Chapter 86 Section 4 Anti-cheating tricks

Jin Zhangzong found that it is a good way to select talents through imperial examinations, but it is difficult to prevent cheating in exams, so he came up with a trick to prevent cheating in exams.So, how unique is Jin Zhangzong's unique trick? In order to prevent people from cheating in the imperial examinations, since the Song Dynasty, the method of obfuscating names was implemented, and the papers were sealed, which is no different from today's college entrance examinations, and the examiners cannot tell who the candidates are.Not only is the name blurred, but the papers have to be copied, and the examiners can't see the papers written by the candidates themselves.In case the examiner sees his student's handwriting and gives a high score, this is not acceptable.Use people to transcribe, and after transcribing the volume, submit it to the emperor.

During Jin Zhangzong's time, in order to prevent candidates from cheating, it was stipulated that when every four candidates entered the examination room, they must be protected by a soldier. In fact, they were monitoring to prevent cheating.Today, the police escorted the test papers, but there were really no escorts for the candidates.What if the candidate is caught?The soldiers who followed him might not be able to read and bring things in with them, so it was the same for the soldiers.Emperor Zhang Zong asked candidates to change their clothes before entering the examination room, and changed into uniforms provided by the examination room.Candidates felt that this was too degrading, and they felt the same as going into the bathing pool as soon as they entered the examination room, so they resolutely refused to do it.Zhang Zong feels that this cannot be done to scholars, and he cannot think that everyone may cheat.So how about this, before the exam, you have to worship Confucius, you have to salute the most holy teacher, can you come to salute with your face covered in dust and your body covered in dust?So you have to take a bath before saluting, you take a bath inside, and the military master outside searches your clothes to see if you have brought them with you.After you finish bathing, put on your own clothes and salute Confucius, the inspection here is over.Maybe when the inspection is over, when will the water be turned off for you, or you will not be allowed to come out.

For the descendants of Confucius, Zhang Zong added a fourth-rank title, and then continued to upgrade and rewarded.The original Confucian temples in various places need to be repaired, and those that don't have to be built.There was an upsurge of respecting Confucius all over the country.Every city must have a Confucian temple, and the Confucian temple is built together with the school.Emperor Zhang Zong was not at ease, and often supervised the construction of the Confucian Temple, constantly emphasizing: "The monks are very strict in decorating the statues, followed by Taoism, but the Confucianists are the most broken in the Confucius Temple." The temples here are very well built, with beautiful halls and majestic statues; Taoist temples are second, because there are many famous mountain monks in China, so Taoist temples are second; Confucius temples are the most decadent, which is not acceptable.Seeing that the emperor was dissatisfied with the current situation of the Confucian Temple, Zaizhi quickly explained that Confucianists could not live in the school, but monks and Taoists who lived in the temple for a long time.There are always people living in the school, and no one cleans and repairs it every day, so it looks dirty and dilapidated; while monks and Taoists live in the temple, where it is dirty, clean it, and repair it if it is broken, and the faithful men and women will donate some money. So it's good, this is not a problem for us officials.The emperor was very unhappy when he heard this, and ordered that the school must be given land and property so that teachers and students can live comfortably.It can be seen that in the Zhangzong Dynasty, the status of Confucianists rose like a rocket.Zhang Zong ordered that Jurchen soldiers under the age of thirty-five must read and read the "Book of Filial Piety", vigorously promote Confucian ideology and culture, and rule the world with benevolence and filial piety.

There was a dutiful son in Shandong. Because his family was poor, his mother died and could not be buried. The dutiful son stomped his feet and sold his son to bury his mother.In today's view, this is a crime, but it was vigorously promoted in ancient times.Since ancient times, seeking loyal ministers must come from the door of filial sons, and great filial piety is loyalty.After Emperor Zhangzong heard about this incident, he gave great praise to his filial son, sent food and cloth to their family, helped him redeem his son, and let him be an official—let the person who sold his son be an official.The magistrate asked Emperor Zhang Zong for instructions. Let's praise this kind of behavior, isn't that all right?What credit does he have for being an official?Is selling your son a credit?Besides, he doesn't know how to be an official, he is simple, but if he has a trick, he can't sell his son.Zhang Zong said that it doesn't matter if he doesn't know how to be an official, he gets his salary for nothing, and just hang around the office every day, no need to do anything specific.I will set an example of filial piety and let the world see this.

Emperor Zhang Zong not only encouraged and rewarded the kindness and filial piety of the people, but also set an example by himself, refusing to accept the audience of his officials every time when the grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother offered sacrifices.Today is the memorial day of the grandfather Emperor Sejong, well, let's stop for a day to express our condolences.The ministers asked me to do whatever they wanted to do, and they never disappeared. It's a big deal, let's talk about it tomorrow. In addition, not only filial sons should be commended, but loyal ministers should also be commended.During Zhangzong's era, there were frequent wars with the Song Dynasty, as well as with the Tatars in the north.In a war against the Song Dynasty, an officer of the State of Jin was defeated and captured, and the Song people instigated the officer of the State of Jin to scold Jin Zhangzong.Because the captured officers were Han Chinese, Song Jun promised that as long as you scold the emperor of Jin, the emperor, barbarians, dogs and sheep, you can scold you casually, and you will be released after scolding.Unexpectedly, although this officer was Han, he not only refused to scold Jin Zhangzong, but instead cursed the Song Dynasty emperor.The soldiers of the Song Dynasty were furious and killed him with a knife.The news was sent back to the Kingdom of Jin, and Jin Zhangzong bestowed this man as a general. He might have been a cadre at the platoon level.