prosperous national teacher

There are no impervious walls in the world.

They can guarantee that the conversation between Su Yi, Mu Yan and the prince will not be spread, and the conversation between the emperor and Mu Yan will not be spread.But if the emperor goes out of the palace, that's not necessarily the case.

The palace is so big, it is impossible for the emperor to hold everyone in the palace in his hands.If the emperor leaves the palace, the news will soon reach other people's ears.

Even if no one heard what the emperor and Su Yi said, as long as they knew that the emperor issued this "strange" decree after meeting with Su Yi, everyone would wonder if it had something to do with Su Yi.

In the end, the emperor still decided not to inquire about this matter himself, but to let Mu Yan go.

Mu Yan smiled wryly.

Although he doesn't like the Mu family, he doesn't care about the prosperity of other families.But anyway, his friends are all from the aristocratic family circle, and he himself is the head of the big aristocratic family in front of outsiders.Doing this kind of thing now, he felt a little awkward in his heart.

From Su Yi's sentence at the time, "The family will regard me as a thorn in the flesh", Su Yi knew how much the imperial examination system had hit the elites of the gentry.

If he supports this matter, he will be like a black sheep among the clan, and he will probably be reviled and hated by others, even more so than Su Yi who initiated this matter.

But Mu Yan still accepted the matter without hesitation.

In life, people always have ambitions.And the higher the talent, the greater the ambition.

Under the emperor's persuasion, Mu Yan took over the position of head of the Mu family that he hated deeply, just to realize his ambition.

He does not specialize in Confucianism, but he deeply recognizes the Confucian ideal of "flattening the world", and hopes to realize the ultimate goal of "three immortals" of morality, speech, and meritorious service.

Although being a noble clan, Mu Yan knew that the clan was entrenched, the government orders were not effective, and the places where many powerful clans gathered were no different from separatist regimes.This is clearly detrimental to the country.

Therefore, when Mu Yan took on this heavy burden, even though he knew how much he would be attacked, he still had no complaints or regrets.

Seeing that Mu Yan accepted the matter without any hesitation, the emperor sighed in his heart.

If there were more people like Mu Yan in the court, would the peace and prosperity he was looking forward to come sooner?

The emperor smiled and shook his head.He can't be too greedy.He already had Mu Yan, the eldest son also returned from school, and the youngest son also recovered his sanity.As an emperor and as a father, he was lucky enough.

But Mu Yan made such a sacrifice, the emperor naturally wanted to protect him.

Mu Yan will only serve as a messenger, as for the follow-up matters, it is better to find someone else to do it.

It would be better if Mu Yan followed the family and expressed his fierce opposition.

After returning home, Mu Yan found Su Yi, and bowed deeply to Su Yi.

The corner of Su Yi's mouth twitched.

He and Mu Yan are also familiar with each other.Mu Yan usually acts foolishly, but once he becomes serious, nothing good will happen.

But what Mu Yan is looking for now is probably the "imperial examination system" that he said he slipped out.

Su Yi sighed: "He Qing, this will do you no good."

Mu Yan smiled and remained silent.

Su Yi suddenly felt sour in his heart.

He remembered his former friends.

As the second ancestor of Su Yi, most of the friends around him are in the same circle as him, and there are also many accomplished people, who are not rice bugs like him.

Among Su Yi's friends, there were those who abandoned or even endangered their family business in order to realize their ideals.

He once saw a friend of his who sent his loving father to prison with his own hands, and ruined his family's business.Then he turned gray all night and had to rely on sleeping pills to fall asleep at night.

Su Yi once asked him if he regretted it, and he already described it as haggard, but said he had no regrets.

His family is perfect, but how many families are broken because of his family.Maybe he will regret all day long and cannot be freed, but if he does it again, he will still do so.

Su Yi admired those who killed their relatives righteously. He asked himself that he would never be able to do this.

Su Yi looked at Mu Yan and thought of his friend.

Mu Yan is supposed to represent the interests of the aristocratic clan. He himself and the Mu family have also benefited a lot from the current society where the aristocratic clan dominates.Even in some places, the words of the Mu family are more effective than the emperor.

But he himself actually wants to make a move to change this situation.

The aristocratic family is in decline, and the Mu family cannot escape.Will Mu Yan be ashamed of his relatives?

Just like the emperor always hopes that his sons and grandchildren will be emperors, the founders of each family also go through all kinds of hardships and hardships, and only hope that their family can become the master forever.

Su Yi rubbed his temples, and said, "Since He Qing said so, then I'll... tell you."

"Thank you Kangle." Mu Yan bowed deeply again.

Su Yi rubbed his temples again, and said, "Sit down and talk slowly."

"I once said that each world has many branches. Because there is no communication, it is called a parallel world. And the timeline of each parallel world is different."

"Although my Taoism has disappeared now, I have observed the long rivers of the world in the past. I have said many poems and poems of people in other worlds. He Qing may have suspected that those people are very similar to ours. Its poems and songs are like our world."

"Actually, it's the same world, but it branched out at the beginning, and the timeline is different." Su Yi took a sip of water, and saw Mu Yan's dazed expression as he wished.

"The so-called imperial examination system is the system for the imperial court to select officials later on." Seeing Mu Yan's spirits lifted, Su Yi dropped a big bomb maliciously, "The imperial examination system is indeed to suppress the elites of the gentry."

Although he was already mentally prepared, Mu Yan couldn't help but change his face: "Then... have they succeeded?"

Su Yi smiled and said: "This is a long-term process. He Qing doesn't have to worry too much, you won't see that day."

Mu Yan couldn't help but helplessly said: "Should I say something so that I can feel at ease?"

Su Yi said: "The implementation of the imperial examination system, He Qing probably already guessed it. It is to interrupt the situation where the aristocratic clan monopolizes the recommendation of talents. There are many people who are not of the aristocratic clan who benefit. And these people do not rely on the aristocratic clan to enter the official career, so they may not necessarily be attached to it." Aristocratic family. After all, those who can be admitted to officials are all the proud sons of heaven, they all have a temper, and most of them are not used to the arrogance of the aristocratic family."

Mu Yan caught the key word: "Test?"

Su Yi nodded: "In the imperial examination system, the selection of scholars by subjects is the examination. Only those who pass the examination can become officials."

Mu Yan said: "How to test?"

Su Yi said: "Do the question."

Mu Yan asked: "Question?"

Su Yi said: "The imperial examination is divided into many levels of examinations. At the beginning, they were called scholars... Well, it is different from the former scholars. Putting places, starting with the head of a county. And there are many candidates, and to be an official, you have to participate in the assessment. Then there is Jinshi."

Su Yi didn't quite know how Jinshi was tested.On TV, those No. [-] picks and the like, seemed to be hand-picked by the emperor after doing the questions in the palace.But it is impossible for the imperial palace to accommodate people from all over the world, so... it should be taken twice, right?

Su Yi said: "To be admitted to a Jinshi, you need to rely twice. One is for all the candidates, and the selected ones go to the palace. The emperor personally presides over the examination and ranks them."

"The winner is called the disciple of the emperor."

Mu Yan said: "Students of the Son of Heaven...students of the Son of Heaven...the final decision rests with His Majesty."

Su Yi continued: "However, the children of officials and eunuchs also have privileges. Take Taixue as an example. Those who have graduated from Taixue can skip the first two exams and directly obtain Jinshi; they can also be directly awarded officials."

"Graduates from Taixue are appointed officials together with Juren, but they are exempted from some assessments. If the family can speak up in front of the emperor, it is also possible to be an official in Beijing directly." Su Yi shook his head and said, "However, with the world He Qing thinks, which person has a higher status, the Jinshi who wins by fighting among scholars, or the Taixue student who relies on the shadow of his family?"

Mu Yan said: "I'm afraid, the latter will have a higher status at first, but later on, the common people will definitely not be reconciled."

Su Yi said: "It's not just the common people who are not reconciled. The aristocratic families are much better educated than the common people, and there are many excellent children they teach. All outstanding people must have arrogance. The imperial examination is a competition for scholars all over the world." A grand event. Don't they want to compare?"

"In particular, the resources of the aristocratic clan are mostly inclined to the eldest son. The second son or even the concubine, often take some idle jobs to live leisurely. When there is an imperial examination to obtain scholars, let alone themselves, wouldn't the aristocratic clan want their descendants with insufficient resources to go to Fight for a future?"

"It's the same family, the children of the family who fought against the scholars all over the world, and the children of the family who rely on the family and dare not even take the imperial examination, who has a higher status?"

Mu Yan nodded: "That's true. If I hadn't already been an official, I would definitely give it a try when I met such a grand gathering of scholars. If I didn't win, I'm afraid my family wanted me to be an official, and I would be ashamed to accept it. Look at it this way Come on, as soon as Jinshi appears, the status will not be low. Does Kang Le know what Jinshi takes?"

Su Yi said: "Pimpedao was an outsider at that time. How could he delve into what the Jinshi test is? But since he is an official, he must rely on being an official. To acquire talents, to test the scriptures and righteousness, and other necessary knowledge for scholars. Juren's At that time, in addition to a little deeper poetry and prose, it will involve the knowledge of law and order and other officials. When it comes to the examination of Jinshi, it will mainly focus on policy theory."

"Policy theory, that is, matters related to national policy. Whether it is based on materials from the classics or from history, it finally achieves the purpose of discussing current national policies. When the emperor finally arranges the ranks of Jinshi, it is the emperor who personally asks the scholars. National policy." Su Yi was not sure, but he said it with confidence, as if it was true.

Mu Yan yearned for it.

For scholars all over the world, it would be an unimaginable honor to be able to face the saint as long as they take the exam, and to offer advice in front of the emperor in person.

Even if they are descendants of the aristocratic clan, they can't face the saint if they want to, let alone offer advice if they want to.

Mu Yan didn't know how much nonsense Su Yi said.

Most of the imperial examinations he mentioned were seen on TV.Not to mention that the imperial examinations on TV are a fusion of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the content also serves the plot, and there are many changes.

For example, the Tang and Song dynasties emphasized poetry and fu, and the Ming and Qing dynasties emphasized classics and righteousness. Although this theory needs to be tested, it is not of high importance.Because those scholars dare not speak nonsense.Wouldn't it be too unfair if it didn't meet the examiner's and the emperor's ideas?