What is the purpose of the imperial examination?

To select scholars, that is, to select officials, is actually just to select officials. Those who have passed the imperial examination will basically not become officials. However, the selection of officials is an extremely important part of national management. After all, no matter what kind of national system is, officials still need to be implemented.

Since the founding of the imperial examinations in the Sui Dynasty, it was its heyday in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was also the one that all dynasties attached the most importance to the imperial examinations, and the rigorous methods of the imperial examinations have passed through previous dynasties.

Nowadays, the prosperity of the imperial examination has also created a huge group of students in the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, there are more than 600,000 scholars in the world, and more than 20,000 scholars have fame and fortune. What a huge number. To become a scholar, you have to pass the three difficulties in the county examination and government examination and the government examination and examination in order to enter the school and become a scholar.

There are more than 600,000 scholars in the world. It is conceivable how many people should be reading and literate at this time.

It is even more difficult for scholars to become juren. They have to pass the annual and academic examinations held by provincial school officials to obtain qualifications to take the provincial examination, and then take the provincial examination and pass the juren. The admission rate for the provincial examination is about 30 and get one. After passing the examination, they will go to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination, and finally pass the palace examination to truly become a Jinshi.

However, the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were different from those in the Tang and Song dynasties. During the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examinations were mainly tested, and the main examinations of the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the eight-part essays were tested in the first part of the provincial examination and the first part of the examination.

Whether you can pass the exam depends mainly on the pros and cons of the eight-legged essay.

What is the Eight-Legend Essay? The Eight-Legend Essay uses the sentences in the Four and Five Classics as the title, and can only explain the meaning according to the meaning of the title. The wording must be in the tone of the ancients, which is not only the so-called setting words for the sages. The structure must also have a certain program, the number of words and restrictions, and the syntax also requires duality.

Eight-legged essays are articles composed of eight pairs, usually with six paragraphs.

Under this examination system, countless readers devote their entire lives to the study of eight-legged essays.

In Liu Jun's view, the eight-legged essay is more like a word game. It requires more than writing lyrics by poetry. Is this selected eight-legged essay master helpful in managing the country and governing the local area?

Liu Jun felt that it was not helpful.

What abilities do officials need?

Liu Jun believes that it is leadership and execution ability. What is required is their moral integrity and personal business ability.

Reading the classics of sages can certainly improve moral integrity, but also have strong professional abilities. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, some of the officials who considered themselves gentlemen, such as the Donglin Party, had a few moral integrity, and most of them were hypocritical, and their personal business abilities were almost nothing.

What business abilities are required to be an official?

To be an official, you must be educated and knowledgeable. People who don’t even know their words cannot become officials. They have no knowledge and experience. Moreover, you cannot just read the Four and Five Classics. You also have to have professional knowledge and not be familiar with the classics. You also have to know some mathematics, geography, weather, and even management, and other knowledge.

You also need to have organizational skills, communication skills, expression skills, adaptability, innovation skills, analysis and judgment skills and employment skills.

Many officials who came out of the imperial examination often lack these most.

Liu Jun felt very sad to use such a group of people to manage the world.

It's like using a group of idiots to command the army to fight, and know nothing. He can only slap his head around, but it's impossible not to lose.

Why can Liu Jun's army be invincible? Putting aside equipment and training, it is the key to the Chu army never use laymen to guide experts.

Yuan Jixian was also from the imperial examination. He was very upholding the imperial examination system. He heard that the emperor wanted to reform the imperial examination, so he was very worried.

Looking at his worried and wanting to speak, Liu Jun couldn't help but shook his head and smiled.

"You don't have to worry too much about Yuanfu. I also understand the great significance of the imperial examination and implemented a thousand-year-old system for scholarship. Once the reforms would inevitably touch the interests of countless people, especially now it is still a turbulent time. I cannot anger all the people in the world with one blow."

There are so many people in the world who read. There are still millions of people.

If you count all the literate ones, it will probably be tens of millions.

Whether it is a wealthy family or a poor family, countless people are staring at the imperial examination road, and thousands of troops want to squeeze into a single-plank bridge.

If Liu Jun dared to demolish the bridge suddenly, it would have really angered everyone in the world.

"I also know that I have to eat in one bite, but some things have to be considered and planned early. This time the imperial examination will be carried out in the same way as before. But I also hope that some small reforms can be considered as exploration. Why not change from canceling the eight-legged essay question and posting the scriptures and adding the question to the question of "Liu Jun asked Yuan Jixian.

The imperial examinations started in the Sui Dynasty, and the examination subjects of each dynasty have been constantly changing.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, there were only questions. During the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, there were ten subjects. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many subjects for examination, including Ming Jing, Jinshi, Mingfa, Mingzi, Mingzi, Mingsuan, Mingsuan, etc., but in the Ming Dynasty, there was only one subject for Jinshi.

But in addition to some special subjects, whether it is the Ming Jing or Jinshi, the main content of the exam is Confucian classics.

In the Tang Dynasty, the main themes were ink, oral examinations, scriptures, and poetry and essays. In the Song Dynasty, the main themes were ink, scriptures, poetry and essays, etc.

In the Ming Dynasty, only the Sutra was left.

The so-called meaning of the sutra is a discussion around the principles of the Four and Five Classics. If there is a plot and a test subject, the meaning of the sutra does not matter to personal thoughts. The candidates only follow the sages designated by the court.

This is like taking the Marxism-Leninistry exam.

The meaning of the ink is a simple question and answer question based on the meaning of the sutra and the annotations. The posting of the sutra is like filling in the blanks and dictation of a modern test paper. The examiner selects a page from the sutra, picks one of the sentences and prints it on the test paper. According to this line of text, the test needs to fill out the context associated with it.

Only the strategy questions are quite practical. Based on the questions raised by the examiner about the meaning of the classics or current affairs, the candidates expressed their opinions and proposed countermeasures. The scope is generally wider. Is it larger?

The meaning of posting scriptures and ink is relatively simple, but the meaning of scriptures is more difficult, so the most valuable question is.

"Don't use eight-legged essays?" Yuan Jixian was really surprised. Eight-legged essays are quite difficult. Countless readers have been studying this art-making skill all their lives. Some people are in their sixties or seventies and cannot get into a scholar.

Liu Jun felt that the eight-legged essay is a completely word game, and it is not even as valuable as poetry. At least poetry is creating new poetry and representing his own thoughts. What about eight-legged essay? It is just a pure word game.

"Well, I feel that the eight-legged sword has gone astray and has led countless people to read the scriptures, but what is the actual significance?"

"Your Majesty, people who do good essays in the eight-legged essays are naturally fine. Passing the eight-legged essay art exam, you can select the best readers." Yuan Jixian said that the eight-legged essays is so difficult, of course, only the smartest readers can do the best.

Liu Jun admitted this statement, but what he wanted to say was that there was no need for it.

"The eight-legged essay may indeed be able to select the smartest readers, but it also leads countless readers to this wrong path. The imperial examination requires the selection of officials, and the most important thing is to select outstanding scholars who are suitable for officials, rather than the imperial examination process."

In other words, excellent official candidates do not necessarily need to be all eight-legged masters.

Yuan Jixian was a little confused.

"Yuanfu, this time, I hope to no longer use the eight-legged art to make the art, but to examine the meaning of the ink meaning, posting the scriptures and questioning. The three are comprehensively scored and increase the scores of the policy questions. Even our ink meaning, posting the scriptures is not limited to the Four and Five Classics, but can also add some other subject content, such as arithmetic, law, such as geography, weather and other common sense content."

Yuan Jixian was even more confused. Is this still the imperial examination?

The imperial examination does not test Confucian classics, the words of sages, arithmetic, law, geography, astronomy, and common sense in life?

"Yuanfu, what we want to choose is the right candidate for officials, not classic masters and masters of Confucianism."

After thinking about it, Yuan Qiangxian reluctantly accepted it. After all, the imperial examination was still an imperial examination, and the court still passed the imperial examination to select officials.

As long as this remains unchanged, even if the world reads are dissatisfied, they will still accept it.

However, Liu Jun's next words made Yuan Jixian unable to calm down.

"After the imperial examination, I am preparing to hold another exam to select officials. After selecting candidates, they will be given centralized training and then assigned to various places. Perhaps they can change their names and call them civil servant exams. In the future, all the officials will be selected by themselves, and they can even consider that if they perform well, they can be promoted to the current level after the two terms are completed, and they will be awarded official rank and appointed as officials to govern the government."

This really shocked Yuan Jixian. Although officials are said to be officials, in fact, there is a strict distinction between officials and officials, and the boundaries are clear. Officials are officials, officials are officials, and even officials are flowing. Officials are called turbid currents, which cannot be confused.

There are many types of officials, one of which is the official official, that is, there are officials who are formally organized by the court, and the number is generally not large. However, even if these officials are the official official, once they become officials, they will basically be impossible to become officials. Even if they do well in the office of officials, they will still be officials for life.

The barrier between officials and officials is extremely strict.

Now, the emperor is actually preparing to pass the exam to select officials, and even intends to break this barrier that has been around for thousands of years and promote good officials to officials.

So in this case, how is it a civil servant exam? What is the difference between it and the imperial examination?

Facing the question of Fu, Liu Jun smiled.

What is the difference? Of course, there is a difference. In Liu Jun's long-term plan, one is to prepare to wait until the civil servant exam is mature, and when this group of new civil servants grow up and have a certain number of good ones, they must be used to eliminate those mediocre officials who have passed the imperial examination but cannot become officials at all, those corrupt officials, and those idiots.

In the future, he will also establish a new school system. The school will no longer be just a place for those scholars with fame to send names and exams, but will combine the education and talent acquisition into one. Then pass the civil service examination and select talents.

In the future, officials will have to start from the lowest level of officials. If you want to pass the imperial examination, you will become a county magistrate. (To be continued.)
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