Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1466, Today's Ming Dynasty
In the tribute courtyard, there was silence, and all the students were taking the exam carefully and earnestly.

With his hands on his back, Liu Jin patrolled the tribute courtyard very casually, nodding slightly while watching.

The students of this period at least look very decent, sitting upright, and writing beautifully.

"It turned out to be him!"

Liu Jin was looking at these candidates, and naturally these candidates were also looking at Liu Jin.

Before the exam, they had already heard too many, too many legendary stories about Liu Jin.

The son of a high-ranking man, a genius boy, became the number one scholar at the age of nineteen. In just ten years, he is now in the high position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials. He is very likely to be the next cabinet boss.

Such a legendary figure, naturally everyone wants to get to know him and see what he looks like.

Li Nanshan was thinking hard when he saw Liu Jin, who was wearing a red robe and official uniform, walking slowly, his eyes widened slightly.

He also recognized Liu Jin right away, exactly what he saw when listening to Yuxuan, and he was followed by one person at that time.

Liu Jin's handsome appearance and extraordinary demeanor left a deep impression on Li Nanshan, and he recognized him at a glance.

Of course, there were quite a few people who recognized Liu Jinlai. Tian Feng, Wang Qi, Yun Tiantian, Dai Dabin, Lu Nan and others also recognized Liu Jin, and they couldn't help being slightly surprised.

Liu Jin also recognized a few students who were present at the time, and couldn't help showing a smile on the corner of his mouth. He came to Li Nanshan's side and carefully looked at his answer sheet.

The handwriting is quite beautiful, unrestrained, elegant and upright. It has everyone's demeanor, and the literary talent is quite good. The key is that even though it is strictly restricted by stereotyped essays, the lines between the lines still reveal extraordinary thoughts and opinions. end.

"Well, not bad~"

Liu Jin couldn't help but nodded slightly.

It is really rare that a local aborigine in Nanyun Province can have such a literary talent and write such beautiful ligatures, and he is really a genius.

Hearing Liu Jin's admiration, Li Nanshan couldn't help being a little excited. If he could get the appreciation of the person in front of him, he would definitely have no problem in his official career in the future.

Time is passing slowly.

In the capital city in October, the weather has turned cold. In the small test room, many students are thinking hard, while enduring the cramped environment and cold weather.

It can be said that every person who can stand out in such an environment can be regarded as a real hero.

It's just that under the gossip test, people's thoughts and concepts are tightly bound. Even if these people present are outstanding people, what can they do?
It is still not the story of yesterday repeated generation after generation, and no one has made much progress and breakthroughs, which made Liu Jin, who is the examiner, couldn't help sighing again.

The Chinese nation and the descendants of Yanhuang have always been the most outstanding nation on this planet, and they have always been at the pinnacle.

However, later on, with the dominance of the Confucian family and the confinement of thoughts, the Chinese nation began to decline, and gradually fell behind the world, so that there were later times when they were ruled by foreign races, and there was another century of humiliation history.

At first Liu Jin felt that China's backwardness was due to the seclusion and self-reliance during the Qing Dynasty, but now it seems that it actually began to lag behind the world during the Ming Dynasty.

Confucianism's confinement of ideas and its strong rejection of other new things have made China fall further and further behind the world. The key is that there has never been any progress or breakthrough.

It's not that there are no talents in China. In fact, China has been full of outstanding people and talents since ancient times. It's just that under the extreme confinement of this kind of thinking and the strong rejection of new things, it is too difficult to make progress.

Talented people are all painstakingly studying stereotyped essays.

As far as the few broken books of Confucianism are concerned, it is not enough to memorize the melons and memorize them backwards. I don’t know how many talented scholars in the past dynasties have devoted their new learning to the study of these books, and have written a vast number of various books. annotations.

But what are these annotations for?

To be honest, it is useless, no matter how beautiful the writing is, no matter how good the writing style is, it cannot promote the progress of civilization, it is just repeating yesterday's story over and over again, exhausting talent for nothing.

"Ah~"

Liu Jin sighed, to be honest, he really wanted to cancel this stereotyped selection right away.

But Liu Jin knew that he couldn't, and it was impossible to cancel this stereotyped selection at once. In the future, he didn't know how many smart people would spend their youth on it.

Soon, the time for the first day of exams passed.

The general examination is usually three days. On the first day, the Four Books and Five Classics are tested. The content is all from the Four Books and Five Classics. Generally, as long as you have memorized the Four Books and Five Classics thoroughly, there will be no problem at all.

The next day was the test of policy question, and the test questions of policy question were given by the chief examiner. Everyone wrote stereotyped essays according to the questions given by the chief examiner. This was the focus and most important of the examination.

General examination questions are also taken from the Four Books and Five Classics, but they will cut the beginning and the end, or simply find a few words from a paragraph, and then ask you to write.

This has very high requirements for candidates. Not only must they be very familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, they must be able to find the place where the question is written, but they must also figure out the content and meaning of the question, and then find a way to write a beautiful stereotyped essay come out.

The exam on the third day was poetry and prose, which would be regarded as elective exam questions in later generations, and it generally has nothing to do with how well you do in the exam.

Therefore, the focus of the township examination and the general examination is the policy question on the second day.

In the Gongyuan, more than [-] students passed the exam yesterday. Many of them were very tired. Some nights they didn’t keep warm, and they even had a cold, cough, and runny nose. But no one quit the exam because of this. They are all quietly waiting for today's policy question.

"Liu Gong~ It's time to put the question on!"

Han Wen raised his sleeves and looked at the watch on his wrist. It was already eight o'clock, and it was time for the strategy test, so he came to Liu Jin's side and reminded him.

The questions for the policy questions are all given by the chief examiner, and they are usually thought up long in advance, and then written out on the day of the exam, and then the guards will walk around the tribute courtyard with the test questions given by the chief examiner. .

"Hmm~"

Liu Jin nodded slightly, came to the table, pondered for a while, picked up the pen and wrote the five words 'Today's Great Ming'.

Seeing the exam questions given by Liu Jin, Han Wen next to him was slightly taken aback.

This topic is obviously not within the scope of the Four Books and Five Classics, and it does not conform to the long-standing examination tradition.

In every exam in the past, the policy questions were drawn from the Four Books and Five Classics. When you, Liu Jin, became the chief examiner, why did you mess around?
"Liu Gong, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to ask a question like this. It will definitely attract criticism."

Han Wen and Liu Jin have a good relationship, after all, they have worked together in the household department before.

If this topic is released, the students who took the exam will be in an uproar. When they reach the court, Liu Jin will definitely be impeached by countless ministers.

Although the number of times Liu Jin has been impeached is unknown, there is no need to cause troubles for an imperial examination.

"I know, but let's do it."

Liu Jin nodded solemnly, thought for a while and said.

In fact, Liu Jin had already thought about the questions a long time ago, but now that these students have spent their entire lives here for the things in the Four Books and Five Classics, Liu Jin feels that he should no longer be the same as before.

Perhaps asking such exam questions will bring some troubles to myself, but there should be some changes.

Although the candidates in front of them are still scholars, as long as they pass this threshold, they will be officials of Ming Dynasty in the future. After a few years, some of them will even become the mainstay of Ming Dynasty and become the existence that can influence the trend of Ming Dynasty.

It is hard to say that the traditional eight-part essay examination can truly select talents who are capable of governing the country. Good writing does not necessarily mean that they are talented in governing the country.

So showing such dignity is also to see their current knowledge, understanding of Daming, and some views on future development.

"Okay~"

Seeing Liu Jin's insistence, Han Wen thought that Liu Jin was a popular person around Emperor Hongzhi. He was in a high position, powerful, and deeply rooted. Even if something happened, it might not have much impact on Liu Jin.

Since he insisted on asking such a topic, he should follow this topic.

Soon, some guards mounted the exam questions written by Liu Jin, and then started to walk around the tribute courtyard with a sign, shouting as they walked: "Cewen exam questions, today's Ming Dynasty!"

"Today's Daming?"

Hearing the questions asked by the policy, many apprehensive and praying examinees were immediately dumbfounded.

Originally, everyone prayed silently in their hearts, praying that Liu Jin's exam would not be too difficult or too biased, otherwise he would not even know how to solve the problem, and he would naturally fail the exam.

Who knew that Liu Jin would be so unconventional to play cards, and the questions he asked were not based on the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics, but directly based on the current situation of Ming Dynasty.

"Today's Daming?"

Lu Nan looked at the test questions and was dumbfounded.

"Why is it not the content of the Four Books and Five Classics, how can it be messed up like this~"

"Sure enough, it was as expected by many people, and it was really unexpected."

Jing Yang also shook his head and said.

If it is the content of the Four Books and Five Classics, he is very confident, but it is really difficult to do such an examination question.

In today's Ming Dynasty, there is really too much content to write, and the key is Liu Jin, the chief examiner. Why does he ask such questions, and what does he want to see?
Accidents are accidents, but I still have to write according to the exam questions given by Liu Jin.

(End of this chapter)