The officials came back, but Li Chao no longer trusted these people.

Originally, there were few of these officials who were clean and innocent. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, officials have no longer communicated with each other, and officials have not been given the opportunity to be promoted to officials, and gradually formed a closed class and even became a hereditary profession.

He was an official for one day and a permanent official forever.

Once you become an official, you don’t expect any opportunity to become an official. Unless it is in a chaotic time, the minor officials still have some opportunities. But if the world is unified, there will be no hope for officials to become officials.

Since you have no hope of becoming an official, it is regarded as a profession and as a way to make money.

Li Chao knew that when the imperial examination system was truly popular and became the most important way to select officials, at that time, countless scholars who only knew how to read had passed the imperial examination and then leaped into the dragon gate and then appointed as officials. However, most of these people were only good at studying, but also more scholars from poor families.

These scholars who entered the officialdom were far inferior to those noble and bureaucrats who were mainly officials of the past and came from family backgrounds. After all, the noble and bureaucrats were influenced by their childhood and had some understanding of the officialdom and government affairs.

Those officials who came out of poor families who only read the books of sages and finally selected scholars were like blank paper. After becoming officials, they had to rely on officials and staff. Therefore, in the Song and Ming dynasties, officials could even undermine officials and even control power.

"What should we do with these people?"

Ma Zhou asked Li Chao.

"You can't ask for these people anymore." Li Chao said while drinking tea.

"Can't you ask for it?" Ma Zhou was surprised. Since that's the case, why should I let them come again today?

Li Chao smiled and asked them to come, of course because they still couldn't live without them here for the time being, but this does not mean that I will keep these people. These people dare to play on strike with me, and they really don't know how to live or die.

"Tomorrow, we will first select a group of relatively excellent students from the Imperial College to come to the province for internships and learn from those officials to learn and adapt. Next, we will also select a group of talented scholars from all over the world to come to Xiangyang to take the exam. As long as we pass the exam, we will enter the Shangshu Province for internships."

Li Chao's plan was very direct, and he was not going to use these officials anymore. But he couldn't open all of them all at once. Let them stay in the position first and let them lead new people.

Li Chao wanted to replace these officials with a group of Imperial College Supervisors and outstanding scholars selected by local officials. Their final role was to bring newcomers to Li Chao.

"Will those officials pretend to be slanderous and deliberately cause chaos?"

"If they dare, I will make it clear to them. If they cooperate honestly, then when the new people are well-known, I will let them leave. I will forget about the past. But if anyone dares to disobey or even make trouble on purpose, don't blame me for being rude. Then, the new and old accounts will be settled with them. With the things they have done, I will send them to the vegetable market to beheaded or even search the house, without any problem."

This is a bare-fruit threat.

Li Chao clearly wanted to replace these old officials with newcomers, but he even made harsh words. You can only cooperate honestly and refuse to cooperate. Even if the old account is old, the house will be beheaded and the family will be exiled.

Which result you want, choose yourself.

It's simple and crude, but Ma Zhou has to say that this method is very effective.

"There is a need for new blood among officials. If the stagnant water does not flow, it will gradually become corrupt. With the flowing water, the water can be guaranteed to live. The same is true for future officials. Let scholars act as officials and give them the opportunity to be promoted. If they do well, they will rise. If they do not do well, they will not even have the qualifications to continue to be officials."

Ma Zhou was very moved and felt that Li Chao was really a god.

He also worked as an official back then, and knew that the official ground was darker and more corrupt than the official, and full of unspoken rules. At that time, when he was young and passionate, he was excluded and suppressed everywhere. In the end, the official could not be regarded as the official and had to leave by himself.

When traveling around the world, he first met General Chang He who treated people very well. If Chang He had not invited him to the mansion as a guest, he would not even have enough food, let alone settled in Chang'an.

Later, he was recommended to Li Chao's mansion by Chang He and set up an accountant in Li's mansion.

Who would have thought that when a man who could not even be a minor official in his hometown, he later became a clerk in Changfu and a accountant in Li's mansion, he would eventually become the prime minister.

It was Li Chao who gave him the chance.

Now, Li Chao wants to give countless scholars like him the world, such an opportunity.

"Prime Minister, Ma Zhou supports you."

On that day, Li Chao submitted a memorial to the emperor.

The content of the memorial was to select a group of supervisors from the Imperial College to allow them to intern in the Secretariat. In order to attract these supervisors to intern in the Secretariat, Li Chao also added a very attractive condition. After one year of internship, he would be transferred to a full position as an official, and he would be fully qualified for the position of an official in three years. Those who had excellent assessments would be directly sent to them as local officials.

Appointed as an official.

The county magistrate, the chief clerk, and even the county magistrate.

Even if the county magistrates in the lower county are only from the ninth rank, they are at least one of the non-rank officials. Perhaps the nobles and high-ranking children in the Imperial College are not favored by the children of high-ranking officials, but there are also many students from poor families who have been selected from prison in the Imperial College, and some nobles and bureaucrats are not legitimate sons at home, but are born in illegitimates, so it is not easy for them to become officials.

Under normal circumstances, they may be a marriage between princes and nobles. These entourages in the account can be awarded a small official after a certain period of time or performance.

Now Li Chao provides another good opportunity.

After four years of becoming an official in the Shangshu Province, you will be able to become an official.

After Li Shimin read Li Chao's memorial, he was approved.

First, we will try it in the Shangshu Province. The Minister of the Central Committee, the subordinates, and other temples and supervisors will not be in a hurry for the time being.

Although Li Shimin fully supports Li Chao's reforms, he is also very cautious.

The edict was passed to the Imperial College.

Kong Yingda, who has been promoted to the Imperial College Priest, took over the decree and talked to Lu Deming and other teachers.

"I think this is a good thing. There are so many students in the Imperial College. They are the children of nobles and bureaucrats, but there are also many ordinary children of ordinary people. After graduation, most of these people often go to the yamen to serve as officials, and it is difficult to be appointed as officials. Now Li Xiang has given such an opportunity, and four years later, he can become an official."

Kong Yingda nodded.

There are many students in the Imperial College, and now there are more and more every year. There are several colleges in the Imperial College and many subjects. Of course, many of them are just children of nobles and bureaucrats who come in for a few years. When they are seventeen or eighteen years old, they leave the academy and become guards in the palace, and serve as tents for princes and nobles, but there are also many children of common people. These people are actually the group of people who study the most attentively in the Imperial College.

However, this group of most hard-working students were the ones with the worst prospects in the future because they came from the Imperial College because they came from the Imperial College.

"Call up all the students in the prison and I will announce to them in person. Those who are willing to go to the Imperial College will be able to register no matter what grade he is from. I personally send them to the Shangshu Province for examination. If they pass the examination and become a servant in the Shangshu Province, I will ask someone to write down their names and then erect a monument in the Imperial College and remember it."

Zhang Yingda and Lu Deming's judgment was correct.

After listening to Kong Yingda's announcement, the students of the Imperial College were summoned.

The reaction was very fierce. Except for the sons of nobles and high-ranking officials from very good backgrounds, the other students were very moved. Not only were scholars from ordinary families such as small landlords and self-cultivated farmers, but even those ordinary bureaucrats and even the concubines of some nobles, they thought this was a good opportunity after hearing this.

If it were in the past, they would definitely not be willing to be officials.

But why didn’t it be that the official system is reformed? Even if you become an official, you can still become an official. Besides, this is clear. If you have one year internship and three years of term, you can be appointed as an official if you pass the term. Even if you fail at that time, you will not be afraid. At worst, you can find other opportunities. If you have been an official, you will not be able to become an official.

"If you are willing to go, you can come up and register now and register here." As soon as Zhang Yingda announced, many scholars came to sign up immediately.

The hot scene made him a little unexpected. He thought that many people would be willing to go, but he didn't expect that so many people would be willing to go.

Looking at the enthusiasm of the students, Kong Yingda and Lu Deming sighed, "From today, officials will have no boundaries, and the official career will be a huge ups and downs."

"Li Xiang is indeed extraordinary. Few people dare to mention such a big deal."

The other doctoral professors also have complicated feelings. They are both scholars and officials. In fact, they look down on officials in their hearts, but now Li Chao has forcibly broken the boundary between clear and turbid currents.

"This is a good thing. Scholars can also refresh the administration of officials and change the unbearable office space in the past."

"Yes, the progress of papermaking and printing technology has made paper and books no longer expensive. There are also Wude Dictionary, Zhenguan Dictionary, and many classic Confucian works that have been corrected and published, making it more convenient to read. Not only can the children of nobles and gentry be able to read, but even the children of ordinary little landlords and farmers can read. There are more and more scholars, and now the court has given them the opportunity to be officials by exams, and even the ability to perform in the future. It is so rare."

Kong Yingda sighed in his heart that a person from an ordinary background also has many opportunities to study, even become an official, or even an official.

This is not just about changing the officialdom, but about changing the entire officialdom and changing the country's way of seeking scholars.

In the examination of the official official, you can be elected as an official by taking the exam. What is the difference between this and the imperial examination?

To talk about the difference, it may be that the official examination is just for the official, but if the imperial examination is passed, it is directly a penalty, and the conditions are higher.

But in general, the official examination and the imperial examination will impact the current imperial court's system of selecting officials and selecting officials.

This will really be a big change!

Zhang Yingda didn't know whether these were good or bad.

In the future, will this world be the era of scholars?

Thinking of this, he even felt vaguely excited.

In the era of scholars, becoming officials and officials by exams is no longer just based on family background or merits and status of their fathers.
Chapter completed!