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Early morning.
Li Chao took the crown prince and his other students back to Chang'an.
Today is the first primary selection of the entrance examination of the lecture martial arts, and Li Shimin attaches great importance to it and deliberately sets the entrance examination of the lecture hall as the Tang martial arts examination.
Li Chao was the chief examiner, and Qin Qiong also rushed back, and he and Wei Chigong served as the deputy examiners.
Sun Wuji, the chief secretary of the Ministry of War, and the squire of the Ministry of War and other officials of the Ministry of War and the Twelve Guards were all present.
However, although it is said to be a martial arts examination, after all, it is the first session, so the rules are relatively simple, there is no local examination, but the officers recommended by each guard and each province, and the local young and strong themselves to register, and then after a simple screening in each local province, they can come to Beijing for the examination.
There are still a lot of people who come to take the exam.
After all, once you pass the martial arts examination, you will become a martial arts student.
After being sent to the local army for one year of training, those who pass the test can enter the martial arts hall and become the protégé of the Son of Heaven.
And the elimination rate of one year of training in the army is basically not very high.
Therefore, the most important thing is the Wugongju exam.
The content of the exam was planned by Li Chao.
The main tests are the five subjects of riding, archery, gun, strength and intelligence.
Riding has three major items: riding, riding spear, and riding archery, and shooting is divided into flat shooting and barrel shooting, and at the same time there are fixed targets and moving targets, as well as infantry shooting and riding shooting.
Among them, the fixed target, called the long stack, is a giant cloth target with a diameter of three zhang on one side.
The target has five circles, the middle circle is six feet in diameter, the second circle is one zhang and two in diameter, the third circle is one zhang and eight in diameter, the fourth circle is two zhang and four in diameter, and the fifth circle is three zhang in diameter.
The firing distance is one hundred and five paces.
Fixed targets are also divided into flat and barrel shots.
The requirements for flat shooting are that the trajectory of the arrow is straight and the parabola should not be too large.
Barrel shooting is a special method, it is a common method of archery examination in this era, all arrows are only a foot long, such arrows can not be drawn to the bow, so the barrel is used.
The barrel is a half-piece of bamboo split longitudinally, tied to the wrist of the right hand with a rope, and used as a trajectory for the short arrow to be fired.
This kind of barrel shot is actually similar to the way a crossbow is fired.
In addition to the fixed target, there is a moving target.
At the same time, in addition to foot shooting, there is also mounted archery, which is also divided into fixed targets and moving targets, and each target is also divided into two types: flat shooting and barrel shooting.
The reason why there are so many archery exams is also because the bow and arrow equipment rate of the Tang Army is extremely high, almost reaching 100 percent, and if you add the crossbow equipment, then the actual bow and crossbow equipment rate reaches more than 12 percent.
The bow and crossbow are the extremely strong means of combat of the Tang Army.
Therefore, in the first martial arts exam, so much attention was paid to bow shooting.
The riding examination is divided into three categories: horsemanship, spear riding, and archery, among which the riding and archery items in the bow and arrow are overlapping.
The other two are horsemanship and spear riding, and horsemanship is naturally a test of horseback riding skills.
For the spear test, two earthen walls were built, two wooden dolls were placed on each side, and a piece of wood more than two inches long on the top of each puppet's head.
Candidates are required to use a one-foot horse lance to ride through the middle of two earthen walls, and then do not slow down, and accurately knock down the wooden chips above the heads of the dolls on both sides.
It is also required that the puppet cannot be poured, and if more than three pieces are dropped, two pieces are medium, and one or none are inferior.
Strength is measured in arm strength and weight-bearing.
The arm strength test should be carried out with a pole that is seven feet long and three inches and five thick in diameter, and lifted ten times.
This is a great test of arm strength.
If you can do it, you can be a person with very good arm strength, which can't be faked, especially the latter step.
Bearing weight means carrying 400 pounds on the body and walking 20 steps.
The last item is to test intelligence.
Wisdom is intelligence.
Intelligence is the interview, candidates must speak clearly, think clearly, if they can read and write, they will know how to calculate accounts and draw, of course, they are even better.
Finally, there is one that is not written, but it is the most basic requirement, which is that the height must be more than five feet five.
Five feet five, that is, one meter six five, if you don't even have this height, then you will be knocked down directly in each province, and you will not be eligible to enter the Beijing exam at all.
Those who can come are basically over 5 feet 5 tall.
"Shooting, riding, guns, strength, and wisdom are not much to do."
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Zheng Guogong and Zheng Shanguo, the secretary of Dali Temple, sat next to Li Chao, looked at the assessment requirements, and couldn't help but ask Li Chao.
"Of course, it is difficult to be excellent in all five subjects, our assessment standard this time is that strength and wisdom are the basic items, and each candidate must pass these two items above the pass, and riding, shooting, and gun, as long as one of the results is excellent, you can also pass the primary selection."
In this martial arts exam, in fact, it does not mean that you can be selected if you have good results, but it is still the same as the liberal arts system, there is a final admission quota.
Therefore, the competition adopts a knockout system.
In the preliminary round, leave the qualified ones first.
Then a re-examination will be conducted, and a group of people will be eliminated, leaving only the expected number of places to be admitted, and the best of the rated number will be selected from the qualified ones.
If all five are excellent, of course, it will definitely be preferred, and if two of the three specialties are definitely better than one.
If the single item is excellent, more than three are ordinary.
In conclusion, this is a merit-based admissions test.
Zheng Shanguo nodded.
"How many places are there?"
"Twelve hundred."
"Is there a predestination?"
Li Chao smiled.
Of course, there is no such thing as a fixed thing, but there are always exceptions.
Even today's liberal arts system is not entirely based on grades.
If you really rely on the results, there will be no awards, no recommendations, and no unobfuscated names.
Therefore, this martial arts examination is actually also predetermined.
Of course, those who can be determined are those privileged classes, the children of the nobility.
And when I greeted Li Chao this time, I wanted to make an internal decision, and it was not an ordinary prime minister and prince.
If it was just them who came to say hello, Li Chao could have refused.
But this time it was Emperor Li Shimin who came to greet him.
Li Shimin directly gave Li Chao a list, which was densely packed with a bunch of names, all of which were the sons and daughters of those nobles, most of whom already had official positions, and most of them served in the three guards and five mansions of Qin Xunyi.
The father of these people wanted his son to enter the lecture hall to be gilded, and Li Shimin could not refuse.
However, Li Chao didn't want his first martial arts to be so smoky.
Therefore, although he couldn't refuse directly, Li Chao still thought of a way to get the best of both worlds.
He proposed to Li Shimin that the martial arts examination be divided into two lists.
The first list is the normal list, and the first list is called the grace list, which is the children of the princes who are determined.
Anyway, don't let them take the exam together, so as not to upset the balance of the exam.
Those people want to be gilded, let them come in and plate, just open a favor list, and then these people will be admitted to the list.
When they enter the lecture hall, just run a few more separate classes for them, and don't affect the normal candidates.
Li Shimin also agreed to this plan.
"Three hundred places on the list."
"Oh, it's quite a lot, the tribute list is one thousand two, the grace list is three hundred, and the total number is one thousand five."
Zheng Shanguo smiled and nodded.
"Is this tribute list of 1,200 people really all based on strength?"
"Of course, although I am the main exam, I can't be recruited at will, but I have a chaperone group.
See, the escort group composed of one hundred and eight generals will score the results of each candidate, and finally get the total score, and then add the scores of several of our examiners, which is their final score, and finally eliminated by the results. ” The score of the escort group and the score of the examiner are not the same, the score of the examiner is higher, but the score of the examiner is also very important, and the final score is to be comprehensively scored, so the examiner cannot cheat at will.
Moreover, Li Chao also invited the three yamen of Dali Temple, the Military Department, and the Yushitai to come over to invigilate the examination, and if there is any doubt about the candidates' scores, they will be reviewed.
The items in the martial arts examination are all relatively hard.
Unlike the liberal arts system, the merits of the article are not so praised, but the results of Wusheng are real, how many rings have been shot, and how many bamboo pieces on the heads of the puppets have been knocked down, which is all obvious, and there are still so many people coming to watch the game today.
"That's a good way to do that."
Zheng Shanguo was truly amazed.
"If it is a liberal arts system, it can also be more fair, and win by grades, rather than by family background and reputation, I believe that the liberal arts system will definitely be able to admit more outstanding talents."
Li Chao also appreciates Zheng Shanguo's keen gaze, in fact, there are many people of insight.
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It's just that no one is willing to propose reforms, just like Li Chao, he has known about it for a long time, but he doesn't mention it.
Why Because today's imperial examination is mainly only an auxiliary method for selecting talents.
Although the imperial court did not use the nine-product Zhongzheng system, during the Sui and Tang dynasties, the selection of people was mainly based on family background.
Especially under the door shadow system, those nobles and bureaucratic children directly relied on their father's official shadow.
Whether it is to enter the three guards and five mansions as a guard, or to do products, or to do family affairs, accounts, etc., this is the way to enter the office.
Especially in the early Tang Dynasty, officials were not divided into civil and military affairs, and they could be converted to each other, and the children of the nobles entered the military ranks, and they could be converted again slowly, and the restrictions were very low.
In this case, the princes who occupy the position of the court are all vested interests under the current system, why do they want to vigorously promote the imperial examination, which is just an auxiliary means, and it can even be said that it is just a chance to give those Kwantung scholars, Jiangnan scholars, and those who are not in the court a chance to share the pie.
Who are the people who are really looking forward to relying on the imperial examination to get in?
The people who really want to rely on the imperial examination to enter the official career and also enter the political stage of the Tang Dynasty are those Kwantung scholars and Jiangnan scholars, who want to break the monopoly of the Guanlong military aristocracy on politics.
They do not have as much influence in the military world as the military aristocrats of Guanlong, they hold academic power, and if the imperial examination is expanded, then of course they are the biggest beneficiary group.
As for the poor class, even those small landlords and yeoman peasant classes, their resources in this regard are far inferior to those scholars who have mastered the scriptures, and the imperial examinations are of course far less beneficial than those of the scholars.
Even Li Chao, he is now a member of the vested interests, relying on the existing door shade system, his sons have just been born, and they have titles, and when they grow up in the future, they will naturally not worry about entering the office.
It was in this situation that even Li Chao didn't touch Wen Zhiju, because if he did, it would definitely offend the entire interest group in power, and he still couldn't get along with himself.
Why bother Although Zheng Shanguo is now also a member of the vested interests, he was born in the Kwantung Shi clan, the Xingyang Zheng clan in the five surnames and seven sects, and they are one of the academic oligarchs who really master the scriptures and academic power.
If the imperial examination system is deepened and expanded, the Zheng family in Xingyang will definitely be the beneficiary.
It's a pity that he mentioned the beginning, but Li Chao just smiled, and didn't mean to pick up the stubble t1706231537: