As time passed, the Feng army continued to fight in the southwest, but the rest of the country had fallen into peace, and then, with the support of the Feng army, began to carry out various political and economic reforms, most notably the reform of the tax system.

In addition to the reform of the tax system, in the autumn of 1909, as the overall situation gradually became clear, Zhao Dongyun was also able to free up his hands to rectify the rule of officials.

The current Soviet system, and even the entire Beiyang system, is not to say that it was established from scratch, but has inherited a large number of military and political resources of the former Qing Dynasty.

For example, more than 90 percent of the current Soviet officials are officials of the former Qing Dynasty, and many local officials of the former Qing Dynasty, such as the prefects and prefects, have been retained.

Not to mention how bad the rule of the former Qing Dynasty was, after the Soviet family took over completely, Zhao Dongyun generally did not make much changes to the local government in order to maintain the stability of the ruling area two years earlier.

However, as the Feng army has taken control of the situation in the whole country, complete reunification is just around the corner, and Zhao Dongyun has also begun to rectify the rule of officials.

To rectify the rule of officials, people may think that it is just to arrest a few corrupt officials and the like, but this only treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and it is absolutely impossible to fundamentally reverse the situation of corruption and incompetence of officials.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun has prepared a complete set of plans for this, and the first item in this set of plans is to open the 'civil service examination'.

Since the former Qing Dynasty stopped the imperial examination, countless scholars have lost their head, thus leading a large number of young scholars to turn to the revolution, and it can be said that the suspension of the imperial examination is an important reason for the demise of the former Qing Dynasty.

In order to regain the support of the scholars, Zhao Dongyun has long wanted to take the civil service examination.

In fact, the civil service examination can also be said to be another way of imperial examination, but the content of the examination has changed.

With the official announcement of Jurentang that the first nationwide civil service examination will be held in August, it caused no less sensation than Duan Qirui at the beginning of the year to take up his post in Beijing.

A large group of people criticized Zhao Dongyun's civil service examination as a repetition of the old way of the imperial examination, which is a kind of regression, but more people raised their hands to praise, especially those students who wanted to enter the official career but had no way.

Since the former Qing Dynasty stopped the imperial examination, there is no way to officially enter the officialdom, and can only rely on recommendation, and recommendation is not very reliable, and it has a great relationship with personal opportunities, and it is also very easy to cause cronyism.

In the past two years, the Soviet Department has been like this, especially the middle and high-level positions are basically based on recommendation and recruitment, and there is no formal way for scholars to enter the officialdom.

Now, after the announcement of the civil service examination, although the published regulations of the civil service examination say that there is no examination of articles and scriptures, only subjects such as physical and economics, but the content of these examinations is no longer unfamiliar to students in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.

In fact, long before the official cessation of the imperial examination in the pre-Qing Dynasty, the examination of articles and scriptures was no longer carried out, but the examination of subjects such as gewu economics and diplomacy, that is, the so-called special economic subjects.

Although the content of the students is no stranger, the number of students announced in the civil service examination is beyond people's imagination, because the first batch of civil service examinations will be held in all provinces at the same time, and the first batch of admitted students is initially set at 2,000.

This is 2,000 people, not 200 or 20, in the imperial examinations of all dynasties, dozens of jinshi were admitted, and more than three or four hundred, and there was no example of admitting 2,000 people at one time.

They still don't know that this kind of personnel who come out of the civil service examination will not be given a seven-grade county official as soon as they came up, as they were in the former Qing Dynasty, but as the most basic level of clerks, that is, officials in the feudal era such as the former Qing Dynasty.

However, in the system of the Soviet system, there was no distinction between officials and officials, and there was no distinction between official grades and civil servants, and generally speaking, they were distinguished by position, and the most basic was the section members of various departments of the local government, and then the section chiefs of each section, the division chief, and the director of each department, but there was no distinction between section-level cadres and department-level cadres as in later generations.

To put it simply, in the contemporary Soviet civil service system, there is only a distinction between positions and no ranks, and it has given rise to the concept of government employees in Western countries.

In other words, civil servants are not iron jobs, but can be applied for or dismissed, in a narrow sense, the most basic section member and the prime minister of the cabinet are both government employees, and there is no difference between the two.

At the same time, ordinary staff members can be promoted step by step, and finally become the prefect, prefect, provincial governor and even the head of the cabinet.

Although there are many places in the civil service examination that Zhao Dongyun can not understand for ordinary people, it still can't stop the enthusiasm of domestic students, and even many students studying in Japan immediately gave up their studies in Japan after learning that the first civil service examination was about to be held in China, and then rushed back to China to take the exam.

On September 18, 1909, the high-profile national civil service examination was held in Beijing, Shenyang, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Wuhan at the same time.

Candidates need to have a high school degree or above at home and abroad or a former Qingju person or above, and the last five examination rooms have accepted a total of about 30,000 applicants, which can be described as a huge scale.

After the formal examination, the time of the written examination is very short, and the written examination is only carried out for one day, which makes many candidates who are ready to struggle in the examination room for three or four days are very happy, it is not easy to participate in the imperial examination in the past, and they have to stay in a small examination room for three or four days or even five or six days, eating, drinking, sleeping and doing questions have to be in it, and the whole person is not the same after a round of examination.

However, the reason why the civil service examination is different from the previous imperial examinations is that there is an interview session in the follow-up, and the major examination centers conduct many-to-one interviews with candidates with high scores after revising the papers.

After the interview, it means that you have become one of the civil servants in this country, and the next thing is to assign according to the needs of the individual and each unit, and the assignment must be preceded by an interview, and only after passing the interview can you officially enter the unit, if you are not qualified, you can only choose other units and then conduct an interview, not that you can go there wherever you want.

After the conclusion of the civil service examination this time, in order to further expand the influence of the civil service examination, under the instruction of Zhao Dongyun, the Ministry of Education quickly announced that the civil service examination will continue to be held nationwide next year.

While people are amazed at how intensive the annual civil service examinations are, the Ministry of Education has once again announced that in December, the 'provincial civil service examinations' will be held in all provinces.

In the past, the national civil service examination was mainly used to enrich the departments directly under the central government at all levels and to send them to work in provincial governments. The subsequent provincial-level civil service examinations were mainly held to recruit the most basic staff at all levels of prefectures and counties.

Zhao Dongyun's civil service examination, in fact, is not very difficult, as long as people who have attended a new-style school, basically will not get too ugly scores, the reason why the threshold is low, and the number of admitted people is large, on the one hand, because the current Soviet government is strict and lacks qualified new-generation officials, and on the other hand, it is also based on the principle of killing mistakes and not letting them go.

In these years, there are so many talents who have received a new type of education, and after the Soviet Department recruited a large number of talents, not many people go to the Southern Federation or Wang Shizhen and Wu Fengling.

In addition, Zhao Dongyun also hopes that after a large number of new-style talents enter the government, they will be able to replace those officials left over from the pre-Qing era in batches.

The officials in the feudal era were a group of people who were more hateful than corrupt officials, and there was no need to explain all kinds of bad deeds, so the first step to rectify the rule of officials was to get rid of these former officials with bad deeds.

But people still have to do things, and large-scale recruitment of civil servants can fill this gap in time.

Zhao Dongyun is going to do it to the most basic officials, and before that, he has to purge the middle and upper level officials.

Whether it is the pre-Qing era or the current republican era, official corruption is a common phenomenon, and what Zhao Dongyun needs to do now is to reverse this phenomenon.

Officials receive small gifts, greedy for a little money to support his family Zhao Dongyun doesn't care, after all, the one on the official side is not a big family to support, it is understandable to get some extra money to improve the life of the family, and when the water is clear, there is no fish, and it is impossible to completely eliminate corruption.

What Zhao Dongyun has to do is to completely purge those big corrupt officials.

In order to prepare for the coming anti-corruption storm, Zhao Dongyun specially strengthened the staffing of the inspection department under the presidential office, and transferred a large number of capable personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Police of the cabinet to enrich the inspection department.

At present, there are as many as three organs in the Soviet republican government that have the power to investigate the corruption of officials, and the Ministry of Police, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Inspection Department all have this power.

In order to change this situation, and at the same time to further strengthen the power of the presidential palace and gradually strengthen his own control, Zhao Dongyun began to deliberately and continuously weaken the power of the police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

For example, the patrol force, which originally belonged to the Ministry of Police, was officially stripped of the Ministry of Police, and then placed under the jurisdiction of the High Command, and then the power of the Ministry of the Interior to inspect hundreds of officials was also taken over by the Inspection Department.

Since the police have the power to investigate ordinary crimes, economic and other cases, and often these cases, especially economic cases, can easily involve officials, which in turn has to involve the Ministry of the Interior, and whenever this happens, the inspection department will intervene in the investigation in the name of intermediary coordination, and finally a situation of cooperation between the three will be formed.

The cause of this chaotic situation is inseparable from Zhao Dongyun's deliberate actions.

Many things are not about how good they are, but how they are beneficial to themselves!

In the past, he did not fight corruption, not because Zhao Dongyun liked corrupt officials, but because the situation was unstable at that time, and he needed the stability of the overall situation, so at that time he completely closed his eyes to corruption.

Now anti-corruption, not because Zhao Dongyun hates corrupt officials, but because now that the situation has stabilized, people will also shift their attention from war to people's livelihood affairs in a peaceful situation.

Anti-corruption, whether it is done or not, is actually just a means of ruling for the ruler!

When corruption is beneficial to their rule, they will let it go, and when corruption has a negative impact on their rule, and when anti-corruption can also enhance their own governance cohesion, whether it is Zhao Dongyun or others, they will not hesitate to do it.

Now, Zhao Dongyun has done it!