Because of Wei Wuji's expedition, the person who is currently implementing the law change in Zhao has become Pang Xuan. Changing the law has never been an easy thing, and when Wei Wuji implemented the change, he encountered a lot of difficulties, in addition to the direct or indirect interference from Zhao Bao, he also faced great problems in terms of its own feasibility. The most serious problem is the problem of qualified personnel, and no matter how outstanding the system of promoting officials is, they all need qualified personnel.

Most of the original grassroots officials of Zhao State were cronies and disciples of county officials. Now we want to appoint talented people to take their place, which is of course a good thing, but the problem is that there has to be someone who can replace them. Zhao State is not like Qin State, Qin State has a school, which can continuously train Qin officials, Zhao State does not have a corresponding talent training system, Wei Wuji chooses to look for those who are respected and have a good name from the countryside.

Wei Wuji had previously asked Zhao Kuo to make a decision on changing the law.

And these problems naturally need Zhao Kuo to help, Zhao Kuo told him that there are two solutions: the first is to establish a school like the Qin State to specialize in cultivating talents, which can be regarded as a long-term plan, and the other is to gather talents from various countries. Zhao Guo's own talent reserve is not enough, looking at King Zhao's side, it seems that there are many talents, but in fact, the grassroots officials are miserable.

Zhao Kuo found that if he wanted to remove the cronies and guests arranged by the officials themselves, Zhao Guo was afraid that there would be a large number of vacancies, and there would be no talent to fill the loopholes, and the "assessment" method proposed by Zhao Kuo was indeed able to select good people, but what was the effect of this? There aren't enough people elected to fill the vacancies.

The aristocratic officials of the Zhao State can be understood and forgiven. Because only these nobles in Zhao State are elites who know how to write, can read and write, can govern places, and lead troops to fight, not only Zhao State, but all countries are like this, they are not unaware of the harm of these people, but their position is irreplaceable. Qin Guo is the most special, he broke this aristocratic official system, although the upper level is still controlled by the aristocracy, but the grassroots can no longer see the figure of the nobles.

The poor talents who emerged in various countries, scholars, that is, small nobles, usually gathered around the big nobles to form an interest group, so there were big nobles like the Four Princes of the Warring States who were followed by thousands of small nobles. King Zhao appointed and dismissed the big nobles to serve as county guards, and the county orders and so on, and these big nobles would spontaneously arrange the small nobles gathered around them at the local grassroots level, so that there were enough officials in various places.

The Qin State gave the common people a way to become small nobles, to be precise, they were not small nobles, they were officials.

The assessment carried out by Zhao Kuo seems to be to screen the capable people among the small nobles, but in fact, it is to pull these small nobles from the side of the big nobles, so that they can directly serve King Zhao and draw a clear line with the big nobles. This is not a good thing for the small nobles of the Zhao State, they can already follow the big nobles through their own talents to gain power and status, so why give up these to participate in any assessment?

Only some people who are not reused and want to prove themselves have participated in the assessment, and these small officials who are not attached to the big nobles, before Zhao Kuo did not participate, the end was very miserable, and King Zhao could not give them protection. Compared with these small nobles, King Zhao valued the major nobles more.... This deep-rooted system cannot be changed by a simple assessment.

The resistance to changing the law does not come from Zhao Bao, Zhao Bao just doesn't do anything, and the change may not be successful. Since Confucius, knowledge is no longer monopolized by the aristocracy, and the common people have the opportunity to learn and have the ability to govern the country, but those who have acquired knowledge are no longer common people, they have become new minor nobles, or new scholars who spread knowledge for the common people.

This point, Zhao Kuo can not change, only in the era of education for all, this monopoly of knowledge has been dismantled, and the imperial examination system cannot be said to have completely broken the monopoly of the elite class on knowledge or official positions. Aristocrats, gate valves, families, heroes, landlords, squires.... In Zhao Kuo's opinion, they are all about the same, the only thing that may be the difference is the moral level, and the nobles of this era basically still have to face.

Therefore, Wei Wuji sent invitations to various countries, not to invite those great sages, but to invite scholars, and only these foreign scholars may be able to become real officials without being attached to the great nobles.

In fact, Zhao Kuo didn't care whether these local officials served King Zhao or their superiors, King Zhao didn't care about this, so why should Zhao Kuo care? It's just that Zhao Kuo cares about the lives of the people, there are many brutal and talented taxis who bully the people and force the people to kill by relying on the powerful, which is what Zhao Kuo attaches importance to, so he still puts his mind on the supervision system.

Li Yu can complete the work of relieving the victims, and the matter of exploring the flood can be done by Zhan Zhan to help.

Zhao Kuo naturally has time to promote the reform of the law, and a lot of his time is spent with Pang Xuan to formulate the supervision system. Han Fei helped Yu Qing for a few days, and then returned to Mafu to give lectures to the rest of Zhao Kuo's disciples. The promotion of low-level officials in the reform of the law, and the supervision system, have not been implemented in Zhao State, Pang Xuan is also a little anxious, Qin State can do it, Zhao State uses the same method to implement it, how can it not be completed?

There are no people to participate in the assessment, and the system of grassroots officials in various places has changed, but most of the people who have taken office are still the same as before. The supervision system was established, and all localities were ready to send ministers to supervise, but no one was willing to take such a position, and King Zhao found a few ministers he trusted and wanted to entrust this matter, but these people refused, and even committed suicide because they felt that they could not complete King Zhao's orders.

No one goes to the local area to supervise, there is no system, what is the use of that?

This is the problem left by Wei Wuji, Wei Wuji according to Zhao Kuo's description, formed a complete system of grass-roots officials, Lizheng, Lidian, Lijianmen, and then to the pavilion chief, Sifu, You, etc., almost copied the grass-roots official system of the Qin State. However, because there were not enough talents, the original petty officials could only be assigned to these positions, and these people were not able to take advantage of the new system because of their disgust with Wei Wuji.

Only those officials who were arranged by Wei Wuji and who were promoted from the assessment played their role.

The same is true of the monitoring system.

Pang Xuan shook his head and said: "The politics of Zhao State are becoming more and more chaotic, this is all done by local officials because they oppose the change of the law, because the supervision system is not yet complete, and there is the protection of Zhao Bao and others, so they are not afraid that Xinling Jun will punish the crime, they deliberately neglect political affairs, and even mess up the government in order to destroy the change!" Pang Xuan squinted his eyes and said seriously: "These days, Xinling Jun has been appointing scholars from various countries to serve as officials. But it can't go on like this. ”

"We still have to establish a school, and if we have enough talents, we can get rid of these old officials and complete the reform."

"Of course, it is necessary to set up a school, but it will take ten or twenty years to cultivate enough talents... And they were so sloppy about political affairs, deliberately sabotage, and the change was originally made to make Zhao people live better, but in this way, it was against the original intention...", Zhao Kuo said, slowly stood up, and moved his body, no wonder Wei Wuji failed to complete the change for such a long time.

Zhao's national strength, no, is that the basic national conditions do not allow such a change, Zhao has no means to train officials, officials can not be cultivated in a short period of time, the system of cultivating officials is even more so, Zhao has only a group of nobles who oppose the change, and it is necessary to complete the change through these nobles... Zhao Kuo smiled bitterly, and he began to admire Shang Ying and other law changers more and more in his heart.

I really don't know how Shang Ying did all this without any foundation... Probably, he implemented these after establishing the system of the school room, alas, time.

Pang Xuan looked at Zhao Kuo who was talking to himself, and didn't open his mouth to disturb him, Zhao Kuo frowned, wandering indoors, walking back and forth... Looking at his contemplative appearance, Pang Xuan's heart became calm, if someone could really complete the change, it would not be Wei Wuji, nor would it be himself, it would definitely be the young man in front of him. I don't know why, Pang Xuan has a different kind of trust in Zhao Kuo in his heart.

Zhao Kuo suddenly stopped, he looked at Pang Xuan on the side, and said seriously: "We made a mistake. ”

Pang Xuan looked at them in surprise, but didn't understand what he meant, Zhao Kuo immediately walked out of the inner room, and Ling Ge drove.

"Where are we going?"

......

Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao was sitting in the mansion reading a book. Zhao Bao is still a kind person on weekdays, he likes to make friends with talented people, but he can't be as polite and virtuous as Pingyuanjun, he has his own arrogance, which has become what makes him inferior to Pingyuanjun. But Zhao Bao didn't pay attention to these, he didn't have any other hobbies, and he didn't like luxury, what he liked most was to sit in a quiet inner room and read bamboo slips aloud.

What is somewhat surprising is that this Pingyang Jun loves Confucianism, and he and Xunzi have been friends for many years. Every time he sat indoors, reading the words of the sage aloud, he always felt that his whole body was full of strength, after Wei Wuji left, Pang Xuan took over the change, and Zhao Kuo was eyeing him, so Zhao Bao didn't do anything anymore. He firmly believed that his approach was right and beneficial to the Zhao State, and the King of Zhao would understand this sooner or later.

Ma Fujun's ideal is too far, Zhao Guo can't go, and Wei Wuji messes around, which will only cause worse results. Wei Wuji didn't have Zhao Guo in his eyes, he stayed here because he couldn't go back to Wei State, he was always complacent that he saved Zhao State, and he changed the law in Zhao State just to prove his own ability, not for Zhao State!

Zhao Bao will never allow anyone, to threaten his Zhao State, this is the Zhao State of the Zhao Clan.

Zhao Bao was reading a book, suddenly a doorman broke in, the sound of reading stopped abruptly, Zhao Bao looked at him with some displeasure, then put down the bamboo slip in his hand, and the doorman said in a panic: "Ma Fujun is here." ”

Zhao Bao's disciples have been a little afraid of him since they were beaten by Zhao Kuo once, so in such chaos, Zhao Bao was stunned, dropped the bamboo slip in his hand, got up and scolded: "That guy in July, it must be another trouble!" You hurry to the palace and ask the king to send someone...", as he spoke, he hurriedly walked out of the inner room, and as soon as he walked into the courtyard, he saw Zhao Kuo chatting with his guests.

It doesn't seem that he came to ask himself for sin.

"Ma Fu-kun..."

"Pingyang-kun." , Zhao Kuo saluted, Zhao Bao breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly returned to the courtesy, Fang Cai stepped forward with a smile, took Zhao Kuo's hand and walked to the inner room, Zhao Bao was not angry because Zhao Kuo had fallen him down before, he was very enthusiastic about Zhao Kuo, and after bringing him into the inner room, Zhao Bao did not ask Zhao Kuo about the reason, but greeted him. When Zhao Bao asked Zhao Kuo about his mother, Zhao Kuo realized that Zhao Bao knew his father.

It's not an ordinary nodding acquaintance, it's a real friendship.

Zhao Bao talked seriously about Zhao Hao at the beginning, looked at Zhao Kuo again, and said: "At the beginning, he told me many times: Kuo is arrogant, but he has no talent, if he makes a big mistake, please save him... Now it seems that he is deliberately playing...", Zhao Bao obviously can't understand Zhao Hao's behavior, this is simply too humble, if a person like Zhao Kuo is also a person with no talent, then how should these people deal with themselves?

When he thought about it, he vaguely felt that Zhao Hao was scolding him.

He told Zhao Kuo a lot of interesting things with Zhao Hao, Zhao Kuo just listened carefully, chatted for a while, and then Zhao Kuo said: "I came this time to ask you to help." Zhao Bao was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Say it, I will help you." Zhao Kuo said seriously: "Please preside over Zhao Guo's change." ”

"Ahem~~", Zhao Bao coughed violently, then his eyes widened and asked, "What did you say??" ”

"The change of the law is not a bad thing for Zhao State, the change of law is what I proposed, I see that the officials everywhere in Zhao State are cruel and have no mercy, just relying on the recommendation of county officials, they do nonsense, do not collect taxes according to the king's decree, seize the people's arable land, and rely on ploughing cattle to extort the common people...", Zhao Kuo paused, and then said: "You are the feudal monarch of Zhao State, their actions like this will sooner or later make Zhao State go to ruin, if Zhao State perishes, can you still have the wealth you have now?" ”

"What I care about is not my own wealth, what I care about is Zhao Guo, which is why I oppose the change of the law, but I am unwilling to make a move on you. The reason why I am against the change of law is that the change of law cannot be implemented at all, and if the county officials are not allowed to recommend them, and the officials they recommend are to be dismissed, will Wei Wuji be able to find enough people to replace them? Through the method of assessing talents, to gather a group of people who have no talent and no loyalty to the emperor, won't this make the Zhao State perish? ”

"Wei Wuji is the son of Wei, he won't care about these at all, we people gather around Shangjun and help him govern all places, these people also include you, don't you have a suitable doorman to help you? I heard that you have Li Yu and sages like Han Fei by your side, don't you want to recommend them? Is it okay for the king of Zhao not to rule the country without the nobles of Zhao State? ”

Zhao Bao seemed to be holding back a wave of dissatisfaction for a long time, and directly said all the things he was angry about.

"As for the school, the school will create a large number of officials, and these officials have no relatives and no reason with the emperor, could it be that they are more concerned about governing the Zhao country than we are in the Zhao family? Will you be more loyal to the king? ”

Zhao Kuo listened carefully, until Zhao Bao finished speaking, then he shook his head and said: "My change is not to remove those minor officials who have been promoted by county officials, nor is it to replace Zhao people with people from other countries... I want to screen these officials, keep the talented people among them, and drive out those who endanger the Zhao State, my supervision system is not to consolidate the law, the supervision system is to change the law, the supervision system is to supervise the officials, not to allow them to do evil, to encourage them to be diligent in government. ”

ps: I've heard that real readers don't urge the author to update, but will vote for the recommendation vote they have, the monthly pass. But now the second and third sons are just thinking about urging me to renew, but they don't want to vote, this is like raising a whip to drive a chariot, but not giving enough food to the war horse pulling the chariot, is this what a gentleman can do?