Chapter 81 The third section advocates Wenzhi

Jin Shizong is very talented and knows the importance of talents.In order to be able to select qualified talents, Jin Shizong further improved the selection mechanism and gave people more opportunities to display their talents.So, in the Kingdom of Jin at that time, what kind of qualities did a person need to possess if he wanted to become an official in the court?What other ways will there be? In the past, there were many ways for the Jurchen to become an official.The first is military merit. In the end of the Jin Dynasty, most of the Jurchens who entered the court as prime ministers had military backgrounds, especially those Wanyans.

The second is hereditary, and some Meng'an Moukes are hereditary. The third is grace.In ancient China, there was such a regulation that the descendants of officials above the third rank could give one or two places to enter the court as officials without any assessment. This is called grace, which means that it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree.For example, a first-rank official, Yin Yizi, seventh-rank, your son, without the imperial examination, can enter the court as a seventh-rank official; second-rank officials, eighth-rank descendants; The Jurchens can enter the court and serve as officials through military merit, heredity, and grace, so if the Han people want to enter the court as officials, they can only pass the imperial examination.Before Emperor Sejong, although Xizong had opened the imperial examination, the scale was not large, and the proportion of Han people who were officials was very small, and even fewer were officials who reached the level of Zaizhi.With Emperor Sejong's imperial examinations, a large number of Han intellectuals entered the political power.The Kingdom of Jin developed from martial arts to cultural governance, and finally became a Confucianized dynasty.This basically corrected the previous emperor's practice of artificially rejecting a certain group, so that only talents can be used and people can make the best use of them.During Sejong's reign, Wenzhi was greatly promoted, and a large number of Han people were employed as officials to ease conflicts and build harmony, and the country was peaceful.

The imperial examination system can be used in China for 1300 years, from the Sui Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and it has a certain degree of fairness.Officials are selected by examination, at least everyone is equal before the score.Is there any case of cheating?There must be, but it depends on the mainstream.After all, the system of using examinations to select talents is relatively complete among various means, and heroes don't ask about their backgrounds.In ancient times, when children went to school, the teacher would teach them to persuade them to learn poems: "In the morning, I will be the farmer, and in the evening, I will go to the Tianzitang. There will be no kind of love, and a man should be self-improvement." To the emperor's hall.If you want to become an official in the court and participate in maintenance, you only need to study the imperial examinations, and you don't have to rebel.In the Qin Dynasty, it will not work. Do princes and generals care about each other?Reverse it.Studying is difficult, but the cost is much lower than rebellion, at least not life-threatening, right?Sejong's great promotion of imperial examinations immediately calmed down the hearts of scholars in the north. Scholars no longer feel oppressed and ruled if they have the hope of entering the court and becoming officials.In this way, the domestic social contradictions of the Jin Dynasty eased.

When Emperor Sejong was in power, he also paid special attention to punishing corruption and clearing up officials.Sejong was very fond of Wanyan Yungong, the son of Urinda who committed suicide for him. This was his only son with Urinda.After Sejong ascended the throne, he respected Ulinda as the Queen of Zhaode, and he never established a queen for life, which means that Ulinda was the only queen.Yun Gongli, the son of Wu Linda, was established as the prince, and he was trained and taught since childhood.The princess's father was corrupt, but it wasn't actually corrupt, it was just that he received more food.Maybe the war was just over at that time, and the country was in short supply of supplies, just like in the past food was supplied by ticket. The father of the crown princess thought that I was the old father-in-law of the emperor's favorite prince, and I was in-law with the emperor, so I should get more food Is it a thing?He received more food.Because of this incident, he was originally an official in the court, but he was demoted to be a defense envoy, and he was only a fourth-rank official.Another son of Emperor Sejong, Yue Wang Yonggong, was dismissed because of favoritism. In fact, it was just a small matter to cover up criminal officials.After withdrawing his own son, Shizong said: "Although this is minor, it must be punished. Ordinary people's small mistakes are not punished, and they will be blamed. If there is a crime, it must be punished. It is also possible to teach." ("Golden History" Wanyan Yonggong Biography) It was my fault to punish you without teaching. Now that you have made a mistake, I punish you, which is also a kind of teaching for you, so as to save you kid from making big mistakes in the future.If you make a small mistake, I will ignore it for selfishness, and you will be able to do such a big thing as treason in the future. The ancient sages said, "Don't do good because it is small, and don't do evil because it is small." I will teach you like this.Shizong's uncle, Li Shi, was also dismissed for favoritism when he was a political adviser.You know, without his uncle giving him advice, it would be impossible for him to ascend the throne in Liaoyang.

The emperor's uncles, in-laws, and sons are all close relatives, blood thicker than water, because of favoritism, and it's not a big deal, they get more food, protect a family, and go through the back door, and they will be dismissed, demoted, and seized the title , Who else dares to commit another crime?The emperor's six relatives didn't recognize him, and even his own uncle and in-laws were punished. No matter how close you are to the emperor, are these people as close as you are?Therefore, the officials of the Sejong Dynasty ruled Qingming. But when Emperor Sejong advocated Wenzhi, he also discovered a big problem.