Ming Dynasty: Huddle up in Beiping County as Magistrate Text Volume Chapter 258, Volume of Death Latest website: "A little gain!"
A trace of pride flashed in Du Qi's eyes.
These great scholars like to study the Four Books and Five Classics most of all. And they are naturally more attentive to things like the imperial examination, which everyone yearns for and pays attention to.
Just like the college entrance examination in later generations, the teachers with better schools like to study all the college entrance examination questions.
Guo An nodded with joy on his face, "This is such a big deal!"
"Huh?"
Zhu Di, Du Xin and others could not help but be surprised.
Guo An continued: "Mr. Du, Your Highness, the intellectual knowledge of my peers in Beiping Mansion is not much different from those in the south, and their intelligence is not much different either.
It's just that in the north, there are too few great scholars like Mr. Du.
Many students do not have access to personal teaching and lectures from great Confucian scholars like Mr. Du who are proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics. They do not know the taboos of the words in the imperial examination questions. Some are even not too proficient in the four-paragraph form of the classics.
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At this time, Lao Zhu's imperial examination still followed the classics and meanings of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and had not yet evolved into the eight-legged essay.
Du Xin couldn't help but ask: "Guo Changshi wants me to tell this year's candidates how to do questions in the examination?"
The imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were divided into four levels: children's examination, rural examination, general examination and palace examination.
The children's examination is a test in one's own state or county. If you pass the examination, you will be a scholar.
The rural examination is administered by a unified examination at the provincial level and can only be taken by scholars. Because it is taken around August every year, it is also called Qiuwei.
To enter the admission quota is to recruit people, and the first place is Jieyuan.
Each province stipulates a quota for the number of people to be promoted based on population, wealth, and products.
In some large provinces, there can be fifty, sixty, or even one hundred.
Some small provinces, or those that are too backward, only have thirty or forty provinces.
As for Beiping Prefecture, it belongs to the Peking Parallel Capital Command Department and does not belong to any province, but it has provincial-level specifications.
Shunde Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture, Baoding Prefecture... more than a dozen prefectures, all belong to the North Parallel Capital Command.
Therefore, there is also a quota of fifty people.
As for the examination, it is held in the second year of the provincial examination, in February and March of spring, and can also be called Chunwei.
The examination was sponsored by the Ministry of Rites and held in the Gongyuan of the capital, and was presided over by highly respected officials specially designated by the emperor.
The admitted students are Gongshi, which can also be called Jinshi, but the first one is called Huiyuan.
The fourth level exam is the imperial examination.
The emperor personally presided over it and participated in the grading.
This time, the emperor will only determine the ranking, and will not eliminate the tribute scholars, but will arrange the list of Jinshi.
First grade, three Jinshi, and the rank of Jinshi is awarded, and they are number one, second, and third overall respectively.
The second grade is given to the Jinshi family; the third grade is given to the same Jinshi background.
As for the number of people, it is based on the number of Jinshi at that time, or Lao Zhu’s needs.
For example, sometimes there are seventeen people who are born in the second class of Jinshi, and only one hundred people are born in the third class.
Sometimes, 107 people came directly from the second-class Jinshi, and 362 people came directly from the third-class Jinshi.
Anyway, in Lao Zhu's view, the main purpose of selecting talents through the imperial examination is to govern the world and educate the people. They require the ability to do practical things and do practical work. As many as are needed can be admitted.
Otherwise, we would not directly recruit smart, upright, virtuous, upright, Confucian scholars, filial piety and honest people, scholars, senior citizens and other people from the people to serve as officials in the court.
Although at this time, the Ming Dynasty's imperial examinations had not yet formed a fixed mindset of selecting scholars based on eight-part essays.
However, in exams of any era, the test questions are always set by people or selected from the Four Books and Five Classics.
Then, there must be a shortcut.
Guo An nodded slightly, "It is exactly what Mr. Du said. I would like to ask Mr. Du and the doctors in the academy who have studied the Four Books and the Five Classics intensively to teach the scholars in the academy how to read the Four Books and the Five Classics.
In addition, Mr. Du was also asked to set questions for those candidates according to the imperial examination questions of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, or the questions that may appear in the imperial examination next year, so that they can answer the questions according to the requirements of the imperial examination!"
Du Qi's eyes lit up and he became energetic, "Did Guo Changshi mean to press the title?"
On the side, Zhu Di and Dao Yan were also very interested.
"Exactly the title!" Guo An nodded.
Du Wei pondered for a moment, and then he couldn't help but sigh softly, and said helplessly: "What Guo Changshi said is also a good trick.
However, His Majesty has not yet appointed an examiner. There are so many highly respected academics in the imperial court, and it is even possible that Your Majesty will do the exams himself.
Even if I bet on more than ten questions, I still can’t bet accurately!”
Guo An narrowed his eyes slightly and chuckled: "Mr. Du, there are still several months and hundreds of days left to enter next year's imperial examination. Why are you only taking more than ten exams?"
Du Miao frowned slightly and said with some confusion: "What does Guo Changshi mean?..."
Guo An smiled slightly and said: "Juan, go to death Juan!"
"Volume?"
Du Ao, Zhu Di and others all looked puzzled.
Guo An nodded with an affirmative look and said: "Please Mr. Du, as well as the doctors in the academy, come up with a question in two days.
Let those who hold the exams do the questions, and then Mr. Du and other doctors will review them and guide them how to solve and answer the questions.
Practice makes perfect!
Students from the north have always been weaker than those from the south in terms of imperial examination performance.
If you can solve more than ten questions, you may not be able to compare with those students from the south.
But what if there are dozens or hundreds of questions?"
Zhu Di, Dao Yan and others opened their eyes wide, and then they were filled with excitement.
Du Xun was also full of surprise, "Guo Changshi is indeed a wonderful man. He can think of such clever ways."