"Chen Hong, go find out what Concubine Li of Prince Yu's Palace has been doing recently."
When Chen Hong left, Jiajing felt that she was too sensitive.
No matter how you look at it, my unlucky son should not really die young.
It’s just that the content in the biography of Queen Mother Xiao is too profound, and every detail is beyond the comfort zone of Jiajing, who is good at power struggle.
In the novel, with the help of Han Derang, Empress Dowager Xiao’s first reform was the imperial examination. All officials and above must be born in the imperial examination. The imperial examination was divided into Han and Han rankings, with emphasis on policy theory and less emphasis on classics and meanings. And both civil and military. The literati can ride horses, and the warriors can issue orders.
The small Liao Kingdom actually held an imperial examination every year, and admitted about a thousand people in one examination. On the other hand, the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was held every three years, with only three to four hundred people taking it at one time.
The imperial examination is divided into four levels: rural examination, prefectural examination, provincial examination, and palace examination. The key thing is that the examination fields on the southeast and northwest borders have directly opened the rural examination and prefectural examination for surrounding forces. Those who completed the rural examination in the Northern Song Dynasty could directly take the provincial examination at Nanbian Guanchang. And wait on the spot. If successful, you can enter the provincial examination and the palace examination.
Obviously, the set of hair extensions used by Handerang and Queen Mother Xiao in Daliao was very effective.
It greatly stabilized the pessimistic mood of the Liao monarchs and people who were alienated from the Liao Dynasty by Emperor Taizu Taizong's Northern Expedition in the early Northern Song Dynasty.
Thus, with the peace between Song and Liao Tanyuan, Daliao achieved prosperity in one generation.
It’s just that in prosperous times, there must be hidden worries.
First, Empress Dowager Xiao became seriously ill in the 22nd year of Tonghe.
Due to the heavy weight policy theory, there is no objective standard for the second policy theory. Therefore, for the past twenty years or so, Empress Dowager Xiao had to inquire about the imperial examination situation in all Liaozhou prefectures and counties every time she had the opportunity, and randomly check the test papers.
Although Handerang shared some of the pressure, his body still collapsed from exhaustion.
In the next five years, despite Han Derang's efforts, there was no direct supervision and random inspections by Queen Mother Xiao. The policy of the imperial examination quickly became a tool for officials to form cliques and criticize.
The position of each official is determined from the imperial examination papers, and they will fight against each other.
When he returned to power in the 27th year of Tonghe, Han Derang was unemployed, and the imperial examinations quickly deteriorated beyond control.
The other is the performance appraisal of officials. Ten years before the unification, as the north was full of waste and was waiting for development, you could tell which officials were capable by visiting the local areas.
Ten years after unification and prosperity, it is difficult to attribute the prosperity and decline of local areas to the differences in abilities of the local officials at that time. If it is classified in this way, no one will be willing to appoint people in poor places. Comparison of abilities among officials also appears difficult.
In view of the fact that in the prosperous times, there is no longer a need for capable and highly moral officials, and in order to prevent officials from taking sides through the imperial examination policy, party strife has become unstoppable.
Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu adjusted the imperial examination three years after returning to power. The policy theory was included in the imperial examination, and the rest were all tests of classics and meaning.
In Yelu Longxu’s opinion at this time, the character of officials was more important than their abilities.It's too important.
It was precisely because Yelu Longxu, the Shengzong of the Liao Dynasty, returned to Confucian orthodoxy that he was listed as one of the northern saints by his time.
All subsequent activities of the Liao Shengzong shifted from the restoration of production and life during the reign of Empress Dowager Xiao to the struggle for Confucian orthodoxy.
He even directly took out a quota for Enke Jinshi and recruited several direct descendants of Qufu Yanshenggong Mansion.
But the behavior of Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu also showed that the prosperous age in his mind was just like this, and it would not be a stronger prosperous age. Is this true? Please remember to bookmark it. The latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft