The house is windy, the north wind is howling, but the room is as warm as spring. .

From the distant Western Regions to Hanjing in Shannan, the north wind was no longer as strong as the Western Regions. Niu Jinda listened to the questions and answers of the emperor and Li Chao, but was a little shaky.

Previously, the emperor led his army back to the Central Plains, and he left behind with tens of thousands of troops in the Western Regions. With the assistance of the cavalry of Tuyuhun and Xueyantuo, Niu Jinda crossed the Tianshan Mountains and, under the leadership of Mo Hedu, pursued Li Khan all the way.

Li Khan was defeated again and again, and had fled to the Broken Leaf near Yibohai.

Now the Western Regions have been pacified, and the countries such as Gaochang and Kucha, which were once attached to the Western Turks, were successively captured by the coalition forces.

Mo Hedu replaced his nephew Sun Likhan, became the Western Turkic Khan, and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

As the Anxi Protectorate, Niu Jinda certainly did not want to see Mo Hedu regain control of the Western Regions. His meaning was that the imperial court established castles, established military towns, stationed troops and immigrated to settle the Western Regions, and truly controlled the Western Regions.

He had talked to Li Chao about this issue before, and Li Chao also supported it. The Turks and other tribes were born with rebellious bones. Today, Mo Hedu surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. After ten or eight years of strength, he would definitely betray the Tang Dynasty again. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty could not give him this opportunity from the beginning.

Li Chao's suggestion to Niu Jindati was that the Anxi Protectorate's Office set up military towns and castles in several key locations in the Western Regions. Li Chao established four towns first, and built a great castle in the four places of Kucha, Yanqi, Khotan and Shule, which were located in Gaochang City, the current resident of Anxi Protectorate's Office, and built military towns, which were unified and unified by the Anxi Protectorate's Office.

The locations of these four towns are all south of the Tianshan Mountains and are also the easiest to control. While controlling the four towns, the imperial court can control the south of the Tianshan Mountains, it can also strengthen Gaochang and other places.

As for the north of the Tianshan Mountains, or even west of the Palacio Mountains, the court will not move for the time being.

To the north of the Tianshan Mountains and to the west of the Pamir Mountains, first hand it over to Mohedu Khan.

Doing this will prevent Mo Hedu from rebelling immediately. After all, he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and fought desperately to seize the position of Khan of the Western Turks. If he had nothing in the end, he would definitely turn against him. Give him the land south of the Tianshan Mountains and west of the Pamir Mountains to the peace of mind.

At the same time, he could continue to fight with the Li Khan forces who fled to Saiye. Just sit south of the Tianshan Mountains and watch.

Li Chao's plan made Niu Jinda very excited.

If this plan is really implemented, the Tang Dynasty will not only occupy one Gaochang, but also occupy the entire south of the Tianshan Mountains. His Anxi Protectorate will definitely be promoted to Anxi Protectorate, commanding Gaochang, and leading the four towns.

The Western Regions are not poor. The south of the Tianshan Mountains guards the two roads of the Silk Road, Tianshan South Road and Tianshan North Road. The north road is from Dunhuang to Gaochang to Guici to go west.

The southern road is from Dunhuang to Qiemo, and goes west through Shule and Pamir.

The Tang Dynasty controlled the four towns and controlled the Silk Road, which was also very important.

Li Chao's plan is very long-term. Once the Tang Dynasty has established its foothold in the four towns of Anxi, it will be able to send further troops to the north of Tianshan Mountains. At that time, the Saiye north of Tianshan Mountains and Tochar west of the Pamir Mountains can be taken down.

Restore the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty.

However, there were not many people in the court who supported this plan. Many people did not even feel the need to send troops to the Western Regions, which were thousands of miles away.

But after staying in the Western Regions for a while, Niu Jinda felt it was very necessary.

He believed that the emperor would also support this plan because the emperor had personally visited the Western Regions.

Just as the Tang Dynasty controlled Hetao and divided the feudal areas in the south of the desert, if the imperial court controlled the Western Regions, then the Western Turks would not be able to become stronger and could no longer threaten the Tang Dynasty.

However, at this time, the emperor was talking to Li Chao about the imperial examination reform.

Niu Jinda sat there drinking tea one cup after another, but it was boring and he couldn't understand.

Isn’t the current system of selecting talents very well?

The children of honorary officials can be promoted to the government. Most of the children of honorary nobles and bureaucrats start as guards, while the children of low-ranking officials start as marriage and in the account. After sufficient qualifications, they have the opportunity to be selected for the government. At the beginning, they often become a small military officer or a small civil servant, and they gradually rise.

Civil and military personnel can be changed. If you make military achievements, you will be promoted quickly.

Previously, the reform of the imperial court's official system had broken the boundary and officials could be promoted. Moreover, students who graduated from the Imperial College can take the official examination, become officials, and then do well, and have the opportunity to rise.

Now the imperial court is going to carry out imperial examination reform again, how can it be changed?

Li Chao thought carefully for a long time and finally grasped the emperor's intention.

"Your Majesty, I think it is important to select scholars from the imperial examination. But the current imperial examination system is indeed not suitable for the needs of the court. I think that to reform the imperial examination, there are several important directions. First, the number of imperial examinations should be increased. If only a few people are selected for one subject, it will not meet the needs of the imperial court. Secondly, the examination must be targeted and more widely applicable. Therefore, although the junior college examination has its needs, the imperial examination for the imperial examination should also be the Ming Jing Jinshi. However, in order to make the examination more applicable, I request that only the Jinshi exam be admitted in the future."

"The content of the exam should be the meaning of classics, poetry, and strategy questions. It should not only examine the meaning of the nine Confucian classics, but also examine the poetry and essays, and also add current affairs strategies. In this way, the selected scholars are the best."

Li Shimin pinched his chin and said, "Testing the meaning of the classics, poetry and essays, and asking questions? This is equivalent to combining the Ming Jing and Jinshi? This is the content of the previous Li family exam, well, it's not bad." Li Shimin studied the content of the previous exams in the Li family in detail, and felt that this kind of exam content tests the scholars' knowledge.

In the past, the imperial examinations of the imperial examinations in the court included Ming Jing and Jinshi. The Ming Jing mainly examined the meaning of the classics, and generally took several major Confucian classics separately. Each student could pass one to two classics, which means that only the sutras he had learned. Therefore, it is easier for children from a large family to take the Ming Jing Jing, and it is enough to study one or two classics.

Those scholars who do not have a family education generally take the Jinshi exam and the Jinshi exam are the main candidates for poetry and essays. This is a comparative test.

But now Li Chao's imperial examination content is the meaning of the classics. When examining poetry and essays together, there are also additional test questions. Moreover, the meaning of the classics is the content of the nine classics, not one classic and two classics.

Overall, the difficulty is greatly increased.

"I propose to classify the imperial examinations into three-level examinations. County examinations, Taoism examinations, and Palace examinations. The imperial examinations are held every three years, and the first year of the county examination. All innocent scholars can apply for the examinations from their hometowns and take the county examinations in their own county. Those who pass the county examinations will have existing scholars."

"In the second year, scholars from all walks of life can take the unified examination of the Dao level. The unified examination of scholars who pass the county examination of the Dao will be a juren after passing the county examination.

"In the spring of the third year, the juren gathered in Beijing to participate in the examination. Those who passed the examination will be Jinshi. The Jinshi who won the imperial examination finally went to the Golden Palace to participate in the palace examination chaired by His Majesty himself. In the end, His Majesty selected one, two or three top scholars, and ranked the rest of the Jinshi."

"I suggest that one class of Jinshi will be admitted at least 300 or more."

"Those who pass the imperial examination will be sent to the Imperial College for one year to study administrative examinations and then be assigned to the officials. Those who pass the examination will also be qualified to be an official and can directly take the official examination."

The more Li Shimin listened, the more he felt that the Level 3 exam seemed to be very good.

A scholar, a juren, a jinshi, a first-level exam, and the final exam in the Golden Palace, he personally selected the top scorer.

"Well, very good, Wen Yuan, please write a detailed imperial examination charter for me!"

When Niu Jinda heard that they had finally finished the talk, he shook his head and cheered up.

"Your Majesty, I have something to report."

Li Shimin had a good time discussing the imperial examination reform and was in a good mood. He smiled and said to Lao Niu, "If you have something to say, you might as well say it."
Chapter completed!