The imperial examination system is undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions of the ancient Chinese political system, and there is no one.

Even in the world more than 2,000 years later, the imperial examination system still flourished and spread to the whole world, although the imperial examination system at that time had changed its form, and it was called the civil service examination.

In the annual civil service examination of the Great Heavenly Empire, the candidates are like carp crossing the river, and for a quota, countless people study hard in the cold window, and they are poor in vain.

The situation is similar in other countries.

Comfort, stability, comfort, and decency are synonymous with civil servants.

Whether it's called the imperial examination or the civil service examination, the essence is the same, that is, to find operators for the state apparatus!

At this time, Chang'an, as the capital of the Han family and the best place in the world, lived a special group like Beijing in the later Great Heavenly Empire.

Beijing has a north drift, and Chang'an has a long drift.

Beipiao works hard, works hard, and struggles for their dreams, and most people's lives are not optimistic, and some people even live a precarious life.

The situation of Changpiao is even more miserable than that of Beipiao.

The main group of Changpiao are scholars of various schools from all over the Kanto region.

Since the war in the early Han Dynasty gradually died out and the world was restored to stability, the descendants of various universities who had been driven away by the war and had no place to live were finally able to settle down and spread their knowledge.

The first to jump out was Confucianism, and then other schools followed suit.

It's just that because Confucianism is bolder, the pace is faster, and at the same time it has a more systematic mode of teaching, so it gradually began to overwhelm other princes and occupy the mainstream position among scholars.

How does Confucianism do it?

Taking the situation at this time as an example, Hu Wusheng accepted the world's scholars in Lutai as the sixth-generation descendant of the Ram Spring and Autumn Period, and those who came did not refuse.

Its disciples can be described as a gathering of talents.

Later ministers such as Gongsun Hong came from his disciples.

Hu Wusheng's younger brother Dong Zhongshu founded a sect in Guangchuan, and also accepted scholars from all over the world.

In Ludi, the contemporary heir of the Book of Poetry, Shen Gongde is highly respected, and his disciples are all over the court and the opposition, such as Liu Wu, the king of Chu, who has listened to lectures under Shen Gongmen, and later Zhao Juan, Wang Zang, the presiding officer of Emperor Xiaowu's Jianyuan New Deal, are his disciples.

Fu Sheng, a native of Jinan, is another legend, he is an old intellectual who survived the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and keeps the original fragment of the "Book of Shang" in his hand, a total of 29 articles.

Fu Sheng was already famous all over the world when Liu Heng, the ancestor of Liu Xun, was in power.

How did Chao Cuo come about?

It was because he was appointed by Liu Heng as an envoy to Jinan to visit Fu Sheng and invite him to Chang'an to enjoy happiness.

Why did such a good thing fall on the head of Chao Mistake, who was still unknown at the time?

Because the messenger sent earlier could not communicate with Fu Sheng......

Fu Sheng was an intellectual of the older generation, speaking the authentic dialect of Qi during the Warring States Period, while the ministers of the Han family spoke the official dialect of Guanzhong......

Therefore, Chao Mistake, who knew some Qi dialects during the Warring States Period, was sent to complete this task by driving ducks to the shelves.

Five Generations of Rivers, Mountains and Moons

It can be seen that even in this pre-AD era, it was important to be able to master a language!

These top Confucians, of course, are beautiful.

But his disciples may not be.

From the cultural circles that began to recover in the late Lu period, to today, hundreds of thousands of scholars have been trained.

But the vast majority of these people are unlikely to be recommended to serve as bureaucrats.

Therefore, some of these people chose to stay near the palaces of the princes and kings in various places, hoping to gain the attention of the princes and kings, so as to realize their dreams.

Those who were more ambitious came directly to Chang'an, stayed in Chang'an, and formed a long-drifting group.

However, it is not easy to live in Chang'an.

If you want to survive in Chang'an, you need perseverance.

For example, Zhu Maichen, the protagonist of the famous inspirational story, was once a member of Changpiao, how did he survive in Chang'an before he made a career?

According to historical records, Zhu Maichen even had to rely on the alms of his fellow villagers in Chang'an to survive.

Gongsun Hong, another minister of the Xiaowu Emperor's Dynasty, was also a member of Changpiao, but he was lucky, and it didn't take long for him to run into the Jianyuan New Deal and get an official position.

The master's father Yan also served as a long drifter, but he was a little worse than Gongsun Hong, and he still relied on taking refuge in Wei Qing so that he would not be starved to death.

These are all mixed up, and those who don't get out of the way are undoubtedly miserable.

Like Zhu Maichen, if he hadn't met fellow countryman Yan Zhu for help, he probably wouldn't have been able to get ahead in his life.

Most of the Changpiao, according to Liu Xun's understanding, most of them are in Chang'an by copying letters to people and doing some chores, barely making a living.

These people lingered in Chang'an, copying letters every day, doing chores, and collecting food expenses for a few days, and then went out, delivering the poems and essays they wrote at the door of the mansions of various princes and ministers.

I hope to be valued by a nobleman, and I will rise to the top from then on.

One of the best examples is that not long ago, the Huiji people relied on a few poems to successfully impress the late Liang King Liu Wu, became a confidant of the King of Liang, and was also awarded an official.

And usually, every time such good news comes out, it stimulates those scholars who are about to be unable to hold on, grit their teeth, and continue to insist on staying in Chang'an.

Therefore, Liu Xun was not impulsive, but thoughtful, and all kinds of details and aspects had been scrutinized countless times in his previous life.

However, Liu Xun had to pay attention to the feelings of these people.

The reason is very simple, those who are qualified to come to Chang'an and be a long-drifter are at least the local small landlord class.

Otherwise, they won't even be able to enter Hangu Pass!

These people have been trapped in Chang'an for a long time, living a poor life, and after a long time, it is difficult to ensure that they do not have resentment against the Han royal family.

As the Son of Heaven, the resentment of one or two small landlords is naturally nothing.

But what if it's a thousand or ten thousand?

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, it has suffered from a lack of talents.

If there are not enough talents, there are not enough officials, and there are not enough officials to govern the localities, and the so-called centralization of power is one

Empty words.

But this person will not fall from the sky for no reason, even if he can fall from the sky, as the Son of Heaven, how can he know if the other party is a really talented person or a mediocre talent?

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty for decades, in order to solve the problem of lack of talents, starting from Liu Bang, the sons of heaven have been very troubled.

All the methods such as giving a death order to the local government and having to complete a certain number of recommendation tasks have been exhausted, but most of the ministers who come and go in the court are still old faces or second-generation officials, and there are very few who climb up from the bottom.

There is no doubt that the examination will appear, which is not good news for the Han family!

First of all, it is absolutely certain that gatekeeper politics is now on a massive scale and is about to break ground.

Although, in the earlier Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the powerful political clans of the countries were destroyed by the unification war of the Qin State and the heroes of the late Qin Dynasty, and there was not even a trace of Mao left, so that in the previous life, Liu Yu became the Son of Heaven, and it was not easy to find a descendant of the Ji family.

Moreover, Liu Bangdi has set the world and divided the heroes, but it has only been a few decades.

The old aristocracy was completely destroyed, while the new aristocracy was still in its infancy.

The heroes of the early Han Dynasty have even begun to decline now.

Pingyang Hou Cao Shen's family has three generations of single transmission, this generation of Pingyang Hou Cao Zhen Liu Xun has seen in his previous life, he is a very weak scholar, and his health is not good. Pingyang Hou's family is quite good.

The descendants of Zan Hou Xiao He are a tragedy, in the past eleven years, Zan Hou's position has changed by four people.

The descendants who stayed behind Zhang Liang were even more miserable, and when Emperor Taizong Xiaowen took away the title and was reduced to a commoner......

The leading brother is like this, and the younger brothers are not very good.

The descendants of Wuyang Hou Fan Xu accidentally became victims in the process of quelling Zhulu, and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen kindly found him a collateral descendant to inherit the incense in the past, but the people were not angry, and they were actually put on a green hat, and when the Wuyang Hou died, he was exposed, so the Wuyang Hou became history.

Basically, the vast majority of the Chehou are rice worms, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

What's more, they don't have any soldiers......

Politics comes out of the barrel of a gun, and sound comes out of the barrel of a gun.

Without a gun, there is no voice.

What's more, this imperial examination is now being carried out obviously to protect the nobility!

You know, at this time, bamboo slips were used to record knowledge, and bamboo slips were bulky, difficult to copy, and difficult to preserve.

This means that the difficulty of the average poor person to acquire knowledge is geometrically higher than that of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Thus, in fact, knowledge was monopolized by the aristocracy.

For example, many classics that can be seen casually in later generations, such as the Book of Songs, the Analects, and the Book of Shang, were all occupied by private individuals at this time, hidden at home, and most of them were fragments.

In real history, the original Liu Xun was able to leave his name in the history books because he participated in the rescue and protection of the Book of Songs!

Moreover, there is also a cost to study, and if there is not enough family fund, how many poor people can afford to study without a job?

Therefore, if the so-called imperial examination is really carried out in the world, then it must be a feast for the nobles and the powerful, and it basically has nothing to do with the commoners! Even if a few civilians are occasionally missed, wouldn't that be harmless?

The most important point is that after the chaos of the Lu family, the princes and ministers fought back, and then Liu Xun's grandfather Liu Heng was afraid that the heroes would be high, so he played a beautiful pass and catch the ball, and drove Chen Ping and Zhou Bo back to the feudal country, and purged them three times before and after, which directly led to a vicious result that all the princes feared, and they had no spokesperson in the court.

Therefore, the central elites, who can contain local forces, can no longer be relied on.

And when the court was left without the spokesmen of these people, the consequences began to appear.

Officer? Not for them!

The powerful positions of the county guards, the overseers of the vassal states, the prime ministers, and the lieutenants are basically not their share!

Want to make money? Ting Wei's butcher's knife is worried that it is not bloody!

The Han family basically refused to spare the Marquis of Che if he was caught, and brutally abolished the feudal state at every turn.

For example, later Emperor Xiaowu became the Son of Heaven, under the pretext that the nobles were killed because of the lack of gold quality for the ancestors and the temple, and took off the titles of one hundred and fifty marquis in one go, and all of them were reduced to commoners.

From these things, it can be seen that the Han family does not have the so-called survival soil of the gate valve at all, and some are just fat sheep and rice worms.

As for the local heroes, it is even more of a joke.

The Han dynasty has been open for decades, but the real time of world stability is only more than 20 years, Han Taizu Liu Bang and even when the emperor is constantly leading troops to recruit rebellious kings with different surnames, the period after Lu began to slowly settle down, and when Zhu Lu was pacified, there was not much turmoil in the Han family, and the refugees who hid in the mountains to escape the war began to go down the mountain to settle down.

What kind of place can be produced in just over 20 years?

A very simple evidence is that Zhidu took office as the county guard of Jinan, and after taking office, he first crushed the big families in the county, and as a result, he killed people's heads, but he didn't even protest, and Jinan County even ruled because of this, reaching the point where the road was not left behind!

It was on the basis of these understandings that Liu Xun dared to carry out the imperial examination at this time.

Because first of all, whether it is a local tyrant or a nobleman, they will not refuse and cannot refuse the imperial examination. Only a fool would reject a system that is clearly good for them.

At this time, the imperial examination is not only not a roadblock for the nobles and powerful, but on the contrary, it is also a ticket, a ticket that allows them to participate in politics openly and have the right to speak!

You must know that all the previous recommendation systems have high requirements, for example, first of all, you must be famous in the local area, and this reputation must reach a certain height before you can be recommended, or you are a filial son and grandson, and you are recommended because of morality.

You must know that in these years, the bureaucratic class and the landlords have not yet evolved to the point of later generations, and dramas such as raising hopes have not yet been invented.

So for the time being, no one dares to cheat on the matter of recommendation......

Moreover, opposition is invalid!

No soldiers, no guns, no guns

Power is not powerful, who will listen to their opposition!

Of course, Liu Xun will not be so naïve as to immediately let the imperial examination replace the current recommendation system, which is unrealistic!

In later generations, from the Sui Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, after hundreds of years, the imperial examination truly replaced the recommendation system and became the mainstream

Because the questions were too simple, the first exam ended quickly.

The last scholar to hand in the papers only lasted two hours.

Liu Xun looked at the group of high-spirited scholars who gathered together to talk about the examination, and already knew that he had succeeded!

The topic is too simple, and almost all the scholars feel that they can pass the test smoothly - even if they are indiscriminate, they are still boasting at this time, thinking that they have entered the next round safely.

"Now you understand why, right?" Liu Xun smiled and said to Han Zeng: "The heroes of the world, all in my urn!" ”

Han Zeng also bowed convincingly at this time, "Your Majesty is far-sighted, and the minister is just the first to be the first!" ”

This examination really opened Han Zeng's eyes, and it is no exaggeration to say that it opened a window to a new world for Han Zeng.

Before this, Han Zeng had never thought that it would be so simple to buy people's hearts.

Liu Xun didn't do anything, and thousands of scholars read him.

Liu Xun laughed.

Whether ancient or modern, human nature is the same, and they all yearn for recognition and respect.

What is a nerd who has been studying hard for decades?

Do you want to be an official? Or get rich?

Maybe it's a bit of both.

However, the vast majority of intellectuals at this time were the descendants of nobles, wealthy people, and landlords, and to be honest, they basically belonged to the rich second generation.

Especially the children of the Marquis of Che, are they really rare to have a so-called Baishi official position?

For intellectuals, gaining the recognition and respect of the world is a spiritual enjoyment that far surpasses all material things.

And Liu Xun simplified the topic, which is equivalent to giving the green light to all the scholars, as long as they are not straw bale stupid and barely have some culture, they can basically pass his first round of examinations.

In this way, they were equivalent to gaining the approval of the imperial court.

Even if he is eliminated in the end, with this recognition, when he returns to his hometown, he can brag and pose in front of his parents and fellow villagers, right?

Even Xiang Yu said that wealth and nobility do not return to their hometowns, such as walking at night in brocade.

Not to mention these vain literati!

In this way, Liu Xun kidnapped these scholars, and from now on, whoever dares to say that Liu Xun is wrong will be tantamount to questioning their reputation.

The so-called party is the same and the strength of thousands of soldiers is simply a killer weapon at the nuclear level at this time.

Of course, Liu Xun has another intention in doing this.

Liu Xun looked at Han Zeng with a smile and paced a few steps gently.

In the design of the whole examination, the second round is the key.

As a traverser, Liu Xun naturally knows what mathematics is?

Math is the king of science!

It is the foundation of all technology!

It is the core of the wisdom of all civilizations!

The brutal elimination rate of the second round of examinations will make all scholars pay attention to and pay attention to mathematics, so that over time, mathematics will become a concern for people of all schools.

In this way, the great cause can be accomplished!

Because, Liu Xun knows, other things can be promoted by genius, but mathematics can't!

Without a one-dimensional quadratic equation, it is impossible to come up with a two-dimensional quadratic equation.

If you can't solve pi, what can you use to find the volume of the sphere?

"Let's go, go back to read the papers......" Liu Xun waved his hand, and the observation of the scholars on this trip out of the palace made him feel very relieved to go back and start preparing for the next round of math exams.

Back in the palace, Liu Xun saw that all the test papers had been sealed in wooden boxes one by one, and Huo Guang took Hu Jian and two groups of people to guard the left and right to guard against any problems that might arise.

This examination is not only very important to Liu Xun, but also to them, the ruling team of the Han Dynasty!

"It's time to start grading!" Liu Xun ordered.

"No!" Huo Guang nodded, and asked his subordinates to open the wooden box and take out all the test papers.

Because the examination is a rough creation, Liu Xun did not engage in any secrecy methods such as vague names, and the names and origins of all the people on the papers are public.

Huo Guang took the officials drawn from the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Yamen of the Jiuqing Temple, and began to read them one by one.

Liu Xun asked Huang Xie to prepare refreshments, and sat on a soft couch to close his eyes and recuperate, during this time, Liu Xun was indeed a little tired.

After lying on the soft couch for more than an hour, Liu Xun got up, ate something, and then asked Huang Xie: "Huo Guang, how are they reading the papers?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I'm almost halfway there!" Huang Xie replied, as he said, he gently lowered his shoulders to Liu Xun, "I guess I should be able to complete the marking before sunset!" ”

Liu Xun nodded and didn't say anything.

Because the topic is too simple, Liu Xun's requirements are also very low, so, this so-called grading, according to Liu Xun's requirements, just check whether the article written is smooth, whether there are many typos, and then there are no taboo things, as long as the sentences are smooth, the logic is reasonable and there is no gibberish, it will all pass!

In this way, the speed and efficiency of marking will naturally be greatly improved.

After thinking about it, Liu Xun instructed, "You go and tell them, every time you pass a person, write down their name and place of origin, and tomorrow morning, Zhang Bang will be under the Lubu of Chang'an......"

After thinking for a while, Liu Xun added, "Tell them, do it beautifully, you might as well make it bigger, it's best to go to Shaofu and ask a group of people with loud voices to read out the names of those who passed under the cloth!" ”

In the imperial examination of later generations, the Jinshi had to ride a horse to parade through the streets, and the Donghua Gate was called by the name.

This is only the first round, there is no need to be grand, but you also have to find a way to take care of the face of those scholars and let them know that it is an honorable thing to pass the first round!

What's more, the cost of doing so is small, but the benefits are big!

"No!" Huang Xie nodded and went down to order.