At the beginning of the first lunar month, Chang'an was full of fireworks.
People visit each other and gather for meals, whether they are common people or noble families, they all try their best to let their families enjoy it.
Everyone is also building up enthusiasm and preparing for the upcoming Shangyuan Festival.
Similar to the third year of Yuanzhen, many scholars came to Chang'an in the late autumn of the sixth year of Yuanzhen to prepare for the Beijing Examination in the seventh year of Yuanzhen.
In the first month of the year, the most lively place in Chang'an became Caiyu Square, where scholars held literary gatherings one after another, and occasionally wonderful poems would come out, which made people marvel.
There are also many outstanding works of calligraphy and painting.
These are all the famous actions of scholars who came to Beijing to take the exams. However, compared with the third year of Yuanzhen, it was much more standardized, and scholars no longer handed in random articles.
After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, in the third year of Yuan Zhen (1868-1962), the institution of recruiting scholars was opened to provide another choice for scholars who wanted to become officials. The recommendation system was increasingly restricted within the officialdom.
If you want to become an official, passing the imperial examination becomes your first choice. In three years, most people understand that entering the officialdom without passing the imperial examination will be a very bad thing for your career.
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The most basic condition is to be promoted and promoted. If you want to enter an official position through mutual introduction as before, you must be prepared to be subordinate to your subordinates.
For example, in a county, everyone except the ninth rank is an official.
The chief officials of the Cao Cao in the county are from the ninth rank, and those below them are all minor officials.
You entered the officialdom in white, and your background is strong enough. Now you can actually become a high-ranking official, such as the chief official in the county. But if you want to become the chief registrar, county magistrate, etc. in the county, you need to pay more than before.
Just double the effort.
You don’t have to count on being a county official, that is, a county magistrate. The direction of your efforts should be to get an official position in the county. After entering the county, your promotion path will become more and more difficult, because you lack a prerequisite and have not participated in the imperial examination.
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In the sixth year of the early Tang Dynasty, the second Beijing Examination began. There were not yet such strict restrictions, but the general trend had already been clearly manifested.
The Tang Dynasty was not like the pre-Sui Dynasty, when the imperial examinations were held every day. In the Tang Dynasty, the county examination was held once a year, the Taoist examination was once every two years, and the Beijing examination was once every three years.
Those who passed the county examination were scholars, those who passed the Dao test were those who were promoted, and those who passed the Beijing test were selected as Jinshi. This was the imperial examination system established by the Tang Dynasty based on administrative regions.
The county examination was held in the county, the Dao examination was held in each road, and the Beijing examination was held in Chang'an. The three-level system corresponded to the administrative region system of the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang court had been improving the imperial examination system in recent years. By the seventh year of Yuanzhen in the Tang Dynasty, the prototype of the imperial examination system had basically been formed.
Naturally, there are still a lot of things that need to be changed in the middle, but generally they are all details.
As for the organic integration of the imperial examination system and the official system of the Tang Dynasty, it still requires people's unremitting efforts, and the effect is not obvious, and the time is too short.
Only when those imperial examination officials with imperial examination backgrounds entered the ruling core of the Tang Dynasty on a large scale could the solid status of the imperial examination be continuously established.
In order to encourage scholars to participate in the imperial examination, Datang also provided many preferential policies.
One of the most beneficial ones is the tax exemption for selected scholars. With an emperor like Li Po, he will naturally not give you tax exemption, let alone use this to wantonly embezzle fertile land and destroy the countryside.
All the people were turned into farm laborers.
At most, it is similar to today's nobles, paying less land tax, and it can only benefit one's own family.
Another exciting benefit is that if you are selected as a scholar, you can easily enter the officialdom of the county and do some work such as clerical work, treasury management, accounting, and staff work.
As a scholar, the prospect of becoming an official is definitely better than that of a scholar. How far you can go depends on your political achievements after becoming an official.
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By the seventh year of Yuanzhen, the number of scholars who came to Beijing to take the imperial examination had doubled that of the third year of Yuanzhen. The nobles who were hesitant at that time finally saw the reality clearly and were no longer so resistant to the imperial examination.
In addition, the imperial court has been cracking down on redundant officials in the past two years, and last year began to clean up the backlog of cases. As a result, people in the area were very frightened and began to be cautious. Various avenues were blocked.
As a result, the number of people participating in the county and road examinations increased dramatically last year, and most of them were children of nobles from all over the country. As a result, the competition became fierce.
Some people lamented that they didn't know how to cherish it a few years ago, but now they have to compete with others...
In fact, most of them don't know that they are quite lucky, as academies have been established in various places.
It's just that the years are still young, and the students are not old enough to take the imperial examination regardless of their knowledge or age. When the students in the academy grow up, the competition in the examination hall will be cruel.
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With a creak, the door of the Chu Mansion slowly opened, and three servants led the horses and walked out.
In the courtyard, Xu Jingzong, the governor of Fufeng County, said goodbye to Chu Suiliang, "My dear brother, there is no need to send me more. I will go now. I can still stay in the capital for half a month. If you have time, my dear brother, you can come and have a drink with me."
Chu Suiliang returned the gift and said with a smile: "I don't know when Brother Xu will arrive in the capital. Otherwise, I would have paid a visit a long time ago. Would Brother Xu still like to have fun as much as he did in the past? How about I look for a place in Caiyufang another day?
Let’s go somewhere and have a good get-together?”
Xu Jingzong seemed very proud of himself. He was three or four years older than Chu Suiliang, so he was considered a member of his generation. Now he was serving as the governor of Fufeng County. His rank was not lower than that of Chu Suiliang. He had also been serving as an official outside. His career prospects were now better than those of Chu Suiliang.
So much better.
In particular, Fufeng County is the hometown of the emperor, and the official rank is half a level higher than that of other places. Taking advantage of this, he also attached himself to Li Chun, the princess of Fufeng County, and he couldn't even think about it.
I came to visit Chu Suiliang today. Chu Suiliang had a clear conscience. He must have heard from others that he had been promoted to a key position in the ministry, so he came to meet him.
Otherwise, just as the father and son left Beijing in a hurry, no one would even pay attention to you.
So even though the two of them were working in Tiance Mansion back then, they should be considered old friends, but now their relationship is a very pure officialdom of welcome and send-off, no matter how much they talk, no matter how affectionate they are.
, are also imaginary.
Once you are in trouble in the future, don't expect the other party to help you when you need it. If you can avoid adding insult to injury, it is considered benevolent and righteous.
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At this time, Xu Jingzong laughed loudly and patted Chu Suiliang's shoulders twice, "It's better that you know me, brother. You don't need to ask me for help. I will be the host someday and invite a few friends to have a party. Then brother
I want to be rewarded."
Chu Suiliang nodded happily, "Absolutely. Brother Xu invites you, how dare you refuse?"