Wang Zhan and Cui Qing were suddenly promoted to the main and deputy thousand households of Fengshenwei, which is equivalent to a cross-level promotion, how can the two of them not be overjoyed in their hearts?

The two of them hurriedly bowed down to thank them, "Thank you for your love!" The subordinates must do their best to serve their grandfather! ”

Yang Huairen also stood up, went to help the two of them, and ordered someone to show them tea and let the two sit down and talk.

Yang Huairen waited for the two of them to drink a bowl of tea before saying, "To promote you, to give you security and welfare, but also so that you can do your best to serve Fengshenwei and the Great Song Dynasty, in the final analysis, it is for the welfare of the people of our Great Song Dynasty, and it is for the country and the people."

We are all our own people, so there is no need to talk nonsense, why don't you two introduce me to the recent situation in the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, what I want to know most is, in the Khitan court, between those big officials, and between the nobles, is there any subtle contradiction? ”

Wang Zhan immediately realized the purpose of Yang Huairen's question, so he said first, "Your subordinates have been in Liao for a long time, so it's better for your subordinates to say it first." The court of Liao is similar to the court of our Great Song Dynasty, but it is not the same.

How to say it, the setting of official positions in the court of Liao, and the setting of titles among nobles, are basically set up in accordance with the system in our Great Song Dynasty.

It's just that unlike our Great Song Dynasty, our civil and military officials are basically selected from among the scholars of the people through the imperial examination, and only a few become officials through filial piety and the shadow of their ancestors.

Then, through their own efforts, they were either proficient in the rule of officials, or by virtue of their military exploits, they were gradually promoted and promoted, and finally entered the court and became ministers and important members of the court.

And Liao does not have a imperial examination system like our Great Song Dynasty, the military generals are good to say, who is good at martial arts, who can fight, and has made military achievements for the imperial court, no matter what your background, the Liao imperial court will reward such warriors and give them official positions.

However, there is one point, the vast majority of the highest-ranking military generals are hereditary, or most of them are born in aristocratic families, and through the merits of their parents and ancestors, they have directly entered the army to hold important positions.

But in the selection of civil officials, the Khitan Emperor seems to be unavailable, the Khitan has been established for more than 100 years, and has always advocated force, and ruled the country with force, which is just the opposite of our Great Song Dynasty.

It is because their family has the largest and most elite army of the Khitans that Yelu Hongji has always firmly held the imperial power in the hands of his family.

Therefore, the status of civil officials has always been lower than that of military officials, although the situation has improved in recent decades, but the characteristics of advocating force in the bones of the Khitan people have long been decided, and no matter how the status of the literati is improved, it is impossible to be higher than the military people.

Yelu Hongji also tried his best to implement a set of imperial examination system modeled on our Great Song Dynasty, and wanted to use this to select some literate civil officials who knew how to govern the country.

In addition to the opposition of other traditional Khitan nobles to the imperial examination system, the dislike of reading in the capital of the Khitans was also an important restriction.

Although the Khitan people have gradually shifted from nomadic civilization to agricultural civilization for nearly a hundred years, they still don't like to read, in addition to advocating force, they are now just becoming more money-loving, and a very small number of Khitan literati are not very high.

Therefore, those civil officials in high positions in the Khitan court are actually still the children of those Khitan nobles, and the literati who are really a little talented have no place to display their talents.

This is another difference between the Khitan court and our Great Song Dynasty, in our Great Song Dynasty, the emperor's relatives are not allowed to participate in politics, and even some princes, although they also have official positions, but they are all fictitious positions with high rank but no real power.

But in the court of the Liao State, the names of those nobles are all real, and official positions such as what to stay behind and festival degrees are all real positions. ”

Yang Huairen suddenly realized a problem, so he interjected and asked, "I suddenly thought of one thing, according to what you said, is it easy for the power of these Khitan nobles to exceed the power within their authority?" ”

Wang Zhan complimented, "Grandpa is extremely wise, and he sees problems to the point. The redundancy of official positions in our Great Song Dynasty is very serious, which is reflected in the fact that there are too many false positions and too many idlers receiving public food, which has brought a great burden to the imperial court.

However, because of the clear distinction between ministries and vacancies, there are actually no major problems in the administrative process.

But the court of the Khitan people is different, almost all of their ministries are substantial, and in the same yamen, there can be two, or even three or four governors with the same power.

The advantage of this is that everyone supervises each other, but this kind of supervision seems to be meaningless, and the end result is that the yamen changes its orders every day, and the work is inefficient and useless.

In an important city like Dadingfu, because under the roots of the imperial city, everyone may be able to coexist peacefully on the surface, but when it comes to a place where the emperor can't reach, the administrative efficiency can be imagined, what a chaotic situation. ”

Yang Huairen snickered in his heart, this is very good, the rule of force has never been long, and the extensive and chaotic administrative governance can easily cause dissatisfaction among the grassroots people, and it is no wonder that many tribes and people in the Liao State have complained about the Khitans.

He said with a smile, "Although every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, the Khitan people may be able to establish a centralized country by virtue of the temporary strength of force, but they do not have the wisdom to run this country, and it is a miracle that they can hold out for more than a hundred years." ”

Wang Zhan also smiled, "The Khitan people govern the country, and the seriousness of the problem is not only that, because the officials in the court are all Khitan nobles, and there are also great contradictions between different families.

It's just that now that Yelu Hongji, a powerful emperor, is on the throne, they haven't shown their ambitions too much, but as Yelu Hongji is getting old, the imperial grandson Yelu Yanxi is still young, and it seems to his subordinates that the Liao State will definitely have a big mess in less than ten years. ”

Yang Huairen said in his heart, this Wang Zhan is really sophisticated, he can see the problems of the Liao State, and he can also predict the chaos of the Liao State in the future, which shows that he is still very analytical and far-sighted, Yang Huairen feels that it is the right decision to promote him to be the master of the Thousand Households and the North Wind Hall.

The development of history is indeed as predicted by Wang Zhan, in the near future, that is, within seven or eight years, after Yelu Hongji's death, Daliao fell into a chaos of struggle for power and profit.

It was precisely because of the internal strife of the Khitans that the Jurchens and the Mongols were given the opportunity to gain a lot of strength and begin to compete with the rule of the Khitans.