Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 195 Review System
The fairness of the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties was superficial. The most important reason was that the Xianbei nobles who followed Yuwentai’s entrepreneurship formed a huge interest group with Guanzhong tyrants after two or three generations of accumulation and marriage.

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 disaster in Jiangdu, raised troops from Taiyuan, entered Guanzhong, and made the same choice as Yang Jian.

Self-accumulation and the opportunity of two dynastic changes in a short period of time can create the future power of the Guanlongmen Clan.

When the imperial examination system was established in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, especially the rulers of the Tang Dynasty, it was inevitable to make a series of compromises in the face of the Guanlongmen Clan.

Gao Cheng has no worries in this regard at all.

The nobles of Xianbei who were born in the six towns have not yet completed the transition from warriors to nobles, and the promotion speed of military commanders is much higher than that of civil servants in troubled times.

Excluding special groups such as Gao Cheng's cronies, civil servants need to be promoted based on their political performance during their term of office. Even if Gao Cheng shortened the six-year period in order to quickly promote talents, he may wait for three years.

Military generals can quickly get promoted as long as they make meritorious service on the battlefield, such as Duan Shao and Hu Luguang, who have practiced riding and archery since childhood, their first choice is still to join the army.

Obtaining achievements through conquest, so as to quickly improve and reach a certain height, if you really want to get tired of the military, you will choose a military officer to transfer to a civilian position, and take a noble position in the central government.

Therefore, compared with the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the resistance faced by Gao Cheng when he established the imperial examination system was vastly different.

It is impossible to expect that Hebei Yang Jian, who was squeezed out and suppressed by the nobles of the Eight Towns, can force Gao Chengru to make a small concession especially in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

What's more, the four-rank Zhongzheng system has continued to the present era, and it has long been the heyday of the restoration of the Jin Dynasty.

Many uninformed people have also fully realized its disadvantages after learning from the two Jin Dynasties, and began to use other methods of selecting officials to complement it, such as the Nanliang Qijing examination mentioned later.

Gao Cheng, an emperor who relied on the support of the family and picked up the next one, was able to abolish the official selection system that seemed to be in the interests of the family, and it also reflected the attitude of the people of the time towards the four-rank Zhongzheng from another side.

The reason why it continues to exist is only because there is no suitable replacement.

As for Gao Cheng, he planned to delay the establishment of the imperial examination system in 84, and use it to replace the Sipin Zhongzheng system, and completely sweep it back to the garbage dump of history.

Gao Cheng explained in detail his vision of the imperial examination system to his cronies.

First of all, it restricts the background of candidates. Whether Yang Jian is from a humble family or even a trafficker, anyone who needs to be literate can take the exam. The period is eight years.

Secondly, it must be graded layer by layer. Candidates need to pass the county examination, state examination, and Beijing examination. The Beijing examination is presided over and admitted by Gao Cheng himself. There is no connection between the names of the students.

Regarding that point, it is enough to make revisions after the Gao clan usurps the country in the future. A new system must undergo continuous improvement before it can mature.

Gao Cheng didn't consider the benefits gained from passing the examinations at all levels. While popularizing elementary education, I will also promote official education in prefectures and counties. People who pass the county exams cannot study in county schools; Study in the state school; and the lucky ones who finally pass the Beijing examination can be awarded officials.

Gao Cheng plans to follow the example of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and distribute granary meals to the students of state and county government schools to subsidize their living expenses, and each person will be given [-] Dou of granary rice per month.

In particular, the students who can study in government schools are seldom those from poor backgrounds. Yang Jian’s low family view is the kind of public education, and we are less likely to choose to revert to elite education for our children.

But I would like the Ming Dynasty to give students the privilege of exempting taxes, at least let us serve corvee.

Regarding that point, when I write "Ancestral Precepts" in the future, I will explain the truth to my descendants.

As for the honorary titles awarded for passing the examinations at all levels, Gao Cheng did not waste his brains, directly matching the county examinations, state examinations, and Beijing examinations with Xiucai, Juren, and retired scholars respectively.

A person can be an official, and only a retired scholar can become an official. As for a scholar, he should study hard outside the county school and prepare for the exam eight years ago.

As for the content of the exam, Gao Cheng plans to temporarily set up criminal name subjects, arithmetic subjects, agricultural affairs subjects, engineering subjects, and classic subjects.

The Department of Criminal Names examines the law, and it is difficult to write a new law in the short term. For the time being, the current "Zhengshi Law" will be used as the examination content.

Among the recorded officials, those with low rankings will be sent to the Ministry of Punishment to serve as Beijing officials, and those with high rankings will be sent to local prisons.

Candidates for the arithmetic department need to use "Four Chapters of Arithmetic" as the textbook, and the officials who are recorded with low rankings will work in the Ministry of Officials or the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Gao Cheng will set up a transshipment department in the local area. Candidates with high rankings in arithmetic will go to the local area to serve as the subordinate officer of the transshipment department, assisting the chief officer to undertake the duties of tax collection, accounting, and transfer of tax revenue to the central government, and supervise the regression of local finance.

That is also one of the centralization measures that I will implement in my previous follow-up.

But the agricultural affairs department is much more complicated. The spies secretly guarding Jia Sixie sent back news that Jia Sixie hadn't started traveling yet and was writing "Qi Min Yao Shu".

Now the rest of the agricultural books are used as the examination content for the time being, and when "Qi Min Yao Shu" is finished, that masterpiece will undoubtedly become the designated textbook in the promotion of Gaocheng. The content of 10 chapters in 92 volumes is enough Support the Agricultural Department.

Those with excellent grades will join some of the arithmetic candidates to work in the household department, and the officials sent to the local area will also preside over the local farming affairs.

The engineering department examines engineering books including "Zhou Li. Kao Gong Ji". Those who rank lower will work in the Ministry of Industry. Those who rank higher will not have suitable arrangements, such as building dams and caring for rivers.

The first section of classics, as the name suggests, studies Confucian classics, and the Ministry of Rites is the main destination, but those with outstanding talents can also serve in the most in-demand departments of various ministries, such as the Department of Examination and Selection of the Ministry of Officials.

In the final analysis, the subjects of Criminal Names, Arithmetic, Agriculture, and Engineering recruited professionals in various fields, and the social atmosphere predestined that Gao Cheng might discard Confucian classics in the imperial examination.

It is even necessary to give classics a detached position among the seven subjects: outstanding students can go to the eight departments, and all of them go to important positions.

The enlightening function of Confucian classics was not replaceable in that era, and it has not suffered from the poison of the Song Dynasty today.

Gao Cheng could always risk the smallness of the sky, abandon Confucianism, and open up a Buddhist examination to recruit officials.

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

Among the eight ministries of Shangshu Province, there is only the Ministry of War that is in charge of the selection of military officers and the management of military registration and weapons, and there is no special examination category for talent selection. Gao Cheng prefers to recruit officials from classics and arithmetic.

The classical department is in charge of the selection of military officers, and the arithmetic department is in charge of military registration and weapon management.

Before Gao Cheng explained the imperial examination system he had sewed up to his cronies, everyone was amazed at my meticulousness, and no one knew how long Gao Cheng had planned in secret.

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

"As the son said, Shangguan is willing to do the work of dogs and horses."

The waiter, Gao Longzhi, first expressed his support.

Gao Cheng has high hopes for that little villain who bullies the emperor. I am the main examiner of the civil engineering examination. After all, he is regarded as the "ancestor of smelting". The construction of the water mill is all the achievements of Dilongzhi in history.

As far as engineering is concerned, I am the top existence.

Zhang Shiqi and other aides from humble backgrounds also followed Gao Longzhi's statement.

Before Li Yuanzhong and the others understood Gao Cheng's determination, did they act weakly? After all, in the competition between poor students and Gong Xing's children, there would still be a phenomenon of fairness, for example, the education was done by the public.

But there is no absolute fairness in the first place, and Gao Cheng may make a rule that the admission quota will be divided between Yang Jian and the poor.

Insisting on selection based on talent, based on background, was not the smallest fairness in that era.

After unifying the internal opinions, Gao Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief.

I originally planned to expel him from Luoyang if no one trusted me to stick to the fourth-rank Zhongzheng system.

Thoughts follow the pace of lowering and clarifying, and they are destined to be eliminated.

Before the agreement, Gao Cheng dismissed a group of cronies and finished the first preparations for the establishment of the imperial examination system.

But when all the talents left Zhongshu Province, Yang Jian's low-class people, such as Li Yuanzhong and Cui Ang, were forced to delay returning home to write letters and send them to Hebei.

Inform the family members of Gao Cheng's intention to promote the imperial examination, so that the family's children can prepare early.

Look, there is no absolute fairness. Those Yang Jian's children are well-informed, and they even prepare for the exam slower than the poor students.

But Gao Cheng also has the means to prevent us from sending letters home.

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

The aftermath of the abolition of the Eight Lords and Four Ministers system was not settled, and the little general Gao Cheng who was ordered to preside over the reform and reformation did not move. I ordered people to post notices in various places in Henan and Hebei, asking the heavenly beings to comment on the laws of the four ranks of officials, especially Among them is the neutral system.

Clearly admonishing the governors of various states and counties is to impute the blame with words.

This action also completely ignited the grievances of the poor students who have suffered from unfair treatment in their youth. We burst out with extremely low feelings, and we only went to the streets and alleys to complain about the unfairness and disadvantages of Sipin, and even sent them to Luoyang. Letter, I hope that Xiao Cheng can hear our voices.

For the time being, Gao Cheng knows the attitudes of various states and counties, but Luoyang and its surrounding areas are noisy, but generally speaking, there are few voices criticizing the Zhengzhi of the fourth rank.

It was also the small discussion that Gao Cheng started to build momentum for the imperial examination. The object of his participation was determined. If it was limited to the court, there is no doubt that the maintenance of the four-rank Zhongzheng system would still occupy the mainstream.

When the participants are limited to those with vested interests, the voice of the other party is destined to be smaller. After all, vested interests are the majority after all.

The local public opinion, especially the public opinion in Hebei, which is the most concerned, has not yet been transmitted, but Gao Cheng was not concerned about government affairs at that time.

July [-]th, Bohai Palace.

Heart-piercing screams resounded through the front yard.

　Chapter 1 brought, the rest should be in the evening.

　　Writing this chapter was indeed difficult, so I specifically said that it would be until nine o'clock last night. The imperial examination system introduced by Gao Cheng must have shortcomings. After all, I racked my brains alone, and there must be omissions.

　　It is actually Gao Cheng’s practice in history to ask people to comment on government orders. To be honest, a reformer in his early 20s is outrageous. The key point 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, checking household registration, combating corruption, etc. In the military, Hou Jing and Xiao Yan also annexed the two Huaihe Rivers. Such a character was assassinated by a cook, and he was also marked An outrageous full stop.

　　
　
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