In the afternoon, Pan Liao and Du You came together, and they came to discuss the imperial examination with Guo Song.

The plan for the imperial examination has been decided, and 50 people will be admitted, which is already the number of admitted people after relaxation, and only 25 people will be admitted initially.

Judging from the number of applicants now, there are more than 20,000 scholars recommended by the prefectures under their jurisdiction alone, as well as scholars from the Central Plains, Hebei, Jiangnan, Bashu and other places, plus the old scholars who did not pass the examination in the past few years, it will be at least 70,000 people, or even higher.

Then the initial decision to admit twenty-five people was obviously too small, so when the official plan was formulated, the twenty-five people were doubled to fifty, but even so, it was still too small, almost 1,400 people competing for an admission place, which was simply unacceptable.

Guo Song then asked the Senate's Hall to discuss supplementary amendments to see if more places could be allocated.

The location of Guo Songwai's study is also called the Qilin Palace, which is generally a place to deal with official business and receive ministers on holidays.

Guo Song invited Pan Liao and Du You to sit down, and Pan Liao handed over a supplementary draft, "Your Highness, let's take a look first!" ”

Guo Song took the draft, sat down and read it carefully, in fact, there are not many changes, there are three main changes, one is to increase the number of soldiers to maintain the order of the imperial examination from 2,000 to 3,000, which is very necessary, the examination room is too large, 100 lanes, and the usual discipline and so on, all need the help of soldiers to maintain.

The second change is that eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling are strictly prohibited during the imperial examination, and the two items of eating and drinking are removed, and it is normal for scholars to get together to eat and drink, so there is no need to be too strict, only the latter two items are strictly prohibited, and the main way is to use spot checks, once they are found, they will be recorded, but they will not be punished, but if they are admitted to the imperial examination, they will be vetoed again.

If the scholar knows that he can't pass the exam, he just comes to Chang'an to spend money, then it's casual.

The third change is that the number of admitted students has increased to one hundred and twenty, which is what Guo Song cares about, and it is not so easy to increase the number of admissions.

The biggest problem now is that there are not so many vacancies in official positions, of course, there are three ways to admit people to the imperial examination, one is to admit Taixue or Guozixue, and admit 2,000 people.

The second category is the admission of the Ming Classics, and 500 people are admitted, mainly to enrich the state and county clerks, the servants of the imperial court, and the military officials of the army.

The third category is Jinshi, Jinshi wants to be an official, the first three Jinshi and the first are released from the eighth-rank official, and the latter Jinshi is from the nine-rank official.

So how many people to recruit, first of all, we must first determine how many official positions are vacant, last year was because of the strong purge after the capture of Guanzhong, so a lot of official positions were vacant, but this year, Guo Song didn't believe that there were still 120 official vacancies.

"Explain, how can there be one hundred and twenty vacancies?" Guo Song knocked on the correction plan.

"Your Highness, the Jin Wangfu has established a Department of Agriculture, and each state will also establish a Department of Agriculture accordingly, and a priest will be established, which will increase the vacancies of more than fifty officials."

"But the agricultural department needs specialized personnel! Isn't Taixue agronomy? Guo Song asked puzzled.

Du You next to him explained: "Your Highness doesn't know, first, it's too late, the first batch will not be able to complete the study until the year after tomorrow at the earliest, and as I said before, they are regarded as the Ming Jing and start from the officials, while the local officials are from the ninth grade, and it is not their turn." ”

Pan Liao also added: "In the future, each state will also set up a corresponding new state school, corresponding to various technical training of Taixue, so the teachers in each state are mainly from Taixue, so in a short period of time, the students trained by Taixue will not be able to become professional officials." ”

"Alright! So what about the other vacancies? You have increased by seventy. ”

"Then there are the state marching courts, His Royal Highness mentioned last time that he wanted to strengthen the marching institutes, requiring the chief officials of the marching institutes in each state to be at least from the seventh rank of officials, and two more from the ninth rank of the academy, which is actually to add three places of marching court officials to each state, and these official places can be used."

At present, the concert institutes in each state are relatively chaotic, and they are basically the henchmen of their respective assassins in charge, and their functions are relatively simple, that is, to hand over the recitals for each state, send back receipts, and then arrange for the food and lodging of officials entering Beijing.

Although the function is simple, it has raised a group of people, which invisibly increases the financial pressure on the local government, Guo Song originally wanted to cut off the Jinjuanyuan, but Du You persuaded him that the Jinjuanyuan was just not used well, and if it is used well, it will become a strong link between the capital and various places, which will help the imperial court control the local government.

Guo Song accepted this idea, not only did not weaken the Jinjuyuan, but strengthened it, and built a new official office for each Jinyuan in the new city, with complete hardware, and the next step was to complete the personnel and improve the level of the Jinjuyuan.

It is not as simple as passing on the news, it is necessary to participate in the deliberations on a regular basis, there is no court meeting now, and if there is a court meeting in the future, it is necessary to participate in the court meeting every day.

In addition, there is another important function, that is, to compile the "Di Bao", which is basically an episode every ten days, and compile the important things that happened in the state within ten days into the "Di Bao" and hand it over to the imperial court.

Therefore, after this series of reforms, a lot of official positions will be added, which will increase the number of places for admission to this year's imperial examination.

Guo Song thought for a while and smiled: "We have a total of sixty states, and we will increase more than seventy places after calculation!" ”

Pan Liao smiled slightly: "Because we are not sure how many places can be increased, but His Highness is in a hurry, so I will set it at one hundred and twenty places first, and the remaining places will be placed next year!" Or it is used to promote excellent scribes. ”

"That's fine!"

Guo Song happily accepted the plan of the two.

At this time, Pan Liao and Du You glanced at each other, and Pan Liao said cautiously: "Yesterday, when the Counselor's Hall was discussing the new quota, it mentioned a proposal to give priority to admission, can Your Highness consider giving priority to the admission of some children of famous families." ”

Guo Song knew very well that Pan Liao had followed him for many years, and he would not fail to understand his principles, since he put forward this idea, he must have his reasons.

Guo Song didn't immediately get angry, but asked calmly: "Let's talk about it specifically and see if it's reasonable?" ”

Pan Liao breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that His Royal Highness the King of Jin would be angry, so he vetoed it indiscriminately.

"Your Royal Highness, we mainly consider the Hebei family, the Central Plains family, the Jiangnan family and the Bashu family, we have selected a total of eighteen families in this area, in addition to the five surnames and seven wangs, most of them are local famous families, such as Zhaojun Bai, Bohai Gao, Jiangning Xiao, Wujun Lu, Shen, Huijiyu and so on.

These families actually control the local government through various connections, and if we include their children in our ranks, this will lay a good foundation for the future capture of the Central Plains of Hebei and other places. ”

Guo Song pondered for a long time, he basically agreed with this idea, but the question is, if only the interests of non-territorial families are considered, then what about the families in Hedong, Guanzhong, Hexi, and Longyou? Can they accept it?

"What about our own people?"

Guo Song smiled and asked: "Can the families of Hedong and Guanzhong accept it?" ”

"I will also take care of them, but not this year, but next year, this year we will give eighteen places to eighteen families, of course, provided that they have children to participate in the imperial examination, and they do well in the exam, so that when admitting them, they will rely on it a little bit, and it will not be a big problem."

"But what if you get into it yourself? Give them a second spot? Guo Song asked again.

"If you are admitted by yourself, then you don't need to take special care, but you just rely on it in considering the awarding of official positions, and try to put it in the various departments and offices in Chang'an."

Guo Song nodded, "I agree in principle with your plans and ideas, you go back and sort it out, and then review it for me, and try to think it out as thoroughly as possible." ”

........

Guo Song handled the official documents at noon, did not have lunch with everyone, and at dinner, he came to the dining hall, in addition to his own family, Liu Caichun was indeed seated as promised, and Guo Song's mood suddenly improved.

At this time, he also unexpectedly saw Li Wenyu also sitting, what was she talking to Xue Tao?

When Liu Caichun saw Guo Song coming, his eyes were a little flustered, and he hurriedly lowered his head to talk to Guo Weiwei, pretending not to see Guo Song coming.

"Senior sister, where is my senior brother?"

Guo Song smiled and asked, "Why didn't he come?" ”

Li Wenyu said angrily: "He thought about it at home!" I forbade him to go out for 10 days. ”

"Why is that?" Guo Song asked puzzled.

"Because I found out that a shop on East 2nd Road was accidentally transferred half a month ago, I didn't know at all, and the other party didn't pay a penny, what do you mean? It's just to give the store to the other party. ”

"When did Senior Brother become so generous?" Guo Song sat down and asked with a smile, he was also very curious in his heart.

"Yes! That fat man has always been stingy, when did he become so generous? I also wanted to know why, I went to visit the proprietor of this silk shop this afternoon, and it turned out to be a young woman, her surname was Tang, and her name was Tang Zhuzhu. ”

"Ahh Liu Caichun exclaimed.

Xue Tao smiled and asked, "Cai Chun also knows this Tang proprietor?" ”

"Of course I know, Tang Zhuzhu is Tang Xiaomei!"

(End of chapter)