Chongzhen Undergraduates

For example, in the 15th year of Chongzhen’s Zhejiang Examination, as mentioned earlier, because the imperial court began to attach importance to cultivating talents with both civil and military skills, although Zhang Huangyan took the literary examination, he still had to take some military preparation subjects that were urgently needed for war.During the exam, the imperial court ordered the examinees to "concurrently try to shoot" in "urgent military affairs", and Zhang Huang said that he was "generous in discussing military affairs".

Therefore, the emperor had a lot of authority over the formulation of subjects, and Confucianism was not so big as to directly control everything.

We can only talk about the Chongzhen Dynasty. Because Chongzhen believed too much in Donglin's instigation in the early days and suppressed other forces too much, Donglin's influence was infinitely magnified by Chongzhen himself. involved.

This time in the scientific examination, Zhu Youjian ordered to change the subjects.The system of respecting the predecessors was established following the system of the Tang Dynasty: Mingjing, Mingfa, Jinshi, Mingshu, Gewu, and Cewen.

Among them, Qian Qianyi and Huang Daozhou provided questions for Mingjing, Mingfa and Jinshi; Zhu Youjian and Fang Yizhi provided questions for Mingsuan, Gewu and Policy Questions.

With this arrangement, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty could not find any major objections.Zhu Youjian's executive strategy is to carry out gradual reforms within a basic framework.

Qian Qianyi and Huang Daozhou are great Confucian scholars in the world, and half of the questions are written by them, even if there are people who object, it is only a small part of the voice.

Ever since Zhu Youjian humiliated Huang Shu, the shit-stirring stick, the opinion of the speech officer has no effect at all in Zhu Youjian's eyes. If anyone can't find a reason to object blindly, Zhu Youjian will use " Golden pulp" to entertain him.

In the next three subjects, the emperor himself participated in the question making, so no one dared to say anything.The emperor is the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven is greater than everything else. Who dares to say that he is better than the Son of Heaven?

The six subjects are divided into three exams, which will be held on August [-]th, [-]th and [-]th.There are two subjects in each test, and each subject is tested for one day. The first subject is to test Mingjing, and the second subject is to test Mingshu.

Although Jin Shengtan is Qian Qianyi's nephew, Qian Qianyi did not reveal the matter.At this point, Qian Qianyi's character is not bad.

In the early morning of August [-]th, before dawn, Jin Shengtan came to the gate of Jiangnan Gongyuan with a lantern.

Jiangnan Gongyuan is the largest examination room in Ming Dynasty.Among them, there are 640 examination halls alone, which can accommodate more than 2 candidates for examination at the same time, plus hundreds of ancillary buildings, covering an area of ​​more than 450 mu.Its large scale and extensive land occupation ranks first among the tribute courts in all provinces of Ming Dynasty.

From the moment of Mao, the gate of the Gongyuan has been opened.Candidates in each province find the area of ​​​​the province where they are located and issue a test number.Although the candidates in a province are concentrated together, their test numbers are mixed with other provinces.Jin Shengtan was from Wu County, so he was naturally ranked in the candidate area of ​​Nanzhili.

This year's candidates are all told not to bring cooking utensils or meals, which is a big change.In previous exams, candidates had to bring cooking utensils or cold food into the exam room because they had to stay in the exam dormitory for three days.

Starting from the entrance of the Gongyuan, Jin Shengtan entered the examination room smoothly after undergoing a strict body search and inspection.

Jin Shengtan had been to the Gong Yuan before, so he was no stranger to it.But this time when I came in again, I found something different.

First of all, the toilet that all candidates hate the most has changed a lot.In every previous exam, the candidate was most afraid of being assigned to the exam dormitory closest to the latrine.If he is unfortunately assigned here, he will directly face three days of "poisonous gas", the taste of which is indescribable. Legend has it that some candidates fainted directly on the second day.Jin Shengtan found that all the latrines are now built in a row, and there is a square ditch in the middle. Every time the incense sticks, there will be a stream of water to wash away the dirt.

The second is the test room. Each test room is equipped with a cushion. The length of the cushion is just the same as the baffle, which is convenient for candidates to sit or lie down.

After the examination papers were handed out, Jin Shengtan took a look at the title of the first question in the scriptures: "It's so swaying, the people are incompetent; it's so majestic, it's successful, and it's so brilliant."

Jin Shengtan smiled. He probably guessed that his uncle was at the same level. He always liked to complain when he was in the wild, and he liked to flatter the emperor when he was in court.

After Jin Shengtan easily answered the two questions, it was nearly noon. At this time, several teams of inspectors who were inspecting the discipline of the examination room came over carrying several large wooden barrels.

After all, it was meal time, and Jin Shengtan smelled the aroma of vegetables from afar, which seemed to be more delicious than the usual meals, and he felt a little hungry.

This is Zhu Youjian's special treatment, and the cost is only a few hundred taels, but it has been praised by all candidates.Zhu Youjian couldn't figure it out, why didn't any of the rulers of the past dynasties think about this detail for others?

It's just a few simple meals. They would rather let candidates bring a stove to light a fire in the examination room to cook than provide a meal.What they prefer is to hold a "Luming Banquet" for the candidates who pass the exam.

In other words, only the candidates who pass the exam are the "insiders" in the eyes of the officials, and the others are not worth mentioning.

Jin Shengtan received a wooden dinner plate, which was nothing special, just a flat tray.But the meals inside are pretty good. The first meal is rice. There are two dishes, one is roasted tofu, and the other is roasted radish and pork.The treatment is the same as that of polytechnic students.

Because of the fat, it smells very good, and many candidates ate not a single grain left.

After the candidates finished eating, the patrols took away the plates.

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Zhu Youjian still paid more attention to this exam, so when he was in the second subject, he changed his clothes and entered the Gongyuan in person, wanting to see the status of these candidates.

The second subject is clear calculation, which is mathematics.The average student probably still reads a book like "Nine Chapters Suanjing".Of course, Zhu Youjian's questions will not be too simple, after all, this is the highest level of national examination.At the same time, he won't make it too difficult. If he can come up with a bit higher math, I'm afraid there will be no one who can understand it.At this time, Newton was only two years old.

Zhu Youjian chose the mathematics problems of the first grade of junior high school in later generations to write the questions, such as: decimals, square roots and binary linear equations.The test questions can be said to be very simple.

It's a pity that he still overestimated the mathematics level of these scholars in this era. Most of the students in these polytechnic colleges only studied the test questions for more than a year, which stumped many candidates here.

Zhu Youjian even saw many candidates handing in blank papers, without writing a single word on the entire paper.

When it comes to the subject of Gewu, Zhu Youjian is even more hopeless. This part of the questions can be said to be simpler, just some of the most basic physics knowledge. Eighth of the test questions that could get high marks in one test were all blank papers.

There were more than 1 examinees, and most of them turned in blank papers. Zhu Youjian's heart was so cool.

After the three exams, Zhu Youjian directly announced that there was no need for the palace examination. He didn't have much hope for the palace examination at all. If he wanted to let him watch a group of candidates writing scriptures with stereotyped scriptures in the palace hall, he would probably go crazy.

Zhu Youjian understood the fact that Daming's education paid too much attention to classics and righteousness.

Are there any scriptures?It must be useful.

What is the scriptures?In fact, many people think that the scriptures are pedantic preaching.In fact, it is not. Jingyi is actually philosophy and sociology. It is a purely theoretical study of behavior.

If everyone is asked to study philosophy, of course it is partial.Confucianism hopes to make people all over the world achieve unity within the scope of philosophy set by themselves, which is the so-called Datong.

Let people who study philosophy become officials and leaders of everything.This is very idealistic.

Chapter 2 Thirty: Students making trouble

Marking papers is a hard job, especially for the two subjects of Mingshu and Gewu. Zhu Youjian can hardly find anyone who can help mark the papers.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the research on mathematics almost stagnated and even declined compared with the previous generation.Later, even Japan developed calculus based on the mathematical heritage of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. However, in the past 300 years of the Ming Dynasty, there were only a few people who could become masters in mathematics.

Daming, those who are "partial" are too deformed!

Really helpless, Zhu Youjian had no choice but to call Brother Song Yingxing back to Nanjing. At any rate, the two were considered well-known figures, and the courtiers could not give any reason for their opposition.

If Zhu Youjian went to recruit outstanding students from the Institute of Technology to help mark the papers, I'm afraid it would be another innocent war of words.

Gathering together, there were barely enough five or six people, and Zhu Youjian himself joined the examination papers himself.

Fortunately, the examination papers of these two subjects were not too difficult to review. Not to mention the large blank papers, there were still a lot of nonsense papers.The answer to this simple question itself is also very simple, unlike the liberal arts that need to consider many factors.

In the end, Zhu Youjian and the others finally selected about 1 test papers from more than 500 candidates. These people belong to the "talents" who can answer the questions seriously and can more or less correctly answer a few questions.

This time, the imperial list does not directly announce the list of candidates who passed the exam, but instead announces the results of each candidate in each subject, and then announces the ranking of the comprehensive results.The entire imperial list was issued by the Ministry of Rites, and it was posted on the entire street in front of the Taimiao Gate, which is very spectacular.

Among the top list of scriptures and Jinshi, 100% of them can't make it into the top [-] list of comprehensive scores.Most of the top [-] people in the comprehensive score list are students with middle-level liberal arts scores.

Of course, there are exceptions: such as the top three. No.1 is Jin Shengtan; No.2 is Zheng Chenggong.

Needless to say Zheng Chenggong, he himself is relatively talented, and with the teacher Qian Qianyi, his liberal arts grades are not bad.He stayed with Zhu Youjian for a few more months, and was greatly influenced by the new learning. Science was almost a pediatric subject for him, and he got full marks in Gewu and Mingshu.

The geek Jin Shengtan was surprising. Although this guy didn't get full marks in his calculation and Gewu scores, his scores were still very high.Can a person who is obsessed with forecasting know a little about mathematics and Gewu?

The most surprising thing is that his Mingjing and Policy Theory scores are also very high, because he used the vernacular to answer the questions, which was reviewed by Zhu Youjian himself.

No.3 is a student of Huang Daozhou, a reserve talent who has worked in Zhu Youjian's emperor's office for several months.

It was Zodiac Week who had the biggest harvest. This time, he had more than 30 students take the exam directly, and almost all of them were on the list.