Three months later, more than 200 Jinshi have been awarded official positions, either staying in Chang'an or being stationed as local officials, five female Jinshi, three staying in Chang'an, and two of them are stationed out.

At this point, the number of female officials in Chang'an City reached six and the number of female officials in local areas was five.

Taking advantage of this, Liu Yu announced several ancestral teachings about women becoming officials.

First, when a female official gets married, the husband and wife are not allowed to hold the same official position, that is, the husband and wife can only serve as an official. Second, if a female official is not a concubine, the emperor must not have an affair with the female official, and he must not force the female official to be a concubine...

This ancestral teaching, especially the second one, made all civil and military officials subconsciously look at Queen Guo, the left censor of the Inspectorate, and secretly glance at Liu Yu above.

Who doesn’t know that Queen Guo was Liu Yu’s concubine before Liu Yu was the King of Qin. Does the two of them have an affair?

Queen Guo and Liu Yu both remained calm, as if that was not the case at all. No one in civil and military officials had any tricks to ask about this matter.

Privately, there were only two people, Liu Yu and Queen Guo. Liu Yu surrounded Queen Guo's waist and said, "Huan'er, I wanted to give you a child, but I didn't know that I could not get you my wish for so many years."

Queen Guo looked gloomy, but for a moment she smiled and said, "I don't have that blessing, my Majesty has treated me very well." She has also seen many famous doctors in private, and knew that it was actually due to her own health, and it may be difficult for her children in this life.

Although she may not have any children, she can become the left censor of the third-rank inspector of the imperial court. His Majesty also promised to let her enter the cabinet in the future. She will become the first female official from ancient times to history and will be famous in history. She will have a sad life, but she is also satisfied.

In the next three years, the aristocratic families still jumped up and down, using all their strength.

Unfortunately, this is not the case in history when Emperor Yang of Sui. There were eight pillars of states, many aristocratic families and families that had been passed down for hundreds of years or even longer, and the situation where the emperor and the family were governed by the Han Dynasty. At this moment, the Han Dynasty ruled by Liu Yu had not yet developed to the point of being as powerful as the Sui Dynasty. What's more, after decades of wars such as the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Battle of the Princes, even the Yuan family and Yang family of the four generations and the three dukes were destroyed or declined. How good can other aristocratic families be?

No matter how hard they struggle, their strength is destined to change the general trend, but it is just a dying struggle.

Three years later, Liu Yu issued an order to hold the imperial examination again.

Seeing that the families of many families have failed in their struggles for three years and the difficulty of recommending them to be officials is becoming more and more difficult. If you pass the imperial examination, you will almost certainly be an official. In order to maintain your family status, the family must have a certain number of officials. There are still stubborn people, but more families of aristocratic families can't help but let their families refer to it and strive for Jinshi.

It is said that because of the first scientific examination three years ago, the aristocratic families did not pay enough attention to it, and there were almost no children from aristocratic families participating in the scientific examination, and more than 90% of them were poor families, resulting in the admission of 220 Jinshis, and more than 90% of them were poor families.

Missed one term, but the aristocratic families no longer dared to miss another term.

Although he lost the privilege of recommending an official, the noble families still have strong confidence. Most of the poor families have only been studying for about ten years. However, the noble families have learned from childhood and their knowledge is far better than the poor families. If they all refer to it, this term of Jinshi will definitely suppress the poor families, obtain the status of Jinshi, and obtain the official position. Most of the people who have obtained the official position are from the noble families.

As expected by all the families of aristocratic families, this imperial examination was widely used by aristocratic families, and the 270 Jinshi were admitted, and as many as 192 were from aristocratic families, and only 78 were from poor families.

In the palace, Liu Yu was not panicked at all because of the aristocratic families who accounted for more than two-thirds of the Jinshi he was selected.

Liu Yu smiled at the cabinet chief Liu Ye and said, "Although the aristocratic families occupy a large amount of resources in the world, the real population is extremely limited, and the total number of poor families accounts for more than 95% of the world. The Jinshi selected in this term, the aristocratic families account for the majority, but I predict that the next term will be the same as the number of poor families at most. In the future, the number of poor families will inevitably account for the vast majority."

At the same time, since the aristocratic families couldn't help but participate in this generation, they formed a general trend that could no longer be stopped, and the future pattern was destined.

Liu Ye said respectfully: "Your Majesty has a great power in literature and martial arts. He is an emperor of all ages. When the imperial examinations and electing officials, he will attract all the talents of the world and suppress the great families of aristocratic families. In the future, there will never be another three masters in four generations, and his disciples and children spread all over the world. The gentry family like Yuan, and the Han Dynasty has been around for thousands of years."

Next, Liu Yu continued other reforms.

Liu Yu used the reason why the princes had their own troops and ruled over the country, causing chaos in the world and suffering from misfortunes in life. From now on, local officials adopted the system of official positions. There was no longer the case of being a county magistrate in one county for a lifetime and a state for a lifetime if they were not promoted.

For example, the prefecture governor, let alone being a whole life, even if he is a ten-year-old, he may control the military and political power of a state and control one side. The county magistrate is not high, but if he is a county magistrate in the local area for decades, he will also plunder a large amount of land and wealth. After his death, his family often develops into a powerful force in the county.

The Wei family in Hedong, whose contemporary head Wei Ji was an important official in Cao Wei in history, had great talent and vision. He sighed: "Your Majesty's repeated measures are to curb the emergence and development of aristocratic families. Once the imperial examination officials are released, the development of existing aristocratic families is curbed, and it is difficult to appear again as the peak aristocratic families like the Yang family and Yuan family in the fourth generation. Once the official system is released, it directly curbs the emergence of the new aristocratic families. Before the Ling Emperor, aristocratic family could develop in twenty years, and now it is at least a hundred years."

After the official system was released, Liu Yu distributed the dynasty to earn acres.

The so-called "spending acres to acres" means that the previous population tax was abolished and the number of land acres was taxed. In the past, a household with the same population had a small land industry, but the amount of tax paid was the same as those with a large land industry. The amount of tax paid by acres was not based on the population of each household, but only on the land industry of each household to collect taxes, which directly reduced the burden on the people of the lowest level without land and with a small land.

In other words, the fact that the share of acres is also a reform that has an influence that is no less than the imperial examination and elected officials. If it were before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the resistance to this reform would be unimaginable and even impossible to succeed.

However, Liu Yu can easily implement it now. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the princes competed for the world and the chaos in the world. A large number of adult males died in battle. The population was difficult to count. There were also a large number of worlds and lands were deserted and refugees were everywhere. Taxes had long been chaotic. It had long been forced to evolve into not looking at the population, but only looking at how much land cultivated grain every year. During the autumn harvest, 30 to 50% of the grain produced was directly collected, which was actually the actual dives to be stored in the acres.

It was Cao Cao who implemented this tax policy at the time, and for this, Cao Cao actually killed many powerful and powerful families who did not cooperate.

Of course, if you want to complete the taxes in a stable and rapid way, Liu Yu also cut taxes on a large scale, directly reducing the taxes from 30% of the previous taxes per mu of land to 10%, and promised not to increase taxes.

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Chapter completed!