Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 562

At the banquet, there was once again the sound of flattery singing praises.Li Shimin sat for a while, feeling tired, got up and left the table, and returned to the Ganlu Hall, the ministers also dispersed, went down separately, had fun with the people, ate, drank, and had fun.

The Shangyuan Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty was relatively short, only three days, not five days like the Song Dynasty, ten days in the Ming Dynasty, and four or five days in the Qing Dynasty.The three-day Lantern Festival is over in a flash, and once the lanterns are received, the New Year will be over.

As soon as the new year is over, the class will start immediately.The scientific examinations in the Tang Dynasty were different from those in the subsequent dynasties. All subsequent dynasties have formed a practice. There are fixed dates for when the examination will start and when it will end.

The scientific examinations in the Tang Dynasty were not scheduled, but there was a principle of not delaying private production. Scholars came to Chang'an in advance to take the exam. That was their own business. The list of miscellaneous subjects can be released in more than ten days. Although Jinshi is slow, it takes about twenty days, which is almost the same.It was so fast because I was afraid of delaying the farm work. Some scholars are from farming families, and they returned early after the exam, so as not to delay the farm work at home.

An agricultural society must, of course, be based on agriculture.Scholars who passed the exam would stay as officials, and if they failed the exam, they would go back home and farm the land, and then come to the department to take the exam again.

As soon as the Shangyuan Festival passed, only one day later, Shang Shuxing ordered the opening of the department.For this scientific examination, the examination room was set up in Yushifu, and it was presided over by a special examiner, Wailang.Strictly speaking, the examiners Uiro are the main examiners, but their status is too low, and they do hard work. After the scholars pass the exam, they don't have to thank them.

Because it is an anonymous test, it is easy for the tester Uiro to cheat.For chief examiners like Chu Suiliang and Wang Pingan, their approval of papers is actually a re-examination, and the test papers must be passed by the examiners first.

The tester Wailang found that if the handwriting on a certain paper was scribbled and there were smears, it would be rejected directly. Wang Pingan and the others could not see the paper.In this way, the testers and wailang sometimes deliberately dirty the papers to make the scholars fail.

In order to prevent this kind of cheating, the system of obfuscation of names was created, which is to paste the names of scholars so that the examiners who approve the papers cannot see them.But later, this method didn't work, because you can tell who is who from the handwriting, and if you want to cheat, you just need to let the examiner know your handwriting in advance.So the transcription system appeared again, which is to copy the examinee's test paper by a special person, and then show it to the examiner. The examiner can't see the original paper, so naturally he can't tell the handwriting.

However, the scholars still have a way. They discuss with the examiner in advance, how many characters are in the article, and which special characters are used. It can also tell who needs to be taken care of.

The scientific examination system is becoming more and more perfect, and the cheating methods are also updated rapidly.Anyway, you have a plan, I have a wall ladder, no matter how perfect your system is, I can still find loopholes to exploit.

However, in the early Tang Dynasty, it was the best time to cheat, and the system was not yet sound. As long as you work hard, you are not a nerd, and you are better at miscellaneous subjects. After all, in this era, you can afford to study and have the financial resources to come to Beijing to take the exam. There are not many people here, and the competition is not as fierce as that of later generations, except for the Jinshi department of course.

It was not dawn that day, and Wang Pingan, as the deputy chief examiner, naturally arrived at Yushi Mansion early. Seeing that Chu Suiliang and another deputy chief examiner had arrived, they were all waiting for him. After seeing the ceremony, the three of them sat in the main hall and waited. open the door.

At three quarters to Mao, the gate of Yushifu was opened, and the officials stood at the gate to roll their names, counting the names of the scholars one by one, and whoever was counted would come in and arrange the seats in the examination room.

The main hall was far away from the gate, and Chu Suiliang had no intention of getting up, so Wang Ping'an had to sit and looked from a distance, and saw that the scholars who came in all looked nervous, and some people came here to wait in the middle of the night. It was cold, and there was no heating equipment outside. Many people turned blue from the cold, and sat behind their examination desks, shivering.

Wang Pingan said: "Lord Chu, why don't you turn up a few stoves in the examination room, so that the examinees can warm up, so that their hands are not frozen and they can't perform at their usual level when they take up the pen and answer the paper."

Chu Suiliang glanced at him, and said: "Only by suffering and suffering can you become a master." After a pause, he said: "Then raise a few stoves!"

The officials immediately went out, brought in several stoves, and placed them around the examination room.

The examination room in this era is completely different from that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is divided into several halls. Each hall is an examination room with countless tables and no shelter in the middle. Scholars sit together for the exam.

Wang Pingan pointed to the examination room and said, "Master Chu, the arrangement of the examination tables is not conducive to supervision. If someone has a long neck and good eyes, then he can see other people's test papers! The articles can’t always be made the same, but Ming Jing, and other miscellaneous subjects, take the same test questions and the same answers. If the test takers copy each other, wouldn’t it be impossible to distinguish between the superior and the inferior? !"

Chu Suiliang frowned and said, "Then how should we arrange the seats?"

The other deputy chief examiner was sent by the Ministry of Rites. He was a servant of the Ministry of Rites in his 60s. The old servant said with a smile: "The princes are joking, they may copy each other, and no one can show the answers to others, huh I'm afraid I won't be able to cover it, the number of admissions is limited, and the same answer may not always be the right answer, whether the font is beautiful, whether the reputation is prominent, all have to be taken into consideration!"

In the early Tang Dynasty when the scientific examination system was still in its infancy, not only the imperial court was exploring how to improve the system, but also the scholars were also exploring ways to cheat. Many tricks were not intended by the scholars, but because they did not expect them. If you don't know the means of future candidates, it is really unexpected.

Wang Pingan snorted, and said: "That's not necessarily true. According to your meaning, if one more scholar answers correctly, it will be an extra threat to them. That's what you mean!"

The servant of the Ministry of Rites nodded immediately, and said with a smile: "Is there any other meaning? Master Chu, what do you think?"

Chu Suiliang also nodded, and said, "I can't think of anything else."

Wang Pingan said: "You can think about it the other way around. What if some people give wrong answers on purpose? They have scrap paper, right? They won't write the answers directly on the main paper!"

Chu Suiliang and the servant of the Ministry of Rites were taken aback at the same time, and looked at each other, trembling in their hearts, they understood what Wang Ping'an said!

If one more person answered correctly, there would be one more threat, but if one less person answered correctly, wouldn't there be one less threat!If some scholars are immoral, deliberately write wrong answers on straw paper, and then let others see them on purpose, but they cover up the correct answers themselves, and hand in the correct ones when handing in the papers, isn't that the same as throwing away the others? The scholar flashed it!

The servant of the Ministry of Rites shook his head and said: "No way, this is not good for others... Oh, this is a matter of harming others and benefiting oneself. But how can there be such a dirty and despicable person in the world?"

Wang Pingan smiled and said: "Is there no one? Then just pretend there is no one!"

Chu Suiliang frowned, he took a deep breath, and said, "I don't know if something like this has happened before. The old man always thought that cheating would only happen when marking papers. It's okay not to think about it in the examination room, and it's like this." The evil. Then, according to Wubing, how should we arrange the examination tables?"

Wang Pingan said: "You don't need to arrange test tables, you just need to build a test shed, each person has a small single room, and the problem of plagiarism can be solved." He said what he saw on TV, the style of the test shed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties come out.

After hearing this, Chu Suiliang and the servant of the Ministry of Rites nodded together, thinking in their hearts: "Hey, this method is good, building a test shed, why didn't we think of it before!"

After a while, all the scholars entered the examination room, divided into examination rooms by subject, and all sat down.

Maoshi, known as Rishi in ancient times, is the time when the sun rises from the east.As soon as the golden bell struck, the bronze drum rang three times, and the exam officially started.

Several examiners, Wailang, came to each examination room with test questions in their hands, read out the test questions aloud, and read each question three times.

Examination questions in this era are not printed on paper, but there is only one copy, which can only be opened when the exam starts, so as to prevent missing questions. The candidates record the questions themselves and then answer them.

After listening to the topic, Wang Pingan had something to say.He said: "It seems inappropriate to read the title in this way."

Chu Suiliang said, "What's wrong?"

The minister of the Ministry of Rites thought, "What's wrong again? The exam hasn't started yet, and the candidates haven't answered their papers yet, so you made two mistakes. Are you here to invigilate the exam, or are you here to find fault?"

Wang Ping'an said: "My lords, listen, when they read the title, they speak in elegant words, correct pronunciation, right?"

The servant of the Ministry of Rites said: "Of course I have to speak the correct pronunciation, so why not speak in dialect!"

Yayan or Zhengyin refers to the official dialect, which in this era is Chang'an dialect.For example, Wang Ping'an speaks with a Xuzhou accent, which cannot be regarded as the standard Mandarin of the early Tang Dynasty.

Wang Pingan said: "Not every examinee can speak the correct pronunciation. If they are coming to Chang'an for the first time, even if they can speak the correct pronunciation in a few scenes, but if they are nervous and cannot fully understand the question at this time, then they can answer the questions. Wouldn’t it be bad to ask a question? This has nothing to do with the quality of knowledge, some people with good knowledge will lose the ranking just because they don’t understand the correct pronunciation, this will be a loss of talents!”

Chu Suiliang and Qiqi, the Minister of Rites, took a breath and looked at the field together.Sure enough, they saw that some examinees were indeed frowning and hesitated when writing down the test questions. This obviously did not understand the topic and was guessing the topic!

Other subjects are easy to talk about, but if it’s like medicine or math, if you remember the question wrong, why answer it?
Chu Suiliang stood up with a shout, and the Minister of Rites also stood up slowly, so Wang Pingan had to stand up too.

Chu Suiliang took a few breaths, then sat down again, and glanced at the Minister of Rites next to him, and saw that the Minister of Rites was pale and his lips were trembling.Neither of them had thought about it... It should be said that neither the civil and military men of the Manchu Dynasty had thought about this issue. The accent can affect the scientific examination, which is really beyond their imagination!

The scientific examination was first created in the Sui Dynasty and established in the Tang Dynasty, but the Sui Dynasty was so chaotic, and the Tang Dynasty was not established for many years, and the scientific examination was only held a few times in total. Who would have thought of the problem of accent?Even with Li Zhi's cleverness and wisdom, if Wang Pingan didn't tell him, he wouldn't be smart enough to think of this question!
Chu Suiliang became anxious immediately. He pointed to the examination room and said, "This, this, this... what should I do? I didn't make any preparations for this in advance!"

The servant of the Ministry of Rites broke out in a cold sweat, and stammered: "Well, that... can't let the examinees learn the correct pronunciation now, or let the foreign officials read the questions in various dialects, it's too late!"

The two looked at Wang Ping'an together, and Chu Suiliang said, "No disease, you have an idea!" In a hurry, he uttered Li Zhi's catchphrase!
The Minister of Rites said: "My lord, you must have an idea, please tell me quickly!"

Wang Pingan was surprised and said, "Is this problem so difficult to solve?"

He picked up a piece of paper on the table, shook it, and said: "Write the title in large characters and hang it on the beam in the examination room so that all the candidates can see it. If you write it down, it will be a disaster. The candidates will not be confused. You don’t know big characters, right? If you don’t know characters, what’s the test?”

Chu Suiliang choked out, then he slapped his forehead and said, "Old man... I was confused for a while, why didn't I even think of this!"

The servant of the Ministry of Rites was dumbfounded. I never thought of such a simple method!
Chu Suiliang called back Wailang, the examiner, and asked them to write the questions in big characters and hang them at the front of the examination room for all the scholars to see.The merit testers, Wailang, were also surprised, and then overjoyed.That's right, why bother to read each topic three times straight up, write it out and hang it in the examination room, isn't it enough!
After they copied the questions and hung them out, they heard a slight exhalation in the examination room, and it seemed that many people were relieved.

Seeing that the scholars all lowered their heads to answer the questions, Chu Suiliang said: "You are not sick, you are really a material to be the chief examiner. The first time you presided over the test, you found two extremely important loopholes. You must be responsible for recording the scientific research, and countless scholars in future generations will thank you!"

Wang Pingan hurriedly said: "Thank you, thank you, even if you don't say anything about such a small problem, the two adults will take care of it!"

The two questions he mentioned are the most basic questions in the scientific examinations of later generations. Just because he has more than 1000 years of knowledge, he immediately became an idol, and he will be thanked by the scholars of later generations.

After sitting for a while, he stood up and said, "You two gentlemen, please sit down, please go and take a look around."

Chu Suiliang said, "But it's okay to go."

Wang Pingan went out of the main hall, and slowly looked at the examination rooms one by one.

Seeing him leaving, the Minister of Rites said to Chu Suiliang in a low voice: "Lord Chu, to tell you the truth, when the emperor appointed the prince as the deputy chief examiner, the lower official was quite dissatisfied. He always thought that he was young, except he could write a few poems. Other than that, I really have no other skills, I always thought that he was a person who earned his reputation, but he dared not say it!"

Chu Suiliang smiled and twirled his beard, and asked, "Now, what do you think?"

Li Wen's assistant gave a thumbs up and said: "Nowadays, just two words, admire!"

(End of this chapter)