Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 717 Performance Appraisal
Gu Kuang came out of Li Mi's residence, returned home and immediately started working again, collecting evidence of crimes committed by Jingzhao Wei's descendants.

The money chaos in Chang'an City finally returned to calm. When the exchange ratio was stable and three Kaiyuan Tongbao were exchanged for a Qianyuan Chongbao, the people of Chang'an finally accepted the Qianyuan Chongbao.

After stabilizing prices, the Ministry of Households did not make any movement, and now the court is focusing all its energy on rewarding meritorious officials.

After half a month of debate, the Zhengshitang finally passed the Ministry of War's letter of meritorious service.

Guo Ziyi was the first to fight against the chaos, and became the king of Fenyang County, becoming the No. 1 military exploit of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Siye was granted the title of Duke of Wuwei, Li Guangbi was granted the title of Duke of Linhuai, Guo Rui was granted the title of Duke of Yanmen, Guo Yingyi was granted the title of Duke of Dingxiang, and Pu Gu Huai'en was granted the title of Duke of Daning.

In addition to frontal combat, the Ministry of War also rewarded generals who made great detours and made great contributions to the Central Plains operations.

Zhang Xun, who guarded Suiyang first and then Luoyang, was named King of Nanping County.

Nan Jiyun and Zhang Wu, who defeated the Anqingxu Department and pacified the war in the Central Plains, also entered the Dukedom.

Yu Chixin and Qin Chuan, who carried out the great detour strategy in the rear, also won the titles of dukes.

Du Hongjian and Timur, who presided over the war against Tubo in the northwest and stabilized the northwest during the counter-insurgency period, also won the title of duke.

Except for the generals, the generals who participated in the suppression of the rebellion were awarded corresponding rewards according to their military exploits.

When the news of the award reached the front line, the soldiers on the front line naturally cheered and praised King Yue one after another.

But at the same time, after the rewards are completed, the huge army on the front line will have to be dealt with.

Together with the army that received Shi Siming's surrender, Datang now has nearly 40 people on the front line.

To disarm these people and resettle most of them back to their hometowns will require a lot of manpower and material resources.

Fortunately, the King of Yue has sent Zhongshushe people to the front line, and now the front line army and players are all mobilized. They have to explain and publicize the imperial court's policies to the meritorious soldiers, and give them rewards to let them return home.

The army under Guo Ziyi's command, in addition to incorporating the army in the Central Plains, the main body is the Shence Army.

The Shence Army is basically soldiers recruited from areas such as Guanzhong and Longshang Lingwu.

Obviously, the rebellion in the three towns of Hedong has been completely put down now, and so many soldiers are no longer needed. The opinion of the Zhengshitang is to abolish half of the current frontline troops.

Allotment of land to meritorious soldiers, appeasement of the injured areas in the Central Plains, all kinds of heavy work, at this time all the courts and officials are looking at the officials.

All these tasks require officials, and the work of selecting and appointing officials is the work of the Ministry of Officials.

When the people of Zhongshushe cleaned up the six ministries last time, the official ministries were the least involved. This was not because the official ministries were the cleanest. On the contrary, both the king of Yue and the court officials knew that the official ministries must be the biggest mess among the six ministries.

It's just that the selection of officials is not as clear as the account books of the Ministry of Households and Industry, nor is it as clear as the files of the Ministry of Punishment. Whether the selected people are talented or stupid can't be seen from the survey and files.

The staff of Zhongshushe dealt with several officials who blatantly accepted bribes, but the imperial court's long-standing malpractice in the selection and appointment of officials was not just as simple as accepting bribes.

The officials of the Ministry of Officials were complacent. They thought that the King of Yue and the court could not do without them, so they became more confident.

The imperial court had just quelled the war, and Guanzhong, Central Plains, Qilu, and Hedong all suffered huge damage.

Although it is easy to quell wars, a large number of qualified officials are needed to bring the pacified area back to life.

Just when the court was still worrying about the shortage of officials, Cui Tao, a Hanlin scholar, rushed from Lingzhou to Chang'an, and what followed Cui Tao was a mighty team.

As soon as Cui Tao arrived in Chang'an, he sent a roster to the court.

There are a total of [-] names on this list, and it is Cui Tao's suggestion to fill in the blanks of officials in Guanzhong and Central Plains!

In addition to their names, these names are followed by their positions in Longyou officialdom and the time they were engaged in these jobs.

This list makes the officials of the Ministry of Officials look chilly. These are more than 2000 officials with political experience!

You must know that the imperial court does not conduct imperial examinations every year. Even if the imperial examinations are held every year, the number of alternate officials admitted each year is less than 200.

In addition, Yinbu became an official and became an official because of merit. There are only three to four hundred people who can supplement the officialdom officials every year.

And these officials who can write and count, and have administrative ability, have to make up for the gaps of retired officials who died of illness and death every year.

Therefore, Datang is facing a strange situation. Every time the imperial examination papers are not good, the admission rate of each imperial examination is decreasing, and there are more and more candidates.

But when the Ministry of Officials selects officials, there are fewer and fewer good positions, and alternate officials would rather wait for an extra year than take up a post in a bad place.

What the Tang Dynasty lacked was never scholars, but low-level officials who could calm down and do things.

The king of Yue was able to escape two thousand officials with political experience at once, which really shocked the court.

The king of Yue began to train officials when he was in Longyou. This kind of thinking is really far-reaching. It seems that he has long had the heart to seize the heir.

Regardless of what other officials think, for the officials of the Ministry of Officials, this is simply a doomsday!
You must know that the selection of officials is the source of power for the officials of the Ministry of Officials. The reason why the Ministry of Officials can be higher than the other five ministries, and the officials of the Ministry of Officials are called Heavenly Officials is because they have this power.

Now the King of Yue has directly surpassed the Ministry of Officials and filled more than 2000 vacancies at once, which means that the Ministry of Officials will completely lose power.

Obviously, the Ministry of Officials is unwilling to give up this power.

However, after seeing the iron fists of other ministries, the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs did not dare to fight openly, and could only play passive resistance.

Obviously, these officials looked down on the "bumpkins" from Longyou.

They were able to play with the transfer department, because Longyou was the channel of the Silk Road, and it was not unusual for King Yue to have officials who were proficient in financial planning.

The same is true for the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Rites, but only the Ministry of Officials is different. This is the real heart of the court. There are many ways to do it, and the relationships involved are also extremely wide. This is not something that a bumpkin from Longyou can play with. turn.

However, Cui Tao just smiled slightly at the resistance of the official department. The young academician directly moved into the official department, began to direct his subordinates to fill the positions of sabotage officials, and quickly issued orders to the whole country.

These old officials finally discovered that their methods of threatening the court not only had no effect, but were squeezed out of the power center because of their sabotage.

By the time these officials reacted, Cui Tao had already arranged more than 2000 Longyou officials, and they were assigned to vacant positions.

Not only that, under the auspices of Cui Tao, a work plan for the assessment of local officials, mainly state governors and county magistrates across the country, was also sent to the desk of the Zhengshitang.

The evaluation of officials in the Tang Dynasty was completed by the Ministry of Officials' Examination of Merit. The Lang Zhong of the Kao Gong Division was responsible for the evaluation of officials in Beijing, and Yuan Wai Lang was responsible for the evaluation of local officials outside Chang'an.

All internal officials, in accordance with the standard of "Four Goodness 27 Most", will be promoted or promoted according to the results of the assessment.

However, although this standard sounds very detailed, it is impossible for the official department in Chang'an to know the virtues of every local official. The evaluation of ordinary officials in the state and officials at the county magistrate level is in the hands of the governor of the state.

As for the assessment of county officials, it is in the hands of the county magistrate.

This is also the fact that the second-level chief officials of prefectures and counties in the Tang Dynasty were very powerful, and they often had decisive influence on the promotion of their subordinates.

As for the evaluation of officials at the state level, it is in the hands of Zhengshitang.

In the mid-to-late Tang Dynasty, merit examinations became a tool for political struggles in the court. Soon after the mid-to-late Tang Dynasty, the Niu and Li factions struggled. After the two parties took control of the political affairs hall, they continued to use the method of examinations to suppress officials of the opposing faction.

Under such an atmosphere, ordinary officials only know how to cater to higher-level officials before they can get promoted.

Those officials who are not good at catering to their superiors, or who have conflicts with their superiors, will be relegated or even dismissed even if they do things seriously.

However, Cui Tao's assessment plan deprived the chief officer of the right to assess subordinate officials, and quantified a set of assessment standards.

At the same time, a special assessment team was formed by the Ministry of Officials to go out of Chang'an to conduct assessments in various states and counties.

This plan is not only very detailed, but even every standard is quantified into the score. This plan called performance appraisal was sent to the Zhengshitang, which immediately caused a shock in the court.

Many officials in Chang'an have also been local officials. If this standard is followed, most of them may not get a qualified evaluation.

However, this assessment plan is detailed and specific, and it is absolutely impossible to formulate such a plan without the rich experience in civil affairs in the local area.

The ministers were even more terrified, how many talents did King Yue have under his command?

(End of this chapter)