Longyou.
Jincheng.
Zao Zhi looked at the three or two big cats taking the exam below the stage, scratching his head a little.
How can this be fat?
Zao Zhi turned his head to look at Jia Xu, but saw a complicated look in Jia Xu's calm face.
Jia Xu didn't say much. In this exam, Zao Zhi was the main test, and Jia Xu was just collaborative.
Zao Zhi looked at the students in the venue, nodded, and announced the start of the exam.
Perhaps in some people's cognition, the effort and reward are linear, that is, how much you pay and how much you pay, it does make some sense, but sometimes it is not the case.
It's like the imperial examination.
The rewards of the imperial examination are a bit like a phased one.
For candidates, hard work is rewarding, but it is not that reading a book will bring rewards to another book, but that you can only see the rewards after you reach a certain stage.
Therefore, the current imperial examination is also phased for Fei Qian. He sent people to various counties to hold county examinations, but after sending people, he could see that the progress bar increased there, and then there was a percentage of linear changes every day. Instead, he had to wait for a stage to know the final result. Then, whether the result was consistent with the original expectations, it was not a linear relationship.
Just like there is a problem with Hedong, and there is a problem with Longyou.
Zao Zhi is responsible for Longyou.
In Hedong, Sima Yi encountered too many people, but he was not prepared at once, but it was completely different in Longyou.
Few people come.
Shao arrived at Zaozhi himself was a little suspicious. Is the county magistrate and township under Longyou not working, and there was no notification at all, which led to many people not knowing it?
But after investigation, Zao Zhi found out that it was not the case, but that there was really no one.
No scholar.
Reading also takes time, especially if you want to read a good book, it takes time.
It’s not even just a matter of personal time, but the time the family has to squeeze out.
Jincheng is very large, and the number of people referring to it is small, so there is no situation like Anyi, Hedong, where no one has a place to live. It has only been a few years. It can even be said that the Longyou imperial examination, which was a great place to create the world for three or four hundred years, attracted many ordinary people and the people in his spare time to join in the fun.
Outside the examination room, there were crowds of people, people who were selling goods and talking about the exam, which was like a grand festival.
But Zaozhi felt that just a little bit of people could be like a festival?
Jincheng also dispatched a lot of inspectors and soldiers to stand outside the examination room to maintain order.
After leaving the bustling streets, entering the government office, passing through layers of portals and courtyard walls, it suddenly became quiet and the noise was isolated.
In the examination room, there was a silence, with only a little sound of paper and clothes, and even the breath seemed to be slightly rising.
Because the number of people is relatively small, the government office square can be installed, so I didn’t move to any other position. The environment inside the government office is of course much better than in other places.
The students who took the exam were divided into six rows in the square under the guidance of soldiers and servants.
There are soldiers on duty around the square, and there are many clerks and assistants inspecting.
In such an environment, if you have a little bit of care, you will be very obvious. If you move a little bigger, you will be warned. If you still want to do small moves, you will be taken away directly.
So even if there is no strict inspection like Chang'an, there will be no major fraud problem.
In fact, it is because there are few people.
There are only a few of them, all under your nose, how can you cheat?
For example, there are thousands of people taking exams in later generations, and then a dozen or dozens of people going to inspect, so there is room for cheating. Now there are more soldiers and servants around Jincheng Square, clerks and servants, etc., which add up to more than students taking exams. Each student has several or even dozens of eyes at any time. In this case, if you can still peek at the cheat sheet or make any other moves, you will be a hero...
The exam questions are actually not difficult.
At least Zao Zhi thought it was not difficult, but when he saw the students in the examination room, many of them showed bitterness.
So much so that Zao Zhi once suspected that he had made a mistake in the question.
Although Zao Zhi’s question is different from that of Sima Yi, it is also based on the previous model of Chang'an. The first part is the verbal writing of the scriptures, specifying a certain paragraph, and then allowing the candidates to verb the verbal writing and explaining the meaning of the verb paragraph.
The other part is policy theory.
The whole exam is a whole day, longer than Hedong. Well, it is not a complete day, just from early chrysanthemum to late chrysanthemum, and the papers are collected before the sun sets. During the exam, you can rest twice, no more than two hours each time. During the break, you can eat snacks, drink water, change clothes, etc., and there are also dedicated people responsible for guarding and patrolling in the corridors and side rooms on one side of the square.
If someone needs to go to the toilet and solve the problem, they have to go through an inquiry. And there is a dedicated person following you every time, whether it is a big or a small solution, these people are inseparable from each other.
The spare food in the room was also simple dry buns, clear water, and pickles. There were also special people standing by and staring at them.
No one handed in advance, and most of the candidates were in the process of dusk before handing in succession.
There were two or three other people who had to put their heads on the table because of the increasing light, and they were eager to write something...
Zao Zhi felt a little reluctant, sighed, discussed with Jia Xu, and asked the servant to prepare a candle and light it, cover it with a cover, and place it on the table of those people. It was the last time for them to be given. When the candlelight burned out, it was the last moment for them to hand over the paper.
When the papers were collected and handed over to Jia Xu and Zao Zhi, the sunset had already set foot.
Strictly speaking, the current tests that Fei potentially implements in the surrounding counties are more difficult than the boy test, but they have not reached the level of scholars.
In the eyes of later generations, scholars seem to be very low-level. Well, they cannot be said to be low-level. Perhaps it is more appropriate to use low-level and is just a starting point for taking the imperial examination. But in fact, in ancient times, many people ended in this low-level position in their entire lives.
Just like Zao Zhi thought that the questions he gave were easy and simple. Most people should not be stuck in such low-level questions. However, after he actually got the test, he found that almost half of the people, to be precise, should be about 40% of them, were eliminated from the first question.
The imperial examination in any feudal dynasty is like a single-plank bridge that has thousands of troops crossed a single-plank bridge.
However, in the early stages of the imperial examination, the bridge deck was relatively wider, or there were not many people who wanted to cross the bridge.
Before Zao Zhi came to Longyou, he knew a little about the situation in Longyou, so the topic he set was not difficult, which means that the bridge deck was not very narrow, and even the topics of the policy he gave were close to the situation in Longyou.
The so-called "strategy" is to choose a problem in current affairs and then propose a solution to the problem. "strategy" means to discuss or comment on the matter that is controversial before or at present. This policy theory is easy and easy to say, because sometimes it does not need to involve specific matters in details, and you just need to make things right. But it is difficult to say it. After all, people without practical experience can easily fall into a fake void, shout a few slogans without finding the truly useful points.
The topic of the policy of Zao Zhi is "appeasement of herdsmen".
This is almost consistent with Longyou's current main policy and policy direction, and it is also a place where problems have been repeatedly encountered in Longyou for so many years. So normally this question is very experienced for people in Longyou, at least not confused.
What type of questions will make people in Longyou confused?
For example, "treat floods".
There are rivers in Longyou, but there are very few floods. Most of the time it is a problem of drought, rather than treating floods.
If the topic of "controlling floods" is wrong, it is not. Because this belongs to a hometown and a major event in the country, how can it be said to be a wrong topic?
However, if you use "treat flood control" to take the students in Longyou, then even if these students in Longyou who have no experience in flooding or feelings can be written, most of them are just articles that shout slogans. Even if they are beautiful, they are useless.
The topic of "appease the herdsmen" is obviously much more suitable for Longyou.
But even so, Zao Zhi couldn't help but sigh when he saw the answers from these students.
The policy theory does not require fu. Well, of course, if you can not only speak in words like Zhang Heng, Jia Yi, Ban Gu and others, but also explain profound truths, and at the same time strengthen the rhythm of the text and achieve literary talent, that would be really great.
But in the three or four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, how many people wrote Han Fu, how many people could have reached the level of Zhang Jia?
Therefore, Zao Zhi’s requirement for these students’ policy discussions is to say something and make the sentences smoothly.
pity……
Even such requirements seem to be too high.
Zao Zhi has read several policy comments in a row, and then he has read the beginning and closed his eyes.
When I opened the web page in later generations, the screen was full of shock. Then I clicked on it and saw that I had said a lot, but it seemed that I didn’t say anything at all. In the end, I pretended to give a summary, but it turned out to be a cliché. At the end, I had to cheat again. "The editor said this, what do you think, welcome to leave a message and comment."
Similar to such shocking bodies, although they are all cheating money, at least these editors are trying their best to round, no matter whether they are round or not, they can see the strength of breaking back hard. However, the strategies that Zao Zhi saw now went off the line from the beginning, and he ran away without looking back at all...
Zao Zhi sighed, silently put down the paper in his hand, turned his head to ask Jia Xu, "Wenhe, is there something wrong with my question... this paper...?"
Jia Xu was silent for a while, then said to Zao Zhi: "Today is too late, tomorrow, I will take you around tomorrow... Then you will understand..."
The next day.
Xiahe Village.
There are not more than ten villages in China that are named randomly, but there are probably seven or eight villages.
Because it is leaning on an unknown small river, it is called Xiahe Village.
There is also a smaller village on the top of the mountain called Shanghe Village.
But what is very interesting is that the river near the village is not called a river, but is called Mingxi.
It is indeed impossible to call it a river, after all, the river is too shallow and too small.
Zao Zhi got off the horse by the river, and then asked the guard to take the horses to drink water while going up the hillside. Looking at the river water not far away, it was probably only deeper than the ankles, and frowned slightly, "There is no need to build channels for this river water... I guess there should be no water in winter... It is okay to build a few reservoirs...
In this regard, jujube is professional.
Jia Xu was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Zao Zhi's first thought was this when he got here.
However, what Zao Zhi said was nothing wrong.
This should be a river channel that winds out from a snow mountain, or a stream. After passing through the underground river, this mountain gushed out and became the source of life here. The water volume changes seasonally, and the ice and snow on the snow on the snow mountain in autumn and winter have frozen the snow on the snow mountain. Isn’t it just that the downstream has stopped flowing?
Zao Zhi didn't know the specific origin of this river, but he had a lot of agricultural experience, so even if he came here for the first time, he could see the agricultural dilemma here.
Animal Husbandry and agriculture have great differences in demand conditions.
Especially for the demand for water sources.
Agriculture requires too much water, which is far greater than animal husbandry. It is mainly used for irrigation. If crops cannot have sufficient water, they will not be able to take roots, sprout, or grow, and they will not be able to grout when they need to bear seeds. Anyway, almost as long as the farmland is planted, water must be needed at all times. But it is obvious that there is not much water in the river here, so there must be not many acres that can be cultivated or supported.
In the surrounding area, on the way to Zaozhi, there are also villages that are far away from water sources, whether it is plants or animals, or people and animals, who all rely on picking and pulling water.
In such a village, even survival depends on God's favor.
Different living conditions lead to inconsistent survival costs.
The inconsistency between Longyou and Hedong.
"Are we going to the village now?" Zao Zhi asked.
Jia Xu shook his head and said, "We are here... we just look at these people... don't bother them..."
『…』Zaozhi looked at the people in the village not far away.
Looking down from the hillside, you can generally see it in the village.
It was obvious that someone in the village had already discovered Zao Zhi and Jia Xu and his group, but Zao Zhi and Jia Xu had no intention of entering the village, and the people in the village did not come out to greet him.
It’s not that the people in the village do not know politeness or rules, but that they are in Longyou. Because of the terrain, they look close and not far in a straight line. In fact, to go to that village, they still need to go around a long circle up and down...
Zao Zhi originally thought Jia Xu wanted to take him to see the teaching situation in the local area.
Because it is obvious that the level of these students in Longyou is quite low.
In the Han Dynasty, the county with the highest academic qualifications before was Yuzhou, and then Jizhou. Jizhou was a little worse than Yuzhou, but the difference was not much. Then the second one was in the areas around Jizhou and Yuzhou, such as Jingzhou Youzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Yongzhou, etc., as well as Sichuan, Shu and Hedong, and the third one was remote areas.
However, after the Cavalry entered Guanzhong, the academic level of Guanzhong area was constantly rising. Now it can be said that not only caught up with Yuzhou and Jizhou, but also tended to overtake. In this case, the surrounding academics will be driven normally. For example, in Hedong, there are obviously more people studying than in the Zhongping period.
But in Longyou, it seems to be a cultural desert area.
To be honest, Zao Zhi was actually a little annoyed. He was usually a gentle person, but this time he came to Longyou to take the exam and found that these students who came to Longyou to take the exam were much different from what he had expected before, and they were not at the same level at all!
Zao Zhi had previously thought that there were also excellent students in Longyou. If those who went to Chang'an Sanfu and obtained better grades were considered ten, then those who took the Jincheng local exam should have seven or eight points, but if they didn't, they would probably have five or six points?
But what Zao Zhi didn't expect was that the average level of these students who took the exam was only three or four points, the best was five or six points, and the seven or eight points were really rare. Only one and a half might be selected carefully.
This naturally made Zaozhi feel a little angry.
For the rest of the matter, Zao Zhi doubted whether these Longyou students did not have the attitude of studying hard? Do you think that they couldn’t learn well anyway, so you just study it casually and then take the exam casually. If you can pass by luck, you will pass it. If you don’t work, you will go home to farm and herd sheep?
Those outstanding Longyou students went to Chang'an Sanfu. Is the rest of them just to give up on themselves?
So is it meaningful that the General of the Cavalry specially held such an exam in Jincheng, Longyou?
However, after Jia Xu brought Zao Zhi here, he didn't say much, but just asked Zao Zhi to see it himself. Jia Xu did not talk about the difficulties of these students in studying, because isn't it difficult in other places? He also did not say that the school has not been built yet, because although there is a school in Hedong, Chang'an, many other places have no school in other places.
So Jia Xu just asked Zao Zhi to see the lives of these students. He told the village that there were students from Longyou.
But Zao Zhi didn't see anyone looking like a student.
I only saw that everyone in the village was busy...
The middle-aged man, whether it is a strong man or a strong woman, is naturally doing the most tiring farm work.
Those older people are also busy doing all kinds of trivial matters.
The half-aged child has no time to go, either to follow the elders to help, or to go to the mountain to chop wood and mow grass.
The younger children are responsible for caring for younger children.
The only ones who are the young children, those who are not good at leaving, are smiling foolishly and rolling on the ground.
Zao Zhi didn't quite understand what Jia Xu meant at first, but after reading it for about an hour, he gradually understood a little. He turned to Jia Xu, "Is this village considered a top-notch or a low-level one in Longyou Village?"
Jia Xu shook his head and said, "There are no upper, middle and lower, only the difference, and there are even worse... The village on the road that is not close to the river is even worse..."
Chapter completed!