travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 158

Lin Wanrong's words sounded very simple, that is, the sons of businessmen are officials, and the speed of promotion is far faster than that of ordinary people.

Zhao Fei didn't understand this sentence.

In Zhao Fei's view, everyone in the world is equal when it comes to being an official. Of course, it is easier for the second and third generations of officials to be officials. Most of the officials in the court are from official families.

As for the merchant's children, Zhao Fei seems to have never seen them before.

At first he thought that the merchants were all running to make money, but it wasn't until Lin Wanrong opened his mouth that Zhao Fei realized that it wasn't that the merchants didn't come to be officials, but that the imperial court basically suppressed their promotion channels.

Each scientific examination only has a single-digit admission rate, and after admission, they will be sent by the court officials to be officials in departments that cannot be promoted in this lifetime.

It can be said that the merchant class almost single-handedly opposed the entire court officials. It would be incredible if they could still appear in front of Zhao Fei.

All class issues reflected in the officialdom are just four words, that is to get promoted and get rich.

However, there is only one person in the court who has the most experience and authority in the four words of promotion and wealth, and that is Qin Hui who is also the official secretary.

Qin Hui's job is the prime minister, and he is the head of all officials. The Ministry of Officials is the department in charge of the promotion and assessment of all officials in the world, and all promotion and assessment must go through Qin Hui's hands.

So on the issue of promotion, Qin Hui took the initiative to stand up.

"Your Majesty, Lord Lin always speaks reservedly," Qin Hui said, "The meaning of Lord Lin is very simple, that is, the sons of merchants are officials, and the promotion speed is fast. If there are only a few people, the court can suppress them, but if there are dozens of people, several Hundreds of people, with the power of the court, there is nothing to do."

"Why do they get promoted so quickly?" Zhao Fei asked.

"The imperial court's assessment criteria for an official are mainly 'virtue' and 'capability'." Qin Huidao: "Virtue is moral character, which is something that can be proved freely. Ability is ability, this is the main criterion, because ability can be quantified, we can clearly see through the assessment whether you have ability."

Qin Hui paused, and continued: "A person's ability to collect taxes in the court, social security, and infrastructure construction can be seen intuitively from the naked eye and numbers. He is also a county magistrate, one is a merchant's son, and the other is a farmer's son. The former can quickly make the county he governs advance rapidly in various tasks through his family background, while the latter can only slowly explore through continuous efforts."

Qin Hui sighed, and said: "The difference here can be seen by the official department, but the evaluation of the official department must be quantified, and it is impossible to consider other interfering factors. In this way, in the evaluation of officials from various places at the beginning of each year, The sons of merchants must be excellent in the examination."

"According to the rules of the imperial court, those who are outstanding in the evaluation for three consecutive years will be promoted to a higher level." Qin Huidao: "In this way, they only need to go for more than ten years, and they can achieve a high position above the fourth rank. I’m afraid they are the ones discussing matters in front of them.”

Qin Hui's words are very straightforward, but Zhao Fei still feels that there are problems everywhere. To use the more popular words in later generations, it is full of slots, and all words have problems. There are many problems that people don't know. Where does the rebuttal come from.

After pondering for a while, Zhao Fei said: "Then how did you treat the merchant's children before?"

"Put in some insignificant departments." Qin Huidao: "Because there are only a few people in each department, the official department can completely deal with it, but if there are dozens or even hundreds of people, it will be more troublesome for the official department to deal with."

"You just say that the sons of merchants are officials, and it is unfair to the sons of peasants." Zhao Fei said: "Then if your sons are officials, is it fair for those white children to be officials?"

"Naturally it will be unfair." Qin Hui said respectfully: "But ministers and others were born in officials, and their families have been officials for generations. All the children of the family have always been loyal to their duties, but the children of merchants are different."

"What's the difference?" Zhao Fei asked.

"Businessmen value profits." Qin Huidao: "For businessmen, as long as the interests are large enough, they can sell anything. This is something that ministers cannot do."

For Qin Hui's words, Zhao Fei felt a little disdainful in his heart, and it was reflected on his face that the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

Qin Hui saw Zhao Fei's disdainful gesture, and smiled wryly: "Your Majesty, I know that your Majesty may disdain this kind of talk, but there are few absolute truths in this world. If I say something practical, Your Majesty is willing to listen to it." of."

"Tell me about it." Zhao Fei said.

"Taking Weichen as an example, Weichen's great-grandfather was formally appointed as an official by the son of a farmer after a scientific examination 200 years ago. In the past 200 years, generations of the Qin family have become officials. It can be said that after 200 years of development, The interests of the Qin family have been closely integrated with the interests of the imperial court." Qin Hui said: "For a family of officials like Weichen, maintaining the rule of the imperial court is always the first thing that puts the interests of the family first. Most of the other official families are similar, which is why I said that the sons of officials like Chen are always more loyal than ordinary people."

"Is that so?" Zhao Fei was a little confused when he called Qin Hui.
"Yes." Qin Hui nodded, then looked at Lin Wanrong and said, "Don't Master Lin say something?"

Lin Wanrong glanced at Qin Hui silently, and walked out. Zhao Fei was also a little curious about his cheap father-in-law standing up, so he said, "Lin Aiqing, what do you want to say?"

"I'm here to support Lord Qin this time." Lin Wanrong said: "Businessmen value profit, and most of them are treacherous. As the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black. It is impossible for their children not to inherit the conduct of their fathers. Yes, as for the officials' children, this..."

Facing this question, Lin Wanrong didn't say anything, but he didn't say that someone said it. Liu Yong stood up and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Master Lin belongs to the Lin family. It was when the great ancestor of this dynasty was fighting the world. For hundreds of years, more than [-] members of the Lin family have served as officials by the side of Taizu. Over the past years, the Lin family has produced three empresses, thirteen noble concubines, and more than ten children, Princess Shang, if we talk about a family of officials, the Lin family is the first family of officials in our dynasty."

Zhao Fei only knew Lin Jia Niubai before, but Zhao Fei was surprised by how Niubai was. It's just that their family had three queens, thirteen noble concubines, and more than ten children, Princess Shang. Doesn't he have some kind of blood relationship with Zi Yan?

Ziyan is younger than herself, so she is considered her younger sister?

My God, I'm so freaking crazy!

Zhao Fei deeply despised his predecessor in his heart, and then thought with some trepidation, later generations said that it is not good for close relatives to marry, so he must not be close relatives with Ziyan!
It's just that the saying that the Lin family is the number one official family in the Song Dynasty made Zhao Fei more interested.

I remember when I read novels before, I always said that the aristocratic family was all kinds of awesome. As for the first family, it was even more awesome.

At that time, there were not too many people who traveled to various first-generation families to be playboys, but now it seems that I am the emperor!

But speaking of it, my family Ziyan is so gentle and gentle, it is unexpected that she has such a high-ranking background, it really makes people speechless!

After Liu Yong finished speaking, Zhao Fei was full of random thoughts and didn't answer.

Facing this kind of situation, Liu Yong was quite experienced and knew that Zhao Fei might be distracted again at this time, but how could Zhao Fei be distracted at this time.

As soon as Liu Yong rolled his eyes, he was thinking about it.

"Ouch!"

Liu Yong suddenly tilted his foot and fell to the ground, uttering an ouch.

This voice made Zhao Fei wake up suddenly, looking at Qin Hui who was lying on the ground, Zhao Fei asked strangely: "Liu Yong, what's wrong with you?"

"Your Majesty, forgive me!" Liu Yong hurriedly kowtowed and said, "I accidentally twisted it, and I lost my dignity in front of you. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

"Forget it, you didn't mean it." Zhao Fei waved his hand and said, "Where did we just talk?"

"Report to Your Majesty, and tell me the difference between the sons of officials and the sons of merchants." Liu Yong said.

"En." Zhao Fei nodded, and said: "What you said is very reasonable. I believe that the children of official families are far better at being loyal to the court than the children of businessmen, especially Lin Aiqing's Lin family. I really didn't know that the Lin family has been an official for such a long history, and their loyalty to the imperial court is absolutely beyond doubt."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your appreciation." Lin Wanrong said respectfully.

"You're welcome, your Lin family deserves my appreciation." Zhao Fei shook his head and chuckled, this laugh was not at Lin Wanrong, but at himself.

If Liu Yong hadn't revealed the news today, Zhao Fei had always thought that Lin Wanrong could maintain his neutrality in the court and fight against Qin Hui because of himself as the emperor's son-in-law.

Looking at it now, it really is self-indulgent. The world of officials like the Lin family has been closely integrated with the Song court for hundreds of years.

Given Lin Wanrong's family background, it really wasn't his fault to contend with Qin Hui.

Now that he knew this, Zhao Fei couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous about his previous thoughts.

After laughing, Zhao Fei narrowed his eyes and said, "I admit that what you said just now has some truth, but what does it have to do with what I want to do?"

All the ministers looked at Zhao Fei in astonishment, his face was very good-looking, and he told you the benefits of not playing games with his girlfriend for a long time, but he said, I don't have a girlfriend, and I completely understand you Same as one hit.

Zhao Fei stood up, exhaled, and said: "The problem I want to talk about is to solve the current financial problems of the court, but you are talking about the problem of being an official. What does this have to do with my problem?"

"This..." Qin Hui opened his mouth, wanting to speak.

But before he could say anything, Zhao Fei interrupted: "No matter what you want to say, you are not allowed to say it now, just stand there and listen carefully to what I have to say."

(End of this chapter)