Daming Military Empire

Chapter 569 Expansion of Imperial Examination
As soon as Nan Juyi came out, the candidates recommended by the following ministers paled in comparison. Although Daming has expanded rapidly in the past few years, there are not many civil servants above the third rank who have actually dealt with foreigners, because most of the time, Daming used his fists to deal with foreigners. When negotiating with foreigners, if you look for military generals of the third rank and above who have fought with foreigners, you can easily pull a lot, but the civil servants can't find many.

In the end, through a show of hands, Nan Juyi was elected as the new minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with thirteen votes unanimously. Next, as long as he reported to the emperor for instructions and issued an imperial edict, he could take office immediately.

Zhu Youjian is still very concerned about this matter, because this is the first time he presides over the selection of court officials, he naturally wants to have a perfect result, and as soon as the meeting is over, he goes straight to Qianqing Palace and asks the emperor for an order went.

If Zhu Cijiong is elected by someone else, he must have Dongchang and Jinyiwei check it out. He doesn't want to delegate power to the cabinet for the first time to select a mediocre official, a stupid official or even a corrupt official. But Nan Juyi doesn't need to check. Yes, Xu Guangqi was right. He really admired Nan Juyi. He was quite satisfied with Nan Juyi's performance in the southeast. Naturally, it would be no problem to promote him to be Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In this way, Nan Juyi, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs elected by the cabinet, quickly obtained the emperor's approval. In the morning, the Emperor decreed that Nan Juyi, the former Governor of Southeast China, be transferred to Beijing to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Candidates for these three new yamen’s ministers have been determined, but a yamen cannot only have ministers, especially in such a large yamen that is in charge of daily affairs, there must be at least a dozen officials such as servants, Langzhong, Yuanwailang, etc. There are also dozens of principals in charge of specific affairs. It is normal for a large yamen to have hundreds of officials. This is still the configuration of Daming before it expanded.

In the current Daming, the territory has more than tripled, and the provinces have almost tripled. Next, Siberia will be conquered, and the number of provinces will even exceed four times the original. It is enough to match two or three hundred people, not only the new yamen, but also the old yamen. When the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Education were established last time, the number of officials in each yamen has almost doubled. Now, it seems that it is not enough. .

Calculated in this way, the number of people needed is a bit scary. The three newly established yamen alone need 700 people, and the original eight large yamen also need to expand 700 people, adding up to more than 1000 people!
More than 1000 people do not seem to be many, because the current population of Ming Dynasty is more than 1000 million, but the problem is that these more than [-] people must have fame, and ordinary scholars are not enough, at least they must be recruited, and they must follow the previous rules. It is very difficult to be a Beijing official, and the heads of various ministries are generally Jinshi, let alone Yuanwailang, Langzhong and Shilang.

Now Zhu Youjian and Yang Sichang are worried. Zhu Youjian's place is better, because he is only in charge of senior officials above the fifth rank, and a yamen only has two servants, four doctors, and four Yuanwailang. It is above the fifth grade, and there are old yamen, and there are only [-] new yamen in total. The problem is not very big, but it is more time-consuming to hold a meeting and select.

Yang Sichang is different. He really needs to select more than 1000 Beijing officials here, and at least he must have the fame of Juren. Where can he find so many Juren and Scholars!
Why did he say that he couldn't find so many Juren and Jinshi? According to the admission rate of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty, we can know it.

According to the usual practice, the admission rate of Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty is about [-] out of [-], that is to say, only one of the [-] candidates can be admitted to the Jinshi, and the number of Jinshi selected for each subject in the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty is at most two hundred. Calculated in this way, the maximum number of Juren participating in each examination is about [-].

The four thousand candidates does not mean that there will be four thousand candidates every three years, but that there will be four thousand candidates every time they take part in the imperial examination.

About [-] Jinshi are admitted every three years, but Juren is not. Many books have the saying that they fail to pass the test. Combined with the acceptance rate of the general examination, one thing can be proved, that is, there are at most [-] candidates who take part in the imperial examination each time, and sometimes it is even less than [-].

Is there anyone who won the Juren examination but did not take the examination?There must be such people, but there are definitely not too many. Most of them are old and weak, unable to take the exam, but whoever is in his prime does not want to be named on the gold list. There will be no more than 8000 people.

So the question arises, even if the Jinshi and all Juren of the tenth imperial examination are all officials in the court, the combined number of Jinshi and Juren is less than 1, and how many officials are there in the Ming Dynasty now?

It’s not that I don’t know, but it’s even more frightening if you calculate it. Daming now has almost forty provinces, and each province has almost eight to ten state capitals, and each state capital has almost eight To ten counties, that is to say, there are now three or four thousand county magistrates of seventh rank in Daming Guang, and there are more than two thousand officials of seventh rank and above, such as political envoys, magistrates, prefects, and Tongzhi at all levels. , plus the officials of Zhili prefectures and the yamen of the capital, all Jinshi and Juren in Ming Dynasty, as long as they are not old and infirm or have bad conduct, basically all others are officials.

Juren as county magistrate, scholar as county minister is already standard in Daming, and Jinshi is basically above the sixth rank!
Jinshi and Juren who can be officials are basically officials. Where did Yang Sichang find these more than 1000 people? Zhang Pu, Wu Jianye, and Nan Juyi are all powerful officials. It's so hot, the yamen has been established, and they don't assign subordinate officials, so they naturally quit.

As a result, the threshold of the official department was almost trampled by them. Yang Sichang was blocked by them in the official office almost every day. All together, sometimes all three, drove him crazy.

He was so forced that he had no choice but to go to the emperor. There was really no one, so he couldn't recruit some talented people to be officials in the capital!

Zhu Cijiong really didn't consider this issue. In the past dynasties, Jinshi was waiting to become an official. It's good to come to him, and he can't even recruit people.

What else can he do, he can only recruit Xu Guangqi and Huang Daozhou to discuss the expansion of the imperial examination.

In fact, the imperial examination has already been expanded once. Starting from Ding Chou Ke in the tenth year of Chongzheng, the number of Jinshi admitted in each subject has doubled, reaching nearly 400, but the number of candidates has not doubled, and there are still so many.

In fact, Zhu Cijiong cannot be blamed for this. What he presided over was the imperial examination, not the provincial and courtyard examinations. It was enough to select more than [-] Jinshi. How could he think about how many candidates there were in Ming Dynasty!

It just so happens that August this year is the three-yearly college examination, which is the examination for scholarly candidates.

There is nothing to consider, Zhu Cijiong directly decreed that the number of applicants from all over the country will be doubled!
(End of this chapter)