His wife's childbirth and the Three Gorges Rebellion were the two things that worried Liu Jing the most recently. Good news came from both at the same time, which completely relieved Liu Jing and turned his attention back to the scientific examination.
First of all, the Ming Law Department was the first to get the results. Liu Jing personally met with the thirty winners of the examination in the main hall of the state department. They stood out from nearly three hundred candidates and were selected as one out of ten. They were all talented in criminal law.
Moreover, most of them were born as minor officials in counties and counties. They lacked in talents, experience, and experience. All they lacked was an opportunity.
Facing Liu Jing and Yan Yue's questions, they tried their best to appear serious and decent so as not to leave Liu Jing with a frivolous impression, but they could not hide the joy on their faces.
It's no wonder that they couldn't calm down. Originally, they could only devote themselves to the county and county magistrates and prisons, with little chance of success. Unexpectedly, after Liu Jing took charge of Xiangyang, he suddenly opened up the legal department and opened up official careers for legal officials. Now they have passed
How can you not be happy about the exam, when you are about to become a successful person?
Liu Jing understood their feelings very well. Confucianism flourished in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and law was aggressively invaded. The law became more Confucianized day by day, and the status of law plummeted and became increasingly marginalized.
Take Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu, who are both knowledgeable in Confucianism and Legalism, for example. If they are asked to take the exam, no matter what they think in their hearts, they will end up abandoning the legal studies and choosing the classics.
As a person of later generations, Liu Jing naturally did not want to see the Confucianization of the law. The Confucian concept of "quoting scriptures to determine imprisonment" and "conducting convictions based on the heart" simply destroyed people's outlook. Confucian scholars quoted scriptures and even quoted them out of context as a basis.
After being sentenced to prison, Han law is regarded as nothing. If things continue like this, what effect will the law have?
Liu Jing was determined to change the culture of respecting Confucianism and despising the law, to use law to control his subordinates, and to use punishment to govern the people. Therefore, the talents selected by the First Ming Law Department must be reused to serve as role models for those who come after him.
After discussing with Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Wang Can and other close officials, Liu Jing decided to divide the thirty people into two, with half remaining in the shogunate and the other half serving as county captains, county magistrates and other positions.
There is no need to say more about the former. Just listen to the Lord and follow his instructions. As the saying goes, those who are near the water and towers first get the moon, and the future will be bright.
The latter is not bad either. Don't look at the county captain, the county magistrate is just a small official with a few hundred dan, but if the official is a small official, he is still an official.
At the beginning, Cao Cao and Liu Bei were no more than county captains when they started their careers. Although Cao Cao served in Luoyang, the capital, he should not be regarded simply as a county captain. When Sun Jian was young, he served as a county magistrate for more than ten years.
From a county official to a county captain or county magistrate, it is definitely a leap.
As soon as this result came out, it caused quite a stir in Xiangyang. After all, Liu Jing's move was considered a precedent.
However, the Han Dynasty has always favored Confucianism and neglected law, which cannot be changed in a short period of time. Compared with Ming Law, Xiangyang scholars and people still paid more attention to Ming Jing Ke.
When they thought about it, Liu Jing had already put so much emphasis on Mingfa, how could Mingjing still soar into the sky?
While the scholars and people in Xiangyang were talking a lot, Song Zhong, Qi Wukai, Sima Hui and others worked day and night to review the examination papers, and finally drafted a preliminary list of 100 people, and submitted them to Liu Jing together with the examination papers of hundreds of unsuccessful candidates.
Compared with the careless and hasty reading of the first exam, Liu Jing paid more attention to it this time. He deliberately set aside half a day and invited Zhuge Liang and others to review the papers together.
Liu Jing sat down calmly and flipped through the test papers. The more he looked at them, the more he felt in his heart. Previously, there were thirty scholars in the Ming Law Department, but none of them were "famous people from the Three Kingdoms". Looking at the Ming Jing Department, Cui Jun, Shi
Tao, Yang Yi, Xi Zhen, Yang Yong, Pang Lin, Liu Miao, Pei Hui... It can be said that there are so many talents and bright stars.
And this also strengthened Liu Jing's determination to pay attention to the law.
In view of the fact that the Ming Dynasty Confucian classics examination was based on Confucian classics, Liu Jingsheng was afraid of missing talented but unlearned people. After reading the test papers of the admitted candidates, he then read the test papers of the unsuccessful candidates.
Sure enough, it didn't take long before I saw a failed examination paper with the words "Ma Liang, Nanjun, courtesy name Jichang" written clearly on it.
Ma Liang is Ma Su's brother. He died early in history at the Battle of Yiling. His biography is mediocre and nothing surprising. But it is precisely because Ma Liang died early and the proverb "the five constants of the Ma family, white eyebrows are the best", gave
He left a lot of room for imagination, and his reputation was actually greater than that of many important ministers of the Three Kingdoms.
Liu Jing picked up Ma Liang's paper and looked at it carefully, with a smile on his face.
In this scientific examination, I don’t know whether the candidates deliberately favored him, or whether his calligraphy has become an object of imitation by the official students. Anyway, there are many candidates who used Yan Kai and running script created by him to answer the questions. Ma Liang wrote it in Yan Kai
, its characters are neat and neat, and its shape is strong and strong. It has already achieved a lot.
There is nothing wrong with the test. No matter how you look at it, you should get an admission spot. How could you fail?
Liu Jingxin looked at Song Zhong doubtfully and asked: "Does the teacher know Ma Jichang? I think his test paper is quite outstanding, enough to be ranked in the first class. Why doesn't the teacher take such a talented person?"
Song Zhong seemed to have been prepared. He stroked his beard and replied calmly: "Ma Jichang is smart and talented. He is a well-known academic officer. He is a Junyan of Miannan. The reason why he did not take it is because he is only sixteen this year.
This is the time when you are concentrating on studying and accumulating knowledge. It is not advisable to enter the official position too early, so as not to frustrate the young and make it difficult to become a pillar."
"What Zhongzi said is very true..." Qi Wukai and Sima Hui also held the same view.
But Liu Jing disagreed and said: "How can age be used as a factor in selecting talents? If they are not used because they are young, then Yan Hui will not be able to be the first in virtue, and Zi Qi will not be able to achieve his merits."
Then Liu Jing used himself as an example and boasted: "Let's talk about me. I have been in charge of the county and city for seventeen years, and I think I have a good governance method. The gangsters in the city steal, and the profiteers and sly merchants all escape and hide, and there is no one in the city who is in vain."
Bu Ming, the government is the crown of all counties. To this day, fighting for the country's rebels and stabilizing the two states of Jingjiao, I can still be called a 'pillar'. Since I have become the pillar of the country, how do I know that Ma Jichang can't do it?"
How could Song Zhong and others fail to understand what Liu Jing meant, so naturally they would not oppose him again.
Seeing that his words had successfully convinced Song Zhong and others, Liu Jing was satisfied and placed Ma Liang's test paper among the candidates.
After that, Liu Jing continued to look through the examination papers, looking for possible relics. However, after reading them all, he could not see any familiar names, nor could he see any examination papers that were worthy of being ranked first.
I have to admit that Song Zhong, Qi Wukai, Sima Hui and others were quite discerning in selecting talents. Except for Ma Liang who was not selected due to his youth, they did not leave behind other talented people.
The admission list for the second round of examinations has been finalized, with a total of 101 candidates.
Ming Jing Ke Liu Jing's original plan was to admit 100 people, and Ma Liang should have replaced one person. However, this was too unfair to the person being replaced, so he simply admitted one more person, which was harmless.