The exam had been going on for two hours, and it was already noon.
Zhao Ziliang and others were eating and drinking while chatting with the food and wine brought by the handymen below.
"By the way, after the results of this scientific examination are announced, when will the official selection examination be held?"
Zhao Ziliang asked while eating the food.
Li Kui replied: "Generally, after the list is announced, the candidates who are on the list and pass the exam will go to the Ministry of Personnel to take the selection test three days later."
Candidates who take part in the scientific examination will be qualified to be officials after passing the Jinshi.
However, whether they can directly become an official still needs to participate in the selection examination of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
The content of the selection examination mainly covers four aspects: body, speech, writing, and judgement.
First test the calligraphy and judgment, that is, test the neatness of writing and the degree of mastery of literature and science, and then test the body and speech, that is, observe whether the appearance is correct and the articulation is clear.
The selection examination for the Ministry of Personnel is equivalent to the last interview.
If you do not pass the selection examination for the Ministry of Personnel, you cannot directly become an official.
You can only serve as an assistant officer or auxiliary officer for the official.
For example, Cen Shen did not pass the Ministry of Personnel after he won the Jinshi.
In the selection test, I can only serve as an assistant officer for others.
As an assistant officer, there is also a way to join the ranks of formal bureaucrats.
If you are trusted and recommended by the chief officer, you can also become a formal official.
Zhao Ziliang said: "In the future, the selection examination of the civil servants will have more content.
It will examine the students' loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, judge the candidates' personality characteristics, their ability to deal with others, and their ability to communicate with others."
Yuan Zai said: "The old minister agrees with the regent's proposal.
If a candidate only knows how to read and is not good at interacting with others and lacks communication with others, he is working behind closed doors.
How can such a person let his subordinates implement his decision?"
How can we communicate with the people?"
On the second day of the exam, Ming Jing Ke will start the oral test.
The questions in the oral test are very simple.
This is also because the admission scores of Ming Jing Ke are relatively low and the number of students admitted is large.
Ming Jing Ke is like the correspondence education of later generations.
Likewise, it is a diploma, which is better than a high school graduation, but is less favored by the upper class of society.
Zhao Ziliang, one of the chief examiners, together with Prince Li Shi, Prime Minister Yuan Zai and Li Kui, Minister of Rites, each opened a single room to conduct oral examinations for the candidates taking the Ming Jing Ke examination.
Because Ming Jing subjects are easy to pass, but generally not valued by the court, it is difficult to become a high official.
However, Jin Shi subjects are valued by the court, and it is easy to become high officials.
Most of the ancient literati were pretentious, so not many people took the Ming Jing exam, while many people took the Jin Shi exam, so it was not easy to pass the exam.
This does not mean that there are no talents among the candidates who have passed the Ming Dynasty Economics Examination, but even if they are capable and talented, senior officials themselves despise their diplomas and are inherently biased.
If you are not promoted, no matter how capable you are, it will be in vain.
In the oral examination on the second day, Zhao Ziliang tested more than thirty candidates in a row.
Although the questions he asked were simple, none of them answered to his satisfaction.
However, the answers of these people were quite satisfactory and there were no big problems.
He still gave them high marks.
"Student Xia Houshen pays homage to the examiner."
A young man in his thirties walked in and saluted Zhao Ziliang.
The oral examination room that Zhao Ziliang was in charge of was different from that of Prince Li Shi, Yuan Zai and Li Kui.
He had a stool prepared here for the candidates to sit.
Zhao Ziliang looked at him, stretched out his hand and waved the bench: "Sit" "Uh" Obviously, the examinee named Xia Houshen really didn't expect that the examiner would ask him to sit down and answer the questions.
He had participated in the scientific examination more than once, and this had never happened before.
But he quickly responded: "Thank you, sir."
When Xia Houshen sat down, Zhao Ziliang asked casually: "How old are you this year?"
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Xia Houshen was a little nervous and replied: "The student is thirty-one this year."
"You're thirty-one.
In popular terms, you're already very old if you haven't passed the Ming Jing Ke examination at the age of thirty, but you're still very young if you haven't passed the Jinshi exam at the age of fifty.
You obviously belong to the very old category.
Ah, haha, okay, don’t be nervous, let’s officially start, the first question: Li Zhongchen, you know, the court is not kind to him, why does he want to rebel?"
Xia Houshen was no longer nervous at this time, and his thinking was very clear.
After thinking for a moment, he said: "Li Zhongchen was an Anlushan general at the beginning.
After Anlushan's rebellion, he killed Anlushan's important minister Lu Zhijie and supported him.
It can be seen from this that Li Zhongchen made Liu Zhengchen the military envoy.
He was not a very loyal person.
He was good at speculation.
At the same time, after he killed Lu Zhihui, he supported Liu Zhengchen as the Jiedushi.
The Jiedushi was the official of the imperial court and could only be appointed by the emperor.
He was a junior.
Can the general support him if he wants to?
From this point we can see that Li Zhongchen actually He is not very reverent and loyal to the imperial court.
Since he can betray An Lushan, he can naturally betray the imperial court.
The only difference lies in the amount of benefits.
The generals in various places are self-reliant, the imperial treasury is empty, and the encirclement and suppression are ineffective. , Li Zhongchen had long seen the imperial court’s Weak, he knew that with the current strength of the imperial court, it was difficult to both deter other vassal towns and maintain the stability of the imperial court.
Therefore, it was very difficult to eliminate him.
Therefore, after the emperor decided to reduce the vassal, he launched decisively.
Rebellion because the reduction of vassal status touched his vital interests."
This was the answer that satisfied Zhao Ziliang the most among all the candidates for the oral examination.
He nodded with satisfaction, "Good answer to the second question.
On the eve of the Anshi Rebellion, why were there more and more refugees?"
Xia Houshen said bluntly: "This is because of serious land annexation and natural and man-made disasters.
The aristocratic families, princes and nobles colluded with the government officials to rob and annex the fields of free farmers.
After more than a hundred years of development, our dynasty The land of the free farmers was swallowed up by the rich and nobles There are more and more landless peasants, so they can only work as tenants for wealthy families.
As a result, most of the country's land is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the taxes received by the court are getting smaller and smaller.
Coupled with continuous natural disasters, officials in various places Corruption and ineffective relief have resulted in a large number of refugees.”
Zhao Ziliang nodded secretly and asked the third question: "Why has the national treasury always been empty in recent years?"
Xia Hou Shen thought for a while and said: "There are several reasons: first, successive years of war have caused production to stop in many war-torn places.
Since production has stopped, taxes will naturally not be collected; second, the imperial court needs troops to fight successive wars.
How can the already insufficient national treasury bear the huge military expenditure?
Thirdly, the imperial court must not only be responsible for the The imperial court controlled the military expenditures of the army, and in order to appease the vassal towns, military expenditures were sent to them; but the taxes earned by the vassal towns were withheld by themselves and never handed over.
In other words, the imperial court was using taxes that could only control the areas.
All armies in the country; fourth, corrupt officials everywhere are embezzling taxes and using various excuses to falsely report losses."
Zhao Ziliang nodded: "Okay, that's a good answer.
You can go back first."
"Yes, my lord"
After Xia Houshen left, Zhao Ziliang gave him a high score and wrote down his name.
This is a talented person who has a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the current situation.
He is a person who has an overall view.
This person thinks clearly, speaks clearly, and behaves appropriately.
After some hard work, he should be able to take on some important responsibilities.
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During the oral examination on the third day, Zhao Ziliang discovered another talented candidate named Miao Fa.
This person had another insight into his examination questions, and at the same time, Zhao Ziliang opened up a broader horizon.
After the three-day scientific examination, Zhao Ziliang and several deputy examiners began to mark the papers.
Although there were many fewer candidates this time than before, it still took Zhao Ziliang and others two days to mark the papers.
On October 22, the results of the scientific examination finally came out.
In the morning, officials from the Ministry of Etiquette came out with the list and posted it.
Hundreds of candidates crowded under the list to see if their names were included.
Some of the candidates who passed were dancing, some were ecstatic, and some smiled slightly, while some of the candidates who failed to pass were eclipsed, some were heartbroken, and some stamped their feet and beat their chests.
It all manifests itself in this moment.
Regent's Palace.
Zhao Ziliang looked at the list of candidates who were on the list handed over by Li Kui and asked: "These are the names of the candidates on the list."
Li Kui replied: "Yes, I have checked the examination papers several times one by one.
There are no errors, and then I registered them."
After the scientific examination, Zhao Ziliang personally participated in the marking, so he was familiar with some of the examination papers that had better results.
He had read in detail the policy papers of the candidates whose nouns were ranked in the top few, and in the end it was he who made the final decision.
Ranking, but he did not look at the candidates' names before setting the ranking.
Seeing that Han Hong, Lu Lun, Qian Qi, Geng Mao and others were at the top of the rankings, Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "It seems that these people who participated in the second scientific examination are still very confident in their talents and learning.
Look, how many of them are there?"
Everyone’s name is at the top of the list.”
Li Kui said: "Yes, in addition, the two late candidates Lu Lun and Sikong Shu also did well in the exam, one ranked second and the other seventh.
There is also the Taoist priest Ji Zhongfu who returned to secular life.
Ranked fifth in the exam, both are good results.”
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Yuan Zai still knows how to recognize people."
In addition to the above people, those at the forefront are Li Duan and Cui Dong, while those at the forefront of Ming Jingke are Xia Houshen and Miao Fa.
There were more than 480 people who took the exam in the Jinshi department, but 32 people were on the list.
There were only more than 60 people who took the exam in the Mingjing department, and 16 people were on the list.
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and told Du Fu who was standing aside: "Go and send a message to Li Xian, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and ask him to come immediately."
"Yes" Du Fu agreed and turned around to send someone to send a message to Li Xian.
Li Kui then left.
Soon, Li Xian came to the Regent's Palace.
He was the third son of King Xin'an Li Yi and he was sixty years old this year.
"Li Xian meets the regent" Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and said: "With no courtesy, Mr.
Liang, please take a seat."
The guards brought a chair, and Li Xian saluted and sat down.
Zhao Ziliang said: "Liang Guogong is a member of the royal family.
Back then, your Majesty King Xin'an had a lot of support for me.
I dare not forget it to this day.
Now that you and I are ministers in the same court, we still have to think more about the court and the people of the world."
Li Xian didn't know what Zhao Ziliang meant, so he said: "The regent must have called the old minister here to give him some instructions.
Please speak up if the regent has any orders.
As long as it is beneficial to the court and the world, the old minister will naturally agree to it."
Although Li Xian was a member of the clan, his life experience was extremely rich and ups and downs.
Although he is now the Minister of Rites, he is also the prime minister.
He served as governor of many states in his life, served as Jiangling twice, served as Jing Zhaoyin many times, and ascended the throne five times.
In terms of phase, he served as minister six times and served as special ambassador seven times.
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He has held important positions and has made many achievements while in office
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