Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1923, The National Integration of Ming Dynasty 2
Here at the Daming Royal Hotel in Beijing, Zeng Ziying, Chen Peter, Li Xiangdong and others arrived here in a rickshaw. As soon as they arrived here, they could immediately see many people dressed as scholars, gathered in groups of three or four, chatting with each other. Huan, when they met other people, they got up one after another to get to know each other.

The entire Royal Hotel seemed to be occupied by these students who came to the capital to rush for the exam, and they were everywhere wherever they went.

As soon as Zeng Ziying, Chen Peter, Li Xiangdong and others entered the hotel, they immediately met candidates from other places. They bowed to each other and saluted each other. Get to know each other.

Along with the improvement of transportation in Daming, the construction of a large number of roads and railways, the convenience of shipping, and the increasing number of cars, motorcycles, and horse-drawn carriages, this greatly facilitated the students of Daming to go to Beijing to take the exam.

The result is that there have been more and more students rushing to take the exam in the capital over the years, more and more every year.

In the past, because of the long distance and inconvenient transportation, it was extremely difficult for many students from remote areas to come to the capital to take the exam.

Places such as Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Guangdong have long journeys, and it often takes several months to take the exam in Beijing, which is a severe physical and mental test.

In addition, the imperial examination is also very cruel. Often only about 7% of people can pass the exam, and the probability of being successful in the imperial examination for the first time is only about 0.4%. It took the fourth time to get into high school, and some even took the exam more than a dozen times before getting into high school by chance.

The imperial examination held every three years is extremely torturous for these candidates.

It takes a lot of travel to reach the capital after a long and arduous journey, but the probability of high school is very low, and they often come to go through the motions and join in the fun.

Once or twice is okay, and it was okay when I was young, but five or six times I couldn't get to high school, and when I got older, I basically stopped thinking about going to Beijing to catch the exam.

In the past, about 3000-5000 people would come to take the exam for each imperial examination, and about 300 people could be awarded Jinshi each time.

Sometimes the number of people participating in the general examination is relatively small, more than 3000 people, and about 300 people who participated in high school Jinshi, and there is probably about one-tenth of the admission rate.

Of course, this was in the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, the number of people taking the imperial examination was relatively small, and the admission rate was relatively high. Sometimes it is even lower than 4%, and only 4 out of [-] people can get high school Jinshi.

Under such cruel competition, it is naturally not easy for this person to be able to become a Jinshi in high school, and he is also among the dragons and tigers, soaring to the sky.

You must know that the participants in the examination are all outstanding candidates selected from all provinces in the country, and everyone is a master, but during the examination, they still have to face such cruel competition.

This is also the reason why many students no longer take the imperial examination after taking the exam a few times, because even if you have worked hard to take the exam, there is a high probability that you will not pass the exam.

It's better to go to the imperial court to fill in the vacancies and see if you can become a petty official as a juren or simply go back to your hometown and become a rich man. Why bother yourself.

Now Daming knows a lot more about going to Beijing to rush for the exam than before.

Not only the improvement of traffic conditions has made it easier, faster, and easier to go to Beijing to catch the exam, but also because of the vast territory of Ming Dynasty now, many new provinces have been added.

Now there are dozens of large and small provinces in Ming Dynasty. The expansion history of nearly 20 years has also made the territory of Ming Dynasty bigger and bigger, with more and more provinces.

Every province has a corresponding quota, and there are more and more applicants, which also makes more and more students come to Beijing to rush for the exam.

The number of people in the previous imperial examinations exceeded 15000. In the 2th year of Hongzhi, more than [-] people came to the capital to take the imperial examination. This time, it is estimated that the number of people who came to take the imperial examination may exceed [-]. people.

Although it is said that the number of Jinshi admitted by the imperial court has also increased a lot, because the province has changed, coupled with the reform of official administration, the reform of urban government, etc., more officials are needed.

The number of Jinshi admitted to each imperial examination has also increased greatly, and now it has exceeded 500 people.

However, compared with the huge number of people taking the imperial examination, the admission rate is still very low, and the competition is even more intense and cruel than before.

The competition is fierce and cruel, but it still can't stop everyone's enthusiasm for the imperial examination.

Now the living standards of ordinary people in Ming Dynasty have been greatly improved, not to mention these scholars, all of them have very good living conditions, so naturally they hope to join the ranks of officials and masters in high school.

If you want to get ahead, you must pass the imperial examination to become an official. Only after passing the imperial examination can you really have a bright future.

The Daming Royal Hotel in front of me is almost full of students who came to the capital to rush for the exam.

For these candidates, the hotel is also very welcome here.

On the one hand, merchants in the capital have always liked these students and have a good tradition. Some inns and hotels even hang up the plaques of the No.

In addition, these students are all recruits, belonging to a group with good money and high quality, and they live for a few months. They are long-term and stable customers. They live in their own hotels. Their business is stable and they can improve the level of their hotels. .

Don't look at them all, if they are still in high school, they will become generals and ministers in the future, they will be officials of the imperial court, and maybe they will be able to produce some generals.

Here in the luxuriously decorated hotel, there are a lot of scholars, gathering in groups of three or four.

Chen Peter, Zeng Ziying, Li Xiangdong, Yun Tiantian and others were also very curious. It was their first time to take the imperial examination, and they were full of curiosity about everything in front of them.

He carefully looked at the many students sitting together in small groups in the hall in front of him.

These students come from all corners of the country, and their accents are very different and different, and there are also huge differences in appearance.

Although most of the people still have black eyes and black hair, they can still see many students from minority tribes.

There are students from the Nanyang region with relatively dark skin, prominent cheekbones, short stature, and long eyebrows and mouse eyes. Several provinces in Nanyang have been included in the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years.

Every time the imperial examination, a large number of local tribal students from Nanyang came to take the exam, and every time there must be someone who can go to high school, the style of writing is getting more and more prosperous, and there are even many students from the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty who come to Daming to take the imperial examination .

Siam, Chenla, Sulu, etc. are also greatly influenced by the Ming Dynasty. The imperial examination system is used to select officials, and many students come to Daming to take the imperial examination, because the emperor of Ming Dynasty also granted these vassal states, Students from the vassal state came to Daming to take the imperial examination.

If you pass the exam, you can even be an official in Daming, or you can return to your own vassal state or vassal state to be an official. This system also makes the centripetal force of vassal states and vassal states towards Daming always strong.

Like Japan and North Korea, many students are sent to take the imperial examination every time, but it is often difficult for students from these vassal states and vassal states to go to high school.

There are also many students like Chen Peter, Li Xiangdong, and Yun Tiantian with high noses and deep eyes, yellow hair and brown hair. These are not Han Chinese, but students from minority tribes in various places in Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Empire has been promoting the policies and systems of Mingization and Sinicization in various places. It has rigid requirements and regulations for each tribe, such as how many scholars must be produced, and people must participate in the imperial examinations, etc.

These are often from places such as the Western Regions, Nanyun, Northwest, and Black Earth Province. There are more minority tribes in these places, and there have always been many students of minority tribes.

Don't look at the huge difference in appearance between the students of these minority tribes and the Ming people, but there is no difference in speech, behavior, clothing, etc. from other students. When they get together with each other, they are also like the Ming scholars call each other brothers.

The sinicization policy and the policy of Damingization promoted by the Ming Dynasty also played a huge role. The language, characters, customs and habits of the Ming Dynasty began to be continuously promoted among the minority tribes.

In addition, the powerful Ming Empire itself has extremely high centripetal force, which also makes these minority tribes willing to learn and integrate into the huge family of Ming Dynasty, because only by integrating into it can life become better.

In addition, you can also see many mixed-race students. These mixed-race students are often relatively young, generally under the age of 20, and each of them can be clearly seen, such as black eyes, blond hair, high nose and deep eyes, etc.

These people are also similar to other students, except for the difference in appearance, there seems to be no other difference. When they stand together, they all chat happily, share the same language and culture, and are all Confucianism. A disciple of Mencius, a disciple of a sage.

And they are all juren, they are in the same year and the same period. When they are together, they also pay attention to fate. They don't seem to care about bloodlines. It doesn't say that you are of mixed blood. It makes a difference if you are not a pure Daming.

This has always been a tradition of the Ming Dynasty. It pays attention to the sense of cultural identity and does not have too much grudges about blood. Everyone is a member of the Ming Dynasty, a scholar, and a person who shares a common culture.

This made Chen Peter, who was still a little worried, relieved.

(End of this chapter)