Chapter 189: How to deal with cheating in the imperial examination
"That's right." Qin An nodded solemnly, "Doctoring is a very special profession. You can't ignore it.
There are so many diseases in the world. Without the superb medical skills of doctors, I am afraid there would not be so many people in the world.
Shen Nong tasted hundreds of herbs and left many prescriptions. Unfortunately, there were no words at the time and the prescriptions could not be recorded.
If the First Emperor valued doctors, he should have asked doctors to record the prescriptions given by Shen Nong.
Then re-examine the prescriptions, keep the useful ones, indicate why they are useless, and then discard the useless ones.
Finally, a medical book "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic" was formed. There are four classic works of traditional Chinese medicine in China, namely "Huangdi Nei Jing", "Difficult Classic", "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" and "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic".
If the First Emperor really wanted to implement the imperial examination system, there would be no shortage of doctors. "
Ying Zheng said with great regret: "What you said is absolutely true, but it's a pity that the First Emperor no longer has this opportunity."
Li Si and others looked at each other suspiciously, what does your majesty mean?
Qin An smiled and said: "Yes, the First Emperor has been dead for more than two thousand years. Even if we know that there is an imperial examination system and that doctors are very important, it is useless."
Li Si and others suddenly realized that His Majesty had just said that on purpose, in order to prevent Qin An from becoming suspicious.
"That's all for the imperial examination system. As for what will be tested, I don't know, but there is one thing we should pay attention to, and that is to prevent cheating." Qin An said again.
"Cheating?" Everyone heard new words again.
Qin An smiled and said: "Cheating means that an examiner leaks the questions. After the candidates know the answers, they will recite the answers to the questions, or pay someone to write the answers and then recite them.
What's even more outrageous is that candidates write their answers on a small piece of paper, stuff it into a pen holder, or hide it in their sleeves or shoes. There are really all kinds of ways. "
Qin An remembered that when he was studying, a group of people didn't study hard and started cheating during the final exam. There were also movies and TV series shown on TV. The cheating methods were even more sophisticated and almost no one could check them.
"Sir, how to deal with cheating?" Ying Zheng asked again.
Qin An replied: "The only way is to check. The first thing is to check the students when entering the examination room. Whether it is stationery or students' clothing, they are carefully checked.
Secondly, after entering the examination room, students are prohibited from speaking. Of course, when I say speaking, I mean talking, not coughing or anything like that.
Then arrange for the examiner to walk around frequently. Once a student is found to have inappropriate behavior, he must keep a close eye on the candidate.
The examination questions cannot be dictated by the invigilator. Instead, the examination questions are hung on the front, back, left and right for all students to see.
Of course, you can also write the test questions directly on the test paper, just like I gave Xiao Su and the others the test.
Also, the name cannot be displayed to other people. After the examination, the name of the candidate is directly pasted on the examination paper, and the examination paper is handed over to the Confucian scholars of the imperial court for copying.
This group of Confucian scholars are not allowed to leave after copying. It is best to lock them up before copying and then release them after the list is released. "
"Good idea. It's best not to let anyone know who the scribe is." Ying Zheng said.
"That's right." Qin An said, "Not only that, before the imperial examination system, there can be rural examinations, county examinations, government examinations, etc.
Only those who passed the township examination, county examination, and government examination could participate in the imperial examination. Otherwise, there will only be more and more scholars in the world, and the court will be too busy by then.
In order to prevent collusion between officials and students in rural examinations, county examinations and other places, the imperial court should set up a reporting office to specifically investigate such matters.
In addition, people can also be allowed to report officials for corruption, bending the law, incompetence and other matters. As long as evidence is found, they will be dealt with according to law.
Even if it is not found, this yamen cannot take it lightly. Sometimes the evidence will be destroyed.
But after an official commits corruption and perverts the law once, he will never stop. There will be a second or third time, and the evidence will be there, right?
This yamen is called the disciplinary inspection department outside. It is specifically for inspecting officials. Very similar to the imperial censor.
The only difference is that the imperial censor reports the matter, while the disciplinary inspection department needs to find solid evidence to arrest someone. Then he is handed over to the government for conviction.
Also, you can't give in to a crime. To the outside world, any confession that you give in to a crime is untenable. "
"Disciplinary inspection yamen? This is a good yamen. Their mission is to detect all corrupt officials in the world and prevent officials from having any chance of taking bribes and bending the law." Ying Zheng nodded.
Li Si felt that it was very inappropriate, so he said: "Sir, your method is very good, but there is one thing that is very wrong. Imperial officials have had human relations since ancient times. How can it be that the common people give baskets of eggs, chickens, ducks and fish? Shouldn’t officials also be punished?”
Qin An smiled and said: "A good official will not accept this, and there are conditions for becoming a good official. The country cannot owe them too much.
Therefore, the salary given to officials must not be less. If an official is so poor that he cannot afford to eat, then you have to let him be an upright official and a good official. Then this is the fault of the country, not the fault of the court. "
"Sir, what you said makes sense." Ying Zheng sighed, "If the court treats officials badly, how can the officials devote themselves to the court?"
"That's it." Qin An said. "But everything needs to be done step by step. It may not be a good thing for the First Emperor to make drastic reforms, especially for officials, just after unifying the six countries.
Therefore, after the emergence of the imperial examination system, the Department of Discipline Inspection will also appear. At this time, the Department of Discipline Inspection will only target cheating by candidates and collusion between officials and students. As for corruption and perversion of the law, we can wait until Daqin truly achieves what the people want. "
"Thank you sir for your teaching." Ying Zheng bowed to Qin An.
Fusu and others also immediately bowed to Qin An.
Qin An immediately stood up and returned the greeting, joking that he was still in someone else's territory, how could he be arrogant and arrogant? He didn't even want to go out.
"Ahem..." Ying Zheng coughed suddenly.
Fusu stepped forward and asked with concern: "Father, are you feeling unwell?"
"Village chief, please sit down and take a rest." Li Si immediately poured a glass of water for Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng picked up the tea cup, took a sip of water, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, my throat is just a little itchy."
"Father must be too tired," Fusu said. "The child is ashamed and cannot help his father."
"I'm very happy that you have this intention." Ying Zheng said with a smile.
Jiang Lu said: "Father, let me press your shoulders."
Immediately Lu was pressed on Ying Zheng's shoulders.
Qin An said with a smile: "Village chief, I envy you that you have several good sons. Even if it is not for your own health, you must have a good rest for them.
Never imitate the First Emperor, who did everything himself and died so early. "
Some people died, but not completely...
