The reason why the Lintai Secretarial Province was able to enjoy its reputation in Shilin is to put aside its historical origins and focus on the present, which can be roughly divided into three levels.

For low-level officials, especially those young handsome people who have just broken the brown, the Lintai school book and orthography are the most noble and proud places.

These people do not have any qualifications to be ashamed of, the only one who can boast is their own knowledge and talent, Lintai has a rich collection of books, enjoys a very high academic status, and can live in it, which is the so-called long-term residence in the ink room, and the body is also rhyme.

Moreover, Lintai is close to the center, since the Wei and Jin dynasties, this kind of Qing post is the first choice for the children of the scholar family. In addition to these historical remnants, there have been customs in officialdom since the dynasty.

For example, Li Tong just saw a Lintai school scholar Ni Ruoshui, there is an anecdote about his person, during the Kaiyuan period, Ni Ruoshui served as the assassin of Bianzhou, and received an official who returned to the capital to serve as Dali Shaoqing in the state border, so he sighed: Bangong is a decanter, I can't wait to be a servant.

Bianzhou is not a remote state, but one of the few Xiongzhou in the early Tang Dynasty, which is a canal water conservancy and the residence of the Son of Heaven. Serving as a assassin in such a big state is by no means a lowly position, even so, Ni Ruoshui still feels that he can't serve as a coachman for his colleagues who serve as temple officials in the capital. The profundity of the popular view of emphasizing the inside over the outside can be seen.

Therefore, for young people who have just entered the officialdom, although the official positions of Lintai School Book and Orthography are not of high rank, they are extremely attractive. Once you are sent to another state to serve as a county lieutenant or join the army, if you don't have any special opportunities or a strong background, it is far away to be promoted back to the DPRK and China to serve in the United States.

A considerable part of the reason why Wu Zhou was able to succeed on behalf of the Tang Dynasty was that the internal and external circulation of officials during this period was so frequent. For some young people who are eager to advance in their careers, they will not pay too much attention to who is in charge of the country, the world is big, the opportunities are the greatest, and the more frequent the turmoil between the DPRK and China, the more opportunities they have to be promoted.

Here is another example, or Chen Ziang. In 682, he was promoted to the rank of Shi and the first, but at the beginning he was also like Liu Youqiu to keep the election, and waited until Gaozong died on the book "The Book of Advice to the Spirit to Enter Beijing", which was appreciated by the Divine Emperor Wu Zetian, so it was awarded the Lintai orthography.

If there is no book this time, Chen Ziang, a son of a local tyrant of the Shu people, has very little chance of being able to hold such a beautiful position as Lintai orthography.

During the Wuzhou Revolution during the Tianzhu period, Chen Ziang wrote the book "Ode to the Great Zhou Dynasty", which was regarded as directly advocating the Wu Zhou Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, and then added the right to pick up the legacy.

Therefore, Wu Zetian was able to represent Tang, and he did not just rely on cool officials to kill and kill. One of the characteristics of her ruling dynasty is that the access to political resources open to the Hanmen people is unprecedentedly large, even more than the wars and turmoil between the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Li Tong is not washing his grandmother, in fact, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, his grandfather Li Shimin has been suppressing the Shandong clan, and his grandfather Li Zhi also took the knife in Lao Tzu's hand and cut directly at those Guan Long Xungui groups.

Next, even if it is not his grandmother who is on the throne, as long as he wants to sit firmly in the country, this historical context will not change, but his grandmother's methods are more radical, the drug is too violent, and personal selfish desires are entangled with the historical trend, but it is not good to judge right and wrong. It is precisely because of this that in the middle and late Wu Zhou Dynasty, there was no shortage of people criticizing Wu Zetian, often citing the example of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.

It's far away, let's go back to Lintai. Middle-level officials, such as Li Qiao, who have accumulated a certain amount of seniority and fame, have accumulated a certain amount of seniority and fame, and the resources they value are the qualifications for internal introspection.

Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the edict has gradually become the privilege of the Fengge Zhongshu Province. This situation has developed to the present, especially after the prime minister Pei Yan cooperated with Wu Zetian to abolish the afterglow of Emperor Li Xian and directly transferred the prime minister's political hall to Fengge, Fengge has become a well-deserved head of the foreign dynasty.

Imperial power and prime minister power is a natural contradiction, if the emperor is too authoritative, the prime minister is useless. If the prime minister is too powerful, the emperor will be directly elevated.

Wu Zetian Dynasty Tang Luji, the first blow is also the group of prime ministers, and the cutting off of the Li Tang clan actually has to be placed in a secondary position. Last year's rebellion by Li Zhen, the king of Yue, also shows that without the support of the prime minister and other courtiers, it is a joke. This situation and impression of being heavy on the inside and light on the outside lasted until the Anshi Rebellion was broken.

In order to stabilize the imperial power, the Zhongshu must be decentralized, so there was the emergence of the system of knowledge system, in order to divide the power of the Zhongshu Province Zhongshu Sheren to make an edict. Wen Daya and Wei Zheng in the Taizong period, Xu Jingzong and Shangguanyi in the Gaozong period, including the Beimen bachelors in the Wuhou Linzhao period, were born because of this.

Wu Zetian's heroine is in the court, although she has cultivated a group of female officials to be edicted, but these female officials are often in the forbidden and cannot completely replace the courtiers. Therefore, institutions such as Lintai and the two museums need to have officials in the big affairs and wait for the edict.

This is what makes Lintai attractive to mid-level officials. Although Shen Junliang complained and laughed at himself, he said that Lintai's authority was seriously stripped of and it was called a sick party. Although this is a fact, it is only the case of the Lintai Foreign Affairs Agency.

Lintai is the difference between the province and the introspection, in which the province is located in the imperial city, the historian and the Taishi bureau have been stripped off successively, only a half-crippled book bureau remains, and there are also competitors such as two museums in their own work such as compiling books and annotations, which can basically be said to be a library open to foreign dynasties.

However, the province of Intai is located in Ouchi, near the Fengge official office, and still retains the function of undertaking edicts, and the provincial officials are almost like the worship officials of the Fengge Sheren.

As for Lintai's temptation of high-ranking officials at the prime minister's level, that is, the history museum that has been stripped out of the system.

For example, Xue Kegou, a young eunuch in Lintai who had just left the province and went to the inner province, had an uncle named Xue Yuanchao, who was the prime minister of the Gaozong period. Xue Yuanchao reviewed himself in his later years, saying that he had three hatreds in his life, one could not enter the scholar and the first, the second could not marry a woman with five surnames, and the third could not cultivate the history of the country. It can be seen that the matter of repairing the history of the country, even if it is as high as the prime minister, there is a great temptation.

Before Li Tong entered the stage, he also thought about what he could do in this position.

First of all, he is not very interested in the history of cultivating the country, which is the most tempting to people, mainly because he has no goods in his stomach, he is worried about showing timidity, and he is not eager to be able to write the Spring and Autumn Period and leave a name in history. Even if he is asked to revise the history of the country, will it be difficult for him to copy the "Zizhi Tongjian" again?

As for the dismissal of the low-level officials, it also makes no sense to him. Now he has already crossed this stage, and he started with a leadership position like the young eunuch of Lintai. If he had a choice, he would have been banished from the state and found a corner cat to develop lewdly.

After all, only the introspection of the edict has some effect on him. If nothing else, at least he can see his grandmother from time to time.

The family affection between his ancestors and grandchildren is really weak, and he held Xue Huaiyi before, just hoping to use Xue Huaiyi as a mouthpiece for dialogue with his grandmother. Of course, Xue Huaiyi helped him more, which is another story.

However, if he can enter the introspection of Zhilintai, obtain the authority of the Zhizhi Command, and talk directly to his grandmother, he can greatly avoid the situation of middlemen making the difference.

And this kind of dialogue is not the kind of personal communication, but the framework relationship within the system, which can greatly avoid the pressure brought to him by his grandmother's capricious style, and can do more: Don't keep opening your mouth to scare me, I am the person sent by the foreign court to talk to you!

So when Li Qiao took the initiative to propose this plan, if it weren't for the scruples of Shen Junliang and the other Lintai officials present, Li Tong really wanted to give this god-assisted New Year's Eve a big hug.

If this can be done, not to mention anything else, Li Qiao will be rich and rich in the second half of his life! It doesn't matter whether the governing ability is high or low, my prime minister's team is not inferior to you!

Not to mention these little ninety-nine in Li Tong's heart, Shen Junliang was also very moved in his heart after hearing Li Qiao's proposal.

Dafan is in officialdom, who is willing to be set aside? Shen Junliang himself is not very old, so he has no expectations to pay homage to the prime minister again.

But he also understands his weakness, that is, he has no foundation at the bottom, no strong support at the top, and unlike those prime ministers who have served inside and outside, he has a thin resume in the DPRK and China, and has almost no party members of his own.

The reason why he was able to worship the prime minister in the old year was mainly because of the special period of Xu Jingye's rebellion, when the God Emperor killed Pei Yan and other prime ministers internally, and needed to stabilize the Jiangnan Shiqing outside, so he was temporarily placed in the position of prime minister. But as the situation calmed down, his phase was naturally removed.

Ge Fuyuan's experience of visiting the prime minister earlier also caused a lot of waves among the group of high-ranking officials. Now that the young king has become his subordinate, and the saint is more generous than before, this can't help but make Shen Junliang feel a lot of associations in his heart.

However, introspection is a solemn system, not a trivial matter of relatives and grandchildren, and private favors. Even with the strength of the God Emperor, he just arranged the young king to be a young eunuch in Lintai. If the young king is not worthy, Shen Junliang will definitely be criticized by the times for making this initiative, and he may not even be able to stay in this second-line ward.

Li Qiao was also righteous, and seeing that Shen Junliang was still hesitating, he continued: "The king's talent has been accumulated for a long time, although it is not known to outsiders. But Qiao Meng does not give up, frequently for the guests, knowing that the king's words are magnificent, the pen is profound, and it must not be thought of in the spring and autumn, and often look at it. In addition, the king's old system "Vientiane", Zhuang Ya is rich, and his eyes and ears know it, and he will live up to this task. ”

Hearing that Li Qiao supported himself so strongly, Li Tong was really satisfied with this future prime minister, if Li Qiao's daughter hadn't been born yet, he would want to marry him directly, I can't let you say good things for me for nothing, I can't write two Lis in one stroke, so I simply promise to each other!

But Shen Junliang still lacked a bit of courage after all, and after pondering for a long time, he still felt that something was wrong, so he just said with a smile: "The king has just entered Lantai, and I still want to be straight and see more of the gods." Suddenly say goodbye, reluctantly. ”

If Shen Junliang used other excuses, Li Tong would be more acceptable, but when he heard this reason, he suddenly got goosebumps: No matter how handsome I look, am I for you?

Speaking of this step, Li Qiao is not good to recommend too much.

As for Li Tong, everyone has praised this step, but if it is not easy to say, they will not show it to you, so they can only say with a smirk on their faces that they can't ask for it. He also saw Shen Junliang's concerns, and understood that if he wanted to get the other party's recommendation, he definitely needed to come up with more things.

However, Li Tong didn't expect that he hadn't sat down in Lintai Zhitang for a long time, and he hadn't even had time to clean up his exclusive office, and the opportunity to perform came.