I want to be emperor

Chapter 369

With the release of the results of the palace examination, the second imperial examination of the Great Chu Empire has come to an end. Although there are still some chores in the follow-up, such as summoning the first-class candidates in each subject, and holding a banquet for the new subjects.

In terms of the overall ceremony, the Chu State is different from the Ming Dynasty and other dynasties, mainly because it has been simplified a lot.

After all, the imperial examination may be very important in the eyes of traditional feudal dynasties, but in Luo Zhixue's mind, it is nothing more than a civil servant examination after all.

And according to Luo Zhixue's plan, the exam will be held once a year in the future, and more and more people will be admitted. In the end, there will be exams in each province, etc., and finally it will be developed into a civil servant exam that meets the needs of the Great Chu Empire.

At that time, not hundreds of people will be admitted, but tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

Although the current imperial examinations are still conducted according to the traditional system, Luo Zhixue is unwilling to make the style too high at the beginning, which will make it difficult to change later.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue did it himself, saving a lot of procedures to reduce the specifications.

For Luo Zhixue, this time the imperial examination was over, and there were not many talents recruited.

In fact, the current way of recruiting talents in the Great Chu Empire is not to rely on Jinshi selected by the imperial examination. There are only a few hundred Jinshi a year, no matter how strong the ability is, the number is not enough.

In fact, the Great Chu Empire currently recruits talents in a variety of ways, such as selecting officials and officials from the former Ming Dynasty.

Another example is that the local yamen directly recruit personnel from the society.

For example, in the selection of officials held by the Ministry of Ethics and Education at the prefectural level, the selected personnel are all awarded from the ninth rank, who serve as staff members at the grassroots level; member.

And this kind of selection of officials does not depend on the merits of the candidates. Even if you are a white man, you can take the exam, and the requirements are not too high. Basic literacy, reading and writing official documents, and basic arithmetic are almost enough.

There is also a special selection for officials with fame, which is aimed at scholars and candidates, including personnel with fame in the Ming Dynasty.

For the selection of these people, the grades awarded will be higher. For example, if a candidate is selected, he will be awarded the seventh rank, and if a scholar is selected, he will be awarded the eighth rank.

And it is clearly stipulated that no matter whether it is through local elections or officials who have passed the Gyeonggi Palace Examination, they are all treated equally, and there is no ceiling for promotion.

In fact, a large number of middle and high-level officials in the Great Chu Empire are all half-learned scholars with unorthodox Jinshi backgrounds.

According to Luo Zhixue's plan, when the subsequent development develops, the selection of civil servants in the Great Chu Empire will be divided into prefectural examinations, provincial examinations, and national examinations. The three examinations are parallel, and candidates are willing to take whichever one they want.

In the future, qualifications can also be limited by provincial and national examinations, such as college graduation or undergraduate graduation.

In Luo Zhixue's mind, he already had a set of plans for the future reform of the imperial examinations, and he just waited for the promotion of Gewu subjects to truly select talents for the country.

As for now, we can only use these officials who are traditionally educated, at least they can read and write. After all, Luo Zhixue can't find a group of illiterates to help him heal the country.

After the imperial examination, Sun Qinian, a Tanhua in Gewu Ke, was awarded the grade of Zheng Qipin, and then he answered questions about industry according to his theory during the imperial examination, so he was assigned to work in the Ministry of Industry.

One of his friends was a top-ranked scholar in Jinshi, who was assigned to serve in Jiangxi Governor’s Yamen, and two of his friends were top-ranked in Gewu Division, and both were assigned to serve in Northern Chu Governor’s Yamen.

But before officially separating their posts, they will return to their hometown together.

In addition, depending on the distance from their hometown, officials in the new department will have a paid vacation ranging from one month to six months, so that they can go home and enjoy the glory of being an official in the middle school, and then they will officially embark on official careers.

The reason why the holidays are arranged before entering the job is because the transportation is inconvenient these years, and in order to prevent officials from serving in their hometowns, resulting in a situation where local power cannot be lost. Worked abroad.

Among them, the seventh rank and the sixth rank need to work in different houses, and they need to be more than a hundred miles away from home.

Those who are above the sixth rank need to work in other provinces, and they need to be more than three hundred miles away from home.

Those who serve in various ministries of Gyeonggi Province are not restricted.

And the four of them are all of the seventh grade. According to the rules, they can work in different prefectures. However, because the local yamen of each province is short of people, they simply arranged all the scholars of the new department to the place this time. At the same time, it is also based on the policy topics they choose to answer, and appropriate arrangements are made to strive for professional counterparts as much as possible.

His three friends were all assigned to serve in places far away from home.

And considering that they are still young, the current local officials in the Great Chu Empire tend to be promoted very quickly, and it may not take long for them to be promoted to the sixth rank or above.

At that time, they also don't expect to be able to return to work in Jiangnan Province.

Going home is even more of a luxury.

Officials, after becoming an official and before returning home after becoming an official, there are very few opportunities to go home. They are either passing by or attending a funeral. Under normal circumstances, they will not be able to return home.

Therefore, the Great Chu Empire will give the new officials a vacation, and the new officials who have traveled a long way will get a six-month vacation.

Even if you deduct a month or two on the way back and forth, you can still spend time with your family.

When Sun Qinian and three friends returned home this time, they still jointly hired a boat to return home together.

When returning home, everyone just happened to say that they were going to Suzhou, so they left together.

It's just that when they went to Suzhou, this time Sun Qinian and the others didn't see the old lady who had been by Mrs. Fang's side and looked at Mrs. Fang like a cash cow.

After asking, everyone Fang said in a joyful tone: "That vicious woman was arrested by the officials, haha, she was already beheaded yesterday, and my concubine even came to see it in person, that bloody old man... ..."

Sun Qinian and the others were a little dazed at first, but after everyone explained a little, they realized that the old woman had bought several young and beautiful girls, saying that she wanted to teach them to become new oirans, but she was killed within two days. Officials in black uniforms came to the door and took them away.

The crime is the crime of human trafficking. According to officials, such crimes are heinous in their big Chu, and they will be severely punished once they are discovered.

That old lady thought that under the rule of Da Chu, the old Ming court law was still followed, and bought a few little girls in the name of adoption, and then she was caught.

But in Dachu, those who trafficked young children were given a third-class crime, so the woman was hacked with a knife, and her house was ransacked incidentally.

However, Master Fang also said that now she has completely recovered her freedom. She said that the court issued a law some time ago, which once again clarified that the Great Chu Empire has no distinction of nationality, no humble nationality, craftsman nationality, Military households, etc., all are equal.

It also clearly promulgated the law to abolish all forms of slavery. The government does not recognize any form of bondage, and the government will severely crack down on some who hold slaves in the name of adoption.

At the same time, it is strictly forbidden for anyone to restrict the personal freedom of others in any form, beat, kill, etc. If any occurrence occurs, they will be severely punished for crimes such as illegal imprisonment, intentional injury, and intentional homicide.

If the boss and adoptive parents commit the crime, the crime will be increased!
The reason why the employer and adoptive parents are added is that in Ming court society, many servants exist as adopted children.

There is also the owner, a lot of people from big families have hired a lot of people in the name of hired workers, and they are used by slaves on the spot who beat them at every turn.

For these situations, the laws of the Great Chu Empire are strictly prohibited.

Then it was clarified once again that monogamy, whether noble or commoner, has only one legal wife, and the rest of the concubines are not recognized.

After all, China has been monogamous since ancient times.The Great Chu Empire just went one step further and directly deleted the concept of concubine from the law, directly refusing to recognize such a thing.

Of course, the emperor, prince, and grandson of the emperor are not restricted, because they are not governed by the law, nor are they protected by the law... They are not natural persons in the legal sense.

At the same time, a concubine in the traditional sense is just a commodity, and the Great Chu Empire forbids the sale of human beings, so the act of buying a concubine would be a crime of human trafficking.

As for your ability to invite ten or eight women to live in your home and have some kind of relationship, only the woman is voluntary, no human trafficking is involved, there is no illegal restriction of personal freedom, and the laws of Dachu don’t care about you...

However, in order to protect vulnerable groups, especially those concubines who are old and decrepit, the Great Chu Empire also stipulated that the established concubine facts before the law was officially promulgated were partially recognized and considered as de facto marriages.

If the woman wishes to divorce, the man shall not stop her, and the man shall be ordered to pay alimony.

If the wife is unwilling to divorce, it is considered a de facto marriage.

The children born to them before, as well as the children born in the de facto marriage state, have the same inheritance rights as the legitimate sons.

Of course, this kind of matter will not be prosecuted by the public... As long as you have the ability to coax a woman well, and let her be willing to be an unknown side room/lover, no one will stop you.

However, as long as the woman of the established de facto marriage before the law is promulgated to appeal for divorce, the judge will grant a divorce and impose a mandatory alimony.

The issuance of this series of laws also means that under Luo Zhixue's instructions, the Judicial Court of the Great Chu Empire has penetrated into the marriage law in the civil law, and also issued a series of other laws in the civil law.

Finally, the company law, contract law, etc. in the industrial and commercial law provide sufficient legal support for the operation of industry and commerce.

As the Great Chu Empire occupied the south of the Yangtze River, a series of laws of the Great Chu Empire also penetrated into all parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

As a Qinhuai woman, Mrs. Fang obviously felt very deeply. When talking to Sun Qinian and the others, she couldn't control her emotions. She would laugh and cry for a while. In the end, Mr. Fang said firmly: "From ancient times to the present, No one has ever looked at those suffering people like us, only Konaka saw it..."

Then he grinned: "So when I heard that the 'financial bank' from the finance department said they were going to sell national bonds to raise funds to fight against the Ming bandits, my family directly used half of their net worth to buy national bonds!"

The Finance Bank is the official bank established by the Ministry of Finance of the Great Chu Empire according to the instructions of the emperor Luo Zhixue.

Its sale of treasury bonds is also a small attempt by property banks.

Although the finances of the Great Chu Empire are very healthy now, and it is not bad money, but it is at the critical period of the unification of China, no matter how much money is too much, so in order to avoid running out of money at critical moments, so the tax department is also good, the financial department The department has always been talking about increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

The treasury bonds issued by the finance bank are one of the ways to raise funds.

It's just that the person in charge of promoting national bonds in the financial bank did not expect that more than a month after the launch of national bonds, the vast majority of buyers are women.

Strictly speaking, it is a group of women working on the Qinhuai River!
As for the traditionally rich gentry, except for a few gentry officials who work in the Ministry of Finance and have relevant interests, you mean a few tens of taels, and I mean a few hundred taels, others will think that this national debt does not exist...

So much so that the vice president of the financial bank in charge of national debt affairs looked up to the sky and sighed: officials and gentry are not as good as good people!
(End of this chapter)