Chapter 111 Establishment of the Imperial Examination
Don't go too far.
Letting Xie Yuan come over to be Situ is already the greatest honor we can give you. Don't be shameless.
If things get really popular, be careful if we take action against the Huan family.
Those people threatened Huan Feng several times, openly or covertly, but Huan Feng ignored them.
In the end, they couldn't bear it anymore and began to verbally attack Xie Yuan in the court.
After several attacks, Xie Yuan said that he was preparing a new official selection system.
In fact, it's not very new, at least from the current point of view.
Everyone was curious and then fell silent.
On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Xie Yuan opened academies in various places in Jiankang.
These academies are different from the past. They only accept children from famous families with good moral character and extensive knowledge.
Xie Yuan said that these academies are the same as before. The students they accept will take exams every quarter, and those with the top ten scores can directly obtain the qualifications to become officials.
But it's just a qualification.
Because in the future, every March, he will hold a national unified examination in Jiankang.
The people who participated in the exam were those who stood out from various academies in Dajin and achieved top results.
Only the final twenty people selected from this exam can enter the official career. If not, I'm sorry and can only wait for the next time.
Xie Yuan named it Chunwei.
Because all the people invited by Jiankang Academy were famous scholars, the children of those aristocratic families were rushing to get in.
Moreover, these academies, and even academies in various parts of the Jin Dynasty, are stamped with the seal of the state and are registered in the same register as the Imperial College.
What does this mean? It means that the teachers in these academies have become iron rice bowls, the kind who can receive royal salaries and eat royal meals.
That is, a disguised form of official service.
As soon as this edict was issued, it attracted the attention of countless children from aristocratic families.
Not only the gentry with the surname Wu, but also the aristocratic families with the surname Qiao are rushing to enter the academy - it is better than anything else to be affirmed by a great scholar.
Later, in the ninth grade of March, Xie Yuan decided that 30% were from poor families, 30% were from aristocratic families with the surname Wu, and 40% were from aristocratic families with the surname of overseas Chinese.
Children from poor families and children from aristocratic families surnamed Wu worked as unimportant idle officials in the faction that supported the nobles. Except for a few of these young children from aristocratic families who were allowed to enter the court by Xie Yuan, the rest were all sent by Xie Yuan to teach in various places.
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At first, those aristocratic families were somewhat resistant.
But after hearing why Xie Yuanrang went to teach, they fell silent and even thought teaching was not bad.
Xie Yuan mentioned several reasons.
First, if you go to teach, you can receive a generous salary from the court, and you don’t need to spend a lot of money to buy food;
Second, if you go to teach, everyone will know that you are talented and kind, and your students will praise you for your teaching skills and say that you are comparable to Confucius. Do you think it will be difficult for you to become famous like this?
Third, when you go to teach, you will select the children you choose in the final examination. If you want to select children from aristocratic families, select children from aristocratic families; if you want to select children from poor families, select children from poor families;
Fourth, if you go to teach and become an official in your later years and return to your hometown, the court will provide you with a pension until the end of your life and continue to pay you a salary;
Fifth, if you go to teach, you don’t need to do anything yourself if you get sick or have an accident. The court will take care of it for you, and the court will pay for it.
After saying these five points, not only these young people were moved, but also the older generations of those aristocratic families were moved.
From the first point alone, they are willing to teach.
Nowadays, food is in short supply, and it is extremely expensive to buy food. However, it is all produced by Xie Yuan. With this edict, these teachers can receive food for free, which can save a lot of money.
Then there is the second point. After hearing this, those gentry children who wanted to become famous but had no way to do so rushed to the countryside.
Then there is the third point, which is even more tempting for them. Isn't this the best way to deal with a poor family?
So they all went to the countryside to teach.
Little did they know, this would be the last time to reach the ninth level of Zhongzheng.
After a snowstorm in November, Xie Yuan, with the strong support of the Wu gentry and Huan Feng, abolished the nine-grade Zhongzheng system and formally established the imperial examination.
And decided on the autumn season.
At the same time, an edict was issued that all academies were jointly opened by the imperial court, and all the scholars, whether they were ordinary people from poor families or children of aristocratic families, had to take a moral examination.
Only those who pass the moral examination can enter the academy.
Because those disciples were all accustomed to teaching and had successfully achieved their goal of becoming famous, they all had an indifferent attitude towards the cancellation of the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng.
Because even if there is no ninth grade Zhongzheng, they still have the opportunity to be promoted - this is what Xie Yuan said, if you have enough teaching qualifications, you can be promoted to the Imperial College in Jiankang to teach the princes and princesses.
Even if you want to join the DPRK as a civil servant, he can consider it based on the number of talents you have trained.
It was also because of Xie Yuan's words that these disciples put aside their prejudice against poor families and began to devote their efforts to cultivating and selecting useful talents.
As a result, the older generation of the aristocratic family saw that the younger generation had an indifferent attitude towards the Ninth Grade Zhongzheng, and they slowly leaned towards them.
And those dandy boys who want to rely on recommendations to become officials have no choice but to take the imperial examination honestly.
In the spring of the first year of the imperial examination, most of the famous people in various places were the children of aristocratic families - after that, the children of poor families began to rise, and even many common people appeared.
The reason why these people appear is without exception, that is, the children of the aristocratic families who teach have seen the difficulties of the people at the bottom, and the primitive kindness in their hearts has been touched by them, and they feel that the monopoly of the aristocratic families is somewhat unfair. This chapter has been completed!