Of course, people's hearts are unpredictable, and no one knows what everyone's true thoughts are. Even if you hate Li Xuan to death, as long as you cover it up well and don't let Hantong Eagle Dog find out, then there will be no problem.
But if there are negative remarks about Li Xuan, the royal family, and the Tang Dynasty in public or private remarks, then basically say goodbye to key cultivation.
You can think, but you can’t say it, let alone do it!
The officials can't control what others think, but they will definitely control what others say and do!
Although most of the time, it's just out of control.
In this palace examination in the seventh year of Xuanping, more than a thousand scholars were trying to make a splash in the palace examination. If they could successfully attract the attention of the Holy Emperor and make a positive impression, then there would be no doubt about their future career.
will be of huge help.
However, there are more than a thousand scholars from both disciplines participating in the palace examination. It is not ordinary to stand out among more than a thousand people and attract Li Xuan's attention.
With expectations for the future, more than a thousand scholars also entered the examination room one after another. However, the atmosphere of today's palace examination was much more relaxed than that of the general examination. There were not even arrangements for soldiers to search the bodies of the soldiers.
More inspections are done to ensure that these scholars are neatly dressed and will not behave inappropriately in front of the palace.
This kind of palace examination environment is completely different from the general examination. In order to ensure that there is no fraud during the general examination, the Guards specially dispatched 3,000 soldiers to maintain the safety of the examination room, especially for
Avoid cheating.
At the same time, the cabinet also temporarily transferred hundreds of officials to serve the smooth holding of the conference examination.
But today’s palace examination will not be like this!
Because as long as there are not too many accidents, the tributes will basically not fail in the palace examination. At most, the ranking will be different.
Of course, those tributes committed suicide and insisted on criticizing the Holy Emperor Li Xuan and the Tang Dynasty in their answer sheets, or they went crazy in the examination room and just left blanks. In this case, the Tang Dynasty
I wouldn't mind losing a new low-level official.
Anyway, there are many people who want to be officials, so there are probably one or two of them.
After the tributes entered the examination room one after another, Li Xuancai went to the examination room accompanied by a group of civil and military ministers, preparing to personally take charge of the imperial examination for the seventh year of Xuanping.
The examination room for the imperial examination was held in the open space in front of the Royal Courtyard because there were a large number of people and it was not arranged in a special examination room. Of course, an awning was built in advance and tables and chairs were laid out.
Li Xuan is sitting in front. Since the place is relatively large and the distance is far, in fact, except for the students in the front rows who can see Li Xuan more clearly, most of the scholars behind can only see a vague figure.
That's all.
As soon as the exam started, the test papers were distributed, and then Li Xuan saw more than a thousand people starting to work on the papers.
The imperial examination papers were personally reviewed by Li Xuan, and whether they were for Jinshi or doctoral studies, they all focused on policy and theory content.
As for the science content, I actually don’t pay much attention to it because it was already a key assessment during the general examination.
In the previous examinations, the overall difficulty of the science and engineering papers of the Jinshi Division was already equivalent to that of the entrance examination of the Royal Institute of Technology. As a result, no one got a perfect score in the paper, and there were even very few who scored 80 points.
A large number of students in the Jinshi majors scored only 60 to 70 points in their science papers.
The content listed in the doctoral program in the general examination is even more difficult. Overall, it has reached the level of a sophomore at the Royal Institute of Technology. Because the examination paper is extremely difficult, there are no perfect scores. Many people only have five or six.
Very good level.
And with such scores, it is normal for them to be admitted, because if they can get full marks on these papers, currently only those students from the Royal Institute of Technology are the only ones.
Considering the actual science level of these students, a score of fifty-six is already very good.
Today's imperial examination does not cover much science and engineering. It only tests some basic theories, and the focus is on policy theory. This is not true for both Jinshi and doctoral programs.
Because no matter what their focus is, they will all become civil servants in the Tang Dynasty in the future, and their starting point is relatively high. The lowest level is from the seventh rank, and from the seventh rank in the Tang Dynasty,
He is already considered a mid-level official. At the local level, he is also the second-in-command in the department or the second-in-command in the town.
And some people are at the seventh level or even starting from the sixth level.
So the quality requirements for them are relatively high!
The topics of policy theory are relatively large, and today, whether it is a doctoral degree or a bachelor's degree, they all have the same topic, that is: On industrial development.
This question is very vague and does not even have a clear direction. It just asks the candidates to talk about industrial development, and there are many things to say about industrial development. The specific words are up to the candidates to decide.
Or in other words, this question actually asks the candidates, if you were asked to be the section chief of the industrial and commercial department of a county, or simply the county magistrate of a place, how would you develop local industry?
The topics of the Imperial Examination Strategy of the Tang Dynasty basically kept up with the times. In the past few years, we talked about the Ming Dynasty's health issues, and later we talked about overseas trade issues, and immigration and settlement issues.
This time when we talk about the issue of industrial development, it is naturally no exception.
The other topics are also relatively broad!
These questions do not mean that candidates must answer them all. There is no mandatory requirement. You can choose one of the questions and write an article, or you can answer two questions or even more at the same time.
However, the exam time is limited, two hours, no more, no less. When the time is up, you must submit the exam paper.
During this hour and a half, they had to do some science and engineering test questions first.
Li Xuan sat on top, watching a group of candidates below doing questions, but he left first after staying for half an hour.
The exam takes three hours. He won't sit here stupidly for three hours. He still has a lot of things to deal with.
So after showing up for the exam, Li Xuan first went to the side hall next door, and then held two small meetings in a row.
The first meeting was to discuss the people's livelihood issues in Shaanxi. The situation in Shaanxi is still not very good today. Although the relatively large-scale rebellions that existed before the Tang Dynasty entered Shaanxi have been forcibly suppressed, this
They just succumbed to the powerful military power of the Tang Dynasty, but the local people's livelihood was still difficult. When the people did not have enough to eat, rebellion was certain.
From last winter to this spring, there were droughts in several places in the province. Although no large-scale rebellion broke out due to this, there were already more than ten small-scale riots, which were enough to arouse the concern of the high-level officials of the empire.
Attention.
Once or twice, it's okay. This is a small probability time. However, in just one or two months, more than ten riots were reported in Shaanxi, which is abnormal.
Therefore, Li Xuan needs the cabinet to come up with a comprehensive solution to solve the local civil unrest, and to solve the civil unrest, in the final analysis, the local people must have enough to eat.
People's livelihood issues are the core!
After having a plan to solve the people's livelihood, the military can also cooperate to completely solve the numerous problems of rebellion in Shaanxi!
At the meeting, Liu Bagou and the others were fully prepared. At the beginning of the meeting, they proposed several solutions. This solution also followed the previous approach of the Tang Dynasty in Henan and Shanxi provinces, which was to multi-management
Come together!
The purpose is to thoroughly prevent and control the refugees, because throughout history, large-scale rebellions are almost always related to the refugees. Part of the control of the refugees relies on military means, and the other part requires administrative means.
The cabinet proposed that the local government agencies should organize landless people in the disaster-stricken areas to carry out reclamation, and the newly developed land would belong to them free of charge, and some necessary help for reclamation would be provided.
At the same time, investment will be increased to build infrastructure such as water conservancy facilities, roads, and rivers. Through the work-for-relief model, local people can get extra jobs so that they can obtain necessary rations, and centralized military operations can be carried out through hiring workers.
To prevent them from becoming refugees again and causing riots.
In addition, it is increasing investment in disaster relief and mobilizing grain from surrounding provinces into Shaanxi for disaster relief to avoid large-scale famine.
These are some common methods, but the cabinet also proposed that because Shaanxi requires more troops, it can appropriately increase the number of soldiers recruited from Shanxi and directly recruit local young people into the army to prevent them from becoming
The backbone of all kinds of riots.
Li Xuan was quite satisfied with some of the suggestions put forward by Liu Bagou and others. They were relatively pragmatic and faced the difficulties squarely, without belittling or exaggerating.
As for recruiting residents to join the army, this made Li Xuan feel a little worried.
Recruiting refugees to join the army was something that was done in the Song Dynasty, but it turned out to be useless and a waste of money and food.
But this proposal also gave Li Xuan a new idea. Directly asking these disaster victims to join the army to fight was probably unreliable, and it also went against the Tang Dynasty's idea of building an army.
The core of the army building of the Tang Dynasty was the policy of elite troops!
It costs dozens of taels of silver a year to raise a regular army soldier, and even a reserve soldier needs more than ten or twenty taels of silver.
The salary of soldiers is not low and the treatment is generous. The recruitment conditions are even more stringent. Sometimes hundreds of young men come to the recruitment station to apply, but only a dozen are selected.
However, it is unreliable to let these disaster victims go to fight in the young and strong, but it is good to gather them together for farming.
There are hundreds of settlement regiments in the Army of the Tang Dynasty. Although the main bodies of these settlement regiments are Ming army prisoners of war, the operation mode of the settlement regiments is acceptable. At least for now, the Army of the Tang Dynasty basically does not need to pay for these Ming army prisoners of war.
Military prisoners of war provided too much military support, and most of the settlement regiments were able to be self-sufficient.
Now, they can also let the residents of the house go to cultivate the land!
And even if these victims are young and unable to fight, because of the military management, it can also play a part in suppressing the local area, especially in some relatively remote places.
The more Li Xuan thought about this, the more he felt that this idea had a clue!