Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 674

Lan Tian counted the time, Cao Pi is about to usurp the throne and replace the Han Dynasty, and the Jiupin Zhongzheng System will be drawn out soon. He has been in Jingnan and Jiaozhou for many years, just to give hope to Qianshou and poor families, and prevent the aristocratic families from giving up their way. Blocked, with an ascending channel, a powerful ability will erupt.

Lantian has established schools over the years, and the talents he cultivated are ultimately sent to the officialdom, but the existing officialdom system is relatively backward, so he plans to use a system from later generations.

The advanced systems of later generations may not be suitable for the present society. Lantian finally chose the mature system of the feudal era, that is, the system of three provinces and six ministries.

Even if Liu Bei ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor in the future, there will be considerable resistance to promoting the new system, so Lantian plans to pilot it in Jiaozhou first, and then slowly move there after unifying China in the future.

"How do you plan to change, sir?" Jiang Wan asked curiously.

In the first six boxes, Lan Tian filled in the words "official", "household", "ritual", "soldier", "criminal", and "worker", and he planned to introduce the six functional departments first.

"I plan to set up six cao under the state capital to take back the rights of the counties to the top, so that the state capital can directly manage the localities, and the power cannot stay in the hands of the county guards and the county chief Shi."

Based on the few words written by Lan Tian, ​​Jiang Wan probably guessed the corresponding county-level yamen. He frowned and asked, "Sir, what you mean is to directly intervene in Gongcao, Hucao, Cangcao, etc. County-level yamen affairs? But this will cause a lot of real shortages, on the one hand, it will increase the pressure on salaries, and on the other hand, will there be suspicion of duplication of functions?"

"The tax revenue in the trade zone is getting more and more substantial. Our extra salary will not be wasted. Li Cao is responsible for the appointment and dismissal, examination, promotion, and transfer of state officials. Existing officials include those who are corrupt, dereliction of duty, and overstaffed. If it is not passed, it can be downgraded or transferred, or dismissed from office, and the efficiency of government offices at all levels will be greatly improved. If there are duplicate government offices, they can be abolished if they are found to be wrong." Lan Tian stroked to explain.

"Officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, workers, and humble officials can probably guess their functions. It's just such a large-scale innovation that almost overturned the imperial system. Should the government report to the king? In addition, the new Cao office manages For the corresponding yamen in each county, what do the original sheriffs and magistrates do? The new yamen should have quite a few staff, so where are you going to add so many officials?" Jiang Wan asked continuously.

Lan Tian smiled slightly: "The king of Hanzhong gave me a lot of authority. It is absolutely no problem to implement it only in Jiaozhou. The original county guard and county chief Shi should do what to do. The new yamen belongs to cross-management. The purpose is to allow the state government to accurately grasp the authority. The place, Gongyan's last question is the main purpose of coming to you today."

Jiang Wan asked curiously, "Your Majesty, please tell me."

"Guangzhou Academy has been in operation for more than three years, and thousands of students in the academy are my candidates." Lan Tian replied.

"The government at the state level has great power. Although the students in the academy have studied for a few years, most of them are very young. Should we still be sent to the grassroots as officials as usual, with outstanding achievements and then be promoted as appropriate?" Jiang said. Wan made a suggestion.

Lan Tian shook his head, "I don't think it's that troublesome. Except for the heads of the six state Cao offices, ordinary officials are all selected from the colleges, and the new yamen complement each other with new people."

Jiang Wan saw Lan Tian's words were convincing, so he didn't argue and refute, but asked, "I don't know how you plan to be selected? Do you want the academy professors to recommend you, or do you use other methods?"

"Recommended by the professors of the college, isn't it no different from Ju Xiaolian? I have a better way to select officials. In the afternoon, you will send Liu Chengguo (Liu Xi), Zhao Junqing (Zhao Shuang), Xue Jingwen (Xue Zong), Cheng Deshu ( Cheng Bing) and others are invited, and we will discuss together how to formulate the questions.”

Lan Tian smiled confidently. He had done civil service test papers before, so he chose a few classic question types at random, and combined with the actual situation at this stage, it was no problem to get a few sets of test papers.

In the afternoon, all the virtuous men arrived, and the young and long gathered together.

In addition to the few people called by Lantian, Liu Xi also brought Yu Fan who was "captive". After being treated coldly in Jiaozhou for a few days, he really went to the academy to make a living.

It is gold that always shines. Liu Xi found that Yu Fan was talented, so he invited him to be the main lecturer of the academy.

After a period of understanding, Yu Fan completely overturned his previous views on Lantian. After a year in Jiaozhou, he slowly adapted and found that the official atmosphere here is much better than that in Jiangdong. Because of his profound knowledge and rigorous scholarship, he was highly valued by Jijiu Liu Xi.

Lan Tian took out a few blank sheets of paper and wrote down his thoughts about the exam. Liu Xi, Xue Zong and others followed Lan Tian's ideas, but Yu Fan came up with many novel ideas, such as the objective questions. The preset answers should be more flexible, and a blank E is added to the four options of A, B, C, and D, so that candidates can answer the questions flexibly and independently.

Lan Tian appreciates Yu Fan's outstanding and unyielding personality. This character is easy to run into walls in ordinary officialdom, but in Jiaozhou, where talents are considered, he is considered to be in the right place.

Several people discussed for an afternoon and recorded hundreds of questions. Lan Tian will eventually select ten topics from these topics, which are mainly objective questions, and finally choose two current affairs as the discussion.

After the discussion on the exam papers and questions was over, Lan Tian unexpectedly left Jiang Wan and Yu Fan behind.

In front of the two of them, Lan Tian circled ten questions on those manuscript papers, and then said: "Gong Yan, you and Zhong Xiang have finalized the current political questions, and then immediately sent them to the printing workshop for printing, in order to prevent favoritism and fraud. If the test questions are leaked, I will send an army to control the printing workshop, and it will be lifted after the selection exam starts."

Jiang Wan nodded thoughtfully, Yu Fan next to him was momentarily confused, thinking that I was just an instructor in the academy, what did you want to keep me here?The printing of the test papers is guarded by the army, which shows that Lantian attaches great importance to this selection test. Why do you want to let me know about the current political questions?
"Zhong Xiang, Jiaozhou is about to set up a new government office called Licao, which will mainly manage the schools in the state, Jiaozhou official selection examinations, sacrifices and other affairs. I prefer you to be the head of the ceremony office. This position is the same as the county governor. " Lan Tian stroked his beard and smiled.

Yu Fan was surprised when he heard this, and said with sincerity and fear: "Yu Fan is in such a mess, what virtue and ability do I have? The lord of the government actually conferred this important position."

"The so-called heroes don't ask where they come from. I won't look down on Zhongxiang just because you were taken captive, and I won't look up to you because you were once promoted as a talented person. I chose you to be Li Cao's chief, mainly because of your nobleness. Zhongxiang should be very clear about character and the weight of the Jiaozhou official selection examination, right?" Lan Tian said meaningfully.

Yu Fan nodded. Lan Tian set up a school in Jiaozhou University and spread knowledge to the common people. It has long attracted the attention of the gentry, but the move of the examination and selection of officials will definitely cause a storm. This is completely against the gentry. On the opposite side, I thought how dare this man?

"If this matter is done well, it may be famous forever. If it goes wrong, it won't have much impact. After all, it is only limited to Jiaozhou. Now give me an answer, do you want to or not?" Seeing that Yu Fan didn't speak, Lan Tian frowned and urged .

"Humble position is willing to give it a try." Encouraged by Lan Tian's disregard of previous suspicions, Yu Fan finally made up his mind to restart his political career in Jiaozhou.

(End of this chapter)