On the first day of July, the court released the Grand Secretary and Minister of Rites Jin Youzi, Minister of Rites Xiong Wenyuan as the chief and vice president, and Minister of Personnel Lu Zhen and other four others as the same examiners.∈♀

At the same time, the court began to discuss and stipulate the quota of scholars, which was a major event involving the fundamental interests of scholars all over the world. All parties have been quarreling for several years.

This matter has to be discussed in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang. After the founding of the country, everything was in trouble and the gap in officials was huge. Therefore, since the fourth year of Hongwu, all provinces held provincial examinations for three consecutive years. Then all these candidates were exempted from the imperial examination and went directly to Beijing to wait for the Ministry of Personnel to be selected.

Xu Hao's uncles were collectively appointed officials. Xiaojia Village was located at the foot of the imperial capital and did not occupy the quota of the Imperial College. Its advantage was too great, but the disaster of blessings was based on, which resulted in the tragedy of implication.

In addition to directly appointing a large number of local officials who did not pass the examination, the court also needed a large number of civilian officials such as Hanlin editors. The secretarial work of major central government yamen naturally gave priority to "young and handsome people", and they were energetic and focused on training.

But Zhu Yuanzhang soon discovered that these young young people might have written well, but they lack the experience and ability to work. They are also at a high position in their youth, and are prone to complacent and proud, indulge in the flowers and wine of the capital, and do not want to make progress.

In fact, this is not a problem. The problem is that Zhu Yuanzhang could not tolerate it and did not give him any opportunity to improve. In the sixth year of Hongwu, the imperial examination was issued to stop the imperial examination. Just like Fang Xiaoru's ancient idea of ​​selecting talents and appointing talents, people all over the world recommended smart, upright and capable people to become officials out of order.

However, the recommendation effect is not better than the imperial examination. Facts have proved that the imperial examination system is the most scientific and perfect official selection system in a unified country. Since the abolition of the imperial examination, the maximum number of people who need to be awarded official positions by the Ministry of Personnel in a year has reached more than 3,700 at most, and at a young age, there are more than 1,900 at a time. In the long run, there will be no official to be awarded.

What Zhu Yuanzhang could not bear was that the recommended talents were not more capable than those who entered the imperial examination, but on the contrary, the comprehensive quality was far inferior. After comparison, Zhu Yuanzhang realized that the imperial examination system did have its incomparable superiority, and the wisdom of his predecessors was not a fictional reputation.

So the imperial examination was restored, but this was already fifteen years since Hongwu. In other words, the recommendation system has been implemented for nearly ten years, and a large number of officials of varying quality have flooded the governments at all levels. Various corruption cases and collective inaction have emerged, which has ignited Zhu Yuanzhang's anger and started a special killing through three major cases.

Since then, the recommendation system and the imperial examination system that used both ways have gradually tilted towards the imperial examination. In the past two years when Zhu Gaochi was critically ill, the recommendation system has almost been abolished.

During the Hongwu period, due to the sudden rise and fall of the number of officials, there was no large limit on the number of places in the examination. If the vacancies are shortened, the vacancies will be expanded. This is very flexible. The status of China's sub-inspection is irreplaceable and they act as the firefighting captain. There are countless examples of students directly serving as central and local officials.

After Hong Xi Dynasty, the dynasty was stable and the imperial examination system became normalized, so the status of the Imperial College was declining. The status of the Jinshi was increasing day by day. Xu Hao promoted the increase of the imperial examination items and reduce the proportion of eight-legged essays. Although he wanted to completely abolish the imperial examinations for a while, it was because he was influenced by the views of later generations. After so many years of actual discovery, no system could replace the imperial examinations. Is the Chinese studies represented by the Four Books and Five Classics useless? No!

After the 20 years of my wife's mediocre position, the official staffing has gradually become cyst-free, and there must be a quota to limit. This is a common consensus among officials, otherwise a large number of officials who are waiting to be selected will be vacancies and will be full of complaints.

When the Hongxi Dynasty came to a better time than a bad person, the proportion of officials from the north and south was the same as the one who set the ratio of students to be selected from the north and south. In the same year, colleagues, fellow villagers, economic and geographical location and other reasons, the proportion of officials in major provinces such as Jiangnan and North and North was much higher than that in remote provinces.

To put it bluntly, it is the unfair allocation of resources.

Now this big cake affects the whole world, not only the provinces, but also the vassal states of North Korea, Annan, Japan, and colonies such as the Han and Wangzhou of Yonglezhou. Even the Arab world and European countries are extremely concerned and want to win a satisfactory place.

Of course, this matter has nothing to do with Xu Hao. What he cares about is Enko this year. Enzhao is a special situation and it can be encountered in ten or twenty years. It is not a "constant system".

What the people are most familiar with is the practice of every time the old emperor dies and the new emperor ascends the throne. Two imperial examinations have been held in three consecutive years. A large number of nephews in the clan are already eager to try, including his second son Xu Yu. He also wants to participate. After passing the qualification of a censorship, the subjects he submitted was actually the most prominent Chinese studies.

Early in the morning, Xu Hao and his wife watched their son have dinner and couldn't help but instruct: "The first place is the most important thing. The four books discuss three ways and the four ways of the classics. You must do a good job and have a good start."

"I understand." Xu Yu finished his last bite of food and raised his head, "Dad, Mr. Lu asked the court to be a beloved Lu Xiong to be an official again, and Lu Xiong was proud in front of us all day long. He hated him. Can he become an official this time?"

Xu Hao smiled and said, "My son can't become an official this year. Why should his son become an official? No!"

"I'm talking nonsense again." Mu Ningxue said: "How old is Yu'er this year? This year is to try her courage. Mr. Lu's eldest son is in his twenties."

"What's wrong?" Xu Hao said disdainfully: "He always takes the reward of official positions by descendants of Wuxun as an example. If I didn't want to offend everyone, I really want to take the lead in suggesting the abolition of this move. Yu'er, please give your father a sigh of relief. If you don't pass the Jinshi exam, you won't be an official."

"Yes." Xu Yu nodded and asked again: "Can Lu Xiong become an official?"

Xu Hao smiled bitterly and said, "Ministers with some face will wait for the rewards of the court, but they can't resist the shamelessness of Lu Zhen and others. They have been asking for it every year for four or five years, right? Maybe it will be successful this year."

"That won't work, why?" Xu Yu seemed very angry. "Lu Xiong has no real talent and knowledge, but can only talk big. If he wants to be an official, his classmates will not be convinced. Someone will definitely scold the court for being an unfair."

Xu Hao smiled and said, "There are fewer unfair things? This is reality. Didn't you go through the back door and become a prison student? Stop talking, go back to the house to clean up the tribute court, and your father won't accompany you, so you don't have any pressure."

Seeing his son leaving indignantly, Mu Ningxue asked: "My elder sister came over yesterday and said that His Majesty originally wanted to appoint you as the Grand Tutor, and as the president of all the great masters. He revised the record of Renzong, but you declined it. He changed to his brother-in-law as the Grand Tutor, and he was very uneasy about this."

Xu Hao said wildly: "What's upset? My brother-in-law, regardless of his title, record and qualifications, is undoubtedly the Grand Tutor. In addition to his age, my father is qualified to be the Grand Tutor? As for me, his father can live to at least 80 years old. Haha, let Xu Ye wait honestly, I plan to live to be 80 years old, too."

"Go!" Mu Ningxue stood up and said as she walked, "The older she is, the less serious she is. Now the children are more serious than you."

Xu Hao looked at his wife's slender back and smiled and said, "In your mind, I have long been synonymous with inappropriateness."

The book says it briefly, and the examination will be held on July 9, 12 and 15 respectively. The search for candidates to enter the venue is very strict, but it is far less strict than that of the Jiaqing Dynasty, and they maintain general respect for scholars.

After the candidate submits the paper, he must go through procedures such as sealing, transcribing, reading, etc., and then send it to the examiner and the examiner for review. The nominal time for the paper is ten days, but in fact it is only three or four days.

Because of the tight time and lots of test papers, I cannot read them carefully. Often, if the articles written in the first place can be appreciated by the examiner, I can become a glorious juren in Chinese style. Xu Hao's words are not aimless.

After Xu Yu successfully finished the exam, just like the students who finished the college entrance examination in later generations, the students had nothing to do all day long when they were waiting for the release of the exam, so they traveled around in groups. The amusement projects in ancient times were limited, and men's physiological needs were nothing more than drinking and listening to operas and sitting in brothels.

During this period, Xu Yu and his classmates met Lu Xiong on a narrow road, and the two sides had an argument. Unexpectedly, Lu Xiong was a narrow-minded person. Xu Yu was unwilling to cause trouble and did not come forward at that time and was not seen.

Lu Xiong ran to discuss with his father and brother-in-law that he would deal with a few classmates and it would be better to get rid of them all. It seems absurd, but there are too many such things in all dynasties.

Lu Zhen, a famous insidious person in history, was Zhu Di's favorite minister. Because of historical changes, he failed to serve as the Minister of the Three Secretaries of the Six Secretaries and served as the Minister of the Secretariat for a long time, so he was extremely dissatisfied.

Anyone who can rank high must have his own advantages. Lu Zhen's strength is his outstanding memory and thick-skinnedness. Whenever there is a place in history to report auspiciousness, he will be the first to lead his ministers to congratulate him. Although Zhu Di repeatedly blamed him for being absurd in person, he never repents and is very good at judging the best intentions.

The son-in-law Zhang He is also like this, but the students' papers were all in Lu Zhen's room. Without saying a word, he picked up the pen and wrote randomly and threw them in the corner.

However, Lu Zhen specifically instructed the transcribe to use secret notes on the test papers in advance, and instructed other examiners not to recommend the papers of these people when they met them. It was just a few unknown soldiers, and it was difficult for the colleagues to refuse, either intentionally or unintentionally, from the chief examiner.

Among the examiners, there was a Jinshi from Jiangxi, a Jinshi in the second year of Hong Xi, a great scholar. In his early years, Zhu Gaochi considered following Zhu Di's idea that Jinling was too dangerous and moved its capital to Peking. Li Shimian was one of the most fiercely opposed officials and the leading figure in the Qingliu school; the other was Xia Yuanji, a pragmatic scholar, and of course Xu Hao, the leader of the meritorious deeds.

Li Shimian is now an official appointed as the Imperial College Prison. In history, he was also the Imperial College Prison Prison Prison. As the president of a university directly under the Central Committee, no one knows better what happened to his students than him.

He did not want to offend Lu Zhen, who had older experience, but his students were obviously talented and failed. How could they bear it? In a dilemma, he was hesitating, suddenly recognized Xu Yu's handwriting and said happily: "I have it! Why not send this book to Lu Zhen's room and listen to how he handled it? If this matter starts, I will have nothing to do with it."

After reading Xu Yu's paper several times, Li Shi sighed: "Mr. Xu's talent is not easy. Don't blame him for being a teacher without any eyes. It's because you are friends with them."
Chapter completed!