Chapter 438: Deng Guo’s imperial examination system

In Ganyang Palace, Deng Sheng first proposed to define the method of selecting officials from all over the country as Yongzheng, and named it the imperial examination system. However, the ministers had different opinions on the implementation of the imperial examination system, some opposed it and some supported it. Moreover, when the implementation of the imperial examination system was likely to affect Deng's plan to unify the world, Deng Sheng was shaken!

Just when Deng Sheng was about to give up this idea, Su Hong's words once again touched Deng Sheng. The meaning of Su Hong's words was that Deng Sheng was the most prestigious and powerful king in the history of Deng State. If even Deng Sheng did not have the courage to promote the imperial examination system, then which king would have such courage in the future? In the end, Su Hong directly stated that Deng Sheng must implement the imperial examination system!

Seeing Deng Sheng being a little moved, Su Hong, who had always supported the implementation of the imperial examination system, showed a smile on his face and said while the iron was hot: "King, the implementation of the imperial examination system can be said to be a great thing for the present and the future. Although I don't know whether the implementation of the imperial examination system will be successful or whether it will be successful, there is one thing I know. If we don't even have the courage to try, it will never be possible. How can we set an example for future generations? It doesn't matter if we fail. As long as we try, the descendants will have a reference object. They will not make any mistakes we have made again!"

Yes, how can I know if I don’t try it? Deng’s country has risen from a weak country to the world’s most powerful country today. What I lack most is the spirit of adventure. I stop or even retreat in the face of difficulties. This is not the style of Deng, nor is it Deng Sheng’s style. So Deng Sheng took a deep breath, nodded, and said, “Su Qing is right. If we don’t even have the courage to try, what qualifications do we have to demand the future generations? Since someone always has to get out of this. One step, let me come. If those nobles of aristocrats have any objections, let them tell me, if they can't accept it or even resist, hum! My hundreds of thousands of troops are not vegetarians, and this matter is decided like this. The imperial examination system must be implemented. We cannot completely push things that we dare not do to our descendants. One generation must do the things that we have to do, and we must build a prosperous country for our descendants!”

Deng Sheng's words were as if they were determined, and Deng Sheng made a decision. Even though Chen Qun and others were unwilling to accept it, they could only choose to accept it. Now all they could do was to try their best to find a way out for the children of the family. There was no other way out except for taking the imperial examination.

Although I have made up my mind, the current imperial examination system is just a concept and needs to be more refined and improved. After discussion, this selection system that affects Deng's future was finally released.

The next day, at the Jingyang Palace Court meeting, Deng Sheng announced in public that the imperial examination system was implemented. The imperial examination system was conducted in three years. In the first year, each county organized the examination and was admitted in proportion to the number of reference students in each county. It was the county examination. In the second year, students with excellent grades in each county were organized by the Taoist government, and they were also admitted in proportion to the number of reference students. It was the Taoist examination. In the third year, that is, the last year, students who stood out from each department would gather in Wancheng and hold the Beijing examination. In the end, the top 300 people in the Beijing examination could enter Jingyang Hall, Deng Sheng and officials from the three provinces and six ministries were examined. Deng Sheng finally ranked and was appointed by the Ministry of Personnel. Among them, the first name was the top scorer, the second place was the second place, the third place was Tanhua, and the rest were Jinshi.

However, considering that not every imperial examination is open to officials everywhere, Deng Sheng set up a Hanlin Academy in Wancheng to accommodate students who passed the Beijing examination, but there are no students who have been awarded the official position for the time being.

Moreover, the imperial examination system of Deng State is different from those in later generations. In later generations, as long as you pass the primary examination, even if you are an intermediate examination, you don’t need to take the primary examination again. However, the imperial examination system of Deng State stipulates that as long as one fails, you will have to pass it again. Whether it is a county examination or a road test, the Beijing examination is tested every three years. That is to say, after the county examination is completed, the next county examination can only be carried out after the Beijing examination is over, that is, three years later. However, since this year is the first imperial examination, and there are ten prefects and a large number of county magistrates, the subordinates need to be supplemented, so Deng Sheng directly conducted the Beijing examination and the palace examination. The Beijing examination and the palace examination are mainly to select county magistrates and subordinates. As for the ten prefects, they are also selected from the six departments and the county magistrates and subordinates of various places.

In addition, in later generations, the department responsible for the imperial examination would be the Ministry of Rites, but Deng Sheng directly skipped the Ministry of Rites, established a school department, and set up branches in various counties. However, the officials of the school department were not permanent. They were rotated every three years and Deng Sheng was selected from the court and officials from all over the country for a term of three years. Before the county examination began, Deng Sheng would set a list of officials from the school department. After the palace examination, all the officials of this term would resign and return to their original positions, and then Deng Sheng would re-select. Although this was cumbersome, it did greatly ensure fairness, because before the county examination began, no one knew who the officials were responsible for this imperial examination.

As soon as the imperial examination system was released, the entire Deng State court was in an uproar, and officials from poor families were happy. Because of the imperial examination system, these poor students had a day to stand out and would no longer be unacceptable. This has extremely far-reaching significance for the rise of poor families.

However, officials from noble families were ashamed and opposed it one after another, asking Deng Sheng to take back his life because once the imperial examination system was implemented, the days when noble families controlled the officialdom would be gone forever. Even if the poor families could not compete with the noble families, what about the future? With a large number of poor families entering the officialdom, the living space of noble families would be squeezed by poor families and eventually destroyed by everyone. Therefore, they opposed the imperial examination system, and the voices of opposition still accounted for the vast majority in the court.

But who Deng Sheng is? As the most prestigious and powerful king in the history of Deng State, the things decided by him cannot be easily changed. So in the face of such strong opposition, Deng Sheng still insisted on his own opinion and was unmoved. Seeing that Deng Sheng's attitude was so firm, all the ministers knew that there was no way to change this matter, so they could only accept it silently.

After the imperial examination meeting ended, the news of the implementation of the imperial examination system spread quickly. The poor families were ecstatic throughout the world. Because the implementation of the imperial examination system gave the poor students who had never had a chance to show their strength. As long as they passed the imperial examination, they could leaps into the dragon gate, go out to the court, and change their destiny. The nobles of aristocrats of aristocrats were like facing a great enemy. The nobles of aristocrats of aristocrats from all over the world began to frequently interact. After Deng Sheng vigorously suppressed the three major families of Nanyang, the nobles of aristocrats in Deng's territory had never been in contact with each other in order not to follow the footsteps of the three major families. However, the implementation of the imperial examination system has touched the interests of the nobles of aristocrats, so they began to contact again.

Yingchuan County, Yangdi City, Xun Mansion, this is the ancestral home of the Xun family of Yingchuan family. On this day, the Xun family welcomed an important guest, Chen Geng, the head of the Chen family of Yingchuan family.

In the Xun family's main hall, Chen Geng sat opposite Xun Qiong. During this period, the Yingchuan family can be said to have suffered two huge changes. One is that Xun Yu took the position of governor, but what he paid was that the Yingchuan family lost the position of Yingchuan's top leader and the position of Yingchuan prefect, and the other is the implementation of the imperial examination system, which made the Yingchuan family, as the strongest aristocratic group in the Deng Kingdom feel the crisis.

"Brother Xun, I wonder how you view the current form?" Chen Geng asked Xunkui.

After hearing Chen Geng's words, Xunqiu, with white hair, opened his turbid eyes and said, "Did Brother Chen say that Yu Yunwen was the prefect of Yingchuan or the imperial examination system that the court implemented?"

"Everything is. Brother Xun is a wise man of our Yingchuan family. Now the Yingchuan family needs Brother Xun's opinions very much!" Chen Geng directly expressed that there were both things.
Chapter completed!