Valley Emperor

Taking advantage of the rainy season, the Datang Army began to free up its hands to rehabilitate and replenish various units. In addition, it took time to complete the reorganization of the existing five temporary regiments and reorganized them into regular mixed regiments. In addition, appropriate preparations were made. The small-scale strengthening of the strength of the front-line troops, mainly to strengthen the number of artillery, the number of guns and start small-scale equipment plate armor.

Then the cabinet also urgently needs to completely bring the newly captured southern parts of Huguang and Jiangxi into rule, so that these places can provide troops and taxes for the Tang Dynasty!

This is the core military and political strategy of the Tang Dynasty at this stage!

They're not bandits, they don't care after the fight!

Therefore, although the war on the front line has stopped, Li Xuan is still busy, not only Li Xuan, but the entire administrative system of the Tang Dynasty is maintaining a continuous high-speed operation.

Not only are there many administrative affairs, but Xuanping's three-year palace exam is about to begin!

Strictly speaking, this imperial examination was the first official imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty. Unlike last year's hurried ascension to the top of Enke, the imperial examination this time was held to a very standard.

From the county examination to the prefectural examination, the academy examination, and then to the township examination, as well as the general examination and the palace examination, all were strictly in accordance with the process of the traditional imperial examination.

In February, when the front-line troops were fighting, thousands of scholars from all over the country gathered in Zhaoqing to participate in the first official meeting of the Tang Dynasty.

Although many of the scholars who participated at the beginning were used to make up numbers, and the quality was not very good, if it were based on the imperial examination standards of the Ming Dynasty, among the thousands of scholars, I am afraid that one-tenth of them had real materials. No, but Li Xuan and even the entire Tang Dynasty didn't care!

This time, most scholars in the three provinces did not participate as enthusiastically as the Ming Dynasty held the imperial examination because of their resistance to the Tang Dynasty, but this also lowered the threshold accordingly.

Basically, the scholars who come to apply for the exam can get the reputation of Xiucai with a little passing!

Exams are also relatively simple!

The Juren Examination is also simple. Thousands of people took the exam, and more than 300 scholars from the jinshi department and more than 80 scholars from the doctoral department were admitted.

Add up to more than 400 people, accounting for one-sixth of the candidates!

What's interesting is that more than half of these students who can pass the palace examination and obtain the title of Jinshi or Ph.D. are born in the Imperial College.

Because the students of Guozijian will be granted fame and fame, and have the right to directly participate in the imperial examination, and the content of the examination is basically based on the teaching content of Guozijian, so the chances of students of Guozijian in the examination are still very large!

Of course, this is also related to the fact that there are not many candidates from places to take the exam!

In April, Li Xuan officially convened the palace exam and took the seat in person!

Moreover, he also personally reviewed more than 80 examination papers of the doctoral department, and also reviewed the top 30 examination papers of the Jinshi department.

Zhao Lin, a young student from Guangzhou Prefecture, was appointed as the champion of the new division of the Jinshi division, and Liu Linhan, a student of the National School of Supervision, was appointed as the champion of the doctoral division!

At the same time, he personally ordered the first-class jinshi in the Jinshi department and the second-class doctor in the doctoral department to enter the Hanlin Academy, and awarded different official positions in the Hanlin Academy.

But Li Xuan let them enter the Hanlin Academy, not to let them raise hope, but to train their abilities.

Because the Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty was different from the Hanlin Academy of the Ming Dynasty, it was not a nursing institution, but an institution that actually handled government affairs. These new Hanlins entered the Hanlin Academy, a de facto secretarial institution, to exercise their familiarity with government affairs. of.

But it is impossible to be the same as the Hanlin people of the Ming Dynasty, who can spend ten or twenty years in the Hanlin generation, and then go straight to the cabinet. In the Tang Dynasty, there is no such shortcut.

Because Li Xuan has already stipulated that Hanlins are not allowed to be promoted within the system of the Hanlin Academy. External tuning must also be external tuning.

And even if there are vacancies in the Hanlin Academy, they must be recruited from outside to hold young backbone officials, and they will not be selected directly from the Hanlin Academy!

After a section was held, Li Xuan looked at the list of hundreds of officials, and was also very relieved. There are many talents from all over the world to collect their sighs!

At the same time, after this official section is held, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty will be firmly established!

A feudal dynasty held imperial examinations, which was almost a sign of a dynasty becoming stable. At the same time, when these new scholars joined the Tang Dynasty, there were hundreds or even tens of thousands of social backbone families in this era who joined the Tang Dynasty. The carriage.

These days, a student is never alone. Behind them are mentors, friends, and family members.

A new scholar in a place like Zhaoqing is naturally nothing, because this place is the same as the capital in the north, and now there are officials all over the street, but this new scholar usually has a great influence in the local area. Li, not to mention that there is already a scholar in the middle, even if it is a scholar, he has a great influence in the local area, and he is the backbone of the local gentry!

As long as the Datang Dynasty holds more imperial examinations, more and more scholars will join in. At that time, the elites in the three provinces will not dare to say all, but most of them will directly or indirectly join the Datang Dynasty. system and become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty!

This is also the reason why Li Xuan supported the establishment of the imperial examination, and even held his nose to hire those scholars who only knew how to write eight-legged essays.

On the surface, this is for talents, but in fact, it is to win over the elites of the three provinces!

Since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, it has always been on the opposite side of the elites, especially in terms of taxation. The three major tax categories of 'gentry-integrated taxation, business tax, and agricultural tax' have almost severely suppressed the local elites. , and continue to arouse their explicit or implicit resistance.

In the two years of Xuanping, the Tang Dynasty raided their homes and exterminated their families, and the number of armed anti-tax repressions was also overwhelming. The ones who were killed were just rolling on their heads, and most of those killed were the elite gentry represented by landlords and big businessmen.

But to govern the world, you can't just rely on killing. If you kill everyone, who will Li Xuan govern?

Therefore, the imperial examination was Li Xuan, and it was also an important means used by the Tang Dynasty to ease relations with the gentry!

What these gentry care about most is not land or making money, but being an official!

For thousands of years, the elites in China have cared most about being an official!

No way, the official-based thinking formed over thousands of years cannot be reversed so easily.

Li Xuan's current means of playing is to forcefully implement various new policies and kill them for this purpose, and on the other hand, he also gives those gentry who obey the rule of the Tang Dynasty a step forward, which is more popular. To describe it is a big stick and a hand of candy.

And to put it in a more straightforward way: those who obey me prosper and those who oppose me perish!

After Xuanping's three-year imperial examination came to an end, Li Xuan instructed to start preparing for next year's imperial examination this year!

That's right, Li Xuan has held the imperial examination every year in recent years. On the one hand, it is to attract the elites, and on the other hand, it is also to alleviate the shortage of talents.

Even the talents in Li Xuan's heart were students in the infantry barracks, or students in the Imperial Academy, but a huge empire needed not hundreds or thousands of officials, but tens of thousands. Now the Tang Dynasty ruled The larger the district, the larger the demand for officials.

In particular, the political power of the Tang Dynasty was directly sent to the countryside. It was not like the Ming Dynasty. It was only established at the county level, and a county only had so few officials. The proportion of officials in the Tang Dynasty was relatively large.

And there is no such thing as an official in the Tang Dynasty, but everyone who eats imperial food has an official body, even the lowest-ranking clerk or patrol policeman, also has an official body from the ninth rank!

This also makes many people misunderstand that there are many officials in the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, this fact does not exist, because the Tang Dynasty is actually combined with the officials and officials of the Ming Dynasty.

Although compared with the Ming Dynasty, it will increase the cost of personnel salaries, but the increase is not much, because although these people in the Ming Dynasty do not take money from the court, they still need to get wages. Where do the wages come from? From the fat of the people and the cream of the people.

But now the Datang Dynasty implements a strict taxation system, and implements a system of separating national and local taxes. In fact, most of the salaries of local officials are borne by the local finance, while the central finance only bears a very small part.

Therefore, it did not deepen the financial pressure, nor did it increase the tax burden of the people!

However, only a brand-new dynasty like the Tang Dynasty can establish such a system. If the Ming Dynasty is to carry out such a reform, the Zhu Family Dynasty will be reformed in minutes!

But Li Xuan is still dissatisfied with the various systems of the existing Datang Dynasty. The various systems of the current Datang Dynasty still haven't achieved the ideal filling he envisioned. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

For example, the most important tax system, the current tax types are still too few, only a few major taxes such as commercial tax, agricultural tax, customs duty, salt tax, etc., and the more important commercial tax is not divided into too much detail.

The only thing that is more complete is the tariff, because Datang's tariff was built directly from scratch without any reference to the previous dynasty. From the very beginning, different proportions of import tax and export tax were levied according to different goods!

Moreover, the tariffs do not belong to the locality, and are directly collected into the central finance!

However, in terms of business tax, a simple one-size-fits-all approach was adopted at that time, which was mainly composed of the business tax of shops and workshops and the tax of each checkpoint. The business tax was basically fixed, and the mainland customs duties were also relatively simple and rude. After a tax card merchant You have to pay a tax.

Therefore, Li Xuan is preparing to divide the business tax in detail recently!

However, before the detailed division of commercial taxation, the Tang Dynasty still had another task to do, which was to draft and issue a series of commercial-related laws, that is, the "Datang Commercial Law".