Ganlong court joke

Imperial examination is a common way to select talents in ancient times. The imperial examination system has been very mature since it was founded in Sui Dynasty and developed in Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Scholars passed the sub-examination, provincial examination, senior high school entrance examination and palace examination, and finally became the talents needed by feudal society. Although the imperial examination system has many disadvantages today, it is the fairest way to select talents in ancient times. The most embarrassing imperial examination in Qianlong dynasty took place in the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong. After the examination of Qianlong Palace, the officials said one more word, and all the top ten were replaced, and the eleventh was the champion.

After 60 years in office, Qianlong was in power for a long time, surrounded by many famous ministers. Among many Han ministers, Liu Tongxun is the one whom Qianlong likes and admires most. Liu Tongxun is an honest and selfless official. He worked hard for the country and the people all his life. Finally, he was exhausted on the way to the court. Qianlong named posthumous title "Zheng Wen", which is the highest evaluation among civil servants.

Liu Tongxun was born in a scholarly family. His grandfather was a scholar in Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty, his father was a scholar in Kangxi period, Liu Tongxun himself was a scholar in Yongzheng period, and his son Liu Yong was a scholar in Qianlong Qin period. This special resume of "four generations living under one roof are scholars" is very rare. After Qianlong acceded to the throne, Liu Tongxun made outstanding achievements in flood fighting and disaster relief. Because of his integrity, he dared to impeach Mr. and Mrs. Zhang, and was praised by Qianlong and promoted all the way. In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong, Liu Tongxun was a college student in Dongge and a minister of study. Two years later, even after twenty-eight years of Qianlong, Liu Tongxun was regarded as the minister of marking papers in palace examination.

The twenty-eighth year of Qianlong is the year of Kwai Wei in the lunar calendar, so this year's imperial examination is also called Kwai Wei. After examination, a total of 88 people were admitted to Jinshi/KLOC-0. Traditionally, these 65,438+088 Jinshi took the Jinshi Examination and the palace examination hosted by Gan Long himself. Later, Liu Tongxun was the minister of marking papers in palace examination. He told his colleagues to read the papers quickly, and it took 1.5 days to read all 188 papers, sort them out and submit them to Gan Long.

When Gan Long looked at the list, he had a suggestion. It is suggested that it be circulated outside Hiram's Hospital, saying that Liu Tongxun took bribes, and the top ten list has already been set. Ganlong was surprised. Liu Tongxun a face of injustice, said there is no such thing. Finally, just in case, and in order to save Liu Tongxun, Gan Long changed all the top ten candidates, and all the candidates of 1 1-20 mentioned the top ten, so the top ten of that year was unlucky, Qin Dacheng 1 1, Shen Chu 12.

It turns out that this proposal has an enemy's child named Chu Zhang Ting, who is very talented and ranks in the top ten. The suggestion is that I am afraid that the child will be bad for him after being elected as the champion, so I made this specially. It can be seen that the imperial examination knew that although it was fair, it was just a child's play in front of Qianlong. Qin Dacheng, who ranked 1 1, was lucky and became the champion of Kuiwei.

Afterwards, Qianlong sent someone to investigate and learned that Liu Tongxun didn't take bribes, but it was too late to announce the gold list, so he trusted Liu Tongxun even more. It is suggested that there has always been an amulet of "saying that the official is innocent" and has not been punished.

I think: there is no established standard for imperial examinations, especially court examinations. Who is the top scholar depends entirely on the emperor's personal mood. Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty accidentally dropped the cinnabar on the name of the second place, so he thought it was "providence" and named the second place the champion. Also, because of the beautiful name, I was named the number one scholar. There are many such things in history. Perhaps, the palace examination is the "unfairness" in the "fairness" of the imperial examination.