Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 546 Imperial Examination Innovation
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Some water dripped onto Qin Tian's face, Qin Tian's cheeks twitched slightly, he raised his head and glanced, bang, another water dripped onto his face.

He hurriedly dodged it, only then did he see it clearly, it turned out that the imperial study room was leaking.

"My lord, it's time for your imperial study to be repaired."

At this time, Qin Tian discovered that a basin was placed elsewhere and was also collecting water.

Li Shimin was a little embarrassed. As an emperor, living in such a room was really unreasonable.

"Now the national treasury is empty. If it doesn't rain, it won't be a big problem. Let's repair it later when we have money."

Nowadays, the women in the harem are starting to save money, and Li Shimin can't be too extravagant. Seeing Li Shimin like this, Qin Tian said, "Your Majesty is really a virtuous king. Your Majesty is so frugal. Why worry that my Tang Dynasty is not strong? But it's just Repairing the house to prevent rain leakage really doesn’t cost a lot of money, the Holy Majesty doesn’t need to save on this, as long as there is no extravagance and waste.”

Qin Tian's previous words were flattering to Li Shimin, but the latter words meant that Li Shimin was too hypocritical.

Yes, today's Tang Dynasty is very short of money, but saving money should not be saved in this area, but extravagance and waste should be prohibited.

After Qin Tian finished speaking, Li Shimin smiled wryly: "Qin Aiqing is right, I will send people to repair it when the rain stops."

After saying this, Li Shimin said: "Okay, I didn't call you here today for this matter. The imperial examination has been promulgated. The scholars in Chang'an, the capital, are looking forward to it. It was you who said the reform of the imperial examination to make the imperial examination more fair, but now I want to ask you, how to make the imperial examination system fairer?"

Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji also looked at Qin Tian at this time. Every policy of Qin Tian may have a great impact on them.

Because, behind the two of them, there are actually two major forces standing behind them, one is from aristocratic family and the other is from a poor family.

Fang Xuanling's background is not bad, a family of officials, but after the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he has long since declined. If he hadn't stood in the right line and joined Li Shimin, his life might not be easy.

And at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he also passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, so he can represent some poor families.

Changsun Wuji was born in a noble family, so he naturally represented many dignitaries in Datang.

Both of them really wanted to know how Qin Tian could make the imperial examination fairer.

Everyone looked at Qin Tian, ​​and the imperial study suddenly became quiet, as if he could hear each other's heartbeats, which made Qin Tian suddenly feel a little stressed, as if he had suddenly returned to the situation when he was called up by the teacher to ask questions when he was in school.

Fortunately, this time he knew the answer.

"Your Majesty, it's very simple to want the imperial examination to be fair. In the past, the examinees would invest in the bank papers in advance. If they were favored by the Confucianism, their examination papers would naturally receive some preferential treatment. There is nothing wrong with that, but the problem is Some people may have some interest exchanges because of this, which is not easy to control, so I feel that the most important thing to do in order to maintain the fairness of the imperial examination is to judge by articles."

Li Shimin nodded: "That's right, all the judges can do this, and the articles are used to determine whether they are good or bad."

"But it's not fair, so what I mean is that after all the test papers are handed in, they have to paste their names on paper, and then find someone to transcribe all the test papers, so that no one knows the papers. Whoever owns it will be judged based on the quality of the articles. After selecting the articles that can be admitted to Jinshi, compare these articles with those papers with vague names, and then find out the corresponding person. The Holy Majesty personally uncovered the paper, so that no one can cheat, and the ones who are selected are naturally talents."

Qin Tian muttered something, and after he finished speaking, Li Shimin was overjoyed, because the method Qin Tian said could indeed achieve fairness to the greatest extent.

No one knows who the test paper is, so the selection is all based on talent. Only in this way can real talents be selected.

However, although Li Shimin was delighted, he did not speak in a hurry, because he knew that this true fairness might shake the interests of some dignitaries and aristocratic families, and he had to think it through before he could express his opinion.

At this time, Changsun Wuji had already stood up: "My lord, I'm afraid this is not appropriate. Some dignitaries and children of aristocratic families must be taken care of, otherwise they will be dissatisfied, and it will have a certain impact on the stability of my Tang Dynasty. This method It’s not bad, but we have to wait until I, Datang, have enough strength.”

After hearing Qin Tian's method, Changsun Wuji's heart sank. If children from powerful families like them also take the imperial examinations like this, although there are some who succeed, many people are afraid that they will lose their qualifications to be officials.

This will slowly weaken the strength of their powerful and aristocratic families, so although he knows that this method is very good, he does not think that this method can be implemented.

However, Changsun Wuji objected, but Fang Xuanling stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I don't think there is anything wrong with this method. In the current situation in the Tang Dynasty, what is needed is talents. Only in this way can talents be selected. , what's wrong? Powerful people and aristocratic families, they take the exam if they have the ability, who can blame if they don't pass the exam?"

People from two different camps quickly had differences. This kind of party struggle between the poor and the powerful actually ran through the entire Tang Dynasty. It exists now and will definitely exist in the future.

Qin Tian watched the two of them arguing, and was not in a hurry to say anything. He wanted to listen to Li Shimin first, and then speak.

Li Shimin frowned, and after a long time, he said: "Okay, I think Qin Aiqing's method is good, but if this is the case, it will block the way of many people. I think we should treat them separately .”

Seeing this, Qin Tiancai continued: "Your Majesty, Meng Yin, you can still go ahead with the recommendation to be an official. For the sake of fairness in the imperial examination, this is the only way. Bar."

Many children of the rich and powerful became officials by relying on Meng Yin. This path is the path that most of them will take. If it is abolished, it may really cause dissatisfaction among them, and it is not conducive to buying people's hearts, so we have to continue use.

Changsun Wuji frowned slightly when he heard this, and he didn't like it very much. Maybe at first, such an imperial examination had little impact on the powerful and powerful, but gradually, the gap would be widened. At that time, the powerful and powerful would be affected Influence.

This method is a bit like boiling a frog in warm water. Changsun Wuji is a smart person, so it is impossible not to see it.

But he couldn't refuse.

(End of this chapter)