In life, everything seems to be a siege.
The outside of the city felt good and envious, while the inside of the city felt bad or average. However, there was a besieged city, which was among the feudal dynasties of the ages, making people from all over the world flock to it.
Officials.
Study and take the exam, and then become an official.
As the preliminary examinations of various counties were carried out one after another, students who passed the preliminary examinations of various prefectures flocked to Chang'an. Inns and inns and inns and inns and inns and inns and inns and inns began to fill them up one after another.
In this way, there are still many candidates who want to stay in the residential houses, of course the price is only expensive but not cheap. I don’t know if the concept of a homestay has been there before the Han Dynasty. Anyway, Fei sneaked to Guanzhong and had such a homestay when he was in the Qinglong Temple. Ordinary homestays are just accommodations, and better homestays even include food and washing clothes, and of course there are better ones...
In addition to these additional accommodation sites among the people, Fei Qian also temporarily recruited some labor camps outside Chang'an. It sounded bad to say that they were labor camps, but they changed to youth hostels... Cough cough, isn't it much better to change to "Confucian and Mencius Yishu"?
These labor camps, well, "Kong and Mencius Yishu", are actually built according to standard camps, with village walls, toilets, bathing places, etc. In fact, the conditions are not too bad. The most important thing is not to charge money, which makes many cash-strapped students willing to live in it.
Although these "Confucian and Mencius Yishu" are a bit far from Chang'an, there are three carriages at the entrance of the camp every day, and they leave when they reach the point or when the crowd is full, so it is indeed a bit inconvenient overall, but it cannot be considered too troublesome.
As the exam date gradually approaches, in the streets and alleys of Chang'an, everyone is full of scholars wearing square scarves and straight clothes, and even others are talking to each other with some "zhihu".
At the same time, because there are many "seniuses" for exams in Chang'an, at this time, there are also many shops and merchants who want to attract business, or promote their names, and have some other ideas. Sometimes they invite some "seniuses" who have obtained good grades before to preach some content, which often attracts students to listen up and sometimes gather hundreds of people, which is quite spectacular at the moment.
In such a preaching, of course, it is impossible to talk about the subtle meanings in the scriptures, but focus on some precautions in the examination room, preparation of items, etc. These experiences from how to prepare for the exam to how to take the exam are all popular topics among candidates.
I even mentioned some of the previous exam content to describe it. Compared with the test questions in counties, the number of test questions in Chang'an and the examination subjects here have a relatively large expansion. This is completely different from the first exam. There were many students who went to Chang'an to take the exam for the first time, and they often couldn't adapt to the intensity of the exam, and eventually collapsed physically and mentally, doubted themselves, and even became a hurried person.
Just like the exam in Longyou, there was only one day, but the exam in Chang'an has now become three exams.
The first game is to prepare for the exam. Because it is a test of rote memorization, the time spent on the exam will be longer.
In fact, the first exam was relatively simple, as long as you can recite it proficiently. After all, there were not as many scriptures as later generations in the Han Dynasty. Among the main scriptures identified in Qinglong Temple were poetry, books, rituals, and Yi Chunqiu. These books were books that almost all students must read. Perhaps there may be a slight difference between the local version and the Qinglong Temple version, but they are generally not much different, unlike the modern classics, which are the prophecies and divination studies, and they all speak their own words.
The classics of bronze inscriptions and ancient essays are also like a besieged city.
However, unlike the siege of officials, most people want to squeeze in the siege of officials, while the siege of scriptures is difficult to get out of it, but they have to leave.
After the Qinglong Temple Great Treatise, especially after the "serious" theory, the modern classics gradually came to an end.
Strictly speaking, the prophecies and divination theories in modern classics have no market.
Fei Qian should have been a large potential market for the theory of prophecy and divination.
In fact, many local princes in the Han Dynasty were invisible supporters of these prophecies and divination theories.
Even Cao Cao was not immune to the common sense. Back then, Baba rushed to the door to ask for a comment from others...
In fact, if you think about it, you will know that a person’s life has any nonsense connection with the prophecies and divination comments? With a comment, you can become successful. Without this comment, you will be invincible forever? If you really have such a great ability, then what is the price to pay to maintain such a great law?
This is actually like the comments of later zodiac signs. If the name of the constellation is hidden and then randomly disassembles the name of the constellation and then lets people see it, some people will think it is "Zhong"!
Are there prophecies and divinations in ancient scriptures? There are also some, but there are much less knowledge of modern scriptures. On the one hand, most of the ancient scriptures are physical scriptures passed down from ancient times. If you want to write them on bamboo slips and wooden slips, you naturally have to choose important ones to write. For example, most of the prophecies and divinations are concentrated on the aspects of the Book of Changes. On the other hand, it is because the modern scriptures were taught orally at the beginning, and then there will inevitably be content added by each branch of the scriptures...
Fei Qian clearly stated that prophecies and divination are pseudo-learnings, which made many people lose their "place to use their skills" in an instant. Among them, the most damaged classics of modern literature have been brought to light. In addition, the "correct explanation" of Qinglong Temple, which has gradually been gradually completed, a relatively complete and standardized scripture structure is being formed.
And these students who refer to this reference will pass on the architecture of the classical and classical interpretation of modern and ancient texts...
It’s like these fill-in-the-blank questions in the first exam.
This is Fei Qian's strategy. It seems that there is no conclusion, but in fact it has already achieved results. Fei Qian did not go directly to the stage, just shouted that he wanted to kill the modern text, or wanted to restore the ancient text, because this will only intensify things. Once the contradiction intensifies, many times some people may not be rational in doing things. In order to maintain their respective positions, under the influence of emotions, there will be situations where they ignore their heads and butts.
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The same is true for the exam. The second exam is the application content of official documents. The questions formulated are: "edicts, statements, certificates, seals, and judgments".
These "edicts, statements, certificates, seals, and judgments" are also like sieges of the city.
Because it is a limited subject, the limited number of words and formats cannot be wrong.
When Fei Qian first began to rule, various documents were reported in various places, and the words were displayed as they pleased. Fei Qian was so rich that he could see his mind. So he gradually improved the standards of this type of official documents and made the specifications of the code.
For example, "动" is used to express love. Any reasons such as "动" are discussed, advised, begging, waiting for crimes, offerings, recommendations, celebrations, comforts, remarks, thanks, lawsuits, impeachments, etc. are all "动". The first sentence at the beginning of the table must explain what the matter is, the characters, the location, time and matters, and then the specific situation is described. At the end, suggestions or related measures that have been dealt with should be added. The overall length is 400 words, and the maximum must not exceed 1,000 words.
The last one is the policy discussion.
It will be relatively relaxed, but there are also restrictions. If you want to play freely, you may even fly away from the test papers together...
This set of examination content and regulations will gradually form norms and then continue to be used. If these three exams can be used, students can be examined relatively comprehensively through this method, and the selected people are relatively more cultural, knowledgeable, and have certain administrative abilities.
The reason why you don’t test poetry, songs and essays is that ordinary officials do not need to have very good literary talent.
As for the eight-legged essays in later generations, they are actually special products under the examination-oriented system. Although they have been criticized by many people in later generations, they are not really that bad. Instead, they play a big role in maintaining objective screening...
It's like a besieged city, and people in the city and outside the city feel different.
In this huge exam, there were children of aristocratic families from Heluo, local gentry from Hanzhong, Longyou, and even Chinese-style Hu people...
In fact, under Fei Qian's rule, many of them were already Chinese-made Hu people.
For example, the Linghu family of Shangdang has been completely Chinese, and their achievements in Chinese academics are even better than many local Chinese people.
The middle-aged man, Chi Ganping, was also a Chinese-Chinese Hu people. His family should have been the Southern Xiongnu, and then divided into the Han area during the Western Han Dynasty. First in Chang'an and later in Hedong. After two or three hundred years of incidents, the Chi Gan family is no longer different from ordinary Han people.
Sima Yi went to Hedong to preside over the county examination. Chi Ganping passed the exam in that exam and obtained a quota to take the Chang'an End Examination. Now he lives in the "Confucian and Mencius Yishu" prepared by the General of the Cavalry, preparing to take the upcoming exam.
As the exam time approached, the atmosphere inside the Confucius and Mencius Yipu camp became tense during the day.
In such an atmosphere, things happen from time to time...
There are all kinds of strange things for all kinds of people. Even if there are special soldiers in the camp responsible for order patrols, there are still some sudden situations.
In the morning, someone shouted in the large shop where Chi Ganping lived, saying that the pen and ink he prepared were gone!
If the soldiers go into battle, the most important thing is weapons and armor. Then, the pen and ink of these students and candidates go to the examination room. As a result, the weapon is lost now, how can people not worry?
The inspector on duty came with his soldiers, but he did not find any problem, because the unlucky child's bag of pen and ink was not thrown in the Datong Bed, but he forgot when he went out...
Yes, I forgot.
The unlucky child also treasured his pen and inkstone, and he took him everywhere he went, but did not put it in the Datong shop, for fear that someone would stay in the Datong shop, so he forgot the bag wherever he had gone.
If someone stole it, it will naturally be investigated, but I forgot it myself...
After understanding the situation, the inspector tsk and left with his soldiers. If his soldiers lost their armor and weapons, they would start with at least thirty whips.
Can you forget such an important thing?
Why don’t you forget to eat and sleep?
The unlucky child hugged his head and cried.
Is it useful to cry?
But it's just crying.
Chiganping did not have any extra spare pens. He prepared only two pens, one large and one thin, and used to write characters of different sizes. The ink could be broken up a small piece for the unlucky child, but there was only one inkstone and it could not be divided.
The others were similar. They put together one by one, but there were some ink pieces, but there was no extra pen and inkstone.
Chi Ganping and others accompanied the unlucky children to search for several places that might have been lost in the camp, but naturally they didn't find anything. Even the unlucky children didn't know very well when and where they were lost, let alone remember who was around and what happened.
After searching for it for no reason, Chi Ganping helped to ask if the examination room would provide pen, ink, paper and inkstone. As a result, paper would be distributed in the examination room. It seemed that there were also ink blocks that could be applied for, but I didn’t hear that there were additional provisions for pens and inkstones...
After all, it is best to use the pen and inkstones yourself. If you fail the exam, you will be considered your own, or are you considered the problem of the pen and inkstones provided by the exam room?
The unlucky child felt very wronged, but the problem was that he cried in the Datongpu, which made others unable to do whatever they wanted to rest or read. In desperation, Chi Ganping found the rest of the Datongpu and discussed taking the unlucky child to the Chinese collection of Chang'an City.
Who said that he is the oldest in this Datongpu? After all, everyone is not familiar with him. If he doesn't take the initiative to talk about this, most others will not care about it. If this continues, although Chi Ganping is not sure whether this unlucky child will touch the hammer when he can't think about it, whether he is giving him or others a few hammers, if he can solve the problem earlier, it will help the group to have a good rest. Otherwise, it will affect the rest. I'm afraid that everyone may not be able to take the exam in the end.
So everyone raised some money to buy some ink inkstones for the unlucky child. Although a set of inkstones is quite valuable, it is actually not much to everyone. In addition, it can be considered as relaxing before the exam and changing the mood. In addition, it also means to recognize the Tao before the exam in the future. And because of the problems that unlucky child have encountered, I would like to remind them that there are still some spare pens and inks, right?
So Chi Ganping's suggestion was supported by most people, and the unlucky child kept calling Chi Ganping's elder brother.
There was a carriage at the entrance of the camp. Chiganping and his group did not wait long, and the number was full. Then they shouted in the handlebars and drove away the horses. Soon after, they were sent outside Chang'an City.
When he arrived at the collection of essays, Chi Ganping and others were immediately confused.
The unlucky child seemed to have forgotten his sadness for the time being, looking at the various stationery instruments in the collection of essays.
If there is demand, there will be products that come with it.
Among the current collections, the best selling is not the words of pen and ink, but the test basket. Of course, there are also the evolutionary versions of the test basket, the oven, uh, the test box.
The exquisite examination box is very eye-catching, placed in the most conspicuous position in the store, and there is also a very beautiful female mover who is gentle and soft in explaining how to use it...
There are naturally many people around me, and I don’t know if I am looking at the exam box or the female mover.
Chi Ganping couldn't help but look over and find that this exam box was really a bit particular.
The examination box itself is not only painted with red paint, but also outlines the patterns of mountains and rivers on the surface. It is said that it is a box, but it is actually more like a small wooden cabinet. The entire cabinet door on the front has three drawers after opening.
The female mover opened the three drawers one by one to show.
In the top layer of the drawer, it is like the drawer grid of a medicine shop, and many grids are subdivided. Each grid contains some food, including several kinds of pastries, dried fruits, and even bacon and candied fruits!
This made Chi Gan grin straight. Are you planning to have a dinner in the exam room?
The drawers on the second floor are more normal, with pens, inkstones, candle paperweights, etc. Of course, they all look high-quality and expensive.
This is more or less a test box name.
The third-layer drawer began to be crooked again, and it turned out to be a small bed of silk quilt and a brocade cushion!
When the female mover took out the silk brocade quilt and pretended to cover her body as if she was using it, looking at the concave and convex curves on the brocade quilt, Chi Ganping seemed to hear some sound of swallowing saliva...
It's really...
"This thing is so expensive, how could anyone buy it? Who came up with such a ghost idea?" The unlucky child was right beside him, muttering in a small voice, "It's enough to have a pen and inkstone in the examination room. What's the use of so many idle things? What do merchants think? That's really a fool who buys this thing!"
Chi Ganping glanced at the unlucky child next to him, and didn't say anything, but just stepped out and stayed away from him. He is not the parent of the unlucky child, so he has no obligation to teach him anything. Since the merchant made this thing, it must be in line with the needs of some people. If no one really wants it, the merchant will naturally not do it. There is a buyer and a seller. Isn't this very normal?
You can see this thing at a glance, and the price is definitely not cheap.
The unlucky child obviously couldn't afford it, so he ridiculed the person who bought it as a fool, the store merchant was also a fool, and the person who designed such a test box was also a fool...
You have to buy, sell, and design people are all fools, and you need your smart mind to give it a guide.
Just like some people in later generations who are reasonable in poverty, because they are poor, they can steal, rob, eat a king's meal, and then slim their mouths. The food in this restaurant is so terrible. It's really hard and it's hard to eat it!
Chi Ganping originally thought that this unlucky child was indeed pitiful, but now thinking about it, he suddenly felt that it was not too pitiful.
Chapter completed!