The Multiverse Starting from White Deer Plain

He had just walked out of the examination room. There was no brazier and his clothes were cold. He tightened his clothes and stepped out of the dragon gate. Read 520 official website

Not long after he left, the front door was closed. Candidates who are being collected inside must wait until the gantry is reopened before queuing out to prevent a stampede.

This is the benefit of submitting papers early.

But Zhou Yuan and others who came with him were still in the examination room, and he was waiting at the door.

From time to time, a few people walked out of the examination room.

It was probably the same idea as Bai Gui's, to hand in the papers in advance when the clerk was collecting them, so that they could come out early.

"Brother, I wonder how you answered the four book questions? How did you solve it?"

When a middle-aged Confucian scholar from the county walked out of Longmen, he saw Bai Gui waiting with a test basket. His eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

The county town is not big, but the four young men studying in Bailu Academy are particularly eye-catching. They can be placed side by side with the students. Although there are some tricks, but they can do this. As long as they are not mediocre people, their knowledge must be poor. Not going anywhere.

Therefore, he wanted to ask Bai Gui how he answered the test paper to give him a little more confidence.

"By the way, there are also historical topics..."

The middle-aged Confucian scholar walked up to Bai Gui and asked.

"Can not remember."

Bai Gui shook his head, how could these examination room matters be disclosed to others so easily. Tang Yin of the previous Ming Dynasty said that he would win the exam after taking the Chunwei exam. Everyone knew that Tang Yin was talented, but Tang Yin was still deprived of his fame and was involved in an imperial examination fraud case. He never raised his head his whole life.

In February of the twelfth year of Hongzhi, Tang Yin, Xu Jing, Du Mu, and a group of Juren who had attended the examination had a dinner to celebrate the end of the examination. Tang Bohu ranked first in the rural examination of Yingtianfu, and the gold content was too high. Then Tang Yin got drunk and said that he must be Huiyuan in the examination, and he was the first in Wenwu. When other candidates asked, Tang Yin immediately revealed the contents of the examination paper. As a result, when the exam results came out, Tang Yin was not listed on the list, and he was caught by the Jin Yiwei and sent to the Zhenfu Division Prison on the charge of cheating in the examination room. At the same time, Cheng Minzheng, the Minister of Rites, was also unlucky, and he was also tricked by Tang Yin.

After the exam, there is no good in talking loudly.

This is a society ruled by man.

The middle-aged Confucian scholar's expression became much gloomier, but he still maintained his grace. He cupped his hands towards Bai Guixu and prepared to retreat.

"What a rambunctious young man. Senior asked, but he was so perfunctory?"

Some candidates were angry, thinking that this was contempt for middle-aged Confucian students, and immediately complained. But he was limited to pointing fingers at Bai Gui. Suddenly, he became a madman.

"Everyone, now that we have left the examination room, what is the benefit of thinking about the content of the paper?"

"It's better to relax and prepare for the next exam."

Bai Gui apologized to everyone and said.

He was not angry about this. He was worried about learning from his mistakes, so he had scruples, but other candidates were different.

Besides, although his tone was modest, the content was indeed a bit excessive. Today these candidates can help a middle-aged Confucian scholar to fight against his injustice, and they can help him fight against his injustice tomorrow. They are also righteous and have nothing to blame.

Hearing this, the candidates who had just made sarcastic remarks also looked ashamed and bowed to apologize to each other. For a while, everyone became more harmonious and the atmosphere became more harmonious.

Although thousands of people compete for fame, it is not that everyone hates each other.

Judging by talent and learning!

Soon, the dragon gate opened wide.

The candidates who walked out at this time were not as energetic as the previous candidates. Some candidates burst into tears and covered their faces with their sleeves. Relatives and friends who had been prepared for a long time came forward to comfort them.

Several elderly candidates looked sad, shook their heads, sighed, and hid alone in the crowd carrying shabby examination baskets. After a while, they disappeared.

Back then, they were teenagers and had relatives and friends to comfort them.

Today, he is alone.

All sentient beings are like this.

"Brother Bai, I didn't expect you to hand in the paper so early. No wonder we didn't see you."

Zhou Yuan smiled and said something.

In this county examination, as long as Gu County Magistrate does not obstruct it, we will be a sure winner!

"Go back first."

Bai Gui glanced at the three people taking the exam. Zhou Yuan looked the proudest. He was the most proficient in Confucian classics and had an idea of ​​the ancient county magistrate's temperament. It shouldn't be a big problem. The remaining Bai Xiaowen was neither happy nor disappointed. Lu Zhaopeng was a little bit. Worrying about gains and losses...

At this moment, Zhou Yuan is so proud, which is no less than rubbing salt on someone's wounds.

Zhou Yuan also realized something, apologized to a few people, and then they headed to the academy together with the exam basket in the dark.

Come to the entrance of the academy. ,

The frustrated Lu Zhaopeng fell a few steps behind others. Bai Gui stepped forward to comfort him, "Zhao Peng, you just failed the county examination. Your other knowledge is also excellent. Now you don't only have the imperial examination as a way out."

During the Westernization Movement, the imperial examination system underwent many changes and was different from the previous dynasty.

For example, in the third year of Tongzhi, the Guangdong Provincial Provincial Translation Examination was established in order to cultivate translator talents for the Qing court to communicate with foreigners. It was stipulated that if they had successfully studied in Tongwen Hall for three years, they could be admitted to the Translation Provincial Examination, and their qualifications were equivalent to those of the Imperial College. Supervise students. If there are people who are proficient in Spanish and Chinese, they can be directly transferred to Beijing to take the exam and be awarded official positions.

There were also Westernization factions who discovered during the Westernization campaign that "the strength of the navy is based on ship cannon, and the skill of ship cannon is based on arithmetic." Therefore, in the ninth year of Tongzhi, Shen Baozhenlian and Ying Gui proposed the establishment of a special arithmetic department. plan. Those who are admitted can "internally serve in the Prime Minister's Office of State Affairs, the Household and Work Ministries, and externally in the Navy, Guanque, Salt and Grain Bureaus, and the Bureau of Ships and Artillery." Although it was ultimately rejected, in China and France After the war, the Algorithm Section was also specially established.

It’s just that arithmetic students in the algorithm department have to learn not only modern literature and science, but also the words of saints from the Four Books and Five Classics, and the number of students admitted is also quite limited.

In the Jichou Enke Township Examination in 1889, there were only fifteen candidates, and even the most basic requirement of setting up an examination room with twenty people was not met.

In addition, there are also design and art subjects.

Later, the Reform and Reform made many improvements to the imperial examination and added many special subjects.

But compared to the above special subjects, the traditional eight-part essay method is the right way to recruit scholars.

Of course, the current eight-part essay selection process is different from that of the previous dynasty. In the reform and reform, it was mentioned that "the orthodox subjects and the economic examinations will be merged into one, both based on policy and theory, and the discussion will be based on anecdotes; the policy will be based on current affairs, and both specialized."

Song Bolu, the imperial censor, wrote bluntly: "Those who came from the imperial examination will know nothing about Western learning; those who came from school will be at a loss in middle school."

Therefore, for today’s main examination, in the 24th year of Guangxu’s reign, the Ministry of Rites re-drafted thirteen articles of the township examination regulations: “Each person should express his or her own opinions on policy, and the style should be broad. This is to test scholars, and it emphasizes practical economics, and it is especially important to be practical. There are no empty words…”

but……

This all involves the provincial examination and the general examination.

Whether it was the Westernization Movement or the Reform Reform, it was a top-down reform. The rural examinations and college examinations at the top have changed, but the county examinations, prefectural examinations, and hospital examinations at the bottom are still the same, with only slight additions and changes.

For example, in the just-concluded Zishui County Examination, according to the usual practice, there were no historical topics, only questions on the Four Books, Five Classics, and test poems.

The Ming and Qing Dynasties did not attach much importance to poetry, so the first county examination canceled the examination poems.

"Yes, Brother Gui, it's just an exam!"

Lu Zhaopeng murmured to himself, tears falling down his cheeks, "E's dad and E's father sent E's and E's brother to school just so that they could set off a few strings of cannons on E's ancestor's grave before they died, so that they could have the honor to see their ancestors after they went down. …”

"Well, you are not a human being. You clearly know the temperament of the ancient county magistrate, but you just... insist on writing this reform..."

"Well, I'm sorry to my ancestors!"

He murmured softly, then turned into howling.

Bai Gui was silent and could only gently caress Lu Zhaopeng's back and comfort Lu Zhaopeng with silent words.

Writing this reform seems like a fool's errand.

But...there are some fools.

Silly and cute.

Do it knowing you can't do it.

There was a saying in the past life that was very popular. It said: "The reason why the years are beautiful is that someone is carrying the burden for you."