C331 Eight-strand extraction (1/2)
Hearing Xiao Wen's words, the young man sighed.
He said, ”Your Excellency does not know. My Great Tang Dynasty's examination started only last year when His Majesty ascended the throne. Until then, the Imperial examinations had always belonged to Song Ming in the east. And our Great Tang Dynasty's system of selection is, on one hand, to inherit the old system of 90% righteousness and the system of military meritocracy. On the other hand, if we can meet a noble, we can also use your noble to recommend us. ”
Hearing that, Xiao Wen nodded.
Even though the Sui Dynasty had already started the imperial examination system. However, because of the war at the end of Sui Dynasty, the world had been reshuffled. As one of the aristocratic families in the world, Li Tang had to make some concessions in order to stabilize his new power.
This kind of political compromise was a common occurrence in history. That's why many things have happened in Chinese history.
Wang Anshi's method of change is so, Zhang Ju Zheng's method of change is so, so many of the changes are so.
But after that, through the combined efforts of the three generations of Tang Tai Zong, Li Shimin, Li Zhi and Empress Wu, the Tang Dynasty continued to weaken the aristocratic family's power.
By the time he reached the Song Dynasty, the emperor had already changed from ruling the world with the aristocratic families to ruling the world with the scholars. In the Ming Dynasty, even a poor scholar could pin those nobles and aristocratic families to the ground and rub their heads against the ground.
Aristocratic inheritances, aristocratic bloodlines, the further back in history they were, the more ridiculous it became.
Of course, Tang Kingdom's world line was only at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. aristocratic family had not gone through Empress Wu's hammers yet, so they still had enough power.
Looking at Xiao Wen, the young shop owner continued to speak, ”Although the Imperial examinations had not started, the news of the Imperial Court had already spread. After all, there are a lot of aristocratic family s present in the wild, but the concubine (Fang Xuanling), Du Xiang (Du Ruhui) and the others are all standing on the side of the Emperor, on the other side of the imperial power. ”
Xiao Wen nodded, showing his agreement.
After all, if Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and the others stood on the side of the aristocratic family, it would be impossible for the Tang Dynasty to weaken the aristocratic family from the very beginning. The moment Li Shimin took action, the lower class people would ask the Emperor why he was rebelling.
After all, before the start of the imperial examinations, the Chinese aristocratic family had been very familiar with asking the emperor why he had rebelled. Without sufficient strength, even an emperor with a normal intelligence wouldn't die and reform the talent selection system.
But hearing to this point, Xiao Wen still did not understand the reason why this young man did not participate in the Imperial examinations.
After all, even though merchants were rich in ancient times, Chinese society had never been a moneymaking society since ancient times.
Capital is a joke in the face of power. Even someone as wealthy as Shen Wansan could be killed with a single slash from the emperor.
Compared to the class of people who held power, the class of merchants who held capital and wealth was much worse.
So he listened.
He continued, ”When the news came out, many people thought that this country's Imperial Examinations would be different from Song Ming in the east. Although the examination system of Song and Ming dynasties has always been based on the Confucian Four Books and Five Classics. If we follow their example, then we will also use Song Ming's Confucianism's Four Books and Five Classics. and even the eight pieces of the Ming Kingdom's writing … ”
Hearing the eight pieces of paper, it didn't matter if it was Xiao Wen or this fellow. Or perhaps it was Sun Shangxiang, Yang Xiu and Zhuge Liang, the three students who had heard of the eighth piece of writing, all furrowed their brows. It was obvious that none of them liked the thing called eight shares.
After all, the eight pieces of paper weren't anything good. Using eight pieces of writing to extract a scholar was like obtaining a bunch of idiots with their minds locked in place.
Xiao Wen had heard that in this world, when Zhu Yuanzhang had announced to use the eight elements of the Ming Kingdom's Imperial Examinations System, all the scholars at the east side had exploded into an uproar. Many of the scholars who were originally living in the Ming Kingdom all left their own countries and went to the Song Kingdom.
Many of the scholars from Song Kingdom also began to publish articles praising Zhu Yuanzhang's foolish actions of imprisoning human nature. Even Zhao Kuangyin himself had expressed his disagreement with Zhu Yuanzhang's actions in public.