Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 387

"This is the way to get a scholar that you have created in more than a month?" Liu Xie angrily threw a piece of paper on the ground. The ink smudges on the white paper seemed to be mocking those who had read poems and books. Minister of excellent grammar.

Liu Xie looked gloomyly at the ministers who came here in a hurry but were dumbfounded at this moment, and impatiently started pacing in the hall of Xuanshi.He originally thought that he had ordered these people to preside over the promotion of Taixue before, and these people had been instructed by him repeatedly, so they should understand a little bit of his own thoughts.Unexpectedly, after returning, he still saw this method of obtaining scholars that ran counter to his thoughts.

From the very beginning of promoting Taixue, Liu Xie clearly ordered these people not to have any views on family status, and must use Taixue as the source point as much as possible as a demonstration to drive the project.Stimulate and drive the various places under the current imperial government to open elementary schools starting from the township, and then set up county schools, county schools, state schools, and imperial schools, encourage students to study abroad, encourage private schools, etc., and do everything possible to promote cultural education in the Han Dynasty , so that more people can read and write.

The competition between any forces is, in the final analysis, a competition between the economy and talents.It is impossible for Liu Xie to understand this truth, and judging from the 800-year history, the prosperity of a country is far from economic, political, and military prosperity.

The real prosperity is the prosperity of culture.Only when, like the prosperous Tang Dynasty, culture is used as a weapon to invade the barren cultural desert of other countries and make them willing to accept admiration, can it be regarded as a real rise of a great power.

Obviously, under the current situation, Liu Xie's move is still a long way from such a glorious time.After all, such things as cultural rejuvenation and educational power are major events that have lasted for thousands of years, and everything must be considered in the long run.But from the most utilitarian point of view, Liu Xie never imagined that he saw such a letter that made him so angry that he wanted to kill.

"I don't want to tell you any great truths, I just want to ask you, are you the ministers of the great man, or just the spokesperson of the same clan?!" Liu Xie raised his robe sleeve angrily, and then threw it down bitterly. His face was full of irritable blood red: "Okay, each state and county will set up an appraiser to evaluate the personal conduct, family wealth, articles and poems of the scholars of the state and county. Xiu, after completing the course, he will enter the imperial court to become a man... In addition to the need to enter the Imperial Academy for further study, what is the difference between this method and the current method of collecting materials in this dynasty?"

Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, there has been a complete system of selecting officials.There are mainly methods of investigation, enlistment, removal, appointment, and selection.From Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Chaju system was established. Since then, the Chaju system has become the most important official selection system in the Han Dynasty.The specific method is to recommend talents who can hold official positions to the emperor according to the different needs of the country.

In the Han Dynasty, filial piety and honesty were the most popular, so people often used "ju Xiaolian" to refer to the entire procuratorial system.There are four standards for filial piety and honesty: one is to be virtuous and innocent, and the other is to learn and practice.Familiar with the scriptures; the third is to study laws and regulations and be good at judging prisons; the fourth is to have a clear mind and outstanding talents.Xiaolian who was recommended by the local government generally served as a Langguan in the central government first, and after a probationary and preliminary training in the officialdom, he was appointed to a real position based on the inspection of his actual ability.

In order to ensure the quality of investigations, the state stipulates that state and county chiefs have the responsibility and obligation to recommend talents. There is a record in "Han Shu Wu Di Ji": Do not honor filial piety, do not obey edicts.It should be disrespectful; if you don't check integrity, you are incompetent, so you should be exempted.Moreover, the recommender shall be jointly and severally liable for anyone found to be unqualified in the investigation.In order to inspect the virtuous, there is usually a countermeasure examination.For example, Dong Zhongshu's famous "Three Strategies of Heaven and Man" is this kind of strategy.

Enlistment is quite special, it is an official selection system for the emperor to directly hire special talents.There were conscripts during the time of Qin Shihuang, such as Shusun Tong who was conscripted for his literature.Most of the levies in the Han Dynasty were academic celebrities or moral models.The grand ones should also be marked with "bus" and "anchexuanpulun" to symbolize the imperial court's respect for the people who are recruited.But except for the period of Wang Mang, the recruitment was carried out individually, and the proportion of the land in the selection palace was not large.

Elimination is a way for the chief to directly hire subordinates.In the Han Dynasty, the central government only appointed the chief executive, and the subordinates were basically appointed by the chief executive himself.This is why there are so many "lords" in the Three Kingdoms.According to regulations, officials with more than [-] shi are appointed and removed by the central government, and all the rafters removed are all [-] shi.Up to the Sangong Jiuqing, down to the county magistrates, most of their underground officials are eliminated by themselves.The genus that has been dismissed has a joint responsibility relationship with its chief.Since they are personally elected by the chief, they hold more actual power, while the auxiliary officials appointed by the central government often have no real power despite their higher rank.

Renzi is a special way of caring for the children of senior officials.According to the regulations of the Han Dynasty, officials at the [-]-stone level can appoint one of their children as a man after serving for more than three years.

The election is a property restriction on officials.The rulers of the Han Dynasty believed that "those who have permanent property have perseverance", and stipulated that they must have a certain family property before they could be selected as officials.At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there were ten calculations (it was counted as the taxation unit of the Han Dynasty, and one calculation was [-] yuan of assets), and it was reduced to four calculations during Emperor Jing.Later, when Emperor Wu came, he began to sell officials again, which was called Nabi, thus breaking the restriction that merchants were not allowed to be officials in the early Han Dynasty.Since then, selling officials and conferring titles has become a supplementary method to the official selection system of successive dynasties.

However, in the later period of the Han Dynasty, both investigations and eliminations focused on reputation, and the phenomenon of seeking fame and reputation became more serious later on.The folk ballad at the end of Han Dynasty: "To promote a scholar, I don't know the book; to inspect Xiaolian, my father lives away; Han Suqing is as white and turbid as mud, and Gao Diliang is as timid as a chicken." It is a portrayal of this disadvantage.

The method of enlistment is actually almost empty. After all, Liu Xie, who sits high in the Weiyang Palace, has no way of knowing that there is a brilliant hermit hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, so naturally there is no way to recruit;

From Liu Xie's point of view, Ren Zi's method is to ask the state to pay for raising a group of silverfish.According to this method of reasoning, I am a hero and a hero, and I am a rogue and a bastard.In this way, the big man doesn't need to recruit scholars anymore, and he can directly let the official position be hereditary according to the blood composition theory.

The last choice is simply an act of suicide that is irresponsible to the court and the common people.Those who are rich can become officials, so what hope do the poor people down there have?Life is hopeless, what else can you do if you don't rebel?
Moreover, all these methods of collecting materials still belong to the category of Soma, which is easy to be manipulated, and it is easy to make officials from various places form cliques.In this way, the whole Han Dynasty's official career is like a stagnant pool of stagnant water, turbid and foul-smelling, how can the common people and society prosper for it?

What worried Liu Xie even more was that Cao Cao in Yanzhou had already promulgated a recruitment order. He recruited talents without seeking fame, and even said that he had been a thief and done evil.Unfilial people who disrespect their parents can come to Cao Cao to be officials as long as they have talents.From this, Liu Xie realized that Cao Cao's ability to become such a generation of heroes in the future is not due to accidental factors.

But as Cao Cao's nominal head office, it is still implementing methods of recruiting scholars that are not suitable for the current situation. How can this not make Liu Xie feel heartbroken?But what made him speechless the most was that these ministers, whom he entrusted with high hopes, managed to make a matter that came naturally, like the "nine-rank Zhongzheng system" introduced by Chen Qun later.

"I'm here to ask you, who is responsible for the appraisers in each state and county, and why? Don't say what kind of character those people are. Absolute power creates absolute corruption. These appraisers can do it with a single word." To decide the fate of a person, you dare to use your life to guarantee that he will not use such absolute power to cheat for personal gain in the future, corrupt the law?"

"Your Majesty, this kind of appraiser can be paid a high salary, so that he can live comfortably. In this way, those with high aspirations will not be in the same boat..." Liang Hu, the minister of selection, was like a cold wind in front of the furious Liu Xie The quail in the midst of the rustling, hoped that with a single word from himself, Liu Xie would be calmed down.

Unexpectedly, Liu Xie just gave Liang Hu a cold look, and said sinisterly: "Collaborating with others? You think it's that simple. If Liang Shangshu wants to let a son be a Langguan, Shangshu will be in charge of the official career of the appraiser. , how do you think the appraiser should judge the son?"

"I dare not!" Liang Hu's complexion changed suddenly. He had been in the officialdom for several years, and he knew that Liu Xie was not alarmist just now.

"Forget it, you all back down."

Liu Xie waved his hand wearily, and after all these people left, the emperor, who seemed to hold supreme power, squeezed his arm painfully, and said to himself: "What happened to me today?" , why can't bear the anger so much, and the arm hurts? Could it be?..."

Liu Xie was shocked, and thought of the Yuzhou incident inexplicably.But then, he shook his head as if comforting himself: "No, it's impossible, Yuzhou is a blank period in this year, even if Tai Shici made a mistake, he still has that old fox Jia Xu by his side..."

(End of this chapter)