In the Military Intelligence Department of the Daode Fang, Shangguan Wan'er looked at the surveillance report handed over by Wei Yixiao, which recorded the conversation between Zhou Xing and Qiu Shenji, and after thinking about it, she ordered: "Continue to monitor their movements!" ”

"Yes, little uncle!" Wei Yixiao answered the order (he said this when there were few people, and when there were many people, he called Shangguan Wan'er's official title)

The two agreed that their conversation alone was not enough to lead to a conviction, and for further surveillance, and after obtaining conclusive evidence, they would be convicted again, and they would not be allowed to turn over at once!

Wei Yi smiled and praised: "The little uncle asked us to spy on Zhou Xing, but I didn't expect it to be a real gain!" ”

Shangguan Wan'er sneered and said: "The wolf ambition of the other generation (that group of people) will sooner or later be restless and guard themselves, just wait and see!" ”

She reminded Wei Yi and smiled: "Do your job, don't be careful, don't be exposed!" ”

"Don't worry, we know!" Wei Yi replied with a smile. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

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Since then, Zhou Xing and Qiu Shenji have met many times in private to discuss major matters, and gradually enter the alley.

Their every move is under the surveillance of the Military Intelligence Department, which is recorded, and the dossier is constantly thickening, waiting to deliver a fatal blow to them.

The Hou Zun Daoist who made Wei Huaiyi thunder like thunder, disappeared without a trace after that, and he should be under the protection of the big forces, so Wei Huaiyi couldn't find it, and he couldn't attack.

However, the effect of Wei Xi's three major policies of not allowing prisons to establish branches in the local area, not allowing the people to be brought together, and not allowing the army to be brought together, the cool officials can only toss around in a small area of the two capitals, and cannot point fingers at local affairs, and cannot interfere in the national economy (out of the two capitals, the big businessmen are not cool officials at all), the army remains chaotic, and the scourge is controlled.

There is another thing that Wei Xi didn't say, but Wu Zetian will not allow the cool officials to interfere either, that is, "personnel rights"!

The selection and appointment of senior and middle-level civil servants of the central government, senior local officials, and military generals (the selection and appointment of lieutenants and above in the central army, local government military captains, and school captains, she is arbitrary, and will never allow others to put their beaks in their beaks!)

To a certain extent, the prestige of the cool officials was also suppressed, otherwise the cool officials threatened the officials and court officials, saying: "You have to appoint so-and-so, otherwise you will be invited to go to prison!" ”

Of course, the officials of the Ministry are afraid, if they listen to the cool officials, then they will be selected for the cool officials to interfere.

But in reality, there are not many such things, although the cool officials can exert a certain influence, but the power is always in the hands of Wu Zetian.

Because Wu Zetian will assess talents, and the list of officials submitted to her, she personally audits and interviews, and perceives their level, of course she is not afraid of talents, but if it is not a talent, the selected person will be deposed, and the officials will eat and hang up, and the crime can be "bullying the king!" ”

This is a first-class crime, they are guilty, and if they confess who and who asked me to do it, or if they are found out, the cool officials will not be able to escape the relationship, and they will not dare to make irresponsible remarks about the selection of personnel.

The so-called east is not bright and the west is bright, Wu Zetian dealt a heavy blow to Li Tang's princes and grandsons, and broke the political monopoly of the Guanlong aristocratic group.

The imperial examinations of the Sui and Tang dynasties were implemented, but the elite groups would not easily give up their positions, and the emperors did not dare to easily touch their interests for the sake of stability in their rule.

In fact, the Sui Dynasty opened the imperial examination, and the Tang Dynasty promoted the imperial examination, but the real imperial examination flourished until the Song Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, the recommendation of officials such as entrustment and dedication rather than the imperial examination still accounted for a considerable proportion

However, Wei Xi was here, taking advantage of Shangwu Zetian's good opportunity to vigorously crack down on the traditional elite forces and vacate many positions, and instigated his fellow party Guo Zhiju to go to the imperial court and reform the imperial examination!

At the end of the fourth year of the vertical arch (688), the whole country of the Tang Dynasty heard the sound of firecrackers, and when the official yamen was ready to seal, Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Sanpin, and Hubu Shangshu Guo Zhi raised a fold, which immediately shook the government and the opposition.

In "Please Xing Datang New System of Science and Technology", he believes that the country needs more talents (he does not say why there is a shortage of talents), and the current method of selecting talents has various drawbacks (not to say any drawbacks, the Spring and Autumn penmanship has brought it), he wrote in great detail the implementation of the new imperial examination system, the focus of which is:

In terms of organizational system, the first county test, presided over by the local county order to organize the examination, and the talent is called "Xiucai", and then the county Xiucai is concentrated in the state, called the township test, the presiding officer is the state assassin or the senior official in the ministry, and the talent is called "lifting people", and finally the state raises people to gather in the capital, conduct the examination, and record the talent as "Jinshi", and then conduct the palace examination after the examination, Jinshi is the protégé of the Son of Heaven, which is the talent of the imperial court, and does not belong to the protégé of any official.

The principles of implementation include strict examination procedures, keeping test questions confidential, concentrating personnel to take the test, and the examiner must be closed when he enters the venue, and he is not allowed to go out.

The implementation of the "vague name system", that is, the candidate's name, place of origin and other information that may cheat is sealed, and even organize the officials to recopy the test questions, anyway, it is to prevent the examiner and the marking officer from seeing people to admit people, and ensure that powerful talents are not squeezed out by favors.

Before the national talent examination was a big test a year, Guo Zhiju thought that the people and money were hurting, and in the future, it was determined to be once every three years.

The ranking of the palace examination is divided into three grades, that is, the top three of the first class are "Jinshi and the first" are the champions, tanhua and lists, and a number of people in the second class are called "Jinshi origin", and a number of people in the third class are called "Tongjinshi origin", all the palace examination personnel are rare talents in the country, and should not be dethroned, that is, all admitted!

In the past, the Jinshi obtained from the imperial examination were all called the B branch, and Guo Zhiju advocated that the Jinshi should be called "A Branch" in order to show the nobility of the scholars

For the subject test questions, Guo Beiju believes that those who recruit scholars are officials, and those who are officials pay the first attention to loyalty and the words of the saints, and they are headed by the examination of scriptures and righteousness, and they must also solve central and local problems, and they should focus on solving practical problems, so they mainly test policy questions, that is, arguments, not poems and fu.

This is a pragmatic move, a major reform of the examination style, because the words of the saints should be the first to transfer the competent ministry from the ministry of officials to the ministry of rites.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was presided over by the official examiner Wailang, Guo Zhiju focused on the talents of the world, and the status of Lang officials was too light, so he should be handed over to the Ministry of Rites or officials at the same level.

There is another annex, Guo Teju believes that "the prime minister is not allowed to do anything other than the imperial examination".

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This sparse and foreign view, well-organized, all-encompassing, and strong operability, sent to Wu Zetian to see, Fengyan Dayue, sighed to Shangguan Wan'er: "It's a pity that there is only one Guo to be lifted in the world!" ”

"Huh?" Shangguan Wan'er

Wu Zetian played and said: "Guo Qing can be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites (presiding over the imperial examination), but the household department can't do without him!" ”

Shangguan Wan'er smiled and said: "It is indeed blessed that Guo Shangshu is in the court, but under the rule of the Queen Mother, there are many talents (this is a sycophant, in fact, the court officials have fallen into a low B level, and the good ones have been defeated), if Guo Shangshu implements the imperial examination mentioned again, then the talents are just like Emperor Taizong's holy theory 'all the heroes of the world are in the Queen Mother'!" ”

"Good, good!" Wu Zetian commented on the fold: "It is feasible! ”

As a result, the selection of Datang talents, as Guo Beiju said, was truly perfected.