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A small number of them can participate in the general examination, and if they pass the examination, they can become eighth-rank officials.

The eighth and ninth ranks belonged to the low-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty, and would be despised by serious Jinshi.But in Zhao Han's place, only middle-level Jinshi can release the eighth rank.

In addition, university graduates can directly participate in the examination.

University graduates who pass the Jinshi examination must either go to the Imperial Academy or Qintian Academy to do research, or enter the cabinet to observe politics and be a member of Zhongshushe.

In three years, after the Shusheren finished, they still had to release Zhengbapin (Xiancheng).But this kind of eighth-rank, the promotion speed is faster, because they know the emperor and the cabinet ministers, even if they are not familiar with each other, they must have met face to face!

This whole set of four different imperial examination systems is a product of the transitional period.

Folk scholars complained, and it was time to open the door of the imperial examination for them.The popularization of new education in various provinces,

As the old scholars grow old, the traditional imperial examinations will be completely closed.

In addition, the proportion of officials in the south is too large, and the recovery of the north was late, and there are not even middle school graduates.

In order to balance the official circles of the North and the South, it is also necessary to leave a way for the traditional scholars.Moreover, this is the most important thing, otherwise Zhao Han would ignore the complaints of poor literati.

There is another factor in the rush to resume the imperial examination and the township examination, that is, there is a problem with the current official selection system.

According to the report of the Inspector of Integrity, a large number of cronyism, favoritism and fraud have occurred among middle and low-level officials across the country.Even in the past two years, Zhao Han imposed qualification restrictions on the admission of officials, but it still did not completely change the status quo.

Hebei, Tianjin.

Li Jixiu is 29 years old. Historically, he took part in the Manchu imperial examination, and passed the No. 3 jinshi in the fourth year of Shunzhi.

But in this time and space, he is not even a Juren.The war years were really unbearable. His family fled to Yanshan and ate sweet potatoes for several years.It was not until last year that he took his family out of the mountains and returned to Yutian County to register for household registration.

Li Jixiu had no resentment towards the new emperor.

Although the land property of several generations of Zan was gone, when he returned to his hometown and became a registered citizen, the government returned his ancestral house.His family's oil mill in the town had been sold to a small businessman who moved from other places. After he showed the certificate, the government generously compensated part of the silver.

Moreover, according to the population of his family, the land was allocated to them.

Li Jixiu felt that it was commendable to be able to do this, and this New Dynasty of Great Harmony was indeed convincing.

In fact, for the sake of political achievements, local officials wish that the population would be as large as possible.That's why there are various policies. In addition to land, as long as the certificate can be produced, it will be returned if it can be returned, and compensation will be made if it cannot be returned.Only in this way can the people who entered the mountain be attracted to come down the mountain and return to their original place of residence.

In the northern provinces that are waiting to be rebuilt, population growth is the biggest political achievement!

On the day of the rural examination, Li Jixiu got up in the middle of the night and came to the southeast of the city early outside the Gongyuan.

There were not many people, because the rules changed, and the emperor did not allow candidates to be tossed about in the middle of the night, so all the procedures of the imperial examination were postponed for three hours.

"What's the name of this brother?" A traditional scholar asked.

Li Jixiu said: "The surname of Wansheng is Li, his first name is Jixiu, and his style name is Gongyu."

The scholar said: "The last name is Zhang, and the name is Zhaoyong. It's a coincidence. It's also named Gongyu."

The two have the same character, this is fate, and they get closer immediately, and they start to sequence the year when they were selected as talents.

Li Jixiu said: "It seems that not many scholars participated in the Hebei provincial examination."

Zhang Zhaoyong sighed: "How can there be more? When the Tartars returned to Liaodong, they took away many gentry and civilians, and there are not many people left in Hebei. There may be many scholars, but the war is chaotic, how many of them can still produce certificates? What's more, there is an age limit, and you will not be allowed to take the test if you are over 30 years old."

"Indeed," Li Jixiu gritted his teeth, "Damn the Tartars! If the Holy Son of Heaven hadn't been born, my whole family would still be hiding in the mountains."

Zhang Zhaoyong said with emotion: "For you and me, the rural examination is actually good. In the elementary school in Hebei, the students have not yet graduated, and the middle school has not yet opened. There are no new-style scholars who participated in the rural examination this year. The number of papers is small, as long as you come to the exam, you are almost guaranteed to pass!"

Li Jixiu nodded and said, "That's exactly the reason."

Zhang Zhaoyong suddenly laughed: "All provinces have announced the quotas for the provincial examinations. In Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong provinces, only five scholars were admitted in the previous courts. Especially in Jiangxi, there are countless scholars among the people. I am afraid that the imperial examinations will be overwhelmed this time. And the county magistrate also has a headache. His Majesty does not conduct a subject examination (the county examination qualification selection examination), and the county magistrates must first organize an examination for selection.

Li Jixiu actually guessed Zhao Han's thoughts: "It's just like the northern and southern rankings. There are too many officials in the south. Your majesty is already dissatisfied with this. He wants to suppress the south in the imperial examination."

The two chatted until dawn, when the Tribute Court finally let out the guns and began checking their identities to enter the examination room.

In the entire Hebei Province, the number of candidates for the township examination was 30, but only 114 scholars took the examination.Not a single new student.

All the test sheds have been renovated, all of which are of brick and tile structure, no need to nail tarpaulins by yourself, and there are even glass windows for light transmission.

Li Jixiu was speechless when he got the exam questions.

There is only one title in the traditional Four Books.There is only one question in the traditional Pentateuch.The next step is to test official documents, policy theory, criminal proceedings and so on.

There are also nonsense additional questions. Li Jixiu has only studied "The Theory of Great Harmony" by himself, and the rest of them are astronomy, geography, mathematics,

Physics, water conservancy...all caught blind.

Li Jixiu didn't finish the two stereotyped essays on the Four Books and Five Classics until the afternoon.There is not much time left, so he can only speed up and answer the questions he knows quickly.

The booklet "Great Harmony Collection" is not thick, so Li Jixiu learned to memorize it by himself, and he answered the questions very easily at this time.

Then astronomy: try to write five planets.

Li Jixiu knows the 28 constellations and the Big Dipper, but what the hell are the five planets?

Li Jixiu, who has read the classics of sages and sages, stumped Li Jixiu, who was familiar with the subject in the third grade in the south.Fortunately, Li Jixiu's original scripture is "Shangshu", and he can make divergent associations.

In Chinese culture, the number five is easily connected with the five elements.

In "Shang Shu Shun Dian", there are seven states, and the seven states are the sun, the moon, and the five planets.

Li Jixiu worked hard and wrote the answer: five stars, wood, fire, earth, gold and water.Juri and Suixing, Mars and Sun Yinghuo, Saturn and Zhenxing, Jinri and Taibai, Water and Sun and Chenxing.

Geography question: May I ask whether the Netherlands or the Ottoman country is closer or farther from China? (Full points will be given for the detailed description of the two countries, and half points for the correct answer)

Li Jixiu scratched his head, this question can only be guessed.

Holland sounds crisp, but Osman is a bit of a mouthful.So Li Jixiu replied: Holland is near, but Ottoman is far away.

Mathematical problems are roughly similar to chickens and rabbits in the same cage. Using traditional arithmetic methods, you can only get half of the points for correct calculations. You must use new mathematics to get full marks.

Li Jixiu tore up the draft paper to make calculations, and quickly came up with the correct answer, but he was destined to only get half a point.

Physics questions, the test is mechanics.

Li Jixiu stared at the question for a long time, but he didn't know the question, and the question didn't know him.

When night falls, give a candle, and the paper must be handed in when the candle is exhausted.

Li Jixiu handed in the test paper, a little discouraged, he found that he didn't understand a lot of knowledge, and he had never even heard of it.This kind of ignorance is more shocking than failing the imperial examination.

After returning home, be sure to study the textbooks of the new classroom by yourself!

"Brother Jixiu, how did you do in the exam?" Zhang Zhaoyong asked.

Li Jixiu shook his head again and again: "Astronomy questions can probably be guessed, and geography questions are all based on ignorance. The math questions have given the answer, but they can only get half a mark. As for physics, what about mechanics, my mind is dizzy."

Zhang Zhaoyong smiled bitterly and said, "It's the same next time."

A few days later, the list was released outside the Tribute Court

Li Jixiu checked from the back, but couldn't find his name, and then he scanned to No.1.

After a short operation, this guy passed the exam of Xie Yuan in Hebei Province.

Zhang Zhaoyong was crying and laughing next to him: "I won, I won, No.10, just right to go to the national exam!"

Hebei Province has a quota of 30 candidates for the provincial examination, and they only need to observe politics for one year before they can become ninth-rank officials.However, only the top ten,

You can give up your Ninth Grade qualification and go to Nanjing next year to take part in the general examination.

Li Jixiu cupped his hands and said, "Congratulations, congratulations!"

"Congratulations, congratulations!" Zhang Zhaoyong laughed.

Li Jixiu said: "We will go to Nanjing next year."

Zhang Zhaoyong said: "My brother Yu lives in Tianjin. Although he survived the war, he managed to keep a few shops. It's still a bit of a waste of money. It's not as good as brother Xiu. I will stay at my brother's house to study, and then we will go south to Beijing for an exam."

Li Jixiu said: "Brother Zhaoyong's kindness, I accept it with all my heart. But there are parents, wife and children at home, and they have to go back to work in the fields. The sweet potatoes and corn planted after the wheat harvest have to be harvested and stored in the warehouse."

Zhang Zhaoyong sighed: "I didn't expect Brother Xiu to go down to farm in person."

Li Jixiu sighed: "It is not easy to hide in the mountains and survive. After returning to the hometown, the government divided the land again.

It is also to compensate for the loss of the store, and it has been done with the utmost benevolence.Hebei is vast and sparsely populated, and the allocated acres can only be cultivated by themselves. How can they recruit tenants?It's been ten years of cold window, and the four bodies are not working hard. The crops are really not planted well, and the harvest is much less than that of the farmers in the village. "

Zhang Zhaoyong thought it was not easy, so he said: "I am afraid that the exam will also take the astronomy, geography, mathematics, and physics. I can't give it to you.

Buy a set of new textbooks for you. "

"So, thank you very much!" Li Jixiu did not refuse, this was exactly what he needed urgently.

Chapter 655 [Cultivation]

Zhang Zhaoyong bid farewell to Li Jixiu, and went home to earnestly study by himself.

No one would know that their big family died fighting against the Qing Dynasty in another time and space.

At that time, Guangdong was occupied by the Qing Dynasty, and a middle-aged woman named Zhang in Tianjin claimed to be the queen of Emperor Tianqi.He engraved seals, commanded flags, distributed money and recruited soldiers in Tianjin, and contacted the peasant army in Jinghai County, repelling the encirclement and suppression by the local troops of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties many times.Unfortunately, Zhang was captured and sacrificed, and his subordinates continued to fight against the Qing Dynasty. .

The governor of Tianjin was frightened and uneasy, and invited the leaders of the peasant army to a banquet in an attempt to recruit security.When the incident came to light, the governor of Tianjin was dismissed, and the Manchu Qing sent heavy troops, and it took more than a year to wipe out the Tianjin rebels.

The five gentlemen of Ningbo also died in the same year.

Huaxia, Wang Jiaqin, Yang Wenqi, Tu Xianchen, and Dong Deqin learned that the Qing army in Zhejiang was transferred to Fujian.Immediately send people to contact the anti-Qing generals Wang Yi and Huang Binqing, planning to recover Ningbo through internal and external cooperation.

But Huang Binqing was cowardly and weak, hesitant, and dared not send troops.The contact letter to Wang Yi was intercepted by the traitor landlord and sent to the government to report the letter to receive the reward.

The five gentlemen didn't get a response for a long time, so they simply launched an uprising by themselves.

The uprising failed, unfortunately, he was captured and escorted to Hangzhou where he was tortured to death.

However, Wang Yi, who did not receive the letter, persisted in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty. After being captured and sacrificed, his tribe continued to revolt until the Kangxi period.

At the same time, in the northwest, an uprising broke out among the Muslims in Gansu.Once conquered Liangzhou, controlled the Hexi Corridor, and joined forces with Han gentry and peasants, the rebel army quickly increased to [-], and they failed after a year of persistent struggle.

In the southwest, although some chieftains defected to the Qing army, most people of all ethnic groups were fighting.The Yi, Zhuang, Miao, Tujia...they have fought one after another, and would rather die than submit.

Facing the brutal rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the people of all ethnic groups achieved great national unity.

"Will you not send troops to destroy the Tartars this year?" Pang Chunlai asked.

Zhao Han said: "There is not enough money and food, let's talk about it next year. Tartars are grasshoppers after autumn, and they can't jump for a few days.

"Oh!" Pang Chunlai sighed.

First sent troops to the Ryukyu and Satsuma domains, then sent troops to Vietnam, and then a large number of immigrants. The money and food of the Datong court were really not enough to fight the war.

Zhao Han put down his emperor airs and patiently explained: "Forgive me, sir. I know your urgency to eliminate the Tartars. However, in the long run, emigrating and stationing troops in Taiwan and Guangnan is more important than quickly eliminating the Tartars. The three divisions All the soldiers and their family members immigrated to Taiwan and Guangnan. If they are not given generous and generous treatment, they will feel that they have been assigned."

"I understand." Pang Chunlai expressed his understanding.

The Datong soldiers and their families who immigrated to Taiwan and Guangnan will not only get five more acres of land per person, but also the imperial court will donate a large amount of cattle and grain.In addition, there is no need to pay land taxes for ten years, and the land taxes will be halved within 20 years.

Especially for the families of soldiers who immigrated and settled in Taiwan, three households will be given a farm cattle as a gift, and they will not have to pay land taxes for 20 years.

The land tax will be halved within 50 years.

Pang Chunlai suddenly asked again: "When will Your Majesty attack the Dutch on Taiwan Island?

Zhao Han said, "It's not next year, it's the year after."

This is really not Zhao Han's militarism, but the Dutch rule in Tainan, which has reached a critical period.Its oppression of Han Chinese and aborigines has reached its limit. In the next two to three years, the Han people in Tainan will rebel, and the Netherlands is estimated to engage in massacres.

This news was reported by the magistrate of Zhuluo (Chiayi). Guo Huaiyi, the leader of the Han people in Tainan, is contacting the magistrate of Zhuluo to raise troops.

Historically, the Guo Huaiyi uprising failed, and more than 4000 Han males in the Chichi area were arrested and 1800 were killed.

Remain.More than 5000 women were killed or captured, and many children were killed or enslaved.This accounts for four-fifths of the Han population in Chichi areas.

Zhao Han tried every means to immigrate to Taiwan. Naturally, he couldn't let the situation get out of control. This time he sent the Datong Army to station.

It is to prevent Holland from engaging in mass murder.

When the Dutch first arrived in Tainan, their attitude was very humble. Even to build a castle, they had to buy land from the aborigines with money.

Gradually, as the Netherlands increased its troops, it began to exploit the aborigines.

The Dutch failed to attack the big tribes, so they bullied the small tribes, so as to achieve the purpose of killing chickens and monkeys.They also brought smallpox to the aborigines, causing the local plague to be rampant, and took the opportunity to send troops to conquer various tribes.

There were more than 1200 residents on Xiaoliuqiu Island (near Tainan), and the Dutch slaughtered more than 400 of them, and sold more than 100 young and strong to Southeast Asia as slaves.All the young women on the island were assigned to Dutch soldiers as slaves, which was tantamount to exterminating the tribe of the island.

In dealing with the Han Chinese, the Netherlands first provoked division, and then brutally suppressed them.

Then, oppression through economic means.The liquor tax was levied on the Han people first, then the poll tax, and then the road tax.Not satisfied with this, the Han people are prohibited from privately selling buckskins, and all must be sold to the Netherlands.When Han people buy and sell houses, they are taxed one-tenth of the tax.There is also a tax on buying salt.The private sale of sugar cane is prohibited and must be sold to the Netherlands.

Up to now, the Dutch have to pay taxes on the Han Chinese buying sugar, candles, tobacco, fish...even killing pigs for the New Year, and buying firewood for heating in winter.

In addition, the Netherlands has continued to propagate to the aborigines, saying that the Han people are robbers and bullies, so as to provoke the relationship between the aborigines and the Han people.It also prohibited the Han people from opening schools and forced the Han people and aborigines to believe in religion.fixed time to do religious preaching,

The people in the area must come to listen, and whoever does not come will be fined a buckskin.