Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 302 Establishing a political service system (4k)

Zhu Biao suddenly said: "Yang Qing just said that if you want to truly solve the harm caused by subordinate officials, you need to let the stagnant water flow."

The running water does not rot, and the pivot of the house does not stink.

Of course Zhu Biao understands this.

"Yang Qing just said that he wanted to open up the path for advancement for subordinate officials, so that they can hope to advance. But even if they are not restricted from participating in the imperial examination, most of them will not be able to pass the new imperial examination based on their strength. Over time, this will Isn't the pool still a stagnant water?" Zhu Biao asked the doubts in his heart.

The reason why these scholars are idle, drunk and making trouble now is because they are the ones who were eliminated by the new imperial examination.

If this is the case, then it is useless to give them the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination.

It's just that everything is back to where it started.

In Zhu Biao's view, if the court still cannot provide these scholars with enough room for promotion.

So even if the imperial court adopts the method proposed by Yang Xian and initiates reforms, over time, these scholars will probably choose to join the ranks of subordinate officials after they realize that they have no hope of advancement.

The selection examination is for various organizations and departments to select college students with excellent character and academic performance from various universities to work at the grassroots level. Different from civil servants, the selection examination is a candidate for leading cadres at all levels and a key training target, from which outstanding individuals are selected. , gradually added to the ranks of leading cadres at all levels.

However, after Yang Xian sorted it out, it gradually closed up and even seemed to have a hint of self-resolution of the dilemma.

The originally peaceful Zhongshu Province exploded in an instant.

The public selection examination, as the name suggests, is an examination for the public selection of party and government leading cadres. The recruitment targets are working people in society who meet certain basic and professional conditions, and the requirements for applicants are relatively high in terms of politics, academic qualifications, majors, and work experience.

"In this way, the harm caused by subordinate officials will naturally be solved."

The arrogance of the scholar-bureaucrats meant that they despised these subordinate officials who were just "proficient in writing".

For a moment, I didn't know what to say. Apart from being shocked, I was still shocked.

"Government officers, we can set various levels for them. They will be promoted to one level every three years. If they are outstanding every year, the time can be shortened by half a year. Each time a level is raised, the corresponding salary will be increased. When the level of government officers is raised to the top , then you can evaluate and promote officials to officials."

At the same time, it also gave them, the subordinate staff, a sense of belonging.

Because there are so many government officials across the country, their salaries are all paid by the court, which is a huge expense.

Everything is no small matter.

The new imperial examinations held across the country were similar to the public selection examinations and selective examinations of later generations.

Lift subordinate officials out of humble status.

What Yang Xian wants to do is to apply the mature civil service system of later generations to today's Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang on the side listened carefully to the conversation between Yang Xian and Zhu Biao. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was done well.

Only today's Ming Dynasty has such financial resources.

Such two selection mechanisms running in parallel will not only revitalize the stagnant pool of subordinate officials, but also cause major changes in the entire Ming Dynasty.

For these scholars, the new scientific examination is the pie in the mouth of future generations of leaders and the moon in the sky. They can be deceived for a while, but they cannot be deceived for the rest of their lives.

"Then the local government affairs examination bureaus will issue a government affairs examination announcement based on the needs of government affairs submitted by each class room and yamen in each region, allowing scholars from all over the world to participate in the selection. The cultural foundation is a must for all government affairs officers. This level The exam is more than enough for these scholars who have read the books of sages for more than ten years, know the farming season, and understand Tianlun."

These officials in Zhongshu Province are all scholars, so naturally they cannot look down on subordinate officials.

After all, it is related to the foundation of Ming Dynasty, and nothing can be done carelessly.

As expected of Zhu Biao, he could think of this level.

Yang Xian then said: "In the future, government officials will no longer be humble officials like subordinates, but will be an iron rice bowl that guarantees harvests despite droughts and floods. Therefore, naturally not just anyone can be a candidate. We can set up offices in various places just like today's imperial examinations. Government civil service examination. Each province recruits political civil servants."

You must know that he originally just wanted to get advice from Yang Xian on how to deal with those scholars, but he did not expect that now he would also solve the hidden harm of subordinate officials.

The troublemaking scholar and the hidden danger of the subordinate staff seem to be two completely unrelated things.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao froze in place after listening to Yang Xian's words.

When an edict from Zhu Yuanzhang came to Zhongshu.

The government servant system incorporated these original subordinates into the bureaucracy and allowed them to eat royal food. In this way, the court could directly manage them, which directly strengthened the court's control over the grassroots.

And Zhu Biao's brain was also rapidly absorbing what Yang Xian said.

Yang Xian just pointed out a correct path, and many of the points were very general, so there are still some details that need to be added by Zhu Biao slowly.

It's hard for him to be unhappy.

Today's new imperial examination is this model, selecting officials.

But he was still too happy too early.

"It is indeed too difficult for these traditional scholars to pass the new imperial examination and obtain official positions. But if the mountains don't come to see me, I will go to the mountains." Yang Xian smiled slightly and then said. "Since they cannot become officials on their own, our court takes the initiative to include them in the bureaucracy."

Early next morning.

"Of course, the questions in the government service examination do not need to be as difficult as today's new imperial examinations, but are aimed at selecting suitable government service officers. Each class office can apply in advance to the respective state government service examination bureau according to their own needs. What they need How many professionals are there?”

If it were the original Ming Dynasty, this policy would have been impossible to implement.

Allow students from all counties and counties in the world to become official officials.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who found the solution, couldn't help but feel very good.

"We need to completely change the current subordinate staff model, and let the court pay these subordinate staff a salary. These people take the money from the court, and they can even be officials in the court in the future. It not only gives them restraint, but also gives them They hope. I call it the government clerk system. In the future, these subordinate staff can completely change their name to government clerk. Personnel who implement government affairs for the country and the court."

The government civil service examination that Yang Xian is promoting now is the civil service examination for future generations.

Therefore, although it was Zhu Yuanzhang's arbitrariness to banish subordinate officials to low status, the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang was able to carry out this policy so smoothly was naturally due to the encouragement of these scholar-bureaucrats.

Although the subordinate officials in Hongwu Dynasty did not become popular.

But the entire scholar-bureaucrat group in the Hongwu Dynasty was still a formidable force.

In fact, there is another important reason for the low status of subordinate officials, which is the petty calculation of these scholar-bureaucrats, "using the cheap to suppress the good." When officials are exploiting the people, oppressing them, and squeezing the people's support and support, the subordinate officials face the people directly and serve as the executioners. In this way, the subordinate officials are at the forefront of the contradiction between the government and the people in society and have to have sharp conflicts with the people. The status is suppressed: they are lowly, but the common people are good. In this way, the common people who are oppressed by subordinate officials have a psychological balance.

There is also the fact that officials, as specific administrative staff, can usurp a lot of power when their chief officials are ignorant. In order to prevent them from doing too much, their political and economic status is deliberately lowered and they are allowed to stay at the grassroots level for life. In this way It will not pose a threat to the powerful class, that is, the scholar-bureaucrat class.

All the civil servants in Zhongshu Province were staring at Li Shanchang who was sitting in the chief seat.

Over the years, the imperial court has launched various new policies, including tax reform, imperial examination reform, and other measures, and their intentions have been obvious.

It's just that these scholar-bureaucrats still don't want to believe that the imperial court will target them.

Until this time, the government clerk system was launched.

Then the last layer of fig leaf has been removed.

It was tantamount to telling them directly and clearly that they were going to take away the power in the hands of scholar-bureaucrats like them. More than a thousand years.

Since the Wenjing Dynasty, the world has been governed by scholar-bureaucrats.

After taking away the authority of the scholar-bureaucrats, who can your old Zhu family rely on to rule the world?

Superior, superior, what on earth are you going to do?

These reforms have been changed over and over again. In the end, isn't every punch a blow to your own body, Mr. Zhu?

Could such an outrageous thing happen in this world? !

Li Shanchang sat in his seat, his expression dark and obscure.

The news that Zhu Yuanzhang was preparing to reform the current system of subordinate officials soon spread throughout the capital.

Officials are talking about it privately.

A private gathering of officials.

After three rounds of drinking, the conversation started completely.

One of the officials started the conversation first.

"Colleagues, have you heard about it? Your Majesty has listened to Yang Xian's words, and now he is ordering His Highness the Crown Prince to prepare for the government examination together with the ministries of the Zhongshu Province. What it means is that the officials will be selected through the examination and the court will give money. I heard what the Zhongshu Province said Colleagues say that with the new regulations for government officials, officials can even be promoted from official position to official position!"

"Absurd!" The fat official on the side yelled with anger written all over his face. "It is the biggest joke in the world that these cheap people become officials."

"Bad official? Mr. Hu's news is probably too backward. Don't you know that His Majesty wants to remove the subordinate officials from their humble status?" Another official next to him sneered.

"We must urge the emperor not to do this, otherwise, the world will be in chaos!"

This sentence represents the voice of the vast majority of officials today.

Although the original imperial examination reform also shook their rights, after all, the new imperial examination is still an imperial examination, even if it no longer uses the Four Books, Five Classics and Eight-legged Part to select officials.

Moreover, the number of people recruited for the new imperial examination is limited after all.

And this time, it was the reform of subordinate officials throughout the Ming Dynasty.

The large scope and large number of people were unacceptable to these scholar-bureaucrats for a while.

Giving these subordinate officials a way to rise is tantamount to taking away their rights in disguise.

In order to protect their own interests, officials naturally began to take action.

Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Zhu Yuanzhang read more than a dozen memorials in a row, and his brows became more and more frowning.

The contents of these memorials are surprisingly consistent.

These officials were firmly opposed to the official examination, and they were even more opposed to the imperial court spending money to support these small officials. They said, "How can these lowly officials bathe in heaven's grace?" As for promotion of officials to officials, they criticized even more strongly.

Some are from the perspective of scholars all over the world, saying that scholars are selected through the imperial examination. Scholars study hard for ten years in a cold window and leap over the dragon gate in one fell swoop before they can get an official position. Nowadays, those subordinate officials do not need to pass the imperial examination and have the opportunity to become officials. Wouldn't this chill the hearts of scholars all over the world?

Some brave warriors who were desperate for their lives said that Zhu Yuanzhang's move was to shake the foundation of the country and the country, and they even did not hesitate to lift the Qianyuan Dynasty for this purpose.

Ask Zhu Yuanzhang if he has forgotten the lessons of the former Yuan Dynasty.

If it had been anyone else, perhaps they would have been persuaded to leave by the officials.

But Emperor Hongwu has always had the courage and determination to be decisive.

For Qingliu civil servants, what they hate most is heroes like Zhu Yuanzhang.

Because such a monarch is unlikely to be fooled or deceived by civil servants.

As the founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang was unparalleled in strength.

The Ming Dynasty's million-strong army was in his hands, Lao Zhu.

Lao Zhu is not the kind of person who hesitates, but the kind with super strong execution ability.

Once a decision is made, it must be implemented.

So what if all the officials in the court object?

I am the emperor, I have the final say!

Among the descendants of Lao Zhu, Jiajing, although full of talent for strategizing, lacks the support of absolute strength, and sometimes his strategizing will pale in comparison.

Zhongshu Province.

Li Shanchang's eyes were full of disappointment when he saw that Zhu Yuanzhang still went his own way even in the face of the admonitions of hundreds of officials.

Single husband!

In his view, Zhu Yuanzhang was a single man.

"Prime Minister Li, what should we do now?" All officials of Zhongshu Province looked at Li Shanchang at this moment.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, civil servants have never been so united.

Now, Liu Bowen, a member of the East Zhejiang Party, has retired to his hometown in Qingtian to raise pigs, while Song Lian is seriously ill at home.

Leaderless.

Therefore, in the past, the fight between the two parties in eastern Zhejiang and Huaixi no longer existed.

Logically speaking, Li Shanchang is not actually a serious scholar who climbed up through the imperial examination.

You must know that in the former Yuan Dynasty, he failed the imperial examination.

In the past, in the eyes of those Qingliu, could Li Shanchang, a civil servant from Huaixi, be regarded as a civil servant?

That's just the proud warrior.

But now, the original Qingliu leaders Liu Bowen and Song Lian have withdrawn from the court.

So now, Li Shanchang is a real civilian leader.

Facing the expectations of all civil servants, Li Shanchang slowly stood up from his seat.

"I will go to see your Majesty and persuade him to withdraw his decree."

After saying this, Li Shanchang walked to the palace with the expectations of all civil servants.

Imperial Palace, Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Zhu Yuanzhang was dealing with government affairs. It was obvious that his ministers had repeatedly complained in recent days, which made him not in a good mood.

At this time, I heard a report from the chamberlain, saying that the South Korean prince wanted to see him.

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment. Even though he knew that the other party might come because of the reform of subordinate officials, he still chose to receive him.

"Your Majesty, Li Shanchang, pays homage to your Majesty." Li Shanchang walked into the hall, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and saluted.

(End of this chapter)