You treacherous minister are quite good at speaking!

Zhao Huan looked at Qin Hui and asked coldly: "Qin Qing, can I do it as long as I can fire a musket in the future?"

Qin Hui said: "It doesn't seem possible to be able to shoot guns...why would you take a poem or a essay?"

It’s still the treacherous minister who is considerate and can’t be an official even if he can shoot targets and is illiterate!

"Test the poetry and essays and target shooting?" Zhao Huan narrowed his eyes, "Don't we test the principles and countermeasures of saints?"

"Your Majesty," said Qin Hui, "A man who knows how to write poetry and essays has a bad literary talent, and ordinary official documents can handle it. As for the great principles of saints... many people say one thing and do another, and there are more things that can be said and not done, so it is useless to take the exam.

As for countermeasures, it is just a paper talk and has no use.”

You are such a person, right? Zhao Huan thought to himself: But the words of this treacherous minister make some sense. Otherwise, why did the Song Dynasty reach its current level?

Qu Duan, the affairs of the Privy Council, reported at this time: "Your Majesty, what Qin Hui said is true. When the Eastern thieves arrived at Kaifeng Prefecture, it happened to be a major imperial examination. The talented and intelligent people in the world gathered in Kaifeng, but who can offer a plan? Can kill a thief? If you use targets to capture soldiers, there are tens of thousands of people who use muskets, and maybe you can kill a few more thieves!"

Alas! Zhao Huan sighed: This... is really right!

Thousands of patriots who do not know how to be patriotic are really not as effective as ten thousand musketeers when the country is in crisis.

If the Jingkang Shame of History, Kaifeng Prefecture could have ten thousand high-level musketeers, the Northern Song Dynasty would not have been destroyed.

As for the principles of saints and countermeasures of articles. To be honest, who is not a complete set of moral articles for civil officials from the imperial examination? But among them are there many corrupt officials or honest officials? Are there many stupid officials or capable officials?

It seems that more corrupt officials than honest officials, and more stupid officials than capable officials?

Since you are both greedy and stupid, what's the point of moral articles? Isn't it enough to be able to write some official documents? What's the use of so many great principles?

It’s better to practice your ability to shoot guns. In times of crisis, you can at least kill a thief and defend the Song Dynasty in a sloppy manner?

...

"Geng Qing, He Qing, Qin Qing, Zhang Qing, you all talk about it!"

Now there are only Zhao Huan, four civil servants and a few sleepy little yellow sects who are holding medicine jars. Zhao Huan, who is very physically good, follows his father Zhao Ji. In history, Xue, who has been watching the Five Kingdoms Department for almost thirty years, died. So the eunuchs from the Imperial Medicine Academy pretended to be like him and had no room for performance.

The four ministers Geng Nanzhong, He Li, Qin Hui and Zhang Jun looked at each other, all with helpless expressions.

What are they saying? Now they don’t count! Qu Duan and Yue Fei are domineering today, but they don’t have “political minds” and don’t take the emperor and civil officials seriously.

What can you do?

Killed?

Do you dare?

Even if the new army stationed in Chang'an does not cause chaos, how can Jingchu still not cause chaos?

Now not only is the world three points, but also the Zhao Song Dynasty three points. The military leader in Jingchu who is not loyal to Chang'an can also go to Jiangning and go to Sichuan to welcome the Supreme Emperor!

Will Zhao Huan still survive by then? He set a precedent for the Zhao brothers to openly kill each other!

"Your Majesty, Qu Duan and Yue Fei are still loyal, and they are reassuring." The first person to speak was Qin Hui. He was actually talking nice things for Yue Fei, "Other martial artists are worse than the two of them..."

This is the truth!

It’s not that Qin Hui likes Qu Duan and Yue Fei now, but that these two are at least reliable, loyal to the court, and have the ability to make people feel relieved, they can be a little cheap. They can also be punished for 10 or 20 years ago, but now... they are content!

With these two guys protecting the family, Zhao Huan can at least sleep peacefully. If they really need to be replaced, Zhao Huan has to open one eye when he sleeps, which is too affecting the quality of sleep.

"But they want to shoot targets and pick up soldiers!" Zhao Huan stamped his feet.

"Then let's shoot the target." Qin Hui said, "For scholars in the world, it is better to have a talented scholar than to have no talented scholars... Nowadays, it is a chaotic warring era, and articles and morality are useless, and musket shooting is more practical. Moreover, the imperial examination system is a ladder to the heavens built for poor families in the world. What is important is to be able to rise and fair. Musket shooting is still very fair."

This is also true.

It’s nothing to do when you have a peaceful and prosperous era. But now the world is in chaos and the Three Kingdoms are competing for hegemony. It’s a bit too pedantic to use articles to pick scholars.

These moral essays cannot beat Zhou Dong thieves. If they cannot beat them, everything is fake.

"If the scholars in the world can use a comb, I will become stronger in Song Dynasty?" Zhao Huan asked. He is now a king who dreams of becoming stronger, because only if he is strong enough can he survive!

Qin Hui couldn't answer this question because he couldn't play with guns. However, among the four civil officials present, one of them could play with guns.

"Your Majesty," Zhang Jun, the right prime minister of the Shangshu, reported, "I think that although using the art of musket to attract scholars is a shame, it is indeed useful for strong scholars and strong people. Because the method of obtaining scholars in the court is the art of hard practice among the people with aspirations. Our dynasty has always valued literature but neglected military affairs, and read the Five Classics diligently in front of the window. Therefore, most of the people with aspirations are weak people, and there is nothing in the world when the world is peaceful. But once the world is in chaos and wars are everywhere, how can weak people with a weak person take charge of the military?

Moreover, the art of muskets is not only shooting, but also the art of making guns and refining gunpowder. Both of these are weaker than the two thieves. This is a major concern for the country!

If the court can use guns to win the soldiers, then the people of the people with talent will not only practice the method of muskets, but also work hard on making guns and making medicines (gunpowder). In the future, the court will not only have literati who are proficient in muskets, but also have good muskets and good gunpowder. There will be no need to be afraid of violent Zhou anymore."

It seems to make sense...

Zhao Huan glanced at his right prime minister He Li again.

He Li replied: "Your Majesty, my dynasty has always emphasized literature over military affairs in the past, so that the scholars and officials only had the will to serve the country but had no power to serve the country. This is the fundamental reason for the chaos in the world! And now it is more martial and less literary. If this continues, I am afraid that I will repeat the mistakes of the Tang and Five Dynasties!"

you do not say!

Zhao Huan suddenly became entangled.

Now the warriors of the Song Dynasty are becoming less and less dissatisfied! They have reached the point where they dare to challenge the court. How can this continue?

"Is there any way He Qing?"

He Li said: "I think the way of civil and military should be equally important."

“How to pay equal attention?”

He Li replied: "Not only should we win the soldiers by shooting, but we should also recruit the soldiers who are shooting to join the army to make contributions."

This is called equal importance to both civil and military affairs? Zhao Huan looked at He Li and didn't know what to say for a moment.

The left prime minister Geng Nanzhong, who was standing beside him, asked: "Will the target shooting men join the army become warriors?"

He Li said: "As long as you are a literary scholar, you are a literati... The civil officials of this dynasty have always been able to make military achievements."

Geng Nanzhong thought to himself: That is to use civil servants to make contributions, not civil officials personally carried muskets to the battlefield!

He Li continued: "The emperor of this dynasty is committed to the conflict between different theories. But now the army is full of Huashan. Is there any other theories? If the loyal and patriotic scholars in the world can join the army to serve the country, there will be different theories in this army! Such scholars will become civil officials in the future, and civil and military officials will be equally valued!"

Zhao Huan was finally convinced that the Song Dynasty now has the final say in the sword and the gun.

If the knife handle and the gun rod are in the same group, the court will inevitably be subject to the military.

If you want to change this situation, you must start another "mistress faction" in addition to the officers of the "Huashan faction" so that the two factions can restrain each other.

On the first day of March of the seventh year of Jingkang in the Song Dynasty, the imperial court finally issued a major edict to re-open the imperial examination. At the same time, it posted a royal list in various prefectures and counties in the middle of the country, announcing that the release of the examination will be held in the eighth year of Jingkang and the Ministry of Rites will be held in the ninth year of Jingkang.

As soon as the imperial list was released, the world was in an uproar.

Because the rules of this imperial examination were beyond the expectations of all scholars.

The exam is divided into two steps. The first step is to test poetry and essays, that is, to write poetry. The examiner sets the questions on the spot, and the candidates write ink on the spot, and write the poems and essays on the spot. However, the examiner will not select the best ones from a bunch of poems, but will only make judgments of "can" and "can't".

In other words, poetry and essays only determine whether the students are eligible to take the second step of the exam, and do not determine who can go to high school.

In fact, it’s just a qualification competition, I’m a civil servant. I have to know how to write poetry, right? I can’t write calligraphy by writing calligraphy by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by writing by

As for being a good official... the original examination method of the Song Dynasty did not produce any good official, otherwise it would not have fallen to this level today.

After being able to handle official duties casually, you can participate in decisive target shooting.

The rules for target shooting and seizing talents are also simple, which is to determine the number of people who win in advance, and then shoot the target one round after another, and eliminate the last place. Until all the excess people are defeated, the rest are the Juren or Jinshi who "wins".

Moreover, the target shooting is carried out publicly, and idle people are allowed to observe.

The people's eyes are sharp and can be seen if they hit, so the examiner cannot cheat.

This kind of imperial examination is no longer fair!

As for the cost of shooting, it is actually not high. The cost of a 8-year-old heavy smoothbore gun is only two yuan per tael of silver coins, which is equivalent to four coins in small flat money. If it is replaced with Shu brocade, it is about three and a half horses, and if it is replaced with rice, it is three to six stones (the price of rice fluctuates greatly).

Of course, this price is the ex-factory price of the Tianjin gun factory in the Great Zhou Republic. The cost of private blacksmiths in the Western Song Dynasty is not that low, but it is not much expensive, and more than a dozen stones of rice is almost the same.

Just this little rice, can a landlord intellectual cannot take out? Can’t afford a horse, a buffalo horn bow, a traditional martial art, and can’t afford to pay more than a dozen stone of rice to get a musket?

If there is no such thing as no, then don’t take the imperial examination and farm honestly.
Chapter completed!