Chapter 189: The Imperial Examination
However, after handing over the edict of the Son of Heaven to Ji Di, the messenger said: "Your Majesty still has a summons to come out, and I want you to enter the palace and go."
Hearing this, Ji Di naturally immediately followed the confessor into the palace to see the Son of Heaven.
Outside the Qilin Palace, after the Wang Cheng passed, he entered the palace and left.
As soon as he saw Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, Ji Di immediately saluted and said: "Minister Ji Di greets Your Majesty."
And Liu Qihe, the son of heaven, said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few years, Ji Qing is fine."
The Son of Heaven asked, and Ji Di replied with tears in his eyes: "The minister should not worry about His Majesty!" ”。
"I heard Liu Rongyan yesterday that Qing came to Chang'an, so I ordered someone to summon Qing to the palace."
In this way, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, talked with Ji Di for nearly half an hour before he left.
Just when he was about to get up and leave, Liu Qi also said: "Wangqing is beside Liu Rong, you can persuade him to be virtuous."
"Obey orders!" After speaking, Ji Di turned around and left.
However, Ji Di did not return to his mansion, but went straight to Liu Rongzhi's bedroom.
As early as the last time Ji Di came to his palace, Liu Rong gave him a piece of his talisman to facilitate his coming to the palace.
However, at this time, Liu Rong was writing hard in the palace, and when he heard the king's voice say that Ji Di was coming, Liu Rong immediately put down the pen in his hand and said: "Order him to come in."
"No!".
However, after a while, Ji Di followed Wang Sheng into Liu Rongzhi's bedroom.
As soon as he saw Ji Di, Liu Rong said, "What is the matter with Ji Qing?" ”。
"The minister is here to thank His Highness for his kindness."
"Thank you".
Hearing this, Ji Didang even bowed down and saluted: "Today, Your Majesty summoned the ministers into the palace, and the ministers knew that it was because of the recommendation of His Royal Highness that the ministers could become officials."
As soon as these words came out, Liu Rong realized that it was his father who summoned Ji Di.
However, when he saw Ji Di a few times ago, although he should come down to be Liu Rongzhi's staff and minister, he must still have doubts in his heart, and at this time, it seems that he has returned to his heart......
And Liu Rong said in his heart: Daddy can make it like this in just a few words, it seems that I am still too tender compared to my father.
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However, after finishing the affairs of his subordinates, Liu Rong naturally wanted to start doing his own business.
Liu Rong thought about it and found that although he had almost won the battle for the heir at this time.
But Liu Rong found that he seemed to have no dreams of taking political achievements at all.
If you want to be a suitable heir to the Han family, how can you be a prince who has no achievements.
Then Liu Rong began to think in his heart about what he had planned to do.
In the end, Liu Rong thought of something that he had sworn to Shangcang to do before-the imperial examination.
The implementation of the imperial examination in the pre-Western Han dynasty was much simpler than that in the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Since the beginning of the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial court no longer had the ability to restrain the rise of local rich and powerful, so that it developed into a behemoth.
Especially after the emergence of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, the upper strata of the entire society was completely monopolized by those wealthy families who were so-called heirlooms of poetry and books.
Therefore, the implementation of the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang dynasties was to take food from the mouths of these wealthy families and share their cakes.
How could they be willing?
The family united to fight with the imperial court, but the imperial court was not dominant at all.
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty is a living example, in order to get rid of the family's control over the imperial court, he first moved his capital from Guanzhong, the base camp of the wealthy family, to Luoyang, which is far away from the wealthy family.
Later, these families were completely forced to be anxious, and they came up with a way to hurt the enemy by one thousand and damage eight hundred.
To consume the power of these families in the way of war, although Yang Guang is also extremely smart, he thinks that he can get the people of the world in the palm of his hand.
But after the three expeditions to Goryeo, the family has not been dragged to death, and the Sui Dynasty, which was originally strong, was dragged down first.
In this way, this eloquent emperor lost completely in the confrontation with the family, not only ruining the national fortune of the Sui Dynasty, but also saddling himself with infamy through the ages..................
However, at this time, the implementation of the imperial examination by the Han family will not only not be opposed by the upper strata of society, but may also be extremely supportive of the upper strata of society.
First, at this time, those so-called wealthy families were still only in the embryonic stage, and they had no social status at all except for being rich.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, in the eyes of the Son of Heaven, it was a group of lambs to be slaughtered......
Especially at the time of Liu Yu's Dynasty, if a person traveled to this time to be a landlord, then it was best for this person to live honestly and conscientiously, otherwise he didn't know how he died.
The most important thing Liu Yu did in his life was to fight with the Xiongnu, and the three great victories of the Han family against the Xiongnu, especially the battle of Mobei that finally fought with the Xiongnu, almost exhausted the financial and civil power of the entire Han family.
And Liu Yu's life is much more chic than that of any previous prince of the Han family, and the money spent on building the palace is countless.
Because of this, he will use those cool officials to cut leeks for him so much.
At this time, the people in the upper echelons of society were those who were waiting for the ministers, and there were very few books at this time, so it is not necessary to think that most of the people who could read and write at this time were born in aristocratic families.
At this time, the people at the bottom of the society can recognize very few words, and it is naturally difficult to have a simple bamboo slip made of bamboo slips at home.
Therefore, the officials in the Han court have only two backgrounds.
One is the person who is listed as the minister, and the other is the person who was able to enter the court as an official because of his military exploits.
At this time, the imperial examination system was pushed to the table, which can be regarded as giving the sons and heirs of these aristocratic families a chance to enter the court and become officials, how could they oppose it.
However, the Han family's official election system at this time was still a probationary system, which completely relied on local officials to recommend to the imperial court, and there were not many recommended places in the dozens of counties of the entire Han family.
Moreover, local recommendations are bound by various rules, and the people they recommend must not be people from civilian families.
However, the biggest feature of the imperial examination system is that regardless of one's background, whether or not to be hired is based on the merits of the examination results.
This is also a gospel for people at the bottom of the society, and it is said that the Tao is learned to become a literary and martial arts, and sold to the emperor's family, especially those at the bottom of the society, the biggest dream is that one day they can also be reused by the Son of Heaven and become an official.
For this dream, people who have traveled thousands of miles from their homeland to Chang'an abound, and now the master father Yan under Liu Rong is like this, if it weren't for the fact that Liu Rong went to Baling to guard filial piety for Emperor Wen, he met him in a wine house.
At this moment, he may have to beg for a living in Chang'an Street.
In this regard, the implementation of the imperial examination system is also a great opportunity for Liu Rong to gain fame among these scholars at the bottom of society.
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With this in mind, Liu Rong began to ponder the implementation of this matter early in the morning.
wrote his plan densely on several bamboo slips, and Liu Rong still felt that it was incomplete after reading it.
After thinking for a while, Liu Rong ordered Wang Sheng to prepare the car and travel.
After leaving Sima Gate and getting into the car, Liu Rong said: "Go to the mansion of the Marquis of Dangyang."
Hearing this, the emperor raised his horsewhip and drove forward.
When he arrived outside his house, Wang Sheng immediately knocked on the door and ordered someone to enter the house to deliver a message.
After a while, Jia Yi hurriedly walked out of his mansion, "The minister pays a visit to His Highness."
And Liu Rong saluted: "How can students receive the teacher's courtesy."
Jia Yi smiled and went to the house with Liu Rong.
After the two of them sat down in the main hall, Jia Yi said, "How can Your Highness come to the minister's house today?" ”。
Naturally, he was not polite to Jia Yi and Liu Rong, and when he ordered Wang Shengtou to pick up a box and put it on the book case in front of Jia Yi.
And Wang Sheng took off the lid of the box, and Liu Rong said: "This is the student's desire to play the emperor's advice, but there are still shortcomings, I hope the teacher will help the student."
Hearing this, Jia Yi didn't speak, even if he opened the bamboo slip in front of him, he read it carefully one by one.
And after reading through these bamboo slips, Jia Yi said: "Your Highness's advice is really good, if this policy is implemented, it will definitely be beneficial for a thousand years!" ”。
Jia Yi was naturally able to see how high the value of some strategies was, so he would say so.
After Jia Yi thought deeply, it took a while! Only then did he say: "In His Highness's policy, whether he can be an official or not is determined by the merits of the examination, and although it is desirable, there are also improprieties."
After finishing his words, he said: "My Han family rules the world with filial piety, if it is a person with great virtue and loss, it will be difficult to convince the subjects of heaven if he is made an official."
Hearing this, Liu Rong couldn't stop nodding, indeed, the social environment at this time requires everyone to be respectful and filial to their elders.
If you are a very unfilial person, it will be difficult for him to live in the local area, let alone want to be an official.
"The teacher's words are very good".
Jia Yi then said: "After this policy is submitted to Your Majesty, if you have Your Majesty's permission, you should try ............it out first."
At this point, Liu Rong thought of it with Jia Yi, indeed, although he knew a lot about the imperial examination system, but it was only a book, and how it was applied to reality, I really don't know.
Therefore, only by trying it out first can we check and fill in the gaps and improve them.
After that, Liu Rong and Jia Yi began to talk about how to implement this imperial examination.
Liu Rong came to Jia Yi's house in the afternoon, and it was not until dusk that he was about to leave.
Later, under Jia Yi's hospitality, Liu Rong had dinner at his home before returning to the palace.
Standing outside the gate of his mansion, Liu Rong arched his hand and said, "Teacher, please go back, students go."
Immediately, he got in the car and left.
However, when he went to Jia Yi's mansion, he only brought a few slips, and when he came back, he was full of boxes.
After arriving at the dormitory, Liu Rong immediately ordered someone to carry it to the bookcase, took out an unused silk book, and summarized everything planted on the bamboo slips and wrote it on this silk book.
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The next day, Liu Rong got up early, changed into clothes under the service of the palace maids, and after breakfast, he carried the silk book into his arms and wanted to meet his father.
Liu Rong had already ordered someone to ask Wang Yan, and his father had already reviewed the folds in the Qilin Palace.
Of course, no matter how busy the people in the world are, they can't be as busy as the Son of Heaven, and it is common for the review to be folded until late at night, but after Chun Yuyi entered the palace, under his suggestion, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, also had some rules for his weekday routine.
"Why did His Highness come to see Your Majesty so early", as soon as he saw Liu Rong, Wang Yan said.