"Yoyou deer sings, eats the scutellaria in the wild. I have guests, playing the zither and zither. The zither and zither are harmonious and harmonious. I have the intention to drink wine, and enjoy the hearts of the guests with the Yan..."

"Well, I memorize well, and I don't know a word, and I'll get the full mark!"

"Really!"

"Really, as real as pearls!"

Yuwen Wen closed the letter and signaled his daughter Yuwen Guiying to approach, then took out a wooden box and handed it to his daughter: "Hey, this is a full prize."

After Yuwen Guiying gave the salute, she took the wooden box and opened it. She found that it was a beautiful stroll, decorated with rubies and pink pearls.

She liked it so much that she thanked her: "Thank you Aye!"

"Well, this is what Xiaoying deserves."

Yuwen Wen looked at his daughter with a smile, wanting to pat her daughter on the shoulder to show encouragement, but he still didn't do anything.

Yuwen Guiying is almost twelve years old, close to the lower limit of the marriage age of women in this era, that is, it is close to adulthood. Therefore, as a father, Yuwen Wen should be responsible for getting along with his daughter, and father-daughter relationship should be "stop courtesy".

It’s not that he thought too much, but that he wanted to set an example and let his children know what “ritual” is, especially for girls. As a princess, if he is as “bold and unrestrained” as Li Tang’s princess, then he will lose all his face as Aye.

Yuwen Wen asked his daughters to read, write, learn arithmetic, not to cultivate talented women, because talented women must be sentimental and unable to live long. He was to make their daughters knowledgeable, well-educated, and know how to be filial to their uncles and aunts (parents-in-law) after getting married. He could not rely on his princess to act as a princess, or even raise a couple.

Yuwen Guiying is the daughter of Zhang Lihua for Yuwen Wen. She looks like her mother. Now she is graceful and graceful, with a look of falling fish and geese. She speaks softly and very nicely. Yuwen Wen suddenly sighs when she looks at her daughter:

Oh, I don’t know who the brat would marry my daughter away...

Zhang Lihua was standing aside, and when she saw the homework exam, she signaled her daughter to leave. Then she ordered the palace maid to bring up today's newspaper and various documents so that Yu Wen Wen could read it.

Yuwen Wen didn't look at it, sat blankly, and after a long time, he sighed: "Oh, which husband Xiaoying wants to be the bride for?"

Zhang Lihua was stunned when she heard this, then smiled and said, "Didn't Erlang say that he has to consider it again in a year?"

"Oh, I'm afraid that when will the foreign countries send envoys to propose marriage? Isn't this afraid of dreams at night?"

Zhang Lihua sat aside and poured tea for Yuwen Wen: "If Erlang does not allow it, who dares to send an envoy to propose marriage rashly?"

"Well, that's right."

Yu Wenwen rubbed his temples and began to read the newspaper. The news title in the newspaper was as shocked as ever:

"The students selected in the Yuzhou exam actually encountered such a thing halfway through their return home!"

"I have to know about the three or five events in the Jizhou Provincial Examination!"

"Shocked, I found this thing underground in the Jingzhou Examination Venue!"

"A candidate returned home found an unknown package outside the inn. He opened it and reported to the official without hesitation!"

Various eye-catching titles made Yu Wen Wen feel frightened at first glance. If he hadn't known what kind of morality the editor of the newspaper's "Shocking Department" was, he would have really thought.

The first provincial examination for the imperial examination in Mingde year ended successfully not long ago. No "imperial examination fraud" occurred, nor did there be large-scale mass incidents, which made Yuwen Wen breathe a sigh of relief.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner and he doesn't need to worry about it. In this provincial examination, the examination results of each general administration have been summarized and reported, and the number that Yu Wen Wen cares most has also been counted.

Among the new candidates in this provincial examination, the proportion of candidates from famous families (gentry) is about 55%.

In other words, the number of people on the list is simply the advantage of the children of the gentry.

Considering that among the total number of references, the number of children of the gentry is obviously at a disadvantage, this number further highlights the academic advantages of children of the gentry.

Further deduction, among the people selected in the imperial examination, the proportion of the children of the gentry may be expanded. When the palace examination is in, the first top scorer in the imperial examination in Mingde year was the children of the gentry.

Yuwen Wen was not surprised by this. He tried his best to prepare for the first imperial examination for more than ten years. It is said that he would have a top scholar from a cold family, so that would be a good start.

But Yuwen Wen is willing to face reality and knows that the knowledge gap accumulated by the aristocratic families over the years cannot be eliminated by the cold people through more than ten years of sudden learning.

It is a delusion to rely solely on the imperial examination to dismantle the politics of aristocratic families.

When many people in later generations mentioned the imperial examination, they believed that the imperial examination had broken the roots of the aristocratic families. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, because just in terms of exams, the children of aristocratic families (children of aristocratic families) were not afraid of them at all.

In this era, the knowledge and knowledge about Confucian classics were generally monopolized by the gentry, especially among the first-class gentry (family families, family members). The children of the five surnames and seven hopes have a lot of knowledge, and have been admitted to the Ming Dynasty classics and historical journals, and have a great grasp of good grades.

Therefore, even though Yuwen Wen spent nearly twenty years to create the "Examination Outline" and "Teaching Outline" and promote "examination-oriented education" to weaken the knowledge advantages of the gentry and shorten the strength gap between the children of the cold and the children of the gentry.

But this gap cannot be truly shortened by more than ten years of study.

Yuwen Wen was mentally prepared for this. He did not expect that the first imperial examination would lead to a situation where the cold candidates beat the gentry candidates.

He did not intend to operate secretly, so that the top scorer in the first palace examination in Mingdenian was a child of the cold clan. It all depends on the candidates' own efforts to achieve the results.

Since the imperial examinations held by the court emphasize fairness and justice, there will be no discriminatory regulations and will not deliberately suppress candidates from certain groups. Since it is an examination selection, candidates must compare with their true talents and real knowledge.

The relevant textbooks, books and exercises for the three subjects of Ming Jing, historical records, and Ming Suan are all sold for public sale, and anyone can buy and learn. This is true for the gentry and cold people.

If you want to dig into the political roots of aristocratic families, it is certainly not enough to rely solely on the imperial examinations, but with a fair and fair examination selection system, the ones who benefit the most are actually the students of the cold.

Compared with the nine-rank Zhongzheng system that makes people (cold people) desperate, the imperial examination is much fairer. As long as the imperial examination can be successfully implemented, more and more students of the cold will be invested in this "battlefield".

A fair way to enter the officialdom allows the gentry and the children of the cold to stand on the same starting line. If you want to become an official, you must study hard, get good grades, and strive to be on the list.

Since ancient times, people in China have not been worried about poverty or inequality. The court has set a fair selection system. If you cannot become an official, you cannot blame yourself for reincarnation in the wrong child, but you can only blame yourself for not being able to study and study and study.

This is the purpose of Yuwen Wen's imperial examination. He wanted to let small and medium-sized landlords (cold people) see hope and open a stable and relatively smooth upward channel, so that everyone would tend to be promoted and wealth within the system according to the rules, rather than thinking about becoming a local emperor and rebel when the situation is unstable.

He wanted to attract as many cold talents as possible to enter the system and fight against aristocratic families politically, so he could only rely on the imperial examination.

In order to reflect fairness, Yuwen Wen learned the "historical lessons". In the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty, students had to take the examinations, and their reference qualifications required officials to recommend them, and the examination papers were not dug. These practices that affect fairness would not appear in the imperial examinations of this era.

Of course, he knew that the imperial examination system was not without its shortcomings. A serious disadvantage of the imperial examination system in "historical" was that in order to give preferential treatment to scholars, students who obtained fame (such as juren) enjoyed the privilege of tax exemption and exemption from service.

The consequence of this is that large-scale investment occurs. Many people bring land to the name of Juren, and the resulting land annexation and tax loss problems will become more and more serious as time goes by.

What's the problem?

It is not rent-free, but labor-free (force-service).

For ordinary people, paying land rent and various taxes is considered to be skinned at most. If you are not careful in labor service, you will die.

Corrupt officials with bad intentions can destroy a wealthy family by using labor service.

Therefore, we must not only treat those who have won the exam with fame, but also prevent large-scale investment from causing land mergers and tax loss. Yuwen Wen feels that the right medicine must be prescribed, that is, the exemption of labor is limited to the juren himself.

There are restrictions on the number of land that is not rented for, and there is also a deadline, which makes the benefits of investment less obvious.

Since there are not many benefits, the investment situation will not happen in large quantities.

The system design is like this, and the effect remains to be seen. For the country, there is no doubt that the imperial examination system is more advanced than the nine-rank Zhongzheng system. It is much better and fairer to be an official by exams than to be a reincarnation.

Everything has its pros and cons, and the imperial examination system also has its disadvantages. The imperial examination was born in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, its disadvantages became more and more obvious, such as:

Being an official by taking exams is obviously safer than becoming an official by relying on military merits. In the long run, it is easy for the whole country to value culture over military affairs. Good families choose to study and participate in the imperial examinations and become officials, and the phenomenon of pens and military success gradually disappearing.

In the end, it evolved into a noble and humble man. He was good at iron and did not make nails, and good men did not join the army. The soldiers became "red men".

The imperial examinations change the behavior of reading, becoming an official and studying. Because the content of the examination focuses on liberal arts, the content gradually becomes rigid. In the long run, it will affect the development of natural science and imprison the thoughts of scholars.

If you hold a subject and take regular exams, you will gradually "oversupply" due to too many candidates, and a large number of redundant officials will appear, which will increase the financial burden.

These shortcomings cannot be blamed on the imperial examination itself, but only the organizers (rulers) of the imperial examination are not properly operated. If you do not find a way to make "patches" before the system is started and to eliminate hidden dangers as much as possible, in the future, the imperial examination will only follow the old path.

Although this process may take hundreds of years, Yuwen Wen feels that since he has chosen to do things, he has to do things well, otherwise it is better not to do it.

If he is an emperor with the mentality of "just care about being free and happy before his death, he will not care about the flood after his death", why did he work so hard? It is better to choose beauty every three years than to take the exam every three years.
Chapter completed!