Your Majesty, please beg for mercy. The prince's rebellion was successful.

Within the palace.

Zhou Zheng sat at the top, with Mu Yun, Gong Tan, Zhou Ping, King Zhou Yong, Zhong Zhishen and Sima Cheng standing on both sides.

The fewer people there are, the bigger the problem will be!

This is something that everyone knows.

Everyone remained silent, their eyes all fixed on Zhou Zheng.

During this period, many Confucian scholars began to enter official careers and were working overtime to deal with many things.

All the government orders were implemented in various places in an orderly manner.

Everything seems to be in order, but everyone knows that this is just the night before dawn.

Those officials who were allowed to resign did not cause trouble.

Those aristocratic families also became eerily quiet.

The crowd did not encounter any resistance, as if the powerful families had given in, or as if they had been forced to swallow their anger.

But, is it really like this? !

Absolutely not.

However, no matter how hard they tried, they could not find any movement from these powerful families.

Only Gong Tan knows the truth.

These powerful families are accumulating power.

At the same time, they were also waiting, waiting for the Great Xia Kingdom to take action again. At that time, they would be able to overthrow the rule of the entire Great Zhou with internal and external support.

Therefore, all the calm is just a sign before the storm.

"Everyone, relying on Confucianism alone is far from enough."

"If we want to truly break the aristocratic family's absolute control over official careers, if we really want to completely solve the aristocratic family problem..."

"We need a thorough reform!"

Finally, Zhou Zheng spoke.

No one was surprised.

They had been prepared for this since Zhou Zheng was preparing to confront the aristocratic families.

But how to reform?

No one knew the answer. Even Mu Yun had thought of countless possibilities in private. However, facing the huge system and power of the entire clan, there was almost no good way.

"I want to implement the imperial examination system!"

Imperial examination system?!

These three almost unfamiliar words made everyone present unable to understand for a moment.

Because, before this, they had never heard of it.

Even Gong Tan is like this.

"Your Majesty, what is the imperial examination system?!"

"What does the imperial examination system have to do with the aristocratic families?"

Mu Yun was the first to ask about the doubts in his mind.

Although the others did not speak, they did not hide the confusion in their eyes. They all looked at Zhou Zheng, waiting for his response.

"The so-called imperial examination system is a system for selecting talents and officials."

"Don't the aristocratic families boast that they are the ones who control the world?!"

"Isn't it true that the current Zhongzheng officials are unable to recommend suitable talents?!"

"In this case, I will simply abandon the previous Zhongzheng system of talent selection and implement the imperial examination system!"

"I want all talented people in the world to break free from their shackles and recruit talents regardless of their background."

Zhou Zheng vowed solemnly.

However, these passionate words still left everyone confused.

Obviously, the key and core of this issue have not been clarified.

Zhou Zheng waved his hand and patiently continued to explain the so-called imperial examination system to everyone.

“The so-called imperial examination system is a kind of starting system.”

"A system where the imperial court sets the questions and anyone in the world can take the exam."

"Then, based on the initial results, we will select some outstanding talents."

"These talents are the talent pool of the imperial court. After a certain amount of training, they can enter the officialdom and serve as officials."

Zhou Zheng explained word by word.

This bold idea shocked everyone.

This is equivalent to constructing a completely new talent selection system.

But, if this is the case, what about those Zhongzheng officials? !

From now on, there will be no more Zhongzheng officials in the world?

The most important thing is that to take the exam means that one must at least be literate and have a certain vision. These people were originally trained by the aristocratic families.

If the aristocratic families prevented them from taking such exams, then what was the point of the imperial examination system? !

It's just a change of form, but in reality the aristocratic families still control the right to speak on talent in the world.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid something is wrong."

As the prime minister of the current dynasty and a veteran of three dynasties, Mu Yun had already seen through the drawbacks of this.

He shook his head and spoke.

He approved of Zhou Zheng's reform, but in his opinion, this method was not only immature but even useless.

King Yong of Zhou, Gong Tan, Sima Cheng and even Zhong Zhishen all had the same idea.

As long as the aristocratic families control all the talents in the world, no matter what system is adopted, it will be of almost no significance in their view.