After a period of purging a while ago, the officials of the yamen at all levels in Guangdong became somewhat sought-after. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Xu officials were not originally a decent identity, and they were very solidified, more closed than bureaucratic circles, either the son inherited the father's business, or the brother died with the younger brother.

A big reason for this situation is the deliberate behavior of the system, because once you become a Xu official, you will be put into another book, the so-called lowly practitioners, in the Ming Dynasty, the three categories of people who are happy to be in the court, the officials of the government, and the subordinates of the slaves are put into the lowly status, and the descendants cannot participate in the imperial examination.

The Qing Dynasty abolished the Eunuch Register, but the officials and slaves were still lowly and could not obtain the qualification for the imperial examination.

Therefore, it is often a matter of becoming a Xu official, that is, a matter of generations of children and grandchildren, the cost is very high, and the cost is very high, and generally few people are willing to settle down as Xu officials.

But this class is extremely important, administrative paperwork, countless reports, records and various documents, making all kinds of copies. Each document has a unique format, without the slightest deviation, and these need to be mastered by professionals, and these are obviously done by the officials.

Perhaps the officials of the feudal dynasty needed such a person, so they specially formulated such a system to restrict professionals who had mastered these clerical skills from leaving the profession, just as the Mongolian and Ming dynasties tied craftsmen to their household registration.

It is because there is a demand and I don't want to waste energy to train slowly, so letting such a group of people inherit the father's business from generation to generation can save great costs.

But the problem is that not allowing these people to participate in the imperial examination, which can change their fate, in the imperial era, restricting the legitimate power of these people, and making them a kind of household registration with slaves, naturally makes people look down on these people.

Especially in the circle of civil officials, they look down on officials in terms of personality, but these people are indispensable when they want to do things, and it can even be said that it is these grassroots officials who really support the operation of government agencies, not those literati who talk about drinking all day long.

This kind of disdain in personality will really cause psychological distortion to this group, they have no sense of honor, and they will not restrain their behavior, because no matter how noble you are or how inferior you are, why are you still noble?

Therefore, when such despised petty officials treat the common people who have less power than them, they are particularly bad, and their behavior in turn makes the common people hate them to the core.

There is a folk proverb, "Officials are like big fish and small fish, the people who have finished food are depressed, officials are like tigers, officials are like cats, and they lick people's ointment specifically and slightly", and it is not surprising that the common people regard these small officials who are in direct contact with them as evil cats who knock on the bone and suck the marrow.

But such a group of people whose personalities are distorted by the social system, their power is really not small, and they can not only bully the small people, even their superiors, those officials, they also have a way to deal with them, they are good at using deception, deception, fraud, collusion and other techniques, selectively carry out the tasks assigned to them by officials, and use the ability to be proficient in administrative details and operational procedures to deceive, hinder, mislead, and even coerce officials with higher status than them. They can even take power when confronted with weak, rusty, loose or incompetent officials.

The officials are such a group of people, they have no status in the law, the common people do not trust, fear, and even hate them, and the officials despise them, but they can dexterously use the seemingly weak but indispensable power in their hands, to bully the small people, to coerce the officials, from the top to the bottom are not welcome, but they are inseparable from them.

So who is wrong, who is to blame, who is to blame, and who is hated, it seems that there is no target to be found, because this is the product of the long-term development of the bureaucracy, the cheapest and least efficient system.

The ancient Chinese system was full of this paradox, not only the official class, but also the military class, who were also rejected by people, had no guarantee of life, and had to blackmail the small people, which in turn was even more despised.

Under these circumstances, Zhu Jinglun had to carry out reforms, and he could not accept such an inefficient and serious internal friction system.

However, Zhu Jinglun also has to admit that this is the lowest-cost system, because if he wants to prevent the officials from profiting from bad rules, he must improve their treatment so that they can survive and even live a decent life, so that there will be no practical pressure to use power to engage in favoritism and irregularities, and only by taking strict supervision measures and raising the cost of crime can we crack down on corruption.

Therefore, Zhu Jinglun had greatly improved the treatment of the yamen officials before, and he had a heavy financial burden on his back.

However, this move is very popular with the Xu official class, after all, not every small official can make a fortune from the bad rules, only those who have the most flexible minds, are exquisite, and eat all the top and bottom can really make a fortune, and most of the Xu officials are only a little bit of the usual bad rules, barely making ends meet.

With the support of such a group of people, the gain is not small, because after all, it is these people who are handling the specific affairs of the government, and the more their work enthusiasm is high, the effectiveness of the government can be greatly improved, and they are used to the situation of not having political status.

Although this group of relatively shrewd people realized that Zhu Jinglun was already a de facto feudal town, and it seemed that the signboard was not as big as the signboard of the imperial court, they still looked forward to Zhu Jinglun's opening of the imperial examination, and also gave them a taste of the feeling of learning to become a scholar and a martial artist.

So for a while, the children of the officials also set off a trend of reading, but they still read the Four Books and Five Classics, they didn't read these books before, they used to be like craftsmen, although they also read and write, but mainly to be able to understand the official documents, to be able to inherit a set of beautiful official documents from the hands of their parents is the real ability, whether to read the Four Books and the Five Classics is really useless.

Obviously, the old master's set of thoughts, the sense of sacredness and awe in the hearts of the Xu class, is not as strong as that of the civil class, and the gentry class that gave birth to the civil class.

Because of the lifting of the restrictions on the Xu officials, not only did the Xu officials themselves begin to have the motivation to read, but the scruples of the scholars about the identity of the Xu officials also disappeared, although most of the scholars could not change their disdain for the Xu officials, but those poor people, the poor could not even maintain the scholars who continued to read, and the identity and work of the Xu officials became not so unacceptable. While continuing to study, I hope to become an official one day.

But the backlash is not small, the squire class that monopolizes the way to the imperial examination, especially those whose own children study and advance to the more disciplined official families, are extremely opposed to Zhu Jinglun's move, these people are often famous families in the local area are the backbone of the gentry class, and their energy cannot be underestimated.

In order not to offend the entire class, Zhu Jinglun did not even dare to directly promote the political status of the officials.

Now after the education reform from the bottom cannot be implemented, Zhu Jinglun thinks of the imperial examination and fame, Zhu Jinglun decided to change his thinking and make a breakthrough from above.

He decided not to negotiate with the stubborn old masters anymore, and he wanted to use the knife from above to let these old masters come to talk to him.

So soon Zhu Jinglun announced that Xu officials can not only take the examination to become officials, but also that officials at all levels in the future must have at least three years of practical work experience, that is, before becoming officials, they must be Xu officials for three years, directly contact with the people at the bottom, and directly operate the specific work facing the people.

Originally, this was what he wanted to do for a long time, but the squire class was opposed, he did not want to provoke this class, so he did not dare to carry it out, and now those diehards have become the biggest obstacle to his progress, so he must put pressure on these people, and the reform is carried out in this mutual game, and modern politics is an art of mutual compromise.

The famous historian Acton once said: Compromise is the soul of politics. All political principles, including systems and laws, are the product of constant negotiation and compromise between the two sides of the transaction, just like playing cards, everyone has their own hole cards, and they also have a bottom line for their own bargaining chips.

Once the bottom line of the two sides cannot be bridged, politics will also collapse, and then the reform will evolve into revolution, such as the American Civil War, isn't it on the issue of slavery, the bottom line of the two sides is impossible to reach some kind of compromise, and it must be solved by war.

Zhu Jinglun now threw out a card, he waited for the stubborn card, he was willing to make a certain degree of compromise, but the other party must also compromise with him, and then push the reform a little further.

Sure enough, the entire gentry class in Guangdong was furious, and they could not accept that they had become officials through the imperial examinations, and that the passage to elevate or maintain their special status was occupied by the Xu clique.

For the squire class, the imperial examination and land are the two things they are most concerned about in their lives. The biggest contradiction between the natives and guests in Guangdong, one is to fight for land, and the other is to fight for the number of students, and this contradiction can eventually lead to a fight between the natives and guests, and it can also lead to a confrontation between the squire class and Zhu Jinglun.

While mobilizing the villagers in the countryside and making threatening gestures, the squires jointly petitioned each other to the government, and Zhu Jinglun also mobilized the army, and each county had his army, as little as a hundred, as much as a thousand, he controlled the city, but he was willing to talk to the petitioning squire.

"The household registration of the Xu officials has been abolished, and there are no more Xu officials in Guangdong. In the new regulations, you can call the officials of the government a reserve for officials, and each of them is quite an alternate official, once they perform well, if they become officials, they can better understand the people's feelings. ”

Zhu Jinglun explained his reasoning to the squires from famous families who petitioned. (To be continued.) )