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In Zhang Chao's eyes, Li Chengzong was just a pitiful child. After Li Jiancheng of Xuanwu Gate failed, his sons were not spared, but Li Chengzong did not even survive at that time, and he died prematurely.

In Chongwen Pavilion, Zhang Chao had a rare time to fulfill his duties as a Fu.

"Remember this stroke name list carefully."

However, Zhang Chao's education is also very rough. After this period of hard work, the first set of primary school textbooks in the Tang Dynasty have been compiled and are being handed over to Zhangjia Bookstore for hard work.

Li Yuan had already read this set of textbooks in person and was very satisfied with it. He asked to publish and publish it. All the officials and schools in the states and counties in the world had to send it to them, thinking that they would open textbooks. Zhang Chao was very happy about this because the first batch of orders from the court was 30,000 sets, and the minimum of 100 sets per state. In the future, depending on the situation, there may be a second batch and a third batch.

Although Zhang Chao gave the imperial court the best printing price, it could not withstand the large amount and was still very profitable. In particular, these textbooks were written as editor-in-chief of Zhang Chao, which was a good thing to truly make a name for themselves. The textbooks were distributed to hundreds of states and more than a thousand counties below. At that time, no one in the world knew you.

The students of Chongwenguan Primary School received the new textbooks in advance, which were copied by the bachelors themselves and were extremely precious.

Li Chengzong is a first-grade student. His Chinese class starts with the name of strokes. Originally, Zhang Chao planned to let the students start with pinyin. Finally, he thought about it or learn to read literacy first and then write before learning pinyin. After all, this is a normal learning process for the name of the fit.

To recognize literacy means to learn the three-character classics, thousands of characters, and some simple poems, songs and songs.

Learn strokes, and you can also learn with calligraphy classes, learning strokes while practicing strokes.

Li Chengzong tried hard to hold the pen and write horizontal, vertical and horizontal strokes. Although this child was young, he was very hardworking. Although he was only six years old, the strokes he wrote were much better than Zhang Chao's brush calligraphy.

Zhang Chao took his writing and read it carefully several times, but he couldn't find any fault.

"Very good, today the teacher teaches you another poem."

"At noon, sweat drips into the soil on the ground, but who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard!"

You first memorize it, and then the teacher explains the meaning of it to you. Then you can copy and memorize the words you don’t know here.

Zhang Chao handed over the poem he copied to Li Chengzong of the farmer. Even if he assigned homework, he announced the get out of class was over without hesitation and asked him to go home.

Li Chengzong gave Zhang Chao a gift and said goodbye.

After packing up several books, Zhang Chao stood up, stretched and patted his butt.

Alas, time passes so quickly. In the blink of an eye, it is the end of the tenth day again. Tomorrow, we can finally take another day off. Since we went to work at Chongwen Center, what Zhang Chao most hopes for is the tenth day off, and only three days off in a month, which is too little. I think he is at Bailu Academy, but he has planned to take five days off for two days, and he can take every month off.

However, during this period, Zhang Chao was unable to take a full break.

After the first two breaks, I had to go to the Hanlin Academy to edit books.

The court has established several projects, such as writing the Nine Classics Justice, writing the Southern History and Northern History and other officials of several dynasties to compile history books, and also compile the Wude Dictionary. At the same time, the Wude Dictionary project was officially established.

Zhang Chao was glad that he had never told the emperor about Siku Quanshu or something. Otherwise, if he really wanted to compile a set of Siku Quanshu or a set of martial ethics ceremony, it would be really fatal.

Even so, Zhang Chao was very busy. He had to compile books at the end of the year and work overtime to compile dictionaries at night, and he didn't even have overtime pay. He had to take the time to write Zizhi Tongjian himself.

In addition, he has received many manuscripts from scholars and scholars every now and then, and wants to print them. It is a headache to read one by one. Sometimes Zhang Chao’s own level is limited and he can’t tell the good or bad at all.

Fortunately, he found two assistants, Ma Zhou and Cen Wenben. Although Ma Zhou was a bachelor's degree in Chongwenguan, he gained the honor of Zhang Chao and became a bachelor's degree in Hanlin.

Zhang Chao was very rude to transfer these two subordinates from Chongwenguan to his subordinates and became his assistant and secretary. Not only did the two people ask for help in many affairs in Chongwenguan, but even editing books, he often asked these two people for help. Now, Zhang Chao also handed the manuscripts submitted by many people to them first. If they think it is good, Zhang Chao will read them again.

In fact, just take a random look. Most of them say it is OK, and they say it is OK.

However, because he appointed one of the chief examiners of the first imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Chao not only received many manuscripts from Confucian scholars every day, but also received many papers from students and village tributes.

The system of the first imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was mostly adopted by the Sui Dynasty imperial examination system.

These systems are very simple, which makes Zhang Chao, a person who is more familiar with the imperial examinations during the Ming and Qing dynasties, despised him very much.

For example, the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were taken once a year, and it was not a multi-level examination system. There was no palace examination and palace examination, and there was only one examination in the Ministry of Rites.

Moreover, scholars were the most difficult to take in the imperial examinations of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and there was also a special scholarship. They only recorded one or two in one subject, which was even more valuable than the Jinshi examination.

In addition to the scholarly subject, there are more than 50 subjects including Ming Jing and Jinshi, which is simply scary. If you write well, you can participate in the Ming Zi subject, if you are good at arithmetic, you can participate in the Ming Mathematics subject, and if you are good at a law, you can also participate in the Ming Mathematics subject.

If you are familiar with classics, participate in the Ming Dynasty. If you have a good grasp of poetry, songs and essays, then you will participate in the Jinshi.

There is even a boy class. Zhang Chao carefully studied it and was shocked. It was completely the Tang Dynasty version of the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China.

The court stipulated that those under ten years old were below, not above. Those under ten years old could learn the Sutra, the Book of Filial Piety and the Analects of Confucius could take the Boys' Examination. Those who could recite ten volumes could be awarded the official position, and those who could recite seven volumes could be awarded the birth.

Dare you believe this?

This means that children under the age of ten can memorize three books and recite seven or ten volumes during the exam, and you can get a background and even become an official.

If you can be an official if you can recite the letter, you can be an official if you are under ten years old. Zhang Chao wanted to ask, what kind of official is he who is he?

Several of his personal disciples, Lai Heng and Lai Ji, all had this ability, but they were only ten years old.

Li Chengzong also has this ability, he is only six years old.

I always feel that the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were a bit messy. Even because the Li family regarded Laozi as their ancestor, there was a special examination in the imperial examination, the Daoju Test. The Daoju Test is not a road project, but a Taoist thought. Laozi, Zhuangzi, Wenzi, Liezi, etc. was to support Taoism.

There are also medical tests, specially prepared for medical talents.

There are a total of more than fifty subjects.

Among them, the most important ones are the four subjects: Xiucai, Junshi, Jinshi, Mingjing. Xiucai and Junshi are both the ones that choose from thousands of miles apart, so they only accept one or two of them every year.

The Jinshi and the Mingjing are two prototypes of the imperial examinations in later generations. One is a special examination of the classics and the other is a main examination of poetry and essays. The Jinshi exam is a hundred records and one in Mingjing exam.

Most of the people who studied the Ming Dynasty were mainly children of the gentry because they had a lot of books at home and had the opportunity to study when they were young. Some people in their families taught and preached. Ordinary poor children did not have this opportunity and generally could not learn the scriptures thoroughly. Therefore, they took the Jinshi class, did poetry, songs, and current affairs.

However, because the Jinshi was admitted to a few, it was often called the thirty-year-old Mingjing and the 50-year-old Jinshi. When I was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of fifty, I was also said to be young and promising. When I was admitted to the Mingjing at the age of thirty, I was called too old.

This is also a kind of inclination towards the gentry.

Sometimes Zhang Chao has to say that the Tang Dynasty’s policies were quite tilted.

The children of honors, relatives, bureaucrats generally do not need to participate in the imperial examinations. They can enter the officialdom with a high starting point and it is easy.

It is generally more difficult for the children of landlords and gentry to enter the officialdom. Most of them are directly famous and enlisted, or participate in the imperial examination. Taking the Mingjing is a tailor-made way to go to officialdom.

Only those ordinary poor children are the most difficult to become an official.

Even if they participate in the imperial examination, they have no advantages at all. They do not have good family studies and their research on classics is much worse than that of the children of the gentry. Therefore, most of them can only participate in the Jinshi subject, but the admission ratio of the Jinshi subject is 100 to 1, which is only one-tenth of the Mingjing subject.

The most serious thing is that the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were not absent from the name, or even the results were not completely dependent on them.

In addition to the test scores, examiners also have to look at the candidate's background and reputation.

Therefore, the children of the gentry had many advantages.

The candidates were recommended and came to Beijing to take the exam. In order to increase their fame, they sent their works, poetry and theory to various famous scholars or officials to watch the comments, hoping to become famous.

Zhang Chao is now a popular scholar in the Chang'an cultural circle and has been appointed as the chief examiner.

So, countless scholars come to submit their books every day.

What made Zhang Chao speechless was that many medical students also came to apply for the papers. These people thought that Zhang Chao was skilled in medical skills and a miracle doctor. They all considered Zhang Chao as their spokesperson. A group of doctors studying medicine came to submit the papers every day to visit.

Zhang Chao had to stay away from him, and he really couldn't see him.

The most funny thing is that some Taoist scholars also came to Zhang Chao. Damn, have you never heard of me as a monk before? You Taoist priests have found the wrong person!

With the spread of abacus in Chang'an, many people who came to study for the mathematics subjects also came to Zhang Chao, a master of abacus who invented the abacus, to discuss with him their research on mathematics.

The reform of the imperial examination seems to be imperative. It seems that I, the Grand Secretary, have to shoulder this difficult task!

However, speaking of this, the Tang Dynasty's feat of taking more than 50 subjects a year was quite pragmatic. If you need any talent, you can just open a subject, which is equivalent to professional recruitment.

Although the later imperial examination system seemed to be more fair and reasonable in selection, it made those scholars who only had diamond classics and poems and no longer learned their true practical abilities. Especially the eight-legged essays in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they even created a large number of corrupt scholars who knew nothing.

"Sanlang, there is a very good book of poetry, lyrics, fu and strategy. There are tens of thousands of words in total, and they are all well written, and the words are also very good. Look?"

Cen Wenben came in with a scroll.

"Oh, it seems that Jingren is a talented man who can praise him so much. Come and see it."

Zhang Chao took the scroll and opened it, and a name Hao Ran came into view.

"Sun Fujia!"
Chapter completed!