"Your Majesty, today all the princes in the world support their troops and respect themselves. Although the imperial court has the intention to eliminate them, it is full of ambition but not enough. I think that we can establish the method of imperial examination and establish civil and military examinations to select officials for the imperial court, regardless of their origins. Talent, in order to gather talents from all over the world and bring peace to the world for His Majesty!" Li Xiang seriously spoke, and then gave a detailed description of the imperial examination system.
"boom………"
Li Xiang's simple words instantly caused a big earthquake in the court.
Once the imperial examination system is implemented, it means that aristocratic families will lose their dominant position in the selection of officials. This is tantamount to digging up the roots of aristocratic families.
It is true that even if the imperial examination is used to fair competition, the children of aristocratic families will definitely have the advantage in the beginning. Even with the advent of printing and papermaking, and knowledge being made available to all classes in the world, the resources possessed by aristocratic families were far beyond what poor families and common people could compare with.
However, among the two classes of poor families and common people, there will always be a few outliers who will have the opportunity to enter the court through the imperial examination.
Perhaps, in the beginning, this group of people was only a very small group, and the aristocratic families still dominated the court.
But hundreds or even hundreds of years later, if things go on like this, as more and more officials from poor families and common people enter the court, there will eventually be a day when they can rival or even surpass their aristocratic family in power.
After all, the resources possessed by the children of aristocratic families are indeed not comparable to those of poor families and common people. But the number of poor families and common people is by no means something that aristocratic families can match. Although the opponent is definitely not as good as them in the early stage, but after a long period of accumulation, the opponent's potential is also terrifying.
The aristocratic family was very important in the feudal era and could even influence the imperial power at one time. How could they not see the powerful relationship here?
In fact, they see it better than anyone else. Looking back at ancient China, especially before the Five Dynasties, how many talents were born from common people, how many were from poor families, but how many were from aristocratic families? This is enough to show how powerful these aristocratic families are!
In history, the imperial examination system began in the Sui Dynasty, but it was not until the Huangchao Uprising in the late Tang Dynasty that the northern minorities invaded. The chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms completely destroyed the clan politics in the center of China in an objective sense in an extremely bloody and destructive way.
Coupled with the Song Dynasty's reliance on the imperial examination system from the beginning of the founding of the country after the Five Dynasties and the development of the south after losing the north, China has fundamentally emerged from this political cycle of "a century-old royal family, a thousand-year family".
Therefore, the imperial examination system is indeed a sharp weapon against aristocratic families, but it would be naive to think that the imperial examination system alone is enough to deal with aristocratic families!
"Your Majesty, all families and tribes are loyal to Your Majesty. If Your Majesty obeys the words and deeds of King Jin, I am afraid that this move will chill everyone's hearts!" An official from an aristocratic family was the first to speak.
When this person came on stage, he directly targeted Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. Although Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was a puppet, he was ultimately the emperor and held great righteousness. As long as he could withstand the pressure and disagree, Li Xiang would not be able to bypass him and directly implement the imperial examination.
"Your Majesty, the method of inspection and examination began with Emperor Wen. It has been nearly four hundred years now. There are countless talents selected for our great Han Dynasty. How can it be changed so easily!"
"Yes, the laws of our ancestors cannot be tampered with!" one official after another agreed.
"The Qin Dynasty became strong because of Shang Jun's reforms, and finally unified the world under the First Emperor. If the imperial examination can make the country strong, why not change it?" Li Xiang also began to exert his efforts, and the first one to take action was Guan Zhong.
Guan Zhong, who came from a poor family, immediately realized the benefits of the imperial examination to their poor family, and immediately stood up to speak for Li Xiang.
"It's a joke, this is a big man, how dare he use the Qin Dynasty as evidence!" an official scolded.
"That's wrong..." Wang Meng also came out and complained a lot at this time.
"Children are rude..."
"From my point of view..."
Soon, behind Li Xiang, the poor families and even the common people faction represented by Guan Zhong, Wang Meng, and Guo Jia couldn't help but started arguing with the aristocratic families in the court.
Li Xiang, although there are many talented people from poor families, even common people. But similarly, there are more talents from aristocratic families. The nature of this era has already determined that aristocratic families determine the source of knowledge. Therefore, even when the system implants an identity, it is usually implanted into aristocratic families.
However, although a few of Li Xiang's aristocratic talents wanted to intervene, they were suppressed by those around them.
Are you kidding? On such an occasion, there are so many outsiders here. If they go out and openly contradict their lord at this time, wouldn't they be making a joke about their own political future?
"Enough, it's so noisy in the court hall, how unbecoming it is!" Looking at the court hall that had turned into a vegetable market, and hearing the buzzing of flies in his ears, Li Xiang couldn't help but shouted angrily.
The reason why Li Xiang chose to propose the imperial examination at this time was not just a thought, but a sudden decision. Among the five states under Li Xiang's command, Bingliang belongs to the border state, and the family is weak. Not to mention Hezhou, a newly developed place. As for Siyong Erzhou, the power of the aristocratic family has been greatly damaged after several blows.
In particular, the Hongnong Yang family was tricked by Li Xiang not long ago, and Yang Biao is still complaining of illness at home for the time being.
Therefore, Li Xiang wanted to take advantage of this moment to quickly settle these matters. Otherwise, Hebei, Central Plains, and Jingzhou are all places where the power of aristocratic families is concentrated. If we wait until these places are conquered before determining the imperial examination, the resistance we will encounter will only be greater.
"Is it because you have no confidence in your children and think that your children are not as talented as others?"
"Prince Jin is joking. This matter involves Chao Gang. It is not up to us to decide whether we have confidence in the children of the family!" An official represented by a noble family chuckled.
Officials from these aristocratic families play intrigue every day, and if they have the chance, they can easily fall into Li Xiang's provocation.
"Your Majesty, please make a decision?" several officials from aristocratic families said in unison.
They knew that they were weak and had no power, especially no military power. They blindly confronted Jin Wang Li Xiang head-on. In the end, they would definitely be unable to twist their arms. Therefore, they could only attack Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, firmly hold on to their great righteousness, and use their great righteousness to force Li Xiang to give in.
"Your Majesty, please make a decision!" Li Xiang took a few steps forward and turned his back to the courtiers to ensure that the courtiers would not see his face. He also imitated the courtiers' behavior and spoke.
However, Li Xiang's eyes looking at Emperor Xian of Han were full of killing intent, and he stared at Emperor Xian of Han and refused to look away. He didn't just want to occupy the great righteousness, but Li Xiang wanted to see if Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty would dare to openly oppose him as long as he was around.
