In the early summer of the second year, Zhao Lei, the envoy of the Yongxing Military Road Soldiers and Horses Festival and the governor of Yan'an Mansion, went to the imperial examination, and the news shook the world. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info\\. qΒ5。 c0m\

The civil and military officials of the imperial court quarreled over the reform of the imperial examination, and the imperial palace became like a vegetable market.

The official Zhao Zhen underestimated the influence of the imperial examination, and he originally thought that the imperial examination reform would be easy to pass, but he did not expect that the small imperial examination actually coiled a large number of interests of the Great Song bureaucratic class, and the imperial examination system of the Great Song Dynasty for the country had been completely mixed with the Great Song bureaucratic class.

In the early Song Dynasty, there were only two levels of the imperial examination system, the first level was the township examination held in each state, and the students who passed were called Xiucai, and they had the qualifications to participate in the second-level examination, but they did not have the qualifications to be officials.

In the early Song Dynasty, the second level of the imperial examination was the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites, and the students who passed were called Jinshi, with the qualifications of the third-level examination, and at the same time had the qualifications to be officials.

Song Taizu Kaibao six years (97 A.D. Taizu in order to select practical and capable officials to serve the imperial court, the implementation of the palace examination, by the Great Song Emperor to the question, held an examination in the palace hall, since then, the palace examination has become the highest level of the Great Song Dynasty imperial examination, and established the township examination, provincial examination, palace examination three-level imperial examination system, and the students who passed the palace examination, without the assessment of the Ministry of Rites, directly awarded the official, Taizu even ordered that the students who passed the palace examination are not allowed to call the examiner a teacher or call themselves protégés, Since then, the students who have passed the palace examination have become distinguished protégés of the Son of Heaven.

Seventy years have passed since Song Taizu opened the palace examination, and the imperial examination system of the Great Song Dynasty has been completely corrupted. In the annual prefectural and township examination, nearly sixty percent of the passers come from the children of the bureaucrats of the Great Song Dynasty, and once every two years in the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites, as many as thirty percent of the jinshi are the result of the bureaucratic class going through the back door, that is, the best level of the Great Song Dynasty palace examination among the top three, there will also be a rise of parallel goods, this kind of imperial examination system completely mixed by the bureaucratic class, has reached the point where reform is indispensable, and once the imperial examination system is reformed, it is bound to make the children of bureaucrats have one less way to enter the office. Therefore, Zhao Lei's reform of the imperial examination will cause the world to shake.

In fact, the imperial examination system of the Great Song Dynasty has been very relaxed, taking the Jinshi who have passed the provinces and cities of the Ministry of Rites, the Jinshi of the Great Song Dynasty is divided into three categories, the first is the Jinshi and the first, which are the Jinshi who have passed the standard provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites; The second type is called Jinshi origin, which is a student who has passed the township examination but has not passed the provincial examination, and can be valued by the imperial court, so that the Great Song Dynasty court can give a Jinshi background; The third type is called Citong Jinshi, just like Zhao Lei, who has not passed the Great Song Dynasty imperial examination at all. Born in the medical field, he can't even call the word student. And Zhao Lei was valued by the official Zhao Zhen because of his great talent, and after making some contributions, he was given the same Jinshi by the official Zhao Zhen.

In the Tang Dynasty, the number of Jinshi who passed the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites was no more than thirty, and only three of them were taken in the palace examination, such as the champion, the list of eyes, and the three of Tanhua, and in the Song Dynasty, the number of Jinshi who passed the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites reached as many as 200 to 600 people, and the palace examination took dozens of people. If you want to reform redundant officials, reforming the imperial examination system is the best way to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle.

In the imperial hall of the Bianjing Imperial Palace, the official Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair with a gloomy face and flickering eyes, not knowing what to think.

Below the main hall. Standing side by side with Zhang Shixun, Li Ruogu, is talking about the river to the official General Zhao Zhen.

"Zhao Lei's proposal to reform the imperial examination is absolutely not feasible, and my Great Song Dynasty has a population of 10,000. Is it comparable to the Tang Dynasty, hundreds of people in the scientific examination are a little more than the Tang Dynasty, but my Great Song Dynasty is a large number of people, and a large number of officials are needed to govern, so it is absolutely impossible to reduce the number of imperial examinations, and Zhao Lei proposed to cancel the Jinshi origin and give the same Jinshi background is even more unfeasible, the official family has forgotten that Zhao Lei is also given the same Jinshi background, if it is not for the system of giving the same Jinshi origin, how can he Zhao Lei get the trust of the official family and the imperial court, Zhao Lei proposed to reform the imperial examination, it is completely forgotten! Li Ruogukou said in a deep voice to the official Zhao Zhen.

"My Great Song Dynasty has a population of 10,000, which is not more than that of the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial examination is not a little more than the Tang Dynasty, but ten times more. Could it be that Lord Li thinks that the territory of the Great Song Dynasty was greatly expanded by the Tang Dynasty, or that Lord Li has been confused to the point of not knowing the size. Ouyang Xiu, who had been transferred to the Ministry of Rites and was preparing for the imperial examination, said with a sneering sneer at Li Ruogu at this time.

"You! You! You ......" Ouyang Xiu's sarcastic words made Li Ruogu angry and speechless.

"As for the Jinshi origin and the Jinshi background, didn't Lord Zhao make it very clear in the fold! Leave six places a year for talented people! Isn't six places enough, you must know that a person like Lord Zhao who is so talented and powerful may not have one in a few decades, and six places per year are enough. Ouyang Xiu ignored Li Ruogu's raised fingers, and continued to retort calmly.

At this time, Li Ruogu's nephew in the imperial envoy suddenly stood up

Ruogu said: "Lord Ouyang can know that I have more than 10,000 officials in the Great Song Dynasty, and the number of officials in each hidden and dismissed place is as many as 100, and there are 30 people in the Ministry of Rites and Provinces in two years. ”

"I have tens of thousands of officials in the Great Song Dynasty, but there are only four thousand actual officials, and the rest of the officials are fictitious, and the Ministry of Rites and Rites has tried to take 30 people to fill the actual positions, and then I have a great Song Dynasty in addition to the imperial examination, there are also a variety of ways to take the office, such as the imperial examination reform of the Zhao Dynasty, the measures of the imperial examination reform are very much in line with the wishes of the officials, the situation of redundant officials in the Great Song Dynasty is becoming more and more serious, and the reform of the imperial examination can greatly alleviate the redundant officials, and the minister agrees with Zhao Lei's imperial examination reform proposal." Zhang Shixun stood up at this time and shouted for Zhao Lei.

Seeing that Zhao Zhen, who was hesitant about to do something, was silent, Yan Shu also stood up and said, "Qi Qi Guanjia!" The minister also felt that Zhao Lei's idea of reforming the imperial examination was good, and reducing the number of officials could greatly alleviate the redundancy of officials; The implementation of the three-level name and transcription to prevent favoritism and fraud, the cancellation of the imperial examination in the poetry, the scriptures, the three subjects of Moyi, the special examination of the scriptures, theories, policies, and the addition of arithmetic, agriculture, miscellaneous subjects, so that students can apply what they have learned, more oriented to reality, these are the things of the great benefit of the country, must be done! Hope that the official family will decide. ”

Yan Shu's words comprehensively said the three main points of Zhao Lei's reform of the imperial examination, restricting the selection of officials is to solve the problem of redundant officials, the implementation of three-level obfuscation and transcription is to solve the problem of fraud, and the key point of the reform examination is to let the students of the Great Song Dynasty apply what they have learned, these three points are Zhao Lei pondered and meditated, and Su Xun, Ou Xifan, and Pang Bai talked about the proposal for many days, and the benefits to the Great Song Dynasty are undoubted, and everyone can see it, so even if Li Ruogu and others try their best to obstruct it, I am afraid it will be difficult to stop the implementation of the new imperial examination.

"Official, the imperial examination system is the legal system left by the ancestors! You can't change it easily! Li Ruogu saw that the official Zhao Zhen's hesitant eyes began to loosen, and he shouted in his heart that it was not good, and he knelt down and persuaded him.

"It seems that there were only a few dozen people in the imperial examination during the Taizu period! Now that Lord Zhao Lei is reforming the imperial examination, it seems that he is also following the ancestral system! Wang Su also stood up at this time and spared no effort to support Zhao Lei, the junior brother, and said loudly.

"During the Taizu period, the population of my Great Song Dynasty was less than 40 million, and there were not many officials, and of course there were few officials. The counselors of Li Ruogu's faction jumped out and refuted Wang Su loudly.

As several important ministers spoke, the court quarreled loudly again, and you shouted one after another, which made the official Zhao Zhen start to have a headache.

Zhao Zhen, an official who stroked his forehead, suddenly thought that Zhao Yunrang, the king of Pu'an, had not spoken for the past few days, and had not expressed his position on the imperial examination.

"Silence!" With Gan Ling's sharp scream, the hall became calm again.

"What is the opinion of King Pu'an?" The official Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Yunrang and asked directly straight to the point.

Zhao Yunrang, the king of Pu'an, has been pondering in his heart, since he received the Great Song Dynasty secret guard, he has only known the powerful ability of the secret guard, the official spy organization of the Great Song Dynasty, in addition to the Bianjing Palace, he can't control it, the homes of tens of thousands of officials in the Great Song Dynasty, there are secret guards of spies, Zhao Yunrang, who has always liked to inspect others, has gotten a very interesting news from Zhang Shixun and Yan Shu in the past few days, and the two actually discussed to keep Li Ruogu's phase, the reason is that Li Ruogu is already old and about to be confused, and he can't talk to Zhang Shixun in many things. Yan Shu and other reformist officials confronted, if Li Ruogu stepped down, the official Zhao Zhen was bound to find a strong prime minister to oppose Zhang Shixun and them, and Yan Shu's guess that this prime minister candidate might be Lu Yijian, and Zhang Shixun and Yan Shu and others had suffered the loss of Lu Yijian, and they were a little stunned when they heard Lu Yijian's three words, so they were about to join forces to support Li Ruogu and avoid Lu Yijian's return.

Zhao Yunrang, the king of Pu'an, is also a smart person, after thinking about it, he immediately understood that although Lu Yijian is not a conservative faction, but he has contradictions with the reformists Zhang Shixun, Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu, Fan Zhongyan, Zhao Lei and others, if Lu Yijian returns to Bianjing as the prime minister, it will definitely not make Zhang Shixun and others feel better, Lu Yijian's means are much more clever than Li Ruogu, Lu Yijian, a veteran of the three dynasties and a three-time worship minister, has connections and relationships that are simply terrifying, so Zhao Yunrang has been thinking about whether to sacrifice Li Ruogu in exchange for Lu Yijian's return!

Hearing the official Zhao Zhen's inquiry, looking at Li Ruogu's old figure, Zhao Yunrang made up his mind in his heart.

"Enlighten the official family! The minister agreed to Zhao Lei's proposal for the reform of the imperial examination, and participated in the prime minister Li Ruogu, who was dedicated to selfishness, had no monarchy, and did not share worries for the country and made profits for himself. "Zhao Yunrang, the king of Pu'an, said something that shocked all the ministers in the palace.

As Zhao Yunrang's words landed, Li Ruogu's face suddenly turned pale, and the faces of Zhang Shixun and Yan Shu and others also changed greatly.

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