A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 862 Jiangzhou Juren

Xu Jingzong was here to take charge of Wu Huaiyu’s enthronement.

Wu Huaiyu can have a military palace with a thousand soldiers and horses. There can also be a marriage palace and a tent palace, but these two palaces are also divided into three levels according to the level of vassal states.

A big country can have 333 marriages and 667 people in the tent. A small country can have 222 and 445. Naturally, a small country can only have 111 marriages and 2 In one hundred and twenty-three accounts.

Wu Huaiyu can have 111 marriages and 223 accounts.

In these wedding accounts, priority will be given to those in the Dudu Mansion of Jiangzhou and Hongzhou.

It's about five times, one time for two months, and every ten moon cycles. Of course, if there is a decent person who doesn't want to do this kind of sex service, he can directly pay the tuition fee and not come.

"Jiangzhou is the heart of the mainland, so there is no need for a military guard house."

"There is a Tongjun Mansion in Jiangzhou. The imperial court can just transfer it to your Shifeng Jiangzhou Governor's Mansion. It's just a matter of changing the name."

Huaiyu was a little surprised.

After a sudden thought, I already understood.

There is talk of changing Jiangzhou Tongjunfu to Jiangzhou Hujunfu, but I'm afraid it's just a name change. The soldiers are still the same soldiers, and the generals are still the same generals.

He smiled and said, "This is indeed very convenient. In the future, will I also be responsible for the expenses of the generals?"

Although the soldiers of the government are soldiers in peacetime and wartime, and do not receive food and salary to provide their own clothing and food, it does not mean that they do not have to spend any money. Armor, shields, bows, arrows, even drums, flags, chariots and horses, as well as training fees, building cities and camps, etc. These expenses are actually quite large.

The government soldiers just don't need to be paid. They only have individual weapons. The consumption of other weapons and equipment is under the control of the military government.

Of course, military spending is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that Wu Huaiyu spent money to support such a thousand troops, but if the officers are still appointed and dismissed under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Guard and the Ministry of War, the imperial court has the final say in the selection of imperial soldiers.

Isn't that just helping the imperial court raise troops?

Xu Jingzong was one of his own, and of course he would not hide it from Huaiyu, but he also knew that Huaiyu had already understood the key.

"I know that the Prime Minister does not want the Protector's Palace, and has even been opposed to this feudal system, but this matter has to be taken forward like an arrow on the string, and the water that has been thrown away cannot be taken back.

Since things have come to this, it is better to obey the will first.

It is His Majesty's arrangement to change the Jiangzhou Tongjun Mansion into the Jiangzhou Protectorate Mansion, so just obey. As for the expenses for raising troops, that is secondary. "

Huaiyu nodded helplessly,

The emperor really likes to give him problems. He is obviously the most opposed to this feudal system, but now the emperor insists that he be the first to take the lead and set an example to accept it.

However, from the emperor's miraculous operations, Huaiyu also discovered that Li Shimin was not as random as originally imagined, and he was not so relaxed about enfeoffment.

It is said that it gives him the power to appoint officials, but he is required to pay his salary. It is said that he is directly allocated a unified military government office to him, but he is required to raise troops.

The emperor gave him one-third of the tax revenue from Jiangzhou, which was used to support officials and soldiers, and all of it was reinvested.

The wedding ceremonies and tents of more than 300 people were all decorated with fine materials. They seemed to be his guards of honor, but the officials' sons were just here to take turns serving as errands.

This is more like a monitor placed by the emperor on his vassals.

This night,

Wu Huaiyu and Xu Jingzong slept together and had a long talk.

They didn't talk much about Jiangzhou, but more about Chang'an court affairs, East Palace affairs, and some Lingnan affairs.

Yizhou was even talked about.

"You are now acting as the inspector for the Huangmen Minister. Will the Huangmen Minister Wang Gui be resigning?"

"Erlang, you are not in the court, but the affairs of the court cannot be hidden from you."

Wang Gui was also a member of Jiancheng before. The Emperor of Zhenguan Dynasty held him very high, firstly because he was an old princeling, and secondly because he was a son of the fifth surname of the Wang family in Taiyuan. Wang Gui himself was also very famous. ,

But later Wang Gui was demoted to be the governor, and he was called back after only a few years in the local area. But now there is no shortage of two Huangmen ministers, but he worships Xu Jingzong as the Huangmen minister of inspection, so his temporary agent is Whose place?

Li Baiyao rose from the position of Minister of Rites. Although he has been firmly opposed to Shi Feng recently, Li Shimin relies heavily on Li Shimin of Zhao County.

Then Wang Gui may be out.

"Is Wang Gui being released?"

Wu Huaiyu felt that Wang Gui could not go further.

"Wang Gui has been impeached by many censors recently. This matter was promoted by Changsun Wuji and Gao Shilian behind the scenes, but many things about the impeachment have indeed made His Majesty unhappy."

He told Huaiyu, "I heard that Your Majesty originally wanted to demote Wang Gui to the position of governor of Tongzhou, but later the queen came forward to persuade him. Therefore, it is possible that Dou, the former Minister of Rites and the general of Zuowei, was reassigned as the Minister of Rites and the teacher of the King of Wei. Lu Kuan is appointed as the General of Zuowei and no longer serves as the Minister of Rites."

Huangmen Shilang became the Minister of Rites, and also served as the Wei Wang's tutor. This seemed to be a promotion.

However, there was Wei Ting in front of him and Wang Gui in the back. One was in charge of the affairs of the Prince of Wei, and the other was also the adviser to the Prince of Wei. Together with Shi Duchuke, the chief minister of the Prince of Wei, and Sima Su Xu,

As well as Prime Minister Zhang Liang, who is also the governor of Xiangzhou, Shi Dai is in charge of the affairs of the governor's office.

What is the emperor trying to do?

Is this intentional to put some pressure on Prince Chengqian?

Or is it that the fat little Li Tai is the second son, so he is more favored?

But if you do this, let alone the prince, Wu Huaiyu will be under pressure, and it may even give the wrong signal to the people of the world.

Emperor, if you do this, then Wei Ting, Du Chuke, Wang Gui, Chai Shaohou, Junji and others will support King Wei more firmly in his bid for the throne?

Isn't this deliberately creating contradictions?

Is there any way to train a prince like this?

What nonsense. "When will you remove the words "acting inspection school"?

On the other end of the couch, Xu Jingzong said leisurely, "After this errand is over and I return to Beijing, I think I can get rid of these three words."

Menxiasheng, serving Wei Zheng, Huangmen Minister Li Baiyao, Huangmen Minister Xu Jingzong.

Thinking of this, Xu Jingzong laughed out loud in the dark.

Huaiyu couldn't help but smile. Xu Jingzong didn't seem to be very funny. Historically, he actually laughed at the funeral of Empress Changsun, which made Li Shimin furious.

No confusion at forty,

Xu Jingzong, who had just turned forty, had indeed prospered in officialdom since following Huaiyu.

I remember that back then, he and Li Mi were in charge of the Wei Zhengji Office and were in charge of documents together.

Now after many years of going around in circles, he finally caught up with Wei Zheng again, both in Zhongshu Province.

But there is still some distance. Wei Zheng is the minister of the prime minister and the Duke of Julu County. He is the minister of Huangmen and a male of Gaoyang County.

But he firmly believed that as long as he continued to maintain a relationship with Wu Erlang, who was sleeping on the same bed tonight, he would be able to enter the political hall sooner or later, and even be more powerful than Wei Zheng.

The next day,

Wu Huaiyu sat in the governor's office and began to accept the self-declarations of Jiangzhou officials.

Officials in green robes and green robes lined up one after another, and they reported their work nervously and uneasily. Wu Huaiyu sat there expressionless, listening quietly, taking a pen and writing on the paper from time to time,

Occasionally, I would ask a question or two, but I couldn't tell whether I was happy or angry.

There are actually not many internal officials in Jiangzhou. There are three counties in one state, and each county is just a county magistrate, a county magistrate, a county magistrate, a county lieutenant, etc. As for the recorder, Cao Zuo, as well as the county doctor of economics, doctor of medicine, assistant teacher, etc., they all have no rank. Belongs to miscellaneous tasks.

There are not many officials in the state-level yamen, such as the governor, the chief historian, the Sima, and then the six Cao Cao join the military, record the affairs, join the military, record the affairs, join the military, doctor of economics, doctor of medicine, city magistrate,

The rest of the assistants, historians, cang governors, assistant teachers, Lizheng, etc. are just officials.

In one day, Wu Huaiyu completed listening to his self-declaration.

I spent another two days reading the comments made by the officials on their superiors, subordinates and colleagues.

He also looked at the results obtained by the people he sent out to investigate openly and covertly,

Not to my surprise,

The performance of the prefecture and county officials in Jiangzhou can only be said to be average, neither good nor bad. After all, it is the seventh year of Zhenguan and the sixteenth year of the founding of the Tang Dynasty. It is still an era of political clarity in Haiyan and Heqing.

Not that corrupt and dark, but not worthy of praise either,

Based on the summary results, Wu Huaiyu made evaluations and dispositions for these officials, dismissed the last few with the worst evaluations, and retired a few old men who were over sixty and had no performance, and retired to official positions.

Selected a few young and strong people with good work ability and promoted them, and then transferred a few officials to different positions.

The rest remains unchanged for now.

Publicize the results and accept supervision from the masses. If you have any questions, you can report them.

If there is no problem after the announcement expires, the transfer will be formalized.

This is a small-scale adjustment.

Wu Huaiyu used the privileges granted to him by the emperor, but it was of little use. As for the vacant official positions in Jiangzhou, Wu Huaiyu did not directly stuff his own people into them, nor did he directly recruit the local nobles' famous sons to be appointed officials.

"Publish the announcement that I will hold a township examination in Jiangzhou to select talents through the examination,"

This rural examination is roughly modeled on the imperial imperial examination, but it is different. It is divided into three levels. A preliminary examination will be held in the three counties of Jiangzhou. Both local students in Jiangzhou and those from other places can apply for it, but it is divided into local and out-of-town examinations. Admission from both lists, admission ratio is two to one.

In the preliminary examination, each county will admit 300 candidates, 200 local candidates will be admitted in each county, and 100 candidates from other places will be admitted. The papers were copied and marked anonymously, and those who passed the preliminary examination were awarded the title of Jiangzhou Tongsheng and obtained the qualifications for the county examination.

Nine hundred children participated in the county examination, and each county admitted 100 students. Those who passed were awarded the title of Jiangzhou Maocai and qualified for the provincial examination, with a one-third admission rate.

The provincial examination is also the state examination. Three hundred talented people compete for thirty places.

Wu Huaiyu will personally take the yamen examination for these thirty candidates in the state government, rank them, and then grant them official positions in Jiangzhou.

Of course, positions are limited, and official positions are awarded from high to low until all are available.

It doesn't matter if they are not assigned to official positions. Wu Huaiyu can recommend them to serve in Lingnan, or they can directly join Wu Huaiyu's ambassador's office and shogunate.

Anyway, in this exam, as long as you are a husband and your family is clean, you can take part, and for the first time, anonymous marking will be used to ensure fairness as much as possible.

Those scholars who obtained Tongsheng and Maocai would also be given priority to enter the prefecture and county official schools in Jiangzhou in the future, and even received a quota from the township to take the imperial examination in Chang'an, or be recommended to study in the Imperial College.

In addition, the Jiangzhou Governor's Office will also give scholarships to candidates who win the titles of Tongsheng, Maocai, and Juren.

"Jiangzhou is going to be lively."

"Then let's make some noise."

(End of this chapter)