Seeing this scene, Chen Shilang couldn't help but darken his face and couldn't help but sneer several times.
“Those officials’ sons who are well-read in poetry and books and have a good family background are confident.
But for these three, I'm afraid they need to add two more words in front of confidence. "
One examiner couldn't help but asked in a low voice. "Which two words?"
"Blind." Chen Shilang spat out the word in disgust and walked away.
These three fools are so confident that they insist on taking the Jinshi Science and Technology Provincial Examination.
I don't know if their biological father or godfather would have the shame to let them come here to embarrass themselves if they saw this scene.
A group of officials spoke crookedly and almost couldn't control their emotions on the spot.
Wu Shangshu was also so happy that he almost laughed out loud. He naturally knew why Chen Shilang, who presided over the special examination, had such great resentment.
He turned his head and glanced in that direction, thinking that the parents of those three young people were not good birds.
He couldn't help but shook his head in disgust and strode away. These young people don’t know the heights of the world.
Then let them stay in the Gongyuan and suffer a lot.
Maybe, by the next day, these pampered, uneducated scum will be crying and demanding tribute.
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This was already the morning of the second day of the imperial examination, after the Gongyuan opened quietly.
Yang Zhongguan, a confidant of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, slowly entered the examination room.
Accompanying him into the examination room were several imperial officials.
After receiving the news, the examiner Wu Shangshu and a group of examiners rushed over immediately.
Yang Jian took out the official manuscript, praised Wu Shangshu and a group of examiners, and also explained his purpose.
It is to follow the imperial edict, supervise the discipline of the Gongyuan examination room, and strictly guard against all kinds of accidents.
He would also squat here with a group of examiners and would not leave until the exam was over and the results were announced.
Although the examiners, who have long been accustomed to all kinds of frivolous manipulations by officials, feel that it is a bit unruly.
But the problem is that with Wu Shangshu's cooperative explanation, and considering the unstable factors in the examination room this time.
In the end, everyone recognized the arrival of this official confidant.
After some pleasantries, Yang Jian led the imperial squad and started walking in the tribute courtyard under the guidance of an examiner.
After wandering around in a long circle, Yang Jian finally saw where Gao Zhang was. When he saw Cai Laoliu and Tong Zhisheng not far away from Gao Zhang, the corner of his mouth twisted subconsciously.
Then he subconsciously reached out and touched the small wax pill hidden in his arms, and glanced at the accompanying examiner beside him.
Knowing that it was not the time yet, Yang Jian continued to wander around the tribute courtyard.
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At this moment, Gao Zhang was looking at the test questions. Ce asked a total of five questions, and these five questions were about civil affairs, state affairs, and knowledge.
It can be said that the person who wrote the questions was quite thoughtful. At least those classical Chinese texts were very difficult for Gao Zhang to read, but at least he understood the intentions of the person who wrote the questions.
One of the policy issues that concerned Gao Zhang the most was that a few years ago, the Song Dynasty and Xixia once again had a fierce conflict.
This conflict once again drew attention to the problems of the court's armaments.
That is, the military equipment was shoddily manufactured, causing various problems with the soldiers' ordnance.
Then regarding this issue, ask these candidates if there is any way to solve this problem?
Seeing this, Gao Zhang couldn't help but his eyes lit up. Oh, I'm really familiar with this question.
As a passionate young man with an annual income of less than 100,000 yuan and a hand speed of about 150 yuan a minute, I have the world at my fingertips.
Some like to care about global warming, international refugee issues, Asia-Pacific strategy, and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Some people like to look at the changing general trends of the world and the changes of dynasties for five thousand years, all on the keyboard.
Gao Zhang often exchanges opinions and examples with a group of like-minded comrades on the Internet.
All in all, as a man with an astonishing wealth of knowledge, Gao Zhang felt that he could fully utilize his talents on this issue.
After all, idleness is idleness. On other issues, Gao Zhang obviously felt that they were not what he was good at.
After all, how to solve the problem of redundant officials? Haha, the factors of the problem of redundant officials in the Northern Song Dynasty are too complex and cannot be explained in a few words.
If you don't even understand the reason, then you just think of a solution. Isn't that nonsense?
As for the problem of depleted armaments, or that the military equipment of the Song Dynasty was fraudulent and inferior, it couldn't be easier to solve it.
The first solution is the "Wule Gongming" system. This system comes from the Qin Empire that first unified China.
That is, the manufacturers and inspectors of weapons and artifacts must have their names engraved on them, and this system is also recorded in Lu Buwei's "Lu Shi Chun Qiu".
Gao Zhang remembered a video he had watched about the Qin Dynasty's "Wule Gongming" system, and once mentioned that a Qin Dynasty's Ge was engraved with "Five years of Prime Ministership, made by Lu Buwei", "Temple Gong: Words such as "蟟", "丞：义", "工：成", etc.
From the casters of weapons to the inspectors, to the person in charge of the arsenal, all the way to Prime Minister Lu Buwei, a complete ordnance and weapons inspection system has been formed.
Once there is a problem with the quality of this weapon, the responsible persons at each level can be held accountable from top to bottom.
It is precisely because of this system that the production quality of the military equipment of the Qin Empire was greatly guaranteed.
In addition, each component of the assembly line production of weapons has an extremely strict scale. In this way, the parts between each weapon can be replaced, which helps save costs.
In addition to this first plan, Gao Zhang also had another trick, that is, since the quality of the ordnance produced by the imperial court was not up to standard, why not outsource it?
For example, find a large workshop to make some weapons that do not need to be kept confidential, such as knives, guns, bows and arrows, etc.
Large workshops make products according to the requirements of the imperial court. If they don't meet the standards, they just don't pay.
Anyway, there was not much else in the Song Dynasty, and there were surprisingly many tricks. Even the court's tax revenue was outsourced. So, what's the point of outsourcing ordnance manufacturing?
I didn't expect that I would meet such a high-ranking person in the imperial examination, who was very suitable to me.
Gao Zhang felt that even if it wasn't to show off his talents, he still had to make some contribution to improving the quality of the Song Dynasty's military equipment.
Gao Zhang first analyzed the reasons for the deterioration of the quality of military equipment in the Song Dynasty from the shallower to the deeper.
After all, at home, I had heard about my father, the commander of the Song Dynasty, who had made crazy complaints about the quality of the Song Dynasty's military equipment.
