The morning sun shines at the beginning, the sky is full of morning glow, the whole Chang'an City, there are many people staying at the gate of one hundred and eight squares, there are traders and carts, there are woodcutters who want to go out of the city to farm, and there are some officials who want to go to the department to do errands, and some tiles are also waiting to be boiled, so that the capital exudes a vibrant scene early in the morning.

On this day, it was the turn of the three-day court meeting, and Luo Zhaoyun and the ministers of civil and military affairs gathered in the palace of Qinzheng to discuss the affairs of the civil and military courts.

The main revolves around, nothing more than a few points, improve the format of the laws promulgated by the dynasty, completely replace the laws of the Sui Dynasty, etc., secondly, the county, state and county system, whether it should be abolished, mainly at the state and county levels, but many states need to set up a county, establish a Daoke admiral, supervise the state and county. There are also tax issues, and there are a lot of land measurement issues.

Luo Zhaoyun found out that there is no need for everyone to discuss everything in the court, because there are too many people, but it is not easy to draw things up, everyone has ideas, one sentence in the east, one sentence in the west, different points of view, and some officials have contradictions, although there is no party dispute, but if an official who has a personal grudge with him puts forward a point of view, then whether he is correct or not, he will definitely oppose it and deliberately dismantle the stage.

Therefore, above the court, civil and military officials gather together, and to take into account the interests of all parties, the king needs to know how to balance and restrain the means, which can never be done in a single word.

Politics has always been about exchange and compromise.

Give something, get something in return, earn greater benefits, balance the relationship between all parties, and work together to run the state apparatus of the imperial court well.

Luo Zhaoyun listened to the ministers discussing with each other, expressing their opinions, and silently thinking in his heart that in the future, important decisions should be made in a hurry, and the main responsible officials of the three provinces and six ministries should be anxious, and the Tongping chapter affairs and the governors of the political affairs hall should make joint resolutions, and then take them to the court to go through the process of senatory, and there are no major problems, so they will be implemented.

At this time, Du Ruhui, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and the bachelor of the Senior Administration Hall under the Hanlin Academy, stood up and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, after this year's Spring Festival, many Jinshi who passed the examination, a total of forty-five people, have been registered in the Ministry of Officials, and they have studied the new policy for more than a month, and they can fill the vacancy, or serve as an official in the capital, or issue a local official in the state and county, and the roster and positions have been drawn up in the Ministry of Officials, please take a look at it." ”

Luo Zhaoyun nodded slightly, nodded towards the chief eunuch, and the roster was presented.

He quickly glanced at the roster, half of these students are from the Hanmen, half from the Xungui Gate, the proportion is not much different, although the number of Hanmen scholars in the country is relatively large, but because there is no movable type printing in these years, and the paper is also expensive, so the students of the Hanmen may not even be able to get together the books in the war, let alone review in place.

The children of the aristocracy of the gate valve not only have the teaching of private school teachings, but also most of them enter the Tai Academy for further study, master current affairs, contact many views of the upper class, and have a broad vision, so they can still occupy many advantages in the examination.

In terms of filling vacancies in official positions, most of them are also places where the children of the poor families are released, and the children of the nobles are retained in the capital, although it is in line with your current situation, but for the long term, it is not conducive to suppressing the power of the gate valve, and the scholars and rising stars in the capital are still mostly related to the noble birth, which is not what Luo Zhaoyun wants to see.

"Well, from the top ten, leave three Jinshi from other places, stay in the Beijing Division, enter the Hanlin Academy as an editor, understand the rules of the court and the new decree, and then use it in the future, there is no doubt about it." Luo Zhaoyun didn't make big adjustments, because this was Dahua's first imperial examination, and it didn't satisfy him in terms of formality, numbers, or exam content, so there was no need to make a big deduction in it.

"I understand." Du Ruhui gave a salute and returned to the civil official book train.

After Luo Zhaoyun swept over the officials in the main hall, he looked at Wen Yanbo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and asked, "Wen Shangshu, has the new imperial examination system that I explained last time been drawn up?" ”

Wen Yanbo was named by the emperor, and immediately stood up and said: "Back to Your Majesty, it has basically been drawn up, according to the holy will given by Your Majesty before the expedition, the new imperial examination system breaks the practice of the previous dynasty, expands the enrollment ratio, and at the same time the examination is divided into three levels: township examination, meeting examination, and palace examination. Before the township examination, the individual scholars and school children in each county held a preliminary examination, which is also a basic examination, and those who passed the line were called Xiucai and had the qualifications for further examinations. Then the talents of the county and state towns gather in the county seat of the county seat to participate in the examination, which is the township examination, which is scheduled for August every year, also known as 'Qiuqiu', and the person who passes the examination is the lifter.

"People from all over the country need to re-enter Beijing to catch the exam, and the imperial court established the main examination of the tribute institute, and the 'spring fu' examination was carried out in the beginning of spring in February, and those who passed could be called tribute. Finally, all the tributes take a final exam in front of the temple to compete for the final ranking. The imperial court will put three top lists, the first three are the champion, the list eye, the flower, the Jinshi and the first; The seventeenth place in the second class, born as a jinshi; The third class is eighty people, and they are given the same Jinshi background. There are a total of 100 candidates, and when the time comes, His Majesty and the officials can appoint officials according to their ranks, personalities, and abilities! ”

The civil and military officials of the imperial court were a little inexplicable when they heard these new rules, and they didn't seem to have heard of them before.

What champions, lists, tanhua, what top three lists, jinshi and rank, etc., and the number has also increased a lot, but the name of Xiucai seems to have been lowered, increasing the identity of people and tributes.

However, it seems to be more rigorous and cumbersome, and it is obviously more important than the imperial examination of the previous dynasty, and the number of candidates for scholars is expanded.

"Very good!" Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and others kept nodding their heads and approved of this system, and other court officials did not raise their voices to question it.

In the Han Dynasty, when the inspection system was used, the folk talents recommended by the states were called "Xiucai". In the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to avoid the ridicule of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiucai changed his name to Maocai. Maocai is mainly to select people with geniuses, so it is usually called "Maocai Exceptional" or "Maocai Maverick". Xiucai was originally a special lift, and in the late Western Han Dynasty, it became a year-old move, and the main person was the assassin of history, so it formed a system of state and county.

In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui opened up the pioneer of the Chinese imperial examination system, he felt that there were drawbacks in the recommendation system since the Han Dynasty, and it was easy to bury real talents, so he abandoned the recommendation system, reformed the imperial examination system, and used the examination method to select outstanding talents.

In the "Biography of Du Zhengxuan in the Northern History", the difficulty of the "policy theory" at that time was recorded, and the chief examiner took Du Zhengxuan's "Policy Theory" to the prime minister Yang Su, Yang Su questioned: "Even if the reincarnation of Zhou Gong and Confucius can't be admitted to Xiucai, how can you recommend people in private?" Later, after Yang Su's personal assessment, he also sighed: "This is a real talent, I can't do it!" ”

However, after the rank of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, only at the beginning of the Great Cause, the imperial examination system was held several times, and later, as his ambition swelled, he toured the north and the south everywhere, which led to the stranding of the imperial examination work, especially the three expeditions to Goguryeo, the chaos in the world, etc., so that the imperial examination was interrupted for several years, and there was no time to care about it anymore.

Nowadays, Luo Zhaoyun combined the imperial examination system of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, took its essence and removed its dross, and introduced Xiucai, Juren, Gongshi, and the top three champions into this era, which is more easy to understand, and at the same time increases the number of places year by year, supplementing them to the ranks of officials, and breaking the monopoly position of the gate lord nobles.

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