The fairness of the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang dynasties is superficial, and the most important reason is that the Xianbei nobles who followed Yuwentai's entrepreneurship, after two or three generations of accumulation and marriage, formed a huge interest group with Guanzhong Haoqiang.

When Yang Jian usurped the country, in order to gain the support of this group, he had to make concessions to them.

Li Yuan took advantage of Yang Guang to avoid trouble in Jiangdu, raised troops from Taiyuan, entered the customs, and made the same choice as Yang Jian.

Its own accumulation, and the opportunity of two dynastic changes in a short period of time, can create the power of the Guanlongmen valve in the future.

When the Sui and Tang dynasties established the imperial examination system, especially the Tang rulers, they inevitably had to make a series of compromises in the face of the Guanlongmen valve.

Gao Cheng had no worries about this.

The Xianbei nobles who were born in the six towns have not yet completed the transformation from the martial arts group to the gate lord clan, and the promotion speed of the military generals is much higher than that of the civilian group in the troubled times.

Excluding special groups such as Gao Cheng's cronies, civil servants need to be promoted based on their political achievements during their tenure, even if Gao Cheng shortens the six-year period in order to quickly promote talents, but perhaps waits three years.

And military generals only need to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, they can be quickly promoted, such as Duan Shao, Hu Luguang and other noble children who have practiced riding and archery since childhood, and their first choice is still to join the army.

Gain merit through conquest, so as to quickly rise and reach a certain height, you really have to get tired of the military, and then choose a military attache to turn into a civilian position, and go to the central government to hold a noble position.

Therefore, Gao Cheng established the imperial examination system, and the resistance he faced was very different from that of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

It is impossible to expect Yang Jian of Hebei, who was squeezed out and suppressed by the nobles of the Eight Towns, to force Low Cheng Ru Sui and Tang to make small concessions.

What's more, the four-product Zhongzheng system has continued to this era, and it has long been the heyday of the two Jin Dynasty.

After the lessons of the two Jin Dynasty, a few ignorant people also realized its drawbacks, and began to use other methods of selecting officials to supplement their regression, such as the Southern Liang Seven Classics Examination mentioned later.

Gao Cheng, an emperor who relied on the support of the gate valve and missed the lower position, was able to abolish the official election system that seemed to be in line with the interests of the gate valve, and also reflected the attitude of the people of the time towards the four grades from another side.

The reason why it has survived is only that there is no suitable replacement.

As for Low Cheng, he planned to delay the establishment of the imperial examination system for 84 years, use it to replace the four-grade Zhongzheng system, and completely sweep it back to the garbage heap of history.

Low Cheng explained his ideas for the imperial examination system to his cronies in detail.

First of all, it restricts the origin of candidates, whether Yang Jian is a poor family, or even a peddler's pawn, as long as he is literate, he can take the exam for a period of eight years.

Secondly, it must be graded layer by layer, candidates need to pass the county examination, the state examination, the Beijing examination, the Beijing examination is presided over and admitted by Low Cheng himself, the reason why there is no arrangement of the palace examination, is naturally to hope that those officials who are admitted will have the slightest connection with the title of the protégé of the Son of Heaven.

On that point, when the lower clan usurps the country in the future, it can be revised, and a new system will inevitably go through the perfection of the judgment before it can mature.

For the benefits obtained by passing the examinations at all levels, Low Cheng did not consider it, I will popularize Mongolian learning at the same time, in the state and county to promote official learning, those who pass the county examination, can not study in the county school; Those who pass the state examination will not be able to study in the state school; And the lucky ones who finally pass the Beijing test can be awarded an official.

The low Cheng plan followed the Ming and Qing dynasties and distributed meals to the students of the state and county government schools, subsidized their lives, and gave each person eight buckets of rice per month.

In particular, few students who can study in government schools will be poor students, Yang Jian will look down on the kind of public education, and we will choose to regress elite education for our children.

But I will be like the Ming Dynasty to give students the privilege of exempting from taxes, at most let us serve as servants.

On that point, when I compile the "Records of the Ancestors" in the future, I will explain the truth to my children and grandchildren.

As for the honorary titles given by passing examinations at all levels, Low Cheng also did not bother a lot of brains, and directly corresponded to the county examination, state examination, and Beijing examination with Xiucai, Juren, and retired soldiers.

As for Xiucai, he studied outside the county school and prepared for the exam eight years ago.

As for the content of the examination, Low Cheng plans to temporarily set up a criminal name department, an arithmetic department, an agricultural department, a public works department, and a classic department.

The Criminal Law Division examines the law, and the new law enshrined in the law will be difficult to write in the short term, so the current "Law of the Beginning" will be used as the content of the examination for the time being.

The officials who are recorded, those with low ranks, are sent to the criminal department to serve as Beijing officials, and those with high rankings are sent to local prisons.

Candidates for arithmetic are required to use the "Four Chapters of Arithmetic" as the teaching material, and the officials who are recorded, those with low ranks, will serve in the Ministry of Officials or the Ministry of Households.

Candidates with high rankings in arithmetic will go to the local government to serve as subordinate officers of the transfer department, assisting the chief officer in the responsibility of tax collection, accounting, and transferring taxes to the central government, and supervising the local finances.

That's one of the centralization measures I'm going to be imposing.

The agricultural department is a little more complicated, and the spies who secretly guarded Jia Siqian sent back the news that Jia Siqian had not yet started his travels and was writing "Qi Min's Technique".

Now, for the time being, the rest of the agricultural books are used as the content of the examination, and when the book "Qi Min Yaoshu" is completed, there is no doubt that the masterpiece will become the designated textbook in the promotion of Low Cheng, and the content of 10 volumes and 92 articles is enough to support the agricultural department.

Those who excel in the grades will be assigned to the household department with some of the arithmetic candidates, and the local officials will also be in charge of local agricultural affairs.

The Public Works Division inspected the "Weekly Rites. Engineering books such as "Examination of Work", those who are ranked lower will serve in the Ministry of Engineering, and those with higher rankings will not have suitable arrangements, such as building dams, caring for rivers, etc.

The first classic subject, as the name suggests, examines the Confucian classics, and the Ministry of Rites is its main destination, but those who have outstanding talents can also serve in the most sought-after departments of each ministry, such as the Department of Examination of Officials and the Department of Selected Literature.

In the final analysis, the Criminal Names Department, the Arithmetic Department, the Agricultural Affairs Department, and the Public Works Department recruited professionals in various fields, and the social atmosphere doomed Low Cheng to abandon the Confucian classics in the imperial examination.

It is even necessary to give the classical department a transcendent status among the seven subjects: outstanding students can go to eight departments, and they all go to critical positions.

The edifying role of Confucian classics was not replaceable in that era, and now it has not suffered from the poison of the Song Dynasty.

It is always possible for Low Cheng to risk the small things in the sky, give up Confucianism, and open up a Buddhist exam to recruit officials.

What I insist on is that Confucianism is involved in the rest of the exams, so that those professionals will lose the opportunity to show their abilities because they are familiar with Confucianism.

Among the eight departments of Shangshu Province, only the military department that was not in charge of the selection of military attachés and the management of military registration and ordnance did not have a special examination category for the selection of talents.

The classic section is in charge of the selection of military attachés, and the arithmetic department is in charge of military registration and ordnance management.

When Low Cheng explained the imperial examination system he had stitched up to a group of cronies, everyone was amazed at my meticulousness, who was also vague about how Long Cheng had secretly planned for a long time.

I also understood my determination to abolish the four-grade Zhongzheng system and create the imperial examination system.

"As the prince said, Shangguan is willing to serve the work of dogs and horses."

The waiter was the first to express his support.

Low Cheng has high hopes for the little villain who bullied the king, and I am the main examiner of the Beijing Examination of the Public Works Department, after all, I am the person who is regarded as the 'smelting ancestor', supervising the construction of iron smelting furnaces, increasing the construction of Yecheng, building embankments, and building water mills are all the merits of Low Longzhi in history.

Engineering, looking at it, I am the top existence.

Zhang Shiqi and other staff members from poor families also followed Low Longzhi's statement.

Li Yuanzhong and others did not weaken their way before understanding Low Cheng's determination, after all, in the competition between poor students and Gong Xing's children, there will still be a fair phenomenon, such as educating the public.

But there is no absolute fairness, and it is possible for Low Cheng to make a provision that the admission quota will be split in half by Yang Jian and Hanmen.

Insisting on selecting according to talent is based on origin, and it was not the least fair in that era.

Unifying the internal opinions, Low Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief.

I originally planned that if there was really no one who had cronies to uphold the four-grade Zhongzheng system, I would expel him from Luoyang.

Thinking is a low pace, and it is destined to be eliminated.

Before the agreement, Low Cheng dismissed a group of cronies and ended the preparations for the establishment of the imperial examination system.

And the people came out of Zhongshu Province, and Yang Jian's low-level people such as Li Yuanzhong and Cui Ang were forced to wait to return home to write a letter and send it to Hebei.

Inform the clansmen of Low Cheng's intention to hold the imperial examination, so that the children of the family can prepare early.

Look, there is no absolute fairness, those Yang Jianmen disciples are well-informed, and even the preparation for the exam is slower than that of the poor students.

But Low Cheng also has a way to stop us from sending letters home.

In the eighth year of Taichang (537), the eighth day of the seventh month.

The aftermath of the abolition of the Eight Princes and Four Secretaries system has not subsided, and the little general who was appointed to preside over the reform of the law has not moved, and I have ordered people to post notices in various places in Henan and Hebei, so that the people in heaven can comment on the Four Grades of Officials and Persons Law, especially the Zhongzheng system.

Clearly admonishing the governors of various prefectures and counties is to blame them with their words.

That move, but also completely ignited the poor students to suffer from the grievances of public treatment, we burst out of a very low coldness, is to stop in the streets and alleys of the pain Chen Sipin is the system is public and disadvantageous, but also to Luoyang to send a letter, hoping that low Cheng can hear our voice.

For the time being, Low Cheng knows the attitude of various states and counties, but Luoyang and the surrounding areas are arguing, but in a small body, there are still few voices criticizing the positive system in the four products.

It was also the small discussion set off by Low Cheng for the imperial examination, and the participants decided that if it was only limited to the court, there was no doubt that the maintenance of the four-product Zhongzheng system would still occupy the mainstream.

When the participants are limited to vested interests, the voice of their side is destined to be smaller, after all, vested interests are the majority after all.

Local public opinion, especially the most concerned public opinion in Hebei, has not yet been transmitted, but Low Cheng did not have the heart to worry about government affairs at that time.

July 17, Bohai Palace.

Heart-rending screams echoed through the front yard.

The first chapter is brought, and the rest should be in the evening.

This chapter is really difficult to write, so I deliberately said last night that it would be until nine o'clock, and there must be shortcomings in this imperial examination system launched by Gao Cheng, after all, I racked my brains alone, and there will definitely be omissions.

As for letting people comment on the decree, it is actually Gao Cheng's practice in history, to be honest, a reformer in his early twenties is very outrageous, the key is that Gao Cheng's series of reform measures in history have achieved very good results.

Covering many aspects such as law, currency, official system, salt and iron, household registration, cracking down on corruption, etc., there are also divisions in the military, Hou Jing, Xiao Yan and then annexed Lianghuai, such a character was assassinated by the cook, and it also drew an outrageous end to him.

(End of chapter)