Taking advantage of the rainy season, the Tang Army began to free up its hands to rest and replenish the troops, and in addition, seize the time to complete the reorganization of the existing five provisional regiments, and reorganize them into regular mixed regiments.

Then the cabinet also urgently needs to completely bring the newly conquered southern Huguang and southern Jiangxi regions into its rule, so that these places can provide soldiers and taxes for the Tang Dynasty!

Laying down one place and controlling one place is the core military and political strategy of the Tang Dynasty at this stage!

They're not bandits, they don't care when they're done!

Therefore, although the war on the front line has stopped, Li Xuan is still busy, not only Li Xuan, but in fact, the administrative system of the entire Tang Dynasty is maintaining a continuous high-speed operation.

Not only are there many administrative affairs, but the three-year palace examination of Xuanping is about to begin!

This imperial examination, strictly speaking, is the first official imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty, and it is different from last year's hurried Dengji Enke, this time the imperial examination is held very standard.

From the county examination to the government examination, the hospital examination, and then to the township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination, all of them are strictly in accordance with the process of the traditional imperial examination.

In February, when the troops on the front line were fighting, thousands of soldiers from all over the country had gathered in Zhaoqing to participate in the first official examination of the Tang Dynasty.

Although many of the scholars who participated at the beginning were used to make up the numbers, and the quality was not good, if it was according to the imperial examination standards of the Ming Dynasty, among the thousands of scholars, I am afraid that one-tenth of them did not have real materials, but Li Xuan, and even the entire Tang Dynasty didn't care!

This time, because most of the scholars in the three provinces were resistant to the Tang Dynasty, they did not participate in the imperial examination as actively as the Ming Dynasty, but this also lowered the threshold accordingly.

Basically, the scholars who come to apply for the exam will be able to get the fame of showing off their talents if they can get by a little!

It's also relatively easy to take the exam!

Thousands of people took the exam, and more than 300 Gongshi of Jinshi and more than 80 of them were admitted to the doctoral department.

It adds up to more than 400 people, accounting for one-sixth of the candidates!

Interestingly, more than half of these students who were able to pass the palace examination and obtain the reputation of Jinshi or Doctor were born in Guozijian.

Because the students of Guozijian will be given fame and fame and have the right to directly participate in the imperial examination, and the content of the examination is basically based on the teaching content of Guozijian, so the chances of Guozijian's students in the examination are still very large!

Of course, this is also related to the fact that there are not many people who come to take the exam in the local area!

In April, Li Xuan officially held the palace examination and sat in person!

In addition, he personally reviewed all the more than 80 examination papers of the doctoral department, and also reviewed the top 30 examination papers of the Jinshi department.

Zhao Lin, a young student from Guangzhou Prefecture, was appointed as the champion of the new science and technology entry department, and Liu Linhan, a student of Guozi Supervision College, was appointed as the champion of the doctoral department!

At the same time, he personally ordered the first-class jinshi of the Jinshi department and the second-class or above doctors of the doctoral department to enter the Hanlin Academy, and awarded different official positions in the Hanlin Academy.

However, Li Xuan let them enter the Hanlin Academy, not to let them raise hope, but to exercise their abilities.

Because the Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty, unlike the Hanlin Academy of the Ming Dynasty, is not a maintenance institution, but an institution that actually handles government affairs.

But it is impossible to be the same as the Hanlin of the Ming Dynasty, to be able to be in the Hanlin generation for more than ten or twenty years, and then directly boil out of the head into the cabinet, in the Tang Dynasty, there is no such shortcut.

Because Li Xuan has already stipulated that Hanlin people are not allowed to be promoted in the system of the Hanlin Academy, if they want to be promoted, they can do it, and they will be transferred, even if they don't want to be transferred, they can't do it, because Hanlin can only hold a position for three years, and if they don't want to be transferred after three years, they must be transferred.

And even if there is a vacant position in the Hanlin Academy, it must be filled by young backbone officials from outside, and it will not be directly selected from the Hanlin Academy!

After a science and technology session, Li Xuan looked at the list of hundreds of officials, and he was also deeply pleased, and there were all the talents in the world who collected the sigh in their hands!

At the same time, after this official course is held, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty will be stable!

A feudal dynasty opened the imperial examination, which is almost a sign of the stability of a dynasty, and at the same time, these new scholars joined the Tang Dynasty, behind which hundreds or even tens of thousands of social backbone families in this era got on the carriage of the Tang Dynasty.

In these years, a student has never been his alone, and there will be mentors and clan folks behind them.

A new scholar is naturally nothing in a place like Zhaoqing, because this place is the same as the Beijing division in the north, and now there are officials all over the streets, but this new scholar usually has great influence in the local area, not to mention that there is already a scholar in the middle of the lift, even if it is a lifter, he also has great influence in the local area, and he is the backbone of the local gentry!

As long as the Tang Dynasty holds a few more imperial examinations, then more and more scholars will join in, and when the time comes, the elites of the three provinces dare not say all, but most of them will directly or indirectly join the system of the Tang Dynasty and become the enemies of the Ming Dynasty!

This is also the reason why Li Xuan supported the opening of the imperial examination, and even pinched his nose to hire those who could only read eight articles.

This is ostensibly for talents, but in fact it is to win over the elite class in the three provinces!

Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it has always been on the opposite side of the elite, especially in terms of taxation, and the three major taxes adopted by the gentry as a tax, commercial tax, and agricultural tax have almost seriously suppressed the local elite and constantly provoked their overt or covert resistance.

In the second year of Xuanping, there were many people who were exterminated by the Tang Dynasty, and there were many armed tax resistances suppressed, and the ones killed were called a rolling head, and most of the people killed were the elite gentry represented by landlords and big businessmen.

But to govern the world, you can't blindly rely on killing, kill all of him, Li Xuan, who will govern?

Therefore, the imperial examination is an important means used by Li Xuan and the Tang Dynasty to ease relations with the gentry class!

What these gentry class care about most is not land or making money, but being an official!

For thousands of years, the elite class in the land of China has cared most about being an official!

There is no way, the official-oriented thinking formed over thousands of years is not so easy to reverse.

Li Xuan's current means of playing is to forcibly implement various new policies on the one hand, and kill them for this, and on the other hand, it is also to give those gentry who obey the rule of the Tang Dynasty a step forward, which can be described in layman's terms as a stick in one hand and candy in one hand.

And to put it more bluntly: those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me perish!

After the curtain came down on Xuanping's three-year imperial examination, Li Xuan instructed that preparations for next year's imperial examination should also start this year!

Yes, that's right, Li Xuan has held the imperial examination every year in recent years, on the one hand, to win over the elite, and on the other hand, to alleviate the lack of talents.

Even if it is the talent in Li Xuan's heart, it is a student in the young military camp, or a student in the Guozi Prison, but a huge empire, the number of officials needed is not hundreds or thousands, but tens of thousands, and now the ruling area of the Tang Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger, and the demand for officials is also increasing.

In particular, the power of the Tang Dynasty went directly to the countryside, and it was not established at the county level like the Ming Dynasty, and there were only a few officials in a county, and the proportion of officials in the Tang Dynasty was relatively large.

And there is no such thing as an official in the Tang Dynasty, but everyone who eats imperial grain has an official body, even if it is the lowest-level clerk or patrol officer, they all have the official body from the ninth grade!

This also makes many people misunderstand that there are many officials in the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, there is no such fact, because the Tang Dynasty is actually one with the officials and officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Although compared with the Ming Dynasty, it will increase the cost of personnel salaries, but it does not increase much, because although these people in the Ming Dynasty do not take money from the court, they still need to get wages.

Now that the Tang Dynasty implemented a strict tax system and implemented a system of separating national and local taxes, most of the salaries of local officials were actually borne by the local finance, and the central government only bore a very small part.

Therefore, it did not deepen the pressure on the finances, let alone increase the tax burden on the people!

However, only a brand new dynasty like the Tang Dynasty can establish such a system, if the Ming Dynasty is also allowed to carry out such reforms, the Zhu Dynasty will be reformed in minutes!

But Li Xuan is still dissatisfied with the existing systems of the Tang Dynasty, and the current systems of the Tang Dynasty still do not meet the ideal filling he envisioned.

For example, the most important tax system, there are still too few types of taxes, only a few major taxes such as commercial tax, agricultural tax, customs duty, salt tax, etc., and the more important commercial tax is not too detailed.

The only thing that is more perfect is the tariff, because the tariff of Datang is built directly from scratch, without any reference to the previous dynasty, and from the very beginning, different proportions of import tax and export tax are levied according to different goods!

Moreover, the tariffs do not belong to the local government, and are directly collected by the central government!

However, the commercial tax was a simple one-size-fits-all approach at that time, mainly composed of the business tax of shops and workshops and the taxes of each checkpoint, and the business tax was basically fixed, and the inland tariff was also relatively simple and crude, and the merchant had to pay a tax once after a tax card.

Therefore, Li Xuan is preparing to divide the commercial tax in detail in the near future!

However, before the detailed division of commercial taxes, the Tang Dynasty still had another task to do, that is, to draft and issue a series of commercial-related laws, also known as the 'Tang Commercial Law'.