Although I really wanted to put further pressure on the Jingzhou family and ensure that Liu Bei's camp could digest the Jingzhou territory as soon as possible and thoroughly.

But Li Su also knew that before starting a move, he had to conduct a full investigation, and he could not rely on his knowledge of the direction of history, knowing that the characters were loyal, treacherous, virtuous, and had 120,000 regular soldiers on hand, so he treated people as NPCs.

On September 17th, Li Su rested after the reception banquet and did not act rashly. He stayed in the Governor's Mansion for the entire day on the 18th.

He also asked his aides Deng Zhi, Xu Shu, and Gongcai from Sikongfu to be involved in Wang Lei, and Zhang Song, a servant in Hucai to be involved in slowly sorting out the information and sorting out the famous scholars who came to Jingzhou from other places. If you have detailed resumes, you can directly read them, and if you don’t have detailed resumes, you can ask local Gongcai officials for additional details.

Li Su's attitude seemed to be trying to create files for all well-known scholars.

Moreover, during this process, Li Su also learned while doing it, realizing that the imperial examination reform he had planned for Liu Bei was still very primitive and full of loopholes, and could be optimized on the fly.

Li Su ordered the chief clerk Deng Zhi: "Remember it, forget it from this year. Starting next year, anyone who wants to be elected as a candidate for the exam by the prefectures and counties must establish a file of candidates in the court's literary department in advance.

If you have not yet established a file in the Ministry of Culture and Culture in the first lunar month every year, you are not allowed to take the autumn examination that year, that is, you must be eligible for registration at least nine months before the official imperial examination. This will prevent the aristocratic families and powerful men from temporarily looking for a cat and a dog to accompany you to run a few months before the exam.

As for those who have been selected after this year's exam, they will be converted into formal alternate officials, with rank and salary. Even if they still do not have real positions, they will transfer files from the Ministry of Culture and Culture to the Ministry of Personnel.

If you fail the exam this year, the files will continue to be in the Department of Literature. If the local prefectures and counties still recommend him next year, you can take the exam directly, and the files will still be valid.

However, for the five selected people in the county this year, if the scores are ranked at the end of the five, it means that this person is just a false reputation, has a shallow knowledge, and is unbearable. Next year, the local governor will not be allowed to select this person to take the exam. If such person is still selected, you must observe the instigator and other supervisors to intervene and observe their fraud!"

These are all the experiences that Li Su has actually summarized after he went to Xiangyang and worked as the head of the imperial examination for a few days.

He felt that these improvements were reasonable, and the aristocratic families had no reason to resist, but they could add more difficulty to the future "bescaping" and try to achieve fairness.

First of all, it is a shameless thing like asking a cat or a dog to run away with you. It will be more difficult in the future. This year, it is enough to be shameless. Starting next year, even if you want to be shameless, the law will not give so many opportunities.

In the case that it is impossible to get scholars and juren to pass the exam at two levels like Song and Ming, establishing files in advance can be considered an additional guarantee for temporarily alleviating fraud.

Secondly, even if the people who take advantage of this year will rush to build files for Amama and Adog. As long as these Amamama and Adog are really poor in their grades and are ranked last in the same county, they will not be able to run with them next year. This will turn these Amamama and Adog that have entered the market into consumables, and a batch will be lost every year so that they will not take up a long-term pit and accompany them.

In short, it is all kinds of increase in fraud costs.

Faced with the requirements of the leaders, Deng Zhi and others were of course mainly recording execution, but there were some revisions.

For example, Wang Lei, who was in charge of Gongcao, said more impartially. He pointed out that Li Su's "promotion of files" operation method proposed was a bit slap in the face. The time may be too hasty and unfair, so it should be left for officials and students in remote areas to be given time.

Li Su was right when he thought about it. He had always been very advised on this operational improvement. After a brief discussion with his subordinates, he announced the change:

"That's it. If the file delivery is delayed in remote areas, the fire-painted stamp issued by the local literary official document can be used as the basis for the time being. The disguised period is limited to a few days, but the date of arriving at the Chang'an Cultural Affairs Department's archives cannot be later than the first day of March."

Li Su naturally thought of a method similar to the postal system in later generations that used postal dates as the basis. Although the imperial court official station at the late Han Dynasty did not have postmarks, it could also write a date and then stamp it with a hot lacquer seal.

Of course, with Li Su's political experience, he even thought about it with his toes and knew that as long as this hole was opened, there would definitely be loopholes in the future.

For example, just like the "empty seal case" which was one of the "Four Major Cases of Hongwu" during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, when officials in remote areas delivered new files every year, they were obviously late to send them, and they still wrote the date of the end of the twelfth lunar month on the seal and then stamped them.

But no matter what, there is not much room for flexibility in this kind of fraud. It is not necessary to make much principled mistakes by giving the place a little more relaxed in time.

Since the reform has just begun, we cannot be arrested too hard at once, as it will only inspire resistance.

Fortunately, Liu Bei has a relatively tolerant temper. Even if he is unified in the future, he will never slaughter the old accounts like Zhu Yuanzhang like he did to massacre for the empty seal case.

In addition to the above-mentioned opinions originating from Wang Lei, Zhang Song also made an advice, saying: "Sikong, depriving those who are ignorant and ignorant sent by aristocratic families to take the exams in aristocratic families can indeed suppress the aristocratic families.

However, there are also a few people who have poor exams, who may not be able to come to take the exams. Perhaps they are indeed poor families, and they are known in the village for their character, and are selected as candidates by county magistrates who are impartial in their affairs. If they are the last place in the same county in one exam, they will be deprived of their lives. Will it be too strict? It is better to give young people with poor academic knowledge the opportunity to revive themselves."

Li Su thought about it and thought it made sense, so he gave him more opportunities. The staff worked together and finally changed it to:

Anyone who gets the last place in the same county and the imperial examination will be banned from the next exam and is not allowed to recommend it again. However, if the character is indeed praised by the villagers after another exam, you can give it another chance.

However, if a person takes the last place in the same county and subject for two consecutive sessions, or takes the last place three times in his life, or has a cumulative score of more than one-third or five times in his life, he will be deprived of his life re-examination qualification.

Although it is a bit cruel, this is also the best solution under the two-level admission system of prefecture and county.

Unless the world is peaceful and the imperial examination system is reformed again in a few decades, and the qualifications of grassroots candidates are also selected through examinations, otherwise this regulation must be implemented.

...

On September 20, after a short few days of research and optimization, Li Su also announced the temporary optimizations in the implementation of the above two imperial examinations to the civil and military officials in Jingzhou.

This is not a day-to-day change, because it is all about the outcome after the exam this year and the qualifications for the next year, so it does not damage the credibility of the government.

After seeing this, the great families of Jingzhou represented by Kuai Liang and Cai Mao were only angry but not afraid to speak out, realizing that their lives would be even more sad next year.

Fortunately, Kuai Liang has already added a younger brother and a nephew to his family this year, and some of them have children from their close relatives who are not surnamed Kuai but are only followers. Therefore, even if the tightening is temporarily closed next year, there will be no important figures in their family need to be added in a short period of time.

In contrast, because of the previous butterfly effect, the families of Cai Mao and others did not enter the core of power in Jingzhou during their reign. This year, they did not surround them even if they were so crowded. In the following years, there were still many children from the clan.

So Cai Mao was almost depressed and wanted to visit him in person, and indirectly communicated with Kuai Liang and complained to him:

"Brother Kuai, Li Su's exploitation of the scholars in Jingzhou is much more than when Liu Envoy was there. This is really not to take us seriously. How generous are we when Liu's family was there? Not only does he collect taxes and transfer money, but he also blocks the promotion level that originally belonged to us and becomes more and more dead.

We should be cut off if we break it, otherwise, he will slowly strangle it to death by him in a few years, and there will be nothing left in the end. At that time, we just want to object, but we are afraid we will be unable to object. There will only be more and more officials in the Jingzhou officialdom that Li Su will absolutely control."

"Brother Cai Xian, I know what you said, "Don't you have to bow your head under the short eaves? Li Su has come here with 100,000 troops this time. Who dares to act rashly? Be patient." Kuai Liang also talks to people and talks to ghosts.

He and Cai Mao secretly expressed their dissatisfaction with Li Su not leaving a way out for others, and expressed their loyalty of "the great families in Jingzhou are in harmony", but did not make any substantial promises.

Kuai Liang himself actually knew that he just comforted Cai Mao. He really didn't have the courage to do something big. His younger brother Kuai Yue was still an official in Chang'an, so he was clearly a hostage. If he really dared to do something random, his younger brother would immediately fall to the ground.

Although those who accomplish great things do not care about the trivial matters, it really affects the interests of the entire family, and they can only endure a death of a younger brother, but hasn't it been this point yet.

Kuai Liang also wanted his whole family to die well, even if the chances of becoming an hereditary official in the future will be less and less, so he should not be a leader. He is almost fifty years old and does not have the ambitions of Cai Mao. Cai Mao is only in his thirties now.

Cai Mao saw that Kuai Liang did not see the rabbit or show off his eagle, and saw that there was no one around, so he would not leak the secrets. He also took a little bit of it and said further:

"Brother Kuai is the prefect of Xiangyang County after all. If you really want to do your best, you may not have a chance. First of all, you are considered to be of high status and power. I am also quite appealing among the aristocratic families in Jingzhou. If you really want to do it, I am in the light and brother in the dark.

If we are writing, we can find ways to secretly force and induce some aristocratic families and famous scholars from other places to Jingzhou, and encourage them not to live in Jingzhou anymore and move.

Anyway, Jingzhou was not the Jingzhou when Liu Envoy was in charge. The living conditions of famous scholars were very bad, and Li Su never sold the face of famous scholars and did not use famous scholars as officials. It would be boring for them to keep them.
Chapter completed!