In fact, the imperial examination system in feudal society also has an extremely important function, which is to maintain the stability of state power and society. On the one hand, the content of the imperial examination is mainly stipulated by the state, but more importantly, the talents it selects are often those who are conducive to maintaining the rule. It is often difficult for ordinary people to discover this secret. Perhaps most feudal rulers themselves did not fully realize the role of this imperial examination system in maintaining their vested social status. On the surface, the imperial examination system is the fairest system in society, so it has been recognized and supported by the vast majority of people in society and has a high degree of social recognition. But in fact, there is a mystery that people are hard to find.
In fact, the imperial examination is not a fair way to select talents. Because the content of the imperial examination is mainly to test students' learning ability and mastery of the golden rule, people selected by the imperial examination are often those with strong learning ability, especially memory. In fact, a person's IQ is by no means directly proportional to his memory, which is only one aspect of his IQ. People's IQ mainly lies in their logical thinking ability. Mainly lies in people's ability to comprehensively analyze problems, especially in people's innovative ability to find new ways to solve new problems. People with strong comprehensive analysis ability, especially those with strong self-innovation ability, often have poor memory, and many people's memory is even worse than that of ordinary people. Therefore, people with high IQ and strong innovation ability are often difficult to be selected by the imperial examination, which is exactly what the rulers want. Because people with high IQ are often the most likely to threaten their dominant position, on the one hand, from the personal psychology of rulers, a person who is far stronger than himself will naturally feel uncomfortable under his own hands and it is difficult to play casually. In the face of such people, the general rulers tend to stay away from them. On the other hand, from the overall perspective of state power, people with strong self-innovation ability are often easy to see the shortcomings of society because of their strong comprehensive analysis ability, and are often more likely to become the leaders of social innovation, which is the last thing for rulers who are already in a dominant position in society, because their dominant social position is likely to be damaged or even completely lost in innovation. Therefore, rulers of past dynasties are generally reluctant to employ people with strong self-innovation ability unless absolutely necessary. Personally, people with strong self-innovation ability tend to be independent, and it is often difficult to learn to accept other people's different opinions, especially those that are obviously wrong and stupid in their own eyes, so it is often difficult to obey others, and sometimes they can only consciously force themselves to obey. Rulers naturally don't want people to appoint such people. On the contrary, people with strong learning and memory ability are obviously different. Because of their strong ability to learn and master other people's ideological achievements and weak autonomy, they are often easy to accept other people's opinions and obey others. Naturally, ordinary rulers often like to appoint such people. More importantly, people with strong learning ability, although not strong in comprehensive analysis ability, often have a wide range of knowledge and strong sophistry ability. In order to achieve a certain goal and maintain a certain status, they can often find various reasons. It's just that their reasons often sound reasonable and not objective and true.