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"I didn't expect that the Dugu family and the Yu family also fell, and the glory of the Eight Pillars Country has all been lost!" In Puzhou, Taishi, Qianshang Shuling, and Gao Gong, the Duke of Qi, who had been in the township, were eating breakfast while looking at the newspaper in their hands, sighing and shaking their heads. Some time ago, the emperor reformed the tax system and implemented a new tax law, which reduced many burdens on the common people and won countless praises, but it also touched the interests of many wealthy families. As a result, some people couldn't help but jump out, seize the heavy salt tax in the monopoly system, fan the flames everywhere, attack the imperial court, and slander the Son of Heaven. These people tried to kidnap public opinion and force the Son of Heaven to abolish the new tax system, but what they were waiting for was the thunderous wrath of the Son of Heaven.

These wealthy families, mainly the Dugu family and the Yu family, were mercilessly uprooted by the emperor and became the third purge of this dynasty, involving thousands of families. Among them, the Dugu family and the Yu family are one of the eight pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, and the Dugu family is the family of the Dugu Empress Dowager of this dynasty, and the Yu family is also the Yu Yi family, the head of Youzhou, who worshiped Taiwei when the Sui Dynasty opened the country, and his father Yu Jin is also one of the eight pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, and the Yu family is also listed as one of the three major gates in this dynasty, and the Li Mu family, Wei Xiaokuan and Wei Shikang are said to be the two families together, the Li and Wei families have fallen before, and now the Yu family at the end of the three major gates in the early Sui Dynasty has also fallen.

"A bunch of idiots." Gao Gong sighed, he saw that the emperor's hand was ruthless and strong, so he finally retreated bravely. not only kept his family, but even after retiring, he also earned a hereditary title of Duke of Qi. But those love stacks don't go. still bent on maintaining their prestige in the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the early Sui Dynasty, it is simply death. For a small tax. As a result, they were killed and wiped out, and the large amount of money and land they had accumulated since the three dynasties were now all directly confiscated by the emperor. The important members of the family were all beheaded, and the rest of the clan were exiled to the frontier, leaving nothing.

These people must have regretted it, but it's a pity that they didn't regret taking the medicine. However, Gao Gong is also lamenting that the emperor really did it, the empress dowager has only been dead for more than half a year, and the emperor has uprooted the Dugu family, and he really doesn't talk about it at all.

Guanlong Group is finished. At the beginning, Yuwentai pioneered the government military system, the eight-pillar country dominated by Wuchuan generals and the detachment of the twelve generals, and finally formed the top power of the Guanlong group, and the monarchs and ministers of the three dynasties were all out of this group, which was very prosperous. But after entering the new dynasty, the current emperor relied on Shandong Haojie, and used the emerging Shandong Haojie to balance with the Guanlong Group, and the emperor focused on suppressing the Guanlong Group, especially the destruction of the government military system. It also took away the foundation of the survival of the Guanlong nobles. With the three major cases in a row, although there are still some families left in the Guanlong Group who have long been firmly on the emperor's side, they are no longer just members of the nobles, and they are no longer a member of the Guanlong Group.

Gao Gong then flipped through the newspaper. Seeing another important piece of news, he immediately knew that this should be the last fatal blow that the emperor gave to the Guanlong group. Guanlong Group really has no chance of resurrection in the future. The emperor announced that the imperial examination would be held this year for consideration. The imperial examination was originally founded by Gaozu Shi. Once a year, it's not new. Although a new way of taking soldiers and serving as officials has been created, only a few people are admitted every year, and in the end they can often only serve in some idle low-level positions, which is not at all shaken by the imperial court dominated by the Guanlong group. But now, the emperor wants to promote the imperial examination with such fanfare in the newspapers, and it is obvious that it will never be so simple.

He put down his chopsticks and looked at it carefully, and sure enough, as he expected, although it was still called the imperial examination, it was completely different from the original imperial court examination.

According to the newspaper advertisement, the national examination will begin in the autumn of this year, first the county examination, the county examination passed, the final state examination, and then the provincial examination of each province, the admission of these three examinations were awarded the titles of Tongsheng, Xiucai, and Juren, and obtained that the children could enter the state and county government schools to study, and the outstanding ones could also receive scholarships, and the imperial court provided bonuses and rations. The scholars who have obtained Xiucai can also enter the official school, and Xiucai also has the qualification to enter various places as officials. And once you become a lifter, you have the qualifications to be an official. The people admitted in the provincial examination enter Beijing at the end of the year, and are held in early February of the following year, and the imperial examination of the imperial court only takes one subject of Jinshi, all of which take the examination of the name of the paper, and holds an imperial examination once every three years, and each subject will finally admit 500 Jinshi, and then the emperor himself presides over the court examination after the examination, and the ranking is determined. After the Jinshi and the first, he will enter the imperial court Taixue for a two-year study, learn the laws of government affairs, etc., and after passing the grades, he will be selected by the officials and appointed officials.

The more Gao Gong looked at it, the more he was amazed, this imperial examination of the emperor was definitely a big killer move. This imperial examination system is completely different from the original system, and it can be said that only one name is the same. First of all, it is this imperial examination grading examination, county examination, state examination, provincial examination, general examination, court examination five-level examination, and finally the examination of children, Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi, although the original annual examination is changed to once every three years, but this scale is completely different from the original, the original once a year, with multiple subjects, the number of people who can be taken is very small. But now in this five-level exam, one subject will eventually admit 500 jinshi. Not to mention that these 500 jinshi all have the qualifications to be elected and appointed officials, even those who have won the provincial examination have the qualifications to be officials, and even the recruits in the state examination have the qualifications to be officials.

For a long time, the qualifications of an official have been extremely important, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the foundation of the country. The recommendation system of the Han Dynasty, the filial piety and honesty, and the nine-product Zhongzheng system of the Jin Dynasty all revolve around the fierce competition for official qualifications. Why did Guanlong Group prosper in several dynasties? The most important thing is that they have a very important privilege, that is, the system of inheritance, the children of middle and high-ranking officials generally have the qualifications to enter the office, that is to say, the sons of these officials do not need to have any special talents, and when they reach the age, they can become officials. Before the new emperor ascended the throne, those wealthy families such as Li Wei and the eldest grandson Dou, each family had hundreds of children holding official positions, forming a gate valve.

But now, the emperor is constantly suppressing those wealthy families, cutting their lords, and reducing their qualifications for inheritance, but at the same time, he has opened the imperial examination, regardless of the family name or identity, whether it is the son of a farmer or the son of a craftsman or a businessman, as long as the net worth is innocent within three generations and there is no record of criminal offenses, they can participate in the imperial examination, and the imperial examination is relatively fair and open. This gave those who were originally impossible to enter the official arena a chance to enter the officialdom, and the emperor gave a very large number of places, no longer a few dozens, but one subject every three years, and each subject admitted five hundred jinshi. And not only Jinshi has the qualifications to be officials, but also has the qualifications to be officials, and the imperial court may admit three times the number of Jinshi in each provincial examination, that is to say, at least about 1,500 people are admitted in each subject. In this way, after the imperial examination every three years, 1,500 people and 500 jinshi have the qualifications to be officials, and even if the part of the jinshi who are admitted in the examination is subtracted, on average, there will be more than 1,000 new scholars who have obtained official qualifications every year. With so many people entering the officialdom, even if they start from the lowest position, it won't be long before they will become the main body of court officials.

This system will completely change the composition of officials in the imperial court, and the political structure.

Obviously, who benefits and who suffers from this new imperial examination system? Needless to say, it is natural that those original ordinary people, those sons of agriculture and industry, originally had no chance to obtain official qualifications and enter the officialdom, but now as long as they study and participate in the imperial examination, they will have the opportunity to become officials, and no matter how poor they are, they can also become officials. As for the original wealthy families, although they can also pass the guò imperial examination to obtain the qualification to be officials, and with their family conditions, family history and so on have a higher chance. But compared with the original requirement to get the qualification to be an official without passing the guò exam, the chances are obviously greatly reduced. It is inevitable that they will be able to admit to the government by examination, and even in the imperial examination, they will not be able to use the relationship of their respective families to increase their chances, which is undoubtedly a heavy blow to them.

Under the new military system dominated by the Northern Ya Forbidden Army, it is no longer possible for those Guanlong group families to control the army, and the political power is reduced. The new system of imperial examinations has further made them lose the opportunity to monopolize officialdom, and a large number of scholars from ordinary backgrounds have entered the officialdom, and the new tax reform promulgated by the imperial court has suppressed these wealthy families economically. Moreover, after the fall of the Guanlong clique, under these new imperial court systems, it was impossible to give birth to new political authorities.

"The imperial examination plus the school, the emperor is going to make officials in batches, nearly a thousand new officials are added a year, and in a few years, the central and local governments of the imperial court will be all over these officials who have entered the imperial examination, and when the time comes, in this world, who can still control the son of heaven?" Gao Gong shook his head, called the housekeeper, and asked him to call the grandchildren from all the rooms, since he couldn't stop and couldn't resist, he had to change his attitude as soon as possible and go with the trend. The Gao family also has to prepare early, and now on, he has to let his grandchildren study hard, in order to be able to pass the imperial examination as soon as possible to obtain the qualification to enter the office, although in his current status, he still has the qualifications for his children and grandchildren to enter the office, but he can see that in the future, only those officials who enter the imperial examination will be vigorously promoted by the emperor, and those officials who rely on the family door to enter the official will definitely be suppressed and difficult to reuse. (To be continued......)