At the end of Song Dynasty: I want to be the master of ZTE

Chapter 337 Northern and Southern Imperial Examinations
On the third day of April, the sky was covered with white clouds, the sun was not visible, and it was quite cool.

Outside the school grounds, many students gathered with their friends, waiting to enter.

There were only a few people around Yuan Jue among the dozen or so people in Chizhou Academy, who seemed to stand out from the crowd.

The exam was coming soon, and no one came to provoke him, but no one wanted to get close.

Gongkui didn't take it seriously and just chatted with his friends.

After a while, a soldier came out, knocked the gong and shouted: "Students, prepare to enter. Please note that any entrants will be thrown away. If cheating is discovered during the exam, they will be expelled and will never be hired."

It’s now time for me to bring the cheat sheet with me and I won’t throw it away.

Junbing only looked at the admission ticket and guided each candidate to his or her seat after checking that it was correct.

The temporary pergola can provide shelter from the wind, rain, and sun. There are pens, ink, paper, and inkstones on the table, and there are quilts and clothes on the benches for rest.

As soon as Yuan Jue sat on the chair, two soldiers suddenly came over, one on the left and one on the right, like door gods, staring straight at him.

Since the emperor ascended the throne and held the first Enke, all previous imperial examinations have been held in the school grounds and invigilated by soldiers. However, compared with before, today's hardware facilities are much better.

After a while, another soldier came, each bringing a pot of tea and a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

When we first arrived, the bronze bell rang, and the invigilator Chen Wenlong ordered the examination room to be closed.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute..." A candidate ran over in a hurry, but before he could reach the door, the door was already closed.

"Let me in, let me..." As soon as the candidate arrived at the door, he was stopped by two soldiers.

"It's an important place in the examination room. Collision is strictly prohibited!" the soldier said sternly: "It's such a big event but you don't know the time. You deserve it! Go ahead and come back in three years. If you are verbose, you will be banned from taking the exam for life!"

Upon hearing this, the examinee collapsed to the ground.

If you are late, you are late. No entry is allowed regardless of the reason.

Perhaps it was a coincidence that the entrance examination had just ended in Dadu.

The door to the examination room on the left has been closed, but the door to the examination room on the right is still open, and candidates are coming in one after another.

Originally, Zhenjin planned to treat everyone equally, but the Mongolian nobles believed that their family's foundation was poor. If they were tested together, not a single Mongolian would be able to pass, which would affect the national reputation.

After all, Zhenjin was not the founding king like Kublai Khan. He had few ways to take advantage of the nobles, so he had to compromise.

The two examination rooms take separate exams. Mongolians and Semu people take two exams, while Han and Southerners take three exams. The content is easier for Mongolians and Semu people, but more difficult for Han and Southerners. The list of successful candidates is Mongolia. People from the People's Republic of China and Semu people were listed on one list called the "right list", and Han people and southerners were listed on another list called the "left list". The admission quotas were equal on both lists, but when officials were appointed, the Mongolian Jinshi were ranked higher than the Semu people. People are taller than Han Chinese and Southerners. If Mongolians and Semu people are willing to take the subject examinations of Han Chinese and Southerners, and pass the examination, they will be assigned to an official position with an additional grade.

After a while, the test papers were distributed, and Liu Mengyan, who served as the examiner, said: "Now that the imperial examination has been carried out, the country will have outstanding heroes. This is the strategy for long-term peace and stability."

Next to them, Xu Shijing and Yao Wei nodded.

"Now that we are established, we should have a new atmosphere. This selection of talents will be conducive to stabilizing the country's politics.

Given time, another Shi Tianze may not be able to emerge. "Xu Shijing said.

Shi Tianze was the first and only Han prime minister after the founding of Mongolia. All Han people hope to have another Shi Tianze to prove that the Yuan Dynasty is truly equal.

For Xu Shijing, this imperial examination has some special significance.

His father Xu Heng discussed the imperial examination, dismissed poems and poems, attached great importance to Confucian classics, and established the imperial examination system. He passed away before it could be implemented. Now that the imperial examination is implemented, Xu Heng's last wish can be regarded as fulfilled.

Candidates in the Yuan Dynasty wrote hard and fast, and the same was true for the candidates in the Song Dynasty.The content of the Yuan Court is Confucian classics and policy theory. As long as you memorize a lot of books, the Confucian classics part is generally fine. Only the interpretation of the classics needs to be studied and accumulated, but there are also annotations by great sages in the past that can be used for reference. , it all depends on your talent, especially if the topic is "Animating the People".

All the Confucian students in the Yuan Dynasty were "Confucian households" and were exempted from corvee and taxation. However, anyone who studied hard would not be able to understand the sufferings of the people.

The study of Confucian classics in the Song Dynasty was relatively small, and it was just a precursor to policy theory. The bulk of it was still in policy theory.

Moreover, the title of Song Ting is very broad. It is to comment on the various policies of the imperial court and put forward suggestions for optimization, or to check for omissions and fill in the gaps in the imperial affairs.

I can write one, two, three, four, five, but it’s not easy to stand out.

Of course, there is still a remedy if the theory is overturned.

The mathematics questions are all application questions such as marching, tax collection, and land measurement. If you answer well, both the Ministry of Revenue and the Privy Council will be willing to admit you.

If you are proficient in criminal law, you can go to the Ministry of Punishment, Yushitai, and Dali Temple. If you answer well in physics, you will be eager to try out the Ministry of Works, the Shaofu, and the General. And if you have excellent geography and water conservancy, you will still want to go to the Ministry of Works, Dushui, and the Privy Council.

In short, the competition in the liberal arts is fierce, and it will be easier to mix if you divide the subject.

After the first session in the morning, the candidates in Yuanting stayed in the examination room to eat and sleep. It was forbidden to move around, while the candidates in Songting could choose to go out for a walk.

Song Ting only strictly supervises you during exam time, and doesn't care what you do between exams.

In the afternoon, Song Ting's test questions for each subject were handed out. After reading the questions, about a thousand candidates directly chose to leave, including Wu Qiuyan and Yuan Zundao.

As soon as the two people left the examination room, they saw the emperor coming towards them and immediately saluted.

After signaling his displeasure, Zhao Shi asked, "How was your answer to the policy discussion?"

Yuan Zundao replied: "What I wrote is to strengthen tax supervision to prevent petty officials from harming the people."

"Oh, how do you say it?" Zhao Shi asked.

"The petty officials used to fight fiercely to collect grain. Not only did they exceed the regulations of the court, but they often kicked off the top ones. The people paid more grain for no reason, but the court did not gain much.

The minister believed that the people could be allowed to freely choose between food and money.

In addition, because taxes were collected based on the harvest, some bribed tax collectors, while others refused to weigh the crops, and the government had limited manpower and could not implement it accurately.

The minister believes that according to the scope of the state and county, the fields should be divided into five grades, and taxes should be collected according to the average grain production. "

"Not bad." Zhao Shi nodded approvingly and said, "To be able to see such details, it must be right to be a master book."

"I'm scared," Yuan Zundao said.

Count him lucky, because the central government has realized the difficulty of collecting taxes like this, but how not to break trust with the people is a difficult problem. As long as his overall writing is not too bad, he will definitely win.

Seeing the emperor looking over, Wu Qiuyan said: "The students suggested setting up additional medical examinations, but after finishing writing, they realized that medical skills cannot be practiced on paper, but they were too lazy to revise, so they took a nap."

Everyone has their own ambitions, and Zhao did not comment much.

Perhaps due to a tacit understanding or a simple coincidence, Zhenjin also came out to inspect the area.

It's just that unlike the Emperor of Song, he had no chance to talk to the candidates. He appeared together after all the exams and no one chatted with him.

(End of this chapter)