Chapter 995 Want to take the imperial examination
"Your Majesty, today all the princes in the world support their troops and respect themselves. Although the imperial court is willing to eliminate them, it is full of ambition but not enough. I think that we can establish the method of imperial examination and establish civil and military examinations to select officials for the imperial court, regardless of their background.
Talent, in order to gather talents from all over the world and bring peace to the world for Your Majesty!" Li Xiang seriously spoke, and then gave a detailed description of the imperial examination system.
"boom………"
Li Xiang's simple words instantly caused a huge earthquake in the court.
Once the imperial examination system is implemented, it means that aristocratic families will lose their dominant position in the selection of officials, which is tantamount to digging up the roots of aristocratic families.
It is true that even if the imperial examinations are used to level the playing field, the children of aristocratic families must have the upper hand in the beginning. Even with the advent of printing and papermaking, and knowledge being made available to all walks of life in the world, the resources possessed by aristocratic families are far from those of poor families and common people.
Comparable.
However, among the two classes of poor families and common people, there will always be a few outliers who will have the opportunity to enter the court through the imperial examination.
Perhaps, in the beginning, this group of people was only a very small group, and the aristocratic families still dominated the court.
But hundreds or even hundreds of years later, as time goes on, as more and more officials from poor families and common people enter the court, the day will eventually come when they will rival or even surpass their aristocratic families in power.
After all, the resources possessed by the children of aristocratic families are indeed not comparable to those of poor families and common people. But the number of poor families and common people is definitely not something that aristocratic families can match. Although the other party is definitely not as good as them in the early stage, but after a long time of accumulation, the other party's potential is also
horrifying.
The aristocratic family was very important in the feudal era and could even influence the imperial power at one time. How could they not see the powerful relationship here clearly?
In fact, they can see it better than anyone else. In ancient China, especially before the Five Dynasties, how many talents were born from common people, how many were from poor families, but how many were from aristocratic families? This is enough to show how powerful these aristocratic families are.
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In history, the imperial examination system began in the Sui Dynasty, but it was not until the Huangchao Uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the invasion of northern minorities. The chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was objectively completely eradicated in an extremely bloody and destructive way.
The family politics in the heart of China.
Coupled with the Song Dynasty's reliance on the imperial examination system from the beginning of the founding of the country after the Five Dynasties and the development of the south after losing the north, China has fundamentally emerged from this political cycle of "a century-old royal family, a thousand-year family".
Therefore, the imperial examination system is indeed a sharp weapon against aristocratic families, but it would be naive to think that the imperial examination system alone is enough to deal with aristocratic families!
"Your Majesty, all families and tribes are loyal to Your Majesty. If Your Majesty obeys the words and deeds of King Jin, I am afraid that this move will chill everyone's hearts!" An official from an aristocratic family spoke first.
When this person came on stage, he directly targeted Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. Although Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was a puppet, he was ultimately the emperor and held great righteousness. As long as he could withstand the pressure and disagree, Li Xiang would not be able to bypass him and directly implement the imperial examination.
"Your Majesty, the method of inspection and examination began with Emperor Wen. It has been nearly four hundred years now. There are countless talents selected for our great Han Dynasty. How can it be changed so easily!"
"Yes, how can we tamper with the laws of our ancestors!" One official after another agreed.
"The Qin Dynasty became stronger due to Shang Jun's reforms, and finally unified the world under the First Emperor. If the imperial examination can make the country strong, why not change it?" Li Xiang also began to exert his efforts, and the first one to take action was Guan Zhong.
Guan Zhong, who came from a poor family, immediately realized the benefits of the imperial examination to their poor family, and immediately stood up to speak for Li Xiang.
"It's a joke, this is a big Han, how dare you use the Qin Dynasty as evidence!" an official scolded.
"That's wrong..." Wang Meng also came out and complained a lot at this time.
"Children are rude..."
"From my point of view..."
Soon, behind Li Xiang, the poor families represented by Guan Zhong, Wang Meng, and Guo Jia and even the common people couldn't help but started arguing with the aristocratic families in the court.
Li Xiang, although there are many talents from poor families, even common people, but equally, more talents are from aristocratic families. The nature of this era has determined that aristocratic families determine the source of knowledge, so even if the system implants the identity
Sometimes they are implanted in aristocratic families.
However, although a few of Li Xiang's aristocratic talents wanted to intervene, they were suppressed by those around them.
Are you kidding? On such an occasion, there are so many outsiders here. If they go out and openly contradict their lord at this time, wouldn't they be making a joke about their own political future?
"Enough, it's so noisy in the court hall, how unbecoming it is!" Looking at the court hall which had turned into a vegetable market, and hearing the buzzing of flies in his ears, Li Xiang couldn't help but shouted angrily.
The reason why Li Xiang chose to propose the imperial examination at this time was not just a thought, but an idea. Among the five states under Li Xiang's command, Bingliang belongs to the Bianzhou, and the family strength is weak. Not to mention Hezhou, it is a newly developed area.
In Siyong Prefecture, the power of the aristocratic families has been greatly damaged after several blows.
In particular, the Hongnong Yang family was tricked by Li Xiang not long ago, and Yang Biao is still complaining of illness at home for the time being.
Therefore, Li Xiang wanted to take advantage of this moment to quickly settle these matters. Otherwise, Hebei, the Central Plains, and Jingzhou are all places where the power of aristocratic families is concentrated. If he waits until these places are conquered before deciding on matters such as the imperial examination, he will be punished by then.
The resistance will only be greater.
"Is it because you have no confidence in your children and think that your children are not as talented as others?"
"Prince Jin is joking. This matter involves Chao Gang. It is not up to us to decide whether we have confidence in the children of the family!" An official represented by a noble family chuckled.
Officials from these aristocratic families play intrigue every day, and if they have the chance, they can easily fall into Li Xiang's provocation.
"Your Majesty, please make a decision?" Several officials from aristocratic families said in unison.
They knew that they were weak and had no power, especially no military power. They blindly confronted Jin King Li Xiang head-on. In the end, they would definitely be unable to twist his thigh with their arms. Therefore, they could only attack Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, firmly control the great righteousness, and use it to force Li Xiang.
Give in.
"Your Majesty, please make a decision!" Li Xiang took a few steps forward and turned his back to the courtiers to ensure that the courtiers would not see his face. He also imitated the courtiers' behavior and spoke.
However, Li Xiang's eyes when looking at Emperor Xian of Han were full of murderous intent. He stared at Emperor Xian of Han and refused to take his eyes away. Maybe he just wanted to occupy the great righteousness, but Li Xiang wanted to see how Emperor Xian of Han was with him.
