I Won't Fall for That

No one who has completed junior high school would write in their profile that Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan during the Zhengde era.

Emperor Wuzong of Ming died more than ten years before Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born. How dare you write a historical novel like this?!

That imperial examination paper was so terrible it was discouraging. It bombarded the candidates with definitions nobody knew, leaving them speechless while the examiners smugly gloated… If you really wanted to test scientific rigor, you should at least provide the definitions and then assess their ability to expand on them.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was during the Wanli era, right?

Chapter Four: Forced Expulsion! Terms like "Silk Road" and "Chemistry" were coined by modern people; are they trying to put these into an exam for the ancients?

I have no idea what the author is writing about. I only saw the chapter where the author is going to pose a quiz. Starting with a fill-in-the-blank question asking people from the Ming Dynasty about the three oxides of iron. What was the author thinking?

At that time, the only enemy of the Ming Dynasty was the grasslands. Other countries dared not challenge the Ming Dynasty.

I couldn't finish the second chapter. You think he's a middle school student who could write hundreds of thousands of words? You think he's an adult who went to the Ming Dynasty to write a perfect exam? And with oxides?! Forget the Ming Dynasty, even a random foreigner today might not be able to answer that correctly. I died of poisoning on February 13, 2022 at 23:02.

The ministers and eunuchs all thought the emperor had gone mad. After several dynasties, the imperial examinations had only ever included subjects like Japan, England, and chemistry. This was extinguishing the roots of scholarship! Wasn't he afraid of euthanasia?

Zhengde was born in 1491. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in 1537, and by 1590, when he had unified Japan, Zhengde was already over 100 years old.