Chapter seven hundred and fifteen: Long Zhong pair
This time Enke took two exams, morning and afternoon. The morning and afternoon exams were for one hour each, which was two hours.
Compared with the Tang Dynasty, this examination system is simply too humane.
It was countless times easier than the exams of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in later generations.
After the exam, countless candidates walked out of the exam room.
The vast majority of candidates looked relatively relaxed.
The questions are not difficult, on the contrary, they are very simple. Most candidates can answer the questions.
Of course, there are also some candidates who are cheating.
However, such candidates are in the minority after all.
After the exam, the examiner immediately seals the test paper, and then recruits the examiners who will correct the paper to correct it.
Finally, after ten days of intense revision, the final scores were released.
Based on the comprehensive score, Li Min set the admission threshold at 130 points.
More than 11,000 candidates were admitted at one time.
This ratio has exceeded one-third and is less than half.
This kind of ratio was unimaginable in any previous dynasty.
Of course, even in China, it is estimated that it will be difficult to see such a high proportion in the future.
These eleven thousand people will be allocated to eleven administrative provinces.
Of course, the vast majority of people perform basic civil servant functions.
The official positions of the Huaxia Kingdom are different from those of the Tang Dynasty and previous dynasties.
In previous dynasties, there were actually very few officials appointed by the court.
Alongside the major officials, there is also a huge group of staff.
These people were recruited privately by officials and relied on officials for their survival.
Their salaries are also paid by the officials who employ them.
And the things they deal with are actually assisting their employers to solve the problems of the court.
And now?
Qinchuan included all official positions within the imperial official system.
In this way, officials do not need to recruit their own staff.
Even the lowest-level civil servants receive five times the salary of ordinary workers, and this does not include benefits.
Therefore, those civil servants who are admitted to every position are highly coveted.
Of course, this civil servant is an iron rice bowl, but it can also be said that he is not.
Because Li Min formulated the assessment system.
Once you fail the assessment or make major mistakes in your job, you will be fired.
And once you are expelled, you will no longer be able to take the civil service exam in the future.
Of course, now the officials at each level are almost allocated.
But they still need to be trained and adjusted, and we don’t know yet whether they can adapt to these positions.
There will inevitably be job adjustments, or those with high scores and low abilities who are not qualified for their jobs will be fired.
In short, there are still many problems faced by each administrative province.
However, to the head of the Ministry of Administration, these problems are minor issues.
Next, various administrative provinces began to care about education issues.
There is no way, starting from Enke this year.
Examinations will be held every year from now on.
The recruitment of all officials will be conducted through examinations.
This is equivalent to the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, now, the Chinese state also uses the name of the imperial examination.
In the assessment of officials, in addition to local economic development, the second is educational performance, and the third is stability.
Since education status has been included in official assessment.
Officials everywhere naturally attach great importance to education issues.
Of course, the construction of schools in various administrative provinces has basically been completed.
Because Li Min attaches great importance to education.
When they first came to the Golden State to build Huaxia City, the first thing they built was residential buildings, the second thing they built was a hospital, and the third thing they built was a school.
Now, the construction of various administrative provinces is also the construction of schools and roads.
After the school is built, the next step is the distribution of teachers.
These teaching staff will be evenly distributed among the fifteen administrative provinces in Huaxia City.
But how to use these talents and how to develop education is a matter for each administrative province.
However, for each administrative province, what they currently pay more attention to is actually basic education and enlightenment education.
Because education does not happen overnight.
Maybe in the next seven or eight years, the imperial examinations will not have much to do with their respective administrative provinces.
Because the education in each of their administrative provinces has just started.
It’s impossible for only first-year students to take part in the imperial examination, right?
In this case, it would really become a big joke.
They start training from first-year students until they are able to take part in the imperial examination. Is it at least not going to take ten years?
Even if there is a genius who can skip a grade, it will still take at least six or seven years, right?
It is foreseeable that in the past eight or nine years, students from Huaxia City have taken the most imperial examinations.
After all, education in Huaxia City started the earliest.
The number of students they train is increasing year by year.
Only they can train a large number of candidates.
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Huaxia City, the former city lord's palace, is now officially the royal palace.
The guards are also much tighter than before.
The palace, of course, has walls.
Moreover, Li Min also copied the names of the four city gates: Tiananmen, Di'anmen, Dong'anmen and Xi'anmen.
The imperial palace is divided into the outer palace and the inner palace.
The outer palace is where the emperor and ministers work.
The inner palace is where the emperor, concubines, princes and princesses rest.
Li Min's queen was naturally Qin Mengxin, and women such as Wu Meiniang were all treated as noble concubines without discrimination.
After becoming the emperor, Li Min would not leave so easily.
Because before that, Huaxia City was just a city.
The area under management is not too big, so things are naturally very free and relaxed.
But now that a country has been established, countless matters need to be decided by the emperor Li Min.
There are endless tasks to deal with every day.
This made Li Min extremely annoyed.
I feel that being an emperor is not as free and comfortable as being a city lord!
However, this path is your own choice.
Even with tears in my eyes, I have to keep going.
On this day, after the morning meeting, Shangguan Yi, the cabinet minister, came to the study room for consultation.
Li Min asked Shangguan Yi to sit down and ordered his servant to bring Shangguan Yi some tea.
After Shangguan Yi sat down, he took a sip of tea, and then asked Li Min:
"Your Majesty, I'm here to ask you about the future development focus of our country, China."
After all, the Huaxia Kingdom had just been founded, and it was difficult for the veterans who first followed Li Min to change their minds to this idea.
The relationship between the monarch and his ministers is not as formal and serious as the normal relationship between the emperor and ministers.
And this was also a problem faced by many founding emperors.
For many of the founding emperors, when they became emperors and needed to establish their dignity, their veterans could not change their roles and could not give them the respect they deserved.
This made the founding emperors very unhappy.
Many veteran ministers were killed or dismissed, and there must be reasons for this.
Of course, Li Min is an exception.
Because after all, he came from later generations, he has his own opinions and understanding of the position of emperor.
He never thought about making his ministers fear him when they saw him.
Therefore, Li Min was not used to the attitude of his senior ministers.
The reason why Shangguan Yi came to ask Li Min this question was also for the future development of Huaxia.
He is the chief cabinet bachelor and is respectfully called the cabinet elder.
The future development policies of the Huaxia Kingdom are formulated and provided by several bachelors in the cabinet.
They are the emperor's think tanks.
These plans need to be formulated by them, and then approved by the emperor before they can be implemented.
Therefore, it is very necessary to ask the emperor about his development ideas.
Of course, in fact, this inquiry is not a normal inquiry between a monarch and his ministers.
If he were a normal monarch and his ministers, and a pavilion elder came to ask the emperor such a question, he would probably be out of office not far away.
However, Shangguan Yi and Li Min have long been accustomed to this way of getting along.
When they were in Yizhou New Town, they had this model.
Li Min pointed out the direction of development, and the following specific matters were all carried out by Shangguan Yi.
Therefore, this also developed this habit between them.
Hearing Shangguan Yi's inquiry, Li Min smiled slightly and then asked: "Shangguan Aiqing, what do you think?"
Shangguan Yi thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that the current focus of development should be on the construction of railways and highways. It will take at least ten years to complete the first phase of these two points."
Hearing Shangguan Yi's words, Li Min couldn't help but nodded and said, "Are there any other goals?"
Shangguan Yi continued: "The second one is, of course, education. The Emperor has a saying: It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. Education is the foundation of our development!"
"Then there is medical care. Only with sound medical facilities can all Chinese people receive timely treatment when they are sick. This is my opinion. If there is any inappropriateness, please correct me."
Li Min nodded and said: "Shangguan Aiqing, what you mentioned is indeed the focus of current development. The construction of railways and highways is just the initial goal and will take at least ten years to develop. These are all correct.
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"However, there is a more important direction of development. Has Shangguan Aiqing ignored it?"
Shangguan Yi asked doubtfully: "I wonder what the emperor is referring to? I hope the emperor can give me some advice."
Li Min said seriously: "I'm talking about the system. Now, various systems are not perfect, especially the law, which is the top priority."
"In addition to the law, there is also culture. What I mean is that we must install electricity as soon as possible and let television enter thousands of households. Then we must film film and television dramas to correctly guide people's thoughts.
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"Of course, it will take a certain amount of time to bring electricity to thousands of households. In the short term, it may not be possible. In this case, we need film-to-rural activities."
"You must pay attention to this situation."
After hearing Li Min's words, Shangguan Yi was a little puzzled.
"Your Majesty, the old ministers have different opinions on His Majesty's opinions."
Li Min smiled slightly and said, "What do you mean?"
Shangguan Yi couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, I think it is more important to develop infrastructure. Laws and cultural propaganda should not be the top priority, right? We must grasp the relationship between primary and secondary."
Li Min smiled and said: "Shangguan Aiqing, my thoughts are exactly the opposite of yours."
"I believe that China must walk on two legs on its development path."
"We must focus on both economic construction and political and ideological education. We must focus on both."
"In terms of law, we must have laws to abide by, laws must be followed, law enforcement must be strict, and violations must be punished. Formal laws must be promulgated as soon as possible."
"All people must know clearly what they can do and what they cannot do. Once they do it, they will face imprisonment."
"As for cultural promotion, that is even more top priority."
"Currently, our country, China, has just been established, and the composition of its citizens is extremely complicated."
"Only a very small number of these people are the people of the Tang Dynasty who came with us."
"There are also some people who voluntarily immigrated from the surrounding countries of the Tang Dynasty. These people are relatively stable."
"However, the vast majority of the population are the indigenous people and the East Slavs."
"The aboriginal people have a pretty good opinion of us. But because of the alliance of aristocratic families, there is bound to be a certain gap."
"As for those East Slavs, I guess they still have a certain amount of hatred towards us."
"Because they were forced to leave our homes. Although it was not our direct cause, we did not let them go back."
"The Eastern Slavs and aborigines have a large population, almost a hundred times that of the Tang people."
"Once they are instigated by someone with malicious intentions, it is very likely that they will cause a big disaster."
"And once all the East Slavs and aborigines are in chaos, no, even if any one of them is in chaos, it will shake the foundation of the country."
Hearing this, Shangguan Yi couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
Yes, what the emperor said makes so much sense.
Now, the Kingdom of China has just been established.
As a Tang person, the number is really too small.
The number of East Slavs and aborigines is a hundred times greater than them.
If cultural propaganda cannot keep up, once it is guided by thoughtful people, it will indeed shake the foundation of the country.
You know, it is easy to conquer a country, but difficult to defend it.
Internal conflicts are sometimes more terrifying than external enemies.
And if there are films sent to the countryside and cultural propaganda, it will definitely be of great help in stabilizing people's hearts.
It is not that easy for those who have ulterior motives to confuse them.
Therefore, Shangguan Yi felt that what the emperor said was very reasonable.
Thinking of this, Shangguan Yi couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, it's the veteran who didn't think carefully! After listening to the emperor's words, the veteran realized what his problem was."