Chapter 194 Result Release Day (2-in-1)
On January 12, it was only early in the morning, and Xianyang City was already very busy, because today was the day when Xianyang University Examination results were released.
For many people in Xianyang City, they don’t quite understand what is tested in the college entrance examination and what is the purpose of the college entrance examination, but this does not prevent them from watching the excitement.
Since ancient times, people of all dynasties and generations have always had the desire to watch and join in the fun.
Many people got up very early, and at dawn, they arrived at the place where the results were said to be released today.
In a guest house in the west of Xianyang City, Fan Zeng washed his face with cold water, and the cold stimulation of the cold water cheered him up after he had not slept well last night.
Although he kept telling himself in his heart that he came to take the Xianyang Examination not to rank on the list, but to see the purpose of Emperor Qin setting up the Xianyang Examination and to understand Li Nian, so he didn’t have to worry too much about his score. how.
But, how could you really not care?
Although this Xianyang Examination did not gather all the wise men in the world, it also gathered thousands of wise men from all over the world.
Therefore, in the eyes of many people, this is a competition to determine the most talented person in the world.
Although there was no saying at this time that "literati despised each other and military men valued each other; civility was not first, military was not second", but this idea had already existed.
Fan Zeng has the same problem. He doesn't think that his talents are inferior to anyone else in the world. Even if he is not the top, he can at least be in the top ten, right?
In his whole life, Fan Zeng was not weaker than others, but he was just unlucky and did not have good opportunities.
But the rankings will be released tomorrow. Where will he rank? Will he be at the front or at the back?
With these thoughts in mind, Fan Zeng could not sleep well all night.
After washing his face, he opened the door and walked out. He happened to meet four candidates who seemed to be going to see the results.
Only one of them said: "After waiting for ten days, the rankings are finally released. Now we know how many talented people there are in the world. Why are there so many?"
The other person laughed and said: "Others I don’t know, there must be a place among the most talented people in the world like Brother Zhu.”
The man called “Brother Zhu” quickly said humbly: “The world is full of talents!” I don’t know how many talented people there are, and I don’t know how many people are better than Zhu. How dare you say that you can get a seat?”
After saying this, Brother Zhu changed to another topic: “After the ranking is released, it is said that there will be more people. Your Majesty, Emperor Qin, please ask me. If this is the case, I must advise His Majesty, Emperor Qin, not to attach too much importance to arithmetic and the calculation of objects!”
Several other people also nodded, arithmetic and studying objects are useful, but in governing the country, one still has to distinguish priorities.
Seeing Fan Zeng looking at them, Brother Zhu smiled and said, "Brother, you also want to watch the announcement of the results?"
Fan Zeng nodded and admitted, "Exactly!"
Brother Zhu extended an invitation: "In that case, brother, why don't you go with us?"
Fan Zeng thought for a moment, saluted and said, "I dare not invite you, but it is my wish."
>
Several people then went to the west of the city where the list was released.
Considering that there may be many people joining in the fun, so that people can know in time, and in order to make the results of this Xianyang exam more widely known and spread throughout the world, several places are set up to release the results.
Fan Zeng and the others got up quite early, but when they arrived, it was still too late.
The place where the announcement was released was already crowded with people, and the streets were blocked. They couldn't squeeze in.
The rankings haven’t even started yet, and there are so many people. Fortunately, there is no custom of catching a son-in-law under the rankings at this time, otherwise there would be even more people.
Speaking of which, it would not be reliable to catch a son-in-law under the ranking at this time.
Because almost all the people who come here for reference are middle-aged and old men. They have already married and have children, and even have grandchildren. What is the purpose of catching such a son-in-law back?
Just when Fan Zeng and others were crowded into the crowd, a "dang" sounded, and the crowd suddenly fell silent.
Fan Zeng followed the crowd and looked toward the source of the "dang" sound, and saw a group of Qin soldiers guarding several Qin officials coming over.
One of the Qin soldiers was holding an object shaped like a drum head in his left hand and a mallet in his right hand. The "dang" sound was obviously made by hitting the object with the mallet.
During this period, Fan Zeng saw this thing several times, and it was called a "gong". Every time the gong sounded, there was a Qin official who wanted to announce something to the Qin people.
Just listen to the Qin official who held the gong say: "Everyone is surrounded like this, how can we post the list? Give way, give way!"
I see it is the person who posted the list. When they arrived, the crowd in front made way for the Qin soldiers and officials to come in.
After entering, the Qin official who held the gong said again: "I know that everyone wants to know the results of the Xianyang exam, but too many people can easily cause trouble, so don't crowd any more."
"Another , please also make way for the reference sages to read the list. If you haven’t referenced it, it’s not too late to look at it later.”
Seeing that the crowd began to give way, the Qin official added: "For this big exam, all the sages have traveled thousands of miles and come from all over the world. Don't let me and the people of Xianyang become a joke and lose face!"
As soon as these words came out, the crowd took the initiative to give way.
It is true that most people in this era have not read books and cannot recognize a few words, but they also know the simple etiquette, justice and shame, and sometimes value face more than their own lives: they value promises more than life and death!
The Qin officials have said that they cannot let the people of Xianyang become a joke and lose their face, so they must protect it. They are the people of the capital of Qin, and they are at the feet of His Majesty the Emperor.
If it is really spread: Those Qin people in Xianyang do not understand etiquette and hospitality. The talented people who participated in the Xianyang exam are guests from afar. As local hosts, they On the day when the rankings were released, the place where the rankings were released was completely surrounded, making it impossible for the talented people who wanted to see the rankings to get in.
That would not only cost them the face of Xianyang Qin people, but also the face of His Majesty the Emperor. Will he have the nerve to mention that he is from Xianyang Old Qin people in the future?
The Qin official said again: "All the talented people who participated in the big exam, please look at the list ahead!"
Fan Zeng and the others were freed from the crowd and walked out, but the Qin official His words and the reaction of the Qin people in Xianyang also made him realize one thing more deeply:
Today's Qin is far more difficult to deal with than he thought. The Qin people believe what the Qin officials say. The essence is that they believe That Qin Emperor believed in Da Qin!
With this kind of trust and cohesion, Qin will only be more difficult to deal with. Even if he succeeds in recovering Chu, it will just be to let Qin people destroy it again.
Why couldn't the people of Chu be so united and know the honor and disgrace for Chu?
Fan Zeng sighed secretly in his heart, Chu has been destroyed, and it is too late to think about it now.
He looked at the Qin officials who were posting the announcements. There were several tall wooden boards set up here, with Qin officials posting them there. The shape was similar to the bulletin boards of later generations.
The wooden board he was looking at was pasted with the first piece of paper. On the top of the paper were written "Comprehensive List" in three Qin seal characters, and then on the lower left side was a title he had never heard of before - - "No. 1".
This "number one scholar" must be the name coined by Emperor Qin. Fan Zeng did not see who was the top pick first, but first confirmed his conjecture. The top pick was the "second pick", and the top pick was the top pick.
As expected, they are all special names. Those who obtain these names will definitely be recorded in the annals of history and their names will be passed down to future generations.
Thinking of this, Fan Zeng's face suddenly became strange. Now it's going to be interesting. If those people who left false names are on the list, what will they do?
Especially when we are going to see Emperor Qin later!
Should they proactively admit that they were using pseudonyms and not their real names when meeting Emperor Qin, or should they simply not go to Emperor Qin after knowing their rankings after the rankings were released?
But neither is good!
If Emperor Qin was magnanimous in the former, it would be better not to pursue the matter, but if he pursued it, he could even be convicted of deceiving the emperor, while the latter would not be able to mention the matter again in the future, and it would be difficult for others to know what he was doing. I took part in the first Xianyang Examination under this pseudonym.
After thinking for a while, Fan Zeng then looked at the ranking of the "Comprehensive List". The number one pick at the top was a person he didn't know. This person's name on the list was "Zhuang Huang".
Fan Zeng thought to himself: "Zhuangzi, Huangdi, these people are probably Taoists, and they used pseudonyms for reference, but this pseudonym is quite strange. Huang-Lao's school respects Laozi and Huangdi, but does not respect them very much. Zhuangzi. ’
The right side of this person’s name is the score he received, which is eighty-five for policy questions, ninety for arithmetic, and seventy-eight for investigation of things. The overall score is two hundred and fifty-three.
Fan Zeng also understood what the comprehensive list was, which was a list of the total scores in the three subjects. The top of the list was the overall top scorer in the three subjects.
Fan Zeng had already expected that he would not be the number one scholar. He was good at policy and question-answering, but he was lagging behind in arithmetic and studying things. There are many talented people and wise men in the world. Maybe he was not as good as him in policy and question-answering, but he could do these two things. Better than him.
Looking at the second place winner, there was still a person he didn't know, named "Han Zheng", with a score of 98 in policy questioning, 80 in arithmetic, and 65 in investigation of things, with a total score of 243 .
There is a ten-point difference between the No. 1 pick and the No. 1 pick. Looking at the No. 1 pick, he is still an unknown person. There is only one point difference between this person's score and the No. 2 pick, which is 242.
Fan Zeng finally found his ranking in the comprehensive list. He ranked eighteenth, which is a good result.
But Fan Zeng himself was quite dissatisfied with this ranking, but after looking at the scores in each subject, he could only sigh.
His policy question score is as high as ninety-six, but his arithmetic and gewu scores are seriously hindered. Arithmetic is okay. After 60 points, his gewu score is only over 40, and his total score is almost no. Over two hundred.
When Fan Zeng moved his eyes to the list posted by a Qin official next door, he was already in his fifties and had seen too many storms, so he couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Because the list was posted as a "literary list", he ranked very high in this list.
Different from the comprehensive ranking, which combines the scores of three subjects: policy and question, arithmetic, and object analysis, only one subject is listed: policy and question, and his score for policy and question ranked second, and he was second on the essay list, so he was number one on the essay list. It was Han Zheng who was second on the overall list.
This made Fan Zeng feel inexplicably satisfied. From today on, he can be called the second best policy questioner in the world. Unfortunately, he is missing two points and is not the first.
Actually, Fan Zengce could have ranked first based on his level in the questionnaire, but after Yingzheng learned from Li Nian that Fan Zeng was Xiang Yu's sub-father, he deliberately ranked Fan Zeng second.
Now that the Xiang clan has been exterminated, Fan Zeng can no longer be Xiang Yu's second father, so let him be the second best in literary studies. He is still a "sub" anyway, which can be regarded as a disguised form of historical beauty.
In addition to the literature list, there are also three lists, namely the "arithmetic list", the "gewu list", and the "li list" where arithmetic and gwugui scores are summarized together.
The number one winner on the Li List was a man named "Yang Mo", who was also the number one winner on the Quwu List and ranked number one on the Arithmetic Ranking.
It's really amazing that the two top picks were ranked first, but this person's score in the policy question was too outrageous and he did not rank among the top three in the overall rankings.
Relying on his arithmetic and object-finding scores, he is still in the top ten of the comprehensive list.
From these lists, Fan Zeng also saw that those who are better at arithmetic and object analysis will often have an advantage in total scores.
This may be intentional by Emperor Qin and Li Nian, so that people think arithmetic and inquiry are important, and let people pay attention to their understanding of arithmetic and inquiry.
Because there are too many people, and there are five lists, only the top two hundred are announced.
After the list was posted, literate people read the names on the list to the crowd of onlookers. The crowd exclaimed from time to time, asking if Zhuang Huang was there? Is Han Zheng absent? Is Yang Mo here?
It’s a pity that those three people are not here.
Two of the four people who came with Fan Zeng also found their names on the list, but their rankings were not high, they were in the middle or lower.
Those candidates who did not see their names on the list became eclipsed and prepared to leave. They came with great ambitions to meet the heroes of the world. Now they are not on the list. It is better to go back!
At this moment, the Qin official holding the gong knocked the gong in his hand to quiet the crowd who were excitedly calling the names. The Qin official said: "Even if there are no names on the list, please stay, Li Nian The young master will invite you all to have a talk at Liuying Palace tomorrow, discuss important matters related to the world, compile new characters for the world, and write teaching materials for the world. "
Some people who originally wanted to leave were suddenly attracted by Qin Li's instructions of "compiling new characters for the world and writing textbooks for the world" and looked at the Qin official who was speaking.
Someone asked the Qin official: "May I ask what this means? What does it mean to 'make up new words for the world and write the world's teaching materials'?"
The Qin official smiled and said: "Your Majesty thinks that now world , there were too many characters, which caused many inconveniences, so Li Nian Gongzi compiled a new character and spread it to the world. This kind of character should be easy to learn, easy to recognize and easy to write. In the future, everyone who can read and write in the world must use this character, and abolish all different characters. for one . ”
“But Mr. Li Nian thought that it would be difficult for him to do this on his own, so he asked your Majesty to let you all participate in it.” This is what Mr. Li Nian requested from Your Majesty, with the aim of compiling a textbook that can be used by everyone in the world. In the future, all people in the Qin Dynasty can use this textbook to learn and read! ”
This made Fan Zeng feel huge waves in his heart, and the examinees watching around him were even more shocked.
This is the real purpose of Ying Zheng and Na Li Nian in setting up the Xianyang Examination, to summon talented people from all over the world to compile the new characters of Da Qin and compile the teaching materials.
But I have to say that this move is too cruel. Maybe someone like him can refuse it, but it will definitely be difficult for a talented person who comes from hundreds of schools of thought.
Because any school does not participate in the compilation of the textbooks, then in the textbooks compiled in the future, there will be less or even no content from this school.
This is a conspiracy. Although it does not seem to force the various schools of thought to do things for the Qin Dynasty, in order for their own doctrines to be passed down and known to more people, they cannot refuse to agree. .
Fan Zeng was even guessing about the further plans of Emperor Qin and Li Nian. When the teaching material was fabricated, would it be the day when hundreds of schools of thought were banned?
From now on, you can only learn what is in the textbook. You can no longer study alone and force everyone in the world to learn the textbook.
Fan Zeng thought it was very possible. While he was still thinking about it, he heard a burst of fanatical shouting of "Long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!" He suddenly woke up from his thoughts and saw Xianyang around him. The people of Qin have already knelt in pieces.
These Xianyang Qin people knelt down because of the Qin official's words: "In the future, all people in the Qin Dynasty can use this textbook to read and write!"
However, the Xianyang Qin people kneeling down made Fan Zeng and others stand out.
Although Qin unified the world, they did not consider themselves to be Qin people and still thought of their homeland.
Should we kneel with the Qin people now, or should we not kneel?
It’s not easy to divide it into chapters, so it’s two in one.
(End of this chapter)