Why did Emperor Wen of Sui personally abolish the imperial examination system in his later years?
The ancient imperial examination system has been abolished and restored many times, and it is not easy to be passed on forever, and the birth of the imperial examination system has to start from the Sui Dynasty......
Before the Sui Dynasty, most of the system of selecting officials was unreasonable, and before that, there was a feudal system, in which the emperor divided the princes and kings, which caused the decentralization of centralized power, so that most of the power of the country was in the hands of the princes and kings.
It also led to the decentralization of the emperor's power, and then after years of development, although there was no continuation of the feudal system, the system of selecting talents was still not perfect, and the power to select talents was still in the hands of the nobles, that is, the gate valve.
Previously, people did not feel that there was anything wrong, thinking that this system was reasonable, and no one raised objections, until the Sui Dynasty had the consciousness that such a system was unreasonable, and began to make changes.
The ancient imperial examination system was pioneered by Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui, and after the imperial examination system was created, countless children of the poor family also had the opportunity to enter the court to be officials, and the opportunity to be an official was no longer limited because of their identity and family background.
It also greatly purged the officials in the imperial court who only took money and did not do political affairs and had no talents, and promoted talented fresh blood to maintain the stability of the imperial court and enable the country and people's livelihood to achieve better development.
The birth of this system has also given hope to many people, especially families with scholars at home.
Seeing that they had the opportunity to get ahead, the scholars were also very excited, and they finally ushered in the opportunity to change their destiny.
But there are also certain drawbacks, and the appearance of various drawbacks is also the fundamental reason why Emperor Wen of Sui abolished the imperial examination system, so what are the reasons for this?
On the one hand, the reason is that the imperial examination system did not meet Yang Jian's requirements, although the imperial examination system changed the situation of the gate valve holding the vast majority of power to a certain extent, but it was not well considered when the system was formulated.
There are still many deficiencies in the formulation of various mechanisms, and with the obstruction of various families and nobles, they can engage in "black-box operations", so that the imperial examination system has gradually become a kind of decoration.
It's okay to select capable officials, but what I'm afraid of is that the people who are selected are still shoehorned in by the nobles of the family, and the power is still in the hands of the nobles of the family, and it has not shaken their foundation.
The imperial examination system is very much like an empty shell, it looks very lofty, but in fact, it has not played any substantive role, and it will not achieve the situation that Yang Jian wants to weaken the power of the aristocracy, so it will be abolished.
Another reason is that the content of the imperial examination system at that time was not so perfect, and the main content of the examination was Confucianism, but it was not so authentic, and it was all bad things.
At that time, few people in the society would accept such ideas, and they all thought that Confucianism did not enter the stream, otherwise there would not be the incident of Qin Shi Huang's "burning books and pit Confucianism" many years ago, and basically no one wanted to Xi learn Confucianism.
However, Confucianism is the core of the imperial examination system, and Yang Jian's own distraction in his later years has made him a little more than capable of strength, and watching the imperial examination system introduced in his early years has made the selection of talents even more chaotic.
At a glance, most of them were children of the family, and they did not achieve the desired effect at all, so they simply did not see the imperial examination system and returned to the original system.
Yang Jian's own life experience is also more inspirational, he has never restricted his development because of his identity, he inherited his father's title when he was young and became the Duke of Suiguo, and since then he has begun to experience the ups and downs of the country.
When he was an official in the imperial court, he also saw that many people with lofty ideals had no place to show their talents, but those second-generation officials and nobles who had no talent did not do their jobs in high positions.
There are even the behaviors of buying and selling officials in the imperial court, which can be said to be a miasma, and he has always scoffed at this phenomenon, but because he has no real power, he can only not understand these phenomena but respect them.
After Yang Jian became the emperor, he found that the power of the imperial court to select officials was in the hands of the nobles of the family, and it was even more difficult for ordinary people to become officials, and the nobles of the family would only select the young children of their own family to enter the court as officials.
In order to strengthen the power of his family, Yang Jian discovered this drawback, so he abolished the system of selecting talents at that time and established the imperial examination system, wanting to centralize power and weaken the influence of the family lords.
In addition, at that time, everyone wanted to enter the court as an official, which led to a lack of local talents, and the economy and culture of many places could not be well developed and were in a backward position, so Yang Jian came up with another way to come up with the method of the imperial examination system.
Although Yang Jian did not succeed in implementing the imperial examination system, fortunately, the people of later dynasties have made the imperial examination system develop well and become a feasible standard for selecting talents, and there are still many merits.
