Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1417 The 20th Year of Kaiyuan
"The bigger the family, the easier it is for a prodigal son. Why do you think this is?"

The emperor who just came out of the Imperial Academy, entered the Imperial Academy of the Capital, which is the cadre training class of Daqin. Basically, the Jinshi who passed the imperial examination were not directly appointed officials.

They have interviews in the Golden Palace, and after obtaining Jinshi status, they have to pass the official examination. After passing the official examination, they are not directly awarded officials, but candidates.

Up to the 20th year of Kaiyuan, the Great Qin Empire has gone through more than a dozen imperial examinations. This year's Chunwei Examination even gave special rewards. The number of Jinshi has increased from 360 in Changke to [-].

There are so many jinshi at once, even if the new jinshi candidates who pass the official examination are mainly the original official positions such as Cao Junjun in the county rank, a large number of new ones will be added in batches every three years, and each year there will be more There will be many military officers converted to civilian positions, taking up many positions. As a result, the time for candidates to be elected is getting longer and longer, and the official positions of the new scholars for the first time are getting lower and lower.

Now that he has started to go to the ninth-rank official, if this continues, maybe the Xinke Jinshi will have to be a village pavilion chief, patrol inspector and other exile official positions.

But the fact is that the number of Jinshi admissions is large, and in addition, scholars can also directly take the examination to become officials, and officials can also be promoted to official positions. This has led to the fact that although Daqin's current official career is mainly based on examinations, Jinshi is not the only one. this way.

One term is held every three years, one exam per year, one major exam every three years, and after the four exams, officials will be promoted or demoted according to the results of the examination.

Under normal circumstances, no matter whether it is promotion or promotion, as long as it is above the ninth rank, it must first report to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of War of the capital, and there are candidates for election, that is, waiting in line for official vacancies.Only when there is a shortage can it be released.

If not, you just have to wait.

Taixue is the place where officials stay. Before passing the Jinshi examination, they first come to Taixue to study for a year. They learn how to govern for officials, learn the format of official documents, etc., and then go to the capital. One-year internship in various ministries, or one-year internship in the third department envoy of each local province.

After the two years of study and internship are completed, there will almost be official vacancies for them. Of course, those with good academic performance and good performance in the internship will be given priority. It is impossible to say that I may have to stay in Beijing for another year or two.

During the waiting period, they can continue to attend lectures and study at Taixue, or they can continue to seek an internship position in the Ministry of the Capital.

When you arrive at a vacancy, you will be given a practical award. After taking office, you have to pass the four exams. If you do poorly, you may be demoted and dismissed before you have worked for three years. If you do a good job, you will have to go back after three years. Go to the capital to be elected.

During the election period, you have to continue to go to Taixue to study and attend lectures until you are really short.

This kind of situation is not particularly serious. Generally, candidates are nominated for half a year at most, and it is not said that there will be no election for three to five years or even ten years. However, many officials have written to oppose this situation.

Thinking that the Jinshi are the disciples of the emperor, the sweet sons of heaven, now they are fighting for positions like a group of talented soldiers, and they have to be elected, which makes the Jinshi cheap.

But the emperor insisted that he would rather let these officials wait longer, study more in Beijing, and intern in the yamen of the capital, rather than let Jinshi be too valuable. Waiting for local parents to manage tens of thousands of people, how can you feel at ease when you are a hundred lihou?
Without any experience, he started directly from the county magistrate. Isn't this a joke about the state's public affairs?Isn't it to give those officials a chance to empty them?Isn't it an opportunity for officialdom to cheat for personal gain and corrupt?
Although Luo Cheng is a full-fledged promoter of the imperial examination system, he is unwilling to see the birth of a deformed civil servant group. What he needs is an excellent and executive team of state management civil servants, not a group of Jinshi who don't know anything sir.

There is nothing wrong with being a candidate. It is always beneficial to study more in Taixue, to study more in various yamen offices, and even to study more in the big libraries of the capital.

Accompanying the emperor is Ma Zhou, the secretary and supervisor.

The first champion of the Great Qin Imperial Examination, his official career these years has been smooth sailing, as if he was hanging out everywhere, from the county magistrate to the county magistrate, then the prefect, the chief envoy, and then entered the Yushitai and worked as a supervisory censor. In charge of the Procuratorate, one of the three courts of Yushitai.

His performance has always been very good, but when he was the supervisory censor, because he was too upright and offended many people, the emperor cherished his talents, so he was specially transferred to the secretary supervisor after his first term.

"It's easy for rich families to have prodigal sons. In the final analysis, the conditions are good, coupled with arrogance and habits, and eventually prodigal sons will be born."

Luo Cheng nodded, "Yes, in the final analysis, the problem is still in the education of the parents. Poor families also have prodigal children, but it is not so obvious and there is nothing to lose. I, you are the emperor, but it is also the same. How many prodigal sons?"

The emperor's princes, because they were just 12 years old and enfeoffed the country, the country became a vassal early, far away from the capital, far away from the father, mother and concubine, and went to a remote fief, without control, so slowly some people Got naughty.

Some even did a lot of outrageous things.

For example, some princes enjoy luxury in fiefs, overhaul civil engineering, and build palaces, villas, manors and castles.Some are even more in love with beauty, and even do things like kidnapping beauties from good families, and some are even more outrageous.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Although these kings are in the state, they are also subject to great restrictions. They are not independent kingdoms. Their feudal states are parallel to the counties and counties of the imperial court. The administrative, military, financial and taxation powers are basically controlled by the imperial court. In his hands, King Feng is a high-ranking nobleman after all, let alone a prince. Those local government offices are in remote places. Which officials are willing to offend these princes?

"It's time to rectify, otherwise, if it continues like this, then it's okay? I'm not dead yet, so I'm lawless. If I'm going to die and the crown prince succeeds, won't they still want to rebel?"

Ma Zhou hastily persuaded, "The kings are still young, so there are some mischiefs, but as long as they are reprimanded and restrained in time, they can still be corrected. The saints don't have to be so angry."

Ma Zhou also pointed out the good performance of the eldest son Wang Changqing of Armenia, the third prince Zhewei, and the ninth prince Jiacheng in the fiefdom.

The third prince is at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River in the northeast, while the ninth prince is on the Ruili River in Yunnan, and the eldest son is in the middle of the two seas between Thailand and the West. But these three princes have performed outstandingly. They lead the people and work together with the local prefects. Actively emigrate to reclaim wasteland, build cities and build roads, open up trade routes, educate barbarians, and do a great job.

The emperor's eyes were worried.

"It's shameful to be disobedient, but although the three of them behaved well, they made me worry."

Ma Zhou knew what the emperor was worried about, "Sages don't have to worry about it, such as King Yili, King Sunset, King Bohai, King Lijiang, etc. Which of the brothers and uncles of the sages are in the fiefdoms, and they are not doing much. Weizhen, but it has been so many years , These kings and countries are also loyal to the imperial court, and the counties where they are located are still firmly controlled by the imperial court."

"Of course I and Siye have nothing to say, but I'm a little worried that Jiawen won't be able to restrain them once I leave in the future."

"Your Majesty is worrying too much. Although our dynasty also implements enfeoffment, this enfeoffment is quite different from that in the Han and Jin Dynasties. The centralization of the imperial court is not comparable to previous dynasties. Although the princes have fiefs and households, the imperial court still has counties. Control, coupled with the system of enfeoffment and enfeoffment, it is absolutely impossible for the princes to become big."

Luo Changcheng sighed, "I hope so."

The emperor, who is over 40 years old, no longer thinks about how to expand the territory all day long. He is now thinking more about the succession of the empire. Internal stability is under control.

Since the return of Prince Jiawen from the alliance, the emperor has begun to let him take charge of the government and delegate more power to him, just to let him exercise more.

Jiawen's performance was not bad, with the assistance of the ministers of the Zhengshitang, the academicians of the Imperial Academy, and the close servants and ministers of the three inner provinces, the Privy Council for military affairs, the Yushitai for supervision, and the presence of the Imperial City Secretary and Jinyiwei, the emperor The team for the prince is extremely strong.

The emperor began to confer official positions in the Eastern Palace to the prime ministers who are now in power. In fact, they are a team with two cards. They are both court ministers and ministers of the Eastern Palace.

"The war in Dongying has come to an end this autumn. The imperial court destroyed Funan last year. The only ones who are still using troops are Chenla, Pyu on the Indochina Peninsula, and the tribal savages in the wild jungles and mountainous areas. As for the South China Sea and the Kunlun Sea The barbarians of the islands, the colonial war in India, and the war with paganism on the Arabian Peninsula, these are no longer the focus of the empire."

When the emperor strolled in the garden of Taixue, he could see people in rags with round necks passing by in twos and threes, but no one noticed that Luo Cheng, who was also in rags, was actually the current day with simple makeup.

"Prince Bin, I think fighting for so many years is enough. It's time to readjust the deployment of Daqin's soldiers and horses."

Ma Zhou asked, "Aren't the battles of Chenla, Pyu, Lion, Xindu, and Dashi not fought?"

"Fight, continue to fight, but we need to change the mode of fighting. We can gradually nibble away. Building colonial strongholds is what Li Shimin did in Xindu. Come little by little, don't engage in all-out war, don't think about three things. The destruction of the country in May is too far away, we will not play this game in the past.”

Whether it's Chenla or Pyu on the Indochina Peninsula, or the Lion Kingdom on the sea, the Kunlun slaves, or the Indians or Arabs in the Persian Sea and the Red Sea, it's too far away, and the war will not stop, but The thinking and mode of war will change.

(End of this chapter)