Since Liang Shicheng claimed to be Su Shi's son, Wu Song was certain. This time, he had to use his poetry!
Although Su Shi was an old friend, Liang Shicheng had no bottom line.
He wasn't from the old or new party. He was just a eunuch, and he only needed to rise up step by step and have wealth. He didn't care about the old or new party! Therefore, he was very close to Cai Jing, a member of the New Party.
He only had the eunuchs 'party and the emperor's party. He did not have to choose which side he would stand on when it came to the new party and the old party.
After staying in Hua Mansion for two days, Wu Song reviewed his lessons while training the tiger.
These two days, Wu Song no longer let the tiger eat raw meat, but let him drink meat soup.
One was that after the meat was cooked, it could have a disinfecting effect. The second was: After eating cooked meat for a long time, the tiger was no longer willing to eat raw meat. This made the animal tired of raw meat and thus had less desire for raw meat from humans and animals!
It was finally the day of the battle. Early in the morning, Wu Song, who had eaten breakfast, undressed and prepared to take a bath under the service of Golden Lotus.
"Wifey, I'll do it myself."
"I serve my own man. Langjun, you don't have to be like this.”
Golden Lotus gave Wu Song a good bath, and Walker changed into a new set of clothes under the care of his wife. Hua Zixu also arranged for the servants to prepare a carriage.
The atmosphere in the small cubicles in the examination hall was abnormal.
After Wu Song found a seat and sat down, when it was almost time for the exam, the service staff in the venue handed out a brush, ink, and a bowl of water.
Following that, a group of minor officials distributed the examination papers from all directions. The main examinations of the imperial examination system were held regularly, but if there were any natural disasters, the imperial court would issue an edict to specially set up a special examination here.
As the saying went, natural disasters were nothing to worry about, but Enke stabilized the hearts of the people.
Originally, natural disasters had nothing to do with the imperial examinations. In places with natural disasters, rumors would often appear, especially those scholars who failed the roll. They would ridicule the government at this time, which would often lead to disaster. Therefore, it was possible to set up a reward in these places to stabilize the people.
They mainly wanted to shut the mouths of those scholars, as well as the common people and fools!
The imperial examination system lasted for more than 1,200 years. The imperial examination was usually divided into the local provincial examination, the central provincial examination, and the palace examination. The first place in the provincial examination was Top Scorer, the first place in the central provincial examination was Provincial Champion, and the first place in the court examination was Top Scholar.
In the Song Dynasty, there were Jinshi and Ming Jing subjects in the imperial examination. The contents of the examination included Tie Jing, Mo Yi and poetry and Fu. After Wang Anshi served as the governor, he abolished poetry and Fu, Tie Jing and Mo Yi, and selected scholars solely based on classics, theory and policy. The Ming and Qing imperial examinations were the notorious eight-legged essay.
In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examinations were monopolized by the rich. Poor scholars like Lu Mengzheng, Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, etc. were very few in the imperial examination, and they were not poor farmers. The economic expenditure required for the imperial examination was not something that ordinary farmers could afford.
The three Su brothers were originally from a well-off family in Meishan County, Sichuan Province. Ever since Su Xun brought his son to the capital to take the examination, although the Su brothers had passed the examination, their family expenses were almost exhausted. The following year, Su Xun's wife died of illness in Meishan, and the three of them returned to their hometown. The family was already in a miserable state. This didn't include the cost of not producing for ten years. How could a small family dare to ask about such an imperial examination?
As for Wu Song, he was originally a multi-talented youth. He had saved himself a lot of learning, and his family was left destitute. The two brothers lived frugally all day, and they were still bachelors in martial arts universities. It wasn't until Golden Lotus entered the house that the family ate properly.
If it was in the past, how could he bear to buy vegetables? The vegetarian ones were all grown by martial arts universities, and the meat ones were caught by Wu Song or raised at home. She rarely spent money to buy it, so Golden Lotus entered the kitchen and took a look. There was nothing.
The Song Dynasty's style of writing was very heavy, attracting almost all the scholars in society. The competition in the examination field was fierce, and the scholars 'heads were white and their bodies were weak. They went in and out of the examination field until they died.
In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was not the only way out for scholars, and it was not enough to attract the entire intellectual class.
In the weak Song Dynasty, the imperial examination system eliminated recommendations and only used test papers to decide the selection. However, the unreasonable content of the examination was more prominent because of this. Poetry and classics were not scientific standards for selecting talents. Talents like Wang Anshi, Su Shi and Fan Zhongyan, who were good at literature and politics, were really rare.
In the Tang Dynasty, the method of 'passing the examiners' allowed the examiners to have greater autonomy. As long as the examiners were competent, they could select scholars who were not good at writing but had both virtue and ability. There were more ministers and ministers with outstanding achievements in the Tang Dynasty than in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examinations were determined by the examination papers, which made it difficult for those who were not good at literature to stand out. Those who were only good at literature but did not know how to govern the country and the people might be selected in the higher grades, such as Huang Tingjian, Zhang Jiucheng, and so on.
The rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to win over the intelligentsia, expanded the quota of the imperial examination. One of the common drawbacks of the later feudal society was the serious problem of redundant officials. Because the number of imperial scholars admitted in the Song Dynasty was ten times that of the Tang Dynasty, in order to place many imperial examination candidates, the Song Dynasty greatly increased the number of bureaucrats, making the official team of the Song Dynasty unprecedentedly large and bloated, and the administrative efficiency was extremely low.
In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examinations were indiscriminate, causing many officials to be redundant, making their lives difficult. Once such people took office, they would often 'plunder' and 'do anything' to exploit.
The reason why the bureaucrats of the weak Song Dynasty were so corrupt was that there was Bao Qingtian, Kaifeng Prefecture, and the Song Dynasty's Punishment Officer!
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the founder of Confucianism, Kong Qiu, advocated the Six Arts. Not only did Confucius know how to ride a horse and drive a carriage, but his archery skills were also extraordinary. However, his descendants did not live up to expectations, and the Confucians gradually became a group of weak scholars who did not have the strength to tie a chicken.
Confucius wanted everyone to cultivate both civil and martial arts. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which scholar and scholar-bureaucrat did not know how to drive a carriage, ride a horse, and shoot arrows?
Even the Prime Minister and King of Qi often played horse racing games with General Tian Ji!
And he was always the winner, until Sun Bin's top against middle, middle against bottom, bottom against top appeared!
Later on, the Confucians became only civil and not martial, and the men became only learning and not practicing!
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were in chaos. Not only was the Khitan Liao eyeing them covetously, but there were also more than ten countries coexisting in the Central Plains. Ever since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the war in the Central Plains had not stopped for a day. Ever since Zhu Quanzhong usurped the Tang Dynasty, the war had been fought for fifty years and five dynasties had changed! It was extremely intense!
Many commoners didn't even know which dynasty they were in. The rate of change was so fast that some officials in remote places were still holding the official positions of the previous dynasty after the new dynasty was established.
People didn't know which dynasty and which generation it was, but they collectively referred to those ambitious people as officials. In the Song Dynasty,'official' was synonymous with the emperor in the mouths of the people.
Back then, the war was so chaotic, but the weak Song suddenly rose up. While resisting the Khitans in the north, they destroyed many countries one after another. At this time, the weak Song was crazy. Ruo Song also went crazy.
Until Song Taizu gave up his military power with a cup of wine, and castrated behaviors such as valuing literature and despising martial arts appeared.
The Great Song, the Strong Song, and the Tyrannical Song had also become a useless chicken Song, and even the tiny Western Xia had suffered defeat after defeat!
With the exam paper in hand, Wu Song only focused on his calligraphy because he had to take care of Liang Shicheng.
The previous him loved calligraphy, so he copied many of everyone's techniques.
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