Lu Dynasty

Chapter 418
Chen Qun is already 35 years old, the ancients stand at 35, how could the [-]-year-old Chen Qun be ignorant of current affairs!Now he has to serve Cao if he wants to, and he has to serve Cao if he doesn't want to, otherwise Cao will be angry and slaughter his whole family of Chen, and Chen Qun will have no place to cry if he wants to!However, Cao is indeed the master in Chen Qun's mind.Chen Qun looked at Cao for a while, and when Cao got impatient, Chen Qun sighed and bowed down: "Chen Changwen pays homage to the lord!"

Cao was overjoyed immediately, he helped Chen Qun up and said, "My Changwen is no less than Zhou's Lu Shang, and Gaozu's Chen Ping and Zhang Liang!" Cao happily took Chen Qun's hand and walked out of the side hall. Yu could tell at a glance that both Cao and Chen Qun were quite satisfied.

When Cheng Yu saw that Cao had recruited Chen Qun, he smiled and said, "Congratulations, my lord, for getting another great talent!" Cao was also very satisfied with Chen Qun. It is very suitable for today's society.

Now that Chen Qun has joined Cao, Cao and the Chen family are their own.Chen Ji smiled and said: "Since Mr. Cao is visiting today, he naturally wants to stay for a light meal. I don't know what Mr. Cao thinks?" How could Cao not give Chen Ji face, so he stayed.Since eating, it is natural to have good wine. Cao sent people to Jimin Restaurant to get some jars of top-quality wine, but they didn't give any money.He also asked someone to tell the shopkeeper that this was the ransom money for Kong Rong's family!At the end of the Han Dynasty, because there was no grain for wine making and even very little wine, my best fine wine was already sold like crazy, and the highest was once copied to 30 gold per pot. Is Kong Rong’s family worth [-] to [-] gold?
At the banquet, Chen Ji smiled and said, "Mr. Cao, just now you said that my family is good at bureaucracy. What do you mean by wanting to find a way out for the Han court?"

Cao and Cheng Yu looked at each other, Cao nodded to Cheng Yu, and Cheng Yu told Chen Ji, Chen Qun and his son about the New Deal I proposed in Luoyang.After hearing this, Chen Ji slapped the table and said angrily: "What Duke Cao said is true? Lu Feng dared to change my Han ancestor's system! What meritocracy? Even craftsmen and merchants can enter the court as officials. Isn't that true? Do you want to embarrass me like a big man!" Don't look at old man Chen trembling when he walks, but he slapped the table hard.

In fact, Cao was a little displeased when he saw Chen Ji's reaction, because in his mind, the merit-based approach I proposed was reasonable.To put it bluntly, the meritocracy I proposed was originally proposed by Cao in history, how could he not agree with it!But now Cao still expects Chen Qun to come up with a system that surpasses mine, so he can't refute Chen Ji, so he has to apologize awkwardly.How could Cheng Yu not know Cao's thoughts? Cheng Yu smiled and said, "It can't be said that Lu Feng is wrong! Mr. Chen, what is Lu Feng's background? The son of merchants, his righteous brothers, Guan Yu is a fugitive, Zhang Fei is a butcher, Zhao Yun is a commoner, and the only one who comes from Chen Gong and Guo Jia is just a son of a poor family and a landlord from a small family, so he can naturally be listed with those merchants and hundreds of craftsmen!"

Chen Ji laughed and said: "Zhong De's words are reasonable. The ancients often said that things flock together and people are divided into groups. Lu Feng is the lowly of that group of people, so he naturally chose the lowly! Why should Mr. Cao care whether he is reformed or not!"

"Mr. Chen, that's not what you said! Lu Feng reformed the system. We can't belittle his system just because we see him in the same rank as Baigong and merchants. In fact, there are still many things we can learn from his system. For example, according to his The implementation of the system has greatly improved the court's ability to handle affairs, and it has also solved the problem of the division of power in the court more effectively and reasonably. It's just that Lu Feng hired the wrong people!" Chen Ji can belittle me, but the system I proposed is Cao has a good eye, so Chen Ji cannot be belittled at will.After all, Cao wanted to rely on Chen Qun to design a system that could surpass my system, instead of continuing the previous system of Dahan.

Chen Ji is an old fox through and through, so he naturally understood what Cheng Yu meant.Chen Ji smiled and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Cao, my Chen family is also a family of officials for generations, and I know the system very well. My family Qun'er is even the best among them. He will definitely propose a system for you that surpasses Lu Feng!"

"That's fine!" Cao Lai invited Chen Qun because he wanted him to do this.So Cao asked: "I don't know what Changwen's opinion is?"

Chen Qun thought for a while and said, "My lord, I only heard a general idea of ​​Lu Feng's internal system. I think his system is not much different from the current Dahan's system, but the names of some departments have been changed. It's like What is the difference between Lu Feng's Ministry of Agriculture and the court's chief minister of agriculture? The key lies in Lu Feng's employment system!"

When Chen Qun said this, Cao felt a little frustrated.Because under his rule, it is not suitable to use meritocracy now, otherwise Cao has issued an order to seek talents, and he also wants to promote meritocracy!When Cao Cao conquered Dong Zhuo at Hulao Pass, he said that if he wanted to control the intelligence of the world, he would be invincible.How can we be the intelligence of the world?Naturally, only meritocracy!Chen Qun saw that Cao was a little frustrated, so he smiled and said, "My lord, don't worry, I have a preliminary idea of ​​the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, which may not be worse than Lu Feng's system. I wonder if my lord is interested?"

Cao heard that Chen Qun already had a system, and he said with a smile: "Since Changwen has already had an idea, why not try to talk about it?" Chen Qun gave Cao a general idea of ​​the nine-rank Zhongzheng system he had conceived.In fact, the nine-rank Zhongzheng system is really very simple, that is, the imperial court has special officials to judge talents. As for the content of the evaluation, the content is family background, personal talent and conduct, and then the officials record the career of the talents and determine the grades. The main grades are upper and upper. Middle, upper and lower, middle and upper, middle and middle, middle and lower, lower and upper, lower and middle, and lower and lower, but there are only three categories: top, middle and low.The first rank is false, and no one can reach it; the second to third ranks are the top ranks; the fourth to fifth ranks are the middle ranks; the fifth to the ninth ranks are the lower ranks.In terms of virtue, talent and family status, the latter is generally used to determine the character, which is called "calculation of capital and character". InBev, bright but not group", "virtuous and capable but less", etc., this is the institutionalization of the evaluation of celebrities in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Chen Qun's system is actually the opposite of Cao Pi's idea of ​​meritocracy. If it is applicable, it is at most adopted by Cao Pi later in order to ease the relationship with the aristocratic family.After listening to Chen Qun's system, Cao thought it was good. He thought that it was because of Xu Shao's comments that he became famous all over the world.Cao laughed and said, "In this case, Changwen, you should improve this system first. If it is possible, we will try it out!"

(End of this chapter)