Lin Biao wrote a secret memorial: “We have traded the tyranny of birth for the tyranny of the desk. A bad warlord is beaten in a decade. A bad scholar rules for forty years.”
A Chronicle from the Forbidden Archives, circa 1620 Eu4 Examination System
But the mechanic had a hidden malice: The Fracture (1588) By 1588, the system had become a prison. To maintain the +3 Stability and the -2 National Unrest, the Emperor had to constantly purge the "failed" candidates. The examinations grew absurd. To become a general, one had to write a poem about a boulder. To become an admiral, one had to calculate grain tonnage using a dead language. Lin Biao wrote a secret memorial: “We have