I will never be Renzong

Chapter 181 Scientific Examination

After the Kaifeng Juren suddenly received the imperial court's change of the content of the exam, they couldn't help talking about it. Some who only knew the Four Books and Five Classics could not help scolding, and even dozens of juren who didn't know what to do ran to Suzaku's gate, yelling He wanted to meet with the officials and ask them to cancel the reform and restore the old system.

On the contrary, although there were some objections from the ministers of the DPRK and China this time, none of them made a fuss directly in front of Suzaku's gate, because after suffering a few times, everyone knew that it was not only useless to cry and hang himself with the current officials, but instead It is very likely that you will put yourself on it.

Zhao Zhen only changed the imperial examination a little bit, but some people came out to make trouble, so under his instruction, Lu Zongdao, who was a member of the Ministry of Political Affairs and Rites, personally went to Zhuquemen with the imperial decree, announcing on the spot that he would cancel his reputation as a troublemaker, and directly punished him. If you work for the people, if you make trouble, you will be severely punished.

At the same time, the Ministry of Officials issued a new imperial examination system.

The first is the prefectural examination, which is held by various prefectures. The age of participating students is stipulated between 10 and 60 years old. There are three rankings, A, B, and C, corresponding to first-class scholars, second-class scholars, and third-class scholars. The first-class scholars enjoy an annual allowance of 20 The second-class scholar is entitled to an annual allowance of 15 taels of silver, and the third-class scholar is entitled to an annual allowance of 10 taels of silver.

After passing the government test, they will take the road test held by the governor in the next year. The age limit is still between 10 and 60 years old. There are also three rankings, A, B, and C, corresponding to first-class candidates, second-class candidates, and third-class candidates.The first-class applicants enjoy an annual allowance of 50 taels of silver, the second-class applicants enjoy an annual allowance of 40 taels of silver, and the third-class applicants enjoy an annual allowance of 30 taels of silver.

The third year is to participate in the court examination held by the Ministry of Officials, but the age has been changed to between 15 and 50 years old. If your age is over 50 years old, then unfortunately, you will not be able to pass the imperial examination in your life. It stopped abruptly, at most he could be an official position like an unqualified master.

Jinshi is also divided into three classes. The first-class Jinshi enjoys an annual allowance of 180 taels, the second-class Jinshi enjoys an annual allowance of 150 taels, and the third-class Jinshi enjoys an annual allowance of 100 taels.
A county magistrate in the Song Dynasty had a monthly income of about 30 taels and an annual income of 360 taels. Zhao Zhen formulated the Jinshi subsidy based on this halving, but generally speaking, first-class Jinshi scholars would hardly receive their salary for a long time before they were sent official!
The court examination originally held by the Ministry of Rites was also presided over by the Ministry of Officials.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it has been the fifth year of Tiansheng. On the sixth day of June, a total of 2036 candidates from all over the Song Dynasty are standing in front of the examination room, waiting for the examination personnel to check.

As early as the fourth year of Tiansheng, Zhao Zhen had someone build a special place for juren examinations, named the Royal Examination Institute, which can accommodate 5000 people to take the exam at the same time, so it is more than enough to arrange 2036 juren.

After entering the screen, people need to remove all their clothes, and then the relevant personnel of Jinyiwei will be responsible for checking whether there are any cheat sheets and so on.

The difference from the previous scientific examination habits in the Song Dynasty is that this time the candidates do not need to bring pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and food. These things are provided by the Royal Chamber of Commerce for free. In front of these future talents, play a wave of advertisements!
Candidates do not need to bring everything except themselves, thus greatly reducing the chance of cheating.

After the examination, the candidates will receive the test number, and then go to the corresponding test room to wait according to the test number. There are 50 people in one session, and the distance between each test table is 1 meter.

At 08:30, a group of servants will distribute pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and then at nine o’clock, examiners will enter the venue with sealed examination papers, and then open them in front of all candidates. Different from the past, this examination The test questions are printed in advance, and each person has one copy. It is not the same as before. People walk in turn holding the plaques with the questions engraved on them.

After the waiter distributed the test papers, the examinees took a look at the test papers. They were very novel. The names and seat numbers were all printed in advance.

Then the chief examiner began to talk about the rules of the examination room, such as no whispering, no arbitrariness, raising your hand beforehand, the name must be written in the prescribed place, if it is written indiscriminately, the test score will be cancelled, etc.

There are three exam papers for the Chinese liberal arts exam, but they are divided into time, for example, from 9:11 to [-]:[-], the scriptures and meanings are tested within one hour. After the scriptures and meanings are tested, a waiter will give each person a wooden lunch box. There are three dishes and rice inside, and then a waiter will bring a bucket of mung bean soup or sour plum soup.

There was an hour for lunch and breaks, and the poetry test started at one o'clock on time, half an hour for poetry, and an hour and a half for poetry, and lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon. After the end, the test papers were sealed and escorted to the palace by special personnel.The door of the examination room opened, and the candidates walked out of the examination room one by one, and went back to their respective residences to start preparing for the second exam tomorrow.

Zhao Zhen came from a later generation, so he naturally understood the importance of talents. Although he had high requirements for scholars in the Song Dynasty, the treatment he gave them was unmatched by all dynasties.

The first exam was within the ability of all the candidates. The classics and meanings were memorized by rote, and the poems and prose were purely up to individual performance. Since it was an exam, there would naturally be cheating. However, in an exam room, except for one civil servant In addition to the invigilation, there were also two officers from Jin Yiwei patrolling the field. How could the scholar cheating be hidden from Jin Yiwei's sharp eyes, so all the candidates who cheated were discovered by Jin Yiwei, and they were taken down on the spot and expelled from the field, waiting for his general It is a scholar who cannot refer to it within five years and is directly demoted from Juren to nothing.

The second session is the current politics subject, with a total of three questions. The first question is about the merits and demerits of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty.

Except for the second question, which is a little difficult, the rest are pretty good and moderately difficult, especially the first question, which is almost a score-giving question.

The third test was mathematics. Zhao Zhen didn't deliberately make it difficult for the candidates. The questions were all taken from the calculation books. At most, they were just minor changes such as changing personal names.

Zhao Zhen gave everyone a month before, so all the candidates who put their heart into it can't be said to get all the answers right, but they can still pass. Of course, there are some who don't take it seriously.

There are three test papers in mathematics, one with ten fill-in-the-blank questions, one with ten multiple-choice questions, and one with five application questions.

Some examinees take a look at the test paper, choose one of four multiple-choice questions, and can still get an answer, fill in the blanks and barely write an answer, application questions, at first glance, the problem of the chicken and the rabbit in the same cage can’t be solved, but it can’t be empty, so just write it down A poem!Maybe the examiner can pass it for himself!

The fourth exam is the criminal law department, which mainly focuses on "Laws of the Great Song Dynasty". There are three exam papers in total. The first exam is about filling in the blanks of the law, and the second is about how a certain person has committed a certain crime and how to rebel.The third one is surprisingly three case reasoning questions.

In the fifth year of Tiansheng, at [-] pm on June [-]th, the candidates who had finished the four exams could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. Those who were confident began to invite their friends to play in Bianjing. Those who answered the questions in a mess immediately returned to their residences, packed their bags and packed them. go home.

(End of this chapter)