Emperor Liu Hong

It is a big event for Liu Hong to return to the capital.The civil and military ministers of the imperial court have been waiting at the station for a long time.Now as soon as Liu Hong's special train stopped, they went up to meet him under the leadership of Liu Shu.

"Your Majesty, you have come back." As soon as he saw Liu Hong, Liu Shu complained, "It has been such a long time since you went out. Everything is on the shoulders of this humble official, and I am almost overwhelmed." The humble minister is crushed!"

"Uncle Huang, look at what you said, just this little thing, how can it overwhelm you!"

"Your Majesty, it's true." Liu Shu shook his head, and said with an aggrieved face: "If you are not in the capital, the court will have no backbone. The heart of a humble official is always on the rise, and I dare not let it go for a moment. You If we stay for a longer period of time, this minister will definitely collapse."

It was right for Liu Hong to think about it. Before the election, Liu Shu not only had to deal with so many things every day, but also faced so many black bricks.And after finishing the selection with great difficulty, he continued to go back and forth with the imperial examination. It would be strange if he wasn't tired.

"Okay, uncle, don't be wronged." Thinking of this, Liu Hong smiled, "It's considered that I didn't think carefully, and I will hold a banquet to apologize to you later."

"Your Majesty, don't say that. How can a humble minister deserve your apology. As long as you have nothing to do in the future, it will be fine to go elsewhere for such a long time."

"Hey, it took a lot of effort for me to go out this time. Going out in the future is basically impossible."

Facing Liu Hong's sigh, Liu Shu thought about it too.So, he changed the subject directly, "Your Majesty, the palace examination is basically arranged. Look, when will we finish the palace examination?"

"Well, this matter is very important. Don't talk about other departments, even my secretariat is waiting to employ people." Liu Hong pondered for a while.Said: "Since this is the case, let's not procrastinate any longer. Tomorrow you will inform those examiners that the imperial examination will be held in three days!"

Three days passed in a blink of an eye.Early in the morning, those candidates who passed the exam all came to the palace to take part in the imperial examination.

Regardless of whether it was an exam this time, or even the emperor presided over it directly, but the mood of those exams was quite relaxed.After all, they are people.All are accepted now.This exam is just to confirm the position.At worst, they'll get a seat.At most, that seat is not what they want.

The disciples are relaxed.But the officials in charge of the examination were all too busy.To know.During the last imperial examination.More than 800 people were recruited before the territory was expanded.But this time, the newly obtained territory is even larger than the original Han.Even these sites are basically desolate areas.However, after such a long period of immigration and development, many cities have also been built.therefore.These places all need people to manage.Therefore, even if the court repeatedly restrained, it still recruited more than 300 people.You say so many people.All crowded into the palace for the exam, those responsible examiners, can they relax?

Unlike those ministers, Liu Hong was much more relaxed at this time.He was sitting on his dragon chair with his legs crossed, drinking tea while chatting with Liu Shu and the others.That way, but quite comfortable.

It didn't take long for the examiner in charge to ask for instructions, "Your Majesty, the candidates are all ready. Now the auspicious time has come, should the exam start?"

"Ah, the auspicious time has come? All right, let's take the test." After speaking, Liu Hong handed over the test questions that he had pondered so hard for.

After the test questions were sent out, Liu Shu also took a copy of the test questions and watched them there. After a while, he frowned, "Your Majesty, your test questions that allow candidates to choose system loopholes and propose improvement plans are very good. But Why can't you list it as the main examination topic, but treat it as an additional question?"

"Uncle Huang, at the beginning, I also wanted to include it as the main examination question. But after thinking about it later, it was a bit inappropriate to do so. But I felt a little pity to give it up, so I regarded it as an additional question. "

"It's not right, Your Majesty, what's wrong, why didn't I see it?" After hearing Liu Hong's words, Liu Shu was very curious.

"Uncle Emperor, our current system will definitely have loopholes. We all know this. But these loopholes are not something ordinary people can find. Now, our monarchs and ministers have worked together, and after such a long time, we haven't found many. You Said, how can those candidates who are not familiar with these find them? How can they take the test if they can't even find a job?"

"Oh, it's really true." After Liu Hong's reminder, Liu Shu also suddenly realized.However, after looking at the formal questions, he still frowned and asked, "Your Majesty, although there is something wrong with the test questions, the test questions you asked are too straightforward?"

"What's so straightforward, I'm pragmatism." After speaking, Liu Hong was proud of himself, "I think that the exam questions this time can be kept directly and used as the test questions for the palace exam in the future."

"It's not Your Majesty, just this test question, is it still a permanent test question in the future?"

"Why not. Look how good the test questions are." As he spoke, Liu Hong picked up a test question and gestured at Liu Shu, "Let candidates choose three favorite positions and describe them. In these positions, how to work. How good it is, why can't it be a permanent test question?"

"Your Majesty, I know that you want to use this kind of test questions to directly examine the governing ability of the candidates. But..."

"Uncle Huang, what's the matter?" Liu Hong was very helpless for Liu Shu's brains, "We are selecting officials now, and their ability to govern must be the first point of our selection. Like Literary talent, quality and so on, compared with the ability to govern, all stand aside."

"Your Majesty, I agree with your point of view. But I think that for such an important matter as the imperial examination, can we beautify the sentences of the test questions to make the test questions more literary?"

"Uncle Huang, why are we doing such nonsense?" Liu Hong disagreed with Liu Shu's point of view, "Uncle Huang, officials are in power, and they all have to face the people. And the people don't have such a good literary talent, so they don't understand. Too gorgeous words. There are so many gorgeous things that people can’t understand them, so those officials will definitely take advantage of the loopholes.”

Speaking of this, Liu Hong remembered.Even if the vernacular is fully promoted in later generations, all legal provisions are written in the vernacular.And even if that's the case, the Supreme Law has to make an explanation on the left and an explanation on the right.If all of them are turned into gorgeous classical Chinese, that's fine, and the common people will not be played to death by them.

"Uncle Emperor, what you said has reminded me. We have to plug such a big loophole." Liu Hong said directly when he thought about it, "although Congress has been amending those laws all the time to make up for it. The loopholes in it. But even if it is all made up, it is useless for ordinary people not to understand. So I think that from now on, the laws of the court, official documents, etc., will all be written in vernacular that ordinary people can understand, and everything must be written in plain language. It will be clear at a glance to ensure that officials cannot play tricks!"

"Your Majesty, is this unnecessary?!"

After listening to Liu Hong's words, don't mention Liu Shu's surprise.Originally, he just thought that such an important imperial examination, but there were so many unliterary test questions, it was a bit embarrassing for the court.But I didn't expect that Liu Hongdan's practice in the imperial examination was not enough, and he wanted to promote it to the court.

"Uncle Emperor, why is such an important matter unnecessary? It is so necessary!" Seeing that Liu Shu didn't care, Liu Hong said: "The imperial court's decrees and laws are all for the sake of Who prepared it? Aren’t they all prepared for the common people? Since it is prepared for the common people, but they are not allowed to be understood by the common people, Uncle Emperor, do you think this is appropriate?”

"Is it a bit inappropriate? But..."

"Uncle Emperor, there's nothing wrong with it!" Seeing that Liu Shu still couldn't turn the corner, Liu Hong said: "The imperial court is in charge of the people, not a place to show off your literary talents. Anything is fine. As long as you are an official, all the official documents and legal provisions you issue must be written in vernacular that ordinary people can understand!"

"Since His Majesty has made up his mind, let's do it!"

Anyway, it doesn't take much effort to write two more characters. Although Liu Shu still thinks it is unnecessary, there is no need to argue with Liu Hong for this matter.

The exam questions are simple, so, as long as Liu Hong and Liu Shu talked, someone had already written and handed in the paper.The examiners didn't dare to be negligent, they put away the test papers, wrote their own comments, and sent them to Liu Hong.

Liu Hong looked at the papers very simply. On each paper, there were three examiners' opinions and comments on the candidates' answers. At the end, they also indicated what jobs the candidates were suitable for, so that Liu Hong could refer to them.Then Liu Hong can arrange work for those candidates based on these references and his own opinions.

Of course, under normal circumstances, Liu Hong would pay attention to the opinions of those candidates.Because the place they want to go proves that they are interested in it.And that way, once they get there, they work even harder.However, the most sought-after departments will definitely attract more people to compete.Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for everyone to get a job they are satisfied with.Those who are not suitable for the positions they are competing for are first selected by various departments based on the examination papers of the candidates, and then they are forcibly distributed.

There are more than 1000 candidates, and it is impossible for Liu Hong to assign them all with all his heart.As long as the examiner and the candidate agree, Liu Hong will take them out separately.In the end, as long as there are no more than the number of people recruited for this position, the matter will be settled like this.As for the rest, Liu Hong threw them all to the heads of departments who were waiting for important people.

With Liu Hong's arrangement like this, Jia Xu is the happiest.As soon as Liu Hong spoke, he happily ran over to choose candidates. (to be continued..)