Chang'an, because of the arrival of autumn, has become much cooler, and the turmoil of Liu He's abolition has gradually been left behind by the people of Chang'an.

Everyone is now discussing the examination after tea and dinner, and the Son of Heaven has decreed, and the Prime Minister's Mansion has also been passed down to the world, and the examination will begin on the 26th of this month.

This imperial court examination is different from the previous need to calculate the requirements, and there is no need for courtiers with more than 2,000 stone to recommend, all scholars in the world can refer to it, as long as they pass two rounds of examinations, they can become a Han official.

For a time, the entire Chang'an was immediately filled with scholars from all over the world, and the elites of various schools gathered to prepare for the grand event.

Just when they arrived in Chang'an, an even greater shocking news fell from the sky, according to the grapevine, this time the Son of Heaven wanted to recruit more than 3,000 officials to enrich the yamen and Jiuqing Yousi in the counties of Guanzhong.

Although the vast majority of people may have to start as a clerk of the hundred stones.

But the scale of this admission will be unprecedentedly huge.

An obvious omen is that not long ago, the Prime Minister's Office took back the power of the 72 counties in Guanzhong, and all the county orders appointed and dismissed pavilion chiefs, eunuchs, tour payers, criminal officials, and tax collectors.

Although it is said that many scholars are here for the bright future of the scholars who were promoted last time, few of them are really willing to do what local officials and subordinate officials of the Yamen are.

But for most of the living beings who have no foundation, no background, and no guidance from a famous teacher, and the children of small and medium-sized landlords.

It's good to have an official!

What else to pick and choose?

Anyway, today's Chang'an City can be described as overcrowded.

The descendants of the hundreds of families and the children of aristocratic families who are staring at the position of the Son of Heaven's close ministers, and the grassroots who can go home to explain their official positions or want to 'gamble', have gathered in Chang'an.

For a time, Chang'an City was so big that it was a little crowded, Every day, the streets, the traffic, from all over the world, ready to prepare for the exam, shuttled back and forth. Pull the relationship to pull the relationship, go through the back door to the back door.

As for the grassroots, they also have their own way of survival. They may shuttle around the disciples of those noble and famous families, patting the sycophants, welcoming the assycophants, and those who are ambitious will not refuse the recruitment conditions offered by a noble son at a high price.

Temporarily working for these guys, or sorting out copywriting, copying various manuscripts, letters, or doing some guest and diner work.

But the more grassroots, not so lucky. They can only find a temporary job in Chang'an City, relying on the meager entanglement they bring to survive.

Some persevered, while others had to give up.

But for everyone, the exam. It's all a dream, an opportunity to change the future of their lives.

Eating court meals, wearing official hats, and entering and exiting prestige are all done by the big husband.

It's just that there are too few channels to become an official, only to recommend filial piety, but the threshold for the two is too high!

Even if he is a natural actor, his reputation has been brushed since he was a child, if he has no good luck, he must at least brush until he is thirty years old before he is qualified to be recommended by the local county guard.

And in today's Han world, as long as you enter the officialdom, it is an iron rice bowl.

If you don't make a big mistake, your family can continue to be an official for almost all generations.

This business is much more promising than farming and becoming a businessman!!

Therefore, as soon as the news of the examination was launched, it immediately spread all over the country, and it was immediately welcomed by the local landlords, and the gentry and landlords felt that this was a good road to Qingyun, and it also had face to say it.

Huo Guang was in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and he didn't feel the joy of the scholars of the various schools outside, and he got the names of the applicants and schools of Taichang and Jing Zhaoyin, and he found that among all the reference scholars, the Confucian factions together accounted for almost sixty percent!

In other words, the references of other schools of Legalism, Huang Lao, Mo and other schools together are not as many as those of Confucianism.

More people is power!

As long as in the end, there are no leaks in the examination, Confucianism will undoubtedly become the biggest winner in this examination!

At the same time, he can show his muscles in front of the people of the world, proving that Confucianism is still the first school of the Han family, and at the same time gaining more attention from nobles and important ministers.

However, the Son of Heaven expressed his dislike for Confucianism intentionally or unintentionally at several court meetings, and even disregarded his relationship with the Gu Liang faction, and directly sealed his throat with a sword, completely knocking Gu Liang into the abyss.

However, in all fairness, the position of Confucianism in the political map of the Han dynasty is still very important, and it is not so useless in the impression, and the role of Confucianism in local administration, education popularization, and civilization progress is irreplaceable.

However, in the struggle for Taoism, the line, and the ideology, no one will be polite, let alone talk about any gentlemanly demeanor.

In front of Huo Guang, many people have complained about the local situation of Confucianism, and it has become a creed that Confucianism abides by, and even some officials from the Ram School have been slowly corrupted and co-opted by local tyrants and have forgotten their original intentions.

Dong An, the youngest son of the late Dong Zhongshu, the head of Taixue Mountain, also went to the Prime Minister's Mansion last night to have a friendship with Huo Guangxu's classmates, and also said in the casual conversation that there was no sage's words in the exam, except for mathematics, whether the others were too simple, but Huo Guang did not say anything on the surface, but he sneered in his heart.

In this examination, the positions that need to be admitted are all middle- and lower-level officials who want to do practical things, so what poetry and books are classics to test, it is simply nonsense, and in the local management of peasant households, officials only need to maintain local law and order and obey the instructions of the government, so in the locality, poetry and songs, and sage classics are tantamount to playing the piano to the cow, and the middle and lower-level officials as long as they can read and write, can do arithmetic, have clear logic, and think clearly.

It's not about choosing a prime minister, but it depends on whether you can memorize the classics.

Not to mention choosing a doctorate, no one asks for admission to those who are full of poetry and books, and have authoritative power in a field.

And today, Huo Guang no longer knows how many waves of lobbyists to send away, and even Huo Yu doesn't know who he was bewitched, so he went to the Prime Minister's Mansion and proposed to him to increase the difficulty of the exam.

Huo Guang frowned when he heard this, waved his hand to interrupt Huo Yu's words and said directly: "Nonsense, the matter of the examination is determined by His Majesty, and the examination is not the selection of the three princes and nine secretaries, but the selection of the specific officials, therefore, hard work first, Zhu Qing still think about it, how to choose good talents for the country!" ”

In this examination, Huo Guang visually measured that there may be tens of thousands of people coming to Chang'an for reference.

Scholars from all over the world will gather in Chang'an this time.

Because unlike any known way of admitting officials of the dynasties, how many people gather in Chang'an, Huo Guang knows the great responsibility of this time, these tens of thousands of people represent tens of thousands of families, and the scholars who can read books, the worst in the family is also a homesteaders, this is the foundation of the Han Empire, and no one dares to be sloppy, so Jiuqing tried his best to cooperate with the examination, but he was afraid that there would be problems in the examination, not to mention his little prime minister, even the Son of Heaven would go to the high temple to ask his ancestors for guilt.

Before, Huo Guang had a private discussion with the Son of Heaven, the pros and cons of the examination, whether the Han family's finances could bear the burden of how many officials, but the Han family's territory is getting bigger and bigger, and the entire Hexi, southeast, Korea, and Liaodong need a large number of officials, but every year the filial piety and honesty of the people, and Taixue Xiucai can not make up for this talent gap at all, but from the household registration in various places, Huo Guang also clearly found that Chang'an's control over the local area is getting weaker and weaker, which is an indisputable fact, and the rebellion of the southeastern refugees is a clear proof.

The Han family needs a large number of officials, but Chang'an can not contact qualified candidates, and the examination, there is no screening procedure, as long as it is a scholar, the family has money, can afford to be entangled, can come to Chang'an for reference, the Han family can select their talents, appoint them as officials to govern the world.

Liu Huoguang also weighed the pros and cons of this.

In the end, Huo Guang believes that the advantages of the current model outweigh the disadvantages.

At the very least, the people selected by the examination are more malleable and have a future for development, and they are much stronger than the clear stream of those who are stupid in reading and reading compared to the group of fundamentalists selected by filial piety.

I have always believed that the same person, reading for 20 years, and then taking filial piety, and reading for 10 years, then being an assistant for 10 years, and finally the same ruling party, in the end the achievements of the two may be very different!

Even corruption, the latter is more technical than the former!

Moreover, the world's talents and heroes gather in Chang'an, which can also drive Chang'an's economic development.