Chapter 269: Imperial Examination Reform Shocks the Government and the Public

In the Imperial Study, Jinling Imperial City.

It was midnight, but the new emperor Chen Huaian still hadn't returned to his bedroom. He was still working diligently in the Imperial Study, writing furiously on his desk.

He had become an emperor to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep, not to mention being able to spare the time and energy to favor the seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards.

Among the time travelers, Chen Huaian was probably the first person in history to become an emperor.

It's not that Chen Huaian didn't want to indulge himself, but the situation didn't allow it!

Before he traveled through time, he was just a 996 social animal in a large factory in the Magic City, and his understanding of ancient history only came from time-travel novels on the Internet.

Even though he traveled through time in the Great Xin Dynasty for 24 years and learned civil and military skills under the training of his father Chen Polu, the knowledge he mastered was only enough to support him to be a king of a different surname in the dynasty and govern the hundreds of thousands of people in his fiefdom.

In addition, the previous dynasty Daxin was a dynasty that "respected military power", which led to Chen Polu paying more attention to the cultivation of Chen Huaian's "military power" and ignoring the strengthening of his "civil governance".

Because of this, although there are many talents under Chen Huaian's command, most of them are military generals who lead troops to fight.

It was not easy to have a "black-robed prime minister" Dongfang Xiao, but who would have thought that the old monk would take the initiative to resign and return to Fengming Mountain Qixia Temple to practice and attain enlightenment when Chen Huaian was about to ascend the throne.

Therefore, Chen Huaian now does not even have a trustworthy counselor around him.

So much so that after he became emperor, he had to rely on the former ministers and surrendered generals to rebuild the six ministries.

It is impossible to promote the local small officials of the fiefdom Longcheng to the position of the six ministers of the new dynasty all at once?

In other words, if the fiefdom Longcheng really had such a talent for governing the world, how could Chen Huaian not know it?

Under all kinds of helplessness, Chen Huaian had to do everything himself when the new dynasty was first established.

At the same time, it also made Chen Huaian determined that the reform of the imperial examination in the new dynasty was imperative and urgent!

Huh--

Finally, with the signing of the last word, Chen Huaian, who was writing at his desk, let out a long sigh. On the rice paper on the desk, thousands of words had been written. The six large characters of the title "A Letter to Students All Over the World" were particularly dazzling.

That's right, the content that Chen Huaian had been writing in the imperial study for several days was exactly what he had come up with after referring to the imperial examination system of later generations and combining it with the actual situation of the new dynasty after a long period of careful consideration.

In this letter "A Letter to Students All Over the World", Chen Huaian formulated a detailed imperial examination system for the new dynasty, completely abolished the "Nine-Rank System" for selecting officials that had been used for thousands of years, and gave all the scholars in the world the opportunity to pass the imperial examination and enter the court as officials.

In this way, it will be possible to effectively reduce the number of court officials who form cliques based on their origins and thus oppose the court and the imperial power.

The most obvious example is that at today's court meeting, the civil and military officials of the Sixteen States of Youyun formed an offensive and defensive alliance on the issue of enthroning the new queen to put pressure on the imperial power.

All this is because the appointment of officials from various places before was recommended by the local respected clans. Over time, a complex relationship has been formed among the officials, making them a community of interests on the same front.

When the influence of an interest group develops to a certain extent, it will inevitably affect and threaten the rule of the imperial power.

Chen Huaian is determined to promote the reform of the imperial examination, with the purpose of recruiting talents from all over the world for the use of the imperial power and gradually disintegrating the interest groups that have been formed in various places in the court before.

This also means that after Chen Huaian has enough military generals, he began to focus on cultivating his own civil official group, so as to achieve the goal of balance between civil and military affairs and benign development.

Do it as soon as you say it.

On the second day, at the second court meeting of civil and military officials of the Xin Dynasty, Chen Huaian asked Cai He, the eunuch in charge of writing in the Imperial Household Department, to read out the contents of the "Letter to Students All Over the World", bringing the issue of the Xin Dynasty's imperial examination reform to the table.