Chapter 865 If you can’t beat him, then join (additional update for leader Qi Wangyue)
"Did you gain anything from the conversation I just had with your elder brother?" Shao Xun looked at his second son, Badger Lang, in the secluded mountain path and asked.
"Officials need to understand the sentiments of the people." Badger Lang replied honestly.
"These are my exact words, do you have your own ideas?"
Badger Lang held it in for a long time and said, "You can't be deceived by cunning and cunning officials."
"So how can we not be deceived by them?"
"If everything is clear to the mind, the petty officials will not dare to be presumptuous. If we continue to use kindness and power together, we can ensure that we will be safe for many years."
"Is this the insight you gained from the expedition?"
"Yes." Badger Lang said, "My father has been both kind and powerful in Pingcheng, and he is very familiar with the people's sentiments and military affairs, so no one dares to deceive him."
Shao Xun stopped, looked at the lush pine forest in the distance, and said: "People are like trees, and they have to experience some wind and frost before they can have their own insights. Does Zuo Guocheng know?"
"Know."
"It's a bit dilapidated there. It will be repaired next year. You can go there." Shao Xun said: "I wanted to get horses to plow this year, but I haven't been able to do so. Now hundreds of plow horses have been transported to Zuoguocheng. I will go there again." I’ll give you some household items, farm tools, and seeds, and you’ll start doing this for me next year.”
"Yes."
"You will be sixteen after the Chinese New Year. You must not still think about having fun." Shao Xun said.
"Yes."
Shao Xun walked forward for a while and couldn't help but ask: "Except for what I entrusted to you, don't you have any strategies of your own?"
Badger Lang was stunned.
"Do you know where Lishi is?"
"The place where Liu Yuanhai started."
"It's good that you know." Shao Xun said: "There are more Xiongnu and Shanhu people in that place than Jin people. If you can make a difference, your father will think more highly of you."
Badger Lang suddenly understood and said: "I know what to do."
Seeing him like that, Shao Xun smiled and said, "Okay, I won't ask you either. We'll see when the time comes. Let's go down the mountain. Your mother-in-law is waiting impatiently."
Sure enough, Lu Xun was walking around at the foot of the mountain.
When he saw the father and son coming down, he actually looked at Shao Xun with an angry look, as if he was blaming him for frightening his son.
"A loving mother often loses her son!" Shao Xun shook his head helplessly.
I think back then, he was still a good young man in his early twenties, but he ended up making his aunt, who was in her forties, pregnant.
My aunt has only one child in her life, and now she has gray hair on her temples. She still loves her as much as she did when she was a child. It's really speechless.
But Badger Lang didn't look so squeamish either, which reassured him a lot. But I couldn’t help but wonder, wouldn’t it be better if it had gone through enough training?
After walking dozens of steps forward, I met Lu Chen, the secretary supervisor.
Lu Chen withdrew his eyes from the mother and son on the mountain road and said: "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister has criticized the military system of the government and said that it needs to be changed. The details are here——"
After that, he handed over a manuscript.
Shao Xun took it and read it, and asked casually: "They still want to change the election of officials?"
"Exactly." Lu Chen replied: "No one can be transferred to an official position as a decorated official, nor can a decorated official enter an official position."
Theoretically, honorary officers can be transferred to official posts after being inspected by the Ministry of Personnel - usually by demotion.
The same goes for Men Yin becoming an official.
Now they just want to block these two avenues and preserve the basic base of officialdom.
If a decorated officer wants to become an official, he can only perform meritorious service and enter the official position through the methods of "conquest", "worship", "removal" and "conferment".
"Is this their biggest concession?" Shao Xun quickly finished reading and asked.
"That should be the case." Lu Chen said: "Wang Taiwei also said that there are nine-level and eighteen-level officers. It is better to have eighteen levels of honorary officers instead of twelve. That is, there are eighteen levels of honors, not ten. Second turn.”
In the current system of honorary officers, the highest ranks are Shangzhuguo and Zheng 2nd grade, and the lowest are Martial Cavalry Lieutenant and Congseventh rank, namely Shangzhuguo, Zhuguo, Shanghujun, Shanghujun, Shangqingqingduwei, Qingqingwei. The twelfth level is Che Duwei, Mount Qiduwei, Qi Duwei, Xiaoqiwei, Feiqiwei, Yunqiwei and Wuqiwei.
What Wang Yan means is that the honorary official system is in line with the official official system, from the first grade to the ninth grade, which is exactly the eighteenth grade, one-to-one correspondence, one change of merit changes to the ninth grade, and eighteen changes of merit changes to the first grade.
The logic makes sense, but the underlying idea is also obvious.
"You can tell me something for me. I can agree to the eighteenth rank of the Honored Officer. However, the Honored Officer must be able to participate in the inspection of the Ministry of Personnel. The same applies to the children of the Honored Officer who enter the Imperial Academy." Shao Xun replied: "As for the ones that have been sent out before, Still using the old system, the official seal of Feiqiwei will not be taken back."
"Yes." Lu Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, this condition is not difficult to agree to. Because scholars and honorary officers participate in the inspection, birth, beauty, appearance, knowledge, character, etc. are the hard conditions.
Ninety-nine percent of the honorary officers have a poor background and are illiterate, let alone good or bad calligraphy. This alone blocks the vast majority of people from the door.
Even if there are people who are literate, most of them only have a rough grasp of writing, not writing official documents, and their literary talent is not good. The handwriting is probably very ugly, and it will eliminate a large number of people.
Those who can actually pass the inspection are probably not military officers from noble families. In the final analysis, it is still prepared for them.
Of course, this is now, it will be difficult to say in the future. When the second generation of the Xunguan family grew up in large numbers, many of them must have received education, which actually expanded the scope of the Liang King's selection in disguise.
Perhaps this is one of his purposes.
King Liang was really doing things step by step.
From the perspective of talents, it is actually that the Xunguan Group snatched land from the Scholar Group and then had the capital to educate their own children. God knows how many more people will be educated, literate and capable of martial arts.
By that time, if there are still people who choose officials based on family status, they will probably cause public outrage. If you can't say it, you have to come up with another method, such as setting up a test?
But then again, this is a long-term process.
In the short term, the gentry don't have to worry too much, they still have at least a few decades of good life ahead of them. As for what will happen a few decades later, those scholars with far-sighted vision will see it and dare not take care of it.
People always have a sense of luck. There are still a few decades. Who knows what will happen at that time? Do I have to oppose King Liang now because of this kind of thing? Even if I stand against it, what if others don’t support me? Then wouldn’t my family be ruined?
This is the dilemma faced by scholars.
Lu Chen has actually seen that things like becoming an official are irreversible. With the support of the King of Liang, in another twenty years, it will become a huge force that even the scholars cannot easily overthrow. Until the system collapses and the government soldiers disappear, what will the scholars be like at that time? situation?
The drastic changes in the world always make it difficult for people to see the full picture.
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After Shao Xun left, Lu Chen fell a few steps behind.
Lu Xun understood and walked over with Badger Lang.
"Uncle." Badger Lang bowed first.
"Badger man, there is no need to be like this." Lu Chen put on a smile, helped his nephew up, then looked at him carefully, and said with a smile: "A handsome boy as gentle as jade, but I don't know which daughter has such a blessing."
When mentioning this matter, Lu Xun nodded repeatedly and said: "Ziliang, are there any good people in Hebei?"
Lu Chen shook his head and said: "Hebei is inappropriate."
After finishing speaking, Lu Chen pondered for a while and said: "I also have a close friend in Henan. I will look around and find a good family for Badger Lang. Then you can use your strength to get King Liang to agree."< br>
At this time, it was customary that the mother's opinion was of vital importance in the marriage of children. Lu Chen's words were not without purpose.
"Then I'll ask you to forgive me." Lu Xun felt a little relieved and then said: "There's no need to find someone with a high family status. I'm worried about the king's doubts..."
Lu Chen was speechless.
How can we take such an important matter as getting a wife casually? Without help, what's the point of getting a wife?
"I'm just a kid like Badger Lang..." Lu Xun said again. As he spoke, he didn't know what he thought of, and his eyes became red.
Lu Chen sighed heavily.
Since the death of his father, the morale of the Hebei gentry has been low and dispirited. They have to think of a solution?
Seeing the frequent activities of the Cui family in Qinghe, and the signs of challenging the status of the Fan Yanglu family, don't we need to think of a way?
"What did the king just say?" Lu Chen suppressed his anxiety and asked.
"Badger Lang is going to Zuoguocheng next year..." Lu Xun briefly narrated.
"This is a big deal!" Lu Chen said, "Don't worry, I will find a solution for whatever Badger Lang needs. Just do it well."
Lu Xun sighed, obviously not very happy.
Lu Chen ignored him.
Could it be that people who have experienced the melee between kings are afraid?
"How are you doing in Hebei recently?" Lu Xun asked.
"The news of the honorary officer has just spread to Hebei, and I don't know about it." Lu Chen said, "There must be many people who are dissatisfied, right? Alas, the scholars in Hebei are also very depressed and have never eaten meat. I am also afraid that some people will not If someone rebels, they will not regret it, but it will ruin the matter. ”
For some reason, Lu Xun secretly hoped that someone in Hebei would really rebel.
"As for horse plowing -" Lu Chen didn't pay attention to Lu Xun's expression at all, and said to himself: "This matter is not simple. When he went to war this year, the king ordered General Pu Gulu to implement the method of horse plowing. I don’t know how they did. I’ll send someone to ask.”
Lu Chen seemed to have thought of something, and said happily: "I heard that Wuhuan in Guangning lacked cattle for farming, and I once tried horse farming. After a while, I wrote a letter to some Wuhuan adults to ask."
"Yes." Lu Xun nodded slightly and said, "Sorry, brother."
"It doesn't matter, it's just a small matter." Lu Chen said.
In terms of connections with the Hu people, apart from the declining Wang family of Taiyuan, no one should be able to surpass the Lu family of Fan Yang. They are really closely related to Xianbei and Wuhuan, while the Taiyuan Wang family is mainly involved with the Xiongnu.
At this time, Lu Chen realized that Badger Lang had not spoken. But he was obviously listening carefully, which was fine.
It's just that his temper is a bit boring. Could it be that he was spoiled by his younger sister?
"It's not appropriate for me to stay for a long time, so I'll leave first." Lu Chen saluted and said.
In addition to being a secretary and supervising daily affairs, he still has many things to do.
The most important thing was to ask the King of Liang to set up troops in Youzhou.
In the land of Youyan, there are many heroes, so it is easy to choose the soldiers. If he could build five or six Longxiang mansions, he could persuade the descendants of the Lu family of Fan Yang and other wealthy families in Youzhou to serve as soldiers in the palace, fight for the king of Liang, and receive rewards for their meritorious service.
If you can't stop it, join in! This is what Lu Chen thought of.
However, this matter still needs to be discussed with the Youzhou nobles, and he cannot make the decision alone.
(End of chapter)