Xianyang City, the Ministry of Officials!

Li Si tiredly put down a roll of bamboo slips, looked at the slips full of desks, and was irritable in his heart, Qin State wrote some evaluation criteria and some good suggestions for the merit system in various parts of the country and handed them over to the Ministry of Officials, and he and Wang Juan, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, screened out the repetitive ones, this work is not an ordinary burden.

He also looked at a lot of bamboo slips, but there are not many bamboo slips about the fairness of merit evaluation, although there are some, in his eyes it is not perfect, there are always loopholes to be found, although the merit system is also credit. However, the usual merit will exaggerate or belittle the merit because of the person's mood, preferences, friendship with the meritorious service, and other factors, and the merit system needs to minimize this error.

In Li Si's view, the most important thing about merit is that the merit department records the merit, and the authenticity and accuracy of the merit department examines the merits.

If you want to do this, you must ensure that the people of the two divisions do things fairly and justly, and relying on the people of the two divisions to be fair and just is simply a fool's dream.

Therefore, in order to ensure that the people of the two divisions are fair and impartial and follow the standards for meritorious service, Cai Ze, the current head of the cabinet, has also held a court meeting to discuss with the ministers of the fourth rank and above in the DPRK and the central government, and some ministers have suggested that the imperial court should specially train such people, and some ministers have suggested that the laws and regulations of the two departments should be formulated more strictly, so that they will not dare to commit fraud; there are many suggestions, but they are all symptomatic rather than cure, and in the end they will not be resolved.

Li Si was the proposer of the merit system, and naturally hoped to implement it in the Qin State as soon as possible. However, without resolving the issue of fairness and justice, it is impossible for the ministers of the DPRK and China to agree, let alone the attitude of winning the government.

Li Si was upset about this, but there was no way to solve it, which made him a little trance-like.

Li Si suppressed all the irritability in his heart, and walked aimlessly on the streets of Xianyang, when he suddenly heard a noise, he looked up and listened carefully, only to see four people in front of him, a young man said: "How do you prove that the copper coin is on you." ”

Some shrewd teenagers said: "The three of you are watching, and you are afraid that I will not be able to cheat." ”

Li Si thought of something in his heart, but he couldn't grasp it, the more he thought about it, the more he didn't have that understanding, he felt irritable and uncomfortable.

At this moment, the shrewd-looking young man took out a copper coin, sandwiched it between his thumb and forefinger, and showed it to the three people in front of him.

Then he put the money in the middle of his palm, put his hands behind his back, and then took it back, and quickly groped all over his body, no, it was hiding something.

Basically, he touched it from beginning to end, and then stretched out his hands to show the three people in front of him, and there was nothing in the palms.

The three of them immediately looked for him, his clothes fell off one by one without the copper coin, his pants were taken off, he didn't even find it, he still didn't find it in his hair, he didn't take off his shoes, he still didn't, he even checked his mouth, he didn't.

Li Si smiled, the copper coin was indeed on the shrewd young man. He smiled and walked away.

The three of them were speechless, with a ghostly expression.

Li Si was thinking, none of the three of them saw it, no, and he wasn't the four?

Got it!

Li Si was ecstatic in his heart, hurried back to the office, took out paper and brush, and began to write.

Merit system: 100 tired merit, small merit, medium merit, big merit, and heavenly merit.

The meritorious department records meritorious deeds, and there is one meritorious division, four outsiders, and several small officials.

Minor officials can only record one hundred meritorious contributions according to the merit standard, and a record of accumulated merit requires four junior officials to record, and the four of them will hand over their recorded meritorious work to the foreign man for approval, so as to prevent someone from recording credit indiscriminately. A foreign man can only record the merits of small merits and the following, and a credit also needs to be recorded by four outsiders and submitted to Langzhong for approval before it can take effect. Zhonggong was recorded by Lang Zhong in person, and the approval of the official department and the servant Lang was considered to be effective. As for the great merit, it was recorded by the servant monk of the ministry, approved by the cabinet, and decided by the government. Tiangong is decided by the court.

The same is true for the examination of the meritorious division, the small officials inspect the authenticity of the accumulated merits, and the inspection results are jointly signed by the four small officials (who are also the people of the inspection) and handed over to the staff wailang for inspection, and the small merit is verified and signed by the staff and the remaining three members of the wailang before it is handed over to Lang Zhong for inspection, and the middle merit is verified by Lang Zhong and handed over to the Shangshu for inspection, and the waiter is not allowed to ask, and the Shangshu is submitted to the cabinet for review and preservation.

In this way, as long as there is no problem with the officials, even if something happens, it is only a few individuals, and in addition to the strict Qin law restrictions, few people dare to do anything wrong and write credit indiscriminately, and the merit system can be implemented.

After Li Si finished writing, he checked it again before taking it to Wang Juan to watch.

Wang Juan was working in another room, listening to the report of the little official that Li Si asked to see him, Wang Juan nodded and answered, the little official left, Li Si came to Wang Juan in front of the case, the excitement and joy on his face were still hanging, and said: "Lord Yushangshu, the lower official has found it." ”

Wang Wanmulan, who didn't react, raised his head and asked, "What did you find?"

Li Si said in an excited tone: "A fair and just way to ensure the fairness and justice of the officials of the Meritorious Division and the Meritorious Division. ”

Wang Juan reacted at this time, and said excitedly: "Really?"

Li Si handed over the rice paper in his hand, Wang Juan couldn't wait to take it, and the more he looked at it, the more excited he became: "Okay, good, if it really deserves to be a great talent who proposed the merit system, if this is the case, who dares to doubt the credit assessed by my ministry." ”

Ten days later, the merit system was revised by many people and handed over to Ying Zheng.

Xianyang Palace, the Great Hall!

There are three people in the cabinet, six people in the six departments, Zhuge Liang of the Tiance Mansion, three people in the Military Aircraft Pavilion, the old Tingwei of the Tingwei Mansion, the Yushitai Yushi, and the Guozheng Supervisor, all of whom are all here, and kneel respectfully on both sides.

Ying Zheng watched with the merit system, merit standards and assessment standards.

It is written in great detail, such as: The core five words of the assessment of officials are - merit, governance, action, ability, and labor. ”

"Merit" refers to meritorious deeds, and the actual achievements of officials are recorded with accumulated meritorious service; "governance" refers to public order and social harmony; "Xing" refers to morality, conduct, simplicity, filial piety, and honesty; "ability" refers to the ability to handle government affairs; and "labor" refers to age.

Merit, governance, action, ability, and labor, although it is said that the average of the five abilities is taken, some official positions still have minimum standards, such as "line" virtue, if a person does not have virtue, he will not be able to cross the sixth-grade official position, the third-grade official position, some necessary regulations still have to be there, and a person with virtue is corrupted, murder and arson, but a talented person is an official, and such a person is the biggest disaster when he becomes an official and does evil.

Among them, 'Lao', the age rating is low, and you can't still occupy the position without the ability, but the capable person can't come up.

The scores of 'governance', 'gong' and 'ability' are higher.

In order to solve this problem, the Cabinet of Ministers has decided to calculate the merits of the prefectures that are easy to get credit, and the prefectures that are not easy to get credit should be slightly higher than the merits that are not easy to be credited.

Ying Zheng also thinks it's very good, and then he sees the record and verification of the merits, he is not very satisfied, the merits and verification are all officials, and it is okay if there is no problem, but if there is a problem, it will shake the foundation of Daqin.

After thinking about it, he said: "In addition to the verification of merit, the Tingwei Mansion can set up an inspection department to be responsible for the verification of all merits. There is a Supervision Department under the National Governor's Office, which is responsible for supervising the Inspection Department of the Imperial Governor's Office, the Meritorious Examination Department and the Meritorious Service Department of the Officials Department. ”

The old court lieutenant and the national eunuch stood up and said, "Old minister, obey the king's order. ”

All the ministers in the palace are about to worship Ying Zheng like gods, and they think it is more perfect in several court discussions, and Ying Zheng just looks at it and finds out the problem, and proposes a solution.

Ying Zheng finished reading and said: "There is basically no problem, there are two requirements, first, the construction of some places is long-term, not can be completed overnight, so there is a complete plan and start to act on the merit standard of the person needs to be reconsidered, the next successor, must not stop, continue to work hard, still meritorious." In short, I want you to know that the result is important, and the process is equally important. Second, for the evaluation of merit, in addition to the standard, there is an additional article, the people's recognition and evaluation, this is only for reference, but the people's opinion of this person as an official must be written on it. ”

"No," Wang Juan said, standing up.

Ying Zheng said: "Military merit is still calculated according to the 20-level title system, but the meritorious service of military generals above the third rank must be assessed by the merit system of the imperial court." ”

"The Military Aircraft Pavilion obeys the king's orders. Wei Ran got up and said.

"Do you have anything else you need to add?" asked Ying Zheng.

"Your Majesty, there is a matter for the king to decide. Zhang Yi got up and said.

Ying Zheng said: "What's the matter?"

Zhang Yiyu said: "If you implement the merit system, meet a virtuous person, and happen to need this virtuous talent, the virtuous person is also willing to serve my king, if you let him hold a high position, there is no merit, and the officials will not accept it." As the so-called art industry has a specialty, and this talent is a leader in a certain aspect, if he is not allowed to occupy a high position, how can he display his ambitions and relieve my king's worries?"

Ying Zheng also thought about this matter, although he had a plan in his heart, he still wanted to hear the opinions of Zhang Yi and others, and said: "Wu Xinjun can have a solution?"

Zhang Yi said: "It's very simple, let the talented and the unconvinced try it, and their ability will be outstanding, and they will be recognized." ”

"Isn't that just a piece of paper? A minister said.

Zhang Yi smiled: "What's wrong with talking on paper?"

Ying Zheng also said with a smile: "According to what Wu Xinjun said, talking on paper is the guide, and seeking truth from facts is the basis." ”

The ministers thought so.

Ying Zheng said: "The merit system has been perfected, and it will be announced and implemented in the court five days later. ”

"The king is wise. The minister of the palace echoed.

The ministers left, and Yingzheng invited Zhuge Liang back and said: "Excuse me, sir, there is a great sage in Xianyang, what should the government do to express the sincerity of the government, and ask him to join the cabinet to assist in the government." ”

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and said with a smile: "Seeing the virtuous and anxious, use it to show the sincerity of my king." ”

Ying Zheng heard the 'wonderful' and said, "It is worthy of Mr. Kong Ming." ”

Zhuge Liang bowed slightly, saying that he was ashamed.

Zhuge Liang left, and Zhao Gao came in and said, "Your Majesty, I have found out the person who planned the Six Kingdoms to attack my Qin State's three-way army. ”

There have been several attacks on the Qin State in the Six Kingdoms, but they are all from Hangu Pass, this time it turned out to be a three-way attack, if it was not for the early preparations, let Yan Zhao's 100,000 troops take Hangu Pass, Qin can really be said to be destroyed only between the first line,

Attacking Qin in three ways, one link after another, can plan such a strategy to attack Qin, and he is definitely one of the best in the world in terms of military ability.

"Who?" asked Ying Zheng with some urgency.

"Mr. Sun Bin. Zhao Gao replied to a person who was expected by Yingzheng and unreasonable.

"Isn't it rumored that he lived in seclusion with his ancestor Sun Wu?" said Yingzheng again.

"This is the Yao Yan released by the Wei State, and Mr. Sun Bin was secretly imprisoned by the Wei State. ”

Zhao Gao told a shocking secret.