Liu Hao couldn't help but smile bitterly." If I didn't give you pointers, I'm afraid I would have suffered a huge loss in the court examinations!"”
He Shen smiled." Your policy theory is not bad since it has such insight. You should know that eight-part essay is very important, while policy theory is very coherent. The eight-part essay is the most rigid. Therefore, if you can make the essay beautiful in this limited space, and it can also be in line with the principles of the sage, then that is success." The most important thing about policy theory was to first establish the main idea, then start a narrative around this main idea. It had to be clear and organized. Therefore, policy theory was much easier than eight-legged essay. However, most scholars in the world focused on eight-legged essay, and not many of them hunted for policy theory. On the contrary, every time they selected scholars, there were countless good eight-legged essays, but there was nothing good about policy theory that could make people feel refreshed.”
Liu Hao could only smile bitterly and continue writing his policy paper.
Another policy paper was sent to He Shen.
After He Shen read it, he said," Not bad, not bad. This time, you've improved a lot compared to the last time. You're organized and have a good understanding of the readers 'psychology. However, there are countless such policy papers in the court examinations. Anyone can produce such a policy paper with guidance. Without new ideas, it's hard to stand out.”
Liu Hao was stunned, he looked at He Shen and said,"Lord He just said that I can't ask for novelty and that it has to be to the reader's liking. Now, he's telling me to ask for novelty.”
He Shen said calmly," This is the difficulty of policy discussion. It has to be to the reader's liking, but it also needs to be new. There is a limit to it, and it must be grasped well. If it is too new, it will inevitably make people feel that it is unconventional. But if it is old, it will feel that there is no new idea. It is difficult to make people's eyes light up.”
"F * ck…"
Liu Hao didn't know what to say.
He felt that he could not underestimate the ancients, especially since the Qing Dynasty was almost at the peak of the monarchical system. In the hands of Qianlong, it was even more like a fighter plane at the peak.
For He Shen to be able to reach this stage at this time, he indeed had his own extraordinary points.
For a moment, Liu Hao had no choice but to raise his spirits.
To be honest, if it was anyone else who was trained like this by He Shen, they would probably be moved to tears.
However, for Liu Hao, this was just a stepping stone.
In fact, with a teacher like He Shen, Liu Hao was able to grasp the theory of countermeasures very quickly. This was also his advantage and strength. After all, he had lived two lives, so he was able to see deeper into problems. He stood higher than others and could see further. On the other hand, for those examinees from poor families, writing eight-legged essays was relatively easy for them. As long as they had a few books and studied at home every day, as long as they were talented, talented, and willing to put in effort, it was not difficult to write a flowery eight-legged essay.
However, policy discussion was not something that could be written by someone who had turned a deaf ear to the outside world and only read the books of sages. Moreover, they had no one to guide them, so many problems were difficult to avoid. This group of people would definitely find it difficult to stand out.
Liu Hao's opponents were mainly the descendants of the aristocratic families. These people often had deep backgrounds and had elders in their families to guide them. Moreover, their foresight was naturally not something that the descendants of the lesser families could compare to. They had an obvious advantage.
Although He Shen could tamper with the Jinshi examination, it was extremely difficult to tamper with the court examinations.
After all, if he really did something under the Emperor's nose, no matter how much Qianlong favored He Shen, he would still chop him up.
For the next few days, He Shen would call Liu Hao to his residence every day after court to impart his experience. In addition, he also prepared a policy essay for Liu Hao. In addition, there were also some memorials from the court. These memorials were all standard policy essays. As long as some of the words were modified, it would become a typical model essay.
Liu Hao had to admit that the corrupt official was really awesome.
No wonder he could become the number one corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty. Just from this attitude, this guy had already guessed the Emperor's thoughts very well.
In the blink of an eye, the court examinations were getting closer and closer. The eight selected examiners entered the palace on the fourteenth day of the fourth month. For the next three days, they would eat and live in the palace and not interact with anyone.
In these three days, they would discuss the examination questions together and then submit them to the Emperor for approval. However, under normal circumstances, once the eight examiners put up the examination questions, the Palace would definitely approve them. There was no reason for them to fail.
However, these eight examiners were basically He Shen's people, so the questions they could set were basically within He Shen's expectations.
A refugee!
Yangxin Palace Hall!
Qianlong looked at the test questions and could not help but frown. This test question was about the problem of refugees. At present, there were more and more refugees in the Qing Dynasty. The imperial court did not have land to settle them, so it caused a lot of trouble.
On the one hand, the Eight Banners 'children were a group of profligate sons and scoundrels who were not scholars, farmers, workers, merchants, soldiers, and civilians. They only knew how to pursue beauty.
Not only could the Eight Banners descendants not become the pillars of the country, but they were actually reduced to parasites of the country and society.
They pursued extravagance and waited for subsidies. In the past, they practiced with swords every day. Now, they were idle every day. They were either carrying cages and birds, raising flowers and eating cigarettes, bragging in teahouses, flirting with girls in singing theaters, or even most of them were infected with opiates. Not to mention killing enemies for the country, even their livelihood was a problem. Even their lives were ruined by themselves.
In addition, they occupied too much land and created a large number of refugees.
After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the expansion of population led to a serious shortage of cultivated land. In the fifty-first year of Kangxi (1712), Emperor Kangxi issued an edict saying,"As the days of peace pass, the population will increase." From then on, there is no need to pay more money for the newly registered permanent residence, and the number of people in this year is set as the quota and written into the law.”
This policy was an important factor in the rapid population growth of the Qing Dynasty. By the time of the Onion War, the population of the Qing Dynasty had reached 400 million. The ratio of population to land became the fuse that triggered the refugee problem. The pressure of population on land was obvious, because even the population in remote areas was saturated.
The refugees would drift away from this huge surplus population. The Qing government was helpless in the face of this problem and let it go.
At that time, the social environment could not provide them with a livelihood at all. They could not engage in any industry.”
The large number of refugees had seriously affected social security, causing the villages to be empty and the economy to decline.
This caused the Qing government, from the central government to the local government, to have a shortage of money. Taxes were reduced, the national treasury was empty, and the national strength declined. They were unable to save the people at the bottom who had lost their means of livelihood, and the government's inaction led to the expansion of the number of refugees, thus creating a vicious circle. The refugees had no one to rely on and could only survive on their own, so it was easy for them to form cliques and join other social associations. The associations in various places became the gathering place of refugees, such as the Heaven and Earth Society in the southern provinces and the Nianzi in the north. These became the uprising army against the Qing Dynasty.
During the Qianlong period, the number of refugees had actually started to become a little serious.
The uprising of the White Lotus Society in the late Qianlong period directly caused the decline of the Qing Dynasty.
At this moment, the imperial court had a lot of arguments about the refugees, so it was appropriate to use this topic now.
"Write about this refugee!" Qianlong nodded slightly.
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