Originally, in history, the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was under the management of the Ministry of Officials, and the chief examiner was a member of the Ministry of Officials, and the official position was not large. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info because the chief of each ministry is Shangshu, the deputy chief is Shilang, and the subordinates are divided into four divisions, the chief of the division is Langzhong, and the deputy chief is this outsider. Don't look at it as the deputy director of a department under the ministry, but compared to the official level of later generations, it is just a department-level cadre.

Such a low-level official presiding over such an important official selection examination, the pressure is very great, he has no way to make decisions on many things, and he himself lacks authority, and any official who is older than him may force him to tamper with the results of the imperial examination.

Saying that the results of the imperial examination are so easy to tamper with is that everyone does not know the examination situation in the Tang Dynasty. The later Song Dynasty, as well as the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, all implemented the name system, that is, the candidate's name and place of origin were pasted on paper, but in the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was not vague, that is, whether it was the chief examiner, or the official who read the paper, or the person who could see the examination paper at all levels, anyway, everyone could see who the owner of the paper was.

This leaves a great opportunity to tamper with the results, as long as someone buys or persecutes, you can let the examiner, the marking officer change the score at will, you can give a high score to the candidate who is not good in the test, you can also give a low score to the candidate who is very good, and it can be selected according to the name of the candidate, the operability here is too great, and it completely affects the openness, fairness and justice of the exam.

Of course, when Wu Yuanqing talked to Li Shimin, he had already said the benefits of the name system, and Li Shimin also stipulated that all levels of examinations should be named.

However, Li Shimin, the department in charge of the examination and the candidate for the chief examiner, did not listen to Wu Yuanqing.

At that time, Wu Yuanqing also specially told him that because the Ministry of Officials itself is the department in charge of the evaluation and promotion of officials, its power is already very large, and if the most basic selection of officials is also controlled by the Ministry of Officials, then the power of the Ministry of Officials will be even greater, and it will even threaten the normal selection and appointment of officials. Because if this is the case, if the officials don't like a candidate, then the candidate won't even have a chance to be selected, let alone be promoted after becoming an official.

Separation of the Ministry of Officials and the Imperial Examination will be relatively independent, and it can also avoid the selection, assessment, and promotion of officials from all being attributed to the Ministry of Officials, so that the Ministry of Officials can make a decision.

The method given by Wu Yuanqing was based on the method of selecting the chief examiner for the later imperial examination.

That is, the imperial examination is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, and the candidate for the chief examiner is also set as the Ministry of Rites, and this Ministry of Rites is not the original waiter of the Ministry of Rites, but a temporary appointment, that is, he is a waiter of the Ministry of Rites during the period of presiding over the imperial examination, and he is no longer appointing this position after the examination, and he is not responsible for the management of the Ministry of Rites, but is responsible to the prime ministers, and if there is a problem, he also talks to the prime ministers and the emperor. Generally speaking, the officials who are temporarily appointed as the attendants of the Ministry of Rites, and the officials who preside over the examinations will eventually be promoted, and go further. It is equivalent to giving the officials who are valued by the emperor and are ready to be promoted a gilded opportunity.

In this way, the imperial examination is under the control of the Ministry of Rites, and the chief examiner who presides over the examination has nothing to do with the Ministry of Rites. It will also allow the examiner and the Ministry of Rites to form a relative independence, so as not to increase the power of the Ministry of Rites too much.

In this way, the chief examiner and the Ministry of Rites were divided, and the imperial examination in charge of the Ministry of Rites was divided from the Ministry of Officials, and the rights were also divided.

The chief examiner decides who to select or who not to be officials, and the Ministry of Rites is in charge of the imperial examinations, and finally the Ministry of Rites reports the selected officials to the Ministry of Officials, which then decides on the promotion and appointment of these selected officials.

The chief examiner and the Ministry of Rites have the right to choose or not to choose this person as an official, while the Ministry of Officials has the right to reuse this person.

This kind of decentralization is not only because the current official department is his father, so he has to avoid autocratic power, mainly because Wu Yuanqing feels that this kind of decentralization is very advanced and reasonable, and it is also very necessary, and it is very considered by the emperor and those officials in the future.

But I don't know what Li Shimin thinks, Wu Yuanqing said it so clearly, he still handed over this task to the Ministry of Officials and to Wu Shiyi.

No matter what Li Shimin thinks, since he has handed over the ownership of the imperial examination to the officials and appointed Wu Shiyi as the chief examiner, Wu Yuanqing can only find a way to help the cheap father do this thing well.

Originally, there were not many things that needed to be managed by the officials and examiners in Chang'an, that is, things such as marking and scoring during the examination and after the examination was completed.

But Wu Yuanqing had to do a lot of things, and persuaded Li Shimin to give the basic entanglement that the candidates from all over the country needed to come to Beijing on the road, and that's it, only two or three thousand people, and the court or yamen in various places still came out of the way to entangle the imperial court or yamen in various places.

However, Wu Yuanqing persuaded Li Shimin to build a special building outside Chang'an City for the candidates who went to Beijing to take the exam.

The reason why Wu Yuanqing proposed these is because in later generations, whether it is TV or novels, he has really seen too many candidates from poor families, how much they have suffered in order to raise money for the journey, how much their family has borrowed money everywhere, and how many sins they have suffered.

There are countless examples of people who fell ill on the way to the exam, and there are by no means a few who died on the road.

Even if they arrive in the capital, how many candidates are too shy to eat, unable to wear clothes, and unable to live in a store, which ultimately affects the exam.

That's why Wu Yuanqing persuaded Li Shimin to do these things to ensure the basic needs of candidates. Anyway, whether it is the travel expenses, the buildings built, or the clothes and food provided, they are the most basic and ordinary, and they are also given to those candidates who are really poor.

Those who have a good family background, these will also be provided, but they don't need it, it's up to them, they want to live better, eat better, dress better as they want, anyway, these things will not be discounted to them.

Rather than paying some money, Wu Yuanqing attaches more importance to how many qualified and useful officials can be selected from them, and Li Shimin also sees it this way, so he finally agreed to Wu Yuanqing's suggestion.

Wu Yuanqing didn't expect that this matter would be under the control of the ministry, so he didn't care how many additional things he mentioned would add to the imperial court. But now Li Shimin handed over the matter of the exam to the ministry.

In this way, not only is the amount of money spent not small, but even the affairs that the officials need to manage are much more.

In addition to strictly preventing the officials of the Ministry of Officials from getting stuck here, they also have to manage the candidates' life, study, and other things before the exam.

That's nearly two or three thousand candidates, and even if you throw away the candidates who have a good family background and don't live in the halls built by the imperial court, the rest still account for the majority.

Once these people are not well managed, a contradiction, and a fight will be counted on the head of the officials, and if the food, accommodation, and clothing are not up to standard, it is even more of a matter for the officials to cause corruption.

If a candidate dies in the hall, no matter how he died, the officials can't get out of it, which means that the samurai can't get out of it.

If someone provokes something from it again and causes the candidates to make some trouble, then the samurai will be in big trouble.

This Nima is completely a barrel of explosives.