In the thirty-third year of Long, at the age of eighteen, Shenyang took the Shuntian township examination. After you get the local exam, save it. If you pass the exam, you can take the exam.
The imperial examination system was originally a system for selecting officials in the Han Dynasty. This system was founded in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and began to form an eight-part essay examination system in the early Ming Dynasty. Before entering the customs, the Qing dynasty tried to take scholars in the imperial examination. Tiancong held the "Scholar Selection" exam in September of the third year. Baylor and Manchu students were ordered to take the exam, and the master couldn't stop them. Those who pass the exam must get rid of slavery and "be free of tariffs twice and wait for employment". In March 2008, Tiancong enrolled 228 students again. In April of the same year, a juren selection examination was held. Deng Duohui, Cha Buhai, Ngende, Qi, Yi Chengge, Zhu Canran, Luo Xiujin, Liang, Ma and Wang Laiyong, the standard-bearers of the Han nationality, became the first jurors in the Qing Dynasty. Everyone has clothes to wear, with four exceptions. On October 30th, the first year of Shunzhi/kloc-0, the emperor shunzhi wrote a letter at the entrance of the palace, saying that he would continue to follow the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, open a subject every three years, and still hold provincial examinations in Chen, Shu, Zhou and New Year, in Zi, Wu, Mao and He. It was not until the eighth year of Shunzhi that the standard-bearer system based on riding and shooting was implemented. At that time, because the children of the Eight Banners had not been unified and did not show the law, there were very few candidates, and sometimes there were more places for admission than candidates. So the Eight Banners Imperial Examination stopped there, and it was not until the fifteenth year of Kangxi that it began to get on the right track.
The Eight Banners Imperial Examination is very different from the general imperial examination. Whether it is a township exam or a conference exam, the first exam should be riding and shooting. Only by passing the riding and shooting exam can you take the future exam. You should try Manchu or Mongolian. After having obtained the provincial examination, in the eighth year of Shunzhi, the Manchu and Han armies each recruited 50, and Mongolia each recruited 20. Then the number decreased. In nine years in Gansu, there were 27 Manchu and 20 Han troops, which became a routine. The number of places for local examinations has been reduced to four.
Although the children of the Eight Banners "ride hard and don't argue with words", the number of soldiers in the Eight Banners is limited, basically around 100,000. The pressure brought by the rapid population growth has made more and more children of the Eight Banners unable to serve as soldiers. Many people began to enter the examination room, especially those who studied in the Forbidden City and the Eight Banners Official School in Xi 'an, and regarded scientific research as an important way to enter the officialdom. According to Zhu Shoupeng's statistics, from the eighth year of Shunzhi to the thirty-third year of Ganlong Wuzi Festival, 75 children of flag-bearers were born in this department, which made great progress. Among them, Van Arden's Xiao Ting Miscellaneous Notes records that during the Qianlong period, most of the nobles of the imperial clan could not speak Manchu, and the emperor Qianlong "summoned the imperial clan and did not deal with it in Mandarin, so it was peaceful" and "due to the increase in the number of people, the imperial clan had to be sealed, and those under the age of ten had to take the exam". "Every year in mid-October, Qin Dou sent ministers, kings, military ministers, etc. He teaches English and bows for the exam. Imperial clan regarded his father as a knight and took several exams. The outstanding person is recommended by the team leader, and each person will be rewarded with Hua Ling and satin horse; To make matters worse, what should be stopped is the shame of chivalry. " Mastering your own language as a condition for attacking knights is enough to reflect the seriousness of the problem.
Little Shenyang is proficient in Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese and Tibetan, and can recite four books and five classics. He is also familiar with writing eight-part essay. However, fate played a joke on him, and he became famous in the exam in Wuji Town, Sun Shan.
Since the Eight Banners Imperial Examination, the number of people who participated in the rural examination has been decreasing. The number of candidates set up in Qianlong nine years is only 55% of that in Shunzhi eight years, but the number of candidates has greatly increased, which inevitably leads to some talented children with insignificant families falling behind. For examiners, a limited number of places will always be used to "collect powerful people" and "pay bribes as much as possible during this period". When weighing the trade-offs, "high-ranking people will be recorded, high-ranking people and people with less party member will be recorded, the rich will be recorded, and the nominally poor will be recorded." Therefore, from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, due to this scientific research, "the children of ministers in the research institute account for the majority". In the Imperial Capital, powerful people gather, and the identity of a surname is a dime a dozen, which is a third-class event. Perhaps this is the real reason for the failure of Xiao Shenyang. Although the imperial examination is not the only way for the children of the Eight Banners to enter the official career, after all, Xiao Shenyang is very conceited and unhappy, and even left a poem "repent and return, be friends with the world", but Xiao Shenyang did not give up.