Chapter 21 Northern Song imperial examination system

Flowers bloom and fall, spring and winter come, and the time is like a white horse passing by. At the end of the lunar month, I saw peaches in a blink of an eye. In a blink of an eye, the fish is one year older and a nine-year-old girl.

Over the past year, the Yang family has made a lot of money by growing soybeans and selling tofu milk, and the family's situation has gradually improved. Therefore, when it ushered in the three-year imperial examination again, Yang Dalang's face finally showed the expected smile. As soon as he turned to May, he began to study day and night, vowed to pass eight in one stroke. The autumn held in the month is qualified to participate in the spring!

In fact, it is no wonder that Yang Dalang attaches so much importance to this autumn. After all, in terms of Yang Dalang's age and academic situation, he has long had the strength to participate in autumn. However, because his family was poor and couldn't make up the travel expenses for the exam, Yang Liulang had never had the opportunity to take the imperial examination and had missed it for two or three years. It was not until the Yang family saved some money by growing soybeans and selling tofu milk that 18-year-old Yang Dalang would have the opportunity to participate in autumn this year.

Because the imperial examination once every three years is related to the fate of the Yang brothers and even the Yang family, Yuer explored all kinds of matters related to the imperial examination through various channels early in the morning. I know that the "autumn examination" that Yang Dalang is about to participate in is actually the popular name of the "state examination" in the third and first-level examination of the Northern Song imperial examination system. Because the first level of the Northern Song imperial examination is set in autumn and August, this autumn examination is also known as the "autumn examination" and "examination".

This state examination is actually an examination conducted by the state and county. Through the state examination, local candidates are selected to the Tributary Institute of the Imperial Court to participate in the provincial examination. Every three years, the number of candidates varies, and the gap is even hundreds of times, but Yuer knows that no matter how many candidates there are every year, the admission indicators allocated by the imperial court to the states and counties - the selection and sending to Kaifeng for the provincial examination are relatively fixed and limited for a certain period of time.

Due to the limited amount sent to Kaifeng to participate in the provincial examination, all local students must submit a certificate to the state government, including names, townships, three generations of immediate family members, etc. Local officials conduct a review accordingly, among which the household registration requirements of townships are very strict, but all impersonated applicants listed in the list of lowly registered books will be severely punished.

At that time, Yuer heard that the imperial examination system was closely linked to the household registration of the Northern Song Dynasty, and suddenly had some interest, so she borrowed the "Regulations on Tribute" from the village's old Xiucai. From the above, it was found that candidates only registered permanent residence is not enough. They must actually live in the school to be qualified to take the local examination, although there is a household registration. Those who have been away from the station for a long time must be guaranteed by the officer to take the exam.

This regulation is only for localities. Candidates in Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, should have strict regulations on household registration and household registration. Candidates are required to have a household registration of more than seven years and actually live in Kaifeng before they are allowed to apply for the examination. Those who have a household registration is less than seven years and do not live in Kaifeng are not allowed to accept it.

For students like Yang Dalang, who study in state schools, after passing the examination of the local government, they still need the recommendation of state professors to finally qualify for the state examination. And students who can be recommended by state professors and have achieved a certain level of schoolwork results, after all, every professor hopes that the students he recommends can win the title and win glory for them.

After carefully studying the imperial examination system of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yuer found that the various regulations of the ancient imperial examination were no less than the modern college entrance examination, and the examination regulations were as strict and cautious as the college entrance examination. Although there are limited places, there are still as many students who take the imperial examination every year. No wonder it is only the beginning of May and before autumn, Yang Dalang has begun to study hard until late at night for fear that he will be squeezed down if he doesn't work hard.

Yuer knows well what Yang Dalang is thinking at this time, and also knows that the examinee needs to nourish his brain most, so Yuer will ask Yang Dazhu for a fish every day and make all kinds of fish soup to nourish Yang Dalang's brain.

Yuer is well aware of Yang Dalang, who participated in the autumn examination. Only when he successfully passed the state examination and became a "juzi" can he be qualified to participate in the next provincial examination, that is, the spring examination. Only after passing the palace examination can he be qualified to participate in the palace examination, and the governor who is admitted to be an official.

That is to say, Qiu Yan is a threshold made by the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to see if students from all over the country have the ability to get a pass! After learning about it, Yuer felt that it was similar to the modern high school entrance examination and college entrance examination - the high school entrance examination is to get a pass to go to a famous high school, and the college entrance examination is to get a pass to go to a famous university. Compared with the imperial examination, it is obviously a kind of examination.

The fish has experienced the middle school and college entrance examination step by step before crossing, so he can understand Yang Dalang's current mood and how important it is to Yang Dalang, a poor student who wants to pass the imperial examination. Therefore, every time Yang Dalang studies hard every day, the fish always accompanies him obediently.

The content of the imperial examination in the Northern Song Dynasty is not as well understood by Yang Dalang. In fact, this classical Chinese fish has always been not good at learning and can only generally understand its meaning. However, although Yuer can't focus or grasp questions for Yang Dalang, he can provide Yang Dalang with some scientific and useful learning methods from time to time. Yang Dalang can also improve the efficiency of Wenshu after applying it...

In a blink of an eye, from May to August, Yang Dalang rushed to Quanzhou to wait for the exam as soon as the exam time arrived. When Yang Dalang left home and went to the state government to participate in the autumn, the Yang family held a little hope all day long and hoped that Yang Dalang could bring back good news to everyone as soon as possible...

Liu is not looking forward to anything else at present. He only hopes that Yang Dalang can pass the state examination smoothly, and then take the provincial examination and the palace examination to finally come back with an errand. The reason why Liu expects Yang Dalang to become an official now is that he does not want to rely on Yang Dalang to be an official to get rid of the family's plight, but to find a good marriage for Yang Qiniang, who has gradually reached the marriageable age!

It is much more difficult for Yang Qiniang to remarry because she has been divorced by the Wang family. The people in this small village are more or less superstitious. Because Wang Erlang's death or feels that Yang Qiniang is unlucky, or really thinks that she is a husband, and the Yang family is not very good, so no one is willing to marry Yang Qiniang back. Therefore, Yang Qiniang didn't negotiate a marriage until she was 14 years old, and many matchmakers were useless...

This little woman in the Northern Song Dynasty will generally negotiate marriage with a good person before she is 15 years old, and then she can start marriage. She should get married at the age of 16 or 7 or 8 at the latest. If she continues, it will only cause waves of gossip. But Yang Qiniang is 14 years old, but she hasn't been able to negotiate the marriage. Liu is very anxious.

But Yang Qiniang is also a little lady who has "married" once and has a bad reputation. Therefore, no matter how anxious Liu is, she can't think of any solution. She can only hope that Yang Dalang's participation in the imperial examination can be a high school and waits for Yang Dalang to become an official and the Yang family. With the rising tide, it will be easier for Yang Qiniang to ask about the marriage. Anyway, it will be easier and better than at present.

Liu's thoughts are not only known by the fish, but also by Yang Qiniang, but Yang Qiniang is very clever and sensible and will never put pressure on Liu on Liu's premises. She only often says that she is willing to accompany Liu for the rest of her life. Naturally, Yuer also hoped that the kind and sensible Yang Qiniang would have a good home in the future, so as soon as Yang Dalang left, he paid more and more attention to the state examination held in Quanzhou Prefecture. When he had nothing to do, he went to the old scholar's house in the village and pestered him to talk about the specific content of the state examination.

After reading carefully with Yuer, Yuer knew that the examination subjects established in the original imperial examination system implemented by the Northern Song Dynasty did not need to be small in the modern college entrance examination. There were not only Jinshi subjects, system subjects, words subjects, etc., but also Mingjing, Three Histories, Mingfa, Tongzi (one of the old imperial examination subjects), martial arts, and "three "Sharma" to take taxis and so on.

And the invigilator is also very particular. In the state examination, the general judgment of the state (official name, is the deputy chief executive of the state, but has the right to supervise the state) to preside over the examination of the imperial examination of the state; with the record of the state (official name, assisting the governor, in charge of picketing the officials under the state) preside over the examination of the rest of the state.

Yuer also learned from the old scholar that in fact, it only takes about three or five days for candidates to really enter the examination room, but it takes a lot of effort to handle other related matters related to the examination, and it will take some effort from Xiaoqi Village to Quanzhou Prefecture...

So Yuer soon knew that Yang Dalang could not come back for a while, so after experiencing the initial excitement, the Yang family slowly calmed down their excitement. In addition to the Liu family burned incense and worshipped Buddha to pray for Yang Dalang every day, what should Yuer and other people do and do, no longer because Yang Dalang went to Quanzhou ginshen Add autumn and disturb the original rhythm of life.

When Yang Dalang is not here, Yang Sanlang will naturally become the oldest brother in the big house, and some of the things Yuer used to ask Yang Dalang to help do will naturally change to Yang Sanlang for help. Yang Sanlang's nature is almost the same as Yang Dazhu. Especially after following Yang Dazhu to learn fishing, he has gradually become as honest and honest as Yang Dazhu, and even has the characteristic of being silent.

Yang Sanlang is really not talkative and a little too honest. Every time the fish asks him for help, he responds without saying a word, and then he will try his best to help the fish do things well. Although he doesn't like words, he also loves the little sister.

However, in the process of helping, Yang Sanlang still doesn't like to talk. Sometimes the fish plays tricks on him and pretends to be naughty. Yang Sanlang always looks naive and smiles and won't be angry no matter how the fish teases him. Even Yang Silang's younger brother played a trick on his brother, Yang Sanlang only honestly let Yang Silang play tricks on him, not angry or annoyed, so that Yuer couldn't help giving him "Mud Bodhisattva" and "Yelm Wood" and other nicknames.