Zhao Bing understood that fierce reforms during the period were equivalent to self-destruction of the foundation. The ruling class must be composed of scholars now, and the imperial examination was almost their only way to advance. The Great Wall cannot be achieved in one day, and the reform cannot be achieved overnight. It should be as slow as dealing with the Mongolians. In addition to selecting talents, the purpose of this imperial examination was to stabilize people's hearts, at least to show an attitude.

"You guys, this imperial examination is the first time since our dynasty returned to Jiangnan. We have to do it as a top priority!" Zhao Bing said after thinking about it for a while.

"What Your Majesty said is that since the fall of Jiangnan, the imperial examination has not been held for ten years in a flash. All the scholars are looking forward to it. After hearing this, they all praised Your Majesty for his great kindness!" Lu Xiufu stood up and said with a tribute.

"Your Majesty, you haven't opened a college for many years, and you may have many people participating in the autumn examination. Should you restrict the candidates who come to Beijing to participate?" Liu Fu asked.

"I think that except those who have acted in favor of the enemy and those who have acted in the fall of the enemy and those who have acted in the clan who have acted in the rebellion of the king and treason in their clan, they can take the exam. There is no need to go over and demand it." Zhao Bing thought for a while and said.

"Your Majesty wants to capture all the talents of the world, which is a blessing for all the people, but according to the preliminary review of various prefectures and counties, no less than 70,000 people meet the conditions. According to the old rules, more than 1,000 soldiers will be recruited, which will be far beyond the previous dynasties, which will not cause any worries about redundant officials!" Liu Fu reminded after hearing this.

"Governor Liu is worried about it, but after the imperial court recovered Jiangnan, there are still shortages in various places, and they are worthy of filling in the gaps. Once Jiangbei is recovered, a large number of officials and guards still need to be taken. We must prepare for it!" Zhao Bing nodded. According to the custom of the Song Dynasty, most of the problems were taken out of ten, and one in the provincial examination was taken out of fifteen. According to this ratio, although it was eliminated in two rounds, the base was large, and the number of scholars would also increase greatly because he knew what Liu Fu said was good, and it was extremely rare to win a thousand scholars in one subject in previous dynasties.

However, it was a last resort. Objectively, after entering Jiangnan, the territory suddenly became widespread, and administrative agencies increased, and officials in various places were relatively scarce. According to statistics, there were more than 800 officials in various places, and central officials were also sent to a large number of officials, and all departments and temple supervisors were short of more than 30%. Therefore, Zhao Bing could only rely on expanding the number of scholars in the imperial examination and collecting a large number of talents to fill the personnel gap in administrative agencies at all levels.

"Your Majesty still needs to be cautious. If you recruit scholars on such a large scale, you may not be able to collect all the knowledgeable people in the court, but it will cause conflicts!" Ying Jieyan stood up and said.

"What do you mean by sir?" Zhao Bing asked.

"Your Majesty, during the reign of Emperor Shenzong, the Prime Minister Sima Jun actually said that he asked the Gongyuan to take the title of people from one route: Now, no one in several routes has passed, and asked the Ministry of Rites to allocate the quota according to the ratio of ten to one. As a result, Ouyang Yongshu's people strongly opposed it, saying that the Jinshi of the Southeast Prefecture Army today only had twenty or three thousand people, and only one hundred people were given; the Northwest Prefecture Army had only one person at most, and only ten people took one person, compared to the southeast, ten times more than ten people were given. The Southeastern people had already learned ten, so when they arrived in the southern province, they had passed the exam. The Northwest people had not studied as much as the Southeast, and they had been given ten times more than the first choice. I hope Your Majesty knew it!" Ying Jieyan replied.

"Haha, this..." Zhao Bing could only smile bitterly after hearing this. This problem can be said to be an eternal problem, and there is no perfect system that can solve it in hundreds of years...

Zhao Bing was born in a province with a large population in the north in his previous life. The annual college entrance examination should be similar to the current imperial examination. With the college entrance examination, there is always a topic that is indispensable - whether the college entrance examination policy is fair. The cause is nothing more than the admission rate. However, in each province and city, due to different economic development and local protection measures, let alone the different college entrance examination systems, many systems follow different regulations under the national system, and the allocation of educational resources is unfair, and the number of population and the degree of economic development has become the main factors for whether to go to a good school.

As a witness to the college entrance examination, Zhao Bing also has a deep understanding. High-quality educational resources are concentrated in big cities, especially first-tier cities. Small and medium-sized cities, especially townships, and rural areas lack high-quality educational resources. Even in both large cities, children from poor families rarely enter key primary and secondary schools, and getting into college is much more difficult than children from wealthy families. Because candidates from townships and rural areas do not get high-quality educational resources, it is difficult for them to get into college. In addition, there is a bonus system for college entrance examination admission, which should be taken care of for some students.

This is exactly what Ying Jieyan said now. Modern problems also existed in the Song Dynasty. The original intention of the imperial examination system in the Song Dynasty was not to be fair, but to break the monopoly of the aristocratic families at that time. Therefore, the imperial court issued an edict to clearly stipulate that all walks of life can take the imperial examination. This gave the children of miscellaneous industries and scholars from all over the border who had never had the career of the previous dynasty and scholars from all over the border who also had the opportunity to take the imperial examination. As long as they had the ability to pass the imperial examination, they could be awarded official positions.

This means that the scholars who took the imperial examination basically had no restrictions on their origins. From this we can see that the imperial examination system in the Song Dynasty faced the entire landlord class, and even the peasants and industrial and commercial miscellaneous personnel at the bottom of the society. This ended the long-term situation of the gentry and family relationships, which weakened the role of bloodline relationships in various fields of society, and also inspired the public to read and apply for the exam, change their lives, and demonstrated the value of knowledge changing their destiny.

This also accelerated the vertical flow of the ruling class, making the past situation where the regime was monopolized by a few aristocratic families for a long time no longer existed. Scholars from the imperial examination were replaced by the core of politics, and they often suddenly became popular and declined, and it was not easy to form the political force of the past that could last for hundreds of years. Aristocratic families could no longer monopolize the career of officialdom like before the Tang Dynasty, and officials' families would no longer be able to maintain their status as officials for generations, unless their descendants could perform well in the imperial examinations for generations, the relatively broad ways of entering the officialdom were much wider.

With the increase of population and the expansion of scholarly class, the competition for the imperial examinations became increasingly fierce, and problems also arise. The first is regional differences. In terms of population, the population in the Northern Song Dynasty was less than that in the south. Using a unified admission rate, southerners suffered a significant loss, especially those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, the ruling center was in the north at that time, and most of the heroes from the beginning were northerners. In order to take care of them, they even designated the number of admissions, and southerners could only endure it. After the regime moved south, this unfair admission rate situation still did not change, but the caregivers were changed.

Furthermore, the amount of wealth has gradually affected the results of the scientific examination. Judging from the admission ratio of candidates, the chance of getting a Jinshi is quite small, far better than that of modern college entrance examinations. If you want to be outstanding in the examination, you must spend a long time preparing and not doing business. In this case, the children of wealthy families have a relatively advantageous position, so the family's financial ability also has a great impact on the success or failure of scholars to take the imperial examination.

Rich families are more able to support their children to receive a better education, and they are more able to focus on preparing for the exam without distraction; they are even more convenient to use money to cheat in the exam, such as hiring someone to write or bribing people to handle exam affairs. In this case, children from wealthy families are obviously more dominant in the imperial examination.

As a result, "Work Confucianism" has become an ideal in society at that time. There are indeed many families who have been engaged in scholars for generations. They may have ancestors who began to pay attention to the education of their descendants after their wealth in business; there may have ancestors who have entered the government but their descendants fail in the imperial examinations, but they still strive to make progress. Some scholar families who came from poor families still have to maintain their status as scholars despite their hard lives. Many of them have some land and the income from land rent is the source of income to support their studies.

In addition, there are family members of the rank of officials. Not only are they the richest class in society, they also enjoy the privilege of exempting from service and academic qualifications to a certain extent. The burden of taxes and service is light, and wealth accumulation is naturally easy. When wealth and honor are combined, the chances of getting to the top will be much greater, thus blocking other people's path to progress. In addition, although there was no such thing as "plus points" in the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty, the children of officials enjoyed the privilege of being compensated. They could enter the official career without taking the imperial examination.

Yinpu is also called Enyin or Recommendation. All relatives, descendants, relatives and even guests of civil and military officials have the opportunity to be awarded official positions. This system was used in the Han and Tang dynasties, and was continued in the Song dynasty. The more common opportunities for enhancing officials are called Holy Day shade repairs on the emperor's birthday; there are three years of suburban sacrifices or ceremonies, which are called Grand Ceremony shade repairs or Suburban sacrifice shade repairs. This is the most important type; there are when middle and senior civil and military officials retire, it is called retirement shade repairs; before the concubines, royal families, middle and senior civil and military officials die, they can also submit a letter to the court, which is called a letter to the court; lower-level officials also enjoy this right. If middle and lower-level officials die because of fighting and stealing, they can also submit a letter to the court, which is called a letter to the court.

The targets of Yinpu are also very wide, including not only brothers, descendants, relatives of different surnames, high-ranking officials can even support the disciples and doctors. The number of people who support each person is not certain, and the number of people can reach 10 or 20. Due to family background and background, the number of officials who compete with the imperial examinations is different from those who compete with the imperial examinations. Among the officials in the Song Dynasty, the number of officials who use Yinpu accounted for a considerable proportion. There were thousands of officials who served as fathers and brothers at a time.

However, those in power also knew that Yin Bu's children had limited abilities and also imposed various restrictions on them, stipulating that people without a background (including Yin Bu) were not allowed to hold a Taiwan position or were not granted a library position. For civil officials and officials from Beijing, those who were promoted from imperial examinations were transferred from different levels, while those who were in the Yin Bu could only be transferred from one level. If the candidates were selected, those with a background were also higher than those with no background.

Relatively speaking, the regulations of the system obviously make it beneficial for officials to be promoted regardless of their family background, those who enter the imperial examination should be more favorable than those who enter the imperial examination. Officials from the civilian class can only be based on the imperial examination and do not reduce the opportunities for upward development in the system due to their family background. In this case, if they want to develop in their career, the children of officials must still participate in the competition for the imperial examination. In fact, there are indeed many children of officials like this, either participating in the prefecture and county examination, or participating in the hall lock examination after the Yinsheng...

"Your Majesty, I think the system of imperial examinations and officials should be reformed at the moment to achieve the purpose of selecting talents and storing talents for the country!" Seeing that the little emperor smiled bitterly, Yingjie Yan replied again.

"Sir, please tell me!" Zhao Bing said in a daze. He did not expect Ying Jieyan to have this idea, but he didn't know if he could coincide with him at the moment.

"Your Majesty, now that the court has just returned to Jiangnan, there are many staff members in various ministries, provinces and localities, and urgently need to select people to join, and to recover Jiangnan's talent reserves. Therefore, we should break the common routine and extraordinary things!" Ying Jieyan said, "In this scientific examination, I thought that the various governments chose one of the ten and selected the elected sons to Beijing for reference, but there is no need to restrict the number of people to obtain scholars from each government, but only talent is to be selected. But this is only a special case, not a common case."

"Well, what should be reported is reasonable. This move will solve the urgent problem for a while and prevent all the Jinshi from worrying about the future!" Wen Tianxiang said first.

"Your Majesty, I think it's feasible!" Lu Xiufu also had no objection.

"Okay, it's relatively fair to enter and exit!" Zhao Bing nodded and raised his hand to signal Ying Jieyan to continue talking.

"Your Majesty, this time, the ministers of the provincial examination thought that the exam questions should be adjusted, and focused on strategies and neglected the meaning of the classics, so as to select good ministers who govern the country and assist in the government, but they are not mediocre people." Ying Jieyan replied again.

"You should be aware of the good things. I also think that the meaning of the scriptures makes the candidates follow the words of the saints, without any personal opinion, and it is completely useless after entering the officialdom. Only the strategy can show the candidates' ability to respond and reflect their concept of governing the country." Liu Fu expressed his approval at the moment, while Lu and Wen did not object, and obviously they also understood the disadvantages.

"Your Majesty, I think that the old system of the Sui and Tang dynasties will not be directly granted official positions to the scholars on the list. Instead, they will be admitted to the Imperial College for study and then the Ministry of Personnel will be assessed to prevent the occurrence of inability to perform their duties!" Ying Jieyan also replied.

"This is a great discussion!" This simply means that Zhao Bing is in a heart-wrenching heart. He immediately praised it after hearing this. In fact, being selected as a late Imperial College was not his helpless cause. As early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the imperial examination system at that time was only a qualification examination. After the scholars passed the list, they only obtained the qualification to be an official and would not be directly awarded official positions. If they want to become an official, they must be evaluated and appointed by the Ministry of Personnel after further study in the Imperial College. Those who fail the assessment must wait another three years before they are qualified to participate in the Ministry of Personnel again.
Chapter completed!