Overlord!

Chapter 129 Zhongyuan should be ashamed to see me in 2000 years, Sun Lang is talented
A method of selecting scholars similar to meritorious service?

Yu Fan has served as a meritorious service officer for so long, so it can be said that he knows the power of a meritorious service officer like the back of his hand, but for a while he didn't understand what Sun Lang meant.

He said: "According to the current method of selecting scholars, the official document comes from the imperial edict of Emperor Wen, and the virtuous and upright can speak out and speak out. The world calls it investigation or election."

"And meritorious officials set out countermeasures and ranks to unify the standards."

Strategies are exams, grades are ratings.For example, holding high ranks means that after passing the assessment, the grades are excellent and they are among the best.

Under the probation system, it does not mean that there is no examination.

At least, if Sun Ce talks about the imperial examination system now, Yu Fan can understand it.It is nothing more than strengthening the specifications of the countermeasures.

But Sun Ce did not talk about the imperial examination system, but asked: "As for the countermeasure, after selecting scholars from various subjects, is there a second time in a lifetime?"

"This..." Yu Fan thought for a while and said, "Basically only once, so it's inconvenient to take the test again."

"Is it inconvenient to take the exam again?" Sun Ce smiled and asked, "What do you think is the inconvenience for the exam?"

"Is it the filial piety of virtue and law? When a person is young, he is virtuous and pure, and in his life, he will never degenerate, will not embezzle and accept bribes, and will not fill his own pockets?"

"Is it still a subject of talent, a brave warrior who knows the art of war, and he is still brave when he is old and weak? Is it appropriate for him to lead the army to charge into battle?"

In fact, the big Han has talent, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Due to the continuous catastrophe and numerous thieves, there is an urgent need for military talents. Therefore, since the beginning of Emperor Cheng, this subject has been formed. The edict is often issued: "The 22 counties in the north should be brave and know the art of war. Each one."

However, under the procuratorial system, whether it is the regular department set up at the age of the year or the special department issued by special edicts, the disciplines such as filial piety, filial piety, honesty, filial piety, and honesty are mainly based on "morality"; Law; "Talent" is the main subject, such as You Yi, Zhiju, Bravery Knowing the Art of War, Ming Yin and Yang Disasters, and Youdao.It is a one-time test, and there will be no test after that.

Once the test is determined for life, it is already the norm at the moment.

Of course, even so, the inspection system is stronger than the imperial examination system in that there is also a word in the inspection system.

In order to ensure the quality level of the candidates, the government requires the examiners to be responsible for the moral ability of the people they recommend, and not to disqualify the public for personal reasons. If there is a problem with the candidates, the recommenders will be punished.Not only that, those local officials who failed to recommend a certain amount of talents as required will also be punished, ranging from demotion to relegation, or being forced to resign.

And because all subjects are equally emphasized in the imperial examinations, unlike the imperial examinations that only test Confucian classics (actually in the later period), it is also conducive to recruiting all kinds of talents.

After listening to Sun Ce's words, Yu Fan was thoughtful and asked, "The general wants to use the method of merit inspection and rating to select scholars?"

Sun Ce immediately nodded his head heavily. As expected of Jiangdong Great Sage, his thinking is thorough.

Sun Ce said: "Before this, scholars were able to become officials only after they were inspected from the top to the bottom. After being recommended for a test, they were basically promoted but not degraded. It can be said that one test will determine a lifetime! I think this method is extremely inappropriate, and it is completely OK The assessment will be set up by meritorious officials, and scholars and officials will be widely screened!"

Seeing Yu Fan's brows furrowed and his expression confused, Sun Ce smiled.

Can't understand?Completely clueless?
That's right!

How can people keep their eyes fixed on the past?
This sentence was not only what Sun Ce said to Yu Fan, but also to himself.

A time traveler, if he time travels, must he copy the written codes in history?

Such as the imperial examination system?
The answer is of course no!
The disadvantages of the imperial examination system are simply commonplace in later generations.

The most important question is that one test determines life.An ordinary scholar, once admitted to the scholar, will not fall again, and become a truly privileged class.

The so-called privilege is to be stationed in the huge body of the empire. Even if you are a moth, even if you are useless, you can live comfortably all your life without worrying about your wealth, status, and living standards.

Feudal scholars, starting from being a scholar, entered the officialdom, and did not make any earth-shattering mistakes, basically they were promoted but not degraded.

A scholar or a Juren, when retiring from an official position, having a seventh-rank county magistrate and a fifth-rank mansion are the basic guarantees.As for a Jinshi, when he retires, he is basically a third-rank official.

But among these people, don't they all have a waste of talent and learning, and none of them have low moral character?Everything went up and down, and few people were screened out!

Of course, there has been this tendency since the prosecution system began.

All the scholars in the world worship the test for life.

Therefore, countless people have made a lot of money and praised going ashore.

That is of course going ashore. As long as you pass this test, you will be able to lie down immediately and have a worry-free life. You don’t need to think about social progress or production improvement. Even if technological improvements eliminate a large number of skilled workers, these people’s stable lives will not be. Affected.Even if the world is poor and a large group of people cannot afford food and clothing, it has nothing to do with these people.

Since the Song Dynasty, the country has entered a conservative period, and almost no external expansion is because of this lazy and flat mentality.

In the Song and Ming Dynasties, the scholar-bureaucrats were drunk and dreamed of death, Wen Tianwu played, and had no ambition to make progress. It was because of the laziness of officials caused by the imperial examination system.

The external expansion of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was precisely because the absolute status of the imperial examination system was suppressed in these two dynasties.

We all know that officials are lazy, not as good as Zong Zhou nobles and lords who worked hard to govern, and Han and Tang military nobles who advocated opening up borders and land.

It is because the scholars of the world do not study other things, and they have been studying "The Analects of Confucius" for 2000 years.

Study the four ways of writing fen characters.

Kong Yiji is a tragic example of a scholar.

But according to the [-]% selection rate in the imperial examination, even if Kong Yiji was admitted as a scholar, it would mean that dozens of other literati had degenerated into Kong Yiji.

There is only one reason for his tragic life. He and the group of scholars he represents are a group of selfish moths who only think about their own fate, not the fate of the world.

He intends to test himself for life, and then lie down and eat the nutrients from the corpse of the empire, watching other people, even scholars of the same class as him, still struggling.

If reading is to eat the nutrients of the corpses of the empire, it is to study how to determine one's life in one test, and to study the four ways of writing fen.

That really should be ashamed to see the talent of the martyrs of the country.

There was once a group of people who shouted: "Read books for the rise of the country."

This sentence once inspired thousands of people, but it has attracted countless ridicules and ridicules in later generations.When a young man shouted these words, he was criticized, surrounded and cursed by countless people.

In fact, this sentence is the truly great statement, which makes people feel moved.

Sun Ce said solemnly: "The country's selection of scholars should be to select those scholars who have a heart for the world, a life for the people, and peace for the eternal world! Instead of selecting those silverfish who intend to sneak into the officialdom and fill their pockets! Just like today's Jiangdong Those officials who were bewitched by Sheng Xian and Xu Gong and neglected government affairs for their own self-interest. Why are they so angry? Isn’t it because I have harmed their interests and the inviolable privilege of scholars!”

Immediately, Sun Ce became generous and fierce: "If all scholars can rise but not fall, they will transcend the world! Then in the future, the ones who will cause great harm to the world must be this generation of scholars! Their existence will drag down the entire world!"

If reading is for lying flat, then who doesn't study the four writing styles of fen?
Who hasn't been studying "The Analects" for 2000 years!
Then who will study for the rise of the country?
Didn't one of the thousands of scholars think that reading is to make the empire's physical body stronger and full of vitality?

After all, a sick man in East Asia lay down and became a corpse, and became countless scholars with green faces and fangs like ghosts, rotten flesh and rotten water in their mouths.Or to become a civilization that stands on top of the world, is full of vitality, and is as bright as the Tang Dynasty, the key lies in the scholars in the world!What are they studying for?
Is it for the rise of the entire world and the entire nation, for the livelihood of the people, and for the peace of the world?

Or to lie down and eat the rotten flesh of the empire!

Yu Fan was shocked when he heard this. He never thought that after Han Feizi's "Five Beetles", scholars would be rated as moths threatening the rule of the dynasty again.

And what Sun Lang said, "Build a heart for the world, build a life for the people, and create peace for all generations" is even more deafening in his heart!
In the past, he only knew how to teach students, and he knew that knowledge can change a person's destiny.

But until today, Yu Fan only feels that his vision has suddenly opened up. What he learned and taught in the past is all trivial knowledge.Only the knowledge that can change the fate of all people in the world and achieve chapters for the future is the university of the world.

Yu Fan asked in shock: "So how does Sun Lang think that we can establish a heart for the world, a life for the people, and peace for all generations?"

Sun Ce resolutely said: "It's the method of selecting scholars! If today's world still selects scholars based on the method of one test for life, then there must be scholars who have been studying "The Analects of Confucius" so that they will not change it in 2000."

No change for 2000 years!
Generation after generation, hundreds of millions of scholars, the entire Zhuxia nation, the most outstanding talents, the most elite descendants, and the most energetic young people!But at the age when he should be the most thoughtful and energetic, he has been studying a broken "The Analects" all his life.

When Zhu Xia laughed at the Puritans for reciting the "Ancient Bible", did they ever think that they might not be as good as the other party!The destruction of Confucianism is probably even better in terms of spirit and body!
But Sun Ce didn't think Confucius or Confucianism should be blamed for this incident.

On the contrary, Sun Ce also felt that Confucianism is a very respectable classic. He taught people various principles of self-cultivation, family harmony, state governance, and peace of the world!
Zhuxia's national character, Zhuxia's natural kindness, and Zhuxia's morally oriented national style were formed under the influence of Confucianism.

The only mistake is that the rulers only use a few Confucian classics to select privileged scholars, and use the system of life-long examinations to guide the real elites in the world to change in the direction of ghouls.

Again, what is wrong is not knowledge, but people who use knowledge as a tool of governance.

When the content of the examination is limited to only a few scriptures, it can only strengthen the concept of people in the world, and all valuable things in the world are contained in these few scriptures.Anything that is not in these scriptures is worthless and not worth mentioning.

Regarding the idea of ​​abolishing the idea of ​​a life-long test, Sun Ce said: "Gong Cao has been doing this. I think the selection of officials should be a regular system like promotion."

"Three-year nuclear test, five-year test, all those who fail will be screened out."

The verification is the verification of their talents. Generals in the army will be demoted because of defeat, but civil servants have no chance of being dismissed. It is very unreasonable to only be promoted but not demoted.

In the past, according to the assessment of meritorious service, those who are the most can be promoted, and those who are the hall should be demoted.

But in reality, almost no one will win the palace for three consecutive years, which leads to no one being demoted.

Then simply set up an examination directly. The moral level of officials cannot be evaluated, but there is always a standard test for professional ability.

It just so happens that Gongcao can now intervene in various affairs in the county, and can completely realize the real "countermeasures" under the investigation system, that is, countermeasures based on questionnaires.

All unqualified officials were dismissed.

The full production of paper in Jiangdong can also meet this demand.

According to the current scale of papermaking, it may not be able to meet the popularity of the entire Jiangdong, but it is definitely more than enough for the government's government affairs.

The five-year examination is to continue to extend the mitigation of the "countermeasures" in the investigation system to the officials.

From among the low-level officials, the outstanding ones will be selected for promotion.

Sun Ce said solemnly: "I want to hire you as a meritorious officer in the general's residence, responsible for the investigation, evaluation and promotion of officials throughout Jiangdong and even the entire world."

Yu Fan frowned, and asked: "If you follow Sun Lang's method, I'm afraid there will always be insufficient officials."

Sun Ce smiled and said: "It's okay, I will allow each Cao to report the vacancies of officials, and then each county will announce the situation of each Cao's recruitment of officials to the public, so that everyone in the world can sign up and participate in the assessment regardless of their talents and learning."

There is really nothing unacceptable about letting the cao recruit small officials by themselves.

This is actually a collection of power rather than a decentralization, because under the current procuratorate system, prefects and county magistrates generally recruit county officials and county officials on their own.

Now they can't directly recruit by themselves, they must report to the county government, and then the county government will publicize it, conduct a unified assessment, and select talents to serve.Three-year exams, those who are incompetent will be dismissed directly.

In fact, even this point, the big man is not new.

According to the current inspection system of Dahan, all officials who take up countermeasures have a one-year verification period.If you are not competent, you will be dismissed.

It's just that the implementation was not strict before, and it was a talent recruited by the county guard and the governor himself, so it was impossible to dismiss him anyway.

Up to now, Sun Ce will completely form it into a law and regulations, and screen and eliminate all unqualified officials!
Yu Fan asked, "Then can the probation system still be implemented?"

Sun Ce said with a calm smile, "Selecting outstanding people for special appointments is an ancient system, and there is no need to overthrow it. Moreover, there are assessments, and those who fail to pass are directly screened out, and those who recommend them will be pursued. This will definitely reduce the number of people who are indiscriminate."

In fact, Sun Ce did not make many changes. It should be said that since ancient times, the Central Plains dynasty has always modified and patched the system of the previous dynasty.

Sun Ce can be regarded as a patch to the procuratorate system, and the selection of the main grassroots officials for the repair has almost no impact, after all, it can give more people the opportunity to participate.

What has been changed is the life-long system of one test, which is very strict, and has stricter requirements for the civil and military ministers in the entire force.

Sun Ce's changes are quite controversial even in later generations.

But Sun Ce believes that this point is of unparalleled significance to the literati in the feudal society. If the feudal literati stop studying a book of "The Analects" for 2000 years, and if they want the Central Plains to get rid of the small peasant economy and develop an industrial economy, this is the point. It must be firmly enforced.

What will happen to future generations is unknown.

But knowing that I have sinned against me, it is only the Spring and Autumn Period!

(End of this chapter)