The candidates in Chongzheng Hall have basically completed their answer sheets and started the final inspection.
After all, this exam is probably the most important exam in their lives.
Whether you can change your destiny depends on this experience.
Therefore, no matter how much we attach importance to it, it cannot be overemphasized.
Even confident candidates such as Fan Zhongyan and Liang Shi are reviewed over and over again.
Star candidates also have troubles.
The more attention, the greater the pressure.
Fortunately, both of them are people with strong ability to withstand pressure. After repeated inspections several times, they almost made the same judgment.
Play normally!
After a while, the candidates submitted their answer sheets one after another.
Just like during the Gongju Palace Examination, the chamberlains of the Royal Medicine Court were responsible for collecting the answer sheets and then sending them to the sealing office.
As dusk fell, the first batch of transcribed answer sheets had been delivered to the editing office.
The examiners this time are Yan Shu, a Hanlin scholar, Li Zhen, a Hanlin scholar, Zhou Qi, the official of the Imperial Academy, and Liu Ye, the imperial censor.
There is no doubt that the lineup of examiners is very luxurious.
It's just that compared to the tribute examination, the number of examiners is smaller.
This is normal, after all, there are far more people taking the Gongju Palace Examination than the System Examination.
Not only that, the grading time for the system examination is also shorter than that for the tribute examination.
There are only two days left.
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In the blink of an eye, two days passed.
Funing Hall.
Yan Shu and others worked very efficiently, and the grading work was basically completed. Now only the last judgment is left.
The emperor is waiting!
Although the remuneration for those who finish the program is very high, the elimination rate of the program is also very high.
High standards, high returns!
There are a total of fifty-six candidates taking the examination this time, and thirty-six of them have not even passed the exam.
In the end, only twenty people came to the palace examination.
Now, there are only five people who can be presented to Li Jie's desk.
That's all because Li Jie specially asked me.
If you don't say hello in advance, I'm afraid your admission rate will be even lower.
certainly.
This is just the exam result of Xian Liang Fang Zheng Neng's outspoken advice. Jing Xiaotong calculates that the exam time for the division of law is a few days later.
The assessment contents of the two are completely different, so naturally they cannot be placed in the same examination room at the same time.
If people who are well versed in general mathematics are allowed to participate in this imperial examination, the admission rate will probably be even more disastrous.
"Your Majesty, after consultation among the ministers and others, there are only five people who are virtuous and upright and can be admitted."
With that said, Liu Maoqin took the answer sheet from Yan Shu and handed it to Li Jie.
"Please wait a moment, please allow me to read a few minutes."
After getting the answer sheet, Li Jie first looked at the front of the paper, and sure enough, Fan Zhongyan, Liang Shi, and Hu Yuan were among them.
Immediately afterwards, he picked out Fan Zhongyan's strategy.
[A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world cannot live with them. The existence of parents and brothers without reason is the first kind of happiness; the second kind of happiness is to look up to heaven and not bow down to others; the third kind of happiness is to obtain the world's talents and educate them.
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Seeing this sentence, Li Jie couldn't help but smile.
It is indeed in line with Fan Zhongyan's style of putting education first, and this is what Fan Zhongyan has practiced throughout his life.
Consistently!
At the same time, he also thought of something that happened a long time ago. When he was a boy, similar slogans were painted on the school walls.
[A century-old plan, education comes first]
【Ten years to grow trees, a hundred years to grow people】
Li Jie, who was born under the red flag and grew up under the red flag, understands the importance of education far better than people of this era.
The wisdom of young people will lead to the wisdom of the country, the strength of young people will make the country strong, and the prosperity of young people will lead to the prosperity of the country.
Looking at the present, the same is true.
The officials who are active in the court today are all literati with traditional education, although many of them are smart and can understand their own intentions.
But some ideas are inevitably deeply ingrained.
Such as emphasizing literature over martial arts, emphasizing Confucianism over law, emphasizing agriculture over commerce, etc.
(PS: Although the commodity economy in the Song Dynasty was developed and the court did not excessively suppress commerce, the status of commerce was indeed not high enough.
In the eyes of scholar-bureaucrats, commerce was just one of the channels for collecting taxes for the country.
Moreover, businessmen value profits over righteousness, which is inconsistent with the mainstream values of society)
Back to business.
Therefore, in Li Jie's view, the next one to twenty years will be a transitional stage.
Officials who grew up under the new learning system were the main force behind the rise of the Song Dynasty.
certainly.
Officials under the old system also have the value of transformation.
Fan Zhongyan, isn’t he a good example?
Fan Zhongyan in history admired Confucius, who followed the Tao with virtue, balanced it with etiquette, and had a sense of shame and dignity.
However, Fan Zhongyan now feels that it is more important to be knowledgeable and practical.
Morality and practice must be grasped with both hands, and both hands must be strong.
Not only that, Fan Zhongyan also boldly wrote in his policy questions that the study of chapters, sentences, and annotations seems to have taken the wrong path.
True Confucianism should serve the past and serve our needs.
At this time, Fan Zhongyan's educational thoughts already had a tendency of "Six Classics Notes to Me".
What does the Six Classics Note to Me mean?
This remark comes from Lu Jiuyuan, a master of psychology.
[Or ask sir, why not write a book?
He said: The Six Classics annotate me! I annotate the Six Classics!]
These are also the two major schools of interpretation of scriptures.
When I annotate the Six Classics, the focus is on the "Six Classics". "I" must interpret the original meaning of the sages' books word for word. I am not allowed to deviate from it, nor can I be far-fetched.
The study of exegesis is an important branch of this school.
The focus of "Six Classics Notes on Me" is "I", that is, the Six Classics are only the reference for "I" to express my views.
The Neo-Confucian scholar Zhu Xi was the master of this school.
The various commentaries written by Zhu Xi included many personal works, and the books of sages were just tools for expressing his thoughts.
The original meaning in the sage's book is not important.
What matters is being in line with the moment, or ‘my’ point of view.
Before Zhu Xi, Wang Anshi did the same thing.
In order to implement the reform, Wang Anshi directly compiled a set of "New Meanings of the Three Classics" and designated it as the only book used for imperial examinations.
All candidates must study the "New Meanings of the Three Classics" and answer questions based on this.
First occupy the theoretical high ground and let all scholars who are interested in the imperial examination learn their own ideas.
As a result, officials who enter the civil service through the imperial examination in the future will naturally side with the reformists.
In a sense, Zhu Xi's "Collected Commentary on Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books" was also influenced by "New Meanings of the Three Classics".
I don’t care about the sages’ original intentions!
It's me who is the most important!
Tick tock!
Tick tock!
Time passed slowly, and when he turned to the end, Li Jie found that the examiners only gave Fan Zhongyan a fifth grade, which was barely above the line.
If Fan Zhongyan hadn't been in the emperor's heart, it would have been difficult to reach the fifth level.
After thinking about it, Li Jie raised his ink pen and directly corrected the opinions of the examiners.
This strategy is at least third grade.
If it weren't for the fact that people in the first two grades were not awarded, Li Jie would have even planned to give him a first grade.