readx; As the highest level of the imperial examination, the palace examination is actually the easiest, because no matter what the results are, you can be an official after the examination, it is nothing more than ranking first. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info generally gets the former.,Often elected to the Hanlin Academy.,Although it takes a long time to suffer in the early days.,But because it's always close to the center of power.,In the future, you will have the opportunity to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister.,At the very least, you can also do a six-department squire.、Langzhong.。

And the performance depends on the latter, and it is generally released, that is, as a local official, starting from Qipinzhi County. Although it is extremely difficult to be promoted from the magistrate to the cabinet chief, the mountain is far away from the emperor, and the oil and water are much fatter than in the court. The so-called "three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", Qing officials are still like this, let alone corrupt officials. Therefore, many people would rather have lower grades and reap the benefits of going out.

However, as soon as the test paper of the palace examination was issued, it was beyond the expectations of all candidates. In the past, the palace examination only tested "policy questioning", that is, the emperor raised a current political question, and the candidate told his own opinion.

However, this time the test paper is not a question, but a list of a large number of official positions, and the candidates are asked to fill in their intentions and explain the reasons. Everyone thought to themselves, what kind of exam question is this? But since it was a palace test, no one dared to make a mistake, so he had to read it seriously.

However, a closer look at this one made quite a few candidates disappointed. In the past, the Jinshi served as nothing more than the edict of the Hanlin Academy and the magistrate of the county; But there are at least dozens of official positions listed on the test papers, of course, all of them are petty officials below the seventh grade. Like what:

Zhixian, Zhengqipin, the chief official of a county, is in charge of all affairs.

The county is the eighth product, and assists the county in managing the affairs of the county.

The county master book, Zheng Jiupin, manages the county's clerical account books.

The history of the county, no grade, is in charge of arrests and prisons.

The government magistrate, who is the seventh product, is in charge of the criminal litigation of the government.

According to the experience of the judge, Zheng Qipin is equivalent to the clerk of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the local area, supervising local officials.

The Zhongshu Sheren, from the seventh grade, assisted the cabinet in handling the chapters.

Lifting, is eight products, responsible for a specific affairs, such as salt making, water conservancy, etc.

The ambassador, Zheng Jiupin, has similar responsibilities to promotion, but the rank is two levels lower, and he mostly serves in functional departments that the imperial court considered less important in the past, such as the transportation warehouse, the pigment bureau, the leather bureau, the weaving and dyeing office, etc.

To be edicted, from the ninth grade, that is, the lowest-level official of the Hanlin Academy.

The professor, Cong Jiupin, is responsible for supervising local teaching and examination matters.

Among these official positions, such as the magistrate and the middle scholar, these are more popular, because they either have real power or have access to high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China. But the other official positions are too humble, and they are not much different from the officials. Moreover, these official positions are generally hereditary, and the appointment of the imperial court is just a formality.

Zhu Youzhen saw that everyone was suspicious, so he laughed loudly: "Do you think that some official positions are too small? I tell you that any official position has its usefulness, and any position, if you want to do it well and do it to the extreme, it is a profound knowledge. Moreover, in the past, official positions such as county officials, chief bookkeepers, and canons were often hereditary, and they could not be promoted, which I think is very abnormal. From today onwards, such officials will also be included in the assessment of the officials, and those who are capable will be promoted and those who are mediocre will be demoted. If you do well, you will soon be promoted, and it is not impossible for you to enter the cabinet and pay respects.

"In addition, I asked you to choose official positions because I wanted to see what kind of official positions you were more interested in, and I felt that I had the ability and motivation to do a good job. If the official position you choose proves that you are not up to the task, I only need to demote you and punish you, but you can choose again after you have thought about it! ”

Despite this, the majority of people choose "Zhixian", "Zhongshusheren" and "Hanlin Yuan to be edicted". Zhu Youzhen also expected this situation, anyway, this is just the intention of the candidates, and the decision is still in the hands of the emperor.

But there are also some candidates who have taken the initiative to choose more "humble" official positions. For example, Xiong Rulin, whom Zhu Youzhen admires a lot, chose the lowest grade and the lowest grade to no grade of classic history for his job intention. His reason was that the official history of a county was in charge of the official and shouldered the important responsibility of anti-theft. Nowadays, a generation of Japanese robbers is rampant in Zhejiang, and he is willing to go back to his hometown to make a small history, protect the territory and the people, and maintain the Ming Sea Frontier.

Another example is Yuan Shu, Zhu Youzhen later learned that he was actually the son of Yuan Keli. Yuan Shu didn't want to rely on his father's position and prestige to promote himself, but was willing to be a nine-grade master bookkeeper. He believes that the accounts of the yamen in various localities are now chaotic, the corruption situation is very serious, and the household departments are unable to collect taxes, which will naturally indirectly affect the supply of food and salary for the border army. If he could be asked to make a bookkeeper, he would be able to sort out all the accounts of any county within a month.

Of course, what Zhu Youzhen appreciates the most is the answer given by Huang Zongxi. Huang Zongxi didn't want these official positions, and insisted on going to the household department, even if he didn't have an official position, he could be a clerical official.

Huang Zongxi believed that the imperial court's tax system had reached a point where it had to be reformed. On the one hand, "the abundance of the fields under heaven is increasing day by day", and three serious harms have been produced. The first is "accumulation without return", that is, after each tax reform, no matter how it is changed, the tax level of the people is always improving; the second is that "the tax is not the out", that is, the field is converted into silver, and in the process of converting silver, there will be a situation of exploiting the people; The third is that "there is no rank in the land", that is, regardless of the degree of fertility of the land, and no matter what kind of crops are grown, all taxes are levied according to one standard, resulting in de facto unfairness.

On the other hand, a large number of merchants earn far more from business than from farming, and this income is not taxed at all. There was nothing wrong with the imperial court taking agriculture as the foundation, but the taxation was still mainly based on the land tax, which actually encouraged farmers to abandon agriculture to engage in business or work. If there is enough food to eat, it is nothing; However, now that there has been a famine year after year, there are fewer and fewer people who farm the land, and the harvest has naturally declined year after year, and all the land taxes have been put on the farmers who continue to farm, and the rich merchants who have made a lot of money in business have evaded paying taxes, which is another extremely serious injustice.

Therefore, Huang Zongxi insisted on taking up a post in the household department, so that he could conduct in-depth research on the whole country and propose a complete set of tax reform plans. Of course, there is no plan yet, but Huang Zongxi has put forward a principle, that is, "respecting the original and suppressing the end".

The so-called "reverence for the foundation" means that agriculture, industry, and commerce should all be regarded as the foundation of the country and the foundation of taxation, and the taxation of industry and commerce should be increased, and at the same time, industry and commerce should be given the same support as agriculture.

"Suppressing the end" refers to all industries that are not too close to industry, agriculture and businessmen and cannot create wealth for the society, such as monks and monks; Or some luxury industries that can only be enjoyed by a few people, such as wine, silk, refined porcelain, etc., should be vigorously suppressed, so as not to crowd out too many social resources.

Zhu Youzhen was full of praise after seeing it, and immediately appointed Huang Zongxi as the champion of Enke this time!