Chen Zhengtai believed that King Guiyi Tuli would help this.

It's not that this brother is really reliable.

But after all, I tempted myself.

Even if he suddenly noticed the intention of the Chen family, he would take the trick. In the eyes of the Hu people, the Han people's deep into the desert was a joke. In all dynasties, no Han power could truly take root in the desert.

Therefore, for Tuli, the newly rising grassland tribes are his major concern, not the Chen family.

In the early stage, we relied on the help of the Turks to build the city. Once it formed a scale and aroused the fear of the Turks, we could only rely on ourselves.

Everything was safe, but in the middle of the month, a decree was sent out.

This news was enough to shock Chang'an... Li Shimin's steps were quick, almost caught everyone off guard.

The new imperial examination system was drafted and announced to the world.

The previous imperial examination was just an examination organized by the imperial court, without any institutional guarantees, nor did it go deep into the prefecture.

This kind of imperial examination is more of a form.

In fact, this is understandable. No system has a class that widely supports it, and it has no vitality.

Obviously, Chen Zhengtai made some suggestions to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin also accepted it, and then based on this policy, he chose to expand the scale of the imperial examination.

The Tang Dynasty divided the imperial examination into three levels: county examination, township examination, and commemorative examination. Unlike previous recommendations, anyone who wants to have a high school examination must first conduct county examination, state examination and township examination, and then conduct the commemorative examination.

Those who are examined in Zhongxian County are children.

The candidate in Zhongzhou is a scholar.

Those who pass the provincial examination are juren.

Those who pass the exam will be Jinshi.

All of this is modeled after the examination methods of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations.

From the beginning of a scholar, high school students have fame and fame, and when they get fame, they have the power to be exempted from taxes for a certain amount of land.

Those who have achieved fame and reputation can be awarded official positions, starting from the ninth rank and awarded real positions. Those who have achieved fame and reputation can be awarded from the seventh rank.

It is also stipulated that officials of the third rank or above in the court will not be promoted unless they have a reputation as a Juren.

All exams are unified. In addition to the necessary classics, history and articles, they also take certain mathematics and some common sense knowledge.

The number of words in classics and history articles is limited, and the titles are mainly based on the Spring and Autumn Period and the Analects of Confucius. They must not only conform to the meaning of the classics, but also be able to discuss today's political affairs... and even limit the style of writing.

In fact, such imperial examinations are almost the same as those in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After all, mainstream scholars in this era are still familiar with the classics and history. If they do not regard this as the main examination content, they are afraid that the world will be in chaos. To some extent, this is also a compromise.

Of course, writing such an article is not completely useless.

In fact, such articles are the most test of a person's level. You must be familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and be able to use words proficiently, and have enough wisdom to make an article with arguments and arguments in a short period of time. Anyone who can pass the exam is a person with rich knowledge.

If such a person writes poetry, he will be able to write lyrics with such ability to understand and accept, even if he becomes an official in the future, he will actually have excellent ability to accept.

Of course... it was just that later, these scholars and officials were just off-the-scenes.

It is just the main contradiction at present, essentially the contradiction between imperial power and the aristocratic clans. As for the future conflicts that emerged in the emerging literati class, it is obviously a matter of the future.

At least in a safe direction, any emerging class may not be able to lose its limit in the future. However, compared with the current aristocratic races controlling everything, for Li Shimin, promoting the imperial examination is imperative.

As for other exam contents, although not the main content, mathematics and the so-called general examination are also a highlight. For example, in the general examination, some content from Chen's textbooks were introduced, although not many quotes were quoted.

In fact, nothing is important in the exam. What is really shocking is that this imperial examination directly touched the prefectures and counties.

In other words, the Tang Dynasty was not as simple as the birth of scholars, Ming Jing and Jinshi every three years.

Every year, there will be many scholars and scholars. Every three years, there will be Jinshi appearing, with a wide range and involving the fate of scholars in even a mere county town.

This has led to the number of people who seek fame and fortune through the imperial examinations suddenly increasing by ten times a hundred times or even thousands of times. Once the number of people increases, it will inevitably lead to even a small scholar who has fame and fortune, and will have their own demands and consciously safeguard the interest group that has taken the imperial examinations.

They will spontaneously exclude those who have no fame and reputation, form a closed chain of contempt, and then the best will come on the stage and start to push the entire Tang Dynasty into a new stage with a wide mass base, such as the support of a large number of juren and scholars.

No one knows whether this approach is good or bad.

But at least, it is moving.

As soon as the news came out, the whole court was in an uproar.

Your Majesty's move obviously shocked many people.

However, Li Shimin obviously left a hole for the aristocratic races. After all, the current reading of texts is still the patent of these aristocratic races. At least now, the chances of children of aristocratic races being taken to the test are very high.

So much so that although many people can see that people who are selected as officials with their kindness and recommendations will inevitably be excluded in the future, and even those who have no fame will become increasingly marginalized in the court class, and the aristocratic races have begun to complain.

But at least... these resentments will not turn into the driving force to overthrow the Tang Dynasty.

What's more, the emperor is the world he has obtained immediately. Eight out of ten generals in the army are brought out by him personally. His prestige in the army is beyond the ordinary emperor.

I really want to act rashly, but it’s just a flash of fingers to ashes.

However, many ministers still submitted memorials and opposed the imperial examination.

Of course, there may not be people who agree with it. A group of ministers led by Wei Zheng also expressed their support, believing that this is a path for poor families to enter and it is not impossible to try.

After that, the regulations on the imperial examination began to show the world, and fraud in the imperial examination will be regarded as a crime of conspiracy against the crime, and officials of various prefectures and counties also determined their rights and responsibilities.

In order to promote this imperial examination work, the court sent a large number of censors to inspect the four directions.

Li Shimin held a seven-day court meeting in a row. On the first day, hundreds of people came out to oppose it. Li Shimin was in charge of these opposing ministers and exiled the leaders to Lingnan.

On the second day, fewer people opposed it, and they just made indirect comments and expressed some complaints.

Li Shimin was energetic and scolded him in the palace for three hours, and he was erect.

On the third day, the fourth day...

Those who objected to the rise were impeached and found out about their faults. Some were directly dismissed from office, while others were directly imprisoned and punished.

Until the seventh day, all officials said that the imperial examination was beneficial to the country and was actually good governance, which was the difference between the Tang Dynasty and the previous dynasty.

Everyone gave examples of the gains and losses of the rise and fall of all dynasties, and praised Your Majesty's wiseness. With this imperial examination as a national policy, the Tang Dynasty would prosper.

The ministers expressed their joy, of course... Li Shimin felt that there were a few guys who sang praises, but they were sarcastic, so he cursed them again.

Chen Zhengtai also followed the brigade and attended seven court meetings in a row, seven times. He was full of words in his ears, from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to Emperor Yang of Sui, for three thousand years, citing countless examples, and then starting from the origin of other people's family. Didn't your Yang family be the Emperor Gaozu of Han attack Xiang Yu and ran to divide Xiang Yu's corpse and achieved great achievements and was granted the title of the waiter? What kind of poetry and books passed on? If it weren't for this ancestor who made the military achievements of dismemberment, how could you come today? Your Wang family...

Chen Zhengtai was a little suspicious of his life. His mentor's abundant physical strength was the material guarantee for these seven consecutive court meetings. It seemed that once he was determined to do anything, he would never allow anyone to question it. Who dared to question it? Not only would he tear his face and be humiliated as a palace, but he would also try every means to find guilt and be deposed and imprisoned.

Sure enough, the country is easy to change and its nature is hard to change. The gentle face in the past is a deceptive. Once it touches on the fundamental interests, the teacher will not mind coming to Xuanwu Gate again.

Secular morality is not the standard for evaluating emperors at all.

After Chen Zhengtai got off his face, he still felt his ears buzzing. The stern rebukes from his mentor seemed to be still lingering in his ears. He had to smile bitterly. This was really tough, and he could only say one word of surrender.

In fact, he hopes to turn the content of the imperial examination into the content of the textbook.

But obviously, even Li Shimin may not be able to truly agree with the set in the textbook.

Thousands of years of accumulated habits can be changed just by saying that.

If you can add some general knowledge questions, it is already very conceited.

Chen Zhengtai returned to Erpigou and the first thing he did was to recruit all the teachers.

Obviously... the court changed its course and the school had to change.

The ancients spoke very well on the surface, but in fact they were no different from later generations. Although everyone could tell the truth, they were actually realists.

Just as it is very popular to pray to God and Buddha now, but if those monks and Taoists say that praying to God and Buddha is just to purify the mind, not to pray to you, and cannot bless you to make money, you can try it and ensure that the incense of temples and Taoist temples in the world is gone.

It can be seen that you cannot use love to generate electricity when doing anything.

That thing is fooling people.

If the school wants to carry forward, it must start from reality and ensure that the students obtain sufficient fame.

Although the strategy for the imperial examination has been released, the education for exams is still in a blank stage. The children of aristocratic families who are used to relying on recommendations are obviously not aware of exams.

Haha, this is Chen Zhengtai’s strength, after all, he is the only person in this world who has experienced the cruel examination-oriented education.

Therefore, as teachers, we must first start to receive training, learn in a targeted manner, how to do questions, how to write articles based on test questions, how to draw key points, among the four books, which ones may be tested, how to recite, and how to practice repeatedly.

All of these are knowledge.

Obviously, many people don’t understand Chen Zhengtai’s trick. Li Yifu felt disapproving and couldn’t help saying, “Mr., can this be done? If you only recite and write articles repeatedly…”

"Stop." Chen Zhengtai had actually thought that once this arrangement was arranged, it would inevitably lead to confusion among many people. He did not feel that he had time to explain it to everyone who had questions. Whether some things could work or not, it would be the most intuitive thing to do.

So he interrupted him without hesitation, "No doubts are allowed, just follow my arrangements."

This was very straightforward and had a domineering spirit, and Li Yifu was speechless.

But no matter what Chen Zhengtai said, he could only do what.

Although I have too many questions and unreasonable things in my mind.

After all, this was not the case with his growing environment and the methods he learned in the past, so when Chen Zhengtai proposed these, he had great doubts.

But there is no way, my arms can't force my thighs.

Chen Zhengtai listed an outline: "First of all, we must achieve the content of the Four Books, and we can recite it in a straightforward way. This must be done, and we must recite and recite it repeatedly, and no word can be missed."
To be continued...