It stands to reason that the Tang Dynasty's Jinshi examination began last winter and ended in the spring of next year, so why hasn't it been held yet?

The reason is very simple, Gao Yue, as a servant of the Ministry of Officials, led the troops to fight last winter, and the selection was entrusted to Lang Zhong and Wailang, and the emperor did not know how long Huating would fight, so he simply said that the Jinshi Examination would be postponed later, and he would preside over the examination after Gao Yanlang's victory: because of the Jinshi and the first, he had to pass the examination of the Ministry of Officials before he could have an official background.

The emperor said that he would wait for the third year of high school, and the ministers did not have any objections, so Chun Yu was put on hold.

Now Gao Yue is presiding over the northwest camp at the same time, returning to the court, although the above table is going to resign as a servant of the ministry, but he also suggested to the emperor: "From now on, you might as well take the Jinshi and the Ming Jing." The three departments of the system are merged to facilitate the selection of talents. ”

The emperor was a little stunned, which meant that the examination was a poster, and the jinshi had to ask questions and essays, and the system was divided into multiple subjects according to the needs of current affairs, and the three were not connected, so how to merge them?

Gao Yue said with a smile, it might as well be so, the two subjects of the Ming Jing and Jinshi will be unified under the auspices of the Ministry of Rites, cancel the original posting of the Ming Jing Department, unify the two categories of Moce and Shiwu Ce, and use poetry and essays as additional test subjects.

The meaning of these words is that the content of the examination of the Ming scriptures has obviously not met the expectations of the world, and the so-called sticking scriptures is to memorize various scriptures, and then fill in the silent writing, and finally it is just a "wall puppet", and most of the essentials in the scriptures are ignorant, so Gao Yue advocates canceling the pasting scriptures.

As for Moze, the questions are based on the scriptures, and then the candidates write "reading comprehension" in words; Current policy is that the chief secretary asks questions according to the affairs of the world, and the candidates come to "ask" with words.

Poetry essays are used as additional test content, and it is also Gao Yue's move to take care of those who are proficient in scripture and righteousness, but suffer from not understanding poetry and rhyme - they can choose not to do the additional test content.

Then Gao Yue suggested that as long as the results of the three subjects of Moce, Shiwuce and Shifu Essays were combined, and those required by the Ministry of Rites were all Jinshi, but they were divided into five grades, namely the "five first", and the first two were presided over by the Son of Heaven himself.

erudite and scholarly subjects, you can not wait for the election, and directly grant the position of school secretary to each government office;

Broadcom's Department of Grave Classics, which also directly teaches the position of chemistry and politics;

The Diocesan Department and the Detailed Officials Science Department can be directly awarded to the county orders in various places (yes, except for Chi County and Ji County, the county orders can be directly granted);

The military strategy Hongdake can be directly awarded the position of border general;

The virtuous and virtuous Fangzheng Branch can be directly given the position of supervising the enshrinement in the imperial history;

Minglu is good at arithmetic, which is a subject of "other strengths", and can be directly awarded the post of county lieutenant in each county.

As for the Jinshi of the last three grades, they still need to be elected, but they can participate in the "equal judgment and other grades" of the Ministry of Officials (now there is only this subject left in the Ministry of Officials, and the erudite and scholarly judges are accepted by the emperor), and those who pass can also be awarded officials.

Obviously, Gao Yue's reform proposal is aimed at expanding the qualified grassroots group in the national bureaucracy, and to put it bluntly, at the level of county orders.

In the past in the official residence of Xingyuan Mansion, Yun He once said to him that now in the whole country, talented people want to stay in the capital or Jinnei for their posts, and they are reluctant to go to places a little farther away. In addition, through the selection of some county orders by the Son of Heaven, this group of people will also be protégés of the Son of Heaven in the future, and the preparatory layer of the middle and high-level bureaucrats in the future will not be cut off by the state in terms of talents, which will be more conducive to the direct control of the bureaucracy by the Son of Heaven.

Gao Yue also advocated the resumption of the "selection examination" at the prefecture level, and the outstanding ones could not only directly participate in the Ministry of Rites Examination as "township tribute", but also be recommended to enter the Guozijian for further study, and after passing the examination of the Ministry of Rites, they could directly cancel the three-year election period as an official (similar to the current university study period is counted as seniority) - Gao Yue also wanted to use this to restore the prestige of the local school administration and the highest school of the Guozijian, after all, he was born as a student of the Guozijian Taitai.

In terms of the amount of admission, in this year's examination, the top five are combined, and Gao Yue asks His Majesty to expand it to three hundred. In the past, the Tang Dynasty Jinshi was the most difficult to test, and there were only twenty or thirty people every year, and although the Ming Jingke was known as easy, there were only one hundred and thirty or forty people every year. Whether it is Jinshi or Mingjing, the standard is "rather lack than abuse".

So the emperor was a little worried, saying that the admission quota that swelled to three hundred all of a sudden, would it be flooded, and would it be mixed with a large number of mediocre talents?

Gao Yue said with a smile, the ancients, there must be faithfulness within ten rooms, as long as Your Majesty can carefully choose, with the breadth of my Tang world, more than 1,500 counties, which county does not need excellent officials? Which county can't produce an excellent candidate for the governor? Three hundred is less, more than 1,000 is too flooding, and in a few years, His Majesty can set it at about five hundred, which is the most appropriate.

In the future, the highest governor at the level of Fang Zhen, the Jie Du Envoy, the Observation Envoy, and the Great Yin, were responsible for the prime minister's local military and political affairs and served His Majesty; The history of thorns at the state level only needs to be supervised and taxed; And what should really be paid attention to is the county ordinances of more than 1,500 counties, because they are the ones who really govern the people!

"I would like to hear the opinions of the third year of high school." The Emperor said.

Gao Yue asked the emperor to finalize the duties of the county order in the form of a formal order, which generally has seven points, defending the land and preventing theft (the shooters of the scattered tun can be dispatched by the county order), managing the tuntian (the county commander is also the county's tuntian envoy), adjudicating lawsuits, managing the warehouse, supervising the administration of the school, collecting taxes and implementing the imperial court policy, and the assessment of the county order is also determined by these seven points.

"Your Majesty, in the past, I was blessed with the grace of God and let the ministers personally point to the county orders of Xingyuan Mansion, what has been the political performance of Xingyuan Mansion in the past few years? Your Majesty should also understand. ”

Gao Yue said this, of course, he had confidence, Xingyuan Mansion originally had nearly 40,000 households in Dingkou, in just two or three years, has bred to nearly 80,000 households, the reason for this is that in addition to the addition of the dependents of the Dingwu Army, the main reason is that Gao Yue attaches great importance to the "county order assembly", so that the county order to balance taxes, support poor households, cut off rich households, build local projects, and attract displaced people and mountain sheds, so the hidden Dingkou suddenly appeared, and the assessment of the counties of Xingyuan Mansion is also superior every year.

In the end, in front of the strong persuasive power, the emperor bowed his head and agreed to Gao Yue's suggestion, saying that this year, I personally presided over the system, and the Jinshi obtained from the two disciplines of the book judgment and the detailed official science were sent to the scarce places in various places for county orders, and there was no need to start from the nine products.

After Gao Yue withdrew from the Yanying Palace, soon the entire Jingshi was in a sensation.

Soon after, a young Dr. Taichang impeached him.

This Dr. Taichang is named Li Jifu.