The twists and turns in the process of Xiao Ping'an's birth made Wan Yankang fall into deep thought.

Caesarean section, a production method widely used in later generations, was unheard of in this era, and it was difficult for a broad-minded person like Huang Yaoshi to accept it.

What about other major reforms, and how should they be implemented?

Although Shang Ying's reform was successful, it also paid the price of his life.

Wang Anshi changed the law and changed the weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty. However, with the death of Song Shenzong, almost all of the original new laws were abolished, and he died the following year.

All major reforms are easiest to implement when a new dynasty is established. Otherwise, once the class is solidified, any change will be made, and the cake of the vested interests will be touched.

Taking away someone's money is like killing one's parents. After Yan Kang's purge of the bureaucrats in the capital and the confiscation of many officials' floating wealth, he has completely offended the old forces. If it weren't for the fact that he was too strong militarily, others would not dare to disagree, but they were afraid that there would already be an undercurrent in the city.

Since he ascended the throne, a big problem has begun to arise in the DPRK and China, there are not enough officials!

With the reform and reform of the bureaucratic system in the DPRK and China, the original number of officials was overthrown. The remaining two percent of the officials, in Wan Yankang's opinion, are also too much to use.

At present, what Wanyankang actually controls is only the central capital and the areas north of it. With Wu Shiman and others going south to fight and win successes, it can be predicted that in the near future, after the unification of Dajin, there will be a shortage of officials throughout the country.

The imperial examination has become imperative.

Dajin's original imperial examination system, in Wan Yankang's view, was more reasonable than that of the Song State. In the first year of Jin Zhangzong's Ming Dynasty, the examination questions were expanded from the Four Books and Five Classics to Xun, Yang, Mo, Laozi and other scriptures and history, which promoted candidates to read extensively, broadened their horizons, and put forward higher requirements for candidates.

Moreover, a special examination item - bow and arrow test has also been added to the Jin Guoke examination system. It's just that this kind of bow and arrow test is not too difficult, and you only need to pass two out of ten.

Of course, this bow and arrow test can be regarded as a headache for those weak scholars who only know how to read to the death and have no power to restrain the chicken. Some people are not even satisfied with the soft bow, let alone two out of ten.

Yunwen Yunwu is the way to select talents, and Wanyan Kang has a high evaluation of the original imperial examination system of the Jin State. But according to his requirements, the original method is still not enough.

King Zhou elected officials and required students to know the six arts: etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics. Wan Yankang studied the ancient strategy of selecting officials when he was a teenager, and he praised it. Now that he has ascended the throne as emperor, after some careful consideration, and after discussing with Xu Daosheng and other important ministers, it was decided to change the future imperial examination to four.

Calligraphy, law, number, body.

The calligrapher still follows the original Jin Guo's method of literary examination, and the difficulty of the questions is a little lower than before, which is not difficult for Daikin candidates at all.

The law requires candidates to be familiar with the new law and be able to solve the problem with it. As far as the ministers of the DPRK and China are concerned, Wan Yankang's request was originally the proper meaning of the question. After Yan Kang ascended the throne, he Jianyuan innovated, took the initiative to curb the imperial power, and proposed to govern the country according to law.

It is strange that such kings do not make the law a subject of selection.

Counting requires candidates to at least be able to plan and understand the accounts. As far as Wan Yankang is concerned, the officials elected in the future do not want everyone to be outstanding, at least everyone has the basic quality of being able to write and calculate, and will not be deceived by businessmen. The kind of nerd who can only drop his bookbag and is full of mouths, the new dynasty will never need it.

For the physical fitness, the candidate's physical fitness is required to be able to meet the standard. The test items are divided into four items: long-distance running, riding, strength, and bow and arrow. Candidates can:

Among these four items, three of them will be examined, and those who fail to pass will not be admitted to the official position, no matter how excellent the other three results are.

For the physical examination, the degree of attention paid to Wanyankang is incomparable.

The scholars and doctors of the Jin and Song dynasties were acceptable, and there were many people who were allowed to be civil and martial. After arriving in the Ming and Qing dynasties, civil officials were all white-faced scholars, and those with strong bodies were really rare.

In his previous life, Wan Yankang saw countless children, who had been buried in the sea of books since childhood, and spent countless amounts of tutoring, but neglected physical exercise. It is not uncommon to have the news of sudden death on the ground after running a long distance in the entrance physical test, which really shocked Wan Yankang.

Grandpa Mao said: Civilization is its spirit, barbarism is its body. That's right. If you want to civilize its spirit, you must first barbarize its body; If Gou barbarizes his body, the spirit of civilization will follow. Wan Yankang deeply agrees with this view of a generation of great men. And he has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and it has been more than a dozen spring and autumn seasons, and there is no need to say much about the benefits of it.

The reform of the examination program has not had a big impact on the government and the opposition, but the other two regulations have had a huge impact.

First of all, the new regulations regulate the age of the examination, limiting the reference personnel to 15 years old and up to 30, and those who have not reached the age or are over-aged.

Second, the new regulations limit the scope of office, and the talents obtained by the imperial examination in all dynasties and dynasties are awarded official positions based on the ranking of the examination.

You can be awarded an official if you raise someone, but most of them can only start from the nine-rank official, and it is extremely difficult to be promoted.

After the Jinshi examination, it was divided into three categories because of the palace examination: dozens of people in the top three, who were born in the same Jinshi, and were awarded the lowest eight grades, and with a little operation, they could start from the seventh-grade officials; There are about ten people in the second grade, who are born as jinshi, and the minimum rank of the official is seven grades, and there are also those who can reach the sixth grade; The first three people, respectively, are the champion, the list eye, and the flower, and the minimum number of officials is six grades, and it is not uncommon to get five grades.

Such a system of conferring officials has formed a naked chain of contempt. Jinshi looked down on Juren because Juren was born with a low starting point, and there was almost no possibility of rising to a high-ranking official. The first-class ones are naturally superior in front of the second-class and third-class jinshi, and the second-class ones are called jinshi, so they naturally despise the word "same" of the third-class and jinshi.

But for one term as an official and for the benefit of one party, is it really a good official who can do well in the imperial examination?

What's more, the palace examination of Jinshi is all about poetry and songs.

If you do poetry well, you can be a good official?

If this is the case, Li Bai, a poet immortal, should be the first virtuous minister in China throughout the ages!

In this regard, after careful consideration, Yan Kang set a new rule: from now on, there is no need for heavy selection in the imperial examination, and only those who meet the examination standards can be appointed. All those who are willing to go to the post will start from the Jiupin official and have a one-year internship period. After one year, those who choose the best ones will be promoted to the eighth and seventh grades, and those who are ordinary will be retained, and the inferior ones will be eliminated, and they will not be allowed to participate in the imperial examination again for life.

There was considerable controversy among the courtiers about these two regulations, and the two most objectionable were the following: the age limit for the examination was so strict that it was afraid that many people who would like to serve the country would be turned away; Ten years of hard study, the good and the bad are only awarded the ninth grade official, but I am afraid that many well-educated people will find it difficult to accept.

In response to the previous objection, Wan Yankang felt that there was some reason, so he made a slight adjustment to the conditions for the age of the examination, and within three years of the first scientific examination, the upper age limit was relaxed to 35 years old, and after three years, the upper age limit was still 30 years old.

Those who waited for ten years to be cold and only for the middle lift, and the gray hair was still a reference to themselves, but they were not the officials Wanyankang wanted.

As for the latter objection, Wan Yankang dismissed it in one sentence: It is a mule or a horse, take it out and slip away, if you are really a well-educated person, you are really a promising person, what are you afraid of

Flat competition!

Regarding the latter objection, the old people who followed Yan Kang did not have much opinion. When the White Horse City was established, it has always implemented the idea of the capable going up and the inferior going down, which has formed a strong army in the world that is now invincible and invincible. The same line of thinking, applied to the selection of officials, is bound to be effective.

Only when a group of desirable officials take office and fill the court with fresh blood can they bring vitality to Daikin and effectively implement Wanyankang's new law and new policy.

For the structure of officials' salaries, Wan Yankang has also made great adjustments. He ensured the basic income, food, clothing, housing, and other welfare benefits of low-level officials, and ensured that low-level officials would not take the initiative to become corrupt because of basic living problems.

In comparison, the treatment of Jiupin officials is almost three times that of the original. The income gap between officials at all levels has been reduced accordingly.

As a result, after a simple calculation, the annual salary of officials in the court has nearly doubled compared with the past, and the new head of the household department, Yelu Yunbo, expressed great concern about this.

Wan Yankang slapped his big hand: "We still have tens of millions of taels of silver in the treasury, and I'm afraid that we can't afford to pay the officials!" ”

"And if the deposit runs out?"

"In the future, the country and the people will be safe, and the taxes will increase naturally, how can it not be enough for the imperial court!"

The emperor said that in the future, the country and the people will be safe, and the courtiers will not be able to disagree on this, Yelu Yunbo gritted his teeth and stopped his mouth. The salaries of low-level officials have risen a lot, and the salaries of high-ranking officials have also been raised to some extent. At that time, if the money and food are really short, I will also ask the emperor for it, and I will never let my household Shangshu lay eggs.

The discussion and improvement of the new rules for the imperial examination were finally introduced, but it took half a month. The new regulations must be issued, and Wan Yankang ordered that the new law of innovation and the new regulations for the imperial examination be printed and distributed throughout the country, so that students from the north and south can prepare early, and after planting in the spring of next year, the first scientific examination will be held.

As soon as the new regulations were issued, there were a few joys and a few sorrows.

"Brother Li, you are still gnawing on books here, hurry up and follow me to run and practice your strength, otherwise no matter how well you read, it will be in vain!"

After running for a while, the student surnamed Li stopped, gasped for breath for a while, supported his knees with his hands, and complained: "Brother Zhang, how can you say that our majesty, how can you toss like this?" ”

"Brother Li, be cautious!"

"What are you afraid of, it has been said in the new law that you will not be punished for your words, and for a while, I haven't seen anyone arrested for talking about government politics."

"It's up to you, anyway, I think that Your Majesty's various measures are the image of the Holy Monarch of the ages. Brother Li, I won't tell you, you see how energetic I am running these days, and the Chunlan girl in Yihong Courtyard looks at me differently! The student surnamed Zhang had a smile on his face that all men understand.

"Then let's run again!"

……

"Shopkeeper, you should quickly teach me how to use this abacus."

"Oh, little master, what are you doing with this thing?"

"You old thing, you don't know the changes of time at all, if your young master doesn't learn abacus, he can only inherit this tattered family business in the future, and wait for death!"

"Oh, little master, our Huang family is a century-old family, how can you say that!"

"Fart, fart, the Song family, the Yelu family, the Chu family, which one is not more than my family's field house, everyone wants to go to the scientific examination. Forget it, tell you that you don't understand, you don't teach! ”

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"Young master, teach and teach, you want to learn this, I can still teach it."

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