Chapter 1333 Letter from the bus
The New Year is just around the corner, and next year will be the three-year imperial examination. At this time, Luoyang City, the eastern capital, has already poured in countless local government officials, missions from vassal states, and a large number of candidates who are preparing for the imperial examination. .
Luoyang Xuecheng, originally designed by Qin Lang himself, was expanded and built in a Xiangcheng in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang City. There are not only the Imperial College of the Eastern Capital of the Tang Dynasty with tens of thousands of students, but also the Imperial Medical College under the Imperial Hospital, and the Imperial College under the Taichang Temple. Changyin Academy, Astronomy Academy under the Taishi Bureau, Finance and Economics Academy under Hubu, Lecture Hall of the Twelve Guards and other specialized colleges.
These Guozijian and colleges, which represent the highest level of institutions in the Tang Dynasty, have a combined enrollment of more than 30,000 students, and there are not only students from these schools in Xuecheng, but also many supporting industries, such as medical schools and affiliated colleges. There are hospitals, etc., and there are textile factories under the Textile College. In short, this school city is very lively, with a population of more than 100,000.
There are dotted markets inside, very lively and prosperous.
After all, these days, scholars still belong to the high-consumption group. Not to mention that there are many children of high-ranking officials in the Imperial College, the children of barbarian chiefs in Jimi Prefecture, and many overseas students. Studying, it is also a one-in-a-million elite, and there will be scholarships and so on.
As for the various colleges, it’s even more terrible, because they can basically not worry about future work if they can pass the exam. As long as you pass the graduation exam, you may also have the opportunity to be an official, but the students of the college are all specialties, whether it is medicine, music, astronomy, geography and calendar, or calligraphy and arithmetic, they are all special students. He would be recruited by the capital and local government early on.
Those with good grades stayed in the provincial temple in the capital, but almost went to Fuzhou, and at worst they could go to the county.
Whether you are a doctor or a teacher, you have a solid job and a family background. After all, there are no such strict boundaries for officials in the Tang Dynasty. Officials can be promoted to officials if they do a good job. The elimination system for the last rank of officials, every year through the imperial examinations and schools to recruit a large number of fresh officials, at the same time, they will also pass the assessment, and the last officials will be eliminated from many positions.
It is precisely because of this mechanism that many dynasties in history have not been selected in the middle and late stages, and the selection of candidates for the capital has been delayed for a long time, sometimes even more than ten years without waiting for an official position. In various ways, the number of scholars admitted by the imperial court is increasing year by year, and the number of people who are qualified to be officials continues to increase, but there are only so many official positions, so many people will wait for an official position.
At the beginning, Qin Lang advocated increasing the admission rate of imperial examinations, and the method of recruiting scholars in both schools, reducing the channels and number of officials from the shadows, and then introducing this elimination system for the bottom, and the introduction of official positions, forming the formation of officials and officials. The three levels of officials, and open up promotion channels, so that some outstanding young people can start from the low-level officials, which can not only accumulate more experience, but also reduce the difficulty of some candidates.
It has been implemented so far, and the overall effect is still good.
Imperial examinations and schools have become the largest channels for the court to recruit officials, and it is for this reason that Luoyang gathers countless scholars every year in the year of the imperial examination.
As long as you pass the imperial examination and become a Jinshi, you can start directly as an official. This is much better than passing a school background and generally starting as a ninth-class official.
Although some college students can rely on their own expertise, they can also start as professional technical bureaucrats in remote places, but there is still a big gap.
Thousands of troops and horses cross the single-plank bridge, and every year they come to fight for it.
Fortunately, the imperial examination system of the imperial court has become more and more perfect up to now, with county examinations, government examinations and rural examinations and other levels of diversion. It also strictly limits the number of reference personnel for each level of examination each year to ensure an annual admission rate of one-tenth.
Nowadays, there are 10,000 candidates for the exam every three years, and a total of 1,000 people will be admitted in the end. They will be divided into the top three, with six people in the first list, one champion, two second places, and three candidates. It is called Jinshi Jidi.
The second list is said to be from Jinshi, and the top three are from Jinshi, each with several hundred.
So until now, the imperial examination is really a national event, but the most difficult exam is not the general examination or the township examination. After all, the county government and township examinations guarantee a one-tenth admission rate, and the imperial examination is only the ranking of Jinshi. The qualification examination before each level examination is also called the subject examination.
For example, the general examination is held every three years, and there are only 10,000 examination places in total. In addition to the new imperial examination candidates admitted in this year's provincial examination, the applicants who passed the provincial examination in previous years have the same identity and can still participate in the follow-up meeting. try.
Ever since, all the candidates compete for the qualifications of the 10,000 National Examination once every three years, and participate in the provincial examination. There is no admission rate for this. 10,000 people will be eligible to participate in next year's general examination.
After the provincial examination every year, the 10,000 qualified candidates have the opportunity to enter Beijing to take the general examination. Of course, many unqualified applicants will also come to Beijing. The new applicants come to Beijing to familiarize themselves with the examination room and atmosphere, while the old fritters come to communicate with other candidates to study, or to find connections, or come to Beijing to visit famous teachers or It's rich and powerful.
In short, around the year of the Great Competition, 20,000 to 30,000 scholars from Luoyang, the capital, will flood in. After these people enter Beijing, they basically live in Xuecheng.
First of all, the planning here was good, the trees are shady, the streets are wide, the rent is relatively cheap, and the food and living are very convenient, and the Luoshui River introduced in the city has become the most famous catering and entertainment riverside in Luoyang. A street, there are not only countless restaurants and restaurants, but also many brothels and Chu houses.
Because of these, the university town is very active, especially before and after each big competition, it is even more lively.
In many prefectures and prefectures in Beijing, they generally like to build Jinzhaoyuan in Beijing. Firstly, Xuecheng is a large place, planned in the later stage, covers a large area, and the land price and rent are relatively cheap, which is not as expensive as Luoyang City. Second, The management in Xuecheng is not as strict as in Luoyang City.
Luoyang Academy City, with a small population of 200,000, is really a gathering of heroes.
It is also because there are a large number of young scholars and scholars in it, it is inevitable that they like to talk about state affairs and criticize current affairs. In any restaurant and restaurant, you can always hear young scholars and students blushing. .
"Extraordinary!"
The winter in Luoyang is very cold.
As the end of the year approached, the number of exams in the schools in the school city increased, and the students became nervous about their homework. However, a large number of recruits came to Beijing, and the bustle of the school city continued to increase.
In a restaurant, Pei Yan couldn't bear the persuasion of his classmates, so he made an exception to put aside his studies and come to the Luoshui River for dinner. He is a student of the Hongwen Museum in Xuecheng. The Hongwen Museum was first established in the fourth year of Wude. , and teach students.
However, in the early days of Hongwen Museum, only a few dozen students were enrolled, all of whom were relatives of the royal family and the prime minister's children.
Later, the scale of teaching was slowly expanded. After the establishment of the Xuecheng, the Hongwen Museum also moved in. The original collection of books was still in Menxia Province, but the students moved to the Xuecheng, and the scale of enrollment and teaching was expanded. By this time, the Hongwen Museum had already There are nearly 1,000 students, although it is far inferior to the more than 10,000 students of Guozijian, but after all, it is called three halls together with Chongxian Hall and Jixian Hall.
This high level mainly reflects that the three halls take the prime minister as the master of the hall, and the prime minister and ministers regularly come to the hall to give lectures.
Moreover, the students in the third hall are all the children of the royal family and the prime minister. This belongs to the aristocratic academy among the nobles. Children below the third-rank real job, below the official title of the duke, and below the clan and county king are not eligible to enroll.
Guozijian also recruits the children of noble families and even poor families, as well as the children of barbarians belonging to feudal clans, or overseas students from foreign countries, but these three halls do not recruit.
Pei Yan was born in the Pei family in Hedong. His father's official position was actually not high. Of course, the more important thing is that Pei Ji's granddaughter was favored by the current emperor and gave birth to a son Li Xiang. Although Pei's family was bestowed dead by the ancestors in the end, Li Xiang was also adopted by Concubine Su.
But after Li Yin succeeded to the throne, he made Li Xiang the crown prince. Shortly thereafter, Li Yin also made a special decree to rehabilitate Pei Ji, recover his official rank, and bury Gaozu in Xianling.
As a descendant of the Pei family, Pei Yan is considered to be honored because of this. He himself is also the smartest of the younger generation of the Pei family, so he was recommended by the Pei family and passed the examination to study in the Hongwen Library.
Since entering the library, he has been very diligent in studying, because most of the students in the library are relatives of the emperor or the prime minister's children, few of them really study hard, but whenever they go out to play, he will insist on studying in the library, even the government officials He refused several times to enlist, on the grounds that he was not good at his studies. In fact, he was unwilling to become an official through enlistment, but insisted on passing the imperial examination to become an official.
Now he has been studying hard in the library for ten years, and he has already obtained the qualification for the general examination next spring. He is very confident about the examination next year.
Today, the students pulled him out, making an exception.
As soon as he sat down, he heard a newsboy shouting outside.
"Is there any big news besides the announcement at noon?" Wei Chengqing, a student at the library, said. However, the examination results were mediocre and he was not allowed to be promoted. Later, Gao Jifu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, promoted him to be the supervisory censor.
When Wei Siqian went on tour, he impeached the prime minister Chu Suiliang. As a prime minister, he bought the land of his subordinates at a low price. Dali Shaoqing thought he was innocent. Wei Siqian impeached them together, and then Chu Suiliang and Dali Shaoqing were demoted together. Great earthquake.
Although Chu Suiliang later returned to the prime minister and demoted Wei Siqian from the capital, who knew that the emperor later purged Chu Suiliang, Changsun Wuji, etc., and made Webster the empress. There is a precedent for the successful impeachment of Chu Suiliang in fear of power, so it has been exceptionally reused.
First transferred back to the court as Minister Zuo Cheng, and not long after, he was appointed as Yu Shi Zhongcheng. Now he is in charge of Wutai, and he is also very powerful.
Wei Chengqing is in his twenties, but his studies are actually very good.
"I'm going to buy a copy to watch."
"Something went wrong, something went wrong."
Wei Chengqing ran in from the outside, holding a tabloid in his hand.
Big newspapers and tabloids do their best to **** the latest news or engage in in-depth content. Sometimes powerful newspapers issue once a day, while some tabloids publish weekly or semi-monthly.
Sometimes when major emergencies are encountered, an extra issue is temporarily published.
For example, what Wei Chengqing bought right now is such an extra account, which is a large page of paper with ink-scented handwriting on it.
The number printed with movable type highlights a timeliness, but it is inevitably a bit rough.
But everyone can't care about these.
The content in the newspaper is really amazing.
Empress Su was deposed as a commoner with resentment in her heart, the crown prince Li Xiang was deposed as a commoner, the imperial concubine Qin Shu was convicted of witchcraft, and was deposed as a commoner, all her children were deposed as commoners, and her mother and brothers were also deposed as commoners people.
"Grand Master Qin was also implicated?"
"No, you see there is something behind this, Qin Taishi has made great achievements, it's not as good as it is."
Everyone huddled together, scrambling to read the latest news.
"Concubine Wei Huangchen canonized as empress!" Wei Chengqing blushed with excitement when he saw this. Wei Shi is his aunt who was named queen, so the Wei Shi family will naturally benefit.
Li Jingye slapped the table angrily, "It must be Webster's temptress, bewitching the saint!"
As soon as he slapped the table, a group of classmates all looked over.
Wei Siqian's face turned purple with anger, "Li Jingye, you're spitting blood!"
Li Jingye is also in his twenties. He is the eldest grandson of the Taibao, Privy Envoy, and British Duke Li Ji, and the son of Li Zhen, the governor of Zizhou.
Originally, he had been Shi Brown as an official, but because of a mistake, Li Ji ordered him to return to Beijing, and then arranged for him to study in the Hongwen Library.
Li Jingye was very dissatisfied with the news of the abolition of Su and Qin Liwei, and believed that Wei's bewitched the king and murdered Su Qin. As a general's son, Li Jingye didn't get along well with Wei Du, Pei Xiao and other gentry sons. Second, Li Ji's family was from Wagang and had a good relationship with the Qin family.
Li Jingye originally belonged to the young and strong disciples of the general family, and usually admires Qin Lang very much, and has a good relationship with the children of the Qin family.
The two quarreled, and immediately moved their hands.
Li Jingye is good at riding and shooting, and he is also good at boxing and kicking, but the son of Wei Chengqing's famous family is actually a man of both civil and martial arts, and he is good at swordsmanship.
Pei Yan and others managed to separate the two of them, but one had black eyes, the other had swollen cheekbones, and his clothes were torn.
was torn apart, the two were still cursing.
Li Jingzong directly lifted the robe, pulled out a knife on his body, cut off a piece of the robe, and threw it in front of Wei Siqian, "Dog slave, the Qin family is the number one general in the Tang Dynasty, and they are loyal to the country. The Wei family also produced virtuous ministers at the beginning. I am ashamed to be a classmate with you, I will cut off my robes today, and I will never have any contact with you in the future!"
"Bah!"
Wei Siqian was also full of anger. Ever since the emperor doted on Er Wei, Wei Siqian had not suffered from such ridicule at ordinary times.
"Hey, a thief, you can act recklessly if you have a high skill, and you can be resentful and witchcraft? Get out, grandpa doesn't have a classmate like you!"
Pei Yan was a little helpless at the side, why didn't he expect that it was so rare to come out for a dinner today, and it turned out like this, but he looked at the simple account, but couldn't help but fell into deep thought?
After the abolition of the Soviet Union, the second concubine Guishu of the Qin family was abolished. Does the emperor really want to clean the Qin family? In addition to elders such as Changsun Wuji, Gang Yi is going to attack the Qin family again, or he is going to attack the entire Shandong military upstarts.
Eventful autumn.
In his heart, he couldn't help but be deeply worried about the future situation of the court. With the ability of Grand Master Qin, he wouldn't sit still and wait for death, right? And looking at Li Jingye's attitude just now, it also shows that the military nobles are more united.
Pull one hair and move the whole body.
The former Prime Minister Du Zhenglun's nephew Du Qiuren looked over, and the two looked at each other.
"We have to do something!"
"Do something?"
A group of young scholars felt that the Qin family had a high prestige in the government and the public, and Qin Lang had a particularly high reputation among the students, not only because of his status, but also because of Qin Lang's reform of the imperial examination, the establishment of a school city, and his own identity. He is a great poet, historian, and calligrapher who is praised by the world.
Even Qin Lang invented engraving and printing, so that today's students can use cheap and high-quality paper, pen, ink, etc., all of which are kept in the students' hearts.
The Qin family was convicted this time, and everyone subconsciously thought there was something wrong.
At this time, there was a noise outside the window.
Li Jingye left and returned.
"Guozijian **** student Wei Yuanzhong is gathering students, saying that he will write a ten-thousand-word letter to remonstrate with the emperor, everyone hurry up and go together!"
Du Qiuren slapped the table and left, excitedly saying, "Let's go together!"
Pei Yan also stood up, "Go together!"
Wei Siqian stood there, at a loss.
Wei Yuanzhong is a native of Songzhou, a student of Taixue in the Fourth School of Guozijian, and also a post-eunuch. He is a very active student in Taixue and is very famous.
Although he is a student of Tai Tai, Wei Yuanzhong usually likes military books the most. He has carefully studied the military books of Qin Lang and Li Jing, and also explained Qin Qiong's drills. .
It is also because of his love for military affairs that he highly admires Qin Lang, and believes that Qin Lang's military ability can be ranked among the top ten famous generals in ancient and modern times, especially the books on military affairs written by Qin Lang are even more amazing, comparable to the greatness of Sun Tzu's Art of War work.
Wei Yuanzhong is a crazy fan of Qin Lang.
When he learned that the imperial court had abolished Su Liwei, and accused the Qin family of witchcraft, which was obviously a crime, and implicated the entire Qin family, Wei Yuanzhong was furious.
He ran to the street of Xuecheng, raised his arms and shouted, he wanted to call the students of Xuecheng to submit a letter signed by tens of thousands of people, asking the emperor to take back his will.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
Luoyang Academy quickly boiled over, and the crowd was furious. Some students who had signed their names even shouted to go to Luoyang Palace to petition!
Countless students and people, as well as some merchants and ordinary people who eat melons and watch the excitement, also excitedly followed behind the team, all the way to Luoyang Palace!
(end of this chapter)