Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Little Imperial Examination
At this time, Luoyang still had control over various places, and in order to avoid trouble, while dealing with these major families, Qin Hua also sent people to Luoyang with gifts.
What was given to the general He Jin was ten good horses, twenty catties of gold and silver, and 30,000 copper coins, and countless treasures of various colors.
In addition to these good horses, there are also records of the family's dealings with the Ten Permanent Servants and correspondence, some of which are of course forged.
The gifts given to the Ten Standing Servants were not much worse than He Jin, but the letters were changed to their correspondence with the general.
Qin Hua sent these things not just to settle the influence of his killing of these families, but more to gain actual control of Liangzhou.
Of course, these belongings were not made by Qin Hua himself, the raid of the five great families allowed Qin Hua to gain a lot of wealth, and the money sent out was not even half of it, not to mention that these families still had a lot of land.
For a while, Qin Hua even wanted to directly exterminate all the families in Liangzhou, what a huge fortune it was.
But this is just to think about it, if he really dares to do this, don't talk about dominating the world in the future, even this Liangzhou Mu may not be able to be stable.
After Qin Hua reported the letters of these big families and some small families to the imperial court (this is not a forgery, they did fund the rebels, at least the rebels who were recently exterminated by Qin Hua were funded by them), and immediately obtained the power granted by the imperial court to dispose of it on his own, and only needed to report the results to the imperial court.
After the order of the imperial court came to Liangzhou, those families who originally wanted to rebel against Qin Hua through the imperial court immediately fell silent.
They knew that they had rebelled against Qin Hua, so they could only obediently accept their fate.
But it's not that no one thought of attacking Qin Hua through some court ministers, it's just that due to the presence of the Nighthawk, it is difficult for the people they send the letter to leave Liangzhou.
As for moving their families out of Liangzhou, most families will not do this.
Because of the inconvenient transportation during the Han Dynasty, most of the influence of these families was only in one city, and those who could radiate to a county or even an entire state were already super families, but they could not influence it further.
If they leave Liangzhou, it means that they will have to start over, and they will even be jointly suppressed by the local family, and eventually become a poor family.
Even if Qin Hua treated these families like this, they didn't think about leaving Liangzhou.
Although the rebellion of the Maison was curbed, the appointment of magistrates was still troublesome.
There is a shortage of talents in Liangzhou, and although there are children from poor families, there are not many. If you want to govern Liangzhou well, you still need to rely on the power of the family.
It's just that if all of them are reinstated, what difference will it be from before?
Qin Hua's two major strategists also had different views on this.
Xun You believes that these people should continue to be used as officials, and only need to increase supervision.
As a native of Liangzhou, Jia Xu knew the virtue of local officials, and thought that these children of the family were not enough, and he should directly remove all those corrupt officials like Qin Hua had done before, and then find suitable candidates from among the children of the poor family to be officials.
Referring to the opinions of the two strategists, Qin Hua finally decided to use a method similar to the imperial examination to select these magistrates.
As the saying goes, governing the world with circles and using methods in troubled times can not require an official to develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and laboriously, but should pay more attention to their talents.
Gathering all the officials above the county order level in the two counties of Hanyang and Jincheng under his former jurisdiction, Qin Hua spent three days to produce a score of the imperial examination paper.
Most of the questions deal with local government affairs, and a small number of puzzles and criminal cases are used to test whether these people are capable of holding the post of magistrate.
An announcement was issued again to call all those who wanted to be officials to take the imperial examination, and then assign work according to their grades.
In the announcement, Qin Hua pointed out that the bad deeds of previous officials will no longer be pursued, and as long as they have talent, they can continue to hold official positions, even county guards.
Qin Hua's move was to eliminate the resentment of those families, and the families also appreciated it, in addition to the children who had held official positions, they also let the rest of the children also participate in the imperial examination.
This was the first time Qin Hua had held the imperial examination, so he was inexperienced, but fortunately, those who participated in the imperial examination were also inexperienced, and there were only two incidents of cheating.
It may also be because these people who participated in the imperial examination were all examined in the heavy army, so no one dared to cheat.
It took Qin Hua a month to complete all the imperial examinations in the five counties, and he himself, Jia Xu, and Xun You reviewed the examination papers, so it took nearly a month.
In the end, all the local officials of the five counties were decided, and this time the results were very beyond Qin Hua's, the top ten were basically the children of the family, and those children of the poor family may perform well in some guessing and other issues, but they will be a little worse in handling government affairs.
Qin Hua himself did not have any prejudice against the family, so he reassigned various official positions according to his achievements.
In order to prevent these officials from being influenced by the family, when assigning officials, Qin Hua would try to make those officials not serve in the place where their family was located.
After the announcement of the new official position came out, the family's attitude towards Qin Hua changed a lot, and they found that Qin Hua did not want to destroy the family, but just to better manage Liangzhou.
Of course, there are also some people who think that Qin Hua can't do without the family at all, and if he wants to govern Liangzhou well, he can't do without the help of the family.
Qin Hua did not express any opinion on this, but set up a new department called the Ministry of Supervision.
The department will supervise local government affairs from time to time as a supervision officer or an ordinary person, and then report these matters to Qin Hua.
In this way, with the Ministry of Supervision in the open and the Nighthawk in the dark, Qin Hua can more clearly grasp the big and small things in Liangzhou.
For those officials who have just taken office, Qin Hua also issued an official document to them, in addition to informing the Ministry of Supervision of the matter, he also specially emphasized that once someone is found to have violated the law, he will be punished heavily.
Therefore, the officialdom of the entire Liangzhou was cleared, and in just three months, Qin Hua's reputation in Liangzhou immediately increased a lot.
After completing the appointment of officials, those families that had been completely corrupted, and families who could not even get a petty official in the family, Qin Hua chose some families who were deeply hated by the people and even spurned by other families to take out their guilt and explain to the imperial court.
After all these things were completed, Qin Hua could finally start reforming the government affairs and the army in Liangzhou.
The first thing to be done is to implement the practice of tuntian, absorb more displaced people, and increase grain production and the common population.
For this reason, Qin Hua had to prepare gifts for He Jin and the Ten Standing Servants again, just relying on the Qin family to find the homeless people, it was too much of a drop in the bucket, and only by borrowing the power of the Great Han could Qin Hua quickly increase a large number of people.