucian classics, that is your old profession. Is that right? Making fuss is always the best thing for you, right? Why do you still cheat?!"

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During the interrogation of key criminals such as Peng Kui and Yao Chuan, Jin Yiwei learned that in addition to leaking the test questions, Liu Sanwu and his group also made an agreement with the candidates about the "joints" during the Confucian classics examination.

The so-called "joint" is a secret code for examiners and candidates to cheat by using specific words on the paper. This is also the most concealed method of cheating in the imperial examination era.

During the Song Dynasty, the status of civil servants increased unprecedentedly, and imperial examinations naturally became popular. In order to avoid the examiner's favoritism, two preventive measures were taken: name anonymity and transcription. That is, the candidate information on the examination paper was taped with paper, and the examination paper was transcribed by specialized personnel, and the transcript was given to the examiner for marking.

Ordinarily, the examiner would not be able to identify the candidate in this way, but as the Taoism is higher, the devil is higher, and soon the method of "clearing the joints" appeared. Specifically, the examiner and the candidate have agreed to add specific words as passwords to a certain article.

To be sure, there is usually more than one word for joint. For example, it is agreed that a certain three paragraphs of the article should end with the words ‘woohu’, ‘yuxi’, and ‘zheye’.

Another example is to embed some rare idioms, such as "Katydid Yanqing" and "Jiguang Pianyu", into articles.

The more daring ones even directly embed their own names or the names of their elders into the article... In short, everything remains the same. In this way, after the examiner comes in, as long as he finds the agreed words in this article, he will be able to find the candidate he wants to take care of, and there will be no mistakes.

Therefore, those candidates who have clear joints can still get the test even if their answer sheet is completely wrong.

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"Xueshi Liu, how can you be so shameless as a freshman scholar?" Even rough guys like Tang He know that this is the greatest injustice to candidates who answer the questions honestly!

"The purpose of clearing the joints is to prevent students from Guozi University from passing the Jinshi examination and mixing into the ranks of civil servants." Liu Sanwu still said confidently:

"Needless to say, His Royal Highness the King of Chu took advantage of the unique status of Guozi University to attract a group of young talents who did not know the truth. He also paid a lot of money to recruit some so-called famous teachers who were talented but not moral."

After a pause, he sighed and said: "So the academic level of college students is actually higher than that of civil servants..."

In addition to what Liu Sanwu said just now, there are actually two very important factors in terms of teachers and students, which determine the level of Guozi University students, which far exceeds that of provincial candidates.

The first is the advanced university education system, which has completely inspired all provinces and counties to learn the original ecological education model. Second, under Song Ne's strict management, all teachers and students in the school worked hard and could not slack off at all...

Although scholars claim that "every inch of time is worth every inch of gold," in this slow-paced era, the truly effective learning time every day is very limited. Under the traditional education model, the learning efficiency is also very average... Scholars have learned a few of the Four Books and Five Classics and Cheng and Zhu's sermons over and over again for twenty years, but basically know nothing else.

But at Guozi University, the effective learning time and learning efficiency are close to the high school level of later generations. This is a complete dimensionality reduction blow to traditional scholars. If a college student can persist until graduation, his level is basically several steps behind that of traditional scholars.

Liu Sanwu was in charge of the Hanlin Academy and knew the level of candidates on both sides very well. He and his comrades know very well that comparing people to others will lead to death, and comparing goods to goods will lead to throwing away. If these college students are allowed to join the ranks of administrators, it will not take many years before traditional scholars will have no place in the officialdom.

That's why they take desperate risks and help the candidates cheat. And you can't just calculate the disadvantages of studying one subject. That won't make a big difference, and there will still be a large number of college students who stand out by relying on the results of the other two courses.

"It's not safe to just reveal the arithmetic test paper, so I wrote another note asking the examiners to take care of themselves." Liu Sanwu confessed with a calm expression: "Only in this way can we ensure that college students are kept out of the gold list."

"What a person who 'takes care of his own people', haha, you let it slip!" Tang He caught Liu Sanwu's words and smiled shamelessly: "In your eyes, only those from the same province are your own people, right?"

"As long as you are a disciple of a saint, you are one of our own." Liu Sanwu said calmly.

"Then why don't you take any of the candidates from the north?" Tang He asked, "Are you treating them as one of your own?"

"Confucius said: 'When the Barbarians enter China, they will be conquered by China; when the Barbarians enter China, they will be conquered by the Barbarians.' The northerners have been enslaved by the barbarians for too long, and the smell has not been eliminated. Their customs and practices have become similar to those of the barbarians. It will take some years to restore culture and education. In Until then, you still can’t be considered one of your own." Liu Sanwu said matter-of-factly.