Chapter 271 The imperial examination is really difficult

Hongwu at the beginning of 2019.

The entire Yingtian Prefecture is a prosperous scene. Since the Northern Yuan Dynasty was defeated by the Ming Dynasty, the people's national pride and confidence have also increased a lot.

The streets and alleys were discussing how His Highness of the Liao Dynasty defeated the Northern Yuan Dynasty and how he captured the Northern Yuan Emperor.

As for the fact that the Northern Yuan Emperor was captured by Lan Yu, there is little publicity among the people.

And those who know the truth will naturally not promote Lan Yu.

Lan Yu's fame is much worse than His Highness the King of Liao.

The topic is naturally not as good as it is. If you chat on the streets and alleys, if you don’t talk about His Highness Liao, who will listen to you being stubborn?

These words are naturally very familiar to the people of Yingtian Prefecture.

But it is very new for those candidates who come to Beijing to take the exam.

This is the first time I have heard so many great news and content from the countryside.

At this time, they would naturally sit down and listen to these people talking about the deeds of King Zhu Qi of Liao, because King Zhu Qi of Liao was their teacher.

Since the education reform was carried out, not only the Imperial College in Yingtianfu, but also the private schools in the countryside have begun to carry out new versions of textbooks.

And the new textbook that has been implemented for several years.

This year, we will finally officially include the content of these new textbooks in the imperial examination.

This is naturally very important for those students.

But there are still some important problems now, that is, students in remote places may not be able to obtain these textbooks.

Of course, I have to learn a little later than others, or those who live in remote mountain villages, I don’t know that there are new textbooks.

Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang did not handle such a thing for the first time. He had done something like the North and South in the early years of the Ming Dynasty.

If the academic performance of the north and south is uneven, we can now have a new and old list. The original Four Books and Five Classics can still be tested, but the positions you obtained in the court may be slightly limited.

The content of the new school should be broader and more superior.

This will naturally force those scholars to learn the knowledge of new schools. Of course, even if you don’t want to learn, you can continue to take the Four Books and Five Classics.

As long as the things from the new school are spread well among the scholars and everyone recognizes them, there will naturally be no mathematics in the new school.

Physics and chemistry are just a problem with the Four Books and Five Classics.

As long as you study, you can become an official. Which scholar in the world doesn’t want to do it?

Do you really think books like the Four Books and Five Classics are the biggest dreams in the hearts of scholars?

This is naturally impossible.

After being appointed as the chief examiner of this imperial examination, Liao King Zhu Qi naturally became busy immediately. The scholars from Yingtian Mansion also heard the news.

If we talked about the past few years, we would naturally be dissatisfied when we heard that it was a young man like Liao King Zhu Qi who came to be the chief examiner.

But now when they hear that it was the Liao King Zhu Qi who came to the examiner, these students took it for granted. Not only that, but some people would sigh.

"I am worthy of being His Highness the King of Liao. I have known for a long time that His Highness the King of Liao must be the pride of all our scholars."

The reason is nothing else. Just learning by one's hands has already made King Liao Zhu Qi famous in Confucianism.

Not to mention that all the subjects they have learned recently were written by His Highness the King of Liao.

Are not all things like mathematics, physics and chemistry written by His Highness the King of Liao and promoted them?

In other words, all students who have taken the new imperial examination, who have studied mind, chemistry, physics and mathematics, are all students of our King of Liao.

Are you still unhappy now that your teacher is an examiner?

These students were naturally very happy and took it for granted, but Liao King Zhu Qike was so worried that he was completely exhausted.

Although I am also doing the main exam, I am printing and distributing test papers to arrange confidentiality work, and arranging procedures, etc.

But Zhu Qi, the King of Liao, was filled with guilt on the side of Prince Zhu Biao.

Such a thing that was so popular was supposed to be done by his elder brother Zhu Biao, but he didn't expect it to fall on his head.

But I still have to do my job, and not long after, in the first lunar month, the imperial examinations soon began.

The exam held in Beijing during this period is also called the spring exam.

Gather scholars from all over the world to select talents from the capital. These students who passed the exam will enter the court to serve.

The exam work is proceeding in an orderly manner. There are no electronic equipment these days, and there are not so many surveillance cameras.

So as long as the candidates are searched safely, there is no place to cheat, and then separate them, it can greatly ensure that the cheating behavior occurs.

Of course, the examiner also needs to patrol continuously, and the three-day exam is required in a fully enclosed environment.

The wisdom of the ancients was no worse than that of modern people when it comes to how to stop cheating.

At least the current system in the Ming Dynasty can be guaranteed.

Because I have been preparing for it since I got up, and there are so many people under my command to help.

For bureaucrats, those officials are much more skilled than themselves.

What's more, it was a rigid bureaucratic behavior like a scientific exam, so Zhu Qi basically did nothing and completed all the work.

And those candidates quickly bid farewell to their families and relatives and friends and entered the examination room.

In the next three days, they will conduct closed exams in the examination room.

There are so many subjects to complete, and the things you need to learn these days are not as few as those in the college entrance examination now.

They have to make a long talk. Some people even need to write tens of thousands of words in these three days, which is not so easy and casual.

Although Zhu Qi was the chief examiner, he showed his face and said something at the beginning. After seeing everyone's excited expressions, Zhu Qi did not appear in the examination room for the next three days.

The main purpose is to prevent the students from being too excited because of their own appearance, resulting in the atmosphere on the scene being destroyed.

Although this may be a bit pretentious, it is indeed the case.

After three days, the exam was successfully completed, and no one was arrested for cheating. After all, if these students cheat, the consequences would be very serious.

At the least, they are arrested and imprisoned, and at the worst, they may be released to the border.

After all, the Ming Dynasty punished candidates for cheating during the exam.

Then we have to correct and review the papers. Of course, other teachers will do these, but if we want to correct those math, physics and chemistry courses, it is not something that ordinary scholars can do.

Fortunately, Zhu Qi has trained a lot of talents during this period, and he doesn’t need to correct them himself.

Moreover, when he was presiding over the imperial examination, his elder brother Zhu Biao kept assisting him from the side, without any intention of being ripped off with him.

This made Zhu Qi feel relieved. At least the gap between the brothers he thought did not happen.

But after this, my title as a saint will probably be firmly confirmed.

The only thing that makes people feel assured is probably that I am old, I am too young.

Many Confucian scholars may not agree with it, but that is for ordinary people, but Zhu Qi's identity is the prince of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, he has made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty over the years, and his achievements have been paid attention to.

It can be said that he did what a saint could do, and he did what a saint did not do. If he could not become a saint, what conditions would he have to do?

After completing the imperial examination, the next step is to select outstanding students. Zhu Qi naturally had to pass the scores and then conduct an interview.

However, the interview has nothing to do with him. It was the matter of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Qi finally could rest for a while, but Zhu Yuanzhang obviously had no intention of letting him rest, so he quickly let Zhu Qi enter the palace to meet the saint.

This time Zhu Yuanzhang made Zhu Qi not do anything else.

The main purpose is to let Zhu Qi continue to write his national policy.

After formulating the strategy of swallowing the Northern Yuan Dynasty and Goryeo for the Ming Dynasty, if Zhu Qi claimed to be the second in the court, no one would dare to claim to be the first.

You should know that there may be generals who can defeat the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but they dare to pat their chests confidently and say that the only one who can control the Northern Yuan Dynasty is the only one who can control the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

Moreover, from the degree of implementation of the current plan, if the strategy of King Zhu Qi of Liao could be perfectly implemented and the Ming Dynasty could continue to develop the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

It was only a matter of time to make the people of Northern Yuan surrender to the Ming Dynasty and become real people of the Ming Dynasty.

Only His Highness, the King of Liao, can imagine such powerful strategies and policies.

That's why Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Qi to write a national policy, laying the foundation for the subsequent Ming Dynasty for generations.

Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang should have done this matter, but he didn't expect it to fall on his head, and Zhu Qi was also quite speechless.

But Zhu Yuanzhang was his father and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor spoke in person, so he couldn't say anything.

But he has never had any experience in writing national policy and other issues. The styles of the Spring and Autumn Period also have various sentence patterns of the articles.

He didn't understand very well, so he could only write whatever he wanted in vernacular.

If you meet other emperors who have received a good education since childhood, if you write this way, you may be scolded.

But his statement was given to his father, and the civilian emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Then there is no problem at all.

On the contrary, Zhu Yuanzhang liked this kind of vernacular writing even more.
To be continued...