Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1051

Luoyang in October.

After the harvest, Luoyang City was busy and lively.

For the people of the Central Plains, the war feels far away.Governments all over the country are busy getting autumn grain into warehouses.After paying the land tax, the common people sold the grain collected in the field to the official warehouse that came to collect the grain. There was no IOU, and they didn't have to transport it to the counties by themselves. The higher-ups came directly to buy and weigh After that, the money and silk will be distributed directly.

The money is all Kaiyuan Tongbao, there is no old money, and the silk is of good quality, there is no such inferior silk and silk, and even a little fire consumption is not counted on the heads of the people.

The enthusiasm of the people for selling grain was very high. Except for the grain grown and rations left at home, the rest lined up to sell.Everyone's food is also very clean, dried in the sun, blown clean, and there is no dust or broken leaves.

The pavilion chiefs from all townships went to the countryside in person and led the joint defense team to maintain order.

Grain is harvested from village to village. After the harvest, the official warehouse will directly hire local people, and then transport the grain to the township, where it will be transported to the county in a unified way. Afterwards, the rest will be transferred to Junzhong, where there are larger righteous warehouses, official warehouses and large transshipment warehouses.

At this time, it is also the time when the county soldiers and village warriors go out. On the roads, in the villages, and in the cities, there are county soldiers and village warriors on duty patrolling everywhere. It is absolutely impossible to escape the law.Once arrested, he must be sentenced to garrison in the Changliu border area.

Luoyang City, Ziwei Palace.

Ever since the emperor returned to the palace in Chang'an, he has been planning a major event. He frequently summoned the important officials in the court, the elders, and the ministers to discuss this event day and night.

In the palace of billions of years.

The Zaifu of the government office, as well as the five prisons, one hospital, and the six nine temples in the three provinces, as long as they are full-time officials of the fifth rank or above, they all listen to the edict and come to discuss matters today.

"As long as they think they have the ability to apply for the exam, anyone can apply for the exam with the county magistrate in their place. They don't need to go through the local officials' examination like the Han Dynasty, and they don't have to go through the nine-rank Zhongzheng evaluation like the Wei and Jin Dynasties. "

Your Majesty, the emperor said.

Chen Shuda, the servant under the door, immediately objected.

"I object to opening it to anyone, but it should be restricted. The imperial examination should only allow scholars to participate."

Zhongshu Shilang Hou Mo Chen Yi, who started his career as a military officer, immediately objected, "Your Majesty wants to promote the imperial examination to recruit scholars for the country. Does Chen Shilang think that only scholars are qualified?"

After the emperor returned to Luoyang from Chang'an, the major event planned was to hold the imperial examination to recruit scholars.However, the emperor’s imperial examinations were different from those in the Sui Dynasty. In the Sui Dynasty, the imperial examinations were held irregularly. Although there were many subjects, the number of admissions was very small. In fact, the imperial examinations in the Sui Dynasty did not have much influence on the country’s selection of scholars. In a few years, taking such 20 people will have any impact on the court?

Luo Cheng decided to hold the imperial examination. The fundamental reason was that he felt that the current power in the court was a bit biased.Although he successfully used his military power group to suppress the old gentry and old nobles.

But what followed was that the military aristocrats dominated the family, and they were everywhere in the government and the opposition. This was already a dangerous sign.

In order to be stable, the emperor decided to introduce the imperial examination system, but it was not the imperial examination of the Sui Dynasty, but the imperial examination that could bring about real changes.

What's the use of recruiting ten or twenty scholars in three or two years? If you want to recruit three to five hundred or even thousands of them a year, you can make all-round changes from bottom to bottom and create a new bureaucratic class for Daqin. In order to stabilize the military aristocratic group.

It's just that when the emperor put forward this idea, this matter became not easy.

This involves almost all interests.

Especially for military nobles, as nobles, they enjoy many privileges, one of the important ones is the right of family yin, and their children can directly become officials based on their official titles.Although there are some restrictions, such as the grade of officials, titles, etc., and these noble children must first study in the Imperial College, and then after they are seventeen or eighteen years old, they will be elected to the Inner Army after graduating from the Imperial College. Rank, or enter the Qinwei Mansion, enter the Xunwei Mansion, or enter the Yiwei Mansion, etc.

After entering the pro-army, although there is a rank directly, the personal guards are generally directly awarded the seventh rank, the honored guard eighth, and the Yiwei ninth rank, but they have to spend many years in the pro-army and perform well before they can pass the selection This is the real entry into the official career.

But no matter what, for the nobles, this kind of aristocratic system is extremely beneficial to them. Unless the children are stupid, otherwise even mediocre people can survive through such qualifications.

Why is the Guanlong Group so powerful since the Western Wei Dynasty?It is precisely because of this system that these Guanlong nobles, who are nobles themselves, will pass on their titles to their descendants in the future. At the same time, they may use the family shadow system to allow the children of the family to become officials.In this way, it is guaranteed that the family will inherit the title from generation to generation and become officials in the court from generation to generation.

This is monopoly politics, which made the Kanto gentry envious.

But now the emperor wants to fully implement the imperial examination system, which means that in the future, he will have to pass the exam to select scholars and select state officials. Isn't this just playing the cheese of the nobles?

There are only so many official positions in the country, one radish and one pit. If people from the imperial examinations are allowed to occupy it, then the nobles will have fewer pits to occupy.

Not only the aristocrats objected, but also the gentry officials. The reasons for the officials' objection were similar, because according to the original system, the children of officials above the fifth rank also had family rights.

As for the gentry, even if they are not nobles or officials, but they hold the power of academics, no matter how the court is, they will eventually have to use these scholars to govern the world.

It is precisely because of this that a proposal for an imperial examination has actually touched the entire aristocratic bureaucratic class, plus the interests of the gentry group.

Originally, the gentry were the beneficiaries of the imperial examination, but they also opposed it. The reason is that the emperor decided that the gentry examination regardless of your origin, whether you are a gentry or a poor family, as long as you have talent and learning, you can take the exam, and you can be admitted if you pass the exam.

The gentry refused to do it. In the past, no matter what dynasty or generation, the poor family was the poor family, and they were always suppressed by the gentry. Academics have always been monopolized in the hands of the gentry. Whoever becomes the emperor, you have to use their gentry to rule the world.

But now the emperor wants to conduct imperial examinations, regardless of their origins, which means that the poor families who were suppressed by them in the past may jump up. When the doormen become staff and stewards, they can also become state officials.

A stone breaks a pond of stagnant water.

An imperial examination system, the court has been discussing it for more than two months, but no result has been reached yet.

(End of this chapter)