On the eighth day of the fourth month, the early dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Yunxi waited for the nonsense without nutrition to finish, then stood up and said, "If I remember well, this year is the year of the township test, right?" Now, all parts of the country should have begun to screen first- and second-class talents. "According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, Xiucai is divided into six classes, and only those who rank in the top two are eligible to participate in the township examination.

The civil officials didn't answer, mainly because they didn't know what Yun Xi wanted to say, so they didn't dare to answer at will. Now the authority of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is still there, so after Yunxi officially issued an edict, although there were many civil officials who went up to the court, none of them dared to mention the 'protection of military marriage regulations' when they were in the last dynasty.

Yun Xi continued to sing a one-man show and said, "A few days ago, I couldn't help but think of the exam two years ago. At that time, for various reasons, and narrow-minded people also added regional views, which was really a mess. ”

"Fortunately, in the end, Taizu made a quick decision, quickly cut through the chaos and solved the matter, and demarcated the north and south lists for fairness."

"But when I think about it these days, I feel that even if the north-south list is demarcated, there are many provinces in the north and south, and the regional views are difficult to dispel."

"And even if it is a township test, the people of various prefectures and counties cannot get along with each other completely."

"I thought about it again, the number of talents in each province is distributed to each county, and how many talents are admitted in each county and each subject."

"So I thought, why can't you admit people and tributes?"

"In each township examination, the number of people admitted is about the same. I decided to divide the number of people admitted to each subject to the prefectures of each province and the state of the Zhili Political Envoy, and the number of students admitted to each subject in each prefecture and the state of the Zhili Political Envoy Division was fixed, so that there would be no competition within a province. ”

"It's the same with the try. The number of students admitted to each subject will be divided into provinces, and the number will be fixed, so as not to hurt the harmony due to fierce competition. ”

"In addition, I will also adjust the content of the imperial examination. 'Mathematics' is one of the six arts of a gentleman, but since the Song Dynasty has come to the imperial examination but has never taken the 'number' test, I decided to increase the examination of 'number' in the imperial examination in the future. ”

"However, considering that the township examination is approaching, this year's township examination and next year's general examination will not increase the test and content of 'number', and will be added when the next township examination is held."

"What I said above, do you think Aiqing is appropriate?"

'Numbers' is the knowledge of mathematics. In ancient times, Huaxia still attached great importance to mathematics and listed it as one of the six arts of a gentleman, so Yun Xi could directly propose to increase the assessment of mathematical knowledge in the imperial examination.

If Yun Xi only proposed to add mathematics to the imperial examination, he would have to argue about it when he went to court.

But just now Yun Xi also talked about the admission of shards, and all of a sudden no one paid attention to whether to add mathematical content to the imperial examination, and everyone disregarded etiquette and talked about it in the court.

After the 30-year scientific expedition case of Hongwu, it has been divided into the north and south lists, with the north accounting for 40 percent and the south accounting for 60 percent. Historically, during the Kangxi reign of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the provincial admission system was officially implemented, which began the beginning of provincial admission in China.

From the perspective of talent selection alone, provincial admission is not a good way. Those major scientific research provinces in the south of the Yangtze River may be more powerful than the average jinshi in the northern provinces. And in the middle and late Ming Dynasty in history, except for the first auxiliary that had a few mountain selenium, the other first auxiliary were all southerners, which is enough to show that the south is more powerful than the north.

But the imperial examination, or the system of electing officials, has never been just about selecting suitable officials. Western countries have always been feudal, and territories are fiefs, so those who are enclosed here will inevitably protect the people of their fiefs, even if it is for their own better exploitation of fiefs, and they will try to fight for interests in higher-level meetings, such as the Estates-General in France.

The East has been a monarchy since Qin Shi Huang, and since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, feudalism has been completely abolished, and the central government has not had any meetings to reconcile contradictions like in the West.

However, the solution is all thought of, and everyone soon discovered that in fact, officials can play the role of representatives of public opinion. If something happens in the hometown, the local officials will come out to support the court and protect the interests of the local people. And if no one comes out to be an official in a place for a long time, the county officials from other places will have less scruples when they squeeze the locality, and the local people and big families will be more oppressed, so it is very important whether there is anyone in a place who is an official.

It was also important for the emperor to at least ensure that there were people in every province as officials, which was a good way to gather people's hearts. Historically, no one was admitted to the Jinshi for more than 70 years after the independence of the province, and Xuanye made a decision to admit the province, and then the whole province of Glycosu shouted 'Holy Heavenly Grace', and the Ganshan Green Battalion also became the most trusted non-banner army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Now Yun Xi looked at the minister standing in the audience. After such a while, everyone also came to their senses. Qi Tai and other auxiliary officials are Yunxi's cronies and ministers, so it is inconvenient to fire first. So the first to speak was the official Shangshu Lian Zining.

Lian Zining said: "Your Majesty, the matter of the imperial examination was originally to select talents. As we all know, this talent is not evenly distributed in each province and each state capital, if the place is limited, then there will be a talent who will not be able to stand out, Your Majesty think twice! "Lian Zining is a native of Qianxi, and Xixi is also a major province for the imperial examination, although it is divided into the north and south lists, it is still possible to occupy the quota in Guangxi and other places, so he resolutely opposes provincial admission.

Jing Qing immediately said: "Your Majesty's move is very good. Although the imperial examination is to select talents, it is also necessary to pay attention to fairness. The minister thinks that the provincial admission is to take into account fairness and the selection of talents, which is very good. "He is a native of Sanqin Zhenning (now Zhengning County), and even if they are divided into the north and south lists, it is difficult for them to compete with people from the mountains and selenium, Beiping, Shandong, and other places, so they almost have to raise their hands to welcome.

This kind of matter of interest worry, character and morality are not important, everyone is desperate to fight for the interests of their hometown. Although it is impossible for civil servants to shout in public, each official actively fights for the interests of his own place.

People like Fang Xiaoru and Bang Zhao, who were born in the northern and southern provinces of the imperial examination, are opposed to provincial admission; And people like Ju Jing, who are also from the Ganshan area, support provincial admission.

Qi Tai, as a native of Yingtianfu, did not help each other at this time and did not speak; Although Chen Xingshan is also a mountain selenium person, his hometown Shanyin County has few people, and this time even the people are admitted by the state government, so he supports separate admissions.

Naturally, this kind of thing is not something that can be decided by an early dynasty, and there are many people who are qualified to go to the court.

Overall, there are a bit more people who support separate admissions than those who don't. Although it is not a good thing for them to admit tributes from several major imperial examination provinces, they are also admitted separately, so those who come out of remote areas of the imperial examination provinces also turn to support separate admission or neutrality. However, the small provinces of the imperial examination are one-sidedly in favor of separate admission, so all of a sudden, those who support separate admission outweigh those who do not.

Therefore, Yunxi successfully implemented this separate admission system.