Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 439 Official System ([-])

Five years later

The spring of the fifth year of Yanhou 150 (365 years)
The wars in the Central Plains continued endlessly. Yan State Murong Ke captured Luoyang, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Huaibei and Nanyang, and King Qin led his troops to capture Shangyong and Weixing.

The area that Huan Wen regained was all vomited out in just a few years.

Qin State and Yan State are all busy digesting the newly occupied territory, while Jin State is still the same Jin State, and the struggle between the powerful minister Huan Wen and the aristocratic family is becoming more and more fierce.

As for the Yan State in Liaodong, there has been a little different change this year, that is, the admission of officials.

Whether it is the inspection system or the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, they all belong to the [recommended official system] in essence, but the investigation system pays more attention to immeasurable virtues, and the nine-rank Zhongzheng system pays more attention to the real family background. Whether you can be an official depends on someone Recommendations from seniors. Although there are some professional and technical official positions that will take exams, the proportion of exams is not very high. The key is to have a recommendation from seniors.

However, in Yandu's latest [Yan State Official Restructuring], the examination content for many official positions has been added, and it is allowed that certain positions do not need to be recommended by the nobles of the parliament, nor do they need to obtain grades.

Originally, like the Central Plains, Yan State also implemented the nine-rank Zhongzheng system and the inspection system in parallel.

(Although the Jin Dynasty implemented the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, it did not completely abolish the inspection system, and also mixed a little examination content, so the actual admission system of the Jin Dynasty officials was "based on the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, with the inspection Examination system as a supplement, mixed with a little exam content.")
If you want to be an official, you must get the recommendation of the nobles of the parliament. This is the probation system.

Or when participating in the grade selection, it was selected as "Youpin" by the official of Yan Guozhong, this is the nine-rank Zhongzheng system.

In the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, in addition to the nine grades, there are also non-admissions.

You think that you are the lowest rank nine, you are really wrong, in fact, you don't even have a rank, not a rank at all.

Those who can enter the rank, even if it is the ninth rank, are still one in a hundred.

However, the "Yan State Official Position Restructuring" proposed by Yan Houxue, reviewed by Yushitai, agreed by Yan Guojiuqing, and implemented by Shang Shutai, is for those poor scholars who cannot be recommended by the nobles of the parliament and cannot enter the ranks. official career.

In relatively insignificant Shangshu departments such as the [Department of Land Reclamation], [Department of Etiquette], [Ministry of Law], and [Ministry of Roads], the government of Yan State allows all scholars of Yan State to come to Yandu to take the exam. Corresponding to the interview with Shangshu, and finally confirmed by the order of Shangshu, you can take office as an official.

Of course, for the time being, only these relatively unimportant departments are open to scholars from poor families, such as positions for mobilizing troops and collecting taxes. They are the descendants of the clan of the Yan Kingdom, or the descendants of the side branch of the Yan Kingdom.

The reason why it will be open is that as the size of the Yan Kingdom increases, it is far from being able to manage it only by relying on the talents of the clan's children, unless you want to let the children of the family occupy the latrine like Jin, Otherwise, if you want the country to function normally, you can only open up some of the jobs to the children of the poor family, and let the children of the poor family help you manage this huge country together.

Yan Guo didn't think that his reform of the official system was an earth-shattering event, but he felt that he lacked management talents, so he let go of the promotion channel and obtained some talents from the bottom to be his assistants to help him manage the country. It's so simple, I really didn't think about it that much, I really didn't think about the nobles of the Dou family, it's really just a lack of talents, so let go of the promotion channels a little bit, so that more talents can be obtained.

The scholars didn't feel that this was an earth-shattering event. They just thought that Yanhou had recently lacked assistants, so he let go of some unimportant positions and let them be officials to manage.

Many scholars who don't want to continue to be a teacher came to Yandu. Some of them had taken the Dajin exam before, but they were all applicable. People are screened out to prevent the children of the family with mental illness from harming the court, so as long as they are children of the Jin family with a normal mind, they can pass the post-grading exam.

But this is their first time for a relatively professional exam like Yandu.

For example, a scholar who signs up for the [Ministry of Land Reclamation] needs to answer too many and complicated questions, such as: the birth, old age, sickness and death of cattle, the efficiency of land reclamation for men, women and children, the death rate of land reclamation, how to deal with attacks by indigenous people, and the different climates, the impact of different climates on land reclamation work, and so on.

In addition to answering these questions, you also need to write your own "land reclamation policy theory". At the beginning, you need to evaluate the gains and losses of Yan State's current land reclamation policy, and you can put forward your own opinions and ideas on Yan State's current land reclamation policy.

When they saw these questions, the humble scholars who took the [Ministry of Land Reclamation] examination were very surprised. They didn't expect that Yan State would pay so little attention to human life, but would open up their opinions and allow scholars to evaluate the gains and losses of Yan State's administration.

I don't care about the life and death of the bottom people, and at the same time allow the bottom people to talk about the state. I allow you the freedom to complain, but I don't allow you the freedom to live. This is the Yan Kingdom.

If you only look at the fact that Yan Guoguang opened up his speeches and allowed scholars to complain about bad policies, it is indeed comparable to Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty.

A poor scholar from the Central Plains who just immigrated to Yan State a few years ago, he wanted to test whether Yan State was really open to public opinion, so he didn't keep talking about "strategies" like other scholars who wanted to be officials. Flattering Yan Houxue, but pointing out the various disadvantages of Yan State's current policy of opening up wasteland, and boasting that some noble children are just vegetarians.

Two months later, several minor officials from the Shangshutai of the State of Yan came to the scholar's home.

"Are you going to arrest me?" The scholar shook his head and sighed. He had already planned his speech in advance, so he said that he drank too much alcohol, so he babbled nonsense on the test paper.

However, the two officials at Shangshutai just put an "interview ticket" in his hand and reminded him: "You have already passed the exam. On the [-]th of next month, go to Shangshutai for an interview."

As soon as this remark came out, the scholar from the Jin Dynasty couldn't believe it immediately, then calmed down, and respectfully said to the two little officials: "Student understands."

"Yan Kingdom in Liaodong is the blessed land for our poor family!" This poor family scholar from the Jin Dynasty was more and more grateful to the bandits who sold him to Yan State.

The Central Plains was in turmoil, he was kidnapped by a group of bandits, and then sold to the country of Yan by the bandits. He thought he would have no hope in his life, but it was only an exam that made him a success.

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The behavior of "examination" appeared in the Central Plains earlier than the empire on which the sun never sets, but the empire on which the sun never sets was better than the blue. The talents you want.

For the people of today, this is just a trivial reform, but for the people of later generations, it is an important milestone in the development of the times.

——"General History of the World Song Qin Hui"

(End of this chapter)