I want to be emperor

Chapter 368

The Great Chu Empire Chengshun three years, Ming Chongzhen ten years.

On March [-]th, the results of the National Examination of Chu State were released. Naturally, some people were happy and some were worried.

As the second exam of the Great Chu Empire, it was also the first exam with more than 2000 candidates participating at the same time, so the competition was still very strong.

Even in the Great Chu Empire, because of the lack of officials, it was to win over the hearts of more scholars. There were a large number of people who took the test, but it was impossible to admit everyone.

In this subject examination, the Great Chu Empire admitted a total of more than 400 people, and the overall admission ratio was six to one.

Among them, the number of people enrolled in the Jinshi Department is the largest, with more than 280 people.

The second is the number of people admitted by the Legal Affairs Division with 120 people.

Because there are relatively few scholars applying for the Gewu Division, the number of admitted students is not large, only 60 people.

However, judging from the admission ratio, in fact, the above three subjects are inversely proportional.

Jinshi has the lowest admission rate and the most difficult competition.

The legal department is next.

However, the Gewu subject had the least competition. There were only 120 applicants in total, but 60 were admitted, and the overall admission ratio reached two to one.

The above-mentioned admitted scholars took part in the imperial examination collectively three days later.

Just like the palace examination in traditional dynasties, as long as the performance in the palace examination is not too bad, then generally they will not be defeated, and the more important thing is to rank at the end.

The rank of the imperial examination is very important, because it is directly related to whether it is a Jinshi or a Jinshi, or whether it is the same as a Jinshi, which directly affects the subsequent job arrangement.

According to the previously reported information, the champions of each subject will be awarded the rank of the sixth rank, and the others will also be awarded the rank of the seventh rank.

This set of things still imitated the traditional imperial examination system.

Although Luo Zhixue has reformed the imperial examination system and is planning to carry out more vigorous reforms, he will not perform major surgery at the beginning, but is going to take it slowly.

For example, in his heart, he doesn't really want any talents from the Jinshi department, but only professional talents from the Gewu department and the Court of Law, but there are not so many people to choose for him.

Scholars these days are all reading the Four Books and Five Classics. If you want to select truly useful talents from these people, you still need time to gradually promote Gewu, instead of selecting a large number of Gewu talents in one step.

Even the talents admitted to the Gewu Department this time are not very good in science, not even as good as those students in the Royal Institute of Technology.

After all, these people were actually traditional scholars in the past. At most, they were more interested in arithmetic and the like before, but the serious study of the eight classics was actually only done in the past six months or even a few months.

The level of many people is really not good, but the reason why they are still admitted, and even intend to reuse them, is to send a very obvious signal to the outside world: Guochao attaches great importance to the study of things, and scholars should not ponder the Four Books and Five Classics all day long. Now, it's time to focus on Gewuke.

The imperial examination was quite satisfactory, Luo Zhixue personally served as the chief examiner, and he didn't come up with too weird questions, and even the questions of the three subjects were similar in nature, they were all policy theory, history theory and so on.

After all, this is a palace exam, and the test is no longer about basic skills, but more about vision and ideas. In addition, it is inevitable to look at appearance.

As for the number one pick, you definitely can't let an ugly guy do it, let alone a handsome guy, you should choose someone who is pleasing to the eye anyway.

Therefore, the palace examination is very different from the general examination and the rural examination.

After all, the provincial and general examinations test the basic skills of the students, such as the stereotyped essays that are highly valued by the Jinshi Department. This thing actually pays attention to the logical thinking ability of the candidates. If you have no logical thinking ability, you can't even solve the questions...

Because the questions are all one-shot questions, ordinary people are confused after reading it!
The essay made with intercepting questions is to understand the sentence composed of a few words randomly selected by the examiner, and it must be meaningful, and it must also be combined with the words of the sage, etc.

To put it bluntly, even if the examiner points to a pile of dog shit, the examinee has to say that the shit is shit from a saint, and the logic must be clear and meaningful.

When people read your article, even if they know in their hearts that this is dog shit, they still have to pinch their noses and say: You are right, this is shit from a saint!
This kind of perverted interception question will be used as a Chinese question in later generations. Most of the candidates will be stunned when they read it, and they can't even solve the question, let alone have something to say. A nonsense article came out.

Not to mention the legal department and the Gewu department. The examination questions of these two subjects are actually similar to those of the Jinshi department. They also have the entity of writing articles, and they are still one-shot questions.

It's just that there are law-related and science-related topics that occupy a large proportion later, and the score is more important than that, and the topics are simpler than Jinshi subjects.

At the same time, in fact, there are related legal questions and Gewu questions in Jinshi course, but the questions are relatively simple and the proportion of scores is relatively low.

Generally speaking, although the imperial examination held by the Great Chu Empire was divided into three subjects, all three subjects had to be tested on scriptures, contemporary Chinese, law, mathematics and other subjects at the same time, but the proportion of the subjects in each subject was different.

As a new student in Gewu, Sun Qinian was greatly relieved when he saw the title.

He thought that the topics of their Gewu subjects would still be those science subjects that make people crazy and want to get rid of their hair. He didn't expect that they were serious article topics, and many of them were topics that were closely related to facts.

There are five strategic questions, and candidates can choose one of them to answer.

There are five history topics, and candidates can choose one of them to answer.

For example, the topic of the first policy theory is relatively grand, and it discusses taxation issues.

The second topic of policy theory is closely related to what is happening now: "Hantian has a new loom, the cloth is several times that of the homemade cloth, and the exquisiteness is several times that of the homemade cloth. People say, "The new loom breaks the road of the farmer's family and cannot be left behind." , discuss the gains and losses in detail, and try Chen Liangyi's strategy.

The third policy theory: Zhou Liyan has the most detailed agricultural policy, and all scholars have learned about farming.In recent times, the Emperor's Academy of Sciences has mostly used personnel to transfer the climate when studying agriculture. It is called land, capital, and labor, and the ability to make good use of these three is real capital and knowledge.Today, the school system is revised and listed as a specialist, hoping to preserve the legacy of essential skills.Try Chen Jiaonong's strategy.

There is also history theory, the first topic of history theory is: "Xia, Shaokang was forty years old, and the theory of Zhongxing was reached with [-]% and [-] journeys"

The second historical theory: "Zhuge Liang used his skills without the intention of applying for business, while Wang Anshi used the facts of applying for business but concealed his name theory"

These questions are actually very big, and they involve a wide range. If you have to answer all of them, you must learn from the past and the present, and you must have a very deep understanding of some things that scholars do not usually pay attention to, such as industry, economy, etc.

The background of the second topic of policy theory is the contradiction and conflict between modern industry and traditional handicraft industry.

The second topic of history theory is to ask candidates to evaluate the rule of law and the rule of virtue.

Sun Qinian scanned the topics for a while, and he was not sure about the other topics on Celun, because he didn't know enough about many things. Since he didn't understand, he couldn't write nonsense, and it was easy to get the wrong direction.

In the end, he chose the topic of looms, because his hometown is Suzhou, and there are quite a lot of weavers in Suzhou, and there are even big gentry who buy a large number of looms and hire weavers to weave. He can imagine, if If this new type of loom appeared in Suzhou, I am afraid that countless weavers who still use traditional looms will fall into the predicament of life.

And the words of history.But I chose the big topic of evaluating the rule of law and the rule of virtue. This kind of topic is relatively broad and it is easy to have something to say. Even if you can’t get a high score, it’s not a big problem to keep the bottom line.

At the end of the day, Sun Qinian wrote two articles and handed them in.

As for the release time of the palace examination, it will be tomorrow.

In fact, from the afternoon of that day, a team of examiners composed of a group of senior officials had already started to mark the papers, but it is a pity that Zhang Zijin, the chief examiner of the Gewu Division, was originally a member of the team of examiners and was qualified to participate in the assessment. However, when he was reporting to the imperial court after the examination, he passed out on the spot.

Afterwards, the imperial doctor went to see him, and he took various medicines to reduce the fever. Although he had woken up, he still had to stay in bed.

As for the follow-up examination affairs of Gewu, let others take care of it first.

When Zhang Zijin heard it at the time, he was anxious... On the spot, he struggled with a high fever of at least 39 degrees, shouting that Chen could continue to work...

Nima, it was hard to get an examiner to be an examiner. This is only the first half, and the most important second half has not yet been done. After that, will the students of the Gewu department he admitted in the future put themselves As a teacher?
But Luo Zhixue is not willing to let his courtiers be exhausted... If this is spread, what kind of talk will it be.

So Luo Zhixue personally ordered Zhang Zijin to take a good rest, and when he heard that Zhang Zijin hadn't rested for more than a year, he added that at least half a month of recuperation was required, and he was not allowed to return to work for half a month.

Zhang Zijin was sent home with a sad face...

According to unknown gossip, on the way Zhang Zijin was sent home, he muttered from time to time: My students, my contacts...

Zhang Zijin felt that he had worked so hard for several months, it was useless, and he still made wedding dresses for others for nothing, so he felt as aggrieved as he could be.

Therefore, the marking work in the palace examination has nothing to do with Zhang Zijin. He is replaced by a deputy director of the Education Department of the Ministry of Ethics and Education.

When grading the papers, because the candidates' answers are very subjective articles, not questions with standard answers, each examiner may feel that they give different scores after reading it.

In order to reflect fairness as much as possible, ten examiners will score each test paper separately, then remove the highest score, then remove the lowest score, and take the average of the remaining eight scores as the final score of the test paper.

The sum of the scores of Policy Theory and History Theory is the final score of this palace exam.

Then, except for the top [-] in total scores in each subject, the rest are ranked according to their scores, which is the top three.

For the top 11 in each subject, three people are selected from the top ten as the first class, that is, the champion, the second place, and the third prize. The remaining seven people plus No. [-] to [-] are the second class.

On the next day when the results of the palace examination were released, Sun Qinian, who was already considered a Jinshi of the new department, arrived early with a few friends who also won the exam, waiting for the release of the results.

After the officials from the Ministry of Ethics and Education started posting the red list, the crowd suddenly became rioted, and some people shouted from time to time: "Second Jia, haha, there are thirteen second-class candidates in Jinshi Division."

"I am the 36th in the top three, parents, have you seen that I passed the exam, I passed the exam..."

After Sun Qinian squeezed into the crowd, he immediately found his name on the Big Red List!

His name hangs high in the third place in Gewu Division on the big red list!
Gewuke Tanhua, Sun Qinian!
Even if he has already passed the general examination, he knows that his grades in the palace examination are only used to distinguish his rankings, and as long as he is not unlucky, he will not fail the election.

But the moment he really saw his name on the red list, Sun Qinian's tears still flowed down, and he couldn't stop it!

Twenty years of studying hard in the cold window, just for the title of the gold list!
(End of this chapter)