The imperial court had both civil and military examinations, and had always been open to recruiting talented people.
Regardless of birth or status, as long as they can demonstrate sufficient talent and military strength, the court will recruit them.
Some were assigned to serve as officials in various places, while others joined the army.
The civil service examination tests one's talent, while the fearlessness examination tests one's military strength.
When it comes to reading, the homes of wealthy families are filled with mountains of books, and any talented person in the family can read them.
There are corresponding teachers to teach them how to read and write, and they don’t need to do anything else every day, just read.
Those with martial arts talent will have an endless supply of elixirs and meat every day, so they can just focus on practicing martial arts.
For ordinary people, whether they are poor in literature or rich in martial arts, studying is their only way out.
They don't even dare to think about practicing martial arts, and studying every day requires a huge amount of effort.
The teacher will not teach them to read for free, they need to pay corresponding tuition.
An ordinary teacher with little talent might just need a few pieces of bacon and half a penny of silver, but a truly talented person would not be able to find a way even if he had money.
Even if one succeeds in becoming a disciple, one still has to burn firewood and fetch water, do laundry, cook, or herd cattle and harvest rice every day, making it difficult to concentrate on studying.
For wealthy families, they can easily hire famous teachers thanks to their years of accumulation and interactions.
The children in the family can study every day wholeheartedly without being disturbed by worldly affairs.
As one side gains strength while the other loses strength, although talents are recruited from all walks of life, children from poor families often find it difficult to compete with those from wealthy families.
The top three scholars all come from scholarly families, and it is difficult for ordinary people to become one of them.
Although the imperial court had relevant academies of literature and martial arts, not everyone could enter, and there were certain assessment standards.
They also recruit talents from all walks of life, but people from aristocratic families have a huge first-mover advantage, so there are always more talents.
Although the imperial court had taken precautions, the consequences of being caught cheating in either the civil or military examinations were quite serious, but the aristocratic families no longer needed to cheat too much in this regard.
They can crush the vast majority of people with their innate accumulation.
Over the years, officials from all over the country, the military and political systems, and even institutions like the Jinyiwei and the Liushenmen were infiltrated by aristocratic families.
Any disturbance in the imperial court can be clearly understood by the powerful families below.
After listening to these explanations, I finally understood why the situation had become so confusing.
The Jinyiwei were often descendants of meritorious nobles, and there were many meritorious nobles among the aristocratic families.
The Embroidered Uniform Guard monitors the world on behalf of the royal family, and indeed this system is still in operation.
The submitted intelligence was not blocked or intercepted midway.
But the person who submitted the report also became known.
So many people have access to this report that I don't know where the problem lies.
However, the Jinyiwei's submission is in order, and the relevant suspicious persons can be marked.
I made a suggestion, but Xue Chen did not respond. He just smiled and told me an old story.
Today’s imperial court list is divided into north and south, but it was not divided back then.
The most outrageous and terrifying thing that the Jiangnan gentry did was that one year, from the beginning to the end, from the first to the last place on the list, all were southern scholars.
From the process point of view, there are no problems from top to bottom, and there is nothing wrong with the process.
Under normal circumstances, even the emperor at that time would have needed to swallow his anger, but unfortunately they were unlucky.
That year, they met the most domineering monarch of Daxia.
All officials responsible for the assessment were killed.
He defeated the northern barbarians and restored the northern homeland. That overlord was not only domineering in temper, but also extremely powerful.
Many tributaries of the Yangtze River in Jiangnan were stained red with blood.
But even so, when a new group of officials was replaced, the relationship between the new officials and the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River was still unpredictable.
From the examination room to the test paper to the examiner, the Jiangnan gentry are present in all the steps and nothing can be changed.
Even if the overlord has the power to suppress the world, he still cannot change all this, so he set up another list.
The literary rankings are divided into north and south.
"Could it be that the years of war in the north have caused the scholars to lose interest in their studies and their grades are poor?"
I asked the question that was in my mind, but I also knew that this was a joke.
No matter how bad it is, it was a place where literary saints once lived.
How could it be so bad that not even one person made the list?
"Even during the most chaotic period, when they suffered the most severe attacks from foreign races, the top scholars in the north were no less talented than those in the south. However, after the situation stabilized, not a single one made the list..."
Xue Cheng didn't talk much about this topic, as it was obviously a taboo.
I also deeply realized how powerful and terrifying the influence and strength of the Jiangnan gentry were.
But Xue Cheng told me not to worry too much, as he had already reported the incident.
The assassination of an official figure was suspected to be carried out by a wealthy gentry in Jiangnan.
This matter not only involves me, but also involves quite a few people, and also involves the reputation of the official authorities.
The Jinyiwei was a secret intelligence agency directly under the emperor.
It would be fine if he was retaliated against for the problems he had caused, but being retaliated against for checking information for the court was absolutely intolerable.
My heart became much calmer, and I didn't encounter too many problems afterwards. As a reward, I even received two copies of "The Sutra of the Past Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva".
I don’t know if it was because I was practicing the Sutra of the Past Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, or because I suddenly started to care about people in the Buddhist community, but when I was walking in Jianyi, I actually saw many monks.
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