Only thirty?
After hearing the number of scholars reported by Zhao Kai, the following group of candidates all showed disappointed expressions!
There is a big competition every three years, and only thirty Jinshi are selected at one time... Although if you win the Jinshi, you can directly enter the Hanlin Academy and become a close minister of the emperor, which looks like a bright future.
But the number is too small, and the winning rate is too low. There are so many scholars in the world, how can we get enough points?
"For an official, thirty people in one subject are too few, right?"
"Yes, it's not easy for me to study hard, so please give me a few more...hundreds of credits!"
"Official family, Lao Zhuo has read books about sages all his life, and now he has finally achieved academic success. If it is still the same as before, Lao Zhuo will at least have a special title to be a Jinshi!"
"In the official family, there are so many scholars in the world. Even if you take three thousand monks in one subject, it will be more than enough. How can thirty be enough?"
"That's right, there are so many officials in the world doing it, how can thirty Jinshi in one subject be enough?"
"Please let the officials give you more places no matter what!"
When a group of Shaanxi scholars came to their senses, they stopped raising their hands and started shouting with open throats - Isn't it true that the speaker is not guilty today? Then you have to speak freely!
You have to fight with reason!
Otherwise, if the quota of thirty scholars per subject is fixed, how can everyone still be an official?
What? Are there any practical subjects such as Ming Dharma, Ming Calculation, Ming Gong, Ming Medicine, Ming Farming, Ming Craftsmanship, etc. that can be tested? You have to be able to do that!
In the early Song Dynasty, and even earlier in the Five Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the imperial examination was not limited to Jinshi, but included a lot of miscellaneous subjects and Jinshi subjects. However, starting from the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial examination began to show a situation where "all subjects were inferior, only Jinshi was high".
On the one hand, the number of candidates for Jinshi subjects is increasing, and their future in the officialdom is getting better and better; on the other hand, miscellaneous subjects are becoming more and more discriminated against, and their status is inferior to that of military attaches and eunuchs.
In the Song Dynasty, those who relied on skills to become officials were called charlatans...and the oiran ladies were called charlatans. They were both "gifts"!
Moreover, miscellaneous subjects are not easy to learn. Law, arithmetic, construction, medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry, craftsmanship... none of them are easier than the "Four Books and Five Classics". Learning these difficult and useless subjects is still difficult. It’s better to study hard and take the imperial examination!
There were fewer people passing the exam, and the court didn't pay much attention to it, so in the end, miscellaneous subjects were simply not offered, and people were asked to take the exam for Jinshi in civil and military subjects.
Moreover, the two subjects of civil and military are mainly composed of essays...but the questions for Wen Jinshi are from the "Four Books and Five Classics", and the questions for Wu Jinshi are from the "Seven Books of Martial Arts".
In addition, Wu Jinshi needs to take a bow-drawing test - it cannot be counted as an archery test, because there is no need to hit the target. If you can draw the bow, you will pass.
Therefore, as long as a scholar with a lot of strength can finish writing the composition and memorize the "Seven Books of Martial Arts", he will be considered to have studied both civil and martial arts.
If you don't have the strength and can't pass the Wen Jinshi exam, then you only need to pass a few more exams and gain the qualification to be exempted from the exam, and then you can develop into a special performance Jinshi.
In terms of cost-effectiveness, learning to write essays is the most cost-effective way!
But as a result, not only the job of killing people is not good, but also science and technology will stagnate!
The reason is very simple. If the imperial court does not reuse it, the intellectuals below will not study it. There may be a few scholars who will study miscellaneous subjects when they are tired of writing essays, but after all, they are very few... and science and technology We can't just rely on illiterate craftsmen who can't read to do this!
Science is the primary productive force!
Moreover, Zhao Kai still has a lot of "primary productivity" waiting to be taught!
And before teaching it, he couldn't find a group of scholars who knew something about science and technology? Can't we rely on them to support all kinds of schools?
Therefore, the number of Jinshi subjects must be greatly reduced, and at the same time... Jinshi must be made high-quality!
It must be more difficult to become a Jinshi than to become an official through miscellaneous subjects and to serve as an official through meritorious service. Only then will the enthusiasm of the landlord class intellectuals shift from the "Four Books and Five Classics" to the practical study of miscellaneous subjects and to the military service!
As for the high-quality Jinshi, since they are all talented people with civil and military talents, they can not only fight in the army, but also be sent to frontline areas to serve as local officials, so the proportion of them that can be put to great use is naturally high.
However, the new imperial examination policy implemented by Zhao Kai will definitely lead to a backlash from scholars... This is also what he expected. This is why Zhao Kai places the imperial examination in Kaifeng Prefecture. reason!
He was already prepared for the current public outrage!
"Dong dong dong dong..."
Just when the candidates in front of Zichen Hall were "speaking freely", a rapid and dull drum sound suddenly sounded!
And it’s getting louder and louder and more urgent!
Kaifeng Mansion is now a frontline fortress!
What does this drum sound mean?
Is it an early warning?
A golden thief is coming?
Or the Yellow River Dam...
Thinking of the tidal wave of gold thieves and the flood that was more terrifying than the gold thieves... all the scholars from Shaanxi Province were speechless. The Zichen Hall, which was noisy just now, gradually became quiet. Come down.
At this moment, Dong Jingang, the commander of Tiance's imperial army, strode in, quickly arrived in front of Zhao Kai's throne, crossed his hands and saluted, and then loudly said: "Guan family, the army of gold thieves has arrived in the southeast of Kaifeng Fucheng. Chen Liu is 30 miles away!"
"The army of gold thieves?" Zhao Kai looked as usual, "How big is it?"
"No less than 30,000!" Dong Jingang said, "In addition, the gold thieves in the direction of Huazhou have also made strange movements... If the gold thieves come from two directions, Kaifeng Mansion may be surrounded. Zong will stay behind and invite the officials. Leave Kaifeng Fucheng as soon as possible and go to Guangwu Mountain to take charge."
Dong Jingang has a loud voice, and he shouts loudly on purpose, so no one outside Zichen Palace knows about it.
Two to three thousand eyes were looking at Zhao Kai, as if to say: The golden thief is coming, officials, run away!
Running... is of course impossible!
How could a man as big as Zhao Kai be afraid of a mere 30,000 gold thieves, as he was the reincarnation of Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang who arrived in advance?
Facing everyone's gaze, Zhao Kai laughed loudly, and then said loudly: "I came just in time! If the gold thieves don't come, I still want to go to Yingtian Mansion (Songzhou) to find them!"
What's the meaning?
Want to go to war?
Will you take the exam again if you know how to do it?
Zhao Kai quickly gave them the answer, "Dong Jingang...call all the imperial guards and follow me out of the city to explore the enemy camp!" After saying that, he looked at the activities in the square outside Zichen Hall with bright eyes. Master, "Once you reach high school, you will be an Imperial Academy. In troubled times, you will be an Imperial Academy. You should be able to write articles and kill bandits!"
If you don't have the courage to follow me out of the city, you don't have to take the Jinshi exam there. You can go back to your hometown and live a stable life!
If you still want to achieve great achievements in this troubled world, please come to me... I will take you out of the city to meet the golden thief! "
Going out of the city to meet the gold thief?
This official family... is really a little crazy!
All the moves were dumbfounded!
Zhao Kaize looked at them with a smile, "What? You don't dare? If you want to be an official, don't be afraid of meeting gold thieves... You can't avoid this!"
It is indeed impossible to escape...Zhao Kai never escaped in his last life! He was caught by a gold thief and became a cuckold. He also went to the gold thief's hometown and couldn't see the gold thief every day?
But in this life, he has recklessly joined an official family, and it is rare to see a gold thief.
At this time, Lu Xiucai suddenly shouted loudly: "Scholars like us should take it as our own responsibility to drive away the golden thieves and restore the mountains and rivers! If we don't even dare to see the golden thieves, how can we shoulder the great responsibility in the future?"
Zhao Kai nodded and said to his left and right, "Give Lu Xiucai a horse and a chainmail collar!" He turned around and asked Lu Xiucai, "Lu Xiucai, can you ride a horse?"
Lu Xiucai nodded and took a breath, "Yes!"
"Okay!" Zhao Kai said with a smile, "A Hanlin bachelor is going to come with me to fight against thieves. He must be good at both civil and military skills. He can't do it without knowing how to ride a horse!"
Lu Xiucai thought to himself: Should I be a Hanlin bachelor or a Hanlin knight?
Just as he was thinking about it, many scholars who were willing to become Imperial Knights came forward.
"Guan family! Students can also ride horses and shoot arrows! I am willing to go out of the city with Guan family!"
"Guan family, students are not afraid of gold thieves and can also ride horses!"
"The official family, I am willing to follow you out of the city..."
Not to mention, although the scholars in Shaanxi and Hedong areas are not good at writing, there are still a lot of people who can ride horses and shoot arrows.
At this time, I have figured it out... Although the quota of thirty "Hanlin Knights" is a little less, but whoever wants to squeeze in, the future will not be the same as the original five or six hundred literary Jinshi (no) Including Wu Jinshi and special name) are comparable.
Especially this first "Knights of the Imperial Academy", ten years later there will definitely be a group of frontier officials or important ministers in power!
Seeing that one or two hundred Shaanxi scholars stood up, Zhao Kai was quite satisfied - he knew that these people's compositions would not be too bad and their morals would not be too good. Now they dared to venture out of the city to see the golden thief. It means you are not a coward.
That’s it, it’s ready for cultivation!
Zhao Kai made a plan: first select thirty of them to be Hanlin knights, and recommend the rest to serve as secretaries under a group of brothers - becoming an official in the secretaries is actually the upward path for literati in troubled times. Zhao Kai reduced the number of Jinshi scholars in order to provide a channel for these staff who were recruited by generals and other high-ranking civilian officials to rise through meritorious service.
Otherwise, the military attaches who came from the military merit route will not be as good as the civil servants who came from the Jinshi background, and the civil servants who came from the military merit route will not be as good as the Jinshi officers. This will also dampen the enthusiasm of the meritorious officials.
"Okay!" Zhao Kai, who had made a plan, shouted, "Is there anyone else willing to follow me out of the city? If there is no one...then I will take my truly good man from the Song Dynasty out of the city!"
As he spoke, he strode toward a door on the side of Zichen Palace. Dong Jingang also quickly followed, leaned close to Zhao Kai, and whispered: "The official family... there really is an army of gold thieves arriving in Chenliu!"
It turns out that Zhao Kai had previously arranged for Dong Jingang and himself to act out a scene about a gold thief attacking...
"Really?" Zhao Kai frowned, "How many have come?"
"No less than 30,000," Dong Jingang said, "Moving forward by land and water, it's quite a momentum!"
"Humph!" Zhao Kai snorted, "Is Li Bao here?"
"Here," Dong Jingang said, "his war fleet is at Jinmingchi and can escort the officials away at any time."
"Leave?" Zhao Kai said with a smile, "I will also travel by land and water. I will go to Chenliu first!"
