Dingmao day of the fifth month of the Bingwu year (May 17).
Liu De stood on the attic of a Northern Military Academy northeast of Chang'an City, watching groups of scholars from all over the place enter the academy to prepare for exams.
He turned around and said to Ji An next to him: "Today will leave a mark in history!"
After saying this, Liu De couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart. He clenched his fist tightly and raised his arms and cheered.
Perhaps no one can imagine now that this examination will only admit twelve people, and most of them will definitely be admitted to the nobility, which is likely to change the political structure of the entire country.
As a time traveler, Liu De is very clear about it.
In essence, his examination was designed after referring to the outline and general framework of the imperial examinations of later generations.
However, in fact, his examination was more like the civil service examination system implemented by the later Empire at its peak.
The imperial examination system in ancient China would only admit the top, most outstanding and most elite people.
Even with the expansion of the imperial examination system after the Song Dynasty, the total number of third-class Jinshi in one subject was only a few hundred.
And China is so vast.
Therefore, it is conceivable that with the imperial examination held every three years, plus Enke and so on, up to a thousand people can be recruited in three years.
Therefore, all Jinshi who emerged from the imperial examinations in the Tang, Song, Ming, Yuan and Qing dynasties were at least at the county magistrate level.
And among these thousand people, at least half are nerds. Apart from reading, their political skills and knowledge are very limited.
When these nerds arrive, they will definitely be treated like monkeys by the local gangsters and petty officials.
Therefore, this directly resulted in the central government being unable to control local areas, local clan power gradually becoming stronger, landlords and bullies running rampant, national laws being ineffective, and social order being chaotic.
Moreover, the number of people admitted to the imperial examination is limited, and it is impossible to really bring all talents under the control of the government.
Like Huang Chao, Li Zicheng, who is outside the system...
This is the most dangerous thing!
The civil service examination conducted by the British does not have such drawbacks. As long as they can pass the examination and pass the examination, they will accept them all. This makes the elites who take the examination basically guaranteed to be admitted.
The British were able to establish a huge empire on which the sun never sets in the 19th century, relying on their large elite group of civil servants and their extremely powerful navy.
"If a hundred years later, all officials with more than 100 stones are passed through the imperial examination, do you know what will happen?" Under the excitement, Liu De could no longer keep calm, and confided his true thoughts to Ji An.
Ji An was shocked when he heard this.
He never thought that Liu De had such a plan.
It's not that he's not smart enough, it's that he doesn't have the guts to think about it.
The Han system is not a top-down system.
At this time, not only the princes and kings in various places had the power to appoint and remove officials, but also the county governor and county magistrate could freely appoint his staff and subordinate officials.
Generally, the governor of the county, Bo and Sima, are close confidants of the county governor. It is up to the county governor to recruit them, and all the court has to do is recognize them.
Not only that, the county governor will also appoint hundreds of officials at the township level. In some important areas, such as grain-producing areas and salt fields, there are confidants appointed by the major county governors. Their rank ratio is usually only one hundred stones, and they only serve as officials.
They have minor positions like rose husbands, but they are the ones who really control the place.
And all these officials were not appointed by the court, but were recruited and appointed by the county governor.
That’s why the county governor was called the ‘frontier official’.
If one day, all officials above a hundred stones are selected and appointed by the imperial court through examination, this will lead to a reshuffle of the political structure of the entire Han Dynasty, and the tentacles of the Han emperor will penetrate into every corner of the country, and everything in all places,
No matter how big or small everything is, it will eventually be reported to Chang'an.
There is no doubt that if it is really done, then it will be as innovative as Shang Yang's reform.
only……
Can it be done?
Ji An lowered his head and whispered: "Your Highness's idea is unprecedented, but if word spreads, the princes and county guards will probably be unhappy!"
Unhappy for sure!
If the examination can really achieve what Liu De said, then the authority of the central government will override everything else, and the era of true unification and centralization will come, and all princes, governors, and governors will be able to
As a grandson, from now on, it will be difficult to create a powerful person, let alone a powerful person.
Liu De chuckled, stretched out his hand, and said, "That's why I have to spend a hundred years to realize it!"
In Liu De's vision, he would lay the foundation for the examination system, establish the system, establish authority, and gradually expand its scale.
His successors consolidated and carried it forward.
By the time his grandchildren arrive, they will have conquered everything and ruled the world.
After such a long period of time, Liu De certainly knew that the conservative forces would definitely counterattack or even violently oppose.
But Liu De was not worried at all.
He turned around, looked at Ji An and said, "The way to govern is to compare flesh and blood..."
He pointed at himself: "I eat meat!"
Then he looked at Ji An with a smile: "You can share some of the fat and bones!"
He then looked at the scholars who were filing into the examination room: "Everyone in the world drinks soup, and the worst person must at least have gruel to eat!"
"Having done this, the rule of three generations will not be far away..."
This is a blatant plagiarism of the cake-sharing theory of later generations.
"The same is true for the examination..." Liu De looked at the scholars and said with a smile: "As long as the people who benefit are far more than the people who lose their interests, then the opposition of those people is just a mantis. Once the general trend is formed, it will be huge and powerful.
,No one can stop it..."
Once his examination concept is really implemented, as long as it persists for three years, the beneficiaries themselves will form a huge interest group. Anyone who blocks the growth and development of this group will be crushed by it.
Historically, after the imperial examination system flourished in the Song Dynasty, it crushed all opponents.
Even the vassal towns of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were crushed by the imperial examination. From then on, anyone who was an enemy of the imperial examination would die without a burial place!
Moreover, there is another benefit to carrying out the examination at this time, that is, the people in the world now, even the most evil guys, have moral integrity, and even the ruffians must be moral.
In this context, if local governors and princes want to oppose the examination, they must first fail to pass the moral test. If they cannot pass the moral test, they themselves will not have the energy to oppose it.
What's more, Liu De never thought of replacing the recommendation system with examinations.
At least within ten years after he ascends the throne, examinations and recommendations will be held in parallel.
Therefore, he is not worried at all about the counterattack of the conservative forces.
What he is more worried about now is the development of science and technology, especially papermaking and printing technology.
Because, if papermaking and printing technology cannot develop, his examination may become a monopolized business by aristocrats and powerful merchants in the end. It will undoubtedly be very difficult for people at the bottom to get in.
Once the examinations are monopolized by the children of nobles and powerful businessmen, within thirty years, the terrible monster of the clan will appear in advance.
Therefore, papermaking and printing are what Liu De will focus on after he ascends the throne in the future. Their importance is no less than that of the imperial examinations, and even more important than preparations for war against the Huns.
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Strongly recommended next week, working hard to save the manuscript~~~~~~~~~~
I hope I can save 30 chapters before it is released~~Now I have 2 chapters saved~~~~~It’s so short of 28 chapters, it’s so stressful~
