readx; After this unprecedented Enke exam, hundreds of thousands of people fell into anxious waiting. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In order to make a good impression on the emperor before the info exam, many people also participated in the voluntary labor of building the city; After the exam, the emperor did not appear for many days, and these people were too lazy to behave, only a very small number of people such as Huang Zongxi continued to insist.

Originally, according to the usual practice, there were three examinations, namely four scriptures, five scriptures and five words and eight rhymes, and each test was three days. This time, Enko only took one exam, and it was over in one day, and it was very different from the previous one in terms of form and content, so none of the lifters felt sure that they would pass the exam, but there was also no one who felt completely hopeless.

In the past, it took about four or five days from the end of the trial to the end of the list. But this time, hundreds of thousands of people took the exam at the same time, and marking the papers became a big problem.

In the past, in order to prevent the examiner from colluding with the candidate to cheat, it was necessary to "seal" the test paper first, that is, to cover the candidate's name, place of origin and other information with paper. Later, I felt that this was still not safe, because the examiner could still recognize the candidate by the handwriting or special marks such as ink dots on the test paper. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out "transcription", that is, a special person will copy the candidate's answer sheet word for word, and proofread it, and then let the examiner see it.

But this time, Enke has hundreds of thousands of test papers, and how many people are there in the Ministry of Rites? If you still want to "seal up" and "transcribe", you can't finish it even if you are tired to death. Fortunately, the emperor has a decree to eliminate these links together, and the examiner can directly mark the papers.

But it's still an impossible task. Because in previous years, there were two examiners and 18 examiners, and these 20 people reviewed thousands of examination papers. But this time, the number of test papers is hundreds of times higher than in the past, and it is impossible to find thousands of examiners to mark the papers!

However, Zhu Youzhen didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, and asked the chief examiner to come to Zongdao to still select eighteen people from the Hanlin Academy according to the rules of previous years. Coupled with Xu Guangqi, the deputy chief examiner, twenty people will deal with 300,000 test papers, and slowly mark the papers. And you can watch as much as you can every day, and you will never delay leaving work on time.

Lai Zongdao and other officials of the Ministry of Rites thought that if they continued to look at it like this, they might not be able to finish it for decades. And there is a second big problem, that is, how many people to admit, the emperor has not made it explicit. In the past, the admission rate of the general examination was about 10 percent, and if 1,000 students took the exam, about 100 students would be admitted. But this time the candidates are 300,000, do you want to admit 30,000 people at once? How can the imperial court have so many official positions?

But since the emperor was so messing around, they didn't bother to object, and they read dozens of test papers step by step every day. After a month or two like this, there is no need to play, and the lifters will naturally turn the world upside down, and then it will be up to the emperor to see how the emperor ends.

It's a pity that they completely miscalculated. Zhu Youzhen asked these twenty people to read the papers, purely for show, because he had already decided to read the papers in person!

The place where the Ministry of Rites read the documents is located in the Imperial City, which is naturally under the strict protection of the Imperial City Guard Corps. Every evening, after these examiners went home, Zhu Youzhen took all the members of the secretariat, plus Xu Guangqi, who secretly stayed behind after getting the secret order, dozens of people kept reading the papers until the fourth watch of the next day!

The members of the Secretariat were responsible for only one thing, and that was classification. All the test papers that only answered the topic and the sub-questions were all empty were directly selected, and Zhu Youzhen didn't even look at them. There are at least more than 100,000 copies of such test papers, no need to ask, the respondent must be a typical nerd who can only do eight-strand essays and knows nothing else, how can such a person use it?

There are more than 100,000 papers left, which the Secretariat has sorted according to the number of sub-questions answered. Of the more than 20 sub-questions, only one or two questions were answered, and Xu Guangqi reviewed them on his behalf. Obviously, such a candidate is not much better than a person who completely submits a blank paper, which shows that such a person lacks social practice experience and basically does not meet Zhu Youzhen's selection criteria. Xu Guangqi was flipping through the papers, on average, a test paper only looked at a few seconds, and it would be good to be able to pick out one of the hundred papers with an answer that was slightly like a little like a word.

And those test papers that answer more questions will be reviewed by Zhu Youzhen in person. He doesn't care if the answers to the questions are the same as the answers he has in mind, because the questions are basically subjective and there is no standard answer at all. As long as the answer has its own ideas, there is merit. As for the test papers that are full of nonsense and have nothing to say, Zhu Youzhen will immediately abandon them as long as he sees them.

The reason why so many subtopics are set up, Zhu Youzhen also has his own considerations. In his view, today's officialdom is completely rotten, and except for a few officials who have both ability and political integrity, the vast majority of them are either pedantic and mediocre and ignorant of current affairs, or they are not right-hearted, abuse power for personal gain, and even form gangs to form interest groups, and they are completely hopeless from the imperial court's decrees. If you want to govern things, you have to treat people first, and if you can't cure them, you have to change. The current officialdom has reached the point where it is necessary to "change blood"!

But how to change the method is also very particular. If from top to bottom, starting with the cabinet, the six ministers and other important ministers of the DPRK and the central government, and gradually pushing downward, not to mention that these ministers are very powerful, they will definitely have a lot of resistance, and if they don't do well, they will provoke unforeseen events; Even if these people can be forcibly dismissed, who will be replaced? The following officials have similar experiences to these ministers, they all started from the imperial examination and mixed up in the officialdom of the big dye vat, who is not the same?

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen decided to start from the bottom up, temporarily not to move the important ministers of the court, and to start with the most basic officials.

The number of grassroots officials is very huge, and there are more than 1,000 counties under the jurisdiction of the two capitals in the north and south of the country, and 613 provinces in the south and north. There are four imperial court officials in the county office: the magistrate of the seventh grade, the county of the eighth grade, the master of the ninth grade, and the classic history of no grade. In addition, there are also a large number of grassroots officials in various provinces, governments, and some functional yamen.

Among these grassroots officials, the only one that the imperial court can really control is the magistrate. After the examination of the Juzi Society, it is called "Jinshi", and if the officials are released, they will generally start from the county. The lower-level officials such as the county officials, the master bookkeeper, and the canonical history are disdainful to do it, and they are basically controlled by the locals who have not passed the examination. These officials are lowly and powerful, and often form a considerable force in the local area, and most of the official positions are father and son.

In addition to these imperial officials, there are many people in the county government who do practical work but are not in the establishment, that is, the so-called "Xu officials". This kind of system of separating officials from officials has great drawbacks, and Zhu Youzhen saw it when he was in Jingyang County.

Therefore, the real purpose of Enke and Zhu Youzhen this time is to select a large number of grassroots officials and gradually replace hereditary magistrates such as county officials and chief secretaries. As for the officials, they will either be abolished or merged into the sequence of "officials" in the future. In order to achieve this goal, Zhu Youzhen will let hundreds of thousands of people take the exam at the same time, because he will also select at least five or six thousand people!

ps: Today's thoughts are confused, only one more, sorry!