Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 329 "Post-Yellow Nest Era" Imperial Examination System

Everyone paid attention to this issue.

In this era, shortage of manpower is a common phenomenon, otherwise countries would not need to linger under the enfeoffment system for so many years.Especially in Eastern Europe, where the Purple Horde is located, the situation is even more serious.

At the beginning, Zhu Wenkui once asked Guo Kang why the Zizhang did not organize a unified examination when selecting managers.Guo Kang told him at the time that right now, given the situation here, there is no need for an imperial examination.

Guo Kang believes that one of the prerequisites for the imperial examination is that there are enough scholars, so it is necessary to select through a relatively fair method.But here, there is no such condition at all.

In the eyes of other ancient civilizations, education in the Central Plains is a rather scary system.In the era of bamboo slips, through education, the boundaries of the nobles were continuously extended to the lower classes, which led to the proliferation of "scholars".

In the age of paper, the situation is even more obvious.The popularization of education is obviously an unstoppable thing - not only is the era of aristocracy gone forever, but the gentry's aristocracy will not last long.

In fact, later generations believed that clan politics only existed in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.In other eras and regimes, aristocratic families can only retain a certain amount of influence.Later, many aristocratic families simply relied on military merits to maintain them.And when printing also appeared, even this fragile state could not exist.

The emergence and improvement of imperial examinations is the result of this development, not the cause.As for why it started from the Song Dynasty and developed rapidly, the story of Huang Chao can be regarded as the most typical example: because he could not pass the exam, Huang Chao resented that the powerful people controlled the examination room, and eventually led the crowd to rebel, took down Chang'an, and massacred the powerful people there. family.At that time, people lamented that "the inner treasury was burnt to splendid ashes, and the Tianjie was trampled to the bones of the public", and this group has never recovered.

Therefore, the goal of the imperial examination is not entirely to select the best talents - this method can indeed screen out qualified people, but it is obviously not very good at selecting talented people.

On the other hand, the imperial examination pays more attention to fairness, or at least it must make the vast majority of scholars feel fair.In this way, the appearance of "yellow nests" can be suppressed to the greatest extent.For this reason, even some flexibility and efficiency are sacrificed.Because the government actually doesn't need so many wizards.For the imperial court, a stable structure composed of a large number of qualified personnel is the best choice, which is far better than taking risks.

As for the top management talents, because of the extreme talent surplus unique to the Central Plains and the perfect and mature bureaucratic system, it can basically be guaranteed that those who can climb to the top will not be mediocre.This task does not require imperial examinations to achieve.

Therefore, the imperial examination can be said to be a highly targeted system under a special civilization and a special environment.Even with this era, the entire talent training and selection system of the Central Plains is the same.For other places, you can only look at it, it is really difficult to learn.

Like the Purple Horde Khanate, the aristocratic family itself is one of the centers of education.The status of each family is largely derived from their continuous cultivation of talents and sending officials to the military and administrative systems.This is actually impossible, because the education here is too backward. Even the most educated Greeks were maimed by continuous invasions and civil wars.

At present, although there is an internal assessment and selection mechanism here, such as regular examinations within the Legion, and the selection of military officials with qualified clerical skills, as a reference standard for promotion and rewards.But these are not considered imperial examinations, and are far from the imperial examination system in the "post-huangchao era".

Another center of education is the church.

As the most effective education system in Europe, the church covers almost all aspects of education.From rural priests teaching children literacy and arithmetic, to various local seminaries, and to church universities in most cities, it can be said that from enlightenment to higher education, there are churches.As for other places in Europe, the proportion of church education will only be greater.

It can be said that this system is the most suitable in Europe today.That's why the church is so concerned about the shortage of talents - because it is their responsibility to provide qualified personnel.

The Ross area is even more backward. These parishes not only have to undertake religious tasks, but also have to help undertake part of the management responsibilities.Guo Kang estimates that for a long time, these places will be dominated by churches.Because secular education is really a luxury, and I am afraid that it will be hopeless in the short term.

Of course, according to the philosophy of the Purple Horde, it doesn't matter whether it is secular or not.

There is actually a conceptual understanding problem here.

In Guo Kang's time, the "secularization" in people's impression was a concept put forward by the French.The French meaning of this word is "layman".

The church divided believers into three types at that time: lay believers, that is, ordinary believers; monks, that is, monks and nuns; priests, that is, people with official positions such as priests and bishops.Therefore, the meaning of secularization is actually "laymanization", that is, to compete for power with the church, so as to take back the education, ideology and other fields controlled by the church under the control of the secular government composed of lay believers.

This concept is not "going to Christianity", but just "going to church".Because Europeans at that time could not think of a society that left Christianity...

In the most radical era of the Revolution, the French also made some attempts.Some people try to stop worshiping the Father and instead worship abstract concepts such as "reason", which is called "reason worship".

Believers of the Worship of Reason transformed churches around the world, including Notre Dame Cathedral, and renamed them "Temples of Reason".Crosses were smashed everywhere and statues in cemeteries were destroyed to show their break with Christianity.Festivals and rallies are also held to publicize and celebrate.At its peak, it almost became the new national religion.

Although it seems that the Heavenly Father has been replaced by an abstract "Tao", the promoters of the Worship of Reason insist that it is not an ordinary religion.Momolo, one of the leaders, warned his followers that reason is just an abstract concept, not a god, but a part of man himself.Cruz, another leader, bluntly said: There is only one God, and that is the people.

And this level of change still caused great confusion.Many found it too radical to accept, while others accused the change of debauchery and depravity.

In the process of attacking the church, some people took the opportunity to enrich their own pockets and embezzle the church property.Rich people in the city rushed to buy church properties at low prices, but refused to undertake the public welfare duties that the church was once responsible for, which aroused dissatisfaction in the countryside.

Clashes broke out even between cities.Lyon, the second largest city, accused the policies of Paris, the largest city, and refused to obey, while Paris threatened to send troops directly to massacre opponents... Everyone became a mess, causing more serious chaos.

In the end, these excesses caused dissatisfaction among moderates.Under the leadership of Robespierre, a representative of the moderates, the radicals were purged, and Momolo and others were sent to the guillotine.The worship of reason then lost momentum, and the attempt basically failed.

This matter is a very valuable reference.If France after the Enlightenment could not withstand such changes, then Eastern Europe these days should be more honest.

　Wei Zhuang's poem "Qin Fu Yin" has been lost for a long time in history.Although this poem was very famous at that time, and Wei Zhuang was also called "Qin Fu Yin Xiucai", it was lost in the Five Dynasties.According to the records of the Five Dynasties, it was the ministers who especially disliked sentences such as "Tianjie trampled the bones of the ministers". In order to avoid trouble, Wei Zhuang himself asked not to continue to spread them.

　　The whole poem known to modern people comes from Dunhuang, which was only discovered in modern times.In the scriptures stolen by the British Stein and the French Pelliot, there is a copy of this poem, and it was re-known after being collated by Luo Zhenyu and Wang Guowei.

　　
　
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