Zhao Xu remembered Zheng Hezhi and smiled and said, "It's good. Rewards, but don't be promoted and transferred immediately. Let's talk about it when things are stable."

"Yes, I also think so," Cai Bian said.

Zhao Xu held the bowl and said, "There has been some progress in measuring the land and the census should be put on the agenda. Kaifeng Prefecture is the key point. Other places have ordered them to census and report the population situation. Let them first see how they do it."

Zhang Dun said: "Yes. The Zhengshi Hall and Kaifeng Prefecture have been preparing. I am considering that this year's spring examination will begin and I have to wait until the spring examination is over."

The spring inspection is scheduled for February 14th, and it is now early February, and it is indeed very fast.

Zhao Xu thought about a series of things in the imperial examination, which also involved Kaifeng Prefecture's reform. He nodded and said, "Okay. I have passed the exam questions, and this is what this year. Next time, I will come out."

The test questions given by Zhang Dun greatly compressed the part of the classics and focused on "pragmatism". It is obvious that he wanted to select scholars of the reformists to reserve talents for the reform and compress the political space of the opposition.

"Yes." Zhang Dun said.

Su Song and Han Zongdao looked at each other silently, but the two did not speak.

As the "old party", they have been rejected, and this is not the first time. The specific government affairs are increasingly falling into Zhang Dun's hands, which has made the power of this "factual prime minister" expanding, and it is not far from the real prime minister.

The topic of Zhao Xu and others quickly changed to the imperial examination.

There are as many as 10,000 candidates waiting for the spring examination in Kaifeng City. According to previous practice, the court had to admit almost 1,500 people, which is quite high.

Most of them will not get official positions immediately, and more than half of them will still have false positions, but no matter what, as long as they pass the Jinshi, they will receive a salary from the court.

The imperial examination was one of the main reasons for the redundant officials in the Song Dynasty.

Now, except for the few people from the Political Affairs Hall and the Ministry of Personnel, no more people know that the court has decided to deal with the redundant officials, and the first step is to the imperial examination!

In Zhang Dun's plan, this year's imperial examination will only admit less than 300 people, which is about one-fifth of those in previous years!

Ten thousand people admitted 10 to one; but if ten thousand people admitted 300, that would be 30, or even 40 to one, the admission ratio was unprecedentedly low!
Chapter completed!