We all know that in the ancient feudal dynasty, in order to be able to gather the world's talents to serve the ruling class, generally through the imperial examination system, which is the world's students, but also let them flock to it, after the examination, Guangzong Yaozu, did not have the spirit of stacking in the examination, go home and prepare for the exam for three years, continue the road of their own examination, but because the number of places admitted to the examination system itself is limited, so many people have not been able to pass the examination for more than ten consecutive years.
The most typical example is Fan Jinzhong, Fan Jin is the most classic image of the novel Wu Jingzi's "Ru Lin Wai Shi", more than 50 years old has not yet passed the examination, is an old boy, Fan Jin's image is also a character who was persecuted and influenced by the imperial examination system in ancient China, and he wants to pass the imperial examination to honor his ancestors and enter the career path. However, living too poorly also makes the Fan Jin family often looked down upon, and the old father-in-law such as Hu Butcher is one of the representatives.
However, Fan Jin's middle move, immediately the people who were in a hurry filled the courtyard door, Hu Butcher also suddenly became a smiling face from the fierce god evil, in fact, Fan Jin Zhongju, the noun ranking is not very high, but in the Ming Dynasty, the lifter at least has the qualification to be an official, so that it is equivalent to stepping into a new threshold, and more crucially, Fan Jin later rose all the way up, and also won the jinshi, more than 50 years old was appointed as the Shandong Xuedao, which is the official position of Zheng Sipin.
The reason why Fan Jin has such an opportunity is also because of the elevation of the examiner Zhou Jin, in fact, Zhou Jin is even worse than Fan Jin, he is still an old boy in his 60s, it is later in the case of several businessmen to pool money, helped him donate a prisoner, with this identity, Zhou Jin only passed the examination, and thus won the jinshi.
Although the above two are lucky people under the imperial examination system, no matter what, they finally entered the career in their twilight years, but there are still people who are difficult to enter this threshold in their lifetime, such as Liu Yong, from 1008 AD to 1034 AD, Liu Yong repeatedly failed, it was Song Renzong who ordered to take care of these old candidates, which made Liu Yong have the qualification to be an official, but some people were deprived of examination qualifications and it was difficult to deposit in their lives.
This is to talk about Tang Bohu, himself Tang Bohu is only eight buckets high, from Xiucai to lifting people, and then to Xie Yuan, the future is immeasurable, but in the end he was involved in the fraud case of the scientific field, although there was no evidence later, but Tang Bohu himself was deprived of examination qualifications, and he never had the opportunity to participate in the examination again in his lifetime, similar to the encounter of his friend Xu Wei, as a famous talent in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Weidou Yan Song can be said to be a household name, but what is exchanged is at the cost of the scientific examination frustration, lifelong poverty, poverty in his later years.
All in all, although the imperial examination system was a fairer stage in the feudal era, it still could not change its essence, that is, to serve the ruling faction, so that later generations evolved into a territory of the powerful to form parties for personal gain, and in the Ming Dynasty there was even the custom of agreeing on protégés, which almost ran through the entire Ming and Qing dynasties.