1. Establishing social order and bureaucracy: In the feudal society of China, maintaining social order and establishing centralization are the primary tasks of the country. The Nine Grades System is a hierarchical system, which helps the government to determine the positions and responsibilities of officials in order to maintain social stability and manage affairs.
2. Disadvantages of the examination and selection system: The imperial examination system in feudal times had certain limitations, including its height limit and the difficulty for people with poor economic ability to obtain education. Therefore, as a balanced means, the nine-level Zheng Zhi system provides more people with opportunities to serve in the government, not just relying on the imperial examinations.
3. The needs of local governments and the maintenance of social classes: local governments need to manage and maintain local affairs, and the nine-product system enables them to hire local people to hold official positions to better meet local needs. This helps to strengthen the management and governance of local governments. The "Jiupin" system also helps to maintain the social stratum structure of feudal society.
4. Government control: This system also helps the central government to manage and control officials. The central government can adjust the promotion and distribution of officials through the nine-product system to safeguard the authority of the government. The emergence of the "Nine Grades System" is to manage social order, meet the needs of local governments, maintain social class structure and strengthen the control of the central government.
The Significance of Zheng Zhi in Ninth Grade
I. Positive significance
It plays a role in selecting talents, and its selection criteria are both family background and ability; The implementation of the "nine-level Zheng Zhi system" also deprived the governors of prefectures and counties of the power to appoint their subordinates, restored the appointment and removal of officials by the central government, and was conducive to strengthening the power of the central government.
Second, the negative significance.
1, aristocratic families hold power: At the beginning of the establishment of the Jiupin Zheng Zhi system, the standard for evaluating characters was to pay equal attention to family background, morality and talent. However, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the leaders were generally second-class, and the second-class had the right to participate in the recommendation of the leaders, while almost all the people who got the second-class were aristocratic families, so the aristocratic families completely controlled the right to choose officials.
2. In the first process of China's authentic products, the standard of talent and morality was gradually ignored: family background became more and more important, and even became the main standard of Jiupin. In the Western Jin Dynasty, there was finally a situation in which there was no poverty in the top grade and no gentry in the bottom grade. Nine-product system is not only an important tool to maintain and consolidate the rule of gate valve, but also an important part of gate valve system itself.
3. In Chiang Kai-shek's comments, only the names of distant ancestors in Wei and Jin dynasties are valued: only genealogy is needed to distinguish lineage from surnames, and Chiang Kai-shek's products have become insignificant routines. In the Sui Dynasty, with the decline of the gate valve system, this system was finally abolished.