Xuande

Chapter 825 Efforts Are Becoming Useful
Chen Qun determined very early on that Liu Bei was not only a powerful warrior, but also a political genius at the political level.

He is the only political genius who can propose serious political reforms and put them into practice, so he believes that Liu Bei has the value of assisting and following him and even paying part of the benefits.

When the family was not optimistic about Liu Bei, Chen Qun tried his best to follow Liu Bei. footsteps.

Now, seeing the strategic concept proposed by Liu Bei, he felt itchy in his heart, and wanted to see how Liu Bei conceived the future reform immediately, so he left immediately, holding the plan like a baby and leaving After leaving Liu Bei's study, he returned to his work station.

Chen Qun is very interested in the imperial examination and the nine-rank official law.

In the past, the system of selecting and appointing officials was the examination system, but now it is the imperial examination system. So what does this imperial examination system mean?

With anticipation and doubts, Chen Qun opened the book in front of him and began to read it seriously.

Oh, it turns out that ke means scientific examination, and ju means to select outstanding talents based on the results of scientific examination.

Generally speaking, it is to abandon the system of relying on people's recommendation to be an official in the procuratorial system, and to abandon the system of filial piety and honesty to select talents, and to supplement the series of patches that the Eastern Han Empire has made to the procuratorial system over a long period of time. Strong and straightened.

After the development of the probation system, it was not the original method of appointing talents that relied entirely on the selection of talents by the local county magistrate, but gradually introduced the concept of examination and review.

For the court, from the first time it was discovered that the talents who came up to the examination were a bit tricky, the examination was an inevitable countermeasure.

The locality has its own little ninety-nine, and the imperial court is not a fool, and it is impossible to hand over the high-level political resources of the central government to those related households so easily, and they themselves have related households. Who are the natives from your place?

The public re-examination system introduced by Zuo Xiong back then was the biggest targeted reinforcement made by the Eastern Han court for the defects of the procuratorate system, and it also seriously proposed the possibility of using the examination system to test talents .

It's just that under the premise that the general environment has not been changed, no matter how strong the patch is, it will not be able to save the overall situation.

Liu Bei has experienced a complete probation cycle and reexamination by the government. He is very familiar with the twists and turns and the rules of the game, and deeply understands the tricks here, so he is completely disappointed with this system and does not intend to continue.

But Zuo Xiong's concept of re-examination by the government gave him inspiration.

Instead of creating another system, why not use this strongest patch for Fuzheng?
It's all about selecting talents. Zuo Xiong obviously realized the difference between letting people choose and letting the test results decide, so he proposed the government re-examination system.

Now that the re-examination system of the government has left its own mark in the Eastern Han Empire, then simply give the re-examination system an epic strengthening, update iteratively and create a new way to make the exam completely the standard for selecting talents.

Don't look at your background, your family background, your age, or your appearance. There are dozens of questions in one paper, take the test, take the test, and you will see the truth based on your ability.

If you can pass the exam, let's talk about other things. If you can't pass the exam, don't give me a lot of talk.

Eliminate all other external factors and give them all to me for the exam.

Doing so would actually be of great benefit to the imperial court.

The corrupted procuratorial system cannot not only ensure the moral standards of the Xiaolians, but also their IQ level, which makes the court face two major problems at the same time, not only the scumbags, but also the scumbags.

When a scumbag accidentally gets together with a scumbag, the court will be happy.

The imperial examination system solved the latter difficulty, reduced the difficulty faced by the imperial court to one, and instantly reduced the difficulty of talent selection by 50.00%. Manage operating costs.

A person's moral standard is at least somewhat subjective, and it is debatable from anyone's point of view. It is not easy to have a unified standard, but IQ is a relatively objective factor.

One exam is not enough, if you take several exams, you can always select the smartest group of people.

At least, there is no risk of having dementia as an official.

As for morality, it must be constrained by the law. This is not something that should be considered too much in talent selection. If this also needs to be considered in the talent selection process, the process of talent selection will be too cumbersome, and the law will It has lost its deterrent effect.

Considering the ruling cost of the imperial court, it is the most economical way to select talents through examinations, and it is a very significant optimization compared to the examination and examination of the energy costs required for the process of talent selection and the subsequent "after-sales service". .

Therefore, Liu Bei held this internal examination of the Ministry of Personnel, which was actually preparing for the innovation of the selection system, accumulating experience, exploring models, fixing bugs, and preparing to pave the way for the next comprehensive reform.

Examination content, examination methods, scoring methods, scoring standards, and the criteria for the final selection process all need to be discussed and practiced.

And all of these have been answered in this internal examination of the Ministry of Officials. Liu Bei has learned a lot of experience, fixed many bugs, and found a lot of room for improvement in this policy.

For example, the number of students across the country is relatively large, and the imperial court cannot use so many people, so the examination is divided into sections.

Because the candidates' identities are mainly limited to the state school and Tai school, before the imperial examination begins, the first exam is held in the state school, which is called "state test".

The State Examination is supervised, organized and graded by special personnel sent by the Imperial Academy. The examination papers and scoring links are presided over by the department commissioner. Only students who pass this exam can go to Luoyang to take the second exam.

In this way, not only can outstanding students be selected, but also some students who have little hope can spend a little less money, and don't have to spend that much effort to go to Luoyang Kong to have a good time.

In principle, the second exam is also a selection exam, named "Selection Examination", which brings together outstanding students from all states for another face-to-face competition and a formal exam, and selects the best group of people to take the third exam.

The third exam will be set and invigilated by Emperor Liu Bei himself. It is called "Jun Kao", which is an exam conducted in front of the king.

What this special exam tests is not only the academic level of the students, but also the psychological quality of the students.

Complete the exam in front of the Supreme Ruler of the Empire, the King of Kings, complete the exam under his gaze, and even answer when he is standing next to you, staring at your paper, and may even make some surprises Outward moves...

In this case, if the psychological quality is not good enough, it is very possible to perform abnormally.

Playing abnormally in front of the emperor...

Well, it must have turned out sour.

After the three exams, the emperor himself and the experts from the academic department will judge the candidates and the rankings of the candidates, and judge the top three and other candidates. In principle, there is no limit to the number of candidates. Flexibility is required.

Finally, the emperor himself has to take time to conduct a final "interview" with all the candidates, to see the talents he has selected with his own eyes, and let these talents witness the emperor's face, see the emperor himself, and have a good relationship with the emperor himself. chat.

Although the interview does not eliminate candidates in principle, if the interview performance is very poor, it will also affect the person's career in the future.

After the official selection is completed, the "Emperor List" can be posted in the most crowded place in Luoyang City, and the final candidates of the imperial examination will be announced to the world.

In addition to the rules of this segmented examination, Liu Bei also worked hard on the design and improvement of this system.

For example, the weight of the test questions, the criteria for determining the scores, the importance of the ranking of the components of the scores, and some crucial questions in the interview process, etc., Liu Bei, who has been deeply involved in the talent selection process, has discovered a lot of things. Few problems, made a lot of improvements to the original plan.

He even thought of providing travel and accommodation subsidies for students in places far away from Luoyang, and proposed to build cheap candidates' apartments in Luoyang and rent them out to candidates at a low price to ease their financial burden. Pressure, thinking about these very detailed issues.

Then, for some things after the assessment, such as the ranking, No.1 is called the No. 2 pick, No.3 is called the second place, and No.[-] is called the No. By what standards.

However, these are trivial issues, harmless, how to do it, mainly depends on the personal thoughts of Liu Bei, the emperor.

What Chen Qun paid more attention to was the system design and standards of the exam itself, as well as the system design of the emperor's invigilation and the emperor's interview.

This obviously highlights the importance the emperor attaches to talent selection, but personally supervising the exams and conducting interviews in person is indeed a bit too important.

Chen Qun didn't know what Liu Bei's design meant, and whether he had some deep thoughts, but anyway, this system can at least ensure that the emperor himself knows who he has selected, and it will also let these newcomers know The emperor, strengthened their ties with each other.

Perhaps, there is also a subtle effect?
Chen Qun didn't think about it carefully.

Because the most important thing is obviously not these superficial things, the most important thing is that under this imperial examination system, the law stipulates that everyone, as long as they are big men, as long as they can enter the state school and Taixue, they will have to participate in the imperial examination Eligibility for the exam.

Chen Qun knew that Liu Bei arranged for the establishment of state schools in various states, including Taixue, which were quite lenient in the qualification examination of applicants.

Basically, except for those who can really go to school, even if you are a farmer's child, the family has no money, if you want to go, you can go to school for you, not only don't need money, but also subsidize you, please come to school.

Liangzhou Prefecture School has been running for seven or eight years, and a large number of children from farm families have been able to attend school for free because of the rules set by Liu Bei. Their families hardly have to bear any expenses, as long as they are willing to let a child who can be used as a labor force enter the prefecture to study and serve the country. Service is fine.

Because of this system achieved very early, the proportion of Liangzhou people in the bureaucratic system of the entire Third Reich at this stage began to slowly increase.

This is the first mover advantage.

In a certain period of time in the future, Liangzhou people will definitely occupy a considerable number in the middle and upper classes of the empire, starting a glorious era of Liangzhou people, and then this era will gradually slow down as the state schools across the country catch up. past.

And more importantly, Liu Bei's set of enrollment, study, and examination models have incorporated all the ways of becoming an official into a system. In this system, there are no birth, family background, etc. that used to be very particular Things, only look at one standard - learning ability.

With this standard, all the important external factors such as origin and family background were forcibly smoothed out, so that the children of the gentry, the powerful and the most impoverished and incompetent peasants competed on the same stage. There was still only one competitive event-examination.

Who is it in the best interest of?

Of course they are peasant children.

Those peasant children who had no possibility of studying or becoming officials in the past are the group with the largest number and benefit the most. Through this system, they can cross the gap called family background and directly reach the level that they could not reach in the past anyway. The court that arrived.

The connection between the imperial court and them was established.

Prior to this, it was the gentry who established contact with the imperial court.

No matter how bad it is, it takes a well-known local tycoon to connect with the imperial court and share a little political power. It is impossible for the common people engaged in farming to have anything to do with this.

However, after this imperial examination system, at least theoretically speaking, the possibility of common people ascending to heaven is already available.

As long as he passes the imperial examination, he can become a member of the ruling class, which will fundamentally change him from the past. His identity will also be aligned with the people he once needed to look up to, and he will no longer be a person who needs to look up to others—— At least in terms of identity, yes.

This policy directly expands the target of selecting officials from scholars to the whole nation, forcibly smoothing the gap between scholars and other social classes. As long as you are a citizen of the Han Empire and registered, you only need to enroll , As long as you study hard, you will have the possibility of getting fame.

Effort, a word that has never been taken seriously by scholars, a word that has been ignored, ridiculed, resisted, and disapproved of, will play an unexpected and critical role in the new system.

In the past, we paid attention to fate, but now it is different, we need to talk about hard work.

Therefore, if this system is really in operation, it may really have an extremely profound impact on this country.

If it is really promoted, can the official group now question, doubt and oppose this system?
Do you have this ability?

There should be none.

After the Dutian Law Rebellion, large-scale rebels no longer exist, and opponents in the political sense no longer exist.

Liu Bei's imperial power expanded unprecedentedly through this war and spread to every corner of the country. The strength of the 30 elite army is the strength of his power.

Unable to defeat the existence of the 30 elite Han army, it means that any opponent who cannot counter his policies cannot blatantly resist his demands.

Yes, he was a gentle, reasonable man.

But such a premise is based on the fact that if he is not willing, no one can force him.

This mild and reasonable phenomenon is not friendly to some people at all.

(End of this chapter)