The evening breeze of early summer, with the faint fragrance of jujube flowers and moon flowers, wafts into the bustling and noisy Huiji City.

Xi Zhicai went to Wu County to pay tribute to Lu Kang instead of Zhang Fan, and then returned to Huiji to report to Zhang Fan. Zhang Fan casually greeted:

"It's been a great job, it's going well along the way!"

"Thank you for your concern, it went very smoothly, everything was done." Xi Zhicai hesitated for a moment and said:

"But my lord, forgive me for saying more. Although your strategy of suppressing local tyrants is undoubtedly wise, it seems that there is no need to be so hasty, we can completely plan it slowly, and the rebound will undoubtedly be much smaller......"

"I see what you mean...... Unfortunately, time is running out. The reason why I was in such a hurry to deal with the relocation was also related to my next big plan-", Zhang Fan picked up a stack of papers on the table and handed it to him, saying:

"Now that the wealthy families in Jiangdong have almost moved, it's time to start the next phase of work. This is the plan I wrote, and it is also your new mission after you come back this time, so take a look at it first! ”

Xi Zhicai carefully browsed it, and the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became, but he didn't expect that the lord was worthy of being a genius in the sky, and his courage was amazing, and he actually formulated a new system for electing officials, preparing to replace the two Han Dynasty inspection system that had been implemented for more than 300 years.

No wonder the lord wants to spend a lot of effort to relocate the local Haoqiang, if the forced relocation is just to make them hurt a little, then the next move is undoubtedly to dig their roots, it is strange that they are not crazy and crazy!

If it weren't for the relocation of these people to Huiji City in advance for centralized control, it is not difficult to imagine how these people would have used their intricate influence in the local area to add countless troubles to this plan and even drag this plan to bankruptcy -

The current system of electing officials is the probation system, which was first established in the first year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty (134 BC), and its main feature is that the local governor inspects and selects talents at any time in the jurisdiction and recommends them to the superior or the central government, and then appoints officials after probation and assessment.

Compared with the pre-Qin period and the pre-Qin system, the system of military merit and merit is undoubtedly more conducive to recruiting all kinds of talents, further strengthening the centralization of power, and at the beginning of its implementation, it can generally ensure the quality of the "person under inspection", which can be described as a great progress. The 400-year rule of the Han Dynasty has a lot to do with the effective implementation of the probationary system.

However, the wheels of history are rolling forward, and there is no perfect system in this world that is not easy to come.

In its later period, the disadvantages of the probation system became more and more serious. In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the local suffrage was controlled by a small number of ministers and famous families, and they often recommended the children of prestigious families regardless of their academic quality, so that the scope of inspection became narrower and narrower, and most of the people who were inspected did not live up to the name, and a large number appeared:

Juxiu Cai doesn't know how to read, Cha Xiaolian's father lives separately, the cold is as white as mud, and Gao Diliang will be as timid as a chicken.

In society, there has been a bureaucratic gate valve group of "four generations and five princes", "successive generations of ministers", and "successive generations of classics". At this time, the probation system has degenerated into a hereditary system in disguise, and has become a tool for those ministers to maintain their power and maintain their privileges.

A history of China's political system proves that once the bureaucratic system becomes hereditary, it will soon decay. During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the extremely corrupt scholar clan was caused by the serious shortcomings of the Han and Han Dynasty inspection systems.

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Zhang Fan could not tolerate this situation, and he planned to create and build a strong centralized state, and what he needed most was a large number of talents to implement his policy ideas. How can such a group of corrupt officials be expected to succeed? Therefore, he naturally came up with the idea of trying to implement the "imperial examination system......

In the original time and space, Cao Cao also encountered the same troubles as him, and later Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi adopted the advice of Chen Qun, the secretary of the ministry, and implemented the nine-product Zhongzheng system in the first year of the early Huang Dynasty (220).

The Jiupin Zhongzheng system generally refers to the election of one person by each state and county, and the elected Dazhongzheng must be an official in the central government and has a high moral reputation. The big zhongzheng then produces the small zhongzheng. Zhongzheng is the official title of the evaluation talent. After the formation of large and small middle schools, the central government distributes a kind of talent survey form, in which the talents are divided into nine grades: upper, upper, middle, upper, middle, lower, lower

This table is registered by the local large and small people in the middle of the country with their own knowledge, whether they are in exile or not, and the list details the annual records, respectively, and adds comments. After reviewing and submitting the form to the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Officials will carry out the promotion and dismissal of officials. This system gave an objective criterion for the selection of officials at that time, which was actually still based on local public opinion and public opinion, and retained the will of the Han Dynasty's township election.

On the one hand, the implementation of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system solved the problem of no standard for the selection of officials, and clarified the rule of officials for a time at that time. On the other hand, it eased the tension between the central government and the clans, and laid a solid foundation for the Wei and Jin dynasties to achieve the unification of the whole country. It can be said that if there is no such system, it is still unknown which of Wei Shu and Wu will have the last laugh-

However, Zhang Fan does not plan to paint the scoop according to the gourd, he prefers to do it in one step. Moreover, the Jiupin Zhongzheng system itself is not perfect:

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the clan was powerful, and often influenced the evaluation of talents by the central officials, and later even the criteria were limited to family backgrounds. As a result, the phenomenon of "no poor family in the upper grade and no scholar in the lower grade" has been created. It not only blocked the collection of materials from the people, but also allowed the family to control the materials of the imperial court.

Therefore, it can be said that the Jiupin Zhongzheng system did not effectively curb the expansion of the Shi clan gate valve group, but made it further expanded, so that the state power was once controlled by the Shi clan, and even once appeared in the early Eastern Jin Dynasty The scholar clan supported the Eastern Jin Dynasty royal family, such a grand occasion of "the king and the horse share the world". Of course, this is also the internal cause of the "Eight Kings Rebellion", which eventually led to the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Central Plains into the human purgatory of "Five Hu Chaohua......

Since this system treats the symptoms but not the root cause, why should Zhang Fan use it?

Compared with the semi-finished nine-product Zhongzheng system, it is obvious that the imperial examination system is better! And history proves it too:

Compared with the inspection system and the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, which only existed for more than 400 years, it is obvious that the imperial examination system, which was implemented from the Sui Dynasty to the end of the third year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1905), spanning six dynasties, and lasted for more than 1,300 years, was more competitive.

It can be said responsibly that only the emergence of the imperial examination system really shook the foundation of the scholar clan for the first time, and "the scholar does not ask about the family background, and the marriage does not ask about the valve reading", and finally made the gate lord and the scholar system, which has been deformed for hundreds of years, finally die out......

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