Emperor Yang Guang of Sui has been considering how to restrain the Guanlong nobles, suppress the strength of the old family, and strengthen centralization, because in the past two or three hundred years of history, too many dynasties have changed, vassal kings have caused chaos, family separatist rule, and threaten imperial power. If Yang Guang wants long-term stability in the Sui Dynasty, he must solve the problems of the aristocratic families.

This is a problem with the foundation of the country. If it is not handled properly, it is easy to damage the foundation and the dynasty collapses and you should not advance rashly.

However, Emperor Yang of Sui was precisely a person who was eager for success and profit. He had the domineering spirit of overcoming the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and the power of Qin Shihuang, and became the domineering emperor forever. However, after all, the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty was achieved by his brother. He could not get the name of founding the country, but he wanted to achieve great achievements, dominate the world, and reappear with the prosperous era of ancient saints and barbarians from all directions.

However, the aristocratic families seriously restricted him and even endangered his power and rule. His father won the Northern Zhou Dynasty by the autocratic power of his relatives. Emperor Yang of Sui did not want these eight major families to threaten his rule.

Emperor Yang of Sui thought of winning over poor families, promoting poor scholars, balancing the family and differentiating the power of nobles, but in this way, he didn't know where to start.

At this time, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui asked Luo Zhaoyun, who was quite ill and anxious to seek medical treatment, mixed with temptations and unintentional actions. In short, Emperor Yang of Sui was a person with a changeable temperament and strange nature. Sometimes his ideas could not be guessed according to common sense.

Luo Zhaoyun hesitated for a moment, seeing that there were no outsiders in the palace, but he was still reserved. After all, if he said something that was not conducive to the family, he was worried that he would offend the family. In the future, he would be unable to move in the court.

Yang Guangcheng Mansion was also quite deep, otherwise he would not have successfully defeated the prince in the fight for the throne. He saw Luo Zhaoyun's hesitation, ignored the village in his heart, waved his hand, and asked all the palace maids and guards to withdraw from the room, leaving only Queen Xiao and the little princess, and a few guards, all standing in the corner. If you speak in a low voice, you may not be able to hear it.

Luo Zhaoyun felt relieved and replied: "I think that we should open up the road to imperial examinations and select talents to give poor families a certain opportunity to obtain an official position."

In fact, the ancient Chinese imperial examination system originated in the Sui Dynasty. After the Sui Dynasty unified the country, Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty wanted to adapt to the changes in feudal economic and political relations, to expand the requirements of the feudal ruling class to participate in the regime and strengthen centralization, so he brought the power to select officials to the central government and replaced the nine-rank Zhongzheng system with the imperial examination system.

According to historical records, in the first month of the third year of Kaihuang, Emperor Wen of Sui issued an edict to elect "virtuous and virtuous". In July of the 18th year of Kaihuang, he ordered the capital officials to be above the fifth rank, the general manager and the governor, to be the two imperial examination candidates with "ambition, practice, cultivation and deliberateness" and "clear and pacific". However, these juren were all in a formal way, and the final recommendation was definitely related to the households and had little to do with the poor.

Yang Guang said suspiciously: "Selecting people in the imperial examination? In this regard, I have long considered it, and planned to set up ten imperial examination candidates, including 'filial piety and brotherhood,' honest virtue,' "commonness, clean conduct,' "strong and upright",' "scientific academic performance". He also ordered all counties to broaden the channels and assessments for the selection of juren,' such as 'proficiency, good talent, and strong ethics', and so on. However, in execution, it is inevitable that they will be controlled by the clans."

After hearing this, Luo Zhaoyun understood that what Yang Guang said was the Juren system implemented in the Sui Dynasty, but the method of temporarily recruiting people has not yet formed a system, but the characteristics of the imperial examination were divided into the prototype of the imperial examination system. In the middle of the great work, before the Liaodong, Emperor Yang of Sui also set up the Ming Jing and Jinshi, and used the "test strategy" to get rid of the scholars, which marked the birth of the imperial examination system, but that was all, and it was not really implemented.

Because after the attack on Liaodong, the imperial examination was abandoned. The third attack on Liaodong failed. The world was besieged and the princes rose up. Yang Guang hid in Jiangdu. The north was almost in chaos. Before the imperial examination was implemented, it died. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that the imperial examination system was truly implemented.

However, if you think that the Tang Dynasty imperial examination has a great impact on the country, it would be wrong, because in the Tang Dynasty, there were too few places to receive scholars. One scientific examination was once every three years, and only twenty people were admitted in total. In the end, they all became officials such as the Hanlin Academy. Like Li Bai, they could not get real official positions with real power and had little impact on the government.

Only in the Song Dynasty did the imperial examinations be the main way. In order to win over poor scholars and prevent these literati from causing trouble, Zhao Kuangyin could firmly support the leadership of the court. Therefore, the imperial examinations were more comprehensive and the number of people was selected. The disciples of the Song Dynasty had the most sects and the most sected school-parties and the best reading atmosphere.

Luo Zhaoyun said, "What I said about the imperial examination is not the traditional meaning of juren and selection management. However, through a fairer way, everyone can enter the court with their true talents and knowledge under the supervision of the emperor, and they will directly become His Majesty's people. If they pass the assessment of the family, they will definitely be loyal to His Majesty."

Yang Guang's eyes lit up, and he showed a look of surprise. Even Queen Xiao and the little princess were surprised after hearing this. I wonder what he could do?

"What exactly can you skip the control of the clan and even let me supervise it personally?"

"take an exam!"

"Exam?" Yang Guang was stunned and a little confused.

Luo Zhaoyun excitedly said: "It is not the imperial examination that passes the superficial abilities, integrity, virtue, etc., and subjective assessments, but allows the young masters of poor families and nobles to conduct the imperial examination after studying. They can be divided into articles, country governing papers, military military arts, architectural arithmetic papers, etc., and can be divided into subjects to select scholars. Not only can they choose some scholars who are proficient in Confucianism and good at writing lyrics and fu, but they can also select officials who are proficient in national governance theory, military generals who understand military arts, and people who are proficient in architecture, arithmetic, and craftsmen."

After hearing this, Yang Guang's expression changed, and then said hilariously: "Haha, I mentioned this idea again. Can you write by relying on the answer sheet? This can avoid some clans' intervention, but how do you talk about buildings, craftsmen and others are qualified to participate in this imperial examination? It's ridiculous!"

Emperor Yang of Sui praised and criticized Luo Zhaoyun's suggestions, some thoughts were feasible, and some thoughts were fantastic.

Luo Zhaoyun sighed in his heart that the hierarchy concepts of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were too deep in this era. Even the emperor himself felt that it was natural, let alone those nobles and people.

"In this way, can the scholars really rise and enter the court?" Yang Guang had to ask.
Chapter completed!