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Chapter 987: The New Imperial Examination System

The morning sun shines, and the sky is full of morning glow. There are many people staying at the entire Chang'an City, including vendors pushing carts, woodcutters who want to go out to farm, some yamen runners who want to work in departments, and some tiles are also waiting for work, which makes the capital city lively early in the morning.

On this day, it was the turn of the court meeting every three days. Luo Zhaoyun and civil and military ministers gathered in the Diligence Hall to discuss the affairs of civil and military affairs.

The main focus is just a few points: improving the format of the laws issued by the dynasty, completely replacing the laws of the Sui Dynasty, etc. Secondly, whether the county and county system should be abolished, the prefecture and county level should be mainly based on the prefecture and county level. However, many states need to set up a road to establish a road science admiral and supervise prefecture and county level. There are also tax issues and a lot of land measurement issues.

Luo Zhaoyun discovered that there was no need to let everyone discuss everything in the court, because there were too many people, it was difficult to make a decision. Everyone had ideas, one sentence in the east and another sentence in the west, and some officials had conflicts. Although party disputes had not yet formed, if an official who had personal grudges raised his point of view, regardless of whether he was correct or not, he would definitely oppose and deliberately undermine the situation.

Therefore, in the court, civil and military officials gathered together to take into account all interests. The king needs to know how to balance and restrain the means, which cannot be done in just one charity.

Politics has always been exchange and compromise.

Pay some things, get rewards, earn greater benefits, balance the relationships between all parties, and work together to operate the state machine of the imperial court.

Luo Zhaoyun listened to the ministers' discussions and expressed his opinions, thinking silently in his heart that in the future, the main responsible officials of the three provinces and six ministries should be anxious to make important decisions, and the main responsible officials of the three provinces and six ministries should be in the same court as the Political Affairs Hall, to participate in the political affairs, and make joint decisions, and then take them to the court to go through the consular process. Without major problems, he decided to implement them.

At this time, Du Ruhui, the Minister of Personnel, and the bachelor of the Juzheng Hall of the Hanlin Academy, stood up and bowed: "Your Majesty, after this year's spring examination, there were 45 Jinshi who passed the exam, and have been registered with the Ministry of Personnel for more than a month to study the new policy. They can make up for the actual absent, or serve as officials in the capital, or issue local officials in prefectures and counties. The list and position have been drafted by the Ministry of Personnel. Your Majesty is requested to review it."

Luo Zhaoyun nodded slightly, nodded to the eunuch general manager, and the list was submitted.

He quickly glanced at the list and found that half of the students who passed the Jinshi came from poor families and half from noble families, and the proportions were not much different. Although there were many poor people in the country, since there was no movable type printing technology and paper was expensive these days, students from poor families might not even be able to get all the books of the philosophers during the war, let alone reviewing them in place.

The noble children of the aristocratic families were taught by private schools, and most of them entered Tai Academy to study, master current affairs, and came into contact with many views of the upper class, with a broad vision, so they could still gain many advantages in the exam.

In terms of official positions, most of the children of poor families are left out of the capital, and the children of nobles are kept in the capital. Although it is in line with your current situation, it is not conducive to suppressing the forces of aristocratic families in the long run. The scholars and rising stars in the capital are mostly related to nobles from origin, which is not what Luo Zhaoyun wants to see.

"Well, from the top ten, three Jinshi from other places were left behind, stayed in the capital, entered the Hanlin Academy as editor, and learned about the court rules and the new political decrees, and then used them in the future. There is no doubt about other things." Luo Zhaoyun did not make major adjustments, because this was the first imperial examination in Dahua, and neither the formality nor the number of people nor the examination contents had reached his satisfaction, so there was no need to pinpoint them in detail.

"I understand." Du Ruhui bowed and returned to the civil servant Shangshu train.

After Luo Zhaoyun swept over the officials in the hall, he looked at Wen Yanbo, the Minister of Rites, and asked: "State Wen, has the new imperial examination system I have written last time been drafted?"

Wen Yanbo was named by the emperor and immediately stood up and bowed: "Your Majesty, it has been basically formulated. According to the sacred intentions that Your Majesty had given before his expedition, the new imperial examination system broke the convention of the previous dynasty and expanded the enrollment ratio. At the same time, the examinations were divided into three levels: the provincial examination, the imperial examination, and the palace examination. Before the provincial examination, retail scholars and students from each county town held a survey examination, which was also a basic examination. Those who passed the line were called scholars and were qualified for further examinations. Then scholars from each county town and the county town gathered in the county town and the county town to take the examination. This was the provincial examination, which was scheduled for August every year, and was also called "Autumn Examination". Those who passed the examination were juren.

"Journalists from all over the country need to go to Beijing to take the exam again. The court established a tribute college for the main examination. In February of the spring, those who pass the tribute can be called tribute scholars. Finally, all tribute scholars will conduct a final exam in front of the hall to compete for the final ranking. The court will place the third-ranked ranking, the first-ranked ranking, the third-ranked ranking, the second-ranked ranking, and the second-ranked ranking, and the seventeenth-ranked ranking, and the third-ranked ranking, and the third-ranked ranking, and the 80th-ranked ranking, and the same jinshi were given. A total of 100 candidates were selected. At that time, your Majesty and the Ministry of Personnel can appoint official positions based on their ranking, personality, and abilities!"

The civil and military officials of the court were a little puzzled when they heard these new rules, and they seemed to have never heard of them before.

What are the top scorers, second scorers, Tanhua, what are the top scorers, Jinshi and so on, and the number of people has also increased a lot, but the name of scholar seems to have been reduced, and the identity of Juren and Gongshi has increased.

However, it seems to be more rigorous and complicated, and it pays more attention to the imperial examinations of the previous dynasty, expanding the candidates for scholars.

"Very good!" Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and others kept nodding, acknowledging this system, and other court officials did not raise questions.

When the Han Dynasty used the system of recommendation and recommendation, the folk talents elected by various states were called "scholars". In the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to avoid the taboo of Emperor Guangwu of Han, Liu Xiu, the scholar was renamed Maocai. Maocai was mainly used to select talents and supernatural talents, so it was usually called "Maocai Yi" or "Maocai Yi". The scholar was originally a special election, but in the late Western Han Dynasty, it was elected as a governor, and thus formed a system of raising scholars in the state and filial and honest people in the county.

In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui was the pioneer of the imperial examination system in China. He felt that the recommendation system since the Han Dynasty had disadvantages and was prone to burying real talents. Therefore, he abolished the recommendation system, reformed the imperial examination system, and selected outstanding talents by exams. Because the examinations were extremely strict and the standards were high, there were only ten scholars who passed the Jinshi level in the Sui Dynasty, but this fully reflected the Confucianism of "learning and being good at being an official", which was considered a historic progress.

In "The Northern History: Biography of Du Zhengxuan", the difficulty of "strategy theory" was recorded at that time. The examiner took Du Zhengxuan's "strategy theory" to the prime minister Yang Su. Yang Su questioned: "Even if Duke Zhou and Confucius were reincarnated, he could not pass the scholar. How could you recommend someone privately?" Later, after Yang Su personally evaluated, he sighed: "I am not as good as this true scholar!"

However, after Emperor Yang of Sui, he only held a few imperial examination systems at the beginning of the Daye Year. Later, as his ambitions expanded, he went around to the north and south, which led to the stranded imperial examination work, especially the three campaigns of Goguryeo, the chaos in the world, etc., which made the imperial examination system cut off for several years and had no time to take care of it.

Now, Luo Zhaoyun combines the imperial examination system of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties to take the essence, remove the dross, and introduces scholars, juren, tribute scholars, three-year top scholars to this era, making it easier to understand, and at the same time, increasing the quota year by year, adding to the official team, breaking the monopoly position of the aristocrats in the official career.
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