Since the improvement of China's imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty, it has become the main system for selecting talents in subsequent dynasties. To a certain extent, the imperial examination system has broken the monopoly of the nobility on talents, provided a channel for many poor students to rise, and realized the equality of education to a certain extent.
But in fact, in ancient times, those who could afford to read books had more or less savings and reserves at home. In ancient times, social productivity was low, and even if people worked from morning to night every day, they might not be able to solve their own food and clothing problems, let alone provide for a person to go to private school, buy writing, and so on.
Moreover, the examination is also divided into three levels of the township test, the meeting test and the temple test, after passing the township test, it also becomes a lifter, and from then on, it is necessary to carry the bag into Beijing to catch the examination, go to the meeting test and the temple test to break in, once you enter the temple test, whether you take the top three or not, you are already quite glorious and honorable.
But the road from all over the city into the capital is very far away, the family without some money is not enough to support the cost of this road, in fact, in history, the number of people who died on the way to Beijing to catch the examination is actually not too small, either attacked by wild beasts, or the road is infected with diseases, or there are other accidents...
However, in history, there are very few people who have been robbed by the Green Forest Bandit Gang. You know, in ancient times, there were many people who occupied the mountains as kings, robbed merchants and surrounding villagers along the road, and even dared to rob the official palace, and in the "Water Margin", the birth anniversary was robbed by Wu Yong and his party.
And the people who can have enough money to enter Beijing to catch the exam, although it is not very rich and expensive, but the road to Beijing will take 3 months to say the least, they have to maintain a 3-month life, this money is not less, but in history, there are few bandits who rob and raise people, why is this?
In fact, our ancestors were not stupid, and they had already considered this problem for a long time. As an important system for the state to select talents, the imperial examination can even be said to be the cornerstone of a country, and the people who are the cornerstones of these talents are all the faces of the imperial court, so how can they be robbed by bandits like this?
Therefore, all those who pass the township examination will receive a flag of "the will examination", and the flag will be pinned to the waist, which will become one of the certificates of their lifting. Once the bandits saw this flag around their waists, they knew that it was a lifting person and could not be robbed.
Because although the official government usually does not have the energy to suppress the bandits entrenched in the mountains, but if it really wants to move people, that is, to punch the face of the imperial court, the local officials must organize the army to fight, and most of the bandits are scattered soldiers and brave, and they can also bring disaster to the townspeople.
In addition, although they are bandits, there is also a chivalrous spirit among bandits, and they will also pay a little attention to their own faces and engage in a good name of "robbing the rich and helping the poor". Most of the bandits are "forced to go to Liangshan", they themselves are from a humble background, and most of the people who are from poor origins can only take the road of the imperial examination, so it is inevitable to feel sympathy, so the bandits do not have the idea of lifting people.
Moreover, with the gradual improvement of the imperial examination system, the growth of the national population and the convenience of transportation, the living space of bandits has become smaller. In the Qing Dynasty, there were special stations for free pick-up and drop-off people to catch the examination, and there were special servants around the carriages, so it was more difficult for bandits to bite.
Moreover, most of the people who lift people are dragons and phoenixes among the people, and they will also form gangs and factions among themselves, many of whom will become officials in the future, but once they learn that the students who are also lifting people have been black-handed by bandits, they will certainly retaliate after becoming officials, so the bandits must weigh and weigh whether they can afford to provoke all the people.
It is precisely because there are so many reasons that although the people who enter Beijing to take the exam will generally have some money on them, the bandits usually do not rob the people, after all, "thieves also have a way", and it is important to save their lives.