"Exam?"

The next morning, Changle Palace, the main hall of Changxin Palace.

Hearing Liu Ying say this word that has never appeared in the land of China, Prime Minister Cao Shen, Neishi Wang Ling, and even the face of the Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant only buzzed with a blank look.

When Wang Ling asked in surprise, and looked at Cao Shen beside him for a moment, Wang Ling finally stood up first and bowed his hand to Liu Ying.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty to speak."

"——How can this examination be carried out, and who will guarantee it?"

"What should be the person who has been lifted?"

With a serious expression, Wang Ling looked at Liu Ying with a look of caution in his eyes!

For later generations, the examination and imperial examination may not be an unfamiliar topic, and their superiority is also very significant;

But for today's Han family, a new talent selection method is related to the stability of the entire court, and even the whole world, the temple and society!

Hearing the caution in Wang Ling's tone, Liu Ying was not in a hurry, and first arched his hand to his mother Lu Pheasant beside him, and then turned around and looked at Cao Shen and Wang Ling under the imperial stairs.

"In the past, the national dynasty raised scholars, but the queen mother and the Son of Heaven issued an edict to force the local counties to raise the field, filial piety, virtuous and upright, and the reputation of the local counties and counties to enter the court for use."

"However, the volume included in the Shiqu Pavilion of the Ranmy View knows that since the first year of Emperor Taizu Gao, every fourteen-year-old man, the strength of the Han family, filial piety, virtuous and square, no more than 100 people."

"Among them, Litian has more than 70 unique talents, more than 10 filial piety, and a reputation in the world, and is respected by the local counties and counties, and no one has to be a scholar······"

Putting this string of data on the table in a gentle tone, Liu Ying sighed slightly, looking at Wang Ling with a bitter expression, and there was a faint hint of self-deprecation and banter in his tone.

"Emperor Taizu Gao has been fighting horses all his life, and his martial arts are the best in history, and he has been in the position of ninety-five for 12 years, and he only has dozens of fields and ten filial piety."

"If you don't find another way to raise scholars, I am afraid that after 30 years, the princes of the court and the central government will still be bitterly admonished, and ask me to transfer capable ministers and officials to serve the court."

Speaking of this, Liu Ying raised her hand slightly, and shook her head with a bitter smile.

"The dynasty, the lack of bitter soldiers······"

Hearing Liu Ying's words, even if the number of officials hired by the Chang'an court through various channels in the past ten years is not direct, Cao Shen and Wang Ling couldn't help but nod slowly, which can be regarded as agreeing with Liu Ying's statement.

- In the past ten years, no one may care how many talents the Han family has obtained through the 'inspection system';

But as long as it is talked about, I am afraid that everyone will shake their heads, sigh and bow their heads, and give a conclusion that is 'almost nothing'.

It must be mentioned that as a unified regime in the early stage of feudal civilization, the talent selection system of the Han dynasty was not as rich as that of later generations, nor was it as large as that of later generations.

Just as Liu Yingfang said, the current system of selecting talents in the Han family is actually only two kinds: probation and promotion.

Officials, in fact, are legitimate money to buy officials, and by paying money, they get an opportunity to serve as a palace attendant;

In this way, although a large enough talent supplement can be obtained, the quality of talents is uneven, and few people can grow into the pillars of the court.

In history, Liu Hanshe Jifan has been in the field for more than 400 years, and the system of officials has been implemented for more than 150 years, and he can go from 'Lang Guan' to Jiuqing or more, that is, Yuan Ang and Zhang Budo of the Wen Dynasty, and the three of Zhi Budo of the Jing Emperor Dynasty.

And the inspection is what Liu Ying called 'Litian, filial piety, virtuous and square';

That is, those who are set as role models by the county because of their good farming, those who are praised by the surrounding counties because of their filial piety, and those who are knowledgeable enough to enter the center and think that they are ministers of various countries.

Of the three, Litian and filial piety are slightly simpler;

——Those who are lifted to the field will most likely be included in the Shaofu, starting from the 'agricultural officials' with a rank of 400 stones, and then being sent to the local counties in Guanzhong to guide the local people to cultivate as officials;

Filial piety is even simpler, just by virtue of the reputation of 'filial piety spread throughout the surrounding counties', you can be included in the Shaofu, after a simple training, you can directly become the deputy of the county-level unit, and even the number one in some small counties, that is, the county order.

As for the simplicity of these two, it is not that it is simple to become such a person, but for such a person, the center of the court does not need too complicated screening.

After all, no matter how you say it, in this era when short-distance communication relies on roaring and long-distance communication relies on letters, it is impossible for the Chinese people who have not even pointed out the skill points of 'raising hope' to deliberately create a reputation that someone is 'very filial' or 'very good at farming'.

In this era, anyone who is raised as a 'power field' must be a capable person who can plant the yield of the field in the field, can plant the yield of the heavens in the field, and can always influence and teach the people around him.

As for filial piety, it must be a perfect character, just mentioning a name is enough to make people within a radius of thousands of miles give a thumbs up and praise a person who 'this person can handle and is a big filial son'.

Knowing this, it is not surprising that in the past ten years, there have been more than 70 fields of strength and more than a dozen filial piety in the entire Han Dynasty.

In the case that the requirements of Litian and filial piety are so strict, the group of 'virtuous and square' is even more difficult to meet, and even if they do, people may not be willing to be officials.

The so-called virtuous and square, as the name suggests, refers to the two talents of "virtuous" and "founder".

Among them, "virtuous" refers to those who have the qualities and good abilities of "sages";

As for 'Founder', it is a person with good character and excellent virtue that is famous all over the world.

According to the records of the "Historical Records and Filial Piety Records", the requirements of the Han court for virtuous and upright people are 'those who speak outright, and Kuang I can't catch them'.

The two requirements of the outspoken 'extreme' admonition and the inability of the 'Kuang' Son of Heaven almost point out the essence of the group of 'virtuous and square'.

- Nationalist!

- A man who can see the shortcomings of the state system at a glance and bluntly explain the solutions!

Such a person, as long as he can be included in the court system, he must start with the deputy of the Jiuqing Yamen with real power such as Neishi and Tingwei, and the guarantee is also cultivated in the direction of the quasi-three dukes!

And the officials who have been appointed through this channel, and any person who comes up with them, will inevitably be a prehistoric giant who will go down in history and make future generations like thunder.

——In the first year of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, he was virtuous and well-founded Jia Yi, hired as a doctor, and moved to Taizhong as a doctor!

——Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty for four years, he was virtuous and square, and he was often in charge, and he was also the prince and the doctor!

——In the first year of the founding of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sun Hong, a virtuous and well-founded Gongzheng, was hired as a doctor!

As a representative of the 'virtuous and square' group, Jia Yi and Jia Changsha's name are famous in history;

Dr. Chao Cuo, as a scholar of Emperor Jing, was an official in the Emperor Jing Dynasty to the Imperial Historian, ranked as the third duke, and promoted the "Cutting Strategy" by himself, which punctured the tumor of "clan princes" in one fell swoop, and directly triggered the only huge political event in the Jing Dynasty: the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu.

As for Sun Hong, the prime minister of the swineherd, he started studying at the age of forty and was only conscripted as a scholar at the age of sixty, becoming the only Han minister with real power in the dynasty of Emperor Wu Liu Che!

From these people, who enjoy a very high reputation even throughout history, it is not difficult to see what the group of 'virtuous and square' means to the feudal regime.

——It is the same as the Three Kingdoms period in the later generations, 'Sleeping dragons and phoenixes, if you get one of them, you can settle the world': in the Han Dynasty, as long as one person can be recruited as virtuous and upright, as long as one appears, the world can be stable for 30 years;

And this is also the reason why in the past ten years, since the establishment of the Han family, there has never been a person who has been recruited by the Han family as a 'virtuous and square'.

The selection conditions for virtuous and square are too harsh······

It is so harsh that as long as he is selected, he can basically be directly cultivated according to the 'quasi-three princes' or even the 'quasi-prime minister'!

Here's a very specific and straightforward example.

——Four years ago, Liu Ying, who was not yet the crown prince, was shaken;

In order to protect Liu Ying's position, the Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant asked the Marquis Zhang Liang to go in person and invited four old people from Shangshan, which is often called 'Shangshan Sihao'.

And these four old men were the ones who were once recruited by the former emperor Liu Bang as 'virtuous and square', and could be appointed as a doctor at the level of 2,000 stones with a nod of their head, and were tacitly selected as Jiuqing's candidates, but in the end they politely refused to be recruited.

In the past few decades, after experiencing the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, those who are qualified to become 'virtuous and square' have either become the mainstay of the Han dynasty long ago, or have died in the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

Even if they were lucky enough to survive and were not included in the Han system, most of them hid in the deep mountains and old forests, and lived a leisurely life of 'seclusion and seclusion'.

Even if you take a step back, even if you don't die in the war, you haven't been included in the Han system, and you haven't hidden in the mountains and forests as a 'hermit', you may not agree to the Han family's conquest.

The king chooses the minister, and the minister also chooses the king~

For the group of 'virtuous and square', the central government of the Han family must not only prepare for official positions of more than 2,000 stones, but also be ready to be rejected at any time, and after being rejected, they will still be prepared to send people back respectfully.

In history, there are many such people.

- Taizu Liu Bang was a dynasty, and he was Shangshan Sihao;

In history, Liu Ying was a disciple of Xunzi Fu Qiubo, and his disciple Lu Shengong;

Emperor Wen Dynasty is Jinan Fusheng.

Combined with all this, it is not difficult to know why the Han family is facing such a serious 'talent shortage'.

If you talk about it in detail, the reason is extremely complex, but if you summarize it, it is just three sentences.

-- The number of talents available to the officials is sufficient, but the quality level is uneven, and the overall quality is not high;

Litian and filial piety, one is too professional and lacks comprehensive ability, and the other is only about reputation, regardless of ability;

As for the final 'virtuous and square', it is like a legendary red card in the management game of later generations, which can be encountered, but not sought, sought, and may not be sought······

In addition, there is another point that is a major limitation of the Han court inspection system.

——Inspection, inspection, and investigation need someone to 'investigate' and someone to 'lift'~

Litian and filial piety are better, as long as the person being promoted is famous enough, he can let the county order of more than 600 stones, or the officials of the county-level unit of more than 1,000 stones;

But when it comes to the 'virtuous and square' national scholar-level talent, it is at least subject to the county keeper himself who is the person who is raised, and the court sends Jiuqing-level officials to review, and in the end, the first county guard, the Jiuqing examiner, and the prime minister himself, these three people together are jointly promoted!

And after the recommendation, whether it is Litian, filial piety, or virtuous and square, as long as the official has any problems, or even only in the specific process of governance, and makes an inevitable mistake, everyone will be implicated, including the local county guard, the court Jiuqing, and the prime minister himself.

This also leads to the fact that under the model of 'recommendation', local counties, especially high-ranking officials in the court, will always be in line with the principle of 'rather do nothing than make mistakes', and would rather be punished for 'disobedience than don't raise';

——There is no reward for recommending talents, talents will be punished if they have problems, and even have to put on a high hat of 'knowing people who don't know people', this kind of thankless work, fools are not willing to do it!

In this context, the word 'examination' from Liu Ying's mouth made Cao Shen and Wang Ling see some scenes that they had never seen before.

Of course, after all, the ruling school of the Han family today is still Huang Laoxue, who 'seeks stability in everything';

For the new thing of 'examination', whether it is Cao Shen or Wang Ling, they are the first to bring instinctive vigilance and scrutiny.

But for the worries in the hearts of the two, Liu Ying, the son of heaven, didn't seem to care······

"This matter is the order of the Shaofu Shanglin Yuan, and it is played by 'the officials who have no appointment in the Shanglin Yuan', and it is only for me to read it."

"Now that there are no officials in the Shaofu, the court has been suffering from the lack of capable officials for a long time, and in desperation, I have made this decision······"

Without hesitation, Liu Ying sat up straighter and calmly looked at Wang Ling, who asked the question.

"The examiner, as the name suggests, is to test the talent of writing and ink and the ability to count, and to measure his ability;"

"And the person to be lifted shall be a man of literate hyphenation, who is familiar with arithmetic, and who is of good character and of great appearance;"

"If the above requirements are met, there is no need for the officials to be promoted, but to be appointed as a young official of 200 stones in Shanglin."

After briefly summarizing the 'examination' system, Liu Ying stopped talking, and immediately looked at Cao Shen and Wang Ling with anticipation.

Behind Liu Ying, the Queen Mother Lu Pheasant, who had never spoken, heard this, and a touch of contemplation quietly surged between her eyebrows.

"Literate and hyphenation, beginner arithmetic, good conduct, great appearance······"

"There is no need to be promoted, it is used as a young official of 200 stones······"

muttered full of doubts, Cao Shen and Wang Ling looked at each other again, and in the end, it was still Wang Ling who stood up, and bowed his hand to Liu Ying with hesitation.

"That's it, minister, and ask your majesty again."

"——This examination is for the Nashi to be used in Shanglin, how many Nashi are there?"

"Again: that is, for the examination, where should the recipient be examined, and for whom should he be examined?"

"And what qualifies? What is ineligibility? ”

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