Chapter 55: Move Dugu to Change the Contents of the Imperial Examination
Perhaps in the eyes of others, Dugu Sheng's behavior was stupid. Officials in Guanzhong dared to embezzle money and provide food relief, so they should give up directly and should not continue to entangle, let alone lend a helping hand. But in Dugu Sheng's view, there was nothing he could do.
Because he is the head of the Dugu family and must be saved.
Seeing the emperor's cold expression, Dugu Sheng bit the bullet and issued a military order.
"If I do not give His Majesty a satisfactory explanation, I will ask for removal from office."
Okay, this is what I was waiting for.
Li Zhiyun readily agreed with Dugu Sheng and said, "Go and investigate the case with Wei Zheng and the others. With you as the official minister, there should be no fish slipping through the net this time."
Wait, don't you want me to go alone?
Dugu Sheng said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, shouldn't I be the one investigating the case alone?"
Xue Shou said: "Of course not. Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling have been investigating the case for some time and are familiar with the case. If they are transferred back, wouldn't it hinder the investigation? Dugu Gong is the official secretary of the Ministry of official affairs and has a sharp eye. If you cooperate with each other, it will be easy
It’s so perfect.”
Hearing this, Dugu Sheng's face darkened.
Fooled.
Li Zhiyun said calmly: "If you feel something is wrong, then there is no need to go. I will pretend that I didn't hear what you just said."
Can this be agreed to?
Definitely not!
So, Dugu Sheng left the political hall with a sad face.
After Dugu Sheng joined the investigation, although it caused some trouble for Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling, their IQs were not at the same level.
Dugu Sheng was beaten brutally and was unable to stop Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng.
This time, more than 20 officials in Guanzhong were thoroughly investigated and jailed, and more than 30 officials were demoted.
Dugu Sheng was also demoted by the emperor and became the governor of Fengzhou because of his failure in investigating the case and failing to do a good job in the official department.
The position of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was temporarily replaced by Zhang Rui, the minister of affairs.
At the same time, the emperor promoted Dugu Huaien to the position of minister of punishment. Jing Zhaoyin was replaced by Xue Yuanjing, the governor of Lizhou.
Obviously, this is a typical slap in the face to give a sweet date.
Unfortunately, this time both the people and the stolen goods were captured, and the emperor promoted Dugu Huai'en. Dugu Sheng had no place to complain, so he could only go to Fengzhou in despair.
After reorganizing the civil service, Li Zhiyun announced at the court that starting next year, the Ministry of Rites would organize the imperial examinations.
Political Hall.
"First, if the test paper is unclean, smeared, typos, etc., up to ten points may be deducted. This is the prerequisite for the examination and cannot be changed."
Du Ruhui felt that what the emperor said made sense, but he couldn't write well and was acting like a shitty official, so he wrote it down in a small notebook.
Li Zhiyun paced and said: "The examination lasts for three days. During the examination period, candidates are not allowed to leave for any reason except handing in papers. Otherwise, they will be deemed to have given up the examination and will never be hired."
hiss.
Several prime ministers and ministers took a breath, this was a bit too harsh.
"May I ask Your Majesty, what should a scholar do if he falls ill during the exam?" Zhang Rui, the acting official minister, asked.
"The times are bad." Li Zhiyun said: "Those who serve as officials benefit one party. If they are not strong, how can they set an example for the people? If this is the case, then they can only be allowed to take the exam again next year."
Everyone looked at each other and agreed one after another.
To be honest, some people think that the emperor is making a fuss out of a molehill. Although the imperial examination can promote talents, it is not the current mainstream method of selecting talents.
Do you need to be so serious?
Immediately afterwards, the emperor continued: "The content of the examination is no longer limited to scriptures. What I want are ministers who can do things, not trash who can only talk.
The assessment content should include: poetry, history, geography, current affairs, law, the edicts and edicts of the previous emperors and me...The difficulty level is from easy to difficult. For example, in the first big question, you can ask the following questions:
The geometry of the Han emperor, his name, etc. Another example is the second question. You can ask him, the late emperor's edict to attack Zhu Can was written silently..."
Several ministers listened, took notes, made suggestions, and then made corrections.
Generally speaking, ministers all know that the content of the imperial examination has been changed beyond recognition by the emperor, and it involves more and more aspects, not just scriptures.
But what does this matter?
There is one person in the political hall, who came in through the exam?
Since everyone doesn't take exams to become an official, then who cares how the emperor tosses the exam papers.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was really useless.
The rich and aristocratic families looked down upon him, and the children from the poorer families had no chance. It was completely a show-off.
Sun Fujia, the first number one scholar in history, is now just a young minister of Dali Temple. After Li Zhiyun came to the throne, he was promoted based on his reputation.
Isn’t it amazing to be number one?
In this era, no one thinks highly of the top candidate in the imperial examination. Those who are awesome and don't explain it all directly rely on the recommendation of their family members to become officials.
Only those who are not awesome should take the imperial examination.
Although the ministers were honest and obedient and did whatever the emperor said, in fact, no one present looked down upon those who took the imperial examination.
Since the Later Han Dynasty, aristocratic families have risen. To this day, those who hold office rely on blood. A small number of people who do not rely on blood are the military meritorious nobles who rose to share the cake after the great chaos. In essence, they are still a different kind of aristocracy, but they are different.
It’s just from the Yu family.
Like the late emperor, when he was an official, he was directly an official.
Assessment?
What is that?
Waiting for the emperor to finish explaining the details, the ministers laughed and said that the emperor is awesome and thinks so thoughtfully that we are ashamed of ourselves.
Nonsense, would you compete with others on things you don’t care about?
Even Du Ruhui and Xue Shou felt that it was useless for the emperor to attach importance to the imperial examination. They were smart people and naturally knew that the emperor wanted to hold the power of selecting scholars in their own hands.
But is this possible?
The animal named Cui has not licked Datang yet, which explains the problem.
Don't doubt the moral integrity of the aristocratic family, because they have no moral integrity at all. Like the Cui family of Qinghe and the Cui family of Boling, their attitude towards the Tang Dynasty was very ambiguous.
Tease you, because I have talent on my hands.
Stay away from you because I don't want to serve you.
Why is the person named Cui so awesome?
There is only one reason, they hold the power of knowledge interpretation.
There is no way, a noble family has no knowledge and no foundation, how can it be called a noble family?
Let’s give a simple example.
Pei Xiu of Wenxi Pei family is a master of cartography.
Think about it, you are a student who studies hard, and one day, you learn Pei Xiu's "Six Cartography" from "Yugong Regional Map".
Then, he was suddenly shocked and said with emotion: Damn it, Xiuer, you are so awesome!
Now you have to ask.
Who is Pei Xiu?
Ask around.
I heard that Mr. Pei came out.
Then you think, wouldn't it be a pity if I didn't pay a visit to Wenxi, pay my respects, and see for myself whether Pei Xiu left any handwriting or anything.
Then, you go, and you suddenly discover.
Damn it, there is more than one Pei Xiu who heard that the Pei family is awesome.
Then you will hear Wen Xiren bragging to you.
For example, 'Pei Zheng, you know, my ancestor is the one who wrote the "Kaihuang Code".'Pei Ju, you know, the one who wrote the "Illustrated Records of the Western Regions".'Historical Three Pei, have you heard of it, ah, actually it doesn't matter.
Remarkable people are Pei Songzhi who annotated "Three Kingdoms", Pei Peng who annotated "Historical Records" and wrote "Annotation of Historical Records", and Pei Ziye who wrote "Song Brief".
Bragging is nothing, the scary thing is that what the braggart says is true.
Think about it, in this day and age, when you find that part of the book knowledge you learn was actually written by members of the same family.
What would you think?
Damn, this guy named Pei is awesome.
Next, needless to say, the Cui family, the Lu family, the Zheng family, etc., these aristocratic families have been passed down for a long time, the culture of the family is prosperous, the culture is long, and the heritage is rich.
Just like everyone in later generations was vying to go to Peking University and Tsinghua University, in the Tang Dynasty, scholars were vying to study in these aristocratic families.
There is no way, who can let people collect thousands of books?