Keju

Careful selection of bureaucrats and administrators is a vital process for an empire with our size. To sate our need for capable and shrewd individuals, we have refined the imperial examination system - also known as Keju - to suit the needs of our dynasty. The exams are a certain path to ensuring all our bureaucrats are familiar with writing etiquette, Chinese literary classics and various styles among state officials. This shared conduct will serve to cement our nation and promote unity, as well as the promotion of the meritocratic ideal that outlines the cornerstones of the founding of our dynasty. The examination system will therefore go on to play a significant role in tempering the power of hereditary aristocracy and military authority, and in the rise of a gentry class of scholar-bureaucrats.