Although the Jin Dynasty implemented the imperial examination system, but it is not thorough, the imperial examination is not held regularly, from Xuanzong to the present nearly 400 years, the imperial examination is intermittent, and the interval between each examination is very long, as short as five years, as long as decades, so in the Jin Dynasty, the imperial examination is not the norm, but only a way to select officials, such as the inspection system that has lasted for many years, and the door shade system.

Those who are in the shadow of the door are in the official position of their fathers and ancestors, and the remnants of the wealthy family are in office.

Officials above the third rank can shade their great-grandchildren, and shade their grandchildren above the fifth rank. The grandson of the shadow is lowered to the first rank of the shadow son, and the great-grandson is demoted to the first rank.

The probationary system is mainly used by the local and central governments to promote and recruit individuals according to their talents and conduct.

Under the strong resistance of the imperial examination by the gate valve family group and cannot become the normal state of the country's selection of talents, whether it is the door shade or the inspection system, it is controlled by the gate valve family in its own hands, and the career path from the bottom to the top is still controlled by the gate valve family group.

This situation has been until the Wuzong Dynasty, after occupying an absolute advantage in political rights, Wuzong carried out relatively large reforms to various systems again, such as the imperial examination, which began to be held every two years in accordance with strict time and requirements, and the imperial examination must not be blocked for any reason. Begin to have the opportunity to get into the political core.

In addition, Wu Zong began to relax and attach importance to the promotion of low-level officials.

The name of the official, above the seven grades is called the official, and below the seven grades is the official.

Officials are the lowest level of the entire social power class, most of them are from poor backgrounds, although they have embarked on a career, but no matter how hard they work, it is difficult to be promoted for life, so that many talented people are buried and have no place to get ahead.

Although the imperial examination gave the poor a chance, how many opportunities did they have? I'm afraid it's not much, even if it's Yang Daosi and Liu Wei, who are known for their honesty and fairness, the two of them have supervised five imperial examinations in succession, with less than two hundred places for each session, and there are only thirty or fifty people who can be admitted to the Jinshi, and this has been called justice and fairness by the world.

In the supreme power ruling this class, the gate valve family occupies a dominant position, how many opportunities will they give to the children of the poor family?

Therefore, while reforming the imperial examination to a certain extent, Wuzong is also vigorously developing talented people from the low-level families.

In the Jin Dynasty, if you are admitted to the Jinshi, you already have the qualification to enter the official career, but the potential of this qualification is too poor, the children of the family have a fame, you can't get into the Jinshi, and you can also find a new way out through the door shade and inspection, and the children of the poor family, you can't get into the Jinshi, only the fame of the people, even if you enter the government to do things, you can only be a small official of eight or nine grades, and it is difficult to have a way to be promoted in this life.

Wu Zong gave them a chance.

Starting from Wuzong, Liuwaiquan became the fourth system of electing officials in the Jin Dynasty in addition to the imperial examination, the door shade, and the inspection examination.

From this time onwards, the imperial court will be able to conduct an annual examination of the merits and deeds of its kind of officials, and after three examinations, they can be promoted step by step, and finally they can pass the examination to become a formal official, or get the promotion of the grade, this kind of assessment, selection, and appointment as one of the selection procedures of the foreign officials, although the procedures are complex and the system is strict, many people still have no chance, and even are expelled from the official yamen, and have been unemployed since then. But it has given those few people who really have real talent and learning a chance and a way out.

In the final analysis, this is a world where people are divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the gate valve family group is dominant, and they control the absolute dominant position including politics, wealth, and land.

But there are also some people who find a way out from other ways and eventually go to the core of politics, such as relatives, or military merits.

Not to mention anything else, Li Zhong, the left minister of the dynasty, was like this, with his brilliant military exploits to the highest level of power, and Li Xun, half military merit, half relative, also with a poor background, and finally became the core class of power.

But the people who come up in this way are not the mainstream after all, they are a minority, they will be excluded by the majority, their political limitations are too heavy, the restrictions are too great, Li Xun has only been Xiangguo for more than a month, and he has a very deep understanding of this, he wants to get along with others, but he is respected by the other party, and even hostile, maybe it is because he is in a high position, and Zhao Xun's support to a large extent, Li Xun still doesn't feel too much, but that invisible exclusion and distance makes Li Xun very uncomfortable.

Li Xun woke up from his contemplation and said with a sigh: "Where there are people, there is fighting, maybe I am still too simple." ”

Sima Tu took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Li Xun: "Lord, this is Mr. Fan's letter, it just came an hour ago. ”

Li Xun took the letter: "Have you read it?" ”

Sima Tu nodded, did not speak, he had already seen it.

Li Xun took out the letter and watched it, Fan Zhongyun said in his heart about the current situation in the Western Regions and Longyou, the land of the seven states in the west of Longyou is still calm, but the Western Regions are ......

Li Xun's conquest of the Western Regions, although he won a complete victory and won the entire land of the Western Regions, but this victory was more of a military victory, and it was only a military occupation of the Western Regions, Li Xun tried to stabilize the situation in the entire Western Regions through some means, so that he could not maintain peace and stability for a long time, but the imperial court did not give him this opportunity and time, he left, many follow-up plans, can only be stopped, and Li Xun's previous things are actually only expedient, they are temporary, and they can only maintain stability for a short time. Now, with the passage of time, the effectiveness of Li Xun's previous efforts and methods is obviously getting lower and lower.

Fan Zhongyun told Li Xun in the letter that some people in the Western Regions are secretly accumulating strength, and they obviously have a plan, and some of the nobles and high-level officials in the Western Regions who were previously co-opted by Li Xun, with Li Xun's departure, are now more and more obscure, I am afraid that they have given birth to other thoughts, and the imperial court's actions against the Western Regions are probably going to be accelerated, and they must be cautious, once they make a mistake, the fragile calm situation in the Western Regions will probably be broken immediately.