The Grand Princess (The Princess Royal)

Ch 133

Li Rong's words made Pei Wenxuan stunned. Li Rong looked at the young man who was kneeling in front of him, and said slowly: "Get up, if you and I are the monarch and minister, you can kneel on me. If you treat me as your wife, you don't have to do this. . I know you don't want to argue with me, but I don't need you to be so patient."

"I'm not a teenage ignorant girl," Li Rong poured tea to herself, "I won't change my mind because of you, it will only make me feel that you are forcing me."

Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan felt a little at a loss. After hesitating for a long time, Li Rong looked up at him: "Why, do you want me to help you?"

Pei Wenxuan got the words and finally stood up. Li Rong patted her side and whispered, "Sit down."

Pei Wenxuan responded to her words and sat next to Li Rong. Li Rong lay on the rocking chair and slowly swayed the rocking chair: "You don't think I would agree with you to do this. Do you know where I disagree?"

"This time, your majesty's final intention lies in the quota."

"quota?"

Li Rong raised his eyes, Pei Wenxuan didn't lie to her, and said honestly: "From this year onwards, the number of people nominated by aristocratic families will need to be a fixed number. Or those who are from the imperial examination system must have a place to go. Years later, from the staff to the ministries."

The biggest problem with the imperial examination today is that once Li Ming doesn't stare, the poor officials will not be able to reach the position of real power.

Daxia now includes two kinds of people in the poor family, such as the Pei family and the Qin family, as well as ordinary families that are not even included in the genealogy.

The so-called aristocracy in Daxia is based on whether it is listed in the "clan tree".

The genealogy is revised once every hundreds of years, and records the most recognized aristocratic clans everywhere. The clan genealogy divides these aristocratic families into one, two, and three classes. The nobles of different levels intermarry with each other. If there is a leap, it is a great honor.

All families pride themselves on intermarriage with first-class families. And the children of first-class families, even if they never marry for life, will not marry the lower aristocrats.

This centuries-old folk way of in-laws established the absolute right to speak in the court. In order to balance the original aristocracy, the Li family married the Shangguan family in Fanyang, Youzhou, and brought the local surnames at the end of the eight surnames into Huajing as a way to counterbalance the southern surnames.

But after three generations, the Shangguan clan occupied the court, inextricably linked with other aristocratic families, and countered the imperial power. Li Ming realized the shortcomings of balancing the aristocratic family with the family, so he reopened the imperial examination system from the previous experience. I want to balance the court with this method of selecting talents regardless of the family.

Li Ming forced the imperial examinations, but the family also had their own methods. Not to mention whether these ordinary poor students could pass the imperial examinations. Even if they had passed the imperial examinations, the official positions of hundreds of candidates each year were organized by the officials alone, and they were all released. Just go to a bitter, tired, and hopeless position.

It is difficult to participate in the examination, difficult to pass the examination, difficult to be an official after the examination, and difficult to promote after being assigned.

If Pei Wenxuan weren't backed by Pei Lizhi, how could he be the champion?

If Cui Yulang hadn't been appreciated by the nobles for his poems, his test paper would not reach Li Ming's hands.