Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 879
Zaifeng paced and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you, Li Hongzao, to be able to say such a thing. Let me ask you, if you don't pass the exam to select talents, then what is the way to take the exam? Could it be that you just scratch your head on the street? You Li Hongzao, Liang Xiangye from the cabinet, Kang Youwei, Xiong Xiangye, Xiong Cilu from the former Qing Dynasty, Fan Wencheng, Xu Yuanmeng, and Lu Longqi are not famous officials who got out of the imperial examinations, aren't they also in the annals of history!"

Li Hongzao was about to answer, when he heard a commotion from the proctoring hall outside, he frowned and ordered an examination officer: "Go, call the proctoring hall for inspection!" After entering, Zaifeng asked: "This is the official national examination place, who is acting wild outside?"

"Returning to the examiner, there is a student who broke into the court!"

"What is he going to do?"

"He invited the two chief examiners for an interview!"

Zaifeng and Li Hongzao looked at each other, they had never seen such a bold and reckless person, Li Hongzao said coldly: "Call him in." The inspector brought in a young man and bowed to the two chief examiners. Said: "The late student Fu Sinian pays homage to the two teachers!"

Zaifeng looked the young man up and down, frowned, and asked, "Do you know what you're doing?"

"A late student asks to see the chief examiner as an examinee, what is nonsense?"

"I didn't say that your 'asking for an interview' is nonsense. You are unconventional and ask for an interview alone. If everyone is like you, where is the country's legal system and the court system? Come!"

"exist!"

"Drag to the proctoring hall and hit forty boards!"

"Yes."

Several guards rushed forward, seeing Fu Sinian standing still, they were stunned.Fu Sinian laughed loudly, pointed at Li Hongzao and said, "You, Li Hongzao, have a false name, but you are not a famous person! You don't need to delay, where is the supervision hall? I will go by myself!" As he said, he wobbled and followed the guards.

Li Hongzao looked at his back with disgust, and said, "This man looks like a lunatic!"

"He's a crazy student." Said Zaifeng while flipping through the ink scrolls recommended by the examiners in each room. As expected, there was no Fu Sinian's, and he said with a smile: "This kid must feel that he is going to lose his name, so he is in a hurry, so he made a fuss out of his own way That's all." Just as he was speaking, a eunuch came running out of breath from the Mingyuan building inside the Longmen, Li Hongzao glanced out and said: "Xiao Dezhang is here, I'm afraid there is a decree."

The two walked out of the Supreme Court together, Zai Feng was about to ask, Xiao De Zhang said: "The emperor is here, and he has already arrived outside the Dragon Gate. Quickly, open the main gate to welcome you!"

Zaifeng was taken aback and asked, "What did you say? Say it again!"

"The Emperor has arrived at the Examination Institute!"

Zaifeng and Li Hongzao were so excited that their faces turned red at that time, they turned back together and went back to the courtroom to put on court clothes, and came out to tell the people: "The examiners in each room inform the examinees not to leave the examination booth without authorization, otherwise they will be dismissed and fired, and the middle door will be opened. Welcome to the holy driver!"

Soon the emperor disembarked from the Luanjia outside the Dragon Gate, accompanied by three ministers, Liang Qichao, Xiong Xiling, and Kang Youwei.Zaifeng and Li Hongzao hurriedly knelt down to greet the emperor.

"Get up!" Guan Xuqing seemed very happy, waving a Xiangfei plain paper fan, looking around while walking.In front of Mingyuan Building, I looked up at the eaves and bucket arches with peeling paint, and said, "When was this building built?"

"It was built in the second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty." Kang Youwei said with a smile, "It was overhauled once in the 17th year of Kangxi, and it was originally intended to be used for erudition and Confucianism. Later, Kangxi changed the palace examination to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, so this place was not used."

Guan Xuqing pointed his fan at the small building to the west of Mingyuan Building, and asked, "What is that building for?"

"That's the watchtower." Li Hongzao hurriedly explained: "It's not for guarding against thieves, it's mainly for fear of passing inside and outside, and it's just to express strict security."

Guan Xuqing laughed as soon as he heard it, and Zaifeng saw that he was in a good mood, so he walked all the way and gave pointers. It was the [-]th district of the East and West House, the East Supervising and Examination Hall, the three offices for sealing, receiving papers, and supply, and the two offices for reading and transcribing , what kind of Sutra Hall, Yanxi Hall, etc.?"

Guan Xuqing nodded and smiled while listening, and sighed: "It's too old, and it can't keep up with the Nanjing Gongyuan. Guangsha, ask the Ministry of Education to calculate how much it will cost to repair all the velvet. If you don't need to save, you can't just let it go. The Soviet Union, the United States When the diplomat visited me last month, he wanted to visit the imperial examination system, but I did not allow it. For this reason, the examination hall is so dilapidated that it is unsightly. This is the face of the imperial court. If it is dirty, you should wash it quickly, right? ?”

Kang Youwei hurriedly said: "What the emperor said is very true."

Guan Xuqing turned to Zaifeng and Li Hongzao, the two main examiners, and said, "This subject was selected in the summer, and I came here without any illness or disaster. Are you doing your best to find out such things as entrainment and transmission fraud?"

"This is unavoidable in any subject." Seeing the emperor looking at him, Li Hongzao hurriedly bowed and said, "There are 860 candidates who took the test, and it is inevitable that there are good and bad candidates. A total of 42 cheaters who were entrained, replaced, and passed on were found. The five fell ill halfway, and those who withdrew before the end, there are 820 candidates in the arena now."

Zaifeng said with a smile: "There is another one who shouted at the court and asked for an interview, and he will be expelled from the examination room." So he told about Fu Sinian's quarrel in the court just now.

Guan Xuqing had already stepped into the courtroom. Hearing this, he felt fresh and said, "This examinee is not timid, so call me to have a look." He didn't sit down after speaking, but stood in front of the case and looked through the ink scroll.Several ministers are standing on the right side of the tablet of Confucius.

Guan Xuqing picked up an ink scroll and looked at it, and asked, "Is this recommended by each house?"

Li Hongzao saw that he had seen it, and hurriedly said: "Yes. I don't know which room in the West District, it is probably a candidate with the name 'Yuan'. It hasn't been opened, and I don't know who it is."

Guan Xuqing took a closer look, and found that the title was "On the New Deal of Britain's Reform and Strengthening". , and asked, "Where are the failed papers?"

Zaifeng hurriedly pointed to a large cabinet on the east side against the wall, and led the emperor over there.The unselected papers are stored in each province, prefecture, county, and prefecture, and each roll is marked with an ink label, and the stacks are very clearly arranged.Guan Xuqing pretended to be careless, randomly took out a copy and put it back.When I came to the column of Tanghe County, Nanyang City, there were only two copies in the grid. Guan Xuqing took them out, looked at them, and actually removed the seal.

The first one was "Feng Youlan of Tanghe County". I took it out and looked at the bright place in front of the window. I thought the writing was not bad, but there was a place in it that was a little damp.He didn't put the paper back to its original place, and put it on top of the stack of papers that Zaifeng and the others had selected before returning to the case.Looking up, he saw a candidate kneeling upright outside the Supreme Court, and asked, "You are Fu Sinian? What ability do you have, dare to roar in this Supreme Court?"

When Fu Sinian saw the emperor checking the papers in person, and dozens of officials inside and outside held their breaths, the suffocating majestic atmosphere made him flustered unavoidably.Seeing the emperor asking himself, he felt a little calmer, kowtowed again and again: "Returning to the words of the Long Live Lord: Candidates can compose poems, stereotyped essays, and are proficient in Chinese and foreign history, politics and culture, but they can't even pass the exam three times. I don't know why, so I asked for an interview, and I didn't dare to shout in court."

"The Son of Heaven emphasizes articles now, so why should Er Cao talk about the Han and Tang Dynasties." Guan Xuqing said to Li Hongzao with a calm face, "Find out his ink scrolls and show them to me. Hmph, the country's selection of talents has always been based on current affairs. Poetry, so arrogant? The two examiners dealt with it very fairly.

But if you want an interview, I will let you interview. If you can’t revitalize the country by relying on poetry books and stereotyped essays, I will ask you a few questions. If you can answer them, I will do it for you on the spot. "

All the people present were taken aback. They thought that the emperor would beat such a madman with sticks or put him in the classroom, but they didn't expect to agree to the ridiculous request of the other party, which made everyone feel incredible.

Fu Sinian was also a little surprised, but anyway, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as long as he can answer these questions, he can leap to the dragon gate.

Guan Xuqing thought for a while and said, "What is the biggest difference between the political systems of the United States and France?"

Fu Sinian pondered for a while, and replied: "The American political system, in a broad sense, has no monarch and is a country that implements a republic. The characteristic of the American republic is the separation of powers, but among the three major institutions of executive, legislative and judicial, there is The president who holds administrative and military power is the core. Therefore, the American political system is a 'presidential republic'. 'Federal system' is the national structure of the United States, not the political system. The French political system In France, the president and parliament are directly elected by the people, and the prime minister The post is held by the majority of the parliament. Since the seven-year presidential system and the five-year parliamentary system were implemented in the past, the president and the majority of the parliament may not come from the same camp. As a result, the president and the prime minister come from one The left wing, one from the right wing, formed a situation of 'co-governance by the left and the right', which is also a unique phenomenon in French politics."

Guan Xuqing nodded with a smile and said, "Just now, I was throwing bricks to attract jade, so the next question will be more difficult. Can you compare the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western political thoughts?"

This question is really too difficult. This is not just a comparison between two countries, but a comparison of the political ideology of China and the entire Western countries. To answer this question requires not only the political ideology, system, system, culture, etc. of China and Western countries. Understanding many aspects also requires a high level of generalization ability, and the prelude will never give Fu Sinian too much time to think. The most important thing is to comment on Chinese and Western politics in front of the emperor. It would make Longyan furious, and everyone present gasped when they heard this question, and all turned their eyes to this young and arrogant candidate.

(End of this chapter)