Jing Wen promoted this so-called official examination, and the examination subjects were naturally impossible to assess any classics, history, and collections, because those were useless for grassroots work. Jing Wen could use this reason to refuse to assess classics, history, and collections, so this worked. Jing Wen’s idea was actually to take this opportunity to let all cultural people in the world study the knowledge of other subjects, so that the liberal arts and science can be developed simultaneously. The more you study classics, history, poetry, songs, etc., it will become less and less useful. These things are of no benefit to being an official and are of no use to yourself. But what Jing Wen said most is that the subjects of the imperial examination are the assessment, which is really a bloody thing. Although the Jinshi class is now based on strategy, there are too few places to be admitted to the Jinshi class and cannot play an important role.

Jing Wen wants to take advantage of the opportunity of these official exams to promote those knowledgeable things with practical significance. As long as you need these as an official, those students will definitely study them. Many people think it is difficult to reverse the situation where Confucianism is dominant, but it is not difficult. As long as you can see that studying other knowledge can be an official, and even being an official can be promising, then other subjects may also have a future. Although this exam is just a minor official, Jing Wen knows that once these minor officials can play their own way in the officialdom that does not belong to them.

Their influence is infinite. Once half a year later, some of them become formal officials, and those officials will become spokespersons of countless minor officials. These minor officials have the opportunity to exert their influence. Once the minor officials have a future, the students who study other subjects are more enthusiastic, so that all subjects can flourish. Jing Wen hopes to use the official-oriented thinking as an opportunity to promote other subjects. In order to become officials, those students will definitely study other subjects, which is considered to be a successful promotion of other subjects.

"Jing Wen, then what's the point of the imperial examination? If everyone goes to take the imperial examination to take the imperial examination, then who will take the imperial examination? What's the point of the imperial examination?" Li Shimin asked.

Jing Wen continued: "Your Majesty, didn't I say that? The imperial examinations and other imperial examinations are for those who are determined to be directly officials, such as famous students. They must disdain to start from the minor officials directly, and must be directly officials. Our imperial examinations can prepare for those who are determined to become officials directly and deeply influenced by ancient sages. Those who pass the imperial examinations can directly grant official positions from the beginning, while ordinary minor officials must start from the minor officials, and if they want to obtain official positions, they must compete with many minor officials. In this way, their future will be much tortuous. It is much worse than those outstanding talents in the imperial examinations. Moreover, when promoting the same political achievements, officials who are also given priority to promote the imperial examinations. How about this?"

When Zhang Yang heard this, he stopped talking. Because Zhang Yang heard that officials who could be promoted from the imperial examinations first would not say anything. Because he thought he still had a future, it was naturally difficult to refute. However, he did not realize that there were many pitfalls in it!

Jing Wen said that under the same political achievements, but how to measure the same political achievements, isn’t it still Jing Wen’s method of examination? The method of examination is the best way to measure political achievements at present. If students who are devoted to studying the classics want to become qualified officials, they must take several years to become familiar with them. Within a few years, they cannot truly become familiar with their work and achieve political achievements. In this process, in fact, two groups of officials have been able to become officials. Moreover, more than 300 prefectures across the Tang Dynasty have become officials every six months. However, there are only more than 30 imperial examinations every year. So

When they enter the officialdom, they are definitely not the opponents of officials from minor officials in terms of number of people. After about ten years of development, there are probably more and more officials from minor officials, which is enough to squeeze down officials from imperial examinations. Moreover, officials from minor officials have solid grassroots work experience, which is much better than those new Jinshi, and new Jinshi may not be the opponents at all. In this way, officials from low-level small officials will definitely gradually eliminate officials from imperial examinations, and even gradually eliminate officials from second generations of officials who have been born in the imperial examinations. In this process, various science knowledge can also be continuously developed, allowing many people to study.

"Okay, the imperial examination will focus on strategy and classics. Since such minor officials have to do things at the grassroots level, it is better to focus on practical learning. What to do at that time will be evaluated. This is the ability that minor officials should have. In the Tang Dynasty, we should not only have some officials who can make decisions, but also a group of minor officials who can perfectly implement official orders and policies, so that we can maintain the prosperity of our Tang Dynasty." Li Shimin said.

Li Shimin agreed to take exams for these grassroots minor officials because Li Shimin also knew the use of these minor officials. The quality of these minor officials determines the people's support for the Tang Dynasty and plays a great role in maintaining local stability. As long as there are a group of excellent officials, it will have a very advantage in implementing national policies and appeasement. Therefore, these officials must be examined in the future, just like the imperial examination. Li Shimin also set a tone, that is, the officials in the imperial examination are mainly responsible for decision-making, and these minor officials are mainly responsible for execution. However, the channels for the promotion of minor officials are not closed, which is equivalent to acquiesceing the unity of officials. In the future, these officials can also become officials, and if they have a future, they will be able to keep themselves clean.

"Okay, who will be responsible for this assessment? What is the name of this assessment?" Li Shimin asked.

Jing Wen immediately said: "Emperor, officials are people who perform state civil affairs, so we might as well call civil servants. This sounds better and can avoid discrimination from the people because of the past titles, or those civil servants have psychological inferiority. This exam is called the civil servant exam."

"Civil servants? They are called civil servants? This name is appropriate. However, what are these officials assessing?" Li Shimin asked.

"Your Majesty, I think it can be used to test their math, language understanding, and reasoning abilities. We call it an administrative ability test." Jing Wen said.
Chapter completed!