The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 315
In the past few days, there was an extra person in Zhao Guangyi's mansion, an unknown person, and no one cared about him.

Zhao Guangyi saw this man on the street yesterday as pitiful and was about to starve to death, so he showed kindness and let him work in his palace.

Of course, doing things in this palace can't be any important thing, it's nothing more than looking around with a lantern at night, just looking at a palace.

It's similar to the watchmen outside, but he doesn't need to tell the time, and he doesn't need to shout about dry weather, be careful of candles and the like.

This guy has only been here for two days, and he quickly got to know everyone. He was still an ignorant young man, but suddenly he became very old and spicy.

There are several other people who are doing this kind of thing with him, and the six of them are responsible for looking after the whole mansion with lanterns at night.

"Little Sanzi, why is this mansion so big? Who is our master? Such a magnificent mansion is not something ordinary people can own."

With this person is another person called Xiaosanzi. The two of them are in the same class and they are together as companions.

"Why don't you know, then how did you get here to work?" The third son had an unbelievable look on his face.

"This is Prince Jin's mansion. Who is King Jin? It belongs to the current emperor's younger brother. He was named King Jin. This mansion was awarded to us by the emperor."

After the third son finished speaking, he still had a look of pride on his face, as if he was the king of Jin, and the person next to him had a slight sneer after hearing it recently.

It's not that I haven't come to Jinwang's mansion, Zhao Guangyi, I'm here to help you, and now I have to take such painstaking efforts to sneak into the mansion like this.

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There are still two days until the palace examination, and all the people who were on the list before are busy preparing nervously.

They were all thinking about what questions the emperor could ask and how they should answer them. Zhao Xu and Miao Xun were sitting down to eat in a small shop.

"My lord, is it your idea to carry out this palace examination, but this is also good, the emperor can directly recruit people he is satisfied with, and these people will be loyal to the emperor in the future."

At this time, disciples are still popular. If these people were recruited by the emperor himself, these people would be disciples of the emperor.

Naturally, they respected their teacher very much. Miao Xun saw this very clearly, so he told Zhao Xu.

"However, my lord, how did I hear that there were many problems in the scientific examination this time? The people who are famous on the list may not necessarily be their own abilities. If the palace examination is held in this way, is it unfair to some people?"

Miao Xun has already said it very euphemistically, that is to say, there are many people here who are not qualified to participate in the palace examination, so it is a bit unfair to let them go now.

This Xu sighed:

"Sir, how can I not know these things, but we can't hold another scientific examination now, and the imperial court also knows this, but what can we do, we can only wrong those who have real talents and real learning."

Sometimes there must be a trade-off, otherwise it is really difficult to handle, just like this palace examination, not everyone can participate.

These people who have passed the autumn test may not all have real skills, how can Zhao Kuangyin not know, but there is no way.

"However, I didn't just let these people go, and I won't let them down. I'm preparing to build a Jixian Academy. Gathering talented people together can be regarded as serving the court."

This matter was not thought of by Zhao Xu, but by his old man Zhao Kuangyin. Since these people are talented, they will become the pillars of the court in the future.

It's better to let them have a good temper now, and let them get in touch with more political affairs, so that they may enter the officialdom and adapt quickly.

At the same time, they can also brainstorm, let them contribute more to the court, and give more opinions on major national affairs. You must know that the masters are among the people.

If there are particularly outstanding contributions, they can be directly awarded official positions, which is to promote them in disguise.

"My lord, what do you mean?" Miao Xun didn't know what Zhao Xu wanted to express.

"Sir, what I mean is that this collection of virtuous halls belongs to me personally, not to the imperial court. These people are currently only serving me and giving me advice, just like the doormen in the Warring States period, but they are like the guys in the shop. Those who need to be paid, understand, sir."

Miao Xun understood that these people were a collection of masters, and all of them gathered together to serve Zhao Xu.

"By the way, these people have not been identified yet. They will be under your jurisdiction in the future. These are the pillars of the imperial court. You must treat them well."

When Zhao Xu handed these people over to Miao Xun, he actually wanted Miao Xun to give them something. Miao Xun knew this, so he didn't object.

"What do you mean by this proposal of your kid? If these people get my approval, they will not be granted official positions, but let them watch politics. Why?"

Needless to say, it was Zhao Kuangyin, the father, who "asked" his son again, and this is Zhao Kuangyin's bedroom.

This morning, Zhao Xu asked someone to present him with a document about the arrangements for the students after the palace examination, which puzzled Zhao Kuangyin.

At that time, they sent someone to look for Zhao Xu, but they didn't find it for a long time. Knowing that this kid just came back now, he was pulled over by Zhao Kuangyin soon after he came back.

"Ahem, ahem, isn't this easy to understand? As long as the students in the imperial examination fall into your eyes, you can let them go to the yamen to watch the politics so that they can learn a lot, let them go to each department to see how it works, They have been given specific duties for a month or two, so their administrative efficiency when they go to the local area will definitely be good.”

Isn't Zhao Xu talking about students watching politics just to let these people do internships, so that they can get acquainted with the office process.

It saves them from going to the place to start to find out how much loss it will bring to the place.

Moreover, these people are full of bookishness now, and they can wear away their bookishness during these two months.

Zhao Kuangyin also knows the benefits of this, but he is still a little worried, is it really good to do this?

Zhao Xu may have seen Zhao Kuangyin's doubts:

"Of course, you can also try it to see the effect. How are these people doing? Divide these people into two groups."

"One group will be directly released to become officials, and the other group will be sent to observe politics and then released to see how their political performance will be after a year. It is not bad to make a decision."

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and only when results are produced can comparison be made, which is easy for everyone to accept.

This is what Zhao Xu learned from later generations. It should have appeared in the Ming Dynasty. I didn't expect to mention it, but this system later became an important system in the Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)