Five-year enthronement three-year simulation

Ming Tan actually thought about it and didn't think so.

The amount of work involved in compiling a book is already huge, and she also needs to personally supervise, organize, and collect books in the process, select a special person to copy the original copy, check whether the handwriting is neat and beautiful, and finally revise and publish...

Regardless of other things, the step of collecting all kinds of books is to first select books that are beneficial to the imperial examination, make a list of books, and then search for the originals in Zangshu Pavilion, Shangshufang and Hanlin Academy.If there are some deposits in it, it is still simple, just ask for an order to take them out; but if there is no original, it is necessary to send people to the people as soon as possible, mobilize or order those bibliophiles to donate—this is not enough trouble?

But helpless, although she wanted to make a living, Lin Shurong refused.

"Since it is compiled for scientific research, the Four Books and Five Classics are indispensable... On this basis, "Filial Piety", "Zhou Li", "Erya" are added, and the three biographies of the Spring and Autumn Period can be split into pieces. The Thirteen Classics of Confucianism."

Lin Shurong held a piece of paper and recorded the books mentioned while talking, "In addition, various works of various schools of thought, biographies of sages and celebrities, and the highly respected book "Qi Min" should also be included. "Yaoshu", "Wang Zhennongshu" and other practical classics can broaden the horizons of the students, not just sticking to the one-acre three-point land of Confucianism..."

Within a few words, Lin Zongzong had already listed more than 20 book titles. Mingtan's face turned blue and he was dizzy when he saw it. .

"Why so many!"

"Where does this go?" Lin Shurong tapped the table with his fingertips, and helped Ming Tan figure it out, "If we divide the hundred schools, there are strategists, legalists, strategists, peasants, doctors, and astronomical practitioners." Waiting for many books to be compiled, by then there will be more than a hundred books, right?"

"..." Ming Tan's expression was full of ghosts, "Is it too late for me to repent now?"

Lin Shurong patted her on the head gently, smiled, and firmly shook his head under the latter's desperate gaze.

"It's too late."

……

Ming Tan knew that the boat was in trouble, and after repeated efforts to no avail, he had no choice but to follow Lin Shurong's wishes, and started to compile the book in a dejected manner.

This time, it is going to be compiled under the name of "Princess Yonghui". Naturally, she needs to do many things by herself. For example, the first step of making a list of books makes Ming Tan almost live in the library, and has to go to the study from time to time. Running away and catching Mr. Qin asking non-stop, it was more serious than when she was studying.

Such a big movement was naturally known to the Kunning Palace, not only the queen was very curious about her daughter's recent movements, even when Ming Jing entered the palace to pay her respects, she asked her sister about it.

"Oh? Compile a book for the world's talented scholars?"

After learning of Ming Tan's plan, Ming Jing clapped his hands and praised her on the spot, praising her for being a child of the world, and offered to list all the books in the mansion and send them to the palace in another day; If Mingtan needs it, he can also write to Baicaogu, asking if there are any medical books that can be borrowed, and devote himself to contributing to his sister's workload.

Ming Tan: "..."

Ming Tan was moved and in pain.

"However... In the opinion of Brother Huang, if Tan'er is used for the imperial examination, why not make it simpler? Only one or a series of books will be published, and the examination paper questions of each province over the years will be published, and then more standardized explanations will be written for it. Isn't this more convenient and concise?"

In the side hall of Kunning Palace, after Ming Jing examined Ming Tan's book list, he put forward his own opinion straightforwardly, "In this way, it will definitely be more popular among students all over the world than simply compiling various books. I don't know what Tan'er thinks?"

After listening to Ming Jing's suggestion, Ming Tan sat blankly on his seat, blinked blankly, stared at the third brother twice in shock, and exclaimed in his heart that he was terrified.

This is the God of exam-oriented education!

The contents of the Four Books and Five Classics have been studied over and over again for hundreds of years in different dynasties, and many rules and restrictions are added, so of course it will be impossible to play well anyway.

Therefore, even if the questions are not repeated in the examination papers every year, there are many similarities in the core.As long as you can study and summarize in a targeted manner, the principles and rules of answering, and even templates for certain questions, are actually not too difficult to find.

Moreover, according to her and Lin Shurong's original plan, the imperial examination book encyclopedia was just a collection of many classics in one place, in the final analysis it was like a book list recommendation.If the candidates only have the Four Books and Five Classics in mind, then this book list will not be very useful - because they will not pay attention to those books such as "Qi Min Yao Shu" that are really pragmatic.

Why are you looking at things you don't need?

If you have time, why not write more copybooks, at least you can practice calligraphy, and increase your chances of being selected!

Therefore, even if the benefits of these practical books are vigorously promoted in the public, the effect will be very slow - at least after a few rounds of imperial examinations, everyone will find that the exam papers that are taken are full of practical strategies before they start to notice Those practical books no longer just focus on the Four Books and Five Classics.

but……

In order to speed up this process, according to what Mingjing said, the questions and answers were published in a set of special imperial examination books for students to refer to and study...

Isn't this just the real questions of the college entrance examination over the years plus analysis?

If you are more ruthless, you can even look through those classics and historical books by yourself, grab a few representative sentences or allusions to write questions, and compile them into a book...

The Tiancheng version of "Five-Year Imperial Examination and Three-Year Simulation" was born!

As his thoughts diverged, Ming Tan's eyes couldn't help getting brighter and his heart was surging, even the book list in front of him didn't feel as hateful as before.

—— Lin Shurong has been her Quxian for several years, is it finally her turn to be the queen hero of the candidates all over the world?

——The way of heaven is reincarnation!This wave must be done!

Even though he was already biting the small handkerchief excitedly in his heart, his face was still tense.

Ming Tan tried his best not to get too excited, nodded, and said as calmly as possible: "Third brother, this proposal is very good! But I am not very familiar with scientific examinations, and my composition is far inferior to those talented people. If you want to realize what you just said, you need the assistance of the Imperial Academy."

There are quite a few genuine old scholars in the Hanlin Academy, who have studied hard for ten or twenty years. Even if their ability to participate in politics is poor, they can read the Four Books and Five Classics to the bottom, and they can completely turn those boring The benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom are all written in flowers.

When teaching supplementary books like "Five-Year Imperial Examination and Three-Year Simulation" were first born, in order to cater to the tastes of candidates all over the world, it is better to focus on the most basic Confucianism first, and not rush to add other topics such as politics and people's livelihood.

Too many elements, easy to indigestion.

The small calculations in Mingtan's heart were crackling, and he was full of vicious plans to persecute Tiancheng Juzi.Immediately, she couldn't sit still any longer, she had to stand up, put on her coat under Ming Jing's blank gaze, turned around and ran outside.

"I'm going to find my father and ask him to lend me some scholars from the Hanlin Academy!"

The girl's excited tail sound drifted outside the door, leaving Ming Jing alone in place, and she couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.

This Taner...

He shook his head helplessly, but he knew his sister's impatient nature very well, so he didn't mind her recklessness. Instead, he sat quietly on his seat, reached out and picked up the book list and slowly flipped through it.

Well, maybe a few more medical books...

Anyway, he is considered a regular customer in Baicao Valley, so they should lend it to him, right?

While thinking this way, Ming Jing picked up his pen, and under the already magnificent long book list, he added several titles that would make Ming Tan lose five more hairs.

……

Tianhong Palace.

When Ming Tan ran to the gate of the hall, it happened to be three quarters past Mao time, which happened to be the time to prepare dinner.

When she came to Tianhong Hall, naturally no one dared to neglect her, and several guards even saw Princess Nine from a distance, and quickly turned around and ran in to communicate.Therefore, as soon as Ming Tan climbed the stone steps, Sheng An's chubby figure appeared in front of him, and he saluted her with a smile on his face: "Has the Ninth Prince come down? Your Majesty, please go in quickly, we can have dinner together later!" "

Ming Tan nodded with a smile, returned a salute to him, followed Sheng An into the hall, and arrived in front of the emperor unimpeded.

"Go to the Three Treasures Hall if you have nothing to do," the emperor was sitting cross-legged at the kang table, holding a cup of tea, raised his eyebrows and looked at his daughter who was smiling like a thief, and waved her to sit on the other side of the couch, "Dragon Scale What trouble are you going to cause me today?"

"Oh! Father!"

Ming Tan took a cup of Longjing from Sheng An and before he took a sip, he slapped it on the small table beside him, raised his head and rolled his eyes at the emperor, "Longlin is always looking for you for business oh?"

"Don't you have it?"

The emperor also put down the teacup slowly, stretched out his hand, and poked Ming Tan on the forehead with a finger, almost knocking her backwards, "You can figure it out yourself, how long has it been since you came back from the palace in June?" Have you had dinner with your father?"

Faced with such sharp questioning, Ming Tan couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, and just as guilt arose in his heart, he suddenly realized that something seemed wrong.

She squinted her eyes, did mental calculations for a while, and immediately snorted coldly: "If you don't count your visit to Kunning Palace, then you really haven't had dinner... But haven't you had lunch with you many times! Why doesn't it count?"

Seeing that his daughter's words were exposed by his daughter, the emperor couldn't help coughing lightly, pretending he didn't hear Ming Tan's truth, and quickly changed the subject: "Okay, okay, tell me what's going on with you today?"

After speaking, he seemed to think of something again, and he quickly added: "Don't think I forgot, you just went out of the palace a few days ago, and went to eat Puxiangfang's cakes in the capital with the girl from the Lin family for a day! I can't let you out so easily!"

"..."

Ming Tan's eyes widened, exasperated.

"Didn't I also bring you their new glutinous rice crisps? You praised it before, and told me to bring more next time - why are you turning your back on it now!"

emperor:"……"

The emperor's eyes drifted, looking up and down but not looking at his own daughter, and he was determined to carry out the silent tactics to the end.

But fortunately, Ming Tan is not obsessed with this. After condemning the other party's treachery, he snorted softly and said instead: "Besides, in your eyes, does Long Lin only know how to eat, drink and play? Today But I really have something important to do, and it's definitely not to go out of the palace to find Miss Lin!"

"Oh, oh, oh," the emperor nodded perfunctorily, seeing that the top of her head was about to emit smoke, he held back a smile and said seriously, "What's the matter?"

"Well, I think you also know that Longlin is discussing with Miss Lin about compiling a book recently..."

After Ming Tan said something tentatively, he took a closer look at her father, and saw that the other party was calm and not even half surprised, so he continued with confidence: "The original intention of the two of us to compile the book was to inspire the world. Zi pointed out the direction of studying and becoming an official——The current scientific examinations are too rigid, and the thinking of the selected talents is also solidified. They have a lot of ink, but they don’t know how to work hard to rejuvenate the country, and they can’t even answer the simplest questions about people’s livelihood. Come up..."

"Such people only know benevolence, righteousness and morality, but they have no strategy in their hearts. If so, how can they be officials in the court, how can they help the father to solve problems?"

"That's why Shurong and I want to compile a book that collects many classics to help students study and change this situation."

As she was talking, she couldn't help sighing deeply, and changed the topic, "But... the conversation I had with my third brother today awakened me: the mainstream of today's imperial examinations is to only specialize in the Four Books and Five Classics, and other subjects such as "Tiangong Practical books such as "Kaiwu" and "Shuijingzhu" are naturally not favored. Even if we compile them together with Confucian monographs and vigorously praise them, no one will respond, and it may be counterproductive."

"Well, that's true," the emperor looked at Ming Tan in surprise, as if he didn't expect her to think of this, nodded in agreement and said, "You are very thoughtful."

"So, the method of compiling books doesn't work." Ming Tan smiled and continued, "But... the third brother reminded me that if you want to win the love and respect of scholars, you might as well learn from the traditional imperial examinations. Start with the exam paper itself—study the questions, summarize the main points, and extract the essence of each exam question, and then ask someone to make sample articles for these candidates for reference—in this way, it is definitely better than simply compiling a book. It will be easier for them to accept!"

"..."

The emperor frowned, carefully went over her words in his mind, pondered for a moment, but put forward a different opinion.

"But if this method is used, isn't it just opportunistic?" He said slowly, "The imperial examination is an important way to select talents for the court, and it must not be ignored. If Longlin finds a cheap way for them to take the exam, then the scientific examination What's the point? Not only can't the candidates be more pragmatic, but they are also extremely self-defeating, making them even more rigid than they are now, with no ability at all... This is the most terrifying thing."

"That's right. Long Lin also thought of what Emperor Father was worried about."

Ming Tan nodded, as if he had been prepared for this question, and immediately replied: "Actually, it is precisely because of this that this kind of imperial examination tutoring books that can be regarded as 'opportunistic' must be in the hands of the imperial court itself. "

"……Oh?"

The emperor was stunned for a moment, obviously more interested than before, "Let's hear it?"

"In any case, the original intention of publishing this kind of guidance booklet is to guide students not only to read the Four Books and Five Classics, but also to focus on other books on practical issues such as politics, people's livelihood, and military affairs."

Ming Tan talked eloquently: "So, in the early stage, we can still follow the candidates' qualitative thinking, extract the key points of 'benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith' respected by Confucianism from the topic, and write articles based on these."

"In the later stage, after the audience expands, we can gradually adjust the focus of the reference articles, raise the 'pragmatic' and lower the 'reasonable', and change the candidates' ideas a little bit, so that they don't just think about citing classics, but more in In the article, I express my views on various current issues, so that the court can screen talents more intuitively, and see whether this person has the ability to become an official in the court."

"And then, as for the point of 'examination is cheap' that my father mentioned just now..."

Speaking of this, Ming Tan couldn't help narrowing his eyes, and smiled slyly, "Since this book was compiled by the imperial court, the movements of all the scholars in the world are naturally under control... If there is a "only know how to make a fuss according to the tutorial"" In such a situation, the imperial court can also quickly adjust the topic of the next scientific examination, so as to avoid large-scale opportunism, and more accurately depose those nerds who have no real skills and only know how to pick up people's teeth, so why not do it?"

"Um……"

After hearing her long speech, the emperor's expression could not help but relax a little, and he agreed a little more in his heart.

really.The officials selected in recent years are not only good and bad, but most of them are also bad; The ministers of the treasury are even more troublesome!

The emperor must be good at checks and balances, even a courtier can be used, but what about the waste?What's more, the non-recyclable garbage that is so stupid that it can only endorse is completely helpless.

It would be a lie to say that the emperor was never worried about this situation.

"...So, Dragon Scale," the emperor thought for a while before he said, "How do you plan to release this 'tutoring book'?"

Hearing this, Ming Tan was immediately overjoyed—his father agreed to let her have a try!

She can become the queen of Tiancheng!

"Of course I want to ask the adults of the Hanlin Academy to help," Ming Tan laughed a few times, and finally explained the reason for his visit at this moment, "After Longlin has collected the questions from the past years, please ask Father to borrow A few of my talented masters, I invite them to write anonymous articles for the reference of students..."

Anonymous.

The emperor smiled meaningfully, raised his eyebrows and looked at his daughter.

Ming Tan winked at him triumphantly, and of course understood the deep meaning of his father, "Since you are teaching them to 'opportunity', how can you expose this book as belonging to the imperial court?"

Moreover, in the future, according to the feedback from consumers, the imperial examination propositions will be adjusted and improved in a targeted manner... So, of course, we can't tell them that this is an official publication.

The Emperor also agreed.

Covering this book with a tightly-fitting shell and completely separating it from the imperial court is the only complete solution.

"However...the imperial examination is held every three years. You can't do the questions over the years. Presumably you have to ask the ministers of the Imperial Academy to come up with new questions?"

The emperor looked at Ming Tan, saw the latter nodding, and then continued: "So, from my point of view, it might as well make this a publication similar to the Mansion Newspaper, which will be published every half a month or so. It can be updated from time to time, and new volumes can be published, so there is nothing to do without teaching those candidates.”

Hearing this suggestion, Ming Tan was startled, slapped his forehead and said: "This is good!"

If only one set of questions can be published at a time like modern magazines, then the workload will not be so heavy!

Well done!

She was overjoyed, her eyes were shining brightly, she looked at the emperor expectantly, and she finally expressed the ultimate goal buried deep in her heart.

"Since this is the case..." Ming Tan was full of anticipation, tears welling up in his eyes, "Do I not need to compile those many, many books anymore?"

Anyway, the problem of the imperial examination has been solved!Father will definitely agree!

She is quite confident, and as soon as she thinks that she doesn't have to bother so much, she feels that she is one step closer to Xianyu's life goal——

"No."

Under Ming Tan's excited eyes ahead of time, the emperor picked up the cup of tea with a smile, took a sip, and said leisurely: "The journal must be done correctly, and the book still needs to be compiled... I will always supervise you. Longlin, don't always try to be lazy."

Ming Tan: "..."

Ming Tan: "???"

She didn't expect this answer at all, and the smile she had prepared froze at the corner of her lips, and her whole body split open on the spot.

Why not! ! !