Datang: I am the prince of salted fish, I impeach Li Er at the beginning

Chapter 162

"Don't worry, I didn't come here for the number of places in the imperial examination, but simply wanted to see the difficulty of the imperial examination over the years."

Li Zhiqiang resisted the desire to complain and expressed his intention for coming.

"And you have misunderstood what I mean. What I want is the test questions from previous years, not this year's questions from you."

"In addition, I have to observe the answer sheets of candidates over the years. If you have a backup here, please help find it and bring a copy to me."

He came to determine the difficulty of the imperial examination, and to judge the standards for the imperial court to recruit officials through the examination papers over the years.

This is important because it allows him to judge what type of talent he should develop.

"Zhenguan Law" is a relatively complete law from a legal perspective.

But it, like other ancient laws, suffers from a lack of measure and standard.

In other words, many times what officials say is what they are.

It is not at all punished according to the standards established by law.

And these questions will be more or less presented in the old exam papers.

Especially from the admitted examination papers, many unobservable details can be seen.

For example, the imperial court's preference for judging cases, as well as the official's handling principles and so on.

In many cases, it is based on a certain value orientation.

What Li Zhi now wants to train for the court is the "talent" in Li Shimin's eyes, so this standard is indispensable.

Otherwise, if the academy is opened, it will be useless to teach.

Memorizing Zhenguan Law is not a good thing for candidates.

Zhang Liang couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that they weren't asking for this year's test papers.

At the same time, he shouted loudly towards the door, calling for someone to come and help Li Zhi find the past files.

"You! Go and help His Royal Highness King Jin look for the examination papers of the Mingfa Department over the years, and even bring out all the papers that have passed the exam!"

"Be quicker, if you delay His Highness's time, I will ask you!"

The stern words scared the officials passing by outside the door!
As much as Zhang Liang flattered Li Zhi, he treated these lower-level officials harshly.

He ordered the officials of the official department as a matter of course, and his tone seemed to be scolding his servants, and he could not see his humility in front of Li Zhi at all.

That high-spirited appearance made Li Zhi even want to hit someone, it was too arrogant.

Seeing Zhang Liang's performance, Li Zhi could probably understand why he acted like this in front of him.

I am afraid that in Zhang Liang's view, this is a matter of course.

For those who are higher than their own class, they should show respect and respect to show respect for the hierarchy.

As for the class below oneself, it must be treated severely, so as to demonstrate its status.

This is probably Zhang Liang's view of the world.

Very extreme, but also very real.

At this moment, the official high-level crushing people is vividly displayed.

Under Zhang Liang's command, the officials of the Ministry of Officials quickly found the answer sheets over the years.

These answer sheets are all sealed here in the Ministry of Personnel, so it is not difficult to find them.

When Li Zhi left Zhongshu Province, he was followed by several officials from the Ministry of Officials.

Each of these people held a big box in their hands.

Needless to say, the things inside are the examination papers handed in by candidates over the years since the opening of the imperial examination.

Originally, Li Zhi planned to let them put the box on the carriage, and let these officials go back.

But these low-level officials refused to leave.

Zhang Liang had already let go, telling them that they had to send their things to Li Zhi's mansion before they could come back.

With Zhang Liang, the head of the official department, who would dare to be perfunctory?

Even if Li Zhi asked them to go back, they still said with embarrassment that they dared not go back to the Minister of Ministers because they could not complete the tasks issued by the Ministry of Officials.

This is good, Li Zhi can only let them walk home with the boxes in their arms.

Fortunately, this road is not too far away, and it didn't take long to arrive.

Otherwise, this huge group of people would probably be watched by the common people.

But judging from the reactions of those people along the way, this seems to be a common scene.

To put it this way, the behavior of these people did not cause much of a sensation. At most, it was just mentioned.

Li Zhi took people back to his house and asked them to carry all the boxes into his study.

When the officials left, he looked at the officials of different sizes and slowly shook his head.

"Classes are clearly defined, one layer is on top of the other, and the rules cannot be exceeded at all."

"In the era of imperial power, the greatness of imperial power was consolidated by relying on this level of class."

"It has to be said... this is really incomprehensible."

Things that others take for granted are no different than fantasy in Li Zhi's eyes.

Why do these people willingly accept Zhang Liang's instigation?
In fact, thinking about it, it is not difficult to understand, but there is no way to accept it.

Because when they are pointed at by others, they will also be arrogant in front of people who are lower than themselves.

If the front foot is wronged, the back foot can vent it.

Layer by layer, only the poor at the bottom are suppressed and have nowhere to vent their anger, and the others are fine.

From this point of view, in fact, this order still has a logic of operation.

It just hurts the people at the bottom, who can only be suppressed layer by layer by the people above, and even if they have resentments in their hearts, they can't vent them.

emmmmm... that's actually not right.

After all, there are classes among civilians.

Strictly speaking, those people with physical or mental defects are the last outlet.

It's a bit of a nasty thing to say, but it's also true.

When the class gap is not large, people usually do not have sympathy and compassion.

Compassion can only be aroused when the gap is large enough.

This is like a beggar who will never pity a fool when he encounters one.

From this perspective, class distinction seems not a bad thing?
maybe.

Thinking of the end, even Li Zhi couldn't help but feel the idea that the lower class should live in the lower class.

After all, sometimes, people's inferiority really makes it difficult for people to have confidence in human nature, isn't it?
Li Zhi himself knew very well that even if he changed the world, the common people at the bottom might not thank him.

Even after a few years, it is estimated that some people will scold him: Why not reform the system more thoroughly, so that the common people can ride on the heads of officials and shit.

There will definitely be such people, and the proportion will never be too small.

Human desires are endless.

When civilians have a certain status, they will think about why their status can't be higher?
You will feel that if people all over the world do not serve you, it is the fault of the world, and it is a manifestation of the injustice of the world.

(End of this chapter)