From the sixth grade, is the level very high? It's not very high, after all, it's a toad green official robe, and even the red official robe hasn't been put on yet, and the Datang officials can see the level by looking at the color of the official uniform.

Wearing purple, needless to say, they are all big guys, starting from the third grade, at least equivalent to the high-ranking officials of later generations, and the first and second grades are even more national-level. And those who wear crimson are middle- and upper-level officials, all of whom are at the department and bureau level. And the green official robe, even if it is a middle and low-level official, it is equivalent to the county level.

As for those who wear cyan official robes, they are the bottom of the officialdom, and they are all at the township level.

Later generations often say that the seven products of sesame officials, in fact, there are still some misunderstandings about the seven products. At least, the seven-grade sesame official should be said to be in the Qing Dynasty, after all, the Qing Dynasty has a lot of super products in the first product, and they are super grade at every turn.

Therefore, relatively speaking, the seventh grade is relatively low.

In Datang, although it is said that the general county order is only seven grades, several deputies of the county order, the county clerk, the chief bookkeeper, and the county lieutenant are all eight or nine grades.

The eighth and ninth grades are really sesame officials, wearing green robes, while the seventh rank is already wearing green robes.

For example, Fang Xuanling, a famous person like Zhenguan, participated in the imperial examination in the Sui Dynasty and won the Jinshi, and the first time he was awarded an official was just to be a Jiupin county lieutenant. You must know that the Jinshi in the Sui Dynasty was more difficult than the Jinshi in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

is the so-called thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was extremely difficult to pass the Jinshi examination, and the acceptance rate was even lower than that of an alarmingly low one. But even if he was a jinshi, he could only start from the lieutenant of Jiupin County, so you can see how rare the Qipin County Order is.

Under normal circumstances, if a county lieutenant wants to be promoted to the county order, he may not be able to climb up in ten years.

Li Xiao is a sixth-grade official, to put it bluntly, he is a small official who does not enter the stream, and suddenly he rises straight from the sixth-grade, which is simply a straight step.

The Tang Dynasty officials are divided into nine grades, and each product below the second grade is divided into upper and lower levels.

From the sixth rank to the ninth grade, there are several levels, the sixth grade outside the stream to the second grade outside the stream, then the merit product, and then from the ninth grade, here is the fifth level.

From the ninth grade to the sixth grade, it is the twelfth level.

From the outside to the inside, this is still the most difficult level to cross, so if you calculate it, Li Xiao is equivalent to being promoted to eighteen levels in a row.

Well, it's probably a record.

Yesterday Li Xiao was still a villager, but today he is equivalent to a department-level cadre, and this rocket has been promoted.

Hearing that Li Xiao was an official, Li Jiazhuang instantly became lively.

Doctor Zhao immediately rushed over from the crude medicine shop, he took the brocade silk from his daughter Wanniang's hand, and looked at it carefully many times, especially the seals and signatures on it, and read it again and again, and finally confirmed that his son-in-law was really an official.

And when it is from the sixth grade, the official robes are dark green.

Li Xiao didn't have the slightest official shelf, what he looked like when he went out in the morning, and what he still looks like now. The body and official robe that cost ten yuan in exchange are also allowed to be touched and seen by everyone, and I don't mind, but Wan Niang's big eyes are staring left and right, for fear of being soiled and damaged.

"San Lang, you are an official." Mr. Zhao's eyes were filled with tears. Li Xiao's parents passed away first, and now he is the only elder of the Li family.

Seeing that this son-in-law is getting more and more powerful, not only supporting a dilapidated Li Jiazhuang and restoring its vitality, but also becoming more and more prosperous, and now he has become an official of the imperial court, how can Dr. Zhao be unhappy.

If Li Shanren knew underground, he was afraid that he would also laugh at Jiuquan.

The nearby villagers were a little awakened by Mr. Zhao's words.

That's right, San Lang is an official, and the six-rank official is as big as their county order in Lantian County. Immediately, everyone's eyes like Li Xiao were a little wrong, they used to be completely cordial, Li Xiao was just like their children, although Li Xiao was the owner and the landlord, but he treated everyone kindly, and everyone was used to him having no shelf.

And now that Li Xiao is an official, he suddenly seems to have a layer of official authority.

The official authority can't be seen or touched, but everyone feels that there is an invisible existence.

Fear of officials is instinctive.

Flat-headed people, who dares to provoke officials.

Since ancient times, the people have not fought with officials, the county order of breaking the family, and the order of destroying the door.

Everyone took a few steps back, and no one even dared to touch Li Xiao's bright and good-looking brocade silk official notice and the dark green official robe.

Compared with the development of the imperial examination in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, although the Tang Dynasty was the era of the rise of the imperial examination, at this time, in fact, the scale of the imperial examination was still very small, and it was extremely difficult for the ordinary people to pass the imperial examination. Even the imperial examination is not only based on talent, but also more on family background and fame.

Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and sons born to mice make holes.

The Guanlong nobles in the court have been nobles for generations, whether it is the Western Wei Dynasty or the Northern Zhou Dynasty, or the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they are all nobles and are high.

And for these villagers in Lanxi, they have been people for generations. No matter who is the emperor or which dynasty, they are all ordinary people, whether they take the imperial examination or not, anyway, it is impossible for them to break away from the identity of peasants.

The Sui and Tang dynasties ended the disputes between the north and the south, unified the world, and also ended the nine-grade Zhongzheng system in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

It can be said that the imperial court takes the imperial examination every year, one subject a year, but a few scholars cannot be selected every year, and the officials from the imperial examination are far inferior to the officials from the imperial court, not to mention, more officials in the imperial court are now mainly admitted to the office with the shadow of the door, and rely on the recommendation of the officials to enter the office.

It is also in this situation that a young man in his early twenties like Li Xiao suddenly appointed as the supervisor of the sixth grade from a white coat, which is not too prominent.

If in the heyday of the imperial examinations in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, a twenty-one-year-old young man directly became a supervisor of the central yamen of the imperial court from a white body, which is simply unimaginable.

But in these days, this abnormal situation is quite normal.

If he is appreciated by the big guy, or directly appreciated by the emperor, it is really the easiest to rise to the top, for example, Xue Rengui was only a team leader in the Liao army, but his outstanding performance amazed the emperor, so he directly gave him a five-grade military position.

For example, Cheng Yanjin valued Li Xiao more at the beginning, so he directly recommended him to join the army with Qipin, and the court did not reject it.

Even the county magistrate Liu Qi mentioned that he wanted to recommend Li Xiao to be the county record, although the record was not of the grade, but he was also the fifth in command in the county.

This is the right of the officials to recommend.

And after such generals as Cheng Boxian and Xue Chuyu, it is easier for the children of Xun Qi to enter the office, when they were young, they studied in the Guozijian, and when they were older, they went directly to the inner three guards as guards, and they directly had a grade.

Yang Dayan also came, taking the students of the academy with him.

Li Xiao is the patron of the College, the founder of the College, the Honorary Governor, and the Honorary Professor. He became an official, which is also a great good thing for the academy.

He also happened to encourage the students, Li Xiao was just a poor kid, but he flew out of the mountain nest and became a phoenix.

Yang Dayan has read books for half his life, but he is not even qualified to enter Beijing to participate in the imperial examination. Because he was not recommended by state and county officials, and he was not a student of Guozijian, he didn't have a chance to do a doctorate in the imperial examination.

I read half a lifetime of books, but in the end, I rebelled, and fate created people. Now that he saw Li Xiao, who had fled with them in Jiangnan, but turned around gorgeously and became a Tang Jingguan, he was also full of envy.

"If you become an official, you will not pay taxes in the future, and you will be exempt from rent and service."

The officials of the Tang Dynasty are very privileged, for example, they do not pay taxes and do not serve, which is a very real benefit, they are real households.

The people of the Tang Dynasty are divided into good citizens and untouchable people, among which the lowly people mainly include slaves, tribesmen and other people who are dependent on others, they are not even Tang people, so they do not have to pay taxes and serve, but they also have no basic powers, such as granting land in Juntian, being conscripted as government soldiers, participating in imperial examinations, and entering the government as officials.

Among the good people of Datang, they are divided into class households and non-class households. Taxpayers are taxed and served, and they are generally ordinary people.

If you don't pay a household, it's mainly the aristocratic bureaucrats.

Once they become officials, the family no longer has to pay rent and salary, and they don't have to serve. It's not just about saving a lot of money.

For example, many merchants have more money in their hands than ordinary people, but they have to pay taxes when doing business, and they also have to perform various services, such as transporting grain, building roads, or going to the yamen to serve on duty. This kind of service could not be exempted in the early Tang Dynasty, nor could it be deducted by spending money on behalf of the Tang Dynasty like the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

No matter how rich a businessman you are, you have to obediently accept the conscription to serve every year, and you have to do whatever you want. If you are asked to repair the city wall, you have to repair the city wall, let you go to carry grain and grass for the army, let you stand at the Yamen station, and let you go to the official's house on an errand.

This kind of can't be paid for, and no one can be replaced, so it can be said that this is the most helpless place. And service is bitter.

It's different when you become an official, the whole family is exempt from tax and military service.

Li Xiao's more than 1,000 acres of land will not have to pay a penny of rent to the imperial court in the future, nor will he have to accept the government's conscription and service.

"San Lang, isn't this corn supervisor specifically responsible for planting corn?" After all, Yang Dayan is a scholar, and he still has some clarity about the yamen of the imperial court, but this corn prison did not exist before.

"Well, the imperial court has set up this corn supervisor, and also allocated three plots of land to me, and transferred more than 100 subordinates to let me try to grow corn."

Yang nodded with big eyes, a corn, a special prison, it seems that the court has great expectations for corn. I just don't know if San Lang's corn can be planted well, if it can't be planted, I'm afraid how glorious it is today, how miserable it will be in the future.