In the ancient times of our country, scientific research was the only way for the ancients to get ahead, and it was also a major event in the lintel of the shining lintel, and as a liberal arts, many people fought for the head. This is the same as our modern civil service examination, ordinary people can only achieve the possibility of climbing up the ladder if they pass the civil service examination.
Just like a character written by Mr. Wu Jingzi- Fan Jin, Fan Jin, when he was fifty years old, took the examination for lifting people, was selected, probably crying with joy and almost going crazy. However, it is not unreasonable for Fan Jin to be able to go crazy. If you look at the position and official title at that time, the official title of the person is equivalent to the current deputy department level cadre. In other words, which reader can not be unhappy? Maybe it will be more demonic than Fan Jin.
The author Wu Jingzi's brush strokes are very spicy, for Fan Jin's gaffe performance after the examination, although Fan Jin failed many exams, the family is also a mess, but think about the interests and future after the exam, can't help but make many people crazy. In the society at that time, if you pass the test to show talent, the family will follow the light, if you win the exam again, basically life will undergo earth-shaking changes, and the people who communicate will become different levels.
At that time, if you wanted to be an official, you had to pass the examination, and even if you failed the examination, the imperial court would also give a small official a job, just like the current county magistrate, which was a matter of glory. Fan Jin has long been a disciple of the family because of years of scientific expeditions, and it is reasonable that he has been driven crazy by years of life.
And there is another advantage in the lifting of people, that is, can be exempt from taxes and servitude, the imperial court at that time harshly paid miscellaneous taxes, people themselves are precarious, and constantly increasing the people's taxes is even more painful to make the days miserable, Fan Jin himself after lifting, equivalent to saving a part of the family's expenses, think about it, think about it, feel happy, many years of dream realization, suddenly from poor households to small rich people, equivalent to the current people won the lottery, think about it will go crazy.
After another middle lift, it is the change of identity, seeing that officials can not bow down, which is a great honor in the feudal dynasty at that time, which can directly let the people look up, and what they say will have a certain weight. We can see the seriousness of the class concept among people at that time. It can be said that it is equivalent to having a privilege. In modern times, this is the style of officials above the provincial level.
This sudden jump made a poor person like Fan Jin jump to the level of a rich man at once, crazy can be understood, in exchange for us, may be more crazy than him.