As soon as he returned to Guzang, Wei Shuo immediately ordered Li Wei, the new governor of Liangzhou. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He ordered him to speed up the completion of the reorganization of the government army and to exterminate the bandits and rebellious soldiers in various places as soon as possible.

When Li Wei learned that the Dadu Protector was blocked and robbed by the routs on the way to inspect, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Early the next morning, he immediately conveyed the order of the Dadu Protector in the Governor's Palace.

"Ladies and gentlemen, most of the metropolitan guards are very dissatisfied with the fact that the Governor's Mansion has been unable to complete the reorganization of the government and soldiers, resulting in a disaster of bandits in various places."

"It is strictly ordered that all bandits must be caught within a month."

"Huh? One month? Time...... Will you be too short on time? ”

"To tell you the truth, on the way back from Dadu Escort yesterday, he was robbed by robbers, which made the Governor of Pontus lose face."

"Hmph, no matter what, the defeated soldiers and robbers must be wiped out within a month."

"No, my subordinates will receive orders."

When the generals of the Governor's Mansion suddenly heard that Wei Shuo had encountered bandits, they no longer dared to complain about the time constraints, and they all said that they would send troops to suppress the bandits as soon as possible.

When the Governor's Mansion seized the time to reorganize the government soldiers and exterminate the rebels, Wei Shuo was discussing political affairs with the heads of the Metropolitan Protectorate.

"In order to facilitate management, I intend to abolish the names of private counties in various places since Yongjia, and Qilian County and Jinchang County will all be restored to counties."

"From today on, Liangzhou will restore the original system of Cao Wei, and govern the six counties of Wuwei, Xijun, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Xihai and Dunhuang."

"Shazhou is set up in the Western Regions, and the administrative office is Gaochang, which has jurisdiction over five counties: Yanqi, Wulei, Gaochang, Shanshan, and Cheshi."

"Among them, Gao Chang Taishou Guo Wen was transferred to the position of Shazhou Assassin, and Yang Han was transferred to the position of Liangzhou Assassin."

"In addition, in order to make up for the shortage of officials in Wuwei, Xihai, Zhangye, and Xijun, I intend to hold the imperial examination in September to recruit talents."

"It is the right time to hold the imperial examination in September, and the first batch of students will graduate from the higher education hall at the end of June, just in time to participate in the imperial examination."

"Imperial examinations? What is the imperial examination system? "Except for Yin Jing and Song Xuan, everyone present still doesn't know what the imperial examination is.

"The imperial examination, also known as the scientific examination, as the name suggests, is to use the examination to select talents, in which what to test and how to take the test are determined by the government."

"In the future, only those who have passed the scientific examination in Hexi will be qualified to be officials."

"The scientific examination is not based on the background as the assessment standard, but only on the students' scientific examination results, and its core is meritocracy."

"Dare to ask the lord, will there be no more Yin officials in Hexi in the future?"

"That's right, in the future, the shadow officials will all be changed to guarantee the qualifications of each university hall to study, if you have the qualifications to enter the school, if you can't pass the scientific examination, it can only prove that this person is mediocre."

"In this way, we should avoid a large number of corpses and vegetarians, and let those who are really capable occupy important positions."

"Meritocracy? Won the imperial examination? I'm afraid that as soon as this strategy comes out, Hexi will really become the target of public criticism. Zhang Zhan smiled wryly.

Zhang Zhan, Zong Chang, Kan Qiu, Shi Wei, Zhao Rou, Yin Jing and other Cao chiefs all showed bitter faces.

Everyone knows that the new policies in Hexi in the past are just taking advantage of the family's economic privileges.

Now, as soon as the imperial examination system is introduced, it is obvious that it wants to abolish the political privileges of the family.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, families and nobles have naturally had the privilege of being officials, and they have never been deprived, so you can imagine how much backlash it will cause.

Wei Shuo's imperial examination is also out of helplessness, and today's nine-product Zhongzheng system has long been useless.

It has become a tool for the monopoly of officialdom by wealthy families, and has lost its original intention of selecting materials for the country.

If you continue to rely on the selection of materials in the nine products, it may not take a few years, and Hexi will become another Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Moreover, considering that the founding nobles of all dynasties and dynasties seem to be unable to escape the fate of rising, prospering, corrupting, and degenerating.

In his opinion, it was the privilege of the shadow officials that caused the aristocracy to have a weak sense of competition and gradually lose their ambition to struggle.

Now Wei Shuo introduced scientific research and abolished the shadow officials, the purpose of which was to enhance the sense of distress of the nobles and force them to constantly improve themselves.

He hopes that in the future, such a tradition can be formed in Hexi: no matter how strong the father is, if the descendants do not fight, the family may only prosper for one generation.

In order to force the magnates to pay attention to the cultivation of future generations, in order to delay the corruption and degeneration of the aristocracy.

"What about the public criticism? If there are more lice, you are not afraid of biting, and if you have more debts, you will not worry. ”

"Anyway, Hexi has long been hated by the family, so what's the point of adding a little more hatred?"

"And all your descendants are the second generation of officials, and they have a lot of convenience."

"If you are not as good as an ordinary scholar, find a piece of tofu as soon as possible and kill your head, how can a useless person like this be qualified to enjoy the shadow of his father?"

Wei Shuo hated the most in his life a gentleman who didn't learn and didn't know how to fight, and only knew cockfighting.

In addition to relying on their fathers for power and blessing and wasting food, this generation is of no use to the family and the country.

The descendants of nobles and powerful people are born with more convenience than ordinary people, and they should have achieved more things.

But there are few successful people recorded in the annals of history, and most of the children of the powerful can only eat and wait for death, and achieve nothing.

"Shuo knows that once the imperial examination comes out, it will inevitably touch the family's backlash and will inevitably cause a strong backlash."

"Hexi is afraid that there will never be peace, do you have the courage to work together with Shuo to tide over the difficulties?"

"Ministers dare not serve the power of death?" Song Xuan, Yin Jing, Zhang Zhan, Kan Qiu, and Shi Wei expressed their willingness to advance and retreat with Wei Shuo.

"Okay, with your help, why worry about big things?"

Wei Shuo immediately instructed Zuo Changshi Song Xuan to make a rumor, "Let the news of the imperial examination go out first, and attract scholars to come for reference." ”

Unexpectedly, Song Miao spread his hands, and his face was full of embarrassment: "At the moment, the minister is confused, how to operate, please publicize it." ”

can't blame Song Miao for asking Wei Shuo for everything, in fact, among all the people, only he knows the specific details of the scientific expedition, and the rest of the people don't know what the scientific expedition is.

"Specifically, the imperial examination is divided into a preliminary examination and a second examination."

"In addition, Shuo plans to set up a new Cao, who will be responsible for scientific research in the future."

"The content of the preliminary examination focuses on Neo-Confucianism and arithmetic."

"Considering that the scientific examination is to select talents for the government, talents are needed to seek their positions in their positions."

"For example, the Tingwei Mansion definitely needs to understand the law."

"And the officials of Ji Cao have to be familiar with all kinds of account books, and have profound knowledge of arithmetic, otherwise if they can't read the account books, won't they make people laugh off their big teeth?"

"Therefore, the re-examination will be based on the Fucao selected by the scholars, and they will be assessed separately in arithmetic, law, business, ink, engineering, etc., in order to select qualified talents."

"In fact, to put it bluntly, the scientific examination should select talents with practical ability, and those who only know how to talk about it will not be recorded."

"Lord, how many people were selected for this scientific expedition? Is there a maximum limit? ”

"Considering that Hexi is currently preliminarily determined and urgently needs to supplement talents, the number of admissions this time is tentatively set at 100, and adjustments will be made according to the facts in the future."

"Of course, talent selection alone is not enough, there should also be a matching reward and punishment system."

"Shuo hopes that the officials will come up with relevant systems such as the promotion, dismissal, and retirement of officials as soon as possible, so as to standardize the management of officials."

In ancient times, unless an official took the initiative to resign or return to his hometown, as long as he remained cautious and did not make mistakes, and did not get involved in political struggles, he could basically stay in the officialdom for the rest of his life.

Now Weishuo has introduced a retirement system, obviously to abolish the lifelong system.

In the future, everyone has been an official for half their lives and has tasted the delicious taste of power, how can they just retire?

However, now that Wei Shuo's face is full of determination, he will definitely not make a compromise.

I'm afraid that even Song Miao didn't expect that a imperial examination system would involve so many interest disputes.

It seems that Wei Shuo also felt that the mandatory retirement was too radical, and finally added: "In order to take care of the meritorious ministers, there will be pension institutions such as the Honor House in the future to house the retired meritorious veterans." ”

Although everyone was not very satisfied, they also knew that this was the biggest concession Wei Shuo had made, so they could only pinch their noses and agree in the end.

Seeing that everything was properly discussed, Wei Shuo smiled happily and communicated with his henchmen one by one to appease the panicked people.

This is also thanks to the initial decision of Hexi, and all parts of the country are waiting to be revived, so Wei Shuo can be wantonly swayed.

Otherwise, any stable regime that wants to make reforms will inevitably pay a greater price.

Soon, the news of the upcoming scientific expedition in Hexi spread far and wide, and instantly spread all over Hexi and Longyou, and even Guanzhong and Central Plains scholars also had rumors.

Not to mention how fiercely the family opposed, after hearing the news, the scholars of various poor families packed their bags and wanted to go to Hexi to participate in the scientific expedition.

At the same time, Meng Yao, the tiger girl of the Meng family, ignored the opposition of her family, and resolutely came to the Duhu Mansion and signed up to serve as a guard.

Meng Yao's arrival not only made Wei Shuo overjoyed, but also made Kang Long breathe a sigh of relief, he was finally able to get rid of mundane affairs and concentrate on protecting Wei Shuo's safety.