With the release of the results of the palace examination, the second imperial examination of the Great Chu Empire has come to an end. Although there are still some chores to follow, such as summoning the first-level students of each subject, and holding an honor banquet for the new subjects.
The overall ceremony is different between the Chu State and the Ming Dynasty and other dynasties, mainly because it is simplified a lot.
After all, the imperial examination may be very important in the traditional feudal dynasty, but in Luo Zhixue's mind, it is just a civil service examination.
And according to Luo Zhixue's plan, the exam will be held once a year in the future, and more and more people will be admitted. Eventually, the exam will be divided into provincial exam centers, etc., and it will eventually be fully developed into a civil service exam that meets the needs of the Great Chu Empire.
By then, the number of people admitted will not be a few hundred, but tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.
Although the current imperial examination is still based on the traditional system, Luo Zhixue is not willing to set the style too high at the beginning, which will cause difficulty in subsequent changes.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue took matters into his own hands, eliminating a lot of procedures and lowering the specifications.
For Luo Zhixue, this time the imperial examination is over, and there are not many talents recruited.
In fact, the current way for the Chu Empire to recruit talents is not to rely on imperial examinations to select Jinshi. There are only a few hundred Jinshi a year, no matter how capable they are, the number is not enough.
In fact, the Chu Empire currently recruits talents in various ways, such as using demoted officials and officials from the former Ming Dynasty.
Another example is that local government agencies recruit people directly from the society.
For example, in the official selection held by the prefectural-level etiquette and education department, the selected personnel are all awarded the ninth rank and serve as grass-roots clerks. There is also the official selection held by the provincial governor's yamen. Once selected, the selected personnel are awarded the ninth rank, and they also serve in various departments. member.
Moreover, this kind of official selection does not depend on the candidate's merit. Even if you are an ordinary person, you can take the exam, and the requirements are not too high. You must be basically literate in Dongwen, be able to read and write official documents, and understand basic arithmetic.
There are also the selection of officials specifically for those with merit and fame. This one is aimed at scholars and candidates, including those with merit and fame in the Ming Dynasty.
For the official selection of these people, the grades awarded will be higher. For example, if they are selected by candidates, they will be awarded the seventh grade, and if they are selected as scholars, they will be awarded the eighth grade.
Moreover, it is clearly stipulated that whether officials are selected through local selection or those who pass the Gyeonggi palace examination, they will be treated equally, and there is no ceiling for promotion.
In fact, a large number of mid-level and high-level officials in the Chu Empire were all half-hearted scholars with unorthodox Jinshi origins.
According to Luo Zhixue's plan, after subsequent development, the subsequent selection of civil servants in the Chu Empire can be divided into government examinations, provincial examinations, and national examinations. The three examinations will be conducted in parallel. Candidates can take whichever one they are willing to take.
In the future, academic qualifications can also be limited by provincial and national examinations, such as junior college graduation or bachelor's degree.
In Luo Zhixue's mind, he already had a complete set of ideas for the future reform of the imperial examination, and he was waiting for the various subjects of Gewu to be promoted and truly select talents for the country.
As for now, we can only use these officials with traditional scholar backgrounds, who can read and write at least. After all, Luo Zhixue can't find a group of illiterate people to help him heal the country.
After passing the imperial examination, Sun Qinian, the most talented person in the field of science and technology, was awarded the rank of seventh grade. According to his decision-making during the imperial examination, he answered questions about industry, so he was assigned to serve in the Ministry of Industry.
Among his friends, one was in the top three of the Jinshi Department and was assigned to serve in the governor's office of Jiangxi. The other two were in the top three of the Gewu Department and were both assigned to the governor's office in northern Chu.
However, before officially separating and taking office, they will return to their hometown together.
In addition, depending on the distance of their hometown, new officials will have paid leave ranging from one month to six months, so that they can go home and enjoy the glory of being elected as officials before officially embarking on their official career.
The reason why vacations are arranged before joining the job is because transportation is not convenient these days, and in order to prevent officials from serving in their hometowns, which will lead to the situation where local power cannot be eliminated, the Dachu Empire clearly stipulates that all local government officials, those with seven grades and above must Got a job in another place.
Among them, the seventh-level official and the sixth-level official need to serve in different houses, and they need to be more than a hundred miles away from home.
Those who are in the sixth grade or above need to serve in other provinces and need to be more than three hundred miles away from home.
Appointments in various ministries in the capital are not restricted.
And the four of them are all seventh-level officers. According to the rules, they can serve in different houses. However, because the local government offices in various provinces are very short of people, they simply arranged all the new scholars to the place this time, and the arrangement At the same time, we also make appropriate arrangements based on the policy questions they choose to answer, and strive to be as professional as possible.
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His three friends were all assigned to serve in places far away from home.
And considering that they are still young, local officials in the Chu Empire are often promoted very quickly, and they may be promoted to the sixth rank or above in a short time.
By then, they can no longer expect to return to Jiangnan Province to serve.
Going home is even more of a luxury.
For eunuchs, after becoming an official and before returning home after becoming an official, they had very few opportunities to go home. They were either passing by or attending funerals. Under normal circumstances, they would not be able to return home.
Therefore, the Dachu Empire gave new officials a holiday, and new officials who had traveled far away were even given a six-month holiday.
Even if you deduct the one or two months spent traveling back and forth, you can still spend some time with your family.
Sun Qinian and three friends returned home this time, and they jointly hired a boat to return home together.
When we returned home, Fang and everyone happened to say that they were going to Suzhou, so we went with them.
It's just that when they went to Suzhou, this time Sun Qinian and the others didn't see the old lady who had been following everyone Fang and watching them as if they were a cash cow.
After asking, everyone said in a joyful tone: "That vicious woman was caught by the officials, haha, she was beheaded yesterday, and I even came to see it in person, and the bloody old man... …”
Sun Qinian and the others were a little stunned at first, but after everyone explained, they realized that the old woman had bribed several young and beautiful girls, saying that she wanted to teach them to become new oirans, but she was raped within two days. Officials in black uniforms came to the door and took him away.
The charge is human trafficking. I heard from the official that this kind of crime is a heinous crime in their country and they will be severely punished if found out.
That old woman, thinking that under the rule of Da Chu, the old Ming court laws were still being followed, she bought a few little girls in the name of adoption, and then she was caught.
In Dachu, those who sell young children are punished with a third-level crime, so the woman was chopped with a knife and her home was ransacked.
However, everyone in Fang also said that now she has completely regained her freedom. They said that the imperial court issued a law some time ago, which once again made it clear that there was no distinction between nationality in the Great Chu Empire, and there was no such thing as lowly status, craftsman status, or nationality status. Military households, etc., everyone is equal.
It also clearly enacted a law to abolish all forms of slavery. The government does not recognize any form of deed of sale, and will severely crack down on those who keep slaves in the name of adoption.
At the same time, it is strictly prohibited for anyone to restrict the personal freedom of others, beat, kill, etc. in any form. If this occurs, they will be severely punished for illegal imprisonment, intentional injury, intentional homicide, etc.
If the owner or adoptive parents commit this crime, the crime will be increased by one level!
The reason why the terms boss and adoptive parents are included is because in the society of the Ming Dynasty, many slaves existed as adopted children.
There are also bosses, many big family members hire many people as hired workers, and they beat them back and forth at every turn and make them slaves on the spot.
For these situations, the laws of the Da Chu Empire are strictly prohibited.
Then it was also clarified that the Monogamy system of the Chu Empire was strictly prohibited and concubinage was strictly prohibited.
However, in order to protect the vulnerable groups, especially those who were old and lustful, the Chu Empire also stipulated that the established fact of taking concubines before the law was officially promulgated was partially recognized. If the woman wanted to divorce, the man could not stop her and sentenced her to Grant alimony.
If the woman is unwilling to divorce, it will be considered a de facto marriage.
Children born before them, as well as children born in de facto marriages, have the same inheritance rights as legitimate children.
Of course, this kind of thing does not matter to the people... As long as you have the ability to coax a woman well, and make her willing to be a nameless concubine/lover, no one can stop you.
However, as long as the woman files for divorce, the judge will award a divorce and impose alimony.
The issuance of this series of laws also means that the Judicial Yuan of the Great Chu Empire, under the instruction of Luo Zhixue, has penetrated into the marriage law in the civil law. It also promulgated a series of other laws in the civil law.
Finally, the company law, contract law, etc. in the industrial and commercial law provide sufficient legal support for the operation of industry and commerce.
As the Great Chu Empire occupied the south of the Yangtze River, a series of laws of the Great Chu Empire also penetrated into various parts of the south of the Yangtze River.
As a Qinhuai woman, everyone was obviously deeply touched. When talking to Sun Qinian and others, they couldn't control their emotions. They laughed and cried. At the end, everyone saw Fang saying firmly: "From ancient times to the present, No one has ever looked at us suffering people, only now, I have seen it..."
Then he grinned: "So when the slave family heard that the 'Financial Bank' over there at the Ministry of Finance said that they were selling national debt to raise funds to fight against the Ming rebel army, the slave family directly spent half of their net worth to buy national debt!"
The Finance Bank is an official bank established by the Finance Department of the Da Chu Empire under the instructions of Emperor Luo Zhixue. It is also the only official bank in the Da Chu Empire so far, engaged in financial services such as savings, lending, and exchange.
Its sale of treasury bonds is also a small attempt by financial banks.
Although the Dachu Empire's finances are now very healthy and not short of money, it is at the critical period of China's unification. No amount of money is too much. Therefore, in order to avoid not having enough money to spend at critical moments, the tax department and the finance department The Ministry of Finance has always talked about working hard to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
The treasury bonds issued by this financial bank are one of the ways to raise funds.
However, the person in charge of promoting national bonds in the financial bank did not expect that more than a month after the launch of national bonds, the vast majority of the purchasers were women.
Strictly speaking, they are a group of women working on the Qinhuai River!
As for the traditional wealthy gentry, except for a few gentry officials who work in the Ministry of Finance and have related interests, they just mean that the national debt does not exist...
So much so that the vice president of the Finance Bank in charge of national debt affairs looked up to the sky and sighed: Officials and gentry are not as good as good men!
