Summoning the world to be one

Chapter 448 The Difficulty of Grading Exam Papers

4Chapter 17: Difficulties in grading examination papers

The emergence of the imperial examination system made the aristocratic families who had monopolized the officialdom for many years feel the crisis for the first time. Although due to Deng Sheng's unparalleled prestige and power, most of the aristocratic families chose to acquiesce and integrate into the imperial examination, but faced with the monopoly being broken, In order to let the family gain an advantage in the future officialdom, the nobles of the aristocratic family began to contact the children of the poor family one after another.

Although after Deng Sheng came to power, the children of the poor family had the opportunity to study and become officials, but the family background of the poor family was average, and it was difficult to bear the burden of the imperial examination, which gave the nobles of the family the opportunity to enter When the opportunity arises, often the aristocrats of the aristocratic family will promise to bear all the expenses of studying and imperial examinations for the children of the poor family. They only need the children of the poor family to pass the imperial examination in the future. Agreeing to this condition, he joined the family of the aristocratic family, but after Deng Sheng's warning, the aristocratic family has obviously restrained.

In fact, the solution to this problem is also very simple, that is, Deng Guo directly pays for all the money and food needed for the poor children to study and take the imperial examination. But the ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny. With the current strength of Deng Guo, and limited by a productive force in the current era, it is unrealistic for the government to provide free education. More importantly, if this is done, it will be tantamount to digging out the foundation of the aristocratic family , It will definitely arouse the anger of the nobles of the family. Although Deng Sheng has hundreds of thousands of elites in his hands, Deng Sheng does not have the strength to confront the nobles of the family all over the world at once.

The imperial examination lasted only four hours, and the time passed quickly. Zhang Bin, the chief examiner in the examination room, saw that the time was almost up, so he asked someone to ring the bell for the end of the examination. When the bell rang, all the candidates stopped pen.

Zhang Bin walked up to the people and said loudly to the candidates: "The exam is over, everyone can leave the examination room in an orderly manner. The results of the imperial examination will be announced on the gold list outside the examination room after ten days. You can come and check, those who are on the list can become Jinshi in the 23rd year of Qianyuan, enter the palace examination, and the final ranking will be determined by the king!"

"Here!" A group of candidates bowed their heads and bowed in response, and then left the examination room one after another under the leadership of the guards.

After all the examinees left, Zhang Bin asked people to put away all the examination papers, and then took the examination papers to Qianyang Palace to report to Deng Sheng who had been waiting for a long time.

At this time, in Qianyang Palace, in addition to Deng Sheng, there are all the chief officials from the three provinces and six ministries. They are all waiting for Zhang Bin's arrival. Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I have fulfilled my mission. The first imperial examination in the 23rd year of Qianyuan has been successfully concluded. There are a total of 610 people who applied for the examination this time, and none of them was absent. This is the imperial examination. The examination paper, please give instructions, Your Majesty!"

Looking at the stacks of examination papers behind Zhang Bin, Deng Sheng nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Thank you Zhang Qing, this imperial examination can go so smoothly, thanks to the hard work of all the ministers during this period, but still You need to work harder, all the students came to Wancheng thousands of miles away to serve Deng Deng, so the review of the examination papers will be led by Zhang Qing, and the six departments of the three provinces and Yushitai will review together. Days later, it will be announced to candidates on time!"

The imperial examination is over, but the matter is not over yet. Next, the examination papers need to be corrected, and there is also the palace examination. However, because this is the first imperial examination, the time is relatively rushed, and the preparation is not sufficient, and no correcting arrangements have been made. People who were responsible for the examination papers, so Deng Sheng could only recruit people from the six ministries of the three provinces and Yushitai to make corrections.

"Here!" The crowd responded in unison.

In the Wancheng examination room, a group of dignitaries gathered here to review the examination papers. Before the start, Zhang Bin said to everyone: "Everyone, I believe everyone understands the purpose of this imperial examination. Your Majesty means that out of the 300 people this time, you must see more than [-] poor students, this is your bottom line!"

Since the implementation of the imperial examination system has given hope and opportunities to the poor students, it is impossible to admit none of them, so Deng Sheng meant to admit at least 600 poor students. It’s not that Deng Sheng doesn’t want many, it’s because he has the ability now. The number of students from poor families taking part in the imperial examination is really too small. Among the more than 100 people, less than 20 were born in poor families. The proportion of [-] students admitted is already very high, and this is also to avoid touching the nerves of the nobles of the aristocratic family, so as not to jump over the wall in a hurry.

After hearing Zhang Bin's words, everyone frowned immediately, and Chen Qun, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, wondered: "20 people? That's too many, this time there are less than a hundred people from poor families who applied for the exam, and I just browsed through it roughly. In the examination papers, it was found that most of the outstanding ones were from aristocratic families. Although there are some amazingly talented people from poor families, they are very few. 20 people are too difficult, and it is impossible to admit candidates who do not meet the requirements. Bar!"

This is a big problem. Although 300 people are admitted every time in the Beijing Examination, 20 students are not many, but twenty students from poor families will have difficulties. It is much higher, but both the quality and quantity are far inferior to those of the aristocratic families with profound backgrounds. Is it possible to pull down the outstanding children of the aristocratic families and let the children of the poor families who do not meet the requirements go up?If this is the case, is the implementation of the imperial examination system to help Deng Guo absorb the world's talents or is it simply to deal with the nobles of the family?

Even Su Hong, who has always been a pioneer in the implementation of the imperial examination system and has never had a good impression of the aristocrats, finds it a little weird. There are countless streets where the nobles are from poor families. The comparison between the two is like one person is in the clouds and the other is on the surface. There is no comparison. Although Su Hong also hopes to have more children from poor families enter the officialdom, he can't act too hastily , bringing in useless people.

Zhang Bin sighed and said: "Everyone, I also know that this matter is a bit embarrassing. I don't think that twenty students from poor families can stand out, but this is an order from the king. The purpose of recruiting [-] students from poor families is to Let the poor families in the world see hope, and let the students of the poor families work hard and make further progress, this is for my great Deng's century-old plan, even if it is difficult, I must do it!"

The purpose of recruiting [-] poor families is to give hope to the poor families, so that they can work harder in the future and change the deep-rooted traditional concepts in the past. As long as they work hard, they can become officials. What a tempting direction this is. It is not a dream to persevere and keep pace with the nobles of the family in the future, or even replace the nobles of the family as the main force in the officialdom.

As for the ability of these twenty poor children, it is not too important, as long as they are not too bad, Deng Sheng is going to buy horse bones this time, only in this way, in the future, thousands of miles from the poor will continue to emerge, completely Change the phenomenon that the aristocratic family monopolizes the officialdom.

In order to break the monopoly of the aristocratic family, Deng Sheng would rather have a group of poor children with mediocre abilities than the outstanding children of the aristocratic family. What is the ultimate goal of promoting the imperial examination system, but is it a bit too ugly to blatantly suppress the nobles of the family?
But they can't object. After all, this is Deng Sheng's meaning. As the most powerful king in Deng's history, even since Qin Shihuang, there is only one result of opposing him, and that is death, although they are also important court officials. , but in Deng Guo they are just relatively high-level wage earners, and there are plenty of people who can replace them. If they are not willing, Deng Sheng will naturally find a group of willing people to replace them. It's not difficult.

Thinking of this, both Jiang Wan and Chen Qun nodded and said, "Okay, since it's the king's intention, then we courtiers naturally have to follow it, and students from poor families are not too bad, so maybe we can't find 20 people. Come!" At this point, everyone can only comfort themselves like this.

(End of this chapter)