According to the Tang Dynasty system, the number of people admitted according to the five regular subjects is enough to provide talent guarantee for the core official team. With an average of 145 people admitted each year, each official has been in politics for 30 years, then, more than 4,300 people are on duty every year, which is enough to cover the core positions of the imperial court and about 330 states and 1,500 counties across the country.

In fact, the main body, or core force, of the official team of the Tang Dynasty government, was this group of people who passed the Jinshi and Mingjing exams. They were either senior officials of the court, county magistrates, staff members of the front line troops, and even commanders, and jointly created the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Since the Tang Dynasty, struggle has also formed a good social trend: only by relying on one's own talents to obtain positions is glorious and glorious; relying on one's ancestors to protect one's ancestors is a shame, and one's own head cannot be raised and the whole society will look down upon it.

However, no matter in the Tang Dynasty or in other eras, it is not that you can get a good result by working hard. Therefore, failure is the most common result for a talent who participates in the imperial examination. There are very few people who directly pass the imperial examination and pass the imperial examination for the first time.

In other words, is it that easy for the Tang Dynasty? It is definitely not easy!

So many people take the exam, only a small number of them can pass the exam, get the chance to become an official, and a considerable number will not be shortlisted at all. This is called losing the exam. There are many candidates who fail. Do they have hopeless careers from now on? Of course not. In addition to the imperial examinations, these candidates who fail to become officials also have some other ways to make them official.

First of all, we should solve this policy in another place and enter the official career.

What is a different place to solve the problem? It is somewhat similar to the so-called "college entrance examination immigration" in later generations from which Li Neng came from, but this is mainly a preferential policy for tribute students. In the Tang Dynasty, the issue of the hometown of candidates was relatively strict, and every state gave scholars to the court had a quota limit.

During the Kaiyuan period of Li Longji, the court issued an imperial edict saying: "All states have tributes and tributes, and those who are trustworthy in the original form shall not seek application and delivery according to the rules. If there is such a color, even if the prefectures and counties are urged for the examination, they shall not be allowed to submit them." The "Miscellaneous Records of the Religious Ju" also clearly stipulates that the candidates must be interpreted in the original form.

However, these words are indeed very strict, but Li Wen had already clearly seen during the implementation process that this spirit was not strictly implemented, but from time to time, some individuals would go to other places to take the exam with quotas under the recommendation of some people with high positions and power.

In addition to this one, two others also gave birth to a large number of officials who had not passed the imperial examination.

One of them is the fact that the imperial examination was in the heart of the family. "Little did they know that over the past three hundred years, the establishment of the imperial examination, the founder of the grass and the head of the grass and the hairpin and the successor of the hairpin; the lonely and cold ones lost their family, the tribe was discouraged; the loss of the national salary was in the world, the tribe was disgraceful." It can be seen that the status of the imperial examination in the hearts of scholars at that time. The disciples of the gentry had many advantages in applying for the examination, but overall, the selection of the imperial examination was mainly based on the academic level of the candidates, which was a fairer way than other ways of selecting officials. In this way, many children of the gentry also had the real anxiety of failing the exam repeatedly, and had to go on the imperial examination.

The scope of family protection in the Tang Dynasty was very wide. Royal relatives, national relatives, nobles, titles, singular ranks, official qualities, and medals all enjoy family protection privileges. They are divided into several levels according to relatives, grades, and categories. Groups of different levels enjoy different levels of privileges. Most of the children of middle and senior bureaucrats only need to become students through enrollment, and after failing the imperial examination, they can still enter the officialdom by serving as military officials, Zhailang, Wanlang and other channels.

In other words, as long as you are born well, although you may not be able to hold a large official position, you can already have no worries about food and clothing in this era.

There is another example of many people who think they are talented but cannot pass the imperial examination, so they choose to become officials.

Although the imperial examination is a legitimate way to enter the officialdom, if you pass through Fangzhen, you can also become an official in the court. This is also another option for a group of fallen scholars to consider.

After the establishment of the Jiedu system in the Tang Dynasty, as the Jiedushi who focused on military affairs gradually became the local chief executive, the Jiedushi shogunate became a government office that monopolized military and political affairs.

The shogunate is very powerful and cannot handle everything personally. This requires some subordinates who assist in handling various responsibilities. The affairs mainly include the marching Sima who is in charge of military talismans, the judge who handles military, the secretary who is in charge of literature and speech, the inspector who is in charge of inspection affairs, the supervisor who is in charge of Ju prison lawsuits, and the supervisor who is in charge of planning and planning. These aides are generally appointed by the arch-master of the arch-master, especially some failed scholars.

Although Li Neng was not a military governor before, and there were no such people around Li Neng, it does not mean that Li Neng did not know the existence of these individuals. But the same thing is said, there will be no fish when the water is clear.

When the Tang Dynasty reached this point, many things could be taken out and managed, but Li Wen had been explaining one truth to the officials in his court, that is, you could manage some things, but there were also some things that if you manage too deeply, the people would end up suffering.

Originally, they could not understand Li Yi's statement very thoroughly, but after several implementations of the new policy, Li Yi even went to some places in person. According to Li Yi's advice, no matter how high the official position was, they had already worn casual clothes to see the people's homes. Only then did they see what some of their own policies were originally intended for the people's goodness to be implemented.

Faced with the hesitation of some officials, Li Li once advised them kindly, saying that if the world is not good and the people are very angry, you, an official or even an emperor, will never dare to go out for private visits at all. Since you dare to go out and come back safely, it means that the Tang Dynasty has done a good job in this regard. The rest is a gradual process, not a sudden turnover, and the result that can be achieved overnight is often terrible.

After so many years in the Tang Dynasty, Li Neng has actually felt the changes in the Tang Dynasty step by step, and he has also participated in this change. Until now, he has stood at the peak of the power of the Tang Dynasty, and he still feels that he and the Tang Dynasty still have room to grow.

At this time, he can finally say that this is a good era, everything is developing in a good direction, and their previous shortcomings are being eliminated one by one. Isn’t this the dream that he just arrived in this era?
Chapter completed!