Chapter 2577: Human nature
Chang''an.
Enke exam.
?With the exams taking place one after another, the examination system, or the "imperial examination", gradually became less and less like the primitive state it was before. Instead, it had more codes and rules, and it became more and more like the same thing.
Speaking of which, although the "imperial examination" system promoted by Fei Qian has been implemented for some time, it has not yet reached a very perfect level. Just like the frequency of the examinations, it is not completely fixed and changes according to the actual situation.
?This time, there were more students coming to the Qinglong Temple Grand Lecture, so I took advantage of the situation and opened Enke.
It is like one of the three famous sayings of later generations, "Anyway, everything comes..."
In the feudal dynasty where the imperial examination was prevalent, during the Song Dynasty, the few sentences in the chapter on admonishing studies became the motto of many students, "A rich family does not need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of grains of millet in books; there is no need to build a high hall to live in peace, books are There is a house of gold in the book; don’t hate an unscrupulous matchmaker when marrying a wife, there is a beauty like jade in the book; if a man follows his life ambition. Read the Six Classics diligently to the window. 』
??But there is a problem with this poem describing the imperial examination.
This poem was written by Zhao Heng.
Zhao Heng was the third emperor of the Song Dynasty.
?Is this guy...
?? Zhao Heng was neither Taizong''s eldest son nor the queen''s son, so he was originally not in line to succeed. But his eldest brother Zhao Yuanzuo went crazy because of the death of his uncle Zhao Tingmei, and his second brother Zhao Yuanxi died suddenly without illness, so he was lucky enough to become the prince. Of course, no one dares to say how many dirty things happened in the palace, but Zhao Heng''s "Chanyuan Alliance" was indeed a very important factor that led to the Song Dynasty''s cowardice.
The Chanyuan Alliance was the result of Zhao Heng suing for peace under a favorable military situation. What is the specific reason? It is not that he cannot fight, but that he is unwilling to fight...
??For the Song Dynasty, on the one hand, most of the land in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun could not be recovered, and on the other hand, gold and silk were required to prevent the Liao Dynasty from invading southward. After that, the Liao Dynasty continued to ask for money in exchange for peace. For the Liao Kingdom, it took advantage of the unfavorable military situation and got something that was not available on the battlefield.
?In order to be patient in the military and to implement the strategy of using civility to control military affairs smoothly, Zhao Heng did his best to advocate in the imperial examination. The poem to encourage students to study was a complete "royal advertisement". Through this poem, Zhao Heng describes the various beautiful scenery of becoming rich overnight, falling into the arms of beautiful women, and gaining power after leaping over the dragon gate. It can be called the first "shuangwen" in the Song Dynasty.
?? Zhao Heng wrote this to seduce students and publicize their family''s imperial examinations in a big way, in order to make scholars all over the world go crazy about their family''s imperial examinations.
It''s not that there is anything bad about this "shuangwen" that describes the imperial examination, but those guys who are simplistic in mind because of studying hard have memorized this number one cool essay in the Song Dynasty, and it has become an obsession in their hearts. , once these guys become officials, the first thing they do is to use their power to get money, money, cars for themselves...
?So what else can the Song Dynasty do well?
?Advertising is advertising after all. It only exaggerates the efficacy, but forgets that it is actually an ordinary drink, not a magic elixir that can cure all diseases.
Just as exams are not the purpose, but selecting talents through exams is the purpose, studying should not be just for money and cars...
There is a saying that "one general can make thousands of bones wither". Isn''t this true for fighting in the literary field?
?The long-term suppression and obsession in his heart were finally released, and the ugly appearance of Fan Jin''s Zhongju was evident.
?The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, which ultimately leads to the lower beam being crooked.
?Those lucky ones who fought their way out of the siege, who didn’t pay an extremely heavy price?
??They have been studying hard since they were young, and then took part in exams with an astonishing elimination rate. It takes an average of thirty years to finally pass the Jinshi exam.
Thirty years is enough to turn a childish child into a wretched uncle with an unshaven beard. The best and most precious youth and youth in life are just wasted, and the price is not heavy.
?This kind of heavy burden has been placed on students from generation to generation.
?The hunger and thirst in the early stage and the madness of compensation in the later stage are becoming more and more obvious, and this survivor bias of sudden wealth will stimulate the next batch of students to invest crazily in this huge vortex...
Fei Qian wanted the efficacy of the "Imperial Examination" medicine, but he also wanted to clearly eliminate its side effects, so he had to be careful not to brag too much about the efficacy of the Imperial Examination, and at the same time open up promotion channels other than Bachelor of Arts, so as not to Everyone was crowded on a single-plank bridge, and eventually they inevitably stepped on each other.
How could three single-plank bridges and a thorny road be better than the feudal dynasty of later generations?
But even so, because the actual promotion space in various counties and counties in the Han Dynasty is almost zero, and the private recruitment of local governors cannot be recognized by the central court, so the number of people referred to this time''s Enke Examination also greatly exceeded Fei Qian''s. expected.
?At the same time, Fei Qian did not expect that new problems would arise in this Enke exam.
Some of the old problems from before are actually being solved.
For example, accommodation.
This time, there were many students who came to participate in the Qinglong Temple''s lectures. Most of these students were descendants of noble families from various places, and they were more or less accompanied by some entourage. They were usually scattered in various tombs, and when they went to Qinglong Temple, they were not We advanced and retreated together, and during several major debates and lectures, Fei Qian sent soldiers in advance to maintain order, so there were no problems with accommodation and travel.
But there are many other new problems...
?For example, when the Enke exam was held in the Anthology Studio, a large number of students from all over the country gathered. When there were so many people, things naturally became complicated, and all kinds of bizarre situations occurred.
Among these students, some went out to have fun on the eve of the exam. After all, there is no shortage of fun in any age; there were also some who discovered that they had forgotten something after arriving at the exam room. Even after packing and checking it again and again last night, it was still the same. Forgot; also, stepping on dog **** when going out, or tripping over the right foot with your left foot on the ground...
?All kinds of weird things will happen on the day of the exam, which are beyond your imagination.
Some came smelling of alcohol and could not stand firmly, swaying as if they were falling but not falling. Some of them turned pale with nervousness, as if a thief had been caught committing a crime for the first time, causing the inspecting soldiers to check their identities again and again. Others lost their nameplates and begged with tears in their eyes to enter the examination room.
What''s even more outrageous is that when the time has passed, the tom drum has been beaten, most of the candidates have entered the venue, and some are running from a distance, and then naturally they can''t get in, and the result is that they kneel down and close the door. They were crying outside the gate, rolling around and complaining about the injustice of heaven and earth, the inhumaneness of the cavalry, and the lack of humanity among the officials and soldiers in the examination room, etc.
?Isn’t it just a little bit worse?
As for the work of the front and rear feet, can''t it wait a moment?
As for whether their crying will cause some negative impact on the students in the examination room, these guys don''t think about it at all, saying that they are so miserable, can''t others have more compassion? Without compassion, how can one still be human?
Such a thing becomes more complicated the more people there are to refer to it.
Sima Yi stood on the high platform with his hands behind his back. He looked coldly at the students who were crying and cursing outside the examination room. He frowned and said to the officials beside him: "Blow them away quickly!" Anyone who disobeys will be charged with disturbing the gate! 』
??The clerks quickly led their soldiers and beat the students away with sticks, and only then did the noise at the entrance of the examination room decrease.
"What kind of rules should be followed and how much punishment should be imposed for making noise and making trouble outside the examination room... Nowadays, this law school is really becoming more and more lazy. The master has not explained it, so it is completely fine?" Hmm... Is it just for this reason that my lord ordered me to preside over this exam? 』
?It seems possible to deal with it by crashing into the government office, but it is not very appropriate after all.
Sima Yi thought to himself. Now that he is the Minister of Dali Temple, he naturally pays more and more attention to the law. The examination for the General of the Cavalry has been held many times, and there is still no established law. If he didn''t sit in the examination room before, he naturally doesn''t have much Attention, now serving as the examiner, also aroused Sima Yi''s thinking.
?It seems that those who have achieved Sima Yi''s current position are basically not fools, and no one wants to be a fool.
?Including Sima Yi, the middle- and upper-level political officials of General Fei Qian all understood one thing, that is, this examination model will continue to be promoted and will eventually become an important way to select talents.
?Perhaps some people had concerns before, but now that more and more people are participating in this exam model and gaining benefits from it, even the stupidest people understand that the general trend cannot be violated.
These officials who were promoted from the examination and began to gradually enter the court. As time goes by, as long as they can be stable for ten years or even shorter, there will be some emerging people among these people who will enter the central court. position, and then this examination system will be completely stable as these people control the authority in the center.
?This is easy to understand.
?Before taking office as the examiner of this exam, Sima Yi was called by Fei Qian. In addition to talking about the news from the Shangdang, the rest was about the exam pattern. With the gradual expansion of the current examination model, this basic candidate screening examination will be decentralized to counties. In other words, Fei Qian is preparing to launch the second-level examination mode.
Similar to county examinations and joint examinations, there may also be lower-level rural examinations in the future.
This preliminary screening examination model for talents who are to be transferred to the county level will require a more standardized and strict process system, as well as supervision measures.
This is Sima Yi’s main job this time.
??Although he was somewhat worried about his father Sima Fang, it was said that the threat of pursuing soldiers had been eliminated. After arriving at Shangdang under the **** of Zhang Ji, he was basically safe. So Sima Yi told Fei Qian that he was qualified to be the examiner and there would be no problem.
?Seeing that the time indicated on the hourglass was approaching, Sima Yi nodded towards Zong Li, the prosecutor on the side.
Zong Li was a native of Anding County, Nanyang, Jingzhou. He came here when a large number of Jingzhou people migrated to Guanzhong. He was also a civil servant selected through examination. He had a good literary background. He served as Cao Shuzuo in Jingzhaoyin and was an upright official. Responsible, this time he was transferred to serve as the "gate inspector" of the examination room.
The gate inspection system is newly established. Although it has existed before, it is basically relatively simple.
Precisely because the previous inspections were simple, a new problem arose in the last few exams, namely fraud.
As the number of references increases, certain means must be used to conduct rapid preliminary screening. Adding some fill-in-the-blank questions is obviously the most appropriate mode.
There are policies above and countermeasures below. As the simple screening mode of fill-in-the-blank questions in exams increases, the number of people who commit fraud also increases.
This has already appeared in the last exam. Some people tried to entrap them, others simply peeked in the examination room, and some even tried to bribe the invigilator...
There are always more solutions than difficulties.
?How bold a person is, how productive the land is.
Such as this, they vary.
Cheating, plagiarism, piracy.
According to the spying of the Youwen Division, many candidates had some wrong ideas in this exam, and they must be stopped in time, otherwise there will be endless consequences.
Because there were several exams in the past that only tested policy theory, and there were even semi-public exams such as "On Pastoral System", so even though the exam pattern has been improved and the exam questions are no longer announced in advance, some candidates are still inevitable I plan to finish the article first and bring it in to copy, or I plan to bet on a few topics first and copy whichever one is close.
?It is said that this time many candidates placed their bets on questions such as "Serious Answers" and "Four Directions of China"...
Some of them are written by myself, and then they are written down after memorizing them. This kind of thing is not a big problem, just like what kind of examination in later generations does not have pre-examination questions? The biggest problem is those guys who simply find gunmen instead, who don''t even bother to memorize it, and just want to copy an article on the spot and get it done.
Are you cheating? It’s simple and hassle-free. How happy and wonderful!
In later generations, China still does not pay enough attention to copyrights, patents, technology, and related intellectual outputs, and even openly supports, allows or acquiesces others to cheat, plagiarize, and piracy to make profits, and at the same time, it also mocks originality. Those who are stingy, obsessed with money, or not organized enough.
Fake papers, cheat on copyrights, steal ideas, etc. The list goes on and on.
When the entire country is poor and even food and clothing are a problem, survival is naturally the first priority.
But when the problem of food and clothing is gone, and it can even be said that after you have a certain amount of money in your hands, you still only think about cheating, plagiarism and piracy, especially when the country has obviously transformed into the direction of developing technology and developing productivity. At this time, there are still some people who still take cheating, plagiarism and piracy as an honor and think that they have the ability to cheat, plagiarize and piracy, which is very problematic.
Sima Yi’s attitude is that once any problem is found among these students, they should be completely eliminated and beaten to death with a stick...
??However, Fei Qian said that we still have to give a chance. After all, no one is perfect. As long as you are willing to truly correct your mistakes, you will always be better than those guys who refuse to correct themselves and put their own face on their own.
So when Zong Li arrived at the venue, he faced the candidates lining up to enter the examination room and said, "Everyone! Recruiting the wise based on their talents, the most important thing is fairness! Entering the examination room, the gain or loss depends on your knowledge. If you have the intention of plagiarism and cheating in the examination room, you will definitely have no intention of working hard for the people as an official! Qiaoqi is kind and willing to give you a chance to repent. If you are trying to commit fraud by carrying various manuscripts, you can discard them all on the ground within ten breaths, and you will not be punished for fraud! If someone is obsessed and refuses to change, once they are found out, in addition to being shackled on the spot and publicly displayed, their name will be widely publicized and announced to the counties and villages, and they will not be able to serve for life! I hope you don’t make any mistakes! 』
After finishing speaking, Zong Li paused for a while to let all the candidates think about it, and then ordered: "Everyone in the examination room, surrounding soldiers, and patrols, please stand with your eyes closed. After a certain number of seconds, you will open your eyes, and then you will be admitted for examination!" 』
“Ten, nine, eight…” Zong Li closed his eyes first, and then started counting slowly.
?After Zong Li gave the command to open his eyes, some miscellaneous things appeared on the ground.
Sima Yi, who was standing on the high platform, sneered twice and asked the clerk on the side, "Have you written them all down?" 』
?The clerk on the side quickly said: "I have written it all down." 』
The Hussars General is kind, but Sima Yi is not. He plans to keep all these guys with cheat sheets on their records. They may just be petty officials in this life, but don''t think about getting promoted. When it comes to your own knowledge, you always think about cheating. If you want to become an official, can you really do things?
But because of Hussar’s order, Sima Yi would not pursue these people on the spot.
Zong Li was also a little stunned at the debris in the venue, but he didn''t say anything more and just ordered to prepare for a search.
??These candidates followed the instructions and began to line up one by one through the newly built passage, only to realize that what Zong Li said before was definitely not just talk...
The first thing to be inspected is the clothing. Whether it is a hat or a robe, it must be taken off and inspected by two people in turn. Then a dedicated person will inspect the remaining single clothes on the body.
The next step is to search the items carried, pens and ink, inkstones, and some food, etc.
?Of course, what is better than later generations is that there is a curtain before entering the examination room. At least when you take off your clothes, you will not be seen by the long line of people behind you.
??Some people were very dissatisfied and shouted that it was disrespectful to politeness, and were then thrown out by the soldiers.
But more people lowered their heads and accepted the inspection.
There are always lucky ones. Although it is not as perverted as when the imperial examination system was complete in later generations, and even the **** and belly button were searched, a few students who still refused to give up cheating were found. Immediately, he was pushed to the ground by the patrolling soldiers and shackled with wooden shackles before going out to show the public.
When they were caught, these guys cried loudly, expressing their regrets and hoping to be forgiven again. They must study hard and make progress every day, but whether it was Zong Li or other officials and soldiers, They all looked at it coldly, as if they heard the chirping of a few cicadas before the end.
Immediately, they found out the places of origin, names, etc. of these guys, and announced them loudly in the examination room. This also made people from the same hometown or county feel a little offended by these guys, and they took a sip to express their disapproval of these guys. Humanoid contempt, and his own innocence.
『This…this is coming for real…』
…
In the waiting queue, I don’t know when there were some more “miscellaneous items”.
Zong Li saw this, frowned, hesitated, and said nothing. Although he said that he would not be held accountable within ten breaths, in fact, as long as he has not entered the inspection shed and voluntarily gave up, he will not directly put himself in the shackles.
After all, the inspection system has just begun, and many rules and regulations need to be continuously improved in the future.
Exams and cheating, these natural enemies, at this moment, a hundred years in advance, started a **** fight...
(End of this chapter)