"Did you hear that?"

"What did you hear?"

"This time, the imperial examination has opened a talent show."

Early in the morning, in the Guozi Prison in Chongyi Fang, a group of students were talking in a whisper.

"Xiucai Branch, didn't it be abolished a long time ago?" Some students who know the history of the development of the imperial examination can't help but have some doubts.

"This is different from the previous Xiucai course, which means that it is not only necessary to take the current policy, poetry and scripture, but also to choose two exams from law, arithmetic, medicine, calligraphy, history, etc."

"What? So many exams? Why do you suddenly have to rely on the miscellaneous studies of law and arithmetic? ”

"I don't know about this, I heard that it is the meaning of His Majesty."

"Is this going to be examined? I've heard that in the past, no one signed up for the Ming Arithmetic course. Let's go and take the exam, I will still be admitted to the Shike, and I can expect to pay homage to the marquis. ”

"Forget it, do you know how many people are recruited by Jinshi this year?"

"You know all this?"

"You don't read the signs? The national prison was posted at the door. It said that this year, only 15 people will be recruited in the Jinshi Branch, 35 people will be recruited in the Ming Jing Branch, and 100 people will be recruited in the Xiucai Branch. ”

"What? Ming Jingke only recruits 35 people? How did it drop so much? ”

It wasn't just the student who was surprised, but the students who saw the announcement.

It is not uncommon for Jinshi to recruit only 15 people, since the beginning of the imperial examination, there are still only a few people admitted to the Jinshi Department in a year, and 15 people is considered a lot.

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It's just that the decline in the number of Ming Jing caught many people off guard.

Since the Ming Jing only needs to be familiar with the scriptures, the number of people in the Ming Jing scientific examination every year is about ten times that of the Jinshi department.

And the number of people who were cut down in the Ming Jing went to the Xiucai Branch, 100 people.

Although there are many recruits, it is undoubtedly a nightmare for these students who only study the Four Books and Five Classics, and they usually don't understand arithmetic, law, etc., and they don't understand the relevant knowledge at all.

If you want to take the Xiucai exam, you have to learn those miscellaneous contents, but there are only less than two months, and it is too late.

Of course, you can also not report the Xiucai department, but go to the Jinshi department, the Ming Jing department or the martial arts. The martial arts examination began in June, one month after the imperial examination.

Liu Jurong, the current secretary of the Ministry of War, was born as a martial artist, and he became a member of the Sanpin, and successively served as the envoy of the festival and the secretary of the Ministry of War.

"Why did the imperial court change so much? This was not the case before, so why did we open Jinshi this time? ”

"Prudently, this is required by His Majesty."

"What? When I didn't say it, I went first! ”

"Brother Minghua, you wait!"

When the new imperial examination system was introduced, some people were naturally happy and some were worried.

"Brother Wen Ding, what are you going to report? Jinshike? Ming Jingke? Or is it Xiucaike? Brother Wen Ding, your arithmetic is very good, you can go to the Xiucai department, and you will definitely be able to win. ”

"I'm also hesitating, but Xiucaike doesn't know what the future holds. Most of my prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty are from Jinshike. ”

In front of the sign at the entrance of the Guozijian, two young students were talking in a low voice, like this, all around.

"Brother Wen Ding, that's what I said, but this year's Jinshi will recruit 15 people, although the number of people who have participated in the imperial examination has decreased a lot over the years, but there are still thousands of people, these are all outstanding students from all over the world, to compete for these fifteen people, the competition can be very fierce.

Anyway, my old man said, let me not cheat. I heard that it was the brocade guard who was responsible for maintaining order in the examination room, but they were all executioners and couldn't afford to be provoked. The white man pouted.

"Brother Hanyuan is not going to be admitted to the Shike and Mingjing Courses?" Yang Wending was a little surprised.

"If I didn't have a show of talent, I might go to the Ming Classics Department, but now that the Ming Economics Department is recruiting so many people, I still go to the Xiu Talent Department. Fortunately, I also read some history books, and when the time comes, I will choose history and calligraphy, and I will have a greater grasp of the middle lift.

I've heard that in the examination, the first list (top 20) can hold the position on the eighth grade, and the second list (the last eighty) can hold the position on the eighth grade. If you are lucky, you can also hold an official position from the seventh grade through the selection of the ministry, although it is not as good as the Jinshi Branch and the Ming Jing Branch can hold the official position on the seventh grade through the selection test, but it is okay. Xiao Hanyuan said with a smile.

"How do you know?" Yang Wending was a little surprised, these things were not said in the announcement.

Xiao Hanyuan looked around, pulled Yang Wending aside, and said in a low voice, "I heard what my father said, saying that this is what His Majesty meant, didn't Brother Wending ask Zhaoyi Niangniang?" ”

There is only one Zhaoyi in Xiao Hanyuan's mouth, and that is Xiaoyue. Yang Wending's identity is about to come out, it is the younger brother of Xiaoyue's mother - Yang Shilang, of course, 'Shilang' is his nickname, and his big name is Yang Wending.

At the beginning, Li Ye's trip to Langzhou brought Xiaoyue's brother and his brother-in-law Yang Wending to Lizhou, and then went to Xingyuan Mansion and Chang'an.

Yang Wending was bent on being admitted to the Jinshi, so after arriving in Chang'an, Li Ye sent him to study in the Taixue of Guozijian. Although he was already a township tribute before, it was so difficult to be admitted to the Jinshi, so Xiaoyue begged Li Ye, and Li Ye sent him to Taixue to study.

At present, Guozijian has six schools and two museums.

Its Chinese Zixue, Taixue and Si Men schools are aristocratic schools, which respectively enroll the children of officials of the third, fifth and seventh grades, and the arithmetic, law and calligraphy are ordinary schools, and the children of officials or commoners of the eighth rank and below are enrolled.

The two halls are the Chongwen Hall and the Hongwen Hall, of which the Chongwen Hall has become a place for the children of the clan to study.

In the past, there were 300 students in Guozi, 500 in Taixue, 1,300 in four disciplines, 50 in law, and 30 in calligraphy and arithmetic.

It can be said that these six learnings were mainly dominated by the children of the family in the past.

Now it is better, thanks to Li Ye's support, the scale of law has expanded to 300 people, and there are 200 people in calligraphy and arithmetic.

In fact, there are three schools that are no worse than the six schools and two halls of Guozijian, namely the Shannan Academy located in Xingyuan Mansion and the Chang'an Academy built on the site of Qinglong Temple in Chang'an.

can be named in Chang'an, and the natural background is not shallow, because this and Shannan Academy were both funded and built by Li Ye, and they are nominally under the supervision of Guozi.

Among them, Shannan Academy is the largest, with 2,000 students, mainly from Shannan West Road and Sichuan Road; Chang'an Academy has just been established, and it is not large, with only 500 students. The two academies have common characteristics, mainly recruiting children from poor families, and at the same time, the learning content is not limited to the Four Books and Five Classics, poems and songs, etc., but also involves many miscellaneous studies such as arithmetic, law, and medicine.

The last school was naturally the Martial Arts School, which was now renamed the Martial Arts School and belonged to the management of the Ministry of War.

Back to the topic, Yang Wending is Xiaoyue's brother-in-law, and Xiao Hanyuan is not an ordinary person, after all, he can also read too much.

Xiao Hanyuan is the third son of Xiao Rong, the current secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and both of them studied at Shannan Academy earlier, so they also became friends.

Facing Xiao Hanyuan's question, Yang Wending said in a low voice, "Zhaoyi Niangniang lives in Taiji Palace now, and she doesn't have much time to go out of the palace, so she didn't know about it before, so she didn't inquire. ”

"I'll just say it! Brother Wen Ding, then do you plan to apply for Shike, or Xiucai? ”

"If that's the case, I'd like to go to the show too. I used to study arithmetic, but I didn't expect to be able to use it now. Yang Wending hesitated for a while and said.

In fact, Yang Wending was still a little hesitant, he also wanted to hear his niece's opinion, or wanted to hear His Majesty's advice. Although he can't enter the palace, his nephew often enters the palace, and he can inquire about the situation through him.

"Then it's decided, both of us will go to the Xiucai exam." Xiao Hanyuan patted his shoulder.

Although the chances of winning the examination of Xiucai are greater, after all, not everyone sees them as thoroughly as Xiao Hanyuan and Yang Wending, after all, Jinshi is more promising in the eyes of the majority of scholars.

As the announcement of the new imperial examination system was sent to the local authorities, the discussion on the reform of the imperial examination continued to ferment.

But no matter how things ferment, the imperial examination will still be held as scheduled.

Meanwhile, in the Confucian Mansion in Chang'an City, a man in his 30s wearing a cyan round-necked robe is discussing something with a man in a red official uniform under the lights.

At this time in the Tang Dynasty, the red official uniform could only be used by officials of the fourth and fifth ranks, indicating that the man wearing the red official uniform should be a fourth-rank official or a fifth-rank official.

"Uncle, now that the imperial examination system has been reformed, I don't know which subject my nephew should apply for?" The man in the cyan round-necked robe hesitated.

"Chongbi, don't you have faith? Your father, your second uncle, and I are all the champions of the current year, and my Confucian family is a three-champion family, don't you even have this self-confidence? The man in the red official uniform said unhappily.

The Kong family? One door and three champions, the owner of this Confucian Mansion is not difficult to guess.

With these two conditions, the entire Datang meets only one family. That is, Kong Wei, Kong Xuan, and Kong Xuan, all three of whom are the 40th grandsons of Confucius.

However, the life of the Kong family at this time was not easy. The boss Kong Wei was relegated to Zhongzhou, Shannan West Road, as the chief historian because he was one of the masterminds of the previous Shangyuan Night incident; The second child is okay, he is currently serving as a scholar of Kannai Province, and although his position is high, he does not have much power; The third child is the man in the red official uniform in front of him, and now he is the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple from the fourth grade, and it seems that his position is not low, but he is just an idle errand.

As the champions of the same period, the three of them have the identity of descendants of Confucius, so they will not be so mixed.

The reason is naturally because Kong Wei stood on the wrong team, causing the other two to be implicated.

"Uncle, it's just that my nephew is worried that Your Majesty will have a sense of disgust for my nephew because of my father's affairs." Kong Chongbi said worriedly.

"You just have to be bold enough to take the test, I don't believe Your Majesty doesn't even have this kind of bearing. Your father was also punished for that, and it hurt his family.

If the situation you are worried about really occurs, Uncle Wei will not sit idly by. The heirs of my Confucian family are not to be bullied. Kong said in a deep voice.

"Nephew understood!" Kong Chongbi nodded seriously, and then retreated.

After Kong Chongbi left, Kong Mian's face became indifferent. He knew in his heart that if he allowed the gaffe to develop, their pulse was likely to be sluggish, and thinking of this imperial examination reform, he decided to move around and probe the tone of others.

(End of chapter)