Selecting young officials is Zhao Zhen's favorite thing to do.

In the appointment of officials, he especially likes young people, because in his opinion, young people do not have so many interests to calculate, young people are not easy to be reluctant, young people do not want to be confused, insensitive, and get by!

Zhao Zhen personally gave hope to scholars, improved the education system, perfected the imperial examination system, and gave young people the opportunity to sharpen, and in the same way, Zhao Zhen was also rewarded, and a large number of young and talented ministers emerged in the court.

This year is the year of the imperial examination, since the imperial examination has become the rule, this kind of public examination, the examination system of taking scholars regardless of family background has become the mainstream of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the past, the Shiqing Shilu and the inspection system were based on family background to determine whether a person could be an official. There is no need to recommend the imperial examination, so there is no need to be recommended by the local government to be an official, and there are few restrictions on the qualifications for the imperial examination, and most adult men among the people of the Great Song Dynasty can come to participate in the imperial examination.

Moreover, the imperial examination is still an opportunity to ascend to the sky in one step, from the white body to the official body, the difference between the two can be described as the difference between heaven and earth, and the people often compare the middle examination to the dragon gate, and even all the auspicious words are piled up.

Yesterday, Zhao Zhen found Ouyang Xiu's sparseness when he reviewed the sparseness, and at the same time, there was also the sparseness of the Ministry of Rites.

In his opinion, obscure words should not be advocated at all, and why can't the same meaning be replaced by simple words, so as to increase the efficiency of the imperial court.

At the same time, Ouyang Xiu attaches great importance to the application of essays, in his opinion, no matter how well the article is written, it is not as good as a good strategy, because the strategy is an important channel to examine the ability of students, and the article is only cultural literacy and artistic accomplishment, which cannot be of much help to being an official.

Of course, the article has another very important role, which is to examine the character of the lifter.

In the imperial examination, Ouyang Xiu's idea coincides with Zhao Zhen's, the imperial examination should be a test to examine the student's ability, whether the article is well written, can also reflect the student's ability, insight and expression, etc.

The policy theory is more intuitive, the policy is to discuss the current affairs and give advice to the imperial court, whether there is governance talent can be seen at a glance, when the judgment is made, the talent is outstanding and those mediocre are instantly separated.

Therefore, Ouyang Xiu suggested that this year's imperial examination should be based on strategy, supplemented by articles, and poetry for the purpose of observing character and conduct. Feng Zheng invited and examined the strategy, and did not focus on poetry as the advance and retreat. The same is true for today's ministers, everything is based on Cheng Wen to stay, to distinguish the high and low with strategy, and to check the character with poetry, which should be a great good! ”

Zhao Zhen naturally agrees with such words, Ouyang Xiushen's own mind, and the implementation of a plain style, Zhao Zhen has long liked him, Zhao Zhen has also seen the twists and turns of the Taixue style, there are many rare words, but the meaning is very simple, it is completely a waste of his time to review the folds, wouldn't it be better to be concise and concise? !

Zhao Zhen took the pen and wrote the words on the blank paper: "Ouyang Xiu, a bachelor of Hanlin, is the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites, and the imperial examination system is all the rules, and the public examination must not be abolished...... Give a scarlet robe and a purple belt. ”

For Ouyang Xiu, Zhao Zhen has full trust and grasp, his talent and ability are fully capable of taking on the position of examiner, and more importantly, Zhao Zhen needs to change the style of the Great Song Dynasty, plain style, accessible and easy, so that people can see it at a glance, so that the article can be regarded as an article.

Otherwise, an article is written in ancient arcane and difficult to understand, in fact, it is an awkward and rare words are used too much, and the combination makes people feel uncomfortable, and there is no meaning at all, if you have to argue strongly, that is, the author is showing off his so-called "knowledge" in front of others.

Zhao Zhen, as the emperor, has seen such a useless Taixue style several times, every time he sees this kind of rare character article, Zhao Zhen has to let Sancai go to search for ancient books, and I don't know how these people find these rare words from the mountain of words in the sea of words, and what's even worse is that Zhao Zhen, as the emperor, can't not know it......

Zhao Zhen believes that if Ouyang Xiu is used as the chief examiner of the spring, he will be able to sweep away all the tricks and tricks, and severely punish those who play with rare words and take them as Tao!

"Send it to the Hanlin Decree Office, and prepare a holy decree to be sent to the court."

Sancai respectfully took the words on the text and walked quickly towards the Imperial Medicine Academy, in fact, the imperial palace in Beijing City is similar to that in Tokyo City, but the scale is more grandiose and there are more palaces, but those basic places are still there, the Imperial Medicine Academy, the Inner Servant Province, the East Palace of the Prince, the Main Palace, and so on, these have not changed.

Similarly, when Zhao Zhen opened the recital of the Ministry of Rites, he also said that it was a matter of the imperial examination, but compared to Ouyang Xiu who went directly to the Taixue style, the recital of the Ministry of Rites should be much more careful, and Yang Guoan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, trembled and wrote the words "style of writing" on the recital.

This is the expression of his dissatisfaction with Taixue, Zhao Zhen smiled slightly bitterly, Yang Guoan is honest, always unwilling to offend or criticize people, and even Tai students are unwilling to criticize, now it seems that he is really "self-denial and revenge" as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites.

But he wrote a very important paragraph in his recital, or Zhao Zhen paid great attention to it.

Yang Guoan proposed that Gewu should officially enter the Great Song Dynasty imperial examination system, and the article wrote in detail the convenience and progress brought by Gewu to the Great Song Dynasty, and even some of the content and examples were personally investigated by him.

This is an honest person doing honest things, Zhao Zhen didn't know what to say to Yang Guoan, he was angry with his "cowardice", he always didn't want to offend, he didn't want to offend, and in the end he made himself look like a peacemaker.

If Zhao Zhen hadn't seen that he was unwilling to stand in line and intersect with irrelevant people, Zhao Zhen would never give him such a high position as the Ministry of Rites.

The Ministry of Rites examines the use of auspicious, jia, military, guest, and fierce five rites, and all need to be safe people.

Yang Guoan is the best choice in Zhao Zhen's heart, the peacemaker in today's court, but he has the quality of meticulousness and meticulousness, and everyone knows that he is a good man, so no one will win him over, but it makes him much quieter, so he has more time to deal with problems.

Yang Guoan considered the question of whether Gewu should be included in the imperial examination, rather than a single subject, and finally he proposed it to Zhao Zhen.

In the recital, Yang Guoan listed in detail the reasons why Gewu was admitted to Jinshike, he was worried that Gewu would become an existence that everyone did not want to take the test like Mingjingke, or Mingzi, Mingshu and two subjects, and everyone rushed to Jinshike, so wouldn't Gewu be abandoned?

If you can turn Gewu into a policy or a poem, then no matter who you are, whether you like Gewu or not, you must learn a thing or two before participating in the imperial examination, so as not to know anything about it.

Zhao Zhen finished reading Yang Guoan's Shangshu in one go, and after gently putting down the song, he picked up the tea and drank it all, this is simply half of his Zhao Zhen's confidant!

I didn't expect that he, Yang Guoan, would have such an auxiliary talent, and such a vision was obviously ahead of ordinary courtiers...... Zhao Zhen calmed down a little, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of Ouyang Xiu's main examination this time, and take advantage of the opportunity of Yang Guoan's sparseness, to completely set the Gewu subject as one of the Great Song Jinshi Sects!