China's system of electing officials has gone through several twists and turns, and in the past, it was the family gate lords who held the power of the entire country from the imperial court to the local level.

If the emperor's order is not satisfied, then it will be difficult to carry out this decree.

Later, Cao Cao's son Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty as emperor, and used the Jiupin Zhongzheng system to include the world's talents, which was the stability of his country.

At this time, the power of the Shi clan was still very large, and the officials who came in through other channels could not compete with them at all.

However, at this time, the official system has developed greatly, and the children of poor families also have a great way to promote their careers.

In other words, they can enter the office, so that they are eligible to get the pass to be officials, which is undoubtedly progressive.

Knowing that in the Sui Dynasty, there was a Kaike Examination, which further opened a door for the children of the Han family.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was more standardized, and the imperial examination was divided into two subjects: Ming Jing and Jinshi, which gave more space to those who were poor scholars.

During the period of time when Wu Zetian was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he created the subject of martial arts, which provided convenience for those who practiced martial arts to enter the official career.

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination was more developed, and the first imperial examination after Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne was not held.

But Zhao Xu still respects this imperial examination, although he is not an expert in this area, he also thinks that this is a pioneering achievement.

First of all, the imperial examination system founded by the Sui and Tang dynasties is a huge neck in the selection of Chinese officials, and it occupies a very important position in the history of Chinese officials.

Before it appeared, the inspection system of the Han Dynasty and the Jiupin Zhongzheng system of the Wei and Jin dynasties were relatively advanced systems for electing officials.

But the emergence of the imperial examination system has completely exploded these two systems, why? Because it's relatively fair.

Isn't it a reflection of this fairness that some underprivileged college students in later generations went to university through the college entrance examination? Zhao Xu has seen a lot of this.

From the perspective of China's development, there is no doubt that the imperial examination system is still relatively important.

The emergence, development and evolution of the imperial examination system was precisely adapted to the centralization of China's ideology at that time.

Of course, the imperial examination system also indirectly contributed to the rich and splendid culture of the Tang and Song dynasties.

But Zhao Xu knows more that there is still a big drawback in the imperial examination system, which is very serious in the long run.

This system has also restricted the all-round development of talent education to a great extent, causing a large number of intellectuals to become obsessed with the imperial examination and weakening the study of science and technology.

This had a great impact on Huaxia and was not able to change until many years later.

Zhao Xu also wants to change this state very much, and he is now capable of doing something, which he is more satisfied with.

But until now it was not the time for him to think about this problem, and what he was trying to solve in front of him was the subject problem of the imperial examination.

What he just said was the long-term drawbacks of the imperial examination, which naturally has short-term drawbacks, as the most important way for the imperial court to select officials, it mainly depends on the candidates' literary talents.

This is a problem, a good literary style does not necessarily have virtue and ability. But it is impossible to fundamentally understand how a person is from an article.

These selected officials will go to the grassroots level of the country in the future, and if the selected people are also sanctimonious hypocrites, it will be over.

When Zhao Xu was thinking about these things in his head, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but ask:

"Why are you talking about taking these subjects, since there was an imperial examination, there have not been so many things, even in the Tang Dynasty, there were only two subjects of Jinshi Ming Jing, you do this?"

Zhao Kuangyin was worried that doing so would cause dissatisfaction among those readers, and if one was dissatisfied, it would be over.

"Father, could it be that when the imperial examination system first came out, there were two subjects, Jinshi and Mingjing, which were only later, and now we are further developing what's wrong? We just go with the times. ”

After Zhao Kuangyin heard this, he didn't speak, what his son said was right, everything is constantly developing, and the imperial examination system is no exception.

In the past, there was no such thing as the imperial examination, but the later Sui Dynasty was the first to establish the imperial examination system, which opened up a path for scholars.

Later, after the Tang Dynasty overthrew the rule of the Sui Dynasty, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty inherited the system handed down from the Sui Dynasty.

Of course, these systems also include the talent selection system, that is, the imperial examination system of Emperor Yang of Sui.

But the Tang Dynasty did not simply inherit his system, otherwise, it would be too uninspiring.

In order to prove that it was different from the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty made further improvements to this so-called imperial examination, and it was their move that gradually perfected the imperial examination system.

In the Tang Dynasty, the subjects of the imperial examination were divided into two categories: regular subjects and system subjects, and I don't know which emperor's initiative, it is estimated that it is Li Laoer, that is, Li Shimin.

According to this regulation, the annual installment is called the regular department, and the examination held temporarily by the emperor's edict is called the system department.

There are a lot of subjects in the regular course, if it weren't for Zhao Kuangyin, who had read books on this subject for next year's imperial examination, he really wouldn't have been able to remember it.

Zhao Kuangyin vaguely remembered that there were more than 50 kinds of Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Junshi, Ming Law, Ming Zi, and Ming Calculation.

Of course, these were only implemented in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and later many subjects were canceled, and many things were useless.

Therefore, the two subjects of Ming Jing and Jinshi became the main subjects of the regular subjects in the Tang Dynasty, which were also permanent subjects.

But the Tang Dynasty was the most famous, and it can also be said that the most famous was Jinshike. Many of the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty were mostly Jinshi backgrounds.

If you think about it, many prime ministers are from Jinshi, which shows how important this Jinshi is.

Generally speaking, the Ming Sutra re-examines the scriptures and the Moyi. The so-called scripture is to open a page of the scriptures, cover the left and right sides, only open a line in the middle, and then cover the three characters with paper stickers, so that the test can be filled. Moyi is a simple written test of the words of the scriptures.

It is said that it can be almost the same as dictating the text, so it is very simple to say that the scriptures and the meaning of the scriptures can be tested as long as you are familiar with the scriptures and commentaries.

It is very difficult to get the first Jinshi, and this must have real talent and real learning, so there was a saying at that time that "thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi".

Therefore, the gold content of Jinshi is greater than that of this Ming Sutra, who makes it difficult for people to take the exam?

Later generations often said that the top three first, champion, Bangyan and Tanhua were also established at this time, but the word Bangyan did not appear in the Tang Dynasty.

The first place in the examination is called the champion, and the people on the same list want to raise money to hold a celebration event, which is actually to celebrate the relationship, pave the way for their future, and mix up the friendship of the same list.

Then why do you want to become a flower explorer, it turns out that the people of the Zhongjin Shi at that time wanted to visit the garden together to celebrate the flower exploration banquet.

Of course, the beautiful young man in the middle of the Jinshi went to the famous garden to pick flowers, to meet the champion, and was made a flower explorer.

These are all known to Zhao Kuangyin, what he doesn't know is that this Tanhua only became the third place in the head armor in the Song Dynasty.

However, after these new Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty participated in the banquet, they also had to go to the Yan Pagoda of Ci'en Temple to inscribe their names to show their glory, which is also the famous "Wild Goose Pagoda Inscription" in later generations.

In the Tang Dynasty, not only to look at the test results, but also to have the recommendation of various people, that is, to a very famous person to recommend you.

Therefore, for the sake of their own future and their future promotion, candidates have rushed to the door of the minister and presented their masterpieces to them, which is called submitting papers.

Of course, this can not only recommend yourself to some ministers, but also to the Ministry of Rites to vote for their own proud work, which is called the official roll, and the vote to the dignitaries is called the line roll reads;.

Submitting papers does make talented people shine and bring great help to their own imperial examinations.

At that time, Wang Wei, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, once submitted his poems to the princess at that time, and it was indeed successful.

But Zhao Kuangyin is also the most disgusted with such people, and many deceptives and fame thieves have also entered the officialdom with this platform.

It is conceivable what such a person can do after entering the officialdom, needless to say, I also know.

The following is what Zhao Kuangyin is most interested in, because in the Tang Dynasty, martial arts were also produced.

Wuju began in the second year of Wu Zetian's Chang'an, 702 AD. Candidates who should be martial arts are examined by the Ministry of War. The test subjects include horse shooting, infantry shooting, flat shooting, horse pistol, weight, etc.

The people selected in this way are all brave generals in the army in the future, which Zhao Kuangyin is very satisfied with.

But he is not ready to set up martial arts again, although he appreciates the talents selected by these martial arts, but he is even more afraid that the strength of the generals will expand again.

He is about to restrict the generals, can he still start martial arts again, isn't this uncomfortable with himself?

"What you said is also reasonable, this imperial examination is constantly developing, especially the Tang Dynasty has refined it, you tell me what you want to add, but what you say must be reasonable?"

Zhao Kuangyin took a deep breath:

"Because I'm going to open a bachelor's degree in the second year of Jianlong, we need these literati, so we have to think of a complete way to know?"

"What I want to add, of course, is beneficial to our Great Song Dynasty and the people, otherwise what else do you want to do, isn't the purpose of our imperial examination to select useful talents?"

Zhao Xu is not surprised at all that Zhao Kuangyin also reopened the imperial examination, this is inevitable, he needs a large number of literati to serve in the local government, and these people can only be the imperial examination.

Otherwise, I really can't find so many people for a while, the imperial examination is the most feasible way, and Zhao Kuangyin seems to have a big move again.

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