I want to be emperor

Chapter 229 Zhang Zijin elected officials
In Hanyang City Palace, Guo Quanshu hurriedly walked to Luo Zhixue's office with a lot of documents.

After calming down a bit, Guo Quanshu walked in.

As soon as I entered, I saw more than a dozen officials of the Imperial Academy busy inside. One of them looked up and saw Guo Quanshu, and immediately stood up: "Master Guo, you are here, have you brought the documents?"

Guo Quanshu said: "I have brought them all, and I have to bother Wang Zhangyuan to report!"

Wang Qifu chuckled: "Your Majesty Guo, you are too polite, please wait a moment, I will report right away!"

Wang Qifu immediately turned around, then walked to the door of Luo Zhixue's office and knocked lightly twice: "Your Majesty, Guo Quanshu has come!"

A few seconds later, only Luo Zhixue's voice came out: "Let him in!"

After hearing this, Wang Qifu turned around and reappeared in front of Guo Quanshu after a while: "Master Guo, His Majesty summoned you!"

Then Guo Quanshu followed Wang Qifu and entered Luo Zhixue's big office.

After entering the door, Guo Quanshu saw Luo Zhixue sitting behind the big table at a glance, and saw Luo Zhixue writing something with a brush.

Guo Quanshu bowed his body and said: "Your servant bows to my emperor!"

Only then did Luo Zhixue raise his head: "Come on, wait a minute, I've approved this paperwork!"

After finishing speaking, Luo Zhixue lowered his head and continued writing on the notebook.

This is a note sent from Nanyang Mansion, talking about the local work-for-work affairs, and asking for some money and food to be used for the follow-up work-for-work affairs.

Luo Zhixue has already read it carefully, and at this time he is instructing: "Resisting the disaster is related to people's livelihood, and there is no delay. We should increase the number of recruits. If there is insufficient money and food, we may give money and food as appropriate."

The specific amount of food to be paid is naturally not what Luo Zhixue needs to care about. It will naturally be discussed and dealt with by the ministers of affairs in the follow-up, and finally implemented by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Public Works and other institutions.

After finishing the instructions, Luo Zhixue put down his pen and looked up at Guo Quanshu: "Okay!"

After Guo Quanshu saw that Luo Zhixue was done, he immediately said, "Your Majesty, I have brought the resumes of the thirteen selected candidates."

As he spoke, he handed over a stack of documents in his hand.

After Luo Zhixue took it, he began to flip through it. These documents were the resumes of senior civil servants in the Great Chu Empire.

The reason why Guo Quanshu was asked to bring a bunch of resumes was because the newly appointed magistrate of De'an Prefecture suddenly became seriously ill, and now De'an Prefecture is a new control area, which is in the process of perfecting the local county and town yamen. It is an important time to collect autumn grain.

Since the original magistrate can no longer serve as directors, it cannot be delayed, so Luo Zhixue has to choose another suitable person to be the magistrate to handle many subsequent affairs of the De'an prefecture.

The candidates on these resumes vary.

There are a few old people from the Funiu Mountain period. These people have similar characteristics. Their education level is not high, and they are all limited to a barely read and write level. They climbed up step by step, and now most of them are at the fourth and fifth ranks.

There are also a few who came from demoted officials, and their basic characteristics are similar. Before surrendering, they were all hypocritical low-level officials. After surrendering, they gradually climbed up, just like Dong Quanxin.

The rest are scholars who have been recruited successively during the past few months when the army moved eastward and southward.

The above three major groups are also the main civil servant groups in the Great Chu Empire.

Luo Zhixue flipped through the resumes, looked at their employment history, then looked at the evaluation of their employment by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and finally set his sights on one of the resumes.

Guan Xuelin, the current director of the Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, is from Nanzhao County.

He has a reputation as a scholar, but he is already an old scholar in his 40s, and he is still a poor scholar...

After the army of protecting the countryside went south, they entrenched in the Liqingdian area and recruited all kinds of talents. In order to feed the whole family, this Guan Xuelin turned into a thief as soon as he gritted his teeth...

He had been working in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry from the beginning, but there was too much shortage of local officials in the Rural Protection Army halfway, so he also temporarily served as the magistrate of Nanzhao County and Tongzhi of Nanyang Prefecture for a period of time.

These job experiences are not considered formal transfers, but part-time jobs.

In the early months, there was a shortage of talents in the Rural Protection Army, especially the shortage of middle and senior civilian officials, so there was a widespread situation of holding multiple positions.

Guangguang Lin is just one of them, and this person did a good job when he concurrently served as the county magistrate of Nanzhao County and the Tongzhi of Nanyang Prefecture.

Especially during his concurrent post as Tongzhi of Nanyang Prefecture, he made great efforts to restore the local people's livelihood and achieved considerable results.

After pondering for a while, Luo Zhixue said directly: "Let's just let this Guan Xuelin, let him go to De'an Mansion to take up the post immediately, and get the job in De'an Mansion as soon as possible, absolutely not to delay the work!"

Guo Quanshu immediately said: "I obey the order!"

After responding to this matter, Guo Quanshu said again: "Your Majesty, the preparations for the selection of scholars are almost ready. According to our visits and investigations, there are currently a total of 26 false recruits, dismissed officials, and at least 200 others. Scholars with above-mentioned reputations as scholars are willing to defect to my Great Chu and serve His Majesty!"

Luo Zhixue said: "Since everything is ready, don't delay in recruiting directly. There is a shortage of people everywhere, and this group of people can alleviate the gap!"

After Luo Zhixue finished speaking, he thought for a few seconds, and then said: "Just like what I told you last time, this kind of selection of officials is a temporary emergency measure, and it is okay for a while, but we still have to hold the imperial examination. , to select talents!"

Guo Quanshu said: "I have already discussed with the Ministry of Etiquette and Education, and we plan to hold our first imperial examination in Dachu in late November. There are imperial examinations, ranging from county examinations to general examinations."
Luo Zhixue said: "Well, this imperial examination is going to be held, and it needs to be done well. You should discuss it with the Ministry of Ethics and Education later on. You must select more available ones to enrich the various institutions!"

"In addition, the military will also have a group of retired soldiers due to injuries and other physical reasons. These soldiers have all been educated in literacy classes. At that time, appropriate arrangements must be made to allow them to transfer to other places to play an important role.

In the newly born Great Chu Empire, there is still a shortage of talents. Whether it is middle or high-level officials or ordinary staff, the Great Chu Empire lacks them all.

This is mainly because the contemporary literacy rate is too low, and Luo Zhixue worries that the literacy rate may not be [-]% these days.

Moreover, many people who can read only know a few hundred commonly used characters, and they can't even write official documents.

In addition to the lack of talents, it is also related to the Great Chu Empire itself.

After all, they came to rebel, and they used to be thieves in people's eyes. Many people also had scruples about the Great Chu Empire, and they were not so willing to become officials in the Great Chu Empire.

Under so many circumstances, the Great Chu Empire has been unable to recruit enough administrative talents.

In this regard, Luo Zhixue also thought of many ways, such as recruiting a large number of half-learned scholars. You don't need to be talented, you only need to know a few hundred common characters, so as to meet the needs of the most grassroots officials.

You can learn things like writing official documents after you come in, and you can even continue to study and study to improve your cultural level after you come in.

Another example is the establishment of various types of administrative study classes to conduct rotation training for recruiting officials within its own system, especially a large number of grassroots officials who are half-students, and select those who perform well among them as candidates for mid-level officials and focus on training them.

Another example is the selection of officials from within the military.

Why are officials selected from the military? Because the military has its own literacy education, soldiers of the Rural Protection Army need to attend literacy classes in addition to daily training after entering the new barracks.

They don't learn too advanced things, just learning to recognize characters and basic arithmetic.

Even the surrendered soldiers from the Ming Dynasty need to attend literacy classes.

Although the cultural level of these soldiers who have experienced literacy classes is not too high, they are still much better than illiterates.

In the process of combat, it is inevitable that soldiers will be injured, and some of them who are not suitable for continuing to fight in the army will retire and be assigned to the administrative system.

In fact, the number of this part is not large for the time being, because the casualties of the rural protection army have never been large, and some of them survived after being injured, but there are even fewer people who are not suitable to continue to serve in the army.

But Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to these people, and they are often assigned to important positions, especially in the two major local agencies that are in charge of armed forces, the patrol police and the tax police.

Because to some extent, these people are the basic base of the Great Chu Empire.

The Great Chu Empire has been an army since the era of the Township Protection Army!
The current Great Chu Empire is actually an army in the name of the country, the military is the main body, and the administrative officials are actually serving the military.

This primary and secondary relationship should not be confused.

Retired soldiers, recruited scholars, demoted officials, and some elderly people from the Funiu Mountain period constitute the current civilian system of the Rural Protection Army.

Such a relatively mixed and uneven civil service team is naturally not good.

But Luo Zhixue didn't expect them to be very good. They only needed to maintain people's livelihood and production step by step, so as not to cause large-scale turmoil in the local area.

As for real local governance, it can only come later.

First of all, the number of officials has to be added. Besides, there are not even many officials. Talking about governance when no one is doing anything!
Under such a background, Zhang Zijin, who visited friends in Hanyang City, also became an official of the Great Chu Empire.

Under the introduction of Fang Xubing, who first voted for Chu, he had an in-depth discussion with the officials of the Wenxuan Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Great Chu Empire, and he readily agreed.

It's not that he was careless, but that the other party gave too much!

The director of the Anthology Department seemed to be very satisfied with his talent, especially his views on the imperial examinations, and immediately threw over a fifth-rank official hat after the conversation.

And it's not a local official, but an inspector under the Imperial Examination Department of the Ministry of Ethics and Education, who will directly participate in the upcoming Enke affairs.

He still doesn't quite understand the official system of the Luochu Dynasty, but he knows that in the Ming court, the position of inspector is definitely a smooth path!
Since Luo Chu treats me as a national scholar, I will repay him as a national scholar!

(End of this chapter)