Chapter 1052: Private visit to Qinhuai River in micro service
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According to the traditional concept, after a person is promoted to an official position, his future is definitely not as good as that of a Jinshi. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, which has experienced the improvement of the imperial examination system, not to mention that it is not considered the right path to promote people, even if they are also Jinshi, they will not be admitted.
There is no way for Hanlin to become a senior official in the ministry.
Although the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty was different from that of the previous Ming Dynasty, and it was in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a huge shortage of officials. Even those who entered the official position with the title of Juren could obtain official positions and be promoted. However, in the end, the scholars were still worried and thought that
If you become an official immediately after being elected, your future development will definitely be hindered.
Therefore, anyone who is ambitious wants to take part in the examination directly and is not willing to become an official in the name of being a civil servant.
If you really can't pass the exam, or you have other compelling reasons, you will directly enter the official position with the title of Juren.
This traditional concept also made Li Xuan's original attempt to replace the provincial examination with the provincial examination end in failure, but he was unwilling to accept it. Since the provincial examination could not replace the provincial examination, he would find another way!
Therefore, now Li Xuan has simply given up on the idea of doing the provincial examination and being a candidate. Since scholars are not willing to use the reputation of being a candidate to become an official, then he simply should not use the reputation of being a candidate to become an official. Isn't it just a Jinshi or a doctorate?
This is simple. I directly expand the scale of the national examination and set up sub-examination points for each provincial examination as provincial examinations, which will have the same effect.
The so-called Jinshi, Doctorate and Juren, the National Examination and the Provincial Examination are just different names.
Li Xuan's ultimate goal has nothing to do with Jinshi, Jinshi, etc., nor does it have anything to do with the National Examination, the Provincial Examination, etc. His real goal is to establish a complete official examination system.
This examination system is not only used to recruit mid-level officials, but also to recruit grassroots officials.
In terms of product level, that is the difference between the seventh grade and the ninth grade.
But will the plan of splitting the test points for the proficiency test work? What will be the later effects? What will be the bigger impact?
The specifics will depend on how the imperial examinations went in the eighth year of Xuanping's reign, especially whether the examinations at the Zhili Fourth Road Examination points were successful.
After this news came out at the beginning of the year, the scholars of Zhili Fourth Road were naturally very happy, because the Zhili Fourth Road Examination Branch only allowed candidates with local household registration to apply, and foreigners were not allowed to apply.
Yes, and after passing the exam, although you will not be assigned to work in your own department, you will be assigned positions in the other three departments directly under the Central Government.
The Fourth Road of Zhili is a prosperous place, and its taxes account for nearly half of the entire empire. Working in such a good place is naturally regarded as a good job by the officials. This extra money can be better than what you can make in a remote village.
many.
Therefore, the direct opening of sub-examination centers in Zhili Fourth Road will naturally bring a lot of benefits to their local scholars. They do not have to go to the Huihe Examination. After the Palace Examination, they can take the exam directly in their hometown. There are more places and less competition.
But scholars from other provinces had opinions.
Why is it that there are points-based test centers in Zhili Fourth Road but not in ours?
The opinions of the scholars still need to be respected to a certain extent, so soon there was news from the Ministry of Rites that the test points for the Zhili Fourth Road examination were only for trial use. If the trial effect is good, then it will be gradually implemented.
Conducted in each province.
This news satisfied the scholars, but it also aroused more discussion.
What discussion?
Many people are worried that recruiting scholars on such a large scale will put great pressure on finances.
You must know that the Tang Dynasty originally held an imperial examination once a year. In addition to the Jinshi subject, there was also a doctoral subject. It was not easy to arrange more than a thousand people every year. Now that all provinces come to separate examination points, even if there are dozens of people in one province, then
That adds up to several hundred.
In this case, there would be more than 2,000 Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty every year, and doctors would need to be arranged and their salaries would need to be paid.
This pressure is very great.
The worries of many officials are normal from their traditional perspective, but in Li Xuan's view, they are unnecessary.
Who the hell stipulates that Jinshi must be an official of the seventh rank, and it is also possible to be an official of the ninth rank.
According to Li Xuan's idea, the so-called Jinshi and doctorate degrees only allow them to obtain the qualification certificate to become an official, rather than allowing them to rise to the top in one step. It is normal for them to start from the grassroots level.
In the later stages, all officials in the Tang Dynasty, even the most junior clerks, will need to be selected through examinations.
This time, lowering the grade of the Jinshi from the seventh grade to the seventh grade is a test. If it goes well, next year Li Xuan will decide to lower the grade of the new Jinshi to the eighth grade. In a few years, it will be lowered to the eighth grade.
Then to the ninth level, from the ninth level.
At that time, the ideal situation is that the first-level Jinshi will be the ninth rank, and the second-level and third-level Jinshi will be from the ninth rank.
Don't expect to become a county magistrate after passing the imperial examination.
Not to mention the future, even now. The rank of county magistrates in the Tang Dynasty is not the seventh rank of the traditional dynasty, but the sixth rank, the core middle-level officials who are serious, let alone county magistrates, even county magistrates.
Cheng Na is also from the sixth grade.
Xinke Jinshi is only a seventh-grade scholar and cannot be a county magistrate. Last year's Xinke Jinshi were decentralized to local governments and served in various departments of local government offices at all levels.
In fact, many new scholars are not satisfied with this point, but there is nothing they can do if they are not satisfied. The Tang Empire today is like this. If you want to be an official, just follow this and get out if you don't want to!
There are so many scholars in the world, and there are even more people who want to be officials, and you are not missing.
What's more, being an official has great appeal to scholars, and even to all Chinese people.
The official-based environment formed over thousands of years is not easy to change, and Li Xuan has no intention of changing it.
After a new round of reforms, the Xuanping Eighth-Year Examination was held amidst the attention of many people. However, relatively speaking, not many people paid attention to the examination in Jinling City. The focus was on the four Zhili
Tao score test.
The sub-examination in Jiangnan Province has attracted even more attention. It is also the sub-examination site with the largest number of applicants. More than 500 candidates have applied for it, and they are competing for 20 Jinshi majors and 20 doctoral students, a total of forty.
The quota of tributes.
The admission rate is even lower than that of the Jinling City Examination.
In the Jinling City examination, there are expected to be more than 5,000 candidates, and the number of admissions is expected to be 1,000. The ratio is about five to one, but the admission rate in Jiangnan Province is ten to one.
Why?
This is because there are too many candidates in Jiangnan Road. As an area with the strongest reading culture, there are too many scholars here. In addition, in order to take care of scholars from other provinces, the Tang Dynasty began in the sixth year of Xuanping.
Following the example of the previous Ming Dynasty, each province that admitted Jinshi strictly limited the number of students admitted. The number of places in Jiangnan Province was only about forty or fifty each year.
This quota is considered to be a lot for a province, more than other provinces. But for a region with a strong literary culture like Jiangnan Province, it is still small.
Their competition every year is quite fierce. Now that there is such a way to take the sub-examination, many students from Jiangnan Province go to the sub-examination center to apply.
Not to mention, candidates who pass the exam in the sub-examination points will be assigned to work in Zhili Fourth Road, which is a great attraction for many candidates.
Of course, there are gains and losses. If you take the sub-site examination, don't expect to be able to directly enter Gyeonggi's institutions if you pass the exam. You can only expect to be transferred and promoted before entering Gyeonggi.
If you take the joint examination in Jinling City, those with excellent rankings may be directly assigned to serve in various departments in Gyeonggi Province.
There is a big difference between working in Gyeonggi Province and working in local areas.
In late February, the examination was officially held!
As in previous years, Li Xuan personally attended the examination room in Jinling City, but as in previous years, he only showed up and then went back to handle other matters.
Candidates basically have no hope of seeing Li Xuan up close. If you really want to see it, you have to wait until after the palace examination. At that time, Li Xuan will personally preside over the examination and even mark the papers on the spot. This is the only time in the life of most new scholars.
There was a chance to see the Holy Emperor up close.
After all, after passing the palace examination, they will work everywhere. It is difficult for most of them to rise to the top and meet Li Xuan again. Only a few lucky ones can get up all the way and meet Li Xuan again.
Chance.
The difficulty of this test is obviously more difficult than in previous years, especially the science content.
There was no way, as the Tang Dynasty successively launched modern education, and also added science content to the imperial examination, so students who wanted to enter the official career had to study science regardless of whether they wanted to or not.
As time goes by and there are more people studying, the comprehensive science level of the students will gradually increase. If the difficulty level is still the same as in the previous years, it is estimated that many people can get full marks in the exam, but in this way
It also loses its role in selecting talents.
Therefore, it is necessary to increase the difficulty.
But this also makes many students feel sad, especially after they failed to pass the exam last year. After finally studying hard this year, they took the exam again and found that it was more difficult. The despair is difficult for outsiders to understand.
How should I put it? There are people who cannot pass the exam, but there are still people who can pass the exam.
Among more than five thousand people, one thousand people always have to be selected, so you don’t need to be good at what you do, you just need to be better than others.
While the students outside were meditating hard on their papers, Li Xuan simply dealt with today's trivial matters and then returned directly to the harem.
There wasn't much going on today, it was mainly about the imperial examination, and Li Xuan also gave instructions about the imperial examination. Naturally, there were people watching, so he quickly returned to the harem, but not long after, he secretly took the guards and
The secretary slipped out of the palace.
Taking advantage of a rare free day, he was going to have a long-planned private interview in private!
The destination of the incognito private visit is naturally the Qinhuai River that Li Xuan has longed for!