Yu Qian took the test paper, thanked the teacher, and briefly glanced at the previous questions. They were just common sense in the Four Books and Five Classics. They were not very difficult, so he turned to the end to read the policy questions and decided to answer the most difficult questions first.
It is Yu Qian's character to start with the first challenge.
For some innocuous and small problems, putting them aside temporarily will not affect the overall situation, but the key ones that affect the overall situation always need to be solved first.
Don't stick to the order given, but proceed in order of priority.
Yu Qian looked at the policy issue and couldn't help but look serious.
The entire Confucian exam is given a score of one hundred, of which Ce Wen has the exclusive score of forty.
The policy question was not one, but two. To be precise, it was to answer two of the four questions, each worth twenty points. Whether you can answer the policy questions well or not is directly related to the score of the entire exam.
The first policy question:...
Nowadays, business is booming. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, people abandon their fertile land and engage in business.
Question: How should we deal with fertile farmland being abandoned and people turning to business?
Yu Qian was a little shocked that he actually put the question of business and people in the county school examination. This was not a question that could be answered simply.
It’s not that there are people who abandoned their fields in Qiantang to engage in business. After all, not far away is the city of Hangzhou, where countless businessmen are partying, and there is always a need for manpower, and these manpower are often those who should have been farming.
Yu Qian had read the textbooks of the business school and knew that the existence of business was necessary, especially in the allocation and circulation of resources, contributing tax revenue to the court, and absorbing people who could not live on the fields. He knew that doing business must not be done with a stick. Death, but the problem is that farming is the root and foundation. If this foundation is shaken, then business will cease to exist.
No one is farming and there is no food to eat. Who will spend money to buy things from merchants?
This is a question of balancing business and farming, and a question of coordination between commerce and agriculture. It is also an issue that is extremely difficult to grasp.
Yu Qian didn't expect that the first policy question he learned in Qiantang County this year would be so difficult.
Looking past this question, he looked at the second policy question:
Although culture and education are flourishing in Qiantang County today, literacy is still very difficult. The illiterate people in Dingkou do not like, are unwilling, and do not follow books. How to solve this problem?
Yu Qian scratched his head.
This is a cultural and educational issue, and the focus is not on Qiantang social schools, county schools, and private schools, but on literacy.
I heard that literacy literacy in Jinling has been very successful in recent years. Many people in the city can hold a copy of "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and talk about it. The number of classics sold there every year is astonishing.
Qiantang has indeed promoted literacy in recent years, but it is a pity that there are very few people who cooperate with it. Even if the county school and social school have teachers together, they cannot attract many people. Some people were interested in coming at first, but after listening for a few days, they found that they couldn't learn and simply stopped coming.
He would rather lie in bed than learn a word or two. He also said that literacy would not help the crops in the field. Could it be that by knowing a few words, the rice would grow taller and the harvest would be more abundant?
This used to be an issue considered by the social sciences, the county school, and the county government, but now it has become a policy question. Did these people come up with the problem, or are they deliberately torturing people? Ask us if you haven’t solved the problem...
However, the issue of literacy is much simpler than the issue of merchants and farmers, and does not involve the government's major policies.
The next two policy questions are also relatively simple. One is a military issue, asking how the chieftains will be governed after the full transformation of the land. The other is a people's livelihood issue, asking how to enhance local disaster preparedness and resilience.
Yu Qian did not hesitate and turned his attention to the first policy question. He took up the pen to moisten the ink, thought for a moment, and then wrote the answer: "Business is not a bear's paw, and agriculture is not a fish. You can have both..."
Lu Lian, the magistrate of Qiantang, looked at Zhao Shuwen with a sullen face: "Do you know, I still hope that he can enter the government school in three years and become famous in both Zhejiang and Zhejiang."
Zhao Shuwen waved his hand: "Fame is not important to him. He does not need the name of a genius. What he needs is more opportunities and better education. Qiantang County cannot teach him."
"I'm talking about Zhao Shuwen, I'm not happy to hear what you said." Qiantang County School Teacher Yu Guozibai said with a straight face and knocked on the table: "If you can't teach social studies, the county school can't teach it? Yu Qian is just a ten-year-old A three-year-old baby again
How difficult can it be to teach? "
Zhao Shuwen chuckled, cupped his hands and said, "Guo Jiaoyu, please forgive me, it's my fault. However, Tai Qian is a quick-witted person who understands by analogy. After six years of social studies, he completed all major social studies in only three years." It took another year to complete the main coursework of the county school. In the remaining two years, he specialized in miscellaneous studies. He taught everything that I could teach, Hu Kewei could teach, and other teachers could teach."
"Even if he has achieved this step, he still cannot satisfy his thirst. Once he enters the county school to study for three years, if the county school cannot give him the content of the government school, then he will be idle here for three years! For such a disciple, who can Are you willing to let him waste three good years?"
Guo Zibai's face looked better: "Yu Qian's name has been heard in the county school for a long time. Well, if he can come out on top in this exam, I will let him go. As for Lu Zhixian, you need to find a way to persuade him." "
Lu Lian shook his head helplessly: "By singing in harmony, you have made it clear that you are joining forces to defeat my army. With all the talk, what else can I say? We are both selecting talents for the imperial court. As long as they are talents, we should start This is a special case. Didn’t the emperor say in the early years that he would demote talents of any kind? If Yu Qian can really go to Peking, he can also enter the Imperial College early. That is the place that is truly suitable for him. "
When Zhao Shuwen and Guo Zibai saw that the magistrate agreed, they stood up and saluted.
Zhao Shuwen said bluntly: "Zhi County Lu's high righteousness will definitely be remembered by Yu Qian when he achieves success in the future. As his husband, I would like to thank Magistrate Lu on his behalf."
Lu Lian stood up, looked in the direction of the classroom, and said in a deep voice: "As long as he can be used by the imperial court in the future and perform great deeds, he will live up to our discussion today."
Zhao Shuwen said confidently: "One day, Yu Qian will be the pillar of the country."
After the Confucian exam, Lu Lian couldn't wait to flip through the exam papers. It was so difficult to find a special exam paper among nearly five hundred exam papers. After all, they were all anonymous, and he didn't know which one belonged to Yu Qian.
Guo Zibai reminded Lu Lian with one sentence: "With Yu Qian's temperament, I think he will be able to answer the most difficult policy questions."
Lu Lian suddenly realized and rummaged around. Among all the test papers, only three answered the first policy question. Many people directly avoided this most difficult question.
And among these three, one is the most outstanding.
Lu Lian was reading carefully when Guo Zibai suddenly slammed the table and shouted: "Zhixian Lu, look at this poem about things!"
"oh?"
Lu Lian took the paper and saw a seven-melody song called "Lime Song" written on it. He couldn't help but feel shocked. He stood up and read:
Thousands of hammers carved out the mountains,
The fire burns as if it were idle.
Not afraid of being shattered into pieces,
To remain innocent in this world.
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