Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 639
Maoshi just arrived, and the gate of the Gongyuan opened again.

The ones who came out this time were the soldiers of the Fifth Army Battalion who assisted in proctoring the exam.

However, they also push a lot of carts.

There was no way, they had to bring too many things, just dozens of two-foot-long scrolls, more than ten ladders more than ten feet long, and more than ten buckets of paste and so on.

Soon, two teams of soldiers from the Fifth Army Battalion guarded several carts and ran down the slope next to the notice archway, stopping the candidates to Zhang Xu away.

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen soldiers set up all the ladders and went to work together.

The first post was to look up, and on the right side of the two huge archways where the notices were posted, there was a soldier of the Fifth Army Battalion holding a bucket of paste and brushing it vertically from top to bottom.

Immediately afterwards, two long scrolls stretched from top to bottom, and were pasted on the notice archway.

On the left is the science tribute list, and on the right is the liberal arts tribute list. The big characters can be seen from two miles away without a telescope.

Immediately after that is the horizontally dense list.

One by one, the scrolls were spread out horizontally and pasted on them. Both lists were posted in more than ten rows, and each row contained 100 people.

That is to say, this time, more than 1000 tributes have been selected for both arts and sciences!
This number once again set a new record for the acquisition of scholars.

You know, the number of candidates who could make it to the list in each exam was only about two to three hundred, but this time it directly increased to two to three thousand!
When all the candidates saw this, they all showed excitement. The number of applicants has increased so many times, and their hopes of being on the list have also increased several times.

Unexpectedly, after the list was posted, notices were posted under the tribute list of liberal arts and science.

The general content of the announcement under the liberal arts list is that the five newly opened provinces of Daming Overseas need a large number of prefectural and county officials, and all candidates who are willing to go to the list can go to the Tribute Academy to find officials from the Ministry of Officials to sign up, and they are guaranteed to have the treatment of the seventh rank.

And it will not affect the future imperial examinations. If candidates want to take part in the next general examination, the imperial court will send a boat to pick them up.

The general content of the announcement under the list of science subjects is that Daming newly opened a number of various research institutes, and any candidates who are willing to go can go to the Gongyuan to find officials from the Ministry of Industry to register, and they are also guaranteed to have the treatment of the seventh grade, and it will not affect the future. imperial examination.

This will naturally have an impact on the future imperial examinations, because once they are on duty, they will have no time to study.

Of course, these two announcements didn't cause much reaction at first, because all the candidates were looking for their names on the list at the moment.

As for what to do after failing the list, you have to carefully read the list several times to make sure that you don't have your own name before deciding not to.

All the candidates, whether they were standing far away with binoculars or nearby without binoculars, were staring at the list, starting from the first in the first row and looking down carefully.

No need to think about this year's Science Council, it must be Fang Yizhi.

Moreover, according to Taichang's habits, this Huiyuan will probably be the champion in nine out of ten cases.

Fang Yizhi is still very famous in Southern Zhili, especially near Tongcheng, Anqing Prefecture, it is even more famous.

After all, their Fang family was originally a well-known official family in Tongcheng, and he had outstanding talents since he was a child, far surpassing Tongji.

He was awarded the title of scholar when he was 15 years old, and he won the title of Juren.

It's hard not to be famous for such a genius.

In fact, this year's Liberal Arts Council member is also a well-known genius, and his reputation in later generations is much greater than Fang Yizhi.

This year's Liberal Arts Council member is the famous author of "Yuanyuanqu", Wu Weiye, a layman in Meicun.

Of course, Wumei Village's reputation is not a good one.

Historically, he was a tragedy.

It is true that he is extremely talented, but his luck was not good, and he happened to encounter the disaster of subjugation of the country.

People in that era talked about loyalty, filial piety and integrity. As a great talent who was famous in the Ming Dynasty, once he served in the Qing court, he would be infamous forever.

At first, he also refused to clarify the matter.

However, just because he was so famous, the Qing court never let him go. The edicts forcing him to become an official followed one after another, and the officials who persuaded him to become an official also followed one after another.

In the end, the Qing court even sent people to threaten him directly. If he refused to become an official, the whole family would be exiled to Ningguta!
At that time, it was still the Little Ice Age, and ten out of ten people who were exiled in a bitterly cold place like Ninggu Tower would freeze to death there.

He didn't want his whole family to die, so he had to answer the imperial edict to become an official.

In the end, it became a stain in his life because he served as the Guozijian Jijiu in the Qing court for three years.

In fact, he has been an official in the Qing court for a total of three years, and he is also in charge of teaching and educating people at the Guozijian Jijiu, not a position that advises the Qing court.

Three years later, his mother passed away, and he went back to seclusion again under the name of Ding You, and has never been an official since.

He felt so guilty about this, and he couldn't forgive himself for his betrayal until he died.

This can be seen from his Jue Ming poem before he died.

I endured death and stole my life for more than [-] years, how can I get rid of my sins now?
The debt owed by grace should be filled, and it is better than a feather.

The pain in his heart as a subjugated slave can be imagined.

He had to repay his parents for their upbringing, otherwise the whole family would die.

The problem is reported, but the betrayal is cleared up, and the stigma will last forever!
How can this sin be eliminated?

In the end, he didn't want to be buried in the official clothes of the Qing court, and he was ashamed to wear the official clothes of the Ming Dynasty again. He could only let himself cut off his ties after death, and let someone put him in a monk's clothes for burial.

What happened to such a great writer and poet is really embarrassing.

Originally, with his talent, he would definitely shine in the literary world and be immortalized forever.

In the end, he became a traitor who betrayed everything, and his infamy will last forever!

So, you can't be a slave to a subjugated country, don't be a slave to a subjugated country, and in any case, don't make yourself a slave to a subjugated country.

A slave to a subjugated country is really worse than a pig or a dog!
Of course, now that Daming is in its prime, he doesn't have to repeat the tragedy.

It is still unknown what magnificent poems such a great poet and writer will write in such a prosperous age. The eyes of all the candidates are still focused on the tribute list.

Fang Yizhi in Tongcheng and Wu Weiye in Taicang, these two geniuses who are famous in Nanzhili, ranked first in the double list of arts and sciences did not cause dissatisfaction among any candidates.

Everyone sighed that they were inferior, so naturally they would not compete with them for the first place.

Many candidates just hope to see their names on the list and be satisfied.

It's a pity that no matter how many candidates are selected this year, only 3000 to 2 people will be able to make it to the list, and there are more than [-] candidates.

So, how will candidates who fail to make the list choose?

At this time, some candidates finally began to think about the things mentioned in the notice below.

Candidates who failed in liberal arts, who were getting older, basically chose to enter the Tribute Academy to find officials from the Ministry of Officials to sign up.

Because most of them have taken the exam many times, and this time they only got more than 1000 scholars in the list of essays. If they still can't pass the exam, there is basically no hope.

At this moment, the salaries of all walks of life in Ming Dynasty have skyrocketed several times, and the salaries of officials are also not low, even for officials of the seventh rank, at least a month's salary is more than ten taels.

This treatment is already very good, why bother to go to the edge of the horns and insist on squeezing on the single-plank bridge that will try it?
They are not young anymore, and it is serious to earn money to support their families.

As for the young liberal arts candidates who failed the rankings, most of them were young and vigorous. They wanted to give up the chance of being named on the gold list. One or two failures were not enough.

Therefore, most of the liberal arts candidates who failed the rankings and chose to work in the five newly opened provinces overseas are mostly elderly veterans.

Ricoh is different here.

Because those who choose science are basically young people, and the examination for science is different from that for liberal arts.

For science, it basically depends on how well you answered the last question. The previous ones are the basics, as long as there are no problems.

Most candidates are aware of this.

And the last question is basically not based on the content in the book. At least, the last question of these science subjects can't find the relevant answer in any book.

Generally speaking, the last question of science is all about practice.

In this case, it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read ten thousand volumes of books. It is better to enter the relevant industry to practice early than to stay in the academy to study dead books.

Therefore, many young candidates who failed in science also chose to go to the Gongyuan Academy to apply for the Ministry of Industry.

These people are all smart people who really understand science and know what kind of talents science needs.

As for those who choose to go back and continue their studies, they may not have figured out where the focus of this science is.

(End of this chapter)