Chapter 13 The Imperial Examination Advances and the System Innovates
Since Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, everyone found that the originally elusive Dongchang and Jinyiwei gradually began to appear more in front of ordinary people.
Sometimes on the street, they are doing a kind of activity called raiding a house against a court official.
Sometimes it's in an inconspicuous alley where a stubborn family member is arrested.
But more of the change came from the otherwise chilling factory guards who seemed to have become amiable overnight.
Of course, this kind of amiability is more often just aimed at not committing crimes in their hands.
Otherwise, they will tell you with the embroidered spring knife in their hand.
What you did seriously violated the law of the Ming Dynasty, but in the current environment, as long as you don't touch the emperor's money bag, you are basically grasping the big and letting go of the small.
This is related to Zhu Youzhen's policy of severely punishing officials at the moment, because he knows very well which officials are loyal and which officials' butts have gradually shifted from the bench of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, it doesn't matter whether history is written by the victors or not.
In the end, the choices they made when the Daming Building was about to collapse are clearly recorded in history.
No matter how you jump now, as long as you do things like "water ice, you can't go down" in history, then let alone being promoted, it is already a blessing to be able to save your life.
And inside the palace.
After Zhu Youzhen finished dealing with the affairs of the Tai Hospital, deep worries lingered between his brows again.
"What should come will come after all."
Turning over the past by Shaanxi Baojing Division, Zhu Youjian can already see the power of the Xiaoice River period.
Even if it is only the early stage, it is a real reduction in yield and impact on survival for the Ming farmers, who now mostly rely on the sky for food.
Overnight, from a little-known middle-level employee of a company in his previous life to the helm of such a huge empire, this leap in the middle made Zhu Youzhen sometimes face such a problem.
There is always a deep sense of powerlessness, which can now be filled by the money and food that is gradually getting richer.
But if we can't open up a new way for the people of the Ming Dynasty to eat, then no matter how much we talk about, no matter how much we copy, we will eventually fall into the economic collapse that is destined to come.
The so-called Great Qing Dynasty led by Kang Mazi later saw that the essence was actually because a large number of Han people were oppressed and persecuted, and at the same time coincided with the end of the Xiaoice River period.
And sweet potatoes and corn from the Americas, although long-term consumption will cause people to have unavoidable side effects, such as unsightly side effects in public places.
But it's still food, it can still satisfy hunger, it can still make people eat enough, and they can't afford to rebel under the pressure of the tip of the knife.
"It's time to double the talents in history, and the food problem may be able to last in the short term, but once this situation does not improve, the people will realize that this is not a simple disaster year."
But Zhu Youzhen hadn't put down the successive distress calls from Shaanxi in his hand, and turned around and saw the Ming map hanging behind him.
His eyes were tightly locked on Liaodong, which was close to the Beijing Division.
Liaodong has become a problem for the entire Ming Dynasty at this moment, if left unchecked, Liaodong will soon usher in a large-scale mutiny because of months of arrears of military salaries.
At this moment, although the problem of arrears of wages in Liaodong has gradually swelled with Zhu Youzhen's pockets, it has been distributed in a timely manner, and the situation is that Bi Zisu, who had just been kicked by Zhu Youzhen, served as the governor of Liaodong.
The situation can also be considered a good one.
At present, Zhu Youzhen's biggest problem has become the biggest thing for Zhu Youzhen.
It's just that this has been like a fine net after the Ming Dynasty, but the shortage of officials has slowed down many things that should have been implemented quickly.
Even Wei Zhongxian hinted to Zhu Youzhen more than once that the imperial court still needs more officials to fill the hole this time, although the scholars of the six ministries have not yet been replaced.
But most of the squires below went to prison.
Not to mention other imperial institutions.
I saw Zhu Youzhen draft the purpose of the pen and ordered the officials to advance this year's imperial examination, and Zhu Youzhen personally drafted the examination papers.
He didn't want some officials who could only write some dull and pedantic articles without any knowledge of governing the world, and for the first time in organizing the first step of the imperial examination, the right to organize the first step of the imperial examination was withdrawn from the local political envoys and transferred to the ministry to organize and carry out.
And then the examination was also changed from the Ministry of Rites to the Ministry of Officials, if an examination is full of holes and for a while it has to rely on the original basic method.
Then the best way is to change a group of people to do this, and it is also beneficial for the main examination to be directly done by the officials, because the officials at this moment are in the hands of the pro-imperial party.
The palace examination has nothing to do with the ministry, and the students who have won the examination are generally organized together to enter Beijing to participate in the palace examination prepared by the emperor, regardless of whether they pass the palace examination or not.
will not fall off the list, this rule has been used for hundreds of years, and Zhu Youzhen is not ready to break him, after all, this time he has to start the township exam with his own questions.
To put it mildly, under today's Ming Dynasty, most students have already begun to study Baguwen desperately, and as long as they pass the original township examination, they have basically stepped into the starting point of the meritorious imperial examination.
As long as he can pass the township test, Zhu Youzhen wants to draw people up for his own use, but after all, some fixed rules are not suitable for breaking directly.
Therefore, if you have passed the township test and can pass the meeting test, you will really be a talent among talents.
Therefore, Zhu Youzhen is not afraid that someone will not be able to do it, what he is afraid of is that someone will answer all his papers, then he may have to think about whether he has met a traverser.
It's just that in Zhu Youzhen's will, the number of students to be hired in the Ming provinces for this examination was specified in detail, and the score line was calculated according to the average score after the examination.
Those who reach the line are hired, and those who do not meet the line are included in the imperial examination files, and they are only allowed to take the examination for three years.
And this system is mainly to solve the shortcomings of most of today's Ming officials from the south.
The demarcation of the number of people in each province can also avoid this scourge to a large extent.
Moreover, Zhu Youzhen also ordered the household department to cooperate and conduct a second audit after passing the examination, mainly to review the household registration and the experience of where to study.
Avoid the occurrence of southern candidates encroaching on the quota of passing the examination in the north.
With so many thoughts sprinkled on paper, Zhu Youzhen was relieved.
In the future, it is destined to make many people's official positions less stable, but at present, there are many people who can be officials and want to be officials, but there are very few talents who really meet the interests of him as an emperor.
Therefore, I can only make this decision, first use the questions of later generations to rashly screen a batch, test a batch with three rounds of examinations, and then send it to the Hanlin Academy for training for two years (three years here in the old system).
When the time is ripe, he will go to various places to take up posts as officials, or he can be directly transferred to various ministries to start as petty officials.
Studying in the Hanlin Institute is already different from the dirty atmosphere before, and after the cleaning of the East Factory, the Hanlin Institute has been much cleaner.
It's not a place to look at your background, but to look at your family.
It will truly become a place for students to show their talents, and this system will continue to be improved, modified and strengthened by Zhu Youzhen.
In the end, in the future, he will contribute to the innovation of the Ming Dynasty's government and contribute a steady stream of students.