When Liu Cheng saw that the officials were about to distribute the collected answer sheets to the examination scholars, he immediately stretched out his hand and said: "Slow down."
Everyone was stunned.
Cai Yong immediately raised his hands and asked, "I wonder if Master Sikong has any other instructions?"
Liu Chengdao: "Seal the names of all the students on the answer sheets and wait until the assessment is completed to reveal them, and announce to everyone which students passed the assessment."
Liu Bian said with a smile: "This is a good suggestion, uncle.
It's only fair.
After all, the top three will be promoted to official positions.
It's related to the future of the students, so it's better to be cautious."
"Bah bang bang bang!"
The people watching the excitement outside cheered loudly and clapped one after another.
In front of the officials, the common people have never been treated fairly.
Now Liu Cheng's proposal seems to have opened a gap.
Among these students, there are some from aristocratic families, some from poor families, and some from ordinary people.
And people of this era Family background is generally valued more highly, and children from poor families and common people receive far less attention than children from aristocratic families at any time.
Cai Yong thought briefly and then said: "Master Sikong, this is a good suggestion.
Your Majesty makes sense.
Come and cover the name on the answer sheet with a piece of paper."
The answer sheets used by these students are actually small-sized bamboo slips.
Not only are they smaller than normal bamboo slips, but the material is also poorer and the bamboo slices are much thinner.
This is mainly because these items are disposable consumables, just like those used by primary school students in later generations.
Homework books are the same as exercise books.
Naturally, it is impossible for primary school students to use rice paper as homework books.
It would be too wasteful.
At Cai Yong's order, some minor officials immediately brought paper slips and paste to seal the names on the rolls of bamboo slips, and then distributed the bamboo slips to twenty-four great Confucian scholars for evaluation.
There is no specific standard for this kind of assessment, let alone a standard answer.
Whether you can pass the assessment depends entirely on whether the examination master approves it.
Each of the great scholars marked twelve papers, and it didn't take much time at all.
In just a quarter of an hour, the results came out.
The great scholars who marked the papers put aside the answer sheets that failed the evaluation and were collected by the clerks.
In the first round of assessment, statistics showed that the number of students who passed was 156, which means that half of the students were eliminated.
Cai Yong announced the names of the students who passed, and then asked the students whose names were not read out to leave the examination room and stay outside as spectators.
Cai Yong recited one of the most recognized ones, and received unanimous praise.
Then the second, third, and fourth rounds continued.
After the fifth round, there were only eight students left in the examination room.
Cai Yong was about to take out the test questions from the box.
Liu Cheng stood up and raised his hand to stop him.
Then he cupped his hands to Liu Bian and said: "Your Majesty, the first three will be promoted to official positions.
I think from now on, the test questions cannot be Then when it comes to things like reciting poems and composing poems and poems, talent and learning are important, but you also have to learn and apply them flexibly.
No matter how good you are in poems and poems, you will not be an official. , do not follow the way of a minister, and do not work for the welfare of the people under your rule, no matter how good your knowledge is, it will be in vain.
Next, the minister suggested the last question of making a fu.
Four people passed, four were eliminated, and the remaining four People are evaluated by His Majesty and his ministers.
The topic can no longer be about reciting poems and writing poems, but must be related to the way of serving as an official and administering government.
I don’t know what Your Majesty thinks.”
Liu Bian also felt that what Liu Cheng said was very reasonable.
Since he wanted to be an official, all the examination questions could not be about writing poems and poems.
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They had to be related to serving as an official.
So he agreed: "Okay, the emperor's suggestion is very profound."
If you like it, let’s do it like this.
By the way, the question I asked just now is also about fussing, so let’s use this principle as the last fussing question.”
"Nuo" Cai Yong agreed, took out the question written by Liu Bian from the test question box, opened it and read: "Through things to express one's ambitions" A minor official immediately shouted loudly: "Eight into four, this is the last question for writing poems and poems.
Please listen to the question to express your ambition."
The meaning is very clear, that is, students are required to express their ambitions by describing an object.
After listening, the remaining eight students began to think about what they should describe to express their ambitions.
Some thought of plum blossoms, some thought of roses, and some thought of green pine.
One of the eight students frowned and thought.
Suddenly he saw a birdcage on the low table next to Emperor Liu Bian.
There was a parrot in the birdcage.
His eyes suddenly lit up, and he splashed ink after thinking for a while.
Another student saw a huge and powerful dog squatting next to Liu Cheng.
His expression changed several times, and he immediately started writing furiously.
But there was also a student who saw the lotus in the pond and immediately had an idea.
He picked up the brush and wrote it with one stroke.
It didn't take long for the eight students to finish the questions.
Cai Yong immediately ordered someone to collect the examination papers and seal their names.
Starting from the first examiner, each examination paper is passed to the examiner in turn.
After reading the open paper, the examiner writes down the answers to the questions.
When all eight examination papers are passed to the examiners, the examiners review the answers.
During the ranking, the bottom four will of course be eliminated, but this still needs to be comprehensively evaluated by the examiners.
After all, each examiner's views and decisions are different.
The evaluation of these eight answers went on for a long time, but none of the examiners came up with a unified opinion.
Several examiners even argued about this.
Cai Yong walked over and asked: "Everyone, do you have a unified opinion?"
The scholar Song Zhong said: "Master Cai, the results of the top four have come out, which are these four answer sheets.
The other four were eliminated.
You see, the essays that passed the assessment are Qingsong Fu, Lotus Fu, Parrot Fu and Loyal Dog Fu There is a big controversy over the ranking of these four articles.
Some people think that Parrot Fu should be ranked first.
This poem has profound meanings, vivid objects, deep emotions, and combines chanting of objects, lyricism, and "Essay on the World" is a masterpiece among the best, but some people think that it is a metaphor for the incompetence of the imperial court, which is really disrespectful.
There is also "The Loyal Dog".
Some people think that the author has great literary talent and compares himself to a loyal dog. , it may sound a bit harsh, but having such an ambition is worthy of recognition; Qingsong Fu and Lotus Fu are also rare masterpieces.
Many great scholars have different opinions.
It is difficult to distinguish between these masterpieces."
After hearing this, Cai Yong thought for a while and said: "It doesn't matter, it's not yet time to rank.
There are still a few games.
I will take these articles to His Majesty and Lord Sikong for review."
Several articles were quickly sent to Liu Bian and Liu Cheng.
After they took turns reading them, Liu Bian asked: "Uncle Emperor, which one do you think is the best among these four articles?"
Liu Cheng put down the parrot poem he had just finished reading, thought for a while and asked: "What kind of minister does your Majesty think the court needs most at the moment?"
Liu Bian said without thinking: "Of course what we need most are ministers who are loyal, noble, and talented."
Liu Cheng nodded and said: "Your Majesty is right, but you put loyalty first, which means that what the court needs most is the loyal ministers Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, Cao Cao, Tao Qian, Liu Yan, Ma Teng, and Han Sui.
Is there no talent?
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There is no doubt that they are all talented people. , but these people are not only useless to the court, they also segregate local areas and do not listen to the court's orders, becoming a cancer for the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, in the hearts of the ministers, this loyal dog poem is the best written.
If all ministers and officials can put their own As a loyal dog of the imperial court, how could the world have reached this point?"
Liu Bian sighed: "Yes, what the emperor said is true, so the emperor decided to make this poem about loyal dogs the first place."
Liu Cheng shook his head and said: "That's what your majesty and ministers think in their hearts.
Don't say it out loud.
It doesn't sound good to let others be dogs.
But if you want to use people, you must reuse the people who wrote this poem about loyal dogs.
As for this article about parrots, Fu, needless to say, has literary talent.
It combines chanting things, expressing emotions, and stimulating the world.
It is really a rare masterpiece.
In terms of literary attainments, this Parrot Fu should be ranked first. , the other three articles are slightly inferior.
Outsiders will naturally think that this is the best article, but His Majesty and his ministers cannot think so.
For example, if Your Majesty is the owner of a store and the store needs helpers. , so we recruited waiters from outside, but some of the people who came to apply told outsiders that this store was a black shop.
Will Your Majesty recruit this person into the store to be a waiter?"
Liu Bian said angrily: "Of course not.
He slandered my store to customers, but still wanted to enter my store to get my salary.
How could there be such a shameless person in the world who refused to hire him?
The emperor thinks I am right." wrong" Liu Cheng smiled and said: "This cannot be generalized.
If the power to recruit waiters is in the hands of the shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper does not care about talents, he only uses nepotism and recruits his own relatives, while other talented people are always unable to get it.
When you get the opportunity, your majesty, as the owner, finds that the business of the store is not as good as it used to be.
Will you still think this way?"
"This" Liu Bian was speechless.
Liu Cheng stood up, walked to the front and said loudly to the students and the thousands of people around him: "There were eight students just now, four of them were eliminated, but these four eliminated students can make it this far.
There is still some talent and learning, and the Sikong Mansion wants to To express encouragement, each person will be awarded a gold medal.
I hope you will not be discouraged and continue to study after you go back.
You cannot study rotely, but you must learn and use it flexibly, so that you can transform what you have learned into your talents.
Please step aside.
Each person receives a reward of one gold.”
Although it was a pity that they were eliminated, the four students felt somewhat comforted by being able to win a gold medal.
They bowed to Liu Cheng together and said, "Thank you, Lord Sikong."
Liu Cheng let them go down and continued: "For the remaining four students, the examiners all admired their articles, but there is a big controversy over their rankings.
His Majesty the Emperor and I also read these four articles just now.
I On behalf of His Majesty the Emperor, I am here to rank these four articles.
Please note that this is not the final ranking because there are still several assessments."
"In terms of literary attainments alone, the first place is Parrot Fu; in terms of ambition, Loyal Dog Fu ranks second; in terms of character, Qingsong Fu ranks third, which talks about a person's character; The Lotus Flower Ranking is at the bottom, it talks about a person’s attitude towards life”: