Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 489

Soon, Fang Xuanling sent a letter to Li Shimin to send another wind watcher from the imperial court to conduct a large-scale inspection of the seventh-rank, eighth-rank and ninth-rank officials, especially the officials up and down the Grand Canal.

The reason given on the surface is naturally to rectify the administration of officials, but Li Shimin understands that Fang Xuanling is preparing for the logistical work of conquering Goguryeo next year.

Although the conquest of Goguryeo has not yet begun, the new officials who have been promoted following the rectification of the official administration will work harder when the court conquers Goguryeo next year because they have no meritorious service.

At least if something happens to these guys in the future, they can still open their mouths and say: "I sent rice to the Tang army back then!"

But at the same time, Fang Xuanling also showed Li Tai his sincerity in cooperation and gave relatively fair opportunities to the students of the agricultural school.

To put it simply, Fang Xuanling will cooperate with Li Tai, but he will not use power for personal gain and do things that will damage Datang.

Therefore, Fang Xuanling gave the students who came out of Li Tai's academy system a chance to compete fairly with the powerful landlords and aristocratic families who passed the imperial examination.

This time, the Watchers will directly assess their grades and morals. As long as there is no violation of laws and disciplines to bully men and women, they will basically be able to pass, and if they have a fairly good level of government, it will be even better.

But fairness is not easy. For these students who come out of agricultural colleges, facing the overlooking of wealthy families and the suspicion of imperial examination admission officials, it can be said that their biggest problem is that they do not have any opportunities to get in touch with the upper circle.

It was also because they strictly belonged to Li Tai's command, and they knew that as long as King Wei successfully ascended to the position of emperor, they would have the opportunity to push their limits and become officials of the fifth and sixth ranks.

But most of the people who can become the seventh rank now are because of the failure of Li Chengqian's rebellion, which implicated a large number of people, and they were allowed to come up because of the vacancy in the imperial court.

So the official position of Qipin is the ceiling for them.

But this time is different, Fang Xuanling can't guarantee that, at least he can guarantee that the students will receive the fairest treatment.

At the same time, Fang Xuanling also understood Li Taile's thoughts through his own thinking simulation, because what Li Tai wanted was not to let his agricultural school take over the political arena of Tang Dynasty, and not to give other people a way out.

More to say, Li Tai only hoped that if the students from agricultural colleges enter politics, they can break the employment limit of agricultural colleges little by little!
Therefore, after careful consideration, Fang Xuanling planned to conduct an observation assessment for all officials.

In this way, the outstanding agricultural colleges can be selected into the seventh rank, or even the sixth rank. To be honest, this is what Li Tai really wants.

At the same time, Fang Xuanling, who established the bureaucratic system of the Tang Dynasty, is even more aware that he can promote the students of the agricultural college to the sixth rank, but now it is impossible for the people of the agricultural college to really take the position of the sixth rank. full.

After all, relatively speaking, Li Shimin would not even know who was in the positions of rank seven to rank nine if there was no coincidence.

But for any fifth-rank position, it needs Li Shimin's purpose, and the top six ranks are basically within the scope of Li Shimin's selection.

So Fang Xuanling knew very well that if he did not want unnecessary conflicts between the King of Wei and the sage to break out, then the official position of the sixth rank was regarded as a warning line to a certain extent, and too many people from the agricultural school system must not be selected.

Therefore, Fang Xuanling's action to rectify the administration of officials gave King Wei the so-called fairness, and helped King Wei raise the upper limit of students in agricultural schools to the sixth rank.

But at the same time, try to suppress the number of those admitted as much as possible. Even if the performance of the official from the agricultural college is very good, but he has only been in office for half a year, so let's continue to grind in this position.

No matter what you say, let those officials who have been in this position for more than six years be promoted first!
Use the working time to covertly suppress the students from the agricultural college.

But for those students from the ninth-rank or eighth-rank agricultural colleges, if there are many vacancies this time, the students from the agricultural colleges can easily fill in, so as to further strengthen the foundation of King Wei.

To be honest, Fang Xuanling took all aspects into account when he dispatched the Fengguan Envoy to investigate the grass-roots officials this time, but he was able to give everyone an acceptable method.

Faced with Fang Xuanling's request to use his free mental power, Li Tai could only choose to accept it.

No matter how you say it, the meaning of the students of the agricultural college reaching the sixth rank in Fang Xuanling's bureaucratic system is completely different from the meaning of rising to the sixth rank in Li Tai's hands.

Because Fang Xuanling was the builder of the bureaucratic system of the Tang Dynasty, the decisions made by Fang Xuanling could serve as examples for subsequent bureaucrats to follow.

In the future, it will be a matter of course if you really wait until you are in the position to promote the students from the sixth rank to the fifth rank.

After all, the fifth-rank position requires the emperor to look over it in person, so if you want to come, you have to wait for yourself.

And just when Datang began to vigorously investigate the officials, preparing for the crusade against Goguryeo next year.

Also on the Indian peninsula in Asia, Songtsan Gampo and others imitated the land equalization system and the government military system of the Tang Dynasty, and vigorously implemented it on the land of the original Jieri Dynasty.

Especially with the victory of the war, even the old-fashioned factions in the Tubo tribe lost any voices of opposition. In other words, compared with opposing this system, it is more important to plunder this land.

"My lord, are you giving us weapons?!" An untouchable man prostrated himself on the ground, watching in disbelief as the Tibetan handed the gun head into his hand,
He was simply flattered. He had been telling himself in his life that he was an untouchable, a Dalit, and that shadows falling on others were sinful existences. He did not expect to be given weapons by others. This is a Kshatriya. O privilege!
"Now, as long as you join the army and kill the enemy, you will get land that can be cultivated, and as long as you can fight for Zanpu, then you will enjoy the glory of being free men!" Lu Dongzan said to this man.

To be honest, Lu Dongzan didn't understand the Brahmin caste system very well, he just regarded Dalit as a serf in Tubo.

Now when the entire Tubo crusade against the Jieri Dynasty, it was discovered that with the expansion of the territory, a problem common to all small countries appeared, that is, the number of people in the family was somewhat insufficient.

In particular, most of the Tubo people live on the plateau, and living in the plains for a long time has a very heavy burden on the Tubo people themselves. For Tubo, if they want to adapt to life on the plateau, they also need a process of adaptation.

Therefore, after discussions within Tubo, they began to form local cannon fodder for the Jieri Dynasty.

The first batch of cannon fodder was established by the cannon fodder of Vaisya and Sudra. Then they knelt down when they saw the army formed by Kshatriya. They didn’t have the courage to dare to attack Kshatriya , It's a waste of Tubo's food.

So Tubo gave up training this group of people, and at the same time, Lu Dongzan chose these Dalits who were called by the King of the Ring as cannon fodder, so that they could also enjoy the same treatment as Tubo serfs.

That is to take a weapon, as long as you get a head on the battlefield, you can become a freeman from a serf, and have your own fields after changing jobs.

After all, there is no shortage of fields in India, and they are all good fields. At least when the serfs in Tubo heard the news, their eyes glowed, as if they had new hope in their lives.

To Dalit, these things are simply dreams, and it is precisely because of this feeling that Dalit is even more unbelievable.

Moreover, Brahmin's rule over Dalits is really too long. Since the caste system, Dalits have been resisting.

But every resistance was ruthlessly suppressed by the upper class. After more than 1000 years of failure, even the Dalits themselves thought that they were untouchables, the most humble civilians, and they had completely despaired of their future.

But at this time, the Tubo people came over, saying that they wanted to give themselves the status of a normal person, and even to own land, and the condition was only to obtain a head.

For Dalits, this condition is really too light, as if a ray of light suddenly shone from their long darkness and fell into their lives, letting them know that they too can be saved .

With so many Dalits, not everyone dares to follow Tubo, but also not everyone is willing to be a pariah for the rest of their lives.

As long as a person follows Tubo and obtains corresponding rewards from Tubo, then for Dalits, no one can stop them from transforming from untouchables to real people again.

Even though this process is very hard, and even requires countless Dalit corpses to lay the groundwork, at least for them, there is hope to get rid of the bottom. Hope is very important, at least hope is still there, then they still have resistance courage.

Of course, it can be considered that the Dalits caught up with the good time by chance. After all, at this time, Tubo is in a special stage of trying to defeat Datang and marry the princess of Datang.

During this period of time, all of Tubo's strategies revolved around defeating Datang and marrying the princess.

So the first purpose is to increase Tubo's own national strength and military combat effectiveness.

In addition, Tubo has entered the expansion period, and it has learned the land equalization system and the military system of the Tang Dynasty, and even liberated its own serfs. Naturally, it is not bad to bring you slaves from the Jieri Dynasty.

All in all, as long as it is a national policy that can increase the combat effectiveness of Tubo, Songtsan Gampo is very interested in giving it a try.

In contrast, those Brahmins and Kshatriyas are all just silver-like pewter guns when they really fight, and they have no strength at all. What's the point of this system? Why don't you come and learn Datang's military system with me? And equal field system.

Of course, the momentum of Tubo can probably be maintained when Songtsan Gampo is around, but when Songtsan Gampo dies, there will be no successor. Songtsan Gampo just wants to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty. If you think about it, you will quickly invest in Brahmanism and the caste system.

After all, this system is weak when dealing with foreign enemies, but it is really convenient in terms of governance.

It's just that now Tubo has its own native religion, the Bon religion, and the government military system and land equalization system that came from the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention that it can completely resist the erosion of the Brahman sect and the caste system, but it should still be able to resist one or two generations. arrived.

The most important thing is that Songtsan Gampo and Lu Dongzan entered the territory of the Jieri Dynasty while reforming, and they would naturally bring a new atmosphere to the Indian peninsula, which originally belonged to the Brahman sect as the core and relied on the caste system.

For Dalits, because their power is too weak for the entire caste system.

Now the arrival of Tubo has strengthened their strength, at least making them no longer hopeless against the upper caste system.

But they may only have two generations, or even one generation. If Dalits cannot grow into a pivotal force in Tubo during this time, then after Tubo's ambitions are slackened, in order to subdue the Brahmin system, they will probably choose to backstab Dalits. Lite, so that he can completely absorb the Brahmanism and the caste system.

However, these things have passed too far away, at least for the now ambitious Tubo, what Dalits are still untouchables, if you kill me a Kshatriya head in the past, I will give you a field, if you can kill a Brahmin, I will give you a division.

In short, it is to find a way to light the flame in their hearts so that they can be qualified cannon fodder for Tubo.

After all, the body of a Dalit is too weak. Although it cannot fall to the point where the wind blows, a Dalit looks like a 16-year-old child even if he grows normally to 43 years old. Quite a headache.

And when Tubo was fighting Brahmins on the South Asian subcontinent, at this time, A Luojian also began to show his true strength that was sung by Persia as a hero who saved the world.

He sent people to vigorously publicize that he had defended Nihavand, so as to give hope to the people of Persia. Then he began to purge the army, recuperate, and took the initiative to go to the Karen family and the Mihran family, one of the six Sasanian families. , exerted his incomparable diplomatic ability to win investment from these two groups.

In history, Western Turks, Tubo, Later Turks, and Wei Wei invaded Wu Zhou, and A Luo regretted to eliminate the forces of the western countries so that they did not get involved in the war. It can be said that the foreign race has made great contributions to the establishment of the "Great Zhou and Ten Thousand Kingdoms Praise Tianshu" for the Wu Zhou Dynasty, and he himself has entered the portrait of the Qilin Pavilion with this merit.

In addition, during his resistance against Arabia, he also made quite good diplomatic achievements in Western Rome.

If it is said that Ah Luojian's war commanding ability has grown to the limit, he is just an ordinary commander of a large army, but his own charm, as well as his own diplomatic ability, can always make it come out of desperation, let him Get resources from outside.

But this time, he grasped the fruit of defending Nehawand, and began to think of ways to integrate the internal forces of Sassanid to deal with the next attack of the Arab countries.

(End of this chapter)