Chapter 494

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When that old, rat-gnawed wooden box was opened, the things inside were revealed.

"Some parts are clearly damaged. This thing is not very well protected."

Mr. and Ms. Bai walked over, and without seeing clearly what was inside, they said this immediately.

And as their voices fell, a sound rang out immediately.

The system's sound.

338. The Qing Dynasty imperial examination system, cheating is amazing!

【Qing Dynasty linen vest for smuggling】

【Also known as a cheating shirt, with 62 excellent model essays written on it, totaling over 40,000 characters】

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When determining what was unearthed this time, Fang Yang almost gasped.

This is really...

He didn't know how to react.

Anyone with a little knowledge of history basically saw what this was, and their expressions were all very strange.

However, as long as they thought about how much influence the content on this would have on their subsequent research, the things they cared about earlier didn't seem so important at this moment.

The experts were conducting research.

However, the people in the livestream were still waiting, wanting to know what had been dug up again.

The cameraman had already appeared.

He pointed the camera directly at Fang Yang.

"This is a cheating shirt from the Qing Dynasty, which is very similar to the crib notes we talk about for cheating in exams today."

"The densely packed text on this was actually written with rat whiskers. Many articles were written on it, estimated to be tens of thousands of characters."

Fang Yang clearly knew the exact number but didn't say it directly, just to avoid some unnecessary trouble.

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——【Can this really be seen clearly? Can you find the answers?】

——【Oh my god.】

——【They don't deceive me. From ancient times to the present, the ancients were still similar to us, and they would all cheat. However, the person in front of us was definitely bold to an absurd degree.】

——【When it comes to cheating, modern people still can't compare to the ancients.】

——【I just want to know, if caught, is it the extermination of nine generations or three generations? The crime of deceiving the emperor is a capital offense, right?】

——【Everyone can check it out. Wen Tingyun, the founder of the Wanyue school of poetry, was the ancestor of cheating.】

——【Nickname 'Wen Eight-Fork', professional gunner.】

——【Haha, Wen Eight-Fork could aim every time he was a gunner, but unfortunately, he couldn't pass the exam himself.】

——【He couldn't pass because the imperial court had prejudices against him. Because he liked to play and liked to help others cheat, he wasn't suitable to be an official, so they deliberately failed his papers.】

——【The invigilator standing next to them could help people cheat.】

——【I can't understand it. With the effort to copy this, you could have just memorized it directly.】

——【In ancient times, there was no time to memorize. You had to get up early and work late, and you slept early at night. Candles and kerosene were very expensive.】

——【Is it possible that this was actually written by a gunner?】

——【Does it take a long time to write crib notes? Is the time to copy an essay shorter, or is the time to memorize an article directly shorter?】

——【Some people really can't remember things in their brains, just like me. I clearly remembered it very clearly, but then I forgot it completely.】

——【Sigh, I found that many of us can't compare to our ancestors, even in cheating.】

——【This is great. This guy never thought he would be embarrassed hundreds of years later.】

——【He turned his own clothes into a cultural relic.】

——【What's embarrassing about this? Now there are few people as serious and rigid as me. They are all laughing and listening to it as a joke.】

——【If we knew the other person's name, it would indeed be embarrassing, but we don't know the other person's name at all.】

——【It's not embarrassing. Being able to cheat successfully in such an environment is also a kind of expert.】

Fang Yang looked at the people in the livestream discussing this aspect, and he couldn't say whether this was embarrassing or not.

He hesitated for a while, then continued: "These texts are very neat, and... this look is prepared for a long time in advance, not a decision made suddenly."

"The examinee wrote the crib notes in the clothes. How are they going to copy it?"

"This brings us to the imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty."

"Their examination rooms allowed examinees to bring food in."

"Because each session had to be taken for three consecutive days, and for these three days, they could only stay in the small room of the examination room and couldn't go out."

"They had to eat and sleep in this small room."

"Of course, there would be a soldier strictly guarding opposite each room."

"So if Qing Dynasty people wanted to cheat in the exam, they could only write the crib notes on their clothes. As long as they successfully wore the cheating shirt into the examination room and avoided the soldier's guard, they might succeed in cheating."

"During the Qing Dynasty, the bad atmosphere of cheating in the examination room was continuous."

"Even if strictly rectified, it still emerged one after another."

"Going through the back door, pulling strings, finding fellow villagers, worshipping teachers, and even bribing examiners."

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——【I wanted to ask just now, how can you make the ink not smudge?】

——【I don't know.】

——【Use rice soup to starch it before writing.】

——【Upstairs, you understand life.】

——【Search for the method of making high-grade ancient ink. Even now, it's not something ordinary people can afford!】

——【The imperial examination is good, but people's greed has buried the future of many students. They always fantasize about reaching the sky in one step and being superior to others, instead of benefiting the world and serving the country.】

——【I think the ancients thought too little. Why not just prepare a bathhouse, take a bath, change clothes, and then enter the exam?】

——【So crib notes are also a traditional craft. This cannot be lost. It's traditional culture, so naturally, it must be passed down.】

——【The imperial examination is a very great invention and has been used until now. It's just that the content of the exam has changed with the times, and the rest hasn't changed much.】

——【In ancient times, some people took the exam for a lifetime, and when they were seventy or eighty, there was no result. They really achieved nothing from youth to old age. No wonder there is an age limit for exams now, otherwise, I estimate that there would be people in modern times who would take the exam for a lifetime.】

——【Hehe, the imperial examination system is meant to be like this, to make everyone waste their lives! The old emperor can enjoy peace.】

——【What the person upstairs said makes some sense. Maybe the old emperor really held such an idea.】

——【I still have some things I don't understand. What were those guys in the Qing Dynasty thinking? Crib notes on clothes—are they going to take off their clothes in public in the examination room?】

——【Uh, that's true. There are people watching in front. Even if they take a nap by accident, your action of taking off your clothes will instantly attract their attention.】

——【Are the people upstairs stupid? Even if there is someone monitoring in front, you don't have to write it at that time. Monitoring can't be done all the time. They can take advantage of when no one is monitoring... Also, they can bribe with money. People who can cheat are probably rich or expensive, with a little money.】

339. The imperial hat on the emperor's head? Which emperor is this!

Fang Yang drank several mouthfuls of water while watching the people in the livestream discussing.

Perhaps from ancient times to the present, there has been a lot of common language about cheating in exams, no matter from which aspect you look at it.

Either they have done similar things themselves, or they have witnessed others cheating with their own eyes.

"If a cheater in an exam is caught, they are first put in a 50-jin cangue for a month, then exiled to the frontier, and more serious ones might be directly 'crack' executed."

"As for the extermination of nine generations or three generations mentioned in the livestream earlier, it didn't reach that level."

Fang Yang ended here.

And over there, Mr. and Ms. Bai had already sent people to the tent set up nearby, intending to copy down all the content inside that cheating shirt.

Mr. and Ms. Bai didn't avoid Fang Yang when saying these things, and even enthusiastically invited Fang Yang to the tent.

Fang Yang raised his hand and rubbed his nose.

He didn't answer the other party's words, but suddenly said: "Can I go over there and take a look?"

The expressions on Mr. and Ms. Bai's faces changed again immediately.

They originally thought that digging up this Qing Dynasty cheating shirt was already very good, but they didn't expect that the other party would have new discoveries. It was simply incredible.

"Fang Yang, you are really great."

"Yes, you are not only great, but also very amazing."

When this couple said these words, their tone sounded exceptionally serious.