The same hardware conditions for the imperial examination room will of course have different evaluations in the eyes of people with different living standards.

For those rich people who use fumigation barrels to take baths at home, the newly completed Luoyang Gongyuan shower room can only be regarded as a convenience.

For those poor people, they can be regarded as luxurious enjoyment, especially in the late autumn cold in late September, giving the poor a little comfort.

The dry roasted pickles and wheat cakes provided in the examination room for free have made many poor candidates miss each other for a long time after the exam.

The only thing that is the only drawback is that this year's exam only provides hot meals with porridge every morning and evening. It is said that after the trial was conducted a few years ago, it was found that the original order of meal distribution was loopholes, which easily gave collusion among insiders and outsiders a chance.

Therefore, starting this year, food will be given only before the test questions are issued and after the test is completed and the paper is received.

Hot foods like porridge cannot be kept warm all the time, so they must be finished on the spot. At noon, you can only eat dry cold noodles cakes you received in the morning and drink some cold water you poured in advance in the morning.

The first day's test questions were answered quickly and the papers were handed over. The candidates ate the food distributed by the guards in the examination room and rested in the number room.

"I guess I can't pass this year. I've been too far-fetched in the exam. I'll come back in two years! Then, let my father's old friends arrange a few more poorly studied people to accompany me.

However, you still have to see how martial arts skills of other candidates in the same province were when riding and shooting the day after tomorrow. This thing is not easy to surround. The soldiers in the army usually give in to the martial arts competition with Shangguan’s children. You have to see how good the real skills are when you gain fame!”

Guo Huai, a candidate from Taiyuan County, was eating cakes and swearing in his heart. He knew that with the completion of the first public class, he was basically here to go through the motions this year and was already planning for the future "repeat".

At the same time, he missed his father's days in his heart more and more as he became an official under Yuan Shao.

How wonderful Yuan Shao is! When Yuan Shao was under Yuan Shao's rule, there was no tragic situation where "the son of the prefect cannot be selected by the Zhongzheng official"!

At most, the official position is depreciating from generation to generation. If the prefect's son is not good at level, he can only be the county magistrate in his life. This is possible. However, there are few officials as high-level as the prefect, and their descendants are directly defeated by cliff-style families where even no one has any official.

Some people are worried and some are happy. As a representative of candidates from the north to Luoyang for exams, Sima Zhi from Hanoi County has a much better mentality.

On the one hand, although Sima Zhi was born into a big family, the Sima family in Hanoi County had already fled during the war years, especially Sima Zhi, who fled to Jingzhou, had almost no support from the family. Now, he is doing well, only those who escaped to Cao Cao and Sima Lang.

On the other hand, Sima Zhi has lived a hard life in Jingzhou and has also seen the exam treatment of Tongbingongke. Now, looking at Luoyang’s North Field conditions, I feel quite satisfied, at least in order.

I drank cold water and ate dry biscuits, and after eating, I built a shop. I felt that even the number room was spacious than when I was in Jingzhou. Even people who were nine feet tall could sleep without curling up.

The key is that the bedding seems to be white cotton, which looks a little cleaner and warmer than the linen bedding a few years ago.

"Today's scriptures should be answered well, but I don't know how good the other candidates from the same county from Hanoi were. I didn't take the exam in Jingzhou because Bin Gong students were not admitted to each county, but they were disrupted to get the best results together.

If the current Hanoi prefect She Jian cheated in the process of selecting juren and allowed poor students to surround the family, our unexpected attack would probably be able to cut off a chance..."

Sima Zhi thought so and gradually fell asleep.

It can only be said that everyone is intrigue in the imperial examination. After several years of training, many poor scholars know the trick of aristocratic families.

No one will ignore the opportunity to become an official. Even Sima Zhi, who was known for his integrity and justice in history, would be eager to stare at the official position and observe the small movements of the people next to him before he became a senior official.

If you really don’t care about the process of official generation, you will not be a clean official, but a hermit.

However, since it has become a consensus that aristocratic families have encircled bids, the court of law must find a way to gradually mix up, such as disrupting the juren of each county and taking the top few by the state. This is a trick to force the local area to reduce the bids and restrain themselves.

However, this is not omnipotent. As these new tricks have just been deployed, local governments still have ways to lie in disobeying them.

Secondly, it is still possible that "all counties in the entire state have reached a tacit understanding, and they have agreed that each county will still only give one or two capable people, and the others are still rookies accompanying the runners."

Moreover, many families who are in charge of the game have more than one county's sphere of influence, so they really have the ability to make several counties collude.

Especially those big families that are prominent families in a state and all counties in the state have influence. This kind of aristocratic family can be completely destroyed only in the future "national coordination of the imperial examination" of the imperial examinations, but this means that the imperial examinations will develop for a period of time and merge the north and south markets and the north and south lists.

Otherwise, as long as the north-south division exists, some states will be connected but others will not be connected, and it will be difficult to convince the public in terms of law.

Fortunately, the differences in culture and education in the north and south in this era were not very big. It was not the era when southerners read and study obviously crushed northerners after several times in later generations. Today, Henan and Hebei are still strong states for cultural and educational purposes.

Therefore, the main factor preventing the merger of the north and south exams is that the country has not yet been unified and the transportation infrastructure construction is not yet perfect. In the future, the canal system that communicates with Jianghan and Huanghuai will be built, and other road conditions will be repaired. Within 20 years, the imperial examinations will be merged into the capital exams, and the results will not be divided into the rankings. This is also possible.

From the moment, various checks and balances to ensure fairness always need to be run-in for several more years, and it takes several years or even more than ten years of slow work to make the tacit understanding of the local counties and states gradually collapse. Only by refusing to believe in the cooperation of neighboring counties can the network of the aristocratic families be completely destroyed.

In this case, candidates like Sima Zhi, who "had referenced it in previous years as the student of the occupied areas, but this year, because his hometown has been completely restored, it has been changed to a normal reference" have become very useful to the court.

The examination qualifications of these people do not need to be recommended by local prefects. Their original examination qualifications have not been invalidated yet.

Because of the imperial examination system stipulated by Li Su, the local juren who were selected from the local juren who did not rank in a relatively poor ranking for several consecutive sessions, then they could be repeatedly referred to them.

This kind of person is an important catfish. He can muddle the water and tear apart the tacit understanding of the aristocratic families and local powerful factions - don't you arrange four poor students to accompany one of your own children?

Now, there is a foreign home who does not need to be judged and entrusted. As long as the children you support are not as good as those who return home, then you will watch the home as an official and surrounded the white house.

...

In the basic exam that day, Li Su's new theories have not yet appeared. The main reason is that those new theories have just been born and are not systematic. It is indeed inconvenient to add to the test papers that have already set questions, and can only be used as additional questions.

Moreover, the requirements for this additional question were not decided by Li Su himself. Before Li Su was so arrogant that he thought of something, he immediately asked the people of the world to take the exam. Behind this was actually Liu Bei's decision.

Especially when I caught a cheater in the exam room early this morning, after the news reached Liu Bei's ears, Liu Bei felt that the impact was too bad. It was necessary to have a big discussion on the good and evil of human nature, and to clarify the source of the root cause and analyze the source of immorality.

Temporary questions can also prevent collusion between inside and outside and leak questions in advance. After all, it is the question that the emperor personally took pictures of himself, so it is impossible for someone to prepare in advance.

That night, Guan Ning, the Minister of the Ministry of Culture, received Liu Bei's call from him and hurriedly returned from the examination room to Luoyang City dozens of miles away, and listened to Liu Bei's decree.

Liu Bei first asked about cheating in the imperial examination room today, and then expressed some concerns about the morality of the candidates, saying that the court would not do uncontrollable "only talent is to take action, not to be virtuous" like Cao Cao, who was next door's pseudo-degree dynasty.

The court attaches equal importance to morality and talent! The reason why I used less tests on virtue before was that it was not easy to quantify virtue, which was easily a performance that was dug into a thoughtful performance.

Therefore, Cao Cao's only talent does not mean that this is right. If the quantitative methods of virtue keep up, he should also take the test of virtue appropriately, at least to understand the candidates' true view of virtue.

Then, Liu Bei threw the question away, which was Li Su’s recent idea. Of course, Liu Bei just gave the question, but did not give the standard answer. Anyway, there is no need for answers yet, just send the answer to the examiner when the papers are graded.

Guan Ning also felt that His Majesty’s concerns were reasonable and did not object to the additional questions. Anyway, the imperial examination was originally allowed to add questions by the emperor. Later exams also included palace examinations, or the emperor personally asked about countermeasures.

After getting the question, Guan Ning hurried back to the tribute court in the southern suburbs of the city. It was almost midnight. Fortunately, the Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Culture did not work hard when invigilating the exam, and he was not afraid of staying up late.

Along the way, Guan Ning himself was also thinking about how to solve the problem and how to re-judgment Han Fei's interpretation of Xunzi's theory of good and evil in human nature.

He had figured out what Liu Bei wanted, but he could not draw the conclusion that Liu Bei wanted from "Xunzi" and "Han Fei", and could not help but feel a little discouraged.

It is not difficult for Guan Ning to guess that this must be the new knowledge that His Majesty has obtained from the Prime Minister. It is really unimaginable how the Prime Minister deduced new things from these two ancient works.

Guan Ning couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "At that time, we three lived in Liaodong, and I were as famous as Bing Yuan and Hua Xin, and we were famous for our proficiency in classics, etiquette and law.

Over the years, although I had known that the Prime Minister was good at understanding the destiny of heaven, I asked myself about the knowledge of searching for chapters and sentences. The Prime Minister was not necessarily better than me. Have we even read this wrong?

The Prime Minister was better than us to find conflicts from the ancient books of various schools of thought and to argue and refute the false and the truth? No wonder the debate in front of Emperor Ling in Luoyang twelve years ago about the blessing of the palace. At that time, the Prime Minister who was only protecting the Wuhuan Captain, was able to defeat Hua Xin and Dong Fu in a row.

Back then, I only heard the results and even mocked Hua Xin for being impatient and no longer diligent in his knowledge. Now it seems that it has nothing to do with Hua Xin's knowledge, and I will be defeated even if I get into it."

It’s true that the Hua Xin who was “cut off the mat” in Guan Ning’s mind, who was “cut off the diplomatic relations” by him, now has a great status in the Kanto Puppet Dynasty.

Hua Xin was a Jiuqing in his early years, and now he is in charge of work similar to Guan Ning. He is working with Chen Qun to manage personnel and cultural and educational work.

Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi are dead, and Cai Yong is half-retired. The older generation of scholars are gone, and Guan Ning and his classmates can indeed be regarded as the first echelon in the cultural circle.

But even such a group of people were beaten by Li Su on the classics, and they had no power to fight back or had no dissatisfaction. It can be seen that the Prime Minister was too lazy to find a chapter and read a sentence. If he really had a solid foundation in his knowledge, he would beat anyone he wanted to.

...

The next day, additional questions for the exam were posted.

Even Guan Ning, the Minister of the Ministry of Literature, felt that he could not answer well, so he naturally became more and more sad when he gave those ordinary students.

But it doesn't matter, after all, this is a selective exam, not a qualification exam. As long as everyone does poorly, it will not affect admission.

Liu Bei asked to add this question temporarily, not because he planned to choose a talented person. He just wanted to see the candidates' true views on the issue of "good and evil in nature" and "whether he believes in morality is spontaneous".

See if anyone can pretend to be wrong. Even if there is no connection, he still insists on lying around. If there is really such a person, even if he really speculates and proves that "human nature is good" or is purely slogan-like quotation, he will be awarded the lowest score.

It is easy to judge whether the text expresses true feelings or not.

Of course, if you really have a genius, you can prove the answer according to Li Su's thinking path after giving certain tips. If you don't say anything, even if you are a little worse in other subjects, you will basically not be able to get a Maocai out of order.

After the question was published, some candidates who were naturally not convinced of morality and humanity, and had never reviewed and dabbled in these dynasty textbooks, and they were indeed crazy (Xunzi and Han Fei were not included in the scope of the classics exam)

"Hyphor! Everyone in the world knows that being in the officialdom is based on lack of morality, and benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom are all performed! Who doesn't know that dozens of generations of emperors of the Han Dynasty have been practicing Qin politics?

Even though I used Han Fei's, I still insisted on us to clean up the embellishment. To prove that Han Fei's interpretation of Xunzi was wrong? It's too hypocritical! Just write it!"

Guo Huai, who knew that he would definitely not be able to pass the exam, gave up the treatment more and more. He wrote a few random sentences and pretended to be sick and handed in advance, preparing to return to Taiyuan after riding the archery exam.

There are more than a few candidates with obvious attitudes like this, most of whom are candidates from the newly revived areas in the past two years, and many of them are vested interest families under the rule of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

I guess if they realized that in Liu Bei's court, the candidates had a problem with their character and the fact that they had a bad impact on their case, they would probably flee back to Guandong and join their former master now.

However, there are also a few who answer questions as well as Sima Zhi. Especially some "true, filial and honest" whose moral integrity is OK, which is not inconsistent with the arguments required for argumentation in the additional test.

It’s not that these people are knowledgeable, but that they logically think that Han Fei’s derivation is problematic.

However, they just feel so sincere that they can't understand it if they make sense. But this does not prevent them from writing some answers and getting a little point.

Do candidates really think so, whether they have written logic, and when the test papers are judged, they can naturally see that the standard answers can be obtained.

Of course, from Liu Bei to Li Su, and then to Guan Ning, we all know that this kind of test question can only be used once. Fortunately, Li Su has just discovered it and has not been announced. Only by looking at the candidates' true moral attitudes can this kind of test question be indirectly explore the candidates' true moral attitudes.

By next year, Li Su's new academic view will be published into a scripture for scholars all over the world to learn. Everyone has mastered the official ideology and moral judgment standards, so they will not be able to test this question.
Chapter completed!