Brother Zheng was stunned for a moment. He did not know why Zhao Ye suddenly asked this question.
"Now, the Great Qin uses recommendations, conscription, and money to select talents.”Before the Ancestral Dragon could speak, Wang Jian explained with a smile.
If a person had talent, after being recommended by others and examined by the monarch, as long as the monarch thought it was suitable, he would be given a very high official position. Even a commoner could be promoted to the position of Prime Minister in an instant.
Of course, this required the recommendation of other officials or celebrities.
As for conscription, it was employment. The imperial court selected those who were famous, moral, or skilled as advisors or appointed them to serve in government affairs through characteristics and employment. Shu Suntong became a doctor through Brother Zheng's recruitment.
Paying a certain amount of food and money to the country could be given an appropriate official title. Usually, the country would only do this when it needed a lot of money. It was also an act of buying and selling officials. Although this system was also used in the Qin Dynasty, it was not common and it was generally a virtual position.
Of these three systems, there was no need to mention the payment of money. Simply put, it was to buy an official position.
This recommendation and conscription was very knowledgeable.
First of all, there needed to be a sponsor.
For the time being, there was no need to talk about whether you had talent or ability. Without a recommendation, there was generally no way to advance.
Of course, Great Qin had only just been established, and Brother Zheng was a talented and ambitious ruler. As such, recommending himself was a good idea, but the person who recommended him was himself.
However, there was a huge problem with this system.
If a newcomer wanted to enter the officialdom, they had to be recommended by the elders.
And the recommendation meant that there was a connection of interests.
Of course, it also meant that the people from poor families would have no room for advancement. Their social classes would be severely solidified, and in the end, they would form various parties.
As for conscription, there was naturally no need to say much. This method of selecting talents was not mainstream. After all, how could there be so many talents in the world that could make the king's heart flutter?
In other words, even though Great Qin had just established a Kingdom, the problem of the talent selection had already existed.
The imperial examination was undoubtedly a good way to rise.
No matter how unscientific the imperial examination was, no matter how useless the eight-part essay was.
One undeniable fact was that the imperial examination broke the hierarchy and broke the situation of the aristocratic families.
A large part of the Tang Dynasty's destruction of the aristocratic families was due to the imperial examinations.
And the fall of the Sui Dynasty was also largely due to the imperial examinations.
The imperial examination meant that there was new blood, and it also meant that the newcomers would inevitably have conflicts with the aristocratic families that controlled the government.
"I have a suggestion!" Zhao Ye straightened his body.
"Although the recommendation system is good, those scholars with great talent but poor families are not recommended. Wouldn't it be a pity that our Great Qin can't recommend them?”
Zhao Ye smiled and said," Why don't Your Majesty set up an assessment? Be it policy or government affairs, the assessment will be unified. Those who pass the assessment will be promoted to officials. The capable will be promoted, and the mediocre will be demoted. Wouldn't that be better?”
When the Ancestral Dragon heard Zhao Ye's words, he fell into deep thought.
As for the talent selection system of Great Qin, Ying Zheng had already noticed it a long time ago.
Great Qin used the system of military merit to promote nobility, so many of Great Qin's officials had been transferred from Generals. Other than military personnel becoming civil servants, the other way to transfer talents was through recommendation.
However, there was also a huge problem with the recommendation.
Would a person elect a person without talent because of interests and delay the local government affairs?
Would someone use the recommendation as a threat to deliberately form cliques for personal gain?
These were all huge hidden dangers.
However, Brother Zheng's methods were tough, and with the Black Ice Platform monitoring the officials, there had not been any cliques for personal gain.
However, this did not mean that it would not happen in the future. The drawbacks of the election system were there, and there was no other way.
The assessment system that Zhao Ye mentioned was very interesting.
By selecting talents publicly, the capable would be promoted, and the mediocre would be demoted. A unified selection could prevent cliques from forming, and at the same time, it could prevent people from recommending mediocre people to harm the people.
"That's a good idea, but Great Qin has tens of millions of people. Once the assessment is held, everyone will probably compete to participate, and Xianyang City will probably be filled with people.”Brother Zheng said with a smile.
It wasn't that he hadn't thought of a similar method before.
However, there would definitely be countless people participating in an assessment.
Once or twice was fine, but if it was like this every year, Xianyang City would probably be squeezed out.
After all, as long as everyone was free, they would come and try.
What if he met a dead rat by chance?
"Your Majesty, you can set up a unified assessment in all the prefectures and counties. Xianyang City would distribute the papers and send officials to supervise the exam. A dozen people from each prefecture and county would be selected, and then Xianyang City would conduct a unified assessment. After that, His Majesty would personally assess them.”
Zhao Ye said with a smile on his face.
For things like the imperial examinations, if one had not eaten pork before, would one not have seen pigs run?
Zhao Ye was still clear about the system, but as for the details? Zhao Ye could not remember clearly, but this was not a problem. He could just let Great Qin's officials fill in the gaps.
He couldn't possibly bring up the imperial examination and even give out the test paper questions, right?
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