After the matter of re-determining weights and measures was decided, before Chongzhen could propose the great cause of the Apocalypse carpenter's dream, the Minister of Rites Meng Shaoyu first came out to memorize: "I will also have this memorial."

Seeing that Meng Shaoyu, who usually doesn't speak in the court, also came out to report the memorial, Chongzhen suppressed his desire to talk about the dream of the Apocalypse and said curiously: "What's the matter with Meng Aiqing?"

Meng Shaoyu bowed and said, "I will report to Your Majesty. In the first year of Chongzhen, the honorary examination is coming. I ask Your Majesty to tell you who is the chief examiner? What questions are the chief examiner?"

Chongzhen frowned and said, "What was the original constitution of the Ministry of Rites? How did it in previous years?"

Meng Shaoyu said: "I heard from Your Majesty that in previous years, the emperor appointed the chief, vice president, juren from various provinces and Imperial College students can take the exam, which is the Spring Examination."

Chongzhen himself had made up for the lessons, and knew how fucked the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty were. Since the imperial examinations began, Emperor Wen of Sui had only asked questions, and Emperor Yang of Sui had ten subjects. There were many examination subjects in the Tang Dynasty, and the main permanent subjects were Ming Jing (Sui Meaning), Jinshi, Ming Law (Law), Ming characters (Writing), and Ming Achievement (Mathematical Science).

In the Ming Dynasty, there was only one Jinshi. As for the Ming method, Ming Jing, Ming Purpose, all the contents of the imperial examinations disappeared. Some people wrote crooked poems and mocked: "When today I value articles, why should I talk about the Han and Tang Dynasties?"

These two sentences talk about this kind of fucking situation. The entire Ming Dynasty only had the Jinshi class, and they played the eight-legged articles stipulated by Lao Zhu.

How fucked is the eight-legged essay?

Eight-legged essay refers to the eight parts of the article, and the style has a fixed format: consisting of eight parts: breaking the topic, following the topic, starting the lecture, starting, starting the stock, medium stock, back stock, and bundling stock. The titles are all from the original text in the Four Books and Five Classics. Each of the last four parts has two parallel and parallel texts, which together have eight essays. The length of the sentence, the traditional and simple characters, the tone of the words, etc. must be relatively written, and the number of words is also limited.

The main test content is the meaning of the classics, "Poetry", "Book", "Rite", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn Annals", and select certain topics from these five classics to write. The title and writing method are in a certain format. There are four paragraphs in the eight-legged essay, and each paragraph must have parallel sentences. There are four paragraphs in the parallel sentences, which are called four comparisons. The four pairs are paired and the tone are parallel. You cannot use allusions of wind, flowers, snow and moon to blaspheme saints. Each article includes four parts from starting to connecting the stool.

Note that if this is the case, I guess the current academic masters will still have some hope if they work hard. What makes Emperor Chongzhen feel Dandan’s sadness is that the content must be in the tone of the ancients, and freedom is absolutely not allowed to be played!

The so-called "using the tone of ancient people" does not mean that you can learn how ancient people speak, but that they use the tone of Confucius and Mencius!

Damn, the two sages, Confucius and Mencius, have been buried in the soil for thousands of years, and it has been more than two thousand years since the Warring States Period to the Ming Dynasty. Do you ask the people of the Ming Dynasty to study how they speak? What tone do you use?

His mother! His wording should be in the tone of the ancients, so-called making words for the sages! Throwing over the academic masters who study ancient literature or history at Tsinghua University and Peking University today is probably going to be confused!

And what's even more fucking is that since the saints say so much in total - of course, it may be to save bamboo, so they are all "subtle and profound". For earth-shaking tests, the questions are inevitably repeated. What should I do if I do this situation?

There were many talents in the Ming Dynasty. Who could such a big deal be so rare? Wouldn’t it be enough to spell it into a single sentence for him? For example, I am lustful, and I examine myself three times a day.

The previous sentence comes from "Mencius: King Hui of Liang", and the next sentence is from "The Analects of Confucius". Just literally, it is because I like young ladies, so I have to reflect on myself three times a day.

However, if you dare to write this during the imperial examination, congratulations, failure is a good thing, and slandering the saint is a big problem! The point where you can solve the problem is not about lust or lust, but about Sanshengwu. However, you can't ignore this lust!

In short, we must not only let these candidates write articles of flowers, but we must not use them blindly and freely, and we must not even use allusions after Confucius and Mencius! Of course, this is an invisible accompanying requirement, and it is okay for you to use it. Anyway, you have been demoted, so you can find a place to cry.

For example, Pu Songling, a big man of the generation, how could this big man have to make a platinum or something now? But the eight-legged essay writing is not good. So, you stay wherever you are, the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty is not suitable for you! What ended up in the end? I failed many times and didn’t get a tribute student until I was 71 years old. The tutor was old and eventually died of illness at home.

It would be fine if it was just like this. After all, Pu Songling is not good. Isn’t there Lu Wanling? If there are too many scholars in the Ming Dynasty, there will always be those who pass the exam.

The key is that the guys who passed the exam were more and more pitiful! Those who were stupid in their studies were talking about these guys, either they were full of sage thoughts and were confused, or they finally got to know each other after a few years of fighting in the officialdom and began to get involved in the officialdom.

At this point, these people became polarized again. Some of them were like Wen Tiren, and they understood the officials and the people were confused.

The other part can only be said to be haha. There are big greed and small greed, and some of them are all ignorant. Sometimes I can’t figure out whether this official is doing it or whether these officials are doing it.

But I can't change this fucking imperial examination system! No matter how stupid Chongzhen is, he knows that scholars all over the world live on this thing. If you dare to destroy this thing, it will be a waste of your life!

Chongzhen, who became more and more frustrated, simply stopped thinking about it. I couldn't destroy it. It didn't matter. I mixed sand for it: "Since that's the case, the Ministry of Rites will take the lead in this imperial examination, with Zhang Ruitu as the president and Meng Aiqing as the vice president, and widely attracting literati and wise men from all over the world."

After Meng Shaoyu bowed and said, Chongzhen continued, "However, if you can only admit 300 people in one Jinshi, I will not only have tens of millions of scholars in the Ming Dynasty? If you always fail to win, wouldn't you waste your life? I feel sorry for it. After the Jinshi, I will add the enrollment department, take the Minglu, Mingju, and study the things, and be granted the same Jinshi."

Meng Shaoyu bowed and said, "Your Majesty is kind! I dare to ask Your Majesty, Minglu, Mingju, and Jingyu, and the examination questions of the president and vice president?"

Chongzhen said: "Since I am not qualified for the Jinshi, I guess the eight-legged articles are average, so I have three subjects of Minglu, Mingju, and Investigation of Things, and there is no eight-legged article. I have a specialty in the profession. Those who are Mingju should be familiar with the Great Minglu, and those who are Mingju should know the ancestors' lead, and nine chapters of arithmetic and other calculations, and the same is true for studying things."
Chapter completed!