At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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In order to prevent this phenomenon from finally appearing with the growth of the imperial examination, martial arts and martial arts are imperative.

Warriors should indeed be strong, but this does not mean that warriors are all rough, and warriors also need to be literate and knowledgeable.

Warriors need to study, understand reason, understand astronomy and geography, and understand intrigue.

It's just that the learning materials are different, and there are specializations in the arts.

Warriors can also have a high degree of education.

So someone Guo strongly supported Guo Jia's suggestion and began to personally formulate the physical requirements in the imperial examination, while at the same time began to toss about the martial arts.

He decided to implement a policy of giving equal importance to both civil and military examinations. Both civil and military examinations should be held at the same time, selected at the same time, and commended at the same time after passing the exam.

This demonstrates the Wei Empire's attitude of emphasizing both civil and military affairs.

In terms of the physical test of the imperial examination, the first thing is to run in circles. Mr. Guo stipulates how many laps of a large circle of about 400 meters within a stick of incense to be considered qualified.

Then according to Mr. Guo's bad taste, add some interesting content, such as long jump, push-ups, or abdominal crunches.

Anyway, he is the emperor, and if he talks about it, the whole world will follow him.

These also have hard and fast rules, which must be tested.

Knowing the nature of being able to do anything in order to become an official, even if it is just to maintain a good body before becoming an official, it is very necessary.

Guo Peng praised Guo Jia's suggestion and incorporated Guo Jia's suggestion into the scope of the imperial examination. Then many officials looked at Guo Jia who had been showing off his figure and muscles just now with strange eyes.

What the hell is going on with this guy...

After tossing about all the matters of the Wenju, the cabinet will be in charge of handling the matter with the Ministry of Rites. From now on, we will start preparing for the eight-year imperial examination in Yande.

Then, Guo Peng went to the staff station again, summoned the staff officers of the staff station and many generals of the guards to hold a joint meeting, and announced his decision to hold the martial arts exercise in addition to the literary one.

Chapter 1201 One thousand two hundred and one scholars frown on this

Guo Peng expressed his thoughts and decisions on holding a military exercise on the staff desk.

"Imperial examinations should not only include literary examinations, but also military examinations. Of course, Wei attaches great importance to state governance, but the reason why Wei can build a country depends on military affairs. Military affairs are naturally the most important thing. For this reason, Gucai established Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall.

However, the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall only faces outstanding soldiers in the army, and the selection area is relatively narrow, which is different from Wenju, and there is no relevant examination system to select outstanding military talents. This is not conducive to the long-term development of our Wei military. .

Therefore, Gu decided to set up a martial arts exam in addition to the literary exams, which is equally open to all people in the country, expand the scale of the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Martial Arts Hall, recruit more students, and then participate in the martial arts exams, so as to train more outstanding talents. "

Guo Peng expressed his thoughts, and the staff officers and the generals of the army looked at each other, and it took a while to realize that the emperor wanted to expand the reform of the examination to the military level.

However, compared with the cultural aspect, Guo Peng's power at the military level is much greater.

Basically, do what you say, so there is basically no objection to the matter of engaging in martial arts and expanding schools.

"It's good that you don't have any opinions. I also have a lot of ideas about martial arts and expanding schools. Let's discuss it together."

Someone in Guo thinks that we can’t have martial arts without martial arts, and we can’t have martial arts without martial arts. In terms of training military talents, the country must invest heavily and fully support it.

And it cannot be said who is more noble in Wen Ju or Wu Ju.

Cao Hong put forward this view.

"Your Majesty, we naturally have nothing to be unhappy about doing martial arts, but whether we should say it or not, there is no difference between the status of this martial arts and the status of civil exams. Over the years, those rotten scholars have taken us as warriors a lot. Don't take it seriously."

Cao Hong spoke very straightforwardly in this regard, so many staff officers in the staff desk expressed their displeasure.

But they don't dare to say anything now. Most of the staff members of the staff desk who came from scholar families also participated in the previous incident, regardless of dissuasion. They were severely punished by Guo Peng and directly chopped off their heads.

The staff desk is only responsible for the military and is not allowed to be involved in politics, let alone such a sensitive matter.

The unhealthy ethos of the staff desk must be severely killed, and their momentum must be cut off.

After cutting it off, the staff at the staff desk became much more honest, and they didn't dare to say anything more.

Guo Peng has classified the matter of staff officers into the military level and separated them from politics, so not only military generals but also staff officers have to participate in the martial arts for selection.

The Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall not only trains military generals, but also trains staff personnel, both ways, so the cultural quality of those selected for the martial arts is not necessarily inferior to that of Wenju.

Therefore, Guo Peng gave a clear response to Cao Hong's doubts.

"On this point, you can rest assured that there are imperial examinations to praise officials, and there are also military examinations. Both civil examinations and military examinations belong to the scope of imperial examinations. Therefore, both civil examinations and military examinations are conducted together. Talents are selected and commended together. Regardless of superiority or inferiority, the court attaches equal importance to it."

After receiving Guo Peng's clear response, the army generals felt very satisfied.

Then they began to discuss how to formulate the rules of the martial arts exam.

Everyone chattered and discussed, and after discussing and discussing, a preliminary specification came out.

For example, not just one exam, but several exams.

For military talents, their physical fitness must be passable, so this first stage will test martial arts, including horse bows, step bows, long knife chopping, spear thrusting, and bare-handed hand-to-hand combat.

The second exam tests various tactical tactics such as military formations, fortifications, and night raids.

The three exams are written exams, each of which discusses the influence of the military, astronomy, geography, etc. on the war and its own coping strategies.

The last three exams are comprehensively judged, the total score is calculated, and the best candidates are selected based on the total score.

Those with high scores can be admitted, while those with low scores cannot be admitted, and continue to wait for the next exam in the coming year, it's that simple.

After the expansion of enrollment, the number of students graduating from the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall will also increase greatly. It is also reasonable to introduce an elimination mechanism to enhance competition. Regarding this, Mr. Guo is unequivocal.

The emperor has spoken, and no matter how the people below discuss it, the result will be the same, so everyone simply stopped discussing the general direction and started discussing some details.

Guo Peng's habit is to keep the details to the extreme. As long as I do the details well enough, it will be more difficult for you to violate the rules. Every time I find one, I can fill in another one, and the efficiency will be quite high.

In such an atmosphere, the court began to have heated discussions and discussions on the imperial examination.

Discussions between the poor family officials and Li Shu officials were particularly heated. Everyone was discussing what kind of talents could be selected by such an imperial examination.

Scholars and officials, whose numbers have dropped significantly, appear worried.

Of course, they pay little attention to martial arts, and mainly focus on Wenju.

I thought about using the content of the exam to control the number of places, so as to continue to increase the number of scholars and officials, but who would have thought that the emperor would actually introduce so many different content of the exam.

It's agriculture, disasters, mathematics, and even physical fitness.

This is quite difficult for scholars and officials.

Naturally, there are scholars who are willing to practice martial arts, and there are not a few who like fencing. However, there are always quite a few people who are indifferent to four bodies and five grains. Let them pass the physical fitness test...

There is no doubt that people from all walks of life could not take advantage of the first imperial examination at the time of its inception.

Whether it is a scholar, a poor family or a commoner.

Everyone doesn't have much time to prepare. If you want to really gain an advantage, you need preparation time and dedicated counseling.

It is necessary to study agriculture in a hurry, learn arithmetic, learn the knowledge of disaster prevention, and exercise the body.

Guo Peng made a request, that is, the physical fitness test is placed before the written examination of Wenju, and you must pass the physical fitness test before you can take the written test, otherwise you will not be allowed to take the test.

This is much stronger than other regulations.

You will not be allowed to take the exam if your health is not up to standard. Students who want to take the imperial examination must pay more attention to this aspect, otherwise no matter how good the books are, they will not be able to take the exam. What is the use?

In addition to this aspect, Guo Peng also has to make more regulations on the content of the essay examination.

In terms of classics and righteousness, of course the children of scholars have an advantage, but the proportion of scores in other aspects will not be low.

According to Guo Peng's meaning, it is obvious that the Jingyi test will not be allowed to occupy the vast majority of the entire paper score, and it must be balanced.

In addition to the classics, some other content will definitely be added, related to agriculture, arithmetic and the like.

And this is the first round, and the emperor still has to take the second and third rounds.

Astronomy and geography are required, because some people have suggested that knowledge such as astronomy and meteorology is of great significance to agricultural production. One of the most important responsibilities of local officials is to ensure agricultural production, so this is a must-have knowledge.

To examine policy theory, one or two political issues are given on the paper, either newly thought up by the emperor, or something that the court has delayed for a long time to make a decision, and let the students taking the test answer them.

There is also a test of free writing, which is left to the candidates to freely use. They can write whatever articles they want, write about the outlook for the country's future, expectations for the imperial court, etc., but pay attention, you must use punctuation marks, punctuation marks Points will be deducted for incorrect use.

Others were a bit messy, crushed and added to the three exams.

When the three exams are combined for comprehensive scoring, the proportion of scores in the classics and meanings will naturally be greatly reduced, and it will not be able to occupy an absolute dominant position, which is very unfavorable to scholars.

The scholars who survived the Luoyang catastrophe frowned.

Chapter 1202 One Thousand 210 Two Makes the Imperial Examinations Deeper in People's Hearts Faster

Regarding the emperor's undisguised suppression and the fact that the content of the scientific research was not friendly to them, the scholars of course wanted to change.

But they couldn't do it, and they didn't dare to do it.

Just got beaten up by the emperor and punished more than 5000 colleagues, who can be sure that the emperor will not come again?

Basically, he lost his courage and sense of superiority, and broke his spine.

All of them lost their previous vigor and vigor, and were cautious all day long, for fear that they would cause trouble to their upper body.

The voice of talking is not even louder than those mud legs.

Many surviving senior scholars complained about this situation. When they got together in private, their mouths were full of complaints and dissatisfaction with the emperor.

They felt that the emperor broke the backbone of the scholars, the country lost its righteousness, and the scholars lost their pursuit. They all became the emperor's echoers.

They so viciously speculated about the end of Guo Wei's regime, and viciously cursed this young regime, thinking that the resentment in their hearts would definitely be imposed on Guo through means from heaven.

Then the second generation died.

But even so, they have to be more careful when they speak, lower their throats carefully, for fear that someone will hear it and go outside to preach, and then the black armored guards will rush in to arrest people.

But don't wait for the end of Guo Wei's regime to usher in your own end.

They don't know when the Wei Empire will be finished, but they know that once such word gets out, they will be finished immediately.

During this sensitive period, the scholars were extremely painful. They were completely suppressed from the central government to the local government. From the top families to the second- and third-rate scholars at the bottom, they were all slashed severely and lost a lot of blood.

Now the imperial examinations are not aimed at them, and restrictions are set against them everywhere, and they take care of poor families and Li Shu everywhere.

Thinking about it, it was also the emperor's revenge for the waves they caused before.

The emperor had a strong desire for revenge. Not only did he want to beat people, kill them, and exile them, but he also restricted their retreat to ensure that there were no political forces within the empire that could threaten the emperor.

That's not to mention, an unprecedented large number of mud-legged people have to be introduced into the capital to occupy their original political status and further weaken their power.

After this wave of attacks and persecution, there is no doubt that the scholars have been weak to continue, and even have no strength to oppose some new gadgets that the emperor tossed out in the imperial examination.

Although they knew that this would be very detrimental to them, they could only keep silent in the general environment, even though there were still many people in high positions and in power among them.

Where is the future?

The scholars who had suffered unprecedented blows and persecutions stared helplessly at the gray sky, eager to see a ray of sunshine as if piercing through the autumn water, but they could not see anything.

In fact, they didn't know that the emperor was not satisfied with such a situation.

Guo was dissatisfied because he couldn't do it in one go.

He brought the system to the level of the Song Dynasty, even more perfect than the Song Dynasty, but he couldn't bring the social state to the level of the Song Dynasty in one breath.

People who can't afford to read still can't afford to read, and those who can't come to Luoyang still can't come. Transportation, assets, school conditions, etc., restrict all kinds of people's desire to study and improve.

He increased the literacy rate of the people, because literacy is not a real school, and the cost of running a school is much more than that of literacy. He can get rid of illiteracy, but he can't run a school.

He wanted more people to enroll in school, and more people to take the Wenju exam, and he came up with a whole set of plans, including when to open schools, when to open printing, and so on.

He also wants more people to participate in the martial arts exam, but Wei Jun has high requirements for military talents, so the assessment items set for the exam are very professional.

It can be said that martial arts students who are not from the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall basically cannot get high marks.

This is not only restricting scholars, but also restricting children from poor families and Li Shu who have not received professional military education.

However, the military examinations of the Wei Empire are the same as the literary examinations, except that there is no restriction on origin, and it is not without additional restrictions.

Literature and martial arts are for the whole people, without any superfluous restrictions.

If you can't get a student status, you can't take the imperial examination. This is the rule and system, no matter whether it is literary or martial arts.

In the future, he will expand the scale of the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, and add local martial arts, so that martial arts candidates must also obtain student status, pass the test and enter martial arts, and then take the martial arts exam after studying.

With Wei Jun's current combat capabilities and increasingly advanced and professional combat planning, it is impossible for the so-called "strong men" who have not received professional military education to meet the needs of Wei Jun.