I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 364, different imperial examination systems
June of the fourth year of Chuping in the Han Dynasty (AD 193)
Zhang Ning, who was 10 months pregnant, gave Xu Wei a big fat boy in Jixian County, which made Xu Wei and the entire senior management very happy. Xu Wei was happy that he had offspring, and he seemed to have roots in this world.

But Old Man Wang and the others have an heir to their happy career, and they feel secure.After all, their business is so big, and they don't have an heir, which really makes them feel at ease.

If Xu Wei didn't stop them, they even wanted to pardon the world to celebrate the birth of Xu Wei's son!

But Dagan doesn't talk about the feudal society, and Xu Wei doesn't need to buy people's hearts to amnesty the world.Not to mention that most of the people who were exiled and imprisoned were all criminal elites. Letting these people out was not intentional to cause trouble for himself. Xu Wei would not do such a stupid thing.

In addition to this happy event, for the smooth development of Liaodong, and also to make everyone pay attention to Liaodong, Xu Wei established the Liaodong Protectorate with the four counties of Liaodong, with Huang Long as the governor of the Liaodong Protectorate!As long as the development of Liaodong matures, Xu Wei will establish a new state with these four counties.

Of course, the establishment of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion made the lack of cadres in Dagan even more. In order to speed up the recruitment of officials, Dagan and even the world's first imperial examination was born!
The imperial examination system created by Xu Wei is completely different from the original one. First of all, the number of people is different. Historically, only a few dozen people were recruited in the imperial examination. Even in the Song Dynasty, it was only increased to a few hundred people. This is basically The limit of the number of people admitted in one imperial examination, as long as they pass the imperial examination, which is the lowest and the county magistrate's official position, it can be said that they will reach the sky in one step.

But it also limits the number of people admitted. After all, there are only more than 2000 counties in China, and it is impossible for you to admit thousands of county masters at once.

But Xu Wei’s imperial examinations are different this time. He held the imperial examinations in Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Jizhou at the same time. The number of people admitted in each state exceeded a thousand, which means that more than 3000 people will be admitted in the imperial examination this time. Once, there won't be any rural exams, palace exams.

Xu Wei's imperial examination is not for the selection of elites, but for the selection of cadres who do things. Even if these people are selected, they still need to be trained to watch politics, and even if they are officials, they are also basic officials like village heads and township heads. There are more than 3000 village chiefs, and the township chiefs can still be easily arranged. It is impossible to become a county magistrate in one step.

But Xu Wei has no restrictions on officials here. As long as he does well, the village head and township head can still become the county magistrate. Moreover, such a large-scale admission also reduces the difficulty of the imperial examination, making it even more difficult to monopolize the imperial examination!
In fact, whether it was in the Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, in the later period, many families began to monopolize the imperial examinations, such as seven Jinshi, nine Jinshi, and even generations of bureaucratic families. This means that the imperial examination system is monopolized, and it is difficult for ordinary people to enter the officialdom. Without the addition of fresh blood, the entire empire would become a pool of stagnant water.

However, Xu Wei lowered the difficulty of the imperial examination, and it was even more difficult to monopolize the imperial examination. Passing the examination was only the most basic, but the real difficulty was how to climb up step by step in the future.It is not to say that there will be no bureaucratic families, but it is more difficult to monopolize than the original imperial examination system.

The content of the exam is also different. It is impossible for Xu Wei to take the Six Classics of Confucianism, or the classics of other schools of thought, because this is to open the back door for the powerful and noble families.

Xu Wei himself knew that with a mud-legged child who had been trained for less than 10 years, how could he pass the exam on these contents? He would not do such a self-destructive thing.

So the content of the imperial examination this time is also very simple. First write a small composition of [-] words to show that you can already read and write, and you can be regarded as a cultural person.

The second test is 2 math questions, from easy to difficult, one point for correct answer, no point for wrong answer, so the number of admissions is determined by the level of the score!

This is the track that Xu Wei opened up for his subordinates, because Xu Wei has attached great importance to mathematics education since the time of the Tengjia Army. Subtraction, multiplication and division, four arithmetic operations, and simple equations in one variable and two variables have basically been studied. It can be said that Xu Wei's followers have an advantage in mathematics.

The noble families of the Han Dynasty are all heirs of poetry and books, whether it is Confucian classics or various schools of thought, they all have an advantage.

But mathematics is what they are least good at. Looking at the 5000-year history of China and a few books on mathematics, one can see how Chinese literati do not pay attention to basic science such as mathematics.

The former Han Dynasty is better. After all, you have to be a general and a minister, and you must have real political achievements. Mathematics is the best tool for promotion. To become a general, you need to calculate the soldiers in your hands, the food, grass and weapons you need, etc. Math is required to calculate.

It is still in power, and the help of mathematics is indispensable for handling government affairs. Mathematics is used to measure the land, build water conservancy projects for new canals, collect taxes, etc., so officials in the former Han Dynasty more or less learned some mathematics.

But the current big man is different. Now everyone is promoted without paying attention to political achievements. At least political achievements are no longer the main factor, but family background and prestige.

People with high prestige can ascend to the sky in one step and become sheriffs of two thousand shi, or even three lords and nine ministers. Back then, Dong Zhuo was promoted from a white man to a captain in less than half a year because of Xun Shuang's high reputation. A few people objected, which shows that promotion by virtue of prestige has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but this has nothing to do with mathematics at all.

The role of prestige is so great, everyone no longer fights for political achievements, but starts to fight for prestige, so there are three gentlemen, eight steeds and eight chefs. Bamboo shoots, Kong Rong let allusions like pears to boost fame!
The literati in the feudal era, when looking at the twenty-four filial piety, found that it was all in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and they took it for granted that the Eastern Han Dynasty was the best, and they said that it was the best period under the third generation, and gentlemen were everywhere.

But when we look at the twenty-four filial piety in the Internet age, we will find that the hype of the ancients is no different from the modern Internet celebrities. Many hypes are even worse than Internet celebrities, and there is no science at all.

So everyone suddenly realized that there is no such thing as a gentleman, but a group of hypocrites who want to become officials and hype their reputation.

It is even easier for a person with a family background to be an official than a prestigious person. When Yuan Huai was an official, the government affairs were handled by his protégés and old officials. He can easily become an expert in governing the world.

If you want some military merits, you can recruit a poor general like Dong Zhuo to be your former student, and then command Dong Zhuo to fight a few battles, and then the military merits come. In this way, Yuan Huai has both civil and military skills, and can easily become a high-ranking official at the Sangong level.

If you ask people like Yuan Huai to exclude specific things, they will say that this is what ordinary officials do, and a gentleman like him would disdain it.

But the feats made by vulgar officials are that officials like them have good leadership. It can be said that the disciples and old officials in the Three Kingdoms period were the masters in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Vulgar officials.

(End of this chapter)