The news that Yanzhou was going to open the prefecture trial immediately swept across the province.

The previous Qingtian division made everyone in Yanzhou’s powerful people at risk. After handing over the land, many powerful people began to plan whether they should let some of their clan members go to Yizhou or Jingzhou to prevent the General’s Mansion from further suppressing the powerful people in the future.

But now the news of the Kaizhou trial spread, and these powerful men immediately stopped their separate steps.

The reason is very simple.

Previously, Qingtian strangled a large number of children of gentry and powerful men. After these people died, their locations were vacant. Yanzhou is not like Hebei. There are civilian students trained by Ma Qiang for many years to take the exam. If the Kaizhou exam is held, most of the children of powerful men will definitely be children of powerful men.

The notice issued by the governor's office was very clear. This time, he was granted the license of the General's Office and the State Council. This time, he could get a fifth-rank official position in the state examination. He probably had to be a county magistrate. If he worked like this for a few years, wouldn't he be promoted to the county magistrate?

In addition, this state examination also produced nine sixth ranks and hundreds of official positions from the sixth rank and below, which were enough to make many powerful children very moved.

And not only that, according to rumors, because of the lack of officials, the court is likely to hold the imperial examination again next year. Only by first Zhongzhou exam can you take the national examination. If you pass the national examination, becoming an official is second. If you are attracted by the general, will the second-rank high-ranking officials be just around the corner?

Compared with this, what if the family’s fields are cleared?

That's from the family!

Not mine!

If you can pass the imperial examination, those acres of land will be gone if they are gone.

More importantly, judging from the current situation, it is a foregone conclusion that the general will unify the world. If you really want to separate your family, what will you go to Jingzhou and Yizhou? Will you still be captured by the Hebei army in a few years? Then the fields accumulated in the local area will be cleared again?

Why bother to come ~

As the saying goes, under the sky, all the king's land is the king's land; the shore of the earth is the king's minister!

As long as no one can defeat the Hebei army, where can you escape?

Many patriarchs of powerful clans discovered that those who had previously clamored to split up and head south suddenly stopped talking.

Some of them even returned to ask for a replacement.

No one expected that the small state test would actually change the attitude of these gentry and powerful children towards the Hebei General's Mansion. Those who originally criticized science for being contrary to the way of a saint began to secretly sell books and study. Those who were clamoring to join forces with powerful people from all over the country to drive Hebei out of Yanzhou also began to study behind closed doors.

These Confucian scholars used their own practical actions to tell Ma Qiang in Hebei what it means to be able to bend and stretch!

——Jixian

"Wang Yue, the situation in Yanzhou has really changed so quickly? Don't report good news or bad news to me!"

Ma Qiang looked at the report from the Jinyi Guardian and felt so unreliable.

I just had the fields of the powerful clans cleared, and I had conquered people's hearts after one state test?

Don't they hate themselves for canceling the recommendation?

As if he saw Ma Qiang's idea, Wang Yue said, "Ming Gong, the news from Yanzhou is indeed correct. The reason for this is that most of the officials who were recommended to be the children of the powerful and powerful clans, and those children of the other families could not become officials through the recommendation.

In addition, there are no new students in Yanzhou, so the most profitable part of this state trial was the children of the gentry and powerful people. They are also the most numerous people among the gentry and powerful people, so the trend of the people changed in an instant.

Ma Qiang thought about it and understood.

This is the same as Emperor Wu of Han’s order to recommend grace.

"Okay, the news you sent is very important to me. I will give Yanzhou Jinyiwei a third-class collective merit!"

"Thank you, Mr. Ming!"

Ma Qiang took the information and came to the State Council, found Lu Zhi, and told the changes in Yanzhou.

"Mr. Lu, I think that the gentry and powerful people from all over the country actually do not all oppose the imperial examination. Those talented children of the sidelines also agree with the imperial examination."

After reading the report, Lu Zhi suddenly thought of something and said to Ma Qiang, "General, the incident in Yanzhou reminds me of something."

The previous quota of recommendation was allocated according to the population of each county. So will the imperial examination be allocated according to the population of the state in the future?”

Tsk ~

This is a question I haven't thought about seriously before.

Whether it is the imperial examination or the college entrance examination in later generations, the allocation of quotas is something that is difficult to satisfy everyone.

In history, the distribution plan for the early stage of the imperial examination was distributed according to the source of the candidates. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, there were three people in Shangzhou, two people in Zhongzhou, and one person in Xiazhou.

However, by the Song Dynasty, the court found that the imbalance in local economic and cultural development would lead to huge unfair admissions. For example, in the southeastern states, thousands of people often took the exam, and only twenty or thirty people could pass the exam, while only one or two hundred people in the northwest took the exam, but more than ten people could pass the exam. Finally, they went to the capital for an exam. Most of the people who actually passed the exam were southern candidates with relatively developed economic and cultural backgrounds, which meant that a large number of talented southern candidates were buried, and many candidates even changed their ancestral homes to pass the exam.

Well... the same thing, nothing new under the sun.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there was a case of the north-south list of Jinshi, which was recorded, and there was no northerner in the Jinshi subject. Finally, it was decided to allocate the Jinshi quotas according to the origin of the candidates. After several discussions, it was finally decided to allocate the quotas of Jinshi in the way of taking six in the south, three in the north, and one in the middle. By the Qing Dynasty, the north-south division was divided into more and more detailed, and even one province could be divided into two parts, and the quotas were allocated according to the number of people taking the exam in each province.

In short, since the imperial examinations were established, the allocation of admission quotas has been a major issue that affects national stability.

After thinking about it, Ma Qiang said to Lu Zhi, "The scope of the imperial examination was only in Hebei. In the future, the imperial examinations must be implemented in Liang and Jiaotong. This quota allocation is indeed a problem.

In this way, I will talk about two directions. Please discuss with Mr. Lu and Mr. Zheng and the Bureau of Science and Education to see which one is better.

In the first direction, candidates who can take the national examination are divided according to the population of each state, and then the examination is unified, and the talented ones win.

The second direction is to tend to take care of areas with low economic and cultural development, and to consider calculating the quota according to the source of candidates for admission. Although the highest talent wins in the end, no one in a state will be on the list.

What do you think Mr. Lu?”

Lu Zhi thought for a while and said, "The General is really quick-witted, and both directions have their own reasons.

But from the perspective of the overall national situation, the second one is more suitable, otherwise there will be turmoil in the future."

As a great scholar from a first-class gentry, Lu Zhi knew very well how difficult it was for scholars in remote areas to study. This was not just the difficulty of not having famous teachers or following good friends. If people with insufficient standards were not at the same time, they would inevitably experience the beating of society when they left the house.
Chapter completed!