Prime Minister

Chapter 329
The characteristic of the official position in the Song Dynasty was the official position and the separation of dispatch.

This system sounds very troublesome, but it is convenient in practical application.

For example, some officials served as the censor, and the officials at the censor platform were not promoted for several years, some for more than ten years.Or some officials serve as officials in remote areas for several years, and they cannot be transferred without promotion.

The separation of official positions and dispatches will solve this problem.

An official position is equivalent to a rank, such as an official of the first rank, the second rank, the fifth rank and the ninth rank.

There are a total of 42 ranks of officials in the Beijing Dynasty.

The imperial court promotes the entrusted officials according to three years of seniority. Generally speaking, as long as you are a Beijing official, you can be promoted to the tenth rank if you don't make mistakes and just hang around for 30 years.

The 32nd level happens to be the driving department or the examination of merit, and the member of the library department Uai Lang.

Beijing officials without a family background (non-Jinshi) will come to an end when they reach the 32nd rank, and they will not be able to rise any higher.Therefore, in the city of Bianjing, it is said that the children of Yin officials are called outsiders, and they are shouted.

The so-called shouting is to call high and not low, it's like meeting a son of an official who is not sure how old the other official is, regardless of his young age, he may have been an official since he was three years old.Calling low is disrespectful to others, and calling high will never make a mistake.

Later, they followed suit, and rich and wealthy businessmen donated an official, so they could be called outsiders.After that, as long as they are rich, they can also be called outsiders.

And sometimes there is no need to wait for three years to be promoted to a higher rank, when an official encounters a big ceremony (the new emperor ascends the throne), the official will be promoted to a higher rank.

In the Tang Dynasty, the general ranks of great gifts were only promoted to scattered official ranks and honorary ranks, but in the Song Dynasty, what could be promoted was real positions and benefits.So when the emperor of the Song Dynasty was buried, the officials of the Song Dynasty were in very complicated moods.

It seems unreasonable to classify officials based on their seniority, but it is actually very reasonable. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, officials were selected based on age, which was of great help to stabilize the ranks of officials.

But in the Song Dynasty, it was the norm to have no dispatch for official positions.It is common for officials of mixed origin to work for three years and take five years off.

Only officials with family background like Jinshi can fill in the vacancies.

Zhang Yue used to be a judge in Dali Temple, this is the post-pay officer, the [-]th rank of Beijing officials decides your treatment, and the transfer of the post-pay official to the trial court is under the jurisdiction of the court.

The dispatch is an official matter of the Judiciary Office signed by Chuzhou. The dismissal of the dispatch does not belong to the Ministry of Officials.

It is the emperor's special order to remove relatives. For example, if the prime minister is above the third rank, the emperor must personally intervene.There are also Taiwan admonishers, who also need the emperor to be close to Jane, as a force to check and balance the two governments.The so-called 'Taiwan officials must follow the central purpose, which is the law of the ancestors'.

The removal of the hall (political affairs hall) means that the Prime Minister of Zhongshu personally removed the officials from the hall. For example, half of the Zhizhou in the Song Dynasty was removed from the prime minister's hall.

As for the general judgment in key places, there are many scriptures to eliminate judges and judges.

As for the special decree not involved, it will be given by the Ministry of Officials whether it is removed or not asked.

For example, when Xin and Di Jinshi became officials for the first time, they were assigned to the Ministry of Officials' Notes (Ministry Notes).At the beginning, Zhang Yue was born as the No. [-] scholar, and he had to grant Chuzhou to sign the official affairs of the magistrate's office and also go to Liu Neiquan. Nan Cao saw the faces of the officials of the Ministry of Officials.

Therefore, Wang Jie asked Yang Tian, ​​"Dare to ask this time when it is the hall and the department?"

Zhang Yue and the others all had their ears pricked up.In addition to the church, the department notes are very different.

Yang Tian smiled and said, "It's the hall."

Zhang Yue was overjoyed from the bottom of his heart, and Su Shi said to Su Zhe, "Han Xianggong is really the truth!"

Although Tang Chu said it was in the name of "selecting officials for officials", it was actually "selecting officials for people".

The special purpose is not involved, and the removal of the hall is not subject to the annotation of the Ministry of Officials. It is said that, but there is still a limit for the removal of the hall.The selection of candidates belongs to the Ministry of Officials, part of the officials of the Beijing Dynasty belongs to the Ministry of Officials, and part of them belongs to the Political Affairs Hall.The scope of this division has something to do with whether the prime minister is strong or not, and whether the country is in turmoil. All in all, the water here is very deep.

When Cai Jing was in the country, he liked to put cronies in all the official positions, or sell officials at home to embezzle the power of the officials.

However, the assignments granted by the Department of Management are sometimes assigned to political affairs, and sometimes assigned to the Ministry of Officials. There is no fixed number.Such ambiguous places are prone to disputes. Now that Han Qi wants to be expelled from the court, it will definitely arouse dissatisfaction with the officials, who think that the prime minister has violated his rights.

Therefore, what Su Shi meant when he said that Han Qi is the truth is also here.Don't be afraid of the Ministry of officials, Taiwan's admonishment, making irresponsible remarks, and entering the department of the system will be returned to the hall.

The political affairs hall has a hall removal book, which registers the origin, age, previous positions, seniority, whether there are any offenses, whether or not relatives of the officials who have been removed from the hall are registered.

Officials annotated by the Ministry of Officials are changed to hall removal, which is called hall selection. Officials who have passed the hall election can be directly occupied by the hall. That is to say, there are any "good things" in the political affairs hall that can be pre-locked for you.

In other words, from now on, your personnel relations will not be managed by the Ministry of Officials, but will be managed by the Political Affairs Hall, and the prime minister will personally intervene.

Once you understand this point, you will know how awesome the department produced this time is.

Those who have been removed from the hall are called "promotion".

With the same official position, the officials expelled from the hall have higher standards than the officials in the ministry, and their future prospects are also different.Thinking of this, Zhang Yue's dissatisfaction with Han Qi's prestige in front of him just now faded a bit.

Han Qi is not Zhao Wenxiang now, so he first ordered the Sherenyuan not to modify the text of the imperial edict, and removed the officials from the system department, which is self-evident.

At this moment, the imperial decree that was eliminated by Zhongshutang has reached the Sherenyuan in Zhichiyuan.

There are six rooms in the Sherenyuan, which are made according to the room.It happened to be Wang Anshi's turn to be in charge tonight.

Wang Anshi was reading in the duty room till night, when he suddenly saw a bright light in the courtyard, so he put down his book and stepped out of the study room, only to see the moon shining on the ground.

Wang Anshi looked at the moonlight in the court room, and suddenly remembered that when he passed the sentence in Shuzhou and stayed in Yiyang for the night, it was also the same moonlight.

At that time he wrote a poem.

The moon is missing, the moon is faint and the leak is young, and a light is on and off to illuminate the autumn bed.The sick body feels the wind and dew early, and the return to the dream does not know how long the mountains and rivers are.Sit down and feel the generosity of the song when you are old, but the world looks bleak.Maemi confuses the ears of passers-by even more, holding half-yellow tung leaves.

Thinking of the scene that day, Wang Anshi was a little ridiculous. Now that the moonlight is so beautiful, it would be a pity not to write a poem.

When Wang Anshi was contemplating his poems, an official suddenly came and said, "Let me tell you, the officials are here to select officials from the left."

Upon hearing this, Wang Anshi asked: "Understood, it must be another matter of excommunication."

The matter of removing the hall, because it involves too much, the prime minister does not personally intervene in everything. Usually, the prime minister entrusts the official Fang Zuoxuan under Zhongshu's door to be responsible.

The official room is one of the five rooms under Zhongshumen.

When they arrived at the room, Wang Anshi and Zuo Xuanguan paid respects.

"It's so late, why did Xu Zuoxuan return to the Sherenyuan?"

Zuo Xuanguan laughed and said: "I don't dare to delay for a moment when dispatched by the official family and my husband. Even in the middle of the night, I have to do it."

After finishing speaking, Zuo Xuanguan gave Wang Anshi the title of the poem and said, "Please give me some cursive words on the spot."

The so-called prefix is ​​that the Zhongshu handed over to the Sherenyuan a document containing the order of removal and the basic commandments, which is called the prefix. batch.

Wang Anshi glanced at the beginning of the word, and it turned out that Zhang Yue, Su Shi, Su Zhe, and Wang Jie, who had entered the department, were appointed officials respectively by Han Qizhong Shutang.

Wang Anshi glanced at it and said, "It's easy."

Zuo Xuanguan smiled and said: "Okay, Wang Sheren, please hurry up, my husband is urging for it."

Wang Anshi immediately picked up a pen and wrote three copies of the lyrics one by one, and then said to Zuo Xuanguan: "Leave it to the gentleman."

After checking one by one, the Zuo Xuanguan asked, "Did Wang Sheren miss one letter?"

Wang Anshi said: "It is true that there is one less person to write."

Zuo Xuanguan read it, but saw the names of Zhang Yue, Su Shi, and Wang Jie on the lyrics written by Wang Anshi, but Su Zhe was missing.

"Wang Sheren, what's the matter?" Zuo Xuanguan's face changed a little. Is Wang Anshi playing himself?
Wang Anshi said: "Wang has made it very clear, and he doesn't want to make a lyrics for this son, so the title is returned!"

Seal back the first four characters!

It was like a shocking giant hammer hitting Zuo Xuanguan's heart.

It is a shocking event that the external official seal is returned to the prefix.This is to reject Shangming and sweep the face of the emperor and Zhongshu.

The head of Feng Huan originated from the Tang Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty it originated from the present day.

At that time, Fu Bi was entrusted with the foreign system and returned the title of the wife of the emperor Suiguo. Afterwards, Hu Su, Cai Xiang, and Liu Chang were granted the title of the foreign system, which was an improper edict. .

The House of Scholars has the right to return the title, which was also obtained by Fu Bi and other predecessors.Now that Wang Anshi has sealed the title, it can't really be called a slap in the face of the emperor, but he really slapped Han Qi across the face.

Zuo Xuanguan recalled Wang Anshi Shangshu’s refusal to revise the text of the imperial edict before, and he was furious: “Wang Sheren, are you taking revenge? Zhongshu does not allow you to modify the text, so you simply put the prefix The seal has been returned, but you are still full of poetry and books, so you acted so despicably."

Wang Anshi said indifferently: "Wang is a man who has no shame in his admiration. How could he do such a villain's thing. This Su Zhece is against the middle and right prime ministers, and he specializes in the masters. He is comparable to Gu Yong and others. Wang is unwilling to do this. sub-words."

After hearing what Wang Anshi said, Zuo Xuanguan was stunned.

The officials of the Sherenyuan on the side were also stunned.

Who is Gu Yong?

An admonisher of the Han Dynasty, attached to the general Wang Feng, and when Wang Feng was in power, Gu Yong played more than forty events to attack the emperor and concubines in order to flatter the Wang family.

Wang Anshi compares Su Zhe to Gu Yong, and compares Han Qi to Wang Feng.

Wang Feng was Wang Mang's uncle, and he was a powerful minister. When this man was in power, all officials who disagreed with him were expelled, or even killed.

Wang Xuan said: "Wang Sheren, don't dare to talk nonsense about the 'right prime minister, who specializes in attacking the master'."

Wang Anshi said: "Xu Zuoxuan, sealed and returned the title of the word, and Wang explained it to the officials at the meeting, and just said that the words of 'the right prime minister, specializing in the master' will not be revised every single word, and will be included in the sparse words. "

After hearing Wang Anshi's words, Zuo Xuanguan almost fell to the ground.

He made up his mind to take Zhang Yue, Su Shi, and Wang Jie to make a speech and planned to go back to his life first. He walked to the door of the dormitory and looked back at Wang Anshi in some embarrassment, and said bitterly: "You don't want to be an official anymore."

When Wang Anshi heard this, he didn't say a word.

Seeing that Wang Anshi was unmoved, Xu Zuoxuan stomped his feet angrily, and ran back to Zhongshu to report to Han Qi.

(End of this chapter)