Crown Tang emperor

The way for scholars in the Tang Dynasty to obtain their background is not only the imperial examination, but also some more important ways, such as pinziyin teaching.Those who are above the fifth rank can have a son, which has created many aristocratic families.

These second-generation officials may not have a very high fortune, but their parents and grandparents have accumulated a lot of resources in the officialdom.I really wish I could dig out the ashes of the eight generations of ancestors and spread them on my body to boost my courage. At the time of competition with Shiliu, even if the selection system is strict, there will be various hidden advantages that will play a role.

However, after some investigation, there were almost no officials who stayed in the capital. There were only a few Taimiao Zhailang, all of whom were over 35 years old. It is not the official vacancies of Taiwan province that are awarded, but the low-grade trick officials of the temple supervisors.

"How could this be?"

Although it is dissatisfactory to say that a large number of shady-born people occupy good official positions, but now there are almost no shady-born people who retain the capital, which is unavoidably surprising, even a little weird.

"Could it be that Jingsi is too eye-catching and simply seeks good officials from other states?"

There are many conspiracy theorists who have speculated in this way, and proposed to directly search for the official titles of those high-ranking officials' children.

The election has been noisy for several months, and some candidates with special family backgrounds have long been found out, and they are also the focus of Shiliu's attention, so they are naturally copied from the long list.

At this moment, everyone searched one by one again, and they were not confused, but soon the results made them a little dumbfounded.

When it comes to candidates with excellent family backgrounds, it is natural to mention Yao Yi, the son of Yao Yuanchong, the prime minister of the dynasty.When the selectors wanted to find out about the employment status of the children of senior officials, they naturally started from the most conspicuous ones. Yao Yi's selection records were immediately found out.

"Fulong county lieutenant... Fulong? When did the Tang family have this county name?"

When someone saw the title of the official position conferred by Yao Yi, he immediately looked confused, and began to think about the location of this rather unfamiliar Fulong County.

Someone next to him has already reminded: "Isn't it written on the list, Shunzhou Fulong County... Shunzhou, that is the new state established by the saint in Haidong after recovering Qinghai. Fulong County is in the other direction, it seems to be a remote place in Qinghai ah!"

"Yao Xianggong is in power, the leader of the class, and his son is in trouble, so he can't be included in the world. Although it is to avoid suspicion, it is a bit mean..."

After learning the location of Fulong County, some people couldn't help but sighed.The newly established prefectures and counties are still in Qinghai, which has just been recovered and the war is over. It is conceivable that the town must be full of affairs and the people are tough.

Although it is resentful to say that the children of high-ranking officials occupy the positions of good officials, it is also part of Shiliu's values.Yao Yuanchong has such a high status, but his son was kicked to the dangerous place in Qinghai where the new harvest was not cured. It can't help but make people wonder whether this Yao Yi was born by Yao Xianggong.

In addition to Yao Yi, other high-ranking officials' children's positions were also searched, and the results also revealed a strange feeling.Although it is said that most of these people are not as miserable as Yao Yi, the officials they confer are definitely not good-looking, or they join the army and county magistrates in other states in the world, not to mention staying in the capital. few.

"Such a selection, the selection of this Su Shangshu, is really ruthless and tough!"

After some investigation, someone couldn't help but sigh with emotion.Although most of the senior officials in the court are in their prime years and still have room for improvement, they also attach great importance to the cultivation of their children, and it is human nature to plan and pave the way.

One step behind in the officialdom may fall behind every step. Even the children of high-ranking officials do not have much time to spend a few years in a position where political achievements are difficult to achieve.

Su Weiwei is in charge of the selection department of the Ministry of Officials. Of course, he can also be regarded as a high-ranking and powerful person, and he dare not offend him in his spare time.But if you treat the family background of so many people's children as nothing, you are guilty of public anger, and you are afraid that you will suffer a backlash!

"Those of us who are new officials and late-careers don't need to worry too much about the officials of the court. After all, there must be a sage master who tolerates loyalty and respects loyalty. That's why loyalty emerges and the dynasty prospers!"

Someone said in admiration that there was a lot less resentment and hostility in the words.

Many children of high-ranking officials have no chance of being in the United States. Although the situation of these bad officials has not changed, at least they understand that such a result of the election is not due to manipulation by off-site factors other than the election to make them unlucky.

There is no absolute fairness in this world. Officials have their likes and dislikes. As long as the bestowal is within the rules, there is no need to complain about it.Temporary frustration is inevitable, but seeing the court appearance of Mingjun Zhichen, but being loyal to work, there will always be a bright future!

The selectors felt that Su Weiwei was tough, and they couldn't help worrying about it, but they didn't know that this matter had little to do with Su Weiwei.

When one reaches a certain position in the officialdom, so-called secrets are no longer secrets.Although the appointment of He Ba's position was only the sage's instruction to the officials, the meaning conveyed spread throughout the court in a very short period of time.

The finishing work of the selection was originally stuck in the selection of a group of high-ranking officials' children. When this happened, the positions of many of the senior officials' children who participated in the military affairs were still pending.

Therefore, it is unavoidable that many people make up for it after the disaster, and mobilize their own personnel relations, hoping to bestow a low amount of their own children.Even if some officials' children are talented and worthy of being a beautiful official, under such circumstances, they dare not boast and strive for a high place for their children.

Although there are rules and regulations for the selection of directors, the system is always implemented by people, and no matter how strict the rules are, it cannot prevent the infiltration of favors.After some emergency operations, such an election result was presented to the public.

If this is just a temporary peculiarity, that's all. With the announcement of the list of candidates, Zhang Jiazhen, the servant of the Ministry of officials, immediately wrote to the court, not only reported the results of Chen Xuansi, but also put forward some criteria based on the results of this election. In the future, some measures taken by the sons and daughters of high-ranking officials in the background provinces to participate in the teachings have the taste of making this special event a canon.

Right now, the frustrated electors are still searching for the injustice of the election, and the inner court is also arguing endlessly because of Zhang Jiazhen's letter, passing various regulations and restrictions on Yin officials one by one.For example, father and son are not allowed to print internally and externally, and brothers are not allowed to join Taiwan Province and so on.

Three officials from the Ministry of Officials participated in the meeting together, and Zhang Jiazhen, the assistant minister, as the initiator, was naturally a protagonist in the debate at the meeting.

Shangshu Su Weiwei was happy with the matter, although he was sitting in the hall, his heart drifted back home, he was planning to finish the election before the end of the year, and after returning home, he would ask his wife for details It doesn't count if the maid's entertainment is not enough.

As for the other servant, Li Jingyi, his face was gloomy, and he didn't say a word.Although he didn't look up, Li Jingyi could feel that many officials in the hall were watching him with resentful eyes.

This time many high-ranking officials' children sank together, and Li Jingyi was more or less to blame.It was precisely because of his selfishness that he had endless disputes with Su Weiwei over many selection issues, so no agreement was reached for a long time.

Originally, the officials were also happy to see disputes over the selection of divisions, and their own sons and daughters of Shenquan would benefit from it to some extent.But following the statement of the holy will, they suddenly became uneasy.If a large number of officials' children have been selected, they can still blur the past with established conclusions, but now that everything is undecided, they will naturally have to express their opinions and respond.

In short, everything is due to this selfish Li Jingyi, who fantasizes about the glory of his own family, but makes the fathers have to be separated from each other!

Right now, Li Jingyi's grievances are already gathering, and when today's meeting is over and everything is settled, the grievances will multiply even more.In the future, if there is a high-ranking official's son Shen Quan, if he doesn't scold Li Jingyi a few words, he is not concerned about his own future.

Chapter 0985 Forty-year-old conferment, early imperial examination

The meeting of the ministers of Taiwan Province did not come to an end until the evening.Some of the items proposed by Zhang Jiazhen have been passed, while some are still controversial.

It is impossible for the government affairs to be entangled with this matter, so when the meeting was about to end, the prime minister Yao Yuanchong proposed to continue to revise the relevant matters and report to the Political Affairs Hall one by one in order to draw up the final selection criteria. All important ministers from Taiwan Province participated.

Today's meeting was presided over by the Zhengshitang, and the saint did not come forward to participate.Therefore, after the meeting, another member of Zhongshu Scheeren compiled the relevant agenda into a book and submitted it to Banzhong.

The officials in the hall got up and left one after another. Li Jingyi dawdled for a while. Seeing Yao Yuanchong walking out, he hurried up a few steps to catch up. With a smile on his face, he said, "Is Xianggong Yao staying in the province today? There are still a few matters that need to be reported..."

Yao Yuanchong paused, turned his head to look at Li Jingyi and said, "Today we are going to stay in the province, and there are still a few things to be decided in the Gouyuan. If what Li Shilang said is still related to the election, we can discuss it with Su Shangshu and others. transfer book."

Hearing Yao Yuanchong's business-like tone, Li Jingyi's smile froze on his face, and after a while, he cupped his hands again and said, "It's the lower officials who are careless. Thank you, Mr. Yao, for your reminder."

At this time, it was already evening, and there were thick clouds piled up in the sky. The cold wind of midwinter blew over and penetrated into the seams of people's clothes.

Li Jingyi, who was standing stiff in the distance, shivered suddenly, only then did he realize that there was already a lot of cold sweat under his robe, without the heat from the hall, his whole body would inevitably feel chilly under the cold wind.Seeing his colleagues drifting away, he wrapped his fur coat tightly and walked towards the palace gate.

Halfway through the road, there were snowflakes falling from the sky, and officials opened umbrellas to lead the chiefs out of the palace.Li Jingyi didn't walk fast, when he walked out of the palace gate, there was already a layer of white snow on the royal road outside the palace.

"Master, hurry up and board the car!"

The servant who had been waiting outside the palace gate for a long time hurried forward and wrapped Li Jingyi in a layer of tapestry, and handed the host into a copper stove that had been warmed by charcoal fire after getting on the car. At this moment, he felt that Li Jingyi's palm was already hot, and he said in a panic: "My lord has already suffered from the wind and cold..."

Only now did Li Jing feel a little powerless, even collapsed, and said in a shy voice: "The staff left to go to the Yamen to ask for sick leave, let's go back to the mansion."

After saying this, he curled up in the carriage, and when the carriage started to drive, he sighed suddenly: "It's too late to regret it... This political affairs hall is already insulated in this life. unpredictable..."

The sage did not go out all day, but in the evening, he summoned Ge Fuyuan, the head of the Gouyuan, and Wang Fangqing, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, to inquire about the progress of the Gouyuan's inspection, and ordered Wang Fangqing to count the things in the right storehouse of Taifu Temple , Draw up a year-end gift charter.

It was already dark when the records of the election secretary's agenda were sent to the inner palace.Li Tong was about to get up and go to Tang Guifei's bedroom, but when he saw the document was delivered, he went back to the palace and flipped through the document.

Zhang Jiazhen proposed 12 items for selecting a secretary, and most of them were related to Pin Ziyin's appointment.However, only three items were approved at today's meeting, namely, the 40-year period for the appointment of the shadow conferee, and the need to participate in the military after the age of [-].

The second article is that all officials who live in Taiwan and the provincial officials are not allowed to serve as Langguan, prefectural and county palm seal commanders, and general judges above the state, except for blood relatives in the service.

The third rule is that every Yinzi who enters the government must take the "Chen Gui" test, and if he fails, he will not be selected for the award.

Li Tong was quite satisfied with such a result.The family yin system has a long history, and conferring a wife and yin son was one of the criteria for the success of an ancient official's life. It is unrealistic to completely eradicate this phenomenon.

After all, no matter how strict the system is, it always needs to be implemented by people.Suppressing or eradicating the yin system is harming the vital interests of those who implement the system, which is contrary to human nature: the offspring of officials are not worthy of being officials, so why does your emperor pass the throne to his own offspring?

The inheritance of resources is one of the most fundamental desires of human nature. Not to mention the decadent feudal ancient society, even in later generations, the generational inheritance of public power is also a routine phenomenon in the political ecology.

But even if it can't be completely eliminated, it needs to be effectively controlled.

At the moment of the Kaiyuan New Dynasty, most of the officials in the court are in their prime years, and their own political careers are still very long, so although they resist the reform of the door-yin system, they are also afraid, and they will not spare their own political affairs. Life paves the way for future generations.Therefore, the sooner a new system is established, the less resistance will be encountered.

Another point is that the current environment of pinziyin teaching has changed, and timely adjustments are needed.

After the reform of the Beijing camp, the residential guard rights of the guards in Nanya were abolished. At the same time, the guards of the guards, such as Qin Xunyi, who belonged to the guards, were also abolished.Suwei generals are an important way for officials' children to become officials. Now that they no longer exist, these shaders will naturally be diverted to other channels.

Because there is no Weifu as a buffer, the children of officials directly enter the selection process and compete with the talents selected by the imperial examination. This will undoubtedly squeeze the employment scale of the imperial examination candidates.

If effective supervision and suppression cannot be achieved, it will be greatly harmful to the development and popularization of imperial examinations.

The reason why Li Tong wanted to select and interfere with He Zhizhang's selection results was also to emphasize the particularity and importance of imperial examination candidates in the civil election through He Zhizhang, an iconic figure.

Although the official selection and the imperial examination are two independent selection methods, there is also a connection and continuity between them.If the imperial examination candidates cannot occupy the mainstream position in the general election, the solemnity of the imperial examination will also be greatly reduced.

The so-called sounding the drum does not require a heavy hammer. Since the imperial court has established a series of selection procedures, it is of course inconvenient for Li Tong to rush to argue with the selection officials on specific implementation issues one by one. So far.

The result of this election may be considered a special situation, but the attitudes expressed by the ministers in related meetings later also showed that their understanding of the saint's intentions was fairly accurate.

For example, the extension of the election period for Yinshu, the 12-year election period is not actually the longest election period. Taimiao Zhailang, Banlang, including prodigy subjects in the imperial examination, all have a period of more than ten years.

Some officials' children were born in the shade when they were still infancy. Even if they waited for another 12 years, they would still be underage at the end of the election. The so-called long election was nothing to them.

However, the age limit for participating in the election is limited to 40 years old, which is quite uncomfortable.Although it is said that some people were born in Rome, if they want to become a real winner in life, they have to take at least two steps.

But now those who were born in Rome have been directly pinned to the starting line by the neck for nearly half of their lives. They can only watch others running happily one by one, shortening the distance or even directly overtaking, which is also very anxious and tormented.

If you don’t want to waste your precious time, it’s also very simple. Change to another track, no longer stick to the qualifications granted by the shadows, and directly participate in the imperial examination, and obtain your background through the imperial examination. Naturally, you don’t need to go through a long wait.

The children of officials already have the advantage of inheriting their family education, and the educational resources and conditions they enjoy are not comparable to those of the poor.

Not to mention that in order to compensate for the abolition of the number of military guards, the imperial court also increased the number of supervisors and students.The original Six Schools and Two Halls have been expanded. In addition, there are newly added Jiying Hall and Hanlin Academy, including Yingyuan Baofang which belongs to martial arts, and some officials' children will also be recruited.

They already have the advantage of family education, and the country also provides a lot of educational resources. If they dare not compete with those poor children, they can only be said to be useless and useless waste.

Of course, the expansion of staff in national educational institutions is not just for the children of officials, it is also related to schools in various prefectures and counties.If the state tribute candidates fail the scientific examination, as long as they pass the examination of the supervisor, they can also stay in it and continue their studies for the next year's scientific examination.

As for the restrictions on the appointment of blood relatives of officials in Taiwan Province, it is to suppress the human factor in internal and external lawsuits.Adding "Chen Gui" as an assessment subject is to strengthen the ideological construction of the team.

These two points are not considered in-depth and fundamental reforms. It can be seen that although the courtiers can understand their wishes and make a certain degree of concessions, they are also very cautious about their own interests.

Li Tong didn't feel disgusted by this, if he really wanted to rule the country with virtue and require officials to be impartial in their conduct, the court would probably be more than half empty immediately.As long as it is not a principled wrong line, he can probably tolerate it, and it is better to keep an eye on the situation and continue the game.

And speaking of this, Li Tong couldn't help but think of Li Jingyi, who was a typical example of a wrong route.

Selection is a major event in the country, and once a particularly huge workload is subject to strict supervision, it will inevitably drag down the work efficiency.Therefore, the appointment of officials in the selection department requires certain skills. There are differences and frictions between Li Jingyi and Su Weiwei, which Li Tong likes to see.

Competition needs to exist, but it must also be kept within certain limits.If it's just a fight for the right to speak in the selection of the secretary, even if Li Jing has been directly stepping on Su Weiwei, it can only show that Su Weiwei is not worthy of being the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Tong, including the Zhengshitang, will not interfere.

But Li Jing made a mistake because he was too ambitious, or too short-sighted. He was eager to expand the scope of the struggle, and even set his sights on the prime minister position that Liu Youqiu hadn't vacated yet.

It is good to be self-motivated, but we must pay attention to the method.Li Jingyi linked the interests of ministers who have the right to elect with his own powers, and wanted to use this as a gesture to jump into the political affairs hall in one fell swoop, which exceeded the standard.

In fact, Li Jingyi's short-sightedness is not only reflected in the current incident. When he was fighting fiercely with the Wu clan kings in Luoyang in the old year of Wu Zhou, Li Jingyi's small actions of self-assertion already annoyed him quite a bit, and he took them as his own. Sent to Jiangnan.

After that lesson, Li Jingyi has settled down a lot, and has made quite a lot of achievements in the local area.Especially when the two capitals were fighting and the Eastern Capital court wanted to block Guanzhong, Li Jingyi and other people in Jiangnan were of great help to Xingtai.

Before Li Yuanyuan dismissed his chancellor and left Beijing for Yangzhou, he suggested that Li Jingyi should be removed from the prefectural position because his brothers could not govern together. Li Jingyi has a chance.

Unexpectedly, not long after returning to court, Li Jingyi couldn't help but revert to his old ways, thinking too much and going too far.It is not appropriate to say that it is short-sighted. It should be said that such an old way of thinking is no longer suitable for the political logic of the new dynasty.

Li Jingyi's family was prominent at that time because of the high position and weight of his elder brother Li Jingxuan in the Gaozong Dynasty in the early years, and they were able to join the Li family of Zhaojun.In the old year, Li Tong got in touch with their family not long after he left the palace, which actually helped him a lot.

Therefore, in Li Jingyi's view, his family's political bet was considered very early, and it greatly promoted the rise of the saint. It is inevitable to exaggerate the role played by his family in this process. Also enlarged.

Li Tong didn't care too much about what the ministers thought, and he didn't even rule out introducing Li Jingyi to the political affairs hall to temporarily fill his position in a certain year in the future, so as to make his family a three-phase political powerhouse, but the premise was the initiative need in him.

But now Li Jingyi has made his own claim and fought for it too hard, which has greatly overdrawn Li Tong's goodwill towards their family.Although the entanglement in the selection department in the past period of time will not directly depose Li Jingyi and question him, Li Jingyi is obviously no longer suitable to stay in the selection department, let alone seek a position in the political affairs hall.

In addition to the documents that need to be paid to the pavilion, the saint also has a private small book that records personnel affairs. He asked someone to take it out and wrote Li Jingyi's name on it.

On this list, he made his own observations and judgments, and listed the officials who should no longer be given prominent positions.And the name above Li Jingyi in the list is Tang Shao, a doctor in the Ministry of Rites.

This Tang Shaoshi was not well-known, and he didn't have much sense of presence in the various political turmoil in the court in the past.The reason why it was recorded by the sage in a small book is because the king of Linzi had previously drafted the draft of the enshrinement of Zen.

Of course, it cannot be judged from this that Tang Shao had any sinister conspiracy with King Linzi, because this matter was revealed by him in conversations with his colleagues.

Being so careless, it can only be said that this guy is not very politically sensitive, and he didn't take this matter as a serious problem at all. Maybe he still felt that once Feng Chan was accomplished, he might still get a chance to propose it. Gong, but unaware that he has been recorded in the small book by the sage.

After reviewing the documents, Li Tong ticked off a few more among them and ordered someone to send them to the Jiying Hall for filing and sorting them out. He will continue to discuss and promote them when he has the time and energy to spare.

After dealing with this matter, Li Tong put on his sable fur again and slowly left the inner hall.Going out of the door and looking, there has been heavy snow in the sky, and the snow on the ground is already several feet thick.

"Go to the imperial concubine's bedroom!"

Li Tong boarded the chariot that had been prepared, and gave instructions to the palace people.

He was extremely bored during the walk, so he stretched out his hands outside the tent, feeling the coolness of snowflakes falling on the palms and backs of his hands, and the joyful picture of putting cold hands under his armpits later appeared in his mind.Although it can't be said to be extremely fun, but a little imagination will inevitably make the blood rush.

Chapter 0986 Leisure in the inner garden, sharpening the sword with raw jade

In the quiet night sky, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the entire Chang'an City was being whitened by the snow at a speed visible to the naked eye.Among the well-distributed hundreds of squares, the fires of folk houses were lit up one after another, as if a star curtain descended on the world.

In the Great Inner Palace, there are palace people running back and forth, busy arranging some things to prevent snow.The palace lights hanging from the eaves of the corridor are compressed into soft and beautiful light clusters, adding a bit of warm atmosphere to the inner garden palace.

Some palace people gathered around the stove in the pavilion to gossip, and when they saw the holy driver passing by, they got up and bowed down one after another.It's just that before they got close, Sheng Jia had already traveled far.

The Xianju Hall where the noble concubine lives is located on the west side of the forbidden center. Together with the nearby Jinluan, Chang'an, Shicui, and Chenghuan halls, it forms a palace building. It is also the living place of the inner palace queen and concubines.

When Shengjia arrived nearby, the surroundings were already surrounded by a beautiful snowy night covered in silver.Seeing the bright lights in the Jinluan Imperial Garden, it must be that the concubines of the inner palace gathered here for entertainment during the snowy night.

Li Tong withdrew his palms that had been numb from the wind and snow, motioned for the chariot to stop, and walked down.Seeing that there are still palace people busy cleaning the snow on the palace road, their faces and palms are a little red from the cold, so they waved their hands and said: "There are no people coming in and out at night, and I don't know how long the snow will fall. The cleaning will not be done tomorrow." Mistake."

The palace people were overjoyed when they heard the words, they didn't dare to come in and disturb them, they just bowed and thanked them from a distance.Until the sage walked by slowly, several young and lively palace people got together and chatted.

"Did you dare to look up just now? Did you see the saint's demeanor?"

"Although I was flustered, I still had the courage to take a peek... There is such a handsome gentleman in the world, but he is also the most expensive king in the world! What kind of gathering of spirits is this..."

"That's right, the Son of Heaven favored by the heavens, how can he be the same as the vulgar! The wind and snow beat us mercilessly, but the nearby saints just flew around, and couldn't bear to hurt the heavenly beings who walked at night with sticks..."

The snowy scene, in the eyes of those who don't worry about food and clothing, has a somewhat romantic and ambiguous atmosphere, even if it is just a common thing, it looks beautiful.