The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 262 Xingyang Zheng’s decision

The promulgation of Liu Tai's examination system was a surprise to the local aristocratic families.

Because the inspection system has always been implemented, the sudden change of track naturally made the local aristocratic families feel a bit strange.

As the news spread that the examination system would be held after winter, people soon noticed that the scope of the examination was selected from the "Hanshu" and "Nine Chapters".

This notice is given one year in advance so that all those who are interested in taking these two subjects can make up for these two subjects. Otherwise, why would you come all the way to Yecheng?
Because Chu Hui passed on the news, these two books soon became hard to find.

However, the difficulty of finding a book did not last long, and the officials immediately filled every county under Liu Tai's rule with "Han Shu" and "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

The price is not cheap. If you want to buy the full volume of "Han Shu", it will cost about 66 gold. "Nine Chapters" is cheaper and priced at [-] gold. If you want to buy both directly, you will need at least [-] gold.

However, in the military history camp of Fubing, any scholars and common people who were willing to come to study were allowed to copy the "Book of Han" or "Nine Chapters".

Each piece of paper costs one penny, and you need to bring your own pen and ink to copy the "Book of Han" and "Nine Chapters".

However, if anyone damages the "Hanshu" and "Nine Chapters" as model volumes, this volume must be replaced to facilitate the use of later generations. Otherwise, it will be canceled when it is reported to the Fubing camp. Corresponding qualifications.

Naturally, for some aristocratic families, they did not hesitate to pay for "Han Shu" and "Nine Chapters".

It's only 66 gold. To them, this is not money at all. It's just the expense of a brothel.

But for children from poor families, even if they have a small room with a courtyard and a study room, an old housekeeper to help them take care of food, a maid to add fragrance to their red sleeves, and a donkey cart to travel around , I have a small interest in selling wine and having fun on a whim, but the amount of 66 gold is indeed not small.

But if you say that some aristocratic families have the complete "Book of Han", maybe some aristocratic families actually have collections. But if you say that a poor family has the complete volume of "The Book of Han", then it is too high a standard for a poor family.

Even if the entire "Book of Han" was in Liu Tai's hands, it was when Wang Mi sacked Luoyang and then plundered all kinds of books in Luoyang and sent them to Qingzhou that Liu Tai truly completed the entire "Book of Han".

There may be a few main volumes in the hands of a poor family, but it is unrealistic to say that all chapters are available.

And most importantly, the own version of "Han Shu" and "Nine Chapters" has added punctuation, allowing people to grasp the essence of the article faster, thereby avoiding unnecessary misunderstandings and unifying the thoughts of the article.

All in all, because of the aristocratic family's absolute economic advantage, even if the examination seems fair, if the country does not provide a certain degree of help to the poor family, it will be extremely difficult for the poor family to compete on the same stage with the family members.

Moreover, this is still a poor family. Liu Tai hopes that those military historians can give the family a little stimulation, and then he must give these military historians a certain degree of care in certain aspects.

Therefore, Liu Tai proposed that the scope of the examination would only be "Han Shu" and "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", because if other Four Books and Five Classics were also added, the scope of the examination would exceed the scope of military history.

You need to know that aristocratic families, poor families, and military history at the lowest level are completely different. They have famous teachers, famous schools, and elders. They have studied the Four Books and Five Classics since they were young, and they associate with high-ranking officials.

If the subjects are not limited to these two, then Liu Tai can be sure that when the time comes to take the exam, all of them will be sons of aristocratic families, and there will be no chance of military history from beginning to end.

Therefore, "Hanshu" and "Nine Chapters" were designated as projects. A very important reason was that they came from military history. They were only exposed to these two projects, which allowed them to have a relationship with the poor and aristocratic families. Contend against the possible.

Just like the small-town question-answers, they often do not fall behind in "Chinese" and "Mathematics", but after joining English, those with financial resources will definitely be more likely to get high scores than those without financial resources.

As independent enrollment becomes more and more frequent, it will become increasingly difficult for small-town essayists to enter prestigious schools on their own ability.

Because many exam projects that seem fair are completely invincible for areas with economic inequality.

And we can’t blame these prestigious schools, because the conditions they offer are the most generous in their knowledge.

But they have never thought that there may be some people who are struggling to survive outside their sight, and reading is the only way for them to change their destiny.

And Liu Tai proposed that the "Book of Han" and "Nine Chapters" are like this, such as the Four Books and Five Classics. Doesn't Liu Tai know that these things are actually very good as examination materials?

But for the military history at the bottom, if Liu Tai proposed these subjects, he would have to screen out military history from the exam, and then he would only be able to admit children from aristocratic families.

Another reason is the difficulty of spreading basic books.

Because there were originally government soldiers in every region, and from government soldiers to war soldiers, they basically needed to pass the exams of "Han Shu" and "Nine Chapters". Therefore, in the area under Liu Tai's jurisdiction, as long as there were government soldiers, There are these books.

All you need to do is prepare blank sheets of paper everywhere for those students who volunteer to copy!

Local scholars or poor families can quickly find teaching materials after knowing the scope of the exam. As for copying, if you want to remember this thing, you have to copy it. This is good for scholars who want to take the exam a year later. what!

All in all, this thing was rolled out so smoothly that all the guys who thought they had mastered calligraphy and arithmetic were ready to give it a try.

Even if you don’t know how to do it, what if you are lucky enough to get a few questions right and get selected!

No matter how you put it, the entire family north of the Yellow River, the poor, or the military history, all devoted themselves to studying hard.

At this time, even if the aristocratic families knew that the examination system that Liu Tai came up with was in opposition to the examination system that he and others admired, these aristocratic families really did not dare to stand up and say no to Liu Tai.

After all, these are troubled times, not peaceful times.

Zu Ti was shocked to see an undefeated general like Liu Tai who was armed with weapons and had a murderous intention. Wouldn't the family be worried after seeing this?
The three Han generals they originally supported, Shi Le, were killed, and Liu Yao was captured. Who else can they recommend now?
For the aristocratic families, they must have a leader, and the aristocratic families will gather behind the leader to make any moves.

But if this family were allowed to go to the battlefield on their own, to be honest, very few families would do this.

Because the risk is too high, and the return is too low. After all, even if the Huns are in power, they will still be reused, and Liu Tai will restrain them, and they will still exist.

But if you directly participate in the struggle for hegemony and want to become a separatist force, you must be prepared to kill your whole family.

Therefore, facing Liu Tai's examination system, the Hebei aristocratic families mostly just tried to find suitable famous teachers, tried to collect the necessary teaching materials, and tried to find ways to meet with Yang Man, Chu Hui and others, maybe Just support your son during the exam!

All in all, after the aristocratic family found that they could not change the rules, they would adapt to the rules very quickly and find loopholes in the rules, so that they could survive smoothly. Of course, in this process, people such as the Wang family who studied the "Book of Changes", the Zheng family who studied "Shangshu", the Kong family who studied "Guwen Shangshu", the Zheng family who studied "Mao Shi", "Zhou Guan" and "Book of Rites" The Zheng family, the Du family in the "Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan", the Fu family... and other aristocratic families suddenly discovered that the scriptures inherited by their families had completely lost their effect.

Because Liu Tai now only admires the "Book of Han" which tells the history of the Han family, and the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" which advocates mathematics, this inevitably makes them feel scared.

They really wanted to resist, but they couldn't organize themselves at all. Compared with the scriptures passed down by their families, the arithmetic of "Han Shu" and "Nine Chapters" were relatively fair choices for the majority of military historians and children from poor families.

And without the support of a wider range of students, even if they make trouble, nothing will happen at all.

After all, these are troubled times, and they don't even have a few days of stability. If a family relies on the rules, it is indeed very powerful, but as long as there are people who can break the rules, the family will appear particularly fragile.

Of course, all the fuss and fuss in Liu Tai's territory did not have much impact.

After all, if you don't want to be an official, just choose to continue to be a hermit. As long as it's a rules-based world, you can't cut anyone down.

But as long as these aristocratic families still want to be officials, they will definitely not miss this opportunity.

After all, they also know that now that Liu Tai's power has become established, if they want to return to Liu Tai's core, they must pass the assessment step by step.

For the family, this is at least not the worst outcome.

Liu Tai just occupies all the official positions without giving any profit to them, which is a desperate thing for them.

Of course, this may not be much better, at least in their view, those poor families will be their biggest competitors and steal the official positions that originally belonged to them.

As for military history and even mud-legged people, who are they? Anyway, the aristocratic family doesn’t know them.

But this kind of thing cannot be hidden from Xingyang, who has close exchanges with each other.

Even Zu Ti and Liu Tai wanted to use Xingyang and Jijun as a window for communication between the two sides to observe changes on the other side.

Therefore, commanders such as Li Ju soon discovered that Liu Tai recommended the examination system.

However, this trend had just begun to spread, but scholars in Xingyang, especially the Zheng family in Xingyang, began to advocate,
“If you don’t carefully examine the people you employ, and you appoint or dismiss officials only after passing the exams of Han Shu and Nine Chapters on Arithmetic, isn’t this not appointing people based on their talents?

Even if you gain temporarily, you will inevitably suffer from moral deficiencies and will inevitably cause endless disasters! "

Of course, the Zheng family in Xingyang used this kind of propaganda to the outside world, but for Zheng Lue, a son of his own generation, he immediately asked him to return home and study hard in seclusion.

For example, I was given a complete set of 80 words in "The Book of Han Dynasty" and I could memorize all the questions in "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" even if I couldn't solve them.

Give me until winter, you must be familiar with this knowledge, and then go to Yecheng to take the exam, and leave me to stay in the Liu family.

To be honest, Zheng Lue really wanted to resist, but seeing his father crying and trying to persuade him, Zheng Lue really couldn't say no.

What it means to be a noble family is that you can do whatever you want at ordinary times, but when the family needs support, even if it costs your life, you must sacrifice your own life for the survival of the family.

Liu Tai now occupies the land of Hebei. For many aristocratic families, it is already too late to bet on Liu Tai, but being late does not mean that they should not hurry up!

The Zheng family of Xingyang is located in Xingyang, which happens to be a special zone on both sides of the Yellow River, so they understand the situation more clearly than other aristocratic families.

Because they can easily judge that Liu Tai did not take advantage of the trend to go south to recuperate and save food for the next wave of southward movement.

After all, the Yellow River waterway is blocked by Liu Tai's fleet for half a year. It is too easy for Liu Tai to fight south.

Therefore, the Zheng family in Xingyang, as a family, will always make wise decisions. Compared with whether to surrender when Liu Tai comes to fight in the future, it is Li Ju who has the final say.

But he arranged for his son to go there first. If Xingyang was captured in the future, his Xingyang Zheng family would finally have a way out.

"Dad, are you serious?!" Zheng Lue looked at the "Han Shu" with 80 words piled up in front of him and said in a daze, "This is Han Shu, Han Shu! Do you really want me to memorize it? !?"

"This is a basic operation!" When the Zheng family heard Zheng Lue's words, they continued with an expression of "I am not a devil,"
"Only Han Shu is indeed a bit unsafe. It's just that with these textbooks on the market, no one who can take the exam can memorize them. They can't highlight your talents and heritage as the Zheng family of Xingyang...

Got it!

You remember to memorize and write down the Notes of Doctor Zheng (Zheng Hun's Diary) and the Memorials of Zheng Sinong (the Zheng family in Xingyang produced several great Sinongs).

Now that Liu Tai has not gone south, he is limited in food and grass. He should be recuperating and saving food. It seems that what he lacks is a master of farming.

It doesn’t matter even if you don’t understand farming. You have senior high-level advice from your ancestors and you are dedicated to learning. How can anyone else compare to you?

When you are selected by Liu Tai, concentrate on farming. If Liu Tai can really conquer the world in the future, you will be a great farmer! "

"Father, do you think it is possible for Liu Tai to conquer the world?" Zheng Lue couldn't help but ask after hearing what the head of the Zheng family said.

The head of the Zheng family couldn't help but sigh: "I don't know, if my eyes could see into the future, I wouldn't need you to take the exam in the Han Dynasty.

But now the Liu family is on the rise again. Back then, Cao Cao had to endure Liu Bei's death for decades.

If there was no Cao Wei at the end of the Han Dynasty, maybe the Han Dynasty would be revived in the hands of Liu Bei!

But in today's Jin court, it is easy to say that the ancestral governor is still there, but if the ancestral governor falls, do you think Sima Rui can survive Liu Tai who fought all the way? ! Maybe someone with the surname Liu will be around again in this world!
So, take this opportunity to go to Hebei. No matter what happens in the world, at least our Zheng family will have one more way out!
Lue'er, everything is for the survival of the family! "

(End of this chapter)