The second rural examination officially started on the morning of August 12th.
Exam papers are distributed.
The Five Classics are one. Because each candidate chooses a different version of the Five Classics and has different topics, the five questions in the Five Classics will be listed in the examination paper at the same time. Candidates only need to choose one of the questions to answer.
From the perspective of candidates' topic selection, there are more candidates who specialize in "The Book of Songs", "Book of Changes" and "Book of Changes", while fewer candidates choose "Spring and Autumn" and "Book of Rites".
Especially for "Book of Rites", among the more than 80 candidates admitted in each session, usually only a single number chooses the title of "Book of Rites", while there are forty or fifty people who choose "Book of Songs", almost the total number of candidates
half of.
This reflects the difference in the selection of the classics among the Five Classics, and is also the tendency of almost all candidates to choose topics.
The title of "The Book of Songs" is naturally the most important among the titles of the Five Classics: "The state is in ruins, and the soldiers and the people are in trouble."
The phrase comes from "The Book of Songs·Zhan Yin", which means: "There is no peace in the country, and scholars and common people are being killed."
What we are talking about here is the harm caused by natural and man-made disasters. It is a sentence of compassion. The "heaven" in it refers to the heaven that humans cannot defeat, and it also refers to the rulers in general. It is the accusation of natural and man-made disasters in ancient times. It talks about the rulers not doing any harm.
Benevolent government brings tragic disasters to the world.
This topic...
Zhu Hao's first impression was that you, the person who asked the question, are very brave! Aren't you insinuating that the current emperor's lack of benevolence and morality has led to the consequences of "the country has its own officials and the people are in trouble"?
But then I thought that the civil servants with pens who now control the discourse and direction of public opinion between the government and the opposition are precisely the civil servants with pens. Perhaps Yang Tinghe and his followers like to criticize the current emperor's injustice in local issues. To put it mildly, it is called exhortation... In short, this kind of
Not only will the topic not be illegal, it may even be praised by high-level civil servants.
Zhu Hao felt that the topic was not bad. It was exactly what he wanted to write. It was just right to criticize the ridiculous emperor openly and satisfy the preferences of the officials.
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Except for the Five Classics questions.
Then there are one question each for argument, edict, table, and judgment.
Because imperial edicts, tables and judgments are all practical questions. Relatively speaking, they just ask you to write practical essays in a fixed form. There is nothing to say. It is equivalent to cloze in the imperial examination. You cannot write it to show your achievements.
Not enough. As for whether it will affect the final admission...
The Homecoming Examination is still mainly based on three essays and four essays in the first round. As long as you perform well in the first round and answer the questions in the last two rounds about the same, you will pass.
The title of this discussion is rather special: "On: The way of civil and military affairs should not be neglected by those who have a country."
This question is not in the "Huguang Rural Examination Records" that Zhu Hao had seen in his previous life. It can be said that it is a new question due to the butterfly effect.
The concept of the way of civility and martial arts comes from "The Analects of Confucius: Zi Zhang Pian": "The way of civility and martial arts has not fallen to the ground. Among people, the wise will recognize the great, and the unworthy will recognize the small. There is no such thing as the way of civility and martial arts."
There is also a related discussion in the "Book of Rites": "One piece of paper and one relaxation is the way of civility and military affairs."
This question comes from a topic on current affairs, and it happens to contradict the previous question in the Book of Songs.
Everyone knows that the current emperor is a "military" type. The top civil servants do not like the current emperor's martial style and believe that it has damaged the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, which is to build a country based on culture. But now they want to argue that neither civility nor military affairs can be neglected. This is
It is clear that there are conflicting views among the people who asked the question.
First, I felt that many of the things Zhu Houzhao did were outrageous, but I also admired his achievements in martial arts.
Because the questions for the provincial examination were not set by one person, but by more than a dozen inner officials, and the final selection was made by the chief examiner and fellow examiners. This shows that among the inner officials, they were unable to unify their thoughts and determine whether the emperor was good at martial arts or not.
good.
If you don't practice martial arts, and King Ning rebels, how can you helplessly watch King Ning's rebels advance straight in, march down two capitals, and take away the throne? Is this the civilized rule that civil servants admire?
The inner curtain officer's contradictory mentality made Zhu Hao carefully consider whether he should criticize the current situation as worthless when answering the question...
It seems that you are just trying to be an "angry youth", thinking that you cater to the preferences of the civil servant class, but in the end, the inner court officials may think that you are not politically mature enough and it is difficult to achieve good results in this provincial examination.
From this point of view, it is better for the argument to be more neutral.
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The second exam was held in a relatively peaceful atmosphere.
Perhaps the candidates feel that the four essays are the most important in the first test, and whether or not you answer well in the second test is irrelevant. This is like giving you a few additional questions during the exam and asking you to answer them, but saying that your score is not good.
It will be recorded in the total score...then will you answer it well, or will you respond carelessly and get through it?
No matter what the choice is, at least the mentality of answering questions is not as nervous as the first game.
But there was still no abnormal sound in the examination room.
The three days and two nights of exams came to an end in a blink of an eye. On the morning of August 14th, there were so many people submitting their papers that two to three hundred people rushed out of the exam room. The candidates hurried back to take a short rest and prepare for the third session on current affairs.
take an exam.
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After three days of painful suffering in the first two exams, Zhu Hao became more and more accustomed to the third exam.
The Five Ways policy theory is divided into classics and history policy and current affairs policy.
Classical historical policy is to discuss the present based on the past, while current affairs policy is to discuss the current situation.
What disappoints Zhu Hao is that among the five policy topics, only the last one is vaguely regarded as a current affairs policy to criticize current ills, but it is very vague. The direction of the discussion is a bit like "Huguang is cooked, the world is sufficient", and it talks about the transportation of grain and grass materials in the nine northwest borders.
Jiangnan grain and grass cannot be implemented. Instead, Huguang borders Henan and Shaanxi, so it is more convenient to mobilize grain, grass, troops and horses...
Zhu Hao read the question and always felt that the person who asked the question was referring to Su Xigui.
Because in the past few years, due to Su Xigui's traveling back and forth, grain and grass could be mobilized directly from Huguang to the north, instead of being transported from the south of the Yangtze River through the Grand Canal, which not only saved the distance, but also maximized the effectiveness of the grain and grass in Huguang.
There is also a similar title in the Classics and History Policy: "Ask, in ancient times, those who were in charge of the country must train farmers. The people were rich and secular, and they were good at it. Nowadays, there are important officials in the imperial court, including officials specializing in agriculture, and county magistrates.
, and is also responsible for encouraging farmers. In the fields, the land has its own strength, and there are many people wandering around..."
A distinctive feature of policy essay questions is that they are relatively long.
First, say a long sentence, bring a point of view, and finally let you try to discuss it, and finally conclude with words such as "Please try to explain". This is a standard essay question, which is better than quoting something from the Four Books and Five Classics.
A paragraph makes your argument more in line with the habit of writing argumentative essays in later generations.
Moreover, the answer to this kind of policy question has the advantage that there is no need to use eight-legged essay.
Basically, you just have to express yourself freely, have your own ideas, and be able to express your views clearly and unmistakably.
However, if we start from the literal meaning and the answer direction of this question is close to "training farmers", it will be biased, because just from the first half of the sentence, we can see that the questioner pointed out that the biggest problem in persuading farmers is "land
If there is a lot of energy left, a lot of people want to worry about it." This clearly tells you that in fact, the land can produce more food. The reason for the food shortage is that "many people want to worry about it", which means that some people are not engaged in production, but
Thinking specifically about doing business, in the eyes of scholars, doing business is extremely harmful to farming and needs to be vigorously curbed.
Therefore, we must "suppress the bottom" and cannot put the cart before the horse. We must pursue agricultural production and kill those who are doing business together.
Zhu Hao really wanted to say, you so-called great scholars, have you ever thought about who transports the food from the fields to your mouth? Is it your family? Or the farmers themselves?
Businessmen who are not engaged in production, but criticize and communicate in all directions...
China has always been in the nascent stage of capitalism and has not broken away from feudal autocracy. This is because you scholars have suppressed merchants too hard.
If the Ming Dynasty could enter capitalist society early, why would it encounter disaster hundreds of years later?
Farmers alone can fill your stomachs, but they cannot bring about scientific and technological changes and promote the overall progress of society.
Zhu Hao should have criticized these nerds... But the problem is, I am taking an exam.
Should I criticize the examiner?
Am I fucking crazy?
This makes Zhu Hao very speechless. Even though I am opposed to your point of view, I have to write an article that agrees with this statement, and I have to say it to the point and criticize myself...
The imperial examination is really oppressive, and you have to follow the rules of the person who set the questions...
Perhaps it is better to examine the Four Classics and Essays when examining classics and history, at least it will not violate one's conscience.
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Three exams are over.
Back at his residence, Zhu Hao didn't think about anything but just had a good night's sleep.
These nine days of suffering can make a person crazy. The thought that if he fails the exam, he will have to come to the provincial capital every three years to undergo a cruel test that requires him to shed three layers of his skin. It is really an experience that can make people suffocate with despair...
But this is also the most critical aspect of the feudal imperial examination.
In fact, when I think about the future, I will have to go through various exams, and I still need to stay up late at night to read and write hard.
It seems that the bird looks the same in every era.
No one is better than anyone else.
Then just let a dream solve a thousand worries, there is everything in the dream.
Zhu Hao slept soundly, but some ignorant visitors disturbed his sleep. When Zhu Hao dragged his exhausted body out to meet the guests, he heard that Lu Song, who had made a special trip to visit, insisted on returning to Anlu first.
"Lu Dianzhan, if you want to leave in a hurry, you can go back first, but that lady cannot go with you." Zhu Hao said.
Lu Song hurriedly explained: "Now that Prince Ning's rebellion has subsided, it is no longer possible to contact Prince Xing's Palace with the Huguang Chief Envoy and the Dusi Yamen. If I stay in Wuchang Palace for a long time, it will arouse suspicion."
Zhu Haodao: "But your original mission was not to accompany me to the provincial capital to take the imperial examination? Now before the results are released, I said I want to leave... If you win, it doesn't matter if you don't eat the Luming Banquet, but will it?
Does it make people think that I was worried about failing the exam and fled back to Anlu with my tail between my legs?"
Lu Song shook his head and smiled bitterly.
He had been waiting for Zhu Hao's exam before, but now after the exam, Zhu Hao still refuses to leave, saying that he will wait for the results to be released... As a royal official, he accompanied a prince's companion to the provincial capital to take the provincial exam, which made him feel like leaving without permission.
I don’t know what it feels like to be on duty.
As for protecting Lou Suzhen... he never thought it was his duty. Even Prince Xing's Mansion was used by Zhu Hao.
He really couldn't understand why Zhu Hao wanted to save Lou Suzhen, an unrelated person. Not to mention causing trouble to Prince Xing's palace, wouldn't Tang Yin appreciate it?