Time passed, and three months passed quickly.

The heavy snow has fallen twice near the lunar month, the city of Beijing has regained a lot of vitality in the past, many yamen from Nanjing and Guangzhou have moved to Beijing, tens of thousands of officials and their dependents and 200,000 new immigrants from the court, and the opening of the Pù Keshe Restaurant Hotel in the streets and alleys, the city of Beijing is radiating new youth!

The first five-year plan was officially announced to the world in August, more than a dozen new-style normal colleges and comprehensive universities were established, and the political training schools were also reformed one after another. However, they are not classified as universities, but more of a place for civil servants to train, further study, and study.

Blessed are the students who entered these schools before the new examination system was established in August, and they were able to qualify as civil servants without taking exams, and as long as they graduated, they could be considered talents.

However, after August, the minimum level of the imperial examination, the maximum number of years for Xiucai, was demarcated. Thirty years old. Beyond this limit by one day, you will not be able to take the exam. The maximum age for a person is 40 years old, and the maximum age for a jinshi is 45 years old. If you exceed this line, don't think about jumping quickly in the officialdom, it's true to work hard every year to make achievements!

The political school does not match the rank of the imperial examination, and the official system announced by the imperial court does not make hard rules on the grade of officials. didn't say that Xiucai couldn't join the cabinet and be a big man. As long as the political performance is excellent, anyone can enter the cabinet, which is not the exclusive treatment of Jinshi!

But no one would believe that.

Daqin now lowers the scientific examination rights of talents and people to the provincial government level, and stipulates that there will be an examination once a year. However, the subject of Jinshi is still firmly in the hands of the Ministry of Culture and Education, and it is still a triennial examination. And I was admitted to the Jinshi. Those who have a certain amount of governance experience can directly be parents in a county, and let go of the real shortcomings. Of course, if he is already a higher-level official. The status of Jinshi can only be regarded as a layer of brilliance for him.

The official system of the Great Qin Dynasty is not as good as that of the previous dynasties and generations, and if you enter the scientific field, you will be like entering the officialdom. After the fame of Xiucai is obtained. You have to work in the government, and then whether you are taking the examination or taking the jinshi examination, you have to find time to do it after work. Moreover, as soon as Xiucai joined the company, he started from the bottom of the grassroots, and then imagined that the Jinshi who had won the second and third grades in his teens and twenties like the previous dynasty would immediately govern the party, which was impossible.

"Now I know the value of the seven products!"

This is a sentence said in Ta Kung Pao after the announcement of the new official system. They take the example of an eighteen-year-old middle school talent, and they can sit in a county at the age of one year. That's already a smooth ride. Forty years old is not too old to sit on the magistrate!

The seven-rank magistrate is a milestone in the beginning of the Daqin officials, the six-grade officials have no real power, whether they are from the provincial government, the petty officials in the central yamen, or the county with the Guofu city and the provincial capital, and the five-grade official is the first level of the state city, the fourth grade is the first level of the prefecture city, and the third grade or more is the provincial city member.

The Great Qin official system proclaimed that the prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent from the army. Pay attention to and value the experience and ability of the central officials in grassroots governance. Therefore, if Daqin can continue safely. In a few decades, I am afraid that the provincial and ministerial officials will all be political veterans in their fifties and sixties. Everyone is an old oilman who has gone through hard work, is used to seeing the sinister officialdom, and has an ancient heart.

Of course. Now this group of people in the central part of Daqin can't, this is the meaning of the founding heroes of Conglong, that is talking about the future.

Therefore, Qipinzhi County is regarded as a milestone in the officialdom of Daqin. Location matters.

Those who pass the Jinshi examination are directly the seventh grade. Even the deputy governor of the county has omitted the seven products. If they do not have enough experience in governance, they should first go to a political school to study for a while. Then go to the provincial government yamen for a while, hone for two years, and then go down to the grassroots level. The goodness of his cultivation is complete, like some of Liu Xian's predecessors in the Great Celestial Dynasty.

Because of this, the value of the Jinshi and the imperial examination not only did not decrease due to the change of dynasty and the change of the Great Qin system, but it was more important than in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After the Chinese New Year, Liu Xian will hold the first Jinshi imperial examination in Daqin, and announced that the old fame of the previous imperial examination can also be counted, although it is only this one, although the age of the former Qing Juzi must be under forty, but it also caused many people to be ecstatic. It's only November, and there are two or three thousand people in Beijing who have entered Beijing to take the exam!

At the same time, the Xinhua Bookstore under the Ministry of Culture and Education, in its branches all over the country, sold like crazy those political references and teaching materials.

Daqin's imperial examination is based on classification, because it has just been reformed, and the classification has been reduced, Liu Xian does not want to cause too much controversy on this point, and at this moment it is only divided into three categories: comprehensive, professional and technical, and legal.

Of course, there is no need to say much about what synthesis is.

Professional technology is arithmetic and science, which actually covers a lot, but the current national conditions of China can only be divided into these two large parts. There are many, many more to be improved in the future.

The law, there is no need to say much about what to do.

Countless students are studying hard, and countless people are too late or untimely to catch up with this scientific expedition for various reasons, and they lament every night.

"Ta Kung Pao" said very much into the hearts of these people: In the future of Daqin officialdom, the most precious thing is time!

Below the fifth grade, you will retire at the age of sixty. The fourth rank is sixty-five years old; Above the third grade is seventy!

However, at this time, Liu Xian's heart was no longer on the cultural and educational event that was about to start in two months, but with blazing eyes on the South China Sea, staring at the Japanese fleet that was about to return in the South China Sea!

The return of three iron-ribbed wood-hulled warships, three ironclad cruisers of more than 2,000 tons, and six Japanese warships greatly increased the strength of the Japanese Navy. These fleets are already capable of posing a great threat to China.

Although Liu Xian paid the final payment for the warship purchased by Li Hongzhang in Britain, he added another 100,000 pounds, and finally completed Li Hongzhang's order in Britain. Two small ironclad ships and two protective cruisers, plus two iron-ribbed wood-hulled warships, in addition to the two Saxony-class ironclads still under construction in Germany, these are the only warships added by the Chinese Navy in more than two years.

Li Hongzhang raised 8 million taels of silver to build the Beiyang Navy, and then mobilized 2 million taels of silver from Zhili, Shandong, and Liangjiang, and nearly 10 million taels of silver were invested.

In this way, even if the Qin Navy has six ironclad ships, especially the two ironclad ships newly built by Li Hongzhang in Britain, one is more than 1,800 tons and the other is 2,100 tons, which is almost comparable to Japan's Kongo-class cruisers, the performance is not at all comparable to the two old ships of Yangwei and Zhenwei more than ten years ago.

Therefore, Liu Xian did not have to worry about Japan's maritime threat becoming a real threat. In particular, the Tokyo government in Japan was still troubled by the Southwest Domain, and had been working hard to expand its army without being able to fully devote its limited funds to its navy. After this naval investment, the next order is not known to wait until the Year of the Monkey, and China's two Saxony-class ironclad ships will be able to return to China in the spring of next year! In addition, Liu Xian has already ordered a second-class ironclad ship of more than 5,000 tons from Britain, France, and Germany. China's two large, one small and three shipyards, Jiangnan Shipyard under Jiangnan Heavy Industry [formerly Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau] is mainly engaged in civil ships and small speedboats, Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and Qinnan Shipyard more than half of the wharves are also building their own civil passenger ships and cargo ships, the largest tonnage has exceeded 3,000 tons. The speed of development of maritime trade along China's southeast coast in the past two years has been astonishing. The two first-class shipyards in Asia are using a small amount of strength to manufacture warships, because Liu Xian is ready to gradually eliminate the unprotected warships in the main fleet of the navy, and these two shipyards have good experience in building their own wooden-hulled warships, but they still need enough experience to accumulate in the manufacture of ironclad ships and flat-armored ships. Of course, you can't blindly start building ships!

When the two Saxony-class ironclad ships return to China next year, China's naval combat power against Japan will once again be in an absolutely superior position, and this position is very likely to be maintained for a long time. Unless the financiers behind the Japanese government are willing to strengthen Japan's military power regardless of the cost. However, Liu Xian still did not want to see the six cutting-edge warships fall into the hands of the Japanese government in Tokyo.

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Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Snowflakes were falling, and a cold wind was blowing down the open doors into the house. Saigo Takamori sat cross-legged at the door, not seeming to feel the cold, letting the wind blow, and only having a small wine table in front of him, a pot of sake, and a wine glass in his eyes.

No matter how cold the weather is, it can't be cold in his heart. Freeze yourself to death, and you won't have so many troubles when you die. Saigo Takamori, who has a strong personality and values the honor of a samurai more than his own life, is really like dying now.

Yesterday, in the face of that man, he made a decision to nail himself forever in the history of Japanese shame. He complied with China's wishes, which would inevitably harm Japan's interests.

Saigo Takamori seemed to have returned to six years ago, to the day he resigned as a member of the government council and governor of the Guard. Many of the traditional samurai he represented were forever deprived of their exclusive honor on that day. He was in great pain that day, and that meant that too many tragedies would inevitably happen. Just like yesterday, Saigo Takamori clearly saw that the honor that was more cherished by the group of them than the cherry blossoms had gently fallen.

"Saigo-kun, since you've decided, let's go on firmly. Let history and the future determine what we are right or wrong with Tokyo. We can't turn back, not because of the survival and honor of the samurai, but because of the policy of the Tokyo government. "Tsunashi Oyama, who has been stripped of his Kagoshima governor's hat by the Tokyo government, is still one of the important figures and leaders of the Southwest Army. Yesterday's decision was made by the entire leadership of the Southwest Army.

"Great Qin is not Great Qing, China has cheered up and has risen. There is no longer a chance for Japan. And the ambitions of the Tokyo government and the foreign Yi behind them will only make Japan ruined. (To be continued......)