The autumn harvest in Sanliu Village has begun.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu's new house was finally built.
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Hey, the number of words is actually less... Li Qiao has started reading, I want to go through the plot QAQ
Chapter 58 Policy Topic: Paradise
The autumn harvest mainly includes sweet potatoes, corn, yellow rice, sorghum and other miscellaneous grains.
Li Qiao's family planted sweet potatoes and corn late, and they were still far away from maturity, so the autumn harvest has nothing to do with his family.
His family makes snacks every day as usual.
It’s just that now the people making dim sum have become Tao Zhu, Li Dashan, and Li Chuntao.
Li Qiao only makes meat floss every day, and he does not make the rest of the snacks himself. His main task is to study.
The number of words in the four books is actually not that many. The "Great Learning" with the smallest number of words has more than 2,000 words, and the "Mencius" with the largest number of words is less than 40,000 words.
If it weren't for classical Chinese, then considering Li Qiao's memory at this time - he was eighteen years old and still a person with super powers, it would be easy for him to memorize these four books by heart.
However, these four books are in classical Chinese. If you want to memorize them quickly, you cannot just rely on rote memorization. You must memorize them on the basis of understanding, so that you can memorize them quickly.
Therefore, Li Qiao spent a few days to familiarize himself with these four books, and then he led the ox cart to the county seat.
This time, he went to buy the commentaries on the Four Books.
He was a scumbag himself, and he was worried that the clerk at the bookstore would make random recommendations for the sake of performance, so he went straight to Zhuang Wen and asked Zhuang Wen to recommend relevant books to him.
Zhuang Wen has been studying for thirty years. Although he has not been admitted as a scholar, this most basic reference book is a piece of cake for him. He can name a dozen of them with his eyes closed.
However, Zhuang Wen was pleasantly surprised to know that Li Qiao had continued to study at this time. He first wrote down the names of all the books Li Qiao needed, including not only the Four Books, but also the Five Classics and the Three Histories and Three Biographies.
After finishing writing, he talked to Li Qiao about what he had planned for a long time:
He hopes to have more exchanges and discussions with Li Qiao in the future so that we can make progress together.
If Li Qiao doesn't understand anything, you can come to him and he will try his best to answer it.
If Li Qiao had any special skills in reading, he also hoped that Li Qiao would not hesitate to teach him.
Of course, Li Qiao can also charge a fee.
Anyway, as long as Li Qiao is willing to share, he can do anything.
He had been studying for thirty years but had accomplished nothing. His family never put any pressure on him or even blamed him. But the more his family understood, the heavier the burden on his heart became. Every night in the dead of night, he was tossing and turning and unable to sleep.
"Brother, you have to help me. My brother will remember your kindness for the rest of his life."
Thinking of these wasted thirty years, Zhuang Wen's eyes turned red.
Li Qiao: "..."
Good guy.
How could Zhuang Wen think he had special learning skills?
"Brother Wen, everyone in the village knows what I looked like when I was studying. Now I am starting from scratch."
"It's better to start from scratch. When you make snacks, you start from scratch. In a short period of time, not only did you pay off your gambling debts, but you also got a husband, a bullock cart and a new house. The future is bright and bright."
"Now that you are studying from the beginning, I believe you will have a bright future."
Zhuang Wen was as confident as a villager in Li Qiao.
As a young man, his brain works very quickly, even better than that of a man like him who is about to become a grandfather.
"...Brother Wen, please tell me what difficulties you faced during the imperial examination." Li Qiao didn't bother to defend himself, so he simply asked directly.
"This..." Zhuang Wen suddenly looked ashamed.
In fact, he passed the first two levels of the Children's Student Examination ten years ago, and the last level of the College Examination, which takes place twice every three years, has been passed six times.
Except for the first time when he was too nervous and performed abnormally, and the second time when he was not in good health and contracted a cold, the remaining four times were all failed in decision-making.
Mo Yihe Tie Jing, this kind of test question that tests basic skills, he has no problem at all.
The poems and songs are not outstanding, but they are not faulty either.
The problem lies only in policy.
"The first two times, Mr. Chen from the private school said that my articles looked like flowers, but in fact they were empty."
"So I worked hard to say something meaningful. But the last two times."
Zhuang Wen sighed as he spoke.
These two times, when the new emperor ascended the throne, every time a major event happened in the court, the new emperor would definitely write an article to express his opinions.
Over the past year, there have been more than 20 articles.
There are as few as a dozen articles.
The policy questions were all based on these articles of the new emperor, so if he wanted to be admitted as a scholar, he had to study these articles of the new emperor and figure out the new emperor's thoughts.
However, in just a few years since he ascended the throne, the new emperor has already written hundreds of articles. He is old and his brain is not as good as his younger ones. When studying these articles, he always feels that he is out of power, like a headless fly, rushing around randomly and unable to catch it. focus.
In addition, he prefers to pile up rhetoric when writing articles, so the articles he writes now are a bit different and not as good as those he wrote before.
At the end of the sentence, Zhuang Wen sighed again: "This year, Your Majesty has already written thirteen articles. Before next year's college examination, I'm afraid there will be thirteen more articles. I can't resist it!"
Li Qiao: "..."
Good guy, today’s emperor loves to write short essays so much?
What's even more frightening is that the policy papers come up with topics from these small essays...
Not to mention the despair on Zhuang Wen's face, he would have despaired just hearing this.
"...Brother Wen, I don't understand. Shouldn't the imperial examinations be based on questions from the Four Books and Five Classics?" He couldn't help but ask.
"It used to be like this, but the Holy Spirit said that the Four Books and Five Classics have been tested too many times, and every sentence has been repeatedly demonstrated and there is no new idea, so the policy discussion was based on the topics he wrote."
"That's it." Li Qiao suddenly realized.
He turned out to be a poor student and had not even memorized the most basic books, so he knew nothing about these real questions.
"Brother Wen, what were the policy questions for the previous two exams? Do you still remember them?" he asked.
"Of course you remember. I'll get it for you."
Zhuang Wen said as he stood up and turned over the big bookshelf behind him.
After each exam, he would write down the questions when he came back, especially the policy questions. This was his weakness. Although he had already passed the exam, he still often looked it up and pondered it.
Soon, he found out the two real questions after the new emperor ascended the throne.
Li Qiao took it, and first browsed through the Mo Yi and Tie Jing at the front, then skipped the poems and songs, and went directly to the strategy at the end.
He originally thought that the topic of the policy essay was to excerpt a sentence from the essay of the current saint. To his surprise, the topic was to extract the central content of the essay, and then ask the candidates to give answers in the form of questions.
For example, for the first topic, a typhoon hit a coastal province before. Not only the crops grown by the people were destroyed, but their homes were also destroyed. So the Holy Spirit wrote an article lamenting the hardships of the people's livelihood.
Then the topic of the policy discussion in the second year is how the candidates should save themselves if they encounter a typhoon, and what should the local government do based on their actual situation.
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It’s reasonable to ask what the government should do, but it’s too biased to ask candidates how to save themselves.
There are no typhoons in Pingcheng!
The imperial examination questions can be unpopular, but they cannot be unpopular.
It's just a scholar test, not a palace exam. Does a scholar need to know so much?
Scholars can't be officials, so it doesn't matter whether they know it or not. Scholars only need to endorse well, be full of articles, and have solid basic skills.
It is too difficult to ask such a question now.
Another example is the second policy discussion topic.
The spring of the year before last, there was a drought in a certain prefecture in the northwest. Some superstitious villagers tied up a young girl and wanted to offer it to an immortal to pray for rain. However, the girl refused and hit a pillar and died. In order to avenge the girl, the girl's bamboo horse died overnight. Hundreds of villagers were killed, shocking both the government and the public.
The current emperor wrote an article on this matter, and the topic of discussion was how to stop this tragedy if the candidates were present, and what should the local government do.
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What should candidates do again?
This is far from Li Qiao's impression of the serious imperial examination questions.
Is this the path that the Holy One is taking today?
No wonder the imperial examination is not easy to pass.
Li Qiao pondered for a moment, then said to Zhuang Wen: "Brother Wen, I think so, but I don't know if it's right or not. I'll tell you and let's discuss it."
"Both policy issues, in the final analysis, are about the Holy Spirit caring about the people and wanting to find good officials who can solve the people's problems, rather than nerds who just know that reading cannot solve practical problems."
Although this topic is biased towards the wrong side.
But it can be seen that the Holy One is looking for someone who can solve the problem.
To put it simply, it is changing from exam-oriented education to quality education.
As for the major events in the world, those that can be openly written on the test paper so that scholars all over the world can freely solve the problems are nothing more than the national economy and the people's livelihood.
"Brother Wen, in fact, a hundred or so articles are not too many. Extract the central content of each article and connect it with the principles of the Four Books and Five Classics. This way, you can remain unchanged in response to changes."
"Even if the person who asked the question wants to play new tricks, he will never deviate from his roots. In the end, he still has to connect it with the Four Books and Five Classics, and the national economy and people's livelihood. Don't you think so?"
"ah???"
Zhuang Wen was a little stunned. Li Qiao's words were a bit new to him.
When he used to study the holy articles, he always memorized the next one after memorizing one article. He did not pay attention to whether the central contents of these hundreds of articles were similar.
He did not summarize...
