Xuande

Chapter 826 Imperial Examinations and the Nine Rank Official Law
Of course, instead of talking about resistance, it is better to say that at this moment, the gentry, as a once powerful group capable of confronting the imperial power, has fallen into disarray and is on the verge of collapse.

How can the gentry who have lost the right to inherit the classics still have the ability to resist the imperial power?
If the imperial examination system is established again, it may only take ten years before the past glory of the gentry will disappear. Everyone pursues the imperial examination, everyone yearns for the imperial examination, everyone respects the imperial examination, and the imperial examination will become their everything.

Gentlemen?

It's useless and old.

Chen Qun thought deeply, and felt that the Yingchuan Chen family really shouldn't have any ideas and needs to oppose Liu Bei on this matter. After so many ups and downs, are we going to collapse before this final hurdle?
impossible.

After sighing slightly, Chen Qun turned the page.

After that, it was Liu Bei's design of the Nine Rank Official Personnel Law.

There is a saying in the national language that internal officials are no more than Jiuyu, and foreign officials are no more than Jiupin.

Liu Bei believes that the method of determining the rank of officials according to the amount of official salaries is a bit simple and crude.

In his private opinion, this way of dividing official positions feels the same as modern jobs are not distinguished by positions, but are called by position income.

Employees are not called employees, they are called 3000 yuan.

Leaders are not leaders either, not team leaders, section chiefs, managers, directors, etc., but 5000 yuan, 6000 yuan, 7000 yuan, 1 yuan, etc.

It is too straightforward to call a leader and say what kind of leader is 6000 yuan, 7000 yuan, 1 yuan, etc.

Therefore, he felt that the titles of official grades should be changed with more restrained vocabulary and the simple, crude and straightforward divisions should be cancelled.

So he referred to the ideas of Chen Qun on different timelines in the future, adopted the division of official ranks from the first rank to the ninth rank, and then designed two kinds of job placements for each rank, which are basically as the chief and deputy ranks of officials. Distinguished, the treatment is slightly different.

Correspondingly, Liu Bei also set rank standards for officials and incorporated them into the nine-rank system.

Strictly speaking, there are only more than 7000 officials in the entire Han Dynasty, and the remaining 10,000+ are all officials. If officials are not included in this system, it means that only a few thousand people enjoy this system, and the remaining 10,000+ people are excluded. Enjoy the benefits of this policy.

This is not only ignorant of politics, but also of unity, and it doesn't pay much attention to the officials, and it feels like they don't even regard them as their own, which is a bit unreasonable.

In the final analysis, most of the officials who finally implemented the imperial government's decrees were officials. If the officials were not included in the system, the management would not be very good.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Liu Bei thought that the officials should not be excluded, so he stipulated the two ranks of the eighth rank and the ninth rank as the ranks of the officials.

From the seventh rank up, it is the official rank. From the ninth rank to the eighth rank, the four ranks are all in the category of officials. Breaking through this category and upgrading from the seventh rank is the official status.

This setting can also open up the channel from officials to officials more directly, so that officials and officials are no longer two completely different existences, but two different distinctions in the same system.

Both are convertible.

When officials make mistakes, they are reduced to officials.

Officials who make meritorious service can also be promoted to officials.

Officials are low-level officials, and officials are high-level officials.

At the same time, in Liu Bei's design, all those who passed the imperial examinations and entered the ruling group would start as officials of the ninth rank, without any special circumstances.

Even if you are the No. 1 scholar in the imperial examination, after passing the imperial examination, you must start from the rank of ninth-grade official, starting from the grassroots level.

The lowest position in the entire Han Empire, the representative of collective farms, is from the position of Jiupin. In the Han Empire, which is based on agriculture, it is absolutely unacceptable for an official to understand farming and not to produce, so Liu Bei made a decision. made such a request.

As for the military level, the nine-rank system can also be used to distinguish ranks. As long as the selection of civilian officials is confirmed, it is actually relatively easy for the military to make a cover-up transformation.

On the whole, Liu Bei believes that the Nine Ranks of Officials Law can effectively correspond to the positions of all levels of the imperial court, and solve some political contradictions caused by the equality of ranks and unequal power in the past, such as the most typical prefect of the county and the governor of the state. Contradictions of power and responsibility.

In the earliest days, the rank of the prefectural governor was not as high as that of the prefect of the county, but the power was directed at the prefect of the county, and the conflict between the two sides could be regarded as targeted.

However, in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the status of a state governor changed to a state administrative official, from a central official to a local official. He no longer relied on the imperial power, but represented himself. His rank was gradually upgraded to two thousand shi, which was equivalent to that of a county governor.

However, the contradiction between the two and the equality in rank in the traditional sense still made the county governor unwilling to obey the governor of the state. The two sides had great conflicts. They often fought and fought with each other over issues of power and responsibility, causing chaos.

Even after Liu Bei came to power, it was stipulated that the position of the governor of the state was higher than that of the prefect of the county, but the salary level of the two was still [-] shi, regardless of whether he was awarded [-] shi or [-] shi. Speaking of which, it was still [-] shi.

Therefore, due to the huge inertia brought by tradition, some senior prefects still don't take the airborne state governor seriously. high power.

For example, Wei Kai, the newly appointed governor of Jizhou by Liu Bei, was an outstanding person among his first students at Liangzhou Prefecture School. He served successively as county magistrate and governor, and he did a good job. He was an honest official and had a noble character. He is highly recognized by both the government and the public.

But it is such a person who has been in conflict with the prefects of three counties in less than three months after serving as the governor of Jizhou.

The three veteran prefects felt that Wei Kai wanted this and that, and it was too shameful to treat them like servants, so they joined hands to play Wei Kai's disrespect for the county prefect, and trampled on them. their dignity.

Without dignity, the prefect of the county can't hold his head up in front of his subordinates, so he can't govern well. The state governor's behavior is too domineering. They are deeply dissatisfied and lodge a complaint with His Majesty the emperor.

Liu Bei was deeply troubled by this.

Because these four people have done a good job, they are all very effective people in terms of political achievements, and they have nothing to do with crimes. They just dislike each other and arouse personal emotions.

In the end, Liu Bei could only mediate with Si Ni.

Liu Bei has indeed encountered a lot of things like this in the past few years in power. When the division of powers and responsibilities is not clear enough, it is quite normal for such problems to occur. This also prompted him to use the Ninth Rank Official Personnel Law to redefine officials. One of the causes of problems between ranks.

He wanted to establish clean and clear rules for the new dynasty, so that everyone would abide by them, and there would be fewer quarrels, so as to avoid the recurrence of what happened between Taishi Ci and the governor of Qingzhou.

As far as the Ninth Rank Official Personnel Law is concerned, Liu Bei intends to stipulate that the governor of the prefecture shall be a senior official of the third rank, and the prefect of the county shall be an official of the fourth rank.

In this way, the contradiction and dispute between the governor of the state and the prefect of the county can be completely resolved for more than a hundred years, and it can also be more clear about the difference between the positions of the governor of the state and the prefect of the county.

Officials are divided into nine ranks and eighteen ranks, and each rank has a corresponding position. This position not only represents the level of status, but also represents the official salary and welfare level.

Therefore, for some people with little political ambition, official rank may be more important than position.

However, in Chen Qun’s view, the most eye-catching aspect of Liu Bei’s system is the inclusion of officials into the system, making it clear that officials, as members of the ruling group of the Han Empire, have the right to enjoy state salaries even though their ranks are low. And benefits, everything is clearly marked.

This has been less clear in the past.

In the past, limited to financial and political issues, many "officials" who assisted the imperial court could not get any salary from the imperial court. They were almost non-staff personnel who brought their own rations to work, and the imperial court chose to prostitute for free.

But does free prostitution really exist in this world?
Maybe, but the court will never take advantage of this.

They don't pay wages, but they still need people to do things. Such people still have a certain amount of power, so it's hard to say what they can do to support themselves.

In many eras in the past, one of the main reasons for the corruption of officials was that the court was reluctant to spend money. The gentlemen only wanted to eat their own meat and did not want to suffer themselves. They gave the officials some salaries to let them live in peace.

When it came to Liu Bei, when the finances were ample, he stipulated four official positions from the ninth rank to the eighth rank, from collective farm representatives to county and county government officials, there are a total of forty or fifty positions in these four Included in the official ranks.

And this is also the main body of the ruling group of the Han Empire. They will be able to get their own salary and benefits from the imperial court. Compared with the attribute of watching the sky and eating their own food in the past, their lives will now be guaranteed to a certain extent.

In addition, Liu Bei's method of selecting officials through the imperial examination effectively improved the basic quality of officials, so that the grassroots administrators of the Third Reich were no longer those "sages in the village", but had a certain degree of cultural accomplishment and self-morality. A cultivated "cultural person".

This transformation should be fruitful for the grassroots governance of the Third Reich.

After Chen Qun read it once, he still felt that it was not enough and felt that some parts were not fully understood, so he continued to read it, read it again, read it again, and read it again six times. From morning to noon, he was still not satisfied. I think there is a lot to write about here.

Finally when it was time for lunch, Yang Xiu, who had a good relationship with Chen Qun, had finished dealing with a table of things. He raised his eyes and saw that Chen Qun was flipping through something, so he got up and called him to go to the big cafeteria for dinner.

After eating in the cafeteria yesterday, he chatted with the master chef and heard that there are fried chicken nuggets for lunch today.

Fried chicken nuggets are a high-end product, and Yang Xiu usually would not be willing to eat such a high-end food at home, so he happily prepared to ask Chen Qun to go to the cafeteria to have a good meal and enjoy the special care of His Majesty the Emperor.

Then everyone knows that the central dining hall was managed by His Majesty the Emperor with the money of the Shaofu. Officials working in the imperial court eat for free and do not need money. It is one of the employee benefits bestowed by His Majesty the Emperor. Everyone is very grateful to His Majesty for his great kindness. .

Yang Xiu stood up and walked to Chen Qun's desk. He saw that the piled up government documents didn't look like they had been processed. He picked up one and opened it, and sure enough, it wasn't processed.

Is it not dealt with?

He read several books in a row, but found that he didn't deal with them, which surprised him very much.

Chen Qun has always been the king of the cabinet. He is a small expert in handling government affairs. His average efficiency in handling government affairs is [-]% higher than that of ordinary cabinet members. As a friend, a good relationship.

In the past, it would have been Chen Qun who finished the morning work first, and then waited for Yang Xiu to have lunch, but now it is the other way around.

"Changwen, what are you doing? You haven't dealt with so many government affairs? Are you planning to stay up late at night to fight?"

Hearing this, Chen Qun raised his head, blinked and looked at Yang Xiu.

"Dezu? What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? What have you been doing all morning? There are so many government affairs piled in front of you, and you haven't dealt with them?"

Yang Xiu looked at Chen Qun in surprise: "Are you feeling unwell? Are you sick?"

Chen Qun looked at the government affairs piled up in a hill beside him, was taken aback for a moment, and then covered his eyes.

"I was so absorbed in watching it that I actually forgot about time! Oh my god... so many..."

"What are you fascinated by? Can you forget the time?"

Curiously, Yang Xiu picked up the notebook from Chen Qun's hand and flipped through the first page.

"The Imperial Examination and the Ninth Rank Official Law? What is this?"

"This is a brand-new method of selecting officials and appointing officials prepared by His Majesty to reform the investigation system."

Chen Qun sorted out the government affairs report that he forgot to deal with, sighed and said: "Because it is very important, His Majesty asked my opinion, so I have been watching it... Dezu, there are too many things, there are other things in the afternoon You can help me share some of the government affairs, okay?"

Yang Xiu turned to the second page, and was immediately attracted by the content written in it. He was looking at this document vigorously, and nodded unconsciously.

"Okay, everything is fine."

Chen Qun was overjoyed.

"Thank you!"

Then he got up and moved half of the documents in the hill in front of him to Yang Xiu's desk.

After returning, Chen Qun looked at the government affairs in front of him, thought about the workload in the afternoon and evening, and thought about the speed of handling government affairs, and the feedback materials he still had to spare time to write to Liu Bei. too much.

So Chen Qun took more than ten government affairs records and threw them to Yang Xiu, asking Yang Xiu to help him deal with them.

After leaving about two-thirds of the things to Yang Xiu, Chen Qun suddenly felt as light as a swallow, and was very happy, as if he had already dealt with many things in the morning.

Then, he felt hungry, so he pulled Yang Xiu over, took the document in his hand and put it back on his desk, and dragged Yang Xiu to the direction of the cafeteria.

"Hurry up and have lunch. Didn't you say that there are fried chicken nuggets today? If you don't go, you won't be able to eat much."

Yang Xiu had just seen the explanation of the content of the section exams in the imperial examination. He was looking at it with enthusiasm when he was dragged to eat by Chen Qun. He was still a little unresponsive. After finally reacting, Yang Xiu realized what he had just read. Something important.

A new method of selecting and appointing officials?

That's a big deal!
It is a major event that concerns the entire official group!
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