Louis XV wanted to implement reforms. The first step in reform was to learn from the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty to change the current official system and thus gain greater royal power.

As a young man, Louis XV was very eager to reform. But as a king, Louis XV also knew the obstacles brought by such reform.

To put it bluntly, replacing the existing official promotion system with the civil service system is actually a way to divide the cake from the current aristocratic class and religious forces.

France's cake is so big. It was originally divided by aristocrats and religious forces, but now there is a sudden snatch of food. The nobles and religious forces may unite to boycott it.

Although Louis XV asked Zhu Qingyan to assist him in this matter, in fact, Zhu Qingyan mainly did some theoretical work, such as appropriately changing and improving the Ming Dynasty imperial examination system in France in accordance with Louis XV's requirements.

The Chinese imperial examination system usually takes books of sages, and the contents are nothing more than the Four Books and Five Classics. It was not until Zhu Yicheng reformed the imperial examination that he changed. However, even in the current Ming Dynasty, the traditional contents of the Four Books and Five Classics still exist. It was just that the proportion of other subjects increased year by year, and the Jinshi examination was no longer the only one as before.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, Western countries naturally would not read these things. Except for ordinary literature, they are usually just language, theology, art or primary science. This is the characteristic of Western culture. Even the content of their professors in many universities in Paris is nothing more than this.

Therefore, if France wants to establish a civil servant system, it must first determine the civil servant assessment system, and the content of this assessment system must be based on the current situation in Europe.

In original history, France was indeed the first country in Europe to introduce the Oriental Imperial Examination System and establish a civil servant assessment system. Of course, that was already in the 19th century. Then Britain, the United States, Germany, and other countries also established similar civil servant assessment systems in the second half of the 19th century, thus gradually completing the transformation of the original aristocratic and religious class in controlling the official system to the modern civil servant system.

Now Louis XV is going to be the first person in Europe to try new things. He quickly organized a team to do this. This team is composed of people who Louis XV absolutely trusts. Most of its members are young noble children. These children are not the direct family line. From this point of view, although they are nobles, they do not have the right to inherit titles. Compared with the direct family line, their future career will be bumpy. If they want to succeed, they will need to make more efforts than the direct family line line.

Once the civil servant system is successful, the first thing that benefits is not ordinary people. After all, in this era, ordinary people can receive education very low, so from this point of view, these children of aristocrats are the biggest beneficiaries.

Of course, for the entire civil servant system, in addition to benefiting these children of aristocrats from the side, it also opened up the upward channel for civilians to become officials for the first time, which is extremely beneficial to ease class contradictions. These people also know this in their hearts.

The team formed by these noble children was led by Louis XV himself, but Louis XV was young after all, and was immature in both politics and means, so Louis XV specially invited someone to participate in the matter, and this person was the former Governor of New France, Earl Alexander.

The position of governor of Count Louis Alexander was revoked two years ago and then returned to his local office. Although Count Louis Alexander was strongly criticized by the French political arena for the war and subsequent negotiations in the New World, and he lost his position as governor, he was the illegitimate son of Louis XIV and a member of the Bourbon dynasty, so the punishment for him was not serious. However, for this reason, Count Louis Alexander, who returned to Paris, did not continue to serve in the government, but was thrown aside to retire.

Louis Alexander, who was not in office, lived a leisurely rural life in the suburbs of Paris. He just studied and rode a horse every day and worked in the manor himself. It seemed that Paris, which was prosperous and close to him, had no relationship with him, and even the French political arena had no connection with him.

But as the British began last year, the British moved more and more in the New World, and France and Britain broke out in the New World again.

From last year to now, wars of all sizes have been fought for several battles. France has lost more than it wins, and has retreated in the New World, losing a lot of land.

The failure of the New France war made Louis XV extremely angry. As the king of France, he issued an order to reorganize New France as soon as possible and regain the lost colonial territory.

At the same time, the French government has sent some reinforcements to the New France side, intending to reverse the current bad situation in New France. Louis XV proposed to remove the position of Governor General of New France, but this request was rejected by the Spanish King and French Regent Philip V.

In addition to Philip V, even Cardinal Fleury and Prince Conde, who had just taken over as prime minister last year, also rejected Louis XV's request to replace the Governor of New France, which made Louis XV extremely dissatisfied with them and at the same time had no choice.

In order to learn more about the situation in New France, Louis XV could only seek out nobles who were familiar with New France for consultation. It was precisely for this reason that Louis XV thought of Louis Alexander, who was unemployed at home.

After several contacts, Louis XV discovered that Count Louis Alexander was not a foolish, incompetent, and arrogant person as the close ministers and important officials in the court said. On the contrary, these terms had nothing to do with the real Count Louis Alexander.

Count Louis Alexander was a clear-headed and extremely capable noble. In his conversation with Louis XV, he directly pointed out various situations in New France, including various contradictions and problems of France, Britain, the Ming Dynasty, Spain and even the Indians.

In addition, Count Louis Alexander frankly told Louis XV that the main reason why he was dismissed was because the negotiation agreement between France, Spain and the Ming Dynasty was signed. In this negotiation agreement, Count Louis Alexander had no choice but to give up his unconditional support for Spain in order to safeguard France's interests in the New World, and in order to protect France's interests in the New World, he had no choice but to give up his unconditional support for Spain when he understood that he could not win the victory against the Ming Dynasty in the war. This led to the strong dissatisfaction of the Regent Philip V with him and directly removed him from his post together with the important officials in the court.

Now the Governor of New France was appointed by Regent Philip V, which naturally represents their interests. This is also the main reason why Louis XV refused to request the replacement of the Governor of New France.

In this regard, Count Louis Alexander told Louis XV that if we want to solve the New France issue, we must first solve the king's strong control over France and implement complete rule, which is the key.

In this regard, part of the reason why Louis XV had the idea of ​​reform was influenced by Count Louis Alexander. Therefore, in the early days of the establishment of the team, Louis XV sent an invitation to Count Louis Alexander. When Louis Alexander learned that Louis XV was preparing to imitate the civil service system in the East, he keenly understood Louis XV's intentions. After a little consideration, he happily agreed to the matter.
Chapter completed!