The second imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was the first imperial examination carried out in accordance with the new regulations.

Compared with the first imperial examination in the second year of Hongwu, which had the color of the old era, the second imperial examination in the fifth year of Hongwu has a greater significance.

Because this is the first imperial examination that was conducted completely according to one's own rules, and it is the first imperial examination after the abolition of Confucian academics as an official certified academic.

The Ming Dynasty Ministry of Rites, which was fully controlled, was preparing for the exam completely in accordance with Su Yonglin's requirements.

The conditions for this imperial examination are much better than the last imperial examination. Without the constraints of internal and external factors, even the third-level examinations in various places have been built, including provinces, prefectures and counties.

There is no need to say much about the two exams conducted after entering Zhongdu. The Ministry of Rites directly entrusts the whole country and is fully responsible.

A new group of talents from the Ming Dynasty were eager to try and were ready to pass this exam to prove that their efforts did not betray them...

Su Yonglin had a basic understanding of the situation of this exam at the Ministry of Rites examination meeting held on the 15th day of the first lunar month of the fifth year of Hongwu.

In the second half of the fourth year of Hongwu, as the county examination before the final examination, the provincial examination and provincial examination had been completed. Most of the candidates with a total number of more than 30,000 people had arrived in Zhongdu, waiting for the imperial examination and palace examination on March 1st.

Among the candidates, the largest number of students are the liberal arts students.

In just four years since the reform of the imperial examination, Su Yonglin has opened up exams in science, engineering and law in order to broaden the rise of various groups in society.

But the time is relatively short after all. Even after a devastating blow to the scholar-official class, the number of scholars who took the liberal arts examination was still more than the other three subjects.

However, in the second year of Hongwu, the total number of candidates in the other three subjects was less than 60% of candidates in the liberal arts subjects. By the fifth year of Hongwu, this data reached 96%.

Greeting and congratulations.

But it is still rare, which shows that the inertia of society cannot be changed in a short while.

Among the candidates in science, engineering and law, in the second year of Hongwu, there were obviously more candidates in law than science and engineering, which was almost the same as the sum of the two. Next is engineering and finally science.

The grading examination system has not been perfected in the second year of Hongwu, and the number of candidates for the third subjects must also be classified. Therefore, among the Hongwu exams, the highest admission ratio is the science candidates.

At that time, the admission ratio was almost at the state where one person was required to be selected for every two people.

As long as you register for a reference, you can reach an admission rate of nearly 50%.

The science candidates who were in the past won the slap.

This situation became widely known only after the results of the imperial examination were announced.

Compared with the average admission rate of liberal arts students, science candidates with at least a little bit of skills are basically considered random killings, and have been admitted to officials one after another. They are developing quite well now and have become members of the vast group of scheming officials.

This caused a large-scale discussion in society at that time.

So many liberal arts scholars broke the defense on the spot.

They cried and made a fuss, their mouths were crooked, and finally they made up their minds to abandon literature and theory, abandon Confucius, embraced Mozi, Zu Chongzhi and other science masters, and started to chew with "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

Three years later, there are more such situations. Apart from the lack of accumulation and time experience, the technical engineering examinations are really not good, the competitiveness of law and science examinations has increased significantly, and the number of candidates has increased exponentially.

So the law and science exams in Hongwu for five years need to be selected according to the candidate's hometown at the provincial level to control the number of people, select outstanding people, eliminate those who are just a substitute, and then take the final exams after the Zhongzhong period.

Even so, the difficulty of the three subjects of science, law and engineering is less than that of the liberal arts exam. It is not that the question is difficult, but that the competition in liberal arts is relatively large.

The liberal arts examination requires five exams, while the law and science only require three, and the engineering examination requires only two selections to decide whether to accept it.

Therefore, some officials have also proposed whether this is not fair and whether it can be adjusted slightly.

This suggestion was rejected by Su Yonglin. Su Yonglin means that there are too many liberal arts candidates. If admission is relaxed, the number of candidates for the other three subjects will be greatly reduced.

The court needs officials with various expertise to be responsible for the operation of the court, and it does not rely solely on administration to travel the world.

The court needed masters from engineering to promote the development of science and technology, and needed accounting officials from science to science to provide huge computing power to support the court's policies, and needed judicial officials from law to law to maintain social fairness and justice.

The court not only needed administrative officials to maintain operations, but also needed a large number of technical officials who master professional skills to participate.

There were so many problems with the old imperial examinations, even the officials of the feudal dynasty themselves complained about. The knowledgeable scholars and officials among them thought that the officials selected in this way were often just beautifully written, and they didn't even know who was historical celebrities and some basic common sense, and they were completely unable to get started in government affairs.

They all think so, are we going to follow their old path?

So at the preparatory meeting for the imperial examination, Su Yonglin put forward his own views.

"Before the reference number of candidates has not reached a balance, and before the folk perception of the four subjects has not reached a balance, we need to maintain a balanced admission rate.

When the number of reference candidates is basically balanced, and no longer think that the other three subjects are inferior to the liberal arts Jinshi, then everyone can take the same graded exam together to maintain fairness. Now, this is fairness.”

Su Yonglin has a huge influence on the government affairs. His words and deeds can affect the direction of the government's decision, even if he does not like to be arbitrary.

This is an indisputable fact.

Therefore, the imperial examinations in Hongwu in the fifth year were conducted in the form of level 5 of the liberal arts examination, level 3 of the law science examination and level 3 of the engineering examination.

So at present, the number of students from the four science students gathered in Zhongdu City to participate in the final exam is basically the same as that of the palace exam.

Of course, the relatively relaxed candidates in engineering are the smallest, so they do not need to take the graded exam. They can directly enter the middle school to prepare for the last two assessments.

But this does not mean that it is very convenient for candidates applying for engineering. Their assessment is not low, and it can even be said to be relatively high.

Their assessment requires professional craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry to participate in the evaluation. Those who are literate need to take additional written examinations, which can add points. Those who are illiterate need to show their extraordinary skills. Pass two strict technical exams, professional examiners score, and finally get an average score for ranking and select the best.

It can be said that due to the current demand for many technical problems, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Work will take the selection of outstanding engineering talents more strictly. We hope that talents with excellent technology can be selected from across the country to help solve problems.

Su Yonglin was quite satisfied with this situation.

For the social upward channel such as the imperial examination, his requirements are generally lenient entry and strict exit.

He wants to let more and more people join in, and everyone is qualified to participate, and there is a possibility of gaining growth through this channel, rather than limiting this qualification because of things like origin, bloodline, assets, etc., which is unacceptable.

Then, strictly check the selection level and try to ensure that the selected talents are available.

It is hard to say whether this situation will cause intra-revolution, it cannot be said that it will be so dead, and it will definitely not be possible, but Su Yonglin is confident that this intra-revolution will not develop in a vicious direction.

Although the total number of official positions is limited, because the Ming Dynasty imperial examinations broadened the examination subjects and took four subjects at the same time, there were three more passable roads than the traditional imperial examinations, which gave more possibilities to more people.

The traditional imperial examination only takes the Four Books and Five Classics, and only selects masters who can write articles. In other aspects, it doesn’t matter if you don’t even know who Su Shi is. You can become an official, but there is only this path, which greatly limits people’s way of going up.

But this was not the case in the Ming Dynasty’s imperial examination.
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