Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 258 volume, volume towards death

"A little gain!"

A trace of pride flashed in Du's eyes.

These great Confucians like to study the Four Books and Five Classics on weekdays.As for the imperial examination, which everyone yearns to pay attention to, they are naturally more concerned.

Just like the college entrance examination in later generations, the better the teachers in those schools, the more they like to study all the college entrance examination papers.

Guo An nodded with joy, "It's such a big deal!"

"Ok?"

Zhu Di, Du Xi and the others couldn't help but be surprised.

Guo An continued: "Mr. Du, Your Highness, the knowledge and intelligence of the Juren in my Beiping Mansion are not much different from those in the South, nor is there much difference in intelligence.

It's just that in the north, there are too few great Confucian scholars like Mr. Du.

Many students are not personally taught by a Confucian who is proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics like Mr. Du, and they don’t know the taboos of the words in the imperial examination questions. . "

At this time, Lao Zhu's imperial examinations still followed the Song and Yuan scriptures, and had not yet evolved into stereotyped essays.

Du Xi couldn't help asking: "Guo Changshi wants me to tell this year's candidates how to do the questions in the general examination?"

The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were divided into four levels: Children's Examination, Township Examination, General Examination, and Palace Examination.

The children's test is to take the test in one's own state and county. If you pass the test, you will be a scholar.

The township examination is a unified examination at the provincial level and can only be taken by scholars. Because it is taken around August every year, it is also called Qiuwei.

Entering the admission quota is Juren, and No.1 is Jieyuan.

And each province stipulates a quota for the number of recruits based on population, wealth, and property.

In some large provinces, there can be fifty or sixty, or even one hundred.

Some small provinces, or those that are too backward, only have thirty or forty provinces.

As for the Beiping Mansion, it belongs to the Command and Envoy Division of the Northern Parallel Metropolis and does not belong to any province, but it has provincial specifications.

Shunde Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Hejian Mansion, Baoding Mansion... more than a dozen mansions belong to the Command and Envoy Division of the Northern Parallel Capital.

Therefore, there is also a quota of 50 candidates.

As for the general examination, it is in the second year of the rural examination, the examination in February and March in spring, which can also be called Chunwei.

The examination was sponsored by the Ministry of Rites and held in the Gongyuan of the capital, and was presided over by highly respected officials specially appointed by the emperor.

The admitted students are Gongshi, which can also be called Jinshi, but No.1 is called Huiyuan.

And the fourth-level exam is the palace exam.

The emperor personally presided over and personally participated in the marking of papers.

This time, the ranking is only determined by the emperor, and the tribute will not be eliminated, but the list of Jinshi will be arranged.

Yijia, three Jinshi, awarded the Jinshi and the first, respectively the number one scholar, the second place, and Tanhua.

The second class is awarded Jinshi's background; the third class is awarded with Jinshi's background.

As for the number of people, it is based on the number of Jinshi at that time, or Lao Zhu's needs.

For example, sometimes there are 17 people from the second-class Jinshi, and only 100 people from the third-class Jinshi.

Sometimes, 360 people came directly from the second-class Jinshi, and [-] people came from the third-class Jinshi.

Anyway, in Lao Zhu's view, the selection of talents by the imperial examination is mainly for governing the world and raising the people of Li, and they are required to be able to do practical things and do practical affairs, and they will admit as many as they need.

Otherwise, they would not directly recruit intelligent and upright, virtuous and upright, Confucian scholars, filial piety, scholars, senior citizens, etc. from the people to serve as officials in the court.

Although at this time, the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty had not yet formed a stereotyped essay with fixed thinking.

However, in the examinations of any era, the test questions are all made by people, or selected from the Four Books and Five Classics.

Then, there must be a shortcut.

Guo An nodded slightly, "What Elder Du said is right, I would like to invite Elder Du, as well as those doctors who have intensively read the Four Books and Five Classics in the academy, to give lectures on the Four Books and Five Classics to those in the academy.

In addition, Mr. Du is also asked to come up with questions for those candidates according to the imperial examination questions of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, or the questions that may appear in the imperial examination next year, so that they can answer the questions according to the requirements of the imperial examination! "

Du Sui's eyes lit up and his spirits lifted, "Guo Changshi is talking about betting?"

On the side, Zhu Di and Dao Yan were also very interested.

"It's the bet!" Guo An nodded.

Du Sui pondered for a while, then he couldn't help but sighed softly, and said helplessly: "What Guo Changshi said is also a good trick.

However, His Majesty has not yet appointed an examiner, and there are so many highly respected academicians in the imperial court, and it is even possible that His Majesty personally set the test.

Even if the old man bet on more than ten questions, he couldn't bet right! "

Guo An narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a light smile, "Mr. Du, there are still several months, hundreds of days left before entering next year's imperial examination. Why are you only betting on more than ten exams?"

Du Sui frowned slightly, and asked with some doubts: "Guo Changshi's intention?..."

Guo An smiled slightly, and said, "Fuck, roll to death!"

"roll?"

Du Xie, Zhu Di and the others all looked puzzled.

Guo An nodded affirmatively, and said, "Mr. Du, and those doctors in the academy, please come up with a topic in two days.

Let those candidates do the questions, and then Mr. Du and the doctors will review them and guide them how to solve and answer the questions.

Practice makes perfect!

My northern students are above the imperial examinations and have always been weaker than the south.

Doing more than ten questions may not be as good as those southern students.

But what if you do dozens, or hundreds of questions? "

Zhu Di, Dao Yan and the others stared wide-eyed, and then they were full of excitement.

Du Shui was also shocked, "Guo Changshi is indeed a wonderful person, and he can think of such a trick."

Among the group of people in this bookstore, he is the only one who has passed Juren.

Therefore, he understands best how beneficial this method is to those Juren who take part in the examination!

Guo Andao: "It's just that this matter will make Mr. Du tired for several months."

"It's okay!"

At this moment, Du Sui's eyes shone brightly, and his face was full of excitement, "Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, my northern students have been overwhelmed by southern students in the imperial examinations. The gap is huge. The old man and others can see it , anxious.

As Guo Changshi said, if things go on like this, within a few decades, there will be no scholars from the north in the official circles of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that Guo Changshi has come up with such a clever plan, it is worth it for the old man to risk his life!
Even if those candidates in my Beiping Mansion are stupid people, I can make them familiar with the method of answering questions in the imperial examination! "

On the side, Dao Yan looked at the excited Du Xi and the calm Guo An, subconsciously trembling.

Guo An was able to come up with this method of betting on questions purely for the sake of the imperial examination.If this method is produced, the southern scholars will definitely be shaken.

Guo An didn't know Yan's thoughts, but bowed his hands and saluted, and said with a serious face of gratitude: "So, I will trouble Du Lao!"

Du Shui nodded slightly, "Guo Changshi, I will definitely need a lot of pen, ink, paper and inkstone to write questions for those scholars!"

Before Guo An could open his mouth, Zhu Di said directly, "Don't worry about Mr. Du, we provide all of these in Yan Palace."

Guo An opened his mouth and closed it again.

Zhu's fourth son is gone. Among those who won the exam, except for a very few sons from poor families, which one is the one who lacks this kind of money?
Du Sui continued: "Nowadays, there seem to be more than a dozen Juren in my Beiping mansion. Just relying on the old man and the few doctors in the academy, I don't have so much energy to give them so many test questions.

Therefore, I would like to invite a few more old friends to come here. They are all great Confucianists who are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and they are also proficient in the imperial examination questions of the former Yuan Dynasty. They are even from the north of me! "

Zhu Di said directly: "Don't hesitate to write the letter, Mr. Du, we will personally send someone to send a car to pick them up. And, we will arrange houses for them in the academy."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Du Sui said again: "This matter is important, I beg His Royal Highness King Yan not to speak to the outside world."

Zhu Di said: "Don't worry, Mr. Du, if there are a few Scholars in our feudal land, or if there is a Tanhua, it will be our great fortune.

We will definitely not tell this wonderful method to the outside world! "

Du Xi nodded reassuringly, then looked at Guo An.

"Guo Changshi, this method was proposed by you, so Guo Changshi needs to lobby for those who invite people to come to the academy!"

Guo An said: "Don't worry, Mr. Du, we will definitely invite all of them here!"

"good!"

……

Soon, Du Xi wrote more than a dozen letters.

And Zhu Di also directly dispatched hundreds of guards from the Palace of Yan to various places in Shanxi and Shandong with those letters.

Even Shunde Mansion sent three letters.

Simultaneously.

Guo An, on the other hand, directly invited the dozen or so candidates to Yanwang Palace.

"Student Huang Boqian sees Guo Changshi!"

"Student Zheng Fan sees Guo Changshi..."

Although they are all Juren, Guo An has no fame yet.

However, Guo An is a doctor of the fifth rank who was conferred by His Majesty himself. The most important thing is that Guo An is the chief history of Yan Wangfu, and he is the person whom the elders in their family can fawn on these days.

"Everyone, please sit down!"

Guo An asked these people to sit down with a gentle face.

"Everyone is a member of my Beiping Mansion. I wonder if you will go to the capital to participate in the Spring Festival next year?"

These people all thought that Guo An asked them to come here and wanted to use them to persuade the elders of the family behind them. Now that Guo An said this, they couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

"Back to Guo Changshi, the imperial examination is the goal of all our scholars, and we will naturally participate."

"Very good!"

Guo An nodded slightly, and then seemed to think of something, a trace of heaviness flashed across his face.

"It's just that, after being abused by the Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty, the scholars in the north are weak and there are few great Confucian scholars. When it comes to imperial examinations and official careers, they are often suppressed and ridiculed by the scholars in the south. Are you ready?"

These dozen or so Juren are all young people, and some of them are passionate scholars.

Being so provoked by Guo An, he immediately looked angry.

"Guo Changshi, don't worry, the southern scholars have a lot of Confucian teachings, and the imperial examination is much smoother than my northern scholars.

However, this incident is just a mere setback. His Majesty is wise and the students don't believe that those southern officials can still give convenience to those southern scholars in the spring! "

Guo An sneered, and asked with a smile that was not a smile: "You have all read many history books, and most of them are from the families of gentry. You feel that those southern officials really can't do things for those southern scholars in the spring. convenient?"

"This……"

Huang Boqian and Zheng Fan all raised people, and fell silent immediately.

After a while, a younger Juren stood up with a solemn face.

"Guo Changshi, please don't worry, even so, I will not be shaken in waiting for the imperial examination! Even if I am going to be laughed at by those southern scholars, I will never back down!"

"Very good!"

Guo An clapped his hands and laughed, his face was full of relief.

Although among the crowd present, Guo An was younger than most Juren.However, Guo An's actions did not feel disobedient to anyone.

……

(End of this chapter)