Chapter 123: Intention (1st Update)
After the chief examiner is appointed, the next most important thing is to arrange the exam questions.
In the past, the questions for the examination were selected from the Four Books and the Five Classics.
Candidates then break the question, undertake the question, start to speak, start, start the shares, middle shares, back shares, bundle shares, therefore, the people of the time also call this the eight-strand text.
The disadvantages of the eight-strand essay are obvious, the title is selected from the Four Books and Five Classics, not to mention, the length of the sentence, the complexity of the font, and the pitch must be written in accordance with the established format.
Severely restricting the freedom of the candidates.
Because of this, most of the people who participated in the examination did not listen to the affairs outside the window, and only read the books of the saints, lacking a deep understanding of the political and social environment.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties of the previous life, the disadvantages of the eight-share scholars were obvious.
Once the scholars selected by the Baguwen became officials, they did not have enough experience and knowledge to face the problems of the size of the jurisdiction.
Therefore, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the profession of master began to prevail.
As a result, the rule of officials began to become corrupt.
After all, if one parent official doesn't know anything about the people's livelihood under his rule, how can he make the local government great?
is like Jia Zheng in "Dream of Red Mansions", who has read sage books all his life, and in the end, his eyes are black, and he is allowed to be deceived by domestic slaves without knowing it.
Jia Zhengguo's background, the people below will still deceive the upper and lower, so what about the other prominent people?
I'm afraid it's too much!
Therefore, in this examination, Zhang Lingyang decided to take these moves by surprise, and did not plan to choose a topic from the Four Books and Five Classics.
The topic Zhang Lingyang has already chosen after meeting Zheng Yongji and a few people: The dynasty has been in existence for nearly 200 years, but the treasury is empty, and it is impossible to make ends meet, so what can I do?
Among them, there is naturally Zhang Lingyang's bad taste.
But more, Zhang Lingyang hopes to be able to pass this examination and select a few available people.
As for those nerds who practice literature and art, Zhang Lingyang decided to let them study books for a lifetime in the Hanlin Academy.
After all, Zhang Lingyang Zhao had already made up his mind that the future important ministers of the imperial court would never be selected from the Hanlin Academy.
It was precisely because of this consideration that Zhang Lingyang decided to promote Cao Rui, Gao Pei, and Zhu Kaishan, who were feudal officials, to become the Ministry of Rites, the Criminal Department, and the Ministry of Households.
Maybe Zhu Kaishan, Gao Pei, and Cao Rui were not very honest during their tenure in the local government.
But Zhang Lingyang believes that when they face the chaos and complexity of the government, they will definitely have much more experience than those old scholars of the Hanlin Academy.
Zhang Lingyang promoted the minister with only six words, that is: can do anything, dare to do things!
As for the issue of corruption, Zhang Lingyang from the 21st century has 10,000 ways for them to spit out the money they are greedy for.
Besides, Dongchang and Jinyiwei have really become decorations?
If the officials below do too much, Zhang Lingyang doesn't mind letting Jinyiwei and Dongchang shine their teeth!
Let's see if it's the mouths of those officials, or the embroidered spring knives of Jinyiwei!
What's more, in his previous life, he watched a lot of Manchu dramas, and Zhang Lingyang naturally knew that there was a very powerful system in the middle of the Manchu Dynasty.
That's the guilty money system.
This system was proposed and established by the big corrupt official He Shen, a system of replacing crime with silver.
The purpose, of course, is to collect money for Emperor Qianlong.
There are pros and cons to this system, but after careful consideration, Zhang Lingyang finally decided to announce this system at an appropriate time.
Of course, Zhang Lingyang's criminal discussion silver system was only set up for officials who dare to do things, can do things, and at the same time support themselves.
But if there are really people who are insatiable and put the people in fire and water, even if they pay a huge amount of money, they are afraid that it will be useless.
After all, through the Yangzhou Salt Affairs and the Jinzhong ticket number, Zhang Lingyang has already realized the benefits of copying his home.
At the same time, Zhang Lingyang secretly decided in his heart: In the future, he must carry forward this family system and be a good example for his children and grandchildren!
The reason is not that it is the fastest way to get money from the house?
Zhang Lingyang would not be stupid to learn from Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, and pulled out the silver in his inner pocket one by one, and finally the inner silver was cleaned, and the Ming Dynasty also perished!
After thinking about the questions of the exam, Zhang Lingyang did not inform the examiner Li Guangtai in time.
After all, it is not uncommon for exam questions to be leaked in this era
Besides, once the exam questions are leaked, it must not be a trivial matter, and it will definitely cause a shock in the world.
Of course, the world in the 'shaking of the world' here is only for the scholars.
In fact, for the people who are bitter, what does it have to do with whether the exam questions are leaked or not?
To tell the truth, whether the incumbent magistrate is a clean official or a corrupt official, the taxes that the people should pay still have to be paid.
And sometimes a clean official is more terrible than a corrupt official, after all, a corrupt official knows what is enough to stop.
However, the vast majority of Qing officials did not know that the masters and officials below were expropriating and extorting money without knowing it, and they thought that under their own governance, the people in the jurisdiction were rich, but what eventually led to it was a civil uprising.
Such things are not uncommon in the Great Week.
Zhang Lingyang once looked through the local chronicles of the Great Zhou Dynasty and found that as long as it was a place of popular uprising, among the ten places, there were actually seven local officials who were very honest during their tenure.
Although they were honest officials, they never accepted bribes of even a penny.
But they are unscrupulous mediocre officials.
In the face of such officials, you say that you want to punish them, they have always been conscientious and conscientious during their tenure, and they have never done anything for personal gain, and their crimes are a bit too petty.
But if their sins are not punished, how can they be explained to the people?
Since you have to do everything with the masters and officials below, what's the use of asking you as a parent official?
Is it not possible for you to explain the books of the sages to the people every day?
Besides, the imperial examination is just a trivial matter for Zhang Lingyang.
So what's the big deal?
Naturally, it is the fetus in the womb of the queen and the king.
After the Spring Festival, Queen Wang is nine months pregnant.
At present, the date of childbirth is getting closer and closer, and Zhang Lingyang is naturally very concerned.
After all, he is a human being in two lives, and this is Zhang Lingyang's first child.
Zhang Lingyang is naturally more nervous than anyone else.
After appointing Li Guangtai as the chief examiner, Zhang Lingyang did not even go to the Firearms Bureau.
The concubines in the harem, Zhang Lingyang has never patronized even once!
It's already a saint-like existence!
Every day, after getting up and having breakfast, Zhang Lingyang will come to Changchun Palace to accompany Queen Wang to relieve boredom.
The people who are nervous about the body of the queen's palace are naturally not only Zhang Lingyang.
Empress Dowager Xu was also nervous in her heart.
Although Empress Xu would prefer to see her niece Xu Wanming pregnant with a dragon fetus.
But in the end, the child in the queen's womb is her first grandson!
It is related to the Jiangshan Society of the Great Zhou.
The reason why he is so sure is, of course, that Imperial Doctor Li has been diagnosed, and there is no doubt that Queen Wang is indeed a baby boy in her womb......