[Comprehensive] I am not Michael

As long as you are not a fool, even people who have never been in the officialdom know what it means to expand the bureaucracy.No matter how pedantic and elegant he is, he is so busy being the first president of Jinshi Division that he has no time to care about other things.

However, it is a helpless fact that the literacy rate among the fleet is extremely low.

Apart from the current officials and their families, only the red boat gathered a large number of literate people in the fleet, and their educational level was generally high, even among the officials.

Of course, it is impossible for the county government to allow these prostitutes to participate in the imperial examination.However, if these people are not allowed to participate, firstly, there will not be enough people, and secondly, many of the candidates who passed the examination are children, and some are only eleven or twelve years old, accounting for [-]% of the scholars who passed the examination.It is impossible for Zhao Changqing to entrust important matters to a group of children.

Therefore, when the final imperial examination began, Zhao Changqing asked the servants of the inner palace to take the examination.

He Wenxiu immediately objected:

"How can the country's most important weapon be handed over to the survivors?"

A group of servants stood around.Zhao Changqing's Duke of Wancheng is the prince, and there were more than 100 servants in his mansion.Zhao Changqing is not that kind of pedantic generation. From the day the county government was established, he hired teachers for these servants to teach them to read and write.

It can be said that these internal servants absolutely crushed the scholars of the first imperial examination in terms of cultural level and handling ability, even compared with the officials of the foreign government.No, maybe it's not that it doesn't fall behind, it should be said that it is worse than worse.

This point, both He Wenxiu and Li Donglin are clear.

Only then did He Wenxiu react.

No wonder the county guild opened its mouth to elect officials!It turned out that it was already arranged!

This time, even Li Donglin, who was always on Zhao Changqing's side, didn't speak.

Since ancient times, scholars and eunuchs have been like fire and water.Since the Han Dynasty, there have been few times of peaceful coexistence for thousands of years, and more often they are in a state of wishing that you eat me and I eat you.

Before Zhao Changqing said that he wanted to open an imperial examination and widely select talents, Li Donglin naturally supported it with both hands and feet, but now, Li Donglin also felt that Zhao Changqing was fooling him, but in fact he wanted to do something to the foreign government.

This is inseparable from the culture and political system of the Song Dynasty.

"Govern the world with the scholar-bureaucrats", this is the political core of the Song Dynasty, so the status of the scholar-officials is very high.

The king's position is high but his power is weak, and the prime minister's position is low but his power is real.

This is the national motto of the Song Dynasty since the founding of the country.Therefore, in another time and space, Bao Zheng used saliva to wash Emperor Renzong's face. Not only could Emperor Renzong not be angry, but he could only wipe it off with a veil. This situation was unimaginable in other dynasties.

The rank of the prime ministers of the Great Song Dynasty is generally not high. Basically, the officials who hold the real power are the third rank, because the first rank, the first rank, the second rank, and the second rank are basically for those civil servants who are old, or who are no longer The honorary title of the big bosses who hold the real power but still act as the emperor's think tank.

It was Zhao Changqing. When the Privy Council outshone Xixia and Khitan, his official position was only the fourth rank.

And He Wenxiu's county magistrate Shi is a fifth-rank official.

He looked at He Wenxiu who had "I object, I object" on his face, then at the officials who were disapproving, then at those scholars who seemed to have been insulted, and those who seemed to be frightened Ordinary Zhao Tingyu, Zhao Tingjin, and Zhao Changqing raised the corners of their mouths, and asked Qin Ye who was standing beside him:

"A person who has been sentenced to death? Qin Ye, why did you become this person who was not sentenced to death?"

After being named by Zhao Changqing, Qin Ye immediately knelt down on the ground: "Mr. Hui, the slaves were poor when they were young, and there were many brothers in the family and caught up with the disaster year. The sisters in the family were all sold, and finally they could only sell their sons. Because the palace The price given is high, and there is a salary to take, so the servant girl entered the palace and became a servant."

"Where's Zhang De?"

Zhang De is the deputy governor of the county government.

"Mr. Hui, the servant girl was abducted and sold by human traffickers when she was three or four years old."

"High security."

……

As long as the internal servants were named, they all knelt down and reported one by one, and none of them became internal servants because they were convicted of breaking the national law.

After asking the servants present, Zhao Changqing turned to He Wenxiu:

"He Changshi, now, tell me, what crime do they have?

"I don't know about other places. I only know that every servant in my county mansion is not a sinner. If you really want to talk about sin, then you must be guilty first of all, because the king's incompetence makes the people feel guilty. Only by self-mutilation can we avoid starving to death; if it is a crime, then all civil and military officials in the court are guilty, because it is their incompetence and inaction that make the people have to self-mutilate in order to survive.

"My lords, I held the imperial examination for the purpose of selecting talented people, and only one standard is used. The purpose, of course, is to prevent the tragedy from happening again. Now, may the servants be able to participate in the imperial examination?"

Zhao Changqing's words revealed an invisible coercion, Zhao Tingyu's mind was in chaos, and Zhao Tingjin had already bowed down first:

"It's true what my father said."

The opening of the imperial examination was originally due to the lack of manpower in the county government.It turned out that many positions in the county government were vacant, because at that time everyone was floating on the sea and living on the boat, so they could make ends meet.

But now, there are only three territories that can be seen, and it will soon become five, and there is a shortage of manpower everywhere.Isn't it time to find people who can do things to work, but to turn the officialdom into a place to teach young children like Nangong, Beizhai, and Muqinzhai?

Zhao Tingjin was the first to object.

As the second son of the county government, it is not in his interest to let the existing officials control the top and bottom of the county government.

"Humble position seconded."

"Humble position seconded."

"Humble position seconded."

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The next ones to agree are those generals, no, it should be the soldiers.

Civil officials and generals have never been dealt with, no matter which dynasty they are.Civil officials hated military generals. Perhaps some emperors did not want civil officials and military generals to collude with each other. A considerable part of the reason was that civil officials looked down on the vulgarity of military generals.

In the Song Dynasty, literature was more important than military affairs, and among the folk proverbs, there is a saying that a good man should not be a soldier.Because there was a provision in the laws of the Song Dynasty that sent troops into the army, military generals had to always meet three levels lower in front of civil officials, and when civil officials met military generals, few of them were lecherous.

As generals, especially those who are familiar with the virtues of the county magistrates, they naturally hope that things such as military pay, ordnance, and allowances will be in the hands of those servants.Because they know that Zhao Changqing is not such a fatuous person, because they know that Zhao Changqing will never deprive them of their things if they need them to expand their territories, and those civil servants are not necessarily so.

Zhao Changqing needs them to expand their territories, and they need to expand their territories to gain prosperity and wealth. In this regard, their interests are the same as Zhao Changqing's.

He Wenxiu was shocked:

"You soldiers, what do you mean by this?"

"It's a long history." Cao Mo said with a smile, "I just don't want to lead my troops to fight outside, but because of a small mistake by a few brats, my supplies will be cut off. Some things should be left to the adults. Familiar people are good. You say, don't you?"

It was about the interests of the military, not to mention Cao Mo, who was originally biased towards Zhao Changqing, even Bai Zhenling, who had been following He Wenxiu's baton, chose to lower his head as if he didn't see He Wenxiu's eyes.

He Wenxiu was dumbfounded, and at this moment, Li Donglin also chose to give in:

"It's still the county magistrate who thinks carefully. The lower ranks only remember that the resumption of the imperial examination is a sign of national stability, but they forget that it is fundamental to obtain scholars for the country."

Li Donglin knew that it was irreversible for the servants to participate in the imperial examination this time.

There is no way, who left the county mansion empty?If the imperial court had arranged all the top and bottom of the county mansion, if He Wenxiu had brought all his sons with him, maybe it would not be like this today.

Thousands of dollars are hard to buy. I knew it earlier.

Nowadays, the county government is expanding rapidly, so manpower is naturally needed.However, it's not that there is no room for change. In the future, when the children below have grown up, they will take the exam again, and there will be time to compete for those positions.

As for those servants, so what if they passed the exam?In the future, just find a reason to set up a few new yamen, and just throw them there.

The final court examination was decided in this way, just as Zhao Changqing estimated.

Those children have an advantage over others because their father and brother are officials serving in the fleet.How could they possibly compare to those servants?

Although at the end of the official appointment, under the influence of those civil officials, all those who passed the exam, whether they were servants or students, finally got only a nine-rank sesame official such as a clerk, a book, etc., but everyone knows that, just look at it. In terms of ability, those newcomers must be inferior to the servants who came out of the inner palace. That is to say, the power of the outer palace has fallen into the hands of those servants, that is, it has fallen into the hands of Zhao Changqing.

He Wenxiu's mood can be imagined.

At this moment, he had long forgotten that Zhao Changqing once said that as long as he cultivated to the Nascent Soul, those servants would be able to reshape their physical bodies and become a complete person when they conceived a baby.

He Wenxiu has forgotten these words, but those servants will not forget them.

As for Zhao Changqing, after being appointed as an official, he took two teams of Cao Mo and Bai Zhenling and a battalion of two thousand leopards to the west of the Caribbean Sea. 1 people cooperated to open a canal. Of course, this time the canal will not be called the Panama Canal, but the Wangxiang River.

This canal is also the hope for the fleet to return to the Central Plains.